journey to Illinois with her father, Phoebe is hoping to attend a similar writing program in Oregon next summer. Junior Natalia Fronsaglia hopes that one day she will become a journalist and decided to begin pursuing that dream a bit early. Last summer, Natalia got a little closer to achieving that dream at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Journalism Summer Workshop. This program, hosted by Columbia University in New York City, chooses 30 high school students each year to cultivate their writing, editing, or design skills. Natalia, an editor for the front page of SHA’s own Alethea, attended the writing workshops that Columbia offered. Says Natalia, “I’ve been interested in journalism since joining my seventh grade newspaper. I really liked the fact that we were writing about our school. I like to write about things that are going on around me.” Indeed, Natalia co-authored an article in the fall issue of Alethea that advised SHA students on how to prepare for college, a concern on the mind of many seniors right now. This workshop afforded Natalia the opportunity to perfect the skills she had already learned working on Alethea. Says Natalia, “The highlight of my week was winning an award at the end of the course for Best Feature Package Plan.” The talents of Sacred Heart students are boundless. These four students are emblematic of the culture of the Academy. Our students’ determination to realize their goals and dreams truly makes them Excelsior!
An excerpt from Phoebe Costello’s “Memory Flash”
T
he house was alive with Christmas cheer, the air smelled strongly of pine and cinnamon. Children
were singing carols by the piano filling the house with lively Christmas music that was slightly off key. The women were in the kitchen making a feast that would be talked about all year and the men were in the sitting room making a fire and simultaneously talking about the women. Everything was in place, when a loud resounding knock broke through all the sounds in the house, someone was at the door.
Pictured here are our young writers Rachel Wells ’15, Phoebe Costello ’15, Natalia Fronsaglia ’14, and Katie Baum ’13.
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