9 Mother Eleanor Deming
Mother Deming was the much-loved Superior of the school from 1940 until 1956.
10 Esther Rossi Esther Rossi was the national president of the Associated Alumnae of the Sacred Heart. She made many wonderful contributions to our community and the community of Lone Mountain. An award from an endowed fund in her honor is given each year to an outstanding employee, as selected by his or her peers.
11 Mother Louise Williams Mother Williams was the beloved Mistress General of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Jackson Street. She served as the Superior at Broadway from 1958 until 1964.
12 Helen Carroll, RSCJ Sr. Carroll was the first Headmistress of Stuart Hall for Boys in 1956. Bill Miller SHB'62, and former Head of Stuart Hall for Boys, has fond memories of cleaning the bird cages in Sr. Carroll's office.
13 Ellen Hoffman, RSCJ Sr. Ellen Hoffman, or “Hoffy” as she’s affectionately known, served as the Head of Studies and later the Principal at Convent Elementary School. Sr. Hoffman currently lives at Oakwood.
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Bulletin | Winter 2013
Former and current lay leadership gather in St. Charles. Pictured, left to right: Mary Smith, Pamela Hayes, Gordon Sharafinski and Ann Marie Krejcarek.
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Lay Leadership
For the past two decades, the school has experienced tremendous growth while being led by the institution's first generation of lay leadership. In 1994, Dr. Mary Magnano Smith became the first lay Director of Schools, and led the effort to build Stuart Hall High School, which opened in 2000. Following a capital campaign to fund the expansion as well as building the Siboni Center for Arts & Sciences, Mary left the school, and was succeeded by an alumna of the Sacred Heart school in Greenwich, Connecticut: Pamela Hayes. Pam's tenure also saw millions of dollars raised and thousands of square feet added to the campuses. When Pam returned to Greenwich to lead her own alma mater, Gordon Sharafinski was asked to serve as Director of Schools in 2009, having served as the first Head at Stuart Hall High School. Under his leadership, the community closed the largest campaign in its history, Framework for the Future, which raised more than $22 million for endowment growth and facility improvements. Gordon retired in 2012 and Dr. Ann Marie Krejcarek was appointed President of Schools, having most recently served as the Headmaster at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida. The Society of the Sacred Heart had prepared for a day when non-Religious might run the schools, long before they hired Mary Smith. Following sweeping cultural changes in Catholic Orders in the 1960s, the RSCJ began to take action. Mary "Be" Mardel, RSCJ, led the discussion in San Francisco when she served as Director, convening an "advisory board" to evaluate the need for non-academic offices such as Admissions, Development and Business. This group's role was later assumed by the first formal Board of Trustees in 1978, with a layperson as Chair. The Society also created programming for lay educators to feel connected to the mission (see also page 62).