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Shawn Leight, Board of Trustees Chair, recently shared that the Board is delighted to extend Mr. Tim Horner’s contract as Head of School through June 2028.  “We have tremendous momentum and Mr. Horner will provide the leadership that is needed for us to follow through with these initiatives as we continue to improve our school.”

This week, Mr. Horner reflects as 46th Head of School at the Academy. 

We have been celebrating Catholic Schools Week with the Academy community. We honor our heritage as the first Sacred Heart school in this country, founded by St. Philippine Duchesne in 1818 and continue to live our mission, shared by the 25 Network of Sacred Heart schools in the U.S. and Canada and guided by the Goals and Criteria.

Goal 1 of Sacred Heart Education: a personal and active faith in God

The week began celebrating students, followed by celebrating vocations on Tuesday and recognizing the Religious of the Sacred Heart. Wednesday we celebrated the nation and today we celebrate faculty and staff, which included a Taco Bar lunch provided by the Hospitality Committee.

The gift of a Sacred Heart education is frequently cited by alumni as the best gift their parents have given them. This week, Berkeley Rebman ’17 reflects on her Academy experience. This June, she will graduate from the University of Denver with a BSBA degree in Business Information & Analytics with minors in French & Francophone Studies and Leadership Studies. This summer, Berkeley will be moving to Boston for her job as a commercial strategy associate for Wayfair.

How does one describe a gift of nine years of compassion, empathy, and advocacy? It is impossible. In fact, it is not only a gift of nine years, rather a lifetime and something that can be drawn upon years after graduation.

The gift of a Sacred Heart education is the most valuable gift I have ever received, and I thank my parents every day for the sacrifices they made to give me that opportunity. From my nine years at the Academy, I fondly remember the many traditions including Congé and Silver Tea, but more importantly, I remember the lessons I learned and continue to carry with me today.

In this week’s From the Heart, Theology and History teacher Miss Mary Furay shares the history and significance of the Jubilee Year. Three students also offer inspiring reflections on what the word “hope” means to them.

Jubilee Years hold deep religious significance for Catholics, celebrating joy and pardon every 25 years, and are rooted in the ancient Jewish tradition described in Leviticus 25, where debts were forgiven, and servants freed. The 2025 Jubilee began on Christmas Eve with Pope Francis making the 500-year-old traditional gesture: opening the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica to symbolize a passage from sin to grace.  When Pope Francis announced the Jubilee Year, he stated, “We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to the future with an open spirit, a trusting heart and far-sighted vision. The forthcoming Jubilee can contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust as a prelude to the renewal and rebirth that we so urgently desire…”

Relationships built through the years with classmates, and later alumni, are a significant gift of Sacred Heart education. But parents are also beneficiaries of this gift as they become friends with each other after time spent from birthday parties to basketball courts, volunteering or participating in distinctive Academy traditions.

This week, Charla Niccoli Dziedzic ’75 reflects on decades-long friendships that began when her own children started at the Academy and have flourished ever since, including celebrating New Years Eve together in a long-standing tradition.

A group of alumni parents has been gathering for many years on New Year’s Eve. This is what a quarter century of Sacred Heart alumni parent friendship looks like. As we were reminiscing that evening on our group’s longevity, the common thought was “Who knew?”

When I graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart (1975, Eighth Class), I knew I would remain friends with many of my classmates forever. But what I didn’t know, when my children, Rose ’04 and Drew ’07, started at ASH was that my fellow parents would become my lifetime friends also.