Brophy News: The Magazine for Parents, Alumni and Friends of Brophy College Preparatory
Annual Report Issue
Fiscal Year 2022-23
In This Issue
- Brophy Sustainability Pioneer, Patty Mazier
- Protecting the Planet: Alumni Take Action
- And more!
Contents
WELCOME
Office of Faith and Justice
On the cover
Bob Ryan is missioned as Brophy’s 12th president at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on August 18.
Letter from the president
In the Jesuit tradition, we began the school year with the Mass of the Holy Spirit. It was especially meaningful to me this year, with Jesuits West Provincial Sean Carroll, SJ, joining us and missioning me as the 12th president of Brophy during the service. In turn, I had the pleasure of officially appointing Jim Bopp as our principal. Afterward, our faculty and staff gathered for lunch, and I had the opportunity to share my reflections about the importance of our Jesuit mission at this moment in history; I offered three signs of our times that I think will inform our future.
Brophy Sustainability Pioneer, Patty Mazier
On the east side of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Math and Science, Ms. Mazier bends over Home Depot buckets with a cluster of freshman boys leaning in around her. A few minutes prior, the students had bounded out of the Piper building with buckets, handfuls of organic material and other items to aid them in the composting process that is part of the AP Seminar: Environmental Studies course she teaches. She moves from group to group, reminding them to measure temperature in Celsius rather than Fahrenheit as they check the decomposition of the material…
Protecting the Planet: Alumni Take Action
Alumni Adam Fishman ’10, Pete Rau ’05 and Aaron Redman ’01 find their calling in the field of sustainability
Departments
Academics
- From Principal Jim Bopp: Academics and Co-curriculars
- Co-curricular Learning: A look at The Roundup and Math Club
Office of Faith and Justice
- Immersion Trips Take Students to Different World Zones — and Often Out of Their Comfort Zones
Athletics
- The Brophy Rodeo Golf Invitational Welcomes 200-Plus High School Competitors
- Three Brophy Alumni Suit Up in the NFL
- Broncos Travel to San Diego for the Honor Bowl
Alumni
- Brophy Celebrates Alumni at 2023 Grand Reunion
- AlumNotes: Weddings, Births and Other Alumni News
