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A Letter to the DSHA Class of 2022
Dear DSHA Community,
While we typically write you a letter to share some highlights from the semester, we’d like to take a different approach this spring. Instead, we offer a letter of love and appreciation to the class of 2022; a class that is extra dear to each of us.
I (Principal Dan Quesnell) was able to walk alongside of this class as both a principal and a father to Nora Quesnell, DSHA ’22. My love for this class—given all they have endured and accomplished—is difficult to summarize in a limited number of words.
And I (President Katie Konieczny, DSHA ’92) spent my first full four years as president with the DSHA Class of 2022. We have been challenged together. We have learned together. And we have grown together in our love for our shared sisterhood.
While we typically write you a letter to share some highlights from the semester, we’d like to take a different approach this spring. Instead, we offer a letter of love and appreciation to the class of 2022; a class that is extra dear to each of us.
I (Principal Dan Quesnell) was able to walk alongside of this class as both a principal and a father to Nora Quesnell, DSHA ’22. My love for this class—given all they have endured and accomplished—is difficult to summarize in a limited number of words.
And I (President Katie Konieczny, DSHA ’92) spent my first full four years as president with the DSHA Class of 2022. We have been challenged together. We have learned together. And we have grown together in our love for our shared sisterhood.
To the DSHA Class of 2022,
It is our honor, along with the DSHA faculty and staff, and the Sisters of the Divine Savior, to celebrate each and every 170 of you. We honor your journeys that are ending with the culmination of high school, along with the new ones about to begin as you look toward your bright futures and hope in the plans God has for each of you. There is an immense amount of opportunity that lies ahead. We are praying for you—that you would know you are loved, that your worth is immeasurable, and that your gifts are God-given. As guided by the mission of the Sisters of the Divine Savior, you are ready to accept the gospel call to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in the world and to live a life that makes a difference—well beyond the walls of DSHA.
We are proud of you. You have faced obstacles you could not have seen coming. You were freshmen the last time DSHA had a “normal” year, uninterrupted by COVID. Yet you persevered this year through prayer, worship, and Vocare service. You dedicated yourselves to your academic pursuits, and you leaned into your passions whether through setting Robotics Team world records, winning prestigious Scholastic Art Awards, or bringing home DSHA’s 9th Rugby National Championship. Yes, it was a challenging four years, but you chose to rally and finish your senior year united and strong. (And some might even say you finished in a very organized fashion through a top secret and highly complex and orchestrated mission to blanket the Social Studies hallway with quite literally thousands of balloons!) Your commitment to one another was evident and beautiful. Your class will forever hold a special legacy at DSHA for the way you ushered in our Marian Scholars Program. You embody our DSHA Qualities of Graduate as believers, self-advocates, critical thinkers, communicators, and leaders.
Dashers, you have been good and you have been kind. We pray that you see and know these characteristics in one another, in the world around you, and in yourselves. The world needs your goodness—individually and collectively—and we cannot wait to see your difference-making pursuits lived out 10, 20, and 50 years ahead.
You are now a part of the DSHA alumnae community—a 130-year legacy of over 14,000 graduates from Divine Savior High School, Holy Angels Academy, and DSHA. Wherever life takes you, each and every one of you will always have a place at our table. We hope you view DSHA as a forever-home.
We love you. We are inspired by you. And we thank you for leaving us a better, stronger, and more loving community.
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It is our honor, along with the DSHA faculty and staff, and the Sisters of the Divine Savior, to celebrate each and every 170 of you. We honor your journeys that are ending with the culmination of high school, along with the new ones about to begin as you look toward your bright futures and hope in the plans God has for each of you. There is an immense amount of opportunity that lies ahead. We are praying for you—that you would know you are loved, that your worth is immeasurable, and that your gifts are God-given. As guided by the mission of the Sisters of the Divine Savior, you are ready to accept the gospel call to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ in the world and to live a life that makes a difference—well beyond the walls of DSHA.
We are proud of you. You have faced obstacles you could not have seen coming. You were freshmen the last time DSHA had a “normal” year, uninterrupted by COVID. Yet you persevered this year through prayer, worship, and Vocare service. You dedicated yourselves to your academic pursuits, and you leaned into your passions whether through setting Robotics Team world records, winning prestigious Scholastic Art Awards, or bringing home DSHA’s 9th Rugby National Championship. Yes, it was a challenging four years, but you chose to rally and finish your senior year united and strong. (And some might even say you finished in a very organized fashion through a top secret and highly complex and orchestrated mission to blanket the Social Studies hallway with quite literally thousands of balloons!) Your commitment to one another was evident and beautiful. Your class will forever hold a special legacy at DSHA for the way you ushered in our Marian Scholars Program. You embody our DSHA Qualities of Graduate as believers, self-advocates, critical thinkers, communicators, and leaders.
Dashers, you have been good and you have been kind. We pray that you see and know these characteristics in one another, in the world around you, and in yourselves. The world needs your goodness—individually and collectively—and we cannot wait to see your difference-making pursuits lived out 10, 20, and 50 years ahead.
You are now a part of the DSHA alumnae community—a 130-year legacy of over 14,000 graduates from Divine Savior High School, Holy Angels Academy, and DSHA. Wherever life takes you, each and every one of you will always have a place at our table. We hope you view DSHA as a forever-home.
We love you. We are inspired by you. And we thank you for leaving us a better, stronger, and more loving community.
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Pictured above, the DSHA Class of 2022 celebrates their first official day as Dashers at Freshmen Orientation + Fun Day on August 17, 2018. Pictured below, they celebrate their final day as DSHA students at graduation on May 27, 2022 at the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee.
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