In loving memory of our pastor, Fr. Norm
2008 Father Normand R. Gaumond Memorial Awards
Presented on June 1, 2008 at the 5:00 p.m. Mass
Baccalaureate Mass Attendees Class of 2008
Lauren Andrews ~ Marissa Bilancieri ~ Mary Collett ~ Colin
Costello ~
Ariel
We are very proud of all our altar servers in both Churches. We are especially grateful to the four
senior altar servers who are graduating this year and who were honored at the Baccalaureate Mass Kathryn Kennedy, Hillary Rowse, Tyler Swearingen and Andrew Walter. We thank you for your years of service.
About the Fr. Normand Gaumond Memorial Award
Within weeks of the death of Father Norm on March 6, 2005, a committee of parishioners formed to choose ways to celebrate his life while honoring his memory. Richard Blinn painted a poignant visual rendering which hangs in Deacon Hall. The children of the parish raised funds to buy a tree which was planted in the front yard of the rectory and marked with a plaque.
The Father Normand Gaumond Memorial Awards are given to graduating seniors who exemplify faith in action both within our parish community and the community at large; are in good academic standing and have chosen to go on to higher education.
Congratulations to
Kathryn Kennedy and Hillary Rowse,
this year’s
recipients of the Father Normand Gaumond Memorial Award.
Kathryn Kennedy has been a member of St. Theresa’s Parish since she was five and she relates her faith journey to this parish and the teachers and mentors who have helped her form her sense of faith. Kathryn has been visible to all of us as an altar server for the past 7 years and as someone who is always here, usually tending to a younger sibling as she arrives in the pew. Kathryn has been very involved in the life of the parish helping out wherever she sees a need or opportunity to serve, especially assisting with religious education of the younger kids and helping with our Living Nativity on Christmas Eve and the Town Christmas pageant as choreographer. Kathryn is known as a young woman of great patience, commitment, humility and organizational ability. We are proud to have her as a member of this parish. We congratulate Kathryn and thank her for her service to St. Theresa’s and we wish her well as she continues her education nearby at the College of the Holy Cross.
Hillary Rowse has been with us at St. Theresa’s since birth. She has a real appreciation of the parishioners who have helped her on her faith journey through its ups and downs. She is not afraid to question, and will seek answers to her adult faith questions. Hillary has been visible in the sanctuary as an altar server for many years and also did a stint in the Children’s Choir. Hillary has also enjoyed helping with children’s activities for the parish picnic. She is known as a hard worker, sincere, mature and fun loving. As a young adult she has witnessed to her faith by participating in the Mexico mission trip last year and by volunteering at Camp Sunshine. These experiences gave her a real sense of faith and what it means to be a committed Christian. We congratulate Hillary; we thank her for her many years of service to St. Theresa’s and we wish her well as she continues her education a little further north at Colby College.
We are very grateful to those who made a contribution to the Fr. Normand Gaumond Award and to the members of the committee for all their dedication and hard work.
We were fortunate to have Fr. Normand as our pastor from 1988 to 2005. He was not only a wonderful priest, but also a great teacher, whether imparting the historical backgrounds of the gospels in his homilies, instructing in the various church history courses he ran in our parish, or answering theological and ecclesiastical questions. He enjoyed this role and did it well. It was his role as teacher that prompted the memorial committee to create the Fr. Normand Gaumond Memorial Award. The award is designed to honor and to celebrate Fr. Norm’s life by recognizing a deserving student of our parish and providing that student with a monetary gift for school expenses. The award is given to a graduating senior who exemplifies faith in action within our parish community and the community at large, is in good academic standing, and is going on to higher education.
The committee is delighted that this memorial award allows us to express our gratitude for Fr. Norm’s years of service and instruction by commending a St. Theresa graduating senior in his name.
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