MCS Celebrates Season, Prepares for 2013

MCS Celebrates Season, Prepares for 2013
MCS Celebrates Season,
Christmas Musical delighted MCS family.

Music, drama, sports and giving marked a busy December at Miami Christian School as a holiday band concert under the direction of Derek Shute showcased various bands and played to a packed house. At the concert, the audience enjoyed hearing the school’s first guitar ensemble perform under the direction of the guitar and drama teacher Giselle Pedraza whose drama students provided still another Christmas show a week later with the vocal performance groups, also to a sellout crowd of friends and family.

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MCS Celebrates Season,
From left, Sumara Shute, Nina Beam, Julie Arista
enjoying Senior Class spaghetti.

In addition to the holiday shows, the Senior Class hosted a Spaghetti Dinner to raise money for their its trip, providing food and assisting sponsors with the cooking and serving of the event attended by students, staff, families and school friends. Both Senior Class President Michael Santiago and High School Principal and Sponsor Woody Gentry were pleased with the participation and support shown by all.

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MCS Celebrates Season, Prepares for 2013
Derek Shute, Victoria Vila perform in Jazz Ensemble
during Holiday Band Concert.

A holiday appreciation party for the MCS board and staff was generously sponsored by Sam’s Club whose store manger, Bruce Siddens, provided hamburgers and with all the fixin’s for an enjoyable lunch before the school closed for the Christmas break.

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Elementary school students continued to collect items for Sunil’s Home Orphanage in India, the home they’ve adopted as a special project for the last several years. Bi-annual updates from Sunil’s Home board member, Lynn Bauer, are always a special treat and one the children look forward to on a regular basis.

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MCS Celebrates Season, Prepares for 2013
Senior Michael Santiago and Mrs. Rosado at the
Senior Dinner.

On the athletic front, the Miami Christian School Victors Boys’ Basketball Team was ranked ninth in the FHSAA State District 2A as the Girls’ Basketball, Mens’ Baseball, Softball, Mens’ Volleyball, and Track and Field are all coming up in the months ahead.

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On the alumni scene, Miami Christian School congratulates three of its recent graduates who have entered the military: Christopher Gehring (Class’10) Air Force; ErickIvan Mendoza (’10) Air Force; and David Tamayo (’11) Army.


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A graduate of the University of Florida with a major in Spanish, Burns has an extensive background in advertising, marketing and reciprocal trade, travel , non profit consulting and management. Before joining Miami's Community Newspapers as a columnist and marketing specialist, Gloria was the Executive Director of the Jr. Orange Bowl Committee (6 yrs.) and first Executive Director of the Coral Gables Community Foundation (14 yrs.) and the Pinecrest Community Foundation (1 ½ yrs) . Burns' volunteer activities led her to become a columnist for Community Newspapers writing Gloria’s Gab, that focuses on the non-profit activity, and a host of an online show, Gloria's Gab LIVE. Gloria serves the board of the Rotary Club of Coral Gables as Civic and Charity Chair, and is involved in the club's International Committee. She is an active Life Member of the Jr. Orange Bowl Committee and is Secretary of the Merrick Festival. She serves on the board of directors of the Coral Gables Woman' Club as Publicity Chair and also coordinates the club's monthly fundraiser for various charities with Gringo Bingo at Clutch Burger. In addition, Gloria participates in numerous other charitable events and is a member of the Business Forum Group, Profit Inc., the Greater Miami Festival & Events Association and the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce. In other volunteer activity, Gloria helps Miami Christian School with fund-raising and PR; is an Ambassador and volunteers for events for A Safe Haven for Newborns. She is an active member of the Music Ministry at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church where she enjoys singing in the choir every weekend.