Holy Family School’s Heartwarming “Yes Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus”



Holy Family School’s 4th and 5th graders brought the heartwarming story “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” to life. They performed 12 times over this last weekend in the “Little Theater-Loretta Room” for family, friends, students and HFS’ sister school (4th & 5th grade) Our Lady of Guadalupe. Holy Family expresses its thanks to Mr. Garber, Mr. Reed, all the volunteers, parents and students for their dedication.

Inspired by a simple, poignant letter written over 100 years ago by 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon to the editor of the New York Sun—and by the timeless editorial response printed on the front page of the Sun. Virginia wondered and wrote: “Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see it in the Sun, it’s so. Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?” Ed Mitchell, the Sun’s editor, gives the assignment of answering Virginia’s letter to Frank Church who, until his wife and baby died last Christmas Eve, was the Sun’s best and most dependable reporter. Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus is a play for young and old, magically reaffirming life’s highest beauty and joy—”the eternal light with which childhood fills the world.”

Holy Family School, 1301 Rollin St., South Pasadena, (626) 799-4354 or visit school.holyfamily.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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