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VOL. 103, NO. 25
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St. Anne School principal retires after long career in education
STUDENT AWARDS
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By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
After spending the last 29 years at St. Anne School, first as vice principal and now principal, Thursday marks Mary Sherman’s last day as an educator. Her history with the Catholic school actually began 61 years earlier — as a first-grader, and Sherman thinks it is nice that she is retiring from the longtime educational institution that she attended as a girl, as did her four children and her father. She said her formative years as a schoolgirl attending St. Anne School played a pivotal role in her career. “Almost as long as I can remember, I wanted to be involved in education. I wanted to be a teacher,” Sherman said, adding she was inspired by the teachers and nuns at St. Anne. Sherman began her career
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Photo courtesy Megan Sherman St. Anne School Principal Mary Sherman, left, laughs during remarks at a retirement celebration given in her honor Friday. She is seated behind Pat Durand, the former principal of St. Anne School, who hired Sherman as her vice principal in 1993.
QA therapist teaches moms, others self-care By Laura Marie Rivera Contributing writer
Photo courtesy Hanna Kreiner Queen Anne mom and therapist Hanna Kreiner, seen her playing with her children, knows practicing self-care is an important piece of beiing a parent.
Queen Anne resident Hanna Kreiner, a licensed therapist, not only teaches mindfulness and self-compassion in her practice, she applied her guidance and tips into a book for new mothers after becoming a mom herself. Kreiner has made her home in Queen Anne since 2018. She said she loves the beauty and walkability of the neighborhood and the strong sense of community. She has enjoyed meeting friends at the Community Center and Big Howe playground, dining at the local restaurants, seeing neighbors at Queen Anne Farmers Market, and even running into her doctor at Ken’s Market. “It’s the only place I’ve lived as a parent, and I can’t imagine a better place to be,” she said. When Kreiner and her husband, Brian, moved to Seattle in 2018, she decided to open her own practice. Even though she was eight months pregnant at the time, she knew it was something she wanted to do after taking time to bond with her baby. What she didn’t know was how important self-compassion would
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