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When I teach my students to sing, they are enabled to join in the song of peace and justice and freedom throughout the world. May they always have a song in th...eir hearts. -Mamie Jenkins, RSCJ As we begin our celebration of Black History Month February 2021, we look to our own history at Stone Ridge, and we honor the memory of dear Mamie Jenkins, RSCJ, former Lower School faculty member and Campus Minister (1924-2019). In November 2019, the Sacred Heart community lost a true legend. Sister Marie Louise Jenkins, RSCJ, passed away peacefully at her home in the Oakwood community. Affectionately known as Mamie, Sr. Jenkins was a past member of the Stone Ridge faculty serving as a campus minister, a Lower School math tutor, and an adored teacher of music and guitar lessons from 1988-2003. But her life story and the legacy she left is equally as deep as her impact on the classroom alone. Sr. Jenkins was born in 1924 in Manhattan, the seventh of ten children born to parents during the Great Depression. When she graduated from public high school in 1942, she was offered a music scholarship to attend Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, which was an all-white, girls, Catholic school. She became the first African American to attend and graduate from Manhattanville, and as a college sophomore, converted from her Methodist family tradition to Catholicism. It was also while she was a college student that she decided to become a Religious of the Sacred Heart. After earning a masters degree at Columbia University, Sr. Jenkins became the first African American Religious of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart) in the United States. During her career as a teacher, Sr. Jenkins taught in many of the Sacred Heart schools around the United States. To honor the gift of music that Sr. Jenkins brought alive at Stone Ridge, we have chosen to name the Band Room in The Mater Center in her memory. #BlackHistoryMonth #WeAreSacredHeart

A bench, plaque and tree has been placed on the Sacred Heart Sisters’ property in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, to honor thei...r foundress, the Venerable Cornelia Connelly. https://bit.ly/39xpGit Un banc, une plaque et un arbre ont été placés sur la propriété des Sœurs du Sacré-Cœur à Grand Coteau (Louisiane) par la Société du Saint Enfant Jésus, en l’honneur de sa fondatrice, la vénérable Cornelia Connelly. https://bit.ly/3r3CF1g Un banco, una placa y un árbol han sido colocados en la propiedad de las Hermanas del Sagrado Corazón en Grand Coteau, Louisiana, por la Sociedad del Santo Niño Jesús para honrar a su fundadora, la Venerable Cornelia Connelly. https://bit.ly/3oDfd9q

It's Catholic Schools Week! The theme for this year's Catholic Schools Week is "Faith, Excellence, Service." Stone Ridge will celebrate during the week with a n...umber of virtual and in-person celebrations and explorations of our Catholic Sacred Heart tradition of education in our divisional assemblies. #CSW21 and #ADWCommUNITY. See more

How many #RSCJ do you recognize? As we kick off #CatholicSchoolsWeek here at Academy of the Sacred Heart, it only seems appropriate to share some gratitude for ...our beloved Religious of the Sacred Heart! Beginning with our remarkable foundress St. Madeleine Sophie Barat in 1800, up to the present day, these leaders of conscience are with us always spiritually and we welcome their visits back to campus when it is safe. Thank a Sister today! #ASHDifference #WeAreSacredHeart We Are Sacred Heart - RSCJ Network of Sacred Heart Schools AASH - Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart