The Mater Dei family is proud to announce that our Catholic Schools Week Sumo Wrestling Charity Challenge raised an amazing total of $4,620 for Maren Poettker and her family! Maren, a three-year-old battling Neuroblastoma, is the daughter of Chris ’01 and Neely Poettker of Aviston, as well as the niece of Tracy (Poettker) Millard ’94 (mother of freshman Mason Millard) and Shelly (Poettker) Spears ’88 (mother of junior Morgan Spears).
Having doubled our donation goal of $2,000, Principal Dennis Litteken and ten teachers sumo wrestled during our CSW Pep Rally on Friday, February 1!
In addition, the Mater Dei family donated nearly 800 toiletry items for both the Night Drop-In Center and the Outreach Ministry Center sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul Society (SVDP) of Belleville.
As always, we commend the Mater Dei family for serving as our brother’s keeper!
The Mater Dei family is proud to announce that our 2020 Catholic Schools Week Sumo Wrestling Charity Challenge raised an amazing total of $4,620 for Maren Poettker and her family! Principal Dennis Litteken (third from left) is pictured presenting the donation to Maren’s father, Chris Poettker ‘01 (fourth from left), who was joined by (from left) Maren’s cousin Mason Millard ‘23, aunt Tracy (Poettker) Millard ‘94, grandmother Rita Poettker ‘68, uncle Dirk Spears, aunt Shelly (Poettker) Spears ‘88, and cousin Morgan Spears ’21. We thank all who donated to this worthy event!
(from left) Alyssa Gall, Jacey Wieter, and Claire Tonnies are pictured with one of the six bins of toiletries collected during Catholic Schools Week for the benefit of both the Night Drop-In Center and the Outreach Ministry Center sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul Society of Belleville. We thank all who donated to this worthy event!
