A Message from Our Principal

Dear Families,

Every year around this time, we nominate a staff member to be the Queen of Peace recipient of the Harry T. Wilks Educator of Excellence Award. This award is presented at a special October banquet that recognizes Hamilton educators for the work they do. 

Our 2025 recipient will be Mr. Kevin Hoffman, Technology and Media Specialist. Here is our essay submission for Mr. Hoffman: 

There are certain kinds of uncommon people who manage to do it all without making any fuss or fanfare about the universally recognized fact that they, well, do it all. 

The magical source of energy that powers their productivity is neither shared nor understood by those mere mortals who get faint around 1:00 p.m. and need a cold compress and a warm pat on the back to get through the day. 

One such uncommon man among our ranks at Queen of Peace is Kevin James Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman’s official job title is Technology and Media Specialist. Quite a dignified title, we think. But also one that is wholly inadequate to the broad and varied range of things that he does for our school and church. It's like calling a cell phone a "phone." Kind of insulting when you think about it. 

Mr. Hoffman’s unofficial title is "Doer of all those things that someone, at one time, described by saying, 'maybe Kevin can do that.'" The only reason he doesn't cook and serve lunch is because he gives piano lessons to students during that time. And don't worry. Mr. Hoffman doesn't need to eat. He is a man with his priorities in order. He is the Kevinator, equal parts man and machine, moving through the world at the same steady and untroubled speed, recharging himself with the energy created by his own relentless forward motion.

As the universe perpetually expands, so does the scope of Mr. Hoffman’s work duties. It is the iron law of Mr. Hoffman that nothing can be removed from his workload. Only added. 

This workload consists of the following things....

• Managing all school and parish technology. All of it. From sound to video to devices to just about anything that plugs in. If it has a cord, it belongs to Mr. Hoffman.

• Serving as the head school librarian.

• Teaching 9 STEM classes per week. 

• Serving as webmaster for school and church. 

• Playing the piano for all school Masses, all funerals, and all weekend parish Masses.

• Directing the adult and children's choirs.

• Formatting and providing content for school and church communications.

• Serving as the staff coordinator for Chess Club, Yearbook Club, Tech Club, and Robotics Club.

It could be argued that this level of responsibility is inhumane. However, rest assured that no Kevin Hoffmans were harmed in the making of this list. The beautiful truth is that Mr. Hoffman is a happy, humble, and willing doer of all these things. He is the epitome of a man driven entirely by the cause, and by an exceptionally high standard for serving this cause well. 

Mr. Hoffman will work early. He will work late. He will work often. Yet far from being a workaholic with questionable work-life balance, Mr. Hoffman is simply a man whose approach to work is to immerse himself in it as a life calling. 

You could also be forgiven for thinking that Mr. Hoffman’s work quality must suffer from the sheer volume of his responsibilities. What a silly, silly thought. And how is it possible, you ask, that quality does not buckle under the weight of quantity? Nobody knows. Nobody…..knows.

The living legend of the Kevinator only grows with time. We hereby beseech God to allow Kevin James Hoffman to live an immortal existence at Queen of Peace. Amen. 

Mr. Hoffman....Thank you for your devotion to Queen of Peace! It is unquestionable a better place because of you!

Sincerely,

Josh

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