Book club offers reading space

Mason Cooney, Assistant Features Editor

November 1, 2017

WEB EXCLUSIVE Book club gathered in the Mother Williams Library today during lunch for some recreational reading as they ate. “A lot of students are pressed for time,” librarian Alyson Barrett-Ryan, supervisor of the club, said. “We thought a lunch meeting would be perfect for people to pur...

First current events club meeting held today

Emily Kanellos and Natalia Varni

October 25, 2016

Sophomores and juniors met in the Mother Williams Library at lunch for the inaugural meeting of the Social Hour Club, whose focus is current events discussion. The club plans to meet at least twice a month on Blue Tuesdays with the intention to help inform members of the community about the relevan...

Library doors open to updated look

India Thieriot, News Editor

August 19, 2016

By the beginning of the first full week of classes on Monday, furniture for the refurbished Mother Williams Library should be in place, as the last shipment containers arrived this morning. Library renovation began on the library over the summer in an effort to make the space more comfortable for st...

Former director of schools returns to help digitization process for archives

Grace Ainslie and Halie Kim

April 14, 2016

The former director of schools revisited to organize and categorize archival documents — some dating back to World War II. “These photographs, many of which I had taken, were very interesting to see again,” former Director of Schools Sister Mary Mardel, RSCJ said. Mardel reviewed a timelin...

Librarians take the job of two campuses

Lisabelle Panossian, Web & Social Media Editor

December 10, 2015

A newly-hired librarian duo for both Convent and Stuart Hall high schools are now in charge of the archival content within both schools, some shelved away for over a century. Lead Librarian Alyson Barrett-Ryan and Associate Librarian Reba Sell started working for both high schools in late November and a...

College counseling elective begins for juniors

Liana Lum, Editor-in-Chief

January 6, 2015

Juniors gathered in the Mother Williams Library with their ipads this morning for their first college counseling elective. “As juniors, it’s time to think about where you want to go and what’s next,” College Counseling Director Rebecca Munda said during the elective. “We’ll be using this as a...

New Schools of the Sacred Heart president has Q&A

April 5, 2012

Rebecca Lee Editor-in-Chief Ann Marie Krejcarek will be succeeding retiring director of schools Gordon Sharafinski, who is retiring, as president of Schools of the Sacred Heart. Krejcarek is currently the headmaster of Saint Andrew’s School, a kindergarten through ninth grade school in Boca Rat...