Little Flower Catholic School receives funding for drama club

Submitted by Frani Stewart
For The Catholic Week
MOBILE — Little Flower Catholic School in Mobile will receive funding for the development of their drama club through the Alliance for Catholic Education and the Chris Lary Awards program at The University of Notre Dame. 
Lary was a magnetic and energetic member of the ACE 3 Teaching Fellows class. Shortly after saying “yes” to ACE, he was diagnosed with leukemia, and after nearly two years courageously battling the disease, Chris died in July 1998.
To honor the profound impact he had had on Notre Dame and ACE, Chris’s family, friends, and classmates established a fund to benefit deserving ACE schools and classrooms. 
The selected applications echo Chris’s zeal and joyful spirit he always shared so generously with the ACE community. 
Over the past several years, students at Little Flower have gathered informally to learn improv skills, play drama games, and create stories and characters together. The drama club coordinator at the school, Miss Mallory Hill, was thrilled to have her school chosen for the award.  With funding, Little Flower’s Drama Club will grow into an opportunity for more students to explore the truth and beauty that the dramatic stage can reveal and to hone their gifts and talents.