Alumni Class Notes
Convent of the Sacred Heart • Sacred Heart Elementary • St. Joseph’s • Sacred Heart Prep Promoted? Moving? Married? New baby? New job? Please share your news with us for a future issue of the Sacred Heart Magazine at SHMagazine@shschools.org. All submissions may be edited for length and clarity, and digital photographs are welcome, too! Note: Alumni entries are categorized by the highest year of attendance. If an alumnus/a is a graduate of multiple campuses, a notation will appear next to the name, prior to the submitted news. ST. JOSEPH’S SCHOOL (SJS) SJS Class of 1991 Sanaz Hariri, MD writes: “I decided in grade school to become an orthopedic surgeon. While at St. Joseph’s, I connected with Dr. Michael Dillingham, who had kids at the school and who was/is my hero. He somehow made time in his crazy life to generously mentor me. I went to Harvard and was a history major, returned for medical school at Stanford, back to Boston for an orthopedic residency at Harvard, then a knee replacement fellowship at Harvard/MGH, and finally, back home for a sports/arthroscopy fellowship at Stanford. Currently, I am in private practice in Los Gatos, specializing in shoulder and knee pain. My husband, Matt Eichner, is a director at Google, and we have identical twin boys, Nate and Jack, who hopefully will be starting preschool at Sacred Heart soon. We are building a house in Menlo Park, walking distance from my parents’ home. I am so grateful for the nurturing and amazingly solid academic background that St. Joseph’s provided me, and I intend to be more and more involved in the SHS community.” CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART (CSH) CSH Class of 1975 Cathy Baldacci Jensen serves as director of resident services and lifestyle for The Terraces at Los Altos, a continuing care retirement community. She has three daughters: Kristen (29) is married and living in Chicago; Kelly (27) teaches at 74
Menlo School; and Kate (24) is in grad school in Chicago. She writes: “I attended my very first Giants World Series game this year!” CSH Class of 1976 Mary Pang Hinson (also SJS ’72) is the director of development for SportsHouse, an indoor, multi-sport recreation facility in Redwood City. Her daughter Ally is a senior at SHP and son Nick, currently a sophomore at Mid-Pen, is an alumnus of the SHS Lower & Middle Schools. She writes: “I chaperoned the first ever SHP Choir trip to Italy last summer where 34 students (including my two kids) led by Will Skaff sang Vivaldi’s Gloria, the very same choral music I sang as a freshman at Sacred Heart under Mr. McKinnon. In addition, while we were in Rome we visited Villa Lante, RSCJ worldwide headquarters, where Sr. Margaret Phelan, our former teacher at St. Joseph’s, gave us a private tour!”
Married in 2011 to Scott McDonald, the couple has one daughter, Laurel (2), and a baby due in May 2015. She writes: “I played volleyball at the University of Wyoming, completed my MBA at UC Davis, love discovering fun places to visit in the Sacramento region (where we live) and finding ways to get my daughter to enjoy eating healthy food.” SHP Class of 1999 Logan Allin is CFO & VP of business development at ONEHOPE, a Southern California-based social enterprise that integrates support of a variety of causes with products and services. He is engaged to be married, plans to move back to Bay Area in March of 2015, and currently serves on the Sacred Heart Alumni Board.
SACRED HEART PREPARATORY (SHP) SHP Class of 1997 Denise Sheldon (also SJS ’93 and 2012 SHP Athletics Hall of Fame inductee) reports: “During summer, I served as Team Leader for the 2014 Women’s Junior National Volleyball Team that won a gold medal in Guatemala at the 2014 NORCECA U20 Continental Championship. I worked alongside a Sacred Heart Cathedral alumnus, Nathaniel (Nate) Ngo. Following, I was asked by our head coach and legendary volleyball player, Karch Kiraly, to serve as Team Leader for the U.S. Women’s National Team for the 2014 FIVB World Championship—which went on to win the entire thing! The USA has never won a gold medal at a World Championship (nor either of the other two international majors, the World Cup and the Olympic Games), so this was historic and hopefully a big stepping stone on the way to Olympic gold in Rio.” SHP Class of 1998 Rachel Lau McDonald works in business management within the IT industry.
Denise Sheldon (SJS ’93, SHP ’97)
SHP Class of 2002 Tony Lahlouh (also SJS ’98), the eldest of seven family members to attend SHS, is recently married and currently vice president at Lahlouh, Inc.—a “printing, packaging, and promotions company” based in the Bay Area and serving a number of top global brands. “Favorite SHP memories include being part of the first SHP football team and playing under the lights at Kezar Stadium.”