Entrevista Con Senorita Crujeiras
By Chyan Hunte
1. How long have you been a teacher?
~This is my fourth year as a high school Spanish
teacher.
2. What did you want to be when you were younger? What
was your reason for becoming a teacher?
~I remember being little and having all of my stuffed
animals sitting in rows with me in front of them writing things on my
little board. So as you can tell I’ve always wanted to become a
teacher. I chose Spanish because I would like everyone around me to
enjoy the language and different cultures as much as I do.
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3. How does St. Saviour differ from other schools in your opinion?
~St. Saviour is like no other. The girls and all of my colleagues are
great and I am blessed to be amongst you all.
4. When you are not teaching, what is your favorite thing to do?
~When I am not teaching I love to travel! I love to go visit my
family in Spain and also explore new countries and cultures. |
5. Who inspired you or inspires you to
believe in yourself?
~My mother inspires me to believe in myself. She is my rock, she
shares her life experiences with me to help me and make me a stronger
person. Like most moms, she always
always knows exactly what to say to help me see that sooner or later
everything works out.
6. When you were in school, what was your favorite subject?
~When I was in school my favorite subject was English.
7. If you had to give the students advice, what would it be?
~If I had to give advice it would probably be something my mom once
told me: “Always believe in yourself and cherish the people that are
there in both the good times and the bad times.” |
| History
of St. Saviour High School
By Justine Henley
Excerpted from St. Saviour web page: an informal illustrated history
of the school.
Nearing its 90th anniversary, St. Saviour High School has
enriched the Park Slope area of Brooklyn for almost as long as the
neighborhood has been in existence. The end of the 19th
Century was transitional for Brooklyn. No longer independent, no longer
a conglomeration of smaller cities and towns, now part of greater New
York City, growth was rapidly adding to the Catholic population
requiring additional parishes to meet the needs of the Church.
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Within two years of the
founding of St. Saviour Parish, in 1908, a new school building was
constructed on Sixth Street adjacent to the church growing school age
population of Park Slope. to make room for a growing school age
population of Park Slope. That building became and still is our St.
Saviour High. In 1917, St. Saviour High School began classes on the top
floor of the building. Many alum may remember graduating from grammar
school and walking upstairs to high school. This arrangement remained
until 1958, when all the elementary school children, save the seventh
and the eighth grades, moved to a new facility on Eighth Avenue, the
present very successful St. Saviour’s School. Then in the 1970's the
entire Sixth Street building was fully occupied by the high school. When
St. Saviour High School opened its doors to greet its first class in
September 1917, it had been just four months since America entered the
First World War, an event that |
also saw the beginnings of expanded roles for women in
our nation.Not coincidentally, the high school was founded as a response
to the needs of female graduates of St. Saviour Grammar School.
The boys of the parish went on to such high schools as the Jesuit run
Brooklyn Prep, or Bishop Loughlin or St. Augustines staffed by the
Christian Brothers. Girls had no comparable educational opportunity.
Recognizing this need, Reverend James Flood, the founding pastor,
invited the School Sisters of Notre Dame to open St. Saviour High School
as a parish high school for girls.
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