It is with great joy that we tell you that Kathleen Conan has been elected.
We will dearly miss her in the U.S. and wish God's blessings upon her.

Kathleen Therese Conan, RSCJ, is a native of Syracuse, New York. Her father, who died in 1987, was a member of the legal profession. Her mother, who lives in DeWitt, New York, was a teacher. She has a brother and two sisters who reside in the Syracuse (NY) area. Kathy graduated in 1968 from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, with a major in mathematics. She entered the Society of the Sacred Heart after college, spending her candidate year at Nottingham Academy in Buffalo. She was a part of the first group of novices after the move of the novitiate from Kenwood to Beacon Street in Newton, Massachusetts. She returned to Nottingham as a teacher of mathematics and religion, then as assistant to the headmistress. After Nottingham’s merger with The Nichols School, she served as one of the deans at Nichols.

Kathy made profession in the Society in 1978 after probation in Manila. Graduate study led to an M.A. in theology from Boston College in 1976 and an M.S. in administration from the University of Notre Dame in 1978.
In 1980, after an internship in administration at Bloomfield Hills and two years as dean of students at The Doane Stuart School in Albany, Kathy was appointed headmistress at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, a position she held for ten years. Following this assignment, she had a year of study at the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley in 1990. She was then appointed to the formation team as director of young professed. She also served as the chair of NCOG during these years.

In 1996 she was called to Rome to serve as a member of the international formation team preparing young RSCJ for final profession. Upon returning to the United State Province in 2001, she was appointed director of novices. In 2004, she served also as chair of the Elder Care task Force. In 2005 she was named provincial for a term of three years ending in August 2008. This past December her mandate was renewed, but her election means she will not serve this second term. The members of the United States Province will soon begin a process to name a new provincial superior.

The General Chapter in Lima, Peru, concludes August 20, after which Sister Conan will return to the United States to prepare for her new work in Rome, which starts in late fall of 2008.

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