St. Mary's Preparatory
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St. Mary's Preparatory is a Catholic secondary school in Orchard Lake Village, Michigan
.
on the shores of Orchard Lake in 1909 and is still there today. St. Mary's now offers a college preparatory education. The campus is shared with SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary
and contains some offices and classrooms for Madonna University
of Livonia, Michigan
. The Felician Sisters
from Livonia, Michigan have served the Orchard Lake Schools since 1935. The Polish roots of St. Mary's are still evident in the school's colors (red & white) and mascot (the Eaglet), both elements drawn from the flag of Poland
.
Although students need not be Catholic to attend St. Mary’s, all students are educated in the Catholic tradition. This tradition includes four years of theology in the classroom as well as attendance at Mass twice weekly. Additional opportunities, such as class retreats, are available for students, and the School Chaplain and many campus priests are happy to guide students regarding their individual programs.
100 percent of St. Mary’s graduates who apply to college are accepted. A full-time guidance counselor assists students in selecting colleges and universities. In the past eight years, graduates have attended colleges across the world and in the United States, including Albion
, Brown
, Columbia
, Cornell
, University of Dayton
, Holy Cross
, Stanford
, Rutgers
, Purdue
, Duquesne
, Hillsdale
,John Carroll University, Loyola of Chicago
, Mercyhurst College
, Michigan State
, Florida State
, Northwestern
, Notre Dame
, Miami University
, United States Air Force Academy
, United States Coast Guard Academy
, United States Military Academy
, Kalamazoo
, Yale
and the Universities of Florida
, Iowa
, Michigan
, Colorado
, Pennsylvania
, South Carolina
, and Virginia
.
St. Mary’s Preparatory is fully accredited and licensed by the State of Michigan’s Department of Education, the Michigan Non-Public Schools Accrediting Association (MNSAA), and is a member of the Orchard Lake Schools, the Archdiocese of Detroit
, the Detroit Catholic League, the Oakland Schools Consortium, and the Michigan High School Athletic Association
.
. Only students, facility and staff are allowed use of the beach and docks.
St. Mary's prides itself on its students being scholar-athletes for 80% of the school participates in sports. Thus, the school offers 12 varsity sports: football, basketball, baseball, track, cross country, golf, wrestling, rowing, hockey,soccer, lacrosse, and skiing. The Eaglets have won many league, district, and regional titles in its history. It owns a total of 28 Michigan State Championships to its name. In the past seven years, the Eaglet football, baseball, hockey, basketball, and rowing teams have all captured state titles. In 1998, the school's rowing team gained international prominence for placing second in the Henley Royal Regatta
. Since 1994, the Eaglet football team has reached the state finals five times coming away with three victories.
The athletic facilities include the new St. Mary's Athletic Center which has a 1,300 seat hockey arena, a weight room, an indoor track, locker rooms and a banquet hall. Attached to the Athletic Center is the Dombroski Fieldhouse with its 1,000 seat basketball gymnasium. The crew team has its own boathouse just off Orchard Lake
. Outdoors, St. Mary's offers two football fields, two baseball diamonds, and a basketball court. The St. Mary's Ski team practices at Alpine Valley Snow Ski Area in White Lake, Michigan.
The Eaglet's compete in the MHSAA
Division II and III, depending on the sport. In the Detroit Catholic League, they compete in the Central Division. St. Mary's fiercest rivals are Detroit Country Day School
, Birmingham Brother Rice
, U of D Jesuit and Catholic Central High School
and a new rivalry with East Grand Rapids High school is growing.
St. Mary's holds the largest high school fair in the country every year for fund-raising (http://www.stmaryspolishcountryfair.com/). Parents and students must participate as volunteers.
The "Ark Building" (#9) contains the Polish Home Army Museum
.
Orchard Lake Village, Michigan
Orchard Lake Village is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a small, exclusive suburb on the outskirts of Metro Detroit. The population was 2,375 at the 2010 census....
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Overview
St. Mary's was founded in 1885 on Detroit's east side by Rev. Joseph Dabrowski as a school for Polish-American boys to train for the priesthood. The school moved to the 125 acre (0.5 km²) campus of the former Michigan Military AcademyMichigan Military Academy
The Michigan Military Academy, also known as the M.M.A., was an all-boys military prep school in Orchard Lake Village, Oakland County, Michigan. It was founded in 1877 by Captain J. Sumner Rogers, and closed in 1908 due to bankruptcy...
on the shores of Orchard Lake in 1909 and is still there today. St. Mary's now offers a college preparatory education. The campus is shared with SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary
SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary
SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary is a four-year private Polish seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan. The seminary, taking its name from Saints Cyril and Methodius, was founded in 1885 in Detroit, Michigan, to prepare candidates for the Roman Catholic priesthood primarily to serve Polish American...
and contains some offices and classrooms for Madonna University
Madonna University
Madonna University is a private, non-profit, Catholic university located in suburban Livonia, Michigan, on the western perimeter of metropolitan Detroit. Conducted by the Felician Sisters, it has extension campuses in Southwest Detroit, Orchard Lake, Michigan Madonna University is a private,...
of Livonia, Michigan
Livonia, Michigan
Livonia is a city in the northwest part of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Livonia is a very large suburb with an array of traditional neighborhoods connected to the metropolitan area by freeways. The population was 96,942 at the 2010 census, making it Michigan's 9th largest...
. The Felician Sisters
Felician Sisters
The Sisters of St. Felix of Cantalice, or Felician Sisters, are one branch of the Third Order of St. Francis. The active-contemplative order was founded in Warsaw, Poland, in 1855, by Sophia Truszkowska, and named for a shrine of St. Felix, a 16th century Franciscan saint especially devoted to...
from Livonia, Michigan have served the Orchard Lake Schools since 1935. The Polish roots of St. Mary's are still evident in the school's colors (red & white) and mascot (the Eaglet), both elements drawn from the flag of Poland
Flag of Poland
The flag of Poland consists of two horizontal stripes of equal width, the upper one white and the lower one red. The two colors are defined in the Polish constitution as the national colors. A variant of the flag with the national coat of arms in the middle of the white stripe is legally reserved...
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Mission statement
St. Mary's Preparatory is a Catholic, all-boys, college preparatory high school with a Polish-American heritage and legacy. Our mission is to provide deserving young men the moral guidance, discipline, and education necessary to become Christian gentlemen, scholars, and men of service and leadership for the world. By completion of our spiritual and educational model, these men can gain the fortitude, reverence, character, and preparation to meet all challenges for the greater glory of God and their alma mater.Academics
St. Mary’s academic program is designed to meet the basic entrance requirements for any college curriculum. Requirements for graduation are: four years of theology and English; three years of mathematics, science and social studies; two years of foreign language; and a semester each of computer programming, computer applications, physical education, health, fine arts, and speech. Students are required to fulfill 28 credits for graduation.Although students need not be Catholic to attend St. Mary’s, all students are educated in the Catholic tradition. This tradition includes four years of theology in the classroom as well as attendance at Mass twice weekly. Additional opportunities, such as class retreats, are available for students, and the School Chaplain and many campus priests are happy to guide students regarding their individual programs.
100 percent of St. Mary’s graduates who apply to college are accepted. A full-time guidance counselor assists students in selecting colleges and universities. In the past eight years, graduates have attended colleges across the world and in the United States, including Albion
Albion College
Albion College is a private liberal arts college located in Albion, Michigan. Related to the United Methodist Church, it was founded in 1835 and was the first private college in Michigan to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. It has a student population of about 1500.The school's sports teams are...
, Brown
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, Columbia
Columbia University
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, Cornell
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, University of Dayton
University of Dayton
The University of Dayton is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio...
, Holy Cross
College of the Holy Cross
The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...
, Stanford
Stanford University
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, Rutgers
Rutgers University
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, Purdue
Purdue University
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, Duquesne
Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...
, Hillsdale
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, is a co-educational liberal arts college known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex; its refusal of government funding; and its monthly publication, Imprimis...
,John Carroll University, Loyola of Chicago
Loyola University Chicago
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, Mercyhurst College
Mercyhurst College
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, Michigan State
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
, Florida State
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
, Northwestern
Northwestern University
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, Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
, Miami University
Miami University
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, United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Force Academy
The United States Air Force Academy is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of officer candidates for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States...
, United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Coast Guard Academy
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, United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy
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, Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo College
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, Yale
Yale University
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and the Universities of Florida
University of Florida
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, Iowa
University of Iowa
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, Michigan
University of Michigan
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, Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
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, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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, South Carolina
University of South Carolina
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, and Virginia
University of Virginia
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church covering the Michigan counties of Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne...
, the Detroit Catholic League, the Oakland Schools Consortium, and the Michigan High School Athletic Association
Michigan High School Athletic Association
-About:The Michigan High School Athletic Association is a service organization for high school sports in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing...
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Campus and student life
Campus buildings include a newly built hockey arena and 50,000 volume library, a Marian grotto, a three-story residence hall, a bookstore, two gymnasiums, a science center, administration buildings, a fully equipped laboratory, a dining hall and the prominent Shrine Chapel. The campus also features a quarter mile of beach on Orchard LakeOrchard Lake
Orchard Lake is a medium-sized inland lake, 795 acres . It has a 110 feet maximum depth and is in the city of Orchard Lake Village, Oakland County, in Michigan, USA. It is the second-largest lake in Oakland County after Cass Lake....
. Only students, facility and staff are allowed use of the beach and docks.
St. Mary's prides itself on its students being scholar-athletes for 80% of the school participates in sports. Thus, the school offers 12 varsity sports: football, basketball, baseball, track, cross country, golf, wrestling, rowing, hockey,soccer, lacrosse, and skiing. The Eaglets have won many league, district, and regional titles in its history. It owns a total of 28 Michigan State Championships to its name. In the past seven years, the Eaglet football, baseball, hockey, basketball, and rowing teams have all captured state titles. In 1998, the school's rowing team gained international prominence for placing second in the Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta
Henley Royal Regatta is a rowing event held every year on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. The Royal Regatta is sometimes referred to as Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage...
. Since 1994, the Eaglet football team has reached the state finals five times coming away with three victories.
The athletic facilities include the new St. Mary's Athletic Center which has a 1,300 seat hockey arena, a weight room, an indoor track, locker rooms and a banquet hall. Attached to the Athletic Center is the Dombroski Fieldhouse with its 1,000 seat basketball gymnasium. The crew team has its own boathouse just off Orchard Lake
Orchard Lake
Orchard Lake is a medium-sized inland lake, 795 acres . It has a 110 feet maximum depth and is in the city of Orchard Lake Village, Oakland County, in Michigan, USA. It is the second-largest lake in Oakland County after Cass Lake....
. Outdoors, St. Mary's offers two football fields, two baseball diamonds, and a basketball court. The St. Mary's Ski team practices at Alpine Valley Snow Ski Area in White Lake, Michigan.
The Eaglet's compete in the MHSAA
Michigan High School Athletic Association
-About:The Michigan High School Athletic Association is a service organization for high school sports in Michigan and is headquartered in East Lansing...
Division II and III, depending on the sport. In the Detroit Catholic League, they compete in the Central Division. St. Mary's fiercest rivals are Detroit Country Day School
Detroit Country Day School
Detroit Country Day School is a private, secular school located in four campuses in Oakland County, Michigan, north of Detroit. The administrative offices, facility services, safety and security services, and the upper school are located in a campus in Beverly Hills, along with the middle school...
, Birmingham Brother Rice
Brother Rice High School (Michigan)
Brother Rice High School is a Roman Catholic all-boys non-residential college prep school with approximately 700 students located in Bloomfield Township, Michigan . Until 1993 its address was in neighboring Birmingham, Michigan's postal district. In 1993 the U.S...
, U of D Jesuit and Catholic Central High School
Detroit Catholic Central High School
Detroit Catholic Central High School is a private, Catholic, all-male, college preparatory high school in Novi, Michigan. Founded in 1928 in Detroit, Michigan by the Archdiocese of Detroit, the school is operated by the Congregation of St. Basil...
and a new rivalry with East Grand Rapids High school is growing.
St. Mary's holds the largest high school fair in the country every year for fund-raising (http://www.stmaryspolishcountryfair.com/). Parents and students must participate as volunteers.
The "Ark Building" (#9) contains the Polish Home Army Museum
Polish Home Army Museum, Orchard Lake, Michigan
The Polish Home Army Museum in Orchard Lake, Michigan is dedicated to the memory of the brave men and women of the Armia Krajowa during World War II. The Museum tells the story of the struggle for the freedom and independence of Poland during World War II...
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Boarding Program
The Boarding Program at St. Mary’s is available to all students. There are seven-day and five-day boarding students, depending on the individual situation. Students enrolled in the program receive room and board, which includes three daily meals, a room, laundry facilities, and close proximity to all the school’s recreational and academic facilities.Notable faculty
- Dan Gheesling, Winner of Big Brother 10Big Brother 10Big Brother 10 may refer to:* Big Brother Germany , the 2010 edition of the Germany version of Big Brother.* Big Brother 2009 , the 2009 edition of the United Kingdom version of Big Brother....
. Asst. Coach of Football team, & Teacher of Health, Biology, & Physical Education at St. Mary's.
Notable alumni
- Adam Maida, Cardinal, Former Archbishop of Detroit
- Jay PenskeJay PenskeJay Penske is an American media and publishing entrepreneur, born in New York City and currently based in Los Angeles.-Early life:Penske is the youngest son of Roger Penske. Penske went to high school at St. Mary's Preparatory. At St. Mary's, Penske was named All-League, All-State, All-American,...
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- Joe Bok, CEO Aero Telemetry Corporation and, founder, Aero F/X Inc.
- Tim Megge, President/CEO, Carron Classics
- Richard Cieszkowski II, President/CEO of Caro Carbide Corp
- Dennis Surgalski, Master Teacher Emeritus in the Warren Consolidated School District, WarrenWarren, MichiganWarren is a city in Macomb County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The 2010 census places the city's population at 134,056, making Warren the largest city in Macomb County, the third largest city in Michigan, and Metro Detroit's largest suburb....
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Athletes
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DE - Kalin LucasKalin LucasKalin Lucas is an American professional basketball player with Olympiacos. He attended St. Mary's Preparatory in Orchard Lake, Michigan and played college basketball at Michigan State.-College career:...
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