Office of Catholic Schools

Four students from St. Gerald School in Oak Lawn received awards in the Cook County State's Attorney's Anti-Drug Poster Contest. They are (left to right) Melissa Schick (2nd place, 6th grade), Clare Teeling (3rd place, 7th grade), Christine Puchalski (2nd place, 7th grade), and Ashley Nowdomski (1st place, 8th grade). Standing behind the winners are (left to right) Mark Sulski, Branch Manager for Midwest Bank & Trust (contest sponsor), ABC-7 Anchor/Reporter Jim Rose (host of the awards ceremony), and First Assistant State's Attorney Robert Milan.

(CHICAGO — May 2005) Four students from St. Gerald, 9320 South 55 th Court in Oak Lawn, and one student from St. Robert Bellarmine, 6036 West Eastwood Avenue in Chicago, were named winners in the Office of the State’s Attorney’s Anti-Drug Poster Contest. The four winners from St. Gerald, Melissa Schick, Christine Puchalski, Clare Teeling and Ashley Nowdomski, along with Darcy Peters from St. Robert Bellarmine, were honored at an awards ceremony that was held recently in the Great Hall of the Chicago Children’s Museum at Navy Pier.

The five Catholic School winners were among thirteen 6 th, 7 th and 8 th graders from throughout Cook County who received awards from State’s Attorney Richard Devine.The winners were chosen by a Blue Ribbon Panel of judges from Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an art instructor from a suburban public high school and an architect. The posters were exhibited at the Children’s Museum and will also be featured in a 2006 Anti-Drug calendar to be distributed to all Cook County schools as a tool for drug prevention.

Each winning student received a $50 savings bond, tickets to Chicago White Sox and Cubs games, and art supplies along with a pizza and Pepsi party that followed the ceremony.