Humans of MHS- Week of January 21, 2019

“When I started at Marquette, I started Key Club, which became the largest organization we have here at Marquette and we did a lot of community service through that. We probably did about 1,000 hours a year. Then when the community service class opened up, they gave it to me. I want the kids to go out and do stuff and I want them to learn about different organizations and actually try to make a diffe...

Based off of photojournalist Brandon Stanton’s majorly successful “Humans of New York” series, “Humans of MHS” (HOMHS) aims to give readers a glimpse into the lives of MHS students. Click here for more HOMHS. 

“My new club is Community Problem Solving, and it’s where a group of students find a problem within their community and try to find ways to solve it. They’ll find challenges, solutions, an underlying problem and they’ll implement a plan of action. It’s really cool - especially if you go to Internationals, which I did for a part of this club last year. We saw kids from Singapore who were cr...

“This past weekend, I went to Washington D.C. for the Pro Life March with my church, Holy Infant. This wasn’t my first time going because I went as a freshman.  When I went freshman year, I was a little nervous to go but this year I was more ready, expecting and interactive with it all. This year I was talking to a lady on the march and she says it was one of the largest crowds she had ev...

“Throughout my whole high school career, I’ve played four sports: field hockey, basketball, soccer and lacrosse. It’s hard to balance school with all my sports. Right after school, I go straight to practice and then I come home for a little and then I go to dance and then I come home then I have a little time to do homework and then I go to bed. I can’t imagine not doing a sport every season....

“I started working at Marquette when the school opened so I have been working here for 26 years, but this is my forty-second  year at Rockwood. I worked 16 years at Lafayette, and I've worked at every school - except Eureka - with summer school and stuff. In my opinion, they are all good schools for different things, and they are slightly different but all great places. Part of the reason I ...