Parents: Are you concerned, anxious and happy that your student is going off to college? Students: Are you concerned, anxious and happy that you are going off to college?

Dave Hamilton, Certified Education Planner, and director of college advising at St. Maryโ€™s Ryken, will answer these ques-tions and others to help parents and students successfully โ€“ and sanely – navigate this process of change.

The talk is at St. Maryโ€™s Ryken High School on Thursday, May 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Media Center in Romuald Hall on the schoolโ€™s lower campus.ย  All are welcome and this event is free of charge.

St. Mary’s Ryken is a private, coeducational, Catholic secondary school sponsored by the Xaverian Brothers.ย  Students come from many different counties across the region including Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, King George, Prince Georgeโ€™s and St. Maryโ€™s counties. SMR offers a rigorous and challenging college preparatory curriculum. Although the majority of students are Catholic, a variety of religions are represented and all denominations are welcome.