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2020 Goal Award Winner Chosen
Lisa Damour, PhD, has won accolades for her inspired work
with and about adolescent girls and boys, and Sacred Heart is
delighted to announce that Dr. Damour will be this year’s
recipient of the Goal Award. The Goal Award, Sacred Heart’s
most prestigious honor, is given annually to a person or organi-
zation whose life and work exemplifies one of the Goals of
Sacred Heart education. This year Sacred Heart is focusing on
Goal V: Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.
On her visit to SHS in 2017, Dr. Damour spoke to Academy students
in addition to parents and faculty.
Goal V
Schools of the Sacred Heart commit themselves to educate
to personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.
1. All members of the school community show respect,
acceptance and concern for themselves and for others.
2. School policies and practices promote self-discipline,
responsible decision-making and accountability.
3. Students grow in self-knowledge and develop
self-confidence as they learn to deal realistically with
their gifts and limitations.
4. School programs provide for recognizing, nurturing
and exercising leadership in its many forms.
5. The school provides opportunities for all members
of the community to share their knowledge and gifts
with others.
6. All members of the school community take personal
Next Stop—Harvard University
During their time on Sheridan
Road, most students thoroughly
enjoy their chosen extracurricular
activities. Many gravitate toward
basketball and share the school’s
enthusiasm for the sport. Others
look forward to fun at after-school
rehearsals and the excitement
of performing in Middle School
musicals. Still others devote time
to academics-based activities, like
debate and Science Olympiad.
When Dr. Damour spoke at an SHS Parent Education event in
2017, she relayed with great humor and compassion the many
challenges that adolescents and their parents face. She discussed
the emotional landscape as young people find their “tribe,”
as well as social media use, romance, and even procrastination
—with a perspective honed by both her profession and her
life as a parent of two daughters.
Currently, Dr. Damour writes a monthly adolescence column
for The New York Times, serves as a regular contributor
to “CBS News,” maintains a private psychotherapy practice,
speaks internationally, and is the Executive Director of Laurel
School’s Center for Research on Girls, among other activities.
She is the author of two recent best-selling books, “Under
Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in
Girls” and “Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the
Seven Transitions into Adulthood.”
Tivas Gupta H’15 shares
memories with Dr. Sally Sharp,
who retired as Head of
Student Life in June 2019.
And then there are students like
Tivas Gupta H’15, who partici-
pate in all of those extracurriculars
while also excelling at academics.
Dr. Damour will receive the Goal Award in spring 2020; she
will also be the guest speaker at a Parent Education event at
that time. We congratulate alumna Dr. Damour, who attended
Sacred Heart-Sheridan Road from 3rd-5th grade, and we
thank all the winners of the Goal Award for their efforts to
dignify and lift up the human spirit! To read more about
Dr. Damour and access her articles, visit www.drlisadamour.com. It is not surprising then, that when asked about his advice to
Sacred Heart students and graduates, Tivas responds that they
should be “open to trying and putting work into new things.”
At Sacred Heart, Tivas appreciated that he was afforded many
opportunities to participate in a variety of activities. He
pushed himself to try as many things as he could outside of
the classroom and looks back fondly on these opportunities.
Previous Goal Award Recipients Inside the classroom, Tivas feels that his instructors “taught me
to view the world in a different way.” He remembers Mr. Watts’
American history lessons, and that in addition to class work,
2019 Goal IV: RefugeeOne
2018 Goal III: Susan Maxwell, RSCJ
2017 Goal II: Wenche Haverkamp†
2016 Goal I: The Jesuit Community of Loyola University
2015 Goal V: Family Matters
2014 Goal IV: Howard Area Community Center
2013 Goal III: Care for Real
2012 Goal II: Josephine Lee, Chicago Children’s Choir
2011 Goal I: Steve Bumpus†
2010 Goal V: Helen Bruns Ryan
2009 Goal III: Mikva Challenge
2008 Goal IV: Inspiration Corporation
2007 Goal I: Msgr. Kenneth Velo, Big Shoulders
2006 Goal II: Dr. Constantine Mavroudis and
Dr. Carl Backer, Children’s Memorial Hospital
2005 Goal V: Sr. Rosemary Connelly, Misericordia/
Heart of Mercy
2004 Goal III: Shirley Ryan, Pathways Foundation
Mr. Watts would provide book recommendations and have
various items in his classroom that pertained to what the
students were learning. This three-dimensional approach to
learning helped to fuel Tivas’ curiosity and made him want
to know more about the world.
Tivas liked the experience of single-gender classrooms on a
co-ed campus. He says he felt more comfortable participating
in an all-boys classroom. In Middle School, however, he also
appreciated having so many opportunities to work with girls
on yearbook and Science Olympiad, for example. He feels like
he experienced the best of both worlds. He continues to love
the tight-knit community at Sacred Heart and counts some of
his best friends as Sacred Heart alums—both male and female.
In high school, Tivas was similarly involved at Saint Ignatius,
where he participated in debate and Model United Nations; he
was the opinion editor of the student news site, The Spirit,
and co-founded the Saint Ignatius Ethics Bowl Team his junior
year. He even found time to volunteer in a mentoring program.
This fall, Tivas will begin his first semester at Harvard University.
As a finalist for the Coolidge Scholarship, he has already met
a number of students from Harvard and has been able to form
friendships. Nonetheless, Tivas emphatically maintains that,
just as he did in high school, he will hold on to the dear friend-
ships that he made at Sacred Heart throughout college.
Some colleges and universities that the Class of 2015 is attending:
Anglo-American University
- Prague
California Polytechnic
State University
Colgate University
College of the Holy Cross
Dartmouth University
DePaul University
Duke University
Fordham University
George Washington
University
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Loyola University Chicago
Marquette University
Miami University
Michigan State University
New York University
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Santa Clara University
Seattle University
Southern Methodist
University
Stanford University
Syracuse University
Texas Christian University
The U.S. Military Academy
at West Point
The University of Vermont
Tulane University
University of Charleston
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
- Boulder
University of Dayton
University of Denver
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of Notre Dame
University of Rochester
University of Southern
California
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
- Madison
Vanderbilt University
Wake Forest University
West Virginia University
Yale University
responsibility for balance in their lives and for their
health and well-being.
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