Would You Be Willing to Help?

Mr. Greg Kurtz is a twenty-two year DC teaching legend.  He has also been the senior class adviser for the past 12 years.

In this 50th Anniversary Year, he'd like to reach out to our alumni family to see if you'd be willing to help complete a very special project...

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FREE ALUMNI TICKET for the April 25th Show!

We invite our alumni family to join the cast and crew of "The Pirates of Penzance" on their merry musical adventures this Thursday, April 25th at 7:30pm in the Dayton Christian cafeteria.  We have a special allotment of complimentary tickets that will be available for our grads on a "first come, first serve basis".  E-mail the DC Alumni Relations Coordinator, Dean Sellers, at :  dsellers@daytonchristian.com to reserve your seat today!

Pirates follows the story of young Frederic who, as a child, was mistakenly apprenticed to a band of tenderhearted, orphaned pirates. Upon completion of his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, Frederic is released from his servitude. Soon after, he meets the fair maiden Mabel, daughter of Major-General Stanley. The two fall instantly in love; but, alas, a complication arises. It turns out that young Frederic was born on February 29th during leap year. As a result, even though he is 21 years old, he has only had five birthdays and is in fact indebted to serve the pirates for 63 more years. 

The cast features Luke Goodman as Frederic, Suzie Herman as Mabel, Jeremiah Plessinger as the Pirate King, Alexis Colon as the Nursemaid Ruth, Ben Pyle as Major General Stanley, and Gabbi Dowdy as Sergeant of the Penzance Police. Other cast members include Savanah Winfield, Shannon Bidwell, Carly Wheeler, Roman Fleetwood, Laura Brown, Rachel Shook, Hannah Saxe, Shannon Davis, Alex Roach, Tyler Brown, Eric Marcum, Matt Wright, Andrew Karas, Brianna Grooms, Brianne Hodges, Abigail Watkins, Monika Schilling, Mbalen Hwloungne, Taylor Flynn, Lexi Moore, and Carolyn Herman.

"I have been amazed by the way that the cast has enjoyed the challenge of this beautiful, but difficult music," observed director Dean Sellers, "and how quickly they've learned to appreciate the wonderful British humor of a show written in 1879. Think of this as the Victorian era equivalent of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and 'Veggie Tales' all rolled into one!"

Join us for soaring music, swashbuckling adventure, romance, and lots of light-hearted silliness. Tickets go on sale April 8th and seating is limited. So don't delay, secure your seats today! For more information call (937) 291-7201.

DC 50th Anniversary Celebration - March 9th, 7:00pm

You won't want to miss the celebration!  But there are only 120 tickets left for this Dayton Christian 50th Anniversary concert event with Michael W. Smith at the 3400 seat Dixon Ministry Center at Cedarville University.  As part of the festivities, we will be having a DC Faculty/Alumni Reception from 6:00pm - 7:00pm.  Please stop by to say hello to the Alumni Council and some of your favorite teachers.  For more information visit our website:   www.daytonchristian.com/news/286-50th-anniversary-events

* DC ALUMNI CHAPEL *

Tomorrow morning, (March 7th) at 9:45am, a group of our 1980's graduates will be providing the music and the message for this weeks' Dayton Christian high school chapel.

If you missed the amazing "Prayer and Praise Gathering" (held at the original Patterson Park Church in late August), here's your opportunity to see and hear these talented alumni :

Kim Mays Hale  '86
Ruth Williamson Bowman  '89
Brad Bowman  '86
Matt Thomas  '82
Becki Loudermilk  '87
Billy Loudermilk  '85
Becky Long Devilbiss  '86

Just stop by the Miamisburg campus at 9391 Washington Church Drive, get your "Visitors" pass at the main office at the entrance to building "C", then proceed to the cafeteria.  We'll bring in some extra chairs just for you.  Please join us if you can - it will be a blast and a blessing!

FREE ALUMNI TICKET - November 15th

DC has authorized the Alumni Relations office to offer a block of 50 free alumni tickets for the Thursday, November 15th performance of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" on a first-come, first serve basis. "Charlie Brown" was the very first musical presented by Dayton Christian back in the fall of 1973. It was last performed in 1981 by an all-faculty cast that included Paul Pyle as Schroeder, Bob Clements as Snoopy, Terry Chamberlain as Linus, Phil Hayes as Charlie Brown, Susan Neal as Lucy and Carole Reeves as Patty.

To reserve your free ticket, please contact the DC Drama Director, Dean Sellers before 9:00pm on Tuesday, November 13th.  He can be reached via phone at : (937) 291-7220 or e-mail at : dsellers@daytonchristian.com

Here's the official press release...

The Dayton Christian Drama department will be presenting the 1967 Broadway musical “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” on November 15, 16 and 17. The evening performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will start at 7:30pm and there will also be a 2:00pm Saturday matinee.  The show features the famous Peanuts characters – Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Patty and everyone’s favorite beagle – Snoopy, in a delightful and nostalgic musical comedy about childhood in the early 1960’s.

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, October 31st, (just in time for the arrival of the “Great Pumpkin”) and are $10 for adults and $6 for students. To reserve your seats contact Kelly Green at kgreen@daytonchristian.com or call (937) 291-7285. Seating is limited – so, good grief, don’t be a blockhead - order today! Join us for this exciting DC fall attraction and discover what “Brown can do for you”…

DC Alumni T-Shirts

As the DC Alumni Council prepared for the October "All-Alumni Reunion" we received several suggestions for t-shirt designs from our grads. However, these are the shirts that won the friendly competition.  With Christmas right around the corner, right now is the best time to place an order for your favorite Dayton Christian alumni!

CRUSADER FOOTBALL
It's true that we never had a varsity football team while we proudly cheered our beloved "Crusaders" - but that's precisely why we can claim that we've been "Undefeated Since 1963". These medium weight  90/10 preshrunk cotton polyester blend shirts come in sizes S-M-L-XL and XXL. Show your purple pride!
$12 for pick-up at the Miamisburg campus
$15 for delivery in the continental USA via "Parcel Post".

DAYTON CHRISTIAN ALUMUS
Our Anniversary Alumni shirt...  "Celebrating 50 Years of God's Faithfulness".  Featuring vintage school-jacket lettering with a contemporary "golden anniversary" twist, this is a great way to celebrate your DC heritage!  The medium weight preshrunk 100% cotton tees and cotton/polyester blend hoodies are available in S-M-L-XL and XXL.
T-Shirts :  $12 for pick-up / $15 delivered
Hoodies :  $26 for pick-up /  $30 delivered
(Thank you Michelle Riley Johnson '76 for modeling!)

Please send a check or money order made out to Dayton Christian Schools at :
9391 Washington Church Road
Miamisburg, OH  45342
Attention : W. Dean Sellers / Alumni Relations Office

HOMEWOOD BRICKS

The Dayton Christian Alumni Council has acquired 100 bricks from the high school side of our dear old 325 Homewood Avenue campus.  We are making them available as a fund-raiser for our "Alumni Scholarship" fund.  This initiative was started in order to partner with local graduates to help make a DC education possible for their children or grandchildren.  Applications will be available at the DC Alumni website in early spring.

These original "Wyandot" bricks have been collected, cleaned and labeled with a commemorative brass plate.  We invite you to own a small piece of our history and contribute to a very worthy cause!  Quantities are limited, so don't delay.

The suggested donations are :
$25  for pick-up of the brick at the Miamisburg campus.
$35  to have it delivered in the continental USA via "Parcel-Post" shipping.

Please send a check or money order made out to Dayton Christian Schools to :  9391 Washington Church Road / Miamisburg  OH  45342 / Attention : W. Dean Sellers.  Thank you!