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Convent of the Sacred Heart 1177 King Street Greenwich, CT 06831 Tel: (203) 531-6500 www.cshgreenwich.org Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 Direc tor of Institutional A d va n c e m e n t Joan M. Petersen Editor Kathleen S. Failla, director of public relations and communications Contributors Vicky Allen, Michael F. Baber, Bianca Chiappelloni ’14, Patreece Williams Creegan ’84, Derek Jackson Photography, Kathleen A. Feeney ’98, Paul Grisanti, Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, Nora Henrie ’13, Highpoint Pictures, Morgan Kennedy ’13, Paula Tennyson Designer Good Design LLC Printing Lebon Press, Inc. Mail letters to the editor: Kathleen S. Failla faillak@cshgreenwich.org Send address changes to: Irene Colford colfordi@cshgreenwich.org

B o a r d o f Tr u s t e e s 2 0 1 2 – 2 0 1 3 Paula Tennyson, Chair Imma De Stefanis, rscj, Vice Chair Donald E. Foley, Treasurer William D. Hirshorn, Assistant Treasurer Joseph N. Walsh III, Secretary Neil A. Augustine Bridget Bearss, rscj James T. Bretzke, S.J. Joseph J. Ciancaglini Dreux Dubin Claiden ’77 Patreece Williams Creegan ’84, Alumnae President Lenore de Csepel Lisa Burke Fallon ’89

Lorena Ferrara Charles A. Fishkin Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, Head of School Kimberly J. Huchro Kevin A. Knight Frances de La Chapelle, rscj Mandy Dawson Murphy ’85 Bernadette Prato, Parents’ Assn. President Joseph A. Tranfo

Mission Statement 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.

On the Cover All-American scholar-athlete Erin Myers ’12 embraces Annie Bingle, a second-grader who presented her with red roses at commencement. Red roses signify love and second graders gave the graduating seniors this symbolic gift as they processed from the mansion building to the front lawn for the ceremony. Erin was co-captain of her varsity soccer team and was named to the 2011 High School Scholar All-America Soccer Team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. In her senior year, she signed a National Letter of Intent to play Division I soccer for Vanderbilt University this fall.

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feaTuReS 4 graduation 2012 12 shaping our future: our strategic Plan by Michael F. Baber 14 Prize days: celebrate student achievements + growth 20 taiwan sister school visits convent of the sacred Heart

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by Kathleen S. Failla

22 a ring day reflection by Margaretta Ryan ’12 24 “eloquentia Perfecta”: instilling leadership through speech & debate by Paul Grisanti 28 ny giants linebacker inspires csH by Kathleen S. Failla

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30 golf & tennis outing supports summer outreach Program

dePaRTMenTS 2 letter from the chair of the board of trustees 3 letter from the Head of school

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32 around campus 36 our faculty + staff 36 supporting our most Precious asset by Michael F. Baber 37 mimi rafferty retires after 28 years as english teacher 38 sports: team csH 2011–12 by Kelly Stone

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44 message from the alumnae President 45 alumnae news 50 class notes 64 milestones

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Letter from the Chair of the Board of Trustees Dear Convent of the Sacred Heart Family, When we bring our daughters to Convent of the Sacred Heart on their first day of school, we have such great hopes for their future. We hope that they will take advantage of all that is offered at this wonderful school. When it is time for them to accept their bouquets from our wide-eyed second-graders on their way to the graduation ceremony, we hope that they are prepared to accept the challenges ahead.

After being with our graduates on June 1, we can all confidently say “yes,” they are more than ready!

The members of the Class of 2012 are intelligent, confident and well-spoken young women who will make Convent of the Sacred Heart proud, and I am sure will make our world a better place. At both the Baccalaureate Mass and graduation ceremony, they told us how important Convent of the Sacred Heart was to them and how profoundly their teachers impacted their time here. With joy, they spoke of their faith and their academic curiosity, two important aspects of their Sacred Heart experience. Most of all, they

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celebrated each other and all that they had done together. They leave on the next leg of their journey confident that they are prepared with core values and academic strength to handle what lies ahead.

We would like to thank our parents who chose Convent of the Sacred Heart for their daughters, hopeful that a women’s education, rooted in the Goals and Criteria of Sacred Heart, would give their daughters an important lifelong gift. A special thank you to our faculty who always challenge our girls to do more and do better. Our students’ heartfelt recognition of their teachers is one of the things that makes Sacred Heart so special.

As the Class of 2012 leaves us, we know they will succeed in whatever they pursue, and, most importantly, they will return home to us and continue to make Convent of the Sacred Heart better and stronger!

Sincerely,

Paula Tennyson Chair, Board of Trustees

Letter from the Head of School Dear Members of the Sacred Heart Community: Our 163rd year has come to its conclusion, and in looking back we can see all the moments which provided us with opportunities to strengthen the mind and deepen the spirit. Certainly, it was a historic year in which we celebrated the purchase of 118.4 acres of land for the School from the Society of the Sacred Heart. What an extraordinary way to ensure the future of this great institution.

Whatever success Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich has had in achieving its educational mission is due, under God, to the cooperation of all who have given their lives to this service.

In exploring the history of Convent of the Sacred Heart you will note that the accomplishments of this institution have always been the result of a communal effort. And how true this observation is today, and how gratifying to see how much, together, this community of individuals over the last 163 years has achieved. Certainly, there is so much of which to be proud, and as another graduating class commences, we can look back as we prepare for the future, on the foundation of all our success.

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat had a vision for the improvement of the worldwide condition through the education of young women who would spread the love of the heart of Jesus. Today, we strive to live the standards the Goals and Criteria

call us to, and by doing so keep these values alive through generations. This is where we begin. This is our founding raison d’être.

Students today want to lead a life that makes a difference. A life characterized by faith, intelligence, passion, creativity, commitment and service. Our young women are being educated to have strong minds and interior spirits that breed wisdom and compassion for life. What they receive here at Convent of the Sacred Heart will give them the ability to face the challenges of life with characteristic courage, confidence and strong voices.

I sincerely believe that we have been called together to create a community that is life giving, and whose influence can reach far beyond our walls.

So I ask God’s continued blessing on all of us at the close of the year, and give thanks for our 163 years of educational leadership at Convent of the Sacred Heart.

With gratitude,

Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 Head of School

Goals and Criteria As a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, the entire School community is dedicated to the following Goals and Criteria: Goal One: A personal and active faith in God Goal Two: A deep respect for intellectual values Goal Three: A social awareness which impels to action Goal Four: The building of community as a Christian value Goal Five: Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.

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Graduation 2012 THE NEXT GREATEST GENERATION Convent of the Sacred Heart graduated 61 students in the Class of 2012 at its 163rd commencement on Friday, June 1, 2012. NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw was our inspiring commencement speaker.

The Reverend James T. Bretzke, S.J., professor of moral theology at Boston College and a member of Convent of the Sacred Heart’s Board of Trustees, celebrated the Baccalaureate Mass at 2 p.m. with Monsignor Louis De Profio as a concelebrant.

Following the liturgy, the 61 seniors, dressed in floor-length white gowns and carrying bouquets of red roses presented by the second-graders, processed from the School’s historic main building to the front lawn, where the graduation ceremony was held. Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 welcomed the graduates, their families and guests.

Sacred Heart’s commencement speaker, Mr. Brokaw, is well acquainted with the School and its mission. His fatherly presence was especially welcome by two graduating

seniors, twin sisters Christine and Nicole Bloom. The choice of Mr. Brokaw for commencement speaker was very fitting for the Blooms. Mr. Brokaw was an NBC colleague of their late father, the broadcast journalist David Bloom, who died in 2003 while covering the war in Iraq for NBC. The girls have known Mr. Brokaw since they were seven. And in his commencement address, Mr. Brokaw made reference to them being in the “extended NBC family.”

The commencement program also included three other outstanding speeches two by our valedictorians, Catherine Colford of Scarsdale, N.Y., who will attend Yale University, and Claudia Khoury of Purchase, N.Y., who will attend Columbia University. The third, the salutatory address, was given by Nicole Narea of Greenwich, who will attend Yale.

What They Said: Excerpts from the Valedictorian and Salutatorian Speeches Catherine Colford: For me, the mentorship of my ninthgrade geometry and physics teachers, Dr. Mederer and Dr. Castle, as well as my tenth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Vasu, truly changed the way I approach learning.

I distinctly remember being a bit hesitant about math and science coming out of eighth grade, but four years later, I have immersed myself in these subjects more than any others. I learned to think in a way I never had before—I learned to question, to assert, to ask “why?” and “so what?”

I finally realized what it really meant to excel in a class, and this was something far beyond any grade I could ever earn. I remember that as I struggled with these classes, I finally realized that it was time to let go, to not overanalyze, and to use everything in my toolbox.

Opposite Page (top row, middle) India Knight, (top row, right) Alexandra Wales; (middle row, left) Krystyna Miles, (middle row, right) Diana White; (bottom row, left) Gregory Ziminsky, brother of Marian Ziminsky ’12, photographing family friends, (bottom row, middle) Tom Brokaw and Melanie Bloom P’12, P’18 Convent of the Sacred Heart 5

The Class of Lucy Claire Adams Lindsey Drew Alpeter Koraima Alzate Margaret Mary Annecchino Caroline Elizabeth Antonacci Colleen Marie Benson Christine Alexandra Bloom Nicole Brydon Bloom Margaret Anne Bugniazet Giulia Elise Campana Fiona Lou Cavise Catherine Elizabeth Colford Madeleine Grace Cron Caroline Shea Cunningham Kerianne Elizabeth Doran Caroline Rebecca Eagan Nicole Suzanne Frances Fischer Sarah Anne Rolen Furth Margaret Ann Gavin Malkia C.M. Gedeon Shamel Guzman

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2012 Colleen Marie Henn Eleanor Rose Judge Claudia Camille Khoury India Asha Knight Samantha Claire Knox Francesca K. Libassi Katharine Rose Mather Christiane Patricia McCabe Anne Frances Stephen McDevitt Ashleigh Michelle McGrath Emily Claire Merritt Krystyna Kathryn Miles Alana Courtney Murphy Alexandra June Murray Erin Patricia Myers Nicole Alessandra Narea Lindsay Campbell O’Callaghan Mollie Elizabeth Pillari Eymie Prieto Rose Lorraine Rinaldi Nicole Elizabeth Rogers

Ana Patricia Roman Alexandra Leondis Root Margaretta Elaine Ryan Brittanie Sanders Jennifer Elizabeth Schwabe Allison Michele Sciarretta Molly Katherine Sea Scudder Acacia Lynn Smash Shannon Mariah Sprague Jeannette Zoraida Sucre Samantha Kate Tarde Allison Connelly Toner Clare Mackenzie Verrochi Stephanie Joan Viola Alexandra Katharine Wales Katherine Carroll Welch Diana Marie White Marian Belle Ziminsky Jessica Aurora ZuĂąiga

Catherine Colford

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Claudia Khoury: Sacred Heart has taught me and my 60 classmates the importance of laughter.

This is most obvious in our ability to work really hard, but to not take ourselves too seriously when we fail. We all put so much effort into everything we do, whether we are in the classroom, on the sports field, in the broadcast studio, or even at Prize Day. So when something goes wrong, when maybe we make a word-blunder in a class presentation or when our voice cracks in a song, we do not get embarrassed, and

start to cry. Sacred Heart has given us the confidence and the humility to be able to laugh at ourselves.

Nicole Narea: As a special correspondent for Greenwich Time newspaper, my natural first reaction to the news that Mr. Brokaw would be our commencement speaker was to approach my editor in the newsroom and ask him if I could report on my own graduation.

“You want to get your diploma and interview Tom Brokaw at the same

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time?” my editor asked. “Nicole, that’s very…unorthodox.”

He was right. But perhaps that is what defines my high school career—a collection of unorthodox experiences.

You won’t remember me, Mr. Brokaw, but I shed my uniform on a school night a few months ago to meet you at a reception with my Hearst newspaper colleagues and Senator Lieberman in Stamford. Doc, you’ll remember that statistics test that didn’t go quite so swimmingly for me the next day. Well, now you know.

“Sacred Heart has given us the confidence and the

humility to be able to laugh at ourselves.”

—claudia khoury Alana Murphy and Jessica Zuñiga

Nicole Fischer

Francesca Libassi and Malkia Gedeon

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Commencement Address “Next Greatest Generation”

by Tom Brokaw It always strikes me as a little odd that on these occasions your elders are invited to help set you off on the right course.

Frankly, we grown-ups have not done a very good job recently. We should be listening to YOU. There are lots of reasons for that.

First, you have come of age when big mistakes were made—in the economy, in how we allowed just one percent of our fellow Americans to bear all the burdens of the two longest wars in our history, how we allowed ourselves to become more divided just when we needed to be more united.

You have been witness to that—and just as you would not automatically take your mother’s advice on what pair of shoes to wear or your father’s advice on what kind

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of music to listen to we do not expect you to repeat the same mistakes.

So, a place to begin. Set your own course. We need your help.

You are already the generation on the cutting edge of the most transformative technology of my lifetime—IT, information technology and all of its applications.

It is profoundly affecting how we communicate, make friends, do research, organize revolutions, share experiences.

You, the young, are teaching your parents and others who are older how to drive. That is a paradigm shift on how humans interact.

You may be wondering as I did when I graduated from high school, “What’s new out there for me? Have all the important events already happened?”

Here’s what’s new: you are.

You have an opportunity to shape an entire century, the 21st century in which the world will be a smaller place because of the ease of travel and communication, but it will also be more crowded because of popular surges.

That brings with it more resentment from the have-nots against the haves.

Earth’s most precious resources—the ecosystems of land, forest, sea and air— will be under constant assault so they will require more vigilant stewardship.

We cannot wall ourselves off from these realities, no matter how high the gates in

our communities or how great the wealth in our families.

But you can find new ways to manage them and you will also bring new thinking and energy to these issues because you represent the leading edge of a historic revolution.

The 21st century will be the century when women finally take their rightful and fully recognized place in society, here and around the world.

The gender revolution is already underway.

The two most important figures in the greatest economic challenge in Europe since the Great Depression are women, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund.

Here at home, half the Ivy League colleges have women as presidents. The governors of Washington, South Carolina, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona—all women. Hillary Clinton is our third female Secretary of State.

The most dynamic CEO in Silicon Valley is Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook.

The epitome of the male business establishment, IBM, now headed by a woman. Xerox—the boss is an AfricanAmerican woman.

The most popular member of President Obama’s administration? Michelle Obama.

The most effective member of Mitt Romney’s campaign, Ann Romney.

Sisters Christine and Nicole Bloom

Brittanie Sanders

More than half the enrollment at America’s medical and law schools—women.

And this is just the beginning.

Not so long ago, when your parents were your age, these profound and welcome changes were at best faint hopes and gauzy dreams.

I know, I know—that was a very long time ago, way before spandex, Facebook, Twitter, Johnny Depp, Angry Birds and the Hunger Games.

When my daughters were your age, which was not so long ago—ambitious, well educated and adventurous—they still had to fight through the glass ceiling in a way your generation should not.

Change comes swiftly, and this change is especially welcome, but it is not a free pass or without consequences.

For all their expanded opportunities, women still have to make the difficult decision about how to balance career and family, or whether to choose one and forfeit the other.

These are difficult decisions, but there are no wrong choices. Every woman is entitled to her own destiny and society owes her—you—no less

than full respect and admiration for the choice you make.

Our married daughters chose to have career and family simultaneously. It’s not always easy but it is never unrewarding.

Gratefully, they’re married to men who understand the common obligation of marital partners to be just that in every sense of the word: partners.

In your relationships with the opposite sex—and boy, can they sometimes be opposite!—that is an essential part of the compact. I am here for you, but you must also be here for me.

I’ve had the good fortune to be successful in my personal and professional life, but I have no illusions. None of that success would have been possible or have meaning without the company and influence of Meredith.

She gives me the best guidance, including what I should say here today.

If you choose to go it alone, as more women do every day, you will find it more rewarding if you have the emotional, as well as physical help of an extended family.

Here’s an important part of being a fully realized woman in today’s society that the

Sisterhood is not just a trendy phrase.

It is an essential part of the definition of a modern woman.

—tom brokaw (left to right) Katherine Welch, Eleanor Judge, Jennifer Schwabe, Upper School Assistant Dean of Students Maura O’Grady, Clare Verrochi, Ana Roman, Molly Scudder

College Matriculations The following is a list of colleges and universities the Class of 2012 will attend. Please note that the numbers in parenthesis indicate the total of students enrolled.

Australian Catholic University Babson College Bates College Boston College Brown University Bucknell University Christendom College Colgate University College of the Holy Cross (4) Colorado College Columbia University (2) Cornell University Dartmouth College (2) Drexel University Elon University (4) Fairfield University (2) George Washington University (2) Georgetown University Gettysburg College Kenyon College (2) Loyola University, Maryland (2) Middlebury College New York University Rice University Santa Clara University Scripps College St. Lawrence University State University of New York at Binghamton University of California at Los Angeles University of Colorado at Boulder (2) University of Connecticut University of Kentucky University of Notre Dame University of Richmond (2) University of St. Andrews, Scotland University of Vermont Vanderbilt University Villanova University (4) Wake Forest University (4) Yale University (2)

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Recognizing the Class of 2012 The 61 members of the Class of 2012 are gifted, multitalented young women who have achieved many honors at Convent of the Sacred Heart, while charting journeys that will take them far into the future of the 21st century. The following awards and recognitions were announced at commencement by Upper School Head Jayne Collins and offer a glimpse of the achievements that await the Class of 2012.

Katharine Mather Christiane McCabe Alana Murphy Alexandra Murray Shannon Sprague Allison Toner Stephanie Viola

Greenwich Award:

National Merit Scholarship Winner:

Class Spirit Award:

Mater Society:

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Madeleine Cron

The Fifteen Year Award: Margaretta Ryan

National Merit Scholarship Finalist:

Community Service Award:

Valedictorians:

Catherine Colford Claudia Khoury Salutatorian:

Nicole Narea

Krystyna Miles Lucie White Award:

Margaret Bugniazet Lindsay O’Callaghan Marian Ziminsky

Kerianne Doran

The Fourteen Year Award: Colleen Benson Nicole Fischer

Colleen Benson National Merit Commended Students:

Catherine Colford Claudia Khoury Krystyna Miles Alana Murphy Graduating with High Honor:

Fiona Cavise Catherine Colford Claudia Khoury Krystyna Miles Erin Myers Nicole Narea Graduating with Honor:

Lucy Adams Caroline Antonacci Colleen Benson Giulia Campana Caroline Cunningham

Five Goals and Criteria Awards:

Demonstrates a Personal and Active Faith in God: Anne McDevitt Displays a Deep Respect for Intellectual Values: Caroline Cunningham Values Social Awareness Which Impels to Action: Fiona Cavise

The Thirteen Year Award: Catherine Colford Claudia Khoury Erin Myers The Twelve Year Award: Caroline Cunningham India Knight Philippine Duchesne Award:

Caroline Antonacci

Builds Community as a Christian Value: Margaretta Ryan

President of the Student Body:

Shows Personal Growth in an Atmosphere of Wise Freedom: Lucy Adams

President of the Senior Class:

Samantha Tarde

Margaretta Ryan

Cum Laude Society

Six seniors were inducted this spring as the newest members of the School’s chapter of Cum Laude, a national honor society.

From left to right, the seniors are: Caroline Cunningham, Alana Murphy, Alexandra Murray, Giulia Campana, Shannon Sprague and Fiona Cavise. They joined six other seniors inducted last year as juniors: Colleen Benson, Catherine Colford, Claudia Khoury, Krystyna Miles, Erin Myers and Nicole Narea.

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men still have not managed to duplicate: you’re better than they are at a lot of life, but especially better at bonding and supporting one another.

Sisterhood is not just a trendy phrase.

It is an essential part of the definition of a modern woman.

In the United States Senate, the 17 women members, Republican and Democrat alike, have a separate caucus to support one another regardless of party label.

There is no comparable gathering among male members of the Senate. What a loss for them and for the country.

I began by discussing the tools we all now have available. It’s only a guess, but at this moment, someone is twittering, “Brokaw speaking at Sacred Heart. Old dude.”

These are tools, instruments that have no soul or place except that which we invest in them.

They will never replace a first kiss or a whispered, “I love you.”

You can’t hold hands with an iPad. No text message will ever replace you embracing a friend in a time of need. They can’t mother a family.

For all their power they cannot make decisions for you.

You are in charge of this transformative technology and only you can determine your destiny.

My friend Maria Shriver this spring added another invaluable piece of wisdom for the IT generation: Don’t be afraid to hit the Pause button.

She calls it “The Power of the Pause”— the antidote to going through life only on fast forward.

Pause before you hit the send button and share a joke or a photo or a comment that could unfairly embarrass someone.

Pause before you disparage someone’s lifestyle or personal decisions.

To that I would add pause—and then do the unexpected, the unconventional, the adventurous, the risky. Surprise your friends, impress your parents and learn a good deal about yourself by getting out of your comfort zone and living on the edge from time to time.

The most rewarding way of doing that is by devoting part of every year to living with and helping those for whom your everyday life is a fairy tale of good

families, financial security, full closets and no hunger.

Make public service for succeeding generations if not mandatory, then more conspicuous and popular than it is now.

For those who are coming home from these long wars, for the families whose sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, are not coming home, seek them out and thank them and say, “How can I help?”

At this stage on this day I know you’re excited and likely a little apprehensive.

You’re wondering, “Am I prepared?”

Yes, and here’s why: you survived junior high. You’ll be astonished by how much the rest of your life will remind you of junior high. The same petty jealousies, cliques, juvenile behavior, egos, dumb jokes and uncertainties you encountered there you’ll encounter for the rest of your lives.

Life is like that.

But you can stand apart—and if you do, you’ll elevate us all.

As graduates you have the right start in preparing yourself for this exhilarating adventure in a world that needs your help.

Forty years from now historians will look back on this time and take the measure of how we met the challenges of a new world order and how women fulfilled the new opportunities available to them.

The American Dream is in your hands.

That dream has always been assumed to be, “My children will have better lives than I’ve had.” For most of history the underlying part of that dream was, “They’ll have more opportunities, more education, more money, they’ll travel more and come to a larger house.”

Now you can refine that dream and adapt to new realities. The dream can be about more racial and gender tolerance, more economic justice, more decisions for individuals and society alike based on need, not merely on what, more friends that gave you a big hug instead of a big shout out on Facebook. You are prepared to make us all better. Make the most of it.

God knows, we need your help. And, as Nicole (the salutatorian) promised, I know you will become the next greatest generation. 

Values for Life A wonderful tradition is celebrated each year at the Mater Society dinner when the head of school recognizes those seniors with a long record of enrollment at our school.

This year, eight seniors and their families were hosted at a lovely reception and dinner at the Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich. These young women have attended since preschool, prekindergarten, kindergarten or first grade. This remarkable experience has prepared these young women to transform society with the values they have lived since a very early age.

This year, Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’68 presented the Fifteen

Year Award to Margaretta Ryan, who has attended since preschool. In her senior year, she was president of the Class of 2012. “My Sacred Heart experience does not end on June 1 (graduation),” she said.

“The traditions and values that I have been raised on will be with me forever.”

Margaretta will attend Cornell University.

Other members of the Mater Society and their awards include: Fourteen Year Award: Colleen Benson and Nicole Fischer; Thirteen Year Award: Catherine Colford, Claudia Khoury, Erin Myers; and the Twelve Year Award: Caroline Cunningham and India Knight.

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Shaping Our Future: Our Strategic Plan

By Michael F. Baber, Assistant Head of School

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in The SprinG oF 2010, The Board oF TruSTeeS launChed a viTal and inviGoraTinG proCeSS, SeTTinG The CourSe For our neXT STraTeGiC plan.

The Board was clear that at this time of our School’s history we should seize the moment and review our priorities in a new light. Essentially, the plan revolves around the interconnected components of mission, curriculum, technology and philanthropy.

Fundamental to the Board’s fiduciary responsibility, and in tandem with their prime responsibility of upholding our mission, the plan includes a strategic financial plan to address the relationship between tuition, salary, school size, capital projects, financial aid and endowment.

Rather than the voluminous strategic plans of the past, produced by an outside consultant, the Board itself is shepherding the processing of strategic thinking. In this way, the focus is flexible and lean, a type of rolling action plan. Realizing that this day and age call for a different plan in its scope and timing, Sacred Heart set out with courage and confidence.

The secret of our success as a School is that our decision making has been strategic. This 163-year-old legacy of ours is on a firm foundation because of strategic thinking and planning—we really see it as a continuous process. Strongly believing that our mission is the basis for all our decisions and that a thorough understanding of our values must drive our strategy, here is a sampling of the type of question posed: What is your dream for the mission of our School? What do you see when you look at the horizon three to five years out? What are the ways that our mission will challenge us to address the changing needs of our students as educated individuals in the 21st century?

Considering both internal assessment and the external environment, reviewing both sets of strategic information in tandem, not isolation, what do we need to do to better prepare our students to be world citizens and global leaders within the scope of our mission?

As we look to the future, we are emboldened by our tradition of planning prudently, forecasting with fidelity and adapting to the times; all of which enable our mission to thrive. In this spirit we set out to articulate the next steps we embark on in order for us to meet the School’s current goals and priorities. We are confident that the plan we produced will enable us to grow more deeply in our mission; to continue to recruit and retain excellent faculty and staff, our most precious capital investment. In order to continue to compete in this market and not lose our soul, we reaffirm our commitment to our unique sense of community, while building women of faith and character within the context of global education.

This strategic plan, Shaping Our Future, describes our continued commitment to a vision begun by St. Madeleine Sophie in 1800. Today, in 2012, we continue to be unwavering in our mission to educate young women with the values, skills, creativity, and faith in God that will enable them to confidently thrive in the world.

Of course, we do none of this alone, but with the faithful support of past and future generations. Together, we create today’s “children of the Sacred Heart,” who will change tomorrow’s world. 

For a Copy oF SHAPING OUR FUTURE, Go To www.CShGreenwiCh.orG and Type “STraTeGiC plan” inTo The SearCh BoX on The hoMe paGe. iT will Take you To an online verSion oF The doCuMenT.

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Prize Days

CeleBraTe STudenT aChieveMenTS + GrowTh Convent of the Sacred Heart celebrates our girls’ academic achievements and personal growth at beautiful Prize Day ceremonies in each division. This magnificent tradition at all Sacred Heart schools signals the end of the formal school year as students accept their awards from their division heads and teachers, and curtsy to Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64.

This year, our Prize Days were held on Tuesday, May 29, for the Early Childhood Program and the Lower School; on May 30 for the Middle School and on May 31 for the Upper School. At the opening of each ceremony, Mrs. Hayes stood before the gathering of students and parents and made the simple and traditional prayerful declaration, “Honor and Glory to God alone,” to state the underlying purpose of the students’ hard work over the past year. From the youngest to the oldest, students are taught to accept awards graciously and to applaud the skills and talents of others.

“All over the world, students at Schools of the Sacred Heart will hear these words, ‘Honor and Glory to God alone,’ as they

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celebrate at Prize Day the closing of another school year,” said Mrs. Hayes in her speech to the Upper School. “Prize Day is part of your educational heritage as a member of the international family of Sacred Heart students. This last day is a day of celebration, gratitude and well wishing. It is also a day that marks transitions, transitions of place and thought.”

“St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, the foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, knew that the one certain thing in life was change and that in order to grow, one had to embrace it and not fear it. Prize Day celebrates change and all that has happened and will happen to you in the future. Each one of you will be moving to a new grade, and for the senior class, you will be going off to college. Each of you has been changed this year through your experiences, attitudes, learning, commitment and interaction with others. That growth is what we ultimately celebrate with you today,” Mrs. Hayes said.

upper SChool awardS:

tHe 18tH annual norma mcgarry community service award: Angela Jorge ’14 and Janice Comer ’14

tHe saint Jerome PriZe for critical tHinking: Nicole Bloom ’12

tHe four year award for eXcellence in Performing arts: Nicole Bloom ’12

tHe award for outstanding commitment in camPus ministry: Christine Kager ’13 and Anne McDevitt ’12

tHe mimi rafferty award for writing: Nora Henrie ’13

tHe four year award for eXcellence in PHotograPHy: Colleen Henn ’12

tHe alumnae community service award: Kerianne Doran ’12

tHe margaret little de PitarcH ’62 award: Jane Gerstner ’14

tHe four year award for eXcellence in visual arts: Giulia Campana ’12

tHe four year award for eXcellence in englisH: Alexandra Murray ’12

tHe greenwicH arts council award: Nicole Zoulis ’13

tHe four year award in tHeology: Erin Myers ’12

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tHe four year award for eXcellence in arabic: Alexandra Murray ’12 and Christiane McCabe ’12 tHe four year award for eXcellence in cHinese: Fiona Cavise ’12 tHe four year award for eXcellence in sPanisH: Claudia Khoury ’12 tHe four year award for eXcellence in frencH: Allison Toner ’12 and Christine Bloom ’12 la comtesse natHalie d’esterno PriX d’eXcellence: Jacqueline Batrus ’13 tHe “Premio de eXcelencia” in sPanisH studies: Nicole Narea ’12 tHe maureen taylor memorial award: Nicole Polemeni-Hegarty ’13 sPecial award for crosscultural understanding: Alexandra Murray ’12, India Knight ’12, Eymie Prieto ’12 tHe four year award for eXcellence in matHematics: Catherine Colford ’12

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tHe bauscH and lomb science award: Margaret Dunne ’13 tHe XeroX award for innovation and information tecHnology: Nicole Polemeni-Hegarty ’13 tHe rensselaer PolytecHnic institute award for outstanding acHievement in matHematics and science: Lauren Wood ’13 tHe society of women engineers certificate of acHievement: Christa Ruggiero ’13 and Sarah Hirshorn ’13 fairfield university eXcellence in science and matHematics award: Margaret Purcell ’13 tHe four year award for eXcellence in science: Catherine Colford ’12, Caroline Cunningham ’12, Krystyna Miles ’12 tHe four year award for eXcellence in History: Claudia Khoury ’12 tHe world affairs forum future global leader certificate: Alexa de Alessandrini ’13 tHe mary Patricia Haberle ’65 award: Jennifer Esposito ’15 and Emily Casper ’15

national merit scHolarsHiP: The following 17 juniors have been invited to participate in the 2012–13 National Merit Scholarship Competition. Their PSAT scores placed them in the top 5% of all juniors (about 50,000 students) who took the PSAT in October 2011.

Taylor Blevin, Alison Brett, Parisa Bruce, Emma Burke, Katherine Ellison, Bridgette Fucigna, Madeleine Hay, Nora Henrie, Sarah Hirshorn, Alexandra Jordan, Allison Kenny, Nicole Polemeni-Hegarty, Margaret Purcell, Kelsey Roche, Christa Ruggiero, Carolyn Schnackenberg, Nicole Zoulis national acHievement Program for african american students: Based on their high PSAT scores, the following members of the junior class have been invited to participate in the 2012–13 National Achievement Program for African American students: Taylor Michael and Amina Price. tHe national HisPanic recognition Program: Each year, the NHRP identifies nearly 5,000 of the highest-scoring students (from a nationwide total of more than 200,000 juniors) in the United States and U.S. Territories who take the PSAT/NMSQT and designate themselves as Hispanic/Latino.

Sacred Heart students who were recognized include seniors: Giulia Campana and Nicole Narea.

college book awards: The following juniors received the Book Awards: college of the Holy cross book award: Christa Ruggiero columbia college book award: Frances McLaughlin cornell university book award: Sarah Hirshorn dartmouth university book award: Anne Keeney fairfield university book award: Morgan Kennedy Harvard university book award: Taylor Blevin middlebury college book award: Nicole Zoulis mount Holyoke college book award: Alexa de Alessandrini st. lawrence university book award: Sarah Manning st. michael’s college book award: Margaret Dunne smith college book award: Julie Randolph wellesley college book award: Jennifer Rohde yale university book award: Carolyn Schnackenberg

tHe class sPirit awards: grade 9: Miranda Falk grade 10: Madison Sirabella grade 11: Alexa de Alessandrini grade 12: Madeleine Cron salutatorian: Nicole Narea valedictorians: Catherine Colford and Claudia Khoury

Middle SChool awardS:

barat scHolar awards: 5th grade: Mikhaila Archer, Stephanie Beshoory, Stephanie Browder, Juliana Collins, Emma Cooney, Gabby Davitch, Julia Dawson, Emma DeMartino, Hope Deschapelles, Margaret Fenniman, Emily Frase, Patricia Gerli, Riley Hicks, Delaney Kliavkoff, Sara Micciulli, Lindsay Morgner, Emma O’Connor, Allison Opuszynski, Natalie Sanchez, Isabella Santucci, Ellarie Talgo, Maggie Toal, Anjali van Biesen, Mandy Ward, Isabelle Wise

6th grade: Sophia Brusco, Katherine Burke, Zoe Buttenhoff, Sofia Caruso, Za Za Gil, Kathryn Goodfriend, Laura Holland, Elise Jackson, Isabelle Johnson, Jillian Larkin, Amanda Marom, Julia Merrill, Amelia Poling, Mio Shimizu, Emily Wiele 7th grade: Jade Cohen, Kristen Davis, Madeline Fouts, Clare Hammonds, Caroline Johnston, Mackenzie Jordan, Lizzy Kupersmith, Emily Micciulli, Katie Miller, Shannon Pyne, Krystal Ventura 8th grade: Lucy Alderson-Smith, Kendall Fitzgerald, Caroline Geithner, Tracey Hagan, Kelly Heinzerling, Avery Juan, Caleigh Kupersmith, Elizabeth Mastoloni, Kelly McLaughlin, Francesca Narea, Alessandra Nocco, Bettina Pugliese, Gabrielle Sanchez, Isabella Sio, Claire Squire music awards: 5th grade—Lindsey Matthiesen 6th grade—Emily Coster 7th grade—Caroline Kulak 8th grade—Izzy Sio dance awards: 5th grade—Adrianna Arias 6th grade—Jillian Larkin 8th grade—Marie Njie-Mitchell drama awards: 5th grade—Emma O’Connor 6th grade—Kathryn Goodfriend 7th grade—Morgan Johnson 8th grade—Georgina Cahill

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visual art awards: 5th grade—Paige Devoe 6th grade—Elise Jackson 7th grade—Fiona Cahill 8th grade—Nebai Hernandez-Carmona colt Poetry recitation contest medalists: Paula Plaza (Gold for French) Cynthia Thomas (Gold for Spanish) Thea Dowrich (Gold for Spanish) alliance franÇaise PriX d’eXcellence: Paula Plaza

student council leaders wHo were recogniZed: Kensi Almeida, Grace Campbell, Isabella Caponiti, Grace Dailey, Riley Doyle, Kendall Fitzgerald, Yahnah Johns-Woodby, Gabby Sanchez, Cynthia Thomas middle scHool faculty awards: 5th grade—Shantel Guzman 6th grade—Emily Coster 7th grade—Grace Cashman 8th grade—Catherine Keating community service award: Emma Veber

eXcellence award in cHinese: Avery Juan

tHree-year, tHree-sPort ParticiPation award: Grace Campbell, Alexis Karas, Catherine Keating, Katherine Nail, Katherine Siciliano

national geograPHy bee: Caroline Kulak (CSH winner and state qualifier)

middle scHool sPortsmansHiP award: Grace Campbell

scriPPs national sPelling bee: Emily Coster and Ana Fox (CSH winners and regional qualifiers)

Pamela Hayes sPirit award: Alexis Karas

Premio de eXcelencia: Cynthia Thomas

future Problem solving: Ludnie Rene and Nephthalie Rene (State qualifiers) camPus ministry award: Grace Campbell

scHool sPirit awards: 5th grade—Amanda Ward 6th grade—Sophia Brusco 7th grade—Jarvy O’Neill 8th grade—Madison Miles kara di giovanni award: Abigal Shea Head of scHool leadersHiP award: Grace Dailey

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Janet erskine stuart award: Kendall Fitzgerald PHiliPPine ducHesne award: Agatha Ryan cablevision educational access awareness awards: Georgina Cahill (First place Middle School John M. Repicky Award), Lucy AldersonSmith, Lydia Currie, Riley Doyle, Corina Gonzalez-Molina, Caleigh Kupersmith, Alexandra Lilly, Francesca Narea, Victoria Paternina, Grace Sutherland, Cynthia Thomas (Second Place Middle School Community/School Story) scHolastic writing awards: Francesca Narea (Regional Gold Key), Delia Hughes (Regional Silver Key), Sabine Nix (Regional Honorable Mention), Lindsay Morgner (5th grade writing contest winner), Lorraine Rinaldi (5th grade writing contest winner) state of connecticut law day essay contest: Francesca Narea (second place)

early Childhood awardS: Prizes were awarded to our students in the Early Childhood Program at a special ceremony held in the School chapel. The following girls received awards: PrescHool: Amelie Ayre, Clara Bonomo, Madison Costa-Wallace, Kătya Kalinichenko, Sophia Kot, Finley Newman, Isabella Ruiz, Skylar van Eck

Prekindergarten: Sofia Adams, Kensington Bleuel, Ava Clear, Ciaran Collins, Elizabeth Davies, Natalie Ellrodt, Grace Ann Gapen, Lena Girardi, Camila Gutierrez Porter Ballesteros, Charlotte Janney, Sofia Latrille, Victoria Mordaunt, Meg Stanitski, Madeline Steinert, Annika Wise, Sydney Young

lower SChool awardS: Students are listed in their order in procession. kindergarten: Avery Kim, Ashley O’Meara, Violet McCann-Anthony, Nova Ramseur-Moore, Myra Sheikh, Emma Marvin, Sophia Sigro, Alana Ukperaj, Emily Shull, Amanda Ciminello, Jaimie Alva, Sofia Esposito, Gabriella El-Masry, Rory Keller, Caroline Fouts, Kelsey Wilkens, Caroline Hartch, Alexa Waddell, Emma Robredo, Isabella Nardis, Julia Pujadas, Catie Ruf, Alexandra Pettinato first grade: Helen Maleeny, Caterina Pye, Audrey Choi, Robin Murphy, Gabriela Pye, Zoe Haggenmiller, Morgan Remsen, Vivi Caruso, Lilly-Kate Foley, Regina Gutierrez Porter Ballesteros, Claudia El-Masry, Madeleine Ball, Sinclair Noonan, Kate Higgins, Jacqueline Franco, Elisabeth Madigan, Sia Goyal, Avalon Golden, Alessandra Serbaroli, Saoirse Wellenius, Lulu Caruso, Maggie Sullivan, Elsa Latrille, Madeline Cone, Cate Hartman, Robyn O’Connor, Lily O’Sullivan, Stefanie Novak, Lindsay Benza, Jayne Mangan, Elizabeth Pettinato, Laura O’Connor, Olivia Caponiti

second grade: Mary Kate Blum, Ines Nix, Sophia Flynn, Zoe Young, Charlotte Marvin, Erin Griffin, Kira Manelski, Jensen Manelski, Sophia Cone, Ana Paula Villegas, Carolina Ferrer, Nicole Mayer, Mary Kate Braun, Grace Turner, Regina Finn, Ella Santomero, Caroline Hisler, Rachel Pyne, Michaela Greco, Margaret Foley, Julia Blyke, Ann Radtke, Beatrice Stone, Isobel Cunningham, Joi Almonacy, Maya Hirani, Katherine Devine, Ella Radtke, Caroline Frase, Madison Sieg, Annie Hamilton, Isabella Adams, Annie Bingle, Sophia Jansen, Grace Iannaccone, Brooke Howell, Rachel Ward, Isabelle Sciacca, Sarah Augustine, Emily Eckerson tHird grade: Catherine Batal, Emily Pettinato, Sasha Kalinichenko, Fiona Hickey, Mairead O’Connor, Yvestlana Lafontant, Grace Coale, Isabelle Pipher, Caitlyn Dahnke, Maya Thakor, Sofia Pye, Molly Braun, Samantha Novak, Maia van Biesen, Shay Newman, Piper Gilbert, Helen Bass, Lily Santangelo, Lena Thakor, Ursula Wise, Cecilia Duncan, Lianna Amoruso, Beth Yeager, Carolyn Russell, Annabelle Hartch, Sumner Hill, Ellie Hartman, Caroline Guza, Mary Clare Marshall, Morgan Kärst, Karina Adams, Emma Pope, Alexa Chertkov, Claudia Schmidt, Sydney O’Connor, Sophia Mederer, Hadley Noonan, Melanie Gonzalez, Alexia Barr, Gabrielle Finn, Dominique Prato, Courtney MacDonald

fourtH grade: Kate Steinert, Alexa Choy, Aubrey Hash, Giselle Grey, Daniella Tocco, Freddie Hamilton, Elizabeth Hisler, Anoushka Howard-Sneyd, Elodie Nix, Arielle Uygur, Renata Trevino, Cameron Calcano, Jacqueline Prata, Emma Caruso, Jimena Villegas, Carolina Suaid, Elle de Alessandrini, Caroline Collins, Clay Garrett, Caroline Badagliacca, Ella Birchenough, Isabella Quinson, Taylor O’Meara, Alice Adams, Nicole Mellert, Stephanie Guza, Bridget Hamlet, Gabriela Mullen, Sophia Georgas, Eva Iannaccone, Grace Sperber, Katie Keller, Mariana Soto, Malika Amoruso, Erin Dowrich, Chiara Schmidt, Gabriella DiBiase, Grace Austin, Christina Keating, India Altschul, Alexandra Dally annette saraceni memorial book award: Elodie Nix HannaH and ryan barry memorial art award: Arielle Uygur PHiliPPine ducHesne award: Katie Keller 

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Taiwan Sister School

Visits Convent of the Sacred Heart

by Kathleen S. Failla, Director of Public Relations and Communications

It was an exciting day on Friday, May 11, as we welcomed 33 ninth-grade “sisters” from the Sacred Heart High School for Girls in Taiwan.

Arriving by bus on a trip to visit CSH and other Sacred Heart schools, the Taiwanese students were met by enthusiasm and American food as they sat down to a special breakfast reception held by our Upper School in the Cora E. McLaughlin ’29, RSCJ Art Gallery. After a tour of CSH, our Taiwanese sisters joined the Upper School in the chapel for a special slide show presentation on their school which they delivered in perfect English.

One of the goals of their trip, according to their exchange coordinator, was to make friends with their counterparts at other Sacred Heart schools and to gain some experience in expressing themselves in English. The visit also gave our students a chance to hone their conversational skills in Chinese.

Sacred Heart High School for Girls is located in a suburban area of Taipei City, in the foothills of Goddess of Mercy Mountain.

Founded in 1960 by the Society of the Sacred Heart, the school has an enrollment of 1,100 young women, 13 to 18 years old. There are 300 boarders on the spacious campus, and day students commute from all parts of Taipei.

The visit represented CSH’s very strong and broad connections with many Sacred Heart schools throughout the world. At CSH, Chinese language lessons begin in kindergarten. This summer, we are sending our second Upper School student on exchange to Taiwan. Our girls are hosted by families in Taipei, and then, in reciprocation, our girls host their Taiwanese sisters. It is part of our international exchange program which enables our students to broaden their educational horizons. 

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“These rings are now your tangible connections back to this community.

They supersede distance and differences.�

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reflection

A Ring Day

By Margaretta Ryan ’12

As you probably realized by now I am a lifer here at Convent of the Sacred Heart. Right now I am about a month and a half shy of the full package. And, I am already getting quite nostalgic about my time here. So, I was honored when I was asked to speak to you today at this year’s Ring Day ceremony.

Ring Day really is a beautiful ceremony. I love traditions like Ring Day because they give the School stability, and I feel like I am a part of something that is bigger than just me. Although the ring carries religious symbols, it’s the ring itself, as a symbol of the tradition and lineage that runs through the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, that speaks most to me.

When I was visiting colleges as a prospective student, I was warmed to meet another Sacred Heart girl. She, too, wore her class ring. And instantly, we were able to talk about conges, goûter, and our liberal interpretations of “wise freedom.” These rings are now your tangible connections back to this community.

They supersede distance and differences. All of us have a ring. It’s an inclusive symbol of the ideals we carry with us as we venture into our adult lives.

The passing of the rings brings the community together and creates bonds that go beyond a generic friendship. Maybe you are a part of long-standing “lineage,” or you are family, or maybe you and your ring partner are forming a new connection. This is a fun aspect to Ring Day. But it is more than that. It is about taking one morning to slow down and realize that we are growing up and moving on. But before we rush out of here we are given this token of our pasts to carry with us to keep us rooted together.

As much as we love our School, we all have our moments of frustration. Despite our frustrations, we always come back for more. These rings mean that each of us has been given an opportunity. We have been given this great, open education, which, unlike most schools, is rooted in ethics and faith. We have learned to challenge ideas rather than blindly accept them. We have learned to be sensitive to the consequences of our words and actions. We have learned to be compassionate and forgiving.

When someone sees this ring on your finger, they are going to see a thoughtful, curious and analytical thinker, as well as a kind and empathetic sister. That is the meaning of the ring. Thank you and congratulations! 

Senior Margaretta Ryan presenting her “junior sisters” with their rings Convent of the Sacred Heart 23

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rship Instilling Leade ate b e D & h c e e p S Through her and

ac per School History Te

By Paul Grisanti, Up am Advisor Speech and Debate Te

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It is 3:30 p.m

. in September of 2012. Just five minutes past the bell, and the Speech and Debate Team’s three co-captains Alexa de Alessandrini, Nora Henrie and Morgan Kennedy are already gathering their teammates for practice. The three students are seniors and have been award-winning members of the Tigers team throughout their high school career at Sacred Heart.

In the old tradition of “eloquentia perfecta,” originally a Jesuit concept, but now very much part of a Sacred Heart education as well, team members will work on their six categories of speech and two categories of debate. Convent of the Sacred Heart excels in speech and debate, and each year we host our own tournament, with many thanks due to our dedicated parent volunteers.

My own career in speech and debate started in the 1970s at Iona Preparatory School, just down the parkway in New Rochelle, N.Y., where the Christian Brothers valued speech skills very highly. My coach was Brother Anthony Cavet and we called ourselves the “Forensics Team,” which was the name we Tigers actually started out with! Before the advent of crime shows, that word only meant public speaking. But forensics has actually come to mean other things in our society. Therefore, like other teams, we Tigers, this year, changed our name.

A Tiger speech and debate season is a long one. We start at the Yale University contest in late September and end with the National Forensic League Championships in late May. Our team is a member of the several leagues, which include the Catholic Forensic League and the National Forensic League. We have been at the Catholic Forensic League National Championships every year since 2004. It was held May 26–27 last season in Baltimore.

Finally, we are in the New York State Forensic League and compete in the New York Championships.

Gillian Redman, a 2009 graduate now at Vanderbilt University, and our co-captain in the 2008–2009 school year, put it well: “There’s nothing better for your self-esteem than

arriving in the New York Congressional Debate state finals and realizing that you’re the only girl in the room! Speech and debate helped make me the confident and articulate young woman I am today. It was an experience that I would never give up!”

Our home league, the New York Catholic Forensic League, is a sort of big extended family and the young people in it compete with tremendous certitude. At a contest, competition starts at around 10 in the morning with three preliminary rounds and a word is needed about the judges in the league.

They are mostly the parents of team members from the participating schools. Training of a judge is very demanding and a judge is, henceforth, qualified for perpetuity. At about 2 p.m. on debate day, the announcement is made as to who in each category has done sufficiently well to advance to finals.

Then, finals! The students compete for about two hours, and then an awards ceremony is held. I have the honor of being the coach who gives the closing prayer and I try to get right to the—spiritual—point! We then take our trophies (hopefully!) for a happy ride home to King Street.

Caroline Kitchener, from the Class of 2010 and the winner that year of the nationwide sixth-place trophy in Original Oratory, summed up the experience of many students. “This activity has instilled me with passion, conviction and the confidence to always speak my mind,” said Caroline. “I’ve learned that what matters is to own your words, to take possession of them. It doesn’t matter how much you know or how many earth-shattering ideas you may have: if you can’t give voice to that knowledge and those ideas, they can’t do a whole lot of good. The motto of our New York Catholic Forensics League is to instill ‘leadership through speech,’ and that’s so true.”

Want to know what this “talk” is about?

Tiger debaters engage in their own language. Here is a handy guide to help you follow what all the “talk” is about.

Congressional Debate:

Original Oratory:

Oral Interpretation:

A competitive category in which contestants write and debate legislation.

Students write and deliver their own speech.

Interpretation of one piece each of prose and poetry.

Extemporaneous:

Duo Interpretation:

Students are given a question on current events and must, in thirty minutes, compose a seven-minute speech on the topic.

Two contestants working together read and interpret a piece of literature.

Public Forum: Here students

debate current issues.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debate: This is a values-

oriented debate with a different theme each month.

Declamation: Students

competing in this category must memorize and deliver a famous speech from history.

Dramatic Interpretation:

A student takes a 10-minute excerpt from a play and performs all the characters.

All categories above require timed, 10-minute presentations, except for Extemporaneous, which is seven minutes.

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wordplay What is it like to deliver a speech?

In the following, Nora Henrie ’13 reminds us that there is power in words. Nora wrote and performed this at an Upper School assembly in May 2012. As the audience sat totally engaged by Nora’s powerful delivery, our theater settled down to a level of quiet rarely experienced at Sacred Heart. It was compelling message delivered in the enthusiastic style of our Speech and Debate Team’s “Original Oratory.”

The speaker stood up.

The speaker stood up and started to speak.

Enunciate.

Proclaim.

Bellow!

Sigh.

Moist.

Thrust.

Dribble.

Giggle.

Fantasize.

Maximize.

Twist, tumble, magnificent, Lollop, romp, somnolent.

Sharp, luscious, glum, blah, Defenestrate and algebra, Wandering and whistling in a wrinkling watchful world, Curled swirled hurled pluraled And lexicon, Plexiglas, Pinch, patter, slip and slide, Magnanimous…mortified.

Whoops, got a little carried away there. Not only have I now thoroughly embarrassed myself, but I’ve revealed how I keep myself entertained in my free time. Now, let’s forget about the fact that I really need to work on a social life (I blame speech for a lack thereof ). Because while that may have seemed like the ravings of madwomen, there is a method to my personal brand of madness.

We as a society have forgotten how important it is to play with words. As a result, we are divided between those who view language as set in stone, and those who have simply stopped caring. We have descended into a full-on war against words...and in the process, we have forgotten why we need language at all.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, and that is far preferable to being torn down by words. Broken bones heal, but when you’re stunned by language, your brain has scar tissue that weaves its way into your very being.

We are not adoring, yearning, plummeting, no we’re liking and wanting and falling, weakening language, and refusing to recognize it as a powerful tool, or weapon. Winston Smith, George Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, is tasked with creating

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a new language, called NewSpeak that erases words from use.

Orwell explains, “The whole aim of NewSpeak is to narrow the range of thought.” By thinking narrowly about language we lose power, and we don’t need government surveillance and propaganda to force us to renounce our language. Language is not our enemy. To rekindle our attraction to words, we need to play with language. Only then can we return to literary clarity and understanding.

To cure this dictionary disease, we first have to recognize the tremendous effect that language has on our existence and evolution as human beings. People have been flirting with language from the beginning. That’s not to say it’s been an easy courtship.

At our best, we’ve produced crushingly beautiful sonnets, soul snaring novels, and raucously funny essays. At our worst, we’ve produced the horror that is the “Supernatural Teen Romance” section of Barnes and Noble.

Philip Atkinson says in his book, A Study of Our Decline, “The history of English literature is a diary of the rise and decline of English-speaking civilization.” Essentially, people have always been tied to their language. In the past few thousand years, language has exploded. We have experienced literary revolutions so powerful that they changed minds and people. And it wasn’t because we asked what language could do for us, but what we could do for language. In the best of times, and the worst of times, if one person could stand up and say “I have a dream,” then the only thing we had to fear was that we would forget how powerful speech could be. We must voice the change we want to see in the world. Right now, language is retreating to a corner afraid and lonely. What happened to the shards of spirit that used to circulate through our veins like oxygen, barbing our senses with an instinct for intellectual curiosity? To be or not to be is not the question anymore. The question is, Does anyone care? You know? Like, why? Simplicity is a gift. But you know what? We’re just plain boring.

To escape this boredom, we must change the way we treat language. The first mindset we need to reverse is the notion that English is some untouchable holy grail. This only becomes a problem when we refuse to take it off its pedestal and have fun with it from time to time. Someone who uses perfect grammar and pronunciation is afraid of words and cowers behind rules.

These people, as British wit Stephen Fry put it, “Shake their heads at prepositions which end sentences and mutter at split infinitives and misspellings. Well sod them to Hades. They’re no more guardians of language than the Kennel Club is the guardian of dogkind.” Many prioritize mundane grammar rules over a piece’s content and character. Writing should be analyzed for the meaning it embodies, and message it conveys.

As magazines, newspapers, and saddest of all, books, go the way of the floppy disk and the record player, the literary world has conceded to sit idly by and grumble about technology. We ignore the role that linguistic purists play in the demise of the language they venerate.

On the opposite end of the spectrum from the grumpy grammar gusses are those who have just stopped caring. As George Orwell said, “English becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it

easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” We have gotten lazy with our words, and it’s showing.

Shakespeare’s plays were made for the viewing of the common man. They include references and words that most of us don’t understand, and that’s OK. Different time, different customs. But those plays were celebrated by the lower and upper classes alike.

They could be appreciated by everyone, regardless of education, because they all loved language. We have lost this respect. I’m not saying that every sentence we sprout should be masterful.

But a proper understanding should be present. According to a 2007 Scientific American article, Harvard researchers studying the evolution of language have found that the words we don’t use that often evolve faster than the ones we use all the time. However, when a word is used too infrequently, it simply ceases to exist.

Another study found that the vocabulary of the average American teenager has decreased by 15,000 words in the past 60 years.

It won’t be long before many words become extinct, and our language will begin to disappear.

Words can crash you down, but there is nothing I love more than getting caught up in the wave. This is coming from a little girl who, since the age of seven, has been stealing her parents New Yorker magazines to read the fiction section and, of course, the cartoons. A sixteen-year-old who makes a beeline for mall bookstores, eager to discover something new. I live for family Scrabble battles, because Triple Word Scores are in my blood.

I love words. I love the way they beam off my tongue like light aching for the sun. I love that I can stand in front of you and make noises that should be gibberish, but you understand. I love that I’m a hyperactive teenager without much foresight, and a stubborn refusal to grow up, but on paper I have no barriers.

Our kaleidoscopic language thrived on the writhing, surreal, phantasmagorical mechanics of our minds. But our lips are wrinkling like pruny fingertips, clammy and bland. By deeming words

unnecessary, we unravel our natural coexistence with language.

According to linguist Salicoco Mufwene, a language dies when its speakers transition to a new language. This can include steps like overgeneralization, style loss, and looser grammar. All symptoms we are currently experiencing—only we are not transitioning to a new language. We’re just killing our own. We are spinning away from our kindergarten days, when reading was cool, and being popular meant being able to write the alphabet. If we lose that excitement, we lose our...what’s that word? Well it’s turning into…ummm…But the problem is…we are…like…you know?

By speaking carelessly, we sacrifice conviction. The very tool we use to define ourselves is starting to erode, and us along with it.

Now I figure between 2012, climate change, and Newt Gingrich, we have just about as much “doomsday” talk as we can handle right now. But, at least on the language front, we are not destined to fail. The fact is, we are born to be linguistically capable. We live our lives in poetry. We have to care about our language. The alternative is to wipe away all the shades and complexities that make us human, and we will drift into the mundane.

“What’s in a name?” Well I’ll tell you, Juliet. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but when you start switching names around willy-nilly, you’re going to end up with a dagger in your hand, instead of that self-help you were reaching for. Words are power. If we lose them, we are helpless. My solution is simple.

Pay attention. Pick out words with care. Attack writing with reckless abandon. We need to dive into the endless possibilities of words. If we learn to have some fun with language, our journey together is far from over. As Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women upon it merely players.” But even though it’s improv, we still have to respect our lines.

The speaker sashayed back to her seat. 

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NY Giants linebacker inspires CSH

by Kathleen S. Failla, Director of Public Relations and Communications

Sacred Heart parent Colin McLane and daughter Madeline McLane ’17 with Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich Jr.

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or more than three decades, the Mara family, owners of the New York Giants, has had a wonderful relationship with Convent of the Sacred Heart. Our alumnae include seven Mara daughters and six granddaughters, as well as one current student.

Sacred Heart celebrated this great football family and the Giants’ victory at Super Bowl XLVI with “Giants Day” on April 2 which included an inspiring talk by rookie linebacker Mark Herzlich Jr. Before he helped the Giants at Super Bowl, Herzlich overcame his biggest challenge—battling Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer that threatened his life and caused him to miss his entire 2009 season at Boston College.

Standing next to the gleaming symbol of the Giants’ Super Bowl victory, the Vince Lombardi Trophy, while addressing an assembly of students, faculty and staff, Mr. Herzlich spoke about his determination to return to football. “I don’t accept failure from myself,” he told the assembly, urging students to set goals for themselves.

It was his faith and perseverance that saw him through his darkest hours during his college years. He said he prayed twice a day—morning and night—for a full recovery. He returned to the field at Boston College in 2010 and then signed with the Giants in July 2011 as an undrafted free agent. He made the Giants final 53-man roster. On November 20, 2011, he made his first NFL start against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Giants Day included a welcome by Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 and many exciting opportunities for students to pose for photos with the football player and the Super Bowl trophy. Several Mara family alumnae attended. Madeline McLane ’17, granddaughter of the late Wellington T. Mara, introduced Mr. Herzlich to the assembly. Later, her mother, Colleen Mara McLane, told a reporter for the Greenwich Time how Mr. Herzlich had inspired her and other members of the Mara family.

In great tribute to the Mara family and his team, Mr. Herzlich inspired a generation of Sacred Heart students that day by his words and example of active faith.

At student press conference the focus is on getting the story

By Elizabeth Hisler ’20

At the student press conference held this spring for visiting New York Giants football player Mark Herzlich, the room was buzzing with excitement as reporters from all three student newspapers serving the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools competed with one another and broadcast journalism students to get the story. The following is an interview published in the Lower School’s “Cub Chronicles” by Elizabeth Hisler. Elizabeth was in the fourth grade at the time and will attend our Middle School in the fall. Her interview can also be read on the School website, www.cshgreenwich.org.

Today I’m here to tell the story of NY Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich and his battle with cancer.

elizabeth: When you were in high school did you ever

think that someday you would be playing professional football?

Mark: Actually I did—even before then when I was younger. elizabeth: Did you always believe when you were battling cancer that you would play football again?

Mark: Well, after my doctor told me that I had cancer, my

whole family was shocked. I went to my room and I looked at all the photos of me playing football on my walls, and I thought, I am going to do that again someday. I set goals and I followed them one after another. They all came true, and then we went back to the doctors and they said, “Mark, your cancer is goooone.” 

“I went to my room and I looked at all the photos of me playing football on my walls, and I thought, I am going to do that again someday.

“I set goals and I followed them one after another.

They all came true...”

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Golf and Tennis outing Celebrates 20 years of Summer outreach Volunteers raise $233,000 to support 235 area youth On Tuesday, May 1, Sacred Heart’s community marked a very special occasion with a golf and tennis outing and anniversary dinner that celebrated our mission and raised funds in support of the Summer Outreach Program which provides children from low-income families in Greenwich, Port Chester and Stamford with opportunities for summer learning and fun. The tournaments, dinner, auctions and other gifts raised a total of $233,000.

Founded in 1992 as an extension of the School’s mission, the Summer Outreach Program supports Goal 3: “Educate to a social awareness which impels to action and to a critical consciousness that leads its total community to analyze and reflect on the values of society and to act for justice.” Since its inception, several thousand area children have enjoyed learning and playing on our beautiful campus and enjoyed summertime fun that otherwise would not have been possible for them.

Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., was the beautiful location for the all-day event which featured 80 golfers and tennis players and more than 100 dinner guests who enjoyed an outstanding day of play and socializing.

The evening sparkled with a wonderful dinner party held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Summer Outreach and to salute its first coordinator, Rosemary Sheehan, RSCJ. Over the past 20 years, the program has benefited several thousand children thanks to Sr. Sheehan’s unstinting commitment to their needs.

In her remarks, Sr. Sheehan delighted dinner guests when she christened them—and all Summer Outreach supporters—as members of “Team Sacred Heart.” The money raised will support the continued operation of Sacred Heart’s Summer Outreach Program which is committed to providing 235 children this summer with lessons and activities to ensure their success in school. “It is so important for us to do God’s work by reaching out to help those in need,” said Sr. Sheehan.

Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 thanked “all those who worked tirelessly to make this experience possible for those deserving young people” and praised the leadership of co-chairs, Susan and Frank Carroll, Lenore de Csepel, and Ruthanne Ruzika and the entire committee. NBC sports anchor and Sacred Heart parent Dan Hicks was the emcee for the dinner and live auction.

“Educate to a social awareness which impels to action and to a critical consciousness that leads its total community to analyze and reflect on the values of society and to act for justice.”

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Todd Fine with Upper School students studying Arabic

Reading with Rihani

By Morgan Kennedy ’13

Convent of the Sacred Heart marked the 100th anniversary of the first Arab-American novel with Harvard guest speaker and author Todd Fine, director of Project Khalid, who spoke to the Upper School and the Arabic Club on the The Book of Khalid. Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid (1911), beautifully illustrated by Kahlil Gibran, is the story of two Arab boys who immigrate to New York City.

Because of the novel’s merit, historical importance and contemporary relevance, a group of esteemed scholars and public figures came together to establish Project Khalid, a coordinated effort to commemorate this milestone in the history of Arab-American life and literature.

This spring, Melville House Publishing issued an edition of The Book of Khalid with Kahlil Gibran’s original illustrations and an essay by Mr. Fine.

Morgan Kennedy ’13, a student of the Arabic language at Sacred Heart, wrote the following as a reflection on her poignant connection with the novel.

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One does not expect to find lost cities, lost treasures or lost worlds while sitting in a classroom, but I found a lost wonder in a single classroom book.

The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani has largely been forgotten as an American literary masterpiece. However, its place as the first Arab-American novel that stressed a healthy relationship between East and West is one that commands attention. At Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mimi Melkonian’s Arabic classes were all required to read the novel, and knowledge about the

revolutions throughout Arab countries.

The reason that I will always remember The Book of Khalid can be explained in a simple quote of “love, light, and will.” The book emphasizes a life model of compassion towards all, dissemination of knowledge and the determination to better oneself and the world. To me, it is a message to the modern world, to realize the importance that we hold and the power mankind has to achieve progress.

This novel is a testament to the ideal way of life. We have to remember our

“We are not of the East or of the West No boundaries exist in our breast We are free.”—Ameen Rihani work was spread throughout the School by presentations from Todd Fine, the director of Project Khalid. Everyone who read or heard about the work was astounded at the complex philosophical work that advocated for modern reforms in the Arab world and foretold successful

commitment to liberty, to freedom, to spirituality, and to modernization that is found in every word of this novel. Some things are too valuable to be lost. The importance of this book is one of them.

This book should not just be another lost treasure, it needs to be known.

2012 film festival dazzles filmgoers of all ages

By Bianca Chiappelloni ’14

The red carpet was spread, the decorations hung and a life-size photo of Johnny Depp in character as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean were at the entrance of Sacred Heart’s Third Annual Film Festival on April 12. After waiting nearly eight months for this night, the young “stars” anxiously took their posts as greeters, photographers, and ushers ready to welcome their audience. It was finally time to screen the nine public service announcements, eleven creative entries and eight documentaries that dedicated broadcast journalism students from grades 9–12 filmed, directed and edited this past year.

Seniors Lucy Adams and Katie Mather were in charge of the student committee that planned the 2012 Film Festival.

In January, they led a student selection committee that watched countless videos made by the 51 broadcast students, narrowing the list of eligible videos down to 28 pieces that were shown at the festival.

In February, professionals in the industry judged the pieces in each category, and voted on first- and secondplace awards in each category. The judges wrote commendations and recommendations for the students about each video.

Elena Nachmanoff, vice president of talent and recruitment at NBC News, was one of the judges. She praised the quality

of the student videos. “I am so impressed by everything I saw,” she told the audience.

Addressing her remarks to the student filmmakers, Ms. Nachmanoff said: “You really are creative, intrepid, curious, and there are future documentarians, filmmakers, journalists out there, and I look forward to seeing you in the future.”

Other judges included Jenna Lee, Fox News’ anchor of Happening Now; Robert J. Siegel, director of narrative filmmaking at SUNY Purchase; and Lindsey Festa ’09, the executive producer for Fordham University’s nightly news show. tHis year’s talented winners of tHe Judges’ awards were: Public Service Announcement: 1st place: “Healthy Eating” by Jackie Grose ’13 and Lexie Miller ’14 2nd place: “Get in the Game” by Grace Isford ’15 and Emily Quirke ’15 Creative Entry: 1st place: “Crush” by Margo Bugniazet ’12 2nd place: “System Disarmed” by Jenna Hascher ’13

The film festival was a huge success.

More than 400 people filled the John and Lennie de Csepel Theater. After the videos were shown, the audience got to text in their vote for their favorite videos. The text voting provided the opportunity for the audience to play an active role, and it allowed the students to be recognized by their peers, as well as media professionals. tHe audience selected tHe following winners: Public Service Announcement: “A Mother’s Plea” by Amanda Crowell ’14 Creative Entry: “Wild Wild” by Grace Jorgensen ’13, Kelsey Schmidt ’13, and Madison Sirabella ’14 Documentary: “Ghosts” by Bianca Chiappelloni ’14 and Christie Huchro ’14

Documentary: 1st place: “Carol of the Bells” by Lucy Adams ’12 2nd place: “The Forgotten Coast” by Diana White ’12

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Senior Awarded Racial Justice Scholarship

In the photo are (left to right) Lori Wilson, director of campus ministry and Upper School community service; David Olson, Middle School head; Brittanie Sanders ’12; Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, head of school; Brittanie’s mother, Elizabeth Sanders; and Raymond Krozak.

Adult Lecture Series in October After a successful launch last spring, the Aloysia Hardey, RSCJ Adult Education Series will be offered in October with a focus on art.

On October 9 and October 16, there will be programs on American art and architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some names and places that will be covered include the Morris Jumel Mansion in the Bronx, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and William Merritt Chase, among others.

On October 17, there will be a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a professionally guided tour of the American Wing. Bus transportation will be provided.

October 23 will feature faculty member Dan Favata giving a talk on the art of the Sistine Chapel.

For information and to register, contact School Archivist and Historian Vicky Allen at allenv@cshgreenwich.org.

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Brittanie Sanders ’12 received the Greenwich YWCA’s Racial Justice Scholarship, which is awarded annually to high school seniors who have demonstrated “special efforts to respect and promote equality and help eliminate all forms of bigotry, violence and racism.”

This is the first time a CSH student has received the award.

The Greenwich Y presented the scholarship at its annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Brittanie said she was inspired by her grandfather. “He instilled in me the belief that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity regardless of their stature or economic status,” she said.

Lower School Student Interviews Alumna on Our School History

By Alice Adams ’20

Alice Adams explored Convent of the Sacred Heart’s history in an interview she conducted this spring with Sue Carrington, who graduated from our School in 1955. As a Lower School student, Alice became interested in the School’s history and its alumnae.

In April, I contacted Sue Carrington, a former student of CSH. She graduated 57 years ago in 1955. During our correspondence we talked about what our school was like—then and now.

Back then CSH was a boarding school.

Instead of sleeping with people from your grade you would sleep with students of all ages. Students would begin their days by having Mass and then eating breakfast. At the end of the day, students would go to study hall to do their homework.

The study hall is now the annex [the Cora E. McLaughlin ’29, RSCJ Art Gallery].

The most different thing about CSH is probably that it is not

a boarding school anymore. Even in the 1950s, students had the same subjects but not the same classes and teachers.

Students had art, music, and a lot of the same subjects that we have today. The classrooms looked different, and the teachers did most of the talking. Most of the teachers were nuns. The teachers and the classrooms were different from today.

The campus was different too. CSH still had a pond, though. They also had a horse.

Students had a field where they played field hockey. It’s amazing how different— and the same—CSH was in past years.

2 1. Left to right: Alexandra Lilly, Brooke Wilkens, Erika Hvolbeck, and Victoria Paternina 2. Eighth-graders work on their project. 3. Caleigh Kupersmith 1 looks on as Dr. Pitrelli reviews her team’s work.

The Middle School Makes Exciting Connections in Engineering and Technology

By Kathleen S. Failla, Director of Public Relations and Communications The Middle School participates in National Engineers Week to introduce our girls to careers in engineering. This year, students in Joyce Reed’s eighth-grade science class got a behind the scenes look at IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, which successfully competed against humans on the quiz show Jeopardy.

From robotics and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in the Lower and Middle Schools to the Upper School’s award-winning science research program, Sacred Heart’s science programs are fostering excellence and achievement among girls.

During a class specifically set aside to discover the exciting world of engineering and technology, the eighth-graders heard from John Pitrelli, Ph.D., an IBM computer engineer, who worked on the robot that thrilled Jeopardy audiences.

Dr. Pitrelli received his doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an expert in his field, he has been inspiring CSH students on visits like this for 15 years. His presentation on speech synthesis fascinated the girls, especially when he related his work to Watson’s televised appearance. Dr. Pitrelli spoke about the challenges the team faced preparing the robot for speech recognition so it could become a quiz show contestant.

IBM conducted a series of sparring matches to help prepare Watson for its televised challenge. Speech recognition was a critical part of Watson’s programming, Dr. Pitrelli said. While the computer actually takes up an entire room, on Jeopardy it was represented on stage by a monitor positioned between two former Jeopardy champions.

Teaching a computer to understand human language was a huge challenge, he said. Yet for IBM the potential impact of this new voice recognition technology has broad implications in healthcare and other industries.

Students engaged in a hands-on competition of their own, which Dr. Pitrelli, who has worked on projects with world-class researchers, was only too happy to judge.

As machines and robots grow increasingly important to various industries, our girls are getting a preview of the brave, new world that awaits them. Through informed and thoughtful interactions with experts, such as Dr. Pitrelli, they are encouraged to broaden their interests in science and technology and learn more about the world around them.

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+ STAFF Supporting Our Most Precious Asset

By Michael F. Baber, Assistant Head of School

With an indefatigable sense of “I can do this!” Sacred Heart educators are engaged in a challenging course of professional development and personal growth. Each year, in view of an overarching theme and accompanying initiatives, our faculty does their part to ensure that they are prepared to meet the future and its challenges.

Unity was an essential ingredient to St. Madeleine Sophie in founding her “little Society,” and today this virtue permeates our model of professional development. I would like to share with you our roadmap of recent professional development; hopefully you will see a holistic unity, common direction and perennial growth.

There is an intentional thread of consistency embedded in our all-school professional development.

Launched in 2009, we began to intensify what is called Student Centered Learning (SCL), and we were challenged by Dominic Randolph, the sitting head at Riverdale Country Day School, to think differently about how we educate. In 2010, we plumbed the depths of SCL and reframed how we understand tests. Tests were redesigned to be formative assessments and summative, not merely exercises in memorization.

With eager and open minds in 2011, we forged ahead, and, because of the underpinnings of SCL, we were able to integrate 21st-century learning as the centerpiece of our professional development. While some of the names were new, like Noodle and Moodle, wiki and Prezi, our determination to teach the whole child is not. Authentic Sacred Heart teaching has always included

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critical thinking, community, global awareness and a genuine concern for the other.

In 2012, we had some “headliners” inspire us, too. Guest speakers included Rachel Simmons, a best-selling author and expert on girls and technology, and Tony Wagner, a renowned Harvard University educator, who conducted a videoconference with the faculty on what successful leadership of the 21st century looks like. Both speakers were affirming and challenged us.

Overall, there has been a thread throughout all that we have done for our professional development. Formation to mission, in concert with the summer reading and individual professional development all work toward the same end, which is to support and encourage our most precious asset: educators of the Sacred Heart.

Mimi Rafferty Retires after 28 Years as English Teacher Mimi Rafferty graded her last English paper and has embarked on an adventurous and well-planned retirement that includes world travel, tutoring the children of migrant workers, cultural trips to New York City and leisurely walks with her husband and grandchildren.

Mrs. Rafferty taught English at Convent of the Sacred Heart under three heads of school and leaves behind many friends and memories.

In a special chapel for the Upper School, she reflected on her retirement and life at Sacred Heart. The following is an excerpt.

Any transition in life is accompanied by mixed feelings—regret at the thought of not seeing the people you have grown to know and love, some anxiety at letting go of accustomed routines (not entirely—not having to get up at 6:30 every morning of the week will be a welcome change).

I will miss Mr. Allison’s smile as I run up the walk with all my bags every morning, hoping to arrive at Morning Meeting before the door closes. But I will leave with such fond memories of all that I have experienced at Sacred Heart. What a privilege it has

I remember very primitive attempts to create videos for History Day on a computer in the library. Now, under Ms. Ellyn Stewart’s expert guidance, students in broadcast journalism have been recognized nationally for their documentaries and locally for their creative insights in film.

I remember when Perspectives and the King Street Chronicle were rather primitive attempts at photocopying and stapling.

Now in Perspectives we are so lucky to have our own in-house photo design specialist and book maker, Ms. Kev Filmore

regret at the thought of not seeing the people you have grown to know and love, some anxiety at letting go of accustomed routines...” been to see this School grow. I remember when the Upper School had less than a hundred students. Now it has close to 300.

I remember when the English Department had only two teachers. Sister Cherry and I had to do all that we could. I had the ninth and tenth grades. She had eleventh and twelfth. Now, we are fortunate to have six or more colleagues [in the Upper School] to bring new ideas and new energy to the different disciplines.

The effects of this growth are very visible. Dr. Mottolese [English Department chair William Mottolese] re-imagined the Great Thinkers humanities course, which I used to teach.

Now this is a capstone course for all the seniors, combining philosophy, theology and literature, with more speakers from within the Sacred Heart academic community and the outside world in many different disciplines, coming to lecture on various subjects and social justice.

[Upper School photography teacher], who has made our literary magazine truly a student-run production that combines creative writing, photography and art work, in a professional layout that consistently wins gold and silver medals from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. And next year, under the innovative direction of Ms. Larson and Mr. Haeseler [Matilde Larson teaches journalism in Upper School and Karl Haeseler is director of education technology], the newspaper is going digital, with updates every two weeks or so.

With all of the above, I leave the English Department very well indeed and moving forward at an exponential pace…And I will be back next year to see all the remodeling of the classrooms and every once in a while to substitute. One cannot stay away from Sacred Heart for long.

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2011–12

TEAMCSH

By Kelly Stone, Director of Athletics

IN THE ZONE Sport has the power to galvanize—to incent individuals to go beyond, to transform a group into a team and to bring a community together.

It is unpredictable, emotional, frustrating and exhilarating all at the same time. That’s why we love it, play it and rally ’round it.

Basketball’s BACK CHAMPS, again, after 23 years More than two decades later, the 2011–12 varsity basketball season replicated the work-product of the 1988–89 team winning 18 games, the Fairchester Athletic Association (FAA) regular season league and end-of-the-season tournament.

The success of the team drew the attention of many beyond Sacred Heart’s loyal fan-base, packing “the house” to capacity and offering standing room only during the championship game.

Outstanding individual 3-point performances, inspiring inside penetration and aggressive defensive play throughout the season elevated the energy and excitement on campus. The buzz drew fellow students and our Tiger mascot, Roary, to the stands during Championship Week to swing rally towels, chant “Go Heart,” to witness the Tigers beat St. Luke’s 56–40 in the quarterfinals, survive Rye Country Day in the semis 47–41, and seal the deal in the finals against Holy Child 63–45, and, above all, to feel connected to something special.

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Freshman center Emily O’Sullivan proved to be a formidable foe earning the regular season scoring title with 259 points in 22 games (an average of 11.7 points per game) and 14 rebounds per game.

Colleen O’Neill ’14 was selected as a 2012 New England Basketball Class A All-Star for her standout performances at both ends of the court. Colleen scored 227 points in 22 regular season games (10.3 points per game) and averaged 3 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 steals per game. In the three-game FAA Tournament, Colleen converted 64 points, an average of 21.3 points per game.

CREW During the fall season, fours+ and eights+ were entered in five different “Head” races. The Varsity 4+ finished 26 out of 76 boats at the 2011 Head of the Charles with a time of 2001.75 which earned an automatic berth in the 2012 regatta.

At the New England Fall Championship Regatta on Lake Quinsigamond, our second varsity 4+ and novice varsity 8+ captured gold while the varsity four+ and second varsity 8+ boats took bronze medals home. The novice 8+, coxed by sophomore Regina Ferrara, added a second gold medal at the final race of the season, the Bill Braxton Regatta.

The growth of Sacred Heart crew continues to translate into opportunities on the collegiate stage for some. Mollie Pillari ’12 and Margaretta Ryan ’12, both pursued by Ivy League programs,

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1. New England All-Star Colleen O’Neill ’14 drives to the hoop during a 43–35 win against King. 2. Sarah Hirshorn ’13 with the encouragement of crew coach Costel Mutescu erged to first and sixth place finishes at the CT and CRASH-B’s indoor rowing championships, respectively. 3. Record-breaking, All-New England runner Julie Randolph ’13 won six races during the fall season.

4. Basketball captain Allison Toner, the sole 12-varsity letter winner in the senior class, looks to pass the ball against King. 5. Spring Crew Senior Day celebrated 45 seasons of commitment of six graduating members of the rowing program (Coach Costel Mutescu, Ashleigh McGrath, tri-captain Kate Welch, tri-captain Lindsey Alpeter, tri-captain Margaretta Ryan, Alex Root and Mollie Pillari).

intend to compete at Brown University and Cornell University, respectively, in the fall. Kate Welch ’12 signed a National Letter of Intent from George Washington University to attend and row.

Indoor rowing events, also, serve as a showcase for our athletes.

Sarah Hirshorn ’13 won the 2012 Connecticut State Indoor Rowing Championship in the Lightweight Division with a time of 7:41.2 minutes in the 2,000 meter ergometer sprint race and pulled 7:42.2 to finish sixth out of 100 competitors at the 31st Annual CRASH-B’s, the World Indoor Rowing Championships.

On Saturday, May 26, before the varsity 8+ raced in the Petite Finals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Championships, six seniors representing 45 seasons committed to crew were celebrated for their collective contributions to Sacred Heart athletics.

Cross Country Runner Julie Randolph ’13 had a break-out season in 2011, recording six first-place and two second-place finishes, a fourthplace performance out of 105 at the New England Division II Championships, establishing one new course record in 19:27.8 minutes (the old record was 20:44) at the FAA Championship on Sherwood Island where she finished first and setting three personal records.

Invited to compete against 51 of the swiftest Division I, II and III runners in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council at the New England All-Star Cross Country Invitational, Julie Randolph ’13 ran her second fastest time of the season (19:43.68) to finish in seventh place and earn the honor of New England All-Star.

Championship week brought out the best in four new members of the varsity program. Freshman Abbi Wilson established her personal best (22:19.2) at the FAA Championship and Ali Walsh ’15 (23:52), Liz Juan ’13 (24:46), and Grace Kennedy ’15 (25:20) recorded personal records at the New England Division II Cross Country Championships at Groton School.

Field Hockey The 10–8–1 varsity squad finished second in the 2011 FAA League standings and advanced to the FAA Tournament Championship against Greenwich Academy (GA). The fearless and unselfish play of goaltender Caroline Eagan ’12 and defender Caroline Antonacci ’12 kept the first half scoreless.

Goals converted on corners in the second half by both teams, first by GA and six minutes later by CSH’s Maggie Annecchino ’12, forced the finals beyond regulation time. Six minutes into sudden death overtime, GA scored the decider in 7 v 7 play.

Overtime results are always unforgettable, emotionally a rollercoaster, surreal for the victor and heartbreaking for the runner-up, especially when it is against a cross-town rival.

Erin Myers’ Accomplishments 2010, 2011: Fairchester Athletic Association All-League Soccer Selection 2008, 2010, 2011: Western New England Preparatory School Athletic Association All-Star 2010, 2011: 24-member Connecticut State Prep Soccer Team 2011: National Soccer Coaches Association of America High School Scholar All-America Soccer Team. Erin is the first Sacred Heart soccer player to earn this national recognition. (Recipients must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or better [on a 4.0 scale], have demonstrated excellence in soccer at the high school level and have performed service in her community.)

Caroline Antonacci ’12 and Christine Bloom ’12, recognized for their excellence in the classroom (cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or above out of 4.0 scale) and on the field, were named to the 2011 Gladiator by SGI High School Academic Field Hockey Squad.

Winger Christine Bloom hopes to continue her field hockey career at Kenyon College in the fall.

Soccer With a sixth-place finish in the FAA regular season standings, varsity soccer earned a berth in the FAA tournament for the second straight year. CSH fell to Greens Farms Academy (No. 3) 1–0 in the quarterfinals.

The 2011 season featured high-level performances from keeper Jenna Hascher ’13 and midfielder Erin Myers ’12 who were both named to the 2011 Connecticut All-State Soccer Team.

A four-year varsity starter and Sacred Heart’s most decorated soccer player, Erin Myers will wear #10 (the jersey number commonly associated with the playmaker in the soccer world) at Vanderbilt University in the fall where she signed a National Letter of Intent to play Division I soccer in the Southeastern Conference. The work ethic, dedication and skill level Erin demonstrated on the soccer pitch raised the bar for Sacred Heart soccer.

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Volleyball

SWIMMING

The four-year-old varsity volleyball team, registering a 15–4 record, finished third in the FAA, won the FAA tournament for the third consecutive year (2009, 2010 and 2011), earned a fifth-place ranking in New England Class B competition, and advanced to the New England tournament for the third straight year.

Interest continues to swell at the Middle School level translating into more volleyball prospects for Upper School teams. With only one graduating senior, the 2012 forecast looks bright and sunny.

Co-captain Nicole Rogers ’12 won many individual races during her final Sacred Heart campaign including the 100-breast stroke and 200-individual medley at the Loomis Chaffee meet.

The 11–3 swim program continued its reign of the Catholic Challenge defeating Convent of the Sacred Heart at 91st Street, Holy Child, Good Counsel and Marymount. Established in 2009, CSH, Greenwich is the sole champion of this invitational meet.

DIVING The diving program welcomed eighth-grader Caleigh Kupersmith who made a big splash in her Sacred Heart debut at Loomis Chaffee, outscoring the entire field of divers (girls and boys) by 50 points with a total of 188.65.

At Hotchkiss, Caleigh set a new pool record and Sacred Heart record scoring 251.20 points in the six-dive competition. The previous School record, 241 points, was established in 2009 by Emily Stotesbery.

In 11-dive championship meets, Caleigh took silver at the Bud Erich Meet and fourth at the 2012 New England Swimming and Diving Class A Championships.

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SQUASH Varsity squash, a bit less experienced than in recent years, left an indelible legacy of championship caliber spirit and leadership. With an overall record of 13–10, the squad demonstrated true grit when their backs were against the wall on Senior Day against Blair Academy pulling out a gutsy 4–3 win.

GOLF An army of aspiring golfers hit the links this spring building a solid foundation for the future. The first five, 11–6–2 against Western New England teams, chipped its way to a second place finish in FAA competition.

Sophomores Mimi Dunn and Christie Huchro negotiated a soggy Round Hill Country Club course at the FAA tournament each shooting a 44 to earn All-League distinction.

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6. Varsity volleyball after beating Greens Farms Academy 3–1 to win the FAA tournament for the third straight year.

7. Eighth-grader Caleigh Kupersmith dove to a fourthplace finish in her New England championship debut.

8. Kate Welch ’12 signed a National Letter of Intent to row at George Washington University in the fall of 2012 while Head of Upper School Jayne Collins, Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, Coach Costel Mutescu, Director of Athletics Kelly Stone and Coach John Murtagh look on.

9. Varsity basketball, back on top, after winning FAA regular season and tournament finals.

LACROSSE With a strong talent pool, the junior varsity team boasted an impressive 10–1 record converting 131 goals to the opposition’s 47 while the varsity tried, valiantly, to defend its FAA championship of a year ago.

Poised and consistent in the nets, Maddie Pillari ’13 helped the Tigers secure a first-time victory over perennial power Hotchkiss and battle back from a six-goal deficit at the half against GA, on two separate occasions, to treat supporters of both schools to heartstopping final moments.

High-scoring midfielder, Alli Sciarretta ’12 earned Honorable Mention All-American honors for her ability to find the back of the net and dominate in transition. Alli will attend Middlebury College in the fall where she hopes to be a contributor on the lacrosse field.

For distinction on the field and in the classroom, low attacker Allie Kenny ’13, midfielder Taylor Ryan ’13 and low defender Allison Toner ’12 have been named to the US Lacrosse All-Academic Team.

Team members must have a cumulative (freshman year through spring 2012) grade point average of 3.6 out of a 4.0 scale.

SOFTBALL Softball bid farewell to its co-captains, Kori Alzate ’12 and Fiona Cavise ’12 this spring, who have been consistent fixtures on the softball diamond for the last three and four years, respectively.

Three freshman ballplayers, Caroline Burch, Alexa Granser and Abbi Wilson, infused spirit, hard work, and experience into the program which will prove to be key building blocks for future success.

TENNIS Varsity tennis opened the season against Choate, a first-time meeting for both, and returned home with a stunning 5–2 win.

The season ended with captain Krystyna Miles ’12 volleying for the top spot in the finals of the FAA singles tourney.

Freshmen Maddie Church and Cori Gabaldon, new to the tennis artillery, enhanced the competitiveness of the singles ladder.

UNDEFEATED TEAMS Five Middle School teams achieved undefeated seasons during the 2011–12 campaign: the sixth-grade Yellow and seventh-grade Blue soccer teams, sixth-grade Tigers and seventh-grade Stripes basketball teams, and seventh-grade Blue Cubs lacrosse. The sixth-grade soccer team has been undefeated for six consecutive seasons, since 2006.

FAA SCHOLAR-ATHLETE Krystyna Miles ’12 was presented with the prestigious FAA Scholar-Athlete Award, given to senior student-athletes who display excellence and superior achievement in both athletics and academics.

Krystyna was one of six female athletes throughout the League to be

10 10. Varsity swimming won the Catholic Challenge for the fourth consecutive year.

11. Alli Sciarretta ’12 earns All-American Honorable Mention lacrosse honors.

12. Krystyna Miles ’12, 2012 Fairchester Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete.

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Captain of the 2012 varsity tennis team, Krystyna has been recognized by the FAA five times, earning four All-League selections in tennis and one in squash.

Already a distinguished tennis player as a freshman, Krystyna entered the squash scene for the first time as a ninth-grader and quickly developed into a competitive squash player attaining the No. 1 spot in her senior year and a national ranking of 40th.

GAME CHANGERS The Four-Year Three-Sport Award recognizes seniors who have played on 12 interscholastic teams during their four-year Upper School career. Two senior-athletes, Caroline Eagan (field hockey, squash, tennis) and Allison Toner (soccer, basketball, lacrosse), made the ultimate three-season commitment to the athletics program.

The Riley Athletic Award is presented to a member of the freshman or sophomore class who has contributed the most to Sacred Heart athletics through her ability, enthusiasm, dedication and sportsmanship. Sophomore Colleen O’Neill, a six varsity letter winner and an impact player on the soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams, received this award for the second consecutive year.

The 11th and 12th Grade Athletic Award is presented to a member of the junior or senior class who has made the greatest contribution to the success of Sacred Heart athletics through her ability, enthusiasm, dedication and sportsmanship. Alli Sciarretta ’12, a two-sport co-captain, winner of eight varsity letters, a field hockey and lacrosse starter as a freshman, and a game changer throughout her career, was the 2012 honoree.

The Sportsmanship Award honors the senior who, in practice or competition, is fair and honorable, conducts herself with integrity and humility, demonstrates patience and teamwork and treats her teammates, coaches and opponents with respect. A loyal member of the crew program for eight seasons, Alex Root was the 2012 recipient.

The Margaret Melford Cup is given to the student who has made the greatest contribution to the Committee of Games and the Green and White Teams. Erin Myers ’12, head of Committee of Games and a CSH “lifer,” was presented with the award.

The Joan Magnetti, RSCJ Leadership Award is presented to a senior athlete whose actions best exemplify the qualities of a “profile in leadership.” Margaretta Ryan, a three-time co-captain of crew and winner of eight varsity letters in crew, became the fourth recipient of this distinguished honor.

10th Annual Katie Cassidy Higgins ’96 Memorial Lacrosse Tournament Raises Money for Scholarship On Sunday, June 3, Convent of the Sacred Heart celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Katie Cassidy Higgins ’96 Memorial Lacrosse Tournament. All proceeds support the four-year Katie Cassidy Higgins ’96 Scholarship, which is awarded to a studentathlete who will attend our Upper School.

Katie’s spirit, energy and love for athletics was felt more than ever as 700 girls from 28 teams in the tri-state area gathered on the lacrosse fields and danced to music in between games. The event included a silent auction and raffle, food, music, face painting and “the fastest shot” from Harrow Sports of Greenwich.

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Katie died tragically at the age of 19 after being struck by a motorcycle while crossing the street during her sophomore year at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. A CSH “lifer” from kindergarten through graduation, Katie was an outstanding athlete who was passionate about lacrosse and Sacred Heart’s athletic program.

The tournament was a memorable day for Tricia Higgins O’Callaghan, Katie’s mother. “This is fabulous,” O’Callaghan said. “It’s what Katie was all about.”

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At the Upper School spring sports awards on May 24, the Katie Cassidy Higgins ’96 Award had been presented to Lindsay O’Callaghan ’12 for her outstanding leadership and love of the game. Lindsay was co-captain of the lacrosse team.

After the tournament, alumnae met on the field for the first Annual Katie Cassidy Higgins ’96 Memorial Alumnae Lacrosse Game. Fifteen alumnae returned to play against CSH’s varsity team.

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2011–12 FAA ALL-LEAGUE & HONORABLE MENTION ATHLETES All-League Basketball Colleen O’Neill ’14 Emily O’Sullivan ’15 Kayla Souza ’13 Allison Toner ’12 Cross Country Julie Randolph ’13 Field Hockey Maggie Annecchino ’12 Caroline Antonacci ’12 Catherine Hayden ’15 Alli Sciarretta ’12

Golf Mimi Dunn ’14 Christie Huchro ’14

Squash Mary Grace Henry ’15 Krystyna Miles ’12

Lacrosse Colleen O’Neill ’14 Maddie Pillari ’13 Taylor Ryan ’13 Alli Sciarretta ’12

Tennis Maddie Church ’15 Nicole Fischer ’12 Krystyna Miles ’12

Soccer Erin Myers ’12

Volleyball Alex Jordan ’13 Grace McKenney ’15

Softball Fiona Cavise ’12

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Soccer Jenna Hascher ’13

Basketball Bridget Scaturro ’14

Softball Abbi Wilson ’15

Cross Country Marguerite Francois ’13 Abbi Wilson ’15

Squash Caroline Antonacci ’12

Field Hockey Christine Bloom ’12

Tennis Cori Gabaldon ’15

Lacrosse Maggie Annecchino ’12

Volleyball Devon Hoffman ’13

Crew and swimming are not recognized as FAA sports.

Western New England Preparatory School All-Stars Field Hockey Maureen Leitner ’14 Meggie Purcell ’13 Soccer Jenna Hascher ’13 Erin Myers ’12 Volleyball Devon Hoffman ’13 Alex Jordan ’13 Grace McKenney ’15

New England Preparatory School Athletic Council All-Stars Basketball Colleen O’Neill ’14 Cross Country Julie Randolph ’13 Lacrosse Taylor Ryan ’13 Alli Sciarretta ’12

Championship Titles 2007–12 2007–08 • New England Prep School Athletic Council Class B Squash Champions 2008–09 • National Middle School Squash Championship • Fairchester Athletic Association (FAA) Field Hockey Regular Season League Co-Champions • Catholic Challenge Swimming Champions • FAA Tennis Doubles Champions 2009–10 • National Middle School Squash Championship • FAA Volleyball Regular Season League Co-Champions • FAA Volleyball Tournament Champions • New England Prep School Athletic Council Class B Volleyball Champions • Catholic Challenge Swimming Champions 2010–11 • National Middle School Squash Championship • FAA Volleyball Regular Season League Co-Champions • FAA Volleyball Tournament Champions • Catholic Challenge Swimming Champions • FAA Lacrosse Regular Season League Champions • FAA Lacrosse Tournament Champions • FAA Tennis Singles Champions 2011–12 • FAA Volleyball Tournament Champions • FAA Basketball Regular Season League Champions • FAA Basketball Tournament Champions • Catholic Challenge Swimming Champions

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catching up with our graduates Message from the Alumnae President Dear Alumnae, the CSH community, and our most recent alumnae, the Class of 2012: As I reflect on the 2011–2012 school year, I am inspired by how much we have accomplished as an alumnae community.

This year, there were 13 alumnae events that brought 710 alumnae back to CSH, Greenwich. Our year began strong with Reunion 2011, which brought together 175 of us to worship, socialize and celebrate.

This year, we introduced two new events, including an Alumnae Family Mass in November and a networking event in March. I hope you were able to join us at one or more of these.

In November, the School acquired title from the Society of the Sacred Heart to the entire 118.4 acres of land on which the campus is located. At our various events and in our communications with you, we have been so pleased to hear how excited

you are with this purchase. There is so much anticipation and joy at the variety of options this opens to our community.

Now, I’d like to address the 61 talented, spirited, enthusiastic young women in the Class of 2012, who I call my fellow alumnae. Congratulations! CSH, Greenwich is a place you have called “home” for many years. Don’t ever forget what you have learned here on King Street— not just the academics, but the core of what it means to be a “child of the Sacred Heart.”

It is a special gift that you share with 2,089 Greenwich alumnae, as well as alumnae from Sacred Heart schools worldwide. As you move on to college and life beyond CSH, know that your “home” is always here.

Reunion 2012 is Friday, September 28, and Saturday September 29, and we will be celebrating classes ending in “2” and “7”. It is a time for all alumnae to reconnect and strengthen their bonds with classmates and fellow alumnae.

Finally, I would like to leave you with a quote from Life at the Sacred Heart: “Wherever you go, whatever road you may travel, you will always find a home at the Sacred Heart. Your relationships will endure and transcend all confines of time and space because they are founded on faith, hope and love.”

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer and I look forward to seeing you all at Reunion 2012!

Regards,

Patreece Williams Creegan ’84 President, Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association

2012–2013 Greenwich-Maplehurst A l u m n a e A s s o c i at i o n B o a r d President: Patreece Williams Creegan ’84 Vice President: Shannon O’Leary Pujadas ’87 Treasurer: Lisa Burke Fallon ’89 Secretary: Magee Finn King ’93

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Board Members: Vanessa Arredondo ’87 Alyssa Keleshian Bonomo ’86 Dreux Dubin Claiden ’77 Lucy Coudert Conrod ’89 Katie Phelan Contino ’95 Ellen Feeney ’02 Sarah Grogan ’97 Hope Houston Hirshorn ’82 Rita Houlihan ’66 Sarah Jorquera ’79 Barbara Linsenmeyer Malone ’85 Susan Callagy McCloskey ’84 Colleen Mara McLane ’91 Katie Molloy ’99

Catherine Finnegan Nix ’71 Sarah Quick ’04 Nicole Seagriff ’03 Ex Officio Members: Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 Director of Institutional Advancement Joan M. Petersen Director of Alumnae Relations Kathleen A. Feeney ’98 feeneyk@cshgreenwich.org (203) 532-3545

Class of 2012 inducted as alumnae The Class of 2012 took “baby steps” as Sacred Heart alumnae two weeks before graduation at the annual alumnae induction ceremony.

This year, Sacred Heart introduced a prayer service as part of the program, which included a luncheon with members of the alumnae board, school administrators and faculty.

The opening prayer was offered by Patreece Williams Creegan ’84, president of the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association, who welcomed the seniors into the association. Mrs. Creegan then joined Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 in presenting each girl with her “Sacred Heart Passport” and alumnae pin.

Among the speakers at the service were Danielle Pagano, M.D., ’03 and Kaye Cherry, RSCJ ’53, who reflected on their lives as graduates and offered words of wisdom. Vicky Allen, our school archivist and historian, spoke to the seniors about Sacred Heart traditions and Mrs. Hayes talked about the international connections they would make with other Sacred Heart school graduates.

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a l u m n a e G e n e r at i o n s t e a Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 and the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Board hosted the annual Alumnae Generations Tea on April 12 and welcomed more than 80 alumnae, associate alumnae and their daughters, granddaughters and nieces, who currently attend our School.

The Cora E. McLaughlin ’29, RSCJ Art Gallery was turned into a Victorian tea salon for the occasion. Mrs. Hayes and

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Alumnae Association President Patreece Williams Creegan ’84 greeted the guests, who, in addition to Greenwich alumnae, included graduates of Sacred Heart schools in France, Montreal, St. Louis, Chicago, San Francisco, Grosse Pointe, Newton College, Carrollton, and closer to home, CSH at 91st Street, New York City.

“What I love most about the alumnae teas,” said Caroline Eagan ’12, “are the

special connections I can make with my fellow, current Sacred Heart classmates and alumnae who come from a variety of different Sacred Heart sister schools all over the world.”

Caroline’s grandmother, Rebecca Halleron, graduated from Duchesne Academy in Saint Louis. While Caroline will miss the teas after graduation, her younger sister, Catherine ’16, will carry on the family tradition.

Alumnae C areer Morning The Upper School was given a sneak peek at the future and what it might hold for them by charting the paths taken by the alumnae who spoke on a panel at the annual Alumnae Career Morning.

The panel included Laura Antonacci ’01, Katherine Colihan ’06, Katy Grogan Garry ’95, Brennan Joyce ’03 and Elizabeth Tahmincioglu Kassapidis, M.D., ’81.

Dr. Kassapidis, an emergency room physician, spoke about her medical career made possible by a U.S. Army

scholarship. As a mother of two girls attending our school, she provided insights into balancing family and career.

Her ingredients for success, she told the assembly, are “discipline, academic excellence, sportsmanship, community service and spiritual growth.”

The other speakers included Ms. Antonacci, marketing manager for Penguin Books’ Young Readers Group, and three graduates who work for Coach, Mrs. Garry, Ms. Joyce and Ms. Colihan. Mrs. Garry is division

vice president of Coach’s women’s factory stores. Ms. Joyce is manager of women’s international factory stores, and Ms. Colihan is assistant manager for women’s factory stores.

All panelists said their Sacred Heart education was the springboard of their success and they advised students to study hard and to appreciate the values taught by the Goals and Criteria.

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connections at convent of tHe sacred Heart events Visit us at www.cshgreenwich.org and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CSHSacee

1. margaretta ryan ’12, maddie cron ’12, Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, mollie Pillari ’12, lindsay o’callaghan ’12, alli sciarretta ’12 2. mike carr, Penelope fishel carr ’55, Jane gillespie steinthal ’55, Jack steinthal 3. sue marechal scully ’56 and Joan maddy 4. debbie murdock, stuart ’76 and past csH trustee, with kate graham graham ’65

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To submit information, please contact your class agent or Kathleen A. Feeney ’98 at feeneyk@cshgreenwich.org.

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Virginia Beach Coudert vcoudert@optonline.net Renee Holt Bigler has resigned as president of Pathways, Inc., and was promptly named chairman of the board of Pathways.

She is a perfect example of how one person can make a difference. Renee continues to spend the winter in Vero Beach, Fla., and summer in Greenwich.

Virginia Beach Coudert says, “I keep busy with various church, artistic, political and family commitments but unfortunately did not take any major trips this year.”

Louise Meière Dunn’s mother’s exhibit Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meiere opened at the Museum of Biblical Art in America in New York in February.

Sacred Heart alumnae from various schools were in attendance at the opening reception including me, Virginia. Louise continues to speak at various venues about the art work her mother, also a Sacred Heart alumna, did for churches, public buildings, cruise ships and other organizations.

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1952 60th Mary V. Seitz Gallagher MGallagher@1TownandCountry.com Alumnae Reunion is September 28–29.

Please put this date on your calendar and try and join us on that day.

Macy Finn Doherty does a lot of volunteer work in New Hampshire. Her family is making sleeping bags for the homeless project “Away from Home.” She is also taking golf lessons. She is the devoted grandmother of 13 and great-grandmother of two.

Jeanne McNamara Eckrich has recently moved to a new condo in New Canaan, Conn. She continues to work as a family therapist. She has been volunteering at St. Aloysius Church in programs for seniors.

Mary Seitz Gallagher reports, “The Gallaghers are all doing well. Our children are scattered about the county. So we visit them during the winter months and then they come to visit us in the summer to enjoy the beach, ocean and lots of tennis and golf.”

Sissy Lamm Haskell is living on Hilton Head Island, S.C. She has become an accomplished gardener and her gardens were featured in May among others for a community benefit. Sissy is the enthusiastic grandmother of 14.

Most of Rachel Vuono Jensen’s family lives close by in Connecticut. One daughter is in California. She is the thankful grandmother of 14.

Barbara Hunter Latu’s two sisters, Betty Hunter, RSCJ ’43 and Jean Hunter, RSCJ ’49, are living at Kenwood, a residence for retired Sacred Heart nuns in Albany, N.Y. Barbara’s family are all well, including her five grandchildren.

Rosie Hope Robinson has returned to living in a townhouse in Fort Myers, Fla. She is a supportive grandmother of eight.

Aileen Mannix Schaefer is waiting for the arrival of her thirteenth grandchild. She is doing well and feeling very well.

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Cynthia Crump Crimmins cynthiacrimm@optonline.net Meg Dealy Ackerman has been involved this year with Beacon Academy. She and her husband, Bob, spent a wonderful vacation in Paris where they rented an apartment near the Luxembourg Gardens and were able to walk all around the city. Highlights included Oneguine at the Opera Garnier, many church concerts and a visit to the Musée Rodin, the building in which many for years there was a Sacred Heart school.

Sue Sughrue Carrington and her husband, Bill, have been studying the Bible and Church history. They

have been enjoying playing tennis and platform tennis.

I, Cynthia Crump Crimmins, and my husband, Arvid, took a trip to Holland this past spring and were at the Floriade. This summer, I will be sailing in Maine.

I am looking forward to a Class of 1955 gathering in the fall.

Judy Ollinger Depontes is very active with her church and 19 grandchildren. She also is busy doing sewing at home and alterations.

Joanne O’Connor Hynek and her husband, Dan, have downsized to a condo near Kendall Square, Cambridge, Mass.

Joanne is busy with volunteer work, family and weekends on the Cape.

Karen Conway Morrish is working with Guardian ad Litem. Cynthia hopes to see Karen when she stops in to see her daughter, Cary, and family in Darien en route to Maine.

Jane Gillespie Steinthal has suggested a class get-together in September or early October. She and her husband, Jack, went to the alumnae gathering in Palm Beach, Fla. with Penny Fishel Carr and her husband, Mike, and Karen Conway Morrish and her husband, David. Jane’s granddaughter will be attending the sixth grade at Sacred Heart, Greenwich in the fall. Her oldest grandchild is in college at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Adele O’Grady Botticelli, Greenwich ’68, AASH past president; Kimberly Kupik, Greenwich ’05, great-granddaughter of Hildreth Meière; Hildreth Meière Dunn, Greenwich ’77, granddaughter of Hildreth Meière; Debbie Wygal, Greenwich ’77; Virginia Beach Coudert, Greenwich ’48; Louise Meière Dunn, Greenwich ’48, daughter of Hildreth Meière; Alice Ann Robinson, Bryn Mawr ’04; Valerie Moore O’Keeffe, Greenwich ’61, AASH past president; Francis Gimber, rscj, Manhattanville ’55; Angela Bayo, rscj, Greenwich ’44; Lauren Kinslow, Bryn Mawr ’02

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Markey Pullen Burke markey.burke@comcast.net Markey Pullen Burke: “I finally retired in July of 2011 and have to say it’s been a big adjustment. But I’ve gotten involved in Mother Caroline Academy and Educational Center in Dorchester, Mass., and in local community work.

Kids are all fine and busy with their children. Ned is now in Atlanta and getting married in November.”

Kathy Dolan, RSCJ returned to Greenwich where she is serving as part-time minister of Sacred Heart spirituality. “It has been great to see that the spirit is still the same here,” she said.

“Academically, the School has certainly moved into the 21st century in the very best sense of the word!”

Pat Maguire Murray is at independent living community in Basking Ridge, N.J., and reports that her sons and grandchildren are doing well. One son, Basil, lives in Mendham, N.J., and has two children, Kyle, 4, and Maeve, 3. The other, Parker, works for a pharmaceutical company. Pat plays lots of bridge and joined 40 friends who went to Bermuda in January for a bridge tournament where she also enjoyed lovely weather and played golf.

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Dolores Cox Agnew doloresagnew@hotmail.com Rita Murphey Cleary enjoyed visiting with her daughter, Sharon, and family in Zurich last fall and then hosted them at home for Christmas. Her family is fine, and Pat has joined her church choir.

She will be back on the golf course this summer following her recovery earlier this year from successful knee surgery.

Mary Earl Fox has been busy caring for her son, John, who is living with her while he undergoes chemotherapy. She is positive about John’s prognosis.

Patricia McCarthy took 23 high school students on a mission trip to Nicaragua during spring break and said it was a transformative experience for them.

Patricia is planning to return to Lourdes this summer with students on the Malta Youth Pilgrimage. Her oldest grandniece graduated high school this year and will attend college in the fall.

(from left to right) Mary Thompson ’59, Dolores Cox Agnew ’59 and Joani Egan Mendelson ’59

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Cynthia Bush Logan, who works part-time as a clinical social worker in the Bronx, traveled to Berlin last fall for an emotional reunion with a cousin she had not seen in 30 years. “We share the same birthday and turned 70 together in the city of my father’s family. Our fathers had fought on different sides during WWII. It is ancient history now, but it was so important then.”

Between working and visiting her seven grandchildren she is kept very busy.

Danne Almirall reports that all is going well. She works part-time for the insurance office of the Archdiocese of New York, and enjoys the New York theater attending opera, lectures at the Met Opera Guild, plays and concerts.

Anne Kinney Duffy and her husband, John, are avid world travelers and stayed in Tucson from February through mid May. While touring the Alps and skiing in Austria last fall, Anne tore a meniscus on her knee. The travel bug runs in her family. Anne’s daughter, Hilary, is a tour guide for U.S. groups visiting Cuba.

Marjorie Naughton is enjoying her retirement and volunteers with New York City’s Central Park Conservancy as a gardener and tour guide and also at hospital. She vacationed for two weeks in South Africa, visiting Victoria Falls, going on safari and visiting Cape Town.

Marjorie would love to get together with classmates visiting New York City so please contact her.

Dolores Cox Agnew: “It’s been fun this winter season in Florida having different get-togethers with Greenwich schoolmates,” she said. In February, Mary Thompson invited her to play in a golf tournament in Hobe Sound. It was only her second round of golf after her hip replacement.

In March, she enjoyed a Ladies’ Day foursome with Sacred Heart friends Penny Fishel Carr ’55, Ann Thomason Oatway ’57, Maureen Kelly Winter at her club. And in April, she celebrated Joani Egan Mendelson’s birthday with Mary Thompson and Neepie DeCastro Bourne at Joani’s new condo in Vero Beach. Dolores is active as president of the Ladies’ Golf Association at Harbor Ridge.

1962 50th Pamela Wall Madden topamad2@yahoo.com In August 2011, we lost our dear classmate, Marita O’Hare, to brain cancer. She had been sick for only six months, which was a blessing, but it was a shock to see her quickly and suddenly decline. Marita worked for Greenwich Hospital’s Development Office with Sheila Hickey Cameron.

On a happier note, we look forward to our 50th Reunion on September 28–29. The entire class is rallying to get together for this momentous event under the leadership of Anne Harris Majic.

She is assisted by Karen D’Elia Alofs, Christine Donovan, Sandra Steinthal Powell, Sheila Hickey Cameron and Elizabeth King. Please do try to make it to Reunion. More details will follow on our plans. Anne Haigney Roome and I, Pamela Wall Madden, saw Jackie Paterno Kirby in January when she was in NYC for a conference.

My son, Andy, married Emmy Spahr on 11/11/11 and the reception was at CSH, 91st Street. My daughter, Maura, is now director of current productions at IFC.

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Stephanie Beaudouin Piper spiper@utk.edu Patty Powers Woodlock had a wonderful reunion in Vero Beach, Fla., with Cathy Collins McCoy and Kate Graham Graham in February. Patty writes: “I understand Michelle Rees Finn is down there too. With Susie Craig Conroy not far (Miami), we should plan a class reunion there next winter. Not quite a sleepover in the Convent, but close.”

From Franny Jani Neville: “Just recently moved back to Princeton, N.J., from Sarasota, Fla., because of the birth last May of our first grandchild, Brennan, in south Jersey. Also, a new grandchild arrived in May in north Jersey...so Princeton seemed an interesting and accessible location to land. I have a fun part-time job at a spice shop in town.

George, who retired from his third full-time job, is now happily substitute teaching and coaching. We spend a lot of time going to free lectures and music programs offered by the university. After spending six months last year traveling around the world, we are realizing that the world really does come to Princeton!”

Cathy Collins McCoy writes: “My news is that I retired from private corporate and securities law practice a decade ago; my husband of 30 years, Neal, died in

The Class of 1962 had a small class luncheon. (First row left to right) Anne Haigney Roome, Christine Donevan, Sandra Steinthal Powell, Beth Coakley Dolce; (Second row left to right) Pam Wall Madden, Elizabeth King, Sheila Hickey Cameron

September 2010; now I am coping.

Had a wonderful lunch and afternoon visit with Patty Powers Woodlock and Kate Graham Graham in Vero Beach in February. I look forward to the Reunion.”

Kate Graham Graham and her husband, Stuart, are proud grandparents. Her son has two young children. Kate has a daughter in Boston and one in New York. “We spend about four or five months down in Vero Beach, and then up north in Greenwich, and have just finished construction on a beach house in Westerly, R.I., where we will be all summer. Susie Craig Conroy and I vowed to get together in Miami this winter, but our busy lives prevented it. It’s a resolution for 2013!”

Liz Betts Leckie and her husband, Geoff, based in Venice, Italy, have been traveling the world. Writes Liz: “We went to India in February 2011 for three weeks, to Calcutta, Darjeeling and nearby tea estates. In April, we joined friends for our annual week of walking in France on the Way of St. James pilgrimage.” Last year, she was appointed assistant director of the Victorian Society London Summer School in 19th century Architecture & Design. At Christmas, she lunched in New York City with Anne Margaret Buell Baum, Deirdre Cavanagh Adelman, Heather Megaw Murphy and Michele Rees Finn.

Liz Betts Leckie ’65 , Steffi Beaudouin Piper ’65 and Patty Powers Woodlock ’65 at Steffi’s birthday celebration

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Heather Megaw Murphy is thoroughly enjoying retirement. To those who ask her how she fills her days, she replies: “I read.

Pop over to New York or Philadelphia to a gallery or museum. Volunteer. Get back in touch with my Brooklyn history and genealogy. Go to concerts. Attempt some photography! Have my mother (who’s now 95) come for a visit—she spends May and November with me. Travel (I had a fun, serendipitous trip to Hong Kong last July).

Plan a wedding—our daughter Kirsten was married last summer. Visit with the kids— they are in New York, San Francisco, Boulder, Colo., and Washington, D.C. And play with my grandson. The best part of retirement, though, is seeing our grandson, Daniel, thrive. Daniel has been through a courageous eight-year battle with Ewing’s sarcoma and is now in remission—truly a miracle. Thank you, everyone, who has been praying for him.

Prayer works! We are very thankful for this last, wonderful year, and hope all out there are well.”

Stephanie Beaudouin Piper is director of development for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and also writes a monthly column for a local newspaper.

She and her husband, George, spend lots of time traveling to see their three sons and four grandchildren in Abingdon, Va., Boston, and Warren, R.I.

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Vicky Tweddle de Barros vickytweddledebarros@gmail.com Joan Dowling Todd is happy that her two children live close enough to her in Essex, Conn., to allow frequent visits. Her daughter, Amanda, and her husband and two young children live in Old Greenwich. Her son, Trip, lives in West Hartford. Recently, she spoke with Florel D’Elia Steurewalt.

Rita Houlihan wrote from Israel where she and Kathy Sheehan were “on a pretty amazing trip with a great Biblical scholar, Lyn Osiek, who just happens to be an RSCJ.” Rita retired from IBM five years ago and still lives on the Upper West Side of NYC. She volunteers with FutureChurch and focuses on the forgotten history of women leaders in early Christianity.

Carmen Sanchez Bober lives in New Jersey where she and her husband have a family of six sons. She loves the opera and attends as often as possible.

Didi Moloney Fisher is still in California and spends part of her summers at their ranch in Oregon. She has six grandchildren, ages 6 to 17.

Jerry Murphy Gordon practices real estate on the North Shore of Chicago. For the past 33 years, she has called Chicago

Redington (2), grandson of Joan Dowling Todd ’66

and Winnetka home, but returns to the East Coast regularly. Her Sacred Heart connection remains strong, strengthened by her close friend who is an alumna of 91st Street and by her second cousin, a Religious of the Sacred Heart.

Eileen Foley Schermeyer continues to live in Quogue, N.Y. (after a stint in Seattle), and works in the local library. She and her husband, Richard, love to cruise in warmer climes and do so as often as possible.

They have a daughter and son, and two grandchildren by their daughter.

Joan Williamson is wondering why she spent 30 years commuting to NYC when she could have been working in Westchester County. She enjoys traveling and would love to retire to Alaska.

B.J. Gillespie Childs and her husband, Bob, live in Palm City, Fla. B.J. has three grandchildren, including a set of twins.

Chris Simon Coats lives in Greenwich and has two grandchildren.

I, Vicky Tweddle de Barros, retired after 25 years teaching kindergarten and am enjoying a new life, traveling and visiting my daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren in Massachusetts, and with my son and daughter-in-law, who live outside Albany.

Philip (7) and Izzy (4), grandchildren of Eileen Foley Schermeyer ’66

1967 45th Mary Francina Golden maryfgolden@aol.com Class agent, Mary Francina Golden, has returned to her first love, acting in the New York theater. Her oldest daughter, Brianne Handal, graduated from Georgetown University this spring.

Graduating with her was Celeste Pinto’s nephew. Mary’s youngest, Kolbe, will be a junior at Marymount Manhattan College.

Melissa Ricci Stewart has moved back to the Stamford-Greenwich area.

Maria Julia Harrison rented a house on the beach in Puerto Rico, and enjoyed the visit of her son and his family from Japan.

Mary Pat Murphy Slater is in real estate and lives in Vero Beach, Fla., with her husband, Carl, and their dog, Macduff.

She looks forward to a quiet summer of ocean swimming, reading and visits from her two daughters, also AASH alumnae.

Megan, their youngest, is a professor at Hamilton College and received her doctorate in the spring. Katie is an innovation advisor for the State Department.

Fraser (5½), Hammie (4) and Eleanor (2½), grandchildren of Vicky Tweddle de Barros ’66

Patsy McKegney Dunn is a senior legal assistant and lease negotiator for Gap, Inc., in San Francisco. Her son, Kieran, works in Manhattan and is engaged to be married in 2013. Patsy looks forward to getting together with classmates visiting the Bay Area. Please contact her at (415) 427-4482.

and is still hard at work, expanding her business, Education Solutions, while devoting time to her grandchildren. Cathy and JoAnne had a good conversation about their shared interest in fly-fishing (who knew) and JoAnne will be heading with husband, Bill, to Scotland in September for a grouse hunt.

Remember, Sept. 28–29 is Reunion. Please try to come. We are hoping to honor Anne Cotter Coles with a gift to the School.

Please contact me (maryfgolden@aol.com) or Libby White (hillwhite22@gmail.com) if you have any ideas.

Gloria del Valle Christopher and I had a fabulous trip to the Amalfi Coast last year with Cathy Maloney Claflin. It had an especially marvelous effect on Cathy (as seen in the photo below of her), and she decided that retirement was an increasingly compelling notion. So as of late last summer she’s been “living the good life” with husband, Tim, curling, fly-fishing and relaxing. They traveled to Sugarloaf Keys this spring to meet up with Tim’s daughter and her two girls. She is on the board of a nonprofit serving the homeless.

1969

Marion O’Grady ogradmm@nytimes.com This has been a year of wonderful celebrations and very deep losses for our class.

Together, we grieve the passing of Rylee Routh and Ellin Malloy Christensen and send love, thoughts and prayers to their families. We will never forget these dear friends; they will forever hold a very special place in our hearts.

And happily, gathering is a theme that continues to thread through our class’ activities. JoAnne Stevens Carter joined Joan Wooters-Reisin, Cathy Maloney Claflin, Barbara Banks Schwam and me for dinner late in 2011. She looks fabulous

Gloria del Valle Christopher, Joan McAnaney Fay, Barbara Banks Schwam and I gathered for a holiday dinner in New York. Joan had a year of fabulous life-changing celebrations that included the weddings of both her daughters.

Molly married John Urquhart on August 20 at the Conanicut Yacht Club in Jamestown, R.I. Morgan Barry Morton, Molly’s godmother, threw a beautiful bridesmaids’ luncheon. Molly is at Mt. Sinai Medical School. Joan’s daughter Katie married Nick Long on October

Cathy Maloney Claflin ’69 in the hammock at a seaside villa in Italy

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15 at the Inn at Castle Hill in Newport, R.I. Morgan gave a wonderful party for her. Katie is director of annual giving at Princeton Day School. This spring, Joan and her husband, David, spent a couple of months in Ponte Vedra, Fla. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo is creating beautiful jewelry and reports that she is doing well.

Stealey Jenkins Ashley is in Annapolis, Md., and I’m hoping she will be able to join us for one of our get-togethers soon.

Morgan Barry Morton, Marie Gerli and Joan McAnaney Fay all celebrated birthdays with their much anticipated sojourn to Asia last year. By all accounts it was a fabulous trip for them and now Morgan is planning a seven-week return trip to Asia with husband Allen to celebrate his upcoming retirement.

This has been a very bittersweet year for Morgan who lost her best friend, Rylee Routh, and now very recently her mother. Our deepest sympathies go out to her and her family on the loss of her mother. As the magic of life also prevails, Morgan sent news that she took her two oldest granddaughters to Paris, Venice and Rome for spring break this year. On her return from that trip, Morgan met up with daughter Kate and her two sons for a trip to Disneyland. Morgan will be in Nantucket this summer and I look forward to seeing her there.

Late last year, Rylee’s cousin, Lee Rodriquez Schneider, joined Morgan, Joan and Marie in Charleston, N.C., to support Rylee’s family in their loss.

Heartfelt sympathies to Lee and her family as well. Happy news comes this year, as Lee shared that she and her sister took their mother to London to celebrate her birthday. Lee and her husband, Bill, continue to pursue their love of skiing with their daughters at their vacation home in Silverthorne, Colo. They are looking forward to retiring next year from Houston to Denver. Two of Lee’s daughters currently live in Colorado.

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ski and plans to attend the University of Denver in the fall. Lee’s daughter, Echa, is in Oakland, Calif., working for a library.

Marie Gerli and Barbara Teichgraeber Grey also spent a few months in Colorado this winter. I had dinner with Marie and Barbara in Nantucket late last fall and Marie’s catering business continues to thrive. Both her daughter and son are well.

Barbara’s family and daughters are also doing well, with her two oldest stateside these days and her youngest still in school in London.

Barbara Banks Schwam has joined the ranks of others, including Ingrid Cronin Packard, in our class as a new grandmother. Her first grandson, Clifford John Alexander Schwam, was born June 4, 2011. Barbara’s son, Richard, along with his wife and baby Clifford live nearby in Forest Hills, N.Y., so Barbara is able to visit them frequently. Daughter Kristin is starting her senior year at Hamilton College, majoring in government and playing on the softball team.

This provides Barbara and husband Keith a great excuse to travel with her to Florida for spring training. Still working hard at the family law firm, Barbara took a break this spring to travel to Barcelona where she joined three college friends on a cruise that included Greece, Turkey and Venice.

Joannie Wooters-Reisin’s company, Reel Life Film, is busy creating new video content for TV and the web. On a recent outing, Joannie and I enjoyed the beautiful Steins exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art followed by dinner there. She also stays in close touch with Anne Correa, who some of us also see on occasion, and Anne is still singing, playing guitar, entertaining and producing wonderful CDs. Mildred Davis reconnected with Anne recently. Mildred has promised to signal us if she gets to NY. As for me, I attended the Newspaper Association of America’s annual business meetings in Washington, D.C., in April, where President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both spoke. Just for fun, every April I enter my daffodils in The Garden Club of America’s annual Daffodil Show

in Nantucket. I’ve won seconds, thirds and honorable mentions with these intrepid flowers; they thrive in the climate! My niece and goddaughter, Caroline, my sister Joan’s second child, graduated from Sacred Heart, Atherton this May and is off to college in the fall. I also enjoy spending time in New York with my mother who is still going strong and remembers everyone with great fondness.

1970

Joyce Gorman jgormanesq@gmail.com True blue Mary Therese Braun is a role model for loyalty and dependability, having worked at Dartmouth College for 10 years. In her typical self-deprecating dry humor, she reports that everything with her is “same old same old.” She misses everyone and asked that we all submit updates so that she can keep up with everyone’s news from the New Hampshire wilderness.

Susie Baker Bell splits her time between Chestnut Hill, Pa., and Prout’s Neck, Maine, where she paints and exhibits every summer. She plays a lot of golf, enjoys being an ecumenical minister for St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, and reports that life is good. Susie’s daughter, Tabor, works in a gallery in Chelsea and lives in NYC in an apartment Susie recently loved redecorating.

Susie and Tabor often may be found at the Soho House in NYC. Susie turns 60 in October, but attributes her youthful appearance to a timeless Lilly Pulitzer wardrobe for every occasion.

Priscilla Campo Press is looking forward to her daughter, Dodie’s, August wedding to Corey Gildart, a Bowdoin College upperclassman who spotted Dodie immediately when she arrived on campus. They’ve been together ever since. Dodie, Priscilla, Priscilla’s son, Michael, and his wife all work in finance in NYC, and Priscilla enjoys having them all nearby, since she lives in Oyster Bay and commutes daily to NYC. In Long Island, Priscilla sometimes

sees Louise Parent and Sharon Rice Sklansky, and in NYC she saw Meg Corroon Sheridan and Missy McHugh.

She finds it very comforting that everyone looks the exact same and is so easily recognizable.

Meg Corroon Sheridan ran into Priscilla and Dodie at Michael C. Fina in NYC when Dodie was arranging her wedding registry and Meg was replacing her cutlery. She also bumped into Mary Francina Golden ’67 at jury duty. Meg is working as a consultant to nonprofit organizations and her husband, Tom, is a litigator. They have three sons: Thomas, a financial analyst; and twins Colin, who attends Colgate University, and Patrick, at Davidson College.

Lisa Gowdey Dotson is still selling cars in Clarksville, Tenn., and slightly traumatized by the prospect of turning 60. She is very proud of her 17-year-old, big-hearted granddaughter who is beginning to look at colleges in Tennessee to be close to family. Lisa is very involved in her church. As music minister, she leads the music every Sunday, and is becoming a lay Eucharistic minister to be able to provide solace and comfort with the sacraments to the sick and disabled.

I am still a capital markets finance lawyer, still waiting for the capital markets to cooperate and begin generating legal work. Our son, Peter,

is at Georgetown and has released his first album and a new single. My stepdaughter, Kathleen, is planning her wedding in October in Baltimore. My stepson, Michael, and his wife welcomed a baby girl on Christmas Eve.

1971

Robin Clark robincrjc@hotmail.com Cathy Finnegan Nix cathynix30@gmail.com Hi everyone, we had a great turnout for our 40th reunion. We were all so glad to get together, share our memories and laugh a lot. Christina Barbero reminded us she was our class president both junior and senior year! Meg Clary Bisharat shared her very cool illustrations she has been doing for her son’s books. Anne McCormick Hubbard, Titine, Claudia Neale, Ellen Luby, Maryanne Bardwil Lynch, Jeanette Srubar Wallace all had fun stories from our high school days.

We honored the memory of Kim Bruns Strobis at Mass. We missed Monica Dursi Cimina, Connie McKenna and Suzanne Brady Forlivio for last minute cancel. We welcomed three new classmates from Kenwood ’71, Mary Collins, Rosemary Keilty and Amanda Maguire.

We don’t have to wait another 10 years.

Harriette Shiland McDonough has

offered to organize a NYC reunion. Let us know how you all are and if we can try to get this great group of women together again.

1972 40th Patricia Steller Grace pstellergrace@msn.com

1975

Josie Kaufmann josie.kaufmann@yahoo.com Hello, Class of 1975! Michelle Dubuque Vallely recently became a grandmother to a little boy, Peter Scott Vallely III, better known as Trey.

Rosie Barry lost her mother, as did Anne Vernon, as did I—all within weeks of each other. Many of you have already experienced the loss of the final parent.

It’s not easy, but time heals, memories are treasured, and we go on.

Mary McGowan is doing wonderful work with an organization that builds awareness among woman about heart disease.

You know guys—we have reached those tender years where stuff happens. Life has a funny way of throwing us a curve ball every once in a while—and it’s friends that help us through. So here’s to CSH friendships—let’s keep the magic going! Please keep me up on your news—good and bad.

1977 35th Toni Palazzo Maloney palazzosister@aol.com

Susie Baker Bell ’70 with her 32-year-old daughter, Tabor Story, and husband of 15 years, Jamie Bell, a blues guitarist

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1982 30th Lauren Clark Kenny lckenny4@aol.com

1986

Nicole Peluso nicolepeluso@gmail.com I, Nicole Peluso, am a lactation consultant and doula at The Sanctuary Birth Center in Los Angeles.

Pamela Lankow Witherell is a real estate broker for Hammond Residential in Westwood, Mass.

Maryanne Ciminello is not only an alumna, but also a CSH parent. Her daughter, Sabrina, is in the Class of 2017.

Katie Grace Daly also has four beautiful children and lives in Hingham, Mass.

Other Class of 1988 alums in Hingham are Mary McCann Cassell and Hillary Lyden and their families.

Mary Catherine McCooey Dodman has four beautiful children and lives in Rye, N.Y. Bernadette Durham continues to do a lot of work on behalf of Lyme disease. She has been featured in numerous magazine articles and on MSNBC. She is putting her aesthetic talents to use on a website she created called Bedford Beauty.

Beth Errigo lives in lovely Naples, Fla. and works for NCH Healthcare.

1987

Sara Callagy Finn and her husband, Nick, live in Bedford, N.Y. with their four children.

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Elizabeth Jarema Flynn lives in Charleston, S.C., with her husband, Jason, and their son, Oliver.

Shannon O’Leary Pujadas spujadas@msn.com

1988

Melissa Dinger Gibbons and her husband, Justin, live in NYC with their two children. Melissa works for the family business, William H. Sadlier, Inc.

Kris Sekor Hooper kristina.hooper@gmail.com Christine Dolan Bennett, husband Scott and daughter Caroline live in West Hartford, Conn. Her daughter is 10.

Kelley Wells Biondi, her husband, Rich, and their two boys, Jay and Christian, live in White Plains, N.Y. Kelley is director of marketing strategies for Wealth, a subsidiary of Guardian Insurance.

She was honored by Guardian for her philanthropic work, which she learned at Sacred Heart.

Kathryn Rudolf Brant lives in North Carolina with her husband, Ken, and their two daughters. Kathryn lost her mother last year. Our prayers go out to her and her family.

Siobhan Hammer Dolce ’92 with her four children

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Kris Sekor Hooper is happy to report she made managing director at Allianz Global Investors. She was chosen to be one of 100 women to be included in a female leadership development program at her firm’s parent company, Allianz SE. She and her husband, Chris, are really enjoying their three kids, Clark, Madeleine Sophie and Ben. Sara Taney Humphreys continues to be a prolific and popular writer with her Amoveo series—despite having four children. She is traveling extensively to promote the series.

Shannon Cooney Johnston, her husband and daughter live in NYC. Pam Kettles Keller and her husband, Pete, have a daughter in the Lower School at CSH and three sons at Brunswick.

Leeann Mitchell Leahy lives in Bronxville, N.Y., with her husband, Tom, and their three children. Leeann is president of Translation LLC, an advertising firm.

Nicole Russo Steinthal and her husband, Tom, and have three children. Their daughter, Daisy, is a CSH Middle School student, who—when she graduates—will be a third generation CSH alumna on both sides of her family. Daisy is one of 14 girls in her family to attend our School. Nicole’s son, T.J., who will be at Iona Prep this fall, has a developed his

mother’s sense of community service.

He collected more than 2,000 books for Blythedale Children’s Hospital and received several recognitions for his service work.

Juliet Taverna Newman lives in Stamford, Conn., with her husband, Alan, and their daughter. Juliet works for the family insurance business, Taverna Associates.

J.B. Wilson has decided to return to college for a master’s degree in education.

1992 20th Katherine Shafer Coleman ksc96@alumni.princeton.edu Christine Murtha Coogan Christine.Coogan@morganstanley.com Baby news for the Class of 1992!

Katherine Shafer Coleman delivered John Robert Cornelius Coleman (named for his father and grandfathers) on April 28, 2011. Johnny was welcomed by sisters Georgie and Margaret. The Colemans live in Washington, D.C., not far from their Barrett cousins (family of Adelaide Shafer Barrett ’91).

1995

Siobhan Hammer Dolce’s family continues to grow. Siobhan gave birth to Ford Cluen Dolce on September 17, 2011. Ford joins big brothers Coakley and George, and big sister Bixie, at home in Rye Brook, N.Y. Siobhan is a real estate broker at Houluhan Lawrence in Rye.

Dina Cortese Urso dinacortese@hotmail.com Katie Phelan Contino lives in Harrison, N.Y. She and her husband are expecting their third child this summer.

Pamela Esposito and her family welcomed Alexander McKeon Stien on February 1, 2012. Pam lives in West Hartford, Conn., and works for a Montreal-based biotech developing drugs for brain cancer.

Kelly Fitzpatrick Dattulo lives in Chicago with her husband, Tom, and daughter, Madeline, who was born April 2011. They are expecting their second child in October.

We hope to see all of you at our 20th reunion this fall. Please stay in touch.

Katy Grogan Garry lives in NYC and had baby girl, Nina, on April 4, 2011.

1993

Jessica Enright-Polanish lives in Stamford, Conn., with her husband, Lloyd, and their two daughters. Their youngest, Adley, was born in April.

Diana Webber Giorlando welcomed her daughter, Lilla Dylan Giorlando, on November 16, 2011. Lilly joins big sister Hayden.

Martha Harper Fitzgibbons is living in Brooklyn with her husband, Kevin, and their baby, Mae, born in January.

Magee Finn King magee.king@gmail.com

Julie Speeckaert Swenson is living in Germany on an American military base. Her husband is in the Army and is deployed overseas, but she is living there with their three daughters and enjoying the traveling opportunities to the fullest.

Magee Finn King welcomed her son, Henry Quinn King, on January 10.

1994

I, Dina Cortese Urso and my husband welcomed our second son, Jonathan, who was born in December 2011.

Aimee Lynch Tusa welcomed Charles Stephen Tusa III on October 13, 2011.

Kate Webber Photography

Georgie, Margaret and Johnny, children of Katherine Shafer Coleman ’92

Diana Webber Giorlando ’93 welcomed daughter Lilla Dylan on November 16, 2011.

Magee Finn King ’93 welcomed son Henry Quinn on January 10.

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1997 15th Samantha Geary samantha.geary@baml.com Megan Heanue continues to live and work in NYC. She, her husband, Ravi, and daughter, Mia, welcomed Mia’s little sister in July.

Mary Kate Rosato married Michael Galt on June 24 at Resurrection Church in Rye, N.Y. The reception was at Westchester Country Club. The couple resides in Rye, N.Y. Regan Lyon Smyth moved to Rockville, Md. in 2011 and welcomed her second son, Caleb Lyon, in May 2011. She is a scientist and works for the conservation firm NatureServe in Arlington, Va.

Hilary MacDonald is living in San Francisco where she has recently graduated with a degree in holistic nutrition. Hilary was married in June on Nantucket.

1999

Erin Hartigan O’Rourke welcomed her second son, Kellan Hartigan O’Rourke, born December 19, 2011.

Katie Molloy molloy.katie@gmail.com

1998

Elizabeth Mackinnon Haak ecmackinnon@yahoo.com Kate Lavin Phillips kate.lavin.phillips@gmail.com Nikki Capellupo married Mark Kohnlein on November 19, 2011, at Saltwater Farm Vineyard in Stonington, Conn. Guests included classmates Jen Grant and Cassandra Lyons Reilly.

Nikki and Mark had a great time celebrating with their friends and family and then spent two weeks in Sonoma and Cabo.

Elizabeth Mackinnon married Andrew Carl Haak on January 21 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Fairfield, Conn. The reception was at Brooklawn Country Club.

Jen McGurty Perry and her husband, Matthew, welcomed Keegan William Perry on July 22, 2011.

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Kate Heffernan HeffKate@gmail.com

Margot Dolce Sturz margotsturz@gmail.com Meaghan Moy Mugnier welcomed a son, Patrick Charles Mugnier, on June 24, 2011, in Paris. She enjoys living in Paris.

Vanessa Palo married Richard Lowry in June 2011 at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in NYC. Bridesmaids included Erika Palo ’02 and Sarah Miller, a 91st Street alumna. Vanessa is director of communications at American Express.

2000

Margaret Feeney margaret.m.feeney@gmail.com Lindsay Smith lsmith1211@hotmail.com Sophie Lee Brooks and her husband, Darren, are relocating to Washington, D.C., after five years in London, where she worked in the field of international financial regulation.

Elizabeth Sartori graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2008. She is an associate in general litigation for a large international law firm in Boston. Elizabeth plans to be married in September on Cape Cod.

2001

Cynthia Bouvet Heraty cbouvet@gmail.com Kate Kretschmann Lederer kate.lederer@gmail.com Cristin McGuinn cristin@vineyardvines.com Margaret Shafer Margaret.shafer@gmail.com Laura Antonacci lives in NYC, where she is in the throes of renovating her new apartment. She is marketing manager at Penguin Young Readers Group, and completing a master’s degree in children’s literature at Simmons College, Boston.

Diana Dove is operations manager for Artisans of Leisure. In addition, she works as fitness instructor and personal trainer.

Recently, she traveled to Egypt and Jordan.

Carli Garcia spent last summer teaching in Shanghai, China, with Disney English.

She recently moved to California where her brother resides.

Colby Gargano married Chris Summers in November 2011 at St. Edward’s Church, Palm Beach, Fla. The reception was at The Beach Club. The couple met at St. Lawrence University. Bridesmaids included Tuohy Ahern, Cynthia Bouvet Heraty, Cristin McGuinn, Erin Higgins, Margaret Shafer and Eileen Hartigan Barendse. Laura Antonacci and Beth Moore Russell attended the wedding.

Erin Hartigan O’Rourke ’97 welcomed her second son, Kellan Hartigan O’Rourke, born December 19, 2011.

Ellie and Mikey Furman, children of Christie Devlin Furman ’97

Molly Nix Scioli ’97 welcomed Lilly Josephine Scioli on July 15, 2011.

Jen McGurty Perry ’98 welcomed Keegan William Perry on July 22, 2011

Mary Kate Rosato Galt ’98 and her husband, Michael

Nikki Capellupo ’98 on her wedding day!

Vanessa Palo Lowry ’99 and her husband, Richard

Meaghan Moy Mugnier ’99 welcomed Patrick Charles Mugnier on June 24, 2011, in Paris.

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Melissa Georges lives in West Haven, Conn., where she works for the Connecticut Department of Higher Education as a disability inclusion officer.

She is completing her second master’s degree, which is in organizational development, at Manhattanville College.

Cynthia Bouvet Heraty and her husband, Ryan, and son, Paddy, expect to welcome the latest addition to their family in November.

Katie McGurty Hutter is a U.S. naval officer and pilot in San Diego, Calif., where her husband, Eric, is also a helicopter pilot. Katie is a helicopter flight instructor teaching newly winged naval aviators how to fly the MH-60 Romeo helicopter.

Katherine Hynes graduated from Fordham Law School in May 2011 and is an assistant district attorney with the Bronx County District Attorney Office.

She was married to Tom Scott on June 2 at CSH, Greenwich. Kate Van Buitenen was a bridesmaid.

Kate Kretschmann is enjoying her new job as a social worker at Equality Charter School in the Bronx. She works with sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, providing individual and group counseling, as well as classroom services. Kate married Paul Lederer in July at The New York Botanical Garden. Natalie Hernandez Bell was a bridesmaid.

Alex Lewis is finishing up her second year of residency in anesthesiology. She is spending the summer at Harvard University’s School of Public Health studying global health. Her two-year research project is focused on improving the delivery of anesthesia care in developing countries.

Margaret Shafer is working for Cinereach, a film foundation and production company that won a grand jury award at Sundance.

Kate Stuebe is with ELLE Magazine as the associate director of integrated marketing where she works with international fashion and luxury accounts. Prior to ELLE, Kate was with GQ and Vanity Fair. As a volunteer with the sick, she returned to Lourdes, France, this year for her sixth pilgrimage, a tradition that became important to her while a student at Sacred Heart.

Kate Henry Zentko was married in July 2011. She moved back to NYC in September, and is working at Montefiore Medical Center as a pediatric nurse practitioner.

Megan Ziminsky married Michael Romano in August. She has been working for J. Crew as a merchandiser.

Classmates celebrating at Colby Gargano’s ’01 wedding: (Left to right ) Eileen Hartigan Barendse, Cristin McGuinn, Beth Moore Russell, Erin Higgins, Margaret Shafer, Ellen Shafer, Colby Gargano (bride), Laura Antonacci, Cynthia Bouvet Heraty, and Tuohy Ahern.

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2002 10th Ellen Feeney ellen.feeney@gmail.com Jennifer Raymond jennifer.raymond@post.harvard.edu Catherine Pereira married Bradley Marino on September 17, 2011.

2003

Jennifer Einersen einersenj@yahoo.com Nicole Seagriff nicole.seagriff@gmail.com Jennifer Einersen graduated from Fordham Law School in May and will start as an associate at Carter, Ledyard & Milburn LLP in the fall.

Catie Harrington married Kevin Bertoncin on October 15, 2011, at St. Patrick’s Church in Bedford, N.Y. The reception was at Waccabuc Country Club. The couple resides in Ridgewood, N.J.

Catherine Pereira Marino ’02 and her husband, Bradley

2007 5th Kristina Benza kbenza@gmail.com

2010

Jenny Traver jenny.traver@gmail.com Emily Hagan reports: “This year at Gettysburg College a small group of students and I established a chapter of Autism Speaks U. I serve on the executive board as marketing and advertising chair. Our chapter successfully raised campus awareness on April 2, Light It Up Blue Day for Autism, and, most exciting, we showcased an academic building in blue lights.”

Elaine James reports: “Last year, I joined a sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi, and I absolutely love it. I have my own radio show and have really found my passion there. I’m interning in New York City this summer for AM 710 on ‘The Joan Hamburg Show.’

The past two semesters I have gone to a soup kitchen in downtown Philly to serve.

Last year, I went on a service trip to New Mexico and lived on a Navajo reservation for 10 days where I volunteered.”

Beth LaBossiere reports: “Sophomore year at Yale has been great; I’m an economics major focusing on healthcare economics and policy. I still film, edit and produce for Yale’s sports publicity, and I was elected co-president of the largest community service organization on campus, Community Health Educators, for 2012–2013. These endeavors are an extension of my experiences at Sacred Heart, and I’m so thankful to the School for giving me the skills and values to do what I’m doing today.”

Alexie Poch reports: “As a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, I switched my major to religious studies, while still pursuing my dream of becoming a doctor by staying premed. I’ve completely immersed myself in Nashville’s culture by becoming the piano

player for a local band. I even bumped into Taylor Swift when she was here recording her newest album. I truly miss everyone from the Class of 2010 and hope all are doing well.”

Katie Randolph reports: “I have decided to pursue a government major with an international relations focus at Dartmouth and recently changed my minor to women’s and gender studies. This past winter, I had the privilege of studying in New Zealand and traveling in Southeast Asia. I am spending my summer at Dartmouth and, in the fall, studying at the London School of Economics.”

Courtney Reynolds reports: “In my sophomore year at Hopkins, I made dean’s list with a GPA of 3.91 and was chosen to be a resident advisor for the incoming freshman class. Last fall, I participated in the Faces of the Caribbean Pageant and placed second. As a result of my participation in the pageant, I was invited to host several showcases for the university, most notably being the African Student Association Beat of the Nile Showcase, and the Multicultural Student Volunteers Discovery Days Culture Show. In all, sophomore year was both challenging and rewarding.”

Carolyn Toner reports: “I’m a theater and dance major with a creative writing minor and have been in four mainstage productions during my four semesters here at Trinity College. I’ve been on the faculty honors list for all four semesters. As a ‘quest leader,’ I lead incoming freshmen on

an Appalachian Trail hike. I participated in a dance festival at Connecticut College and our dance troupe was named in the top 10 out 40 performances. I love Trinity and I’m keeping myself super busy doing what I love.”

Paige Terry reports: “I have declared an economics major and leadership minor. I traveled to South Vietnam on a program for student-athletes in the Atlantic Coast Conference and we volunteered as coachesteachers in a local village. Though I was challenged with the language barrier, I learned a lot about the Vietnamese culture and the Vietnam War; it was an extremely eye-opening experience. I raised nearly $9,000 for the St. Baldricks Foundation with the help of friends, family and members of the Sacred Heart community. It meant shaving my head, but it was an awesome and meaningful experience.”

Jenny Traver reports: “As a sophomore at Notre Dame, I am continuing to study psychology with a minor in education.

I’m also studying Spanish which will lead to a semester abroad at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile, in 2013. I have a very active role in the ND community by planning and executing my dorm’s signature events, and volunteering weekly with the Holy Cross nuns. I truly miss CSH, and wish everyone the best.”

Upcoming Events September 4 First Day of School September 28 Alumnae Visiting Day September 29 Alumnae Reunion Weekend October 10 Admission Tour Day

October 24 Admission Open House for Upper School November 3 Admission All-School Open House November 7 Admission Tour Day November 18 Alumnae Family Mass

November 19 “The Marketplace” & Parents’ Association Fall Luncheon November 20 Young Alumnae Congé December 8 School Community Christmas Party December 19 College 101

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MARRIAGES : Nikki Capellupo ’98 to Mark Kohnlein Elizabeth Mackinnon ’98 to Andrew Haak Mary Kate Rosato ’98 to Michael Galt Vanessa Palo ’99 to Richard Lowry Colby Gargano ’01 to Chris Summers Kate Henry ’01 to Paul Zentko Kate Kretschmann ’01 to Paul Lederer Megan Ziminsky ’01 to Michael Romano Catherine Pereira ’02 to Bradley Marino

Lilla Dylan Giorlando, born to Diana Webber Giorlando ’93 on November 16, 2011 Henry Quinn King, born to Magee Finn King ’93 on January 10 Charles Stephen Tusa III born to Aimee Lynch Tusa ’94 on October 13, 2011 Jonathan Urso, born to Dina Cortese Urso ’95 December 2011 Adley Polanish, born to Jessica Enright-Polanish ’95 in April 2012 Mae Fitzgibbons, born to Martha Harper Fitzgibbons ’95 in January

Colleen Purcell ’04 to Jonathan Tenan

Kellan Hartigan O’Rourke, born to Erin Hartigan O’Rourke ’97 on December 19, 2011

BIRT H S :

Lilly Josephine Scioli, born to Molly Nix Scioli ’97 on July 15, 2011

Catie Harrington ’03 to Kevin Bertoncin

John Robert Cornelius Coleman, born to Katherine Shafer Coleman ’92 on April 28, 2011 Ford Cluen Dolce, born to Siobhan Hammer Dolce ’92 on September 17, 2011 Alexander McKeon Stien, born to Pamela Esposito ’92 on February 1

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Keegan William Perry, born to Jennifer McGurty Perry ’98 on July 22, 2011 Caleb Lyon Smyth, born to Regan Lyon Smyth ’98 in May 2011 Patrick Charles Mugnier, born to Meghan Moy Mugnier ’99 on June 24, 2011

DEAT H S : Virginia Tucker Kaufmann ’32 Winifred Byles Campbell ’34 Elizabeth Hunter, RSCJ ’43 Judith Schmidt DePatie ’50 Marita O’Hare ’62 Ellin Malloy Christensen ’69 Rylee Routh ’69 Carin Routh ’75

IN LOVING SYM PAT H Y : John Balint, father of Claudia Balint ’77 Rosemary Barry, mother of Deirdre Barry ’84, Maura Barry Grinalds ’81, Morgan Barry Morton ’69 and Rosemary Barry ’75 Florence D’Urso, mother of Donna D’Urso ’80 and Lisa D’Urso ’82 John Stewart, father of Keara Stewart ’08 Robert Sullivan, father of Cara Sullivan Morrison ’89, Deidre Sullivan ’79, Nina Sullivan ’82 Rosamond Vernon, mother of Anne Vernon Campbell ’75 and Rosamond Vernon Amchtal ’76

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This photo taken in the early 1950s shows Upper School students dressed in international costumes, perhaps for an event reflecting Sacred Heart’s global connections. This photo was taken on the steps overlooking the former outdoor swimming pool on a part of campus now housing the “1960s building.” Alumnae in the classes of 1954–56 may see familiar faces in the group picture. Please send us any information you may have about this photo. You can contact the school archivist and historian, Vicky Allen, at allenv@cshgreenwich.org.

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Alumnae Reunion Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29 Celebrate friendships and memories with your classmates and alumnae from classes ending in “2” and “7.”

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