March 2011

Rebuilding on Campus: Thanks to the THP community’s generous support of the successful Renovation Campaign for rebuilding and improving our campus and neighborhood, we began seismic repairs in January on our school buildings. Claire-Heureuse, a three-story dormitory for 90 girls, is half done. Thanks to the backbreaking work of our masons and students and the excellent plans developed by THP’s Facilities Committee, chaired by architect and Board Member, Scott Hill, the west end and middle walls are installed. The excitement to rebuild is resounded by our students, who ask daily, “When is it our turn. Can we pour cement today?” 

by Tim Scordato

Newly elected THP board Member Dean Reineking with his wife Cathy, former Board Member, and kids Jessica, Dean Jr., and Jonathan.

In 1995, THP President Patrick Moynihan, then a futures and options trader for Louis Dreyfus Corp., participated in a Cursillo retreat in Memphis, TN. The purpose of the retreat was to grow in spirituality. Serendipitously, Patrick found someone else to share in that same purpose, even after the retreat.

Dean Reineking, Senior Vice President for FTN Financial Securities Corp, was on the same retreat that weekend. He and Patrick naturally felt pulled to one another in friendship, the same pull that would unite Dean’s wife Cathy and Christina Moynihan. The Reinekings and Moynihans both shared a desire to participate in the Church’s mission to serve the poor. Possibly on account of them being young parents themselves, that interest often involved working with families and young children in the community.

10th grade student Scheltina Bernier takes a moment from her busy schedule to visit one of LCS’s student-maintained gardens.

Hello, my name is Scheltina Bernier, and I am a Twasyem student in my fourth year here at Louverture Cleary School. I came to LCS in the fall of 2007. I have a brother here who is one year younger than I am. His name is Ronaldo, and he knew about the school because I was here. I am happy that my brother is at school with me.