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Carrollton Comes Back
One week after Hurricane Irma, Carrollton is just about back to normal
By: Isabella Alfonso, Michelle Boj, Manuela Fernandez-Olano, Gabriella Garcia-Urbay, Carolina Gonzalez, Amber
Johnson, Anais Leichtling, Andreanna Perez-Rivera, Isabella Perricone, Jacqueline Reed, Isabella Soto, and Christina
Volpe

When classes resumed at Carrollton on Monday, September 18th, besides the huge piles of debris along
Main Highway, it was not immediately obvious that the campuses had suffered too much. There's a good
reason for that. On Monday, the day after Irma' passed, Carrollton's maintenance and housekeeping staff
was on-site where they worked through the following Sunday in a great clean-up effort. The campuses
were meticulously cleared of debris and with the exception of Cooke Hall where the wireless hub and
equipment is located, electricity had been restored.
Commuting to school became challenging as many of the roads surrounding Carrollton were impassable
due to fallen trees, power lines and piles of debris. The bike path which connects the Barat and Duchesne
campuses was covered with limbs, leaves, parts of boats and docks and it was like that for several weeks.
During the hurricane, trees, sailboats, and docks were destroyed. El Jardin and the Wellness Center garage
were flooded. On Barat, there was a 3 foot storm surge which covered the soccer field all the way up to
the El Jardin pool. "It's a lot of work, the whole thing. The maintenance and housekeeping staff took time
to be here after the storm even though they had their own homes to take care of. And we did it because
we love the school, we love working here and being family at Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart," said
Faustino Vega, Supervisor of Maintenance and Housekeeping.

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A group of South Florida professional archivists r
met at Carrollton in April for their second annual I
meeting since their formation. Maria Fernandez,
Carrollton's Archivist, started the day with a tour ,
o f El Jardin. Head Master Kalkus welcomed the I
guests followed by a meeting and lunch held in f
the Benoist room. As a newly formed association,i
the South Florida Archivists's mission is to share 1
resources and information to build a strong
network for the South Florida community.

In celebration o f El Jardin's centennial, Carrollton hosted groups from the University o f Miami Special
Collections and Cuban Heritage Collection, Florida International University and FIU Law Library and
Special Collections, The Black Archives, Historical Homestead Town Hall Museum, Coconut Grove Arts
Ariadna Zambrana, head o f housekeeping for the and Historical Association, The Miami Herald, Miami-Dade Public Library System and the Helen Muir Florida
school maintaines responsibility for the cleaning Collection, Miami Dade College and Wolfson Archives, Deering Estate, Barry University Special Collections
of El Jardin and supervision o f its many parties. and Archives, and Coral Gables Historical Resources Department.
Here Mrs. Zambrana polishes El Jardin silver with
archivist Maria Fernandez. Carrollton is the only Primary/Secondary school that currently belongs to the association. As stewards o f a '
facility listed in the National Register o f Historic Places, Carrollton prides itself in its commitment to preserve
both El Jardin and its history.