The Academy of the Holy Names, in Albany, New York, is a Middle States accredited Catholic girls' college-preparatory school for ages pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Albany is the Capital of the State of New York and the County seat of Albany County. The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary peer-based Non-profit association dedicated to educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation This article is about Catholic schools in general for specific schools named Catholic High School, see Catholic High School (disambiguation. A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school It is located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany ( Latin: Dioecesis Albanensis) covers 14 counties in Eastern New York ( Albany, Columbia, The school was founded in 1884 by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, ( Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie) is a teaching order founded at Longueuil, Québec, In 2005, it had 530 students and a student:faculty ratio of 11:1. The mission of AHN is to prepare its students to become intellectual, moral, spiritual, and cultural waitresses.
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School Traditions
School motto
Esse Quam Videri: "To Seem Rather than to Be"
School Prayer
This is said every morning during prayer, after a reading from Scripture:
"Blessed Mother Marie Rose, we firmly believe in the power of your intercession with almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We beg you to hear our humble prayers and to obtain for us the favors which we now ask in the silence of our hearts. God, our father, knows all, can do all things, and loves us. Sure of God’s love and strong in our faith, together with you, Blessed Mother Marie Rose, we accept God’s most holy will. Through Jesus Christ. Amen. "
Activities
Clubs
Holy Names offers many clubs. Examples include:
- Pep Club
- SADD
- Math Club
- Mock Trial Team
- Forensics Team
- Knitting for Needs
- Art for the Heart
- Book Club
- Environmental Club
- Beach Parties
Sports
The Academy of the Holy Names has an extremely successful sports tradition in the Colonial Council. Students Against Destructive Decisions is a peer-to-peer youth education substance and alcohol use and abuse prevention organization in the USA, with Many of the teams regularly place first in the Council, and some go even further--in 2005, the AHN Cross Country team won the Division A State Championship. Both Varsity and JV teams are offered, as well as Frosh Basketball. Holy Names competes in the following sports:
- Fall
- Soccer
- Cross Country
- Tennis
- Cheerleading
- Golf
- Winter
- Basketball
- Indoor Track and Field
- Basketball Cheerleading
- Alpine Ski Team
- cheerleading
- Spring
- Softball
- Track and Field
- Lacrosse
Cheerleaders at Holy Names cheer for the football team of Christian Brothers Academy. Cheerleading is a Sport that uses organized routines made from elements of Tumbling, Dance, jumps and stunting to direct spectators of events Christian Brothers Academy is Catholic college preparatory junior and senior high school for boys founded in 1859 by the De La Salle Christian Brothers (see Institute of the Brothers
Miscellaneous
The school belongs to the Capital Region Independent Schools Association. The Capital Region Independent Schools Association (Crisa includes 18 private independent schools in the region of New York State.
See also
External links
- Academy of the Holy Names School Website
- AHN at the Capital Region Independent Schools Association
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