Stagestruck, our ASH acting troupe, will present The Wicked Witch of Oz on Saturday, March 28, at 5 p.m. and again on Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. in Cribbin Hall. All are invited to attend!
The Wicked Witch of Oz
March 27, 2015
Blood Drive at ASH
March 27, 2015
The Social Justice Leadership Council is partnering again this year with the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center to sponsor a blood drive in the playroom on Monday, April 13 from 2:30–6:30 p.m.
Register here for a time that is convenient for you.
Our goal is to collect 40 units of blood. All are welcome! The Social Justice students will provide babysitting service for donors during the drive.
Shrine Docents’ Luncheon
March 26, 2015
Docents who—as volunteers—conduct tours of the Shrine and historic parts of the school were entertained last Saturday in what has become an annual gesture of gratitude hosted by Shrine Director Carol Pfitzinger on behalf of the school. Following the welcome in the parlor and luncheon served in the Conference Room, announcements were made and guests shared experiences they have had lately. Needs to staff several large tours coming this spring were outlined by Assistant Shrine Director Mary Glenn; and Jane Cannon announced the project that will begin soon whereby pictorial information about Philippine Duchesne will be mounted on some walls of the Shrine. While this will be of interest to all pilgrims, it is especially hoped that it will serve those who visit the Shrine when there is no docent so that they can engage in a self-guided experience that is meaningful and rewarding. This work, partly funded by Alumni donations, is expected to be finished in time for the Alumni Congé Reunion on June 13.
Following the luncheon, docents were invited to visit the Academy Archives, located beneath the Shrine, where Theresa Grass welcomed them and shared some of the many treasures that are kept there.
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Memorial for Kate Keegan
March 25, 2015
We will be celebrating the life of Kate Keegan, longtime Academy faculty member, on Saturday, March 28, at 11 a.m. in the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne. A reception will follow in the Conference Room.
Kate was the mother of three Academy graduates: Jane Keegan Quarles ’91, Betsy Keegan Trapp ’94, and Dr. Molly Keegan ’96. She died March 23 following a long illness. The Keegan family has suggested that memorial donations be directed to the Anna Mae Marheineke Student Enrichment Fund.
OBITUARY
Spring at the Academy
March 20, 2015
We’re looking forward to treasured rites of spring: First Holy Communion in the Shrine for our Second Class students, the Chemin de Fer auction (now in its fifth decade), Field Day, the observed Feast of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat and Mission Day on May 11, May crowning, Maypole dance, and the culminating event of the year—Graduation for the Class of 2015.
We are called to a fuller, richer, higher life within…called to work with God, to walk with God, to have influence with God.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
A Balanced Life
March 19, 2015
Dear Academy Parents,
I hope your children are enjoying their Spring Break week! To live a balanced life, it is important to have periods of time when one can catch up on sleep and engage in a more relaxing and restful daily routine. Even St. Madeleine Sophie once said, “As for vacations, I think we should have them.”
Perhaps you, too, without the evening homework routine, can enjoy the week a little (even if you have to work).
May God’s Grace, Goodness and Love continue to fill your lives! See you all around the campus next week,
Maureen Glavin, rscj
P.S. You probably know that our Thursday Mail communication usually highlights student and curricular life prior to any necessary, but less student-centered, Advancement Office information. In this week’s Thursday Mail you will notice that we are highlighting our annual Chemin de Fer dinner auction front and center. Without our beautiful students here this week, it feels like an appropriate moment to do so. We are thrilled with the dinner auction plans that are underway and hope you might find some time this week to catch up with our Chemin news, notices, invitations and information!
Community School’s 2015 Circle of Learning Speaker
March 17, 2015
Dr. Madeline Levine to Speak
April 9, 2015 – 7:00 p.m.
Community School invites us to attend the 2015 Circle of Learning Speaker Series.
Madeline Levine, Ph.D. is a psychologist with close to 30 years of experience as a clinician, consultant, educator and author. Her New York Times bestseller, The Price of Privilege, explores the reasons why teenagers from affluent families are experiencing epidemic rates of emotional problems.
Her latest book, Teach Your Children Well, also a New York Times bestseller, tackles our current narrow definition of success—how it unnecessarily stresses academically talented kids and marginalizes many more whose talents and interests are less amenable to measurement. The development of skills needed to be successful in the 21st century—creativity, collaboration, innovation—are not easily developed in our competitive, fast-paced, high pressure world.
Teach Your Children Well gives practical, research-based solutions to help parents return their families to healthier and saner versions of themselves by remembering that successful parenting is measured 20 or 30 years down the road, not at the end of any particular grading period.
Dr. Levine is highly sought after as a lecturer and keynote speaker for parents, educators and business leaders both nationally and internationally. She is frequently the go-to person on issues of parenting for both print media and radio. She has been featured on television programs such as Katie, The Today Show and The Lehrer Report and on multiple radio stations including NPR programs such as the Diane Rehm Show and Forum. Emailed over a million times, her August 2012 New York Times op ed piece is one of the most emailed op ed pieces in the history of the New York Times.
The program is free and open to the public; however reservations are requested at: rsvp@communityschool.com.
Catholic Summer Camp and Activities Fair
March 17, 2015
There will be a Catholic Summer Camp & Activities Fair at St. Louis University High School on Sunday, March 22, from noon until 4 p.m. Camps and activities attending will include: arts and music camps, academic camps, sports camps, residential and day camps, vacation Bible school, venues that host camp field trips, STEM camps, and NPOs looking for volunteers. To sign your child up for this free event, go to www.catholiccampfair.com.
Ultimate Pi Day
March 13, 2015
Saturday, March 14. is considered “the Ultimate Pi Day” for all of us living on planet earth in the year 2015. Unless you are 100 years old, you haven’t experienced this day in your lifetime, since it only rolls around once every 100 years! Here is why it’s the “ultimate” Pi Day…
Saturday’s date COULD be written 3.14.15 and, at exactly 9:26:53 a.m., we will experience the first 10 digits of the irrational number Pi: 3.14.15 9:26:53.
Mrs. Delicath’s Seventh Class math students anticipated Pi Day by watching a couple of videos that discuss the history of and significance of Pi, then listened to two musical compositions about Pi (one was a rap and one was a parody of “American Pie”). Check out some of the students’ impromptu, creative representations of Pi:
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Patricia Thro, RSCJ
March 12, 2015
Sister Patricia Thro, so much a part of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, has passed into God’s Loving Embrace. She was a 1955 graduate of the Academy and entered the Society in 1957. Her many years of scholarly service in New Orleans and St. Louis included eight years as President of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. Before moving to the Society’s elder care center in California, she spent several years as an organist for the Shrine and helping in the Academy book store. She was the recipient of the 2010 Rose Philippine Duchesne Award. Read more about her life:
The von Trapp Family Singers
March 10, 2015
“The Sound of Music” premiered 50 years ago this month. Long before the movie musical made its debut, the von Trapp Family Singers visited the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne. As described in the school journal, in November 1952 they captivated the nuns with their simplicity, their deep faith and their unworldliness, singing “O Bon Jesu” and a hymn to the Sacred Heart (“the national hymn of Austria, composed at the request of the emperor Francis Joseph in 1909”).
In 1965 the total Sacred Heart family in St. Charles and St. Louis sponsored the Midwest premiere of “The Sound of Music” as a fundraiser toward completion of the Shrine.
