On Friday, March 10, eight girls presented at the 2017 High School Principals Association Academic Symposium. Holy Cross was among nine area Catholic high schools to have presenters at the symposium attended by principals and faculty members of the 20 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Washington.
The presenters were nominated by Holy Cross and selected by the organizers of the symposium. Theresa Brogan ’18, Isabelle Homan ’18, Ariana Garcia ’18, Stephanie Nasou ’17, and Lauren O'Leary ’17 presented the film they created “Jenny Was a Friend of Mine,” which deals with the realities of living with schizophrenia. Isabelle Cassidy ’17 shared her paper titled “How did Railroads affect the outcome of World War II?”. Theresa Rogers ’17 discussed her paper “Elements of the Ideal Tragedy in the Harry Potter Series”. Madeline Ratnavale ’17 presented her paper “Composition of incidental music within Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”.
