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The Eastern Regional Conference of the Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart (AASH) will be held in Rochester June 20-22, 2008. This conference is a prelude to the 2009 AASH National Conference scheduled for Los Angeles. The Conference, which has as its theme, "Missionaries of the Heart, Here to Make a Difference" will be held at The Strathallan (soon to be The Summerfield Suites).
It begins with a networking, social event on Friday evening at the Strasenburgh Planetarium, including a cocktail reception followed by a grazing station dinner and a private astronomy show. The meeting will be held on Saturday with a welcome by Marcie Amory, AASH President, who will be joining us from Arizona. The keynote speaker is Sarah Symons, from Cape Cod, the founder of The Emancipation Network (TEN). TEN helps survivors of human slavery and women and girls at high risk for being trafficked into slavery by offering a means of self-sufficiency and an economic alternative to further exploitation.
A panel discussion of young women who are presently students at or recent graduates of Sacred Heart schools in the Eastern Region will follow the keynote address. The discussion will focus on volunteerism being alive today and will help to assure all present that the future is in good hands. The culminating event of the conference will be a special liturgy celebrated on Sunday morning by Bernard J. McAniff, S.J. who will come from Indianapolis to join us at 8 Prince Street.
Today 8 Prince Street is known as Chapel Hill Apartments and contains luxury residential units, but the integrity of the chapel has been maintained. Chapel Hill books wedding ceremonies without religious affiliation. It took special approval from the Bishop of Rochester and a kind contribution from an anonymous donor to allow this alumnae Mass to be held there. We expect over 100 alumnae/i to attend this special liturgy. There will be alumnae from the class of 1929 through the class of 1969. Three Religious of the Sacred Heart will come from Albany to celebrate as well as one from Washington, D.C. Sacred Heart alumnae, as representatives from other Sacred Heart schools, will travel from California, Missouri, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Florida. It promises to be a very exciting weekend.
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