Pearl Wang '17 
Different in every year, Chinese New Year of 2016 is February 8. Even though I haven’t been celebrating the New Year with my friends and family back home for almost five years, the memories of laughter and happiness are still vivid in my mind. For the past few years, I talk to my mom on Skype … Read more…
The artsy ones—every school has them. The kids that spend their afternoons and weekends backstage building sets. The ones with paint splatter on their clothes. The girls that can’t stop humming and singing and dancing … even when they aren’t on the stage. Julie Vogel ’81, Shannon Morzov ’94, Sarri Sanchez ’01 and Allison Lieskovsky … Read more…
Since my daughters Monica Amestoy ’13 (now a junior at the University of Utah) and Olivia Amestoy ’15 (now a freshman at the University of Washington) are both off the Hill and away to college, my wife and I are glad to have no more parent volunteer hours to fulfill. But to be honest, we … Read more…
A few years ago, when Sr. Celeste Botello, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy‘s principal, interviewed me for the position of twelfth grade religion teacher, she asked me why I wanted to teach at a Catholic all-girls school. I told her that, as a product of a Catholic all girls high school, I believed in the mission of girls’ … Read more…
Love Made Visible Emmanuel, God-with-us, today I contemplate the gift of your love made visible. On Christmas, you are born anew as one of us. You clothe yourself in all the things I struggle with in my human condition. Your love embraces these fragile elements, takes them on and welcomes them with tenderness. Your love … Read more…