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FEATURE: #CHARGEON
A Special Plan
THE MITCHELL FAMILY
Planners. That’s who we are at their own schools, too. So, she and Dan
Cor Jesu – students, faculty, staff enrolled their daughters at Holy Cross
and parents alike. We plan study Academy in Crestwood, with plans for
schedules, we plan dances, we plan each of them to attend a Catholic high
carpool pickups. But what happens school. As Claire, the oldest, entered
when life doesn’t go according to middle school, the Mitchells took all the
right steps in their high school search. They
our carefully constructed plans?
attended high school nights, open houses
Dan and Carrie Mitchell grew up in and summer camps, and participated in
St. Louis, and both attended Catholic 8th grade shadow days. Through it all,
grade schools and high schools. For something about Cor Jesu just stood out.
the last 25 years, Carrie has worked as “The teachers were really welcoming
a theology teacher at St. John Vianney at Cor Jesu, and I liked that it was
High School where she is also on the challenging,” Claire Mitchell ‘24 said.
campus ministry team and coordinates
the 3-week long junior service project. By 8th grade, she made her decision
and set her plan. Claire applied to
“I think there is something special Cor Jesu, and upon admission, would
about Catholic education,” Carrie said. become a Charger in the Fall of 2020.
“There’s a special love that the faculty
and staff have for their students.” But on November 21, 2019, Carrie
was diagnosed with breast cancer
Carrie shares that special love with her and the extra pressure of medical
own students at Vianney and wanted bills caused the Mitchells to wonder
to be sure her three daughters, Claire, – How are we going to do this?
Sophie and Ellie would experience it in
Carrie, Ellie, Claire, Sophie and Dan Mitchell at the Vianney Paint It Pink
Basketball Game to benefit the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge.
6 | FY 2019-20 DATES: JULY 1, 2019-JUNE 30, 2020
