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.

Jean Bartunek, RSCJ, was installed October 3 as Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair at Boston College, where she is professor of organization studies. Sister Bartunek is director of the doctoral program in organization studies and a past president of the international Academy of Management. She earned a bachelor's degree at Maryville College of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis (now Maryville University), where she presently serves as a member of the board.

Kathleen Conan, RSCJ, was installed as provincial of the U .S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart on Sunday, August 14, in a liturgy at the Shrine of Saint Philippine Duchesne in St. Charles, Missouri. Installed with her were the three other members of her new provincial team, Sisters Anne Byrne, Maria Hernandez and Paula Toner.

Sister Kathleen Conan, RSCJ, will be installed as provincial of the U.S. Province in a team transition liturgy August 14 at the Shrine of St. Philippine Duchesne in St. Charles, Missouri. Installed with her will be the three members of her new provincial team, Sisters Paula Toner, Marina Hernandez and Anne Byrne.

Anne Byrne, RSCJ, has been the subject of recent articles in the Opelousas Daily World, Opelousas, Louisiana, as she prepares to leave the area and assume new duties in St. Louis as a member of Sister Kathleen Conan’s provincial team.

The Catholic Press Association gave its top award for books on liturgy to Sister Mary McGann’s new book, Precious Fountain. In addition, judges in the national competition gave two awards and two honorable mentions to Heart magazine, published by the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province, since 2003.

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.

Lisa Buscher, rscj, professed her first vows in the Society of the Sacred Heart during a ceremony March 28 in the chapel of Schools of the Sacred Heart, Chicago. Barbara Bowe, RSCJ, professor at Chicago Theological Union, delivered a reflection in a Mass celebrated by Fr. Gil Ostdiek, OFM, and attended by Religious of the Sacred Heart from many parts of the United States.

Lisa Buscher has completed her novitiate in the Society of the Sacred Heart and will profess her first vows at a ceremony in Chicago on March 28. Lisa, 36, is a native of Phoenix, Arizona. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Grand Canyon University, where she majored in religion, and a master’s degree in theology from Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.