Sales Academy

Valedictorian: Sarah Walther Salutatorian: Natalie Boegel Mount de Sales Girl: Bridget Boland Randi Nicole Amoss, Catherine Steuart Amy, Kaitlyn Brooke Anderson, Jessica Catherine Auburger Rachel Marie Baldwin, Patricia Kathleen Basil, Taylor Anne Beaumont, Julie Caroline Betta, Meghan Lynn Blodgett, Laura Elizabeth Bochenek, Natalie Anne Boegel, Bridget Mary Boland, Kaitlyn Kristine Brady Bolesta, Amanda Paige...

Valedictorian: Sarah Walther Salutatorian: Natalie Boegel Mount de Sales Girl: Bridget Boland Randi Nicole Amoss, Catherine Steuart Amy, Kaitlyn Brooke Anderson, Jessica Catherine Auburger Rachel Marie Baldwin, Patricia Kathleen Basil, Taylor Anne Beaumont, Julie Caroline Betta, Meghan Lynn Blodgett, Laura Elizabeth Bochenek, Natalie Anne Boegel, Bridget Mary Boland, Kaitlyn Kristine Brady Bolesta, Amanda Paige...

In July, Michelle Natale, a teacher at Mount de Sales Academy, participated in the Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln Fellowship Program in Springfield, Ill. In addition to viewing Lincoln's home, tomb and museum, the group heard experts speak on the Civil War era. She plans to incorporate some of the lessons learned when she teaches her history, government and economics courses at the all-girls Catholic high school in Catonsville. Her National History Club will work on a mini-museum project and her advanced placement United States history class will analyze parts of "The Conspirator," in recognition of the Civil War's sesquicentennial.

In July, Michelle Natale, a teacher at Mount de Sales Academy, participated in the Horace Mann-Abraham Lincoln Fellowship Program in Springfield, Ill. In addition to viewing Lincoln's home, tomb and museum, the group heard experts speak on the Civil War era. She plans to incorporate some of the lessons learned when she teaches her history, government and economics courses at the all-girls Catholic high school in Catonsville. Her National History Club will work on a mini-museum project and her advanced placement United States history class will analyze parts of "The Conspirator," in recognition of the Civil War's sesquicentennial.

The hand-painted ornithological prints that were hung around the bow-shaped Bird Room sparked Susan Randt's interest. But it was the cast-iron cemetery crosses that she and her husband, Richard, found on Mount de Sales Academy's 14-acre campus that spurred the Randts to take on the job of compiling the history of the all-girls school. The couple, who live in Ellicott City, spent three years doing research. They visited the academy's archives, local libraries and basements, and they contacted alumni, their families, and members of the staff and faculty.

An article yesterday did not note who runs Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville. In 1985, the Dominican Sisters from the Congregation of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tenn., took over the school. Today, there are seven nuns among the 50-member faculty and staff, headed by Sister Helen Marie.The Sun regrets the error.Pub Date: 10/25/96

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillec, of Linthicum, a senior at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, was recently notified that poetry she wrote will be published in the National Poetry Society's National High School Anthology.Her work was selected from more than 72,000 entries nationwide and is among 10 by Mount de Sales students that were selected.Poets, publishers, screenwriters and playwrights served on the selection committee.

On February 28, 2006, LAURA HAFELE (nee Braun); beloved wife of the late John Hafele; loving mother of Audrey Hafele Stewart, Carol Hafele Scully and the late John R. Hafele; also survived by seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, 10 A.M. at St. Mark Chapel. Interment in Crestlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mt. de Sales Academy, 700 Academy Road, Catonsville, MD 21228, Arrangements by Mac Nabb Funeral Home.

On April 10, 2006, ELIZABETH H. HISKY (nee Harmon); wife of Thomas M. Hisky, Sr.; devoted mother of Elizabeth H. Konstantas, Thomas M. Hisky, Jr. and Michael A. Hisky; sister of Mary Nunn; grandmother of Jennifer, Mary Beth, Jack and Gina Hisky, Christina, Kathryn, and Ali Konstantas and best friends, Angela and Joe Sullivan. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, April 17, 10 A.M. at St. Mark Chapel, 26 Melvin Avenue, Catonsville. Interment Private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Mt. de Sales Academy, 700 Academy Road, Catonsville, 21228.

The student: Mary Kate Nugent, 18 School: Mount de Sales Academy Special achievement: Chosen as a National Merit Scholarship finalist. What she says about it: "I nearly died of shock because I didn't expect to make it that far. It was a nice surprise, and I'm very happy about it." What motivates her: "I am trying to do better in a little competition with myself. I like a challenge, and if things are too easy it's dull. Reading has always been important to me. If I hadn't read so much and such varied books, I wouldn't know half as much as I do."

For decades, residents of the neighborhoods around Mount de Sales Academy have flocked to the school's historic high ground to enjoy a view of the Catonsville fireworks show and catch a glimpse of the Inner Harbor's celebration in a low-key atmosphere that allowed people to catch up with friends and neighbors. This year, however, the school decided to put an abrupt end to that neighborhood tradition. In recent months, residents have seen new black security fencing and gates erected between the school and the community.

The Baltimore area's first new convent in decades for a growing religious order opened its doors Sunday afternoon to give visitors a peek inside. Mount de Sales Academy, a Catonsville landmark and high school, welcomed more than 1,000 people to view the newly built convent, giving them what may be the only opportunity to see the entire structure, as everything but a few designated areas will be cloistered. "This is a real blessed moment," said Mother Ann Marie, the mother general of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation of Nashville, Tenn., who came for the dedication of the convent chapel and open house.

On January 10, 2009, LORETTA D. EBAUER; beloved daughter of the late John T., and Elizabeth (nee Lightner) Ebauer; loving sister of the late J. Lawrence and William Ebauer; dear aunt of William Ebauer, Jr., Lori Chesser and Lisa Samson. Also survived by loving relatives and friends. Family and friends may gather at the family owned LILLY & ZEILER INC., FUNERAL HOME, 700 S. Conkling Street on Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M., with a Christian Wake Service at 3 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church on Tuesday at 10 A.M. Interment Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

On April 10, 2006, ELIZABETH H. HISKY (nee Harmon); wife of Thomas M. Hisky, Sr.; devoted mother of Elizabeth H. Konstantas, Thomas M. Hisky, Jr. and Michael A. Hisky; sister of Mary Nunn; grandmother of Jennifer, Mary Beth, Jack and Gina Hisky, Christina, Kathryn, and Ali Konstantas and best friends, Angela and Joe Sullivan. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday, April 17, 10 A.M. at St. Mark Chapel, 26 Melvin Avenue, Catonsville. Interment Private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Mt. de Sales Academy, 700 Academy Road, Catonsville, 21228.

On February 28, 2006, LAURA HAFELE (nee Braun); beloved wife of the late John Hafele; loving mother of Audrey Hafele Stewart, Carol Hafele Scully and the late John R. Hafele; also survived by seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, 10 A.M. at St. Mark Chapel. Interment in Crestlawn Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mt. de Sales Academy, 700 Academy Road, Catonsville, MD 21228, Arrangements by Mac Nabb Funeral Home.

Columbia school planning to add classes for 2005-06 Celebration Christian Academy, a Columbia private school serving pupils in preschool (for ages 3 and 4) through fifth grade, has announced its goal of adding four preschool and kindergarten classes for the 2005-2006 school year. Principal Erriel D. Roberson has hired a Spanish teacher who is a native of Spain. French has also been added to the foreign language program. The children are also exposed to academic disciplines, computers and physical education.

In Baltimore County Mount de Sales Academy names new headmistress CATONSVILLE - Mount de Sales Academy has a new headmistress, Sister Mary Reginald. A native of Bedford, England, Sister Mary grew up in Oak Ridge, Tenn. She received a bachelor's degree from Siena College in Memphis, Tenn., and master's degrees from Xavier University in Cincinnati and the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. A Dominican nun for more than three decades, she has been a principal of schools in Tennessee, Ohio and Virginia and was president of Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn.

Helen Maisel, a retired St. Agnes Hospital nurse who rallied fellow alumnae in a successful effort to save their Catholic high school, died of cancer complications Sunday at her Catonsville home. She was 91. Born Margaret Helen Kirwan on Ingleside Avenue in Catonsville, she was a 1930 graduate of Mount de Sales Academy of the Visitation, where she had been a boarding student since fourth grade. She earned a nursing degree in 1933 at the old St. Agnes Hospital nursing school. As a young woman she worked at St. Agnes, and after raising a family, she became director of housekeeping at what is now Mercy Medical Center in downtown Baltimore.