Mountain Views News          Saturday, November 27, 2010

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EDUCATION & YOUTH

 Mountain Views News Saturday, November 27, 2010 

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

St. Rita Parish Welcomes 
New Director of Youth 
Ministry

 On November 7, St. Rita Parish in 
Sierra Madre welcomed a new member to 
the professional ministry staff, Theresa Bui 
Costanzo. Involved with youth ministry for 
fifteen years, Costanzo comes to St. Rita’s 
via her former profession in international 
marketing in the health and beauty care 
industry. 

 In her years as a UCLA student, she 
formed a strong bond to campus ministry 
in the Newman Center at the university, 
then as a young adult was involved with the 
youth program at St. Philip the Apostle in 
Pasadena. After starting a family, she was 
called to youth ministry, and served as 
Director of Youth Ministry at Our Mother 
of Good Counsel in Los Angeles and 
Confirmation coordinator in La Canada-
Flintridge at St. Bede parish. 

 As a mother of two, the Altadena resident 
feels she balances a practical, sympathetic 
and empathetic feel for parents who 
are juggling schedules and trying to set 
priorities amidst all of the multitasking 
demands of today’s life. “Yet,” she says, “It 
is important to both me and my husband 
that we be involved in ministry, especially 
youth.”

Monsignor Richard Krekelberg, pastor of 
St. Rita’s says he and the interview team 
were drawn to Costanzo’s passion for the 
Catholic Christian faith, her dynamic 
enthusiasm and particularly her success at 
recruiting and developing a dynamic youth 
ministry team, “whose mission is to provide 
a faith-filled community for Catholic youths 
to develop a deeper relationship with Jesus 
Christ and become truly connected with 
the church through the relationship they 
develop and participation in their parish 
community” in Costanzo’s own words.

 “The development of our ministry to 
youth here at St. Rita Parish over the 
past four years,” reflected Krekelberg, 
“has impressed upon us the need to 
include programming for junior high, 
high school (including preparation for 
the sacrament of Confirmation) through 
young adult. From the more than twenty 
applicants for the position of Director of 
Youth Ministry, Theresa Bui Costanzo 
clearly had the edge by way of previous 
experience and success in tying all three 
levels together in a seamless way.”

Costanzo will direct an expanded youth 
ministry program planned for grades 
6-12 over the next year, as well as the two 
year Confirmation program. Monsignor 
Richard Krekelberg, pastor, will 
complete her introduction to the church 
community this Saturday, November 20 at 
the 5:30 Youth Mass, after introductions at 
all the church’s other services and the semi-
annual parish welcome event, earlier in 
November. 

For more information on the St. Rita youth 
programs, contact Theresa Costanzo at 
the St. Rita Youth office, 626-355-1852, 
through the parish administrative offices at 
626-355-1292 or at YM@St-rita.org.


Alverno High School

200 N. Michillinda Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3463 Head of School: Ann M. Gillick 

E-mail address: agillick@alverno-hs.org

Arcadia High School

180 Campus Drive Arcadia, CA 91007

Phone: (626) 821-8370, Principal: David L. Vannasdall

Arroyo Pacific Academy

41 W. Santa Clara St. Arcadia, Ca, 

(626) 294-0661 Principal: Phil Clarke

E-mail address: pclarke@arroyopacific.org

Barnhart School

240 W. Colorado Blvd Arcadia, Ca. 91007

(626) 446-5588 Head of School: Joanne Testa Cross

Kindergarten - 8th grade

website: www.barnhartschool.com 

Bethany Christian School

93 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-3527 Principal: James Lugenbuehl

E-mail address: jml@bcslions.org

Carden of the Foothills School

429 Wildrose Avenue, Monrovia, CA 91016 626/358-9414 
626/358-5164 fax office@cardenofthefoothills.com

The Gooden School

192 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-2410 Head of School: Patty Patano

website: www.goodenschool.org

High Point Academy

1720 Kinneloa Canyon Road

Pasadena, Ca. 91107 626-798-8989

website: www.highpointacademy.org

LaSalle High School

3880 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 351-8951 

website: www.lasallehs.org

Monrovia High School

325 East Huntington Drive, Monrovia, CA 91016 

(626) 471-2000, 

Email: schools@monrovia.k12.ca.us

Norma Coombs Alternative School

2600 Paloma St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 798-0759 Principal: Dr. Vanessa Watkins 

E-mail address: watkins12@pusd.us

Odyssey Charter School

725 W. Altadena Dr. Altadena, Ca. 91001

(626) 229-0993 Head of School: Lauren O’Neill

website: www.odysseycharterschool.org

Pasadena High School

2925 E. Sierra Madre Blvd. Pasadena, Ca. 

(626) 798-8901 Principal: Dr. Derick Evans

website: www.pasadenahigh.org

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave. Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 795-6981 website: www.pusd@pusd.us

St. Rita Catholic School

322 N. Baldwin Ave. Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-9028 website: www.st-rita.org

Sierra Madre Elementary School

141 W. Highland Ave, Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 355-1428 Principal: Gayle Bluemel

E-mail address:gbluemel220@pusd.us

Sierra Madre Middle School 

160 N. Canon Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

(626) 836-2947 Principal: Gayle Bluemel

Contact person: Garrett Newsom, Asst. Principal

E-mail address: gbluemel220@pusd.us

Walden School

74 S San Gabriel Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91107 (626) 792-6166 

www.waldenschool.net

Weizmann Day School

1434 N. Altadena Dr. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 797-0204

Lisa Feldman: Head of School

Wilson Middle School

300 S. Madre St. Pasadena, Ca. 91107

(626) 449-7390 Principal: Ruth Esseln

E-mail address: resseln@pusd.us

Pasadena Unified School District

351 S. Hudson Ave., Pasadena, Ca. 91109

(626) 795-6981 Website: www.pusd@pusd.us

Theresa Costanzo

Pasadena High Marching Band And Color Gaurd Take Top Honors

Last Saturday the PHS 
Bulldog Marching Band and 
Color Gaurd competed in 
the Moorpark High School 
Battle of the Bands in the 
pouring rain and took 1st 
place in their group to go 
along with the 2nd and 3rd 
that they earned in previous 
competitions.

 If you have not had a 
chance to see the field show, 
please come out to the All 
District Marching Band Fest 
on December 11. You will 
also be able to see the field 
performances of Blair, Marshall, 
Muir and Pasadena 
High School. The festival 
will begin at 5:00 on the PHS 
football field.

 The Marching Band will 
also perform the music from 
the field show at the PHS 
Winter Concert on December 
15. In addition to the 
Marching Band, the Orchestra, 
Concert Band and Jazz 
ensembles will be performing 
at this concert in the PHS 
Auditorium beginning at7:00 
pm .


We’re No. 1 - Shuping Deng - Color Guard co-captain, Will Medina - Assistant Drum 
Major, David Miller - Band Director, Olivia Broslawsky - Drum Major, Yessenia Tellez - Color 
Guard co-captain, Jozey Martinez - Color Guard Instructor


A DAY AT CITY HALL Photos by Vivianne M. Parker

Students from Highpoint Academy in Pasadena 
get a tour of Pasadena City Hall as Councilman 
Steve Haderlein who covers District 4 (Hastings 
Ranch area and East Pasadena) shares the 
history of Pasadena’s unique architecture seen 
in buildings like City Hall, the Rose Bowl, and 
the Convention Center. 

The center quad is a well-photographed 
scene with wedding photographers often 
framing their shots and models near this 
fountain. City Hall was built in 1928 in 
this Roman architecture style. 

 Students got an opportunity to see what the 
8 member council view when sessions are 
held there as they 

hear the matters of the city at its weekly 
meetings.

 Haderlein explains the design of the time 
in 1928 where candle lights were being replaced 
by electric lights so the concept was 
to make the new products look like the old 
product. 


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