What fun and an honor to return to the school where I spent years dropping off daughters, to take part in their annual Author Night. Emmy Award-winning reporter and alum Magee Hickey moderated a panel I shared with Joanne Ramos (The Farm) and Faith Salie (Approval Junkie) and as interesting as discussion was, my eye kept roving to the decorative plaster, crown moldings and gold-painted walls. I’d forgotten how gob-smacking gorgeous Convent of the Sacred Heart is. It’s in a 1901 mansion built by a father for his daughter as a wedding gift (!) so that girls who study there absorb not just academics but the fine points of architectural details. I remembered a playdate with a first-grader who pointed to the molding in our living room and guessed (correctly) it wasn’t crown.
A highlight of the evening was running into an old friend from Adland, an alum from Magee’s class, Jacquie Ottman, now a Green Marketing expert who’s come out with her own book. Further proof that, yes, there is Life After Advertising.
Faith Salie can be very, very funny as you know if you listen to her on NPR.
Joanne Ramos, Faith Salie, me, Magee Hickey. Note decorative arches above our heads. They don’t make schools like this anymore.
Trying to think of something clever to sign for CSH alum and old friend from Adland Jacqueline Ottman.