Janet Bonica has served Xavier for 23 years as Registrar and will retire after wrapping up her end-of-the-year duties. For her longstanding dedication to and work for Xavier High School, she was awarded the Robert Bellarmine Medal at this year's graduation, in honor of St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J., a teacher and doctor of the Church. "Although we say goodbye to her as a colleague, we do not say goodbye to her as friend," said Headmaster Michael LiVigni. "Janet Bonica is the epitome of what it means to be a Jesuit educator: the call to serve others selflessly and without aggrandizement; the call to magis that leaves an institution in a better place than before she arrived."

Below, read her reflection from the 2013-2014 Xavier yearbook.

"I was no stranger to Jesuit education or to Xavier High School. My sister, brother and I had all graduated from Fordham University; and my brother was a proud son of Xavier's class of 1976. We constantly heard stories about Xavier High School, and I think I knew more about Xavier than I did about my own high school. I jumped at the chance to have my own Xavier High School experience. I would become the first female administrator at Xavier High School. When I arrived in July of 1991, Xavier had no internet connection and no email. The computers were used for word processing, and the server was down more times than it was up. The library and Learning Center were two rooms separated by a hallway that matched those in the 3K and 4K corridors. The 4D6, 4D7 and 4D8 classrooms were combined in one giant resource center used as a study hall. The number of Jesuits in the classroom outnumbered the four women on the faculty. I have seen a lot of changes, and I have seen a lot of wonderful people pass through these doors. I have produced over 20,000 students schedules through the years. After all these years, I still have the same feeling of awe as I had on the first day when I walked down the 2nd floor hallway of the Lynch building. There may have been physical differences between my Xavier past and present, but one thing has always remained the same: the heart of Xavier. Xavier has always had a deep commitment to social justice and to educating young men to be of service to others. My Xavier has always been a united family filled with compassion and love. While I could never be a son of Xavier, I consider myself to be a daughter of Xavier. And I never had JUG!"