Horizons: Spring, 2008

Spring 2008

One Heart, One World

A Plan for Education Students Volunteer in Haiti Spotlight on: Colegio del Sagrado Coraz贸n in Mexico City Visiting UGANDA 11 Days in Bhutan

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Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, founded in 1848, is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school for young women, from preschool through grade 12. True to its international heritage, the School provides students with experiences of diversity and welcomes students of all races, socioeconomic backgrounds and religious beliefs. Convent of the Sacred Heart, steeped in a solid academic tradition, educates women to have independence of judgment, personal freedom and strength of character so that they can become leaders with broad intellectual and spiritual horizons.

Service to others is a compelling commitment of our education, and the entire School community, as a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, is dedicated to the Goals and Criteria.

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3 One Heart, One World, By Michael Baber, Assistant Head 5 160th Anniversary, By Victoria Taylor Allen, Archivist 7 A Plan for Education, By Victoria Taylor Allen, Archivist 9 Students Volunteer in Haiti, By Sarah Julian & Christina Wiltsie, Class of 2008 12 Spotlight on: Colegio del Sagrado Corazón in Mexico City,

By Carroll Welch, Sacred Heart Parent

14 Visiting Uganda, By Emily Mazurak ’05 16 11 Days in Bhutan, By Samantha McCoy, Middle School History Teacher 18 A Message from the Superior General, By Clare Pratt, rscj, Superior General

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On the cover: Middle School teacher Samantha McCoy at Tiger’s Nest, a 17th-century monastery.

It was so named because the spiritual leader who brought Buddhism to Bhutan supposedly flew into the site on the back of a flying tigress.

DEPARTMENTS 2 Message from the Headmistress 20 School News 22 Profiles in Service 23 Alumnae Profiles 28 Class Notes 40 Milestones

Message from the Headmistress

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This issue of Horizons is a compelling reminder of the important role the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart continues to play in empowering our students to transform society. The theme is internationality and these articles reflect the faculty’s creativity in building awareness, as we educate our young women in the Goals and Criteria of a Sacred Heart education.

As the School prepares to celebrate its 160th anniversary in the 2008–09 school year, I am reminded of our family tree, rooted firmly in France, where St. Madeleine Sophie Barat planted it in the ashes of the French Revolution. This April, I stood in the chapel at Ring Day, when juniors receive class rings from the seniors. It was a glorious moment, and it is one of my favorite ceremonies at Sacred Heart. I reminded the Sister Magnetti was a recipient of an honorary Doctor junior girls and their parents, and the Upper School students of Humane Letters degree from Manhattanville at the and faculty that the ring they wear bears the original symbol college’s 2008 commencement. The keynote speaker for of our School, which is also the seal of the Society of the the baccalaureate’s honors program, she poses here with Sacred Heart. The pierced hearts of Jesus and Mary remind the college’s president, Richard Berman. us all of how we must become living legacies of Madeleine Sophie. We must become women of compassion, who heal the woundedness of the heart of Jesus through our commitment to preservation of the world’s resources and to a religious faith that assures that hope and peace are the promise of the Resurrection.

Clare Pratt, rscj is a leading example of what the Society is doing to take action and heal the wounded heart of humanity.

Sister Pratt, the Society’s first American Superior General, writes for us in this issue. She has created a place in the Society where new ideas are embraced and supported. Last year, she visited Sacred Heart, Greenwich, to thank our students for supporting our Sacred Heart sister school in Uganda through fund raising, such as the Lower School’s annual “Jump Rope for Uganda.” Sister Pratt impressed upon all students the growing need to look beyond their daily lives.

The violence in Kenya brought the School together in January for “Kenya Day.” Wearing maroon shirts and accessories to symbolize solidarity with our sister school in Kenya, our young women were given an opportunity to continue their learning at the heart of an international crisis. Two Upper School students, who had visited Kenya with their families as violence broke out, spoke eloquently of their experiences. Former parent and trustee Robert Shafer, chair of the Observer Delegation of the Sovereign Order of Malta, who has addressed the United Nations, was our guest speaker. Cokie Roberts, an Emmy Awardwinning journalist and best-selling author, who is an alumna and friend of Sacred Heart schools, spoke in a phone conversation broadcast live from her office to the students assembled in the theater.

We encourage our students to look at the world with fresh eyes, while using their faith and intellect to create change. In doing so, we help Sacred Heart students understand the value of their ideas and the importance of thinking boldly. The Middle School religion curriculum is just one example of how students focusing on an old subject, church history, can create new solutions by following the example of women of strong faith.

This summer, faculty will once again be “walking in the footsteps” of our early founders. This professional development opportunity is being made possible by the Parents’ Association’s successful fall luncheon, “Unite Our World,” which featured Joan Kirby, rscj, parent Melanie Bloom and Lee Woodruff. For faculty the destination is Mexico, where they will be journeying in the spirit of St. Philippine Duchesne. Teachers will spend time with the Religious of the Sacred Heart as they learn more about Philippine, the Society’s work in Mexico, and the role of the laity in the Society today. They will also assist the poor of all ages. The spirit of all these efforts allows Sacred Heart to stay rooted in its mission, while being a great place to teach and learn.

I hope you will enjoy this issue.

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By Michael Baber, Assistant Head

“Your mission is great, it involves the whole world.” This prophetic quote from St. Madeleine Sophie captures the seminal view of the extent to which she hoped the love of God would be made manifest.

It takes a visionary to fashion an educational philosophy that, 200 years after its inception, still impels independent schools worldwide to teach students to be leaders in transformational education. In the spirit of post-revolutionary France, St. Madeleine Sophie’s earliest and most prescient ideas were to help women take their rightful place in an ever-changing world. It would take compassionate hearts, open and tolerant minds, and an indefatigable sense of what is right.

In 2000, the Society of the Sacred Heart joined with religious and lay educators worldwide and promulgated her vision anew: “We are committed to live education as a process of transformation.”

(Chapter Documents 2000) Internationality and transformation are intimately linked. One reason St. Madeleine Sophie valued internationality was because she hoped that the work of the society, making the kingdom of God present, would take root all over the world. In speaking of her original vision of internationality, St. Madeleine Sophie said: “We shall raise

up a throng of adorers from all nations.” This view soon came to fruition: “All the while, the Society continued to grow all over Europe and foundations were made in France, England, Ireland, Holland and Italy. In America, the Society continued to expand. Houses were founded in Philadelphia, Manhattan, Kansas, Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Detroit, Albany, Rochester, and Chicago. In Canada, further houses were opened at Vincent de Montreal, Halifax, Sandwich, and New Brunswick, to name a few. The most adventurous foundations were made in Cuba and Latin America.” (Kilroy)

The former head of our Uganda school, Annet Nankusu, rscj, visited with the Lower School at the annual “Jump Rope for Uganda.”

The Lower School event raised $9,000 for our sister school.

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Middle School students prepare for the annual Islamic History Museum with art teacher Kim Raisbeck. The National Association of Independent Schools invited our faculty to present a workshop on this topic at their annual conference.

Team building, environmental studies and nature were explored by the fourth grade in the Catskills in May.

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This adventurous spirit continues today, evidenced by the presence of the Society in 44 countries, the most recent additions include Indonesia, Russia and Haiti.

The brief chronicle above is significant since Sacred Heart educators today have a special and distinctive mission: the Sacred Heart educator is one who seeks to give expression in the present to an educational mission now 200 years old. The Sacred Heart educator seeks to give new expression in new circumstances to the vision of Madeleine Sophie. Perhaps this mission is best summed up by former Superior General Patricia Garcia de Quevedo, rscj, who said: “We are convinced that living internationality is not a choice but a responsibility in the face of the world’s calls.”

“One Heart, One World: Collaboration for a Transformed World” was the theme for the most recent international meeting of Sacred Heart heads. This theme is captured in this issue of Horizons. For St. Madeleine Sophie, who tirelessly worked to maintain the unity of the Society, also saw the world as one. For her, the main objective of education was the transformation of the world. She sent her sisters into the world to transform it so that it would resemble the kingdom of God. This is a distinguishing mark of Sacred Heart schools. While many excellent independent schools exist, one would be hard pressed to find the unique combination of traits offered by Sacred Heart schools. Our internationality is one such gift.

At the annual conference of the National Association of Independent Schools in February, one of the keynote presentations affirmed this very point. The presenter said an individual’s prejudice and stereotyping are removed only through positive encounters with people of other cultures and backgrounds. The presenter gave examples at independent schools, citing the success of exchange programs, study and online communications. Happily, Sacred Heart has all of these and more!

Our Strategic Plan (2007) placed, as a centerpiece, the assertion that student values and lives are transformed by experiences of internationality. We offer students such an opportunity through our expanding exchange with other countries, our affiliation with a network of 138 Sacred Heart schools from Nova Scotia to New Zealand, and a burgeoning outreach program in which students work in Haiti and Colombia.

Papalotzin is one of the newest international programs available to the Sacred Heart network. Its goal is to encourage intercultural dialogue. It was designed to strengthen international connections between schools by developing projects that could be carried out through the World Wide Web. Our sister school in Mexico, Colegio del Sagrado Corazón, has been the driving force behind the online platform dedicated to Papalotzin. The program takes its name from the Aztec for monarch butterfly. It was inspired by the spirit of our foundress, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, who called for an intercultural dialogue within the society. The program has three major areas of focus.

Students from all over the world are brought together to collaborate on projects, exchange ideas and solve problems. Secondly, students enter a coordinated global exchange program aimed at sharing culture and encouraging servicelearning experiences with the poor and marginalized. And, finally, faculty cultivate joint investigations, projects and curricula across national borders.

By all accounts, the mission and vision of St. Madeleine Sophie is thriving. I think she would be proud of and relish in the fact that her deepest desire finds a home is the hearts of so many: “Your mission is great, it involves the whole world.”

“We are convinced that living internationality is not a choice but a responsibility in the face of the world’s calls.”

Anniversary

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART During the 2008–2009 school year, Convent of the Sacred Heart will celebrate its 160th anniversary. Our founding in 1848 in New York City is a story of faith. Here then is a summary of that story, as written by our school archivist, Victoria Taylor Allen.

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Founded by Mother Hardey, the story of Convent of the Sacred Heart begins in 1848 in a rented house at the corner of Bleecker and Laurens streets in Lower Manhattan. The institution began as a day school for 60 girls under the direction of Mother Sarah Jones, who had recently completed the noviceship. Tuition was $50 a year and included courses in English and literature, philosophy, history, geography, mathematics, as well as French language and a variety of “domestic economy” subjects that the girls would need in later life.

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By 1851, the School had an enrollment of 80 pupils and moved north to 64 West 14th Street. Parochial work was begun in the basement of the church of St. Francis Xavier; there was a night school, a parish school, and a Sunday school totaling almost 800 women and children.

Thanks to the heroic efforts of Mother Hardey, the Society of the Sacred Heart was able to construct a new building that opened on 17th Street in March of 1855. In the annual letter, the reader finds that “…the new school is very large, well built and perfectly arranged … the rooms are light and airy. In all, the entire house can easily hold 700 people.”

By 1856, Mother Juliana Pardow, the first Superior at 17th Street, reorganized the day school, the parish school, the sodalities, as well as other important apostolic works.

By 1878, the Convent chapel was opened on Sundays to accommodate a Spanish congregation, the first of its kind in New York City. There were a variety of activities and outreach to the Lower Manhattan community, including programs for children attending religious instruction programs, classes for young women who worked in the surrounding community, and sodalities for married women. The Children of Mary visited the poor and the sick, as well as those in jail.

In 1905, Lower Manhattan had become increasingly congested and commercialized.

The Society of the Sacred Heart bought “Maplehurst,” a large gray stone villa at 174th Street and University Avenue. The house, designed by Calvert Vaux, one of the designers of Central Park and Prospect Park, Brooklyn, was described as “…a most lovely site on a hill so surrounded that our beautiful 11-acre park is as if it were out in the country and yet the trolley car line is but a few steps away.”

From 1905 to 1945, generations of girls attended the school, learning not only the highest academic standards, but the importance of social concerns as well. During the Great Depression, many unemployed and impoverished were fed by the School every day without fail. Students and teachers from other countries were always welcome at the school, following

St. Madeleine Sophie’s wish that students always be “world minded.”

By the late 1930s the Religious began to search for a new property as the George Washington Bridge expanded its entrance ramps almost to the School’s front yard.

In December of 1942, they purchased Overlook Farm, consisting of 180 acres on King Street in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The Religious began to refurbish the house and in 1945, “…the vans of furniture from Maplehurst began to arrive.” Ninety-eight girls, 16 of whom were boarders, were the first students at the new campus.

Sixty-two years later, Convent of the Sacred Heart is a flourishing girls’ day school with 720 enrolled in preschool through grade 12, and a faculty and staff of 180. Students come from more than 60 zip codes in an area encompassing southwestern Connecticut and Westchester County in New York. Its beautiful campus includes the original main house, a stateof-the-art science center, an observatory, a modern library/media center, and a new Middle School, as well as a broadcast journalism suite.

For the Athletic Program, there is an indoor swimming pool, gymnasium, multiple playing fields, including two new synthetic turf fields, tennis courts and off-campus facilities for golf and squash.

A recently refurbished chapel with its original tabernacle from 17th Street and a beautiful new mosaic of the Risen Christ is the heart and soul of the School.

True to the vision of St. Madeleine Sophie, community service and outreach programs continue to be the hallmark of the School, and indeed the entire Sacred Heart community. Several years ago, the Upper School established a student-run

foundation, the Barat Foundation, which awards grants to service groups serving the needs of children. In 2007, international service learning was introduced and students traveled to Haiti and Colombia, where they worked with the poor. Students participate in a wide-range of community service projects with many organizations, including the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.

They choose service sites where they will be in direct contact with the poor, the marginalized, the elderly, the sick, the disabled or the homeless. In addition, Sacred Heart has an Outreach Program, with a full-time director that features a summer camp for 200 children from low-income families, in addition to tutoring programs throughout the year. The School community continues to support its sister school in Uganda with many fund-raising efforts throughout the year, including the Lower School’s annual “Jump Rope for Uganda.”

The School is the only preschool through grade 12 independent, Catholic all-girls’ day school in five New England states.

The strength of the faculty is enhanced

by Sacred Heart’s mentoring program, which pairs new employees with veteran administrators and teachers, who provide an understanding of the School’s mission.

Eighty-nine percent of the Class of 2008 earned admission to at least one college ranked “Most” or “Highly Competitive”

by Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges.

The graduating class also had one National Merit Scholarship winner, three National Merit Scholarship finalists and nine National Merit Commended Students.

Sixteen students out of 63 in the Class of 2009 are National Merit semi-finalists, which is the highest percentage in the School’s history.

Approximately 20 percent of the students have diverse backgrounds. The Board of Trustees is committed to improving diversity—race, religion, color and socioeconomic—among both students and faculty. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, is proud to stand for 160 years of academic excellence and fidelity to Sacred Heart values, while continuing to move forward in the world of today.

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A Plan for Life

By Victoria Taylor Allen, Archivist

Editors of the award-winning literary magazine, Perspectives, presented the first copies to Sister Magnetti and Upper School Head Jayne Collins at an assembly in April.

The Cum Laude Society inducted 13 juniors and seniors on April 30. Among the seniors inducted this year were Brianna Aoyama, Colleen Considine, Takako Hirokawa, Meg Larson, Alison Whelan, Megan Lacerenza and Amy Traver. Some in this group are pictured here. They joined classmates inducted last year as juniors: Cristina Ceballos, Genevieve Irwin, Sarah Julian, Sylvia Khoury and Maria Zoulis.

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The intellectual and spiritual tradition of Sacred Heart education begun in post-revolutionary France became within relatively few years a unique worldwide system of teaching girls and young women. The spirit of this system, brought to the “new world” by St. Philippine Duchesne and by Mother Hardey, continues to this day in Sacred Heart schools around the world. Here in Greenwich, we continue to maintain the tradition that education must be a program of “life and advance,” words used by St. Madeleine Sophie Barat herself until the end of her life in 1865.

Created by St. Madeleine Sophie, along with several early members of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1805, the “Plan of Studies” articulated clearly not only the idea of educating young women, but delineated as well the means of promoting instruction that would give students both the desire and the ability to function as “examples and apostles” of clear thinking and good works in a

changing world. Influenced greatly by Ursuline education and by the plan of studies used by the Jesuits, the Sacred Heart system was unique because of its ability to be revised according to the needs of schools in different countries, while keeping to the spirit of Sacred Heart teaching, which is the combination of the intellect with the spirit of Christian love.

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Students studying in the old library, now the site of the Upper School Core Center.

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In the schools, colleges and parish work directed by members of the Society, education was allencompassing, and the “Plan of Studies” embraced complete cycles of studies for children in kindergarten up to students of college age. Education was like a series of steps, each important unto itself, with each leading to a higher step. Spiritual as well as community life were central to the education of the “whole child.”

Instruction and education were united by a thorough grounding in Christian education, an interlocking of three realities that gave young women the ability and the means to serve as creative and forceful members of whatever society they happened to be living in.

Since its beginning, Sacred Heart education has discouraged the notion of the school as a little world unto itself. From the time students are very young, their horizons are broadened and extended to worldwide concerns and interests. Languages, arts, sciences, world beliefs and problems are a part of students’ training. Students have always been encouraged to be a part of every initiative and to extend themselves to the needs of the wider world.

From the inception of the Society of the Sacred Heart, teachers were not merely instructors, but educators devoted to forming the hearts and minds of their students. By revealing in gradual steps a broad and challenging academic curriculum, teachers developed and trained their students’ intellectual powers. Even in the earliest years of the Society of the Sacred Heart, the wide scope of subjects taught at the schools was impressive.

Languages, literature, the arts, scientific studies all

Since its beginning, Sacred Heart education has discouraged the notion of the school as a little world unto itself. From the time students are very young, their horizons are broadened and extended to worldwide concerns and interests.

flourished alongside sound training in religious and spiritual topics. The “Plan of Studies” states, “Work must be planned so as to encourage serious study of sources … and above all, thorough reflection. It must enable older girls to make judicious choices.”

From the first years of the nineteenth century to the time this article is being written in 2008, several hundred thousand young women around the world have been educated in Sacred Heart schools. This education has taken place in day schools, in boarding schools, in colleges, in parish work, in summer and afterschool programs in the Americas, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. In both academic and social pursuits, students are encouraged to look beyond mere facts and to explore the reasons WHY things happen.

In a section devoted to the teaching of literature, the plan states, “…to be of value (the teaching of literature), must go beyond the simple facts—the succession of names, facts dates—and envisage the deeper aspects.”

The study of foreign languages “opens new horizons … and reveals religious and social problems which widen the boundaries of life and of thought … and open a way to understanding.”

As “children of the Sacred Heart” all of us in the Sacred Heart Greenwich community are privileged to use what we have been given by the very early founders of the Society of the Sacred Heart and by Sacred Heart educators today who teach us to live out what St. Madeleine Sophie Barat saw as our destiny: the gift of self to the world outside our own.

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service-learning trips to Haiti this year.

In January and March, the Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., theology teacher, led the volunteer missions. A video on the March 13-17 trip can be viewed on the School Web site, www.cshgreenwich.org. The video was produced by Grace Duffin, a member of the Class of 2008. As with all School-sponsored service learning, the purpose is to help those in need, while broadening student awareness.

The Upper School students who traveled to Haiti included Brianna Aoyama, Grace Duffin, Elizabeth Henry, Sarah Julian, Liana Khandji, Eleanor Logsdail, Keara Stewart, Amy Traver and Christina Wiltsie.

They stayed at the Knights of Malta Mission House. Their days were spent with the street children of Project Pierre Toussaint. Project Pierre Toussaint is affiliated with Fairfield University. For more information, visit www.haitippt.org.

There Is Something About Haiti By Sarah Julian, Class of 2008

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“There’s something about Haiti that gets into your blood,” we were told on our first day at the Order of Malta Mission House in Milot, Haiti.

“Yeah, the malaria,” quipped a visiting American doctor.

As we arrived on the first of our four-day service-learning trip, a group of doctors was returning home, only to leave us with those parting words of wisdom. Many of them had been traveling to Haiti for more than a decade. It was not the malaria that brought them back.

As I and four other seniors soon discovered, there is something about the people and the atmosphere of Haiti that makes the country impossible to forget.

As I and four other seniors soon discovered, there is something about the people and the atmosphere of Haiti that makes the country impossible to forget.

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The Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., who teaches theology at Convent of the Sacred Heart, has been volunteering in Haiti for 15 years. In February 2007, he conducted the first service-learning trip at Sacred Heart, offering students the opportunity to travel with him to work at a program called Project Pierre Toussaint. The project is run by Doug Perlitz, a graduate of Fairfield University, who works with Haitian street children. Our group departed Greenwich on January 17, 2008, with five students, Brianna Aoyama, Libby Henry, Amy Traver, Keara Stewart and me. We were accompanied by Nancy Maloy, who teaches drama in the Upper School, her son, Connor, and Father Carrier.

On our first day, we visited Carenage, Project Pierre Toussaint’s program for boys on the streets. It is housed in a two-story building surrounded by a paved area, where they play soccer. The kids arrive in the morning, eat two meals, go to classes, and play. At the end of the day, they exit through the metal gates marking the entrance, and spend the night on the street. We visited on a Saturday, when classes were not in session, so we were able to spend our time playing with the boys. Because the boys spoke Creole, communication was Liana Khandji with youngster at mission

difficult. We expressed ourselves using a combination of English and French, along with gestures and smiles.

We introduced a Sacred Heart tradition, providing the boys with a goûter in the form of green and white cakes. Although it was fun to play and joke with the boys, it was incredibly difficult to reconcile the smiling faces with the reality that they had no parents or money, and only the clothes on their backs.

On our second day, we visited the Village, the program’s second step that is available to boys who show up regularly at Carenage and express an interest in learning. Doug makes sure each boy at the Village is connected with a member of their family, whether it is a grandmother, a mother or an uncle. If a family member can provide a stable living environment, the boy moves in with his family. If they are not able to provide for him, he can live in one of the dormitories at the Village. During the day, boys take classes. Recently, Doug purchased some rabbits and put the boys in charge of caring for them.

When we visited the Village, we brought arts and crafts supplies. The boys had never seen such an array of stickers, beads, clay, paper, and markers. Even the 16-year-olds were interested in coloring. As Father Carrier explained, they rarely had a chance for art projects, and never had the resources to do anything creative.

Their enthusiasm was overwhelming!

Later that day, we visited Fourteenth Street, a house located in the city of Cap Haitien. It was purchased for boys who are able to move beyond life at the Village. They are still taking classes, but now they are becoming even more integrated into society by living on their own with a housemother. Although the boys were not at home when we visited, I was stunned to see a chalkboard in the house that was covered with calculus formulas and equations.

My experience in Haiti was nothing less than life changing. It would be impossible to witness the poverty and the destitution of the Haitian people and remain unmoved. It would be impossible to forget the boys who are just like boys in my hometown, but who own nothing except the clothes they wear. It would be impossible not to return to a country that so desperately needs our help.

The doctors were right. There is something about Haiti that gets into your blood, and something about it that I will never forget.

Left to right: Amy Traver, Brianna Aoyama, Elizabeth Henry and Sarah Julian

By Christina Wiltsie, Class of 2008 Whenever someone goes on a big trip, usually the first question asked upon their return is, “How was it?” However, the trouble is, more often than not, people are not looking for much more than a few words. So how do you condense an experience, such as a trip to Haiti, into a few simple words? Well, after nearly two weeks of wrestling with this question, I believe I have finally decided on a word that fits: “unforgettable.” Because the one thing that I have been sure of since our plane landed back in New York is that the images of Haiti will remain with me forever.

On the third day of the trip, we broke into groups and, obeying the simple directive of “follow Titi,” my group traversed the crowded streets of the market led by one of the kids we met at the Village. Out of the safety zones of Carenage, the Village, and Milot, this was when we truly were thrust into life in Cap Haitien. Walking through the crowds of people all selling their goods and moving this way and that, my mind was jostled between taking in my surroundings and keeping sight of that little blue backpack.

The overwhelming density of the place was almost too much to take in. Earlier on, we had run into James Lee, one of the kids from Carenage, and he stayed with us for most of the journey as well. Therefore, with him acting as our “guardian angel” watching our backs, and Titi leading us through the labyrinth, our complete trust was placed in two young people we couldn’t speak more than a few words to. Yet the boys were so protective of all of us that I somehow felt completely safe the entire time.

As we left the market, I looked back and realized that what I had just come out of is what Haitians live through every day. Crammed into a small space and desperate to sell something, anything, so they can have food on the table, all of those people I just passed would not be able to return to a comfortable home as I would in a few days’ time. But they go on living because this is their life.

The roads in Haiti are bumpy -- and that’s an understatement.

Before their departure, the Rev. Paul Carrier and Upper School But the cars and teacher Nancy Maloy met with the five students who went to Haiti in the people trudge January. They stand next to a sculpture of Blessed Pierre Toussaint. on through it because they have no other choice. The same road can change but they were able to hold their heads every day so they must constantly be able to up high and sing with all their might, in adapt and react to it. Looking back at the an open, powerful, collective display of market, I realized how similar these roads faith. There was an immense feeling of are to the day-to-day life of the people we pride and dignity in the people, and it passed in the market and on the roads. The was evident the effort that they put into challenges of getting through each day have preparing for the day. some ups and many downs and it is certainly Seeing the unwavering devotion of the a bumpy ride, but somehow the people people, despite the intense struggle of manage to get through it all and keep living. living that they face everyday was amazing Yet there didn’t seem to be that sense of to me, and I hope I was able to bring a desperation in the air that I was expecting. little bit of that faith back with me.

Certainly, there was desperation and hunger A large part of the Haitian life is the everywhere I looked, but the people did not thought of “if God wills it”—everything radiate hopelessness. You could see despair, happens for a reason. I certainly believe but did not feel it from the people. That is that I was sent down to Haiti for a reason. perhaps the thing that astounded me the Whether it was to touch the life of just most: their ability to go on and accept the one child—or perhaps it was my life that was meant to be touched. life that they have been given.

More than that, they manage to hold The surprising optimism of the people is onto their faith and remain steadfast perhaps what struck me the most because in their religion throughout all of their in a place where it seems like there would adversity. Another memory that will be no hope, there is faith. While we worry remain with me is going to Palm Sunday about the little stresses, they appreciate the Mass in a small area called Blue Hills. little blessings. And though I might not Just seeing the vast number of people yet know exactly where I’m going in life or gathered for the procession through precisely how this experience has shaped the streets, singing enthusiastically as what is to come, I know that it will always we made our way to the church, I felt be a part of me. I will not ever be able to compelled to join in song, despite my forget the face of little Woodlin, or the girl nonexistent Creole skills. Looking in the little white dress on Palm Sunday. around at everyone dressed in their finest I will not forget the singing procession of clothes for the occasion, it was hard for a community coming together, making me to believe that these were the same their way to worship as one. I will always people I had been seeing out on the remember the faces and the faith. streets. The parish we walked to is the poorest church in the area, with a monthly collection of less than 60 U.S. dollars, and these people truly have next to nothing,

Left to right: Christina Wiltsie, Grace Duffin, Eleanor Logsdail, project volunteer, and Liana Khandji

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Spotlight on: Colegio del Sagrado Corazón in Mexico City In the following article, Carroll Welch, a Sacred Heart parent, profiles our sister school in Mexico. Our students share a closeness with their Mexican sisters through our student exchange and participation in Papalotzin.

“Somos una comunidad educativa cimentada en el espíritu educador de Santa Magdalena Sofie …”

“We are an educational community founded in the spirit of Saint Madeleine Sophie …”

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—Grissel Barragan, Greenwich exchange student in Mexico

As a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, Colegio Sagrado Corazón in Mexico City is connected to its sister schools by a shared intellectual and spiritual vision. It is also distinguished by a unique character and identity in which creativity and the

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exchange of ideas is strongly emphasized.

Recently, Sacred Heart has had some wonderful opportunities to learn more about and strengthen its ties to the Sacred Heart tenth-grader Grissel Barragan in front of Colegio Sagrado Corazón in Mexico City where she spent two weeks as an exchange student this spring Artwork made from recycled goods at Colegio Sagrado Corazón reflects the theme: “Planta T en tu Mundo” or “Plant Your World”

Colegio Sagrado Corazón.

Colegio educates almost 1,100 preschool, primary, middle and high school girls on an urban campus in the Pedregal neighborhood of southern Mexico City. Many of its 185 staff and faculty are alumnae of Colegio or other Network schools in Mexico.

Martha Baca, headmistress of our Mexican sister school, at right, visiting at Sacred Heart, Greenwich, with Headmistress Joan Magnetti, rscj, and Board of Trustees member Imma De Stefanis, rscj, at left.

participate in a wide variety of local community service projects, including tutoring local children, visiting retirement homes and distributing food to those in need.

Founded in 1883, the Colegio will mark its 125th anniversary this year. It has been in its current location for 40 years and the school community is looking forward to some upcoming renovations of its buildings and facilities, which currently include classrooms, a library, an auditorium, an indoor soccer field, science laboratories and technology rooms, and a beautiful chapel dedicated to Mater.

Many patios and gardens surround the school’s buildings and provide the girls with an attractive outdoor environment in which to learn, eat and socialize in Mexico City’s clement temperatures.

Colegio students have extended warm welcomes to many Network students, most recently Grissel Barragan, a tenth grader at Sacred Heart, Greenwich. Grissel completed a two-week exchange visit in April, returning with rave reviews of the warmth and generosity of her hosts and their impressive fluency in English.

She found the openness and supportiveness of the student-teacher relationship at Colegio remarkably similar to that of Sacred Heart.

While at Colegio, Grissel attended classes and a soccer game, and went sightseeing in Mexico City’s historic district. She believes that Colegio in Mexico City is the perfect place for Sacred Heart students to be foreign exchange students because of its unique culture and its warm and friendly students and faculty. According to Grissel, “At Colegio, they are a family, as we are here at Sacred Heart.”

Grissel Barragan (bottom right) surrounded by high school students from Colegio Sagrado Corazón

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Martha Baca, who has served as headmistress for the past nine years, attended a former Sacred Heart school in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Ms. Baca, who holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in business administration, visited Sacred Heart, Greenwich, this spring in an effort to advance the schools’ collaborative efforts on social service programs in the United States and Mexico. During her visit, Ms. Baca emphasized Colegio’s commitment to developing its students’ ability to accept and learn from differing viewpoints, regardless of one’s cultural origins. This very concept formed the basis for Papalotzin, an online global exchange of social service and academic ideas that was conceived and initiated at Colegio.

Papalotzin is the Society of the Sacred Heart’s new program (www.papalotzin-csc.com.mx), in which Sacred Heart schools share opportunities for student exchanges in academics and faculty programs.

Like other Sacred Heart students, Colegio students take a variety of standard and elective classes. In their final year, the girls can select certain courses in fields that they may choose to pursue at university, such as architecture, medicine and the arts.

All high school students take a course called Analisis de Realidad or “Analysis of Reality,” which focuses on current world events.

According to Ms. Baca, these kinds of courses reflect how Colegio “prizes creativity and the exchange of ideas,” while developing the girls’ critical thinking skills. Similarly, the school’s current theme is “Planta T en tu Mundo,” or “Plant Your World.” The theme is illustrated by a beautiful artwork of a tree made from recycled goods, and its goal is to promote both environmental conservation and the acceptance of others across cultural boundaries.

Outside of the classroom, Colegio students enjoy basketball, volleyball and soccer, as well as regional dancing, ballet, jazz and cheerleading. Colegio athletes recently competed in a sporting event called “Intersac,” which included girls from the other Mexican Sacred Heart schools in Guadalajara, Monterrey and San Luis Potosi. Like many Sacred Heart students, Colegio girls also

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Visiting

Uganda Emily Mazurak visiting the Sacred Heart Primary School in Uganda

By Emily Mazurak ’05

would be the most frightening undertaking or would be one of the most rewarding. Either way my two-month internship in Uganda during the summer of 2007 would be life changing.

As students of the Sacred Heart, the Goals and Criteria become ingrained and have a profound impact in how we interact with the world around us. For me goal three, “to educate to a social awareness which impels to action,” has become especially significant. It inspired me to leave my life in the United States and travel thousands of miles to a new culture, a culture that turned out to be much different from anything that I could have expected.

During my two months in Uganda, I worked with a nongovernmental organization that assessed the community’s needs in major areas that included public health and women and children.

It was my responsibility to do community needs assessments so we could create sustainable programs that would bring about change.

My work in the field is where I experienced the real Uganda and saw firsthand the cycle of poverty.

The continent of Africa has been plagued by HIV/AIDS and this disease is one of the major contributors to poverty. Although Uganda has been successful in decreasing the number of new infections, the number is still too high. Thousands of orphans have been abandoned and left to live on the streets; the lucky ones are taken in by family members.

I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to teach in two schools. It gave me an insight into how poor the educational

Lower School students with their globes on Africa Day, sponsored by our Africa Task Force

system is in a developing country. In many schools there is no electricity or running water. Textbooks are in short supply, and children often sit on the floor, not at a desk. There is no such thing as a free education. Students are required to pay for books, food and a uniform.

Realizing the lack of resources that exists in this country, especially for girls, the sisters of the Sacred Heart decided to bring the mission of St. Madeleine Sophie to Uganda. I was fortunate enough to visit not only the six sisters that oversee the school, but also to meet the students and teachers. While there, I was amazed with the resources that were available to our Sacred Heart students—keep in mind that I had been teaching in a two-room papyrus school days before. What amazed me the most was how eager the girls were to learn; education in Uganda is a privilege and the girls were taking full advantage of everything that was presented to them. This education will enable them to continue on to secondary school and university, which will allow them to break the cycle of poverty in their lives.

I knew the trip would give me a lifetime of education. What I did not expect was that the main source of education would come not from museums or churches, but instead from the people of Uganda. My advice to you is this—immerse yourself in cultures other than your own.

You will learn about the lives of others, and these experiences will lead you to test and to question your morals and beliefs. If you have the means to travel—do it. There is no time like the present. Think about the adventure, but more importantly the education that awaits you.

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In many schools there is no electricity or running water. Textbooks are in short supply, and children often sit on the floor, not at a desk.

11 Days in

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By Samantha McCoy, Middle School History Teacher

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Prayer flags grace a roadside patch of ground

Kinga (left), our guide, in his gho, and Eutha (right) in her kira

Cheri Monastery, with prayer flags strung up in the foreground

people look at you with a slightly quizzical expression. You can practically read their minds, thinking, “Have I heard of that before? Where is that?” It’s become my custom to follow up any mention of Bhutan with the phrase, “the small Buddhist nation in the eastern Himalayas.” Thankfully, that often does the trick to make people feel like they now have some sense of what on earth I’m talking about.

Prayer wheels, spun to release the printed prayers inside the cylinder

The view from my hotel room in Trongsa one morning

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I got the education of a lifetime in Bhutan last summer when I spent 11 days exploring the country with a colloquium of independent school educators from around the United States.

After a day in Bangkok, which was the most convenient city from which to catch our Druk Air flight into Bhutan, we launched into a whirlwind tour of a nation unlike any other on this planet. Our traveling group was a wonderful amalgamation of 16 teachers and administrators, guides and drivers. We filled our days by visiting a combination of the usual tourist sightseeing spots, three schools and about a dozen monasteries, temples and shrines.

Bhutan is a nation of less than 700,000 people, most of whom still live a very traditional, rural, agricultural lifestyle. Farming is the foundation of the Bhutanese economy, with the nation exporting staple crops like rice and potatoes. Local chilies are also a mainstay, which we discovered when we were first served emma datsi: super-spicy green chilies in a white cheese sauce, often meant to be eaten over rice. (Not being one to venture past even mild salsa at home, I stuck with the potatoes, rice and other tame vegetables!) Many Bhutanese still wear their traditional dress: a gho for the men and a kira for the women. In the cities or larger towns, however, western dress is becoming more and more common among the younger generations.

This tiny nation, ruled by kings for the past century, is poised on the brink of modernization, and is taking each step into the 21st century with careful consideration. King Jigme Singye Wangchuk did not introduce television and the Internet until 1999. At one of the high schools we visited, the students had just finished midterm exams and one ninthgrade class wrote essays on the effect television has had on their culture. We were able to read and marvel at these essays because English is the language of instruction for all academic classes, with the exception of classes in Dzongkha, the national language. The fact that so many young Bhutanese spoke English so well made our journey that much more enriching. (To our credit, though, we did learn to say “kuzu zongpo” as a greeting, “kadin ché” in thanks, and “tashi delé” as a farewell.)

Our visits to the monasteries and temples were truly the highlights of the experience for me. On three occasions, the monasteries were not easily accessible and we hiked anywhere from 850 to 1,700 feet up to reach our destinations. The beauty of the Himalayan landscape is unparalleled and the sense of tranquility was soothing for the soul. At the Cheri monastery, the monks were kind enough to chant prayers for all of us before we departed back down the mountain. Buddhism is an integral part of Bhutanese daily life, where most homes have an altar room set aside and one finds people from all walks of life spinning prayer wheels in the city square. Some of the most amazing sites were prayer flags mounted on steep hillsides, with the belief that the wind will catch and carry the prayers out into the world.

Each of us left Bhutan with a renewed sense of peace and interconnectedness. The tranquility of the nation envelops its visitors and the kindness of the people makes any traveler feel at home. Our days in Druk Yul, the “land of the thunder dragon,” will not soon be forgotten.

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A Message from the Superior General Clare Pratt, rscj, the first American appointed Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart, wrote the following article for Horizons. It was adapted from her address to Sacred Heart alumnae in Canada at their first annual conference on October 20, 2007. The conference was held at our Sacred Heart school in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Taking Action Against Poverty

By Clare Pratt, rscj, Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart

What can I share that you will not hear from others?

The experience gained in these seven years of visiting the great family of the Sacred Heart in the 44 countries where rscjs are giving their lives in love, trying to be attentive to where “the piercing of the heart is taking place”: • the piercing of the heart of women and children • the piercing of the heart of people uprooted from their land or displaced within their country • the piercing of the heart of our earth as we continue to destroy our planet.

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“To be where the heart is being pierced” is, in fact, to be everywhere. The heart of our incarnate God is present in every culture and the heart of God is being pierced in every one of them.

In some, it is more subtle than in others. In the developing world, it is a physical hunger and thirst, whereas the developed world has lost its bearings, is disconnected from the earth, caught up in material progress, drained of meaning. There is a spiritual hunger and thirst. A thirst for God that is insatiable. Then, there is the “piercing” of grief, of disillusionment, of betrayal that cuts across cultures.

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So what can I tell you that will be helpful?

I want to give you some examples of what RSCJs and alumnae are doing in various parts of the world to heal the wounded heart of humanity, particularly in situations of material poverty. We are involved in many kinds of educational programs, projects and institutions, trying to meet people and their needs where they are.

In addition, I would like to mention two big issues that affect both North and South and two means the Society is using to bring North and South closer together. Finally, I will offer some suggestions for action.

A few examples of our programs:

• In India, we have established a boarding school for girls called “untouchables” and begun programs to empower women.

• In Verrettes, Haiti, in 2000, as a gesture celebrating the Society’s 200th anniversary, we began a small community. We went with no intention of beginning a school, but rather of seeing how the needs would emerge. Our little community was on a street that led to the local water pump. And who are those who go to fetch the water but the children! They were fascinated by these strange women who were living in their midst and began to knock on the door. Programs evolved gradually. Later, the local

parish offered some land on which to build a covered space.

Teenage “monitors” were trained to work with the children.

Now, several of those monitors think they would like to become Religious of the Sacred Heart!

• In Chad, south of N’Djamena, the capital, we work in small community schools, giving formation to parents and other adults so that they can teach the children. We also work in an agricultural school, an alternative-secondary school, which teaches agricultural methods with a view to keeping young people on their land so that they are not lured to the city.

• In northern Peru, we work in a secondary school offering agronomy for campesino leaders, and in Lima, we continue to run a national teacher training college that for 131 years has trained teachers for the whole of Peru. In a meeting in July with the executive committee of the alumnae of this college, I learned that most of them work in the Ministry of Education along with about 20 other Sacred Heart alumnae. In the south of Peru, near Cusco, we are involved in another teacher-training institution that is bilingual, Quechua/Spanish.

• We founded libraries in the Philippines, Chad, and Mexico for children and young adults. Our choice of the city of León for our novitiate in Mexico was influenced by the possibility of working with alumnae in the biblioteca they founded, as well as in other projects offering apostolic possibilities for the novices.

• In Cascajal, Colombia, there is a community of African descent, dating back to the time of slavery, where we had a community for a number of years. Now the kindergarten, sewing and other workshops are run by our alumnae.

• In Seoul, Korea, in addition to our school, we have two shelters for girls who have run away from home. Volunteers go out on the streets at night offering them the possibility of a safe place.

Sometimes it takes a long time before they have the courage to take the step. The shelter has a homelike atmosphere and is run by a small rscj/lay staff.

Those of us who come from the developed world may find it hard to relate to some of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Universal primary education and infant mortality are not problems for us. However, one issue that is a universal problem is that of water.

It has been said that future wars will be fought over water.

Water is a multifaceted problem. One piece of good news! The water-harvesting project in India by our Sophia College ExStudents Association. These committed alumnae have taken a simple, feasible method of catching and preserving rainwater to a large number of villages. They are a focused, committed group, motivated and encouraged by the success they have experienced.

There are two ways that the Society of the Sacred Heart is trying to contribute to the knitting together of North and South so that developing countries can make their voices heard: • Membership in the Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network, which is a group of about 50 international religious congregations with members in both Europe and Africa. From a small office in Brussels, the group lobbies the European Union about issues such as trade, which affects Africa. The theory is that “antennae” in European countries bring awareness of the issues to their respective countries, while antennae in African countries inform their northern counterparts of the effects of European policies on their countries.

The organization of African antennae has been slow due to political and communication difficulties and the fact that often simply surviving takes all one’s time and energy.

• NGO status at the United Nations with the Department of Public Information. This status, which is the most “modest” form of association, presumes a two-way flow of information: the Society has a responsibility to disseminate to its membership information about what the U.N. is doing, especially its humanitarian programs. This is done by our representative, Cecile Meijer, a Dutch rscj from the U.S. Province, primarily through our international Web site, which publishes information in English, Spanish and French. At the same time we make an effort in whatever ways we can to channel information from the grassroots, our sisters “on the ground,” to the U.N.

This is a sampling. For more about our projects and the life of the Society in general, visit our Web site, www.rscjinternational.org.

Finally, I offer a few suggestions to help all of us respond to the call to “take action against poverty.” As limited human beings, we cannot address all the needs of the world. If we try, we become either paralyzed or do a little here, a little there, and do it superficially. HOWEVER, as human beings we are able to be passionate about something!

My message to you is: Get in touch with what your passion is and you will find ways to concretize it.

Often passion is sparked by a personal experience … Let me offer a few examples of what a passion might be: • Water • The plight of trafficked women • The abuses of mining and other companies • The care of the earth as in recycling/composting. There is a slogan I find helpful: “Repair—Reduce—Reuse­—Recycle what you can’t reuse” • Teaching English as a second language • Finding ways of welcoming immigrants.

Whatever is calling forth the gift of you, connect with others with the same passion.

While in Korea a few years ago, I read in an English-language newspaper a new word that I have rarely seen since: netizen. It is a person who exercises his or her citizenship via the Internet. Become a netizen! Do not underestimate the good you can do through a Web site, such as The Hunger Site, www.thehungersite.com.

Finally, we cannot underestimate the power of prayer. If we believe in the words of Jesus: “Ask and you will receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you,” we believe in the power of intercessory prayer, begging God to heal our world.

Nevertheless, over and above intercessory prayer is what prayer does to us/in us. Sheila Cassidy, in her book, Prayer for Pilgrims, a Book about Prayer for Ordinary People, (HarperCollins, London, 1980/1994), speaking of the effects of prayer says.

“The essence of Christian living is not that we must pray to God and be good to our neighbor but that from our prayer there will arise an awareness of our neighbor’s needs, the recognition of our brotherhood with him, the desire to be of service and the strength to give from our own material and spiritual fullness to the less fortunate.”

I find it helpful to use what I call “new sacramentals” that are reminders of my passion. For example, the white bands of the “Make Poverty History” campaign or similar bracelets worn by students at your school. Alternatively, a candle, reminding me to keep shining light in the darkness. Water itself, used to baptize us and to bless us, becomes a “new sacramental” when we try to be mindful of its sacredness every time we use it: drinking, showering, washing dishes, watering plants, swimming, or even welcoming rain as a blessing. What might your sacramentals be that will remind you that you can make a difference in the world?

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School News Aloysia Hardey Award Presented

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The Aloysia Hardey Foundress Award was presented to nine members of the Classes of 2004 and 2005 at the Mass of the Holy Spirit on September 28, 2007.

The Mass was celebrated for the entire School by the Most Reverend William E. Lori, S.T.D., bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport.

The award is given to a student or students who started a new program or began a new commitment at Sacred Heart. Their contribution must have outlasted their initial vision and helped the community grow in the values of Mother Hardey and our School.

Recipients of the award were honored for founding the Instrumental Club, which continues today at Sacred Heart.

They are Natalie Cruz and Camille Mellijor from the Class of 2004; Ursina Beerli, Danielle Gennaro, Emily Grubert, Emma Ingrisani, Anna Irwin, Kristin Gates, Ruth McCann, Marianne Palacios, and Kristin Uhmeyer from the Class of 2005.

Carver Center Thanks Sister Sheehan

By Kathleen S. Failla

For 15 years, Rosemary Sheehan, rscj, inspired parents and past parents to volunteer at the Carver Center’s Children’s Corner. Come rain or shine throughout the school year, she led volunteers in tutoring Head Start youngsters.

Some volunteers, such as Christine Bowes, have been with the program since it began. As the Sacred Heart mother of Jennifer ’90 and Alison ’93, Christine devoted her time to the “Tuesday morning group,” as it came to be known.

She joined other volunteers, among them Patricia Molloy, a current parent and a member of the Sacred Heart’s Board of Trustees. The group takes the children on field trips and works one-on-one with educational games, crafts, reading and rhythmic movement.

Preschoolers are active, and Christine noticed the Carver Center, located near downtown Port Chester, N.Y., lacked an adequate play area outdoors. Thanks to a generous gift from Christine and her husband, Jack, the children now have a beautiful new playground to call their own. When it came time to dedicate the facility, the Bowes asked the Carver Center to name it in Sister Sheehan’s honor.

Sister Sheehan, center, poses with Christine and Jack Bowes at the playground dedication at the Carver Center.

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Women Are Builders of the World Lisa Gowdy Dotson ’70 enrolled in Sacred Heart in 1966 as our first student of color. From the moment she walked through the front door, Lisa has felt this was her home. Lisa returned to Sacred Heart from Clarksville, Tennessee, on October 30, 2007, and spent a week visiting with our students, parents, faculty and staff.

Lisa met with students in all three divisions, from our youngest, where she read stories and reminisced about her days at Sacred Heart to our Middle and Upper Schools, where she attended theology classes. Her consistent message was “Women are Builders of the World,” a phrase that echoed in the hallways and followed her wherever she went. At the all-School liturgy on All Saints’ Day, she presented the reflection, impressing upon students and faculty a responsibility to have a “sacred heart,” which she described as one that expressed unconditional love for humanity.

Lisa Gowdey Dotson ’70 and her granddaughter, Kayla Jones

Service takes many forms at Sacred Heart. In September 2007, Assistant Head Michael Baber was appointed by the Provincial of the Society of the Sacred Heart and her team for a three-year term to serve on the Sacred Heart Commission on Goals (SHCOG).

As his appointment letter states: “…you have a demonstrated understanding of the Goals and Criteria, leadership ability and the qualities of teamwork, great listening skills, familiarity with the process and are a very able, caring Sacred Heart educator.”

Tasks of the Commission are to create and maintain the dialogue in which the schools speak to the Society and the Society speaks to the schools about God’s call. It enables us to share in God’s grace lavishly poured out in our mission, guiding it into the future and faithfully serving each new generation of young people with great love and confidence.

SHCOG members include: Bridget Bearss, rscj, headmistress, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Palie Cantu, Forest Ridge, Bellevue, Wash.; Rae Flory, Duchesne, Houston, Texas; Joanna Gallegos, Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco; Gerald Grossman, head, Woodlands Academy, Lake Forest, Ill.; Ian Humphreys, Convent of the Sacred Heart, 91st Street, New York; Madeleine Ortman, executive director, Network of Sacred Heart Schools; Ann Taylor, rscj, head of SHCOG; Paula Toner, rscj, Provincial Team, St. Louis, Mo.

Big Blue Victory Celebration For more than three decades, the Mara family has had a wonderful relationship with Convent of the Sacred Heart. Our alumnae include seven Mara daughters and two granddaughters, as well as four current students.

What better way to celebrate this great football family and the New York Giants victory at the 2008 Super Bowl than with a “Giants Goûter” on campus?

The Maras and Mathias Kiwanuka #97, linebacker for the Giants, were welcomed by the entire Sacred Heart student body, many of whom were dressed in Giants blue and held homemade signs. The morning included a slide show from the Super Bowl, a highlight video of the big game, blue cupcakes and reflections by Cassidy Mara ’08 and Mary McDonnell ’09.

The biggest cheers came for Mathias Kiwanuka, a 2006 first-round draft pick from Boston College. His reflections included his family’s history in Uganda and his grandfather’s work there to promote education for women. Sister Joan Magnetti spoke about Sacred Heart’s community service projects on behalf of our sister school in Uganda, such as the Lower School’s annual “Jump Rope for Uganda.”

The Mara family joined with Sacred Heart students to celebrate the Giants winning the Super Bowl.

Sister Magnetti Named President of U.S. Headmasters The Headmasters’ Association of the United States has elected Sister Joan Magnetti, headmistress of Convent of the Sacred Heart, as president of the 115-year-old national organization.

The election took place at the annual meeting in Philadelphia earlier this year.

Sister Magnetti succeeds Tyler C. Tingley, headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy, in the one-year term as president. She was first elected to membership in 1987, when she was headmistress of Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, N.J. In 1990, she was appointed headmistress of Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, and later served on the association’s board as secretary.

Originally, the Headmasters’ Association was all male when it was founded in 1893. It has changed over time, admitting women to its ranks in the 1980s and working to further the needs of both public and independent school heads. Today, the organization is still strongly male with only 25 percent of the membership comprised of women. Sister Magnetti is the only member belonging to a Catholic women’s religious congregation.

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By Victoria Taylor Allen, Archivist

Profiles in Service:

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Any number of Greenwich alumnae of the past number of years would attest to Sister Kaye Cherry’s knowledge of and enthusiasm for English language and literature. Currently teaching courses in World Literature and Advanced Placement English Literature to seniors, Sister Cherry brings the works of a wide ranging list of world authors to her students, opening their horizons to new and varied cultures and ideas.

An alumna of our School here at Greenwich, Sister Cherry was raised in a deeply religious home: “very Catholic,” in her words. She graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart with a B.A. in English, as well as a deep love for the Society of the Sacred Heart. After her graduation from college, she worked as an editor for the National Retail Merchants’ Association in New York City. However, in talking with friends who were priests and religious, Sister Cherry developed a strong sense that God was calling her to religious life, and when her post-college years ended, she decided to enter the Society.

Throughout her long and interesting ministry with the Society, she has been called to use her talents in a variety of ways. As a new Religious, she went to Rochester, N.Y., where she taught English and became “surveillant” (a position similar to that of today’s dean of students) for a short period before leaving for Rome and the six months of reflection, prayer and study she needed in order to make her final profession as a Religious of the Sacred Heart.

Upon her return to the United States, Sister Cherry was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where she taught English and served as dean of students as well. Several years later, she was assigned to Convent of the Sacred Heart, Kenwood, in Albany, where she taught Upper School English, served as dormitory mistress and was also moderator of the school’s yearbook.

Serving again at Bloomfield Hills, she became dean of studies in addition to teaching English in the Upper School. Her hectic schedule became even busier, as very soon, she became the director of college counseling, as “…today’s well as head of the Upper School English department. students In addition to her activities in the school, Sister Cherry earned a master’s degree in English from have far more Manhattanville College and over the next few years, exposure to the took summer courses at Boston College, SUNY, Albany and the University of Massachusetts. A number rich literature of years later, she participated in a summer study of many program at Oxford University in England, where she took a course on Jane Austen. countries, and Called to her alma mater, Greenwich, she has served thus, a deeper the School in a variety of ways, heading the Advanced Placement Program, serving as advisor to The King understanding Street Chronicle, chairing the English department and of the world’s serving as senior moderator.

When asked, Sister Cherry commented that the problems.” teaching of English has changed considerably in the past few years. The classical program of beginning with mythology and Homer’s Odyssey, then moving

on to Shakespeare, Dante, Old and Middle English works, Romantic poetry and authors such as Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Hawthorne and American poets has developed in a different way for today’s students. For the most part, this material is still being covered, but today’s tendency is to teach courses that are thematic in their choice of readings. Sister Cherry believes, too, that today’s students have far more exposure to the rich literature of many countries, and thus, a deeper understanding of the world’s problems.

The teaching of writing, in a way, doesn’t change, she states, although much of student writing today is done in longer papers. During her own student years at Greenwich, classes used exercise books in which they wrote nightly on a historical or literary topic. The books were collected and corrected on a regular basis and were designed to teach students a particular aspect of the art of writing.

Although less attention has been paid to the study of grammar and usage in recent years, the most recent trend is a return to the “basics.”

The mission of education, the bringing of the love of the heart of Jesus to the world are evident in Sister Cherry’s carrying out of her life’s work. As a school community we rejoice at the commitment of devoted faculty like Sister Cherry, who so willingly share their knowledge and their talents with our students.

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By Judith S. Becker, Director of Planned Giving

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Ingrid Cronin ’69 enjoyed three wonderful years at Sacred Heart, entering as a sophomore and graduating in 1969. She attributes much of her success in her varied and interesting career to those years. She values the close relationships she had with her teachers,

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among them Mrs. Thorman, Mrs. McGraw and Mrs. Medford.

And, “Sister Salisbury was omnipresent,” added Ingrid.

Ingrid had a passion for sports, and at a time when women’s athletics were not as well funded as they are today, she had the opportunity to pursue her talents and enhance her skills while at Sacred Heart. She played field hockey and basketball, and learned lacrosse, which she later played at Connecticut College and coached at Choate.

It was also at Sacred Heart where Ingrid first decided her future career path. She wanted to work in juvenile justice, to work with young defendants. “When teaching,” she says, “you need to listen to kids.”

Ingrid enrolled at Connecticut College, but her education there was interrupted when she, as the oldest of nine children, returned home to help care for her siblings during her father’s illness. Living at home, she attended Albertus Magnus College, from which she graduated in 1973 with a degree in history.

Following graduation, Ingrid worked at a phone company for one year, and then spent five years at Choate, teaching history and coaching lacrosse, field hockey and volleyball.

She married Hugh Packard in August 1979 and began the study of law at the University of Connecticut that September. While in law school, she gave birth to two of her three sons!

When Ingrid’s husband was appointed head of Ridley College in 1981, the family moved with him to Canada. Ingrid worked for a year with the YWCA, at a transitional house for troubled women. She also worked at Ridley College, where she coached volleyball.

After eight years in Canada, the family moved once again, this time to Wellesley, Massachusetts, where Ingrid worked at Dana Hall. In 1990, Hugh was appointed head of Wyoming Seminary, an independent day school in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Here Ingrid returned to the legal field, serving as assistant district attorney for 12 years. She ran the sexual assault unit, dealing with homicides and rapes.

Although Ingrid’s husband retired as headmaster of Wyoming Seminary last June, they have decided to remain in Kingston, where Ingrid is now a federal defender. When asked how her current role as a defender differs from her work as a prosecutor, she replied that “both work in the same system and support each other. The people I work with are so committed.” She added, “As a prosecutor you win; as a defender, you give your best, even if you know your client is guilty.”

The federal system, she noted, has more money to carry on investigation prior to making an arrest, whereas in the state system, an arrest is made before an investigation. As a federal defender, it is important to make the defendants feel they are being treated fairly.

One of the cases Ingrid worked on recently was a child sexual assault case, where the defendant was the stepfather. In another of her cases, a male defendant was accused of assaulting 13 young

victims—he had been married to some of their mothers. Ingrid has learned in her pursuit of children cases such as these that the children who are victimized are those whose parents are not there for them.

We asked Ingrid what advice she would give current Sacred Heart students who are considering law as a profession. “There are so many branches of law, don’t lock yourself in. Know your own temperament.”

If you plan to be a litigator, she added, learn to speak confidently. Drama and English courses certainly help in this area. Most important of all, learn to write well. “Writing is crucial, and learn it in high school.”

“I had three wonderful years at Sacred Heart. I found the educational experience liberating, and I learned the importance of family,” she said. She and Hugh are proud of their three sons: Mike, a Harvard graduate, is following in his mother’s footsteps and is attending law school; Dennis, also a graduate of Harvard, is a professional ice hockey player; and Matthew, who graduated from Hamilton College in 2007, teaches English in Ankara, Turkey.

Ingrid has maintained her passion for sports. Recently, she joined 399 other women in a one-day bicycle ride at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to benefit the refuge.

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Victoria Guennewig ’68 capped a successful career in communications and is spending her retirement taking up new challenges.

After graduation from Sacred Heart,Victoria served on the alumnae board while living in the Greenwich area and starting a family. She found time to complete her education, earning a master’s degree in communications from Fairfield University.

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Working her way up the corporate ladder, Victoria spent 20 years in the communications field at various companies. In 2005, she retired from her position as vice president and chief communications officer of Cooper Industries, a $4 billion, publicly-traded

company. At Cooper, she was responsible for guiding all communications activities, including public affairs, public relations, media and community relations, financial communications and internal communications. She also served as president of the company’s $12 million foundation.

After retirement, the Guennewigs moved to Destin, Florida, where Victoria is focused on pursuing passions from her younger years—horses and art. She loves the outdoors and has become a painter “plein air,” that is, an artist who enjoys working in the natural light of the “open air,” where the French expression originates. She exhibits her works at a gallery in Destin.

However, her real joy at this point in her life is her horse. Although she did not have much experience in riding prior to retirement, she was fortunate upon her move to Destin to be introduced to Jodie Kelly, who is her current trainer, and from whom she takes lessons six days a week.

By Judith S. Becker, Director of Planned Giving Jodie is currently riding at Grand Prix level and is ranked third in the country for her age and level.

Dressage is the discipline that attracted Victoria. Last year, she purchased her beautiful, seven-yearold Oldenburg mare, Waverley, who has been expertly trained. Together they are working on advanced dressage movements. “This is probably the most challenging thing I have ever undertaken, even after earning my black belt in karate when I was 40,” said Victoria. At the rate she is heading, it won’t be her last!

Victoria has served on the Duchesne Board of Trustees for the past four years. She chairs the Head Support and Evaluation Committee, and serves on the Visiting Committee for Goals and Criteria, which evaluates other Sacred Heart Schools in the network. “This has been a marvelous experience for me and has truly deepened my understanding of and appreciation for the value and importance of the goals in the life of every Sacred Heart school and their constituencies,” she said.

When asked what Sacred Heart has meant to her, she responded “pretty much everything! I will be eternally grateful to the Religious for their inspiration, their teaching and their example of virtue. They continue to inspire me. I’m grateful for the education that I received under their care; so grateful, that I wanted my daughter to experience the same education as I did. I continue to value my association with Sacred Heart and am grateful and humbled that I can serve and help the Religious and their schools in any capacity asked of me.”

Vickie is a charter member of the Aloysia Hardey, rscj Society. For information on the Society, contact Judith Becker at (203) 532-3550 or beckerj@cshgreenwich.org.

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1963, then from Manhattanville College, marrying, raising three sons, co-managing a successful antiques business, volunteering and fund raising for nonprofits in Nashville, Tennessee, she had an urge to write. For 10 years, says Sigourney, “I wrote everything I could, from short stories to personal essays.”

Then, in 2005, she was diagnosed with blood cancer. Her cyberspace community began with an e-mail she sent to 18 friends in Nashville telling them of her disease. Her friends wrote back, and gradually her community grew to where it now numbers approximately 500 throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Sigourney has found hope and healing in her cyberspace community.

“Patient Siggy,” Sigourney’s first book, is an account of how she faced the challenges of cancer with humor, a positive attitude and community. It has been an interesting journey.

After launching her book in February, she set off on a national tour to promote her book in California, New York and Greenwich, where she signed copies at the annual Parents’ Association book fair in April.

The book is a personal reflection on her life and spiritual journey. “It is my hope that it will teach others about the power of communal prayer, the power of choosing a positive path to fight through serious illness, the power of sharing the struggle through writing, and the life-saving power of community during crisis,” she said. For information on her book, visit www.patientsiggy.com.

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By Kathleen S. Failla

A warm spring day was the setting for Reunion 2008 on April 19 honoring all classes ending in 3 and 8. It was a special day for the Class of 1958 and 1983, as they celebrated their 50th and 25th reunions. Daffodils planted by members of the Class of 1958, bloomed on campus.

An enthusiastic group of alumnae arrived from as far away as California, Florida, Massachusetts and Vermont, eager

to reconnect with their childhood friends. More than 100 alumnae, faculty and former faculty returned to campus

Joan Magnetti, rscj, with 2008 Honorary Alumna, Upper School science teacher Mary Musolino

for the festivities, which included a luncheon, tour, liturgy, cocktail reception, awards ceremony and dinner.

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During the liturgy, celebrated by the Rev. Paul Carrier, S.J., Upper School theology teacher, the alumnae and their families enjoyed the magnificent voices of the Upper School’s Madrigals.

The awards ceremony was held during Mass, with Xanthe Alban-Davies ’92, president of the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association, presenting Elizabeth Hunter, rscj ’43 and Patricia Joyce Figge ’58 the awards for Outstanding Alumna. The Honorary Alumna Award was given to Upper School science teacher Mary Musolino.

Congratulations to the Reunion Committee for gathering so many of their classmates! They included 50th Reunion CoChairs Suzanne Taylor Seitz ’53, Carole Antolini Scherer ’58, Missy Egan Wey ’58; 25th Reunion Chair Jane Riley ’83; and committee members Elizabeth H. White ’67, Natica del Valle Von Althann ’68, Adele O’Grady Botticelli ’68, Cathleen Joyce Egan ’68, Catherine Finnegan Nix ’71, Mary Raho Julian ’78, Victoria Taylor Allen (Manhattanville ’79), Megan Lahey Sibley ’90, Magee Finn King ’93, Kate Lavin ’98, Liz MacKinnon ’98, Jennifer Einersen ’03 and Nicole Seagriff ’03.

Victoria Taylor Allen, Manhattanville ’79, Mary Brady, rscj ’43 and Marion Glennon ’54

Sister Magnetti presents 50th Reunion alumna Mary Anne Diefenbach Sullivan ’58 with a commemorative gift.

Sister Magnetti with Outstanding Alumna recipients, Patricia Joyce Figge ’58 and Betty Hunter, rscj ’43

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The Class of 1958 celebrates their 50th Reunion with blue ribbons for all! Left to right are Mary Dillon Gebhardt, Carolyn Dursi, Patricia Joyce Figge, Patricia Lee Schönander, Carole Antolini Scherer, Lauren Dinger McCauley, Elise Benedict Browne, Angela Durand Dealy, Patricia Glennon Whamond and Suzanne Taylor Seitz 27

Class of 1983 celebrates their 25th Reunion! They include Vicky McGarry Hurley, Cara Bertrand Niles, Maggie Heffernan Trimble, Eileen Igoe Day, Molly McQueeny O’Neil, Kelly Walsh Parkhurst, Sophie Constandaki, Julie Morriss Callaway, Jane Riley, Deidre DeBlasio, and Elizabeth Freeman Masterson.

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At the age of 102, our oldest alumna, Sister Edna Marie Tierney, rscj, died on June 4, 2007, at Kenwood Convent of the Sacred Heart. Born in 1904, Edna was one of three children of John and Edna Tierney, all of whom predeceased her. She graduated from Maplehurst and received her B.A. degree in music from Manhattanville College. In 1926, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart and made her final profession in Rome in 1935. She began her years of teaching at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in 1929, and then served as an administrator at Sacred Heart schools for 37 years. Sister Tierney retired in 1974, but continued to work as a volunteer at the Kenwood Child Development Center. She was a woman of courage, determination and conviction with a great heart and a delightful sense of humor.

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Sister Cora E. McLaughlin, rscj (518) 320-0584 cmclaughlin@rscj.org

Class of 1932

Dr. Louisa Byles Kirchner (301) 572-4348 louisakirchner@comcast.net

Class of 1934

Born in New York City in 1916, Sister Adelaide Hickey, rscj died on June 5, 2007. A woman of many talents, she lived the meaning of “ministry for life” up to two days before her death. Addie graduated from Maplehurst and entered the Society of the Sacred Heart after

high school, making her first vows in 1935 at Kenwood. She was a middle school teacher at many Sacred Heart schools, and later was one of the founders of Nottingham, a former Sacred Heart school in Buffalo, N.Y. In her fifties, Addie entered nursing school and became an R.N., graduating from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1967. Ten years later, she became a geriatric nurse practitioner, serving in New York hospitals. She touched many families with her compassionate care and was named “Nurse of the Year” in 1993.

Class of 1936 Mrs. Ann Fullan Gilkes (610) 645-8806

Class of 1937 Mrs. Alice Doclot Burns (508) 385-2812

Alice Doclot Burns is the new eastern regional director of the AASH.

Class of 1939

Mrs. Ann Jacobsen Brickfield (240) 361-3135

Class of 1940

Mrs. Alice Jane Golden Maloy (516) 625-0819 ajwmaloy@aol.com

Class of 1942

Mrs. Eileen Fitzgerald Brennan (516) 627-6185 brennaneileenbr@aol.com

Class of 1943

Mrs. Nancy Cullen Hackett (914) 967-1831

Class of 1944

Mrs. Kathleen Casey McGrath (561) 234-5685 kcmcgr@aol.com

Class of 1945

Mrs. Florence Lamborn Peters (609) 921-6222

Class of 1946

Mary Martin Koleski writes, “Since retiring I have resumed painting. At last summer’s Marion County Fair, I received first and second place in oil painting, first in pastels, and second in watercolors and acrylics.”

Class of 1947 Mrs. Mary Jani Englert (845) 634-7836

Joan Kirby, rscj traveled to Taiwan to represent the DPI/NGO Executive Committee of the United Nations at World Freedom Day. She serves on Sacred Heart’s Board of Trustees. In November 2007, she moderated the Parents’ Association’s annual fall luncheon, which featured a dialogue between parent Melanie Bloom and Lee Woodruff.

Mrs. Virginia Beach Coudert (203) 869-6437 vcoudert@optonline.net Our prayers go out to Patricia Harrington who died on December 25, 2006. Sister Cathleen O’Neill, a member of the congregation of Maryknoll Sisters, died on January 2, 2007, from cancer. Born in 1930 in Port Chester, she was the daughter of Josephine and Paul O’Neill, and was one of four children, who all predeceased her. She was an eternal student and after graduation from Sacred Heart received her bachelor’s degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and master’s in religion from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind. She entered Maryknoll in 1955. She spent many years teaching in the Philippines. Her passion for mission led her to request study in Rome, then Jerusalem, where she learned Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin.

Class of 1950

Miss Madeleine Price Naylor (212) 864-0989

Class of 1951 Mrs. Sally Richie Scotton (301) 268-0041 srscotton@aol.com

Barbara O’Connor Smith writes, “Living in Savannah, Ga., and loving it. However, I do miss NYC and all it has to offer. I am president of English-Speaking Union’s Savannah branch.

The English-Speaking Union is committed to promoting scholarship and the advancement of knowledge through the effective use of English in an expanding global community.”

Nan Talese, a senior editor with Random House, has published a novel, The Commoner,

by John Burnham Schwartz, about the empress of Japan, who was a commoner before entering the imperial court. In real life, the empress is a graduate of our Sacred Heart school in Japan. Nan will give the commencement address to the Class of 2008 at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich.

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Mrs. Mary Seitz Gallagher (631) 653-5209 Macy Finn Doherty, Barbara Hunter Latu and Mary Seitz Gallagher attended their Sacred Heart reunion on April 21, 2007.

They enjoyed a wonderful afternoon and evening, meeting old friends, touring the School and attending Mass with alumnae.

Macy is living in Manchester, N.H., with one of her sons, Patrick. Her daughter, Brenda, came with her to Reunion. She has 12 grandchildren. Barbara’s sister, Sister Jean Hunter, rscj ´50, also attended the event. Barbara has nine grandchildren, and Mary has 13. Aileen Mannix Schaefer has not been well, but is feeling better and appreciates your continued prayers. She and her husband, Dick, have nine grandchildren and a daughter, who will be married this June. Jeanne McNamara Eckrich and her husband, Herm, moved from Darien to New Canaan. Sissy Lamm Haskell built a house on Hilton Head, N.C. She has 16 grandchildren, including new twins.

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Mrs. Henriette Della Chiesa de Bellegarde (615) 627-5804 HenriF96@aol.com Henriette Della Chiesa de Bellegarde continues to enjoy her work as a botanical artist. Most recently, she completed a beautiful watercolor, entitled “Narcissus”©, that she donated to the School and that was auctioned at Reunion 2008. The proceeds were shared by the School and the Society of the Sacred Heart’s retirement fund. We extend sympathies to Denny Hattler on the passing of her brother, Albert Gregory McCarthy III.

Class of 1954 Ms. Susan Herold (212) 988-1114

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Mrs. Joanne O’Connor Hynek (978) 453-7614 hynekpartners@mindspring.com Mrs. Sheilah Lane Malafronte (631) 324-9391 johnymal@aol.com Meg Dealy Ackerman and her husband, Bob, of Boston, welcomed the birth of Ashley and Sean’s second child in December 2007, bringing their total of grandchildren to seven. Marybeth McAnaney Barth and her husband, Dick, are enjoying life with 13 grandchildren with number 14 on the way. In summer 2007, they traveled to Scandinavia.

During Christmas 2007, Marybeth celebrated her BIG birthday with Dick and 25 children and grandchildren in Jamaica. Penny Fishel Carr and her husband, Mike, live in Rye, N.Y. Penny’s sons, Mark, Jay and Doug, and their families continue to thrive in Moscow, Russia, Louisville, Ky., and Rye. Penny and Mike have seven children and 18 grandchildren.

Christmas 2006 was celebrated in the French Alps with 20 family members. The Carrs golfed in Ireland during the summer of 2007. Penny is still involved in real estate.

Sue Sughrue Carrington and her husband, Bill, live in Forest Hills, N.Y. Sue retired from New York Life Insurance Co. in spring 2007 and in the fall returned to teaching business ethics at St. John’s University. The Carringtons look forward to the wedding of their son, Michael, in June, 2008. Sue plays tennis and looks forward to “expanding her horizons” in retirement. Cynthia Crump Crimmins sold her house in Darien, Conn. She e-mails: “I will keep in touch after all this busy work is finished! What a huge job!” Judith Ollinger Depontes is surrounded by three of her five sons and their families in Jacksonville, Fla., including 15 of her 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Caring for three young grandchildren, sewing and crafting keep her busy. She recently underwent shoulder replacement surgery. Aggie Schmidt Dowd and John live near their sons Chris, John and Matt in Franklin, Va. Patrick is teaching in Los Angeles, Ca. The Dowds are very involved in

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the coordination of the Religious Education Program for their parish. Deirdre Cassedy Hitch and her husband, Spence, moved to Sarasota, Fla., last summer and love it because it is an interesting place with cultural activities and easy accessibility. Thanks to their daughter and son-in-law, the Hitches cruised in Australia this past winter. Joanne O’Connor Hynek and her husband, Dan, are busy volunteering in Falmouth and Lowell, Mass. Their daughters’ families, which include four grandchildren, live in Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Canada. Marianne Eidenbach Kenny and her husband, John, are busy with travel from their home in Santa Fe, N.M. to see their children, Kelly, Megan and Sean, who live in Fairbanks, Alaska, Boston, Mass., and Albuquerque, N.M. The Kennys have three grandsons. Marianne and her sisters, Martha ´54 and Liz ´58, celebrated their birthdays in September 2007, in Santa Fe and Taos, N.M. Marianne enjoys swimming a mile every day, volunteering with the developmentally disabled, and serving as a docent at a local art museum.

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Mrs. Markey Pullen Burke (508) 358-7607 markey.burke@comcast.net

Members of the Class of 1959, front row, from left: Patty Connelly McAllister, Maureen Kelly Winter, Dan Almiral, Cynthia Bush Logan; standing, from left: Susie Keane Igoe, Kathie Wall Healy, Dolores Cox Agnew and DeDe Mannix Burke

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Mrs. Suzanne Assheton Van Vechten (203) 762-0677 savv@optonline.net Congratulations to Lynn Callagy who received the Outstanding Alumna Award at Reunion 2007. Lynn joined many from her class for a festive day of fun and friendship at their 50th reunion.

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Mrs. Carole Antolini Scherer (516) 365-7325

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Georgia Jane Whamond, newest granddaughter to Cookie Whamond ’58

Joanna Bertsch Yaukey writes, “John and I moved last summer to Palm Desert, Ca., after living for six years in Prescott, Ariz. We had spent time in Palm Desert during the last few winters and came to enjoy it and all the ’green and flowers.’

We see Kathy and Pat Power a lot as well as many old friends from high school, college and Chicago where we lived for 25 years. So many people come to stay or visit during the winter. Since we are ’full time,’ we will go away in the summer to Idaho where we have our oldest and youngest of our three daughters and two grandchildren, 8 and 6 years old. Our middle daughter lives in Eagle, Colo., with her husband and child, one of our three grandchildren.” Congratulations to Cookie

Glennon Whamond on the arrival of her eighth grandchild, Georgia Jane, born to Ashley and Tobin Whamond on December 20, 2006. Reunion chairs Carole Antolini Scherer, Sue Taylor Seitz and Missy Egan Wey were actively involved in creating the great turnout among the Class of 1958 for Reunion 2008. Arrangements were made by Lauren Dinger McCauley, Mary Anne Diefenbach Sullivan and Cookie Whamond for a Class of 1958 gathering the night before Reunion at the Larchmont Yacht Club. Thanks to Sue for another fabulous, clever invitation and for planting the daffodils for Reunion.

Class of 1959 Mrs. Dolores Cox Agnew (203) 322-3316 readca47@netzero.net

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Mrs. Katharine Donahue Whamond (914) 967-7693 bamakaran@aol.com

Class of 1961 Ms. Pamela Raymond (631) 244-6060 rskeywest@yahoo.com

Diane Rice Davis hosted Marie Harris and Pam Raymond in Longboat Key, Fla.

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Mrs. Pamela Wall Madden (212) 734-1828 Pamela.m.madden@pfizer.com April 21, 2007, was our 45th reunion and Sheila Hickey Cameron hosted a luncheon at her home before the events at School.

Thirteen classmates attended and a fantastic time was had by all! Peg O’Connor Finucane traveled from Boulder, Colo., and stayed with Anne Haigney Roome. Jean Raymond Blaser came from Massachusetts and Jackie Paterno Kirby traveled from Avon, Conn. Beth Coakley Dolce brought Sandra Steinthal Powell, who came from Sonoma, Calif., to her first official reunion, even though she has seen many of her classmates at other gatherings over the years. Karen D’Elia Alofs, Cis Keller Sperling and Marita O’Hare were also there. It was wonderful to see Carolina Santos Camps, who attended for the first time in 45 years. Sheila Hickey Cameron is an inspiration, graduating from Purchase College in May 2007. After educating her daughters, it was her turn to complete her studies. She lives in Pelham with her husband, Joel, and they have many grandchildren. She also continues to sail, even competing in the Bermuda races this year. She works as director of development for Greenwich Hospital.

Peg O’Connor Finucane is still working for the Colorado Assessment Department.

While back East for Reunion, Peg visited her son, daughter and two grandchildren.

Anne Roome has been managing her travel business and enjoying some painting and silk flower arranging. She was not feeling well

Helen Condon Powell and Kathleen McAnaney Glaser ’61

Class of 1962 gathering at the home of Sheila Hickey Cameron. Back row: Jean Raymond Blaser, Beth Coakley Dolce, Cis Keller Sperling, Elizabeth King, Sandra Steinthal Powell, Karen D’Elia Alofs, Pamela Wall Madden, Marita O’Hare, Carolina Santos Camps. Seated: Jackie Paterno Kirby, Chris Donovan, Sheila Hickey Cameron, Peg O’Connor Finucane. and was very disappointed to miss Reunion Day. Chris Donovan is an entrepreneur, tending to the trees on the UES and involved in her city government. She recently toured Turkey. Elizabeth King is taking some time off and looking at her job opportunities. She has such a diverse background in fashion, real estate and banking. We wish her much luck wherever she lands. Jean Blaser has retired after a career as a master records keeper/archivist and is moving to New Jersey. Jackie Kirby works at a children’s clinic in Connecticut. She and her husband, Frank, have retired from boating and taken up golf. Sandra Powell and her husband, Bob, are moving from California to take up residence on the East Coast in New York and Florida. Beth Dolce is actively managing real estate and busy volunteering at St. Vincent’s Medical Center and at a Bronx soup kitchen.

Karen Alofs works at a surgical doctor’s clinic, keeping everything running smoothly.

Both her son and daughter are married and she and her husband still play lots of paddle tennis and golf. Cis Sperling teaches parttime at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a master gardener and an avid reader. Marita O’Hare is the executive director of development at Greenwich Hospital. Her son, Patrick, is a junior at Union College, and she spends free time in upstate N.Y. and in Ireland. She is on

the board of the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation in London. Carolina Camps retired from Pfizer where she worked in sales.

Her daughter, Nini, is a singer is in New York City, living in Brooklyn in the same building as Pamela Madden’s daughter, Maura, an author. Pamela Madden’s son, Andrew, graduated from college in May 2008. Pam works at Pfizer and her long interest in crafts led her to donate a smocked dress to the Sacred Heart’s auction in May 2007.

World travelers in the class include Anne Harris Majic, who visited China recently, and Pat Meyer, who vacationed in Costa Rica. Pat returned to Sacred Heart last fall to participate in the Upper School’s Career Day, where she spoke about her experience as a veterinarian. Kathy Shea Anfuso was in New York for the Mets’ opening day and to celebrate her 40th wedding anniversary. She has eight grandchildren and volunteers at a rescue mission for women.

Class of 1963

Mrs. Virginia Cooke Arvay (904) 940-5120 varvay1@aol.com Martha McQueeny Hosp’s son, Dave, published his third novel, Innocence, in July 2007.

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Class Notes Class of 1964 Mrs. Ursula Moore Smith (508) 583-2449 ursie@comcast.net

Jane Elizabeth Carroll passed away on April 7, 2007. Her husband, Donald Richard Trojan, passed away one week later, after a long illness. Jane had one daughter, Kate Carroll, of San Francisco. Jane, a criminal appeals lawyer, is best remembered for her wit, her wonderful family and her clear, unsentimental intellect. We continue to keep her and all of our deceased classmates in our prayers. Ursula Moore Smith retired from Harvard University in October 2006.

Class of 1965

Mrs. Stephanie Beaudouin Piper (865) 588-3251 stephanie@vmcinc.org

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Patty Powers Woodlock writes: “We are all well. My daughter, Pam, was married four years ago, finished law school and is killing herself as a young lawyer at Wilmer Hale in Boston. No time for grandchildren yet, as her husband, Erik, is in school getting a master’s in structural engineering. My son, Ben, has moved to Hollywood where he hopes to get in the entertainment business behind the camera rather than in front. Doug and I are approaching senility with grace. We bought a pied-á-terre in Boston and Doug loves not having to commute. I go in and out with my dogs and am starting to feel like a city girl. It makes it easy to meet people in Boston when they are in the area.” Had a wonderful, newsfilled e-mail from Kate Graham Graham, recently moved to Florida, after living in Stockholm, Sweden. Husband, Stuart, is CEO of SKANSKA, a Swedish construction and real-estate company. Kate wrote: “I joined the American Women’s Club, among other organizations, in an effort to make friends and fill my days with interesting activities. I have enjoyed all the stimulation of these clubs, and meeting other expats has been one of the most enriching aspects of our life here. Our three children

Class of ’69, left to right: Gloria del Valle Christopher, Rylee Routh, Morgan Barry Morton, Joan McAnaney Fay, Barbara Banks Schwam, Suzie Cole Johnson, Barbie Teichgraber, Marie Gerli and Dee O’Grady. The photographer was Joannie Wooters. are: Cameron, a corporate lawyer in Boston working for Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar (Doug Woodlock’s first employer!); Stuart III, married and living in Hoboken, N.J., where he works as a superintendent for SKANSKA; and Devon, who works for Disney and is engaged to an Irishman from County Cork.” Michelle Rees Finn: “My son, Will, is a freshman at the University of Scranton and my daughter, Kate, is living in Nashville with her husband, Chip, and daughter, Alison. I enjoy spending time in Vero Beach, Pinehurst and, of course, Bronxville.” Anne Margaret Buell Baum is an interior designer and lives in Bedford, N.Y., with her husband, Dennis. They have two sons, Kevin, who is in marketing in NYC and Terry, who works in finance in London.

Anne Margaret writes: “In October, Liz Betts Leckie and I took a girl road trip from Venice, where Liz lives with artist husband, Geoff, to the Dolomite Mountains that separate Italy and Austria, where we hiked, shopped, visited churches and had a great time!” Liz and Geoff travel for painting and pleasure.

She would love to hear from anyone who is contemplating a trip to Venice. They spent the fall in New Jersey, where Geoff’s work was on exhibit in a gallery. Susie Craig Conroy and her husband, Dan, are the adoring grandparents of Caitlin, Matthew and Lilly.

With the grandkids in Newton, Mass., and Pittsburgh, Pa., the Conroys spend a lot of time traveling. They live in Miami, where Susie has a graphic design business and Dan is a consultant. Susie and her extended family celebrated her 60th birthday last fall at Skytop in the Poconos. Jane Frances Beattie retired from sales with Business Week and is enjoying visits to the mountains of Ketchum, Idaho, in the summer and winters in Delray Beach, Fla. She works as a tour manager for Mediterranean cruises. She writes: “I still own a little farmhouse in Old Greenwich and would love to rekindle some friendships

from School… It’s been a while since I last ’lost my notes!’” As for class representative Rita Houlihan, She writes,“I retired from IBM after 32 years. My new work is all volunteer and includes serving on the board of Future Church and on Boston College’s Alumni Career Services Committee.” Stephanie Piper says that she and her husband are still in Knoxville, Tenn., where she is director of development for the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Their oldest son, Nick, and wife, Wendy, are at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., where Nick is director of production. Their other sons include Ben, who works for a research company in Boston, and Stephen, who works for IBM and lives in Warren, R.I., with his wife.

Class of 1967

Mrs. Mary Francina Golden (212) 410-3805 maryfgolden@aol.com Teedee Donahue Keister lives in Colorado, where she stayed after graduation from the University of Colorado. For the past 20 years, she has been passionate about helping families who have young children with special needs. She is executive director of a therapeutic outreach program for children.

She is married and has three adult children.

Class of 1968

Mrs. Cathleen Joyce Egan (914) 967-0642 cashie@optonline.net Patricia Neale Van Clief writes, “Our first grandchild, Daniel Graham Van Clief, was born to our son, Danny, and his wife, Anna, in Sydney, Australia, on March 17, 2007.”

Mrs. Barbara Banks Schwam (212) 260-1832 Bbsjulane@aol.com The Class of 1969 spent October 12–14, 2007, in Nantucket, courtesy of Morgan Barry Morton and Dee O’Grady. Dee’s sister, Adele ’68, was also there. Class representative Barbara Banks Schwam says: “Connecting with these women was priceless!” Those who attended included Gloria del Valle Christopher, Rylee Routh, Morgan Barry Morton, Joan McAnaney Fay, Suzie Cole Johnson, Barbie Teichgraber, Marie Gerli, Dee O’Grady and Barbara Schwam.

Class of 1970

Mrs. Nora Finnegan Dolce (914) 967-5543 NoraD145@msn.com Mrs. Lisa Gowdey Dotson (931) 503-2259 lisadotson@live.com Mrs. Joyce Gorman (703) 360-8454 joyce.gorman@cwt.com

Class of 1971

Mrs. Catherine Finnegan Nix (914) 939-7330 cnix@ryeprinting.com

Class of 1972

Mrs. Patricia Steller Grace (609) 924-4452 theirgrace@msn.com Mary Ann Bankowski Tock and her husband, Jeffery, enjoyed a memorable Alaskan cruise in August. The saw whales, seals, porpoise, bears, spawning salmon and a few bald eagles and took a culinary class, specializing in the preparation of fresh salmon. They toured the Hubbard and

Mendenhall glaciers, experienced “blue ice,” and visited a musher’s camp, where dogs are bred for the Iditarod. An equestrian, Mary Ann enjoys riding and showing her horse, Diamond Ice.

Class of 1973

Julie Dolan Smith is one of the sisters on the ABC syndicated radio show, Five Sisters.

Julie has worked in college admissions in California, and now resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband, Arthur. Debra Busby Kunces writes,“My three children were all in college in fall 2007. Robbie plays football for St. Lawrence University. Erin is a sophomore at the University of Arizona, and Kim attends the University of New Hampshire.”

Class of 1974

Mrs. Eileen Steller Holtvedt (650) 327-1076

Class of 1975

Mrs. Kerry Murphy Maloney (203) 327-1996 kmm2@optonline.net

Class of 1976

Mrs. Kathryn Grainger Hobbins (914) 967-5813 khobbins@optonline.net Ms. Lisa Roman Johnston (203) 563-0852 LisaMRoman@aol.com

Class of 1979 Ms. Carolyn Clark-Tenney (914) 234-2273 caroleenaom@aol.com

Class of 1980 Ms. Sara A. Walsh (203) 854-4948 sarwalsh@optonline.net

Class of 1981 Mrs. Sharon Heller (973) 248-1299 sheller@panynj.gov

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Class of 1982

Mrs. Nora Cassidy Holmes (914) 921-2881 norasheeran@aol.com Hope Houston Hirshorn, a member of the alumnae board, represented her class at their 25th reunion on April 21, 2007.

She participated in the procession for the special liturgy that opened the festivities

Class of 1977

Mrs. Toni Palazzo Maloney (914) 967-2448 palazzosister@aol.com

Class of 1978 Mrs. Mary Raho Julian (914) 921-2547 julianstm@aol.com

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Class of 1969

Hope Houston Hirshorn ’82 gave birth to her sixth child, Brendan Liam Hirshorn.

Class Notes for alumnae. Hope’s three girls, Grace, Sarah and Emily, attend Sacred Heart, Greenwich.

She gave birth to her sixth child and third son, Brendan Liam Hirshorn. Cricket Telesco Burns writes that her children, Manzi, 10, and India, 8, enjoy attending school at Sacred Heart 91st Street. She enjoys life in Manhattan, but visits Greenwich often to see family and friends.

Class of 1983

Mrs. Julienne M. Callaway (203) 972-1819 julienne_fries@hotmail.com Mrs. Margaret H. Trimble (914) 937-8171 Magtrimble776@hotmail.com Kelly Walsh Parkhurst and her husband live in Darien, Conn., with their two sons.

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Class of 1984 Ms. Jill Payne (203) 618-0345 jillianpayne@yahoo.com

Class of 1985

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Ms. Megan Cassidy Foley (203) 259-7631 megan.foley@saccapital.com

and Rose 1. Ellen Keiter is the curator of contemporary art at the Katonah Museum and lives in nearby Goldens Bridge with her husband, Jordan Kern, and their two children, Malina, 7, and Eli, 1. Alyssa Keleshian Bonomo moved back to Greenwich with her family and changed jobs. She left publishing to join her father in commercial real estate. She enjoys spending more time with her two-year-old, Harry. Her new e-mail is Alyssa@kinvestmentsinc.com.

Class of 1987

Ms. Elizabeth Anne Hawthorn (914) 384-4409 Lizzylizzyny123@yahoo.com Reunion 2007 brought Bevin Deiters back from San Francisco to enjoy a festive day with other alumnae. Bevin has started her own company, Vizcaya Design, which helps Bay Area homeowners prepare their homes for sale with staging, design and other services.

Lynn Orvieto Petukhova completed a master’s degree in biostatistics at Columbia University and in September she began a Ph.D. program in epidemiology. She is married and has two children, Kira, in fourth grade at 91st Street, and a son, Aleksander, in first grade at St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. Elizabeth Curran Stockton lives in Summit, N.J., with her husband of 10 years, Rick, and her three children, Curran, 6, Trip, 5, and Libby, 2.

Class of 1988

Mrs. Kristina Sekor Hooper (203) 461-9640 kristina.hooper@allianzinvestors.com Kate Ziminsky Field and her husband, Paul, announced the birth their daughter, Evelyn, on December 2. Maureen Coudert is working with the Diocese of Bridgeport and led the way to Quebec City, Canada, June 14– 23, 2008, on tour buses headed for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress. Fr. Peter Towsley of St. Ann’s Church in Bridgeport led the delegation. Accommodations were made at two resorts, which hosted many activities for the youth which accompanied their parents so that the adults could attend the daily Congress activities that featured many keynote speakers. Additionally, the diocese hosted catechetical exercises for the youth with the adults in the evenings as well as excursions to various places of interest in the afternoon for the youth and adults to attend.“This is truly a life-changing experience that will help us all draw closer to Jesus and the Eucharist. It will foster our spiritual growth and inspire our youth as well. I would love to see the Sacred Heart families come together with our children on this journey to grow deeper in our faith.” For more information, please contact Maureen Coudert at mcoudert@sbcglobal.net or phone the Office for Pastoral Services at (203) 416-1440.

Ms. Kathleen Flynn (703) 893-0289 Patreece Williams-Creegan ’84 with husband, Patrick, and son, Paul

Class of 1986

Mrs. Alyssa Keleshian Bonomo (917) 847-6282 Alyssa@kinvestmentsinc.com Ms. Nicole Peluso (323) 595-4006 NicolePeluso@aol.com Elain Schratwieser Currie and her husband, Rodger, live in Bethesda, Md., with their children, Kate, 11, Christopher, 9, Ryan, 4

Class of 1990 The Graymoor Award from the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement Dinner (left to right) Sister Rosemary Sheehan, Kris Hooper ’88, Ginny Coudert ’48, Sister Joan Magnetti, Lucy Coudert Conrod ’89 and Maureen Balint Coudert ’88

Class of 1989

Mrs. Lucy Coudert Conrod (203) 869-3688 lconrod@optonline.net Ms. Angela Beatrice Dinger (212) 734-7440 angela_dinger@yahoo.com

Pam Thomas Alexander gave birth to a baby girl, Laura Jane Alexander, known as Janie, on October 27, 2006. Big brother, Sam, 4, is thrilled to have a sister. Pam works for Wilmington Trust Investment Management as a portfolio manager. She and her husband, Peter, will celebrate their 10th anniversary in May. Lucy Coudert Conrod gave birth to a baby girl, Katherine Lucy Conrod, on September 13, 2007. She joins brothers Fritz and George and sister Caroline. Lucy enjoys serving on the alumnae board and staying connected to the School. Meg Lynch Doyle enjoys life in Texas with her family. She runs a photography business, Meg Doyle Photography, specializing in portraits. Lisa Burke Fallon gave birth to a baby girl, Daphne Fallon, on July 30, 2007. Daphne joins sister Charlotte, 3, and brother Billy, 2. Kate Burlinson Rosenquist lives in Santa Monica and gave birth to a daughter, Ruby Miller, on October 30, 2007. Angela Dinger and generations of Dinger women who graduated from Sacred Heart schools were celebrated at the 2007 Trustees’ Dinner in October 2007. In addition to the many alumnae who attended the event,

she was delighted to spend the evening with her classmates, Deana McGlasson McCabe, Kathleen Plunkett O’Connor, Lisa Burke Fallon, Donna Simonelli Johnson and Marisa May Magliulo-Bocognano. Marisa, together with two other stars of the Sacred Heart stage, Leeann Leahy Mitchell ’88 and Katherine Shafer Coleman ’92, treated the dinner audience to a wonderful performance of songs that they had sung in musicals during their years at Sacred Heart. In February 2008, Angela hosted the NYC Sacred Heart alumnae reception. P. Louise Halloran was married in March 2006 to Michael Michelsen, a firefighter in Wilton, Conn. They live in New Canaan. Cara Sullivan Morrison and her husband, Aric, returned to New York, where Cara has started two consulting companies with Aric and her sister, Deidre Sullivan ´79. Tina Lennon Rohm

Mrs. Megan Lahey Sibley (914) 937-7788 megsibley@yahoo.com

Class of 1991

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was married on September 8, 2006, to Michael Rohm and they live in Annapolis, Md. Tina and Michael had a baby boy, Michael Lennon Rohm on September 6, 2007. Ciaran Browne is living and working in Maryland where she has a nephrology practice.

Mrs. Molly Donius Boscarino (202) 966-2125 mollyboscarino@msn.com Mrs. Shannon Fitzgerald Nelson (011- 41) 21-799-1474 cschnelson@mac.com Heather Flanagan Brennan and her husband, Paul, welcomed their third child, Jane Erhardt Brennan. She joins her big brother, Ryan, and sister, Annabel, in Katonah, N.Y. Melinda Cuniffe Carroll is looking forward to her family moving from New York City to Greenwich. She and her husband, Brian, are the parents of Eliza, 3, and Sadie, 1. Mary Liz Scotti Toulouse and her husband, Brendan, welcomed the arrival of their twin babies, Anne Elizabeth and

The Alexander Family, Peter, Laura Jane, Sam and Pam ’89

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The children of Lucy Coudert Conrod ’89 with new baby sister, Katherine.

Connor Robert, on October 2, 2007. The Toulouse family lives in Harrison. On May 2, 2007, Maggy Mitchell Sullivan and her husband, Dan, and daughters, Maeve and Molly Kate, welcomed baby Eoin Martin Sullivan. The Sullivans live in Bethesda, Md. Molly Donius Boscarino and her husband, Marty, relocated with their son, John, 3, last July to Pittsburgh. Lisa Tripodi Drew and her husband, Phil, purchased a home in Canton, Conn., in October 2007.They celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in September. Lisa is a technical recruiter for Corporate IT. 36

Class of 1992

Mrs. Katherine Shafer Coleman (202) 253-0667 ksc96@alumni.princeton.edu

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Mrs. Christine Murtha Coogan (646) 221-4566 Christine.Coogan@morganstanley.com Several members of the Class of 1992 enjoyed a fantastic fifteenth year reunion and appreciated all of the hard work by alumnae board president and classmate Xanthe Meg Lynch Doyle ’89 and husband Tommy’s children, Murphy (11/4/05), Hattie (6/29/01) and Seamus (12/10/02)

Alban-Davies. Pamela Esposito Stein and her husband, Erik, welcomed their daughter, Juliet, into the world on March 13, 2007. They live in West Hartford, Conn., where they enjoy being close to family and friends. They plan an anniversary trip this year to Vietnam and Thailand. Nathalie Abejero and her husband, Keith, are based in Cambodia. Nathalie is a public health advisor for the German Technical Cooperation to the Ministry of Health.Nathalie and Keith are enjoying Southeast Asia and touring the region. Catherine Farrell Kaplan gave birth to her second son, Hugh, on April 2, 2007, just a day before son Peter’s second birthday. The Kaplans live in Manhattan.

Catherine, who has a master’s in counseling, is studying at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. Jen Cuomo Taglia moved to Phoenix with her family and attended Reunion 2007.

She received the prize for traveling the furthest distance in her class. Kristen Schmeiser Panicella and her husband, Matt, celebrated their first wedding anniversary. They live and work in Washington, D.C. Christine Murtha Coogan and her husband, Matt, ushered in Mother’s Day 2007 with the birth of their daughter, Molly Anna, on May 13. They live in Brooklyn,and Christine is an attorney in the U.S. Litigation Group at Morgan Stanley. Katherine Shafer Coleman lives with her husband, John, and daughter, Georgiana Elizabeth, in Washington, D.C. Georgie was born on May 16, 2007. Katherine works for The Manoff Group, a communications firm specializing in public health issues in developing countries.

Heidi Sokol Carmain is busy with work and family life. Her daughter, Abby, was three years old in January. Siobhan Hammer Dolce gave birth to her second son, George Ash, on May 29, 2007. She and her family moved to a new home in Rye Brook, N.Y. last September.

Siobhan is a board member of Part of the Solution, a soup kitchen and community outreach center in the Bronx. Stephanie Russo DiLeo and her husband, Mario, had a baby boy, Luke Richard DiLeo, on January 4, 2008. Geraldine Zikely returned to campus last fall to participate in the Upper School Career Panel, speaking about her work in structural engineering. Xanthe Alban-Davies lives in Greenwich Village with husband, Will, and daughters, Bettina and Chloe. Xanthe

Georgie Coleman, daughter of Katherine Shafer Coleman ´92

lectures at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art and somehow finds time to serve as president of Sacred Heart’s alumnae board!

Class of 1993 Mrs. Margaret Finn King (914) 631-1524 Magee.king@gmail.com

Class of 1994 Ms. Mirsada Pasalic (617) 970-2176 mapasalic@aol.com

Mrs. Aimee Lynch Tusa (212) 348-0854 amlynch@hotmail.com Kirsten Caffrey Kellogg, husband Stephen and big sister Sophia welcomed their second daughter, Adeline Ingrid Kellogg, on August 21, 2007. Dana Scinto Colangelo had her second daughter, Francesca Rose, on July 18, 2007. Dana writes,“Life is sweet … I have two healthy children: Bria and Francesca and I’m a busy Mom. I get to see Kirsten Kellogg every now and then with her two girls.”

Class of 1995

Ms. Dina Cortese Urso (203) 661-0278 dinacortese@hotmail.com

Class of 1996 Ms. Rebekah Goodhue (646) 209-4822 rcgoodhue@tmail.com

Ms. Erin Theresa Tiernan (914) 523-8940 erin.tiernan@thomson.com Alison Carey Ryan gave birth to a boy, William Martin, on December 31, 2006.

Suzanne Donleavy married Matthew McDonough on October 20, 2007. The wedding was held at Boston College with a reception at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Suzanne and Matthew met at BC Law School and live in Marshfield, Mass.

Courtney Dunleavy ’99, the bride’s sister, was the maid of honor. Alexis Maffei and Erin Tiernan were bridesmaids. Rebekah Goodhue was also in attendance.

Class of 1997

Ms. Samantha Lynn Geary (212) 628-5034 samigeary@hotmail.com

Class of 1998

Ms. Katherine Elizabeth Lavin (914) 738-1342 katherine.lavin@gmail.com Ms. Elizabeth MacKinnon (617) 835-8803 ecmackinnon@yahoo.com

Jen McGurty married Matt Perry on November 10, 2007, in Charleston, S.C. Friends and family celebrated with the bride and groom

Members of the Class of 1996 in the wedding party of Suzanne Dunleavy included Rebekah Goodhue, Alexis Maffei and Erin Tiernan.

at the wedding mass at St. John the Baptist Cathedral and a reception at the historic William Aiken House. Jen and Matt met in New York City while they were both working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The Perrys reside outside Baltimore, Md. Margaret Brennan is a general assignment reporter for CNBC. Her association with Ireland and Irish-American culture dates back to early childhood. The magazine, Irish America, profiled Margaret in a special highlighting the “best and brightest” of young Irish-Americans. She is a regular contributor to CNBC’s prime-time show On the Money and contributes to MSNBC and the Today Show, and anchors CNBC Marketwrap.

Caitlin Fay became engaged to Evan Fink over Labor Day weekend, 2007, in Boston. Evan has been working and studying for a series of tests to become a certified architect, while Caitlin has continued her dedicated work for The Jimmy Fund. Most recently, Caitlin successfully ran the annual Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon that raised $3.74 million for cancer research!

They are planning a fall 2008 wedding.

Class of 1999

Ms. Kathleen Patrice Molloy (203) 536-1461 kmolloy36@hotmail.com

Class of 2000

Ms. Monifa Celeste Brown (914) 654-9676 monifacbrown@aol.com Ms. Michelle S. Perna (917) 836-7167 Miche242004@yahoo.com Livia Angiolillo writes, “In addition to my graduate work at Columbia University and my job in the Dean of Students Office, I have matriculated at Fordham University’s School of Law. It is very nice to return to a Catholic school environment, and I look forward to learning and serving as a member of the Fordham community. “

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Katie Phelan Contino and her husband, Mike, live in New York City with their son, Michael.

Katie works in advertising sales for Reader’s Digest. Katy Grogan lives in NYC and Bronxville, and works at Coach in Manhattan. Katy is considering writing a nonfiction book that will provide insight to new college graduates looking to start careers in the fashion industry.

Ashling Ahern Besgen lives in Ridgefield, Conn., with her husband, Matthew, and their two daughters, Annabelle, 2, and Madeline, 1.

Elyse Mueller Dunbar lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Jamie, daughter, Callie and baby boy, Padraig, born on December 12, 2007. Martha Harper lives in Brooklyn and works at McCann Erickson. Meghan Morris Devine is a nurse in Philadelphia and lives in the suburbs with her husband, Brian, and their son, Jack. Kelly Fitzpatrick lives in Chicago and works in real-estate development. Jessica Enright Polanish and her husband, Lloyd, were married in July 2006 and reside in NYC. Jessica and Lloyd teach at the same public school, where Jessica is in her fifth year as a special education kindergarten teacher.

Kathleen Wilcox Repsher lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Stephen. They were married on October 28, 2006. Kathleen is an editor at First Magazine. Dina Cortese Urso resides in Stamford, Conn.,with her husband, Lindy.

They were married on November 11, 2006.

Dina is a prosecutor in the state’s Attorney’s Office in Stamford.

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Ms. Meg Curley (914) 763-8849 Megan.Curley@gmail.com William Patrick, born to Erin Cooney on September 22, 2007

Class of 2001

Ms. Kate W. Kretschmann (203) 249-4740 kkretschmann@gmail.com

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Diana Dove is living with a fellow Sacred Heart alumna, Sonia Nash, in Brooklyn. Diana has been working at Artisans of Leisure, a luxury tour operator for international travel. Jenai Domingo lives in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and works at Zimmerman Advertising. Natalie Hernandez married James Bell this March in Palm Beach. They met at Cornell University.

In May, Natalie graduated from the George Washington University School of Law. Kate Kretschmann graduated from New York University in May with a master’s degree in social work. She accepted a job at Jacobi Medical Center in the trauma surgery unit and lives in Manhattan. Carli Garcia resides in White Plains, N.Y. and works at Manhattan Auto in human resources. She plans to return to school. Congratulations to Meghan Mara, who was married on June 22, 2007, to Thomas Ryan. They met at Lafayette College and live in Stamford, where Meghan works at The Canaan Ridge School. Meghan graduated from Manhattanville College with a master’s degree in early childhood and childhood education.

Johanna Parent graduated from the University of Vermont in May, 2007 with a degree in geography and equine science. At her horse farm in Upton, Mass., she is training her current show horse, a Grand Prix prospect. Johanna was recently promoted at Dover Saddlery to administrator for online sales. Margaret Shafer lives in Manhattan with two other 2001 graduates, Tuohy Ahern and Cristin McGuinn.

Margaret works at FilmAid International, a nonprofit organization. Kate van Buitenen is enjoying life in Sydney, Australia, where she is a consultant for a recruitment agency. Megan Ziminsky lives in Norwalk and works for Tory Burch. She also performs in the theater.

Ms. Jennifer Grace Raymond (857) 891-7694 jennifer.g.raymond@gmail.com Jennifer Raymond is attending the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in peace and conflict studies. Liz O’Farrell graduated from James Madison University in the spring of 2007 and works at Lone Pine Capital LLC in Greenwich. Cat Sica graduated from Ithaca College in May 2007. She works in New York at DIRECTV in the creative design department and recently became engaged to Caleb McConnell. Her new e-mail address is texacoangel07@aol.com. Lourdes Sanso is in her second year at New York University School of Medicine. During the summer of 2007 she completed an externship in pediatric orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Joint Disease in New York City.

Class of 2003 Ms. Jennifer Einersen (914) 793-7331 jme34@georgetown.edu Ms. Nicole Seagriff (203) 431-9040 seagriff@bc.edu Brennan Joyce was elected captain of the Boston College women’s lacrosse team for the 2007 season. Brennan was a standout here as a three varsity sport athlete of field hockey, basketball and lacrosse.

Class of 2004 Ms. Natalie Cruz (914) 934-0448 18cruz@cua.edu

Jaime Straub, a senior at Kenyon College, won the one-mile swimming competition

at the 2007 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championship in March 2007.

This is her first career individual national title. Jaime notched the victory in the 1,650-yard freestyle, clocking 17:00.08.

Class of 2005 Ms. Katie Gojkovich (203) 259-1954 kgojkovi@sewanee.edu

Ms. Meagan Harrington (914) 764-0418 sluger33@aol.com Ursina Beerli is focusing her work at the University of Pennsylvania on a program that combines international relations and business studies at the Wharton School. As a French major, she has studied in France.

She attended an alumnae reception held in Philadelphia in January 2007. Elizabeth Ferrara participated in a three-month service trip to Mexico as part of her studies at Loyola College (Baltimore). She was one of 20 students selected for the serviceimmersion program, in which they lived and worked with Tijuana and Tecate residents.

“We went on the trip hoping to learn about immigration issues and to help serve the Mexican communities.” She said she left Mexico having accomplished much more.

Danielle Gennaro is on the executive board of the Commuting Students Association, one of three student-run governing bodies at Fordham University’s Rose Hill Campus. She is a certified peer educator and an executive program director for peer education. Danielle acts as a liaison between the students and administration, sitting on multiple student Suzanne Donleavy ’96 married Matthew McDonough. Pictured are Alexis Maffei, Suzanne and Erin Tiernan.

advisory councils. She is a marketing intern with a substance abuse prevention program.

Her major is economics. Katie Gojkovich is dorm head proctor at Sewanee: The University of the South. Katie was inducted into the Order of Gownsmen, an academic order at the university. She is a religion major with a minor in French and education. She lived in Aix-en-Provence, France, last summer.

Katie is honored to be starting on the first all-girls lacrosse team at Sewanee. She is assistant head of community service for her sorority, Theta Pi, and is raising funds to help abused women. Her new e-mail is kgojkovi@ sewanee.edu. Emily Grubert is studying in her seventh quarter at Stanford University.

Emily is majoring in math and biology and hopes to become an environmental engineer. She is a member of a marching band. Emily is working on a Kazakh HIV prevention project and lived in the formerly communist sector of Germany last summer while doing bioremediation work. Kim Kupik is a junior at Adelphi University, where she is majoring in technical and design theater Jen McGurty ’98 and Matt Perry

group was founded by two MIT students, one of which, Anna Jaffe, was a student at the Sacred Heart affiliate in Princeton, N.J. VDS is a student initiative that seeks to design and build a ready-for-production 4passenger high-performance car that gets 200 mpg equivalence with minimal life cycle costs, with large appeal in both developed and developing countries.

Class of 2006 Ms. Elise M. Byrnes (914) 967-3090 byrnem6@wfu.edu

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Kris Hooper ’88 with husband Chris, and children Clark, Madeleine and Ben

with concentrations in stage management, scenic art and sound design. As an intern, she worked in wardrobe for Rent on Broadway for the last two summers. After graduation, Kim plans to work in theater. Emily Mazurak is currently a junior at George Washington University, majoring in human services with a minor in public health. She spent two months last summer in Uganda with a nongovernmental organization focusing on community development and public health.

She visited our Sacred Heart sister school there. She plans to return to New Orleans to work on rebuilding homes. Calista Quintalti, a junior at Gettysburg College, is majoring in political science with a concentration in international relations and comparative politics. Her minor is art history. Last summer, she interned for a United Nations affiliated organization, Media for Humanity, working on grants to stop trafficking in children.

Calista is currently studying art history and political science in Florence, Italy, with Sacred Heart ’05 graduates Liz Ferrara and Ariani Horaitis. Kaitlin Rayner is a journalism major at Loyola College with a minor in theater.

She writes for the Greyhound, the school newspaper, and for the literary magazine.

She has appeared in college theater and in Loyola’s dance troupe. Tierney Tobin, a junior at Bates College, is an interdisciplinary studies major with a focus on cross-cultural child development and education. She studied in Australia for a semester and spent last summer volunteering at an orphanage in Ghana. At Bates, she volunteers as a Big Sister, among other activities. Her family recently moved to London. Kristin Uhmeyer is part of a group called the Vehicle Design Summit (VDS), which is based out of MIT. The

Ms. Erin L. McInerney (203) 329-6595 elm304@nyu.edu Claire Lorentzen, a sophomore at Stanford University, conducts fund raising for programs in Africa. Her involvement with Africa started with her participation in Sacred Heart’s “Kick Aids” project in 2006. While at Sacred Heart, she studied photography with Ms. Kev Filmore.

Stanford awarded Claire a grant for her project proposal to travel to our sister school in Uganda this summer, where she will document Sacred Heart education. Ms. Filmore has invited her to exhibit her photography at the School art gallery next year. Kelly Whipple, a sophomore at Hamilton College,was honored by the Liberty League several times during her freshman year.

She was named Rookie of the Week, and was one of five Hamilton women squash players selected to play on the all-Liberty League team.

Danielle Prescod worked for Nylon magazine in New York City last summer and writes for the student newspaper at Tufts University.

Navy helicopter pilot Katie McGurty ’01, center, with her sisters Jessica ’99 and Jennifer ’98, FBI agents

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Milestones M arriages :

I n M emoriam :

P. Louise Halloran ’89 to Michael Michelsen Jessica Enright ’95 to Lloyd Polanish Kathleen Wilcox ’95 to Stephen Repsher Dina Cortese ’95 to Lindy Urso Suzanne Dunleavy ’96 to Matthew McDonough Jen McGurty ’98 to Matt Perry Nathalie Banker ’00 to Christian Lencsak Meghan Mara ’01 to Thomas Ryan

Sister Edna Marie Tierney, rscj ’24, June 4, 2007 Sister Adelaide Hickey, rscj ’34, June 5, 2007 Emmie Herbermann Roberts ’38, December 6, 2006 Patricia Harrington ’48, December 25, 2006 Sister Cathleen O’Neill ’48, January 2, 2007 Adelaide Tietje ’49, April 15, 2007

B irths :

H O RI Z O N S

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Laura Jane Alexander, born to Pam Thomas Alexander ’89 on October 27, 2006 Evelyn Field, born to Kate Ziminsky Field ’88 on December 2, 2006 William Martin Ryan, born to Alison Carey Ryan ’96 on December 31, 2006 Juliet Sophia Stien, born to Pamela Esposito Stien ’92 on March 13, 2007 Hugh Kaplan, born to Catherine Farrell Kaplan ’92 on April 2, 2007 Eoin Martin Sullivan, born to Maggy Mitchell Sullivan ’91 on May 2, 2007 Molly Anna Coogan, born to Christine Murtha Coogan ’92 on May 13, 2007 Georgiana Elizabeth Coleman, born to Katherine Shafer Coleman ’92 on May 16, 2007 George Ash Dolce, born to Siobhan Hammer Dolce ’92 on May 29, 2007 Francesca Rose Colangelo, born to Dana Scinto Colangelo ’94 on July 18, 2007 Daphne Fallon, born to Lisa Burke Fallon ’89 on July 30, 2007 Benedict Joseph Thornton Hooper, born to Kristina Sekor Hooper ’88 on August 5, 2007 Nicholas Joshua Hahn, born to Alix Manley Hahn ’90 on August 10, 2007 Adeline Ingrid Kellogg, born to Kirsten Caffrey Kellogg ’94 on August 21, 2007 Michael Lennon Rohm, born to Tina Lennon Rohm ’89 on September 6, 2007 Katherine Lucy Conrod, born to Lucy Coudert Conrod ’89 on September 14, 2007 Anne Elizabeth and Connor Robert Toulouse, born to Mary Liz Scotti Toulouse ’91 on October 2, 2007 Ruby Miller Rosenquist, born to Kate Burlinson Rosenquist ’89 on October 30, 2007 Brendan Liam Hirshorn, born to Hope Houston Hirshorn ’82 on November 30, 2007 Padraig Dunbar, born to Elyse Mueller Dunbar on December 12, 2007 Chloe Eloise Alban-Davies, born to Xanthe Alban-Davies ’92 on December 24, 2007 Luke Richard DiLeo, born to Stephanie Russo DiLeo ’92 on January 4, 2008

I n L oving S ympathy : Albert Gregory McCarthy III, brother of Denise Hattler ’53 Catherine Dolan, mother of Kathleen Dolan, rscj ’56 James Thomas Naughton, brother of Marjorie Naughton ’59, father of Meg Naughton Hammer ’88 and Kara Naughton McIntyre ’89 George Nix, father-in-law of Cathy Nix’71, vice president of the alumnae board; grandfather of Molly ’97 and Catherine ’06 J. P. Carey, father of Kathryn Carey Strom ’71 and Barbara Carey Vermylen ’79 Nancy McGovern, mother of Katharine McGovern ’73 C. Peter McColough, father of Virginia McColough Keeshan ’74 Patricia Steller, mother of Eileen Steller Holtvedt ’74 and Patricia Steller Grace ’72 Robert Steller, father of Eileen Steller Holtvedt ’74 and Patricia Steller Grace ’72 Mary Margaret Mahoney Hawkins, mother of Andrea Hawkins Stuart ’75 Carl Vorder Bruegge, father of Angela Vorder Bruegge Hudson ’ 76 William B. Lewis, father of Catherine Whitaker ’77 Kevin O’Brien, former board member and father of Karen O’Brien ’78 Herbert Arthur Kern Jr., father of Susan Kern ’82 Edward McGlasson, father of Deanna McGlasson McCabe ’89 Rosemary Simonelli, mother of Donna Simonelli Johnson ’89 Jean Hogan Hickey, grandmother of Katherine Lavin ’98, Margaret Lavin ’00 and Jane Lavin ’04 Michael O’Gorman, father of Molly O’Gorman ’99 and Meghan O’Gorman ’02

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Convent of the Sacred Heart Board of Trustees 2007–2008

The 2007-08 Board of the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association

Kristina Sekor Hooper ’88, Chair Barbara Rogers, rscj, Vice Chair Ralph S. Giorgio, Vice Chair Donald E. Foley, Treasurer Joan Magnetti, rscj, Secretary

Xanthe J. Alban-Davies ’92, Alumnae President Mollie McNeil Callagy Lenore de Csepel Imma De Stefanis, rscj Anne Dyer, rscj Wilfred A. Finnegan Kevin J. Grehan Kimberly J. Huchro Jeanet H. Irwin Joan C. Kirby, rscj ’43 Kevin A. Knight Terri Evans Knight, Parents’ Assn. President Robert G. Leary Patricia E. Molloy Eugene E. Mulhern Thomas F. Murphy Anthony J. Scala, Jr. Mary Ellen Vouté Sutherland ’85 Paula G. Tennyson Maxine L. White

The 2007–08 board of the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association gathered at Reunion 2008 for a photo. They include, from left to right: Kathleen Williams Dunn ’73, Mandy Dawson Murphy ’85, Catherine Finnegan Nix ’71 (vice president), Vanessa Arredondo ’87, Sister Joan Magnetti, Cynthia Dinger Knoll ’93, Xanthe Alban-Davies ’92 (president), Susan Callagy McCloskey ’84 and Patreece Williams-Creegan ’84. Not pictured are Mary Ellen Vouté Sutherland ’85 (vice president), Kristina Sekor Hooper ’88 (treasurer), Victoria Taylor Allen, Manhattanville ’79 (secretary), Lynn Rhatigan Callagy ’57, Carolyn Clark-Tenney ’79, Lucy Coudert Conrod ’89, Lisa Burke Fallon ’89, Hope Houston Hirshorn ’82 , Magee Finn King ’93 , Barbara Schruth Root ’65, Megan Lahey Sibley ’90, Nicole Russo Steinthal ’88, Laura Treanor ’90, Patricia Davis Verrochi ’79, and Elizabeth H. White ’67.

SAVE THE DATES September 3–Opening of School September 10–Parents’ Association Board meeting, 8:45 a.m.

September 18–Middle School Back to School Parents’ Night, 6:30 p.m.

September 25–Lower School Back to School Parents’ Night, 7 p.m.

October 2–Upper School Back to School Parents’ Night, 7 p.m.

October 18–Pumpkin Party, 1–4 p.m.

November 25–Parents’ Association Fall Luncheon featuring speaker Indra Nooyi, parent, chairman and CEO of Pepsico, Inc.

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