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Alumnae share insight about women in tech
Honoring the Convent Name Led by alumna Roberta (Mullin) Carcione (CSH ’65), a new scholarship fund has been established to honor the high school’s former name of Convent of the Sacred Heart (CSH). Reflecting its purpose as both school for young ladies and primary residence for the Religious of the Sacred Heart, the Convent operated under the moniker until 1984, at which point the boarding program ceased and the school became a co-educational institution. Gifts to the CSH Scholarship Fund will be directed to the financial support of eligible students enrolled at Sacred Heart Preparatory, with a goal to permanently endow the fund as an alumnae-driven legacy. Whitehouse (left) and Howard talk to members of the Women’s Group in January.
At an SHS Women’s Group meeting in spring, invited speakers Kira Whitehouse (SHP ’10) and Kristie Howard (SHP ’10) shared insight with current SHP students on pursuing a career in computer science, from the paucity of women in college programs to what is required in the entry market and what the workplace is really like. Having earned bachelor’s degrees in management-engineering from Claremont McKenna College and in computer science from Columbia University, Howard is now a software engineer with startup Docker, Inc. in San Francisco. Whitehouse, who graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s in computer science, currently works for tech giant Google, also as a software engineer.
Musician and songwriter Rooney Pitchford (SHP ’11) launched his debut album “Familiar Places,” following a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.
Last fall, writer Alex Braslavsky (SHP ’13, at right) conducted a poetry workshop on campus, joined by fellow alumna Maddie Mattehews (SHP ’13, at left) and about 35 student and faculty attendees, discussing the creative process, sharing some of her 58 work, and leading a number of writing exercises.