News | The Mary Louis Academy - Part 4

TMLA Speech and Debate Winners

Congratulations to TMLA Speech and Debate Team!  At a tournament held  at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , several Mary Louis speakers won awards: SR Koreena Deen placed 8th and SM Kaitlyn Chesleigh advanced to the quarter-finals in Oral Interpretation of Literature; JR Cassidy Barry advanced to the final [ read more ]

TMLA Seniors’ International Service

     ”Upon entering the orphanage, a mother placed her young child into my arms. She was a resident of the orphanage where the common room is a room with walls painted too yellow, making the absurd scarcity of furniture poignant. The introduction, in Arabic, was somewhat decipherable to my foreign [ read more ]

Giving Tuesday Raises over $80,000 for TMLA

Thank you to all who participated in TMLA’s Giving Tuesday Initiative. Through your generosity, our TMLA Family raised a record-breaking $83,000 in just 24 hours!   In just the past 3 years TMLA’s Giving Tuesday initiatives have raised almost $250,000. Giving Tuesday is a global “day of giving” which began in [ read more ]

Unique Opportunity for TMLA Junior

TMLA Junior Catherine Kwasnik has been accepted into the prestigious Training Program Dressage4Kids, a national program of education and competition for those who are dedicated to becoming the very best equestrian athletes. Dressage refers to programs wherein rider and horse develop a unique bond and perform special, carefully controlled movements as directed by the rider, as a sport or in a competition. [ read more ]

PAX Christi Food Drive

TMLA’s students, faculty and staff contributed over 1,700 cans and boxes of food as part of our Pax Christi annual Food Drive in November.  These generous donations have been sent to the Pope Francis Hospitality Center in Elmont, New York  a food pantry that serves homeless, unemployed and those with [ read more ]

National Honor Society Inducts New Members

TMLA’s National Honor Society added 90 new members from the Senior and Junior classes at their Induction Ceremony on Nov. 8, 2018. This new group will join 68 Seniors from last year’s membership. The National Honor Society is the nation’s premier organization established to recognize outstanding high school students who [ read more ]

TMLA Swim Awards

TMLA Swim team competed in their championships on Nov. 3-4 and scored the most points in school history, finishing in third place.   Coach Ellen Ferguson was voted Coach of the Year and TMLA team was voted the Best Sportsmanship for the league. Maggie and Kelly Donlevy, Olivia Conlan, Olivia [ read more ]

Hallowe’en at TMLA

Although there were no ghosts or goblins apparent, TMLA celebrated Hallowe’en with colorful and creative costumes on October 31.  Students used their imaginations to design costumed characters that evoked celebrities, sports teams, TV commercials, mythological creatures and some characters known only in fantasy.  Even the faculty got involved in this [ read more ]

TMLA Tournament Winners for Speech and Debate

Congratulations to the Speech and Debate Team!  At a tournament held here at Mary Louis on Dec. 1, a number of our speakers won awards:    SM Christina Kundu, FW Olivia Taverni and SM Sydney Hanson placed 1st, 2nd and 4th in Student Congress – and both Christina and Olivia [ read more ]

TMLA Brooklyn-Queens Cross Country Champs

Congratulations to TMLA Varsity Cross Country team on their impressive win at the CHSAA NYC/Brooklyn-Queens 2.5 miles Championship Meet on Sunday. Oct. 28. In addition to winning the Brooklyn-Queens title, the championship team of Samarah Bermudez, Zara McPartland, Fiona Maloney, Emma Tzimorotas, Catherine Lunny,  Sariah Grant and Keeley Hayes finished [ read more ]