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What a difference 50 years make! A day in the “Fourth Academic” year of Diane Lovegrove (SJSH‘52, SHP‘56) and a day in the Senior Year of **** ******** (SJSH‘02, SHP‘06) Diane Lovegrove (SJSHʻ52, SHPʻ56) 6:45am: Wake up and get dressed in my uniform: a light blue skirt and blue bolero with a white blouse, gray sweater, and brown saddle shoes. 7:30am: Walk to school, then go to study hall and put my books in my desk (there were no lockers). Curtsy to the nun at the front of the hall. (Once in a while we got to come back to study hall to do some homework – in silence of course.) 8:00am: Literature and English Composition class, taught by Mother Welch, who now resides at Oakwood. She was a really good teacher, and very down-to-earth. We wrote one essay every Friday. 9:00am: French IV with our only lay teacher (until Mr. Brown came our senior year). All the rest of our teachers were nuns and we called them Mother. Madame told us firsthand about places in France, which developed my curiosity. When I finally did go to France after college, I couldnʼt believe I was really there. 10:00am: Religion class with Mother Schaffer, a young nun who also taught sewing and ceramics on Saturdays. 11:00am: Logic class with Mr. John Brown. When we were seniors we suddenly had a man teacher for one semester! This was quite a shock since no boys were allowed on campus, not even the brothers of the boarders. This tall lanky young man didnʼt sit at a desk and teach. He paced back and forth in front of the class! 12:00pm: Lunch downstairs in the cafeteria. We all ate there, and it was our time to talk and visit. The Sisters fixed the food. (The Mothers were our teachers while the Sisters did the menial tasks.) We all bought lunch and there werenʼt many choices. We took turns drying the silverware after lunch. We all loved to help Sister Christine. 1:00pm: Chemistry lecture or lab. We had lectures three days a week and lab two days. Lab was the first experience we had where we worked collaboratively with another student. 2:00pm: History class. We had no breaks between classes, only time to walk to the next class. We never left campus during school hours. There was no reason to. School was extremely rigorous, and we learned excellent study habits which I carried all the way through grad school. 3:00pm: Music class in the Little Theater— I had Glee Club with Mother Cronin. 4:00pm: After-school activites, including field hockey, soccer, volleyball and a wonderful game that involved throwing a rubber ring over the net to another girl. I think this game originated in Central America and was brought to us by the boarders. 5:00pm: I changed out of my gym clothes, gathered up my books, and walked home. Before dinner, I practiced THEN & NOW: Diane Lovegrove in 1956 and in 2006 the piano for an hour. 6:00pm: I helped make dinner and then ate with my mom and dad. After dinner, I studied for 2 or 3 hours. Sometimes I watched my favorite TV shows: I Love Lucy, Jackie Gleason, and The Ed Sullivan show. 10:00pm: Go to bed. We did not have class officers. We had a system of ribbons: blue ribbons for the upperclassmen and green ribbons for the lower classmen. There was a voting system to see who earned them. We did not have yearbooks, nor were there any clubs. We had only one dance a year, and it was chaperoned by our parents. Once a week we had Primes. We all wore our white uniforms and sat with our classes in the Little Theater. Reverend Mother Deming or Mother Williams presented us with awards for the week. They were little cards that said Très Bien, Bien or Assez Bien. To receive our awards, we walked down the steps from the hard wooden benches, down the parquet floor and up the steps to the stage where Reverend Mother was seated. We curtsied whenever we went by her and when we received our awards. In my senior year, I had to choose between College of Notre Dame in Belmont and Dominican College in San Raphael. I chose Notre Dame. In my senior year of college, I applied to USC, UCLA and Stanford and was accepted at all these universities. I chose to attend Stanford, where I earned my MA in Education. In 1993, I earned another degree from the University of San Francisco— an MA in Pastoral Ministry. There were 32 girls in my graduating class. 18 Winter 2006
****** ****** (SJSHʻ02, SHPʻ06) 7:00am: I wake up, get dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, have a quick breakfast, and drive (or bike, on Wednesdays) the two blocks to school. 7:50am: Marine Biology class, taught by Ms. Justine Walker (SJSHʻ95, SHPʻ99). We just finished a unit on dunes and the transfer of sand. Now weʼre learning about toxic chemical pollutants in the environment. 8:40am: American Diplomacy class, taught by Mr. Barry Treseler. Right now weʼre in our Vietnam War unit, working toward Desert Storm. 9:20am: I jet over to 32 Sigall (our assembly room) to prepare for the weekly assembly. 9:25am: Grades 9-12 gather all together for assembly. At the beginning, I make announcements about student council (because Iʼm the Student Body President). 9:50am: Break time. I go to the Gator Pit (our cafeteria) to get something to eat—and chat with friends. 10:05am: Honors Short Stories class, taught by Mr. Kermit Holderman. Today, we discuss The Storm by Kate Chopin and A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell. This is my largest class by far, with 18 students. Weʼre all seniors. 10:50am: Creating Literature class, taught by Mr. Michael Peterson (SJSHʻ92, SHPʻ96). Each team presents their research on a certain form of poetry. ACADEMIC SNAPSHOTS: Left, in Diane Lovegrove’s time, students worked in Study Hall in complete silence. Below, SHP teacher Michael Peterson (far left, SJSH‘92, SHP‘96), leads ***** ****** (far right) and his classmates in a discussion My team is analyzing free form open verse. 11:35am: My first free period. I go to the library to do homework, catch up on email, and work on my essay for my college applications. 12:15pm: Lunch begins. I grab food at the cafeteria and swing by Mr. Mark Davisʼs room to ask him to write a letter of recommendation for my college applications. Iʼm applying to film programs at Loyola Marymount, USC, Emerson, University of Oregon, and Chapman. Iʼm applying to English programs at Boston University, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine. 12:30pm: Lunch continues. I lead the student council meeting in the Otto Library. We discuss suggestions from our new online suggestion box and discuss the status of fine arts, athletics, publicity, social events, service-learning, curriculum, and diversity. 1:00pm: Meeting period. I go see Valéria Piazza-Lunga to get her advice— I need a tutor to help me prepare for the SAT IIs (individual subject standardized tests) in French language. 1:45pm: AP French class, taught by Valéria Piazza-Lunga. We take a practice AP exam, and a few class members present their memorized one-minute speeches. This is my smallest class, with only 6 students. 2:30pm: My second free period. We are allowed to leave campus if we have the last period of the day free, so I go to Posh Bagel with my friend Scott. After eating, I work on my article for the student newspaper The Heartbeat, analyzing Michael Mooreʼs new movie about the health care industry, Sicko. 3:30pm: Varsity soccer practice. We COMEDY REHEARSAL: **** ******** (left, SHP‘06) at Kitsch rehearsal with ***** ****** (SHP‘07) start with five laps, then play keep-away and do shooting drills, passing drills, and scrimmaging. 5:00pm: Grab food at J and Jʼs Hawaiian Grill with three friends from the soccer team. We swing by my house, since itʼs on the way to J and Jʼs. 5:30pm: Kitsch practice in the Sigall building. Kitsch is a student-run comedy improv group. There are 12 students in the group. As team leader, I run the group through warm-up games, mental games, and rhyming games to get our minds going. Then we launch into improvisation. 7:00pm: Drive home and have dinner with my mom, dad, and little brother. 8:00pm: Log on to mySHPnet.com to see my homework assignments. Work on my computer in my room until 11pm, with short breaks for IM-ing with friends— we chat about homework and life. 11:30pm: Go to bed, unless I have a test the next day, in which case I stay up a few more hours. There are 116 boys and girls in my graduating class. The Heart of the Matter 19
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Page 7 and 8: Whatcha Got Cookin’ The SJSH Pres
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Page 11 and 12: A Thriving Start-Up Stephen Carlson
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Page 15 and 16: Life at Warner Brothers Pictures, I
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Page 23 and 24: My Opinion: Nefara Riesch (SHP‘05
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