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Photos courtesy of TMLA
New principal selected at Jamaica
Estates’ Mary Louis Academy
BY SUZANNE MONTEVERDI
smonteverdi@qns.com / @smont76
A private, all-girls high school in
Jamaica Estates will soon see a change in
leadership.
Ann O’Hagan-Cordes, who has served
as assistant principal for the past eight
years, has been named the new principal
of the Mary Louis Academy. She will
assume the position at the start of the
next academic year.
In a statement emailed to community
members in February, Sister Kathleen
McKinney announced that she would be
leaving her post at the high school aft er
21 years.
“I leave with the happiest of memories
and the deepest gratitude for the opportunity
to meet so many wonderful people,”
McKinney said. “I have every confi -
dence in the bright and successful future
of TMLA.”
Th e school’s board of trustees launched
a search for the next principal shortly
thereaft er and assured the community
the outgoing principal “is in good health
and ready to take on other challenges” in
a follow-up email.
O’Hagan-Cordes has spent her entire
professional life ministering at the Mary
Louis Academy and other Sisters of St.
Joseph’s schools and is an alumna of the
Jamaica Estates high school. She earned
her bachelor’s degree from St. John’s
University and a master’s degree in education
from Fordham University.
Located at Wexford Terrace and
Edgerton Boulevard, the Mary Louis
Academy was founded in 1936 by the
Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood. Th e
Catholic college preparatory school for
young women is rooted in the mission
of “unity, reconciliation and all-inclusive
love.”
Sister Helen Kearney, president of the
Sisters of St. Joseph, said the congregation
and the board of trustees “have great
confi dence that Ann, along with the dedicated
faculty and staff , will lead TMLA
into a vibrant future.”
“Ann’s personal experience with
TMLA as a student, a teacher and as
administrator makes her uniquely suited
to her new role as principal,” Kearney
said.
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