Recognition rolled in the first two weeks of March for artisan cheeses produced by Sprout Creek Farm. The week of March 14, two of the farm’s cheeses, Ouray and Barat, received honors at the 2004 World Championship Cheese Contest, which drew 1,500 entries from around the world. The week before, producers for BravoTV’s program “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” selected the farm’s Ouray cheese as one of the featured foods on a segment of the show.

Sacred Heart alumnae are invited to LaBelle July 13-18 to help build a Habitat for Humanity house and to reflect on the spiritual and social realities they have encountered. Participants will have opportunities for recreation, including swimming and kayaking, and for spiritual direction.

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.

Sprout Creek Farm Cheese featured in New York Times. Ouray cheese, one of the fine artisan cheeses made at Sprout Creek Farm, was featured in the New York Times on Wednesday, November 5. Ouray, available for purchase online, is one of five new American cheeses recommended in Florence Fabricant's column in the Food Stuff section of the Times.

While U.S. theater goers await Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” a film about the life of Jesus, another film about Jesus, “The Gospel of John,” is making news in several U.S. cities. Carolyn Osiek, rscj, professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas, is one of nine biblical scholars from the United States and Canada who served on an advisory panel to the film’s producers.

Sister Kathleen Hughes, Provincial of the United States Province, will spend the month of October in Indonesia, Korea and Japan. In Jakarta, her first stop, she will visit two communities of RSCJ and their ministries. Sister Nance O’Neil of the U.S. Province, a seminary professor, is among RSCJ working there.

Mary Charlotte Chandler, rscj, has been appointed Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Life. The center, established in 1988 by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men and Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, serves as a resource for religious congregations in the United States.

Margaret M. Caire, rscj, received the Lifetime Achievement Award in a recent celebration honoring women of achievement in St. Charles County, Missouri. Sister Caire has served as headmistress of the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Charles since 1984. She was among 10 women from St. Charles who received Dove Awards for leadership in a variety of categories.

A century and a half ago, people in the frontier town of St. Joseph were surprised by the arrival of four strangely garbed women. The newcomers were members of the Religio de Sacre Couer de Jesu (Religious of the Sacred Heart) who came from St. Louis to open a school for girls here. Since then, thousands of young women were educated here by the nuns, whose long black-skirted habits, including a white coif, edged neatly with a starched, fluted border, topped with a black veil, made them an unusual sight in the wild and wooly town.