Winter 2006

Perfect Harmony Music at Saint Mary’s Your Gift to the Ann ual Fund Makes Music

Imagine that your gift… made a scholarship possible… so a young woman could attend Saint Mary’s… where she would reÞ ne her musical gift… being mentored in the classic styles… and encouraged to develop her own… and Þ nd a harmony… that moves and uplifts the soul.

Th e Power of an Ensemble Gifts to the Annual Fund help provide Þ nancial aid and scholarships to Saint Mary’s. Nine out of ten Saint Mary’s students receive some form of Þ nancial support. Please support the Annual Fund by making a gift online at www.saintmarys.edu/give or by calling (800) SMC-8871. The Annual Fund Volume 81, Number 4 Contents Winter 2006

Features Courier (USPS 135-340) is published four times a year by Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001. 38 The Saint Mary’s Women’s Periodicals postage paid at the Post Offi ce at Notre Dame, IN 46556 Choir: A Mosaic of Voice and at additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes by Scot Erin Briggs to Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, 110 Le Mans Hall, Notre The Women’s Choir gives students from every Dame, IN 46556-5001. major something to sing about—and adds Copyright 2006 Saint Mary’s College, a valuable dimension to their Saint Mary’s Notre Dame, IN 46556. education. Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. The opinions expressed are those of 41 Inside the Classroom the authors or their subjects and are not necessarily shared by the College

Performance Studies 190 challenges Matt Cashore or the editor. students to think in new ways about culture Page 38 Shari Rodriguez and identity. Vice President for College Relations [email protected]

Courier Staff: 42 Where the Music Takes Them Scot Erin Briggs by Elizabeth Station Editor [email protected] The second in a six-part series on the College’s Elizabeth Station nationally accredited programs. Senior Writer

Joya Helmuth 44 For Fifty Years, Graphic Designer Letters: A Place of Beauty Send letters to the editor to: by Elizabeth Station and Chris Sallak Courier Editor Saint Mary’s College Since 1956, the Moreau Center for the Arts 303 Haggar College Center and O’Laughlin Auditorium have offered a Notre Dame, IN 46556 sacred space for the fi ne and performing Departments or e-mail [email protected] arts at Saint Mary’s. Class News: Send alumnae class news to: 2 Inside Saint Mary’s Alumnae News Editor 46 Broadway Ambitions, 110 Le Mans Hall 3 Letters to the editor Saint Mary’s College Dramatic Success Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 or e-mail [email protected] by Scot Erin Briggs 4 Avenue news Alumnae Association Staff: With determination and a music 7 Development news Barbara Butler Henry ’85 degree, Wilma Burke ’55 launched Director of Alumnae Relations 10 Page turners [email protected] a career spanning fi ve decades Michelle Poeppe Egan ’93 on the New York stage. 11 Belles athletics Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations [email protected] 12 Published and presented The Mission 14 Faculty profi le Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, residential, women’s college in the liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the 16 For the record education of women, the College is an academic community where women 18 Club news develop their talents and prepare to make a difference in the world. 22 Class news Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes 24 Excelsior a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, and social responsibility. All members of the College remain faithful to this mission and continually assess their On the cover: response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. Music majors Crystal Buck ’08 (seated at piano) and McKayela Collins ’08 embrace the department’s philosophy that “to learn is to perform and to perform is to learn.” Photo by Matt Cashore InsideSaint Mary’s

A College Filled With Music

by Carol Ann Mooney ’72, President

At Saint Mary’s, we believe that the arts enrich our souls and expand our intellects. We encourage our students to explore both curricular and extra-curricular fi ne arts offerings at the College. Music, art, dance, and theater help us to understand ourselves, human nature, our culture, and the world. The poet Wallace Stevens believed that the arts restore human awareness, and that the artist’s role is “to help people live their lives.” Whether our students view a thought-provoking art exhibit, take the stage in a dramatic performance, sign up for a music elective, or select a fi ne arts major, we hope that each will have a memorable experience leading to a lifelong passion and commitment to the arts. This issue of Courier celebrates one very special expression of the arts at Saint Mary’s—our nationally accredited music program. Everyone who has attended a concert here will attest to the fact that the talent on our campus is superb. George and I make every effort to attend as often as our schedules allow, and we are always thrilled by our brilliant students and professors. This fall Saint Mary’s College celebrated the 50th anniversary of O’Laughlin Auditorium and the Moreau Center for the Arts. This beautiful facility has enabled generations of our students to learn and perform in a venue that remains a jewel in our greater community. George Eliot once said, “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if Matt Cashore n I could always have plenty of music. It dance, seems to infuse strength into my limbs “Music, art, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to ter help us go on without effort, when I am fi lled and thea with music.” ves, In that spirit, as we face the cold to understand oursel days of winter, I hope you take comfort human nature, in the warmth of friends, a good book, and a life fi lled with music. our culture, and the world.”

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2 COURIER | Winter 2006 Lettersto the editor

Reaching Out From the editor Dear Editor, Dear Alumnae, I was happy to read about As the editor of the Courier, my charge is a delightful one: how Saint Mary’s is continuing to to collect the stories of Saint Mary’s and share them with you, implement community service Saint Mary’s alumnae and friends. I will do my best to be into the curriculum (“Within Our your eyes and ears at this great Reach,” Fall 2006). I was lucky College, to bring the campus to enough to volunteer at South you. And please write to me with Bend’s Center for the Homeless your stories. I look forward to as part of a class project for hearing from you. The Ties T hat Bind: Buildi Joe Incandela’s Catholic Social Relationships with ng Healthy The Courier staff and I bid the Local Comm Thought course. It was one of unity a fond farewell to Cynthia the best things I ever did in my Machamer, who was the editor college career. It made me realize that there was a from fall 2004 to the most recent world outside of the Saint Mary’s/Notre Dame “bubble.” I issue, fall 2006. Cynthia took the later went on to use my federal work study hours there in Courier to a new level, exploring both their preschool and family rooms. These experiences fundamental issues at Saint Eileen Dimino Eileen were building blocks for my chosen career as a speech Mary’s. We wish her all the best at pathologist. Thanks again to the Saint Mary’s faculty for her new position at the University at Buffalo. implementing social justice concerns both inside and I come to the Courier from the Offi ce of Development. outside of the classroom. There, I had the pleasure of meeting alumnae when they Sincerely, visited campus. Many alumnae have told me that from the Erin E. McGarry ’02 moment they set foot on campus, they knew this was the Chicago, Ill. place for them. And I understand what they mean. I had that feeling on the fi rst day I came to work at Saint Mary’s, and every day since. There is a sense of community here that I felt the fi rst time I walked the paths and the halls of campus. There are the bright and ambitious students, the faculty who not only Send us your letters! know their students by name, but also are invested in their Send your letters and e-mails as they pertain to material future, and the alumnae who are following and fulfi lling printed in the magazine. The editor reserves the right to their dreams and who cherish their alma mater. There is the determine the suitability of letters for publication and to edit vision that created and sustains this place and the devout them for accuracy and length. E-mail: courier@saintmarys. determination of those charged with making that vision edu; regular mail: Saint Mary’s College, 307 Haggar College manifest. This College is the whole, and it is greater because Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 of the sum of its parts. And I am thrilled to be a part of Saint Mary’s.

Scot Erin Briggs Courier Editor

In the Winter 1956 issue, Courier gave readers an intimate tour of the Moreau Center for the Arts—a building the writer called “dazzlingly new and perfect and modern.” Fifty years later, we offer an online encore of the article, “A Dream Come True,” at www.saintmarys.edu/~courier.

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Spirituality Lectures Bring Tradition to Life

Hospitality, vocation, and the courage to speak one’s the calling of priests and nuns, Wolfteich suggested that mind. Three speakers in the Center for Spirituality’s lecture laypeople who do meaningful work—inside and outside the series, “Bringing Tradition to Life,” shared their thoughts home—also experience and transmit holiness. on these topics at well- Sister Nancy Murray, OP, wrapped up the series on attended events this fall. November 6, channeling St. Catherine of Siena in a theatrical Ana Maria Pineda, a performance titled “Voices from the Past: Wisdom for Today, Latina theologian and Hope for Tomorrow.” A Dominican sister who has taught Sister of Mercy from Santa drama, dance, and theology (and sister of actor Bill Murray) Clara University, kicked off she has performed the one-woman show close to 300 times. the series with “Welcoming Murray held a packed Stapleton Lounge audience the Stranger: Hospitality spellbound with her recreation of the 14th-century saint’s life in the Christian Tradition,” and, in particular, her penchant for challenging authority. on September 6. Giving For Sister Kathleen Dolphin, PBVM, director of the Center for examples from the Old Spirituality, the performance was a reminder that “the voice Testament to the present of women in the Middle Ages was a lot stronger than we are day, Pineda argued that sometimes aware, and Catherine of Siena was a key player.” hospitality to strangers, According to Dolphin, the lecture series aimed “to bring Joe Raymond immigrants, and refugees the best of the Catholic tradition into our daily lives, but Sister Nancy Murray, OP, channeled is not only a laudable also—because traditions tend to get old and stuffy and St. Catherine of Siena in a one- practice but also “a moral relegated to a corner—I wanted to breathe new life into the woman show. imperative.” tradition…I think it worked.” On October 25, Claire Continuing another tradition, the Center will sponsor Wolfteich, professor of practical theology and spiritual the 2007 Madeleva Lecture on April 19. The presenter will be formation at Boston University, spoke on “Women and M. Shawn Copeland, a Boston College professor who focuses Work: Grappling with Questions of Vocation and Holiness.” on political theology and the African and African American Although Catholics often use the term “vocation” to describe religious experience.

Alumnae Board Welcomes New Members

Jill Moore Clouse ’99 Nora Barry Fischer ’73 Adriana Garces Petty ’01 Kimmi Martin Troy ’00 Abby Van Vlerah ’04 Rebecca Votto ’93 Jill Moore Clouse ’99, Nora Barry Fischer ’73, Adriana her husband live in Pittsburgh and have three children. Garces Petty ’01, Kimmi Martin Troy ’00, Abby Van Vlerah Petty, who lives in South Bend, is a minority outreach ’04, and Rebecca Votto ’93 have begun three-year terms of specialist at the Saint Joseph County Minority Health service on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors. Coalition. Petty was also a member of the Alumnae Clouse is an independent consultant working with Leadership Task Force. the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern Troy resides in the Milwaukee area with her husband in Admissions and Career Management. She also is a and son. She is a volunteer for the Admission Offi ce and is teaching associate for graduate courses at Northwestern’s a class reporter for Courier. School of Education and Social Policy. Clouse currently Van Vlerah is the assistant director of student activities serves as a board member for the Chicago East Alumnae for Saint Mary’s College. She serves on the board of the Club, and has been an active volunteer for the Admission South Bend Alumnae Club and volunteers at the Center Offi ce. She resides in Chicago with her husband and son. for the Homeless in downtown South Bend. Fischer is a partner and practice group leader with Votto works for a boutique mergers and acquisition Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon. She is a former National advisory fi rm in Newport Beach, Calif., and is actively Institute for Trial Advocacy instructor for the University of involved in the Los Angeles Alumnae Club. Before moving Pittsburgh School of Law and Duquesne University School to California, she was a member of the Chicago Alumnae of Law. Fischer is a past volunteer for her reunion gift Club, and the Chicago Alumnae Advisory Council. She committee and also serves as a VISA volunteer. She and received the Outstanding Young Alumna Award in 2003.

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HUST Reunion Celebrates Past, Looks to Future

Unique to Saint Mary’s husband Dr. Donald B. Rice, of Los Angeles (Read more in College, the Humanistic Development News on page 8). Studies Program (formerly The reunion schedule of events also included a series Christian Culture) of “back to school” colloquia where alumnae discussed remains a vital enterprise classic and new books in the humanities. President Carol since it was founded in Ann Mooney ’72 spoke on “The Future of the Liberal Arts at 1956. Over 100 alumnae Saint Mary’s,” and Professor Gail Mandell gave presentations from around the country on the HUST program’s past and future. Alumnae from six attended the program’s decades of the program led panel discussions on “What the 50th anniversary Major Has Meant to Me.” celebration on campus According to Philip Hicks, professor and chair of the September 17–18. department, “Bruno Schlesinger created a major that asked Professor Miri Rubin, students to study society from multiple perspectives— the inaugural speaker for literary, historical, philosophical, and artistic—and to see

Joe Raymond the renewed Christian the dynamic role that Christianity has played in shaping our HUST alumnae Carolyn Marie Culture Lecture Series, world. In the program for Christian Culture, as he designed Kelley ’01 (left) and Janet Kay Kelley kicked off the reunion it, students read the Christian classics in tandem with the ’97 reconnected at the program’s events. Her lecture, “From history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era. September reunion. Jewish Maiden to Global Now, in the 21st century, Humanistic Studies remains one of Icon,” explored the lesser- the College’s signature programs.” known facts about the Virgin Mary, for instance that there is more written about her in the Koran than in the Bible, and that she is revered as a fi gure of female purity in Islam. A professor of medieval and early modern history at the University of London in the UK, Rubin is one of the world’s leading historians of medieval Europe. Her current research focuses on Mary and her impact on people throughout the centuries and across cultures and faiths. “Is Mary a fi gure around whom Christians of different denominations might meet? How do non-believers relate to the vast and important heritage of Mary in music, art, literature, and architecture? What of Mary can be shared by other faiths?” These were among the questions Rubin addressed.

First established by Professor Bruno Schlesinger in 1957, Joe Raymond the Christian Culture Lecture Series showcases preeminent Celebrating at the Humanistic Studies reunion were (from left) humanities scholars who explored the Christian dimension Professor John Shinners, Professor Gail Mandell, and Professor of Western culture. The lectures continued for a quarter and Chair Philip Hicks. century, and have been revived thanks to a gift from a 1961 graduate of the program, Susan Fitzgerald Rice, and her

A Top Pick for Hispanic Students The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education recently “We’re very pleased that the College’s efforts to named Saint Mary’s College as one of its 2006 Publisher’s reach out to more diverse groups are being recognized Picks. According to José López-Isa, the magazine’s by members of the Latino community nationwide,” publisher, “Our list of publisher’s picks…represents said Larisa Olin Ortiz, assistant director of the Offi ce our latest and best thinking about which colleges and of Multicultural Affairs. “All the programs and support universities offer Hispanic students a solid chance of services we provide to our multicultural student body are academic success.” factors that contribute to the academic success of our Saint Mary’s is one of eight Indiana colleges and Latina students. This recognition should motivate all of universities to receive the distinction. Student surveys us, as members of the Saint Mary’s College community, determine which institutions make the list. to continue our commitment to diversity.”

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Incandela to Assume Endowed Chair Joseph Incandela, professor of religious studies and of the Church’s associate dean of faculty, has been appointed the Joyce social teaching McMahon Hank Aquinas Chair in Catholic Theology. He by encouraging succeeds Keith Egan, professor emeritus, who held the internships at Chair from its inception in 1998 through his retirement the South Bend from the College last year. Center for the A 13th-century Italian philosopher and theologian in Homeless and the scholastic tradition, St. Thomas Aquinas is considered by volunteering by many Catholics to be the Church’s greatest theologian. himself. Incandela’s responsibilities as holder of the Chair will A summa include teaching an upper-level course on Aquinas cum laude and conducting the College’s annual Thomas Aquinas graduate in Symposium. philosophy and “It’s a very humbling recognition,” said Incandela of theology from his appointment. “To have the opportunity to hold an the University endowed chair named for Thomas Aquinas, a theologian of Notre Dame, and philosopher whose ideas greatly infl uenced my own Incandela course of study and continue to infl uence my teaching, is received a tremendous honor.” his master’s

Incandela’s scholarship on Aquinas is extensive and and doctoral Dimino Eileen respected. Scholars widely cite his dissertation, “Aquinas’s degrees in Joseph Incandela Lost Legacy: God’s Practical Knowledge and Situated religion from Human Freedom,” and other writings. Incandela’s main Princeton University. He joined the Saint Mary’s faculty areas of study are medieval theology, contemporary in 1987. In 2002, Bishop John M. D’Arcy appointed philosophy of religion, and contemporary Christian him to the lay review board for the Diocese of Fort ethics. Wayne–South Bend in response to The Charter for the Recognized for his masterful teaching, Incandela won Protection of Children and Young People. Incandela was the Maria Pieta award for teaching excellence in 1995. also an ethics consultant on two local hospital boards. His “Catholic Social Thought” course has challenged and The Aquinas Chair in Catholic Theology is the gift of infl uenced countless Saint Mary’s students. Over the Joyce McMahon Hank ’52, a longtime member of the years, he has worked to help students live the principles Saint Mary’s Board of Trustees and Trustee Emerita.

Groundbreaking for State-of-the-Art Academic Building Saint Mary’s College broke ground for its new academic building on October 5. The facility will incorporate updated technology, more laboratory space, and environmentally sustainable practices and materials. The building is part of the College’s master plan, a renovation and construction effort designed to better serve students, faculty, and staff. Saint Mary’s has already completed construction of a new dining hall, student center, welcome center, apartment-style housing, and a clubhouse. Ballinger Architects, headquartered in Philadelphia, and Architecture Design Group of South Bend collaborated to design the 65,000-square-foot facility. Read more in Development News on page 8.

Dignitaries breaking ground for the new academic building included (from left) Trustee Colleen Ryan, President Carol Ann Mooney ’72, Bishop John M. D’Arcy, Board of Trustees Chair Deborah Johnson Schweibert ’74, Vice President and Dean of Faculty Jill Vihtelic, Mission Commissioner Sara Sabie ’08, Student Body President Susan McIlduff ’07, Student Body Vice President Maggie Siefert ’08, and Vice

Eileen Dimino Eileen President for College Relations Shari Rodriguez.

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Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Honor Roll September 15, 2005 to November 30, 2006

Undesignated contributions: Albie Griese Joanne Juscik Joshua J. Northup Laura C. Proto Campise ’92 Susan Hammersley Carolyn Cummins Mueller ’92 Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 Michelle Ann Houser ’02 William and Martha Hinchman Barbara Karle Harry Thomas O’Barski Saint Mary’s Alumnae-London Sidney and Karen Horwitz Catherine Shaughnessy Brennan ’81 Rose Marie Murphy Foley ’54 Marianne Jones-Hauswirth ’83 In Memory of: Joan A. Rossi ’54 Phil and Nancy James Patricia B. Kenyon ’46 Mrs. Louis Antognoli Christopher D. Keivit Mary Burns Mahoney ’46 Bette Breit O’Keefe ’39 Joan A. Rossi ’54 Geraldine Breit Walsh ’44 Sis Kenn Edwarda Jachim Keogh ’62 Jane Sazama Birtwistle ’62 David Kohanzo Jana Tognoli Crema ’62 Kathleen Davis O’Shaughnessy ’61 Circa Design Corporation Glenn and Christine Kosiba C. Denis O’Shaughnessy Christopher and Sarah Giusti Tammi Kozlowski Richard G. (Slugger) Lampe Francine White Quigley ’86 June Hoene Petersen ’30 Mary Lahey Cahill ’31 Richard and Dorothy Kloser Rita F. FitzGibbons Saint Mary’s Alumnae-Chicago Mr. and Mrs. David Kohanzo Helen Ridgely Lauerman ’41 Carol Ann Gable Sewing Club John and Elaine Kroeger Margaret Ridgely Dalby ’35 John and Barbara Lannan Robert and Martha Goodman Marie Alice Edwards Quisenberry ’42 Donald R. Cronin Jeanne Manz Lawrence J. Hoffman Frank and Mary Mollish Mary Ann Saxe Hickey ’58 Becky C. Marino Herbert and Mary Kocher Frances Virginia Fuller Richards ’36 Michael Daly Louis and Sara Masciopinto Lynn Farrell Major ’75 Nancy W. Richards Saint Mary’s Alumnae-New York City Nuncio and Nancy Metallo Gerard and Kathryn Molitor Deborah Johnson Schwiebert ’74 Joseph and Paulette Metzger Ronald and Joan Molitor Gina Fain Rodgers ’88 Morton Grove Womans Club Patricia Lauerman Nobbe ’75 Kathleen Christie Hillsman ’88 Suzanne M. Draths ’83 Angela Murphy Raymond and Karyl Pawlowski Mary Ridgely Root ’37 ABM Janitorial-Midwest Northern Trust Oakbrook Terrace D. Leonard and Joan Wise Margaret Ridgely Dalby ’35 Diane Andersen Owner/Entrepreneur Team Robert and Mary Goodman Jon and Nancy Apmann Gloria O’Neill Mary Alice George Lencioni ’54 Saint Mary’s Alumnae-NW Indiana Huspicio and Tess Arceo Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church Joan A. Rossi ’54 Gerald and Nancy Arkus Guild No. 20 Frances Neufeld Long ’41 Agnes Shalgos Douglas Arseneau Sally Ann Patterson Saint Mary’s Alumnae-Quad Cities Catherine Shaughnessy Nessinger ’56 Nicholas Baker Theodore and Beth Pickus Deborah Johnson Schwiebert ’74 Julia Kraft Matisko ’84 Beacon Capital Partners Pearl Pierce Carol Dillon Berglind ’84 Mary Manion Walsh ’53 Laura Masini Berrafato ’80 Robert and Anne Pillion Diane Cardis Tripp ’84 Margy Herr McGlynn ’49 Baptist and Lydia Boetto Therese Porter Kathleen Mulvihill Walsh ’82 Joseph and Dolores Borst Angelos and Maureen Poulakidas Clement Michael Miller and Philip J. Brannigan Jane K. Reagan Clement Michael Winde Jean Engler Weber ’55 Mary Burke William and Jeanette Reckert Alumnae Association Board of Directors Mary Ryan Darling ’55 Helen Hayes Callahan Steven and Connie Rigney Sheila Conlin Brown ’56 Robert Casey Robert P. White Ken and Therese Ruddy Laura Proto Campise ’92 Francine White Quigley ’86 Joan Cashman Marge Ruschli Mary Sue Dunn Curry ’85 Ronald and Mickey Clesen Sondra H. Stensby Michelle Poeppe Egan ’93 Jean Michelson Wilson ’41 Eileen Coursey Grace R. Swanson Nora Barry Fischer ’73 Andrew F. Wilson Donald and Helen Dassow Don and Debbie Szachowicz Judy Mardoian Gavoor ’76 Joan Hemmingway Wolf ’55 John and Christine Ruddy Draths ’80 John M. Waldvogel Barbara Butler Henry ’85 Shirley Dyckes Kelley ’55 John and Carol Draths Harris Webber, LTD Roslyn Castrogiovanni Hill ’69 Paul and Fran Draths Wells Management Co., Inc. Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 In Honor of: Robert and Peggy Draths Raymond and Kathy Wicklander Marilyn Wolter Laboe ’61 Ann Bourjaily-Maney ’82 James and Colleen Durda Annette D. Winger Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy ’66 Rita Conley Bourjaily ’56 James and Julie Durkin Janet A. Martin Cathleen Roe Eagan ’92 Jennifer Veselik Bourjaily ’88 Florian and Marie Dynek LeeAnn Franks McConnell ’85 Mary Margaret Abood ’92 Rita Conley Bourjaily ’56 Jean Fougerousse Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Lou and Rita Conley Bourjaily ’56 Jack and Yvonne Franz Carol A. Girzaitis ’79 Kara O’Leary ’89 Catherine Shaughnessy Nessinger ’56 Karen Draths Frost ’86 Catherine A. Kelly ’79 Lisa Maxbauer Price ’99 Robert and Ruth Frost Carolyn Halbert ’67 Abagail L. Van Vlerah ’04 Dave and Pat Garvey McCann ’56 Mary Claire Frye Rebecca Anne Votto ’93 Catherine Shaughnessy Nessinger ’56 Marie Therese Gauer Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 Joseph and Roberta Gesecki William and Geraldine L. Hess Charlotte Hanley Morrill ’44 Maureen Murphy Sheehan ’68 Werner Goelz Lori Hess Liesenfelt ’82 Genevieve Clare Morrill ’98 Frances S. Russell ’68

Established in 1994 by past and current members of the Alumnae Association Board of Directors, this endowed scholarship fund enables donors to commemorate a cherished relationship or special occasion with a lasting gift to the College. Scholarship recipients are selected by the College in accordance with fi nancial aid guidelines. Preference is given to relatives of alumnae. The 2006–2007 recipients are: Katharine Muenzer ’07 Mary Corrigan ’08 Kristin Hingstrum ’09 daughter of Mary Dillon Muenzer ’83 daughter of Dana Jeffi rs Corrigan ’81 daughter of Shawn Foley Hingstrum ’72 To obtain a gift card packet, please contact the Offi ce of Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556, (574) 284-4578, or e-mail [email protected]. Gifts may also be made online.

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The Impact of Donor Giving

Throughout its history, Saint Mary’s College has been 50th Anniversary of Moreau Center for the Arts improved, expanded, and enhanced by alumnae and friends Named in honor of the Very Reverend Basil Anthony who care deeply about the College. This year in particular, as Moreau, CSC, the Saint Mary’s celebrates the renaissance of a unique lecture founder of the Sisters series, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Moreau of the Holy Cross, the Center for the Arts, and breaks ground for a new academic Moreau Center for building, the impact of donor giving is evident. the Arts consists of Christian Culture Lecture Series O’Laughlin Auditorium, the Little Theatre, the Susan Fitzgerald Rice ’61, a humanistic studies graduate, Moreau Art Galleries, and her husband, Donald B. Rice, have revived the Christian studios, workshops Culture Lecture series. Thanks to the Rice’s generosity and and classrooms. When vision, the series will rekindle, in a new generation, the completed in the fall intellectual excitement that Rice experienced as a student by of 1956, it fulfi lled the bringing Saint Mary’s students, faculty, and the larger public dream of establishing into contact with leading humanities scholars. an arts center for This annual series honors the work of Professor Bruno students, faculty, Schlesinger and showcases Saint Mary’s and the Humanistic staff, and members Studies Program as centers of excellence in the liberal arts. of the South Bend The Moreau Center for the Arts celebrates its 50th community. Today, anniversary during the 2006–2007 season. Moreau too was it continues to be a made possible by the generosity and vision of the Saint hub of the arts for Mary’s community. Sister Frances Jerome, CSC, formerly Saint Mary’s student Susan O’Laughlin, chair of classical languages and vice Sister Francis Jerome O’Laughlin, CSC musicians, actors, president of the College, bequeathed her inheritance as painters, and more. the fi rst signifi cant gift toward the building. O’Laughlin Auditorium bears her family name. Academic Building Groundbreaking More than 600 donors—alumnae, students, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the College—have given generously to fund an academic building for Saint Mary’s College. Bishop John M. D’Arcy, the Saint Mary’s Board of Trustees, President Carol Ann Mooney, and members of the Saint Mary’s College community broke ground for the state-of-the-art building on October 5. Gifts in support of the building have exceeded the $16.5 million goal that will cover construction costs and an operating endowment. Saint Mary’s has secured more than 100 percent of the cost in gifts and pledges, and 75 percent of that amount is cash-in-hand. “This is going to be a wonderful building that fulfi lls our dream of having a world-class academic facility,” said President Carol Ann Mooney. “It will bring updated Joe Raymond technology into fl exible classrooms that will accommodate Miri Rubin, inaugural speaker for the renewed Christian Culture Lecture a variety of teaching and learning styles; it will provide Series, and Donald B. and Susan Fitzgerald Rice ’61, who made the much needed laboratory space for the social scientists lectures possible. and it will include both formal and informal social space for faculty-student interaction. We have worked hard to make the building beautiful, effi cient, and environmentally friendly.”

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In AppreciationSaint Mary’s College New Academic Building

Saint Mary’s College gratefully acknowledges its major benefactors, who made gifts and pledges of $10,000 or more to the new Academic Building.

Major Benefactors as of December 1, 2006

Anonymous (5) Kiefer Charitable Foundation 1st Source Foundation Jacob W. and Barbara Kiefer Kenneth M. and Joyce Robinson Adamson 1960 Kathleen Kiefer Golmont 1980 Architecture Design Group Ann Kiefer Casey 1983 Hans and Tina Ashbaugh Mary Ann Kiefer Thayer 1984 Josephine Linder Cohen 2007 Anne Pryser Leary 1972 Michael and Maura Nugent Bardsley 1977 Michael R. and Karen Leep Kathy Malone Beeler 1969 Russell and Anne Koza Levine 1987 Brian and Jeannelle Naquin Brady 1974 Frank J. Lewis Foundation Mary L. Burke 1985 Lilly Endowment Inc. Peter A. and Rita Murphy Carfagna 1975 Lou Linnen Chandler Family Michele Malloy 1971 J. Thomas and Peggy Q. Chandler Timothy J. and Patricia Smid Malloy 1969 Michelle Marie Chandler 2002 Clayton and MaryAnn Mathile Melissa Ann Chandler 2007 Brian and Lee Ann Franks McConnell 1985 Class of 1955 Timothy and Karen Zagrocki McDonald 1976 Conley Family Eugene and Sistie Doherty McEnery 1958 Kathy Conley Taiclet 1985 John J. and Susan Bresnahan McHugh 1975 Sharon Conley Spellman 1993 Melissa Howe Miller 1989 Patricia Lurel Cook 1975 Thomas J. and Catherine Shaughnessy Nessinger 1956 William W. and Anna Jean Cushwa Edward M. and Barbara Patrick O’Toole 1959 Richard J. and Virginia Kearney Darche 1979 Timothy I. and Donna DeCrane Panzica 1978 Arthur and Nancy Roberts Dobson 1970 Laura Froning Parkinson 1941* Daniel J. and Anne Hesslau Dondanville 1982 Joseph A. and Susan Eyerly Pichler 1961 Richard and Elizabeth Christopher Elmore 1968 President’s Alumnae Advisory Council, 2003–2004 Donald R. and Nora Barry Fischer 1973 Jennifer Mathile Prikkel 1995 Catherine L. Fitzpatrick Paul E. and Patricia Wiedner Purcell 1969 Erin M. Fitzpatrick 2007 Kevin and JoAnn McDermott Reed 1977 Brittany A. Fitzpatrick 2009 Jim and Colleen Ryan Dennis M. and Margaret Carroll Flynn 1964 William J., Jr. and Lorette Borda Schmuhl 1966 Al and Mary McEnery Harding 1984 Karen Bush Schneider 1973 Scott and Kate Murray Harper 1989 Deborah Johnson Schwiebert 1974 Helen M. Harrison Foundation Mary Lee Sheftic 1958 Mary Kathryn Carroll Hartigan 1957 Mary Lucia Wolff Stevenson 1942 Jamie Bock Helman 1982 James R. and Mary Stanicek Theiss 1976 John W. and Martha Roark Higgins 1969 Robert and Judith Eckelkamp Tobben 1978 Thomas and Dona Duncan Hotopp 1963 John W. and Linda Ubinger, Jr. Robin F. Hrycko 1995 Edward J. and Dorothy Murnane Wehmer 1976 Jeffrey and Hollye Harrington Jacobs 1993 Kathleen Burke Welsh 1959 Rose Marie Lopez Jones 1980 John J. and Kathleen Geary Vitanovec 1987 Patrick J. and Kathleen O’Boyle Kearney 1962 Larry D. and Susan Zurcher Kevin and Marijo Rogers Kelly 1978 * deceased

COURIER | Winter 2006 9 Pageturners

Three books, three talented alumnae, three decades—Courier is delighted to present the latest writing by a trio of Saint Mary’s authors.

Home to Big Stone Gap by Drink to the Lasses: Notes from Adriana Trigiani ’81 a Women’s College Womb by They’re back! Ave Maria, Jack Mac, Mary Beth Ellis ’99 Theodore, Iva Lou—all the characters from the best-selling Big Stone Gap “It takes a certain woman to attend a women’s college trilogy (and some new ones, too) … Somehow, this one got in anyway.” That’s how Ellis return for another fi ctional foray to introduces readers to this laugh-out-loud-funny memoir the author’s Blue Ridge mountain of her Saint Mary’s days, which she home town. The newest book arrives describes as “both party and elegy.” not after a hiatus, since Trigiani has A freelance writer and college delivered three other novels and a professor in Florida, Ellis was an cookbook since taking readers to Big English writing major and Observer Stone Gap for the fi rst time in 1999. columnist in college (and fi tting with In this latest installment, this issue of Courier, she also sang in protagonist Ave Maria Mulligan the Women’s Choir). MacChesney is older and wiser, but From trips through the tunnels still learning and relearning big lessons in mid-life. Once to tandem classes in the early days again, Trigiani weaves together humor, wisdom, recipes, and of technology, Ellis takes readers vivid descriptions to render an absorbing story about “strong on a wild ride through the place women at the crossroads.” (A theatre major at Saint Mary’s, she affectionately calls “Catholic she also manages to squeeze in a hilarious performance of Disneyland.” She’s unfl inching and The Sound of Music with an Appalachian twist.) hilarious when dissecting topics Settling into the book as winter begins is like visiting like drinking, dating, and her own a familiar place and catching up with old friends. Even battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. At the same time, those who haven’t read Trigiani’s other work will fi nd this what makes this a satisfying read is the terrifi c writing, which a cozy getaway. transcends gender, class year, and alma mater. “The Women’s Choir wore fl oor-length sapphire Who Have the Power: A Legend blue dresses designed by the cast of Dynasty. They had puffy sleeves and a pointy waist and nobody looked of the West by Mary Sheeran ’75 good in them, not even after we liquored up the Writer Mary Sheeran’s novel is a journey back in time, to audience before concerts. ‘Big Blue,’ we called them, 1866, and place, the American West. Hailed by the Kirkus and we hoisted them on hangers to our dorm rooms Reviews as “fast-paced historical fi ction,” before concerts, then high-heeled back across campus the author prefers to think of the book as at twilight dressed this way … like the Reagan “a character study of a young, independent- Administration Fashion Brigade. minded woman who found herself “Once we wore them to a fundraising affair, at questioning her own identity, and not which an alumna was so appalled that she sat down always wisely.” and wrote the director a big fat dress-replacing check Who Have the Power tells the story of before the last vibrato shook itself from the ceiling. suffragist Elisabeth Barclay, who discovers Big Blue was unceremoniously chucked in favor of she is half Washo Indian, a native American stretchy black dresses, which were somewhat less tribe whose sacred body of water was (and hilarious but not nearly as character-building. I is) Lake Tahoe. “Although there are several sorrowed quietly as I handed over Big Blue, having action scenes, much of the underlying secretly adored myself in the satiny billows, soothed thematic content has to do with feminist theology, the that on the outside, anyway, I was a walking symbol theology of abundance shared by both Native American and of the campus concept of Good Singer.” Christian religious thought, and the blindness of a dominant —from Drink to the Lasses by Mary Beth Ellis ‘we-are-central’ culture,” says the author. Sheeran was a history and humanistic studies major at Saint Mary’s. Today, she divides her time professionally as a writer, editor, and singer in New York City.

10 COURIER | Winter 2006 Bellesathletics Hall of Fame Inducts Seven The Saint Mary’s College Athletic Hall of Fame added seven new members to its ranks on September 23. At a (SAAC) they put on annual Halloween, Christmas, and lively reception and dinner in Stapleton Lounge, the College Valentine’s Day parties for local children and their families. celebrated the accomplishments of six alumnae-athletes and Each of the College’s eight varsity teams also chooses one coach in basketball, soccer, swimming, tennis, and track on-campus and off-campus service projects to participate in and fi eld. every year. President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 thanked the inductees, “Student-athletes at Saint Mary’s are privileged not to their families, and coaches for helping to advance athletics want for food, shelter, or clothing, so we like to give back to over the years. “You’re role models. You inspire us. You the community as much as possible,” says softball coach motivate me to keep moving forward with improvements for Erin Sullivan ’04, who coordinates service efforts. “The teams the College,” she said. enjoy volunteering at organizations that need their help and they often return to the same place each year after having such wonderful experiences.” Run, Megan, Run It was a season of “fi rsts” for cross-country runner Megan Gray ’08. The junior from New Carlisle, Indiana, was the fi rst harrier in Saint Mary’s history to earn fi rst-team conference honors. She was the fi rst to collect an individual title when she won the Manchester Invitational with a time of 18:42 in the 5K course. Most remarkably, she

Rebecca Varga Rebecca was the fi rst cross-country New Hall of Fame members include (back row, from left) Mary Cosgrove team member ever to ’94, tennis; Allison Smith Provencher ’98, swimming; Stacy Davis ’99 and represent Saint Mary’s at the Coach Larry Szczechowski, track and fi eld; (front row, from left) Jennie National Collegiate Athletic Taubenheim Robinette ’96, basketball; Marcie Gaus Berry ’91, soccer; and Association championships, Annette Isom ’83, track and fi eld. held November 18 in West Chester, Ohio. Braving a Athletes Reach Out wet, muddy course, she ran the 6K event in 25:14. Wearing the same shirts doesn’t make you a team, but That time earned her 133rd sometimes folding shirts does. For their fall service project, place in a fi eld of 279 of the the Saint Mary’s golf and tennis teams spent a day at the nation’s best Division III Christ Child Society, where they sorted and packed clothing runners. orders for needy families in South Bend. For Gray, just competing

Student-athletes also turned out in full force for the at nationals was a personal ’09 Brodmerkel Caitlin eighth annual triumph. “This season has Megan Gray ’08 Oktoberfest 5K meant so much to me,” she run, and helped says. “I defi nitely didn’t think I was going to place so well at raise over $3,000 regionals and make it to nationals.” After studying abroad on for breast cancer the Saint Mary’s Rome program last year (taking memorable support services runs around the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, and the and awareness. Vatican) she had to overcome a knee injury and other health Members of the problems to get up to speed this fall. cross-country Gray said that support from her coaches and teammates team, including made the difference. “Cross-country is a team sport. Without Joe Raymond Chelsea Foote all the girls there to help train every day at practice, it Student-athletes and the Saint Mary’s community ’07, painted wouldn’t be the same,” she says. When the regular season raised over $3,000 for breast cancer support themselves pink ended and Gray was the only one preparing for the NCAA, services and awareness. to draw attention her teammates took time out to train alongside her. “I to the cause. “The couldn’t have done it without them. They were there to pace college community does so much for us. It’s one opportunity me and push me,” she says. “I think that defi nitely says we have to give back,” she said. something about Saint Mary’s women. They are able Service is required of all Saint Mary’s varsity athletes. to handle a million different things at once…and they go Sponsored by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee the extra mile.”

COURIER | Winter 2006 11 Publishedand presented

Susan Baxter, lecturer in communication and Nancy L. D’Antuono, professor of modern languages, performance studies, was one of seven area playwrights presented “Tra storia e teatro: una commedia spagnola participating in the New World Arts 24-7 Festival of New Plays di tema genovese, El Genovés liberal di Lope de Vega,” at in Goshen, Ind., in September. The festival’s format required the session she organized on Italia e la Spagna at the joint the playwrights to be locked in the Electric Brew coffee shop meeting of the American Association of Italian Studies and for the night, during which they wrote 15-minute, one-act the American Association of Teachers of Italian, in Genoa, plays to be performed by actors the following day. Richard Italy, May 25–28. She organized two additional sessions on Baxter, director of special events, was one of the directors for “Il Teatro italiano tra Seicento e Settecento.” At the meeting the festival. Professor D’Antuono was invited by Professors Thomas Bonnie Bazata, associate director of the Center for Heck and Francesco Cotticelli to document and discuss the Women’s InterCultural Leadership (CWIL), presented Spanish sources for their dual language edition of an Italian “Promoting Students’ Engagement, Transformation, and treatise on theater, the Dell’Arte rappresentativa permeditata Agency: A New Portfolio-Based Certifi cate in Women’s Intercultural Leadership” at a meeting of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education in June, and at the International Leadership Association (ILA) conference November 2–5. At the invitation of Ishar, a women’s multicultural health center, she gave a series of three workshops in Perth, Australia, on CWIL’s model for women’s intercultural leadership. The audience included service providers from a variety of community-based agencies and leaders from a wide array of Bazata Berdayes D’Antuono ethnic communities. Other presenters included Kimberlie Warren and Mary Fran Brandenberger ’78. Linda Zoeller, professor of e all’improvviso (1699) by nursing and chair of the department, and Chelsea Gulling Andrea Perrucci. ’07 and Kirsten Kensinger ’07, also participated. With Mary Firtl, graphic designer Erin Crawford Cressy, Bazata also presented “Need to for marketing communications, Stop for Directions? Navigating the Crossroads of Women’s collaborated with local author Intercultural Leadership Theory and Practice” at the and educator Diane Zuber November ILA conference. to create the newly released Vincent Berdayes, associate professor of communication Christmas storybook, The and performance studies and coordinator of the fi lm studies Broken Doll. Firtl illustrated program, presented his paper “Scenario Planning and the the book, which was originally Radicalized Role of Narrative Within Futures Research” at written by Zuber as a musical the 2006 Narrative Matters Conference, Acadia University, play for her students to Wolfville, Nova Scotia, May 24–27. perform. The book retains Carolyne Call, lecturer in psychology and director of its original music through an Firtl the Offi ce for Civic and Social Engagement, presented accompanying CD narrated by “The Faith-based College in the Modern World: Educating the author and recorded by area music students. for Engagement” at the University and Civil Society: Astrid Henry, associate professor of women’s studies and Autonomy and Responsibility conference at the University English and coordinator of the women’s studies program, of Bologna, Italy, on May 19. In July, Call also presented at published “Feminist Deaths and Feminism Today” in PMLA the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and 121 (October 2006). Her essay “Enviously Grateful, Gratefully Universities’ annual meeting with Judy Fean, director of Envious: The Dynamics of Generational Relationships in Campus Ministry, and Terri Johnson, former director of US Feminism” was published in Women’s Studies Quarterly the Offi ce for Multicultural Affairs. Their paper was titled 34 (2006). She spoke at a presidential session on “New “Using Catholic Social Teaching as a Foundation for Program Directions in Feminist Theory” at the 2006 National Women’s Creation in Campus Ministry, Community Engagement, and Studies Association Conference (NWSA), held in Oakland, Multicultural Affairs.” Calif. There, she also organized and spoke on a panel, “To Be Real Ten Years Later,” devoted to Rebecca Walker’s edited

12 COURIER | Winter 2006 collection To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling in Potsdam, of Feminism. Recently elected member-at-large to NWSA’s Germany, July 13. Delegate Assembly, she will also serve as the member-at- Jerome L. McElroy, professor of economics, presented large representative to its governing council. “Sustainability in Cold Water Islands” at the International Krista Hoefl e, associate professor of art and director Conference on Sustainable Tourism with Special Reference of the Moreau Art Galleries, had two digital animations to Islands and Small States, Foundation for International included in the international exhibition “Pixel Pops” at Studies, University of Malta, Valletta, Malta, from May 25–27. C2C Gallery in Prague (Czech Republic) in September and He also published the poem “Passionate Asymmetry” in the October (www.poppingpixels.org). Two of her digital print Journal of the American Medical Association in June. pieces were included in an exhibition at Swarm Gallery in Elaine Meyer-Lee, director of the Center for Women’s San Francisco. The exhibition was juried by Marisa Olsen, InterCultural Leadership (CWIL), Tracy Robison, former editor and curator-at-large for Rhizome.org (the Web director of the International and Intercultural Living extension of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New Community Program at CWIL, Leticia Verduzco, former York City). Nine artists were chosen for this exhibition out of assistant director of Community Connections, and Joy a fi eld of 220 applicants from around the world. Evans, assistant director for scholarship and research, Carla Johnson, assistant director of the writing presented “The Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership: profi ciency program and lecturer in English, had her essay Bridging International and Domestic Intercultural Learning” “Refl ections on Seinfeld” published in Seinfeld, Master of at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in its Domain: Revisiting Television’s Greatest Sitcom (2006). American Higher Education in June. In the book, Johnson’s 1994 article “Lost in New York: The Thomas Platt, professor of biology and chair of the Schlemiel and the Schlimazel in Seinfeld,” is cited as “the department, published “First report of Echinochasmus most detailed” study of the schlemiel in Seinfeld. sp. from the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina L.) Jason Lahr, lecturer in art, participated in the Soft from Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, U.S.A.” in Comparative Opening II exhibition at Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. Parasitology 73 (2006). His paintings were also featured in an article on gallerist Aron Claude Renshaw, professor of business administration Packer in the Oct./Nov. issue of Lake magazine. and economics, gave an update on federal tax law at the joint Patricia A. Keresztes, assistant professor of nursing, annual conference of the American Woman’s Society of CPAs and the American Society of Women Accountants, Las Vegas, Nev., September 19. Jack Ruhe, professor of business administration and economics, co-authored “Mission Statements and Ethical Orientations of Universities,” for the Journal of Business Ethics with James Davis, Monle Lee, and Ujvala Rajadhyaksha, associate professor of business administration and economics. He spoke on “Ethics in Fundraising” for the Michiana chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in South Bend, Ind., February 21; “Leading with Eileen Dimino Integrity,” in a panel with local business Meyer-Lee Rajadhyaksha Ruhe leaders, April 27; and “Faculty Ethics: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions” at the coauthored several publications in 2006, including (with G. Academy of Management national meeting, August 12, in Wegner), “Coping with Workplace Death,” in Nurse Leader, Atlanta, Ga. 4(2), 32-33; (with K. Brick) “Therapeutic Hypothermia after Elizabeth Station, senior writer for marketing Cardiac Arrest,” in Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, communications, was a regular contributor to 25(2); and (with L. Miskovich-Riddle) “CAP Management theweekbehind.com, a Chicago-based online magazine, Guidelines,” in The Nurse Practitioner 31(1). during 2006. She also translated two essays appearing in Frances Bernard Kominkiewicz, associate professor, the book Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet for the chair of the Department of Social Work, and director of New Millennium (University of Scranton Press, 2006), edited the social work program, presented “Freeing Children to by Robert Pelton, CSC. Contributors include scholars and Tell Their Stories: The Utilization of Person-Centered and clergy who gathered at the University of Notre Dame in Experiential Psychotherapy in Child Welfare Investigations” 2005 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Romero’s at the seventh world conference for Person-Centered and assassination in El Salvador, and to refl ect on the meaning of his life for the Catholic Church.

COURIER | Winter 2006 13 FacultyFacultyprofileprofile

By Elizabeth Station Teaching, Living the Music

Laurel Thomas

Nancy Menk

Jeffrey Jacob

Daniel Party

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fi t, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply Zae Munn That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. —T.S. Eliot The Dry Salvages (No. 3 of ‘Four Quartets’) 14Photos by Joe Raymond, COURIER Matt Cashore,| Winter and Rebecca 2006 Varga Whether you consider their repertoires or their résumés, the members of the Saint Mary’s music Do most students choose the music major department form a superb ensemble. because they enjoy performing? Munn: Yes…they don’t need to be convinced to like Professor and Department Chair Nancy Menk, who directs music and to value music on a certain level, and usually it’s the Saint Mary’s women’s choirs, has pioneered countless very experiential, personal, and meaningful. But most of musical projects over the last two decades. Jeffrey Jacob, who them have not made connections to the actual, objective joined the faculty in 1978, is a renowned concert pianist, reasons why music is so successful at communicating, why recording artist, and composer. Zae Munn, who teaches it’s so successful as a language, why it’s not just a personal music theory, composed Witness, an original opera that response but a cultural response. That takes a lot of analytical premiered at the College last year. Soprano and professor chops that need to be built up before they can start saying, Laurel Thomas has left her mark on the vocal music program ‘Oh, there’s a pattern here,’ and this is a pattern that’s been since arriving in 2001, and performs widely as a soloist. building in the culture for centuries. Daniel Party, a musicologist and guitarist from Chile, is in his second year of teaching music appreciation, history, and What does music mean to you? Why have you writing. chosen to make a life in music? All fi ve full-time faculty members hold doctoral degrees in music. All are dedicated, passionate teachers. Whether they Party: Personally, I don’t think I could argue that music face an audience in a classroom or a concert hall, they inspire is better or more fulfi lling than other things. I would say art delight for music. could be just as fulfi lling. But music has meant more to me Courier recently sat down with the fi ve professors to fi nd than other things in life, and as I’ve devoted my life to it, out what makes them tick, tap, and hum. Excerpts from those music has taken on all these connections. From music I get conversations follow. stimulation of all different kinds: intellectual stimulation, happiness, tears; it can move me; it can make me laugh; it What impact do you want to have as teachers? can start a conversation. It can do so many different things, and that’s why I keep going back to it. Menk: I want to be a role model for them in a way. I want them to see what they can do with a life in music, and how Thomas: It feels like such an innate part of my it can really fi ll up your life. I want them to see how happy it soul…I can’t imagine having this same kind of passion about makes me, and how happy I am working with them. I want anything else other than music. them to feel excited about what they’re doing in music, a Munn: I’m a composer because for me, it gets at sense of pride in what they’re doing with me, and when something I can’t get at any other way. I don’t think that they’ve done something on a really high level, to see how all things can be articulated with words. Through music good it feels. I’m able to express things that I don’t think are touched by Thomas: If I had to summarize it as far as my obligation words, and I’m also able to understand things in the process to them, or what I want them to accomplish: I want to of composing and listening, which cannot otherwise be free them so that physically, emotionally, intellectually, articulated. I actually think there is pre-verbal truth, and for technically they can do everything possible; they can fi nd me, music is a way to get at that. their utmost potential in what they’re doing as singers and Menk: I can’t imagine teaching anything but music as human beings. To me, nurturing them personally is just as because it’s so varied. I could do a different piece of choral important as nurturing their technique and their intellect. music every day and never repeat. And I’ve been able to Party: What I like about teaching in a context like this create new music by commissioning works, not writing is that I’m teaching our music majors more than music. music myself. To actually help new music come into being There are many days where I feel that music is only about with my choir—it’s one of the most exciting things in the 50 percent of what I’m doing in the class. I’m teaching them world for me, to bring a new piece to life. It’s my way of how to write; I’m teaching them how to think critically. We’re creating something. And also, there’s something about talking about music, but sometimes we’re talking about making music that energizes you, takes your problems away, culture, art, architecture, issues of gender, issues of race…I makes you feel physically better. feel that learning about all those things will help them no Jacob: For me, and this is true for many musicians, there matter what they do. is nothing else I could have done. Love of music came from Jacob: I also try to give them a sense of the place of music day one. There are no musicians in my family, so I don’t know in society. So in lessons we talk not just about the particular where it came from, but there was this immediate emotional piece they’re working on—we talk a bit about the period, response to music that was so comprehensive that I could the composer, perhaps what he or she was trying to express, not have done anything else. T.S. Eliot wrote about ‘music and we try to make associations with history and literature. heard so deeply/That it is not heard at all/but you are the The more you understand about a piece, the better you music/While the music lasts.’ I always thought that was the play it, and beyond that, I want them to become interested most profound thing that anyone wrote about music. For in everything—everything in the world. There’s a quote by me, that experience of ‘being the music’ is what made it Van Gogh that says the best way to live life is to “love many absolutely imperative that I become a musician somehow, things.” I’ve always thought that was good. some way.

COURIER | Winter 2006 15 A l u m n a e for the record Alumnae Deaths Courtney V. Gordon, brother of Lori Marriages Caitlin Duffey Abramson ’03 and Russwurm Boecher ’93, September 24, Brian, July 29, 2006. Mary Lahey Cahill ’31, grandmother 2006. Cheryl Pilon Meyer ’86 and Michael, Katie Zigler Anderson ’03 and Barry, of Mariellen Barry Roeder ’89, October September 1, 2006. Irene Jankowski, mother of Danuta November 11, 2006. 9, 2006. Jankowski-Santellano ’78, August 28, Ellen Conway Kelly ’87 and Kieron, Jessica Saxton Fraser ’03 and Gladys Reed Gwinn ’36, December 2006. September 19, 2005. Michael, May 20, 2006. 27, 2005. Donald F. Lewis, father of Laura Lewis Tammy Shelor Blain ’89 and Todd, Rebecca Fama Giffi n ’03 and Derek, Bette Breit O’Keefe ’39, sister of Rente ’90, October 10, 2006. April 29, 2006. May 27, 2006. Geraldine “Gerre” Breit Walsh, Academy Mary Lou Manzie, sister of Valerie Amy Haynes Cihak ’89 and Peter, ’40, August 24, 2006. Jennifer Lombard Kibbon ’03 and Manzie Stoelzel ’77, October 2, 2006. August 12, 2006. Lucas, September 23, 2006. Marjorie Hall Witherspoon ’41, mother Clement M. Miller, father of Mary of Mary Walsh Green ’63, Kathleen Anne Frederick Heroman Jeanmard Beth Miller Dominello ’97, Joyce Miller Elizabeth Rosswurm Lecher ’03 and Walsh Harty ’65, Colleen Walsh Warin ’94 and Mark, July 1, 2006. Fuchs ’72, and Alicia Miller Cassell ’82, Scott, June 24, 2006. ’69, Melanie Walsh Flannery ’73 and father-in-law of Kathleen Pastore Miller Carolyn Withers Patterson ’95 and grandmother of Maureen Flannery Crowe Melissa Bulak Marscin ’03 and Eric, ’70, grandfather of Elizabeth Bradley Joe, November 18, 2006. ’01, July 20, 2006. April 22, 2006. Couch ’84, Bridget Bradley Feeks ’85, Karen Schmidt Meade ’96 and Scott, Catherine Geilen ’45, January 31, Sarah Bradley Fink ’86, Heidi Heminger Mackenzie McGee Stark ’03 and Joe, May 6, 2006. 2006. Bradley ’90, Maria Dominello Panowicz September 2, 2006. ’92, Elizabeth Miller Williams ’92, Lisa Bronwyn McAuliffe Azzarello ’97 and Katherine James Coutrakon ’46, sister Dominello Winde ’95, Andrea Dominello Melissa Alvarez Stevens ’03 and David Jimmy, August 5, 2006. of Helen James Lutz ’46, October 13, Remke ’98, and Carla Dominello ’99, ND ’04, October 14, 2006. October 7, 2006. 2006. April Sass Johnson ’97 and Jay, Anne Didier Gustus ’04 and Ryan August 5, 2006. Margaret “Peggy” J. Conerty ’49, Joseph J. Mistretta, father of Lisa A. Christopher, May 13, 2006. Mistretta ’80, October 26, 2006. August 9, 2006. Kimberly Pohlman Meske ’97 and Kristen Kurek Hernandez ’04 and Norman, July 9, 2005. Sister Elizabeth Ann Holland, OSB, Father Robert Moran, brother of Pat John, September 30, 2006. Moran Hiaasen ’49, April 8, 2006. ’53, July 3, 2006. Margaret “Peggy” Lenczewski Miller Kelly Viater Maxam ’04 and Brett, ’97 and John, June 17, 2006. Marjorie M. Morcombe ’59, October Ronald P. Noyes, husband of Melissa September 2, 2006. Underman Noyes ’72, October 3, 2006. 16, 2006. Jessica Lentych Loyd ’98 and Alan, Kathryn “Kate” Hartman Rosenzweig May 13, 2006. Kathleen Grummell Troester ’61, Arthur H. O’Connor, step father of ’04 and David, June 24, 2006. Eileen Scubelek Dimino ’02, October 22, mother of Patricia Troester Collins ’91, Michele Jarosick Smith ’98 and 2006. Teresa Healy Hopper ’05 and Jason, sister of Nancy Grummell Geary ’59, and Jeffrey, April 16, 2005. aunt of Kathleen Geary Vitanovec ’87, June 24, 2006. Leona Elizabeth Schnaus, mother of Ann Troester Lennon ’88, and Margaret Mary Tully Lehman ’99 and Peter, Dorothy Schnaus Hart ’62, Ruth Schnaus Catherine Tindall Mott ’05 and Jared, Troester Murphy ’90, November 1, 2006. September 2, 2006. Smith ’63, Roberta Schnaus McCarthy December 10, 2005. Kathleen Gatens Harrington ’63, ’66, and Helen Schnaus Cottingham Jeanine Weigel Pickering ’99 and Jillian Roth Gill ’06 and Brittan, August August 23, 2006. ’69 and grandmother of Christine Hart John, September 9, 2006. Jimerson ’85, Kathryn Smith Von Wyl 5, 2006. Juliana Dwyer Davidson ’71, ’86, and Colleen Ellen McCarthy ’90, Heather Showalter Stepan ’99 and September 30, 2006. September 30, 2006. Frank, July 22, 2006. Births & Adoptions

Suzanne Reed Price, SMC-ND ’73, Charles L. Simonds, father of Anna Rolfes Atkinson ’01 and Aaron, Kimberley J. Tychsen DeCelles ’86 August 16, 2006. Kathleen “Kate” Simonds Stratigos ’79, September 2, 2006. and John: Ryan, January 1, 2006. July 15, 2006. Suzanne M. Draths ’83, sister of Katherine “Katie” Claussen Bell ’01 Ellen Conway Kelly ’87 and Kieron: Karen Draths Frost ’86, and sister-in-law Paul Stickley, husband of Ann L. Wild and Nicolas, September 9, 2006. Twins, Louise O’Connor and Conway of Christine Ruddy Draths ’80, October ’67, March 12, 2005. Tomlinson, September 19, 2006. 15, 2006. Betsie Sprague Monico ’01 and Chris, Dr. Thomas F. Thornton, father of June 24, 2006. Chris Jachman Weimholt ’87 and Family Deaths Susan Thornton Daly ’68, August 28, John: Joseph Henry, September 27, 2006. Laura Brennan Schlidt ’01 and 2006. Thomas ND ’97, August 5, 2006. Alfred Carpenter, husband of Jeanne E. James Trimarchi, father of Julia Kathleen Kearney Devereux ’88 and Wick Younger ’49, and brother-in-law of Trimarchi Cuccaro ’82, May 26, 2006. Jeanine Mauro Stricker ’01 and Todd, Clarke: Quinn Kathleen, September 28, Marge Wick Collins ’52, September 12, September 10, 2006. 2006. 2006. Genevieve M. Underman, mother of Melissa Underman Noyes ’72, August 14, Kristen Wolfe Theisen ’01 and Angela LeJeune Puetz ’88 and John Edward R. Durand Jr., husband of 2006. Nicholas, May 13, 2006. ND ’88: Margaret Marie, May 31, 2006. Elizabeth King Durand ’60, September 20, 2006. Clement Michael Winde, stillborn son Kathleen Fech Thompson ’01 and Mary Flanagan Murphy ’89 and Tom: of Lisa Dominello Winde ’95, grandson James, September 2, 2006. Mary “Molly” Margaret, February 17, Robert Franden, father of Julie of Mary Beth Miller Dominello ’97, 2006. Franden Fitzgerald ’59, May 1, 2006. Erin Martin Williams ’01 and Hunter, nephew of Maria Dominello Panowicz ’92, July 8, 2006. Frances Burke Phillips ’89 and Edward Louise Garrett, mother of Joanne Andrea Dominello Remke ’98, and Carla ND ’87: Benedict “Ben” Edward, May 9, Garrett ’75 and Mary C. Garrett ’78, June Dominello ’99, October 21, 2006. 2006. 28, 2006.

16 COURIER | Winter 2006 Mariellen Barry Roeder ’89 and Faith Cederberg Sherry ’91 and Peter: Deborah Schiek McCadney ’96 Ivonne Grantham Smith ’98 and Randy: Twins, Conner James and Megan Lindsey Pickett, October 15, 2005. and James: Twins, Andrew Patton and Baron: Grantham William, September 26, Marie, July 17, 2006. Giacomo Carter, October 25, 2005. 2006. Melissa Gemmell Janda ’93 and Lynn Uritis Smith ’89 and Kevin: Jorja, Jeffrey: Kevin Jeffrey, February 22, 2006. Mary Good Palmer ’96 and Michael: Kelly Herro Fikri ’99 and Kareem: August 9, 2006. Jacob Joseph, August 19, 2005. Rania Kristine, August 1, 2006. Cynthia Jordan Littlefi eld ’93 and Matt: Shannon McGowan Gannon ’90 and Lauren Olivia, July 11, 2006. Angelique Blair Wagley ’96 and Jerry: Krista Morrissey Gipson ’00 and Tim: Bridget Rose, October 19, 2006. Arley Blair, April 17, 2006. Matthew: Alaina Kathleen, January 22, Michelle Budd Munch ’93 and Willard 2006. Patricia Walsh Whelpley ’90 and John ND ’92: Maggie Michelle, October 24, Marysarah Cutrara Carpenter ’97 and ND ’90: Annette Elizabeth, March 23, 2005. Jeffrey: Nora Josephine, March 8, 2006. Machala Keenan Beam ’01 and Jim: 2006. James Harrison, May 19, 2006. Tiffany Bailey Armas ’94 and Jim: Tara Helen Wilson McDermott ’97 and Jennifer Langness Caputo ’91 and Elizabeth, August 14, 2005. John: Henry Thomas, May 8, 2006. Alyson Leddy Clements ’01 and Michael ND ’91: Tessa Marie, January 26, Gregory: Aidan Wesley, April 5, 2006. 2006. Wendy Betz Chapman ’95 and David: Brandee Carlson Foley ’97 and Matt: Padraig Betz, August 13, 2006. Aidan Henry, September 7, 2006. Julia Peterson Hannan ’01 and Philip: Lisa Harrell Klein ’91and Marc- Aidan Louis, March 25, 2005. Andreas: Alexia Katarina, September 24, Maureen Buckley Everling ’95 and Kathleen Boyle Walicki ’97 and 2005. Lawrence: Colleen Rose, November 18, Richard: Ryan Richard, June 8, 2006. Katherine Middlemas Kessler ’01 and 2003. John: Anderson James, July 17, 2006. Susan Odgers Kondic ’91 and Erin Luedecking Zimmer ’97 and Marinko: Noah Christopher, August 17, Julie Peterson Krolczyk ’95 and Jim: Michael: Twins, Henry Thomas and James Katherine Keller Schroeder ’01 and 2005. Michael David, November 25, 2005. Robert, April 3, 2006. Jeff: Madelyn Therese, February 1, 2006.

Julia Drinan Lacayo ’91 and Bernardo Tara Nagy Vrdolyak ’95 and Edward: Teresa Wyncott Manis ’98 and Melissa Bittner Sharpe ’01 and ND ’90: Adam Joseph, June 16, 2005. Grace Alexandra, August 28, 2006. Michael: Kiersten Lawrence, June 12, George: Elle Marie, November 7, 2005. 2005. Rachel Tomas Morgan ’91 and Peter: Barbara Howells Boukater ’96 and Julia Fletcher Lee ’02 and Shawn ND Sarah Tomas, April 15, 2006. Michael: Bryce Winston, September 10, Allison Koenig McLean ’98 and Ryan ’02: Andrew James, June 13, 2006. 2006. ND ’98: William Thomas Koenig McLean, Bridget Murphy Patten ’91 and July 4, 2006. Meghan McGinty Anderson ’03 and Stephen: Twins, Sorcha Grace and Owen Julie Powell Eastwood ’96 and Brent: Ben: Luke Matthew, May 1, 2006. Daniel, July 11, 2005. Aidan Olivia, September 12, 2006.

Nominate a distinguished friend Do you know a Saint Mary’s alumna Alumna Achievement Award who is a rising star, a business sensation, The nominee should be outstanding in her personal and professional accomplishments. As a recognized leader in a distinguished academician, or has her fi eld, she should exemplify the quality of a Christian dedicated herself to service? liberal arts education and uphold the standards, ideals, and mission of Saint Mary’s College. Each year the Alumnae Association honors deserving alumnae who have made signifi cant contributions to Humanitas Award the College or in her fi eld. Please take a few minutes to The nominee should be outstanding in her personal nominate an alumna. Submit her name, class year, and why and volunteer accomplishments and recognized for her you think she should receive an award. Nominations must concern for the interests and welfare of her fellow human be received by March 1, 2007. Graduate and non-graduate beings. She should exemplify the qualities of personal alumnae are eligible for the award. Please send nominations dedication, compassion, selfl essness, and sacrifi ce through via e-mail, fax, or mail to the Alumnae Relations Offi ce, Saint social action, education, and reform within the community, Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556. E-mail alumnae@ church, or world. saintmarys.edu; fax (574) 284-4749. Outstanding Young Alumna Award Distinguished Alumna Award The nominee should exhibit leadership in her personal, The nominee should exemplify the standards, ideals, professional, or volunteer accomplishments and also in her and mission of Saint Mary’s in her vocation and be of involvement with Saint Mary’s College. Alumnae from the outstanding service to the College through ongoing work classes of 1992–2005 are eligible for the award. for the Alumnae Association, either with a local club or with the association directly. That service should also be demonstrated through yearly benefaction and other consistently devoted support and friendship to the College.

COURIER | Winter 2006 17 A l u m n a e club news Albuquerque Chicago East Also, thanks to Jennifer Durot Andrew ’78, alumna and joining the club together! who is stepping down as membership Thanks to all of the club offi cers and The Albuquerque Club had a few On Oct. 28, alumnae and friends director. She will continue as the head of readers who make events enjoyable and smaller gatherings during the fall. In gathered at the Field Museum to hear the book club. Sara Arlene Leavitt-Turner eagerly anticipated. September, Mary Louise Boelcke ’81 and Art Professor Marcia Rickard discuss ’96 and Louanne Scanlon Mauro ’70 are For more information, contact: Alison Julia Middendorf ’85 met for a chat in the cultural, historical, and artistic taking over her membership duties, with Spohn ’93, [email protected] or Albuquerque after “Louie” had just fi nished signifi cance of King Tut in preparation the goal of producing a club directory this (630) 922-6902. a big case. Louie is a Civil Rights Attorney. for viewing Tutankhamun and the Golden year. The club truly appreciates everyone Later in September, Julie Canepa ’79 Age of the Pharaohs. It was a family stepping forward! and Julia met in Santa Fe for dinner. Julie affair, with many alumnae bringing their Cleveland The club is open to all ideas and has a PhD in chemistry and works for parents and signifi cant others to share Calling all young alumnae – if you are suggestions from alumnae regarding Los Alamos National Labs. Julia would in this interesting afternoon. Thanks an alumna from 1990-present, the club activities. Please let the club know your love to help arrange more gatherings for to Professor Rickard for journeying to wants you! The club would like to hold thoughts! alumnae, but she needs some input! Chicago, and to the event chairwoman, young alumnae events in 2007, but it For more information, contact: Julie For more information, contact: Julia Lindsey Cotter Mackenzie ’02, for needs your help. Please contact Kathleen Marsh Deischer ’93, [email protected] or Middendorf, [email protected]. organizing this event. Policy ’98 at (440) 887-1844 or kpolicy@ (847) 462-9033. Congratulations to the Chicago hotmail.com if you are interested in Boston East Club on being named Club of the helping plan events. Greetings Boston Area Alumnae! Year! Thanks to all the alumnae who Chicago West The next Cleveland Book Club The club is offi cially back in the planning support the club, its events and the The Chicago West Club wrapped up meeting will be held in January. More stages. On Oct. 25, the club hosted its Chicago Endowed Scholarship. Thanks another great year of reading when the details coming soon. fi rst monthly social at Solas in downtown in particular to those dedicated alumnae book club met at the home of Carrie The annual meeting will be held in Boston. Attendance included members who sit on the Chicago East Board of Cummins Mueller ’92 in October. Book February at Panera on Tiedemann. Watch from the classes of 1982 to 2003. All Directors: Sarah Siefert Barney ’99, ideas were collected for the 2007 list, your e-mail inboxes for more details. are welcome, so please join the group! Megan Bennett ’03, Jill Moore Clouse which is managed by Anne Murray During the meeting, club members will be The monthly socials will be held on the ’99, Martha Conlin ’93, Lindsey Cotter McDermott ’85. Thanks for organizing informed of the successes of 2006 and third Wednesday of each month. Please Mackenzie ’02, Molly Halm ’05, Natalie the annual book list and schedule and then plan for 2007. Please join the club be sure to check the club’s Web site for Hock ’04, Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76, providing the club with a variety of offi cers for this very important meeting. locations. Erin McGarry ’02, Laura Meyers Malec discussion material each month. They need your input to make the December was busy for the club ’98, Geneviève Morrill ’98, Maureen November was busy, but members Cleveland Club successful! as well. Members enjoyed wrapping Garavan Oskielunas ’05, Amanda Shock had to eat! A “Dinner Out” event was More information about upcoming Christmas gifts and spending time with ’01, Sarah Stegmaier ’03, Kelly Walsh held in November for some non-reading events is available on the club’s Web site Boston’s homeless children at Christmas ’01, and Chiara Marcheschi Wrocinski entertainment. Claim Jumpers in Lombard (www.smcclevelandclub.com). in the City, an annual gift giving event held ’98. President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 was the setting for a lively get-together. For more information, contact: for the children living in all of Boston’s presented the award to the club at the Thanks to Patty Piercy Cushing ’90 for Kathleen Policy, [email protected] homeless shelters. All alumnae in 2006 Chicago Founders’ Day celebration. coordinating these events. or (440) 887-1844, or Christine attendance felt this was truly a rewarding For more information, contact: The club was pleased to be a part of Gill ’90, [email protected] experience, and it may be an annual Genevieve Morrill ’98, gcmorrill@yahoo. the Chicago East Club’s Founders’ Day or (216) 651-1917. event. com or (773) 384-4967. Mass and Luncheon held on Nov. 12 in A small group gathered at the home conjunction with the other Chicago-area Colorado clubs. The event was well-attended and of Sarah Looney Marshall ’98 to bake Chicago Northwest The Colorado Club was pleased to hosted at St. Ignatius College Prep in homemade cookie care packages for The Chicago Northwest Club welcome four new students from Colorado Chicago. Alumnae shared an afternoon students from the Boston area. The club celebrated fall with a Mother-Daughter to the Saint Mary’s community this year! with President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 to hopes that the students enjoyed their Tea on Oct. 14. Many thanks to Renee Club members hosted a send-off for new celebrate the College’s history. There was little piece of home as they studied hard Young ’93 and Halane Young ’88 for students and their families in August. The also a raffl e with the proceeds benefi tting for fi nals. organizing this wonderful event. Alumnae club’s next event will be the annual Mass the Chicago Endowed Scholarship. All Saint Mary’s Boston area alumnae, met at Infi ni-Tea in Antioch for a great and Brunch gathering in March. Please The club’s appreciation goes to Chiara families, and friends are invited to join afternoon of yummy food, tea, and stay tuned for details and an invitation in Marcheschi Wrocinski ’98 of the Chicago the club as the board plans events for conversation. Money was also raised for the mail this winter. East Club for her hard work to coordinate the spring and fall. Please visit the SMC the Chicago Endowed Scholarship. For more information, contact Tara this celebration. Boston Web page for all the event details On Nov. 12 club members gathered Krull ’95, [email protected]. On Nov. 16, the club enjoyed an and meeting times. For more information, with the other Chicago-area clubs to evening with Adriana Trigiani ’81 at her contact: Nicole Kraimer Strieter ’99, celebrate Founders’ Day. The event book signing at Anderson’s Bookshop Columbus [email protected] or (617) included Mass and a great luncheon at in Naperville. She rolled out her newest The Columbus Club celebrated 610-5604. St. Ignatius Prep in downtown Chicago. book, Home to Big Stone Gap. With Founders’ Day in October at the home of President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 was the Adriana’s larger-than-life personality, Sarah Hussey Ryan ’89 in New Albany. special guest speaker. Many thanks to Carolinas members enjoyed the chance to catch Alumnae brought food and a bottle of wine her for her inspiring speech and updates The club celebrated Founders’ Day up with fellow Saint Mary’s alumnae and to share for a wine tasting. A speaker on the future of Saint Mary’s. The Chicago on Nov. 9 with dinner at Maggiano’s celebrate her latest release. came from Huckleberry House, a shelter Northwest Club donated a Beleek tray Restaurant in Charlotte. A reorganization The club wrapped up the year with its for runaway teens in Central Ohio. She and a 2006 commemorative Waterford meeting was also held during the evening. annual holiday ‘Share the Spirit’ gathering. spoke about the services offered at the snowfl ake ornament to the raffl e during Thank you to all who attended the event Thanks to all who joined the club at the shelter, and alumnae brought donations the event. All proceeds benefi ted the and volunteered to assist with the club. various gatherings this year. The club for the organization. scholarship fund. More details to come! welcomes all new faces. See you in 2007! The SMC/ND Christmas Mass and Finally, here is an update regarding For more information, contact: Kara Check the Web site for the 2007 Brunch was held on Dec. 10 at Ohio the offi cers of the club. Emily Willett Pearce ’04, [email protected] or Book Club list so you can get a head start Dominican University in Columbus. Santa Kubaszak ’92, the club’s founding (704) 331-1270. on next year’s books. Watch the mail for made an appearance after the brunch with treasurer, is moving to South Bend with a club newsletter in January/February. gifts for the children. her family. Best wishes to them and The club offi cers are always looking to The Columbus Board will meet early in many thanks for her years of service to grow the club and fi nd more reasons to the year to discuss and plan 2007 events. the club. Halane Young has agreed to get together, so consider bringing a fellow Meetings are open to anyone interested take on her duties as the new treasurer. in attending.

18 COURIER | Winter 2006 club enjoyed the chance to interact with current clips students. Thanks to Melissa Pauwels Pictured are those alumnae who ’02 for coordinating the event and to Professor Tourtillotte for allowing the club attended the Fairfi eld/Westchester to tag along. Club’s Founders’ Day on Nov. 4. On Nov. 15, Big Hat Books in Broad Standing (from left to right): Lynn Van Ripple hosted a pre-signing reception for Wassenhove Smierciak ’82, Claire Indianapolis alumnae and Adriana Trigiani Mahoney Anderson ’79, Joan Giunco ’81, who was in town promoting her new book, Home to Big Stone Gap. There Cohen ’76, Judy Mardoian Gavoor was a great turn out and Adriana was ’76, Sally Georgen Archer ’83, Louise awesome. It was a wonderful opportunity Purcell Hemmerle ’78, Amy Kramer to celebrate in the success of fellow Broghammer ’97. Seated (from left alumnae. Thanks to Big Hat Books for to right): Margaret Nerad Flannery hosting the event. Founders’ Day was celebrated on Nov. ’60, Midge Myler Russo ’54, Cindy 16, with Betsy Burke ’85 as the host of Corsaro ’74, and Carolyn Friday ’72. the event. Fellow alumnae caught up while enjoying dessert and coffee. Thanks again to Betsy Burke and all the board members who contributed the desserts. Alumnae gathered on Dec. 3 for Mass at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Indianapolis with brunch For more information, contact: Laura In addition, alumnae generously Detroit following at Scholar’s Inn. Thanks to Proto Campise ’92, lccampise@sbcglobal. donated layette items for the local The Detroit Club rounded out the everyone who came. net or (614) 488-8443. Birthright chapter in Danbury. (Birthright summer with the New Student Send-off Please remember that board meetings is an international organization that helps hosted by Carolyn Solomon Wujek ’02. are held the fi rst Wednesday of every pregnant women in need.) Dallas/Fort Worth Twenty-three fi rst year students were other month. New faces and new ideas Members should have received their Members of the Dallas-Fort Worth joined by 30 of their parents and other are always welcome! dues invoice with the invitation to the Alumnae Club gathered on Dec. 8 at the alumnae who shared tips and stories For more information, Betsie Sprague Founders’ Day event. If you haven’t sent home of Tia Barrett Bisignano ’70 for on making the most of the Saint Mary’s Monico ’01, (317) 823-2660 or KrisAnne in your check, please do so (payable to the annual Christmas Party. The evening experience. Wilson ’01, (317) 781-0371. Saint Mary’s Alumnae Club). Dues keep began with a celebration of Mass honoring In late August the club hosted a the club going and growing! the Feast of the Immaculate Conception Scholarship Fundraiser on board the The club is looking forward to Kansas City followed by a decadent holiday meal. Tallship Unicorn. The 2006-2007 club its annual winter social event—to be The Kansas City Club is staying active Book Club will meet again on Jan. 7 at the year kicked off with the annual planning determined. with a variety of events. An October home of Theresa Causa Major ’95 where meeting in late September. The fi rst For more information, contact: Sally highlight was yoga. Instructor Amy Laws the group will be discussing My Sister’s activity this past fall was a dinner Georgen Archer ’83, ctarcher@optonline. ’97 shared her talents with members of Keeper by Jodi Picoult. In March, the club gathering for Founders’ Day at a local net or (203) 544-7150. the SMC and ND clubs. She had 12 of us is anxiously looking forward to the Saint restaurant. The event was well attended bending, stretching, and laughing prior Mary’s Women’s Choir performing in Plano and it was a great opportunity to renew to socializing. The yoga event raised on their annual tour. More details for these old friendships and make new contacts. Idaho $150, half of which was sent to the Rose and other upcoming events can be found The annual Christmas party was held on The club has three new freshmen on Brooks Center. Thanks to Amy for leading at the club’s Web site. Dec. 2 at the home of Roseanne Wallace campus this year. Hopefully they enjoyed us, to Arwen Dickey ’98 for planning the For more information, contact: Andrea Horne ’80. their fi rst fall in South Bend! event, and to all who joined the fun! Club Sondag Schweitzer ’00, andreasondag@ For more information, contact: The Hesburg Lecture series from members also joined ND football fans for yahoo.com or (214) 497-6993. Heather Jackson Martin ’93, Notre Dame was held in early November. game watching every week. Go Irish! [email protected] The Saint Mary’s/Notre Dame Club of The annual Christmas Tea was held on or (313) 647-0678. Idaho participated in Boise’s annual Rake- Des Moines Dec. 3 at the InterContinental Hotel on the Up on Nov. 18, raking the yards of two Des Moines area alumnae gathered plaza. Thanks to all who attended! senior citizens. After enjoying hot apple for a Founders’ Day celebration on Nov. Fairfi eld/Westchester The Kansas City Club had an cider and doughnuts, members watched 19 at the home of Aimee Beckmann- The Founders’ Day event was held exciting 2006, which included increasing the Irish beat Army. Collier ’75. The featured speaker was Nov. 4 with Mass at St. Mary’s Church in membership 25%, doubling club funds, The club sponsored a board meeting Debbie Johnson Schwiebert, ’74, chair Ridgefi eld followed by lunch at the Elms donating to the community, and enjoying at Louie’s Restaurant to reenergize the of the College Board of Trustees. Inn. Alumnae from 1950 through 1990 several events. The club is gearing up for board on Nov. 29, and the Christmas Alumnae appreciated Debbie’s informative were in attendance. Cindy Corsaro ’74 an exciting 2007! celebration was held in December. comments about the current state of the sang a moving a cappella version of For more information,contact: Kelly For more information, contact: College and her passionate commitment Amazing Grace during the communion Tyler ’87, Kelly@KellyTylerTrainingServices. Jacquie Jablonski Halgerson ’83, to Saint Mary’s. meditation. com. [email protected] or (208) 386-9613. Alumnae prepared treat bags for The club presented a Founders’ Day Saint Mary’s students from Des Moines, Award to Judy Mardoian Gavoor ’76. Judy Louisville which were sent to them during fi nals represents the spirit and tradition that Indianapolis Alumnae gathered for coffee at the week. Michelle Nagle ’02 coordinated the are an integral part of the Saint Mary’s The Indianapolis Alumnae Club had a home of Rachel Lamb Schrepferman project. community. Judy has served the club as busy fall. On Nov. 11, a group of alumnae ’92 on Oct. 6. Everyone loved getting For more information, contact: Aimee past president, hosted numerous club met with art professor Julie Wroblewski reacquainted with fellow Belles! Beckmann-Collier, aimee.beckmann- events, participated in local school fairs, Tourtillotte ’82 and a group of students to For more information, contact: Rachel [email protected] or (515) 222-1516. and now serves as a member of the view her exhibit “Near and Far—Looking Schrepferman, [email protected] Alumnae Association Board of Directors. at Patterns” at the Indianapolis Museum or (502) 897-0044. She recently relocated to the Chicago of Art. It was a great exhibit, and alumnae area with her family.

COURIER | Winter 2006 19 A l u m n a e club news

Milwaukee latest news and information about the $310 to the South Bend Alumnae Club to discuss Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, The Milwaukee Club had a club including upcoming events and Endowed Scholarship. Thanks to everyone regarded by many as her best work. The reorganization meeting this fall. To fi nd membership. If you have any suggestions who bid in support of the scholarship fund! 2007 reading list and meeting locations out more about getting involved in the about things you would to see on the site, Speaking of the club’s endowed will be coming out as a postcard again Milwaukee Club, check out the club’s page please let the club know. scholarship, the club has three local this year. Thanks for your wonderful on the Alumnae Relations Offi ce’s Web On Nov. 9, alumnae gathered for students receiving scholarship money contributions. 2007 will be the 7th year of site or e-mail the club at smcmkeclub@ some ceramics therapy at Ceramix 101 from the club: Kassie Evans ’07, Emily the Book Club! Attendees vary each month gmail.com. studio’s “Holly Plate Workshop.” Members Stillson ’09, and Lesley Chan ’10. and completing the novel before you In November, a group of alumnae created a ceramic Christmas plate just in The club celebrated Founders’ Day on come is optional. All are welcome! joined Adriana Trigiani ’81 at a reading of time for holiday entertaining. Oct. 12 with special guest speaker Kara The Twin Cities also repeated last her new book, Return to Big Stone Gap. The holidays just aren’t the holidays O’Leary ’89, president of the Alumnae year’s very popular “send a Starbucks Check out the Web site for pictures from without the club’s annual Christmas Association’s Board of Directors. She card for fi nals” gift to current students. the event. Celebration and White Elephant Gift shared how alumnae could get more Club members are as enthusiastic about Hope you can join fellow alumnae at Exchange! Club members met on Dec. involved in the College by attending giving this gift as the students are about the next club event...check the Web site 14, at Abuelo’s Mexican Food Embassy in events, participating in the alumnae club receiving it! Thanks to all contributors! for regular updates! Merrillville for an entertaining evening. and providing fi nancial support. Founders’ For more information, contact: Sharon For more information, contact: Look for more details on these Day is always a great opportunity to Madigan, [email protected] Missy Lind ’98, [email protected] upcoming winter and spring events: Yoga, refl ect on the importance of Saint Mary’s. or (651) 230-2219. or (414) 288-6774, or Kristi Brandon Wine & Cheese, Ice Skating at Deep River The club continued its very popular Butman, ’03, Kristi.Butman@marquette. Water Park, Super Supper, Off the Vine book club with meetings in October Washington, DC Wine Tasting. Log on to the club’s Web and December. SMC’s in the City also edu or (414) 288-6777. The Washington, DC, Alumnae Club site for future details. continued this year, hitting Club Noma, the has a busy fall with a Founders’ Day Mass For more information, contact: Jackie newest hot spot in South Bend. and Brunch at St. Matthew’s Cathedral New Jersey Brody Tavitas ’91, jackie_brody@yahoo. The club held its annual Holiday in Washington, DC. Additionally, the club The New Jersey Club hosted a com or (219) 670-3363. Party for its local students and alumnae is beginning a series of Zip Code Wine reception for current Jersey students on Dec. 7. Sweets and hot chocolate and Cheese events where alumnae within on-campus at Riedinger Alumnae House always help the students study for their Philadelphia certain zip codes can get together and in October. The “cottage” was a big fi nals! The party also wrapped up the The club is currently looking for new connect. draw for the 13 young ladies that took club’s holiday service project. Saint leadership. If you are interested or have Finally, the fall brings the club’s a break from their studies to check it Mary’s senior class initiated a new service questions, please contact: Carol Hastings annual Together for Others drive into full out! The current students are looking project this Christmas. The goal of the Bradbeer ’86, carolbradbeer@comcast. swing. Now in its twentieth year, the club to network with alumnae back home. “12 Days of Christmas” project was to net or Lynn Uritis Smith ’89, lusmith@ identifi es a need and then raises funds The club would love to build its alumnae raise approximately $5,000 through comcast.net. and collects items to help in its service network and give these girls a friendly both monetary and gift donations for project. This year, the club worked with place to begin building their network. If needy families in the community. The Catholic Charities for the Diocese of you are interested in supporting these Pittsburgh South Bend Alumnae Club supported the Arlington to assist with Christ House, a young women, please send your contact The Pittsburgh Alumnae Club is student-run project by sponsoring a family homeless shelter. information (name, title, offi ce address, currently reorganizing. In early fall, local at Christmas time. The club helped to For more information, contact: best phone number to reach, e-mail) to alumnae received a survey from club provide gifts and food for the family. Checka Trigiani Noone ’88, [email protected]. coordinators Leslie Schneider Krueger On Jan. 11, the club will meet at [email protected] or (703) 721-1769. The club kicked off the Christmas ’93 and Colleen Miles ’03, letting them Bonefi sh Grill for SMC’s in the City, and season with an absolutely wonderful event know of their potential interest in an area the book club will be held on Jan. 16. The with Adriana Trigiani ’81. She had a book alumnae club. On Oct. 23, nine members club will also cook dinner for the residents signing at the Clinton Book Shop on Dec. of a newly formed Board of Directors met of Hannah’s House on Jan. 30. 16. As with any event involving Adri, there to discuss the future of the club. Be on For more information, contact: Amy was laughter, lunch with great Italian food, the lookout for information about future Dooms Taylor ’01, doomsamy@netscape. shopping, and friends. The club thanks club events, like a springtime luncheon to net or (574) 299-7344. her for coming and all alumnae, current be held in late March. students, and their mothers who came out For more information, contact: for the afternoon. Colleen Miles, [email protected]. Twin Cities This was the second holiday season The Twin Cities Club celebrated that the club sent Christmas care its 75th anniversary with a reception packages to all of the current Jersey girls. South Bend on Oct. 30 with President Carol Ann The South Bend Alumnae Club This simple gesture from the club is so Mooney ’72 as the special guest speaker. kicked off its year with its Annual Student appreciated by the young ladies as they The Ryan family, Colleen and Jim, plus Send-off. Kathleen Malone Beeler ’69 study for their fi nals. Please remember daughters Molly Ryan Carson ’95 and and Susan Malone Feeley ’82 graciously to send in your $25 annual dues (make Kate Ryan ’00 hosted the event at the hosted this fantastic event poolside at checks out to NJSMC Alumnae Club and Ryan Companies Northwoods Room in Kathy’s home in Granger. Twenty incoming send to: 2 Gravel Hill Road, Asbury, NJ downtown Minneapolis. Fifty alumnae, students and their families gathered to 08802). Your dues help support the club parents and guests attended, including celebrate their decision to attend Saint and its efforts to connect with the Garden Shari Rodriguez, vice president for college Mary’s. The students, their families, and State’s students! relations, and Michelle Poeppe Egan ’93, alumnae were honored to have President May all enjoy a blessed New Year in assistant director of alumnae relations. Carol Ann Mooney ’72 and Vice President 2007! Club President Sharon Scheckel Madigan for College Relations Shari Rodriguez also For more information, contact: Dawn ’80 greeted the guests, described in attendance. Thanks to Kathy and Susan Parker Santamaria ’81, (908) 713-1808. upcoming activities, and encouraged all to for hosting this event. stay involved in the club. The club raffl ed off two tickets to the The book club met on Oct. 17 at Northwest Indiana ND vs. Purdue game that were graciously Borders in Richfi eld. Eight attendees The club is now live on the Web! donated by Elizabeth Christopher Elmore discussed Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography The site can be found on the Alumnae ’68. Congratulations and a special of a Face, and Ann Patchett’s Truth & Relations home page. It features the thank you to Laura Pfeil Elliott ’84; her Beauty. The group also met on Nov. 28 generosity enabled the club to contribute

20 COURIER | Winter 2006 THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION’S 2005–2006 Club of the Year

Chicago East Alumnae Club The Club of the Year Award is presented annually by A main focus for the club has always been to support its the Alumnae Association Board of Directors to recognize endowed scholarship. The club’s board has taken that focus a outstanding effort on behalf of Saint Mary’s College and step further. In addition to hosting their annual scholarship her alumnae. tea fundraiser, the board plans every major club event with The Chicago East Alumnae Club has always been the intent of acquiring scholarship donations and educating considered the granddaddy of all the Saint Mary’s alumnae more alumnae about the endowed fund. A raffl e has become clubs. It was the fi rst to be established (in 1897), traditionally a standard part of their Founders’ Day celebration. Last the largest (it now serves year, this raffl e raised 1,539 alumnae), and A main focus for the club has always been an extra $925 for the the fi rst to establish an Chicago scholarship. At endowed scholarship. to support its endowed scholarship...the board a recent event targeted As a leader, it has always toward younger alumnae, had high expectations for plans every major club event with the intent of attendees were provided itself. However, late in the information about the 20th century, the Chicago acquiring scholarship donations and educating scholarship and an East Club was in a state of invitation to join in the fl ux. Operating costs had more alumnae about the endowed fund. effort. The result was $500 signifi cantly escalated, in donations. few events were planned, and no strong leadership was Founders’ Day, book club, and a student send-off are present. The club was quickly coming to a halt. But a group all on the Chicago Club’s annual calendar. Even though of concerned younger alumnae reorganized the club with the these events are well established, the board continually assistance and leadership of some of the club’s past offi cers reexamines them, asking, “How can we engage more people? and the Alumnae Relations Offi ce. How can we make this event better?” Through hard work, dedication, and Changes in their student send-off is persistence, the club has reinvented a direct result of this examination. itself and has a strong vision for Recognizing that so many fi rst- its future. year students come from greater First, a new leadership structure Chicagoland, the Chicago East was implemented. Recognizing that Club collaborated with the Chicago too much responsibility had quickly Northwest Club to co-host a send-off. led to burnout, the club spread that Members of both clubs serve on the responsibility over a large group of committee, and a central location is people. The board now consists of chosen for the event. Students get various chairs (e.g. Founders’ Day, the opportunity to meet and connect communications, scholarship, etc.). with more students and more Each chair has a co-chair, who assists alumnae. The club also recognized a for two years before taking over the need among fi rst-year students for a committee. She, in turn, identifi es a handbook describing the ins and outs new co-chair. This mentoring structure to living in South Bend. Where can has been very successful in cultivating you get a decent haircut? Who has new leadership, particularly among the best pizza? How do I get to the younger alumnae and has changed the mall? The result was a helpful hints leadership structure for alumnae clubs. booklet titled, “Get Out and About in Because the Chicago East the Bend.” At fi rst this booklet was Club serves over 1,500 alumnae, The Chicago Club Board received the Club of the Year award given to the club’s fi rst-year and communication can be costly. The at their Founders’ Day celebration on Nov. 12. Row 1 (left to transfer students. Now, with the club still mails out its annual news- right): Geneviève Morrill ’98, President Carol Ann Mooney extra revenue created by selling ad letter, but it utilizes e-communication ’72, and Lindsey Cotter Mackenzie ’02. Row 2: Martha space, the booklet is distributed in and a Web site whenever possible. Conlin ’93, Laura Meyers Malec ’98, Kathy Owens ‘84, and the fall to all fi rst-years and transfer It sends out broadcast e-mails on a Kelly Walsh ’01. Row 3: Claire Higgins ‘05, Karen Zagrocki students. regular basis, keeping its members McDonald ’76, Sarah Siefert Barney ’99, Chiara Marcheschi On the cusp of its 110th informed about upcoming events and Wrocinski ’98, and Jill Moore Clouse ’99. anniversary, the Alumnae the latest news from Saint Mary’s. It Association Board of Directors is also sends out e-vites for certain events and has used pleased to honor the Chicago East Alumnae Club as the Pay Pal as a method to RSVP and collect payments. 2005–2006 Club of the Year.

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class news are still busy with continuing education said. Her new address is: 25 Orchard extensively. Terry’s daughter, Jeanne, ’49 Nancy Burnes Riley classes and their ballroom dancing group. Drive, Peoria, Ohio, 45356. She e-mails has just moved to Lansing, where her 1188 Conway Road Irene called me from Miami. A widow Mary Jo Mack Blaney, Jeanne Beck husband will be teaching at Michigan Lake Forest, IL 60045 for three years, she has sold her second Hofreuter, and June Mulvihill Williams. State University. (847) 234-4130 home in Lake Placid. She is busy with I would like to hear from you three ladies. Jean Joyce and I had a wonderful volunteer work and the Pioneer Group of Many thanks to those of you who and informative phone conversation in Sept. 11, 2006 Dade County, of which she is a founding send your good wishes and news. August. Her daughter works in admissions Dear Ladies, I had lunch today member. Irene enjoys having her two sons Watch for further notice of our mini- at Notre Dame, so reunion coincided with Sis Murnane Walsh, Claire and grandsons close by. She is in touch reunion at Saint Mary’s College the fi rst with a two-week visit with her daughter. Daley Archibald, Mary Ellen Deibler with Marian Cannon Clark and has been weekend in June 2007. God Bless! Nancy. Jean lives in Tulsa, Okla. Her oldest son Gleason, MaryAnn Fellinger Ryan, and trying to reach Pat Moran Hiaasen. lives there also and has been a great Sue Wagner Broeren. Good news, Irene! I received a letter deal of help since her husband’s death. Sue and Dick had just seen from Pat, for which I send my thanks. ’51 Nancy Wills Browne Jean teaches parenting classes in an Joanne Clair Lyons and John over the She said that she “loves reading about 194 Young’s Lane organization called Birthright and plays weekend when they were in Chicago everyone in our class and only wishes Crystal Falls, MI 49920 bridge often. We discussed some of the visiting Gerry Clair Gilboy. Sue some absentees would write to let us (734) 453-3486 wonderful opportunities we were given looks marvelous and is fi nally back know how they are doing.” Hear! Hear! [email protected] when we attended Saint Mary’s College on the golf course. Their family was Pat’s sad news was that her dear and some of the caring Sisters who together—children, grandchildren, and and only brother, Father Robert Moran, Eight 1951 grads gathered this June taught us. great-grandchildren—recently to celebrate of the Paulist Fathers, died in April in for our 55th reunion. A wonderful time Several questionnaires arrived from Dick’s 80th birthday. Washington, D.C., of a brain tumor. Pat is was had by all who attended. The campus classmates who were not able to join us. Mary Ellen’s husband, Bill, is grateful that he spent his last Christmas growth impressed each of us—Fleur One of these came from Sister Michael recuperating from heart surgery, as is with her in Plantation, Fla. Our sympathies Hulsebus Burkhardt, Helen Kuhn Marie Williamson, CSC, who is a Sue Caron Riley’s husband, Bob. and prayers, Pat! Carey, Sara George Crave, Carolyn registered nurse living at Moreau Convent I just returned from a visit to the home Pat’s happier news is that her family Huebner Collins, Therese Murphy at Saint Mary’s. She enjoys music, of my daughter, Liz, in Darien, Conn., enjoyed a reunion in June at son Carl Jones, Jean A. Mullally Joyce, reading, watching Notre Dame games, where we celebrated my 70th birthday. Hiaasen’s home in Islamorada, Fla., and Barbara Berry Saggau, and me. and exercising. In addition to Liz’s darling six-year-old that she is planning to attend our mini- We learned that Fleur lives in Imogene De Smet sends her news daughter, we had son Mark and his 8- and reunion in June at Saint Mary’s College. Louisville, Ky. She loves to play the new from Sioux City, Idaho. She is retired 9-year-old children visiting also. Lots of Mary Jane Kobayashi’s letter game, Sudoku. from teaching medieval renaissance fun for me! of June 8 tells of the very impressive Helen Carey and her husband joined literature at the University of Wisconsin. I spoke with Marylou Manion accomplishments and awards of her our group for the picnic Saturday and Imogene enjoys the interesting hobby of Gatens in August. When I visited her in brother, Dr. Francis Kobayashi, who the champagne breakfast after Mass on doll collecting (old bisque and compos) Florida in April, her condo building was received the John Cardinal O’Hara, Sunday. We had a good visit with them. and gardening. She works in her parish as being repaired from the effects of a CSC award at Notre Dame in June in Sara Crave joined Carolyn Collins and part of their RCIA team. tornado. Marylou’s screened porch had recognition of his long and distinguished me for a trip to the wonderful needlepoint A completed questionnaire also been blown away. After she returned career at the University of Notre store in South Bend. Sara’s oldest arrived from Patricia Curran Warren home to Iowa City, another tornado hit. Dame as a professor, researcher, and daughter is working for the University from Oboville, Calif., and Lake Tahoe. She This time her very old and historic church administrator. The list of his contributions of Wisconsin and for the United States is very active playing tennis and traveling. was totally destroyed. and services outside of the University go Agency for International Development. Her husband, Jerome, retired as a Bebe Lively Glerum called me from on and on. Congratulations to your entire Recently, she has been teaching methods Superior Court judge fi ve years ago. Their Grand Rapids to tell me that Mary Lou family, Mary Jane! of agriculture in Africa. Sara treated us last trip was to Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Beenan Leonard’s cancer of eight years I am sad to report that Peggy to some of the delicious cheese her sons Newfoundland. ago had metastasized. I phoned Mary Lou Conerty died on Aug. 6. Peg lived alone manufacture (known as Crave cheese). My husband, Dick, and I spent an in Grosse Pointe today and told her we and had no immediate family. She was Carolyn Collins and her husband, enjoyable summer at our cottage in the would put her on our prayer list. It seems found dead in her apartment. The death Walt, have a beautiful new condominium north woods of upper Michigan. We plan as if we get one friend off the list and notice appeared on the day of the funeral, on the edge of Notre Dame’s campus, to return to Northville the weekend of another goes on. so none of us could plan to be present. where Walt continues to teach journalism. Sept.16, when we will visit our son, Tom Margaret Miller Zenner, I need your That made all of us in the Chicago group One of their daughters, Jeanne, is the ND ’80, and his family in Indiana—at the new address, please, and phone number. feel terrible! superintendent of schools in Burlington, time of the Notre Dame-Michigan game in Pat Webb Oertley has sold her Sally Tiedebohl Billingsley and Bob Vt., which is the state’s largest school South Bend. home and is temporarily at the Marriott in are selling their house in a golf-course system. Many students are refugees, We look forward to gathering again Bend, Ore. Her address at present is P.O. community in Englewood, Fla., and brought in as part of a United States aid in 2008! I speak for all of us when I say Box 1354 in Bend, Ore., 97709; her old moving to a smaller villa a few blocks program. More than 30 languages are that we would love to see more of you. phone number has been transferred to her away. We need the new address, Sally. spoken by these students. God Bless. cell phone. When I spoke with Sally in August, she and Therese Jones is a docent at the A note from Bernie Socha Bob had just returned from their annual Block Museum at Northwestern University. Fitzsimmons says that she is fi nally an family reunion in North Carolina. They She enjoys continuing education classes ’53 Lorry Riley Lambert empty nester again as her daughter and were leaving shortly for Washington, D.C., in political science and literature. Her 17 Ridgebrook Road granddaughter have moved into their to visit their year-old grandson and his plans include a trip to Spain in September. Greenwich, CT 06830 own new home. Bernie’s son, Chuck, is parents. Her 16 grandchildren keep her busy. (203) 661-8683 a Christian Brother. For the past three Jean Murphy Westland called in Barbara Saggau drove in from St. [email protected] years, he has worked with orphans and early September to say that her home in Joseph, Mich. She vacations in Florida prisoners in the ghetto of Ascuncion, Buena Vista, Colo., is still on the market. every year, and she and her husband, One day late last winter, Ann Haskins Paraguay. She can’t wait until her new apartment in Tom ND ’51, are active with their alumni Kelly called and asked me if I would Bernie is in contact with Irene Holy Cross Village will be ready so that organizations while there. write this column so that Joan Randag Raywood Johnson and Ann Cummins she can audit classes at Notre Dame and Therese Despres Randall-Herzog Maloney could have a break. There’s no McIntyre. Saint Mary’s College for free—a perk of had hoped to be able to attend our reason for all of you to remember, but this Thank you, Hallie Swift, for your the retirement community. reunion but, due to circumstances beyond was my job when we graduated, and I was good wishes and for enclosing Ann’s Maxine Lange Orr moved into a her control, could not attend. After selling terrible at it. It isn’t often that we are given Christmas letter to you. Ann and Bob ranch house May 1. The previous owner their Florida home, she has moved into a second chance, even 50 years later, so had completely redone the house, Max her summer home and is remodeling I said “yes.”

22 COURIER | Winter 2006 I e-mailed many of you, and Muriel seriously ill. The e-mailers got busy. We a week in London with Tom and his family. Flanagan Cullen was the fi rst of the four all prayed! And Joan rallied! Then on July On the way home from Florida in January, of you who answered me. Dick fell in April, 13, Joan died. How could Joan be dead? they stopped at Merritt Island to see Jim Happy had two fractures and “weeks and weeks She was so indomitable! Our senior class and Mary Ellen Stahl Ingram. Mary in the hospital,” but he hopes to be at president guided us through the trials Ann and Bob were looking forward to 100th Birthday! Notre Dame games with only a cane. The of senior year—and always with great welcoming two grandchildren in April. According to the Cullens have three grandchildren at Notre aplomb. Our thoughts and prayers go From Jean Ritcey Woodcock comes Alumnae Relations Dame and expect to be in the stands out to the Wolf and Hemingway families. news of her family. “Herb and I celebrated Offi ce’s records, cheering when senior Casey Cullen, who Joan’s sister, Bernadette Hemingway our 50th wedding anniversary in June these alumnae celebrated played football last year, is on the fi eld Martin ’52, was a senior our freshman 2005. Our daughter gave us a beautiful their 100th birthday again this year. year. dinner at her home. We were fortunate in 2006. I had a very brief note from Betty Juliette Noone Lester arrived late to have all three of our sons with us and Klein Moore, who said that all was too last year at our 50th reunion because most of our grandchildren. In August Congratulations! quiet in Texas for news! her husband, Urban, was ill. On May 2006, we celebrated the marriage of Dorothy Shea Brandenburg ’30 Pat Doyle Mulligan wrote to say 22, 2006, Urban Lester died of atrial our daughter, Kathleen Anne. It was a that she and Hugh recently sold their fi brillation in Washington, D.C. He had beautiful wedding and reception at the Eleanor Vertin Daniell ’28 downtown Chicago apartment and moved been a professor of law at Catholic Clayhill Restaurant in York, Maine. I made Ceslas Mary Freehill ’28 to their cottage about an hour and a half University for many years. The funeral the bride’s dress, which was Alencon lace. Julia Szabo Lukacs ’28 from Chicago. They spend three months Mass was said in the Crypt Church of She did look lovely. Making her gown was Virginia Foley Martin ’27 in Stuart, Fla., during the winter. Their the Basilica of the National Shrine of a labor of love for me.” Helen Hofmann McEvoy ’27 daughter, Martha, was very ill last year, the Immaculate Conception. He was From the Courier Offi ce: Kitty Kathryn Scholl Munning ’30 and they spent several months with her remembered as a “master professor of Nolan Calacci sent word of Jean Marjorie Gallagher Murphy ’28 as she recovered. She is well and healthy civility and grace.” Our sympathy goes Engler Weber. “Dear Friends, Mary Elizabeth Smogor Odusch ’27 now. The Mulligans’ other two children live out to Julie. Remember Urban and her in Ryan Darling e-mailed me from Arizona Hortense Ciralsky Salinger ’29 in New Jersey and Massachusetts. your prayers. that our classmate and my fellow Iowan, Ginny Birsic Ellis tells me that she On a happier note, John and Carol Jean Engler Weber, died last week after Muriel Abell Sims ’29 is heavily into gardening right now. Her Wiseman Smith celebrated their 50th enduring Alzheimer’s disease. Those of Myrtle Kramer Streine ’28 own garden is two-and-a-half acres, and wedding anniversary in July. All seven us who started our years at Saint Mary’s Helen Fitzpatrick Wieland ’24 she does more in the courtyard at St. Smith children and 21 grandchildren were College on the second-fl oor wing of Holy Theresa’s Church. Ginny’s children are home in Wilmette to celebrate. Carol Cross Hall remember her well for her We also extend condolences to Mary spread from New York City to Montana, was thrilled but was ready for bed rest enormous enthusiasm for academics, fl ute Jo Donovan McGuire, whose husband, with one living at home. She told me that afterwards. playing, and late-nighters. I believe she Butch, died in May in Rochester, Minn. A Rita Spaulding Quinn and Paul just Joan Kershaw Putnam is delighted was the fi rst in our class to earn a Ph.D., heart transplant recipient 11 years ago, returned from a jaunt, but I didn’t fi nd out to have daughter Amanda and her family after which she taught at Northwestern Butch was well known for his generosity where they went! back in Oklahoma City. Amanda’s baby, and some Arizona universities. In some toward others in that position. Pat Kerper Moriarty wrote me a Clara, is just about a year old, and Joan summer visits to Clear Lake, Iowa, The spring of 2006 “For the Record” nice, newsy note telling me that she and is enjoying her greatly. Amanda had been she and I, and her daughter, Mary, page mentioned the death of Mary Joe have 11 grandchildren ranging in age living in Chicago. I’m sorry that she left had great speed boat rides. Although Louise Schuster Carey ’27, mother of from 5 to 27, with two at Notre Dame. Pat because Joan and I were able to see so many years have passed since Sally Carey Cutting. Sally reports that and Joe visit Mary Curley McDougal each other more often! In one of our more then, we will miss her friendship.” her mother had been blessed with a long and Mac every two weeks. Joe brings recent phone conversations, I learned life and relatively good health until her last REUNION May 31–June 3, 2007 a sandwich and a movie for himself and that Mary Beth Croxall Wahl had six months. Sally and husband David are Mac, who is wheel chair bound, to enjoy recently been to Rome with her daughter, enjoying their farms in the Kansas City Mary Gladys Turner Enderle while Mary and Pat go out to lunch. Pat Gretchen, who lives in Chicago. I’ve seen ’57 area. Last fall, Sally enjoyed a reunion of 444 Ashland Avenue, No. 4 talks to Mary Jane McKeon Gray about Gretchen’s byline in Chicago Magazine. the group that went to the University of River Forest, IL 60305 once a month, and she and Ed are fi ne. Last fall, they had traveled to New Vienna in 1955. Sr. Helen Malits ’56 (708) 488-1101 The Moriartys are planning a trip to see Zealand together—stopping in California helped with the search for the alumnae. [email protected] Sue Seidendsticker Cannata and Frank to see Mary Beth’s sister, Trudy Croxall Our prayers go also to Chickie in Arizona, a trip that was postponed from McDermott ’58. Taylor Spalding, whose brother, Hobe, I begin this column with the happy last spring. Nancy Cole Hodapp writes of a died in July. Chickie and Tom are now thought that, God willing, many of us I talked to Bunny Fay Murphy and very hectic spring. Right before Easter, living in Bluffton, S.C. will be together next June to celebrate her husband, Bud. They live in Windham, they received an S.O.S. from daughter Mary Jane Schoen Mowle another reunion—a very important one. N.Y., now and have two grandchildren at Linda in Grand Rapids. Just after surgery, responded quite cleverly to the class Losing friends and family reminds us of Notre Dame. Linda had suffered a seizure, so John column in the summer 2006 edition of the need to make time for each other and My own news is that, in two weeks, and Nancy hurried to Grand Rapids to the Courier. I had stated that unless you to seize the moment. Jack and I are traveling to Rome and tend their two grandchildren and assist in were a true child prodigy you had already In April, Pat Moore Walle died Milan for a couple of weeks, but after Linda’s recovery. It was then that Nancy celebrated a signifi cant birthday. Mary in Anchorage, Alaska, where she and that I will be available to read lots of discovered a lump in her breast. It was Jane denies she was a prodigy but said husband Dennis had lived for many e-mails for our next column. It may take pronounced positive for cancer, and a that she and her husband are celebrating years and raised their four children. Pat a village to raise a child, but it takes successful lumpectomy followed. The her special birthday this October by taking had come to Saint Mary’s College from the whole United States to contribute cancer had not spread, but Nancy had a wonderful cruise. They will begin in New Jersey, but her family lived for the news for this column! So write! several weeks of treatment. “When we Hawaii, and then go down the island chain a while in Oak Park—actually, across celebrated our 47th anniversary on May to New Zealand and Australia, ending in the street from mine. Pat received her 25, we truly knew we had something to Sydney. Like most of us, she is looking Barbara Bridgman O’Connor undergraduate and law degrees from ’55 celebrate,” she wrote. forward to reunion. 2612 Payne St. DePaul and worked for years as a tax Bob and Mary Ann Immonen Kathy, daughter of Margaret Brown Evanston, IL 60201 law specialist and tax preparer. Pat’s Haidinger’s plans for their 50th Anderson, graduated in May from Penn (847) 328-4977 mother was Irma Thompson Moore anniversary party in February had to be State with her Ph.D. in French culture [email protected] ’28. Responding to the news, several cancelled because of a 20-inch snowfall and will be teaching at Central Michigan classmates recalled “red-headed Pat and blizzard. Instead, she and Bob are University. Margaret is continuing her work In late June, Charlie Wolf put out a call Moore” and her quick wit. Our sympathy taking each of their three children and supervising student teachers for Northern for prayers. Joan Hemingway Wolf was to Dennis and their children. families on separate trips, beginning with Illinois University.

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Meghan Cassidy ’06, Williamsburg, Va. The Porters were in granddaughter of Irene O’Leary Van town for the birth of a grandchild. Beckum, graduated summa cum laude Connie Roller Curtin is fi nally Excelsior from Saint Mary’s College this May with “fi xed!” Following her hip revision surgery, a B.A. in English Writing. Meghan will be she experienced severe muscle spasms teaching in a New Haven Conn., inner in the groin. An x-ray showed a pelvic city high school for “Teach for America.” fracture. After almost three weeks in Sister Ruth Boylston Heaney OSB ’36 received the Irene was invited to the legacy reception rehab, she is back to normal and ready papal cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, Jefferson City, Mo., at graduation. I hope you all saw that to cruise with Sally Porth Brown August 2006. This award is presented to clergy and lay wonderful picture of Irene and Meghan from Vancouver to Puerta Vallarta. In persons who have given distinguished service to the on the back cover of the Courier winter the course of her genealogy studies, Catholic Church. edition. she discovered that on her paternal A visit with Barbara Butler Henry grandmother’s side, her great-grandfather Katherine Lancelot Harrington ’65 published the ’85 included discussion of our upcoming sixteen generations back was a priest book Half Moon, Jesperson Publishing, 2006. Harrington’s reunion. Let me use this moment to urge who left the Church with Martin Luther and pen name is K.L. Vidal. everyone to plan ahead to attend. I also established the Lutheran branch of her Nora Barry Fischer ’73 received the 2006 ask that you share any specifi c requests family tree. Professionalism Award from the Civil Litigation section or suggestions with the Alumnae Offi ce. George and Ann Meagher Vander Take the time now to write a note, call, Vennet are undergoing a full kitchen of the Allegheny County Bar Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., or e-mail a friend to encourage her to remodel—quite a test on a marriage. October 2006. Fischer is a partner with the law firm of join you. Ann says it is going to take as long as Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon, LLP, and group leader of its Some people are already thinking “an elephant is pregnant and then add a Litigation Defense practice. ahead. Peggy Maher Engler called few months. . .I have totally lost interest Mary Savage O’Brien ’77 was named president me after this year’s reunion weekend. so George is the sole enthusiast for the (I was very much aware of the reunion project.” Their 2-year-old spina bifi da of Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wis., since we were babysitting for our two guy, Van Immonen, is walking alone a bit September 2006. grandchildren while our son, Richard, with his new orthotics and progress is Patsy Gaertner Eull ’80 received an “Eleven Who Care and his wife, Beth, attended his 20th being made. When you visit Saint Mary’s Award” from KARE 11, Minneapolis, Minn., September reunion at Notre Dame.) The Englers’ College be sure to see the Vander Vennet 2006. The award is given annually to 11 outstanding son, Chapin (my godson), was ordained theatre in the new Student Center, which a deacon that weekend and Peggy is was funded most generously by George individual community volunteers. Eull has coached Special thinking that his ordination as a priest and Ann. Olympic sports for fifteen years. of the Diocese of Charleston, W.V., will Colleen Taffee Goldkamp Harmon Dianne Aigotti ’86 was named Chief Risk Officer of be our reunion weekend. Some confl icts has had some serious but “mysterious” Aon Corporation, Chicago, Ill., November 2006. Aigotti will cannot be avoided, but start now to set health problems which have had her in retain her role as corporate treasurer. aside the fi rst weekend in June 2007. and out of the hospital. Last I heard, it’s not lupus but perhaps something related. Margaret Kelly Doyle ’87 was named a Senior Vice Keep her in your prayers. President at the Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Ill., ’59 Barbara Benford Traffi canda From the Boston area, Mary Hughes July 2006. 40 Camino Del Prado Enright is celebrating becoming an Mary Beth Ellis ’99 published her college memoir San Clemente, CA 92673 Irish citizen. “Having three grandparents Drink to the Lasses, Cold Tree Press, 2006. (949) 498-6244 born in Ireland and tracing the history btraffi [email protected] of one—Sicely (Cecilia) Finegan—Mayo, from her birth through all the offspring, I am sad to report the death of marriages, death certifi cates along the Grand Central Station, cocktails at Tavern and crew were in the race. She gave me Teresa Dittrich Welch’s mother, Mary, way to my marriage (change of name) on the Green, and dinner at Patsy’s. his sail and bow number, and Gerry found in August 2005; Rosemary Zirelle to Bud, the ARD CHONSALACHT NA My daughter, Carmella Traffi canda that he had taken about 10 pictures of her Spalding’s father, Michael, in January; HEIREANN has issued me a certifi cate Hurlbut ’86, three days after receiving son’s boat, which we e-mailed to him. and Susy Brown Bapst’s brother, Dick, of citizenship! I am now processing to a her master’s in education (with fi ve kids Our oldest grandchild turned 21 in in May. Gerry Dunn Leinenweber also passport also. I hope my grandparents and a teaching job), attended her 20th July! Yikes! reported the tragic loss of Annette feel honored that, after all their efforts, reunion at Saint Mary’s College. Her Next deadline is March 1st. For your Fontana Saylor’s daughter, Julia Saylor there is a payback to them and to Ireland.” classmates sent me a picture of the six of information, most of the news I receive Plumhoff, on April 2, 2006. Julia leaves My sister, Betty Benford Belfi ore, them seated in front of my senior comp now comes via e-mail. her husband and three daughters, ages spent two weeks with me this summer. mosaic, now located in the new dining 6, 8 and 12 years of age. You may recall One week on Balboa Island and a few hall. Remembering those long, lonely, Annette also lost her husband three years days on Catalina Island, shopping, eating, and arduous nights in Moreau basement Wini Tennis Kristufek ago. God has surely given her a heavy ’61 drinking, and shopping some more. Betty so many years ago—just me and Johnny 29297 Piney Way cross to bear. Please remember Terry, and Jack bought a new house in Venice, Mathis—who would have thought? Breezy Point, MN 56472 Rosie, Susy, and Annette in your prayers. Fla., where they have been wintering. Her Small world story: Gerry and I were (218) 562-4512 Gerry Leinenweber is pleased to plan is to spend at least six months there invited to our fi rst regatta in San Diego [email protected] announce her son, Justin, the 9-month-old this year. I saw Sharon McGee Sitton two weeks ago. It was the Lightning North baby who accompanied her to our 25th Bradshaw on Balboa as well. She and American Championships at Mission Bay. WOW!! Our 45th reunion was truly reunion, graduated from the University of Murray spend two weeks there—one of We were aboard an “observer” boat, wonderful! I really enjoyed all the activities, Illinois Law School in May and will work for them with all her kids and grandchildren. and the captain was more than happy but especially, I enjoyed visiting with Winston & Strawn in Chicago this fall. In April, Gerry and I traveled to Miami to situate the boat so Gerry could get classmates, some of whom I hadn’t seen Marge Liebrich O’Connor is for a wedding then on to New York, New in close with his camera—resulting in since graduation. When you read this grateful for the prayers for her grandson, Jersey, and Connecticut, to visit his some fabulous photos of the sailboats article, our 50th reunion will be about 4 _ who suffers from leukemia and continues cousins. We had no idea where we were and their colorful spinnakers. I happened years away. Start planning now to attend. to undergo chemotherapy. Accompanied going, but thanks to the GPS system in to e-mail Pat Wilson Fastiggi about You won’t want to miss it! by their husbands, she and Miriam our rented car, it was a piece of cake. We our experience because her family is so Beth Fiss Watson sent word from Callahan Porter met for lunch in fi nished up in the Big Apple with lunch at involved in sailing. As it happens, her son Windsor, Ontario, of a most interesting

24 COURIER | Winter 2006 visit to Spain, which included a stay in but she had a family reunion planned at again at Straw’s farm in October for our her in Fort Myers. They’re there from one of three “villages” set up to help the same time to celebrate her grandson’s fi fth mini-reunion. It’s such a great time November to May, living in a 55-plus Spaniards schooled in English grammar second birthday. Susan is living in a “golf enjoying good company and laughing out community, and love it. How can you and vocabulary make the transition to mecca” and has been playing much more loud with dear old friends! stand all those old people, Irene? She speaking English with ease. Beth chose golf than tennis after serving as president Thanks to Sheila McAnaney walks to daily Mass, “cramming for fi nals!” a village located in northern Spain which of the National Senior Women’s Tennis Kostanecki for the e-mail saying that she The last of her fi ve children was to have had been abandoned and then rebuilt Association. She fi nds golf much more had a great time at the reunion and hoped married in August, and Irene was looking for this purpose. For one week, an equal forgiving on the body. Susan also reports all was well with me. forward to the festivities. Also, she should number of Spaniards and English-speaking that her volunteer work with Habitat for My next deadline is March 1, 2007. by now have her eighth grandchild. “Anglos” spoke only English each day. She Humanity is strenuous but rewarding. Let me know what’s new with you. There Virgie Burke Gannon reports that she had a wonderful time with an exceptional She always looks forward to visits from are classmates wondering where you are and John were to celebrate their 40th group of Spanish professionals intent family and friends, so anyone interested and what you’ve been doing. anniversary by taking a cruise along the on speaking English with accuracy, and in a fabulous golf outing should contact coast of France, Spain, and Portugal in she also enjoyed the company of the her. She has a huge home and would late August. They are expecting their other “Anglos” from the United Kingdom, love to share it with funseekers. Susan ’63 Kathleen M. Owen fourth grandchild in October and enjoy Australia, Canada, and the U.S. Anyone gets together with Claire Casellini Geil 5600 Lake Resort Terrace gatherings in Door County with the family. who is interested in knowing more about occasionally but, she admits, not often Apt. 480-P Diane Majerus Brewer continues on the this project may e-mail Beth at elizabeth. enough. Chattanooga, TN 37415 faculty of George Washington University, [email protected]. It was good to hear from Sister (423) 875-5856 and their “youngest is a rising senior in Wini McGuinness Meikle, back Mary Ellen Vaughan, CSC, who was [email protected] college, so the end of the road is near.” home again in Winchester, England, said in Ventura, Calif., visiting Sisters in a Then will you retire? You working girls it was super seeing so many classmates retirement community there. Sr. Mary Too late for our last letter, Peggy make me feel so lazy. My next note is at reunion. She and her husband left Ellen, a member of the leadership team Woodin Green wrote of considerable from another still-working lady, Joan South Bend and headed south for a for North America for the Sisters of destruction to their home of 28 years in Dorgan, looking forward to the coming tour that began with The Grand Ole the Holy Cross, has among her duties Beaumont, Texas—thanks to Hurricane year teaching energetic 7th graders. She Opry in Nashville, and then moved on providing appropriate care for the older Rita. Her Jennifer was to be married spent two weeks this summer at Berkeley to Elvis Presley in Tupelo and Memphis, Sisters of the Order in their twilight years. fi ve weeks hence, and evacuation was on a research grant, and enjoyed while Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., Civil Our traveling classmate, Eleanore encouraged. Wedding dress, addressed there spending time with Gail Donovan, War battlefi elds, and jazz in New Orleans. Wilson Eldred, has been at it again invitations, mother-of-the-bride dress, will, Margo Vitalich Manley, and Ann They ended their fi ve-week visit in the this year. Following a niece’s wedding insurance papers, two crucifi xes, family Purcell Perini. United States in San Diego, a “favourite” in Florida in April, the whole family photos, and high hopes accompanied Sally O’Connor Fallon writes of of theirs. They would love to see any enjoyed the beautiful marriage of their them as they fl ed the area. Then, they having “had a wonderful trip to China and classmates traveling to England; and, in older son, David, to Karen Craffey over had to relocate the reception after Thailand in June with Tabor kids,” and “ten the meantime, Wini will be practicing the Memorial Day weekend on Cape Cod. damage to the club, hire a caterer, and days in Wisconsin with family, including tango for our 50th! This celebration extended over four days, fi nd housing for guests since hotels had six days at our cottage on Lake Superior From South Bend, Mary Roemer and even included Eleanore’s 93-year-old cancelled reservations to accommodate with Seattle daughter Molly.” Sally also sent word that she had made a big mother, oxygen and all. Eleanore arrived F.E.M.A. Bottom line: lovely wedding. boasts a new granddaughter, courtesy decision. (Her sister-in-law made her do back in Detroit just in time to drive to Two grandbabies were added shortly of son Bill. “Overall life is good—don’t it!) Mary planned a three-week trip/cruise South Bend with Norma Lee Ngan for thereafter, and Peg was to have returned think I’m retiring anytime soon!” She also from Athens to Cairo, Luxor, Jordan, our 45th reunion and to enjoy another to teaching. You’re a busy lady, Peg, and invited me up to her Cape Cod/Martha’s Mombassa, and then back to Kenya for great weekend. In early July, she and you gotta be old enough to retire! Vineyard vicinity—and I bet she means a safari! husband, Roger, fl ew to Africa. Although Janet Sloan Johnston and Fred all of us. Shall we? Mini-reunions are fun, Sherry Reardon Gibbons wrote one purpose of this visit was to meet with are continuing to delight in their move too. Cathy Ryan Condon was planning from Glen Carbon, Ill., of a memorable daughter Mary, who is in Madagascar with from Alaska to northwest Washington. an August trip to Philadelphia to visit their visit to Alaska, where they learned a the Peace Corps, Eleanore commented “Our mental health is supported by oldest, Mary Anne, and her fi ve children great deal about our 49th state. Sherry that the trip proved to be interesting, where we live and our intellectual health under nine. Cathy says, “We are well and especially enjoyed our 45th reunion, enlightening, and broadening…really is challenged by continuing to argue very grateful for each day.” Mary Jo since daughter Judy Gibbons Riordon special. She would like to make a return politics (raw material is endless!) with Pauli Landry wrote from “our place in ’86 returned to Saint Mary’s College for visit. one another and discovery of Sudoku.” Washington State” (Olympic Peninsula) her 20th reunion along with her one-year From Northvale, N.J., Christine And they seem to travel constantly—all where they planned to spend the summer. old, Matthew Francis. Following reunion, McGoey Cummings sent word that, in across, and up and down, the country. They were to be with their daughter and Sherry and her husband, John, were able addition to all her community and parish This is one funny, and very interesting, her husband in Seattle, too. MJ and John to enjoy a family reunion with the families commitments, she had recently been lady. I wish we roommates of 418 Holy were enjoying a visit from Phoebe Blake of their seven children, including ten busy moving daughter Jeannine and her Cross Hall had more fully enjoyed her and Peter saying, “She is wonderful as grandchildren. husband, Dave, along with their daughter, devious wit back then. However, I would ever…they now live in Providence, where She’s still alive and kicking, although Ava, to Baltimore. Christine now knows have been thrown out rather than fl unked she sees Myrna Walker Hall….Did not kicking as much or as hard as she how wonderful and exhausting it is to care out! Carole Kramer Leeman sells real have a nice visit with Marybeth Miller used to. Donna Sheridan Reistetter for a 19-month-old for a day! estate in Findlay, and has two sons, Gemperle and Mary Jo Connelly sends word from Annandale, Va., that As of this writing, Mary Ellen (Straw) Tim with two sons, and John with a girl Martin in the spring.” Pat Martin tells us her health is essentially unchanged, but Berry Malone was out of her “boot” and two boys, the older of whom is in a that, “As for work, the best thing that has she is weaker and doesn’t feel like doing and in foot therapy. She has become long-fought battle with cancer. Prayers for happened is the completion and approval much. Em (her husband) keeps her going, very interested in Feng Shui and was him, please. Kathy Weidl Mettler is still of the design for a 24-color custom rug though, so that’s a good thing. thinking of taking classes from B.J. doctoring, doting on the eleven grands that will be made in China….when fi nished Now that fall is here, Sandy Sitzberger Gorman. Straw was also her three have provided, and says Steve will be 12’ W x 15’6” L,” this for a family Graham Bartlett in Ridgewood, N.J., considering opening a spa called “Fit and is “doing fi ne.” Joann Vanek says, “Now room in a client’s home. will be cheering at the sidelines for her Fancy,” which would have a manicurist, that I am working less, I am spending a lot Dolores Cox Blohm writes that grandchildren as they play football and a massage therapist, and workout of time doing body work: Pilates, physical her son has informed them that their soccer, cheer, and swim. It is really great machines. This would be close to her therapy, and an occasional massage…. fi rst grandchild is on the way. Jo Lehnis to have your grandchildren nearby. farm in Edom, Texas, in an old post offi ce I want to keep walking the streets of Gotham, newly retired, has “enjoyed Susan Metzger Tully e-mailed from building established in 1865. New York.” Irene Canny Lange writes water aerobics and walking this summer Reynolds Plantation in Greensboro, Ga., Christine, Eleanore, Straw, Norma, periodically, practically begging me (and, to try to stay in shape of some form. All to say she was sorry to miss our reunion, Vaughanie, and I plan to be together I trust, any and all of us) to come visit our kids and grandkids were here in July,

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so that was fun, hectic, and exhausting— came out from Boston. Pat was one of condos on Waikiki and shared one with in the area. I can be reached at barbara@ Mike and I loved every minute of it.” my bridesmaids, and she and three others us. MK headed back to San Diego at the reid.net.” Rosemary Mason Hopkins enjoyed in from our wedding joined us on the altar end of our visit to be there for the end “Not much from me,” says E.J. February a journey to India with friends. when we renewed our vows. (Michael tried of the school year at her Montessori Caluwaert McFadden “...we take And she boasts twin granddaughters, two once again to slip the ‘obey’ part in... school, where her son, Tom, teaches. our son, Ryan, to Belmont University in and three pounds at birth, who are doing but, again, he failed!). I’m getting excited Cille Sorrentino Bucolo came to visit us Nashville, where he will begin his freshman fi ne and are named Rose and Caroline about Tuscany in November; I know it in Michigan City to sit on the beach and year in audio engineering studies...so our after their grandmothers. will be fun. Today, when I was driving to relax. She is headed to Tuscany in the fall house will be very quiet. For the last ten And now the tough news: As I write meet Terry, and last month when Pat was with other Saint Mary’s College friends. years, we’ve had several of Ryan’s band this, we’ve had a week to contemplate here, I realized again how lucky I was to Saw Cille again along with Mary Delaney members rehearsing in our basement; our losing Kathy Gatens Harrington to be a part of the Saint Mary’s family. What Willer and Ed, and Colleen Leahy so, unless Lee or I take up playing Ryan’s cancer, having peacefully left us, asleep a wonderful four years we had, and what and Jack, at Katherine Zeller Nicklin drums, the emptiness will be hard to in the night. Kathy loved life and lived it great friendships we formed there.” and Oliver’s 35th wedding anniversary deal with for awhile. Our daughter, Amy, voraciously to the very end. Sally Fallon, From Pat McCarthy: “Dick and I in August. Kathy and Oliver may move is continuing to settle in with her various Irene Beitler Kennedy, and her husband spent a weekend in Denver for Sheila downtown in Chicago like all the young jobs and the winter and summer sports had been with Kathy in the last days, and and Mike Boone’s 40th anniversary newlyweds do. What a fun place to live! she loves in Steamboat Springs, Colo. she continued to entertain and enjoy them celebration! They renewed their vows at (Can’t wait to visit.) Finally, we welcomed We are jumping into our new lifestyle... as always. Numerous e-mails asked me 5 p.m. Mass at their parish church, Ave our 8th grandchild. Her name is Annie. since only three days after we leave Ryan to convey our heartfelt condolences to Maria, in Parker, and then went for dinner Our son, Tom, and his wife, Patty, let us in Nashville, Lee and I will be traveling her family. and party at a country club. We had a do a little babysitting for their boys while to Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. Now And moi? Tongue cancer, radical wonderful time visiting with them, their they fl ew off to China in late June to meet that Lee is retired, we hope to do a lot of surgery, no lymph node involvement, so family (children and grandchildren), and Annie just before her 1st birthday and sightseeing!” neither chemo nor radiation—thanks to friends. Sunday, before we left, we had bring her home to a very excited group of Joan Blila Boettcher sent me a prayer for which I thank Him, and you. a barbeque at Sheila and Mike’s and got adoptive brothers, grandparents, aunts, wonderful family picture (gorgeous group), I bother to mention myself simply to to catch up on news and make plans for uncles, and cousins.” along with a thoughtful note. She and encourage all of you to, like Kathy Gatens, our trip to Tuscany. How I love being with And from a satisfi ed partygoer: Bruce live in Eden Prairie, Minn., and Joan to enjoy every minute God has given. We those from college days!” “Katherine Nicklin’s children threw a has three absolutely beautiful daughters. just don’t realize the breadth of His gifts Yet another anniversary celebration fabulous 35th wedding anniversary for her Mickey Binkle Boulac was honored to us until we lose some. And I, for one, (we certainly were young brides!), and Oliver on Aug. 5, in Winnetka, Ill. The by Notre Dame as the fi rst woman can’t wait to get well enough to get back reported to me by Lil Chard Beshel, kids really did a lovely job—as did Mother ever to be presented with an honorary out there to help others—something is that of Joan Marskey Slattery and Nature. The party was held in their yard monogram in June, at the annual I’ve neglected since retirement. So husband Bill. “I spoke to Joan (well, via and the weather was beautiful.” banquet. From Mickey: “June 1 was a stop and think a minute, my friends, of phone message), and Bill. They are just News from Susan Casey D’Amico special day for the Boulac/Binkle clan what you have, who gifted you with it back from Ireland. They took all their in sunny California: “Dick and I met John gathering at Notre Dame. In April, it was all, and what you have to share with His family on the trip to celebrate their 40th. and Kathy Walsh Harty on Aug. 10, and announced that Brian was receiving the less fortunate ones. God bless us all. It seems that there is lots of that kind of we all went to the Del Mar Race Track. James E. Armstrong Award conferred celebrating going on in our class.” John, Kathy, and Dick were winners. I on an alumnus/alumna who is a current A note from Sara Johnson Walz: broke even. It was a beautiful day and employee and has rendered distinguished ’65 Sheila Kelly Ames “Nick and I went to his helicopter we had a great time. After the track, the service to the University. Brian has been 1200 Eustace Drive squadron reunion in Washington, D.C., four of us met Kathy McAnaney Glaser at Notre Dame since ’59 (except for 18 Dixon, IL 61021 in June. We visited with Pat Sears for dinner. We reminisced and had a months active military duty) and believes (815) 288-2640 Kraemer and Joe. Pat had spent the wonderful evening. We all agreed to meet he received it for longevity! The award [email protected] previous weekend in the hospital, but by again soon.” was presented at the Monogram Dinner. the time we saw them, Pat was doing “I’m afraid this is not good news,” What Brian didn’t know was that many An update from Theresa Lyons much better and we had a great visit! Nick writes Char Carroll Daniel. “I was of his players and friends contributed Brosnan: “This past summer on Cape and I left Washington just before the rains diagnosed with ovarian cancer several to fund a locker in his name in the Cod was a beautiful one, with both my came and visited with Janine Renaud weeks ago. I’ve had the surgery and will Guglielmino Athletic Complex, the new husband, Jack, and I having successful Burns and husband David at their lovely start chemotherapy, probably around the football facility. His plaque was unveiled surgeries. Our son, Mike, is teaching in an home on the shores of an inlet of the fi rst of September. I would appreciate just prior to the Monogram Dinner. My inner-city high school in Bridgeport, Conn., Chesapeake Bay in southern Virginia. prayers from classmates, probably for the surprise that evening was an honorary and our older boy, John, is a computer We talked non-stop, went for a ride on next six months, to help get me through monogram. Over the years, we have had engineer working in Framingham, Mass. their boat, and got to see the Emergency this very diffi cult time. On a happier the pleasure of working with hundreds So, both sons are close by. Neither is Response building, which the two of them note, Peter, our third son, will marry in of students—something that didn’t merit married, but some lucky girls will be very were instrumental in getting built. Dave is November. Our three sons have all found recognition because we love doing it. The happy some day. This will be my 33rd part of the Emergency Response Team in wonderful wives.” best part was that, the next day, all of year teaching. Jack is still a C.P.A. and their county, which is remote, beautiful, I was delighted to hear from Barbara our immediate family members and many enjoying it.” and sparsely populated. If you retire there, Kurien Reid, and to add her to our large close friends shared in the festivities and “I have some fun news,” states Sheila you better be ready to help out! Janine ’65 e-mail list. “My eldest daughter, Donna a Mass at the Log Chapel, at which we Flynn Boone. “Today Terry Miltich became project manager for the building (U of FL ’87), was married on June 26, renewed our wedding vows celebrating Murphy called me in Colorado. I wasn’t construction. She did a great job bringing 2006, in Lake Tahoe, Calif., where she 40 years of wedded bliss. Our four home; but when I got the message, I it in on time and under budget. (What else has been living for the last ten years. daughters are all Notre Dame graduates: contacted her and we got in a quick would you expect?) The building, which It was a wonderful three-day wedding Dawn ND ’89, Denise ND ’90, Debbie but very fun visit. Terry’s daughter lives houses their ambulances and emergency celebration attended by her dad, Ron Reid ND ’93 and Dyan ND ’94. We have been here now; so, I hope that Terry and her equipment, is beautiful and functional. ND ’63, and her sister, Tina Reid ’88, blessed.” If I may quote the Notre Dame husband, Jack, will be back from time They just celebrated the birth of their 7th with two of her children Taylor (SMC ’13) Monogram Club News: “A prominent to time and we can get together for grandchild. They still get up to Washington and Damien (ND ’15) (if grandpa’s wishes South Bend lawyer, she has had an a better visit. In the meantime, Terry and see Janine’s parents and sisters, come true), and several hundred of their impact on countless Notre Dame student- expressed an interest in Tuscany, so I who are all doing well; they vacation in closest friends. Last July ’05 I moved to athletes.” Wonderful honor, Mickey. Our gave her all the contact information. We Toronto, where they just bought a condo. Bronxville, N.Y. I am still working at Elias congratulations. had another fun event last month—our We also made a trip to Hawaii in June to Group LLP, and am serving as president Junie Miller Smith writes to us from kids gave us a 40th anniversary party, visit with Mary Kay Thomas Newton of a wonderful singles club in Greenwich, Farmers’ Branch, Texas. She sees Patti and Pat Devine McCarthy and Dick and her husband, John. They own two Conn. I would love to hear from alumnae Podesta Crumley quite often, and says

26 COURIER | Winter 2006 that Patti is “as cute as ever.” Please keep I was concerned I’d exceed our allotted club Patti’s mom in your prayers. She has had space. I believe the Class of ’69 set a clips a minor heart attack. record for news that time. Jot down in We have two classmates who have a calendar or at your computer that our lost their mothers recently. Rosann deadlines are Sept. 1 and March 1. While Gorman Conroy lost her mom, Willa I know it seems a long time until you read Gorman, in March at the age of 95 in the news you send (since our news is just Flossmoor, Ill. Rosann was a constant published twice each year), I can truly say caregiver. And, Judy Piers Locher lost that I always get positive feedback. So, do her mother, Elizabeth Piers, in May at go ahead and send me an update about the age of 85. Judy, whose home is in you, your family, and any classmates Oregon, had spent the last year living you’ve seen, spoken to, or written. and caring for her mom in Paducah, Ky., I was happy to hear from Barbara during her illness. Morris Woodroof that the internet has “I just received my Courier,” reads reconnected her with an alumna. Barb an e-note from Patsy Callahan Berry wrote, “…I have been reunited, so to in San Antonio, Texas. “I guess we are in speak, with my Big Sis at Saint Mary’s that phase of life where we are parenting College. Virginia Werner Devona ’67 our parents, children, and grandchildren. I was my Big Sis, and we were very close. just moved my mother to San Antonio and Then we graduated and lost touch. Now, into an independent-living situation. She through the lines of the computer age, has lived in Wichita, Kan., her whole life. It we are corresponding again and have was just too diffi cult for my sister, brother, the opportunity to renew our friendship. and me to care for her long distance. That is all from the very dry and very hot She is having some diffi culties adjusting, Dallas-Ft. Worth area.” but we all know she is in a much better Margaret Roberts Richards sent Members of the Georgia Alumnae Club book group discussed the situation right here. I am very proud of our an e-mail after a wonderful but too short class scholarship to a worthy student. We weekend in New Jersey. She has two books of Adriana Trigiani ’81 at a meeting during fall of 2006. Pictured are carrying on a wonderful tradition. We darling grandsons, Nate (Nathaniel Luke) left to right: Joellen Bringardner ’83, Julie Wall ’00, Barbara McCusker all were so blessed to be a part of Saint and newborn Will (William Westapher). Poole ’66, Gina Caponi Parnaby ’02, Mary Kay Schultz ’00, and Susie Mary’s.” The boys are just 13 months and 13 days Servier Mackin ’69. April brought terribly sad news from apart! The proud parents are Margaret’s Therese McCaffrey McConville out son, David, and his wife, Kristin. Margaret east. Therese lost her wonderful sister, loved “holding and playing with them. and our dear classmate, Mary Ellen They live in Red Bank, N.J. David started McCaffrey Dillon, after a lengthy and a new job in mid-town Manhattan in courageous battle with leukemia. Mary December and has the long commute. From Mary Beth Conlon Winter: REUNION May 31–June 3, 2007 Ellen was able to keep the disease at bay They also are just fi nishing an addition on “While traveling in the northeast this past for 15 years. Therese wrote an amazing their house. So babies, new addition, new summer, my daughter and I were able to ’77 Debbie Smith Reale tribute about her sister. Please keep both job…Oh, to have the energy to be in my spend an evening with Maureen Breen 14410 Oak Ridge Rd. families in your prayers. Mary Ellen will 30s!” Margaret added that her daughter, Barunas and her family in Pittsburgh. Carmel, Indiana 46032 be missed by everyone in our class and Margaret, and husband, Jason, would be Maureen continues her work as an (317) 846-8334 remembered as a woman of strength Will’s godparents, coming in from St. Paul executive with the Juvenile Diabetes [email protected] and courage. We send Therese and Mary for the baptism. Also, her other daughter, Research Foundation. Two of her three Ellen’s husband, Mike ND ’64, along Mary, and other son, Thomas, would boys have now headed off to college. Beth Campanale Daugherty with their entire families, our deepest join them from Washington, D.C. They We enjoyed a wonderful dinner and a 2956 Layne Ct. sympathy. were looking forward to that reunion and ‘just us girls’ shopping day. I continue to Richmond, VA 23233 I hope that you classmates who went baptism in early October. work as a high school choral director in [email protected] to Tuscany on the Saint Mary’s College Bev Pagorski Reid took her mom Fayetteville, N.C. I have recently taken on trip took lots of photos of yourself and on a visit back to the Chicago area from a job as a church choir director of music From Debbie: I have a little news to our classmates. Our eldest daughter was their home in Michigan. They stopped to as well. Our children are now 19 and 16, share this time. I’m hoping that our new married on Nov. 4, so I wasn’t able to join see family, friends, and the cemetery, and and I’m looking forward to being able to reporter, Beth Campanale Daugherty, the travelers. And so, we just have to do to bid a fond farewell to Marshall Field’s retire from teaching and take on a new will have lots to add to what I’m reporting. it again! and Company. One of the friends they ‘second’ career for the next phase of my Class of ’77 members: Drop either of us saw was Janice Williams, who met them life.” a line. Let’s beef up our columns! Your in Merrillville. Janice also saw Jo Ann From the Courier Offi ce: Carol classmates are eager to hear about you! ’69 Joyce O’Donnell Bussewitz Grima MacKenzie. “She came here for Dzikowski-Shamory took part in the Joan McAuliffe McCaughan was 1511 Jupiter Hills Circle lunch and we had a good, long chat.” Maud Powell Music Festival, singing three kind enough to update us with this note: Wilmington, NC 28411 I sent out over 30 e-mails requesting roles and serving on the voice faculty “I have been living in Key Biscayne, Fla., (910) 686-6787 some news, classmates. Here’s a for the Powell Festival Institute. She since 1982 with my husband, Bill ND ’76, [email protected] shout out of thanks to those of you who fi nished her collaboration with Maestro ND Law ’79. We are blessed with four responded. Here’s a friendly nudge to ALL Kevin McMahon on the libretto for the children, Billy ND ’04, Colleen ND ’08, Greetings from Wilmington, N.C.! of you to share some news! Take good new opera about Maud Powell, which was James ND ’10 and Peter, a future Notre Please note my new e-mail address care of yourselves and write soon! performed on the Maud Powell Mainstage Dame student. It seems as if a little arm above. We moved here in late July, and in June, with Carol singing the role of twisting might have been involved; but are still getting settled. In addition, we the Grand Dame. She also performed they all chose Notre Dame freely. So, I experienced our fi rst tropical storm, ’73 Mary Kay Davy Mulvaney this fall with the Illinois Valley Symphony have been back to the Notre Dame-Saint Ernesto! I see a generator in my near 5116 Johnson Avenue Orchestra—singing Douglas Hill’s “A Place Mary’s College community frequently in future. Are there any Saint Mary’s College Western Springs, IL 60558 for Hawks” and “The Blue Pigeon” by the past six years. But now I am putting alumnae in this area? (708) 246-5232 Romeo Cascarino. out an A.P.B. for some long-lost friends Well, I guess it is a matter of feast [email protected] whom I would love to see at our 30th or famine. When I wrote my last column, reunion in June of 2007. Where in the

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world are: Mary McMahon, Mary Sue years ago. Previously, she had worked works for the airlines. received an M.B.A. from Indiana University Cavanagh, Sarah Wachter, Mary Beth as an assistant state’s attorney for four Jerri Plumb Kelly is now the athletic in 1993. I have always worked since Marsho Walton, Patrice Biel, Sandy years. Ron and Mary Beth completed director at Lake Brantley High School in graduation from Saint Mary’s College; Vuagniaux Lamar, JoAnn Crock, the Chicago Marathon in fall 2005 and Altamonte Springs, Fla. She continues to my husband, who’s a high school teacher Eileen Barbera, and Sue Maude? planned to run it again in 2006. teach at the school as well. She and her (English and social studies), stayed home Please e-mail me at joanm511@yahoo. Mary Beth keeps in contact with husband, Jeff, have three children. Their for seven years when our kids were com. I would love to hear from all of you Mary Anne Dempsey Poinsatte. She second daughter, Casie, is a fi rst-year little. I met my mom, Katie McNamara and anyone else I may have forgotten. and her husband, John Paul ND ’79, student at the University of Michigan, Monaghan’ 48, at reunion this year, and Let’s make our 30th reunion a great live in Hixson, Tenn., where Mary Anne where she is slated to play water polo. we had fun having a girls’ weekend away weekend!” Note: Joan mentioned in a works as coordinator for the Pregnancy Jerri says that when they went to by ourselves. The best part: As an “Older separate e-mail that she had enjoyed Help Center of Catholic Charities of East orientation, she just couldn’t bring herself than Golden” alumnae, Mom had a room catching up over dinner recently with Tennessee and John Paul travels overseas to sing the Michigan fi ght song! at the Inn, and I was her guest! Monica Knowles Reding. Both of them quite frequently for his job with Invista, a Rosemary Hammer Lancos wrote Michelle Taylor Holman reports are looking forward to our reunion in manufacturer/marketer of polymer-based to say that their lives have changed that she lives in Carol Stream, Ill., with her 2007. fi bers for clothing, carpeting, and much a lot this year. After having spent fi ve husband, Keith, and their three children: My former Saint Mary’s College more. Their son, Justin, is a sophomore years living in Manila in the Philippines, Caitlyn, 15, Patrick, 12, and Claire, 8. She roommate, Maura Nugent Bardsley, at Notre Dame—and the fourth-generation she and Paul ND ’78 moved back to the has lived there for 19 years and works in has some good news to share: “It will Poinsatte to attend Notre Dame! They also United States. He began a new job with banking. Michelle says she had a great be an exciting year for our family as my have two daughters, Rachael, who was Tupperware as head of marketing for the time at reunion and missed everyone who daughter, Colleen, begins her fi rst year accepted to Notre Dame and should now Asia/Pacifi c region. They are now based couldn’t make it! at Saint Mary’s College. The day before be a fi rst-year student there, and Joanna, in Orlando, Fla., which Rosemary says, Kathleen Mihelich Black has lived in the June orientation, Colleen and I had who is still in high school. “doesn’t feel so hot after living in Asia.” South Bend, Ind., for 22 years and works a wonderful visit in Indianapolis with her According to Mary Anne, Patti Their daughter, Katie, graduated from as a substitute teacher. She is married to new roommate and my college roommate, Maguire Butterfi eld and her husband, Notre Dame in May and is searching for Bernard, who is a database administrator Debbie Reale. It was fun for Debbie and Gregg, live in Mattapoisett, Mass., and that fi rst “real” job. Their son, Matthew, is at Memorial Hospital. She has three sons: me to reminisce and to share memories have two children, Colin and Caroline, a junior at Villanova. As for Rosemary, she Christopher, 20, a junior at the University of past Saint Mary’s College experiences both in high school. is still getting things settled and exploring of Dallas majoring in history; Andrew, 16, with two young women just getting ready Mary Beth also hears from Barbara a new part of the world. a sophomore at St. Joseph’s High School; to make memories of their own. After “Bunny” Blankenburg Kiep, who lives in On a sad note, however, Rosemary and Patrick, a freshman at Washington the Saint Mary’s College orientation, my Hamilton, Ohio, with her husband, Roger, added that she also spent much time last High School. “In 2003 I took my oldest daughter and I cut through the Science and their three children, Greg, Meredith, year with her sister, Florence Hammer son to visit my ancestral homelands of Building on our way to the parking lot, and Jenny. Greg is in graduate school ’82, who fought cancer, but lost the battle Poland and Croatia. We discovered that and I commented that fi nding Dr. Feigl in at Xavier University. Meredith is strongly on July 19, 2006. “A great many of her many of the families currently lived on or her offi ce would make a perfect ending to considering attending Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College near the same land that had been in our a day on campus. What a delight it was and Jenny is entering high school. friends came to Cleveland from all over families at least 150 years.” to fi nd her there, and what a nice visit Bunny got together with Maria Tan for the funeral. Classmates Barb Hamel Christy Frank Murphy has lived we had! With our oldest son, Kevin, out Mitchell, who lives in Bedford, Ind., and Caryn Marcucci Doherty came to in Rye, N.Y., for 15 years. She works of college and on his own and our son, with her husband, Mike, and their two support me. Saint Mary’s College nurtures for Sotheby’s International Realty. She Brian, beginning his senior year in college, daughters, Alison and Jessica. Alison is such abiding friendships.” is married to Tom, and her children are my husband, Michael, and I are also attending Purdue University, and Jessica As they say, keep those cards, Bridget, 17, Meredith, 16, and Meaghan, making some major changes. Michael has is in high school. letters, and e-mails coming. My e-mail is 14. accepted a transfer to Sydney, Australia, Jean Kyle Fulcher and her jpmurphy@fl ash.net. Madeleine Meiners Hedrick for two years with E.D.S. We are very husband, John ND ’79, live in Findlay, reports: “I attended the reunion with excited about this new adventure and look Ohio. Daughter Katie is a senior at Miami some St. Louis friends. Mary Lauber, forward to traveling while living overseas. University of Ohio. Their son, Michael, is in ’81 Cindy Jones Helgason Sue Powers, Jan Lampe Deiters, and We already have our apartment near the high school. 906 25th St. I fl ew up to Chicago and met Denise Sydney Opera House and will be moving Joyce Johnson Reynolds, who left West Des Moines, IA 50265 Hokl and Betsy Henken Bacon. We there after a family weekend at the Penn Saint Mary’s College after our junior year (515) 222-6932 stayed in the senior apartments during State game Sept. 9. I may be far away, to fi nish college at Seton Hall, lives in [email protected] reunion. I have lived in Texas since but I can be reached at mabards@yahoo. Acworth, Ga. Her husband, Bob, is a pilot 1986. Tom ND ’79 and I have three kids. com.” for Delta; Joyce began a nursing program It was wonderful to see a great Kate is a sophomore at Notre Dame, this fall. Last December their son, Bobby, turnout for our 25th reunion! It was such a Paul a freshman at Harvard, and Kevin was ranked number 95 in the world in perfect weekend—the weather, the cool a sophomore in high school. I’ve been ’79 Jean Powley Murphy tennis! Their daughter, Debbie, just had apartments that we stayed in, the golf staying busy with school, church, and 1150 Kylemore Court her second child. carts that took us around, and, especially, neighborhood associations, and playing Des Plaines, IL 60016 Teresita Valdivia Collins wrote to the connections between old and new tennis. Tom worked for McKinsey and Co. (847) 699-0645 say that she and her husband, Pat ND friends. Amazing how we haven’t changed for 15 years but has a little more free jpmurphy@fl ash.net ’79, live in Vero Beach, Fla., with their a bit! Nothing is new here in Iowa except time since he left them four years ago. three children. Their daughter, Kaylee, that recently my business, Soapourri, was We have been able to spend some time in I heard from lots of classmates this graduated from Notre Dame last May reported in Midwest Living magazine as Colorado, especially during our hot Dallas spring and summer! Don’t be discouraged with a degree in political science. She one of “Our Favorite Midwest Finds.” A big summers.” if you don’t see your submission right is now working for a political consulting thrill for me! Katie Walsh has lived in St. Louis, away. Our deadlines for this class only fi rm in West Palm Beach, Fla. Her sister, Teresa Gorno-Reid has lived in Mo., for most of her life. She is an occur twice a year (March 1 for the Corey, is a junior at Notre Dame this year. Naperville, Ill., for 14 years and has attorney and travels a lot—particularly to summer issue and Sept. 1 for the winter Teresita’s youngest, Kyle, is a junior in three children with her husband, William: the New York area—as part of her job. issue). Keep writing! high school. Teresita teaches accelerated Evangeline, 10, Alice, 7, and Grace, 4. She hopes to be able to look up more Mary Beth Higgins Williams wrote math part-time at her local Catholic grade She is a psychologist. alumnae friends. to say that she and her husband, Ron, school. Ann Monaghan McAlexander lives From Dawn Parker Santamaria: have moved to a duplex in Glen Carbon, Mary Jane Gauer Krtek and her in Fishers, Ind., with her husband, Brad, “While my Tallship sailed the Great Lakes Ill.—about 20 minutes from St. Louis. Ron family visited the Collinses in June before and their two children, Patrick, 12, and this summer, I was fortunate enough is an assistant public defender, and Mary leaving on a cruise. Mary Jane and her Maggie, 10. Ann is a systems analyst for to host many Saint Mary’s College Beth started her own law practice several family live in Kansas City, Mo., where she Liberty Mutual Insurance. She says, “I alumnae aboard during our leadership sail

28 COURIER | Winter 2006 The Alumnae Association Board of Directors programs and dockside club receptions. Denver, Colo., with her husband, Jay, and high school and Neil is a sophomore.” Honorary President It was especially great to break bread and Devin, 8, and Marin, 6. She is a pediatric Melinda DeCrane Capone lives Carol Ann Mooney ’72 wine with my ’81 gal-pals: Ro Bellanca nurse practitioner. She reported, “I have in Cockeysville, Md., with her husband, President Posselius, Carol Barry Cawley, Patti worked at the Children’s Hospital in Chris, and their three kids. She is a Kara O’Leary ’89 Koch Corn, and Kathryn Blankenship.” Denver for 25 years. After 27 years, my preschool teacher. 1714 Bader Avenue South Bend, IN 46617 Karen Finkenbinder Knop has lived husband has stopped practicing veterinary MaryRose Carroll-Campobasso (574) 233-3378 • [email protected] in Indianapolis, Ind., for 20 years. She is medicine and is now an artist painting writes: “I was sad to have missed our W: 574-631-8237 an RN and works in the NICU as a clinical acrylics and oils.” reunion, but my husband, Fred, had a Vice President preceptor teacher-in-training. She has Dana Jeffi rs Corrigan is an artist quadruple bypass the end of February, Holly Rieger Curley ’80 9-year-old twins, Alexander and Shelby. and mom in Westlake, Ohio, with her and although he is feeling much better, he 23263 Mora Glen Drive Los Altos Hills, CA 94024 Kathleen Kanehann Wilson has husband, Brian ND ’81, and four children: was not up to being left at home with the (650) 948-8598 • [email protected] launched a Web site, www.NuKazoo. McKenna Corrigan ’08, Connell, 18, four kids! I continue to live in Glenview and com. NuKazoo is a new weekly advice Quinn, 14, and Aidan, 8. see Ann Foley Waris and Meg Burke Secretary Judy Mardoian Gavoor ’76 column with viewer responses to everyday From Lauren Perry Wiley: “I Gagliardo frequently.” 55 Cavalry Hill Road ambiguous situations. She is married to completely changed careers about six Catherine Shaughnessy Brennan Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 834-1471 • [email protected] Steve and lives in Hinsdale with their two years after leaving Saint Mary’s College. is a clinical nurse specialist and lives in sons Gavin, 5, and Connor, 7. I earned my master’s degree in child Okemos, Mich., with her husband, John, Directors Anne Lynch Pittman is a physician/ development from the Erikson Institute and their children: Eddie, 15, Clare, 12, Sheila Conlin Brown ’56 7251 2390 East Street administrator in Lexington, Ky., where she in Chicago and have been working as a and Kevin, 9. Princeton, IL 61356 has lived for six years. She is married to therapist with young children and their Tricia Burke is president of Offi ce (815) 659-3040 • [email protected] Tom and has one child, Brigid, 8. Anne families for the past 18 years. I live in Environment Company in Louisville, Ky. Laura Proto Campise ’92 says, “It has been great to see so many the Kankakee area and I am married to She has been married for 10 years to 2654 Brandon Road Upper Arlington, OH 43221 women I admire—and to catch up with old Dennis, who is the executive director of George VanArsdale and has a 25-year-old (614) 488-8443 • [email protected] and new friends.” a residential facility for adolescent sex stepson, Michael. Her big news is Jill Moore Clouse ’99 Martha Maggio Merizon, offenders. I have two kids: Luke, 17, a that she’s going to be a grandmother 3202 North Paulina Street, 2S Maria Bladowski Sobczak, Ann senior in high school; and Hannah, 13, in November! All ’81 classmates are Chicago, IL 60657 Kiley Schneider, and Jane Kopec an 8th grader who has just signed with welcome to come “porch” with her in (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] Bentkowski spent fi ve glorious days at an agent in Chicago as a professional Louisville! Mary Sue Dunn Curry ’85 Maria’s lake cabin in the north woods of actress.” 5434 Flowering Dogwood Lane Charlotte, NC 28270-3729 Wisconsin in July. They hope their “Chicks From Lexi Swedish Gibbons: (704) 814-7967 • [email protected] in the Sticks 2006” adventure becomes a “I am living in Tucson, Ariz., with my Sue Poss Harrison ’83 Nora Barry Fischer ’73 new tradition. husband, Tom ND ’81, and three of our 4468 North Prospect Avenue 1026 Highmont Road Beth Norton lives in Saint Louis, fi ve children. Our oldest, TJ, graduated Shorewood, WI 53211 Pittsburgh, PA 15232-2905 Mo., and is an artist and teacher. She just from the Naval Academy in 2004 and is (414) 763-8352 (412) 363-4354 • [email protected] purchased a home with a great studio. stationed in Coronado, Calif. Number two, [email protected] Roslyn Castrogiovanni Hill ’69 Sharon Moore Cardona writes: “I’m Daniel, is a junior at Virginia Tech; Sean 506 Timber Terrace Road Houston, TX 77024 still retired from the Air Force, now going is a senior in high school; Keegan is a Hi there, Class of 1983 classmates! (713) 681-8235 • [email protected] on fi ve years. I’m working as director of sophomore; and Meaghan is in the 6th You should all feel free to e-mail or write Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 nursing at Saltzer Medical Group here in grade. I was reunited with my roommate, me with your news. There is a lot going on 944 Spannwood Street Idaho. My daughter, Karin, is a sophomore Kathleen Carbonara, as well as with in everyone’s lives, and your classmates Indianapolis, IN 46228 (317) 253-4494 • [email protected] at Saint Mary’s College; Kristina, is a Nancy Singer Gies, Bridget O’Keefe want to hear from you! I get an e-mail list junior at Bishop Kelly High School; and Sepich, Kathy Griffi n, Laura Ruddy from Saint Mary’s College only every fi ve Marilyn Wolter Laboe ’61 360 East Hurd Road son “Dragon” is in seventh grade. My Emory, Annemarie Mannion, and years (at reunion time), and as it has been Monroe, MI 48162 husband, Joseph, is a traveling executive Laura Barry Walsh at reunion. We really a few years since our last reunion, my (734) 243-3345 • [email protected] nurse, currently working in Kansas to pay had fun catching up and looking at old e-mail list is becoming outdated. Many Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy ’66 college and high school tuitions. I recently pictures. I spent a bunch of time with of my e-mails to you asking for news 505 Welwyn Road recovered from a serious illness and have Peggy Showalter Malady, Mary Beth get returned, so please, please, please Richmond, VA 23229-8105 (804) 741-5301 • [email protected] regained my strength.” Kasper Rapice, and Bernie Ryan as drop me a line any time with your news. I Susan Laney Munie lives in well since we were all together at the get feedback from almost everyone who LeeAnn Franks McConnell ’85 1006 Eastland Drive Belleville, Ill., with her husband, Michael, same hotel. Dorothy Spollen Johnston sends me news that they love to hear Sturgis, MI 49091 and their two daughters, Maggie, 10, and has lived in Dallas, Tex., for six years from our classmates in the Courier—so (269) 651-9955 • [email protected] Ellie, 8. She is a stay-at-home mom. with her husband, Randy, and their three why not write in with your news next! Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Jean Sneeringer Sedlacko reports: children: Patrick, 12, Erin, 8, and Sean, 2. Thanks from all of us! 2500 North Seminary, 7E “My family and I live in Burtonsville, Md. She is an MIS project manager and works Here’s the latest on a few members Chicago, IL 60614 (773) 404-7476 • [email protected] My husband, Steve, and I were married in for Michael’s Arts and Crafts. from the Class of 1983: Bridget 1999 and have two sons: Stevie, 6, and CC Cantwell Pujals lives in Glenview, Madigan Zalcman writes that for the Adriana Garces Petty ’01 1615 Altgeld Street Joey, 3. I’m an attorney for Enterprise Ill., with her husband, Pedro, and children past 11 years, she has been living in South Bend, IN 46614 Community Partners in Columbia, Md., a Peter, 11, J.C. 7, and William, 4. Bethel, Conn., with her husband of 20 (574) 514-3237 • [email protected] national nonprofi t organization focusing From Barb O’Connell Hoyt: “My years, Fred, and their three children: a Lisa Maxbauer Price ’99 on low-income housing and community most recent (and, I hope, last) career daughter 15, and two boys ages 11 and Post Towers 75 West Street, Apt 2B development. My primary role is to venture is as the enrichment teacher at a 7. Bridget met her husband at Indiana New York, NY 10006-1791 provide legal assistance to our loan local public school. It’s really a lot of fun, University School of Law, from which she (212) 608-1006 • [email protected] fund, which lends mostly to nonprofi t and I especially like the fact that I work graduated in 1986. She now has a law Kimmi Martin Troy ’00 developers who are building or renovating with a broad age range—kindergarten practice in Bethel. 936 Currie Place affordable housing. My husband is in food through fi fth grade. My oldest daughter, Kelly McLaughlin Gruscinski and Wauwatosa, WI 53213 (414) 771-0306 • [email protected] sales, after a long career as a chef (which Clare Hoyt ’06, graduated from Saint her husband, Tom ND ’83, live in North is great for the home front). In my spare Mary’s College this past May. She is Olmsted, Ohio. Kelly and Tom have three Abby Van Vlerah ’04 303 East LaSalle, Apt. 112B time, I’m president of Northwest Church currently working at a law fi rm in Chicago children: Mickey is a student at Saint South Bend, IN 46617 Family Network, a nonprofi t in Washington, to save money for law school. My second Mary’s College, Tim attends Kent State (574) 288-7774 • [email protected] D.C., that provides supportive housing for daughter, Maura Hoyt ’07, just started University, and Kevin is in middle school. Rebecca Votto ’93 formerly homeless families. her senior year at Saint Mary’s College Kelly works as a school psychologist part- Apt. C, 930 W. Balboa Boulevard Jennifer Disabato Clapper lives in and is a nursing major. Matt is a senior in time and teaches psychology at a local Newport Beach, CA 92661 (310) 597-9210 • [email protected]

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community college. Her husband, Tom, is are affi liated with the Catholic Church. Her Theresa Kloska Thomas dropped a that she has an endowed chair in the a federal prosecutor at the United States next project involves work with prisoners. note mentioning that she is working with Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Attorney’s Offi ce in Cleveland. She has some very interesting writings on the editors at Ascension Press on a new Administration and is the chair of the this subject. Beth just moved back from book: Amazing Grace for Homeschoolers. marketing department as well as the Belgium after spending a number of years Other books in the series are Amazing director of the University’s Teaching, ’85 Elaine Suess abroad, in both the Far East and Europe. Grace for Those Who Suffer, Amazing Learning and Technology Center. 15 Rawson Woods Circle She lives in the Milwaukee area now with Grace for the Catholic Heart, and Amazing The fi nal update is from Debbie Cincinnati, OH 45220 her husband and their three children—two Grace for Mothers. The new Amazing Hickey, who’s living large in the Outer (513) 708-2136 boys and a girl. Melissa is in Chicago with Grace book, to be completed in early Banks of North Carolina, where she [email protected] her husband, Marty ND ’85, and their 2007, will be fi lled with 101 stories of moved from San Diego in November adopted daughter and biological son. hope and inspiration for families who 2004. Debbie says that the transition Greetings, classmates! There must She is busy with her kids and loving their home school. [Calling all homeschoolers!! back east has been great, as she is now have been something in the air this growing-up years. Theresa is looking for stories and hoping “within six hours of most of my family.” summer, since fi ve of you promptly Colleen Flynn Roohan checked some of our classmates might be She was also fortunate enough to fi nd jumped on the computer to send an in with us from California. She was interested in contributing. If so, please a job right away and is working for the update after receiving your Courier. disappointed to have missed the reunion use the following link to share your story. local Coldwell Banker franchise as the Let’s do that again! but did have a chance to catch up with She will be collecting stories through CFO. She notes that living at the beach Update number one was from a few people as a “caller” for the class 2006 (the deadline on the Web site at comes with perks: it’s easy to get people Chicagoan Melissa Meyer Burke. She campaign. She had just returned from the time of this writing was incorrect) to come and visit! The past two summers shares that she just spent a weekend Quito, Ecuador, with Catherine Brissette http://www.amazinggraceonline. she has hosted a “mini Saint Mary’s with Jayne Kenny Mikulski, Mary Reidy. They took their eldest daughters, net/submit_story.asp?id=6.] College reunion” with Patti Buchanan Isphording Ladrick, Jeanne Anselman Mary Kate and Maddie, and worked Like Colleen, Theresa and her Barniskis, Anne Gilmore Feith, Aversa, Colleen King Kuhn, Kathy for a Jesuit-run organization with which husband sent their oldest off to college Maryellen May, and Darlene Wojda Curran, and Beth McDevitt-Major, so Catherine and her parents have been this year: David was awarded a full-tuition Hanson. They were joined this year by she had the news at her fi ngertips. Jayne associated for years. She said that it was scholarship at the University of Dayton Debbie’s Saint Mary’s College roommate, is living in Fayetteville, Ark., with her a truly amazing and rewarding experience. as a John W. Berry Scholar. Theresa is Theresa Biondo Flick. Patty is living husband, Mike ND ’82, and four children, Not surprisingly, Colleen is keeping very grateful and proud of him! Two of her in the Twin Cities area after spending a two girls and two boys. She is very active busy with her four kids. Her eldest, Eddie, children are in the diocesan high school, few years in Singapore. Her oldest son with her church and family there. Mary is has started college at Loyola University of and one is in eighth grade at the diocesan is going to Marquette in the fall! Anne is in Cincinnati with her husband and four Los Angeles. As some of you have already grade school (his fi rst experience with a busy woman, as always, with her two girls. She is busy in the architecture and experienced, Colleen says it is truly a “regular” school this year, mainly because daughters and is currently building a museum industries as well as a busy mom weird feeling to have a college-age kid! he wanted to play football). Theresa home new home. Maryellen is working for The to her four successful girls. Jeanne is in Her other children are Mary Kate, who is a schools four of her children, as she has Hartford in the District of Columbia area the Boston area with her husband and two junior, and Joe, a freshman. Her youngest, been doing since 1994. Unbelievably, and is very recently happily married to D. boys. She is working in higher education Sheila, will be in fi fth grade. Colleen still there is time left over for Theresa to J. Darlene is in the District of Columbia and is always on the move with her boys. works as a geriatric nurse practitioner, write a column for Today’s Catholic and, area and is very busy chasing her two Colleen is in Pittsburgh with her husband, now as a volunteer. She runs a ministry occasionally, for Catholic Exchange. little ones, who are in 1st grade and Nick ND ’84, and four children—two girls to the sick and elderly—keeping track Follow this link to read one of her articles pre-kindergarten. Theresa has had a and two boys. Her oldest, Elizabeth, of seniors and their living and health http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/ tough year, as she recently underwent a starts at Notre Dame this fall. Colleen is situations. Husband Ed ND ’85 is doing index.asp?vm_id=6&art_id=33665. pancreas transplant and is facing a kidney also very active and may be one of the great—now an offi cial fi ve-year cancer Working hard in Texas and being transplant in September. She is a fi ghter hardest working women I know! Kathy is in survivor—working in Los Angeles and rewarded for it is Debbie Laverie! She and is doing well, all things considered. the San Francisco Bay area and has two traveling a bit. Colleen is hoping to hook has been promoted from associate Debbie has also had Mary Ann Potter boys and a girl. She is a social worker up with more west coast Saint Mary’s professor to full professor of marketing Ruthmeyer visit a few times since she’s involved in many projects, some of which College gals in the coming year! at Texas Tech University. Debbie mentions moved. Mary Ann, her husband, Bernie,

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30 COURIER | Winter 2006 and son, Leo, 1, came to visit for a week her daughter is going to school. Jenny visit, Sandy mentioned that she has now Minn. Starting in fall 2006, Caroline in the summer. Debbie shares that Mary and Pat ND ’90 moved to Michigan fi ve lived in Indiana longer than she lived in began home schooling her four oldest Ann’s visits are special, as she introduced years ago and, two years ago, bought a Ohio. Funny thing, though; Mimi is 100% children—Collin, Maggie, Elizabeth, and Debbie to her boyfriend, Steve, over home in Clarkston, Mich., close to Jenny’s sure that Sandy still cheers (loudly) for the Grace—while juggling Duncan, 1! Good 12 years ago in San Diego! Debbie also parents, allowing them the opportunity Cleveland Browns every Sunday. luck, Caroline and Mike ND ’89! keeps in touch with Meg Rowley, who to visit South Bend at least three times The O’Learys are all doing well and In Milwaukee, Wis., Mariellen Barry is doing really well throughout all of the each fall. She had been a stay-at-home continue to hold their breath during this Roeder and Randy are thrilled with the changes her bank has experienced. Meg mom to Erin, 8, and Payton, 4, but got hurricane season. They live in Palm arrival of their twins, Conner James and is working for JP Morgan in their private bored and returned to school for a second City, Fla. (30 miles north of West Palm Megan Marie, on July 17, 2006. Katie client services area. Also in Chicago master’s degree—this one in educational Beach) and are fortunate enough to Flanagan Murphy and her husband, are Cathy McIssac Branigan, Patty administration. Jenny considered a go to Lake Wawasee every summer in Tom, welcomed their February blessing, Drabic Quinn, Joanne Noonan, and principal position before jumping at the northern Indiana; so, their kids have Mary Margaret “Molly,” in St. Louis. Lynn Trisha Glomb Ladner, who are frequent chance to teach at St. Joseph’s. She visited the Saint Mary’s College/Notre Uritis Smith and Kevin added daughter, e-mailers. caught up with Linda Arce Cosgrove Dame campuses many times. Mary Kate Jorja, to their family of boys—Cole and We’re grateful for the updates! Next and Katy Cancro Colletto at their 20th is hoping to go to the Fine Arts Camp at Mac—on Aug. 9, 2006, in West Chester, deadline is March 1. Take care! high school reunion. Saint Mary’s College in two short years Pa. Lynn also passed along news that in Karen Crespy spent the July 4th and Lucy Fralich (Sandy’s daughter) may Wayzata, Minn., Frances Burke Phillips weekend in Grand Rapids, Mich., with join her as her roommate. What goes and Ed ND ’87 welcomed Benedict “Ben” ’89 Karen E. Crespy Barb Moorhead Vedders and family. around comes around they say… Edward on May 9, 2006. Congratulations 10613 Weymouth St., #103 Abby, 8, and Jack, 5, entertained her at Theresa Kress Marks continues to to all! Bethesda, MD 20814 the pool and entertained themselves by enjoy living in Maui. After 10 years of kids Tammy Shelor Blain is happy to (301) 897-2157 beating her repeatedly in UNO Attack. at home she has a quiet house for the announce her marriage to Todd! They [email protected] Barb and her husband, Joel, are both fi rst time—at least for a few hours a day. tied the knot in South Bend, Ind., at Clay registered nurses at Spectrum Health’s Both her girls—Skylar, 10, and Annabel, United Methodist Church on April 29, I’ll start off by once again asking Butterworth Campus on the orthopedic 7—are writing and recording their own 2006. The reception was in the South everyone to send me an e-mail with your fl oor. After fi ve years in Chicago, which songs, just like their father, Gary. Their Bend Marriott atrium. Todd is in the Secret updated contact info. We’ve got lots of included earning an M.B.A. in Notre main inspiration is the Beatles. Even Service, working for the Department of bad e-mails and addresses on the class Dame’s executive program, Karen headed 3-year-old Shawn does a mean rendition Homeland Security. The couple lives in list, so please take a moment and send back to the east coast in late July and now of “Hard Day’s Night.” Theresa has been Plainfi eld, Ill., where Tammy is a region your info to the address above. Thanks! lives in Bethesda, Md., about a mile from surprised at how much she enjoys writing business director within Ortho-McNeil, Katherine Senko Yarussi is enjoying where she grew up. She is a marketing and is currently working on a book about Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. a calm and well-traveled life! After a golf manager for BNA Books in District of an Indian saint named Ammachi, a world- Patty Walsh Whelpley ’90 and John trip to Ireland and then to Tuscany for Columbia and is happy to be back around renowned humanitarian. ND ’90 welcomed Annette Elizabeth into a wedding, she headed back to Dublin her family and lots of friends—and hopes She also had a wonderful reunion their family on March 23, 2006. Annette for some contract work with Aer Lingus. to soon reconnect with Cathy Mansfi eld with Janel Hamann Vanek last spring is the youngest of fi ve Whelpkins who What a life! Fox. Prior to leaving Chicagoland, she in Pt. Reyes, Calif., just north of San give her way too much attention. Patty From the pictures sent by Becky had one more girls’ lunch with Karen Francisco. They had a relaxing weekend and John live in Vienna, Va., outside of Jasper Seibert, it’s clear she is enjoying Luby Burton. Karen is keeping busy with hiking, shopping, and eating. Janel lives Washington, D.C., where Patty home family life with her husband, Scott, and her husband, Kurt, and boys, Andrew, 11, in Ashburn, Va., with her husband, Phil, schools her children and has been doing son, Isaac, 1, in New Hope, Minn. and Alexander, 5. She’s always running off and their two children, Kathryn and some freelance, pro bono public relations The weekend of July 14, 2006 found to one of their sporting events! Christopher. work for a pro-life OB/GYN practice in the Jen Sante Soller, Sheila Feeley, Katie Mimi Tuohy O’Leary and Mike Lisa Lavelle Burke resigned her law area, Tepeyac Family Center. Gugle, Deanne Wachel Sabatino, ND ’89 took their three kids—Joe, 10, partnership in Washington, D.C., to stay Julie Stautberg, Barb Bolla Kopko, Mary Kate, 9, and Jack, 5—to Chicago at home now that baby boy number two Kathi Danahy Pernsteiner, and Lynne last summer to see Peggy Kramer is on the way! Lisa, Tom, and Jack, 3, are ’93 Amy Smith Wheeler Lauer Kasperan spending their annual McLaughlin and Jack ND ’89. Peggy anxiously awaiting his arrival. 1340 West Country Club Dr. girls’ reunion back on campus for some and Jack have three boys—Jake, 3, Amy Haynes Cihak sent word of Angola, IN 46703 quiet time and to check out all the and identical twins Colin and Patrick, 20 her marriage to Peter on Aug. 12, 2006, (260) 833-3177 changes—the Opus apartments made months. The O’Leary kids loved helping at Saint Edward Park in Seattle, Wash. [email protected] them want to re-enroll! The group spent to care for all of the boys and being the Congratulations, Amy! one afternoon at Lynne’s beautiful cottage “big kids” for a change. Jack is enjoying Tammy Suth Crowe and Tom ND Tricia Starr Reeder is living in on Koontz Lake, where Peggy Halloran his job with Aon Insurance in Chicago, ’89 are enjoying their life and family in Alexandria, Va., with husband Dave ND joined them. Sounds like a fabulous time! and Peggy works in the legal department Indianapolis, Ind. Four growing children, ’93. They welcomed John (Jack) William Summer means pool time, meeting at Harris Associates. Joining the group Chelsey, 17, Gabriella, 14, Kiersten, on June 11, 2005. His big sister, Emily friends for lunch, playing lots of tennis, for dinner one evening was Colleen 13, and Madeline, 11, keep them on Patricia, 2, was excited to have a new occasionally working at the pro shop, Martin Garrity. Colleen works part time their toes! Tammy has been at Roche friend in the family. Tricia has put her job and heading out to the islands (Lake Erie, at Northwestern Hospital and works Pharmaceuticals for 15 years and works at the Pentagon on hold to stay at home that is!) for Anne Bader. It also means full time as mom to Liam and Finn. This in sales. with the kids. recovering from and recharging for a past summer, Colleen was scheduled to Penny Falaschetti Dolan and Dennis Joy Wysocki Lee and husband new school year in Avon Lake, Ohio. This participate in two different mini-Ironman ND ’89 welcomed their third daughter, Chris live in Goshen, Ind., and have two year Anne moved from teaching second events. Go, Colleen…you are making your Maggie Colleen, on Memorial Day, May children, Caden, 3, and Onycha, 1. grade to teaching third grade. She tries classmates proud! 29. Their older daughters, Erin, 11, and Michelle Pitcher wrote in to to see Jenny MacDougall Bero at Also this past summer, the O’Leary Molly, 6, are thrilled to have a baby sister. report that in November 2005, she least once a year in either Michigan or family spent a weekend in Indiana with This was the fi rst time Penny spent the and her husband, Marty Willis, fi nalized Ohio. Jenny recently passed along loads Sandy Cerimele Fralich and her family. summer home with her children, and it the adoption of their daughter, Megan of third-grade educational materials to Sandy and John have two kids: Lucy, was a challenge—she gives a lot of credit Rose. “She was eight weeks old when supplement Anne’s curriculum. Jenny, who third grade, and Andrew, fi rst grade. to all stay-at-home moms! In late August, she entered our lives as a foster child took time off from teaching third grade to They are very happy in Indianapolis, Penny returned to work at the University in 2004. She will be 2 in May. She is stay home with her children, has taken a where Sandy is now working for a private of Chicago, where she coordinates the joined by her brother, Michael Robert, teaching position in the fi fth grade at St. insurance company after being with the clinical trials in Gynecologic Oncology. who will be 5 in May. He was 14 months Joseph School in Lake Orion, Mich., where government for 15 years in the workers’ Penny passed on news of Caroline old when he, too, entered our lives as a she did her master’s internship and where compensation department. During the Piatak Sinclair, who lives in Rochester, foster child. His adoption was fi nalized

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in June 2003.” On the day of Michael’s ever since—and love it! We recently third child, Michael David, on Nov. 25, National Laboratory in Argonne. Michele adoption, Mary Soice Nixdorf ’94 and welcomed our fi rst child, daughter Ella 2005. Kuhlmann Nelson and husband Calvin her husband, Rob, fl ew to Michigan from Grace, in February 2006.” From the Courier Offi ce: Kristen ND ’98 were at the wedding as well, and their home in New York to surprise the Laura remains close friends with Sue Martina Kowalski wrote: “My husband, we enjoyed catching up with them. They family at the courthouse. Michelle, along Oross. Sue has lived in Atlanta for the Dave, and I welcomed our second child, are living in Round Lake Beach, Ill., with with her husband, is still managing the past 12 years. She works as an offi ce Nathan Walter Kowalski, on Feb. 22, their daughters, Catherine, Carolyn, and family’s hardware store and takes the kids manager in a successful law fi rm and 2006. He joins big sister Grace, 5. We are Anna. and a chocolate lab to work every day. has recently taken on responsibilities for still living in Glen Ellyn, Ill. I also completed Ignacio and I are now back in North During their time away from work, they their Miami offi ce as well. Laura writes: my master’s in taxation from the Carolina and the 2006-7 school year is are remodeling their Victorian farmhouse, “Although we don’t live near each other, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign underway. I continue to teach French at built in 1901. we are fortunate to be able to visit each in May 2006. I was a member of the Meredith College and tutor French and Julie Lynch and husband Matt Asher other once or twice a year. Sue visited inaugural year of the one-year program Spanish at Wake Technical Community welcomed twin boys, Patrick Leo and recently for my baby shower in February offered in downtown Chicago.” College, as well as coordinate their Cullen Bray, into their family in Charleston, and is doing great!” Kristen also had news of Molly foreign language help center. Ignacio is S.C., on June 15. Condon Sell and Kate Nugent Shean. in his seventh year teaching Spanish at Michelle Budd Munch and husband Molly is living in Chicago with her Duke. Bill are keeping busy as they welcomed ’95 Colleen Morrissey husband, Terry. She just began a new job I now invite you to prepare a cup of their fi fth child, Maggie Michelle, born 4067 Indianola Avenue and is the head pastry chef for a large tea or hot chocolate and sit down and Oct. 24, 2005. She joined Billy, 11, Andy, Columbus, OH 43214 catering company, Food For Thought, in relax for a few moments. Enjoy catching 9, Shelby, 7, and Angie, 4. “I continue to (614) 263-0761 Chicago. Kate and her husband, Skip, up with our classmates, many whom you stay at home and raise this crew. Believe [email protected] welcomed their second child. Carolyn will see (I hope) at our 10-year reunion me, there is never a dull moment. I truly Quinn Shean was born March 28, 2006. this summer. (Can you believe it?) Amusez- enjoy it!” Thanks to everyone for sending She joins big sister Brigid, 4. The Sheans vous bien! Suzanne Schaffl er Bautch writes updates! I apologize for the short class are living in Western Springs, Ill. Wedding bells rang for many that she and husband Danny ND ’92 news section this time; I completely forgot classmates in 2005-6. On Aug. 5, welcomed baby boy Austin James into to send out reminders. My only news is REUNION May 31–June 3, 2007 2006, Bronwyn McAuliffe married their family. Born June 13, 2006, he joins that I enjoyed another trip to Europe in Jimmy Azzarello ND ’97. Classmates Jackson, 5, and Ava Rose, 2. Suzanne May 2006; we visited Spain, the French ’97 Amy L. Brabeck in attendance were Kristen DiNovo has been living in Garden City, N.Y., for Riviera, Monaco, and Italy for two weeks. 2211 Hillsborough Road Maxwell (bridesmaid), Laura Smith the past two years and stays home with Also, I became an aunt for the second Apt. 4090 Nocera, Ellen Duggan Ariston, Regan the kids while Danny works for Goldman time! My sister, Krista Morrissey Gipson Durham, NC 27705 Doherty, Kathleen Urda, Kate Kozacik Sachs in Manhattan. ’00, and her husband, Matt, welcomed [email protected] Galley, Jennifer Ligda Busk, Beth Cindy Jordan Littlefi eld and their second daughter, Alaina Kathleen, Dorr McAuliffe ’94, and Anne Kratzer husband Matt welcomed Lauren Olivia, on Jan. 22, 2006. She joins older sister Bonjour! Hola! I hope this fi nds you Wilmes ’00. Bronwyn and Jimmy are their fi rst child, on July 11, 2006. Cecilia Rose, 3. Please keep sending doing well and keeping warm this winter. living in Houston, Texas. Entrepreneur Laura Giorno updates; my next deadline is Feb. 28, As I write, it’s a delightful September On Aug. 6, 2005, Laura Lechman DeRousse has been busy starting her 2007! afternoon in Durham, about 85 degrees. married Johnny Rodriguez in San Pedro, own line of all-natural cosmetics, Tropical Maureen Buckley Everling and Autumn fl owers are beginning to blossom Calif. They met at a California high Betty. “All of our products are handmade husband Larry welcomed Lauren Buckley and apples are starting to make an school, where they both now teach. and inspired by the tropics. The line is Everling on May 6, 2006. She joins big appearance at the farmers’ market—the Laura received her master’s in rhetoric carried in local and national boutiques sister Colleen. beginnings of fall, my favorite season. and composition from California State and salon/spas, as well as being I have some sad news to report; in That was true at Saint Mary’s College, University on May 18, 2006. Eventually, available through our Web store at www. July 2006, Katie Northup’s 30-year-old too…such a beautiful time of year on she hopes to teach English composition tropicalbetty.com.” While Laura began her brother, Joshua, died suddenly of an campus. at a community college. Laura and Johnny line as a side business, last summer, she undiagnosed heart ailment in Louisville, Ignacio and I are still in North Carolina celebrated their fi rst anniversary and her left her 12-year career as a commercial Ky. Katie has moved from New Jersey to and doing well, having enjoyed the graduation by taking a trip to Europe in property manager to pursue the business Louisville, where she purchased a home summer. Ignacio directed Duke’s summer July 2006. full-time. In 2005, she was able to expand and is working in marketing at KFC. study abroad program in Madrid, and I Kim Pohlman married Norman the line to include a division called TB Jennifer O’Dell writes: “I was joined him for three weeks toward the Meske on July 9, 2005, at the Drake Corporate Gifts. “This not only includes married on Oct. 28, 2006, in Toledo, end. We stayed in Madrid mostly and also Hotel in Oakbrook, Ill. Kim’s matron of the cosmetics, but other island-inspired Ohio, to Jason Shaffer, my boyfriend visited the south (Cádiz) and the north honor was Theresa Causa Major ’95. gifts, including koa, acacia, tapa, and of three years. He is a graduate of (Burgos). I had never been to the north Bridesmaids included Nikki Gauthier Hawaiian confectionery. It has proven West Virginia University and is currently before; it was amazing how different Dirnberger and Jennifer Kovalcik to be a very successful branch to the a graphic designer at the National it was from Madrid and the south. It Paterno. The ring bearer was Geoffrey business and has allowed me to continue Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. We reminded me so much of Bruges, without Dirnberger, Kim’s godson. Kim and to work in the commercial property honeymooned right after the wedding the canals and horse-drawn carriages. Norman honeymooned in Paris for 10 management industry, as many building for a couple of weeks in Ireland. Also, I During the last week of the study abroad days and now reside in the Norwood Park managers are now my corporate clients.” was promoted recently to the position of program, I took intensive daily Spanish neighborhood of Chicago. Laura had been working in property assistant director of corporate affairs for courses at one of the many language Going a little bit further back, Melissa management at The John Buck Company the Laborers International Union of North schools in Madrid. My Spanish continues Roberts Wheeler married Martin in in Chicago before Tropical Betty took off. America in Washington, D.C. I am the to improve; maybe some day I will November 2003. Melissa writes: “Our (Coincidentally, she was hired by Sue Union’s expert on corporate governance teach it! married life has been totally blessed. We Draths ’83, who picked out her résumé reform and securities regulation as it Summer travels also took us to both are working for the Church. I am because she was a Saint Mary’s College relates to our union’s benefi t funds. I love Illinois, where we were happy to attend chairperson of the theology department graduate.) Laura is married to David, my job and love living here in the nation’s April Sass’s wedding to Jay Johnson. at Bishop Dwenger High School in who is director of business development capital. I also passed another milestone—I April and Jay were married on Aug. 5, Fort Wayne, Ind. I love teaching the for Premier Waste & Recycling. “We have been in remission from Hodgkin’s 2006, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church students about their faith; specifi cally, I were married on the island of Kauai in Disease (a lymphatic cancer) for over 10 in Darien, Ill. It was a clear, sunny day and teach Catholic Social Teaching and Old September 2002. We had a beautiful years now, after being diagnosed not too a lovely wedding. April and Jay bought Testament. Catholic Social Teaching beachfront ceremony with our immediate long after graduation.” a home and are living in Bolingbrook, Ill. gives me a chance to connect faith family in attendance. We have been living Julie Peterson Krolczyk reports April continues to teach at St. Joan of in downtown Chicago on Michigan Avenue that she and husband Jim welcomed their Arc School in Lisle; Jay works at Argonne

32 COURIER | Winter 2006 and politics...two of my loves. I am also currently earning my master’s in club theological studies from Notre Dame. revisions to her dissertation at Fordham in clips In January 2005, we welcomed our New York City. She enjoyed a three-week daughter, Ruth Naomi. She is a true trip home to South Bend in late summer blessing to us. Kelly Cook Lewis came and attended Bronwyn’s wedding on for a visit with her little one, Riley Lynn. All Aug. 5. the girls were able to hang out together... Peggy Lenczewski Miller has had so much fun. Naturally, Kelly and I talked “a full year.” She married John on June about how great it will be when our girls 17, 2006. John is from the Cleveland are in the same class at Saint Mary’s area; they met while working at MBNA College! This past summer, we had the four years ago. Peggy writes: “Lest chance to see Emily Bochy. We were we sound too corporate-America, John visiting family in Ireland, so Emily came released his fi rst solo CD last November over from England (she’s currently living in while I was participating in the National South Yorkshire) to visit. She is loving life!” Novel Writing Month project. We bought Soon to move beyond the United our fi rst home in South Euclid in March States borders as well are Alex Norris and are settling in and getting used to Pfeifer, husband Mark ND ’98, and their being married. After working at MBNA son, Patrick. Alex writes: “In a couple of for six years, I quit at the end of July and weeks, we’re moving to Australia! Mark am looking for a new job in the area. I got a post-doc at La Trobe University, am also training for the Towpath Half which is located outside of Melbourne. It Marathon and volunteer for the Cleveland The Boston Club hosted a social on October 25 at Solas in Clinic. I recently visited my good friend, was a hard decision to leave, but it will be downtown Boston. Standing (from left to right): Beth Castricone ’01, great for Mark’s career, plus it’s a once-in- Catherine Bohan-Opel ’98, who was a-lifetime opportunity. We will be there for the maid of honor at my wedding. She and Rosie Leonard Maxcey ’93, Julie Leonard ’93, Ellen O’Tool Tregear three years, and who knows where we’ll her husband, Jonathon, welcomed a little ’99. Seated (from left to right): Sarah Looney Marshall ’98, Jeni be after that! I’ll miss living in California boy, Nathon Alexander, mid-August and Hackbush ’03, Katie Ward ’03, Debbie Mardoian Haroian ’82, because I actually ended up liking it here. are doing well. Nicole Kraimer Strieter ’99. I never thought that being married to a Thank you all for the updates you physicist would be such an adventure, sent. I hope to hear from a record number or that I would be a world traveler! I’ve of you for our next report (my deadline is always wanted to live abroad, though; but April 1), the last one before our 10-YEAR I never dreamed it would be in Australia. REUNION! For now, take care and a happy Patrick is doing fi ne, too. He’s 3 and has and blessed 2007 to all. I look forward to She continues to use her talents as an a huge personality, very affectionate and seeing you soon. À bientôt, Amy attorney to help low-income families ’01 Molly Kahn intelligent, and extremely active. He keeps with legal assistance. She lives in Logan 5906 North Old Orchard Drive me busy!” Square in Chicago. Peoria, IL 61614 Many of our classmates have ’99 Jennifer Wejman I met up with Beth Schafer and (309) 453-5689 welcomed additions to their families 1437 West Belle Plaine, No. 2 Chrissy Bartle Meko for lunch when [email protected] in the past year. Marysarah Cutrara Chicago, IL 60613 they were in town. Beth was leaving Carpenter and husband Jeff ND ’97 [email protected] the next day to move to Alabama after Alyson Leatherman had their fi rst baby, Nora Josephine, on living in Michigan for the past four years. 504 SE 61st Avenue March 8, 2006. Katie Boyle Walicki and Last June, I graduated from DePaul Chrissy and her husband, Justin ND Portland, OR 97215 husband Rich ND ’97 had their second University, along with Margaret Gable ’99, live in Charlotte, N.C. She teaches [email protected] child, Ryan Richard, on June 8, 2006. ’00, with a master’s degree in education fi rst grade. They also told me news Ryan is the little brother to Katie and in language, literacy, and specialized about Kelly Herro Fikri, Jenny Boese From Molly: Greetings, Belles Rich’s fi rst child, Bridget Susan, 3. The instruction. I am still teaching second Nowinsky, and Catherine Griebel. Kelly of 2001! In June, we celebrated our Walickis live in Jackson, Mich., where grade at Alphonsus Academy, where and her husband welcomed a baby girl, fi rst reunion! Although it is diffi cult to Rich works with his dad in the family Breeyan Creevey ’02 teaches as well. Rania, on Aug. 1, 2006. Jenny is working believe that fi ve years have passed business. Erin Luedecking Zimmer and Since I am in Chicago, I am so lucky that in Minnesota as an NCAA compliance since graduation, I was thrilled to see a her husband welcomed twin boys, Henry I get to see so many Saint Mary’s College offi cer. Catherine works in New York, for record number of classmates returning Thomas and James Robert, on April 3, graduates whether they live here or are Safe Horizons, helping to stop human to celebrate this special event. A big 2006. They join their big brother William, just visiting. traffi cking. thank you to all of you who returned the who turned 3 in August 2006. On Sept. 9, 2006, I attended the Jen Mazurek Miles and her classmate update form to Alyson and me. Marianne Banko Luken writes: “I wedding of Jeanine Weigel Pickering husband, Jim ND ’99, continue to reside There is a lot of information to share, so am writing to update the Saint Mary’s and John. Colleen Weigel ’02 was in Northbrook, Ill. Jen is in her eighth year here goes. College class of 1997 about the addition a maid-of-honor. Other bridesmaids of teaching fi fth grade at the same school In LaPlata, Md., Casey Kimball to our family: David, Emma, 5 (and in included Tricia Malovey, Julie Byrdak where she began her teaching career. Compton and her husband, Brent, kindergarten), Jack, 2, and I welcomed Jaworski, and Gretchen Weigel ’96. Jim and Jen celebrated their fi fth wedding welcomed a daughter, Anna Claire Clare Marie on April 3, 2006. The older Shannon Cibella Teague, Laurie Pater anniversary in July with a trip to Hawaii. Compton, in July 2005. Casey is a two are in love with her and enjoy every Roettker, and Molly Cullen ’00 were Jill Moore Clouse and her husband, settlement agent for Buyer’s Title, new thing she does. We continue to live in also in attendance. Michael, gave birth to a son, Sean Allen Inc. Kara DeDecker Monson is in HOT Phoenix, Ariz. I am still able to stay Julie and her husband, John, bought Clouse, on May 9, 2006. The Clouse advertising for the Weinstein Organization home with the kids. I absolutely love it and a house in LaGrange Park, where they family lives in Chicago. in Chicago, where she and husband Eric thank Dave every day for the blessing.” live with their dog, Rusty. Shannon and My Notre Dame friends informed me reside. Angela Shearman works as an In Indiana news, Brandee Carlson her husband, Ryan, built a house in New of more baby news. Sara Levandusky accountant for the Chicago Mercantile Foley and husband Matt moved into a Lenox, where they have recently hosted Reinthaler and her husband, Brian ND Exchange and is working on her M.B.A. new home in Fishers, Ind., in January two fabulous parties! Tricia is teaching ’99, had a baby girl, Clare, in March. This at the Northwestern Kellogg School 2006. And on Sept. 7, 2006, they fi fth grade in Cicero. She is also working summer Katie Ryan Dehmer and her of Management. Julie Norman is a welcomed Aidan Henry Foley. Brandee towards her master’s degree in education husband, Tom ND ’99, also had a baby production assistant for ESPN/ABC says, “Everyone in the Foley household is at DePaul University. girl—named Anna. Sports in New York, N.Y. Kyle Veltri happy and healthy.” Recently, I had brunch with my former is the assistant women’s golf coach Kathleen Urda is working on the fi nal Chicago roommate, Stephanie Villinski. at the University of Notre Dame. Also

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working in the collegiate fi eld, Jennifer Mary Wisniewski were bridesmaids. master’s of school counseling program is a native Irishman but lives in Lexington, Griffi th is the assistant director of Other Saint Mary’s College alumnae in at Duquesne University. She and husband Ky. We were married in Maynooth, Ireland, distance education admission at Saint attendance were Shannon Buchmann, Scott live in Bridgeville, Pa. Rachel and several Belles were in attendance. We Mary-of-the-Woods College in Saint KrisAnne Wilson, Melissa Pauwels ’02, Windler Gordon is a teacher for Knox also had another monumental occasion Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. Stacy Anderson and JudeAnne Wilson ’96. County Schools in Knoxville, Tenn. She on March 25, 2005, when our son, Aidan earned her master’s degree in school On June 17, 2006, in St. Louis, earned her master’s of education from the Louis Hannan, was born. I changed jobs in counseling from Duquesne University Jessica Claes Mumaw married Ben, a University of Tennessee and is married to March 2006 to be an accounting manager and lives in Claysville, Pa. Colleen Michigan State graduate. Her Saint Mary’s Jason. Asha Mukerjee Ruiz is a fourth- for a hotel chain called Home-Towne Borkowski is a paralegal working for College bridesmaids were Emily Swiss, grade teacher for the Lakota School Suites and a lodging broker called Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP Molly Banahan Edwards, Melissa District in West Chester, Ohio, where she Creative Lodging Solutions.” And Shelly in Chicago. Katherine Kelleher is a Bittner Sharpe, and Jillian Koepke. lives with her husband, Kevin. In 2005, Ambroziak is working as a home-based student at The John Marshall Law School Nora Byrne works as an editor for Asha earned her master’s of education social worker and counselor in South in Chicago and will graduate in the Anderson Direct Marketing in San Diego. degree at Miami University. Brigid Bend while pursuing her master’s in social winter of 2007. Colleen Dolphin is a In 2005, she completed a master’s in Phelan teaches elementary school at work at I.U.S.B. graphic designer for Dolphinography in philosophy from Arizona State University Our Lady of Victory in the Archdiocese of A huge update from Molly Gast Lauderdale, Minn. Maureen Capillo is and is married to Christian John Gielow. Washington and lives in Gaithersburg, Md. Holzrichter: “Maha Zayed is entering a program specialist for PeaceGames Stephanie Bartels Kretschmer is a This fall, Brigid also began her master’s in her fi nal year at N.I.U. for her doctorate in Boston, where she lives. KrisAnne marketing coordinator for Lindquist LLP. education. Cristine Renner Traugott is in clinical psychology. Jen Bradburn has Wilson, who did an excellent job as one She and her husband, Richard Louis ND a fi fth-grade teacher at Valley Elementary been living in San Francisco for the past of the reunion campaign chairs, lives in ’99, live in Brentwood, Calif. School and lives in Frederick, Md., with year with her job at Google. She has been Indianapolis, where she is an analytical In the medical fi eld, Megan Jardina husband Ken. with them for the past four years and was chemist for Eli Lilly. Our other reunion is a registered nurse at Children’s In baby news, we are happy to report recently promoted to agency relations campaign chair, Shannon Sarachman Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Ill., and that after a premature birth on Feb. 1, specialist. Desiree Hollis is living in Los Buchmann, is an accountant/budget began a master’s in nursing, women’s 2006, Madelyn Therese Schroeder, Angeles and works for EMC. Marcie analyst for Saint Mary’s College (her offi ce nurse health practitioner program, at the daughter of Katherine Keller Schroeder Livesay bought a condo in Chicago and is in Le Mans!). Shannon and husband University of Illinois Chicago. Monica and husband Jeff, is home and doing owns her own business called Chicago Michael welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Councilor Wohlberg is an administrative perfectly! She arrived two months early Urban Tails. Marcie started the pet care Briella Jean Buchman, on Jan. 10, 2006. fellow at Saint Mary’s Hospital in and had to spend 56 days in the NICU in business to make some money while Briella even attended her fi rst Saint Mary’s Waterbury, Conn. Monica earned her Plano, Texas. Katie has decided to take attending grad school at Loyola for social College reunion! master’s in health administration from a break from teaching to stay home with work. The business became so successful On May 6, 2006, Colleen Carey Saint Louis University and is married to Madelyn. Rebecca Stephens Pavich, that she now has four managers and over Passolt married Brian at St. Mary of the Matt. Kelly Dawson Archambeault is a teacher in Highland, Ind., is married to 25 dog walkers. Melissa Pennington Annunciation in Mundelein, Ill. The maid a registered nurse at Elkhart Memorial Chad. In October 2004, they welcomed lived in Waukegan, Wis., after graduation of honor was Colleen’s cousin, Mary Hospital. Kelly and husband Brian their fi rst daughter, Katelyn Elise Pavich. but got a job with Abbot and moved to Crawford Nolan ’02. Bridesmaids welcomed son Evan Robert in October From Alyson: Greetings, 2001 Sheboygan. She was promoted last month included classmates Colleen Borkowski, 2004. Belles! Hope everyone enjoyed reunion. and moved to Kenosha, where she just Lori Schulte Smithe, Katie Kelleher, A registered nurse at Memorial Sadly, I missed it, but here is the latest bought her fi rst home. For my own news: Shannon Ross Perrino, and Ellen Hospital in South Bend, Jessica Barnett news from our class: Crystal Aguilar- I moved to Milwaukee after graduation, Wright Riley. Colleen Sullivan served Taberski and her husband, Bryan, McMillan wrote, “I’ve been living and worked for Milwaukee Public Schools, and as a Eucharistic Minister. Casey Russell, welcomed twin boys, Mason and Parker, working in Lubbock, Texas, for about married Rob in 2003. We welcomed our Mary Ellen McGowan Landry, Cathy in March of 2005. three and a half years. I recently received baby girl, McKenna, in 2005. Then, last Schroeder Ward, Molly Kahn, Stephanie Molly McVoy is now Dr. Molly my master’s degree in pedagogical summer, we bought a house in Kohler, Rosenthal Boreale, Amanda Shock, McVoy at the University Hospitals of theories and performance aesthetics Wis. We love the small-town atmosphere.” and Sherry Desautels also attended Cleveland, Ohio. She earned her M.D. from Texas Tech University. I work for In wedding news, Kristin Wolfe the beautiful wedding. Lori Smithe from the University of Cincinnati School Literacy Lubbock as a resource and offi ce Theisen wrote, “I was married on May completed her master’s in social work of Medicine. Sarah Merrick Granger is manager; my other job is as a dance 13 to Nicholas in St. Petersburg, Fla. The from Loyola University of Chicago and is a registered nurse for the County of Los teacher for ballet, tap, jazz, ballroom, traditional Catholic ceremony was held the guidance counselor at her alma mater, Angeles and is married to James Edward. Latin, belly dance, and fl amenco.” Julia at the beautiful, old St. Mary Our Lady Carmel Catholic High School. Lori and Jillian Fenske Boerstler is a purchasing Peterson Hannan also checked in: “I was of Grace Church, and the wine-inspired her husband, Tomm, live in Lakemoor, Ill. buyer for the Sisters of St. Francis Health married to Philip on Nov. 25, 2005. Philip reception was held at a nearby yacht Many of the Belles of 2001 dads relived Services in Mishawaka, Ind. Jill and her Senior Dads weekend with a rendition of husband, Stephen, live in South Bend. “Who Let the Dads Out?” at the reception Martha Hartwich is a registered nurse held at the Marriot Lincolnshire Resort. at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital. Martha After a honeymoon in Hawaii, Colleen and wrote, “After graduating, I stayed at Getting Married? Expecting? Brian now make their home in a condo in Saint Mary’s College for another year Chicago. and completed the accelerated nursing We’d like to help you celebrate, Jill Perry Hall married John ND program. Following this, I moved to San ’01 on a beautiful spring day in Denver Diego and worked as a registered nurse but we can’t print news on May 28, 2006. Molly Noem Fulton on a post-surgical/ medical unit for a few about future weddings ’00 was a bridesmaid and classmates years. Currently, I work on the intensive Mindy Rennaker and Dr. Cindy Traub care unit of a psychiatric hospital here. or babies. attended. Although they attended school San Diego has proven a great city to across the street from one another for pursue my musical interests. I sang in a four years, John and Jill met in Denver symphony chorus for a few years and, When your plans become reality, after graduation and now make their last year, I gave a classical piano recital. please let your class reporter home there. My latest endeavor is piecing together Amy Dooms Taylor married John an acoustic rock band and co-hosting an or the Courier offi ce know, from South Bend, Ind., on June 10, open mic in downtown San Diego!” and we’ll gladly print your news 2006, at the Church of Loretto, Saint Julia Scheib Martin, a social Mary’s College. Maarin Erbacher was studies teacher at South Fayette Township after the fact. the maid of honor; Victoria Butcko and High School, is currently enrolled in a

34 COURIER | Winter 2006 club in celebration of our honeymoon in director at St. Clement’s in Chicago. Richardson’s ’08 presidential campaign. Meghan McGinty Anderson and California’s Central Coast wine country.” She is very excited about this position She’s traveling quite a bit, but we always her husband, Ben ND ’03, welcomed Lauren Oppolo Bukovac added, “I was and is looking forward to the new school manage to catch up when she’s in town.” their fi rst son into the world on May 1, married on April 22, 2006, to David. We year.” And Tara Butz wrote, “I graduated And Amy Mastagh received her master’s 2006. His name is Luke Matthew. Erin are living and working in Chicago.” Annie from Saint Xavier’s University with my in social work from I.U. in May 2004 and McGinty ’04 is the godmother. Meghan Rolfes Atkinson shared, “I married master’s this past May. I am getting ready has been working for the Social Security is living in Jacksonville, Fla., where Ben is Aaron, from Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 2, to teach second grade again this fall in Administration. She is very dedicated to a Navy pilot, and she continues to work 2006, in my hometown of Clinton, Iowa. Barrington.” her position and says that her goal is to as a family nurse practitioner. Nicole After honeymooning in Aruba, Aaron Beth Castricone added that she work in the fi elds of policy and research Strzyzykowski Mills has two children, and I settled into a house in central graduated from Simmons College with for the agency. Rose Lutzka signed Chloe, 3, and Bradley, 1. Nicole continues Phoenix.” Erin Martin Williams was also an M.B.A. on Aug 4. Kathy Giel wrote, up for the Army Reserves in December to teach after a year off to be with her married—on July 8 to Hunter. They just “I recently made a job transition and am 2004, and after basic training and kids. Nicole’s husband, Daniel, is in the moved into their house in Oswego, Ill., working as a reading coach for grades advanced training, she returned home Army and has returned from Iraq after where Erin is currently a second-grade K-3 at Hickory Bend School in Glenwood, to Illinois. She plans to attend the Saint spending a year in Baghdad. teacher. And lastly, Laura Brennan Ill. I am still living in Lincoln Park.” And Mary’s College accelerated nursing Becca Fama Giffi n married Derek Schlidt wrote that she married Thomas Brigid Phelan wrote, “I have switched program as an Army R.O.T.C. cadet. on May 27, 2006, in Hobart, Ind. Her ND ’97 in August. She has also fi nished jobs from teaching third grade to teaching And fi nally, I have relocated to bridesmaids included Amber Swiat, her master’s program at Loyola University fourth grade in Washington, D.C. I have Portland, Ore., after fi nishing my master’s Martha Thieneman, Lauren Brown, Chicago and is currently teaching found a wonderful school that will pay in school counseling at William and Mary. and Elizabeth Rosswurm Lecher. sixth- grade reading and language arts at for my full master’s, so I will be starting I have accepted a position at Wilsonville Becca and her husband are living in Mannheim Middle School in Melrose Park, that in the fall.” Kara Kezios also wrote High School and am excited about the Portage, Mich. Elizabeth Lecher married Ill. Congrats to all! with changes, “After two years in New upcoming school year. I hope that you Scott on June 24, 2006, in Indianapolis, In baby news, Katie Willkom York City working at Showtime Networks, all are doing well, and until next time, my Ind. Erika Brito was a bridesmaid. Saint Stopczynski wrote with blessed news, I moved to St. Louis to attend law best. Mary’s College graduates in attendance “On Dec. 28, 2005, John and I had a school at Saint Louis University. I was From the Courier Offi ce: Betsie included Emma Melero Juarez, beautiful baby girl, Madilyn Patricia (Madie welcomed by Cindy Traub, who fi nished Sprague Monico was married to Chris Amanda Grashoff Keister, Lauren for short). We are still living in Brentwood, her Ph.D. at Washington University and on June 24, 2006, in Kalamazoo, Mich. Brown, Amber Swiat, Becca Fama Giffi n, Calif., but hope to return back to the was packing for her move to Maryland to Saint Mary’s College bridesmaids were Amanda Sula Goman, and Katie Bacone. Midwest in the next fi ve years.” Kate teach at another St. Mary’s!” And Maren KrisAnne Wilson, Stephanie Kretschmer, Katie is now a core artist for the Motus Middlemas Kessler wrote, “My news Ammerman has moved to Greensboro, Pam Willbrandt Crocker, Melissa Dance Theatre in Indianapolis, Ind. is the birth of my second son, Anderson N.C., to be the assistant buyer to the Pauwels ’02, and Shannon Buchmann. Mackenzie McGee Stark married James Kessler (AJ), on July 17, 2006. specialty foods buyer at The Fresh Also in attendance were Kelly Walsh, Joe ND ’00 on Sept 2. 2006, in Peoria, Ill. He was a whopping 9 lbs., 4 oz., and Market. Angela Finke Pingel has also Maarin Erbacher, and JudeAnne Wilson Saint Mary’s College bridesmaids included we’re all doing great with our family of relocated to New Orleans. And Andrea ’96. Betsie left PricewaterhouseCoopers Leslie Kleczek and Caitlin McGee ’08. four!” And Machala Keenan Beam said, Herek Wetters provided this update, in January and now works at ADESA, Inc. Other Saint Mary’s College graduates “Things are going very well for my family “Christine Diana fi nished up her master’s in Indianapolis as a tax consultant. in attendance were Katie Vincer, Erin in Colorado Springs. Our son, James degree from the University of Michigan in Moran, Katy Best, Nicole Ciminillo, Harrison Beam, was born May 19. I am the spring of 2006. Kelly Sterritt Clancy Julie Stowers Bohl ’00, and Meagan now staying at home full time to be with welcomed a beautiful baby boy, William ’03 Amanda Sula Goman Walerko ’08. Mackenzie is taking a year him and am enjoying every minute of it.” Thomas Clancy IV, in March of 2006. And, 26B Rolling Oaks Road off from medical school to do research at Amie Zache Kinkade wrote, “Taylor I married Keith in my hometown of Bay Sugar Grove, IL 60554 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Rose was born April 18, 2005, and is City, Mich., in July 2006.” (630) 466-5879 Memphis, Tenn. Next year, she will return now the third little blessing to join the Melissa Wheeler wrote, “Jeremy and [email protected] to Chicago to fi nish medical school. Kinkade clan. I am so excited to have my I are moving to Chicago this October! He Adrienne DeGraff Westlake moved fi rst possible Saint Mary’s College grad!” got a post-doc position at the University Amy Greene to San Antonio, Texas, in July 2006. Missy Bittner Sharpe added, “On Nov. of Chicago and is starting this fall. I will 2105 Orchard Lakes Ct., #21 Reba Koehler Maschmeyer is working 7, 2005, we welcomed Elle Marie Sharpe be ending my career as a forensic drug Toledo, OH 43615 as an applied behavior analysis therapist into the world.” chemist and entering another world (330) 565-9591 with preschoolers with autism. She is Mariecruz Segura-Perez wrote to of drugs—pharmacy! I am applying to [email protected] enjoying living in St. Louis with her puppy, share that she and her husband have a enter pharmacy school for fall 2007.” Kucha. Reba’s husband, John ND ’03, home in East Chicago. Jami Newcomb Amanda DeMeester wrote, “I had a Meganne Hoffman is an embedded software engineer for wrote, “I am fi nishing up my three-year busy but thrilling summer producing 637 West 63rd Street Boeing. Rebekah Hauch Gano is living grad program in speech-language fundraisers in East Hampton, Fire Island, Indianapolis, IN 46260 west of the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pa. pathology at the University of Wisconsin and throughout New York City. In my [email protected] Her husband, Shawn, got a job there after at Madison this year. I’ve already taken a ‘spare time’ this summer, I also produced completing his Ph.D. at Notre Dame. job in the Philly area working with bilingual a benefi t for a nonprofi t theatre company From Amanda: I hope everyone Rebekah is a teacher and assistant elementary children for the 2007-08 that had a show in the Fringe Festival.” is well. Remember to e-mail the class director at Sylvan Learning Center. She academic year.” Nina Riconosciuto And Christine Draper added, “I am still reporters at [email protected]. also teaches special classes and leads wrote, “I am working as a study a realtor in Tucson but have recently Unfortunately, some of your e-mails sent fi eld trips at a local nature center during coordinator for a research company. We found a passion for group fi tness. I have to this address may have been deleted the school year, which she says is a blast! run pharmaceutical trials for different worked to become a certifi ed Les Mills as a result of a technical diffi culty. The Lisa Hudes spent three weeks in psychotropic medications. I am enjoying group fi tness instructor and am beginning problem is now resolved. If something Malawi, Africa, in July 2006 and had the my fi rst nursing job that involves typical to look into pursuing a graduate program you sent to us is not in this issue, please best time! Lisa wrote in about how she 9-5 hours. I’m also getting ready to run in physical therapy—quite a change e-mail us again. I need your updates by spent her time teaching literacy to a my second marathon this fall.” Also in from selling houses!” Crissie Renner Feb. 24 for the Summer 2007 issue. We Standard 7 class, painting blackboards, Chicago, Kate Nolan wrote, “I am now Traugott added, “My husband, Ken, and also need current addresses. Here is the building a library in one of the primary a spin instructor at the second largest I are enjoying life in Maryland! I continue latest news: schools, and falling in love with the health club in Chicago. It is only a side to teach fi fth grade and am anxiously Melanie Burke received her M.A. children. She has one more year in her job right now, but it is something that I preparing for our upcoming school year. in the teaching of literature and writing master’s program for school counseling. am actually passionate about. Jeanne Colleen McCarthy recently resigned her from George Mason University on May 18, Lisa also wrote in to tell us about two Tierney has just been hired as curriculum position for the Democratic Leadership 2006. She is now teaching English writing alumnae. Tita Moreno recently moved Council and has signed on to Governor Bill at Northern Virginia Community College. to New Jersey for her job. So far, she

COURIER | Winter 2006 35 A l u m n a e class news Instructors Needed for Saint Mary’s is enjoying the northeast and loves the Youth Services. graduated from the ACE program last easy access to the city. Marnie McKee Renee Donovan Genetti and her summer and then decided to stay in Summer Camps Kuhn is living in Madison, Wis., with her husband, Michael ND ’01, are moving to Nashville for a few more years, teaching Do you have a background husband, Pete. London this winter. Michael is in charge middle-school math and language arts in music or art? Have you been Last summer, Kristen Mowry of opening several new offi ces for his at her ACE school. This past summer, looking for a reason to come Janiczek moved from Chicago, Ill., company in the U.K. Renee plans on Meghann interned on the Notre Dame back to campus? Here’s a chance to Grand Haven, Mich. Kristen and her attending classes at Cambridge in the campus in liturgical music with Campus to share your love for Saint husband, Randall ND ’02, bought their fi eld of medieval literature. Ministry. Mary’s College with potential fi rst house after Kristen transferred with Candi McElligott writes that she Tami Miller is working in Orlando and students! The 2007 Saint Mary’s her company, BDO Seidman, LLP, to their has been working with The Horton Group, is still in the merchandise management Fine Arts Camp currently has Grand Rapids offi ce. BDO Seidman is the an insurance, risk management, and pool for Disney. She has been working positions open for instructors fi fth largest accounting fi rm in the world; employee benefi ts broker in Orland Park, as a temporary program coordinator for in both music and art. The Kristen works in their internal learning and Ill., for a little over a year now. This past the Disney Institute since the beginning of 2007 Summer Academy has professional development department as summer she was promoted to director of the year. She assists the Disney Institute an art position available. To be a learning program developer/designer offi ce services and public relations for all to ensure that all traveling business considered for the positions, and coordinator. She misses Chicago four United States locations. programs run smoothly. She gets out of please send a resume and cover but is very happy to be back in her home Deanne Czajkowski is working the offi ce every once in a while by helping letter to: state! full time at a public accounting fi rm in out the special events and media team Lisa Reed Peppers ’87 In my own news, I began a new downtown Chicago and is also pursuing at the Magic Kingdom and by facilitating Offi ce of Special Events teaching position in August 2006 as a an M.B.A. in the evenings at Loyola some of the YES programs. Saint Mary’s College K-5 bilingual and English-as-a-Second- University Chicago. In her little free time, Lauren Hofer is in her second year Notre Dame, IN 46556 Language teacher at Gombert Elementary Deanne and her fi ancé have found time to at the Harrison School of Pharmacy at (574) 284-4711 School in Aurora, Ill. train for the Chicago marathon. Deanne Auburn University in Alabama. She writes [email protected] Ladies, send us your updates! We is a charity runner through The Leukemia that she enjoys War Eagle football but not www.saintmarys.edu/~camps know many of you still need to write in and Lymphoma Society. as much as Notre Dame football. about life since Saint Mary’s College. Lauren Dasso is also working in Jena Morreale graduated from From Amy: Wedding bells have been Chicago. She attended numerous Notre Columbia University in February 2006 is teaching at an elementary school in ringing for numerous members of the Dame football games this past fall and with a master’s degree in occupational Hammond, Ind. Class of ’03! Jill Maxbauer Niemi was enjoyed meeting up and tailgating with therapy. After passing her boards, she Heather Muth graduated from married to Sam on Feb. 25, 2006. She her Saint Mary’s College and Notre Dame started work at New York-Presbyterian Second City Productions in Chicago and is writes, “We had a large wedding planned friends. Hospital-Cornell Medical Center as an looking forward to pursuing more career for Labor Day Weekend but decided we Stephanie Redwanski Belschner acute/ICU therapist. Jena has also moved opportunities in the fi lm industry. Erin couldn’t wait to get married! So we talked recently started teaching two into a new apartment and saw Val Gillis Schultz is traveling around the country to our priest, and he agreed to marry fundamentals of communication classes in July at Val’s family reunion on Long with Child’s Play Theatre, which is based in us before Lent. We had our immediate at Indiana University-Purdue University Island. She sees Karen Fink and Erin Chicago. Erin just recently returned from a family there—14 people in total. It was Fort Wayne and two interpersonal Woloshansky-Colburn often in the city. two-month performing stint, traveling from an intimate and romantic ceremony, with communication classes at Ivy Tech. She is Mary Ellen Brown has begun a Iowa to New York. my sisters, Lisa Maxbauer Price ’99 also working part-time as a makeup artist new position as the scheduler/protocol Corrine Negrelli has made the and Kathleen Maxbauer McNulty for MAC cosmetics! Stephanie says she coordinator for Secretary Chertoff at move to Chicago to live with Amy Wall ’97, as bridesmaids.” Jill and Sam are absolutely loves all of her jobs. the Department of Homeland Security after fi nishing her master’s of fi ne arts in living in Traverse City. Jill has been hired Katie McVoy graduated from Notre on July 24. She reports, “It has been a fashion from the Savannah College of Art as the enrollment coordinator for the Dame Law School this spring. She is CRAZY three weeks due to the recent and Design. Bridget Myers went down Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Sam clerking for a federal judge in Pittsburgh events in London, but I’m absolutely loving to Savannah to visit Corrine at the end is an accountant. The couple has two and trying her best to live as a Cleveland my job! VERY long hours but wonderful of August, before Corrine moved to the dogs named Bogart and Seamus. Jill Browns fan in Steelers country. co-workers, so it makes it worth it!” Windy City. notifi ed Marnie Kuhn, Meghan McArdle, Adrienne Dorbish also graduated Marianne Jennings is in graduate Becca Stumpf received her master’s and Rebekah Solmos Love ’04 of her from law school this past spring. She school earning her master’s in curriculum degree in photojournalism from the marriage. In case anyone else would is working at the fi rm of Agee, Clymer, and instruction through Concordia University of Montana in Missoula and like to congratulate Jill, her e-mail is Mitchell & Laret in Columbus, Ohio. University in Chicago. She is still teaching was interning at the Billings Gazette. [email protected]. In my own news, I am fi nishing my last third grade at Faith Hope and Charity in This fall, Becca returned to Missoula to Kris Robinson Paluszkiewicz year of law school in Toledo, Ohio, and am Winnetka. Marianne just returned from a do freelance work and to photograph wed Mike on July 2, 2006. Melissa doing lots of traveling before my student trip to Europe, where she had a wonderful weddings on the side. She recently Bulak Marscin was her maid of honor. lifestyle ends. time. accepted a position at a newspaper in Attendants included Christine Maurhoff Stay in touch, ladies! We love hearing Marianne has met up with a couple of Hamilton, Mont., just south of Missoula, as and Sarah Rykowski. Kris and Mike are from you! SMChicks over the past few months. She a photojournalist. residing in Peoria, Ill. Kris also informed From Meganne: Greetings, 2003 writes, “Kerry O’Reilly and I went to visit Jen Lombard Kibbon has me that Christine is attending graduate Belles! I hope this Courier edition fi nds Tina Reitano in Pittsburgh. We toured the received her M.S. in fi nance from St. school in England and that Melissa everyone in good health and in good city, including going on a ‘Ducky’ Tour. It Xavier University in May 2006. On married Eric Marscin on April 22, 2006, spirits. was one of those truck/boat things! We Sept. 23, 2006, she married Lucas in in Palatine, Ill. Kris was a bridesmaid in Susan Kutz is currently living in Fort had a fabulous time! Kerry O’Reilly, Amy Palos Heights, Ill. They are currently the wedding. Melissa and Eric are living Lewis, Wash., working for the Army as Virzi, Suzie Dolembo, Tina Reitano, and in the process of building their fi rst in Elgin, Ill., and are rumored to have a fi rst lieutenant and a medical platoon I also had dinner in Chicago one night home together in Tinley Park, Ill. Jen honeymooned in Paris! leader. During 2005, she was deployed while Tina was in town for business. Kerry is employed by Thomson Quantitative Amy Baum Purshotam graduated to Kuwait on a mission to transport any has moved back to Elmhurst, where she is Analytics, where there is a small group from the University of Southern California and all patients in Kuwait. All members of working as a school speech therapist. She of Belles in the offi ce, including Mary with a master’s in social work in May her unit made it back home to the U.S.A. graduated from Marquette in May.” Ann Wisniewski ’01 and Teresa Healy 2005. She married Jatin on Sept. 10, safely. Suzie Dolembo, Linda Padilla, Hopper ’05. 2005, in Lake Arrowhead, Calif. Alisha I had the great joy of reuniting with Linda’s son, Jeremiah, and Marianne met Maria Conticelli continues to Keller was her maid of honor. Amy and Meghann Robinson in Rome this at Lighthouse Outlets in Michigan City live and act in Chicago. She recently her husband are residing in Irvine, Calif., spring when she was visiting her sister, to do some back-to-school shopping performed in “The Grotesque History with their dog, Parker. Amy is working as Sarah Robinson ’08, who was studying and catching up. Suzie is teaching high of Marie Antoinette” at the Athenaeum a child/adolescent therapist for Western abroad with the Rome Program. Meghann school math in South Bend, while Linda Theatre and anxiously awaits her next

36 COURIER | Winter 2006 show. Meanwhile, she is waitressing at I spent the summer tutoring two Katie Zientara is living in Chicago to Washington, D.C., and is working for a Uncle Julio’s Hacienda. Italian children and helping them with with Shannon Radecki ’04. Katie was diamond importer in the city. Caitlin Duffey Abramson married their English. We lived on a beach south working at Rush University Medical Center Mary Pauline Moran is currently Brian on July 29, 2006, in Philadelphia of Rome for fi ve weeks and then spent as a registered nurse in the CCU/CSU. working for Johnson & Johnson Consumer at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and two weeks in the Italian Dolomites, She expected to begin graduate school Products with a rotation on the Wal-Mart Paul. Attendants included: Dorothy even picnicking for a day in Austria. I for her acute care nurse practitioner account in Bentonville, Ark. Mary Pauline Carder, Kris Payovich Cornell, Nicole have done lots of traveling this year, degree in the fall. In September 2005 reports that Mary Kathryn Homer is Gorowski, and Nellie Williams Gould. including a 4,000-mile road trip to Catherine Tindall Mott was hired as starting a master’s program in creative Caitlin has fi nished her Teach for America Wyoming—crossing nine states and three director for the Nuveen Community writing at Chatham College in Pittsburgh. commitment and is entering her fourth time zones. Center for the Arts in Montague, Mich. Gina Skubick just graduated with her year of teaching fi rst grade in North Please continue to send in your She married Jared on Dec. 10, 2005. master’s degree in organic chemistry from Philadelphia. Caitlin and Kevin also bought updates. What a joy it is hear from Natalie Zettler, Christina Dunham, the University of California, San Diego. their fi rst home last April. everyone! Happy Holidays to you and and Jennifer Stark were all in the bridal Romona C. Parks is one of Saint Kelly Long started her I.M.B.A. this your family. party. Mary’s College’s newest admission past fall at the University of Denver. From the Courier Offi ce: Amber Erin Korreck is living in Silver counselors. She is looking forward to her Katy Best is living in Peoria, Ill., Taylor O’Rourke married Howard ND Lake, Ind., and working as a child new career. Romona reports that Dana and working as a polysomnographic ’02 on May 6, 2006, at the Basilica of the and adolescent case manager. She Carr has recently accepted the position technologist, running sleep studies Sacred Heart. Sarah Stalter ’04 was is also working toward her master’s of coordinator of the intercultural living at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. maid of honor. On May 21, Amber and in sociological practice from Indiana program/fl oor for the College’s Center for Katie reports, “It has been interesting Howie relocated to Pittsburgh, Pa., so that University in Fort Wayne. Andrea Nichols Women’s Intercultural Leadership. Sheila to learn something completely new, and Howie can complete his medical residency is moving to Ireland to begin her master’s Egts is moving to Greenville, S.C., where it also is a rewarding challenge. I was in radiology at the University of Pittsburgh in world heritage management with the her fi ancé is working as an engineer for recently at Saint Mary’s College for Erin Medical Center. Amber can be reached via United Nations at University College, General Electric. Sheila plans to begin her Hurtle Brandes’s wedding. She married e-mail at [email protected]. Dublin. job search after the big move. Brad, and they currently live in South Cynthia Rodriguez is still in New Megan Thompson has entered her Bend. Casey Mahoney ’04 was also a Orleans hoping to survive this fall’s second year of teaching fourth grade bridesmaid. Kara Beck, Amy Wall, and ’05 Meghan Scallen hurricane season in one piece. She is at St. Anthony School in Clarksville, Ind. Sara Bishop were in attendance. We had 897 Lincoln Road working on a dual master’s in social work Sarah Brown is currently in her second a great time. Kara, Erin, and I even made Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 and public health at Tulane University. year of law school at the Washington a special trip to a local tattoo parlor to (313) 885-3471 Cynthia is currently interning for Catholic College of Law at American University in commemorate our time at Saint Mary’s [email protected] Charities, where she runs a transitional Washington, D.C. She is keeping herself College.” prison program while also doing some busy as the president of the Women’s Lauren Smith started law school in I hope everyone had a fabulous clinical work. Law Association and as a member of the August at the Cleveland-Marshall School summer! Thank you all for your updates. Annemarie Kennedy is working Administrative Law Review. This summer, of Law in Cleveland. Lauren also updated Please remember to e-mail me with any in the sales and catering department at Sarah was able to go on a mini-reunion us on several Belles: “Mary Dugan is changes in contact information so that the Boston Harbor Hotel and is moving to Gulf Shores, Ala., with Mary Holland, fi nishing up her second year of medical we can stay in touch. I have a lot of bad into her new apartment in South Boston Lindsay Downs, Theresa Mills, Katie school and will be starting her clinicals e-mails on my list, and I want to be sure in September. Becky Bosack, Emily Press, Molly Ritter ’06, and Sarah soon. Heather Goodrich Schrider and everyone has the opportunity to submit Sterritt Johnson, Karen Godfrey, Vabulas ’06. her husband, Scott, have one more year their news! The next deadline is Feb. Deirdre Mangan, Lauren Connolly, From January through May this year, left living in Bude, England. Heather has 22, 2007. Now, let’s read about what and Carolyn Gass all went out to visit her Michelle Stanforth went on deployment been taking business classes, and she everyone has been up to: for a mini Saint Mary’s College reunion in in the Philippines with the Navy on and Scott have been able to see a lot Stefanie Simmerman has moved August. They also met up with Natalie the destroyer U.S.S. Chung-Hoon for of Europe, recently taking a trip through to Orange County, Calif., to work as a Zettler Leisinger and Molly Welton for Operation Enduring Freedom Philippines. Scandinavia and Russia.” marketing analyst for Corinthian Colleges, a night out in the city. Annemarie reports During deployment, she was able to Jessica Saxton Fraser graduated Inc. April Thomas is currently working that Natalie and Kate Brand are often visit ports in Malaysia, Guam, Saipan, from Ball State with a master’s in political for a trading software company in in Boston, though Kate moved back to American Samoa, Kingdom of Tonga, science in May 2006. She is a research Chicago and attending grad school at Chicago in August. Vanuatu, and Australia. Michelle is still analyst for a labor union in Indianapolis. DePaul University to earn her master’s in Molly Welton graduated at the end stationed in Pearl Harbor and is the anti- Jessica was married to Michael on May writing. Stephanie Grammens is living of July from Villanova University with her submarine warfare offi cer onboard her 20, 2006. Brianne Feeks Willett was in Chicago and working for Reed Business master’s in accounting. She is back to ship. In August, she earned her Surface her matron of honor; Nora Janisch was Information as a Web manager for two work full-time for Ernst & Young in the Warfare Offi cer Pin qualifi cation. Michelle a bridesmaid. engineering magazines. core assurance practice. Additionally, has also been traveling the United States Erin Moran is in her fourth year Kate Lauer has just fi nished the she moved to a brand new condo in West while attending several schools all over of medical school in Indianapolis and is accelerated nursing program at our very Chester, Pa. Pamela Kane currently the country, including ones in Newport, applying for her pediatric residency in the own Saint Mary’s College and is moving to works in the operating room at Rush R.I., Seattle, Wash., and San Diego, Calif. Midwest. Good luck, Erin! Arizona in September. She will be working University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., From the Courier Offi ce: Elia In my own news, I have had the in the pediatrics intensive care unit at St. on the cardiovascular/thoracic team. She Sanchez sent the following update: “As pleasure of reuniting with many Belles Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. Kendall will be starting graduate school at Rush some of you may have heard, I am in a in the past year as a result of working Krische moved back to California University this fall. new position at the Elkhart prosecutor’s in Rome with Saint Mary’s College. recently and is working as the preschool Sarah Harward has moved from offi ce. I am very excited about my Meghann Robinson and Regina director/teacher at Holy Trinity School in Colorado to Ocala, Fla., to take a job position here. I am coordinating a Andaloro came to Rome to visit their San Pedro, Calif. teaching religion at Trinity Catholic High program called the FACT program. FACT sisters, who were studying on the Karen Godfrey is starting her School. Michelle Eggers started a new stands for Fatal Alcohol Crash Team. The Program. I often see Teri Neer and also second year of teaching third grade at job three months ago handling all the goals of the program are to investigate celebrated the Italian World Cup win with Saint Francis Xavier School in Wilmette, marketing and business development for fatal and serious bodily injury crashes, Jessica Sloan ’05, who was fi nishing Ill. She will begin her master’s in reading a Bay Area architecture fi rm. She and her including hit-and-run crashes throughout up her master’s dissertation in Rome this this fall at Loyola University through their fi ancé, Chris, recently ran a half marathon Elkhart County. Part of my job will be to past summer. I also had dinner at the reading specialist certifi cation program. through Napa and are now busy looking assist in preparing cases for review and apartment of Erin Krombach ’05 and Karen reports that Lucy Andaloro will be at condos in San Francisco. In July, Nina prosecution by the OWI fatality prosecutor Lora Wilcomb ’05, who have moved to teaching second grade at Saint Francis Helmen fi nished her Fulbright teaching in Elkhart County. Excellent preparation Rome to teach English. Xavier School as well this fall. assistantship in Germany. She has moved for law school!”

COURIER | Winter 2006 37 The Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir: A Mosaic of

38 COURIER | Winter 2006 Joe Raymond Voice

By Scot Erin Briggs

“It’s such an interesting environment,” said Sult. “Not The Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir gives students everyone’s a music major, but we all have one thing in something to sing about. Forty women, from all disciplines, common: our love for music.” For Sult, “It’s that happy break, rehearse four hours every week to make the choir’s that one and a half hour every day where I can get away from performances, both on campus and on national tours, anatomy.” spectacular and moving. When she’s not wearing her long black choir gown, you’ll The Women’s Choir’s extensive repertoire spans from likely fi nd Sult in waders collecting specimens. For her senior Baroque to contemporary. Bach and Schubert are performed comprehensive project, Sult is working on a survey of algae alongside modern composers like Gwyneth Walker and Paul in Lake Marion and has identifi ed ten species not previously Carey. This breadth is the work of Professor Nancy Menk, found in the lake. “It’s something that challenges me, that’s who directs the choir and also commissions new works why I’m doing it,” said Sult about her major. written specifi cally for women’s voices. Menk has taken Her interests, varied as they are, seem to fi nd a happy the choir to Carnegie Hall, and on national tours. She pairs balance in combination. Sult said she listens to music the choir regularly with its sister group, the Saint Mary’s all the time, and said she loves jazz. “I can only study to Collegiate Choir, and with the Notre Dame Glee Club and the instrumental jazz though. Otherwise, I sing along.” South Bend Symphony Orchestra. “I think in the 23 years I’ve The Women’s Choir experience inspired Sult to audition been here, I have the best choir I’ve ever had right now,” said and be selected for an elite chamber choir while participating Menk. “I don’t know why, but it just keeps getting better.” in the College’s study abroad program in Maynooth, Ireland. Sara Sult ’07, a biology major from Fort Wayne, Ind., and The choir performed for President Mary McAleese, and Lauren Knisley ’07, a nursing major from Toledo, Ohio, have was named the best college choir in Ireland. “It was such a been singing with the choir since their fi rst year at Saint multicultural group, but again, we had music in common.” Mary’s. Both women say that singing in the Women’s Choir So much so, that they still correspond with one another. has been an experience that rounded out their education and Sult, who attended public coed schools before Saint broadened their horizons. Mary’s, credits her comfort in pursuing her passions partly with attending an all-women’s college. “You feel less competition. This is such an encouraging environment. It’s very liberating.”

Sarah Sult ’07 and Lauren Knisley ’07, members of the

Matt Cashore Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir

COURIER | Winter 2006 39 “I think in the 23 years I’ve been here, I have the best choir I’ve ever had right now,” said Menk. “I don’t know why, but it just keeps getting better.”

That resonates with Lauren Knisley. “Here at Saint Mary’s there’s a level of maturity. There is such diversity in terms of where people are coming from and their life experiences. All-women is the way to go.” Knisley said when she auditioned for the Women’s Choir her fi rst year, she was surprised to be selected. Now that she’s in the middle of her clinical work in the nursing program, Knisley describes choir practice as “a therapeutic leisure activity—it’s incredibly peaceful for me.” The Saint Mary’s College Department of Music presented its 34th annual After graduation Knisley plans to specialize in pediatric Madrigal Christmas Dinners, Renaissance-style holiday feasts and oncology. “I’ve always loved kids,” said Knisley. “Nursing 101 performances, in December. opened my eyes to so much. I can’t imagine doing anything else.” “Traveling is one of the most amazing advantages of volunteered with “Take Ten,” a program that promotes being in the choir,” said Knisley. “Freshman year we went to nonviolence, worked as a camp counselor and a fundraiser DC, sophomore year to Los Angeles—I had never been past for families and kids affected by cancer, and currently Wisconsin. Last year, we went to Carnegie Hall in New York teaches health education to children in the community as City. It was one of the best experiences of my life. This spring part of work with the nursing program. we’re going to Texas. I love traveling.” For Knisley, the Women’s Choir has been an important That wanderlust has piqued Knisley’s interest in travel piece of her education. “Everything I have done at Saint nursing, which she plans to pursue after graduation. “I want Mary’s has put the puzzle together,” said Knisley. “When I get to see everything.” out there, I’m going to be ready. I’ll be a whole person.” For now, Knisley seems content to be active in everything. She participated in student government for three years, Scot Erin Briggs is editor of Courier.

40 COURIER | Winter 2006 Inside the Class roo m: Comm unication and Performance Studies

Who am I? New Answers to Enduring Questions

Shakespeare said that all the world’s a stage, and Protected by the anonymity available in the Performance Studies 190 students fi nd out that each of Weblogs, Iranian women reveal a very different aspect them plays not one but many roles on that stage. Assistant of themselves in their blogs, shoring up the theory that Professor Shannon Rose Riley says she begins her class by identity is not a constant. introducing students to Erving Goffman’s theory that we are Riley’s course also examines the racial and ethnic all social actors and how we act is determined in part by the differences revealed in Anna Deavere Smith’s play stage we’re on. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a work that has been At fi rst, Riley says, students resist the idea that their characterized as “documentary theater.” The play identity is not constant. “They say, ‘no, this is my true self,’” dramatizes the racial violence that ensued after the says Riley. So, Riley asks them if they are the same person Rodney King affair by using the actual words of people with their parents, friends, and boyfriend. who experienced it. “I want students to see how fl uid identity is depending Riley’s course on the context it’s performed in,” Riley says. Why? “Within culminates with a the possibility of performance-creating-identity is the performance-as- possibility to perform it in a different way,” she says. research project, an In addition to challenging students to think in new ways opportunity to use about their own identity, Riley also wants them to think performance as a way of about the interplay between culture and identity. She draws gathering information. on a wide variety of source materials to help her students This fall, for instance, Joe Raymond explore this connection, from Iranian Weblogs to a new a student project medium that looks at racial violence in Los Angeles. To say consisted of enacting a mock election where one that Riley takes an interdisciplinary approach would be an audience member was not allowed to vote. understatement. “They didn’t just talk about leaving someone out, One article on the course reading list is “Performance but rather they demonstrated it,” says Riley. “People got in Everyday Life and the Rediscovery of the ‘Self’ in to experience what that felt like in their bodies.” Riley Iranian Weblogs,” published in an online Iranian feminist says this experience can transform intellectual theory newsletter. The article discusses Weblogs as a “backstage” into what she calls “embodied knowledge.” in a fundamentalist society that radically restricts personal “With performance-as-research, students are using freedom in public. performance to approach the theories they’ve been reading about,” Riley says. Riley is a fellow of the Center for Women’s InterCultural Leadership (CWIL), with a joint, one-year appointment in the newly restructured Department of Communication and Performance Studies and the Intercultural Studies Program at Saint Mary’s. This fall, Performance Studies 190 was cross-listed so students could earn credit in either program.

Playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith pioneered a genre called “documentary theatre” that blends theatrical arts, social commentary, and personal testimonies. She will speak at Saint Mary’s on January 26, a visit made possible by the Margaret M. Hill ’61 Endowed Chair in Theatre.

COURIER | Winter 2006 41 Making THE GRADE social work music chemistry education art nursing The second in a six-part series on Saint Mary’s nationally accredited programs Where the Music Takes Them By Elizabeth Station Matt Cashore Music majors Crystal Buck ’08 (left) and McKayela Collins ’08.

“O ur music program is so incredibly thorough,” says Crystal Buck ’08, a vocal performance major who transferred to Saint Mary’s from a music conservatory at a large public university. “Since there are fewer students and the professors know practicing on an ensemble of their peers. There’s the senior you personally, they know what you can achieve, and they comprehensive, where they dissect and perform musical push you to do that.” works for a supportive, but demanding, audience. There There’s the mandatory entrance audition, the weekly are the theory and composition courses that require brains, recital forum, and the requirement of basic piano profi ciency. technological savvy, and talent. There’s a conducting class where they learn to lead a choir by

42 COURIER | Winter 2006 Both professors and students say the environment is uniquely supportive. “We’re really blessed here,” says Buck. “Because the faculty isn’t competitive, the students aren’t competitive, and everyone is encouraging to one another.”

And for those who want it, there is singing—wonderful This fall, the Women’s Choir shared the stage with singing—in many languages. the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and the New York The Saint Mary’s music department is small, with just Philomusica Ensemble, two enviable opportunities to 23 students pursuing the major. Five full-time faculty rehearse and perform with professional musicians. “We bring members and a large cadre of adjunct instructors teach in guest artists not just to perform and leave, but to work everything from stagecraft to orchestration to music with our students,” says Professor Jeffrey Jacob. “I think that’s education. Accredited by the National Association of Schools the best thing we do here.” of Music, the program offers a bachelor of arts in music or a The department also strives to connect students’ musical bachelor of music with a performance or education major. training to what they learn in other disciplines, which Jacob Students from outside the department can also take music says broadens their education and prepares them for life. “I appreciation, history, voice and instrument lessons, and wish that I’d had the opportunity as an undergrad to go to a other classes. liberal arts college, because six hours a day in a practice room Active performers and dedicated teachers, the faculty is is not the way to become educated,” says Jacob, a concert not afraid to lavish attention on—and demand excellence pianist who trained at Juilliard. “It’s so limiting in terms of the from—music majors. Yet both professors and students say individual.” the environment is uniquely supportive. “We’re really blessed Saint Mary’s music majors go on to teach, continue their here,” says Buck. “Because the faculty isn’t competitive, the studies at graduate school, and some become professional students aren’t competitive, and everyone is encouraging to performers. Many direct and perform music in their one another.” churches. Others have careers in arts administration and Being a women’s college contributes to that. “There’s a music publishing. real focus on women making music,” says Nancy Menk, Since all the options are potentially rewarding, Menk says professor of music and chair of the department, who directs that she would never discourage a young woman who loves Saint Mary’s two women’s choirs and other projects that music from following her bliss. “I say, let them do it, because showcase female voices. “We’re always looking for ways to they’ll always be happy. They’ll be doing something they love involve the students in things. We take them to competitions and they will fi nd a way to make it work.” At the same time, and festivals, bring in guest artists, create new works for them Menk is practical. “We try to fi nd our students’ strengths and to perform, let them meet composers and premiere new then build on them, and try to give them opportunities that works…There’s so much going on.” are suited to their personal musical strengths and abilities, Professors guide and nurture, but they also encourage rather than always trying to make them fi t into our mold.” independence. Last spring Erin Anhut ’07 and Bridget Spore Students agree. “That’s one thing that I’m never going to ’08 founded a 16-member vocal ensemble, Bellacappella, forget about this College,” says Buck, who is holding fast to which performs “fun, popular music for all ages.” The her dream of a singing career. “They take what you have, and students direct the group and even arrange some of its songs. they don’t tell you what to do with it—they help you know Students like McKayela Collins ’08 wholeheartedly what you can do with it.” embrace the department’s philosophy that “to learn is And besides, she adds, “You’ve got to do what you love to perform and to perform is to learn.” Passionate about to do.” opera, the soprano had a role in Witness, an original work by Professor Zae Munn last year. She also sang with the Women’s Elizabeth Station is a senior writer in marketing Choir at Carnegie Hall in New York and the new Walt Disney communications. Concert Hall in Los Angeles. “We get so many chances to be on stage; it’s always testing us and it’s always improving us,” says Collins.

COURIER | Winter 2006 43 FOR FIFTY YEARS A Place When she assumed the presidency of Saint Mary’s in 1934, Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, CSC, ’09 said that her best qualifi cations for leading the College were her ability to work and capacity to dream. One of her enduring dreams was to inspire students through “Opening night was packed with people who had immersion in the arts. paid their dues to build the building,” she said. “Even For many years, Sister Madeleva wanted “an before that, when the opera company arrived at the academic building that represented the kind of airport, they were greeted by a large entourage from education that the Holy Cross Sisters offered,” says the South Bend and Mishawaka area. The mayors gave Sister Basil Anthony O’Flynn, CSC, ’46. “She wanted them the keys to the city. They came to Saint Mary’s by a venue where the students could learn the fi ne and motorcade, and along the way people lined the streets performing arts in a place of beauty. Equally important, holding banners and balloons.” she wanted to engage the Michiana community,” adds The ensuing years were heady ones for the arts at Sister Gertrude Ann Otis, CSC, ’52. Saint Mary’s College. Students shared the Moreau Those dreams became a reality with a generous gift Center with world-class talent. Contralto Marian from a member of the Sisters’ own community, Sister Anderson sang; Jacques Maritain lectured; and Robert Francis Jerome, CSC (formerly Susan O’Laughlin). A Speaight and E. Martin Browne directed Shakespeare vice president and professor of Greek and Latin at Saint and medieval mystery plays. Gaynell Bordes Cronin Mary’s, Sister Francis Jerome died in 1948, leaving ’60, a drama and theology student, acted in at least a $500,000 bequest. Her brother, John O’Laughlin, a dozen productions in O’Laughlin and the Little took an active role in helping Sister Madeleva bring Theatre, including The Skin of Our Teeth with guest star the Moreau Center for the Arts—and within it, the Helen Hayes. auditorium that would bear the family name—to Susan Fitzgerald Rice ’61, a Humanistic Studies fruition. major, had a role in Plain and Fancy and never missed The College hired the Chicago architectural fi rm an exhibit in the Moreau Art Galleries. Rice recalled, “I of Naess and Murphy to design the new arts center. think I tried to attend every performance. There were Modeled after a renowned Wagnerian Opera House in the student productions and a huge calendar of events, Bayreuth, Germany, O’Laughlin Auditorium was built and we were encouraged to attend them all.” Added at a cost of $2.5 million. On October 11, 1956, it was Cronin, “I don’t think there was any play that I was in inaugurated with the NBC Opera Company’s premiere that the place wasn’t packed…O’Laughlin was big, so of The Marriage of Figaro. that meant not just our own women at the College but Saint Mary’s made national news when the New the community at large supported everything we did.” York-based opera company fl ew into town for the gala By design, the Moreau Center was meant to opening. Time magazine reported that the citizens encourage synergy among departments and of South Bend greeted the company “as if it were a disciplines. Professors from art, music, theatre, and conquering football team.” Sister Gertrude Anne, who English collaborated to bring stage productions to life. worked as director of admissions and secretary to the While drama, music, and dance students rehearsed College’s lay board of trustees at the time, remembers their parts, art students helped create sets and the excitement well. costumes with faculty guidance. The building has given

44 COURIER | Winter 2006 By Elizabeth Station and Chris Sallak Photos by Matt Cashore of Beauty

birth to plays, studio art, musical performances, and much more over the years. In Sister Madeleva’s day, all students were required to attend a weekly “convocation” in the auditorium, and its chic foyer was used for dances. “There was a feeling of comfort, of community, of belonging, not just for us as performers but also for many people who were a part of the audience,” Cronin remembered. Fifty years later, that spirit remains alive. The Moreau Center marked its anniversary in October with a concert that celebrated its origins. Professor of Music Jeffrey Jacob composed original works for the occasion, drawing on texts by Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez, a Latin American poet. Professor and soprano Laurel Thomas performed the pieces with mezzo-soprano Mary Nessinger ’86 and the Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir. In a collaboration reminiscent of opening night a half- century ago, the composer and performers shared the stage with the New York Philomusica Ensemble. Sister Madeleva, had she been present, would have approved. The Sisters of the Holy Cross and the guests they brought to Saint Mary’s had much in common, according to Cronin, who sees the spiritual power in performance. “They were searching for the holy. They were trying to fi nd God in what they were doing, and they expressed it through the arts,” she says. Cronin has run a children’s theatre in her hometown of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. for 40 years and also works as a religious educator. Looking back on her time at Saint Mary’s, she says, “The sacred space was the chapel at Le Mans Hall for most of us. But for me, the other highly sacred space was O’Laughlin.”

COURIER | Winter 2006 45 Broadway Ambitions,

By Scot ErinDramat Briggs i

Wilma Burke ’55 came to Saint Mary’s in 1951 on scholarship. When she graduated with a degree in music, she was awarded a scholarship to study drama at Catholic University in Washington, DC. After that, she heard the siren song of Broadway. “I wanted to go to New York where the plays were,” she said. “I had visited the city while I was a student at Saint Mary’s and I thought, ‘This is it.’ ” Burke made her Broadway debut in 1959 as Thea in Fiorello!, opposite Tom Bosley. She went on to play Roxanne opposite Jose Ferrer in A Song for Cyrano, a musical version of Cyrano DeBergerac. She played Laurie opposite Robert Goulet in The Happy Time in Los Angeles. Burke played two roles in On the 20th Century in 1978 where she appeared with Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn. Harold Prince, who with 20 Tony Awards holds the record, directed the play. Burke says she learned a lot from this experience, both on and off the stage. “Kevin Kline was in rehearsal and when he was done, Hal [Prince] said, ‘That was terrible…’ and Kevin said, ‘Just a minute, I’ve got something else.’ Then, Hal said ‘That’s a little better,’ and Kevin said ‘Wait, I got something better,’ and this went on. By the time Kevin was done, Hal was on the fl oor. ‘That’s what you have to do,’ Kevin told me. ‘If they don’t like one way, you’d better have another way of doing it.’ ” And that’s advice Burke says she passes on. “It’s the process. If you do the best job you can do, you can be proud. You’ll eventually get it. You got to have perseverance in this business.” Perseverance is the pattern that emerges in Burke’s accomplishments, beginning with working her way through school. “Saint Mary’s had so many wonderful opportunities for me,” she said. “I was on scholarship, and I worked accompanying voice students, in the library, and at the switchboard.” In her work, Burke has faced challenges head-on with that same dogged determination.

46 COURIER | Winter 2006 ic Success

Wilma Burke in The King and I, I Do! I Do!, with husband, Bob Brooks, in Cactus Flower, and The Sound of Music. Photos courtesy of Wilma Burke

“Probably one of the most diffi cult things I’d ever done was Song for Anastasia, where I played Anastasia, she said. there,” she said. “We all know this at Saint Mary’s—not to be “It was a big role and I had to do it with a Russian accent. The jealous, not to feel that someone is taking something away composers arrived, looked at my opening number and said, from you. Each of us is an individual with God-given talents ‘This isn’t the version we wanted.’ They then presented me and it’s up to us to make the best of them.” with a song, a 14-page aria. And they said ‘We know you can’t In 1973, Burke married her favorite leading man, Bob do it.’ I looked at it and said ‘Oh, I can do this.’ I wouldn’t Brooks, with whom she performed in Cactus Flower. After 33 recommend this to anyone who didn’t want it as much as years of marriage, Burke says, “It gets better all the time!” I did, but I stayed up the night before the opening and I In 2005, Burke came back for her 50th Reunion where learned it. I’m happy to say the reviews were wonderful.” she performed. “My friend Pat Cutter Reynolds (’55) had Burke credits her success to that perseverance, and to encouraged me to go back to Reunion,” she said.” It was the people who believed in her along the way. “I remember really Pat who encouraged me to do the concert too. That coming home from school my sophomore year and my concert at Saint Mary’s whetted my appetite to play the parents told me they couldn’t afford for me to go back,” she piano again.” said. “Sister Madeleva gave me a scholarship for the rest It’s been almost 50 years since Burke made her debut on of the time. I have so much gratitude for her and for Saint Broadway and its siren song still calls to her. “I had not been Mary’s.” performing for a while,” she said. “But I got a new agent in For Burke, that supportiveness is what distinguishes Saint September and just auditioned for two new plays. I’m not Mary’s from other colleges. “There’s so much competition out fi nished yet.”

COURIER | Winter 2006 47 The Department of Communication and Performance Studies Alumnae Invited! invites you to the Þ rst annual Ann Plamondon Endowed Lecture. To the Diverse Students’ Leadership Conference, March 1-3, 2007

“Deception in Politics” “The conference is proof that Saint Mary’s is doing more than just sitting back and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, PhD The purpose of the talking about diversity.” Conference is to inform –Claridith Landry ’06 participants of the adversities (founder of conference) February 7, An expert on political campaigns, Kathleen and beneÞ ts within diverse 2007 Hall Jamieson is Professor of Communication academic, social, and and Director of the Annenberg Public Policy professional settings. Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She 7:30 p.m. is the award-winning author of Everything You “The conference was very powerful because Think You Know About Politics … and Why it allowed me, through real life examples and Little Theatre You’re Wrong, Eloquence in an Electronic Age, experiences, to learn more about others Packaging the Presidency and other books. but also more about myself as a human being in this diverse world.” Reception The Ann Plamondon Lecture Series was –DSLC participant to follow established with generous gifts from alumnae, (2006) faculty, staff, friends, and parents to bring respected scholars and communications professionals to Saint Mary’s College. It honors Professor of Communication Studies

Ann Plamondon, who will retire at the Conference hosted by the Student Diversity Board conclusion of the 2006–07 academic year following 24 years of service. OfÞ ce of Multicultural Affairs 214 Student Center • [email protected] (574) 284-4721

Saint Mary’s Writes Calling all alumnae! If you have a penchant for writing poetry or short stories, we would like to see it! We are now accepting submissions for the 2006–2007 edition of Chimes, Saint Mary’s literary magazine, and this year we would like to begin featuring alumnae work as well. If you are interested in submitting, please e-mail your material to editors Emily Lavelle or Lauren Lavelle at [email protected] by March 9, 2007. An interdisciplinary conference exploring Please note: While we thoughtfully the intersections of international and multicultural review and consider all submitted education, leadership development, and material, submission does not women’s studies. guarantee publication. Please mark your calendars and visit our Web site www.saintmarys.edu/~cwil/conference.php. 2007 CampsSUMMER for Girls Fine Arts Camp July 8-13, July 15-20, July 22-27 • Weeklong immersion in music, dance, theatre, art, and creative writing • For girls at least 10 years old and entering grades 5-9 • Activities include field trips, pizza party, and performance forum

Athletic Camps July 8-12, July 15-19

• Volleyball, basketball, tennis, soccer, and softball • Beginner to seasoned varsity players entering grades 6-11 • Focus on team and individual skill development • Boarding and day camp options available

Saint Mary’s Summer Academy

• Three camps to choose from: Math and Science Exploration July 8-13 Visual and Performing Arts July 15-20 Language Arts Encounter July 22-27 • For academically and artistically motivated young women entering grades 8-12 • Hands-on pre-college experience • Activities include field trips, workshops, and lab

For more information, contact: Saint Mary’s College Summer Camps Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 phone: (574) 284-4778 fax: (574) 284-4784 e-mail: [email protected] www.saintmarys.edu/~camps happy memories…new friends…enhanced skills…fresh ideas New Road–No Rules Seminar July 13–15, 2007

Sponsored by the Saint Mary’s College Alumnae Association

Keynote Speaker: Abigail Trafford, health columnist for the Washington Post and author of the book, My Time: Making the Most of the Bonus Decades After 50 Alumnae turning 50 and older are moving into uncharted territory. The children are raised, your career established, you are in good health, and have some Þ nancial security. You’ve hit the “bonus years”… but now what? Join fellow Saint Mary’s alumnae and discover the “new roads” available to you at this important stage in your life! Programming includes panel discussions and expert sessions on re-careering, Þ nances, insurance, health and wellness, Þ nding meaningful activities, and how to nurture your inner, spiritual, and connected self. For more information, contact the Alumnae Relations OfÞ ce at (574) 284-4578, or e-mail [email protected]. A brochure will be mailed in January. Campus or hotel accommodations are available.

Mark your calendars now for this re-energizing weekend!

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