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A Sacred Heart Magazine for Villa Duchesne, Oak Hill, City House, and Barat Hall SPRING 2012 VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL IS BLESSED BY THE SACRED HEART ALUMNAE/I WHO RETURN TO g SERVE ON OUR CAMPUS. Anna Ahrens ’74 Villa Duchesne Faculty Elizabeth Blanton ’94 Villa Duchesne Faculty Alison Webster Coulter ’94 Oak Hill Faculty Caroline O’Fallon Davis ’70 Oak Hill Staff Francesca DiRollo, Edinburgh ’61 Villa Duchesne Faculty Kelly Harper Durbin ’95 Oak Hill Faculty Nancy Ghio, RSCJ, CH ’42 Villa Duchesne Staff Therese Irvin Hagemeister ’85 Director of Enrollment Management Megan Kahn Lee ’97 Manager of Alumnae/i Relations Heather Gleason Lloyd ’95 Villa Duchesne Faculty Douglas Lowney, Atherton ’88 Villa Duchesne Principal Jennifer Mueller McNulty ’90 Oak Hill Faculty Kathy Hannegan Meyer ’76 Assistant Director of Enrollment Management Lucie Nordmann, RSCJ, CH ’61 Head of School Krista Zoeller Richardson ’76 Villa Duchesne Staff Mary Pat Rives, RSCJ, The Rosary ’42 School Nurse Amy Holler Roman ’77 Oak Hill Faculty Sally Stephens, RSCJ ’52 Oak Hill Staff Katie Swanstrom, Grand Coteau ’84 Villa Duchesne Faculty VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL IN THIS ISSUE Growth and Opportunity pring is in the air! The warm weather S Editor will be upon us soon Heart to Heart and the flowers and Sapna Jos, Manager of Communications leaves will be bursting Photography 2 Head of School with new life. So, too, Nancy Lebbing Photography will our school be Wagner Portrait Group Therese Hagemeister bursting with new 3 Advancement Director of Enrollment students in the Management ON THE COVER coming months. 4 School News We have been very busy in the Office Front Cover: Middle School students observe of Enrollment Management, hosting the properties of water; Fourth graders celebrate the lives of their favorite saints; prospective students and their parents. 6 Student Spotlight Sixth graders examine plant and animal cells With this new season I can’t help but see under the microscope. Wthe metaphor of growth and rebirth. Our 7 Faculty Spotlight seniors will be graduating and moving on to Back Cover: The Rally Squirrel visited Oak Hill to celebrate the 2011 World Series exciting new horizons, poised to tackle the Championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. challenges of our 21st century world. Our 8 Alumnae & Alumni News sixth grade boys will also move forward to continue their educational journey at some 9 Class Notes of the best secondary schools for young men in the area. As these students leave us, we 12 LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! JOIN US ON YOUTUBE! will welcome a new group of children to our Condolences campus. These fertile young minds will be challenged and nurtured, so they, too, will 13 Gingerbread Houses with Santa be well prepared for a future filled with growth and opportunity. I Why did the turkey cross the road? ild turkeys have been spotted at W Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School this school year. The rafter of turkeys, along with hundreds of birds, reptiles, and mammals, consider the wooded 60-acre campus their home. The turkeys were seen in the Front Bowl, outside the Duchesne Building, and even nesting in our outdoor Christmas manger over the holidays. We encourage you to post your favorite campus photos on Facebook! I HEART TO HEART SPRING 2012 HEAD OF SCHOOL A 21st Century Education educators, I recognize what the and, it is even more important for our Dear Sacred Religious of the Sacred Heart students in the 21st century. Our education have understood for more than touches the heart and soul as well as the Heart Family, 200 years. Janet Erskine Stuart, mind, allowing our students to meet future There is much written these RSCJ, articulated it in the early challenges with compassion and integrity as days about how to prepare D 1900s. “We bring up the children well as intellect. Even as we continue to students to live and work in the for the future, not for the research and implement the best in 21st century. Students must present… Our education is not educational practices today, it is clear that commit to critical and creative meant to turn the children out a Sacred Heart education is more relevant thinking, effective communication, Lucie Nordmann, RSCJ, small and finished, but seriously than ever. global consciousness, character CH ’61 begun on a wide basis. Therefore formation, and collaboration. Gratefully, they must leave us with some self Did you know these are the same knowledge, some energy, some purpose.” qualities St. Madeleine Sophie Barat espoused An education that provides “self for students in the 1800s? LUCIE NORDMANN, RSCJ, CH ’61 knowledge,” “energy,” and “purpose” was As I reflect on the research of today’s top HEAD OF SCHOOL critical for our students in past centuries… Duchesne Dinner 2011 Bonne he Duchesne Dinner hosted in would like to learn more about joining a Chance Auction T November honored some of the giving society or including the school in school’s most committed mission partners your estate plans, please contact Director ore than 300 guests attended the grand including: donors at the Duchesne Society of Advancement Debbie Schlattman at Mopening of Club Bonne Chance in giving level and above for any fund 314.810.3589 or [email protected]. I November. The evening raised $280,000 for supported in the 2010-11 fiscal year; trustees the students of Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill and former trustees; Les Fidèles Society Left to right: Ray Gerritzen, Jane Rapp School. Merci beaucoup to our Auction Co- members; and Mater Admirabilis Gerritzen ’51, Shirley Drury, Charles Drury, Chairs Matuschka Briggs and Susie Sheahan as Legacy Society members. If you and Lucie well as the hundreds of donors and volunteers Nordmann, who helped to make the evening a success. I RSCJ, CH ’61. 2 Left to right: Susie Sheahan, Lucie Nordmann, RSCJ, CH ’61, and Matuschka Briggs. VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT Sowing the Seeds e know that a That means we must continue to enhance our WSacred Heart programs and campus to provide our students education is a gift. It is a with an educational experience that will serve gift that our students are them well into the 21st century. Our students receiving today, because must be prepared to, with the Goals and of all those who have Criteria as their bedrock, learn and grow in our supported us in the past. global classrooms, integrate their knowledge Barat Hall Reunion Debbie Schlattman Like you, those who through our outdoor experiential learning Director of came before us, believed programs, and serve others by embracing all Advancement firmly in the mission of aspects of their character formation. he “Barat Hall Boys” reunited for a Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School. Through your gifts of time, talent, and TChristmas Mass and Reception in We now want to sow the seeds of Sacred treasure, you can help grow Villa Duchesne December. It was an opportunity for the Heart education in a new millennium, while and Oak Hill School for the students of men to catch up with former classmates and nurturing the traditions planted so long ago. today and tomorrow. I relive their days at Barat Hall, which closed in 1968. Everyone attending received a chocolate Christmas Lamb to commemorate a holiday tradition once observed by the Why We Give Sacred Heart school. I by Steve Holmes, Treasurer, Board of Trustees 2012 Golf Outing e came to Villa Duchesne and We continue to give to the school, both Oak Hill School in 2005 when our financially and through our service, because W th daughters, Cady and Caroline, enrolled. We our girls continue to benefit from their he 19 Annual Golf Outing will be let the girls make their own decisions about experiences at Villa Duchesne. In my fifth TFriday, May 11 at the Missouri Bluffs Wmiddle and high school, and they both chose year as a Board member and Executive Golf Club. Please consider joining the Golf Villa Duchesne. What I liked was the way Committee member, I know that the Committee to help plan this fabulous event, or the teachers spoke of each girl as an wonderful “package” that each of our children support our students by lining up a foursome. individual and the school experience as a receives from this marvelous school does not For information on sponsors, underwriters, journey within the bigger journey of life. come easily or inexpensively. Through our foursomes, and hole sponsors, please contact The Goals and Criteria inspired by support, we hope to play a role in making Kathy Sperlo, Manager of Special Events, at St. Madeleine Sophie Barat are beautifully sure even greater things are ahead for the 314.810.3496 or [email protected]. I captured in the school mission, “Transforming students. It is how we show our gratitude the world, one child at a time.” for all this school has done for Grandparents’ Day We’ve seen our girls successfully transition our family. I from Villa Duchesne to college and early adulthood, and we love the persons they have ave the date! G randparents with students become. Confident, self aware, and attuned Scurrently attending Villa Duchesne and to the world around them, we believe they Oak Hill School are invited to celebrate have the deep-rooted foundation for a life Grandparents’ Day with us. Mass followed lived well. And, we know Villa Duchesne by a breakfast reception and classroom was critical to this development. tours will be held Sunday, April 29. Please look for your invitation in the mail. I 3 HEART TO HEART SPRING 2012 SCHOOL NEWS Children of the Sacred Heart: Living Our Goals See how we are learning, loving, and living our school year theme.