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A Sacred Heart Magazine for Villa Duchesne, Oak Hill, City House, and Barat Hall FALL 2011 2010-2011 ANNUAL REPORT VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL IS RICH IN TRADITION BECAUSE OF OUR GENERATIONS OF SACRED HEART FAMILIES. g WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THE MORE THAN 100 SACRED HEART ALUMNAE AND ALUMNI CURRENTLY SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL AND THANK THE SACRED HEARTPARENTS AND STUDENTS WHO GATHERED FOR THE ABOVE PHOTOGRAPH. ASH = Academy of the Sacred Heart AT = Atherton BH = Barat Hall CH = City House CS = Carrollton FR = Forest Ridge GC = Grand Coteau OH = Oak Hill No Designation = Villa Duchesne Christopher Ahlering BH ’74 Emilie Morris Dolan ’81 Marisa Longrais Human ’80 Madelyn LoPiccolo Ott ’85 Ruth Tighe Ahlering ’82 Anne Warner Dorr ’78 Kristi Tacony Humes ’90 Dianne Barrett Pecha ’85 Connie Ahrens ’79 Louis Dubuque OH ’77 Mary Weyerich Kaemmerlen ’85 Kimberly Brown Phillips ’85 Ellen Heusack Allen ’81 Alison McMahon Duffy ’91 Becky Sauer Kaveney ’95 Lisa McEnery Pollnow ’82 Carley Brunner Alves ’84 Jean Musial Edmonds ’77 Vivi Anthon Keefer ’82 Patricia Karn Portnoy ’84 Delia McDaniel Andrews ’86 Jodie Condie Finney ’97 Michele Kemp ’73 Maria Meyer Price ’80 Heather Hannegan Baine ’83 Gregory Flotron OH ’79 Nancy Pollnow Kraeger ’92 Corinne Fusz Qureshi ’93 Melissa McGraugh Barnason ASH ’73 Laura Edgar Flotron ’85 Daniel Leary OH ’81 Georgina de Regil Randazzo ’83 Peggy Ford Barnhart ’75 Mimi McEnery Fonseca ’80 Megan Kahn Lee ’97 Lisa Walbrandt Riad ’88 Peggy Anthon Behan ’87 Mary Beth Carleton Fox ’83 Mary Catherine McDaniel Leeker ’85 Jackie Raybuck Saleeby ’82 Christina Braeckel Besancenez ’84 Michelle Butrus Frechmann ’97 Missy Rosenthal Leggat ’89 James Samuel BH ’59 Gretchen Strobach Boehm ’92 Julie Hennessey Freeman ’84 Douglas Lowney AT ’88 Jane Murphy Samuel ’68 Marie Bone FR ’70 Margo Bowen Funkhouser ’87 Katherine Gerritzen Mauzy ’80 Catherine Fox Sant ’81 Meghan Reisa Braeckel ’84 Julie Sauer Gaertner ’91 Lauren Wright McCabe ’88 Beth Stanley Schmitt OH ’79 Betsey Schick Brown ’98 Rachel Drone Gehm ’88 Charles McEnery OH ’85 Michelle Thro Schrick ’80 Dede Sheehan Brunetti ’81 Julie Holthaus George ’85 Jennifer Mueller McNulty ’90 Evelyne Schuetz ASH ’72 Irene Dagartzikas Buckalew ’93 Laura Condie George ’87 Deborah Medley ASH ’77 Susie McCabe Sheahan ’85 William Busch Sr. BH ’74 Gina Cigno Haas ’84 Kathy Hannegan Meyer ’76 Kimberly Simon ASH ’83 Alicia Thiel Cammon ’80 Maria DeFabio Habel ’90 Patricia Leary Moellering ’84 Tara Clark Smith ’88 Polly Sell Capps ’78 Kathleen Keim Hagnauer ’73 Vicki Chivetta Mower ’77 Amy Baumstark Stivers ’86 Marjorie Maley Carr ’87 Michelle Borst Hand ’88 Molly Harvey Mulvihill ’81 Geeta Soorya Swaminathan ’87 Nancy Ciapciak-Thiedke ’80 Constance Higgins Hartenbach ’81 Thomas Mulvihill BH ’76 Catherine Swanstrom GC ’84 Laura Sliney Clark ’86 Lourdes Garcia-Ferrer Hattrich ’82 Eileen Galligan Musial ’82 Marjorie Holthaus Tomaso ’84 Teresa Edwards Clark ’83 Nancy Millsap Hawes ’80 Elizabeth Condie Nix ’85 Elizabeth Warner Tooley ’82 Estie Cruz-Curoe CS ’69 Maria Higa Hein ’88 Jane Behan Notter ’83 Maureen Byrne Trompeter ’80 Caren Hennessey Cytron ’89 Anne Murphy Hill ’93 Julie Huffman O’Connor ’86 Kimberly Wright Wagner ’85 Carolyn Miller Dames ’83 Susan Crebs Holmes ’85 Joni Frederici O’Dowd ’82 Mary Byrne Yoon ’77 Katherine Miller Dare ’84 Kathrynn Hopkins ’92 Daniel O’Keefe OH ’81 Lisa Schneider Delicath ASH ’73 Susan Muckerman Hudspeth ’83 Laura Sliment O’Leary ’87 If you are a Sacred Heart alumnae/i as well as a current Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School parent and were inadvertently left off this list, please contact Megan Kahn Lee ’97, Manager of Alumnae/i Relations, at 314.810.3420 or [email protected]. VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL IN THIS ISSUE Visit Us Online e invite you to view our new Wschool videos on www.vdoh.org. We hope you are as moved as we were Heart to Heart Annual Report to hear how our students, faculty, and alumnae/i value Sacred Heart education. W 2 Head of School 20 Introduction The five, short videos on our website focus on our mission, elementary 3 Advancement 20 The Mater Admirabilis school, middle school, high school, and Legacy Society graduates. They are also available for 4 School News viewing on YouTube. 20 Les Fidèles Society Student Spotlight Find us on Facebook! Like VDOHS 6 21 Capital Campaigns to see the latest information on our 7 students and alumnae/i. Please note Faculty & Staff Spotlight 22 Annual Giving that we have deactivated our original 8 Around the World 34 Corporations & Foundations Facebook page, A lumni of Villa Duchesne, Oak Hill, City House, and Barat Hall. I 10 Alum Spotlight 34 Lifetime Duchesne Society 35 Designated Gifts 11 Alumnae & Alumni News 36 Sponsors 13 Class Notes 37 Operating Statement 15 Condolences 17 Joplin Editor Photography 18 Annual Giving Sapna Jos Megan Kahn Lee ’97 Manager of Debbie Schlattman Communications Michael Jacob Photography Wagner Portrait Group ON THE COVER Front Cover: Oak Hill students like junior kindergartener Anabelle Hawkins displayed pinwheels promoting peace for International Day of Peace; First graders like Michael Frechmann and Rory Wood regularly work on projects together to encourage team building; Olivia Brouster ’14 enjoyed her sculpture class at one of the new outdoor patios on campus. Back Cover: Villa Duchesne high school students were greeted with new lockers this school year in their class colors. Katie Funkhouser ’15 decorated her locker for the first day of school, complete with a battery-operated chandelier. HEART TO HEART FALL 2011 HEAD OF SCHOOL Transforming the World “discover and make known the Dear Sacred love of the heart of God.” Prayer Next U.S. enables us to transform the Heart Family, world, because it transforms us. Provincial Named Sacred Heart education provides Our mission calls us to our students, and each of us, D “transform the world, one child with an immense power; it is the arbara at a time.” That is at the heart of power to transform the world. Dawson, our education at Villa Duchesne B The five goals of Sacred Heart RSCJ, will serve as and Oak Hill School. And, education inspire and compel us the next provincial Lucie Nordmann, RSCJ, together, we have the power to to embrace this transformation. for the United CH ’61 make it happen. But, how do we begin? States Province of It must begin with a personal Gratefully, the Society of the transformation, taking a look at ourselves. Sacred Heart. St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Sr. Dawson’s Barbara Dawson, RSCJ Society of the Sacred Heart, recognized that LUCIE NORDMANN, RSCJ, CH ’61 three-year term, this radical inner transformation comes HEAD OF SCHOOL beginning in the forth through prayer. Prayer enables us to summer of 2012, will be her second appointment as provincial. As provincial, PRAYER ENABLES US TO “DISCOVER AND MAKE KNOWN Sr. Dawson will be responsible for the THE LOVE OF THE HEART OF GOD.” communities and ministries of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in the United States. She will succeed Paula Toner, RSCJ, who has led the province since 2008. I Sacred Heart Spirituality Series ll members of our Sacred Heart A community are invited to attend the Sacred Heart Spirituality Series hosted at Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School. The 2011-12 speakers include Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ, Archivist for the Society of the Sacred Heart, and Jane Cannon, Director of Alumni for Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles. Please visit our online calendar Board Chair John Hanichak and Sr. Lucie Nordmann welcomed everyone to campus in at www.vdoh.org for dates and times. The September for the 15th Annual Family Picnic. annual series is sponsored by the Mums 2 of Alums. I VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT All Things Are Possible hank you, our I More than $5,200 was raised for T Sacred Heart performing arts through the Musical family, for your Journey with Nordstrom and Neale investment in our I More than $337,000 was raised students. Together, we through the Bonne Chance Auction carry forth the Sacred and Golf Outing Heart mission and I More than $871,800 was contributed ANNUAL GIVING PLEDGE DAY Debbie Schlattman ensure the future of through Annual Giving, the most in our Director of Villa Duchesne and Advancement school’s history Oak Hill School. Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School Our vision is filled with a love of Sacred Through your support of Annual Giving, students helped rally support for Annual Heart education, a desire to support our Giving while enjoying the festivities of the Bonne Chance Auction, Golf Outing, students and their programs, and a goal of Pledge Day. Pledge Day is an effort to and our alumnae/i activities, you make the fostering the growth of our community. We encourage early gifts and pledges for Annual difference for our students of today and those are united as a school community to educate Giving, which make a significant difference of the future. for our school’s daily operations and allows the whole child from JK3 to the Class of During the 2010-11 school year: our Board and administration to plan more 2012. Through your continued support, we I More than 1,200 alumnae/i joined us on effectively for the school year. All of this know that all things are possible. I campus for a school event directly benefits our students. Why is purple the color for our Annual Giving Pledge Day? The purple is symbolic of our school coming together as one Why I Give? Sacred Heart family – blending the maroon of Villa Duchesne with the navy of Oak Hill.