Friends of Virginia O’Meara and members of her religious community in St. Louis organized an exhibition and sale of her art work at Maryville University, where Sister O’Meara taught for many years. More than $10,000 was raised at the November 5 event in a silent auction of framed works and sales of collages, prints and art books.

Janet Rhodes, bookkeeper for the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province, marked 25 years in the post on November 3 with a celebration at the Society’s U.S. Province headquarters in St. Louis. The U.S. provincial team and province staff members in St. Louis attended a luncheon in Rhodes’ honor at the provincial house on her anniversary.

Eve Kavanagh, RSCJ, received the Woman of Spirit Award at an annual event sponsored by two women’s organizations affiliated with Catholic parishes in Larchmont, New York. Sister Kavanagh is a registered nurse who serves with the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service in East Harlem, New York, where she serves patients of all ages who live in poverty.

In order to better reflect the mission of the Society of the Sacred Heart, particularly the principles set forth in the documents of Chapter 2000, and the realities of today’s world as viewed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the Sacred Heart Commission on Goals spent a year giving new expression to the 1990 version of the Goals and Criteria for Sacred Heart Schools in the United States.