Maureen Glavin, rscj

Maureen Glavin, rscj, has been appointed head of school at Academy of the Sacred Heart, St. Charles, Mo.

She will succeed Margaret Caire, rscj, who is retiring. Sister Caire has been head of school in St. Charles for twenty years.

Sister Glavin, presently director of the junior high school at Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami, previously taught math and science at the St. Charles school and at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Houston, a school affiliated with the national Network of Sacred Heart Schools.

She spent three years in Tanzania, East Africa, where she became proficient in Swahili while teaching secondary level English, math and science at the Arusha Catholic Junior Seminary.

She holds a bachelor’s degree with a major in chemistry from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and a master’s degree in theology from St. Thomas University in Houston. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.