School Staff

 

Mrs. Sweet is our school administrator. The Sweet family has been parishioners for over ten years. Mrs. Sweet is a graduate of St. Alphonsus School. She also graduated from Seattle Prep and Seattle University. Charleen spent several years in the U.S. Army flying helicopters. Charleen and her husband, Bob, have three daughters: Melissa, Kelsey, a junior at Central Washington University; and Christine, a freshman at Washington State University. Mrs. Sweet’s hobbies include scrapbooking, stamping, gardening, reading, and traveling with her family. She is very excited to be working at St. Al’s with the staff, students and families.

 

Sister Miriam James grew up in southwest Washington after her family's move from Texas. She graduated from Woodland High School and from the University of Nevada-Reno, where she earned a BA in Speech Communications. After graduating from college, Sr. Miriam heard God call her to become a nun and she spent time studying in New Mexico and Rome, Italy. She was then assigned to an Indian reservation in North Dakota, where she coached vollyball at a high school and served St. Louis Parish in Dunseith. In June of 2004, Sr. Miriam was assigned to St. Alphonsus Parish and is extremely happy to be at the school serving the children and is also excited to be back in Washington (thanks be to God! a true miracle!). Sr Miriam enjoys spending time with God, reading, web site work and playing vollyball when she can!

 

The Altenhofens are long time parishioners, and all five of the Altenhofen children have attended St. Alphonsus. Mrs. Altenhofen is our hot lunch coordinator.