MARYLAND: DON BOSCO CRISTO REY SENIORS CELEBRATE THEIR FUTURE DURING COLLEGE SIGNING DAY

by Kelly Sankowski, The Catholic Standard

(Takoma Park, Md. – May 22) – For graduating senior Julio Perla, being accepted to Georgetown University is a goal he has worked toward since middle school. During Don Bosco Cristo Rey’s College Signing Day on April 30, he had the opportunity to announce to all of his classmates that he had finally achieved that dream.

Perla said in that moment, when he stood at the front of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park, looking out on pews full of smiling classmates, family members and teachers and announced he would go to Georgetown, “I really wasn’t thinking; just feeling.”

“It was the compilation of the last four years; the hard work of teachers, administrators, peers and myself, working together,” he said, adding that he was on the brink of tears.