Please join Mrs. Vasta and Ms. Fasano for PARENT APPRECIATION DAY in the School Hall followed by a celebration of Mass with the St. Mary's community. In the fall of 1995 Roy accomplished one of his dream goals by earning a hockey scholarship to Boston University. At twenty-years of age he entered into his first collegiate hockey game. Eleven seconds into his first shift, his life changed forever as he crashed into the boards and cracked his fourth and fifth cervical vertebra, paralyzing him from the neck down. Roy has continued to persevere and defy the odds. In 1997 Travis Roy wrote his autobiography titled ELEVEN SECONDS which chronicles his accident, rehabilitation, and perseverance through personal tragedy. Students in Grade 5 to 8 will read aloud Roy’s Eleven Seconds during religion class with their homeroom teacher. Author Dr. Anthony Rao is a nationally-known expert in child psychology and has been featured in documentaries for A&E’s Investigative Reports and MTV’s True Life. His book, The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World, was published by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, on August 25, 2009. Dr. Anthony Rao holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Vanderbilt University and trained as a pediatric psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital. For more than 20 years, Dr. Rao worked in the Depar tment of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and served as instructor at Harvard Medical School, where he trained psychologists and physicians in the use of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or CBT. SMH extends a warm welcome to Dr. Rao.
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