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Maria Paradelo Mater Award

2023 maria paradelo mater nominationsNominations due by Monday, August 21, 2023.

The Maria Paradelo Mater Award was initiated and given in 2006.  The purpose of the award is to recognize and alumna who has displayed the atributes of Mater throughout her adult life, despite full immersion in the secular world.

Criteria for the Maria Paradelo Mater Award:

  • Personal and active faith in God
  • Deep respect for intellectual values
  • Continued mission of Mater into adult life

The Alumnae Board chooses the recipient from each year's nominations and the recipient is awarded in October each year at the Annual Alumnae Liturgy.

Past honorees include:
2006 Maria Paradelo Friguls, '68
2014 Elena Bosquet Galbis, '64
2015 Janice Breaux Fox, '65
2016 Margaret Rucks, '74
2017 Elizabeth "Zabette" Lemann Ortte, '74
2018 Linda Emmick Bradford, '68
2019 Jan Voorhies Spizale, '70
2021 Mary Charlene Jones Rhodes, '78
2022 Gay Garon Boudreaux, '64

Trés Bien Award

2023 tres bien nominations

Nominations due by Monday, August 21, 2023.

Each year, the Alumnae of the Academy of the Sacred Heart have the privilege of nominating a fellow graduate for the Trés Bien Award.  This award, established in 1994, is awarded to an outstanding alumna who meets the following criteria.

Criteria for the Trés Bien Award:

  • A graduate of a Sacred Heart school
  • A woman of faith
  • A volunteer who currently gives or has given recent service to Coteau
  • A Woman committed to the values of the Sacred Heart
  • A woman who has concern for the development of others

The Alumnae Board chooses the recipient from among each year's nominations and the recipient is awarded in October each year at the Annual Alumnae Liturgy.

Past honorees include:
1994 beverly latimer, '43
1995 helen hamilton bailey, '40
1996 marion mouton blanchard, '51
1997 elsie cary prejean, '51
1998 lucile bechet maroney, '48
1999 carmen de moya, '64
2000 karen veillon mcglasson, '55
2001 helena duplechain lafleur, '30
2002 mary logan pollingue, college '45
2002 madelyn plauche shea, college '45
2003 evelina dejean abdalla, '36
2003 inez gauthier, college '37
2004 Dianne mouton landry, '48, college '52
2005 rita krieg vega, '69
2006 julie brinkaus olivier, '46
2007 mary jane gates romero, '56
2008 jeannine abshire sibille, '46
2009 barbara hebert magruder, '51
2010 barbara bahlinger, '48, college '52
2011 sharon karam, rscJ, '62
2012 candee sawyer zaunbrecher, '75
2013 alice l. mills, rscj, college '52
2014 melanie simoneaux goudelocke, '64
2015 bonnie hession, '77
2016 anna jane brinkaus gaiennie, '57
2017 jane simmons sandoz, college '49
2018 mimi mcglasson francez, '78
2019 linzee evans lagrange, '79
2021 christina cain popp, '90
2022 Patricia Dalferes Martin, '47