The
Four
Pillars:
Prayer
Study
Service
Preaching
Mission moment reflection
shared with the ICA Board
of Directors by senior,
Nikki Pasamic.
Senior Speech Program
The best ideas often grow from the fer tile imagination
of a single, passionate teacher. In the case of ICA’s new
Senior Speech Program, that passionate teacher is Science
depar tment chair Anya Manes, currently in her 6th year
at ICA. Last spring Anya presented her idea--each senior
would give a three-minute speech to the student body to
a group of teachers and administrators. The idea became
a reality this fall as the first two brave seniors stepped up
to the microphone at September 23’s Morning Meeting.
Nikki Pasamic and Vita Moskal delivered highly personal and
powerful speeches that day, setting the bar high for their
classmates who have followed. I am very pleased and proud
to say that all the speeches, about 20 so far, have been
riveting. These young women have spoken of successes and
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failures, dreams and ambitions, triumphs large and small, and
sometimes even tragedies.
The best gauge of the success of these speeches is the rapt
attention of the audience. You could, I think, literally hear a pin
drop in the auditorium as each senior speaks. There’s no one
grabbing an extra few minutes of sleep or frantically scribbling
last night’s homework. Those 300 pairs of eyes and ears are
focused on their senior sister, who in these three minutes,
shares a priceless piece of herself with every girl in the room.
I can’t wait to hear the next 40!
~Mary Cerutti
Assistant Principal