April 4, 2025

Four other educators were finalists for archdiocese’s highest honor for education

While Maggie Banet of St. Mary-of-the-Knobs in Floyd County received this year’s Saint Theodora Excellence in Education Award, the archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Schools also recognized the four other finalists for the highest honor for an educator in the archdiocese.

The four other finalists were:

—Daniel Farrell, a teacher and assistant principal at St. Michael School in Greenfield.

—Erin Koester, a teacher at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis.

—Kathleen O’Donnell Ray, a teacher at Holy Spirit School in Indianapolis.

—Chad Tuley, a teacher at Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School in Indianapolis.

 

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