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Dear Missoula Catholic Schools Community Members,

As we enter this season of gratitude and reflection, I am filled with a profound sense of thankfulness for the Missoula Catholic Schools community. For generations, our schools have provided a beacon of light where students receive an outstanding education and formation in compassion, conscience, competence, and community. 

This holiday season, I invite you to help us continue the mission that lies at the heart of the Missoula Catholic Schools. Your gift is more than a contribution; it is a blessing. With your generosity, you can help close the gap of education-based needs. This year, our efforts are focused on three essential areas that need your support.

• Campus Safety and Security: As a place of learning and faith, ensuring our student’s safety is central to everything we do. 
• Instructional Technology: Help us provide our students with the necessary tools to succeed in this never-ending world of technological advancements
• Ram Activity Center: Our activity center is the heart of some of our greatest teachings – teamwork, resilience, and community. 

During this season of faith and giving, we are reminded that every gift, regardless of size, can make an incredible difference. Together, I pray that we can reach our goal of $50,000 to ensure that Missoula Catholic Schools remains a place where children can grow in faith, discover their potential, and go on to serve their communities with open hearts.

As we celebrate Christmas and the blessings it brings, may we be guided by St. Ignatius’s words to “praise, reverence, and serve” in all that we do. If you’d like to give online, please click on this link to open our Annual Appeal donation portal.

Thank you for joining us in this mission and for considering a gift that will brighten the lives of students and families throughout our community.

Blessings always,

Dr. Thomas Noonan
President
Missoula Catholic Schools & Foundation

“Christmas is joy, religious joy. God’s joy, an inner joy of light and peace.” – Pope Francis

Click here to buy your prepackaged school supplies for the 2024-25 school year. Each supply box matches your teacher’s approved list. You can add extras or remove what you don’t need. Supplies are shipped directly to your home address.

Grizzly Disposal has a special opportunity for our school! Sign up for their service under MCS and for each garbage can, the school will receive $5 per can per month. IF we get 100 people to sign up – that’s $6,000 per year to our schools.
They will create a special MCS can in our colors with our MCS logo.
Fundraising and Marketing all in one!
No commitment necessary at this time, just need your name and number. Grizzly Disposal will contact you.
Please contact Casey Hart at caseyelizabeth406@yahoo.com or 406-370-3775 (text or call)

– If you are already a Grizzly Disposal Customer, you pay just $10 more per quarter than your current bill.

Congratulations to the class of 2024! This event is reserved seating only and is full at this time, however the baccalaureate Mass and graduation ceremony will be live streamed on the NFHS Network and on the Missoula Catholic Schools facebook page beginning at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 26th

Greetings Missoula Catholic Schools & Foundation community…

I am immensely humbled and honored to be given the blessing and responsibility of now serving, in a comprehensive way, Missoula Catholic Schools, Foundation, and community. I look forward to continuing to foster the rich tradition of these schools in dedicated service to the Gospel. My sincerest thanks to School Board Chair, Mr. Tyler Gilman, Foundation Board Chair, Mr. Martin Lecholat, the entire presidential search committee, and especially Bishop Vetter of the Diocese of Helena, for this commission to serve.

It is already clear to me that Missoula Catholic Schools – including both campuses, St. Joseph Elementary and Middle School, and Loyola Sacred Heart High School – is indeed a special place, and all within are deeply committed to the formation of young women and men of compassion, conscience, competence, and community. Together, we will continue to build on the traditions initially begun in 1874 in order to meet the wholistic educational needs of the next 150 years.

During this interim time, noting my formal appointment begins July 1, I will immediately begin to address some essential school and foundation staffing needs, including the hiring of a new principal for St. Joseph Elementary and Middle School (now posted) and a Director of Fundraising & Event Management (now posted).

I very much look forward to being a part of this extraordinary community, and may our labors ahead be grounded in the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola who tells us that we should always be guided by the call to praise, reverence, and serve the Lord.

Dr. Tom Noonan
President
Missoula Catholic Schools & Foundation