For contest winner, new logo is all about the bonds of love
July 29, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.
When Rachel Rogers considered entering the 2014 Loving Life Logo Contest, she reflected on the theme and asked herself a question: What does “loving life” really mean?
The answer to her question is evident in her logo, which was chosen as the winner of this year’s contest.
“I was thinking about the theme, and when I looked at past years’ winners, I saw a lot of people used a heart,” the 17-year-old student of Monsignor Donovan High School, Toms River, said frankly. “I did too, but didn’t make it as obvious. [The logo] is about the bond between a mom and a child,” and the truth that life is valuable.
The intent of the annual contest, sponsored by the Respect Life Ministry in the diocesan department of Pastoral Care, is to raise awareness among high school students about respect for God’s gift of life. This year’s 131 student logos represented the work of students from nine Catholic high schools and eight public high schools. Logos were judged by the diocesan respect life steering committee, an artist from The Monitor staff, and the www.dioceseoftrenton.org webmaster.
Rogers’ tender representation of a mother and child looking at one another was one of a long line of drawings from the hands of the young artist. “I’ve been drawing since I was a little kid in various mediums; I used to use chalk to draw in the driveway when I was four,” the contest winner chuckled. Next year, Rogers will pursue an artistic career of a different kind: she plans to attend cosmetology school after graduation.
The young woman, a parishioner in St. Joseph Parish, Toms River, performs community service hours at the parish’s food pantry along with her mother. She believes the fight for life can never begin too early; “we don’t want to be thrown into the fight later.”
Rogers was excited to spot her logo on the respect life website and anticipates seeing it printed on t-shirts and other ministry newsletters. She will receive the Apple MacBook from Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., in a ceremony at her high school scheduled for March 25.
Rogers was one of five finalists for the contest, including Alec Foschetti, Holmdel High School, grade 11, age 16, St. Catharine Parish, Holmdel; William J. Lockwood, St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, grade 12, age 18, St. Catharine Parish, Holmdel; Shannon MacMaster, Southern Regional High School, Manahawkin, grade 10, age 15, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, Whiting, and Julia Martin, St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, grade 11, age 16, St. Benedict Parish, Holmdel.
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When Rachel Rogers considered entering the 2014 Loving Life Logo Contest, she reflected on the theme and asked herself a question: What does “loving life” really mean?
The answer to her question is evident in her logo, which was chosen as the winner of this year’s contest.
“I was thinking about the theme, and when I looked at past years’ winners, I saw a lot of people used a heart,” the 17-year-old student of Monsignor Donovan High School, Toms River, said frankly. “I did too, but didn’t make it as obvious. [The logo] is about the bond between a mom and a child,” and the truth that life is valuable.
The intent of the annual contest, sponsored by the Respect Life Ministry in the diocesan department of Pastoral Care, is to raise awareness among high school students about respect for God’s gift of life. This year’s 131 student logos represented the work of students from nine Catholic high schools and eight public high schools. Logos were judged by the diocesan respect life steering committee, an artist from The Monitor staff, and the www.dioceseoftrenton.org webmaster.
Rogers’ tender representation of a mother and child looking at one another was one of a long line of drawings from the hands of the young artist. “I’ve been drawing since I was a little kid in various mediums; I used to use chalk to draw in the driveway when I was four,” the contest winner chuckled. Next year, Rogers will pursue an artistic career of a different kind: she plans to attend cosmetology school after graduation.
The young woman, a parishioner in St. Joseph Parish, Toms River, performs community service hours at the parish’s food pantry along with her mother. She believes the fight for life can never begin too early; “we don’t want to be thrown into the fight later.”
Rogers was excited to spot her logo on the respect life website and anticipates seeing it printed on t-shirts and other ministry newsletters. She will receive the Apple MacBook from Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., in a ceremony at her high school scheduled for March 25.
Rogers was one of five finalists for the contest, including Alec Foschetti, Holmdel High School, grade 11, age 16, St. Catharine Parish, Holmdel; William J. Lockwood, St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, grade 12, age 18, St. Catharine Parish, Holmdel; Shannon MacMaster, Southern Regional High School, Manahawkin, grade 10, age 15, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, Whiting, and Julia Martin, St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, grade 11, age 16, St. Benedict Parish, Holmdel.