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 When the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province announced in fall 2011 that for financial reasons they would have to close the 130-year-old Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., at the end of the school year, the news saddened the sisters, students, parents, alumnae and community. But it is true that when one door closes, another opens. The Ursulines now are pleased to announce they have entered into a partnership with the Roseland School District to open a new charter school, Roseland Collegiate Prep.
Following the closure of Ursuline High School, the sisters pursued the idea of opening a charter school under the sponsorship of a local school district. “Once we saw the caliber of education provided in the Roseland district, we knew that we had found what we dreamed of creating,” says Sr. Dianne Baumunk.
The community-based Roseland school district serves a largely Latino student population, reflecting the changing demographics of Sonoma County. With a track record of sending 95 percent of its students on to colleges and universities, Roseland is so much in demand that there is a lottery for spaces in their junior and senior high schools. “Most noticeable in visiting Roseland’s schools are their leadership development, service orientation and manifest social skills of their students,” Sr. Dianne says.
Roseland College Prep will open in fall 2012 with two sections of seventh grade and will add one grade each year. More than 200 eager sixth graders from the Roseland district recently toured campus, and applications will start being accepted soon.
“Hearing and seeing the enthusiasm and eager joy of all the visitors put a big smile on everyone’s face and heart,” Sr. Dianne says. “Our Ursuline legacy of service and quality education will live on in this creative reincarnation here in Santa Rosa.”
When the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province announced in fall 2011 that for financial reasons they would have to close the 130-year-old Ursuline High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., at the end of the school year, the news saddened the sisters, students, parents, alumnae and community. But it is true that when one door closes, another opens. The Ursulines now are pleased to announce they have entered into a partnership with the Roseland School District to open a new charter school, Roseland Collegiate Prep.
Following the closure of Ursuline High School, the sisters pursued the idea of opening a charter school under the sponsorship of a local school district. “Once we saw the caliber of education provided in the Roseland district, we knew that we had found what we dreamed of creating,” says Sr. Dianne Baumunk.
The community-based Roseland school district serves a largely Latino student population, reflecting the changing demographics of Sonoma County. With a track record of sending 95 percent of its students on to colleges and universities, Roseland is so much in demand that there is a lottery for spaces in their junior and senior high schools. “Most noticeable in visiting Roseland’s schools are their leadership development, service orientation and manifest social skills of their students,” Sr. Dianne says.
Roseland College Prep will open in fall 2012 with two sections of seventh grade and will add one grade each year. More than 200 eager sixth graders from the Roseland district recently toured campus, and applications will start being accepted soon.
“Hearing and seeing the enthusiasm and eager joy of all the visitors put a big smile on everyone’s face and heart,” Sr. Dianne says. “Our Ursuline legacy of service and quality education will live on in this creative reincarnation here in Santa Rosa.”
 January 27 is the feast day of St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursuline Sisters. Her feast day is a joy-filled one of celebration for Ursuline Sisters and their associates, collaborators, schools and ministries around the world. The spirit and vision of this woman who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries and who brought to birth a new kind of religious life for women remain embodied today in an ever-expanding network of relationships and ministries. Her words continue to inspire and encourage with their invitation to “act, move, believe, strive, hope, cry out to God with all your heart, for without doubt you will see marvelous things if you direct everything to the praise and glory of God and the good of others.”
Click here for a Reflection on St. Angela.
Click here for a blog post on St. Angela.
Icon by Sr. Anna Rosa Porro, OSU
January 27 is the feast day of St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursuline Sisters. Her feast day is a joy-filled one of celebration for Ursuline Sisters and their associates, collaborators, schools and ministries around the world. The spirit and vision of this woman who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries and who brought to birth a new kind of religious life for women remain embodied today in an ever-expanding network of relationships and ministries. Her words continue to inspire and encourage with their invitation to “act, move, believe, strive, hope, cry out to God with all your heart, for without doubt you will see marvelous things if you direct everything to the praise and glory of God and the good of others.”
Click here for a Reflection on St. Angela.
Click here for a blog post on St. Angela.
Icon by Sr. Anna Rosa Porro, OSU
 Journeys, a monthly e-letter from the Ursuline Vocations Office, is now being posted in the Vocations area of this Web site. Journeys offers aid for prayer and reflection to women who are discerning religious life.
Going Beyond Your Borders, a brochure offering information about reflections days and service projects with the Ursuline Sisters, also is posted under Vocations.
And we hope you’ll check out the Ursulines’ new vocations blog, Backlit with Joy. You can find it under Vocations or go directly there with a click on Blogs.
Journeys, a monthly e-letter from the Ursuline Vocations Office, is now being posted in the Vocations area of this Web site. Journeys offers aid for prayer and reflection to women who are discerning religious life.
Going Beyond Your Borders, a brochure offering information about reflections days and service projects with the Ursuline Sisters, also is posted under Vocations.
And we hope you’ll check out the Ursulines’ new vocations blog, Backlit with Joy. You can find it under Vocations or go directly there with a click on Blogs.
 Four Ursulines from the Eastern Province are joining other Ursulines this November at NunsBuild, sponsored by the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans. Sisters Teresa Byrne, Theresa Eppridge, Carol Marie Keane and Marie-Celine Miranda are contributing their energies to rebuilding houses seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Volunteers provide the labor for the project; donors contribute to the materials.
Ursuline Sisters—including those who minister in New Orleans—have participated in this annual event since its inception in 2006. More than 350 houses have been rebuilt. Information about the St. Bernard's Project can be found at http://www.stbernardproject.org/about-us/.
Above: Ursulines participating in the last NunsBuild include Sisters Teresa Byrne, Marie-Celine Miranda, Phyllis Kemper, a Cleveland Ursuline, Terry Eppridge, Carole Marie Keaney, Dee Yanshak and Regina Marie Fronmüller.
Four Ursulines from the Eastern Province are joining other Ursulines this November at NunsBuild, sponsored by the St. Bernard Project in New Orleans. Sisters Teresa Byrne, Theresa Eppridge, Carol Marie Keane and Marie-Celine Miranda are contributing their energies to rebuilding houses seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Volunteers provide the labor for the project; donors contribute to the materials.
Ursuline Sisters—including those who minister in New Orleans—have participated in this annual event since its inception in 2006. More than 350 houses have been rebuilt. Information about the St. Bernard's Project can be found at http://www.stbernardproject.org/about-us/.
Above: Ursulines participating in the last NunsBuild include Sisters Teresa Byrne, Marie-Celine Miranda, Phyllis Kemper, a Cleveland Ursuline, Terry Eppridge, Carole Marie Keaney, Dee Yanshak and Regina Marie Fronmüller.
 Ursuline Sisters in the Northeastern Province treated Mother Cecilia Wang, leader of the Roman Union Ursulines, to a local delicacy during her recent visit to the sisters in Waterville, Maine. In her role as leader, Mother Cecilia, who is based in Rome, visits Ursuline Sisters throughout the world.
Ursuline Sisters in the Northeastern Province treated Mother Cecilia Wang, leader of the Roman Union Ursulines, to a local delicacy during her recent visit to the sisters in Waterville, Maine. In her role as leader, Mother Cecilia, who is based in Rome, visits Ursuline Sisters throughout the world.
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