by Elaine Sutherland Advancement Associate OGDEN — It’s not often a fashion show can teach you about the lives of the saints. But that is exactly what it has done for Ogden’s St. Joseph Catholic Middle School seventh and eighth grade students. "This experience has taught me about what John Bosco did for underprivileged children in need," said seventh-grader Devin Olquin. In conjunction with Catholic Schools Week, St. Joseph Middle School seventh and eighth grade students hosted a fashion show Jan. 26. The event was by invitation only and the elite group of attendees were the special people in the middle school students’ lives. The students invited grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other adults, who have influenced them to spend the day at school. Linda Studdard, St. Joseph Middle School religion teacher, turned her classroom into a fashion show runway, complete with a blowing fan and guest audience. Each student researched a specific saint and found fascinating facts they read aloud while other students paraded down the runway dressed as their chosen saints. The students demonstrated the various steps these ordinary people took to reach sainthood. Studdard said she got the idea for a saint fashion show from a high school social studies teacher and it seemed like a unique way to help students learn about the saints. "It is an interesting idea because we got to see the saints as real people by dressing like they did," said Adam Sutherland, a seventh- grader. "This project challenged me to think about what life was like for the saints."
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