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<strong>Heart</strong> Matter<br />
of<br />
the<br />
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS ATHERTON ALUMNI MAGAZINE SUMMER <strong>2007</strong><br />
Home for<br />
Graduation<br />
At the Alumni Pinning<br />
Ceremony, Christopher<br />
Wood (SHP ‘04) welcomes<br />
Hannah Adams (SHP<br />
‘07) into the Alumni<br />
Association<br />
PLUS...<br />
• Will DeLong (SHP ‘05)<br />
• Nicole Norton (SJSH ‘93, SHP ‘97)<br />
• Drue Kataoka (SHP ‘96)<br />
• Cristina Echevarria Moustirats (SHP ‘90)<br />
• Eric Lochtefeld (SHP ‘85)<br />
• Janet Mainini Manger (SHP ‘69)<br />
• Cara Black (SHE ‘65)<br />
• Marcie Eason Amory (SHP ‘52)<br />
• Don Manley (SJSH ‘47)
State of the <strong>Heart</strong><br />
Dear Alumni and Friends,<br />
I need to start my letter by thanking my predecessor, Dr.<br />
Joseph J. Ciancaglini, for his tireless efforts on behalf of the<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> over the past seven years. We have benefited enormously<br />
from his leadership, and the <strong>Schools</strong> are even stronger<br />
today in their commitment to educate the whole child. I<br />
am delighted that Joe is continuing his service in the <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> Network as Head of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> School in New<br />
York City (“91st Street”).<br />
Joe has been instrumental in the growth and success of the <strong>Schools</strong>, and I look forward<br />
to continuing that momentum. Our students continually demonstrate such tremendous<br />
excellence in academics, spirituality, service, and athletics. One only need<br />
stroll through the halls of SHP to find art students working on a ground-breaking<br />
exhibit on issues of immigration, science students creating their own robots, trivia<br />
masters preparing for their Quiz Kids matches, and the boys tennis team winning a<br />
national tournament. At SJSH, our middle school jazz band has been using their talents<br />
to spread joy in the community, while sixth-grade Spanish students have been<br />
studying murals in San Francisco’s Mission District and third graders have been<br />
exploring nature. Our preschoolers and kindergarteners have all made tremendous<br />
progress in their studies this year, learning about world cultures and becoming great<br />
artists and cooks.<br />
We ended our school year by welcoming 170 new graduates into our SHS Alumni<br />
Association — a truly outstanding class of 113 seniors from SHP, and 57 remarkable<br />
eighth graders from SJSH. These new alumni will join the ranks of thousands<br />
of children of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> who have gone on to share their values throughout<br />
the world. Take, for example, the community service efforts of Nicole Norton<br />
(SJSH ‘93, SHP ‘97) and Dr. Don Manley (SJSH ‘47), the sacrifices of dedicated<br />
parent Cristina Echevarria Moustirats (SHP ‘90), the artistic endeavors of Drue<br />
Kataoka (SHP ‘96), and the educational ministry of Sr. Kathleen Dolan (SH Greenwich<br />
‘56).<br />
And it’s not just alumni who exemplify our <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> goals and criteria. In this<br />
issue of <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter, we take a look at other members of our community<br />
— including parents, teachers, and administrators — who make our <strong>Schools</strong> vibrant<br />
through their daily efforts.<br />
I count myself blessed to have the opportunity to serve as the next Director of<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> and to watch as our students grow in their spirituality, their intellect, their<br />
character, their activities, and their wise freedom. I extend my deep gratitude to all<br />
of you for your friendship and support to the <strong>Schools</strong>.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Richard A. Dioli<br />
Director of <strong>Schools</strong><br />
RICHARD A. DIOLI<br />
Director of <strong>Schools</strong><br />
M’LIS BERRY (SJSH‘77, SHP‘81)<br />
Director of Development<br />
HOLLY GOODLIFFE<br />
Communications Coordinator<br />
WENDI MANGIANTINI (SHP‘80)<br />
Alumni Relations Coordinator<br />
TRUSTEES<br />
Mindy Rogers, Chair<br />
Mona Bailey; Kay Baxter, RSCJ; Maude<br />
Brezinski; Roberta Campbell; Mike<br />
Child; John Cogan; Sr. Barbara Dawson;<br />
John Etchemendy; Sally Furay, RSCJ;<br />
Ann Barry Giurlani (SHP ‘62); Marritje<br />
Greene; Tim Haley ; Fredric Harman;<br />
Anne Holloway (SH Newton ‘73); Mike<br />
Homer; Ron Johnson; Stephanie Lane;<br />
Mark Larwood; Manny Maceda; Steve<br />
Meisel; William H. Muller, SJ; Kenneth<br />
Olivier; Steve Rudolph; Sue Sutherland;<br />
Michael Wishart. Trustee Emeriti -<br />
Robert Glockner; John Hunter<br />
We welcome your comments, questions,<br />
or suggestions. Please contact<br />
Holly Goodliffe, Communications<br />
Coordinator, at 650-473-4004 or<br />
hgoodliffe@shschools.org.<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> Atherton are<br />
Roman Catholic, independent schools<br />
founded by the Society of the <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> of Jesus (RSCJ) in 1898. Our<br />
mission is to educate the whole child<br />
to be a leader who loves God and<br />
serves others.<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter magazine<br />
is published bi-annually, in February<br />
and July, by the SHS Development<br />
Department. Postmaster please send<br />
address changes to Development Department,<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong>, 150<br />
Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, CA 94027.<br />
The diverse opinions expressed in<br />
<strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter do not necessarily<br />
represent the official policy of <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> Atherton.
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Home for Graduation<br />
Over 200 alums returned to campus to participate in Mass, Honors<br />
Convocation, the Pinning Ceremony, and Commencement Exercises<br />
My Favorite Part of the Day<br />
We asked 9 members of our <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> community to give us a glimpse<br />
into their daily routines.<br />
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Nicole Norton<br />
SJSH ‘93, SHP ‘97, SHS Alumni Board Member<br />
Kathleen Dolan, RSCJ<br />
SH Greenwich ‘56, SJSH Religion Teacher & Campus Minister<br />
Dr. Don Manley<br />
SJSH ‘47<br />
Dr. Eileen Donahoe<br />
SJSH & SHP Parent<br />
Cristina Echevarria Moustirats<br />
SHP ‘90<br />
Ken Thompson<br />
SHP Academic Dean<br />
Drue Kataoka<br />
SHP ‘96<br />
<strong>Heart</strong> of the Campus<br />
Sports Beat<br />
Alumni Events<br />
Class Notes<br />
In Memoriam<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 1
<strong>Heart</strong> of the Campus<br />
$1 Million Raised for the<br />
new Joseph J. Ciancaglini<br />
Endowed Scholarship Fund<br />
We extend our deep gratitude to our<br />
amazing donors,who proved to be<br />
incredibly ‘true to their school’ as they<br />
planned and implemented a special fundraiser<br />
concert, featuring the one and only<br />
Beach Boys. Over 350 guests enjoyed this<br />
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, including<br />
an elegant dinner on Conway Court,<br />
a concert in The Campbell Center for the<br />
Performing Arts, and a reception for the<br />
performers and guests in the Black Box.<br />
The event’s proceeds, totalling over one<br />
million dollars, were used to establish the<br />
Joseph J. Ciancaglini Endowed Scholarship<br />
Fund for financial aid. This fund will<br />
generate the equivalent of one student’s<br />
tuition each year, and the fund will also continually grow so that the income<br />
stream will grow in perpetuity. As with all SHS endowed scholarship funds,<br />
additional financial contributions the the Joseph J. Ciancaglini Fund are<br />
welcome at any time.<br />
BEACH BOY Mike Love performs in The Campbell Center (above)<br />
SPECIAL GUESTS Steve Seabolt, Beth Seabolt, Mike Child, Dawn<br />
Refioglu, and Ilhan Refioglu meet Mike Love after the show (below)<br />
Jazz Band<br />
Performs at Head<br />
Start Preschool<br />
In April, the SJSH Jazz Band, led by Ms. Jamie<br />
Craddock, took their show on the road and performed<br />
at the Head Start Preschool. The students had<br />
visited this school before on Helping <strong>Heart</strong>s service<br />
days.<br />
Ms. Craddock started off the concert by introducing<br />
the name of each instrument while the band members<br />
demonstrated the instruments’ sounds. The preschool<br />
children greatly enjoyed the entire concert.<br />
JAZZ BAND MEMBERS perform on the Head<br />
Start School playground<br />
13 SHP Students Honored by<br />
National Merit Program<br />
NATIONAL MERIT<br />
HONORS were<br />
awarded to (front:)<br />
Chelsea Evans, Audrey<br />
Chau, Cristiana<br />
Valinoti, Hannah<br />
Doyle, Larisse Ortiz-<br />
Luis, (back:) William<br />
Derwin, Kramer<br />
Straube, Adam Davison,<br />
Patrick Murphy,<br />
Megan Maurano, and<br />
Maura (Jayne) De-<br />
Battista. Not pictured:<br />
William (Billy) Rowan<br />
and John Strohm<br />
This year the National<br />
Merit Program<br />
honored 13 SHP seniors.<br />
Our three National Merit<br />
Scholar Finalists were<br />
Maura (Jayne) DeBattista,<br />
William (Billy)<br />
Rowan, and Cristiana<br />
Valinoti.<br />
Our ten National Merit<br />
Commended Scholars<br />
were Audrey Chau,<br />
Adam Davison, William<br />
Derwin, Hannah Doyle,<br />
Chelsea Evans, Megan<br />
Maurano, Patrick Murphy,<br />
Larisse Ortiz-Luis,<br />
Kramer Straube, and<br />
John Strohm.<br />
2 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
New Trustees<br />
In June, the SHS Atherton Board of Trustees<br />
elected Mona Bailey, John Cogan, Barbara<br />
Dawson, Tim Haley, Ron Johnson, Stephanie<br />
Lane, and Sue Sutherland as new members.<br />
Mona Bailey, former Head of Forest Ridge<br />
School of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> (in Seattle), is a<br />
Senior Associate with the Institute for Educational<br />
Inquiry in Seattle. Additionally, Mona<br />
is an independent consultant in the field of<br />
education. She received her BS from Florida<br />
A&M University in Chemistry, her MS in Science<br />
Education from Oregon State University,<br />
and her PhD in Educational Administration<br />
from the University of Washington.<br />
John Cogan, father of six SJSH alumni and<br />
two SHP alumni, is a Senior Fellow at The<br />
Hoover Institute at Stanford University. He<br />
received his AB and PhD in Economics from<br />
UCLA.<br />
Barbara Dawson, RSCJ, is President of<br />
St. Martin de Porres School in Oakland. She<br />
received her BA and Secondary Teaching<br />
Credential from Lone Mountain College, her<br />
JD from USF, and her MA in Comparative<br />
International Education from Stanford.<br />
Tim Haley, father of two SJSH students, is a<br />
Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures. He received<br />
his BA in Philosophy from Santa Clara<br />
University.<br />
Ron Johnson, father of one SJSH alumna<br />
and one SJSH student, is a Senior Vice<br />
President at Apple, Inc. He received his BA<br />
in Economics from Stanford and received his<br />
MBA from Harvard Business School.<br />
Stephanie Lane, mother of two SJSH students,<br />
serves on the Executive Board of the<br />
California American Cancer Society, and previously<br />
was Director of Customer Relations and<br />
Global Events at Oracle Corporation. She is<br />
pursuing her BA from West Virginia University<br />
in two fields: Professional Writing & Editing<br />
and Child Development & Family Studies.<br />
Susanne (Sue) Sutherland, mother of two<br />
SHP alumni, spent the majority of her professional<br />
career in human resources at Silicon<br />
Graphics and later doing independent consulting.<br />
She has also chaired the SHP Fashion<br />
show, worked on the SHS Strategic Plan, and<br />
chaired the search for the new principal at<br />
SHP. She received her BA in English from UC<br />
Berkeley.<br />
Rookie Robotics<br />
Team Makes Finals<br />
This year SHP fielded its first-ever Robotics Team, which<br />
competed in the Silicon Valley Regional Robotics Competition<br />
in March. The competition is hosted by an organization called<br />
FIRST, which strives to inspire students in the fields of science<br />
and technology. Over the course of three days, the 48 participating<br />
teams (from as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, Minnesota, and<br />
Massachusetts) competed in fast-paced, radio-controlled matches<br />
of a game called “Rack and Roll.”<br />
This competition followed six weeks of non-stop strategizing,<br />
designing, building, programming, and testing by the 13 students<br />
on the SHP Robotics Team. Their final creation, “RADbot” (named<br />
in honor of then-Principal Richard A. Dioli), did an amazing job in<br />
the competition, finishing in 11th place (out of 48 teams) and winning<br />
the Highest Scoring Rookie Team award.<br />
This amazing academic opportunity came to our students<br />
thanks to the support of several generous donors and parent volunteers,<br />
in addition to the mentoring of SHP Physics teacher Guy<br />
Letteer and SHS IT Director Tom Wildman.<br />
OUR ROBOT IN ACTION: Top, teammates await the start of<br />
a match with RADbot (the front robot, labeled 2144) from the<br />
other side of the glass wall. TEAM 2144: Directly above<br />
JOINING THE BOARD: Top to bottom, Mona<br />
Bailey, John Cogan, Sr. Barbara Dawson,<br />
Tim Haley, Ron Johnson, Stephanie Lane,<br />
and Sue Sutherland<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 3
<strong>Heart</strong> of the Campus<br />
A Fond<br />
Farewell<br />
On June 3rd, the SHS community gathered<br />
to bid farewell to Dr. Joseph J.<br />
Ciancaglini and Ms. Karen Eshoo (SJSH ‘83,<br />
SHP ‘87), and wish them well in their new<br />
adventures.<br />
After seven years of dedicated service as<br />
Director of <strong>Schools</strong>, Joe has moved to New<br />
York City to serve as Head of the <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> School at 91st Street. This opportunity<br />
is a unique fit with Joe’s desire to return to the<br />
east coast to be closer to friends and family,<br />
stay within the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Network, and<br />
live in a major city.<br />
During Joe’s tenure, academics have grown<br />
stronger than ever. Our sports teams have<br />
enjoyed remarkable seasons. The fine and<br />
performing arts have reached new heights of<br />
excellence. Our seniors continue to be admitted<br />
into colleges that best fit their needs. The<br />
Oakwood community has grown in number<br />
and in its involvement with the life of the<br />
school. Our campus continues to be beautiful.<br />
Our physical plant has grown to support the<br />
many activities that take place here. We have<br />
been blessed with professional, caring and<br />
gifted teachers and staff. Our relationships<br />
with our neighbors, the Town of Atherton,<br />
and the Archdiocese of San Francisco have<br />
grown even more strong, positive, and mutually<br />
supportive. Our endowment has grown<br />
significantly and the financial position of the<br />
school is strong.<br />
Karen has been a part of the SHS community<br />
for 27 years— 15 years as a student from preschool through 12th grade,<br />
5 years as a teacher at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Prep, and 7 years in administration at St.<br />
Joseph’s School of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>. Most recently, she has served as SJSH Principal<br />
for grades 1-8. During her tenure at SJSH, the faculty and students have grown<br />
stronger than ever. She leaves the school ready for further growth and success in<br />
academics, athletics, fine arts, spirituality, and community.<br />
Karen has transitioned<br />
into the role<br />
of Assistant Head of<br />
School at Lick-Wilmerding<br />
High School in<br />
San Francisco. This is<br />
an opportunity for her<br />
to continue her work in<br />
administration, but to<br />
do so at the high school<br />
level and in an urban<br />
setting.<br />
San Francisco Murals<br />
To learn more about Latino<br />
art, SJSH and SHP<br />
Spanish classes recently<br />
journeyed to San Francisco<br />
to view various murals.<br />
The SJSH sixth graders, led<br />
by Spanish teachers Ms.<br />
Alison Trujillo and Ms.<br />
Isolina Martinez, explored<br />
the Mission District, taking<br />
a guided bilingual tour<br />
of Balmy Alley, located<br />
near 24th Street. They saw<br />
dozens of beautiful murals,<br />
including La Virgen, I Give You a Song, and Native Struggle.<br />
At the high school, after studying the art of Diego Rivera in class, Ms. Pati Galvin’s<br />
and Mrs. Maggie Mera’s SHP Spanish 4 classes went to San Francisco to see three of<br />
his murals, located at The City Club of SF, the SF Art Institute, and City College of<br />
SF. Both groups enjoyed a rewarding and unforgettable day of learning.<br />
SIXTH<br />
GRADERS<br />
(above)<br />
examine the<br />
AIDS Remembrance<br />
mural in the<br />
SF Mission<br />
District<br />
DIEGO’S<br />
WORK<br />
(right): SHP<br />
Spanish 4<br />
students and<br />
instructor<br />
Maggie Mera<br />
view one of<br />
Diego Rivera’s<br />
murals<br />
GOOD-BYE KAREN: Left, eighth graders with<br />
Karen Eshoo (SJSH ‘83, SHP ‘87), outgoing<br />
SJSH principal. TRANSFER OF POWER<br />
(above): Joseph J. Ciancaglini, left, will be<br />
succeeded by Richard A. Dioli as Director of<br />
<strong>Schools</strong><br />
Photo courtesy of Beckner Photography<br />
4 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Will you be my<br />
valentine?<br />
BELOW, Students with their love<br />
puppets<br />
VALENTINE’S DAY IN PRESCHOOL:<br />
A Fresh Look at Immigration<br />
In May and June, the Advanced Photography students of SHP presented<br />
an exhibition entitled Documented // Undocumented at SPUR Projects<br />
art gallery in Portola Valley.<br />
The exhibit included 80<br />
hand-printed black and white<br />
photographs from the U.S. /<br />
Mexico Border and Bay Area<br />
Immigrant Communities.<br />
Led by SHP Photography<br />
teacher Lars Howlett, the<br />
seven photography students<br />
(Rebecca Abbe, Molly<br />
Dickinson, Marie Hamilton,<br />
Shannon Hamilton, Pallavi Menon, Anna Paustenbach and Greg Randall) explored the<br />
THINKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD<br />
Above, this photo of an immigrant<br />
was taken by Marie Hamilton (SHP<br />
‘07) on Fifth Avenue in Redwood City<br />
COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE: Right, this<br />
photo of a border-patrol jeep was taken<br />
at the Tijuana border by Rebecca Abbe<br />
(SHP ‘07) THE EXHIBIT: Below, a crowd<br />
gathers for the opening reception and<br />
artists’ talk at SPUR Projects art gallery<br />
issues of immigration and cultural identity through the lenses of their cameras. Working<br />
on film and in black and white, the photographers documented community events, rallies,<br />
and daily life in the Mexican and Central American immigrant communities of the<br />
Bay Area including Fair Oaks and San Rafael.<br />
As part of the project, five of the students traveled to Tijuana to spend five days at<br />
the Casa del Migrante, a Catholic refuge that provides meals and beds each night for<br />
up to 150 migrants and deportees. Students shared dinner with the migrants, hearing<br />
first-hand accounts of the harsh realities of life on either side of the border. Along with<br />
making portraits of the men, the photographers also explored<br />
the communities along the wall, documenting the daily joys<br />
and hardships in neighborhoods under the shadow of the<br />
United States.<br />
Selected images from this series were also exhibited at<br />
the <strong>2007</strong> Forum on Day Laborers held by the Cesar Chavez<br />
Institute at San Francisco State University. Mr. Howlett<br />
continues to plan more exhibits, a website, and a book to be<br />
shared within the Bay Area Mexican-American community<br />
and throughout San Francisco and the Peninsula.<br />
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The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 5
<strong>Heart</strong> of the Campus<br />
3rd Graders Explore<br />
Wildlife on the Coast<br />
This Spring, the SJSH third<br />
graders visited the Fitzgerald<br />
Marine Reserve in Moss<br />
Beach (near Half Moon Bay)<br />
to learn about the diverse species<br />
of invertebrates and plants<br />
that live in the intertidal area.<br />
Guided by volunteers from<br />
Environmental Volunteers in<br />
Palo Alto, they found a variety<br />
of seaweeds, crabs, sponges,<br />
sea anemones, mollusks, starfish,<br />
and fish in the tidepools.<br />
“This field trip tied in with<br />
our science curriculum about<br />
animal habitats, biomes, and<br />
endangered species,” said third grade teacher Mrs. Kathy<br />
Spieker. “Before we went, the students did internet research<br />
about tidepool animals, and they were excited to see the<br />
animals they had studied.”<br />
I FOUND SOMETHING! Top, studnets search in the<br />
tidepools EMBARKING ON THE SEARCH: Directly<br />
above, students with their volunteer tourguide<br />
MASTERS OF TRIVIA celebrate their <strong>2007</strong> championship<br />
Quiz Kids Champions<br />
For the first time ever, our SHP team brought home the trophy<br />
from Bay Area Quiz Kids, a Peninsula TV program in which 32<br />
high schools compete in a trivia game show.<br />
On Saturday, March 17th, SHP competed in the semi-finals. SHP’s<br />
team of seniors Billy Rowan, Pat Murphy, and Kevin McFarland<br />
upset Harker School of San Jose in an exciting match (with a score<br />
of 320-260) that was tied with one minute to go.<br />
After their semi-final victory, SHP moved on to the final round<br />
which was taped immediately afterwards. In the finals, SHP competed<br />
against a strong team from Mills High School in Millbrae. The<br />
match was close the whole way; it was often tied, and both teams<br />
took the lead in the final round. However, SHP prevailed 310-250,<br />
which means they were declared the <strong>2007</strong> champions.<br />
The grand prize for the team (and faculty coach Kevin Morris,<br />
SHP ‘90) is a ten-day, all-expense-paid trip to Ireland, Wales, and<br />
England this summer, courtesy of ACIS Educational Tours.<br />
5th Graders Set Sail on the Titanic<br />
STORIES<br />
OF THE<br />
TITANIC:<br />
In the<br />
play’s<br />
opening<br />
scene, all<br />
the characters<br />
wait for<br />
the ship’s<br />
departure<br />
In May, the SJSH fifth graders recently presented Stories of<br />
the Titanic, a play they wrote themselves, based on the lives<br />
of the passengers aboard the Titanic. This performance was<br />
the culmination of months of research, including a visit to the<br />
Titanic Artifact Exhibition in San Francisco. Each year, SJSH<br />
Drama teacher Stacey Ardelean leads the fifth graders in writing<br />
and presenting a play exploring immigration stories.<br />
6 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
National Tourney<br />
Champions<br />
Congratulations to the SHP Boys Tennis Team on<br />
winning the NHSCA National High School Boys<br />
Team Tennis Crown. The NHSCA (National High<br />
School Coaches Association) designed this new tournament<br />
to determine “Who is America’s Best Boys High<br />
School Tennis Team?” They invited 32 teams across<br />
the country to play (eight teams from four regions).<br />
After winning the Western regional championship<br />
on March 23-24, the SHP team went on to the national<br />
competition, held April 21-22 in Cincinnati, OH.<br />
SHP defeated Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School<br />
of Florida, The Bullis School of Maryland, and St.<br />
Xavier High School of Ohio to bring home the championship.<br />
Our Scholarly Athletes<br />
The Girls’ Lacrosse team has come a long way this year, led by Head Coach<br />
Brandon Badgley and Assistant Coaches Ron Cox and Pati Galvin (SHP Spanish<br />
teacher). They set a new school record with ten wins, and ended the season<br />
with a best-ever third place finish in the Peninsula Athletic League.<br />
To top it all off, they won the prestigious CCS Scholastic Team Award. This<br />
award, instituted by the Central Coast Section Board of Managers, recognizes the<br />
Varsity team from each CCS athletic program with the highest collective grade<br />
point average of all<br />
teams competing in<br />
that program during<br />
that season of competition.<br />
Our Gator girls<br />
had a cumulative GPA<br />
average of 3.51.<br />
POWDER PUFF TEAM: Row 1: Coach Mark Flynn, students, and Coach<br />
Bill Campbell. Row 2: Students and Coach Jeff Reynolds. Row 3:<br />
Coach Pat Dillingham, students, and Coach Mike Moe. Row 4: Coach<br />
Gary Graumann and students<br />
Sports Beat<br />
CHAMPIONS! Front: Students. Back: Tennis Program Director Jeff<br />
Arons, Athletic Trainer Kristan Coday, students, and Head Coach<br />
Losaline Mafileo<br />
SMART JOCK keeps<br />
the ball safe despite<br />
the Bears’ defensive<br />
attack<br />
Team USA<br />
This year two SHP water polo players<br />
were named to the USA National Teams:<br />
Caroline (KK) Clark and Paul Rudolph. Only<br />
15 players from the entire country are chosen<br />
for each age group— KK is on the Youth<br />
Team and Paul is on the Cadet Team. They<br />
will both be traveling around the world representing<br />
Team USA in the coming months.<br />
KK is the first SHP girl ever to be selected<br />
for a national team, while Paul is following<br />
in the illustrious footsteps of Dylan Mobley<br />
(SHP ‘05).<br />
Powder Puff!<br />
The 22 eighth-grade girls on the SJSH Flag Football<br />
team emerged victorious from the sixth annual<br />
Powder Puff game against Menlo in June. Our girls<br />
dominated Menlo with a score of 33 to 19. This year’s<br />
game put our SJSH Girls Football record at 4-2.<br />
The team’s great coaching staff included SJSH<br />
past parents Bill Campbell, Mike Moe, Mark Flynn,<br />
and Gary Graumann, along with Pat Dillingham<br />
(SJSH ‘97). The coaches and players trained hard<br />
for the two weeks leading up to the big game.<br />
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Graduation<br />
Home for Graduation!<br />
A record number of alumni returned to<br />
campus to take part in Graduation festivities<br />
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GRADUATES WELCOMED AS ALUMS: 1 Sabrina Switzer (SHP<br />
‘05) pins David Phillips (SHP ‘07) 2 Bailey Samuels (SHP ‘04), Carrie<br />
Paton (SHP ‘04), Catie Paton (SHP ‘00), Lauren Paschal (SHP ‘04), and<br />
Ali Gramaglia (SHP ‘04) 3 Dylan Mobley (SHP ‘05) pins his sister Andrea<br />
(SHP ‘07) 4 Sara Jacobs (SJSH ‘07) with her mom, Ms. Toni Jacobs (SH<br />
Forest Ridge, SJSH English teacher) 5 Student (SJSH ‘07) with her brother<br />
(SJSH ‘10), sister Sabine (SJSH ‘05), and grandmother 6 Catie Paton (SHP<br />
‘00) with her brother John (SHP ‘07) 7 Rob Van Alstyne (SHP ‘04), Whitney<br />
Burton (SHP ‘04), Lauren Habig (SJSH ‘00, SHP ‘04), Dan Chaknova (SHP<br />
‘04) and Michael Connor (SHP ‘04) 8 Jonathon Wang (SJSH ‘02,<br />
SHP ‘06), Annie Coyne (SJSH ‘02, SHP ‘06), Randy Ang (SHP ‘06),<br />
and Dan Filice (SHP ‘06) 9 Mr. Mike Murphy (SJSH Religion teacher)<br />
surrounded by his fans 10 Randy Ang (SHP ‘06) and Alex Maceda<br />
(SHP ‘07) 11 Student (SJSH ‘07) and Ali Dyer (SHP ‘01) 12 Patty<br />
Doherty Hjelm (SJSH ‘47), Barbara Pauley (SH El Cajon ‘69), and<br />
Lynn Rudolph (SHP ‘05) 13 Nicholas Chrisman (SHP ‘06) pins Clinton<br />
Trahant (SHP ‘07) 14 Eduardo Ramirez (SJSH ‘01, SHP ‘05), Jessica<br />
Clee (SHP ‘02), and Danielle DiFede (SJSH ‘99, SHP ‘03) 15 Brandon<br />
Child (SHP ‘04), Daniel Abbe (SHP ‘02), and Jeff Jackson (SHP ‘02) 16<br />
Christina Ramsay (SHP ‘07) is pinned by her siblings Andy (SHP ‘03)<br />
and Stephanie (SHP ‘99) 17 Brandon Chau (SHP ‘05) with his sister<br />
Audrey (SHP ‘07) 18 Sheila Giannini Ruprecht (SHP ‘63) and Ann<br />
Carey (SJSH ‘71, SHP ‘75)<br />
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Graduation<br />
Members of the SHP<br />
Class of <strong>2007</strong> will<br />
attend the following<br />
institutions:<br />
American University<br />
Arizona State University<br />
Boston College<br />
Boston University<br />
Brown University<br />
Bucknell University<br />
California State University,<br />
San Luis Obispo<br />
Chapman University<br />
Claremont McKenna College<br />
Cornell University<br />
Cuesta College<br />
Dartmouth College<br />
Dickinson College<br />
Evergreen State College<br />
Georgetown University<br />
Hampton University<br />
Harvard College<br />
Harvey Mudd College<br />
Humboldt State University<br />
Kenyon College<br />
Lafayette College<br />
Loyola Marymount University<br />
Middlebury College<br />
New York University<br />
Northeastern University<br />
Occidental College<br />
Pepperdine University<br />
Princeton University<br />
Purdue University<br />
Rhode Island School of Design<br />
San Jose State University<br />
Santa Clara University<br />
Scripps College<br />
Sonoma State University<br />
Stanford University<br />
Tufts University<br />
University of Arizona<br />
University of California,<br />
Berkeley<br />
University of California, Davis<br />
University of California,<br />
Los Angeles<br />
University of California,<br />
Santa Barbara<br />
University of California,<br />
Santa Cruz<br />
University of Chicago<br />
University of Colorado<br />
at Boulder<br />
University of Michigan<br />
University of Notre Dame<br />
University of Oregon<br />
University of the Pacific<br />
University of Portland<br />
University of Puget Sound<br />
University of Redlands<br />
University of San Diego<br />
University of Southern<br />
California<br />
University of Texas at Austin<br />
University of Washington<br />
University of Wisconsin,<br />
Madison<br />
Washington State University,<br />
Pullman<br />
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SHP GRADUATION: 1 Graduates<br />
Caitlin O’Holleran, Pat Murphy, Michael<br />
McMahon, Jason McCarrick, and<br />
Michael Mahoney 2 Alex Maceda with<br />
her dad Manny (SHS Trustee), mom<br />
Lyra, and cousin 3 Valedictorian and<br />
Blue Ribbon Winner Hannah Doyle<br />
4 Graduates Greg Colligan, Jerome<br />
Duluk, Peter Innes, Matt Frederick,<br />
and Greg Casciaro play the drums as<br />
prelude to Graduation Mass 5 SHP<br />
Principal Rich Dioli presents Valedictorian<br />
Chelsea Evans with the light blue<br />
ribbon for Goal Five 6 Jayne DeBattista,<br />
Caroline Lewis, Adam Davison, and Braden Currier<br />
7 Graduates Christina Ramsay, Julie Harper, Sugeily<br />
Benitez, and Audrey Chau begin Graduation Mass with<br />
a liturgical dance 8 Samantha Carr receives her diploma<br />
from Director of <strong>Schools</strong> Joseph J. Ciancaglini, Chair of<br />
the Board Mindy Rogers, and SHP Principal Rich Dioli 9<br />
John Sutherland (SHP 02) leads the recessional playing<br />
his bagpipes, followed by Grant Gramaglia, Samantha<br />
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Rosekrans, Marie<br />
Hamilton, Nick<br />
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12<br />
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Harstrick, Dwight Hobbs,<br />
Michelle Benevento, and<br />
Travis Benson 10 Sugeily<br />
Benitez with her parents<br />
Alicia and Fernando 11 Dark<br />
Blue Ribbon winner Y.D.<br />
Hoskings presents outgoing<br />
principal Rich Dioli with an honorary ribbon in recognition of his 14 years of service 12 Nicole Villeneuve,<br />
Ally Walters, and Nicollette Warner 13 Spanish teachers Elaine Barry (SHP ‘87), Jesus Ramos, and Karen<br />
Filice enjoy a moment with graduates Kim Selling and Anna Paustenbach 14 “<strong>Heart</strong> of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>”<br />
winners Megan Putnam and Peter Innes<br />
SJSH<br />
A<br />
B<br />
GRADUATION:<br />
14<br />
C<br />
D<br />
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MY FAVORITE PART OF THE<br />
We asked 9 members of our<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> community<br />
to give us a glimpse<br />
into their daily lives.<br />
“<br />
My favorite part of the day is spent at Shoreline<br />
Park in Mountain View. I have been coming here<br />
regularly since I was a child and it holds many<br />
memories for me. I walk to “my spot” (a bench<br />
tucked away and shadowed by trees), and there I<br />
collect my thoughts and relax while I gaze at<br />
the mountains and the small inlet of the bay.<br />
For a long time I worked at a biotechnology startup,<br />
where my days varied from working at home<br />
on marketing materials to traveling to company<br />
headquarters in North Carolina. Now, I consult<br />
for small businesses and nonprofit organizations.<br />
There’s no such thing as a typical workday<br />
for me - I enjoy the flexibility and diversity in<br />
my work schedule. In addition to consulting, I<br />
volunteer with the SF Chapter of the National<br />
Black MBA Association.<br />
I think of <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> as a place that embodies<br />
the ideals of community: inclusion, support,<br />
and moral guidance. Most important, I regard<br />
SHP as a place of belonging for life.<br />
For all of these reasons, I stay involved<br />
”<br />
with SHS<br />
and would like to increase my participation on<br />
campus in the coming years.<br />
Nicole Norton<br />
SJSH ‘93, SHP ‘97<br />
SHS Alumni Board Member<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1991<br />
12 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
DAY<br />
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14 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Kathleen Dolan,<br />
RSCJ<br />
SH Greenwich ‘56<br />
SJSH Religion Teacher &<br />
Campus Minister<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1952<br />
“<br />
One of my favorite times of the day is my time<br />
with the students at St. Joseph’s. As the fourth<br />
grade Religion Teacher and the Campus Minister,<br />
I spend my days preparing for classes and<br />
planning prayer and liturgy opportunities<br />
for the St. Joseph’s community.<br />
My work and my hope is that I am able to instill<br />
in my students a personal and active faith in<br />
God. We lead such busy lives and it is important<br />
that both the children and adults have quiet<br />
time to be present to God, and to reflect on<br />
their relationship to God and to others.<br />
I love this line from scripture: ‘The gift you<br />
have received, give as a gift.’ I have been lucky<br />
enough to share the gift of a <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
education and the love of God with students,<br />
faculty, family and friends through my many<br />
”<br />
years of ministry at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> in<br />
Connecticut, Michigan, New York City, Boston,<br />
and Houston.<br />
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16 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Dr. Don Manley<br />
SJSH ‘47<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1939<br />
“<br />
My favorite part of the day is spent riding<br />
my bike. I am a physician, and I see my cycling<br />
as a form of preventive medicine. I’ve<br />
noticed that cyclists eat more healthily and are<br />
more relaxed than the rest of the population. I<br />
never have the same stress on my bike as I do<br />
commuting through Philadelphia traffic in my<br />
car. I enjoy the beautiful scenery and feel my<br />
worries lighten. It all dates back<br />
to my riding a bike to St. Joseph’s every<br />
day when I was young!<br />
Now that I’m 72 years old and in perfect<br />
health, I feel it is payback time. So each<br />
week I visit three nursing homes to provide eye<br />
care to those who cannot easily get to medical<br />
offices. Then on Thursdays I work in the<br />
emergency room at Wills Eye Hospital<br />
teaching and training young physicians.<br />
I think my <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> education instilled in<br />
me the importance of corporal works of<br />
mercy. I know that my <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> education<br />
taught me how to respect people and helped<br />
me develop a lifelong interest in learning. I<br />
also learned to always ‘do the right thing.’<br />
This mantra has become my life motto.<br />
”<br />
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“<br />
My favorite time of day is very early in the<br />
morning, before anyone else is awake. I<br />
use this time to sit in my favorite chair and take<br />
quiet time for myself and read. After that, each<br />
day is packed with an odd combination of<br />
responsibilities, including kid logistics, political<br />
reading, and my research related to humanitarian<br />
military intervention. I am a fellow at the Center<br />
for International Security and Cooperation at<br />
Stanford and I’m also very involved in<br />
national politics - currently, I am actively<br />
supporting a presidential candidate<br />
through policy work and fund raising.<br />
Dr. Eileen Donahoe<br />
SJSH & SHP Parent<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1989<br />
When our family moved to California 23 years<br />
ago, we knew no one and <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> became<br />
our extended family. Over the years, <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> has been our support system and,<br />
in effect, the organizing institution in our lives.<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> has been especially important to<br />
us in helping develop our children’s sense of<br />
identity. Many of our family traditions have<br />
been built around <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> activities<br />
and we organize ourselves around the<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> calendar.<br />
All four of my children have attended <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong>, from preschool to twelfth grade. My<br />
eldest boys (Jack and Thomas) graduated in<br />
2003 and 2005 respectively, and my daughter<br />
Catherine will be an incoming freshman<br />
this September. My youngest,<br />
”<br />
Kevin,<br />
is a middle schooler at St. Joseph’s.<br />
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20 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Cristina<br />
Echevarria<br />
Moustirats<br />
SHP ‘90<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1985<br />
“<br />
My favorite part of the day is when my husband<br />
Christophe and I play or read together with<br />
our darling son Landon, who is 18 months old.<br />
Some days we get a chance to play first thing in<br />
the morning when Landon wakes up and climbs<br />
into our bed. Other days it’s in the evening right<br />
before Landon goes to sleep.<br />
Our time together as a family is worth more<br />
than gold. Christophe (SHP ‘90) works in sales<br />
for Oracle and he travels frequently. We do all we<br />
can to squeeze in time between his meetings when<br />
he’s in town. I practiced employment law for<br />
six years before Landon was born, and then<br />
closed my practice to be at home full-time. These<br />
days I’m very busy caring for Landon and our new<br />
baby boy Jean-Sebastian, who was born May, and<br />
renovating our new house in Redwood Shores.<br />
We both have fond memories of our days at <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong>. After all, it’s where we met! Our class<br />
was very small and all of our teachers were so<br />
supportive and accessible. We loved our <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> years, and we can hardly wait until<br />
”<br />
our<br />
children are old enough to follow the tradition<br />
and become <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> students themselves.<br />
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Ken Thompson<br />
SHP Academic Dean<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1989<br />
“<br />
My favorite part of the day is when I go on a<br />
hike or a run after a full day at SHP -<br />
I love being outside in a gorgeous oasis of<br />
wildflowers, beautiful views and nature trails.<br />
I feel closer to God when I am immersed in the<br />
grandeur of nature. I think John Muir summed it<br />
up well: ‘I only went out for a walk, ... for going<br />
out, I found, was really going in.’<br />
I actually began my <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> career as<br />
a substitute at St. Joseph’s in the spring of<br />
1989 at the invitation of my friend, Vice Principal<br />
Kevin Eagleson. And I loved it! After my stint<br />
at SJSH, I became the Athletic Director at SHP.<br />
Three years later, I joined the math department as<br />
a teacher and department head for 13 years, until<br />
I became a dean. Before coming to <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
in 1989, I had coached the Santa Clara University<br />
women’s basketball team for ten years.<br />
I actually met my wife at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>.<br />
I love to sing, and so Joan Burdick (former<br />
head of the SHP Theater Department) asked<br />
me to be in several shows. It was during<br />
rehearsals for the Pajama Game that I met<br />
Joan’s daughter Corie, who was a<br />
”<br />
talented New<br />
York City actress. We met in 1995 and<br />
clicked instantly. We were married in 1996.<br />
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24 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Drue Kataoka<br />
SHP ‘96<br />
Entered the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
community in 1991<br />
“<br />
My favorite time of the day is twilight, when<br />
outside my studio window, the last lingering<br />
sunrays graze the clouds. A distinctive<br />
hush signals a quiet time of reflection upon the<br />
goodness of God and His bounty of nature.<br />
I like to paint this beautiful, ephemeral world in<br />
Sumi-e, Japanese brush painting. This 2000-<br />
year-old art form is steeped in a canon of brush<br />
strokes of landscape.<br />
Dipping into the lengthening shadows, I think<br />
about Sister Brown, the former Director<br />
of <strong>Schools</strong>, who was one of my greatest<br />
mentors. The values of an SHP education<br />
resonate with me as I fondly remember her<br />
appreciation and love of the arts.<br />
I am so blessed to be a full-time artist. My last<br />
project, Around the World in a Single Stroke,<br />
honored 12 distinguished global individuals<br />
from diverse disciplines in a celebration of<br />
peace. Currently I’m embarking on another<br />
”<br />
exciting project at the crossroads between art and<br />
technology, capturing the dynamic landscape of<br />
Silicon Valley.<br />
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Alumni Events<br />
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PARENTS OF ALUMNI LUNCHEON:<br />
“Mums of alums” from the classes of<br />
1996 to 2006 gathered for a “Mad Hatter”<br />
lunch on Conway Court. 1 Front: Elizabeth<br />
Hill, Stephenie Hebert, Jan Lindell,<br />
and Lynn Virnoche. Back: Marilyn Jandro,<br />
SHP Football Coach Pete Lavorato, Eloise<br />
Pollock, and Bebelu Wishart 2 Front: Lisa<br />
Ruggeri, Gayten Harmon, and Chaplain<br />
Fr. Tom Moran. Back: Mary Rudolph, Patti<br />
Leone-Cluss, Laurel Marino, and Chris<br />
Budd 3 Front: Joanna Wilkinson, Sue<br />
Merrill, SHP history teacher Donna Gilboa,<br />
and Renée Ortiz. Back: Jan Paton,<br />
Nettie Ramsay, incoming SHP Principal<br />
James Everitt, and Ofelia Delgadillo 4<br />
Front: Irene DeVivo, Renée Child, Pat<br />
Carlson, and Sue Sutherland. Back: Carla<br />
Schiefly, Renée Hannebrink, Angie Ang,<br />
Nancy Blears, Martha Bacon, and Cathy<br />
Norton 5 Front: Kathy McGlynn and Betsy<br />
Marr. Back: Anne Marr (SHP ‘96), Nancy<br />
Tarantino, and Pandy Garvic 6 Front: Bev<br />
Wheat, Beth Seabolt, Linda Haderer, and<br />
Michelle Turchi. Back: Chris McMillan, Jan<br />
Oldenburg, Katie Jordan, Sonia Sayigh,<br />
and Sandra Pachaud<br />
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1920s<br />
Alma Bracesco Bryner (SJSH ‘22)<br />
is living in Vancouver, Canada, where<br />
she and her husband have lived most of<br />
their life. Her husband, Cyril, was a Professor<br />
of Russian History at UBC. Alma<br />
has kept busy through the years volunteering<br />
for UNICEF, the Red Cross, the<br />
Faculty Women’s Club, and UBC Hospital.<br />
She has many fond memories of<br />
St. Joseph’s and Mother Foley.<br />
1940s<br />
Bernie McLoughlin (SJSH ‘42) is<br />
living in Menlo Park and remembers<br />
his days at St. Joseph’s fondly.<br />
1950s<br />
Nancy Sullivan Stretch (SHP ‘57) and Joelle<br />
Walsh Conn (SHP ‘57) helped bring the<br />
class of 1957 back to school in June.<br />
Ursula Cleary (SHE ‘54, SHP ‘58) attended<br />
the AASH New York conference in April, and<br />
visited Menlo in May. She lives in Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
1960s<br />
After working for 41 years as a Registered<br />
Nurse and 24 years as a Nurse Manager for Kaiser<br />
in Southern and Northern California, Joan<br />
McSweeney Terry (SHP ‘61) retired in May.<br />
She is looking forward to traveling, volunteering,<br />
and spending more time with family and<br />
friends.<br />
Kathy Deming Vander Vennet (SHP ‘65)<br />
came back to campus for a visit during her sister<br />
Barbara’s class reunion. She donated her<br />
“letterman” sweater to the school archives.<br />
She is looking great and is happy living in<br />
Rohnert Park.<br />
The Class of 1962 will be gathering together<br />
in the fall at Ann Barry Giurlani’s home<br />
to celebrate their forty-five year reunion. Bobbie<br />
Doyle Bludau will be helping her plan the<br />
party.<br />
The Class of 1967 came back to campus in<br />
April and had a great time exploring the school<br />
and catching up with each other. Hillary Dyer<br />
O’Brien, Barbara Deming Clever, Christine<br />
Lussier Dyer, Annes Gilles Kennelly, Mitzi<br />
Malovos Konevitch, Alice Parcell, Mary<br />
Keith Roberts, Celeste Smith, and Meridee<br />
Talyor had a great time visiting over at Oakwood<br />
too.<br />
Cara Black (SHE ‘65)<br />
Cara is busy this Spring promoting her new book,<br />
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis, the seventh novel in<br />
her Leduc series set in Paris. In April the book reached<br />
#2 on the San Francisco Chronicle’s fiction best-seller<br />
list. This was a great sequel to Cara’s first novel, Murder<br />
in the Marais (1999), which was #1 on the San Francisco<br />
Chronicle’s fiction best-seller list.<br />
“Attending <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Elementary in the 1960s with<br />
French-speaking nuns and students had a lot to do with<br />
choosing the setting for my books,” said Cara. She is enjoying<br />
her life as an author after<br />
serving as a YMCA Preschool<br />
Director and Jewish Community<br />
Center Preschool educator for<br />
many years. Today the <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> tradition continues in<br />
Cara’s family as her son currently<br />
attends Stuart Hall in San<br />
Francisco.<br />
Cara visited SHP in May to<br />
meet with the SHP Women’s<br />
Group and several English<br />
classes.<br />
Class Notes<br />
Marcie Eason Amory (SHP ‘52)<br />
AASH President Marcie Eason<br />
Amory (right) with her classmate<br />
Sheila Poland Madden (SHP ‘52)<br />
at the AASH conference<br />
THANKS<br />
FROM THE<br />
HEART!<br />
Alumni Board<br />
President<br />
Leana<br />
Giannini (SHP<br />
‘75) thanks<br />
SHS Annual<br />
Fund donors<br />
and alumnae<br />
Susan Giavia<br />
Gaddis (SHP<br />
‘68) and Lisa<br />
McCloskey<br />
Geserick (SHP<br />
‘69)<br />
In April, Marcie became the President of the Associated<br />
Alumni of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> (AASH). She was installed<br />
at the AASH conference in New York City. She gave a<br />
fabulous acceptance speech and all of the Menlo girls<br />
were very proud of her.<br />
“I loved my years at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Menlo,” said Marcie.<br />
“I have wonderful memories, I made wonderful lifelong<br />
friends, and I received wonderful training from Religious<br />
who really got it when it came to education.<br />
“I was a full-time boarder, only returning home to<br />
Nevada for holidays and summer vacation,” continued<br />
Marcie. “I remember at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> we had Friday night<br />
movies. Mother Dorsey, then Mistress General, would<br />
pop corn in her office and then we would take it over to<br />
the theater. On Saturdays, those who had received a Très<br />
Bien card at Primes on Monday were allowed to go into<br />
Palo Alto for shopping and lunch. We had to pay a chaperone<br />
and buy her lunch for that privilege.”<br />
We hope to see Marcie visit campus as she travels<br />
to the various <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Alumni Associations and<br />
<strong>Schools</strong> in her new role as AASH President.<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 27
Class Notes<br />
HAPPY BIRTHDAY<br />
SR. MORRIS! Sr. Nancy<br />
Morris celebrated<br />
her 80th birthday on<br />
June 10th, surrounded<br />
by her Menlo girls<br />
1970s<br />
Jeanmarie Tarmann Derry (SHE ‘69,<br />
SHP ‘73) reports on The Class of ‘73: “Our<br />
class held a ‘mini’ reunion in San Francisco in<br />
March. We had fun getting together for lunch at<br />
Scala’s Bistro near Union Square. People came<br />
from as far as Nevada and all over California.<br />
Even though it was an ‘off’ year (our 33rd reunion),<br />
great fun was had by all. Azy Doyle’s<br />
son is getting married in October of ‘07 and<br />
Jeanmarie Tarmann Derry’s daughter is getting<br />
married on 6/7/8. Our reunion planner for<br />
this fall is Lynne Utter Walter. We’ll be taking<br />
a cruise.”<br />
Laura Daschbach Pitchford (SJSH ‘73,<br />
SHP ‘77) and Lauren Gray Koenig (SJSH<br />
‘73, SHP ‘77) are planning their 30th Reunion<br />
for October 20, <strong>2007</strong>. Everyone should save the<br />
date and plan on an enjoyable day and an evening<br />
event.<br />
Sharon Kugler (SHP ‘77) was named the<br />
Chaplain of Yale University in March <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
Yale President Levin announced her appointment<br />
describing her previous work at JHU, remarking,<br />
“At Johns Hopkins, she has cultivated<br />
a chaplaincy that defines itself by serving the<br />
needs of the diverse cultural and religious traditions<br />
there. The members of the search committee<br />
and I were impressed by her success in<br />
building programs that support numerous faiths,<br />
by her work to facilitate interfaith dialogue, and<br />
by her keen pastoral skills that were appreciated<br />
by students of every background.”<br />
Jacqueline Kamber Hosford (SHP ‘79)<br />
thought her <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> class ring was lost<br />
forever. In January it was returned to the <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> Alumni office after it was found in a Lost-<br />
&-Found box in Delaware. Jacqueline, who<br />
lives in New York and works in the residential<br />
remodeling and design industry, was thrilled to<br />
have it back.<br />
1980s<br />
Gertrude Zelaya Huber<br />
(SJSH 79, SHP ‘83) is living<br />
in Miami, Florida and working<br />
on Spanish- and Englishspeaking<br />
television shows.<br />
One of her game shows,<br />
called Link Five, began airing<br />
nationally in March <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
If you are ever in Miami and<br />
want to be a contestant, let<br />
Gertrude know.<br />
Ruth Baird True (SHP<br />
‘80) and her husband have<br />
THE CLASS OF 1973 (top)<br />
gathered in San Francisco<br />
for a mini reunion: Azy Doyle<br />
Mariani, Jennette Lejardi<br />
Sawyer, Beth Conwell, Marcy<br />
McDonald Parker, Mary McGuire<br />
Driscoll, Lunne Utter Walters,<br />
and Jeanmarie Tarmann Derry<br />
THREE MUSETTES AT MARDI<br />
GRAS (left): Musette Buckley<br />
(SJSH ‘76, SHP ‘80, left) with<br />
her daughter Muzie and mother<br />
Musette<br />
opened Western Bridge, a<br />
nonprofit space in Seattle<br />
dedicated to recent developments<br />
in contemporary<br />
art. The True Collection<br />
contains important works<br />
in video, photography<br />
and other media by an international<br />
roster of both<br />
established and emerging<br />
artists. Works from the collection have been<br />
exhibited in major museums in North America<br />
and Europe.<br />
The Class of SHP 1982 will be celebrating<br />
their 25th reunion on October 20, <strong>2007</strong>. Save<br />
the date— Aileen Silva McDonald and Legia<br />
Rillos Oswald are planning a fun event.<br />
Janet Mainini<br />
Manger<br />
(SHP ‘69)<br />
“My years at <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
were the best four years of my growing<br />
up. The nuns built a wonderful<br />
community and gave us a sense of camaraderie.<br />
They taught us that putting others first was the<br />
highest goal. Living by this has given me a wonderful sense<br />
of satisfaction in my life. We had an awareness that we<br />
were supposed to make the world a better place. The nuns<br />
had a spirituality that they modeled for us and I have carried<br />
it with me throughout my life. To the nuns of <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
who taught me to live for others, I am truly thankful.<br />
Dana Perkins (SJSH ‘80, SHP ‘84) writes<br />
that she has been living in Seattle for ten years<br />
and that she is teaching high school English at<br />
The Bush School. She attributes her passion for<br />
teaching to Mrs. Connie Solari, who has been<br />
an “incredible role model for me.” Dana says<br />
she will never forget Connie teaching her AP<br />
English class from the floor when she had lower<br />
back problems. Dana still loves rowing, which<br />
she first took up at SHP, and she recently purchased<br />
her first single rowing shell.<br />
28 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
1990s<br />
Gloria Martinez Ebner (SHP ‘92) and her<br />
husband Mark welcomed their first child, Antonio<br />
Marcos, into their family on August 14,<br />
2006. Gloria is now living in San Jose. She<br />
sends greetings to her class and congratulates<br />
Rich Dioli, who was a great friend and mentor<br />
to her, on his recent appointment as Director of<br />
<strong>Schools</strong>.<br />
Michelle Chaudoir Klosterman (SHP ‘96)<br />
married Eric Klosterman September 2006 in<br />
Napa with fellow alumnae Michelle Marsili<br />
Trisha Felts Hosley (SHP ‘97) has been<br />
named the Skyline College women’s basketball<br />
coach. After leaving the corporate world only a<br />
year ago, Trisha was surprised to become a head<br />
coach so soon. At SHP, Trisha was a stand-out<br />
guard in basketball who played on three state<br />
championship teams. She also played softball<br />
and was a 1994 cross country star. She attended<br />
University of Portland and later worked at Benefit<br />
Cosmetics. She and her husband Nathan<br />
have one son (Nathan Jr.). Trisha is also the coowner<br />
of the San Francisco restaurant Sauce.<br />
Kyleanne Hunter (SHP ‘97) is a Marine<br />
pilot, flying Cobra helicopters out of Al Asad<br />
or the eight years I attended grammar school at St.<br />
“FJoseph’s, the moment I looked forward to<br />
most each day was a handshake from Henry Schimpf. In<br />
his later years, Henry covered our recess after lunch. None of<br />
the students would think of beginning this special time without<br />
first locating Henry: the boys<br />
for a handshake and some<br />
warm conversation and the<br />
girls giving him a hug or a peck<br />
on the cheek. He made us feel special - like we could<br />
grow up and be anything we wanted to be.<br />
During our recess, Henry was constantly surrounded<br />
by children. Even though Henry was there to provide<br />
supervision and to handle our student conflicts, there<br />
was never any need for yelling with him on the job.<br />
You see, Henry treated us with love and respect. We<br />
understood that and never wanted to let him down.<br />
Henry is remembered because he made his time on<br />
earth count by spreading love every chance he had.<br />
For this reason Henry will always remain a hero to me<br />
and thousands of other St. Joseph’s alumni. I often<br />
wonder if the gatekeeper in heaven will have the same<br />
qualities as our Henry Schimpf.<br />
(SJSH ‘92, SHP ‘96) and Danielle Chaudoir<br />
(SHP ‘93) as attendants.<br />
Amy Henry (SHP ‘96) is graduating from<br />
Veterinary medical school and is married with<br />
two daughters.<br />
Drue Kataoka (SHP ‘96) invites the SHP<br />
community to visit her interactive art project,<br />
Around the World in a Single Stroke, at www.<br />
inasinglestroke.com. Next, she will embark on<br />
a project that celebrates Silicon Valley. Stay<br />
tuned at www.drue.net.<br />
Chalis Kuba (SJSH ‘92, SHP ‘96) graduated<br />
from Georgetown in 2000 and is now working<br />
for Novartis after stints for Clorox, Nestle,<br />
and Chiron BioTech. She lives in Concord with<br />
her husband, and they are currently renovating<br />
their home.<br />
Sean Day (SHP ‘97) is cooking up a ten<br />
year reunion for The Class of 1997. If you<br />
want to help with the event, email him c/o<br />
alumni@shschools.org.<br />
Eric Lochtefeld<br />
(SJSH ‘85)<br />
Airfield in Iraq as a medivac escort. She plans<br />
on coming home by October to run the Marine<br />
Marathon with her sister Leslie (SHP ‘01) in<br />
Washington, D.C.<br />
Jessica DeVivo (SJSH ‘94, SHP ‘98) graduated<br />
from Tulane University with a BS in Psychology<br />
and has been teaching special education<br />
at Charles Armstrong School.<br />
Monica Ortiz (SHP ‘99) is attending St.<br />
George University Veterinary School on the island<br />
of Grenada, West Indies.<br />
Amanda Frank (SHP ‘99) was recently engaged<br />
to Anthony Gregg, a chef and business<br />
owner, and they are planning an August 2008<br />
wedding.<br />
Reshma Khilnani (SHP ‘99) has moved to<br />
Beijing, China to work for Microsoft.<br />
Kristina Stankovic (SJSH ‘95, SHP ‘99)<br />
married Craig McClane on September 9, 2006<br />
at the Santa Clara Mission, with their reception<br />
on the grounds. Both the bride and groom are<br />
MOM Lindsay Peloso Fifield (SHP<br />
‘96) with her husband Paul and their<br />
daughter Haley. They have recently<br />
moved back to Menlo Park.<br />
SCU graduates. Bridesmaids included Julie<br />
Stankovic (SJSH ‘97, SHP ‘01), Laura<br />
Smith (SJSH ‘95), Natalia Carse (SJSH<br />
‘95), and Laura Evans (SJSH ‘95). At the<br />
wedding, Dawn Reyen (former SJSH teacher)<br />
performed all the music, with Mark Bowman<br />
(former SJSH teacher) and Julie Stankovic<br />
doing vocals. Kristina and Craig now reside in<br />
Scottsdale, AZ and Kristina works as a speech<br />
language pathologist.<br />
2000s<br />
Josh Garvic (SHP ‘00) graduated from the<br />
law school at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.<br />
He recently completed an internship with<br />
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit<br />
Court of Appeals in Pasadena.<br />
Karla Gurley (SHP ‘00) is traveling with<br />
members of her church to South Africa over<br />
the summer to work with two organizations that<br />
help children orphaned or infected with HIV/<br />
AIDS. She will be working at Beautiful Gate in<br />
Capetown and Villa of Hope in Johannesburg.<br />
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The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 29
Class Notes<br />
BRIDE Meghan Shumm Oliveri (SHP ‘97),<br />
with her sisters Kathleen “Katy” Shumm<br />
(SHP ‘01, left) and Erin Shumm SHP ‘99)<br />
Catie Paton (SHP ‘00) graduated from UC<br />
Davis and is working in San Francisco at Alexandria<br />
Real Estate Equities, Inc.<br />
Kaori Murakami (SHP ‘00) has moved to<br />
Tokyo to work in marketing for FedEx Kinko’s<br />
and she invites her classmates to get in touch<br />
with her if they want to come for a visit.<br />
Bridget Geibel (SHP ‘01) is teaching English<br />
at a school in Torun, Poland.<br />
Sarah Bacon (SHP ‘02) graduated from Cal<br />
with a double major in Anthropology and Social<br />
Welfare. She is living in Menlo Park and interning<br />
at the Veteran’s Hospital.<br />
Chris Child (SHP ‘02) graduated from<br />
M.I.T. and is working for Bain & Company in<br />
Boston.<br />
Nate Myall (SHP ‘02) is finishing up his<br />
Masters in Biology at Stanford and will continue<br />
his studies next year in medical school at<br />
Stanford.<br />
Maria Patricia Miranda (SHP ‘02) is a first<br />
year medical student at Dartmouth. Recently she<br />
volunteered to work at a clinic in New Orleans<br />
helping the Katrina victims. She will continue<br />
with this work during the summer of <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
J.D. Mumford (SHP ‘02) is returning to<br />
California this summer after doing graduate<br />
work at Lehigh University for ground water<br />
cooling. He is planning to continue his gradu-<br />
ate studies and to look for work in the<br />
high tech field.<br />
Max Etchemendy (SHP ‘02) has<br />
moved back to the Bay Area and is<br />
now working for Coghead, Inc. He<br />
is house-sharing with <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
alumni Tommy Nourse (SJSH ‘98,<br />
SHP ‘02), Amarnath Santhanam<br />
(SHP ‘02), and Stephanie Lee (SHP<br />
‘02).<br />
Jessica Ortiz (SHP ‘02) is working<br />
as an Assistant Producer at Red<br />
Car, a National post-production company<br />
in Dallas, Texas.<br />
Jordan Palmer (SJSH ‘98, SHP<br />
‘02) is working in real estate with her<br />
mom. In July he is moving to L.A. to begin a<br />
job in sales and marketing for a new company.<br />
John Sutherland (SHP ‘02) is still living in<br />
Vancouver, British Columbia, still studying at<br />
Simon Fraser University, and still playing the<br />
bagpipes.<br />
Addie Bacon (SHP ‘03) is graduating from<br />
the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising<br />
in San Francisco with a degree in Visual<br />
Communications. She stays busy working in<br />
local retail and volunteering with the Juvenile<br />
Diabetes Research Foundation.<br />
Lauren Blears (SHP ‘03) recently graduated<br />
from USC with a major in Philosophy and a minor<br />
in Advertising. She is the past President of<br />
Kappa Kappa Gama sorority.<br />
Casey Brodhead (SHP ‘03) has completed<br />
four years at California State University Northridge,<br />
and will now be attending the Stanford-<br />
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Consortium.<br />
This is a five-year doctoral program which<br />
is a joint program between Stanford and PGSP.<br />
Ashley Hannebrink (SHP ‘03) graduated<br />
from Dartmouth with a major in Government<br />
and a minor in Art History and French. This fall<br />
she will be attending Stanford Law School to<br />
concentrate in Health Policy and/or Public Interest.<br />
Ashley has also been a stand-out on the<br />
Dartmouth Equestrian Team. Dartmouth won<br />
the Equestrian Regional Competition and the<br />
All-Ivy Competition.<br />
Elizabeth “Libby” Hook<br />
BRIDE Christina<br />
Stankovic (SJSH<br />
‘95, SHP ‘99)<br />
with her sister<br />
Julie (SJSH ‘97,<br />
SHP ‘01), mother<br />
Latta (who<br />
taught at SJSH<br />
for many years),<br />
and father Bob.<br />
MARINE PI-<br />
LOT Kyleanne<br />
Hunter (SHP<br />
‘97) currently<br />
flies Cobra helicopters<br />
out of<br />
Al Asad Airfield<br />
in Iraq<br />
NEW DAD<br />
Nick Smith<br />
(SHP ‘99)<br />
with his<br />
daughter<br />
Alice<br />
(SHP ‘03) graduated from Regis University<br />
with a Business Management major and a Fine<br />
Arts minor.<br />
Melissa Miranda (SHP ‘03) graduated in<br />
May from Occidental College with a degree in<br />
Biology.<br />
Aziz Sayigh (SJSH ‘99, SHP ‘03) is playing<br />
rugby for Dartmouth. He was selected in April<br />
for the All Ivy League Rugby Team.<br />
Genevieve Ang (SHP ‘04) is currently finishing<br />
up her semester abroad with USC in England.<br />
This summer she plans to intern for Frog<br />
Design, a strategic-creative consultancy firm.<br />
Nicole Carlson (SJSH ‘00, SHP ‘04) is an<br />
English major at the University of San Diego<br />
with a minor in Theology. She taught ballet<br />
last summer at the City of San Diego School<br />
of Ballet. After college, Nicole plans to go to<br />
law school.<br />
Brandon Child (SHP ‘04) is a junior at USC.<br />
He has taken a break from the water polo team<br />
and is very happy.<br />
Christian DeVivo (SHP ‘04) has completed<br />
his third year at the University of Denver,<br />
Lamont School of Music with a Jazz Studies<br />
major.<br />
Ryan Leary (SHP ‘04) has completed his<br />
junior year at Santa Clara University studying<br />
computer engineering. He will begin a sixmonth<br />
internship for Network Appliance, Inc.<br />
30 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
Christine Lindell (SHP ‘04) is attending<br />
the University of Washington. Currently she is<br />
studying abroad in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia<br />
in an immersion program studying Serbian/Cyrillic<br />
language and governments. Last<br />
spring quarter Christine studied in Vienna with<br />
an immersion program in German government<br />
and language. This summer she will be working<br />
in Zagreb, Croatia as a summer intern<br />
through the University of Zagreb.<br />
Jennifer Merrill (SHP ‘04) has spent her<br />
Spring interning at Bellevue Hospital in New<br />
York, where she worked with the patients who<br />
were homeless, mentally-ill, and addicted to<br />
drugs . This summer she has an internship<br />
with Family Service Visitation Center, working<br />
with non-custodial parents and their children.<br />
She is working on a Master’s Degree in<br />
social work.<br />
Carrie and Jane Paton (SHP ‘04) are attending<br />
UC Davis and have been studying<br />
COACH Trisha<br />
Felts Hosley<br />
(SHP ‘97)<br />
is the new<br />
women’s basketball<br />
coach<br />
at Skyline<br />
College<br />
abroad in Florence,<br />
Italy. Jane is studying<br />
Fashion Design<br />
and Carrie is studying<br />
Art History.<br />
Chris Whittam<br />
(SHP ‘04) is enjoying his studies and water<br />
polo at George Washington University. He will<br />
be living at home and interning at Intuit this<br />
summer.<br />
Brandon Chau (SHP ‘05) returned to SHP<br />
in March, on a break from UCLA, to talk to Mr.<br />
Douglas Shultz’ computer class. He was able to<br />
share some of his animation work and talk to<br />
the students about his major in Design/Media<br />
Arts.<br />
Tyler Leone (SJSH ‘01, SHP ‘05) is completing<br />
his sophomore year at Santa Clara University.<br />
Lindsay Merrill (SHP ‘05) is majoring in<br />
Art at Carnegie Mellon. This summer she will<br />
spend one month in Costa Rica doing volunteer<br />
work, and then she will intern at the Institute for<br />
Unpopular Art in San Francisco.<br />
Zack Pollack (SHP ‘05) has completed his<br />
sophomore year at Loyola Marymount and is a<br />
Business major.<br />
Erica Ruggeri (SJSH ‘01, SHP ‘05) is a<br />
sophomore at Syracuse University. Next semester<br />
Erica will be studying abroad in Florence,<br />
Italy.<br />
Ruth Bacon (SHP ‘06) is attending Foothill<br />
College, working at Café Borrone and a local<br />
swim club, and is very happy.<br />
Will DeLong (SHP ‘05)<br />
Lacrosse is rapidly gaining popularity on the west coast<br />
and at SHP. Alumnus Will DeLong has taken his SHP<br />
lacrosse experience to the college field. “Although lacrosse<br />
is a club sport here at Southern Methodist University (SMU),<br />
the level of talent is far greater than what I encountered in<br />
California,” said Will. “We have so many talented players,<br />
including some high school All-Americans.”<br />
“Juggling academics with lacrosse has not been too hard<br />
for me,” said Will. “Since it is a club sport, I don’t have the<br />
same time commitment as I would with a varsity sport. The<br />
team practices three evenings a week for two hours.” Will<br />
still has plenty of time to spend in the classroom and in the<br />
library, and he even sees Nathan Farray (SHP ‘05) and Liz<br />
Bagnati (SHP ‘02) around campus every once in a while.<br />
“SHP did a great job preparing me for the rigors of college,”<br />
said Will. “I really learned how to be disciplined and<br />
stay on track. Here at college you have to be self-motivated.<br />
I learned a lot from Coach Pete Lavorato, who gave<br />
me some of my most cherished memories of high school.<br />
One of my favorite memories is the PSAL-BFL Championship<br />
game against Salesian my senior year. Sometimes it<br />
seems like I learned just as much on the football field as I did in the classroom, and I still use<br />
those lessons everyday.”<br />
Will still manages to come home every Thanksgiving and winter break. “I have visited<br />
campus several times and always see Señor Ramos in the weight room as I stop by to watch<br />
the football practices and visit all the coaches.”<br />
When asked what advice Will has for SHP lacrosse players who want to play in college, he<br />
said, “Just go for it. I was intimidated at first when I arrived at college and tried to play with<br />
teammates who have played their whole life, since I only played two years in high school.<br />
But after going out and playing, I have found that I can play at this level, even if I don’t have<br />
the same level of experience as my teammates. It’s also so fun to be part of a club team, and<br />
team sports are an awesome way to stay in shape.”<br />
Rebecca Child (SHP ‘06) is finishing her<br />
freshman year at UC Davis and loves it.<br />
Keegan Leary (SHP ‘06) is a freshman at<br />
UCLA majoring in Electrical engineering. He is<br />
learning to surf and enjoys skateboarding.<br />
Alex Ortiz (SHP ‘06) has just completed his<br />
first year at Salve Regina in Newport, Rhode<br />
Island. He is looking forward to a summer in<br />
California.<br />
Carrie Wilkins (SHP ‘06) is studying at<br />
George Washington University in Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
Julia Garces (SJSH ‘02, SHP ‘06) is loving<br />
her experience at Duke University. She has<br />
just won a Mellon Grant for a research project<br />
in micro-financing that will take her to Ecuador<br />
for the summer of <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
Kelly Jandro (SHP ‘06) is enjoying college<br />
life at Northwestern.<br />
Jacky Mumford (SHP ‘06) had a wonderful<br />
semester at University of Arizona, but<br />
decided that a smaller school would be better<br />
for her, so she has been applying to California<br />
FELLOW GATORS: Alumna Kirsten<br />
Harmon (SHP ‘05), with her father (left)<br />
and former SHP Director of College<br />
Counseling Frank Brightwell (right) at<br />
the fundraising gala for Frank’s nonprofit<br />
organization, Somos Amigos<br />
schools. She is taking classes at Cañada College<br />
and working part-time.<br />
Margarita Miranda (SHP ‘06) enjoyed her<br />
first year at Wellesley College and will be home<br />
this summer.<br />
Aubrie Pollock (SHP ‘06) just completed<br />
her freshman year at Santa Clara University.<br />
She has not yet declared her major.<br />
Elodie Turchi (SJSH ‘02, SHP ‘06) is attending<br />
George Washington University studying<br />
in the Elliott School of International Affairs.<br />
She just completed an internship at the Alliance<br />
Française in Washington, D.C.<br />
Katie Wilkinson (SHP ‘06) is studying at<br />
UCSC and is interested in Psychology. She<br />
joined the Gamma Phi Beta sorority and is enjoying<br />
it.<br />
Carmen-Rosa Wishart (SHP ‘06) is enjoying<br />
Claremont-McKenna College.<br />
The <strong>Heart</strong> of the Matter 31
Sports In Memoriam<br />
Beat<br />
We ask for your prayers for the families and friends<br />
of our community who passed away during the past year.<br />
St. Joseph’s Alumni &<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Prep Alumni<br />
1951 - Patricia Vetter Fauser (SHP ‘51) died on April 26, <strong>2007</strong> after a<br />
sudden illness. After <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>, Pat attended San Francisco College<br />
for Women and received her Master’s degree in Philosophy at Catholic<br />
University in Washington, D.C. and her PhD in Philosophy from St.<br />
Louis University. She was a professor and Chairman of Humanities<br />
for many years at Benedictine University in Illinois. Her husband John<br />
passed away in the Fall of 2006 and she remained in Florida to be close<br />
to her sister Jane Vetter. She will be missed by her sisters Jane and Colleen<br />
Vetter Durrant (SHP ‘49) and her many nieces and nephews.<br />
1952 - Patricia R. Wurzburg Schechter (SHP ‘52) died after a long battle<br />
with breast cancer. Patricia attended <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> in the late forties<br />
and then transferred to Palo Alto High School after a sudden death in<br />
her family. After high school she attended Stanford and graduated with<br />
a degree in nursing. She then went to UCLA and earned a Master’s<br />
degree so that she could teach. She was a co-founder of the College<br />
of Marin School of Nursing, and she taught there for many years. She<br />
will be missed by her husband Larry and her children.<br />
1953 - Nancy Derry Nejasmich (SJSH ‘49, SHP ‘53) passed away at<br />
home on March 30, <strong>2007</strong> after a long battle with cancer. She taught<br />
fourth grade for 40 years at Clifford Elementary School in Redwood<br />
City, and was widowed three times. She loved to play tennis and was<br />
a good friend to many. She will be missed by her siblings Gail Derry<br />
Blach (SJSH ‘50, SHP ‘54), Sr. Joan Derry (SJSH ‘47), and Rev.<br />
Daniel Derry (SJSH ‘51). She is also survived by several nieces and<br />
nephews including Dan Blach (SJSH ‘85), Matt Blach (SJSH ‘93),<br />
Mark Derry (SJSH ’69), Blake Derry (SJSH ‘77), and Tamra Tehaney<br />
(SJSH ‘72, SHP ‘76).<br />
1955 - Dian Billingsley DiSibio (SHP ‘55) died peacefully on May 5,<br />
<strong>2007</strong> from health problems related to a stroke of five years ago. She attended<br />
UCLA after high school and worked in her family construction<br />
business, DiSibio Construction, for many decades. Her three children<br />
Jeannie, Rocky, and Paul will miss her very much. Her fellow classmates<br />
will miss her great friendship.<br />
1960 - Irene Diskon Aleck (SHE ‘56, SHP ‘60) died peacefully in her<br />
sleep on March 28, <strong>2007</strong>. After her college years at the University of<br />
California and Dominican College, Irene lived in San Francisco and<br />
Boston with her husband Jay. Although the last 12 years of her life<br />
were physically challenging, she never lost her unquenchable joie de<br />
vivre. Her <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> classmates will miss her fun-loving ways.<br />
1961 - Marta Zelaya DeBenedetti (SHP ‘61) died at her home in San<br />
Salvador in October 2006.<br />
SHS Community<br />
The family of Martin Baer, uncle of Peggy O’Leary (SHP Fine Arts<br />
teacher and Department Head).<br />
The family of Matilda “Dita” Baker Wilbur (former Trustee,<br />
alumna of SH Marysville College and Forest Ridge), mother of<br />
Lolita Wilbur (SHP ‘44). She was preceded in death by her husband<br />
and her children, Louise Bailey (SHP ‘42), Brayton Wilbur Jr., and<br />
Mary Thacher (SHP ‘45).<br />
The family of Paula Callahan, wife of Jim Callahan, and mother to<br />
Amy Callahan McHugh (SJSH ‘83) and Kristie Callahan Gill<br />
(SJSH ‘83).<br />
The family of Catherine Dolan, mother of Sister Kathleen Dolan<br />
(SJSH Campus Minister and Religion teacher), Dr. William Dolan,<br />
Dr. David Dolan, and Robert Dolan.<br />
The family of Rose Marie Haberstro, mother of Carol Malcolm<br />
(SJSH Grandparent), grandmother of Cheryl Barnoli (SJSH<br />
’90), grandmother of John Malcolm and his wife Elizabeth (SJSH<br />
parents), and great-grandmother of Shelby Ann (SJSH ‘13) and her<br />
brother John. She was preceded in death by her beloved grandsons<br />
Brian Malcolm (SJSH ‘87) and Robert Malcolm (SJSH ‘89).<br />
The family of Patsy Hardy, mother of Jeffrey Hardy (SJSH parent)<br />
and grandmother of Matthew (SJSH ‘07), Mark (SJSH ‘10), John<br />
Robert (SJSH ‘11), and Thomas Hardy (SJSH ‘16).<br />
The family of Lizette Lautze, mother of Chris Hatton (SHP College<br />
Counseling), and grandmother of Christian Hatton (SHP ‘93),<br />
Lucas Hatton (SHP ‘96), Briggs Hatton (SHP ‘01), Cory Hatton<br />
(SJSH ‘02, SHP ‘06), and Travis Hatton.<br />
The family of Jane Burch Merryman, mother of Sarah Sally<br />
Merryman (SHE ‘57, SHP ‘61), Janie Merryman (SHE ’51, SHP<br />
‘55), Alice Merryman (SJSH ’51) and William Merryman (SJSH<br />
‘54), and grandmother to Brett Merryman (SJSH alumnus).<br />
The family of Patricia O’Gara Stellar and Dr. Robert E. Stellar,<br />
mother and father of Eileen Holtvedt (Convent of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
Greenwich ’74), and grandparents of Brian (SHP ‘10), Lindsay<br />
(SJSH ‘07), and Christina Holtvedt (SJSH ‘10).<br />
The family of Rosalie Wilcox, mother of Sister Christine Wilcox<br />
(SHP Campus Ministry), Rose Wilcox, Jeanne Rousch, Allan<br />
Wilcox, Peter Wilcox, and Patrick Wilcox.<br />
The family of Anna Woo, mother of Ray Woo (SHP Religious Studies<br />
teacher).<br />
Oakwood Community<br />
Sister Helen Condon, longtime educator in Omaha, Nebraska, and Lake Forest, Illinois, died Thursday, December 21 at Oakwood, following a<br />
long illness. She was 85 and had been a Religious of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> for 61 years. She was also a poet and some of her poems can be found<br />
in the RSCJ Journal of Reflection.<br />
Sister Addie Hickey passed away unexpectedly at Oakwood at the age of 91. Sister Addie was a <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> middle school head for many years<br />
at Overbrook, 91st Street, and Nottingham. In the last 25 years of her life she became a nurse and served the RSCJ in their communities at<br />
Oakwood, Kenwood, and Regis. Her last gift of service was as a nurse in a hospice environment.<br />
The Alumni Office is grateful for the notification of deaths of Alumni and their families.<br />
When word is received, we ask the sisters at Oakwood dedicate a mass in their honor.<br />
32 <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>2007</strong>
In the<br />
Spirit of<br />
Mater<br />
Making a<br />
Difference...<br />
One Person at a Time<br />
On October 20, <strong>2007</strong>, the Feast of Mater, our<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> Alumni are gathering to<br />
learn from three of our own who exemplify the<br />
Spirit of Mater and have gone on to achieve<br />
National and International recognition for their<br />
work to improve the lives of people without a<br />
voice.<br />
• Sister Irene Cullen (SHP ‘57)<br />
U.S. Director for the Society to the Kenya/Uganda<br />
Mission will talk to us about the mission of <strong>Sacred</strong><br />
<strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong> in third world countries and specifi cally<br />
in Africa.<br />
• Melissa Brown Pritchard (SHP ‘66)<br />
ASU professor and novelist, will talk to us about her<br />
Daywalka Foundation that works to end human<br />
traffi cking in Nepal, India and Bangladesh.<br />
• Jonathan Dorsey (SJSH ‘99, SHP ‘03)<br />
A current Stanford student, will relate his passion to<br />
mobilize and inspire students to help African refugees<br />
living with HIV/AIDS through his FACE AIDS organization<br />
that provides support groups, income generating<br />
projects and grants for education and prevention.<br />
We hope this event will inspire and encourage<br />
everyone who has been joined through our<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> education and to understand that as<br />
God worked through Mary’s life, He is working<br />
through ours too.<br />
Please join us on October 20th as we gather in the<br />
Main Building for coffee at 9:30 am, followed by<br />
a 10 am Mass in the chapel, speakers and awards<br />
in The Campbell Center for the Performing Arts,<br />
and a luncheon in the parlors. Visits to Oakwood<br />
will end our day together.<br />
The<br />
Georgia Seitz Fults<br />
Memorial<br />
Garden<br />
at<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>Schools</strong><br />
MEMORIAL PAVING STONES<br />
Honor your loved ones, past and present.<br />
Purchase a memorial paving stone<br />
for a family member, for a student at<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>, or for someone dear who<br />
has passed. This engraved brick will<br />
be placed on the border of the beautiful<br />
Memorial Garden, located adjacent to<br />
the tennis courts at St. Joseph’s School<br />
of the <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong>. Simply contact the<br />
SHS Development Office at 454-8393 or<br />
amarr@shschools.org by August 17th.<br />
Each memorial paving stone costs $500.<br />
All donations are tax-deductible<br />
to the extent allowed by law.<br />
Inscriptions are 2 lines,<br />
15 characters or spaces per line,<br />
including punctuation.<br />
Thank you for your support!<br />
If you would like to attend, sponsor a table of eight or volunteer<br />
to help with the event, please email alumni@shschools.org.
Upcoming Events<br />
Save the<br />
Dates!<br />
Sunday, September 23<br />
11am-2pm<br />
Grandparent /<br />
Special Person Day<br />
Saturday, October 20<br />
10am<br />
“In the Spirit of Mater”<br />
Mass/Lecture/Brunch Event<br />
Wednesday, November 21<br />
12noon-5pm<br />
Young Alumni Sports Day<br />
Soccer / Water Polo /<br />
Basketball Scrimmages<br />
Saturday, December 1<br />
Gingerbread House<br />
Decorating Party<br />
Thursday, December 20<br />
Young Alumni Party<br />
For event details,<br />
contact us at<br />
650-454-8394 or<br />
alumni@shschools.org<br />
The <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> Alumni Travel Program presents...<br />
The France of<br />
St. Madeleine Sophie<br />
Before & After the French Revolution<br />
June 7 – 16, 2008<br />
Space is limited. Email alumni@shschools.org<br />
to reserve your spot today.<br />
Highlights include visiting St. Madeleine’s childhood home in Joigny,<br />
visiting the first <strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> School in Paris, traveling to Versailles,<br />
Vezelay, and Paris, and learning from Donna and Janet along the way.<br />
Join us with your best friend from high school and learn about<br />
Gothic and Romanesque architecture, France in the Middle Ages,<br />
Jansenism and the Catholic Church, and the French Revolution.<br />
Our guides will<br />
be long-time<br />
<strong>Sacred</strong> <strong>Heart</strong><br />
faculty members<br />
Donna Gilboa<br />
(History) and<br />
Janet Johnson<br />
Whitchurch (Art/<br />
Art History)<br />
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