St. Francis de Sales High School

Our Mission

We are a Catholic college-preparatory high school community for young men. We promote the academic, spiritual, social and physical development of our students. We do this in the spirit of St. Francis de Sales who challenges us to "Be who we are and be that well."

Featured Events

The 20^th Annual Alumni Association Italian Dinner will be held February 6, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. Click here for all the details. Please make your reservation by January 30^th!

The Chappuis Soup & Salad Membership Meeting will be held Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:30 P.M. in the SFS Cafeteria. Please return the following registration form if you're planning to attend!

SFS invites you to the 47^th Annual Fun-a-rama February 28, 2010 from noon until 8 P.M.! To learn more or to help as a volunteer, please click here.

Wednesday, March 3 from 5 to 8 p.m. Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held. Click here for the reservation form. It's due in the office by February 24th!

Go to Spain in the Summer of 2010! Mrs. Christine Holliday will be leading the trip. Click here for more information and a list of deadlines.

Knights in the News

	St. Francis grad is MAC swimmer of the week
	#27 Dances His Way to YouTube
	St. Francis Knights win in OT
	In a hospital in Afghanistan: Doctor-patient chat digs up area ties
	Sole Latino member of Toledo’s fire class of 2010 carries on family tradition
	Knights Open Their Wallets for Lupe
	Hunter Gibbons, Student of the Week
	Ex-Toledoan was Etonic CEO St. Francis grad went to Yale
	Cromwell Named Coach of the Year
	St. Francis is favored to win the NHC Red Division
	Journalism is changing, but there's always a need to know
	Keith Kennedy featured in the Catholic Chronicle

Knights of Columbus Scholarship Awarded to Marc Elfering

The Knights of Columbus Scholarship was established to provide a tuition incentive to a catholic high school student who has achieved high academic success. Marc Elfering, a freshman at St. Francis de Sales and a graduate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) was recently awarded the scholarship by Grand Knight Michael Zmudzinski and Gene Sartor, Financial Secretary, of the Knights of Columbus West Toledo Council 3122. Elfering has been named to the President’s List at St. Francis for the first and second quarters of his freshman year having earned over a 4.3 grade point average.

Feast of St. Francis de Sales

The Chappuis Society helps the Knights celebrate the Feast of St. Francis de Sales by providing an ice cream sundae bar to faculty and students.

Knights of Honor

The entire student body began the day with Mass in celebration of the feast day of the school’s patron saint, St. Francis de Sales. During his homily, Fr. Ron Olszewski explained the difference between St. Francis de Sales High School and other schools. “Our existence as a Catholic school is to share in the mission of the Church. Therefore, all of our courses and programs should promote our Christian mission. The difference at St. Francis is fundamentally in our roots, in the spirituality of St. Francis, the gentleman saint. He is our example of gentleness and strength and humility.”

40 St. Francis alums representing dozens of careers in the areas of business, law, medicine, education, social service, banking, media, journalism, engineering, physical therapy, veterinary medicine, and accounting gather to help younger Knight alums.

St. Francis de Sales High School held a Young Alumni Career Fair over the holiday break while graduates were home for the holidays. Over 80 young alumni from the classes of 2001-to current seniors of the class of 2010 attended. Jim Stengle, class of 1972, welcomed everyone to the first Optimal Career Strategy Seminar saying, “This seminar is all about Knights helping Knights and we need to reach out to our young alums, providing this service in giving them every opportunity to succeed.” He also spoke about “Effective Networking Techniques-The Power of Who.” Stengle emphasized that your network includes your friends, relatives, parents’ friends, friends’ parents, coaches, faculty, and past and current employers. He recommended building a data base of these individuals according to your own system of categorization. Stengle explained that interacting with others is critical regardless of your occupation or career choice. “It is both what you know and who you know,” said Stengle who is Senior Vice President of Brooks Insurance.

Knights Top Ann Arbor Pioneer

The Aqua Knights went north and defeated Michigan powerhouse Ann Arbor Pioneer, the team which won last year’s Michigan State High School Championship, 105-81. The Knights also defeated #3 Ann Arbor Dexter 124.5-24.5. Coming in first for the Knights were Rowan Williams in the 200 free and 100 back. Dan DiSalle took the top honors in the 50 and 100 free with personal best times of 21.63, which is currently 6th fastest in Ohio, and 47.71 respectively. Mike DiSalle took the 100 fly. Matt Zimmerman won the 500 free and is currently ranked 16th in Ohio in that event. Finally, Phil Barone won the 100 breast to round out the Knight victories.

Scott Loy, senior at St. Francis, from Sylvania, with (from L-R) Coach Pavain, and his parents Beth and Jack Loy after his recent signing to play lacrosse in college.

Scott Loy, a St. Francis de Sales High School senior, signed his Letter of Intent to play lacrosse at Division I Syracuse University in the presence of friends, family and coaches. Scott is a midfielder and Inside Lacrosse named him as 22nd in the "Top 50 Young Guns Seniors" among lacrosse players in the country for class of 2010. “I have been playing lacrosse since the third grade,” said Scott, “and I always felt like this was my sport. I love the speed and control of the game.”

Christmas Giving Tree 2009

Students at St. Francis collected nearly 250 gifts as part of the annual Christmas Giving Tree project organized by the campus ministry. The five carloads of toys included such hot items as a Microsoft Xbox 360, an Apple iPod, a Nintendo Wii game system, a bicycle, sporting equipment, dolls, stuffed animals, building blocks, clothing items and the popular games of Scrabble, Monopoly and Life. St. Francis students delivered the new toys to the Lucas County Children Services where the toys were then colorfully wrapped and delivered to area under-privileged children whose “stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.” Once again our knights answered the call to wish "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-knight!"

Storm Stanley signs Letter of Intent to play Basketball at St. Francis University in Pennsylvania

Storm Stanley, St. Francis de Sales High School senior, signed his Letter of Intent to play basketball at Division I St. Francis University in the presence of friends, family and coaches. Upon signing, Storm said, “This scholarship is important because it means that all of my hard work was worth it to take me to the next level.”

Assistant Varsity Coach of the St. Francis Knights, Chris Stein, has coached Storm since he began playing at St. Francis at both the JV and Varsity levels. “It has been my pleasure to coach and work with Storm over the years and watch him develop into such an outstanding player. It is a great feeling when one of your players moves on to the next level.”

Daniel Yanos, Samuel Evola, Paul Fudacz, William Shellabarger, and Joshua Maciejewski

Five St. Francis de Sales seniors have been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program. These students have demonstrated outstanding academic potential by their strong performance in this highly competitive program.