Winter 2011 a Journal of the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province
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Winter 20 11 A Journal of the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province …to Hea rt Something rather major is happening in human development, it seems to me, Dear due to young people around the world having an awareness of being part of a global community. I have to work at that kind of sensitivity, but those in their Friends, teens, twenties and thirties have grown up with it in the world that has formed them. CNN, the internet, email and texting have always been part of their lives. Those in urban settings have always had peers and friends from diverse cultures and religious traditions. They know much that we did not know at their age, and they are connected to their world in ways that didn’t exist a short time ago. On Thanksgiving Day, there was some “good news” in the paper. Editorial writer Nicholas J. Kristof shared a portrayal of humanity today written by Steven Pinker in his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature , which Kristof calls “an astonishingly good book.” The central theme, that human beings have been behaving increasingly more decently over the last several centuries, certainly is good news. Reading this during the Thanksgiving “breather” allowed me to reflect on the possibility that our educational mission has contributed to this in some small way. The Church has always looked to the Society of the Sacred Heart for the service of education, and education is one of the reasons Kristof cites to explain humanity’s progress. Another is the decline of “chauvinism” – very interesting to me because of the Society’s commitment to the needs of women and children and because of the 2 11- year history of single-gender Sacred Heart schools, and still the present status of many, including the most recently founded schools in the Network. A third factor is “a growing willingness to put ourselves in the shoes (increasingly, even hooves) of others.” Wo w! Justice, peace and the integrity of creation, and compassio n– the fundamental quality necessary for us to do well in the final judgment as described in the Gospel. It is wonderful to feel we are contributing to this very positive trend, all of u s! Taking a lesson from the young, this may be a call to live today, each of our days, with compassion and greater awareness – awareness of the world we are part of with its joys and its anguish, awareness of the neighbor who shares this world with me, and awareness of the desires of Jesus’ own Heart, that in very real ways we will help the “kingdom come.” In the stories that follow, I hope you enjoy the glimpses of people who are part of our mission around the world and are the “good news”-makers of toda y! With joy and hope, Paula Toner, RSCJ Provincial 2 Heart WINTER 2011 CONTENTS WINTER 2 011 • V ol . 9, N o. 2 Heart Lines Heart is published two times a year to highlight the mission and ministries of the Society of the 04 Barbara Dawson, RSCJ, Named Next Provincial Sacred Heart, U.S. Province, for a wide circle 0 of friends. The covers, photographs of hearts in 04 Warm Welcomes and Fond Farewells nature, symbolic of Christ’s presence at the heart 0 of the universe, bear witness to the contemplative 05 The CANZUS Region: Affiliation Creates Opportunities dimension of the Society’s “wholly contemplative, 0 wholly apostolic” mission: To discover and reveal 06 Shifting Ground: Reports from RSCJ in Japan and Egypt God’s love through the service of education. By Masako Egawa, RSCJ and Magda Mikhail, RSCJ 0 07 Spirituality in Nature: Vocation Ministry Explores New Paths 0 08 In Mission for Life: Keeping Dreams Alive By Shirley Miller, RSCJ 0 09 In Memoriam o t o h P l l a w d e R / Features k l a h c S 10 Josephinum Affirmed as Network School a h s a T 0 By Jennifer Nodot ® 13 They Call Her Mama K: Sacred Heart Internship Program 00 The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded 16 The Golden Rule in the Golden Years by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat in post- revolutionary France and brought to the United States by Saint Philippine Duchesne Departments in 181 8. For more information about the mission and ministries of the U.S. Province, 18 Spirituality: Serving the Children of the Congo please visit www.rscj.org. By Mary Frohlich, RSCJ 0 U.S. Provincial Team: 20 Essay: Lucile Mathevon, RSCJ, Frontier Educator Paula Toner, RSCJ, Provincial By Helen Rosenthal, RSCJ Anne Byrne, RSCJ 0 Margaret (Meg) Causey, RSCJ 22 Q&A with Archivist and Author Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ Mary Charlotte Chandler, RSCJ Melanie Guste, RSCJ Mary Kay Hunyady, RSCJ Susan Maxwell, RSCJ Correction s! Editor: Therese Meyerhoff Designer: Peggy Nehmen We regret the following errors in the annual report: Copy Editor: Frances Gimber, RSCJ John and Mary McClure were omitted Mrs. Suzanne Bradley Please send address changes for Heart to from our list of major donors on page 9. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Broders [email protected] or to Heart editor at the Mr. and Mrs. John N. Casbon The caption on page 13 incorrectly Mrs. Pat Corderman address below. Article proposals are welcome. identified Josephinum Board Chair, Mrs. Patti Curry Juliette Lane , as Jenny Nodot. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver S. Delery, Jr. Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province Deacon Dan Dorsey 4120 Forest Park Avenue The following donors were omitted from Dr. and Mrs. John O. Edmunds, Jr. St. Louis, MO 63108 the donor list for the Sophie Barat House: Mrs. Kathryn S. Elkins 314-652-1500 Mrs. Carolyn T. Abaunza Mrs. Catherine Eustis Fax: 314-534-6800 Ms. Marguerite L. Adams and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hesse Mr. Thomas K. Foutz Mrs. Lisa T. Holden Mrs. Nancy Adams Michael R. and Catherine Bisso Howard Mrs. Margaret Bradley Mrs. Patricia Del Hunter WINTER 2011 Heart 3 Barbara Dawson, RSCJ, Heart Lines Named Next Provincial familiar face will return to the office Warm Welcomes and of provincial for the United States A Province of the Society of the Sacred Fond Farewells Heart next summer. Barbara Dawson, RSCJ, has accepted the appointment to serve as the next provincial. “This is a perfect moment for Sister Dawson’s leadership with her gifts of a deep and open heart for our mission, creative energy and outstanding skills for community-building,” said oth the Network of Sacred Heart Schools and the Associated Alumnae Provincial Paula Toner, RSCJ. Band Alumni of the Sacred Heart bade a fond and grateful farewell to Sister Dawson previously served two three-year long-time staff this past summer. AASH National Office Director Jeanne Burke terms from 1993 to 1999. As provincial, she will be O’Fallon and Network Assistant Executive Director Carol Haggarty, RSCJ, responsible for the communities stepped down from their positions and ministries of the Religious of after many years of dedicated and the Sacred Heart in the United gracious service. We wish them States. She is currently consulting much happiness in the next chapter with province members before of their lives. assembling a new provincial team. Joining the Network staff is “It is both an exciting and challenging time to return to a Stephanie Moore, with the new title Barbara Dawson, leadership role in the Society of of director of technology and global RSCJ integration. Moore comes to the the Sacred Heart in the United Stephanie Moore, left, joined the Network of States,” Sister Dawson said. “I Network after nine years as director Sacred Heart Schools national office shortly look forward to strengthening of instructional technology at Villa before Carol Haggarty, RSCJ, departed. and deepening our mission and Duchesne/Oak Hill. She is known spirituality through collaboration in the Sacred Heart community and partnership with the many through her presentations at last people and groups who are part year’s Network Conference for of our extended Sacred Heart Librarians and Archivists and the family. I know that together we Paula Toner, RSCJ can and will make St. Madeleine Spirituality and Global Educational Sophie’s vision a more vital part Conference. Moore has already of our church and the larger community.” begun to make her mark on the A native of San Francisco, Sister Dawson Network. moved to Jakarta, Indonesia this past summer. Maggie Sieger Kaspura has joined She is working with the Society of the Sacred the AASH office as interim national Heart there as it develops its plan for mission and office director. Valedictorian of her Provincial Paula Toner, RSCJ, needed no ministry. She concurrently serves as an executive class at the Duchesne Academy of introduction when AASH President consultant to the Urban Catholic Schools for the the Sacred Heart, Houston, Kaspura Maureen E. Ryan, left, brought interim Diocese of Oakland. Previously, she served as is an award-winning journalist and National Office Director Maggie Sieger president of St. Martin de Porres, a diocesan Kaspura to the Provincial House. Sister school for underserved populations in Oakland, author of Deep in the Heart: Celebrating the First Fifty Years, Toner was head of school at Duchesne and as director of public policy and immigration Academy, Houston when Kaspura was Duchesne Academy of the Sacred outreach for Catholic Charities of the East Bay a student there. and director of ministry for the U.S. Province. N Heart . Her work has appeared in TIME Magazine, The Chicago Tribune and Entertainment Weekly , among other publications. We hope both women find fulfillment in their new positions. N 4 Heart WINTER 2011 Heart Lines The CANZUS Region: Affiliation Creates Opportunities nternationality is one of the collaboration was in November, when Ihallmarks of the Society of the the chief financial officers of the three Sacred Heart and one of its greatest provinces met with the treasurer strengths.