Faculty Treats is always highly anticipated by the hard-working Gonzaga faculty and staff! One morning each month, GMC volunteers prepare a delicious home-cooked breakfast for the faculty, staff, coaches, maintenance staff, Jesuit community, and administration to show our gratitude for all they do for our sons.
It’s always fun and volunteers are always needed!
To assist with breakfast, please arrive by 6:30am in the Lower Commons. Breakfast begins at 7:15 am. After serving the Gonzaga faculty and staff, GMC volunteers share breakfast and clean up --everything completed before 9:00 am!
Held each year in November, the Mass of Thanksgiving is jointly hosted by the GMC and Eagles' Wings, Gonzaga’s club for parents of alumni. Everyone in the Gonzaga community—students, parents, alumni, faculty, and Gonzaga well-wishers —are invited to share a celebration of the Mass at 10:00AM followed by a breakfast reception.
Mass will include a special collection for the McKenna Center.
GMC and Eagles' Wings volunteers are needed to serve as readers, ushers and Eucharistic ministers at the Mass and set up and serve the breakfast. Please contact the event organizer at thanksgiving@gonzagamothers.org.
Gonzaga clubs and teams hold bake sales in order to raise money for their groups. Bake sale are usually up and running by 7:30 am and continue until the end of the lunch periods. If you are contributing to a bake sale you do not need to send in homemade items, you can purchase your baked goods at any store.
If you have any questions about the bake sale please contact your team/club moderator or coach.
GFC Monthly Men for Others Gathering on Eye Street
The Fathers Club hosts monthly gatherings during the school year, during which we socialize and hear valuable insights from invited teachers, coaches, and administrators.
During our November monthly meeting we will celebrate Veterans Day and military service. Please join us as we hear from Vice Admiral Sara Joyner, United States Navy and Gonzaga mom. You can learn more about Sara by clicking here.
We'll meet at 6:30 PM in the Upper Commons, we hope you can join us!
Alumni Association meetings give Gonzaga alumni the chance to hear up-to-the-minute information about what's going on at Gonzaga, from club activities to sporting events, and all Alumni Association events. We begin with fellowship and dinner at 6:00 pm and at 6:30 pm the meeting is called to order. Meetings typically last an hour and a half depending upon attendance and agenda items to be discussed. The meetings are open to all alumni of Gonzaga.
Gonzaga clubs and teams hold bake sales in order to raise money for their groups. Bake sale are usually up and running by 7:30 am and continue until the end of the lunch periods. If you are contributing to a bake sale you do not need to send in homemade items, you can purchase your baked goods at any store.
If you have any questions about the bake sale please contact your team/club moderator or coach.
The Gonzaga Mothers Club is open to all mothers and guardians of Gonzaga students, and those friends and benefactors of the school who wish to participate in or contribute to the Mothers Club activities.
The GMC usually meet on the first or second Wednesday of the month in the Lower Commons. All are welcome! The social begins at 6:30 pm, and the meeting begins at 7:00 pm.
The Onyx Alumni Association of Gonzaga College High School is a division of the Gonzaga Alumni Association which is dedicated to supporting and promoting diversity at Gonzaga College High School and within its community, seeks to broaden and strengthen the connections of Alumni. Those connection serve to support current, prospective and future minorities who are committed to successfully matriculating and graduating from Gonzaga.
Onyx Alumni Association meetings give Gonzaga minority alumni the chance to hear up-to-the-minute information about what's going on at Gonzaga, from school club activities to sporting events, and other activities occurring within the school. Meetings begin with fellowship and dinner at 6:00 pm and at 6:30 pm the meeting is called to order. Meetings are open to all alumni of Gonzaga.
Gonzaga clubs and teams hold bake sales in order to raise money for their groups. Bake sale are usually up and running by 7:30 am and continue until the end of the lunch periods. If you are contributing to a bake sale you do not need to send in homemade items, you can purchase your baked goods at any store.
If you have any questions about the bake sale please contact your team/club moderator or coach.
MedStar Capitals Iceplex, 627 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA
Every year Gonzaga Ice Hockey plays the Dominik Pettey Purple White Game, an inter-squad game played in honor of friend and teammate Dominik Pettey ’15, who died in a car accident in 2014. Please join us as we remember and celebrate the life of Dom.
This year's game will be played on Friday, November 22 at the Med Star Capitals Iceplex. Admission is free.
The Dominik L. Pettey ’15 Endowed Memorial Scholarship Fund helps make a Gonzaga education possible for deserving students, and was established to perpetuate the memory of Dominik, who embodied the spirit of Gonzaga. In mid-November, Gonzaga will be launching a fundraising drive in support of Dom's scholarship fund. More details to come!
On November 24th Gonzaga will host its Open House for prospective families to visit the school and learn from members of the admissions office, faculty, current parents and students, alumni, and coaches. During the Open House, you’ll get the chance to:
Meet our teachers, administrators, and students
Speak informally with administration, program directors, and staff
Discuss the benefits of a Jesuit education and all-boys school
Each year on the night before Thanksgiving, Gonzaga’s oldest alumni tradition, the Alumni Association Smoker, draws hundreds of Gonzaga faithful back to Eye Street. The Smoker is a reunion for all alumni, Gonzaga fathers past and present, faculty and staff, and friends of the school -- bringing them together to kick off the holiday season.
Come out and enjoy a morning of rugby on Eye Street at the annual Thanksgiving touch tournament.
Please join us in honoring and celebrating Lee Kelly's life by playing the sport he loved so deeply and that brings us all together year after year. Lee was a beloved coach, friend and mentor to so many in the Gonzaga community and was instrumental in bringing alums back to Gonzaga each year for this celebration of friendship and rugby.
The format (depending on amount of teams) will look something like this:
Round Robin/Pool Play Tournament
Comprised of 7-10 player teams
7 vs 7, 7 minute halves, ROLLING SUBS.
Semi Finals and Finals to follow pool play
We will make sure to guarantee each team 2-3 games (again, depending on overall participation)
And to make things more interesting: Enter your own team! Take charge and call up your classmates and put your squad together.
If you don't feel like putting a team together, no worries- show up on Thanksgiving Saturday and we will assemble teams of free agents or assign you to a pre-formed team.