Trio Honored with St. Madeleine Sophie Award Recipients reflect more than six decades of service to school Joining a small but accomplished cadre, three members of the Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton community were named the newest recipients of the school’s prestigious St. Madeleine Sophie Award. The trio of 2016 awardees—Ruth Cady, Elizabeth Dunlevie, and Carol Schaffer— represent a combined 60+ years of service to and connection with the school. Dunlevie is a former board chair and current trustee, Schaffer and Cady have been employed with the school for a number of years, and both Dunlevie and Shaffer are parents of alumni. The awards were presented at a formal ceremony in September for friends and invited guests, held at the Campbell Center for the Performing Arts. Each recipient was introduced by a close colleague. “Ruth exemplifies Madeleine Sophie’s spirit The 2016 St. Madeleine Sophie Award recipients (l to r): Elizabeth Dunlevie, Ruth Cady, of generosity,” said P-8 Principal Francesca and Carol Schaffer Brake and teacher Jesús Ramos. “She’s our backbone and our 911.” Following these remarks, Cady was given Former faculty member Connie Solari closed the night with insight special congratulations via video from a host of students, faculty, on her longtime friend, neighbor, and colleague Schaffer. “Carol’s and administrators from the Lower & Middle Schools community commitment to building a more just and generous world is threaded she serves. through her very being...but what makes [this commitment] so powerful is that it takes its energy from her spirituality...[As Citing Dunlevie’s many contributions to school leadership, another faculty member puts it,] ‘Carol invigorates my love for campus preservation, and aesthetic growth, former board chair Jeff theology and faith; [I know] Madeleine Sophie must be working Chambers praised her “impeccable taste,” “wonderful vision,” and through her.’” exceptional ability to “get things done”—all of which resulted in this “magnificent campus which would look entirely different if Elizabeth had never set foot on it.”
Fridays with Fiona With a budding journalistic interest, second-grader Fiona Lempres is the author of a new, online, monthly column —“Fridays with Fiona.” The series features conversations with members of the Sacred Heart community, including a one-on-one with Director of Schools Richard Dioli in November. To read “Fridays with Fiona,” please visit www.shschools.org/ fridayswithfiona
(Above) Fiona Lempres (LMS ’23) interviewed Director of Schools Dioli about his favorite part of the work day. (Right) Talking with Kathleen Dolan, RSCJ, Lempres learned they were both born in the same hospital in Washington, DC.
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