LONE MOUNTAIN CLASS OF 1968 REUNION

The LM class of 1968 has set its reunion date for

Saturday, October 18, 2008

3:00-7:00p.m.

@ the home of Marisa Robbins Mizono
San Francisco

The annual Lone Mountain Mass and luncheon for all alums will take place on Sunday, October 19, on the LM campus.  Our class will be honored along with the classes of '48, '58, etc.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

We look forward to seeing you all.

Diane

Good Morning Everyone

As we look forward to celebrating the

Feast of the Sacred Heart

Please hold in your prayers the

Kenwood Community and so many alumnae and alumni of the Sacred Heart as they close the last pages of a beautiful, 150 year old story of this very special

Convent of the Sacred Heart

In the words of Mother Louise Callan spoken in 1937

"Kenwood's history is crowded with deeds of faith and love, high courage and nobility, and sacrifice in its most perfect form"

Kenwood is a special place where so many young women entered the Society of the

Sacred Heart and became our Mothers.

For the past forty years

Kenwood has been a place of peace as so many of our RSCJ went there as a final stop before heaven.

With love and wishes for

Happy Trails always,

Marcie

Eden Hall's Class of 1968 is planning its 40th Reunion.  We are trying to reach missing class members.  If anyone has contact information on members of Eden Hall's Class of 1968, please contact Ginny Bolan at gbolan10@hotmail.com

Noroton Class of 1966. Is there any registry/way to contact old classmates?

AASH Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart Contact Information for this project PCI - the data company                  1-800-982-1590 AASH Corresponding Secretary (by email) correspondingsecretary@aashnet org   AASH National Office               801 S. Spoede Road St. Louis, Missouri 63131 Phone Calling Begins for AASH National Directory Dear Sacred Heart Alumnae and Alumni, I would like to inform you of our current efforts to prepare the fourth edition of the AASH National Directory of US alumnae/i of the Sacred Heart. This is separate from any effort you may be involved in from your alum school. AASH has partnered with PCI, Publishing Concepts Inc - the Data Company, to produce our alumnae/i directory. We carefully selected PCI. Their current client list is impressive, with service to 75% of the top 25 universities including Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Cornell Universities. They come highly recommended. You can visit their website at the following link: http://www.publishingconcepts.com.   Soon, a PCI representative will contact you by phone or later by postcard to verify your information. We appreciate your willingness to support us in this endeavor, as this is a critical link to being a part of the Sacred Heart network of alumnae and alumni. Your timely response to their query is important to us. If you have any questions regarding this project, please direct them to correspondingsecretary@aashnet.org or directly to PCI at 1-800-982-1590. Thank you in advance for your participation! Sincerely, Suzy Kratochvil Corresponding Secretary AASH http://www.aashnet.org

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From Sister Fran Tobin: The Religious of the Sacred Heart NGO (Non-Governmental Organization of the United Nations) Office has posted on the RSCJ international website the report on the DPI/NGO Conference 2007 with reflections from RSCJ participants. This conference dealt with Climate Change.  Please see www.rscjinternational.org.

Region of Chad

Latest News from RSCJ in Africa (Chad):

 PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Please create not only a chain of prayers in your country for peace in Kenya, but also for peace in the deteriorating security situation inside Chad where our sisters live and work.

This evening Sister Chantal de Jonghe, rscj, informed me about the situation in Chad. It is very alarming, the sisters have to stay indoors and the schools are closed.

As soon as I have more information I will forward it to you by putting it on AMASC website.

Let’s support RSCJ, the teachers, the pupils and the inhabitants of Kenya and Chad who are longing for peace with our prayers.

Good Morning Everyone

Below is an urgent request from the President of AMASC for your prayers for our Sacred Heart family in Kenya.  This message is also posted on the AMASC website.  Please pass this on to others in our extended family.

 I wish you all a Very Happy New Year filled with peace and love thoughout the world.

Happy Trails always,

Marcie Amory

President

AASH National Board of Directors 

There have been many expressions of concern about the situation in Kenya following the presidential elections. Reports mention violence in Nairobi (particularly in Kibera) and in the Eldoret area, where some of our communities are located. We want you to know that our sisters are gathered at the noviceship in Mbiko, Uganda for their Assembly/Chapter which began on Friday, December 28th.

The provincial of Uganda-Kenya, Ursula Bugembe, called Clare Pratt on Tuesday afternoon, January 1, to say that a postulant who was traveling to her community in Uganda was turned back at a roadblock, and has taken refuge in a church in the Eldoret area. Another church in the area has already been burned and a number have been killed or injured. Ursula's plea was to do whatever we could to mobilize international pressure to stop this violence.

We urge you to PRAY for this situation and to contact the Kenyan ambassador of your country to express our deep concern for this situation.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO MY DEAR SACRED HEART FAMILY

AS THIS BLESSED SEASON EVOLVES, I WISH TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO AASH IN THE PAST YEAR.  WE, AS CHILDREN OF THE SACRED HEART, HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR AND THE 2007-2009 NATIONAL BOARD COUNTS OUR MEMBERSHIP AS ONE OF THE MANY BLESSINGS IN OUR LIVES.

WE SEND ALL OF YOU OUR LOVE AND WISHES FOR PEACE IN YOUR LIVES IN THE NEW YEAR.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING YOU, AS MISSIONARIES OF THE HEART.  PLEASE KEEP IN TOUCH.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

AND

HAPPY TRAILS ALWAYS

MARCIE AMORY

PRESIDENT, AASH BOARD OF DIRECTORS

I am looking for my best friend from Lawrence Avenue Academy of the Sacred Heart, Detroit, Michigan.  Her name is Mary Catherine Ryan. We were students there in the late 40's and early 50's. Her sister Delores-younger- also attended at that time. Their mother died suddenly and she and her sister were sent to Kenwood Academy boarding school. I lost track of her after that. I look at our old pictures from school that  Mother Brown took of us and wish I knew what happened to her after Kenwood. I heard that she may have gone on to Manhattenville College. If anyone out there went went to Kenwood with her or knows her whereabouts I would love to hear from you. She would have graduated from Kenwood in 1960. Thanks, Katherine

Please see my posting at Please Pray For. I asked for prayers for AASH past president Nancy Agnew's husband, Tom Agnew, who went to God today. During Tom's seven month battle with lung cancer, I have answered inquiries daily from caring alums about this wonderful man and his beautiful family. Nancy has felt the wide embrace of love and support and offers her thanks to all.  In the Heart, Jeanne Burke O'Fallon    

Good Morning Everyone

It doesn't seem possible that four months have passed since our National AASH Conference in New York

Since that time your National Board of Directors have been working diligently planning for the 2007-2009 biennium. We have made some bold decisions looking toward the future of AASH.

In hopes of keeping you informed, the Esprit de Coeur will be published four times during this biennium.  It will contain information on current events in your region, information on the network of schools,  updates on the RSCJ"s and the Society's "Mission For Life"

Also included will be human interest stories of alums and associations throughout the country.   The regional directors will be gleaning information from their associations to include in this very current publication. 

In every issue, the Esprit de Coeur will contain information on the 2009 National Conference to be held in Los Angeles

April 23-27th, 2009

Make your plans early. 

Your National Board wants your input so

keep in touch.  Till me meet again

Happy Trails

Marcie Amory

President

AASH National Board of Directors 

I am trying to locate a long lost friend and a graduate of Sacred Heart in San Francisco. Her name is Sharon Ann Christine Wong and she graduated in about 1968. Any help appreciated.

We are looking for all those who attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart at Prince Street in Rochester.  We have created a Master Directory and a web site and would like all those who attended the school to be a part of our efforts to reunite with one another.

I am a graduate of both 91st street 1967 and Lone Mountain 1971. I will be in NYC for my 40th reunion and would love to see any of my classmates that will be attending the SH Conference at almost the same time

MaryB.

I have been receiving the "Share the Spirit!" newsletter for many years and always enjoy all the news and articles.  I graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart El Cajon in 1965 and have always remembered with fond memories and pride my years as a "Child of the Sacred Heart".  It has been through the faith and love I learned from the Religious of the Sacred Heart that I have been able to meet the challenges in my life.

Recently (August 2005), my husband Gerry and I adopted our daughter Marianne's two sons and made them permanently ours.  It was a long and stressful struggle (January 2001 to August 2005) but through prayer and support from our friends and family we were able to survive the ordeal and happily start our two little boys on a path of love and stability.

Unfortunately, our daughter, Marianne has not been able to break the hold on her drug addiction and we have not seen her in almost three years.  We pray for her everyday and ask God to deliver her from the demons that possess her and return her safely to her family.

We are, however, blessed with her two little boys to raise and love.  We are also very fortunate to have our two oldest sons and their families living so close to us.  All our efforts to raise our grandsons would not be possible without their support and God's.

May all of my fellow "Children of the Sacred Heart" remember us in their prayers.  My life at El Cajon was so very special and I would not trade the love and education I received for anything.  May God bless all of you in your special works.

Janet Mills Merten

Please visit Conference Information on this site and register for the AASH National Conference April 18-21, 2007 in New York City! I look forward to seeing you there!

Wishing all alumnae and alumni best wishes for a blessed and happy new year!

Happy Feast Day of Mater Admirabilis! AMASC has asked us to reflect especially on our youth. Please read their posting on our home page. Have a wonderful day full of blessings!

 Happy Mater feast day to everyone! On October 18th I had the pleasure and privilege to visit Mater at the Trinita dei Monti in Rome. Mater was beautifully as ever.  It was the third visit for me and I hope not the last one.

I put a note in "Please pray for" but would like to add one here. Sr. Margaret (Mavi) Coakley, former headmistress at Noroton, and many other places, was struck by a car in Manhattan yesterday and is in serious condition at St. Vincent's Hospital there. Please pray for her. I bet with her stamina - she's 86 - she will pull through. P.S. She was very careful about how she crossed the street!

We thought you would like to read a recent letter from Sister Irene Cullen at our new Sacred Heart Primary School in Uganda:

“I am here in the Uganda -Kenya province for the past two months. Being with the children and RSCJ is such a blessing. The children’s laughter, singing, playfulness, warm the heart. We are having very serious water problems because it is the dry season and because of an extended drought, which means the water table is diminishing greatly. Then our electrical pumping system that is to transport water from the bottom of our big hill up to the school level tanks couldn’t be used. Imagine. Thieves are stealing the electrical wiring to resell it. So our little ones have to climb down our big hill to our water tanks to draw water and carry it back up the hill in little containers on their heads. Imagine 345 children doing this every day. We have so little water for their hygiene and the cooking needs. Our RSCJ administrators have been so worried but courageous in trying to solve this problem. We need to secure additional rainwater tanks and some kind of solar generator immediately. This unplanned for expense will put us behind in securing construction funds for the needed dormitory building. Right now dorms and classrooms fill the academic building and the school population is expanding. Happily one unit of staff housing is completed and so the teachers have moved out of the classroom block and have a decent room as their own. Also the sisters have moved now to their own residence.

The school spirit is wonderful. I received a lovely letter from the head of the school’s parent group. Jacinta is a doctor, whereas most parents are from very poor villages in the district. This mother wrote: ‘...here at SHPS only one race exists, the race of the children of God. The children are being brought up with a Christ-like love deeply engraved in their hearts....through SHPS we look forward to the formation of a huge family in our midst of many Sophia’s and Philippine’s of the new millennium...a unique generation of great Catholic women who will love and make sacrifice to give service to others beyond self, even in the midst of difficult situations.’”

 To contact or help Sister Cullen and the RSCJ in Uganda: icullen@rscj.org or Uganda-Kenya Mission Support Office, 1653 Borana Street, San Diego, CA, 858-268-3340

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Mary Agnes Barry Burke, mother of our beloved Executive Secretary, Jeanne Burke O'Fallon.

"Burke, Mary Agnes, (nee Barry), 85, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church, on Monday, July 17, 2006.

Beloved wife of the late Robert J. Burke, dear mother of Robert J. Burke, Jr., Jeanne Burke O’Fallon (Dennis), Barry J. Burke, and the late Mary Ann Burke Smith. Dear grandmother of Erin Smith Stika (Paul), Dennis M., Jr. and Joseph Barry O’Fallon, great grandmother of Ryan and Gabriel Stika, dear sister of the late Joseph E. and Eugene M. Barry, Jr., dear aunt of E. Michael Barry, dear mother-in-law, aunt, great aunt, sister-in-law, cousin, and friend.

Services: Funeral from Colonial Mortuary Hoffmeister-Kriegshauser Funeral Directors, 6464 Chippewa at Watson, 63109, Friday, July 21 at 9:30 a.m.to St. Gabriel the Archangel Church, 6303 Nottingham Ave. for Mass celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Burial at Calvary Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to St. Gabriel Adopt-A-Student Program, 6303 Nottingham Ave., St. Louis, MO 63109, or the charity of one’s choice. Visitation Thursday 3–9 p.m."

Gifts may also be made in her name to AASH.

Hello,

I am looking for records of 3 sisters by the last name of Rickert (one is my grandmother, Irma josephine Rickert) They attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, between the years of 1914-1931. Can anyone help me find the names of my great aunts?

Any help would be appreciated!!

Prayers And Blessings,

Alison

"If it is hard for the righteous to be saved,what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?"Time after time God is good and this good what God has given to us will be temptit day by day and we  can be great fight of tis  all,but be steadfast God can´t that you will be temptit over yours own posssible. Help that many may find God´s goodness and his salvation,pray for blessed revival soon.Thanks and bless.keijo sweden

I am looking for Cathleen O'Neal and Gaye Smith from Eden Hall class of 1959.  And also, Kathleen McHale.  Please contact me if  you have news. 

I understand that Julianne Mattimore is in Florida.  I am in Palm city, Fl., on the treasure coast and would welcome contact. 

Dorita Holland, hello.   Joan Schoettle Carville.

Greetings to all Sacred Heart alumnae and alumni on the Feast Day of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat. We are so lucky to be part of the loving family of the Sacred Heart! Let us all celebrate her life by remembering the many blessings in our lives today and by renewing her mission in today's world. With love & prayers, Adele

I would like to congratulate everyone on the feast of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, she is blessing all of us on her day.  Have a conge on her honor.

Alums are invited to learn about an online Certificate Program in Spirituality Studies coordinated by a Religious of the Sacred Heart, Dr. Helen Rosenthal, R.S.C.J.
(http://www.stu.edu/helen-rosenthal-s-bio-article-2338.html) This Online Certificate  Program consists of four courses covering the history of Christian Spirituality.  Through these courses you will be introduced to the rich experience of how others have sought and found God. Each course is twelve weeks, and the courses begin the second week of
September and the second week of January. Each course has six Units of two weeks.
The first week is mostly reading primary works; the second week involves online
participation with a collaborative learning exercise. There are no tests, but a required summary at the end of each Unit shows what you have learned from your reading and participation.