CURRENT CBSA LEADERSHIP

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Dan Harrop, Director of Admissions
CBSA Executive Director
Marianapolis Preparatory School
Thompson, CT
3-Year Term - 10/2006

Keith Holton, Director of Admissions
CBSA Treasurer
Canterbury School
New Milford, CT
3-Year Term - 10/2005

Michelle Fairbank, Vice President of Admissions & Resident Life
CBSA Secretary
Thomas More Prep-Marian
Hays, KS
3-Year Term 10/2005

Mike McGuire, Director of Residency
Executive Committee Member
Maur Hill - Mount Academy
Atchison, KS
3-Year Term 10/2004

Bryan Backes, Director of Admissions
Executive Committee Member
St. John's Preparatory School
Collegeville, MN
2-Year Term 10/2006

MISSION STATEMENT

The Catholic Boarding Schools Association (CBSA) is an affiliation of North American Catholic schools which share a residential component in their educational programs. The purposes of CBSA are:

1. To promote Catholic boarding schools.
2. To market Catholic boarding schools around the world.
3. To gain knowledge/best practices among member schools.

OPERATIONS STATEMENT

Membership in CBSA is by application and/or invitation to bona fide Catholic boarding schools in North America. Clearly, member schools may differ in having a heterogeneous population of students along with the boarding component (day school, boys and/or girls, international students, ESL programs, and the like). The common link is the boarding component.

CBSA undertakes the joint promotion of all member schools, through their web site, advertisements, school fairs, and other contact with the public, nationally and internationally.

Our Catholic schools are listed in the National Catholic Directory.

The Executive Committee for CBSA will be five in number and will have the following officers: an Executive Director, Treasurer, Secretary, Member At Large (who will be the past year's CBSA Conference Host) and the present CBSA Conference Host.

The Executive Director, Treasurer and Secretary will serve 3-year terms. The Member At Large and the CBSA Conference Host will serve one-year terms.

Another member of the Executive Committee will be the Website/Membership Coordinator. This person because of the importance of his/her duties will attend Executive Committee meetings but will have no voting privileges.

No two officers will be from any one-member school.

OFFICER RESPONSIBILITIES:

All Members:

1. Attend annual CBSA conference.
2. Attend annual planning Executive Committee Meeting.

Executive Director:

1. To oversee CBSA
2. To oversee the work of CBSA and its executive committee
3. To arrange the site of the annual conference and summer meeting
4. To set agenda of CBSA meetings
5. To coordinate all executive committee meetings

Treasurer:

1. To collect and disburse CBSA funds as authorized by the Executive Committee
2. To maintain a CBSA checking account
3. Send out invoices for annual dues
4. Collaborate with the Website/Membership Coordinator

Secretary:

1. Record and provide minutes of all CBSA meetings
2. Submit minutes of all CBSA meeting to the Executive Committee for approval

Member At Large:

1. Serves as an consultant to the CBSA Annual Conference Host

CBSA Annual Conference Host:

1. Arrange facility, date and accommodations for the annual conference
2. Coordinate program for annual conference
3. Moves to the Member At Large position after the annual conference is held at their school

Website/Membership Coordinator:

1. Works directly with the web-site provider and Treasurer
2. Coordinates new membership
3. Maintains current members information for web-site and directory

Any member of CBSA prior to/or at the annual conference shall make the nomination of executive officers. The Executive committee shall make nomination of the Executive Director. The members of the Executive Committee are voted on by the entire membership at the annual meeting (with absentee ballots due at that meeting). One vote is allotted each member school.

GOVERNANCE

The Executive Committee shall communicate frequently for business purposes through conference calls and/or e-mail. The Committee is empowered at the annual conference to carry out business as approved and constituted at the business meeting. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the membership present at the annual conference. Thus the Executive Committee shall have power to act for the members between the annual conference and the annual planning meeting. The purpose of the annual summer meeting is to develop the annual budget and to plan the annual conference.

CBSA will reimburse Executive Committee members for their travel expenses for the annual planning meeting.

DUES

The membership shall approve dues for the following year at the annual conference.

Invoices will be sent out to all member schools, by the Treasurer, in February and due by March 15th.

Failure to pay annual dues may result in the loss of membership privileges.

HISTORY

+The concept of this annual meeting was formulated in 1970 by Father Benno Schluterman (Subiaco Academy) and Father Mario Gramlich (Mount Michael), who were concerned about the apparent competitiveness of the Catholic boarding schools in the Midwest. They felt that an annual meeting of these schools would help overcome this competitiveness.

+The first CBSA meeting was held in January of 1971 at Mount Michael Benedictine High School in Nebraska. It was there agreed that future annual meetings would be held at member schools, too.

+In 1994 member schools agreed to share expenses for a Catholic Boarding Schools booth at the National Catholic Education Association Conference. Dues was charged for the first time, and the first member schools directory was printed. CBSA was developed as the group's acronym.

+At the 1995 meeting, schools for girls were invited to join CBSA (Woodlands Academy and Visitation High School attended this meeting). It was agreed that membership in CBSA should be expanded.

+At the 1996 meeting, plans were made to develop a CBSA website. Responsibilities were shared in a new way, with Le Mans Academy handling the website and member directory, and St. Stanislaus the organization's finances.

+At the 1998 meeting, the group approved a formal mission and operations statement, and elected its first Executive Committee: Steve Cash of Le Mans Academy as Executive Director; Br. Ronald Talbot of St. Stanislaus as Secretary/Treasurer; and Al Zappelli of Woodside Priory School and Nancy Andrews of St. Scholastica as committee members. The group also approved a second residential staff development program.

+At the 1999 meeting in Canon City, Colorado, the group decided to update its website (now located at www.cbsa.org), reprint its member directory, and maintain dues at $300 a year. Discussion also centered on including campus ministers in future gatherings.

PAST MEETINGS

1971 - Mount Michael (NE)
1972 - Subiaco Academy (AR)
1973 - Maur Hill Prep (KS)
1974 - Marmion Academy (IL)
1975 - Abbey School (CO)
1976 - St. Paul (LA)
1977 - Chaminade Prep (MO)
1978 - Subiaco Academy (AR)
1979 - St. John's Prep (MN)
1980 - Did Not Meet
1981 - St. Stanislaus (MS)
1982 - Abbey School (CO)
1983 - Marmion Academy (IL)
1984 - Did Not Meet
1985 - Maur Hill Prep (KS)
1986 - St. Stanislaus (MS) and St. Paul's (LA)
1987 - St. John's Prep (MN)
1988 - Mount Michael (NE)
1989 - St. Bernard Prep (AL)
1990 - St. Stanislaus (MS)
1991 - Chaminade Prep (MO)
1992 - Marmion Academy (IL)
1993 - St. Paul's (LA)
1994 - Subiaco Academy (AR)
1995 - Georgetown Prep (MD)
1996 - Woodside Priory School (CA)
1997 - Le Mans Academy (IN)
1998 - Thomas More Prep-Marian (KS)
1999 - St. Scholastica (CO)
2000 - Maur Hill Prep and Mount St. Scholastica (KS)
2001 - St. Stanislaus (MS)
2002 - Villanova Prep (CA)
2003 - The Canterbury School (CT)
2004 - Chaminade Prep (MO)
2005 - St. Bernard Prep (AL)
2006 - St. Michaels College Prep (CA)
2007 - St. John's Prep - (MN)