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Saturday was the Night of Knights with the theme this year being
Starry Starry Knights,
based on the Vincent Van Gogh painting Starry Starry Night. Going
along with the theme, everything was in French. The evening started
with the student ambassadors getting their assignments and free
pizza and pop. Mrs. Lundgren was in charge and kept the students
occupied till around 4:45. At that time the ambassadors went up
to the chapel for a mass with Fr. John. After the mass the guests
began to arrive at about 5:30. The period before dinner was devoted
to socializing and biding on the silent auction items in the union
and cafeteria. Two of the student's favorite auction
items for this year were an amazingly cute Black Labrador puppy,
that was carried around my sophomore John Behrendt, and a talking
parrot.
Keith Allerton
opened the evening with a short speech, which included an apology met with laughter
for the French theme due
to the French being at odds with the United States at the present
time.
The
punch-line
to this joke was the other theme considered was Arabian Nights.  As
the dinner progressed section after section of the silent auction
began to close and the table-runners could
be seen sprinting frantically to get all the guest's bids in before
it was to late.
After dinner School
President Brian Osborne gave a very heart-felt speech in which he said that even
though he is
leaving Mount Michael this would not be his last Night of Knights.
After his talk, Osborne introduced the night's honorees, David
and Peggy Sokol. The Sokols spoke of their fondness for Mount Michael
and the great experience it provides young men. They also spoke
appreciatively of their son D.J.'s many peers from the class
of 1999 who were in attendance.
The Mount Michael
community would like to thank all the workers and guests that made this years
Night of Knights such a great success. -Article and Photos by David Nelson
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