Knights of Columbus presents check to SFX eighth graders from Super Bowl meat sale to put toward field trip
Saint Francis Xavier (SFX) Parish’s Knights of Columbus (KOC) chapter presented a $1,000 check to SFX Catholic School eighth graders from the organization’s annual Super Bowl meat sale for the eighth graders to put toward a field trip.
The KOC is a Catholic fraternal service order founded in the 1880s. It has approximately 1.7 million members worldwide.
At SFX Parish, the KOC hosts an annual meat sale on Super Bowl weekend. Members cook and sell meat to parishioners and others to help raise money for several causes, including the SFX School eighth-grade field trip.
KOC Grand Knight Mark Olsen, Deputy Grand Knight Gary Nolan and Recorder Nick Ash handed the check to SFX Student Council President Andrew Smitherman on Friday.
Left to right: Birmingham KOC Recorder Nick Ash, SFX Student Council President Andrew Smitherman, Birmingham KOC Grand Knight Gary Nolan, Birmingham KOC Deputy Grand Knight Mark Olsen.
Per SFX School tradition, eighth-grade students take an out-of-town field trip before graduating and continuing their education at John Carroll Catholic High School (JCCHS).
Smitherman thanked the KOC for the generous donation and the effort it took to raise the money.
“We are very grateful for [the KOC’s] hard work,” he said.
Saint Francis Xavier Catholic School is an accredited classical Catholic PreK-8 school in Birmingham’s Crestline neighborhood that uses the time-tested Catholic Intellectual Tradition to form students in virtue through the pursuit of academic excellence and service toward God and neighbor.
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