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Lower School celebrates
GRANDPARENTS AND SPECIAL VISITORS DAY
This annual tradition celebrated by the Lower School welcomes guests to a morning filled with musical performances in the de Csepel Theater and visits to the classroom.
During the event, celebrated the morning before dismissal for the Thanksgiving holiday, students have the opportunity to express their gratitude for their grandparents and friends who have made such a difference in their lives.
2019 Summer Outreach
GOLF AND TENNIS OUTING
Thank you to everyone who supported the Summer Outreach Golf & Tennis Outing. From behind-the-scenes to the court, course or table, it was a wonderful day. The Outing netted over $75,000, in support of Summer Outreach, our six week program that provides critical academic programming for financially disadvantaged boys and girls from nearby schools.
There are several people who deserve special recognition: • Outing Co-Chairs Danielle Esposito P’24, Christine Fouts P’24 and Julie Keller P’24 • Varsity Coaches Karen Panarella and Celia Pashley • Varsity Golfers Lianna Amoruso ’21, MaryGrace Farrell ’21,
Carly Haines ’20 and Isabelle Pipher ’21 • Varsity Tennis Players: Megan Farrell ’20, Isabella
Gunningham ’20, Ursula Vollmer ’21 and Morgan Wilkens ’21
Congratulations also to the following winners: • Tennis: Ayo Hart P’24, ’24 and Christine Walker P’29 • Closest to the Pin: Helen Woods P’32 and Doug Mellert P’14, ’20 • Longest drive: Kathleen O’Connor ’89 P’20, ’21, ’22 and
Tom Halpern
• 1st Group Low Net: John Mitchell P’20, ’27, Scott Edwardson
P’18, ’24, Tom Gram, and Ed Simoneau • 2nd Group Low Net: Rob Dyer P’26, Jeff Arsenault, Chuck
Callery, and Ed Massaro
COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
Come Home for Christmas kicked-off the holiday season with a “Winter in the Alps” themed party. The weekend was such a success thanks to event chairs Paulette Pipher P’21 and Helen Servick P’22, ’25, Silent Auction Chair Amanda Gaudelet P’24, ’29, Holiday Boutique co-chairs Nicole Russo Steinthal ’88 P’19, P ’21 and Paula Tennyson, Past Trustee, Santa’s Secret Shop co-chairs Camille Mourdant P’25 and Liz Waldrup ’77, and Gingerbread Workshop co-chairs Elin Collins P’27, ’29 and Colleen
Micciulli-Foley P’15, ’17, ’19, ’28, ’30.
Thank you, as well, to the Board of Trustees, the Greenwich-Maplehurst Alumnae Association, The Parents’ Association, the Madrigals and dozens of volunteers. The weekend netted over $95,000 for the Faculty and Staff Professional Development Fund.
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BARAT SOCIETY LEADERSHIP
Donor Dinner
Nearly 100 guests were treated to cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and a surprise visit from Roary before adjourning for an elegant seated dinner at L’Escale in Greenwich. Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 and Board Chair Kathleen O’Connor ’89 P’20 ’21 ’22 acknowledged past and current trustees and thanked the school’s philanthropic leaders comprised of parents, alumnae and past parents for their generous and continued support.
Senior Sally Carter, Student Council President, spoke eloquently of her experience as a Sacred Heart “lifer.” She stated, “It is a true blessing to be a part of Sacred Heart where amazing people like yourselves help this community to flourish and thrive.”
Each year, the School receives over 80 leadership gifts at or above $10,000. We are truly grateful for everyone’s passion, leadership and investment in Sacred Heart Greenwich. To request more information about joining the Barat Society, or to make a donation, please contact Melissa Canoni, director of advancement, at 203-532-3326 or canonim@cshct.org.
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1. Belinda Badcock • 2. Patty Joyce Figge ’58, Pamela Juan Hayes ’64, and Mary Catherine Joyce McCooey ’60 • 3. Sally Carter ’20 • 4. Kathy Atkins, Roary (Leah Atkins ’20), Paul Atkins • 5. Kevin and Allison Gasvoda • 6. Tiffany and Vincent Briganti • 7. Rob and Mary Jo Dyer
FATHERS’ LEAGUE OKTOBERFEST
Special thanks to Fathers’ League Chair Jonathan Keller P’24 for planning a fun Oktoberfest. Dads came together for fellowship, bratwursts, and seasonal beers donated by Carlos and Belinda Brito P’23.
MOMS’ NIGHT OUT
The Parents’ Association hosted the second Moms’ Night Out party this winter with 70 moms from all divisions — and even some of our alumnae moms! — enjoying a casual evening of wine and lite bites by the fireplace. This evening is just one example of how Sacred Heart Greenwich celebrates community!
ALOYSIA HARDEY, RSCJ PLANNED GIVING SOCIETY
Leave a legacy…
By including Sacred Heart Greenwich in your estate plans, you can ensure that the School you know and love remains vibrant for future generations.
There are a number of ways to leave your legacy:
• Bequests • Charitable remainder or lead trusts • Rolling over an IRA (for those 70 ½ and older) • Beneficiaries of retirement funds • Beneficiaries of Donor Advised Funds
Testimonial from the Aloysia Hardey, RSCJ Planned Giving Society member:
My education helped to form who I am today and prepared me well for college, law school and a life of public service. My faith, my education and my sense of self were all strengthened during the formative years of my high school. I still cherish friendships from those days and look forward to reconnecting with classmates at reunions. Giving back was always a part of my life plan. To remember Sacred Heart in my will seems like a natural thing to do.
—Alice G. Burlinson ’73
For more information contact Melissa Canoni, Director of Advancement, at 203-532-3326 or canonim@cshct.org or visit shgreeniwch.org/giving/planned-giving
a lifetime of service and leadership
PAMELA JUAN HAYES’ LEGACY IN THE SACRED HEART NETWORK
Last year when Head of School Pamela Juan Hayes ’64 announced her upcoming retirement at the end of the 2019–2020 school year, then Board Chair Chris Ryan and current Board Chair Kathleen O’Connor spoke for the whole Sacred Heart community when they thanked Pam for her ten years of service as Head at Greenwich and more than 50 years of service to the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Under her leadership, Sacred Heart has experienced substantial improvements to its curriculum and facilities. Mrs. Hayes led the creation of a one-of-a-kind online learning environment in SophieConnect and facilitated the purchase of the School’s land from the Society of the Sacred Heart, which allowed for significant facility upgrades from world-class athletic fields to a new dining room, from library and classroom enhancements to observatory updates.
Longtime school archivist Vicky Allen chronicles here the impact Sacred Heart has had on Mrs. Hayes and the truly transformational impact Mrs. Hayes has had on King Street and Network-wide.
“Sacred Heart has really grown since the 1970s, but thanks to the leadership of Pamela Juan Hayes, it has not lost its innate charm or direction. The School is just an amazing place to be a part of in 2020!” —Mary Lou Curran Kingsbery ’75
THE END OF THE 2019–2020 SCHOOL YEAR IS APPROACHING FAST, AND WITH IT WILL COME A CHANGE AT THE VERY TOP OF OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY:
people who taught French, math and physical education, but the life of the School and its students was entirely directed by the Religious. The RSCJ centered their lives in the love of Jesus Christ, the School and their students. the retirement of our Head of School Pamela Juan They were “Mothers” in an important sense of the Hayes ’64. It is not an exaggeration to say that word, for they devoted their days, their actions and their Mrs. Hayes has played an active and important role thoughts to providing students with love, attention, high in the life of Sacred Heart Greenwich for half the educational standards and discipline. twentieth century and a good part of the twenty-first. What was a Sacred Heart education like in that era? A long time of love and service to our School! Mrs. Hayes believes that the outstanding feature of the Sacred Heart became a part of Mrs. Hayes’ life system of education was its structure and sense of order. when she came to school as a very young child. Her In the Junior School, students were taught not only to family lived in Greenwich, and the highly reputed and walk silently in the hallways arranged by height and beautiful school on King Street was a natural choice grade but to learn how to express themselves clearly and for her and her family. She came to school in the first accurately in speaking and in writing. By fourth grade, grade, then a part of the Junior School for girls from students knew how to write a structured and correctly first to fourth grades. In spelled paragraph in ink. On the feast day of the Head “I so appreciate the devotion Mrs. Hayes those days, the School of School (Reverend Mother), students submitted has shown to our school and the Network had about 250 students academic work in a notebook containing their essays of Sacred Heart Schools. When I was who were classified either and other expository writing copied without erasures or awarded my sabbatical, she immediately as Junior School, Middle mistakes and in ink! connected me to our sister schools in School, or Upper School. Students went every Monday morning to Primes, California that she had relationships with In the case of Upper a Sacred Heart tradition in which students were from her time on the West Coast.” School, it was commonly commended (or not) for their behavior and academic —Kerri Moore, 4th Grade Teacher called “First to Fourth work. This was the time of day when Très Bien or Assez Academic.” At that time, Bien cards were given out. No Notes meant behavior most of the students were from Greenwich, Rye, that was not up to school standards. Academic success Larchmont and a few other nearby communities. was rewarded by a medal. At the end of Primes, students Until the 1960s, the teaching and administrative returned the cards and medals to their teachers. Uniforms staff of the School was made up almost entirely of the existed for every possible situation, even uniform bathing Religious of the Sacred Heart. There were only a few lay suits for the pool and white dresses and gloves for feast
“My favorite memory of Mrs. Hayes is when she comes to my basketball games. Whenever I look over at her during my games, she always has a huge smile on her face, and she never stops cheering on the sidelines.” —Sarah Augustine ’22
days. Meals were served seated at tables in what is now the faculty dining room; clubs, sports including field hockey and basketball, and after-school service work all rounded out life at the School. Friendship, mutual respect and support were important parts of campus life.
After graduating from college, Mrs. Hayes returned to Greenwich where she worked as a dorm mother, taught field hockey, drama and history of drama. After spending several years living in Sun Valley, Idaho, she returned to Greenwich to teach several subjects in Grade 5. In the 1980s, she moved to 91st Street to teach in Grade 7, eventually becoming Head of Middle School. Later, she returned to Greenwich as Head of the Middle School. In the late 1990’s, Mrs. Hayes moved to San Francisco to become the head of the girls’ elementary school at Schools of the Sacred Heart and then later became the Director of the Schools, the second lay person in the history of that school to occupy the position. Just over 10 years ago, she returned to Greenwich, where she became the first lay Head of School at Greenwich.
Mrs. Hayes believes that the most important change to our School over the past ten years has been the purchase of our land from the Society of the Sacred Heart. Mrs. Hayes facilitated the purchase of the more than 100 acres from the Society and then donated a portion of the acreage to the Greenwich Land Trust. The ownership has allowed the School to decide and control its own future.
Although much has changed since the early 1950s when Mrs. Hayes came here as a small child, much has remained the same. We are still a Roman Catholic school that celebrates the important feasts of the religious year. We take our tradition of social service, and our students go out to the wider community to give of themselves to others as they have for many years. We still have our traditions of congé and goûter. Although the laity now leads our school, we remain true to the principles that have existed since our founding in France long ago, with the goal of educating “for the sake of one child” as our most important mission.
As Mrs. Hayes likes to tell families first joining our community, this School on the hill will always be her home. We thank Mrs. Hayes for her extraordinary contributions to the success of Sacred Heart Greenwich!
“I have known Pam for a very long time. She was the sweetest, kindest little girl I can remember, and this is still true today. The only addition is that she is now not only thoughtful but also brilliant. Pam has followed the mission of Sacred Heart and for that I am extremely grateful.” —Mary Catherine Joyce McCooey ’60, P’88, GP’23, ’25
“One memory I have of Mrs. Hayes is from the opening of the new turf fields. Mrs. Hayes was so proud and happy in that moment, and she was so excited to be sharing the fields will all of us. It is always fun to see her supporting us at our games on the beautiful new fields.” —Daphne Fallon ’25 “Every year, Mrs. Hayes invites us to put up Christmas decorations on the dollhouse in her office. Mrs. Hayes is so welcoming and thoughtful. She was even our sister’s special visitor at Grandparents and Visitors Day. She is supportive of our work at school and our decorating!” —Claire ’29 + Lillie ’29 Ryan
“Mrs. Hayes served as both a role model and friend to many, including myself, at Sacred Heart. Her impact on the Sacred Heart community extends far beyond the classroom, and is seen through the kindness, grace, and servanthood of Sacred Heart women every day.” —Bridget Scatturo ’14
AS MRS. HAYES LIKES TO TELL FAMILIES FIRST JOINING OUR COMMUNITY, THIS SCHOOL ON THE HILL WILL always be her home.
—Nancy DePalma H’16
