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All-Met Teams
Named - 2005-2006
Jill Marks, Stone Ridge Upper School Athletic
Director
----Gazette Lacrosse Coach of the Year
Kaitlin Duff '06
----The Washington Post All-Met First Team, Lacrosse
----Gazette Lacrosse Player of the Year
----Examiner Lacrosse Player of the Year
----High School All-Tewaaraton Team (Washington/Baltimore)
BIG Honor!
Kaitlin Keena '07
----The Washington Post All-Met Honorable Mention,
Lacrosse
----All-Gazette First Team, Lacrosse
----All-Examiner First Team, Lacrosse
Agnes Sibilski '07
----The Washington Post All-Met First Team, Tennis
Lorne McManigle '07
----The Washington Post All-Met Honorable Mention,
Tennis
Alix Tydings '07
----All-Gazette Honorable Mention, Lacrosse Margaret
Rodgers '07
----All-Gazette Honorable Mention, Softball
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Did you know that...
(June 2006)
....Andrea Koppel ’81, CNN Congressional
Correspondent and Stone Ridge
Alumna, delivered the 2006 Commencement
speech at Stone Ridge on June
7, 2006 — exactly twenty-five years after her
father, Ted Koppel,
addressed Stone Ridge graduates in the Class of
1981.
....Valedictorian of the Stone Ridge Class of
2006: Sisters Erika Manderscheid ’06 and
Kristen Manderscheid ’06.
....Salutatorian of the Stone Ridge Class of
2006: Cosima Amelang ’06.
....the Stone Ridge Varsity Softball Team
captured the championship banner
in the 2006 Independent School League Division
A;
....the Stone Ridge Tennis Team, ISL champions
last spring and fall 2005,
captured top honors with a tie in the 2006
Episcopal Invitational
Tournament Championship; and
....the Stone Ridge Lacrosse Team was a
semifinalist in the 2006 ISL
Division AA Championship match.
....Stone Ridge’s Marjorie Billings ’06 will
play Division III ice hockey
at Middlebury College; Emma Denvir ’06 will swim
at Division I Georgetown
University; Kaitlin Duff ’06 has signed an
official National Letter of
Intent to play lacrosse at the University of
Virginia; Alex Warren ’06 will play Division I soccer at Lehigh
University; and Jessica Wyble ’06
has signed an official National Letter of Intent
to play soccer at the
University of Miami in Florida.
....Stone Ridge senior Kristen Manderscheid ’06,
a 2006 Presidential
Scholar, is the second Stone Ridge student to
receive this prestigious
honor in the school’s history.
....Stone Ridge National Merit Scholarship
Finalists are Allison Herring
’06, Leigh Jahnig ’06, and Eleanore Keegan ’06.
Allison Herring was the
recipient of a $2500 scholarship, too. Stone
Ridge’s National Merit
Scholarship Commended students are: Carolyn Adamik ’06,
Anna Ball ’06,
Olivia Bennett ’06, Rebecca Gallogly ’06,
Lauren
Hart ’06, Caroline Huffstetler ’06,
Katherine Jones ’06, Erika Manderscheid ’06,
Kristen Manderscheid ’06, Maureen McGowan ’06,
Catherine McGuinness ’06, Pauline Nalikka ’06,
Samantha Ryschkewitsch ’06, and
Sasha Sood ’06.
....Stone Ridge senior Pauline Nalikka ’06 won a
$2500 National Achievement
Scholarship.
....Stone Ridge seniors Alina Beruff ’06,
Helen
El-Khouri ’06, and Mara
Gomes ’06 are honored by the National Hispanic
Recognition Program.
....Stone Ridge Maryland Distinguished Scholar
Finalists are Allison
Herring ’06 and Eleanore Keegan ’06; and the
Semi-finalists are Leigh Jahnig ’06, Erika Manderscheid ’06, and
Kristen Manderscheid ’06. Stone
Ridge’s Maryland Distinguished Scholar Honorable
Mentions are: Carolyn Adamik ’06, Cosima Amelang ’06,
Anna Ball ’06
[Visual Arts], Kimberly Beatley ’06, Maureen Boman ’06 [Visual Arts],
Alexia Charles ’06, Sarah
Cooper ’06, Caroline Cullen ’06, Theresa Funk
’06, Rebecca Gallogly ’06,
Lauren Hart ’06, Caroline Huffstetler ’06,
Leigh Jahnig ’06 [Visual Arts],
Katherine Jones ’06, Laura Linville ’06,
Christina Sperle ’06, and Lauren Vassallo ’06 [Visual Arts].
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| Pat Cleary Named
NBC4 Morning Person (May 2006) At 8:00 a.m.
every school day, Mrs. Patricia Cleary greets
students, teachers, parents, and guests at Stone
Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda,
Maryland. She has been the main receptionist for
thirty-eight years at Stone Ridge where she has
seen her own children and grandchildren graduate
from the school. Pat shares a ready smile, kind
word, and many a
story with all who pass her desk. Since you only
get one chance to make a first impression, Stone
Ridge is proud to have a worthy ambassador in
Mrs. Pat Cleary. As such, she is nominated
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Spring Athletic
Season Ends With Gators in Strong Standings
by Jill Marks, Upper School
Athletic Director (May 2006)
The Varsity Softball Team claimed the ISL
Division A Tournament crown in a fierce match against
Episcopal on Tuesday 16 May at Gallaudet. After coming from
behind, the
Gators earned a hard-fought victory with a final
score of
14-12. Congratulations!
Congratulations also go to the Varsity Lacrosse
Team, which
took second place in the ISL Division AA and the
Division AA
Tournament. Ending a very strong season with an
impressive
16-3 record, the Gators gave everything they had
against a talented St. Stephen's & St. Agnes lineup.
Though defeated
18-6, the team showed great determination and
spirit
throughout the game.
The Varsity Tennis team finished the regular
season with a 6-2
record, with both losses coming at the hands of
Holton-Arms
4-3. The season culminated with the Episcopal
Invitational
tournament where the Gators tied for top honors.
The Track and Field Team finished in eleventh
Place at the ISL
Championships (out of 15 schools), with such
highlights as:
capturing third place in the 800-M run and the
4x400-M relay;
fourth and sixth place in the high jump; and
fourth place in
the long jump.
Congratulations to all of our student athletes
and their
dedicated coaches on a fantastic season!
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Anne Dyer to be
Honored with Named Scholarship Fund
by Knight Kiplinger (April 2006)
What better way to honor our beloved retiring
headmistress, than by putting her name on the
largest endowed scholarship fund at Stone Ridge?
This will happen on May 20, when the entire
school family will gather to pay tribute to Sr.
Anne Dyer for her remarkable life of devotion to
the education of young women.
Anne Dyer, who graduated from Stone Ridge in
1955, knows firsthand how lives are changed—and
enriched forever—by a Sacred Heart education.
She has long placed a high priority on boosting
the financial-aid resources of
our school, so that more girls from families of
modest means can attend
Stone Ridge. That’s why naming this endowed fund
after Sr. Dyer is so
fitting. When we achieve our goal, it will
generate some $60,000 a year,
in perpetuity, for tuition assistance.
I invite you to join Anne’s legions of admirers
in making a generous
contribution to the Anne Dyer RSCJ Endowed Scholarship
Fund. With your help, we
will meet our goal of raising $1.25 million by
the end of this school year.
Note: The endowed scholarship fund, to be named
for Sr. Dyer upon her
retirement from Stone Ridge, was created in November 2000 with a major
grant from The Kiplinger Foundation. Since then,
through additional
donations and astute investing by Stone Ridge,
the fund has grown to
nearly $900,000.
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Thirty-Eighth Book
Sale Great Success
by Barbara Clark,
Director of the Used Book Sale
(April 2006)
The Stone Ridge annual book sale was again a
successful undertaking. Almost 8,000 people
attended the four-day event, including book
dealers and collectors from as far away as New
York and Vermont. The sale raised over $240,000
for Stone Ridge's scholarship fund. The money
raised allows Stone Ridge to give scholarships
to approximately 25 students every year.
We could not have a successful sale without the
hard work of the hundreds of volunteers from
Stone Ridge's parents, students and staff, and
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Third and Fourth
Academic Students receive their class rings and
Très Bien Cards at the Ring Ceremony
(April 2006)
The Third Academic class received their
class rings from their Fourth Academic ring
sisters today. This ceremony is a long-standing
Stone Ridge tradition. The class ring is a
symbol recognized by all Sacred Heart alumni,
representing membership in the Sacred Heart
family.
The Fourth Academic class received their Très
Bien cards from Sister Dyer. These cards are a
"passport" to any Sacred Heart school or convent
around the world. This card invites Sacred Heart
alumni to find friendship, safety and comfort
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Communications
Department Wins Inhouse Design Award
(April 2006)
The Communications Department has been
recognized with a 2006 American Inhouse Design
Award from the editors of Graphic Design USA
[GDUSA] for the Annual Report, 2004-2005. The
theme of the 2006 competition was "Recognizing
The Creative Within."
According to GDUSA, the competition aims to
assure that the outstanding work of inhouse
design teams and designers within corporations,
media companies, non-profits, educational and
government institutions is fully recognized by
colleagues, the creative community, and,
importantly, corporate and institutional
management.
Graphic Design USA has been sponsoring design
competitions for four decades and the response
is extraordinary: nearly 3,500 entries were
submitted of which less than 1 in 5 received
recognition.
Stone Ridge received an embossed Certificate of
Excellence and is eligible to have the Annual
Report design reproduced in the Inhouse Design
Awards Annual which will be published in July
2006.
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Poet Linda Pastan Visits
Upper School
by Olivia Bennett '06
(April 2006)
From her perch at the podium, Linda Pastan
deftly drops her hands in a determined gesture
to stop futzing with the microphone wire that
has snaked its way into a movement-limiting
snare: “I hate these things” she mutters with a
slight New York accent and a quick
self-conscious smile to the audience. She
reaches down to a pile of her poetry
collections, selects Carnival Evening, and
begins reading. I have never heard that kind of
stillness. And over the silence rises a voice
whose measured cadence swells stanzas, merging
meter and measure, pitting pronunciation against
pitch, tying timbre and tone to tempo. Linda
Pastan’s poems, steeped in the music and rhythms
of New York, mesmerize the audience. Born in New
York City in 1932, the author evokes the pulse
of her birthplace and Jewish heritage; the
sing-song expressions and lilt of the Yiddish
language, the smells and sights of the lower
East side – all are vividly brought to life in
so many of her poems. To hear Linda Pastan read
is to live her poetry: you imagine yourself
wandering around “some drafty, half-imagined
museum” meditating on Rembrandt and old age; you
search for Rilkean angels “along indifferent
corridors of space;” you watch your own
daughter’s hair become a handkerchief of
valediction as she grows “more breakable with
distance.”
Linda Pastan writes in broad sweeps, as with a
paintbrush, creating and inventing on the canvas
of human existence. Her profound insight and
keen perception yield an unassuming touch of
lightheartedness to her work as she examines the
realities of everyday life. From Algebra (Trains
A and B included) to “marks” for domestic
chores, Linda Pastan imparts tales of human
experience to her readers—even if it means
ceding to a little fabrication or invention to
do so: “Sometimes we must lie to tell a greater
truth. Poetry is the greatest fiction I know.”
Be it her own daughter’s taking leave of home or
the tragic disaster of 9/11, Linda Pastan imbues
her poems with a gentleness and humanity rare in
today’s world. Listening to Mrs. Pastan’s
insights as a mother, daughter, wife, and
writer, is like experiencing them oneself; one
listens with the ears, but understands with the
heart.
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Linda Pastan reads her poetry to Upper School
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Annual Used Book
Sale Brings Crowds to Stone Ridge
(April 2006)
The Thirty-eighth Annual Stone Ridge Used
Book Sale started
with a bang at 8:00 am on Friday, April 7, 2006,
as buyers
rushed the doors of Stone Ridge Gymnasiums to
stake their
claims. Rainy weather couldn't keep the hordes
away, who
continued to flock to the Sale throughout the
day. Energetic
volunteers are the backbone of this annual
fundraiser, which
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Sixth Grade Observes Seder
Meal
by Mrs. Celsa Jimenez
Middle School Spanish and Religion Teacher
(April 2006)
The Sixth Graders celebrated Seder Meal once
again this year,
on Thursday, April 6. Mr. Scott Dreyer and
Mrs. Sarah Bramble guided the students
through the meaning and background of the Jewish
Passover, "Pesach."
"Baruch Atah Adonai hazan et hakol." (Thank you,
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Gators Head to France
(March,
2006)
Stone Ridge Upper School students arrived in
France on
Saturday, March 25, tired but happy. This group
photo was
taken during their first walk around Paris.
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Maryland Traveling
Science Center Visited Middle School
(March,
2006)
On Thursday, March 23, the Maryland
Traveling Science Center presented their annual
program to the Middle School. This year's
performance was titled, "What's the Matter -
Foams, Fizzes and Flash". The science program is
an extension of the Maryland Science Center in
Baltimore and is designed to sparkle interest
for science among adolescents. The program
features exciting visual experiments many of
which require audience participation. Needless
to say, the Middle School girls were anxious to
go on stage as volunteers assisting in making
"indoor snow", blowing out birthday candles in a
new way, and making polyurethane foam.
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New Head of Upper School is Named
by Anne Dyer, RSCJ, Headmistress
(March, 2006)
Dr.
Diane Wood's resume
(pdf)Dr.
Diane Wood
has accepted the Head of Upper School position
and will begin on July 1, 2006. She feels
privileged to follow in the footsteps of
Deirdre Cryor who leaves the school rooted
firmly in the Goals and Criteria for
Sacred Heart Schools as she prepares for
headship in Colorado. Both look forward to
working together during this time of transition.
A superior educator and leader among very
strong candidates for the position, Diane has
had many years in Sacred Heart education at
Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart in Omaha,
Nebraska and at Stone Ridge. She served as Dean
of Students/English teacher and then Assistant
Principal at Duchesne for five years before
coming to Stone Ridge in 1987 where she served
as Dean of Studies and Co-head of the Upper
School. During that time, she took an active
role in the Network of Sacred Heart Schools and
helped establish a Network leadership program
for teachers. In 1991, she left Stone Ridge to
pursue doctoral studies at Columbia University.
After earning her PhD, Diane held several
positions at George Mason University before
assuming her current role as Associate Professor
in the Educational Leadership Program within the
College of Education and Human Development at
the University of Southern Maine [USM]. Her
outstanding teaching and work in the area of
teacher formation, in addition to many
publications, easily won her tenure at USM.
Dr. Wood now returns to Stone Ridge to
fulfill her true passion—Sacred Heart education
for secondary school students. She looks forward
to assuming the leadership of our Upper School
on July 1, 2006.
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Mock Trial Team
Sets Records
(March,
2006)
The Stone Ridge Mock Trial Team set records this
year by making it all the way to the Montgomery
County Semi-finals in a competition sponsored by
the Maryland State Bar. The team, composed of
twelve Upper School students, is coached by
alumna Eileen Mayer and mothers
Cynthia Wright [Chaila Fraundorfer '12] and
Kathy Musslewhite [Sarah '06, Elizabeth
'07, and Caroline '12]. The team was defeated in
a very close semi-final by Walt Whitman High
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Fourth Grader Qualifies
for Junior Olympics
(March,
2006)Lower School student Laura
Garcia '14 qualified for the Junior Olympics
[JO] in the 100 meter fly - a record for the
Potomac Valley Area Swim Team. The JO Qualifier
Meet was held February 25-26, 2006 at Cub Run in
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Mock Trial Team
Heads into County Playoffs
(March,
2006)The Stone Ridge Mock Trial
Team in the Upper School finished the regular
season undefeated. With 4 wins and 0 losses, the
team advances to the County playoffs, starting
at the end of this week. According to Mock Trial
coach, trustee, and Stone Ridge Alumna Eileen
C. Mayer, "We expect a by in the first
round." Stay tuned.
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Stone Ridge
Recognizes Heart Health with Student Program
by Alana Pitcher, School Nurse, Mara Gomes
'06, and Rebecca Gallogly '06
(February, 2006)
On Friday, February 10, the Upper and Middle
Schools at Stone Ridge participated in a program
to raise awareness about heart disease in women.
The program featured two current Stone Ridge
parents: Dr. Patrice Nickens, Leader of
Cardiovascular Medicine Scientific Research at
the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of
NIH; and Dr. Gabrielle Virgo-Carter,
Board-certified Pediatrician, and Fellow of the
American Academy of Pediatrics. In addition to
our physician presentations, Ms. Christy
McCauley, Middle School Physical Education
Teacher, addressed lifestyle exercise and
wellness options with a demonstration from her
physical education classes. Rebecca Gallogly
'06 presented her own video creation
highlighting heart health. Stone Ridge alumna
Emily Cartwright Poole ‘96, a registered
dietician, also spoke about nutrition and the
importance of a heart-healthy diet. The finale
was our very own Stone Ridge Step Team who
performed an amazing aerobic routine. The
program, organized with the help of the Upper
School ‘Healthy Hints’ SCG group, was a success
in making this information accessible to the
students. Thanks to all who participated.
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Lower School students decorated their uniforms
with hand-made paper red dresses to support the
Heart Health Awareness Day as well.
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An Evening With Dr. Maureen
Corrigan
by Emma Denvir '06
(January, 2006)
On the evening of Friday January 6, Dr. Maureen
Corrigan visited Stone Ridge as part of the
Visiting Writers Series. Dr. Corrigan is a book
critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, an English
Professor at Georgetown University, and the
recent author of Leave Me Alone I’m Reading,
Finding and Losing Myself in Books. Dr.
Corrigan participated in two sessions, one for
the Fourth Academic and another for the entire
Stone Ridge community.
During the first session, Dr. Corrigan answered
questions posed by the Fourth Academic class
ranging from her favorite novels to the topics
of her college essays and dissertations. Dr.
Corrigan spoke about having her own work
reviewed, as well as her best and worst
critiques of other books for Fresh Air.
Dr. Corrigan also spoke about what it was like
to grow up in Queens and attend a Pre-Vatican II
Catholic school.
Following the senior session, Dr. Corrigan spoke
with a larger audience in Good Hall, where she
read two excerpts from her novel. The first was
an anecdote from her Catholic school days. She
described how she and her fellow students
(escorted by nuns in full habit) stood outside
on a frigid New York day awaiting the arrival of
the Pope. They were clad only in their plaid
school uniforms in the hope of making a good
impression on the Pope. The story ended with a
local Jewish deli man who saved them from the
cold and brought them hot chocolate. The second
selection that Dr. Corrigan read spoke of Jane
Austen’s novels Pride and Prejudice and Jane
Eyre as “female extreme adventure tales.” Dr.
Corrigan explained how novels like these,
although revolutionary at the time, give young
women false impressions about the reality of
romance. The novels depict romances of women
sitting idly in their homes waiting to be
“saved.” Dr. Corrigan also pointed out that
although these novels send mixed messages to
young women, they still portray women in a
stronger way than in previous novels of that
time.
After the reading, the floor was again opened up
to questions. Enthusiastic parents, students,
and teachers asked many questions such as what
Dr. Corrigan thought about certain books and
what it was like to work with Teri Gross. Dr.
Corrigan answered every question with a smile
and many with a joke or two.
At the end of the evening Dr. Corrigan signed
copies of her book, sold at Stone Ridge by
Politics and Prose. Coffee was provided by SAGE
and baked goods by the Fourth Academic class.
Many thanks to the Stone Ridge Parents
Association for making this program possible.
Please join us for the next event, an evening
with award-winning poet Linda Pastan, Thursday
March 16, at 7 PM in Good Hall. Please watch the
Stone Ridge website for details.
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The Senior Class Interview with Dr. Corrigan - Video
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Stone Ridge
students named to 2005 All-Gazette Girls Tennis
Team
(November, 2005)
Agnes Sibliski ’07
First Team Singles
“Went undefeated at No. 1 singles, propelling
Gators to titles in the Independent School
League’s regular season and tournament, the
first time in school history.”
Laura Mickum ’07 and Courtney McGlynn
’07
First Team Doubles
“Helped Gators to first-ever double title in
ISL. Went 10-1 and took first place in ISL
Tournament.”
Lorne McManigle ’07
Honorable Mention
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Stone Ridge and Georgetown
Prep communities celebrated an evening of
"Louisiana in Washington"
(October, 2005)
On Wednesday, October 19, our Stone Ridge and
Georgetown Prep communities celebrated an
evening of "Louisiana in Washington" at the home
of Steve and Cokie Boggs Roberts '60,
with co-hosts Tom and Barbara
Denechaud Boggs
and the Honorable Lindy Boggs. Over 200
guests enjoyed a dinner of authentic Louisiana
cuisine, music by The Howard University Jazz
Band, and much fun and laughter in the "Big
Easy" tradition. Proceeds from this event
benefit Stone Ridge and Prep as we welcome
students and their families from our respective
Sacred Heart and Jesuit schools in New Orleans.
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A Message from the
Headmistress:
Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts at Stone Ridge
(September, 2005)
In the recent press, vast amounts of ink have
been spilled on the various failures following
in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. I would like
to suggest that schools and school systems
across the country may be the unsung heroes of
the situation. Everywhere children, teachers,
administrators and school superintendents have
stretched wide their tents and welcomed evacuees
with open arms and open doors. They have stepped
over all the red tape, set up websites and begun
to clean up the mess. And only after they have
done what had to be done have they said, “Now
how are we going to pay for all of this?” With
solid infrastructure already in place, the
Network of Sacred Heart Schools has stepped into
the foreground to model disaster relief.
At Stone Ridge, we joyfully welcome twelve new
students from New Orleans into our community.
Hillary Connell (Gr. 8), Michele Crosby (Gr.
10), Pere Cvitanovik (Gr. 8), Mary Leigh
Fitzmorris (Gr. 8), Hedy Rose Kraft (Gr. 12),
Olivia Larkins (Gr. 6), Victoria Larkins (Gr.
8), Alexa McKenna (Gr. 8), Angelique McKenna
(Gr. 5), Jillian Willard (Gr. 9), Jordan Willard
(Gr. 12), and Sarah Williamson (Gr. 10) have
found a home at Stone Ridge and there are still
more to come. Similarly, students from the
Rosary, our Sacred Heart School in New Orleans,
have been received in Schools of the Sacred
Heart around the country. It may sound trite,
but we are family – especially when it counts.
Within forty-eight hours after the storm
subsided, The Academy of the Sacred Heart at
Grand Coteau in upper Louisiana had rented
portable classrooms and began to gather in the
diaspora. They quickly found housing for
displaced teachers and students and school
continued a few days later with an additional
three hundred students. At Duchesne Academy of
the Sacred Heart in Houston, another
hundred-plus students from the Rosary found a
home. In lesser numbers, the story has repeated
itself everywhere. As one person said, “What a
Network!”
At Stone Ridge, we have had over two hundred
offers from parents, teachers, trustees,
alumnae, and friends to take in a student or a
family. We have also received one or two offers
to underwrite tuition expense for a student. Our
action-oriented Upper School students
immediately held a car wash and raised over
$2300 which they sent to the Society of the
Sacred Heart to be distributed between our
schools at Grand Coteau and Houston. The Middle
School sent in $1450 to the Society of the
Sacred Heart and the Lower School has raised
over $1600 for the same purpose. With great
generosity our vendors have also responded to
our requests for help. Varsity Books, Campus
Outfitters, the school photographer Irvin Simon,
our Apple vendor, Charles Cochran, and Sage
lunch have all come with partial or full
subsidies to the aid of our newest students.
When we placed a call to Barnes and Noble asking
if they would help with supplying required
paperback books, the voice at the other end
replied, “It is not our corporate policy to do
this, but I am a Stone Ridge graduate and I will
personally pay for the books.” From among our
parent professionals, two pediatricians and an
orthodontist have offered to provide necessary
health care. And on the story goes, but we are
far from recovered.
At school, counselors, teachers, tutors and peer
tutors are extending themselves to the limit.
Every new student has a “buddy,” a “big sister,”
or a “guardian angel.” We want to welcome all
new students, those we anticipated and those we
did not. Every new parent has also received a
call from Suzy Swagart, our Director of Parent
Relations.
For our friends from the South, we start with
housing and then comes healing. For our next
project, we have launched a Gift Card Drive.
Those who wish to participate in this drive,
please purchase a gift card and send it in an
envelope with your name on it to your division
head who will deliver it to Suzy Swagart and, in
turn, a family of our temporary exchange
students in need. We welcome a range of gift
cards from Home Depot, Target, and Walmart, to
Westfield Mall, a restaurant, and Giant Food. Be
as creative as you wish.
In response to the question, “What can we do?” I
would like to offer the following suggestions:
• Make an unrestricted gift now to the Annual
Fund. Go to www.stoneridge.org and click “Giving
to SR/Give Online” or send a check payable to
“Stone Ridge Annual Fund.” The Annual Fund bears
the unanticipated expenses of Katrina.
• Participate in the Gift Card Drive.
• Underwrite a tuition.
• Support the Network of Sacred Heart Schools by
contributing to the Society/Network fund by
sending checks to Society of the Sacred Heart,
4389 West Pine Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63108.
Checks should be clearly marked “Hurricane
Relief, Network Schools.” Donations may be made
online at
www.rscj.org (click “Supporting our
Mission”). In the space provided, please note
that the money is intended for Hurricane Relief,
Network Schools. Please indicate your
preference, if you have one, for where you wish
your gift to go: to the receiving schools or to
the families of displaced students.
• Suggest to your daughter that she invite a new
girl to the movies.
• Pick up the phone and invite a new family in
your class to dinner. This does not need to be
limited to an evacuee. Let us remember that
nearly all of our new families are coming to
Sacred Heart for the first time. We want
everyone to feel they are a part of this
wonderful community. As we are included, so too,
will we include others.
• Be sensitive to those who have experienced
tremendous loss and know that some folks need
privacy. Every person and every family reacts
differently to tragedy.
• Join with us in our daily prayer for victims
of Hurricane Katrina.
• For more information around the Network go to
www.rscj.org
Finally, I thank you from the bottom of my heart
for your instant outpourings of love and
generosity. Truly our Sacred Heart community is
incredible!
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