Alumnae News 

Hilary Charlesworth AM (1971) 

The Sacré Cœur community congratulates alumna Hilary Charlesworth AM (1971) on being elected by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council as a new judge to sit on the International Court of Justice (ICJ). 

Hilary is the first Australian woman and the fifth female judge from anywhere in the world to be elected to the United Nations court.

Hilary was a Blue Ribbon prefect in 1971 and received school colours for debating at 

Sacré Cœur. She is well-known as a preeminent scholar of international law. We are incredibly proud of Hilary's achievements and her contribution to international justice and human rights.

Anna Pavlou (2019)

Since graduating from Sacre Coeur in 2019, Anna Pavlou has completed two years of her Bachelor of Media and Communications, Sports Journalism degree at La Trobe University.

During her final year at Sacré Cœur, she took up an internship role with St Kilda Football Club, working in their media team. Anna continues this internship today, as head of VFL media and also works closely with St Kilda’s AFL media team.

Anna has continued her role as a regular voice every Sunday night on 98.9 North West FM Radio station, covering and analysing the Victorian Amateur Football Association on the air from 6 to 9pm weekly.

The 20-year-old recently completed her third year as a junior journalist and reporter for Inside Sport and The Women’s Game, with a focus on growing the game of AFL Women’s, the Women’s Big Bash League and the Super Netball League across their platforms.

Anna has now taken on a new role as a journalist for The Inner Sanctum, where she covers the Geelong Football Club, Cricket Victoria and Cricket Australia with exclusive interviews and inside analysis form the words of the athletes’ mouths.

Anna has been running her own sports media website since she was 16, where she posts interviews, opinion pieces and reflective stories about a multitude of sports, including AFL, Cricket, Netball, Soccer, Motor Racing, Rugby and more. 

She recently landed two of her dream roles as the Weekend News Reader for 1116 SEN Radio and an Editorial Assistant at Cricket Australia.

You can find Anna here:

Twitter: @Annalyst_Sports

Facebook: @Annalyst

Website: Annalyst

Read Anna's interview with Paralympian Paige Greco further in the newsletter.

Julia Wilson- Lagace (1971)

Julia Wilson-Lagace was unfortunately unable to attend the recent Class of 1971 reunion held at the annual High Tea. We are pleased to share the fascinating update of her travels since leaving school:

I have had the good fortune to travel far and often. 

On leaving Sacré Cœur and studying history at Melbourne University I took up flying before joining the Civil Aviation Authority as an Air Traffic Controller (in spite of being female and therefore not really suitable for such a career. What would I do if I got married?) 

In 1989 I took leave of absence from the CAA to work for The International Civil Aviation Organization, as a technical expert in ATC Services. Though interviewed for a job in Paris, I fortuitously went to Dakar, Senegal to the West and Central African Regional Office. That is where I met my soon to be husband Arthur Lagace. Art, as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service, was on secondment to the US Embassy working on maternal health and child survival programs. 

In the 1990s while Art was working on short term assignments in a variety of African countries, I continued studies in Aeronautical Science and English as a Second Language (ESL). ESL enabled me to work as a facilitator and teacher at the local community college with migrants and refugees. In 1999 we volunteered for the Peace Corps and went to Uzbekistan for a thoroughly challenging adventure. We sort of settled down in Redmond, Washington when we returned.

Retirement has allowed us to indulge our other love, long distance walking. We started with the Camino de Santiago in 2002 and have continued walking the pilgrim trails of France and Spain most years since. We have interspersed our walks with trips home to Australia to catch up with family and friends.

And then Covid. We are fortunate to live in an area of the country that has been sensible about the scientifically based protocols and procedures. Unfortunately, this cannot be said of everywhere. I am hoping that we will be able to visit Australia again soon after you open.