Greetings From Principal Lawrence Manetti

Welcome to the first-ever, official blog of St. Joseph School.

For those unfamiliar with us, we are located at 5641 South 73rd Avenue in Summit, Illinois. For nearly a century we have provided an excellent Catholic elementary education to boys and girls in St. Joseph Parish (which includes the northern half of Summit plus the westernmost section of Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood), as well as boys and girls in nearby suburban communities like Bedford Park, Bridgeview, Justice, Willow Springs, Forest View, Stickney, Lyons and McCook, among others.

This blog is the first of several Internet-based communications tools we plan to launch and utilize in the 2011-12 school year.

This blog is primarily designed to:

** ...provide up-to-date news and other information for St. Joseph School parents and students, faculty and staff, parishioners, alumni and everyone in our school community.

** ...publicly thank individual members of our local business and professional community for the many ways they support St. Joseph School.

** ...encourage our alumni---graduates, as well as alumni parents---to share positive memories of yesteryear, and encourage all alumni to re-connect with St. Joseph School and give a helping hand to today's boys and girls.

** ...occasionally raise and discuss larger issues associated with Catholic education, to promote better and stronger Catholic education at all levels.

On a day-to-day basis, this blog will be administered---under my supervision and authority---by Tim Hadac, St. Joseph School's Director of Development, Alumni Relations and New Media. Mr. Hadac, a father of two St. Joseph School graduates and a past president of our School Board, is also a longtime journalist and public relations professional.

We welcome your feedback and encourage you to check back here frequently...