Thank you to our former May Queens for sharing some of their memories from their May Day experiences. From one former May Queen, “To this day, St. Anne's continues to be a small but mighty community of young students, dedicated teachers, thoughtful administrators, hardworking staff members, and invested parents, each of whom are committed to upholding the founding virtues of the school and cultivating a space where students learn not only how to be good students, but how to be good people. I am forever grateful to have been part of such a special community.”  

Additional sentiments from former May Queens:

"It is an experience I will never forget; a special and magical time; it was the time when it finally hit me that my time at St. Anne’s was coming to a close; such an important tradition; a rite of passage...What I remember most are the songs…the songs from May Days past have stayed in my heart over the years - these will always be with you...in holding that title, I also represented my class as a whole."

Click below to watch a video from former May Queens:

This month’s Alumni Spotlight features Annalee Miner '18, a current student at Kent Denver. This year, she joined a local chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) to participate in the “Students of the Year” challenge. This challenge is a national student-led campaign that has raised over $40 million for cancer research since 2017. LLS guides motivated high school leaders to foster professional skills such as entrepreneurship, marketing, and project management as they seek to raise funds for LLS. The title “Student of the Year” is awarded to the candidate or co-candidate team in each community that raises the most funds during a 7-week competition. Annalee partnered with another Kent student to raise $50,000 as part of this philanthropic competition. She and her teammate have solicited local companies, corporations, schools, and community members and are about 45% towards their ultimate goal. We applaud Annalee’s initiative and drive with this effort! For more information on her campaign, visit https://events.lls.org/rm/DenverSOY20/aminer.

Our next Alumni Spotlight features Jessica Gibson Covella ’99. As a student at St. Anne’s, Jessica found an interest in Spanish early on. When she got to middle school, Spanish teacher (now Director of Admissions) Lori Frank helped her cultivate that passion and her love for children, impacting the rest of her life. Jessica went on to major in Spanish Literature in college and for the past ten years, Jessica has been working in Denver Public Schools. She is currently at Sabin World Elementary as a bilingual administrator as well as a teacher, coach, and mentor. After partnering with Sabin teachers who carve out time every morning to teach students social and emotional development skills, Jessica was inspired to write a children’s book about emotional intelligence, which she published this past fall. Shine, published in both Spanish and English, is a story for any age that teaches an important lesson about being true to yourself and surrounding yourself with people who lift you up rather than bring you down. Writing this book was “one of the best things I’ve ever done,” she says. Visit www.jessicacovella.com to learn more.

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