Healing OVER TIME with a Passion to Help Oth Ers Dear Alumnae, Parents, Students and Friends
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SETON FALL 2018 SETONEducating in the Spirit of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Healing OVER TIME with a Passion to Help Oth Ers Dear Alumnae, Parents, Students and Friends, The time is now and the place is here! That’s how we feel about the spirit of Seton High School! We are blessed with dedicated teachers and staff, hard-working students, loyal Seton families and friends, and amazing, supportive alumnae – there is so much pride in being a Seton Saint. Our students learn valuable life lessons both in and out of the classroom during their four years here. Amanda Jacobs ’15 credits Seton to helping her gain the confidence to follow her passions without fear. You can read more about this in our cover story on pages 4 and 5. You will also read in our Alumnae Spotlight on Enrollment is up by 12%, page 19 how the Seton Sisterhood is something that we carry through our lives, “ and the moments and memories we share will always have a special place in the $5 million summer our hearts. renovations have greatly See and read about some of the incredible construction upgrades that Seton’s campus has gone through and learn more about Seton 360 on pages 10 and 11. improved the campus, We are now moving into the general phase and need the support from the and students are entire Seton community to complete the project. We are so very blessed with such generous alums and friends of Seton. receiving an exceptional Our enrollment is up 12% this year, and the entire school is off to an amazing Catholic education in start, thanks partly to our newly-renovated air-conditioned classrooms on the second and third floors. There is really no better time to be a Seton Saint! We are an optimal learning so grateful to the alumnae, parents and friends who support our school so our young women can have more opportunities to thrive and excel. We hope to see environment. you at some of our events this year so that you can see the many construction ” upgrades around the building! Please continue to keep Seton in your prayers KATHY ALLEN CIARLA ’87 as we educate young women in the spirit of our patroness, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton! KAREN KLUG WHITE ’92 Our time is now! Thank you! Kathy Allen Ciarla ’87 Karen Klug White ’92 President Principal CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram – @setonhighschoolcincinnati Facebook – www.facebook.com/Seton.Cincy and www.facebook.com/SetonAlumnaeOfficial Twitter – www.twitter.com/setonhs YouTube – youtube.com/setoncincy 2 SETON MAGAZINE contents Fall 2018 Cover Story Seton High School Board of Directors Tricia Austing ’00 Healing Over Time with a Passion to Help Others ......................................4 Chris Heidel Bochenek ’80 Kathy Allen Ciarla ’87 Seton Spirit Kathryn Ann Connelly, SC ’50 Congratulations Class of 2018 - Graduation pics .......................................... Michael Crofton 6 Maggie Davis, PhD 2018-2019 Seton Scholarship Recipients ......................................................8 Mary Jo Gasdorf, SC ’60 Angela Doerflein Hahn ’93 Seton 360 Construction Update ..................................................................10 Ed Jung Athletic Updates and New Faces .................................................................12 Judith Metz, SC ’61 Rob Moeddel Performing Arts Updates .............................................................................13 Mark Nowlin Annette Paveglio, SC Seton Sisters Katie Ritter ’09 John Roebel Alumnae News, Events and Class Notes .....................................................14 Kathy Smith Alumnae Spotlight .......................................................................................19 Steve Soloria Jay Stautberg Sang Nguyen Tran ’87 Jeremy R. Viltro Seton High School Leadership PHOTOS: (Left) Seton offered a three-day Leadership Workshop for our current students this summer. Kathy Allen Ciarla ’87, President Students were engaged in various activities where they spent time learning, developing and strengthening Karen Klug White ’92, Principal their leadership skills. A special thank you goes to all of the teachers, alumnae and friends who helped Susan Burke Hollenbach ’85, Associate Principal out at the networking session and etiquette dinner. Sarah Cranley Lykins ’02, (Middle) Members of Seton’s Concert Choir toured the Los Angeles area in June with world-renowned Director of Institutional Advancement composer/director Greg Gilpin. They performed in many popular LA sites including Catalina Island, Mary Agricola, Director of Student Life Santa Monica Pier and Universal Studios. Wendy Zureick Smith ’90, Athletic Director (Right) A group of students attended a mission trip to Liberty, Kentucky in June. Editor Christy Dean Schutte ’94 ON THE COVER: Amanda Jacobs ’15 shares the heartbreak of losing her mother unexpectedly at a young age and how she was able to turn her pain into helping others. Advancement Team Erin Burlage Flowers ’95 COVER PHOTO: Don Denney Photography Megan Murray Hughes ’98 Sarah Cranley Lykins ’02 Christina Coffaro McCarthy ’95 Marianne Ridiman ’72 Christy Dean Schutte ’94 Noelle Vonderbrink Schwartz ’91 Lindsey Sturwold Editorial Design T. Johnson Design: Tricia Witterstaetter Johnson ’93 Photography SETON Christy Dean Schutte ’94 Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati Don Denney Photography Seton Students, Staff, Alumnae & Friends Seton High School, a Catholic community in the tradition of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, through the mission of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, develops a diverse population of young women for a life of faith, service and leadership and engages them in achieving academic excellence in a college preparatory environment. F ALL 2018 3 with a Passion to Help Oth Ers nyone who has lost a loved one knows that it takes So when she died, I think I felt like that relationship with more than just time to heal. Sometimes it is through God died for me as well.” the grieving process, the support of a community, The following hours showed the Jacobs family just how A and a desire to turn pain into helping others, incredibly powerful the love, support and prayers of an where faith returns and healing begins. Amanda Jacobs ’15 entire community can be. “One of our neighbors picked knows how true this is. When she was only 14 years old, us up from the hospital because we didn’t want to go she lost her mother unexpectedly. Sheila Jacobs was only back to our house without our dad. Later we went to my 49 when she drove home on a Friday afternoon from her grandparents’ house with my dad where all of my aunts, job as a preschool teacher. She pulled out of the parking uncles and cousins were gathered together.” When they lot, had a heart attack and died instantly. finally got back to their own house, there were several Amanda says much of that day is a blur. Her grandpa friends and families inside waiting for them. That love and picked her up from school; and she and her siblings, support continued for weeks and months. “People brought Ashley ’13 and Matthew, met their dad at the hospital. us so many things, and many friends just wanted to be “My dad told my sister, brother and I that the doctors did there for us so we wouldn’t be alone,” she explained. everything they could, but they could not save her. We It was through the process of grieving that Amanda then gathered around my mom and said a Hail Mary,” found little ways to begin healing. One of her teachers Amanda said. “I will never forget that feeling of holding at the time, Mrs. Shelly Henke Kahny ’87, was a strong her hand for that last time,” she said. force in that healing process. “Mrs. Kahny was very in Amanda recalls her mom’s strong faith and religious tune with me and could always tell the moments and the nature. “We had always said prayers daily with my days that I was having a hard time,” Amanda explained. mom, and we went to Mass regularly as a family,” she “Whenever I needed time, or words of comfort, she gave explained. “My whole identity of God was through her. that to me. She really helped me through that time.” 4 SETON MAGAZINE Amanda holding her first team shirt As she headed into high school, Amanda got involved became my passion. Knowing that I with clubs, mission trips and volleyball. She also participated was keeping my mom’s memory alive in Kairos and went on to become a leader. “It was and educating other through the people and experiences at Seton mothers was powerful.” that I was pushed to be my best and to not During her give up,” Amanda explained. “The teachers freshman year pushed me academically, and they also taught at Xavier me how to keep going when things got tough.” University, Through her Kairos experience, Amanda Amanda grew closer with her cousin, Katie Jacobs ’15. began Katie was on the giving team for Kairos, interning for the Amanda and her family at the and during that retreat Amanda learned that Go Red for Women Cincinnati 2018 Heart Mini when her mom passed away and she was at Campaign. It was also Marathon the hospital with her family, Katie and several during this year that she attended Xavier’s Club relatives were all together praying the rosary. Fair and noticed that there weren’t any clubs “This was at the same time that we were praying for heart disease and heart health. So Amanda and holding my mom’s hand for the last time,” made it her mission to start a club on campus. Amanda said. “Finding this out was The club became official in February of her really special.” sophomore year, and she named it Xavier Losing her mother is something that Seton University One Heart. “The club’s focus is to changed Amanda forever, and she soon began taught raise awareness of the signs and symptoms realizing that she wanted to take her pain of heart disease and the risks even at a young and turn it into something that could make me to age.