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Tending The Heart 

The Harris Rapport

 

We’re looking forward to several major events in the coming weeks. First, we will grant diplomas to our 63rd graduating class on June 11. Thirty students will become SHPS alums at a Baccalaureate Mass at Sacred Heart Church.

   Next we hope to see many of you at our 1st Annual SHPS Alumni Picnic in Spreckels Park on Sunday, July 3. Bring your own basket (BYOB) along with classmates and family, plus a dozen cookies for a Sweet Treat Swap. More details below.

   Then, if you’re in Coronado the next day, stand up and cheer for the school’s entry in the Fourth of July Parade. Our theme, “One Nation Under God,” will be portrayed by banners and students in uniform.

   In the announcer script for our entry, we pay tribute to three generations of Szymanskis - Andy, David, Michelle, Laura, and Paulette –all of whom are long-standing members of the Parade Committee ~ and SHPS grads.

   Have a wonderful summer and drop us a line sometime!

 

Sincerely in Christ,
 
Peter Harris
Principal
 

From the Archives, Sister sez ... part 5   
 
   

In this Sister sez, Sacred Heart’s first principal, Sister Mary Angela, concludes her comments about the first months at school. The excerpt is taken from a 1947 letter written to sisters living at the Benedictine mother house in Atchison, Kansas; the beginning of her comments appeared in May 2011 Tending the Heart.

   The children here are easy going – no doubt the climate makes for that – one has to use considerable ingenuity to devise ways and means of punishment. For example, if one is kept after school for tardiness or misbehaving in church, it is not uncommon to have three or four more come along and say, “Sister, I misbehaved in Church, don’t you want to punish me?”

   You may be surprised to hear that California is going to wage a campaign next spring to see if schools can be made tax exempt. Father Purcell says ‘a drive to bring California into the Union.’ We say ‘a drive to bring California into the Catholic Church.’

   You cannot image how irreligious the people in California are; parents say that they are Catholics, but they do not work at it. Or parents just say they haven’t taken up religion yet.

   In spite of the laxity on the part of the parents, the children are hungry for religion and are most attentive during religion classes. There is one thing certain – San Diego Diocese needs Catholic schools and Bishop Buddy is right in doing all he can to bring Catholic education to his diocese.

   Our boys all wear blue corduroy trousers and white shirts; girls blue pleated skirts, white blouses and blue boleros. A uniform is almost a “have to” in California; if you didn’t, boys and girls would not come dressed for school.

SHPS Proudly Presents the Class of 2011

   We welcome the Sacred Heart Parish School Class of 2011 to the mighty corps of SHPS alumni and wish them all the best ~ we hope to see them back on campus often in the coming years.  The names in italics are “nine-year wonders” - students that attended the school from kindergarten through 8th grade.

 

Angel Aceves Rodriguez           Tiffany Allen

Martha Castro                           Alexa Crosthwaite

Alexander Danilowicz              Mauricio Diaz

Krauss Drachenberg                Katherine “Katie” Erskine

Jocelyn Fierro                           Isabella Fimbres

Christopher Gesell                    Gabrielle Hadzicki

James Harbaugh                        Tatiana Irias-Lohayza

Celso Gerardo Jimenez              Molly Keith

Ana Cecilia Larroque               Jose Mauricio Larroque

Michael Cole Larson                Brandon McLeod

Natalia Medina-Meza              Zachary Joszef Mishky

Gala Paoli                               Alejandra Ramirez

Alexia Renteria                          Mary Catherine Roberts

Brenda Salome                         Julio Serrano

Galen Steinhoff                         Christina Villanueva

 

GR8 News of SHPS ’07 Alumni

   Congratulations to members of the Crusader Class of ’07 that are graduating from the following high schools this month.

 

Academy of Our Lady of Peace

 Maria Teresa Ayala         Cecilia Diaz de Sandi

 Annamaria McKellips     Mariel Oberwager

 Leonora Trueba             Joanna Velazquez de Leon

 Isabella Vildosola

 

Cathedral Catholic High School

  Alexandra Escobedo     Alana Hosn

  Sergio Paez                   Ivanna Paoli

 

Coronado High School

 Colleen Keith                 Lindsay Kiernan

 Raven Kneass                Delaney Luna

 Jana McConville             Savannah McSweeney

 Christina Peppard           Karina Quiroz

 Alexandra Reza              Elizabeth Standley

 Paulette Szymanski         Lauren Tobin

 Jaclyn Wilson

 

Mater Dei High School

 Laura Contreras

 

Saint Augustine High School

 Gerardo Azcarraga         Emilio Guerra


File Your Bio

  We continue to encourage you to send in:

- a SHPS alum biography for classmates to read in the Alumni Class Binders at school events, and

- an alum survey to let us know your interests related to reconnecting to the school and your classmates.

Link to the biography form: http://www.sacredheartcoronado.org/Alums/alumni-profile.doc

Link to the survey form:

http://www.sacredheartcoronado.org/Alums/alumni-survey.doc

A Quick Connect

   Looking for some classmates? Maybe they are on our SHPS Alumni Facebook. To find out or to post your own information, click here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sacred-Heart-Coronado-Alumni/122956954424712?v=wall

 


TENDING THE HEART  IS SACRED HEART PARISH SCHOOL'S ALUME-ZINE ~ A COMMUNICATION TO CONNECT ALUMS WITH SCHOOL FRIENDS AND FUN EVENTS. TO COMMENT OR CANCEL YOUR COPY, EMAIL ALUMS@SACREDHEARTCORONADO.ORG


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