For the past few years, the Sacred Heart Alumnae/i Association has had a Book Reading event as a fundraiser. This year, Sr. Theresa Chu, rscj, Ph.D., will be the guest speaker. Sr. Chu has been writing her fascinating memoirs for the past few years. It is still a work in progress. She has agreed to be the speaker this year to share the "challenges and learnings of looking back in faith" as a student and educator in China and South Korea. This event will take place in the large parlour on Feb. 12th at 7:00pm. The details are below. Please spread the word!
Sacred Heart Alumnae/i Association
Presents Author in Process
Theresa Chu, rscj, Ph.D.
Looking back as a Student & Educator
in China & South Korea
Thursday, February 12, 2015 from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Sacred Heart School of Halifax
Tickets: $20 per person
(available at Sacred Heart Reception Desk)
Born Chinese, nationalized Korean in 1964, immigrated to Canada in 1981, received Canadian citizenship in 1984
Entered the Society of the Sacred Heart in Shanghai in 1947
Education
- 1946 – Licencier in Political Economy, Faculty of Law, Aurora University,
Shanghai - 1952 – M.A. in History of European Civilization, Manhattanville
College of the Sacred Heart - 1974 – M.A. in Ethics and Society, the Divinity School, the University of Chicago
- 1977 – Ph.D. in Ethics and Society, the Divinity School, the University of Chicago.
Dissertation on “The Religious Dimension in Mao Tsetung’s Thought” (unpublished)
Work Experience
- 1957 – 67 Principal of the Secondary School of the Sacred Heart, Seoul, Korea
- 1967 – 68 Dean of Students, Women’s College of the Sacred Heart, Chun Cheon, Korea
- 1968 – 71 President of the Women’s College of the Sacred Heart, Chun Cheon, Korea
- 1981 – 90 Director of the Canada China Program, Canadian Council of Churches, Toronto, Canada
- 1991 – 2005 Teaching theology and spirituality at the National Catholic Seminary, Beijing, PRC, and in other convents and seminaries in the PRC
