Following in a decades-long tradition, freshmen and seniors from Monsignor Edward Pace High School participated in the school’s annual Freshmen Welcome Week.
Festivities opened on September 14 with a quick meet-and-greet between seniors and their freshmen, followed by the Salt & Light School Mass. In a moving opening lit mostly by candles, seniors and freshmen placed offerings in front of the altar representing the seven days of creation as the opening passages of the Bible were read aloud.
The following day was devoted to the lively and colorful Dress-Up Day. This year, both classes dressed up for Senior/Freshmen Sidekick Day, wearing matching outfits and performing skits on stage. Later in the week, freshmen and seniors competed in the messy Lunch Time Games and freshmen got to know about and sign up for Pace’s numerous clubs and organization at the Club Fair.
As always, the week ended with the Senior/Freshmen Olympics, where representatives from both classes competed in four-legged races, dance-offs, a tug-of-war, and more inside the Pace gym. The Class of 2019 came within one point of winning, the closest any freshmen class had come in eight years. For now, the four-year countdown begins to when this newest group of Spartans will have their own freshmen to welcome to the Pace Family.