TCA students provide special Mother's Day presents
July 29, 2019 at 12:37 p.m.
After her only child, Omar, was killed in the line of duty in April, 2011, while serving in Pakistan, Maria Vazquez was sad as Mother’s Day approached.
Thanks to Michelle Seavers, a teacher in Trenton Catholic Academy, Hamilton, and a few hundred of her students, however, this year’s Mother’s Day was a little brighter for Vazquez.
Under Seavers’ direction, the 330 students in TCA’s Lower School created handmade cards written in Spanish. In addition, Upper School students in several religion classes made special posters for Vazquez. The gifts were given to Vazquez when she visited the school on May 11.
“Omar is smiling in heaven, knowing that these students were thinking of me on Mother’s Day,” said Vazquez. “I may have lost my son, but gained a few hundred children this week.”
This past March, Vazquez gave out $3,200 in scholarships to five TCA students who had written essays on how 1st Lt. Vazquez’s life and love of country served as an inspiration.
Vazquez was a 2003 graduate of McCorristin Catholic High School, which was renamed Trenton Catholic Acadmey in 2005. His love of the high school prodded him to pursue a history degree from Rider University in 2007, and he later earned his master’s degree in liberal studies from Rutgers-Camden University before enlisting in the Army in 2009.
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After her only child, Omar, was killed in the line of duty in April, 2011, while serving in Pakistan, Maria Vazquez was sad as Mother’s Day approached.
Thanks to Michelle Seavers, a teacher in Trenton Catholic Academy, Hamilton, and a few hundred of her students, however, this year’s Mother’s Day was a little brighter for Vazquez.
Under Seavers’ direction, the 330 students in TCA’s Lower School created handmade cards written in Spanish. In addition, Upper School students in several religion classes made special posters for Vazquez. The gifts were given to Vazquez when she visited the school on May 11.
“Omar is smiling in heaven, knowing that these students were thinking of me on Mother’s Day,” said Vazquez. “I may have lost my son, but gained a few hundred children this week.”
This past March, Vazquez gave out $3,200 in scholarships to five TCA students who had written essays on how 1st Lt. Vazquez’s life and love of country served as an inspiration.
Vazquez was a 2003 graduate of McCorristin Catholic High School, which was renamed Trenton Catholic Acadmey in 2005. His love of the high school prodded him to pursue a history degree from Rider University in 2007, and he later earned his master’s degree in liberal studies from Rutgers-Camden University before enlisting in the Army in 2009.
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