Caroling declines in popularity

December 12, 2019

While Christmas movies and advertisements often portray groups bundled up in hats and scarves walking through the snow singing carols at people’s doorsteps, very few still choose to participate in this Christmas tradition.  “It’s not a tradition in my family to Christmas carol, it was never somethin...

Community honors saint, service

Adele Fratesi, Reporter

November 15, 2019

WEB EXCLUSIVE Both high school divisions gathered on the Pine/Octavia campus in the gym for a chapel service celebrating the Feast of St. Philippine Duchesne, who opened the first Sacred Heart school in the United States. Students discussed their community service experience as Sacred Heart students.  ...

Service immersion experience seeks volunteers

Neely Metz, Copy Editor

December 2, 2015

Service Learning Director Ray O’Connor sent an email about the New Orleans Service Immersion Trip to both high schools this afternoon. “It’s a really great opportunity for students to help out another community and just give back and rebuild the houses lost during Hurricane Katrina,” junio...

Rising sophomores to visit Costa Rica in January

Liana Lum, Editor-in-Chief

May 29, 2013

Liana Lum Reporter Convent and Stuart Hall’s first immersion, service-focused trip to Costa Rica has been announced for January 2014 for the entire rising Sophomore Class of both CSH and SHHS. "Our school has engaged in global service and immersion for years, though often for a limited number o...

Students should participate in community service events

September 23, 2010

After a long week of classes and sports, it can be hard to climb out of bed on a weekend and and drag oneself to do more work. Once a year a groups from Convent and Stuart Hall gather at the beaches of Lands End for the annual coastal clean up, picking up plastic bags, cigarette butts and empty soda...

Rosary remembers Katrina 5 years later

September 23, 2010

Zoë Newcomb & Sara Kloepfer Peering through the broken glass of the double doors in her backyard, Charlotte Svenson saw for the first time the insides of her childhood home destroyed. Svenson’s mother broke down sobbing in her daughter’s arms. “My neighborhood showed no signs of civilization...

Network students to serve communities this summer

May 21, 2009

Susie Lee Reporter Although summer is often associated with vacations, over 170 Sacred Heart students from around the United States are packing their bags to serve people in various poor, marginalized communities as part of the Network Summer Projects, community service programs administered by the N...

Service should begin locally

September 19, 2008

Lauren Jung Editor-in-Chief As the back-to-school hype dies down, the ever-crowded calendar of the typical high school students is filled with classes, college application deadlines, homework and tests. But don’t forget to pen in the 100 hours of community service graduation requirement. Rather, highligh...