Alumni
Welcome Home, Falcons!
Here are some photos from our most recent Young Professional Mixer - next YPM will be in Spring, 2020 (county health guidelines permitting)! !
YPM 2019
YPM 2017
We're glad you stopped by the St. Matthew's Parish School Alumni page. We hope you will update your contact information so you can receive invitations to our fun and fabulous alumni events and become a part of a growing network of St. Matthew's Parish School alumni who continue to Serve, Lead and Flourish long after they leave campus. Be sure to view, like, follow and visit our social media accounts - they help you reconnect with your St. Matt's friends, classmates, and teachers!
All former students of St. Matthew's automatically become members of the St. Matthew's Alumni Association when they graduate eighth grade. Even if you left the School earlier, you become a member after you graduate eighth grade. We hope you will join us at our many alumni gatherings, and we always welcome your visit to our magical campus.
To stay connected, please update your address details and share your latest news so we can share it in the class notes section of our annual magazine The Windmill.
St. Matthew's Alumni Association
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Alumni News: Drop us a line, we'd love to hear from you! Please keep your contact details up to date so that you don't miss out on reunion invitations. Email: alumninews@smps.net
St. Matthew's Alumni Parents Association
All former parents of an alumnus or alumna of St. Matthew's automatically become members of the St. Matthew's Alumni Parents Association, no matter when your child left the School. This was a place of small and growing children, loving and nurturing teachers, the excitement of learning. It was where you and your child made the kind of life-long friends that are only born of parenting children together as a village. Become a part of the St. Matthew's Alumni Association and enjoy those memories all over again, and again! Your participation in St. Matthew's Alumni Association events will keep you up to date on additional wonderful opportunities, networking, and events for your former Falcon, too--because parenting never ends!
We have a number of annual special events and programs just for parents of St. Matthew's alumni parents, including a fall wine sampling event, Cin Cin, parent education speakers, and the beloved Town Fair Prequel Party, and more.
Please visit and Like our St. Matthew's Alumni Parents Association Facebook page to see upcoming events and learn how you can get involved!
Or email us at alumninews@smps.net to share your former Falcon's updates.
Contribute to the Alumni Fund
Consider a gift to the Alumni Fund. Your gift to the Alumni Fund also supports our fabulous Alumni and Alumni parent programs and keeps you connected and networked with former Falcons and friends. We hope that alumni and parents of alumni look back fondly on St. Matthew's and also choose to support today’s generation of Falcons.
To Contribute:
- Contribute by mail to St. Matthew's Alumni Association, 1031 Bienveneda Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.
- Call the business office 310-454-1350 ext. 141, and Kristine Anderssen can take a credit card payment over the phone.
- Gifts of appreciated securities
Questions? Call the Office of Advancement at 310.454.1350 ext. 156 or email alumninews@smps.net.
The Windmill Magazine
The School publishes the magazine once a year in Winter. Email your class notes as and when they happen to alumninews@smps.net.
Other ways to be a supportive Alumni include:
- Visit campus and say hello to a teacher who touched your life.
- Arrange to visit to talk to current students sharing St. Matthew's impact on your life, lessons learned and treasured, how you continue to Serve, Lead and Flourish.
- Refer a prospective student to Admissions.
- Ensure the Advancement office has your updated contact details.
- Send SMPS news and a picture for The Windmill as you continue to Serve, Lead and Flourish.
- Become a Class Ambassador, encouraging classmates to share info, attend events, and contribute.
- Attend events.
- Cohost Alumni events.
- Volunteer at Alumni events.
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Give feedback to the Alumni team; suggest events you'd like to attend, news you'd like to hear of and more.
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Follow us on Facebook, and use the St. Matthew’s filter on Facebook for photos.
- Follow us on Instagram.
- Follow us on Linkedin, and list your attendance at St. Matthew's so you appear on the alumni list.
- Join the closed group for alumni only; LinkedIn Alumni Group and network; find a mentor, internship, or post a job.
- Support our graduates; mentor a student, offer internships or workdays to SMPS graduates; especially useful for rising seniors at High School and College.
- Ask your employer to donate surplus or gently used equipment.
- Arrange/host a class reunion.
- Offer to record a motivating video for other alums to support SMPS.
- Join in a volunteer school project; such as seasonal food drives, walk-a-thons, or beach clean-ups.
- Donate to Parents’ Council Auction.
- Donate raffle prizes for Parents’ Council Town Faire.
- Donate goods in kind to Alumni events.
- Donate un-used event tickets to the Faculty Make A Wish program.
- Donate school memorabilia to the Archives.
- Buy St. Matthew’s SWAG.
- Support the Annual Giving and Alumni fund.
- Support Capital Campaigns.
- Leverage your gift with a corporate match, if applicable.
- Suggest that your class friends support the Annual Giving and Alumni funds, no amount is too small!
- Support one of our grant funds; financial assistance, Lucas Scholars, or St. Paull's in Haiti.
- Donate artwork, real property, vehicles, jewelry, and/or other valuables to the SMPS.
- Make a major gift that transforms the School that you know and love.
- Remember St. Matthew's in your will. (Even 1% of your estate could have a huge impact.)
- Donate a life insurance policy that you no longer need.
- Be a proud ambassador of St. Matthew's.
Let us know of other ways!
Go Falcons!