Kathleen Sullivan, RSCJ, was appointed Professor Emerita at Seattle University, where she has taught math in the School of Engineering for eighteen years. Sister Sullivan will continue teaching math at the school. She will also pursue a variety of out-of-the-classroom teaching experiences, including her annual summer “Splash” program for girls from schools in the Seattle area who are top achievers in science and math. 

Veteran educators and new employees of the twenty-one Sacred Heart schools in the United States gathered over the weekend of June 24 for conferences at Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles. The conferences were sponsored by the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.

Following extensive consultation with Religious of the Sacred Heart across the United States, Kathleen Conan, RSCJ, has selected three RSCJ to serve with her as full-time members of the U.S. Provincial Team: Anne Byrne, Marina Hernandez and Paula Toner.

On Monday, May 16, the Society of the Sacred Heart's Justice and Peace Committee sponsored a US Province conference call on the Society's NGO office at the United Nations and on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's). The following are prepared comments made during the conference call:

Kathryn Sullivan, rscj, a Catholic biblical scholar who became a major figure in the field before women were accepted for graduate Scripture study, will celebrate her 100^th birthday on May 17 at Kenwood Convent of the Sacred Heart, Albany, N.Y. Sister Sullivan, alumna and former Research Professor of Sacred Scripture at Manhattanville, earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939 then later worked with a priest, Msgr. John E. Steinmueller, who agreed to train her as a biblical scholar.