Blessed Sacrament

Socks, a towel, some oversized clothes. These sound like items for the laundry but for one day, they became something more. They were essential things around the house that made a virtual field day possible. Every spring at Assumption School in Morristown, the students look forward to its annual field day filled with friendly competitions of three-legged and potato sack races. Keeping up with this tradition even during this time of social distancing with school buildings closed, Assumption School still hosted the field day.

All Saints Academy in Parsippany is home to a faculty, staff, and student body that has embraced the distance eLearning platform. Founded in 2009 as a merger of the former St. Peter the Apostle and St. Christo­pher schools, both located in Parsippany, All Saints Academy is AdvancEd accredited, and was the first elementary school in the Diocese of Paterson and Morris County to become a nationally-certified STEM school.

Arlene Sullivan, a Wayne resident and visual/graphic arts teacher at Morris Catholic High School in Denville, delivered 200 transparent medical masks to facilities in need this past week. Masks were given out to Wayne healthcare workers in Care One, thanks to the request of Gary Marchese, a volunteer, and to Preak­ness Healthcare Center/William Paterson University testing site, thanks to County Freeholder John Bartlett.