SISTERS SERVING
Sisters Serving
Sr. Jane Francis Leandro, SS.CC., ’55
Through an almost life-long connnection to the Academy, Sr. Jane Francis Leandro shares important messages of living life to the fullest, appreciating your faith life and leading by example.
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SR. JANE FRANCIS LEANDRO’S almost life-long connection to the Academy began when she came to SHA for her last three years of high school. At the time, she didn’t know that she would eventually become the school’s principal herself, guiding the Academy into the 1980s. Sr. Jane grew up on Maui and was inspired by her parents in her own faith development. She was able to come to the Academy because her father was going to take her mother to Lourdes during her senior year and proposed the idea of attending the Academy to her. She let them know that no one changes schools for their senior year, and so she persuaded them to let her start at the Academy earlier. She was able to live with her sister just up the street on 8th Avenue. At the time she came to the Academy, Sr. Jane notes that Sacred Hearts was THE school to be at in Honolulu for young women. While the Academy was known
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