Honoring the oppressed

Laura Mogannam, Managing Editor

November 1, 2018

“I realized in the middle of saying those names that these were the first times their names have been spoken in 170 years.”

‘Be’-ing Sister Mardel

Laura Mogannam, In-House Media Editor

March 22, 2018

One hundred candles and rose petals arranged in the shape of the Society of the Sacred Heart logo welcomed alumni, teachers and friends to the chapel March 3 for Sr. Mary “Be” Mardel’s 100th birthday celebration. The celebration consisted of performances by students, a presentation of a papal proclamatio...

More than education, experience

Gabriella Vulakh, Senior Reporter

February 8, 2018

After waking up at 6:30 a.m. in Bregenz, Austria, dressing in her uniform blue trousers, blue polo and sweater, and busing 15 minutes to Sacré Coeur Riedenburg, Lotta Moosbrugger arrives at her locker at 7:30, changes into slippers and joins 24 other girls in a ninth grade classroom to begin the school d...

Society celebrates internationality

Cassie Eskicioglu, Senior Reporter

November 2, 2017

Society of the Sacred Heart, which dates back nearly as far as the founding of America as a nation, is looking to 2018 to celebrate the 200-year anniversary of its internationality. Philippine Duchesne continued the efforts of Madeleine Sophie Barat by founding the first Sacred Heart school outside of France in St. Charles, Missouri in 1818. “The 200th Annivers...

Ugandan author visits campus

Asha Khanna & Claire Kosewic, Editors-in-Chief

November 2, 2017

Betty Ogiel, an alumna of Sacred Heart Schools Kangole Senior Secondary School and St. Charles Lwanga Girls Training Center Kalungu in Uganda, visited Oct. 23 as part of her United States book tour. Ogiel’s memoir “Against All Odds” chronicles her life as an orphan and details her commitmen...

Alumnae use Trés Bíen cards

May 25, 2012

Rebecca Siegel Design Editor The fresco of Mater Admerablis that is significant to the Sacred Heart community is housed in a private school at the top of the Spanish Steps in Rome. The building is closed off with a sign that reads, “Private all girls school. No tourists,” but its doors a...

Nuns farm, educate students

April 5, 2012

Shirley Yang Reporter Curious and cautious kids just weeks old step outside the wooden barn for the first time. Some of the goats linger towards the open door while others boldly step out of their nursery and into the sunlight, playfully jumping around in a pen at Sprout Creek Farm, a working farm, educational cen...