At the 2011 Institute Chapter delegates elected the Institute Leadership Team which will serve from 2011-2017.  Pictured: front l-r Sister Patricia McDermott, President,  and Sisters Deborah Troillett, and Eileen Campbell, Vice-President - back: Sisters Anne Curtis and Mary Pat Garvin.  

Sister Pat McDermott has been serving as the ILT liaison to the Network for Mercy Education Board. The Network is grateful to Sister Pat for her years of commitment and service.

In aligning responsibilities, the newly elected team has decided that Sister Deborah Troillett will assume this liaison role. The Network welcomes Sister Deborah and looks forward to working with her.

The Network for Mercy Education joins in congratulating the Institute Leadership Team and promises its prayers and support.

In Manchester, New Hampshire on July 20-21, forty-six Mercy educators gathered for the 17th annual Mercy Education Leadership Academy. 

Committed to furthering Mercy education, these leaders gathered for input, dialogue, prayer, and sharing.  Please click on this link to read more about the academy and see pictures.  

The Network thanks all who attended and all who made the academy possible with their support.  The 2012 Leadership Academy will be held July 25-26, 2012 with the site to be determined.  Location will be shared in an upcoming newsletter and on the Network website.

Mercy Learning Online Summer 2011

The Network for Mercy Education offers the linked prayer as a common prayer that might be said in Mercy schools and by all who share in the ministry of Mercy secondary and elementary education.  The prayer is in pdf format.  The Network wishes all a very blessed Mercy Day and gives thanks for all the celebrations and remembrances for this special day.

Mercy education gives thanks for women and men who are assuming new positions as President or Principal of a Mercy secondary or elementary school.

Principals

*  Gwynedd Mercy Academy High School, Gwynedd Valley, PA- 

    Sister Pat Flynn, RSM

*  Mount Mercy Academy, Buffalo, NY - Ms. Margaret Staszak

*  Waldron Mercy Academy, Merion, PA - Mr. Steve Stritch

*  Mercyhurst Preparatory School, Erie, PA - Ms. Deborah Laughlin

*  Mercy High School, Burlingame, CA - Ms. Lisa Tortorich

*  Mother McAuley High School, Chicago, IL - Ms. Claudia Woodruff

*  Notre Dame High School, Elmira, NY, - Mr. James Snyder

*  McAuley High School, Cincinnati, OH - Ms. Nicole Brainard

*  Our Lady Academy, Bay St. Louis, MS - Ms. Tiffany Lindmark

Presidents

 *  Mercy High School, Burlingame, CA - Ms. Laura Held

 *  Mother McAuley High School, Chicago, IL - Dr. Christine Melone

The Network for Mercy Education and all school communities offer prayers of support to these leaders.   

ill be hosted by Mother McAuley High School in Chicago and held October 14-15, 2011.

The theme of the conference is "Celebrating Mercy Collaboration in the City That Works".

The brochure for the conference with the program and hotel information is posted on the Network website and has been sent to all schools.

The registration forms are requested by September 20th. 

The annual meeting affords Mercy secondary and elementary administrators an opportunity to gather, share insights into common issues and support one another.  2011 meeting will be held October 13, 2011.

The focus for the meeting is a meditative gathering, presentation on a theme, business affairs and a prayerful closing.  The Meditative gathering Catherine McAuley "Always Being Called to the More" (Familiar Instructions, will be presented by Avis Clendenen, D.Min.,Ph.d., and Professor Sister Irene Dugan, r.c. Scholar in Spirituality, Department of Religious Studies, Saint Xavier University.

The items for the business section of the gathering have been sent to Mercy secondary and elementary administrators.  A reminder that the RSVP for the meeting is requested by September 20, 2011. Please RSVP to the Network. 

Who Will Tell the Story

Network News is a publication of the Network for Mercy Education distributed approximately every six weeks to Sister of Mercy Leadership, Mercy secondary and elementary presidents and principals, the Network Board, persons in sponsorship roles, Mercy friends and more.

For information or resources, contact the Network 

Who Will Tell the Story....

Schools are invited to continue participation in the variety of activities and opportunities for sharing between now and the 180th Anniversary of the Founding of the Sisters of Mercy December 12, 2011.  

Access the

Who will Tell the Story Initiatives.

This is a special time - commemorating the journey to founding the Sisters of Mercy and focusing on how Mercy lives on in those who live and tell the story now and into the future, especially in Mercy education.