1 Welcome Cheronda Guyton Dear Friends and Families of Notre Dame High School, Holy Cross Mother Guild elcome to the 45th Annual Holy Cross Mothers Guild Winners are Drawn for Luncheon and Fashion Show! Ticket Raffle and Grand Raffle W Several months ago, our diligent, hardworking and creative Chairs, Cheronda Guyton Jen Dicker and Julie Cleveland, and Co-Chair Lisa Gandara announced and Brett Lowart, President the “Knight Club” theme for the 2020 Fashion Show. They assembled Notre Dame High School an incredibly talented group of Committee Chairs who motivated and collaborated with our members to create a fabulous show. Blessing A heartfelt thank you goes out to each of our members for the support you Rich Klee, Director of Advancement have given to the Holy Cross Mothers Guild and our Executive Board. You Notre Dame High School have dedicated many hours of service and tirelessly given your time and resources to the Notre Dame community! By generously staying focused Luncheon on our mission, we are able to continue to support the spiritual mission of Notre Dame’s faculty and staff by assisting with the student retreats, Greeting maintaining the chapel, and numerous other community support activities as well as fundraising for the Holy Cross Mothers Guild Scholarship Fund. The Brett Lowart scholarship fund enables the Guild to provide tuition assistance to students Winners are drawn for Centerpiece and Necklace Raffles who have lost a parent while attending Notre Dame High School. Recognition of Past HCMG Presidents Our Executive Board spent countless hours working behind the scenes and I am so grateful for their passion and commitment to excellence. Thank Alice Cotti, Principal you, Jen, Julie, and Lisa, for your dedication to making this year’s fashion Notre Dame High School show a huge success! Your attention to detail and willingness to do whatever was needed shows more than words the type of amazing people you are. Greeting and Remarks I appreciate all your hard work with the committee chairs, members and Julie Cleveland and Jen Dicker senior models, and for keeping the entire process filled with fun and laughter! 2020 Fashion Show Chairs We are fortunate to have the support and guidance of our President, Lisa Gandara Brett Lowart, Principal, Alice Cotti, Director of Advancement Richard Fashion Show Co-Chair Klee, and our Moderator, Colleen Pace. To our 2020 Seniors and HCMG graduating members, we are deeply appreciative of all the time you have Live Auction given to the Mothers Guild and Notre Dame over the years! You will be Gigi Levangie, Master of Ceremony missed! To all of our Notre Dame friends, family, and community, thank you for your generosity! Fashion Show Now, sip your martini and enjoy the show from your VIP table! Welcome to Knight Club! Closing Remarks With gratitude, Cheronda Guyton Lisa Gandara Cheronda Guyton President, Holy Cross Mothers Guild Checkout for Silent Auction will be at the conclusion of the Show 2 Dear Notre Dame Families and Friends, elcome to the 45th annual Holy Cross Mothers Guild Luncheon and Fashion ShowW and thank you to all of you who have generously supported this year’s event. When reflecting on all the good the Fashion Show has done for our school and its families over the years, I am especially appreciative of the Mothers Guild and the gifts of their time, charity and Holy Cross spirit. Watching our senior models strut down the ND fashion runway is a rite of passage of sorts and a great school tradition. It’s also a reminder, especially to our wonderful ND mothers, how quickly our children grow and how fast the high school years go by. It is inspiring to see our young men and women on the cusp of adulthood with so much enthusiasm, love and intellect to offer to the world. On behalf of our faculty, staff and students I would like to especially thank our event Chairs, Julie Cleveland and Jen Dicker, and Co-Chair Lisa Gandara for leading many other dedicated Mothers Guild members. I hope you enjoy “Knight Club.” Please know your participation is what makes the Notre Dame family so unique and wonderful. May God continue to bless our Notre Dame students and families. Sincerely yours, Brett A. Lowart President Notre Dame High School 2 3 Dear Holy Cross Mothers Guild Members and Special Guests, SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES elcome to our 45th Annual Luncheon and Fashion Show, “Knight Club Presents the 2020 Celebration.” The Class of 2020 has a PRESENTS specialW place in my heart because we were “freshmen” together in the fall of 2016 when I started at Notre Dame. It has been an absolute pleasure to watch these young women and men grow as scholars, athletes and artists, FESTIVAL 2020 campus leaders, and friends. Having a son in this class gave me the added benefit of getting to know so many of the mothers, and many of these friendships were forged through our membership in the Holy Cross Mothers Guild. For more than 60 years the Holy Cross Mothers Guild has existed to provide emotional and financial support for many of our mission and faith- based programs here at Notre Dame including a series of class retreats for freshmen and sophomores, the three day junior Immersion, and the four day Kairos Retreat for seniors. The Guild tends to the spiritual care of our entire Notre Dame community by maintaining the altar in St. Joseph’s Chapel located within the Holy Cross Center, leading us in a monthly rosary and maintaining prayer intentions for the community. Most importantly, the Holy Cross Mothers Guild raises funds through this annual fashion show and luncheon to provide scholarships to current Notre Dame students who have experienced the death of a parent and need financial assistance in order to complete their high school education. When a child suffers the painful loss of a parent, their entire world is impacted and it is so important that they feel a sense of security and consistency, and being able to remain at school with their friends and teachers is perhaps the single most important way we can continue to support them. I know in my heart that in times of great crisis there is no better place for our students than to be here with their Notre Dame family, surrounded by teachers, staff, classmates, and friends who love and care for them. Our students are precious to us; thank you for helping us do all we can to keep them enrolled here at Notre Dame. Friday, May 1st • 6pm to 11pm We are blessed to be surrounded by so many generous and hard-working women, and we will truly miss those of you in the Guild whose children Saturday, May 2nd • Noon to 11pm are graduating this year. This afternoon’s event would not have been possible without the support of so many of our Notre Dame mothers, but Sunday, May 3rd • Noon to 7:30pm especially our Fashion Show Chairs, Julie Cleveland and Jen Dicker, Co- Chair Lisa Gandara, President Cheronda Guyton and Holy Cross Mothers Guild Moderator, Colleen Pace. Thank you, ladies, for your leadership and commitment! View Auction Items & Bid Online at May Notre Dame, our Blessed Mother, continue to guide us in our roles as mothers and keep our Notre Dame family safe in her loving and www.sfds.cbo.io warm embrace. Alice Cotti saintfrancisdesalesschool.com Principal Notre Dame High School 4 5 Holy Cross Mothers Guild t is our honor to welcome you to the 45th Annual Holy Cross Mothers Guild Fashion Show, Auction and Luncheon. Our 2019-2020 Officers Itheme this year is Knight Club – a 2020 Celebration full of festive music and dance presentations. The heartfelt show you have President. .Cheronda Guyton come to see is a celebration of our fabulous seniors and a tribute to Secretary. .Eva Cohen their amazing moms. It takes a village to produce an event with so Treasurer. .LyNea Bell many moving parts, and what an amazing village we are fortunate Mission Chair ..............Diana Krause-Leemon to have! Our Fashion Show Committee Chairs, our Holy Cross Moderator. Colleen Pace Mothers Guild Members and the Notre Dame Senior Models have Director of Advancement. .Rich Klee volunteered countless hours to create a memorable experience for you today. A special thank you to Suzanne Von Schaak for teaching our senior models how to own the runway and Geoffrey Cascio for his Fashion Show Chairs Julie Cleveland and Jen Dicker choreographing expertise! Fashion Show Co-Chair Lisa Gandara Most of all, we thank you, our Notre Dame High School Community, COMMITTEE CHAIRS for your continued support of this event and the contributions Basket Wrap Committee Mary Iannarilli and Lisa Koochof that you make toward our mission. The funds raised today provide invaluable tuition assistance to students in financial need after Data Entry Committee Anne Gumm and Melanie Gragnani suffering the loss of a parent while attending Notre Dame High Day Of Committee Amy Cross and Sheri Lawson School. The fundraising efforts of the Holy Cross Mothers Guild have enabled many Notre Dame students to pursue their educational Donations Committee Tracey Pollock and Melanie Jones dreams in spite of such unfortunate circumstances. We are fortunate Grand Raffle Committee Nancy Griffi ad Mra Ryn to be in a position to help them and to lighten the burden during such a diffiut tm. Nn o ti i possbe withou Invitation/Reservations Monique McLurkin Committee your generosity! Junior Volunteers Committee Michele Stein and Stacey Stanley Alone we can do so little; Together we can do so much. Models Committee Kathy Poyer and Cara Evashchen – Helen Keller Models Hair and Make-up Jennifer Caplan and Romi Garland Our sincere gratitude goes out to the President of Notre Dame High Models Wardrobe Antoinette Frank and School, Brett Lowart, and our Principal, Alice Cotti.