Next Tuesday’s General PCC Meeting at 7:00 in Rauch Memorial Gym will include distribution of the first trimester report cards. We look forward to seeing you there!
Prior to distribution of report cards, Mrs. Jen Ruffino (PCC President), Mrs. Renken and I will circle back with more information, based on feedback from the Forward Focused Forum, in an attempt to answer your questions and respond to topics you may still be wondering about.
With winter approaching, the November issue of the Catholic School Health Information newsletter contains helpful information about the flu.
All are invited to attend the first presentation in this year’s Sacred Heart Spirituality and Education Speakers Series at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School. On Friday, November 6, Donna Collins, RSCJ, will present Sacred Heart Spirituality Giving Rise to a Philosophy of Education: Responding to a Changing World at 9:30 a.m. in the Parlor Dining Room.
Sister Collins is the principal at VIlla Duchesne and a board member at Sheridan Road, Chicago. The Sacred Heart Spirituality Speakers Series is sponsored by the Mums of Alums at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School for the benefit of the entire Sacred Heart family.
Saturday, Oct. 31 and Sunday Nov. 1
2:00 p.m.
Cribbin Hall
Two inept detectives, Cagney and Lacey, have been put in charge of protecting an unusual family until the mother, Elvira Bytes, can testify against a ruthless crime mob. The police are unaware, however, that Elvira, her husband Barnabas, and their three kids are vampires! The parents are trying to change the family ways but it isn’t easy with a sarcastic teenage daughter, Scarlett, who uses a voodoo doll, and teenage son, Jason, who thinks he is also a werewolf. Only the youngest daughter, Raven, wants to be normal. When she brings home a new friend, Cagney and Lacey go on high alert, which isn’t easy for the two detectives who are not the brightest bulbs on the force. Is this new friend an associate of mob bosses Lucky Lucy and the germ-a-phobic Minnie the Mouth? Will two arrogant hotshot cops, Starsky and Hutch, have to step in to help? Sink your teeth into this comedy!
Dear Parents,
A Sacred Heart education is differentiated by, among other things, the following:
Did you know that Johnny Appleseed was a missionary—and a war hero? Sixth Class students do! They recently learned a lot about that larger-than-life character using Fun-n-Facts for Brain-iacs, a syndicated feature penned by their Literature and Writing teacher, Mrs. Laura Craig. Fun-n-Facts appears each week in the Webster-Kirkwood Times.
In anticipation of the Nov. 18 Feast Day of St. Philippine Duchesne, the Alumni Association will be sponsoring 24 HOURS OF EUCHARISTIC ADORATION in the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne. Eucharistic Adoration will begin with liturgy on Friday, Nov. 13 at 8 a.m., offered for Cindy Cannon Brooks, after which the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed. All are invited for prayer in the Shrine any time during the next 24 hours, and to the closing mass on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 8 a.m.
While the public is invited to come for prayer at any time during this 24-hour period, we are asking alums to sign up for an hour (to be responsible for having the exposed Blessed Sacrament attended around the clock). CLICK HERE to volunteer for this important service.
Please address any questions to Alumni Association President Russ Clever.
Alums wishing to volunteer for one of the locations that we will be serving on Saturday, November 14 should contact Diane Carroll Boerding ’76 at philippinesfootsteps@gmail.com by November 6.
Other adult members of the Sacred Heart community (e.g., parents, faculty and staff) are invited to take part, as well.
Job assignments will be given out in White Center Cafeteria after the 8 a.m. Mass that morning in the Shrine.
Beginning Monday, October 26, at 9 a.m., parents will be able to sign up for next month’s Parent-Teacher Conferences via PT Conference Maker. The link will NOT be active until registration begins. Registration will continue through Friday, November 6, at 12 p.m.
Parent-Teacher Conferences will take place November 11–13.
One of the many special offerings that the Academy has announced as part of the celebration of the school’s bicentennial in 2018, is a Cuvée Bicentennaire, produced by well-known French winemaker, Jean-Louis Chave. Orders are being taken now for delivery in the winter of 2017–2018.
Chave is the husband of Erin Cannon Chave, a 1985 graduate of the Academy. The couple met when she worked for a California-based importer of French wines. They married and now live, with their two children, in the Rhone Valley—about one hour’s drive from Grenoble, the birthplace of Philippine Duchesne. The Chave family has been growing grapes and making wine in this region in France since 1481.
The wine which will be offered, featuring the Academy’s special bicentennial logo, will be Chave’s Cotes du Rhone—commonly subtitled Mon Coeur. (Think, “My heart will abide here.”) It will be sold in 6-bottle cases for $180. It must be picked up from the distribution point at the Academy when its arrival is announced.
Learning strategies for our Middle School single gender classes were the focus for KMOV Channel 4 reporter Steve Harris when he visited ASH recently.
Check out his story here.
