Oklahoma City

A community of six ACE teachers, three first-year and three second-year, serve four schools in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City: Mount St. Mary High School, Sacred Heart School, St. Philip Neri School, and St. James School.

Stephen McNamara
Mary Immaculate College, Ireland, 2010, BA Education
Sacred Heart Catholic School, 3rd Grade

Rafael Carrasco
University of Dallas, B.A. Mathematics with a minor in Physics
Sacred Heart, MS Math and Science (6-8)

Desiree Jerez
Loyola Marymount University, B.A. Liberal Studies concentration Special Ed with a minor in Bilingual Development
St. Philip Neri, Spanish K5-8th

Amy Kalmar
University of Notre Dame, B.A. English and Medieval Studies with a minor in Italian
Mount St. Mary High School, English

Jeremy Grondin
Miami University, 2010, BS Mathematics
Mount St. Mary High School, Math

Megan Otero
University of Notre Dame, B.S. Biological Sciences
St. James Catholic, MS Science, Religion, and Math

Oklahoma City House

What is unique about your community?

We have done a ton of work to take care of our house- painting, redecorating, and cleaning out for some awesome garage sales. We have a very unique house with a lot of history, located within view of the capitol building. The house is centrally located, only miles away from the revitalized Bricktown, downtown district. We host the annual Cowboys and Indians party, the best party in ACE. We enjoy games of Euchre, our outside fire-pit and hanging out together watching TV, instead of doing the school work that we should be doing. Whether running, cooking, praying, doing science experiments, or rocking out with our textbooks out, we all support and love one another.

Schools served in Oklahoma City

Sacred Heart School
St. Philip Neri School
St. James School
Mount St. Mary High School

Provide a brief description of Oklahoma City:

We are a stone’s throw from the capitol building and down the street from the OU medical campus. OKC downtown is a fun, exciting, revitalized hub of restaurants and bars with a beautiful AAA ballpark, home of the Red Hawks and a river walk. OU’s campus in Norman 30 minutes south, OSU’s campus in Stillwater is an hour north. OKC boasts the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the World of Wings Pigeon Center. The Oklahoma City memorial is a moving and powerful remembrance of the 1995 bombing, located two miles from the ACE house.

What do you like most about Oklahoma City?

Oklahomans are frindly, down to earth, football-loving people. The cost of living and the traffic are both very low. There is a lot of fun and cheap stuff to do in the city: bars, Thunder Games, Red Hawk Games, and restaurants. Oklahoma City is within driving distance of a many other ACE communities, such as Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and Memphis.