A Christmas Surprise
The return from Christmas break greeted us with a package from overseas.
SMSgt John Wilson, our military contact overseas, gifted us with a flag which was flown in an F-15E Strike Eagle on a combat sortie over Syria and Iraq in support of OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE.
SMGST Wilson sent an accompanying email in appreciation to the National Senior Beta Club and the Junior Peer Ministry class who sent handmade blankets along with snacks and toiletries. The blankets will remain in their “Defender's Den so all our guys can enjoy. I appreciate your guys support while we are many, many miles from home. We are now 70 days into our deployment and have about another 130 days or so before we make it back to the good ole USA. We are in great spirits right now but it will wear on us toward the end so knowing that we have folks like you guys thinking of us means the world to us.”
Both the National Senior Beta Club and the Junior Peer Ministry will continue to support this troop for the remainder of the school year.
Click here to read the original article about this project which appeared online in December.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.