Welcome to Our Lady of Guadalupe's Graduate Support!
By way of introduction: Our Lady of Guadalupe Middle School puts the expertise of its well-educated staff and supporters as well as its connections to quality secondary and higher education at the service of our students and their families.
The gifts and talents discovered during the middle school years deserve to be developed in the best possible educational environments. Students have the potential make positive contributions to society as educated, informed adults. Further, they bring the unique insights and experiences of their racial or ethnic heritage to the educational environment and to their professional careers.
Graduating 8th Graders-OLG Class of 2008
The 8th Grade at OLG (Class of 2008) is selecting high schools that best meets their hopes and dreams. Detroit Cristo Rey High School is a school that works. It provides an outstanding academic program and meaningful employment with a salary that pays tuition. Our girls understand that other attendance at other Catholic schools would also require employment and considerable tuition assistance. Here’s where we are to date in the high school selection process:
Xhemile B.
Application to come
Love B.
Accepted at Mercy HS
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Krystal B.
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Danielle C.
Accepted at Mercy HS
Accepted at Renaissance HS
Kayanna G.
Accepted at Mercy HS
Accepted at Renaissance HS
Jessica Jaurequi
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Melissa Juarez
Application to Liggett HS
Application to Mercy HS
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Daniela Rodriguez
Accepted at Mercy HS
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Andrea Serratos
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Christian Tucker
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Chiara Woods
Accepted at Cass Tech
Accepted at Mercy HS
Accepted at Renaissance HS
Raven Yepez-Cornelius
Application to Detroit Cristo Rey HS
Media
OLG Girls' Pledge
We are Guadalupe Girls.We are inspired by the life of Jesus and we strive to be faithful to his message of love.
We seek the gift of truth in ourselves and in our world.
We value and respect each person as a unique creation of God.
We are a community, and we have a compassions for each other during difficult and painful times.
We commit ourselves to the service of others.
We work for justice and peace, in our school and in our world.
We are especially mindful of those in our world who are poor and opressed.
We are Guadalupe Girls.
A Prayer:
Our Lady of Guadalupe, our mother, The mother of all who live united in these lands, A loving mother for the world. We thank God for giving you to us To comfort us in our troubles, To protect us from our fear, To inspire us as we strive to learn and to grow.
Your presence in our lives is a blessing on our dignity. We are held in your warm embrace. We ask you to ever guide us withyour gentle kindness So that we can more fully reflect on the love of God.
From Carolyn, Class of 2006...
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From Erika, Class of 2006... 
During the past weeks in high school, we have been focusing on poetry. I feel good about the work we are doing because
Poetry was emphasized at Our Lady of Guadalupe and I came to appreciate it.
In my high school project I included poetry that I wrote. Also, we were asked to select a poem written by another person.
There's a good reason why I selected this poem called "Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall. I am especially
Impressed with Addie Mae Collins, the little girl in the poem. She really speaks to me. So this is a poem I shared in my high school poetry project. Now I want to share it with OLG readers, because I know that OLG is committed to human rights and civil rights.
The speakers in the poem are Addie Mae Collins, her mom, and the author. I think the poet; Dudley Randall wants to give a message to us about how much African Americans suffered from slavery and discrimination. He also wants us to know more about the important civil rights movement that changed our country for the better.
The occasion of the poem is an event in our country that will never be forgotten. Innocent children were bombed in a Church, because of prejudice and discrimination.
Here is the poem:
"Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?
"No baby no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren't good for a little child."
"But mother, I won’t be alone.
Other children will go with me,
And march the streets of Birmingham
To make our country free."
"No, baby, no, you may not go,
For I fear those guns will fire.
But you may go to church instead,
And sing in the children's choir."
She has combed and brushed
Her hair, night dark hair,
And bathed rose petal sweet,
And drawn gloves on her small brown hands,
And white shoes on her feet.
The mother smiled to know,
That her child was in the sacred place,
But that smile was the last smile
To come upon her face.
For when she heard the explosion,
Her eyes grew wet and wild.
She race through the streets of Birmingham,
Calling for her child.
She clawed through bits of glass and brick,
Then lifted out a shoe.
"O, here's the shoe my baby wore,
But, baby, where are you."