Jesuit High School’s UP NEXT: Fr. Hermes announces Phase II 18 JESUIT PERSPECTIVES • FALL 2017 at the President’s Mass & Dinner Two years ago at a special President’s Mass & Dinner, Jesuit High School president Fr. Richard C. Hermes, S.J. announced the school’s historic plans to transform the campus for the next 60 years and beyond. The sweeping Campus Master Plan, and the landmark $40 million ‘For Greater Glory’ capital campaign to support it, were truly momentous. Phase I of that master plan – the new Chapel of the Holy Cross and new Administration Center (see story on p. 20) – is coming to fruition at the heart of campus right now, and will be completed this school year. Therefore, Jesuit has begun looking ahead to the next phase. On Aug. 27, during the school’s annual President’s Mass & Breakfast, Fr. Hermes made several notable announcements, among them the plans for Phase II. This next phase, which will begin in 2019, will have as its centerpiece a spectacular new Fine and Performing Arts Center. It also will include a new press box at Corral Memorial Stadium, home of Jesuit’s football, lacrosse, soccer, and track & fi eld teams and host to annual events such as the Hillsborough County Special Olympics, and other campus enhancements. Following the beautiful Mass, and during his State of the School address, Fr. Hermes spoke about the next phase and specifi cally the arts center. “This comprehensive, elegant Performing Arts Center will include a beautiful, new theater to provide needed improvements in space, lighting, and acoustics for Jesuit’s stage performers,” Fr. Hermes said to the nearly 400 Jesuit supporters - the school’s President’s Circle members – who attended the event at the Renaissance Hotel. “It will foster greater collaboration between the Music Department and Fine Arts, and allow the school to better showcase student artistic achievements at events such as the annual Celebration of the Arts.” The arts center will be located in the northeast area of campus, on a portion of what is currently the senior parking lot, with construction to begin in 2019. It also was announced that in order to complete Phase II, Jesuit is seeking to raise an additional $5 million. Future developments in the Campus Master Plan include a new Science and Math building that will be named in honor of Richard Stephen Jenkins ’75. Jenkins and his wife, Carole, made a $2.5 million donation to the school last year. Also planned in future developments is a collegiatestyle Student Activities Center with adjacent Dining Hall. Jesuit president Fr. Richard C. Hermes, S.J. announces the new Arts Center on Aug. 27 Jesuit’s music, theatre, and visual arts programs will benefi t tremendously from the new Arts Center coming in 2019
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