On March 12th, Cathedral students participated in different “days” instead of the normal regular schedule of classes. The freshman class was on a retreat taking place in the auditorium and in Loretto Hall. The juniors were taking the SAT, and Sophomores were participating in a “Unity Day.”
The class of 2027 was divided into groups based on gender, and each team was led by a different Cathedral educator. Each team had a certain color theme to encourage unity as a one team. All sophomores were to meet in the Welch Activity Center, and find their team leader and their group. Once they found their group, a rotation of activities began.
The Sophomore Day of Unity is a day scheduled in an attempt to unify the sophomore class. This was the first year that the school decided to help make a change within the sophomores to build a strong class spirit amongst the students.
French teacher and Co-moderator of the Sophomore class, Gary Spurgin, was the coordinator, making this whole day of unity possible. Spurgin felt that there was a need to make the sophomore class feel like they belong and are known. Spurring said, “This day will be a day of renewing friendships and making new acquaintances.”
Throughout the day, students participated in many activities engaging groups to come together and strategize. Activities were held in the WAC and in the Mimms, these activities were competitive and team engaging.
Most of these activities were two teams against each other, a girl team against a boy team and some of the games consisted of guessing a song based on the intro, making cup towers, matching famous people’s pictures with their names, balancing a ping pong ball on a spoon, knock out, getting to know other teammates with a ball toss full of questions, and family feud.
After all the students participated in each station as a team, they had the opportunity to serve the poor and make lunches for the food pantry. After all this was completed, sophomores went to lunch. Returning from lunch, the sophomore class was seated back in their teams on the bleachers and awaited for the guest speaker.
The guest speaker arrived and introduced himself and began speaking about the importance of being united. The guest speaker spoke about sophomore students transferred in or out during their sophomore year, making their transition harder and leading them to feeling left out or like they don’t belong.
The speaker told the students a very impactful story and hope of making a change and influencing students to do better and helping those who feel left out. The purpose of the guest speaker was to bring awareness within the sophomore class and make an impact.
Sophomore Jordann Kilbride said, “Listening to the guest speaker and his personal story was very impactful to our sophomore class, it brought awareness to the students about having unity within our class.”
