Celebrate!
Every fall, about two-hundred freshman students begin high school at Carondelet. They come as girls, wide-
eyed with anticipation, curiosity, and anxiety. They know—and yet they cannot know—that in the four years to
follow, they will assume new responsibilities, face unfamiliar challenges, and embark on unexpected adventures.
They will forge relationships with classmates, some of whom will become lifelong friends. They will explore their
spirituality and develop a more mature relationship with God. And they will learn about themselves and their
place in the world. They will grow up.
With passion and commitment, the Carondelet faculty, families, and community teach, support, and inspire
students so that, four years after those children step tentatively onto the campus, they emerge as women who
are capable, aware, generous, and ready to pursue their dreams. Our investment of time and resources—and our
students’ persistence and hard work—culminates in graduation, the celebration of two-hundred women who have
come of age before our eyes. This issue of the Carondeletter honors the accomplishments of the class of 2014, and
the collective dedication that nurtured yet another group of women to go out and make a difference in the world.
CARONDELETTER
Published quarterly
for the alumnae, parents, and friends
of Carondelet High School.
President
Bonnie Cotter
Principal
Nancy Kelley Libby '76
Director of Development
Janet Wilks
Director of Alumnae Relations
Mary Goebel Frevele '75
Director of Communications
Rosanne Siino PhD '80
Historian
Sr. Eleanor Eagan, CSJ
Editor/Communications Manager
Katie Clark Vecchio '76
Digital Media Manager
Christina Ditzel '97
Database Services Manager
Monica Simmons
MISSION
VISION
STATEMENT
STATEMENT
Carondelet High School,
founded and sponsored
by the Sisters of St. Joseph
of Carondelet,
provides quality
Catholic education
in a caring environment.
Carondelet educates, challenges and
enables young women
to integrate gospel values,
to intelligently apply these values to
their lives and to reflect these values
through leadership and service
to the greater community.
Carondelet High School, founded and
sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet, will serve those seeking to
become “all of which woman is capable”
through a curriculum that integrates
intellectual, moral, physical, psychological,
social, and spiritual development.
Carondelet High School will model
collaboration among students, faculty,
parents, alumnae, Board, and the greater
community.
Integrating a counter-cultural stance based
on gospel values, the School will nurture
an environment of risk-taking that enables
each person to assume roles of leadership
and service to the dear neighbor.
Graduates of Carondelet High School will
know their responsibility to reflect the CSJ
charism of unity and reconciliation in their
personal and professional lives.