Welcome to the St. Mary's Alumni Association

St. Mary's Titans basketball vs. St. Mary's alumni

Varsity Basketball edges out alumni

Varsity Basketball, with a little help from the Classes of 2009-2010, defeated the Alumni Team 47-44 during the Annual Titans-Alumni game held January 2.

Chairman's message — Winter 2012

I hope you are enjoying the winter weather that has been slowly creeping up to us here in Japan. The cold weather is about two weeks late here in Tokyo, with the ginkgo trees still ablaze with their yellow leaves. This is usually something we see in late November, but here we are in the middle of the bonenkai season and the leaves are only now beginning to fall.

Upcoming Events

Stay tuned for announcements for the following events:

• St. Mary's International Ball: Saturday, March 17
• St. Mary's Carnival: Saturday, May 12
• IAC Japan Natsumatsuri (at St. Maur): Saturday, June 16

Multi-Purpose Hall Fundraising

St. Mary's face change is pretty much completed, although fundraising for the Multi-Purpose Hall continues so that we can complete work on the interior of what will become the fine arts performance hall for St. Mary's.

The St. Mary's Alumni Association is committed to funding the retractable seating for the Multi-Purpose Hall. There are 448 seats, and we're inviting alumni to sponsor a seat at ¥150,000 each. Following the SMAA's 2nd St. Mary's Gala Fundraiser on November 12 in the new gym, the SMAA Fundraising team — led by Rick de Leon (Class of '75) and Bobby Masuyama (Class of '78) — is happy to announce that 113 chairs have already been sponsored. Sponsors will be recognized with their name and class year on the back of the seat as well as on the Donor Wall. Sponsorship is welcome from individuals, from Titan teams and from graduating classes.

If you'd like to sponsor a chair for the Multi-Purpose Hall, please visit this page, where you can pay on-line by credit card.

Alternatively, you may donate via bank transfer or check. Please contact Mrs. Shimokawa for details at yumis@smis.ac.jp.

International Ball

I am pleased to announce that the St. Mary's Association has decided to hold next year's Ball event at the new gym with a variety of live entertainment, some interactive fun for the guests, a silent auction, and much, much more.

Please stay tuned for announcements for this event, and please note that the SMA will donate all proceeds from the International Ball to the Multi-Purpose Hall fundraising program, excluding the funding for the SMA's own scholarship program. The alumni association will be assisting the SMA with this program, so if you would like to help by donating products or advertising in the Ball program, please contact Mrs. Shimokawa for details at yumis@smis.ac.jp.

St. Mary's Carnival — Alumni Booth & SMAPA Booth

IAC Japan Natsumatsuri

The IAC Japan group will be holding the Natsumatsuri next year at St. Maur on June 16, so please stay tuned for information on this great networking event for the international alumni community.

Please see the IAC Japan site for details.

We Hope To See You

The SMAA continues to call on all alumni to attend our events and support St. Mary's in all its activities.

Have a fabulous Holiday Season!!

New in "Past & Present"

Arthur Bufogle, class of 1972, is an ordained priest serving with the St. Patrick Catholic Parish in Hinton, WV. And St. Mary's teachers Frank and Sonia Striegl visited Brothers Isidore, Paul, Julien and Alban in Canada this summer. We've got pictures! Read on for more ...

Donate a kotatsu set for a Tohoku family

IACJapan Donation Program

"Give a Gift of Warmth" — Kotatsu Donation Program

The IACJapan group is happy to announce that through the support of St. Mary's alumni George Tsai (Class of 1973) and James Reed (class of 1969) and with proceeds from the IACJapan Natsumatsuri held at Nishimachi in June, we will be donating another 350 kotatsu to Tagajoshi, Ofunato and Kesennuma. We are hoping that people will join in helping keep the elderly warm in Tohoku this winter as most of them are accustomed to using kotatsu to keep warm. We still need thousands more and would like to ask everyone to visit the donation link below to see how you can help one of these families.

Read on to see how IACJapan is working to deliver much-needed kotatsu to Tohoku, and how you can join in.

"Give a Gift of Warmth" — Kotatsu Donation Program
（「暖かいプレゼントを贈ろう」- 東北地方にコタツを贈る計画）

IACJapanグループは、この6月に西町インターナショナル･スクールで開催されたIACJapan夏祭りでの収益金に加え、セント･メリーズの卒業生、ジョージ･サイさん（73年卒業）とジェームズ･リードさん（69年卒業）のご支援を得て、気仙沼、大船渡と多賀城市に追加の350個のコタツを送ることをお知らせいたします。東北のお年寄り達が今までと同じように、この冬をコタツで暖かく過ごせるように皆様からのご支援をお待ちしております。まだ、何千ものコタツが必要です、どうぞ、”Give a Gift of Warmth”「暖かいプレゼントを贈ろう」の寄付募集ウェブサイトでどの様な形で支援できるかご覧ください。

http://alum.smis.ac.jp/Giving/GiftOfWarmth.aspx