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We’re 80 Percent There
With 80 percent raised toward our campaign
goal, participation is key to breaking ground!
A rendering of the new addition that will house the new gym,
student commons and classrooms by Hastings + Chivetta,
the architectural firm that has been hired to design the build-
ing. The view is taken from the northwestern corner of campus.
Cor Jesu announced in September 2015 that S.M. WILSON &
CO will serve as construction manager of the building project.
We’re 80 percent there! Eighty percent of the way to building a new performance
gymnasium and student commons that will meet the academic and athletic needs of our
community. Eighty percent of the way to creating new classrooms, such as the Center for
Law and Leadership, which will foster more opportunities for innovative learning. And
80 percent of the way to augmenting the CJ endowment, which will provide significantly
more financial assistance to qualifying families.
We are 80 percent of the way to making the final phase of the One Heart ~ One Spirit ~
One Vision Capital Campaign a reality! And we need you – now more than ever – to help
us reach 100 percent of our remaining goal by March 2016, so we can break ground in
June 2016 and complete the new gym and student commons in the fall of 2017!
6 COR JESU ACADEMY All renderings by Hastings+Chivetta
In April 2014, Cor Jesu launched the One Heart ~ One Spirit ~ and library, the construction and staffing of the Student Learning
One Vision Capital Campaign. And thanks to the generosity of Center, expansion of the CJTV studio and more. Now it is time to
more than 900 members of the Cor Jesu community, $7.5 million take a new and historic step in providing the exceptional Catholic
has been pledged. Because of the Cor Jesu community’s generous education that CJ equips its graduates with so they leave these halls
response to the campaign, we completed the first phase of con- ready to transform the world.
struction this past May – reconfiguring roadwork and adding 75
new parking spaces on campus – which has paved the way for the Every Gift Counts
How can we make it all happen? We need the participation of
important site prep that is now underway, including the hiring the entire Cor Jesu community, no matter the size of your gift. We
of construction manager, S.M. Wilson & Co. We could not have
need unified support at whatever level you feel you can give. Con-
accomplished these improvements without the loyalty and the sider that if you donate $25 per month for the next five years, that
shared mission of our donors. We are most grateful!
You may be wondering why Cor Jesu has made a commitment becomes a $1,375 pledge to the campaign. And it makes a differ-
to raise the remaining $2 million before we start building the ence. If you can give $500 or $1,000 or $10,000 per year, it also
gym and commons. It’s simple. It’s because we are committed makes a difference.
to continuing to provide a premier Catholic education to young Quite simply, reaching the remaining $2 million for the One
women, while remaining good stewards of the contributions Heart ~ One Spirit ~ One Vision campaign can’t happen without
made to Cor Jesu so that we can ensure that tuition remains as you!
accessible as possible. That philosophy has enabled us to keep
tuition increases to an average of just 5.5 percent for the past five
years – one of the lowest percentage increases for private, Catho-
lic high schools in the St. Louis area. And raising the remaining
$2 million by March 2016 will enable us to begin construction in
June 2016 and finish in time for the 2017-18 academic year.
Since 2008, when Cor Jesu purchased the first six acres adja-
cent to the school, the CJ community has consistently answered
the call to help fund carefully planned campus maintenance and
improvements without incurring debt. In the past seven years
alone, more than $4 million has been donated by parents, alum-
nae, past parents and grandparents, allowing Cor Jesu to best
utilize its existing space. This generous funding has been stew-
arded for the purchase an additional 10 acres, the building of an
athletic field and parking lots, the renovation of our science labs Performance Gymnasium
A view from the perspective of a
new classroom on the upper level,
looking down on the new student
commons (center), which is ad-
jacent to the cafeteria on the left
and the new gym on the right.