The March for the Heart Alumni & Family Giving Challenge is wrapping up with more than $68,000! With 202 gifts, pledges and matching gift pledges from 179 donors across the U.S., the impact made on our students and the Academy is incredible. Throughout the campaign, alumni shared notes of gratitude for their Sacred Heart education:
The Academy taught me how to make meaningful connections with others, and how to be academically successful while still challenging myself. I love ASH!
— Isabel King ’20
The Academy will always be my “forever family.”
— Bonnie (Mullen ’67) McCarty
The Academy built my foundation to go about my life. I find myself able to go beyond the odds because of the things I was taught. The community is one of my favorite parts of ASH. Many of my classmates are very close and my teachers still care even as I have moved on in my life. I thank the Academy for all the memories I have made.
— Katherine Gaylord ’21
The Academy of the Sacred Heart – St. Charles embodies everything St. Philippine Duchesne worked tirelessly for since 1818. How blessed are we to be graduates of this holy and wonderful school.
— Ann (Thirolf ’70) Spieth
I feel blessed for my Sacred Heart experience because of the foundations it gave me to deepen my faith and bring God into my daily life, the focus on intellectual values that I now implement into my career life, and of course the lifelong friendships I made.
— Scarlett Sanchez ’11
Kit Flynn-Dyer and I wouldn’t have been able to attend ASH except for the sacrifices and convictions of our parents and our generous, supportive godparents. The moral fiber of my life was established there. The love endures.
— Mary Frances (Flynn ’72, 12th) Scholl
The connections to the friends, families, Sacred Heart staff and faculty are still very special to me. Every time I come back for Chemin de Fer, it always feels like home.
— Ann Carroll-Butler ’78
My family lost everything when we had to leave Cuba and become refugees in this country due to the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The RSCJ, whose schools we had attended in Cuba, took my cousin and me (and my older sister at another school) and gave us not just the gift of a wonderful education, but the gift of love, community, spiritual and moral values, friendships and so many other intangibles. I have been forever grateful for all the gifts I received at St. Charles and for the relationships I made and still nurture and that nurture me to this day. Thank you, ASH.
— Conchy Fajardo-Hopkins ’69
