St. Joseph Hill Academy - Trivia

Trivia

• The school mascot is the koala, a costumed version of which parades at games and pep rallies under the guise of "Kiki". Students, however, are more commonly known as Hilltoppers.
• The school motto is Summum Bonum - Latin for "the highest good."
• A daughter of June Havoc, and thus niece of Gypsy Rose Lee, was a boarder at the school during the mid-20th century.
• The school's award-winning forensics team has been coached by Sister Raimonde Bartus, F.D.C. for nearly five decades. In 2002, she was inducted into the National Forensic League Hall of Fame. * For the past twenty-five years, St. Joseph Hill, students have co-coordinated the annual Superdance with brother school Monsignor Farrell High School. The Superdance, a 12-hour event held every March for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, is the nation's leading student fundraiser for the disease. The 2009 dance alone raised $220,226. Executives of the student committee appear yearly on Jerry Lewis' Labor Day telethon to present the check.
• St. Joseph Hill Academy received its name from the statue of St. Joseph at the top of the campus hill.
• The hilltop campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for designing 355 school and university campuses and renowned for his landscape designs for Central Park, Prospect Park, and Riverside Park to name a few.

•The St. Joseph Hill Academy School Song is sung at the end of every assembly and awards ceremony:

Come! Join and sing the praises of a school, We never can forget; Though we may wander far, She'll be our guiding star. Let's sing once again the story of the white and blue, Pledging our Alma Mater, ever to be true. (Refrain) All hail! St. Joseph Hill! Keep her standards flying high. Hail! St. Joseph Hill! May her glory never die. We pledge our loyalty, to her honor tried and true, For there'll never wave any flag quite as brave, As the white and the blue! Long after we have parted, when we leave these old familiar halls; We'll keep the memory, of days that used to be, And though time may bring its measures both of laughter and tears, We'll find our Alma Mater Standing through the years (Refrain)