Spring 2009

Th e Liberal Arts: A Life Extraordinary Volume 84, Number 1 tableof contents Spring 2009

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Shari Rodriguez Vice President for College Relations [email protected] Page 10 Page 18 Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Acting Assistant Vice President as a Integrated Marketing Communications first-year [email protected] Joined the Agribusiness Development features Courier Staff: Group (ADG), a student group committed Scot Erin Briggs Editor to bringing economic growth to Ghana 4 The Market Value of a 14 Best of Both Worlds [email protected] Liberal Arts Education Dr. Mary Anne Luzar ’72 takes liberal Natalie Davis Miller Staff Writer arts degree to Washington and as a sophomore In an ever-changing economy, beyond. Shannon E. Brewer ’03 Wrote an innovative business plan for liberal arts degrees give alumnae the Staff Writer fl exibility and creativity they need ADG to enter the dried fruit market Joya Helmuth to follow their career paths and their 16 Invite More Creativity Graphic Designer dreams. Into Your Life Matt Cashore as a junior Janet Graham Art Professor Krista Hoefl e offers Jason Jones Developed a Web site for marketing dried 7 Stepping Out Zara Osterman fruit to potential investors and buyers advice on how to bring creativity into Photographers Fiction writing class lets students your life. explore other lives in novella. Letters: Send letters to the editor to: Courier Editor as a senior Saint Mary’s College Led ADG in creating packaging and purchasing 10 In the Stacks with departments 303 Haggar College Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 equipment to support production in Ghana this year Alumnae Authors or e-mail [email protected] Alumnae literati who got their start at 2 Inside Saint Mary’s Class News: Send alumnae class news to: Saint Mary’s. Alumnae News Editor GU]bhAUfmÁgghiXYbhgUfYXmbUa]WkcaYb 15 Belles Athletics 110 Le Mans Hall XYhYfa]bYXhcW\Ub[Yh\Ykcf`X"GU]bhAUfmÁg Saint Mary’s College 12 Something to Write 17 Avenue News Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 dfcj]XYgh\YUWUXYa]WZcibXUh]cbUbXgd]f]hiU`ZcWig or e-mail [email protected] Home About 20 For the Record Alumnae Association Staff: h\YmbYYXhcVi]`XUVYhhYfhcacffck" Kara O’Leary ’89 Courier interns ask Lisa Maxbauer 22 Club News Director of Alumnae Relations Price for real-world advice. [email protected] @SOR[]`SOP]cb1ZO`SObaOW\b[O`gaSRcQZO`SVSW\bh 24 Class News Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations On the cover: 26 Excelsior [email protected] The Mission Right to left: Jessica Huang ’09, Lisa Maxbauer Price Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, ’99, Kristen Edelen ’09 residential, women’s college in the MciWUb[]jYh\Yah\YgW\c`Ufg\]dgUbXÉbUbW]U`U]Xh\UhgYhg Photo by Jason Jones liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the education of women, the College is an academic community where women ]hU``]bach]cb ^igh`]_YmciX]XZcf7`UfY" develop their talents and prepare to Corrections to the Winter 2008 Issue of Courier: make a difference in the world. make education possible for our students. p. 16: In the Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Honor Roll, the Chicago Advisory Council gift was erroneously listed as being Founded by the Sisters of the Holy you made in memory of Karla Schultz Goodyear. It was in memory of Karla Diane Wilson. Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic D`YUgYaU_YU[]Zhhch\YAnnual FundZcfgW\c`Ufg\]dgUbXÉbUbW]U`U]X" p. 15: In the picture caption of the Class of 1948, Mary Ellen Danielson DeNucci (holding the sign in the bottom row) was appreciation, religious sensibility, and misidentifi ed as Alice Simons Chermak. social responsibility. All members of the College remain faithful to this p. 12: The feature “Part of a Community After You Leave,” did not mention that Martha Hottenstein served as chair of her 2005 J]g]higcb`]bYUhgU]bhaUfmg"YXi#[]jYcfWU``,$$!GA7!,,+%" The Annual Fund mission and continually assess their Senior Gift Campaign in addition to Ashley Thornburg and Kim Holly Maher. response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. The Alumnae Association insidesaintmary’s Board of Directors

Honorary President Carol Ann Mooney ’72

President MarilynElizabeth Wolter Bermingham Laboe ’61 Lacy ’66 360505 EastWelwyn Hurd Road Road Monroe,Richmond, MI VA48162 23229-8105 (734)(804) 243-3345741-5301 • [email protected]@courts.state.va.us

Vice President HollyLisa Maxbauer Rieger Curley Price ’80 ’99 2326363 Sealund Mora Road Glen Drive LosQuincy, Altos MA Hills, 02171 CA 94024 (650)(917) 948-8598518-4345 • [email protected]@yahoo.com Some Musings After One Year at Saint Mary’s... Secretary JudyMary MardoianSue Dunn GavoorCurry ’85 ’76 10305434 SirFlowering William Dogwood Lane Lane LakeCharlotte, Forest, NC IL 28270-3729 60045 By Vice President and Dean of Faculty Patricia Ann Fleming margins to fi nd Saint Mary’s. I would not assume that I could or should ever be able to truly (847)(704) 235-2759814-7967 • [email protected]@carolina.rr.com know Saint Mary’s by searching for its center or its heart; for the signifi cant aspects of Saint Directors A version of this essay was delivered by the Vice Mary’s would be found in the places where maybe nobody is looking. Sheila Conlin Brown ’56 7251 2390 East Street President and Dean of Faculty at the beginning of her Well, by now you know, if you didn’t already, that you have a philosopher for a vice president Princeton, IL 61356 (815) 659-3040 • [email protected] second year at Saint Mary’s College at College Forum. and dean! So, you might be asking yourself—which of these views of substance does Patricia adopt? (Or, of course, you could be reading this thinking philosophy is pretty strange stuff!) Jill Moore Clouse ’99 3202 North Paulina Street, 2S My tenure at Saint Mary’s has been one of Let me tell you this. I tend to think that there is truth in all these ideas, although some are Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] substantial challenges. Substance, as a concept, more incomplete or partial than others. My challenge is to hold them in a productive tension

MaryNora BarrySue Dunn Fischer Curry ’73 ’85 fascinates philosophers. Plato dismisses substance so that I might be able to understand and experience Saint Mary’s both more totally and more 5434U.S. Post Flowering Offi ce Dogwoodand Courthouse Lane as insignifi cant. Our substantial existence, he tells us, innovatively at the same time. My husband, who is a potter, reminds me of the importance Charlotte,700 Grant NCStreet, 28270-3729 Suite 5260 (704)Pittsburgh, 814-7967 PA 15219 • [email protected] can get in the way of knowing truth. When discussing of substance since he works with clay. One of the fi rst things he does before throwing a pot

NoraLinda BarryKawecki Fischer ’79 ’73 substance, Aristotle distinguishes between the is to center the clay. He cannot proceed without this centering process. But as he throws the U.S.6948 Post Lakeshore Offi ce andDrive Courthouse 700Dallas, Grant TX 75214-3550Street, Suite 5260 accidental and the essential and challenges us to be clay, he opens this center, pushing toward boundaries to form a work of art. That work might Pittsburgh,(214) 327-9355 PA 15219 • [email protected] able to identify the difference; John Locke argues exceed what we normally think of as boundaries and move into an unfamiliar shape but the Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 that, while he cannot point to substance, substance pot, whether it is classic or post-modern, retains integrity through the productive tensions kept 944 Spannwood Road Indianapolis, IN 46228 nevertheless exists, for it is that within which qualities intact by artist working with the clay. (317) 253-4494 • [email protected] adhere. Jean Paul Sartre effectively challenges our This is the same for Saint Mary’s. I have seen and experienced Saint Mary’s this last year as ElizabethLeeAnn Franks Bermingham McConnell Lacy ’85 ’66 views of substance, not so much as to say there is no a Platonist, when I have sat in my offi ce working with ideals for what I hope for this college; I 5051006 Welwyn Eastland Road Drive Richmond,Sturgis, MI VA49091 23229-8105 substance as to help us to see that what is essential have tried as well to identify its essence and explain this to parents and persons considering (804)(269) 741-5301651-9955 • [email protected]@yahoo.com about substance comes into being through existence Saint Mary’s and relatives wanting to know what Saint Mary’s is like, knowing full well that LeeAnnKathryn FranksWiedl Mettler, McConnell M.D. ’85 ’63 or living. Essence, so important to Aristotle and then describing the beautiful campus is more like speaking of the accidental rather than its essential 1006715 Registry Eastland Lane Drive NE Sturgis,Atlanta, GAMI 4909130342-2865 Aquinas, he argues, does not precede existence. Post- qualities…and yet the minute I do that, I am reminded that this beautiful campus may indeed (269)(404) 651-9955262-7454 • [email protected]@bellsouth.net modernism and the work of philosophers like Derrida be one of the essential reasons why Saint Mary’s is what it is; and yet, once I begin talking about KarenAdriana Zagrocki Garces McDonaldPetty ’01 ’76 P.O.1615 Box Altgeld 87 Street suggest that substance, and the notion of essence or its fi ne faculty, its supportive staff, and its confi dent and articulate students, I am immediately UnionSouth Pier,Bend, MI IN 49129 46614 center that accompanies it, is far less signifi cant than drawn to the Sartrian moment of knowing that it exceeds all these defi nitions and may not be (269)(574) 469-9625514-3237 • [email protected]@saintmarys.edu its marginal features. We should look to the margins to fi nd realities, as any claimed substantial what I think it is and may, in fact, be what I think it is not…and so I go looking in the places no AdrianaDawn Parker Garces Santamaria Petty ’01 ’81 16152 Gravel Altgeld Hill Road Street reality focusing on the center fools us. one is looking to fi nd possibilities for its future. SouthAsbury, Bend, NJ 08802-1347 IN 46614 (574)(908) 514-3237735-6716 • [email protected]@tallshipunicorn.com I mention this little bit of philosophy about substance so that I might also share with you Frankly, it’s not so easy for me to give you a list of all the things I now know about Saint how one might, after encountering new substantial realities, view or appropriate them. If I Mary’s after being here for almost two years. That would be a rather fl at and probably LisaSusan Maxbauer M. Suchy Price ’89 ’99 Post9225 Towers South Clifton Park Avenue were a Platonist, I would dismiss my experiences this last year at Saint Mary’s as insignifi cant, uninteresting exercise. What I’ve shared instead is how important I think it is to keep all the 75Evergreen West Street, Park, AptIL 60805-1508 2B New(708) York, 636-5915 NY 10006-1791 • [email protected] believing instead that I could never really know who and what Saint Mary’s is by more things I have learned in productive tension with each other. I am of the belief that, as we (917) 518-4345 • [email protected] experiences or encounters with its faculty, staff, students, and administrators. I should, instead, move toward the future, it is out of the tension between the past and present, the faculty and Kimmi Martin Troy ’00 Susan14644 Stonington M. Suchy Court ’89 stay in my offi ce and refl ect and meditate on the ideal form or state that Saint Mary’s could administration, the students and their teachers, learning outcomes and mandatory courses, Granger,9225 South IN 46530Clifton Park Avenue (574)Evergreen 271-8588 Park, IL• [email protected] have been or might have become. Were I to venture out of the offi ce, all I encounter would Catholics and non-Catholics, its women and its men, its old buildings and its brand new (708) 636-5915 • [email protected] Barbara Wolfston Urrutia ’74 fall from grace of the idealized view I had struggled to know in a Platonic recollection. If I ones, between its seasoned, senior faculty and its new, freshly-minted pre-tenure faculty, its Kimmi423 Bark Martin Drive Troy ’00 were Aristotelian, leaving my offi ce and experiencing the realities of Saint Mary’s would be of professional programs and its traditional liberal arts degrees, that out of all these tensions, new Redwood936 Currie City, Place CA 94065-1101 (650)Wauwatosa, 593-4958 WI 53213• [email protected] primary importance as knowledge and truth about Saint Mary’s comes from encounters and possibilities for Saint Mary’s College are emerging onto our horizon. (Even at this printing of (414) 771-0306 • [email protected] Phyllis Sullivan Van Hersett ’62 experience; but I would be challenged as well to distinguish the essence of Saint Mary’s from its the Courier we are responding productively to another tension, i.e., the fi nancial stress put on Phyllis10507 Jaguar Sullivan Drive Van Hersett ’62 Littleton,10507 Jaguar CO 80124 Drive accidental features. our nation due to recent economic events.) I am very proud of the way in which our faculty, (303)Littleton, 790-9265 CO 80124 • [email protected] I might be in search of all and only those features, uncovered by my experiences that their department Chairs, and our academic administrators proactively and creatively meet the (303) 790-9265 • [email protected] Abby Van Vlerah ’04 are unique to Saint Mary’s College. I experience this Aristotelian approach often when challenges presented to us by these productive tensions that we all face. Abby1560 Lane Van 110 Vlerah West Otter’04 Lake Angola,303 East IN LaSalle, 46703 Apt. 112B someone asks me to identify what makes a Saint Mary’s woman unique. That is actually an (307)South 399-0652Bend, IN 46617 • [email protected] (307) 399-0652 • [email protected] extraordinarily challenge…to defi ne these qualities. John Locke would agree that these qualities Rebecca Votto ’93 exist. Regardless of any ability to see the underlying substance of a Saint Mary’s student, or RebeccaApt. C, 930 W.Votto Balboa ’93 Boulevard NewportApt. C, 930 Beach, W. Balboa CA 92661 Boulevard faculty, staff, or administrator, he would still say we can identify their primary qualities. (Locke (310)Newport 597-9210 Beach, CA• [email protected] 92661 (310) 597-9210 • [email protected] was, of course, quite infl uenced by Aristotle.) If I were an existentialist, like Sartre, my approach Karen McNamara Weaver ’91 might be a bit more humble, thinking that over time as I exist here at Saint Mary’s I would Karen513 Southwest McNamara Gentry Lane Weaver ’91 Lees513 SouthwestSummit, MO Gentry 64081 Lane encounter the real Saint Mary’s and even then, (reminded of his famous phrase “We are what (816)Lees Summit,761-4374 MO • [email protected] (816) 761-4374 • [email protected] we are not and we are not what we are”) I should always be careful not to assume I’ve captured once and for all Saint Mary’s essence. And, fi nally, were I a post-modern, I would look in the

2 COURIER | Spring | Spring 2009 2008 thethe MarketMarket ValueValue ofof aa LiberalLiberal ArtsArts EducationEducation

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Einstein said a liberal arts college education trains “the seeking well-rounded candidates who can offer that same me and shared their wisdom—regarding parenting, careers, mind to think something that cannot be learned from broad-based perspective,” says Karr. and spiritual decisions. They were company presidents, textbooks.” This is a maxim Saint Mary’s alumnae take to attorneys, teachers, musicians, artists—but what we had heart and put into practice. Courier caught up with four Anne Hesslau Dondanville ’82 in common was a desire to assure that Saint Mary’s College alumnae recently—a wordsmith for number crunchers, a Policy Planner, Philanthropist, Artist was positioned to cherish her heritage and at the same policy planner/philanthropist/artist, a world traveler, and a time, positioned to meet the fi nancial challenges that could market guru—to ask them about their lives and One of the hallmarks of a liberal arts education is the ease jeopardize her future.” their careers, to see where their liberal arts backgrounds with which graduates can transition from one career path Dondanville says she’s seen fi rst-hand the difference had taken them. to another. “I graduated in 1982 when the economy was in a fi nancial aid and scholarships have made to Saint Mary’s similar cycle that this year’s graduates may encounter,” says students. “I have read articles in the Courier about the Katy Karr ’06 Anne Hesslau Dondanville. “The summer after graduation I accomplishments of women who were student government Wordsmith accepted an entry level job at a Japanese bank, worked as an commissioners who would address us at Board meetings. international fl ight attendant based at O’Hare, and applied to My alumnae-endorsed applications have been submitted Katy Karr graduated summa cum laude from Saint Mary’s graduate school all in the fi rst year out of Saint Mary’s!” by young women who are now graduates. I have received with a double major in humanistic studies and English After graduating with a degree in political science, notes and calls from students and I am more convinced literature. After taking a literature/philosophy tandem course Dondanville earned her Master’s in Public Administration than ever that a Saint Mary’s College education is an even her fi rst semester, and an introductory humanistic studies from the University of Illinois at Springfi eld and went on greater gift in today’s world than it was in mine,” says course her second semester, Karr was hooked. to work as a policy planner for the Illinois Department on Dondanville. “I was instantly addicted to the subject matter and the Aging. From there, she took a position as the executive Dondanville’s passions and pursuits continue to unique outline of each course of study,” says Karr. “I really director of the Springfi eld Alzheimer’s Association. For reach far and wide. She currently runs her own business, wanted to study what I loved and, as I loved both, I could not Dondanville, her liberal arts background prepared her to creating artisan jewelry including the French Cross bring myself to choose between the two.” pursue her passions. “I was trained to write, to speak publicly necklace, worn by many alumnae, and remains an active Karr now works for Bank of America as a communications and passionately, and to believe in my abilities and in God’s member of the Madeleva Society Steering Committee. assistant. Karr’s addiction to the world of abstract ideas plan for my life,” says Dondanville. Dondanville attributes her devotion to the College to the resulted in a very practical skill set, one that made her Dondanville’s passions reached beyond her work week education it provides, an education she believes to be confi dent about going toe-to-toe with applicants from left- and, ultimately, brought her back to Saint Mary’s. She unique. “Students are exposed to the classics, to current brain fi elds. “Literature and humanistic studies helped me has been an integral donor and devotee to the College. political debates, to the arts and sciences in a beautiful, to develop a sound set of communications skills,” says Karr. “My motivation to give to Saint Mary’s was simply one of intimate environment where they are safe to explore “Writing, presentation, articulation, and critical thinking…I gratitude,” says Dondanville. “Soon after graduation my their intellectual leanings with other young women from felt very confi dent that I could successfully portray and father and I were talking about his volunteer involvement all over the world,” says Dondanville. “They are taught promote these skills in any interview and have an edge over with the high school seminary he attended. When he spoke of and mentored by talented faculty members who are candidates with business degrees.” his gratitude for the dedication of the priests who made that committed to their academic growth and professional The diverse interests that motivated Karr’s double major type of education possible, I realized that I felt the same way preparation. It is an environment of excellence where are at play in her career as well. Project management, event about those who had preceded me at Saint Mary’s College.” faculty, administration, staff, and alumnae are committed to planning, speech editing, letter writing, market data and A six-year member of the Alumnae Board, Dondanville their success.” metrics analysis, and research are all part of an average day. served another six years on the Madeleva Steering “What I like about my job is that I am sort of a jack of all Committee, Saint Mary’s premier gift society, which takes Lisa Coury ’98 trades. I get my hands on a variety of projects which allows a leadership role in fundraising for fi nancial aid and World Traveler me to discover what interests me and what doesn’t…so there scholarships for Saint Mary’s students. Dondanville also is a lot of room for growth and development on a personal chaired her Reunion Gift Campaign and volunteered during Lisa Coury found her passion, one that would translate level, which is something that is very important to me.” the Sesquicentennial Campaign. These are just a few of the into a career, while studying abroad her sophomore year. To Karr, the future looks bright. Long-term, she says, roles to which she’s lent her time, talent, and treasure. Since then, she has co-founded and manages Grazie Italia, she wants to maintain a healthy work-life balance. She is “Twenty-one years ago I attended my fi rst Alumnae Board a travel agency that coordinates custom travel to Italy. confi dent her liberal arts education will help her navigate meeting with an infant son in tow—he is now a sophomore “The Saint Mary’s Rome Program is the reason I fell in both priorities, her family and the always-changing, fl uid at Notre Dame,” says Dondanville. “Women who shared love, not only with Italy, but with travel, in general,” says market. “There are numerous employers out there like mine that Board table with me remain friends and resources to me today. They were ten, twenty, and thirty years older than Photos, top to bottom: Kathleen Kelly Hartman ’94; Lisa Coury ’98; Anne Dondanville ’82 with her family, Patrick, Tim, Brian ND ’12, Dan, Roger, and Adrian; Katy Karr ’06 4 COURIER | Spring 2009 5 By Natalie Davis Miller

Professor Frances Hwang placed a bag full of apples in the middle of the classroom in Spes Unica Hall. The assignment: Each of her fi ction writing students was to pick out an apple Coury. “It was unbelievable to me how art and history came information is one that Hartman uses daily. “Investor Alice Chen Alice and write about it. Descriptions stepping out alive in front of me in the Eternal City…. It gave birth to my relations is a fi eld that combines fi nance, marketing, and were varied, fl owing, poetic even. love for cultural exchange. Through contact with another communications,” says Hartman. “My company is publicly Exercises in writing description fi ction to have any literary merit, I think it has to surprise us culture, through the experience of being a foreigner, you traded, and in my role I work as part of a team to provide such as this were just a small part and be unfamiliar in some way. That means that as writer you learn about others and about yourself. Most importantly, you current and potential investors in our stock with information of an engaging fi ction writing have to reject anything that is ready-made, resist formulas, come to know that similarities far outweigh the differences regarding the fi rm’s historical performance and potential course. stereotypes, and clichés. This is harder to do than it sounds. between people, regardless of nationality or language. And going forward.” Students in Frances Hwang’s Art values innovative, unconventional thinking. I hope when you understand this lesson, the differences between After graduating from Saint Mary’s with a double major fi ction writing class spent the that my class encourages students to become independent people become fun!” in English and philosophy, Hartman taught high school fall semester crafting characters, thinkers who will not blindly accept what they’ve been told or Coury graduated cum laude with a B.A. in humanistic English to inner city girls, which she says she loved. She setting, dialogue, and scenes given, but who will look closer in order to try to understand studies and a minor in Italian. In 2001, she traveled back has also worked as an operations manager and a business into literary fi ction that the truth and complexity of anything, whether it be an idea, a to Italy to St. John’s University in Rome, where she got her analyst. The fl exibility with which Hartman has been able to Professor Frances Hwang would become the beginning situation, or another human being.” MBA. Then, she returned to Phoenix, her hometown, where navigate the corporate world, she attributes to the nature of of a novella. Conducted in a workshop setting similar she earned a Master’s in International Management from her education. “I think that I developed two key skills at Saint to graduate-level programs, students received positive Thunderbird School of Global Management. Mary’s that have made it possible for me to work in such a feedback and constructive criticism from each other as well According to Coury, humanistic studies prepared her for variety of different fi elds,” says Hartman. “Those skills are as from Hwang. As the writing on the novellas progressed, the world of business. The major, unique to Saint Mary’s, communications and analysis. Different jobs I’ve had have students also read classic and contemporary literature, michelle catenacci : English Literature and looks through the lenses of many disciplines to understand emphasized one skill or the other to a greater extent, but I the only textbooks for the class. The classroom instruction major Western culture. “Humanistic Studies taught me how to can’t think of any fi eld where those skills aren’t critical. In my included in-class writing assignments, and student-led class English Writing study a culture…to understand its current political, social, current role, I use the two fairly equally.” discussions. hometown: Westfi eld, New Jersey religious, scientifi c, and artistic environment, and to Hartman went on to earn an M.B.A. in Finance and Professor Hwang is no stranger to good writing. In aspirations: Publishing/Writing understand how all of these elements combine to shape Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at addition to a number of awards, honors, and grants, she has : “I have found writing the way people think and act,” Coury explains. “This type Northwestern University in 2007. How does one fi nd their had a number of short stories published in literary magazines why i write to be a great medium to express of analysis is the identical thought process used in business way from English and philosophy to an MBA? “I credit my such as Tin House, Glimmer Train, the Madison Review, and myself in creative ways. It school and in business in general. To analyze any market, philosophy studies with developing the analytical side the Best New American Voices. She is also the author of a short allows me to get lost in different you have to use this type of analysis to know if a product of my brain,” says Hartland. “Once you’ve dissected Kant story collection titled Transparency (Back Bay Books-Little, characters and worlds that I normally would not experience. should be introduced, how to introduce it, and then how and Heidegger with Ann [Clark, professor of philosophy], Brown and Company, 2007), and she is presently working on It also permits me to experience new ways of being and to market it.” understanding a fi nancial statement seems easy!” a novella herself. Hwang has been a professor at Saint Mary’s understanding through the words I put on a page.” Now, Coury spends her days helping others see the best Part of a liberal arts education is learning how to learn, since 2007. of the place she loves. “I prepare custom itineraries for travel how to educate yourself. This often develops into a love of The semester ended with students submitting at least 40 excerpt from With These Hands: throughout Italy. We’ve prepared all types of itineraries, from learning for its own sake. For Hartman, this transferable pages of their novellas. Professor Hwang met with Courier Ignoring the pain, she planted her hands fi rmly on his very simple to very extravagant. I enjoy what I do because skill pays dividends. “I like working with people, and it gives to talk about how students benefi t from trying their hand at chest and pushed him away before he had a chance to realize it takes the ‘work’ out of my clients’ vacation, thus they are me a chance to work with people across a variety of roles fi ction and how the experience complements a liberal arts what she had said. Without ceremony and before he could get better able to enjoy the richness of the Italian experience.” throughout my company and with investors and analysts degree. another word in, Lilly yanked off the glove on her right hand. For Coury, sharing what she loves is often it’s own reward. outside my company,” she says. “Also, I am really interested With great care, she then removed her wedding ring from her How does a liberal arts degree work in the real world? How “We love it when our clients come back and we can tell that in capital markets and economics. My company is a left fi nger… does it help students prepare for a career? they ‘get it,’ that they understand the meaning of la dolce vita derivatives exchange, so most of the economic news that you “I always think of students with a liberal arts degree as in Italia (the sweet life in Italy). We even had a couple come hear about impacts our business and our customers. It is a being passionate about learning for the sake of learning. back once and tell us that we ‘saved their marriage,’ but really constant learning experience and I love to learn new things.” They are curious about many things—art, politics, literature, it was just Italy. It’s a great gift to share with others!” Hartman says the writing that was required of her as an desiree j. fischer history, science, religion—and their breadth of knowledge Coury credits the broad-based education she received at undergraduate has served her well in her numbers-based allows them to make connections, to grasp and make sense Saint Mary’s with preparing her for the career she invented industry. “It’s more than just an emphasis on writing. It’s major: English Literature and of the world from a larger perspective. Employers, I hope, will for herself. “My liberal arts education, in general, made me a teaching an analytical thought process where you are English Writing always value individuals with this kind of sensibility.” well-rounded person,” says Coury. “It is only my mom and I constantly taking in information, distilling it down to hometown: Middlebury, Indiana running Grazie Italia, so our job functions run the gamut! It the critical parts, and then communicating it in a clear, What are the benefi ts of studying and writing fi ction? : High School English is equally important for me to know how to do accounting, meaningful way,” says Hartman. “Whether I am putting “Fiction allows us to step outside the confi nes of our aspirations Teacher and Writer as it is for me to be able to write effectively and to create together a PowerPoint presentation or writing an e-mail, I am own lives and to identify with the lives of others. We get marketing campaigns. The key to small business is well- constantly reminded of those freshman year W classes: what to meet people from all walks of life with different social why i write: “I write because it is roundedness, I believe.” is your thesis, and why is it true? Once you’d gotten the core and cultural backgrounds, from different time periods and my passion. It is a way for me ideas together, the focus on polishing the mechanics and countries. What I love about fi ction is how it allows us to take to express myself to others who Kathleen Kelly Hartman ’94 style of one’s writing was invaluable.” an imaginative leap into other worlds, embark on a journey hopefully enjoy reading what I write.” that allows us to intimately know another person’s life. And Market Guru Ultimately, a liberal arts education liberates, both within excerpt from Mud Pies and Glitter Glue: the sphere of work and without. “The ability to see the then to refl ect upon that life, to be moved by what happens Kurt arrived just in time to help me dig my old blue bike “I think my liberal arts education gave me many career patterns and interconnections amongst information has to a character; no doubt the best fi ction does this, makes us out of the shed. After wading through mountainous boxes of options,” says Kathleen Kelly Hartman, manager of investor been a great asset in all the fi elds I’ve worked,” says Hartman. deeply consider the lives of others and develops our capacity my parents’ things and climbing over various pieces of lawn relations at CME Group (formerly the Chicago Mercantile “And it goes beyond my career…I love movies and music and for empathy. I’d like to think that reading and writing fi ction care equipment, I spotted it. It was still beautiful, if not a little Exchange). books and theater, and being able to apply these skills to my enriches our imagination and makes us more open, tolerant tired looking. It was the bike that my parents had bought “To me, the essence of a liberal arts education, no matter leisure pursuits gives me a great deal of enjoyment in my human beings.” me before I went to college. The bike had carried me to the what fi eld one studies, is the ability to take in information personal life.” As a professor, what are you getting your students ready for? majority of my classes, and when I lived in the city, it had also and synthesize it meaningfully.” That ability to synthesize “When I teach creative writing, what I want most from my carried me to and from work. students is that they become original, creative thinkers. For

6 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 7 emily cook miranda baxter major: Business Administration and Marketing majors: Theatre and Philosophy marilynn anater hometown: Fairfax, Virginia laura kleinschmidt hometown: Mishawaka, Indiana aspirations: Publishing or major: English writing and : “I plan on becoming aspirations Marketing major: Communications English literature a professional stage manager; why i write: “Writing is more hometown: St. Louis, Missouri hometown: Lancaster, I’ve set the goal of joining the than a creative outlet for me; Pennsylvania Actors’ Equity Association aspirations: Writer it’s a way to express my words, : Ph.D. in English or within fi ve years of graduating : “I chose to pursue a aspirations thoughts, and emotions why i write a J.D. from Saint Mary’s. I would also through a language that is full writing minor because I have : “For me, writing like to try writing plays when of literary devices and variable always enjoyed reading and why i write is a personal experience. I’ve found some kind of security in the future.” vocabulary. The writing classes writing.” Mostly, writing gives me the why i write: “I write as an escape. When I was young, I would I’ve taken at Saint Mary’s have excerpt from Pressure Point: opportunity to showcase a read as much as I could and as often as possible to escape challenged me to try new ways Something was out of place. Something had been moved. single instant of the human experience that I fi nd particularly from the mundane everyday life we all live. That’s not to say of thinking when it comes to Her chair. She didn’t usually leave it sticking out like that, she engaging or deserving of attention, and to encapsulate it that I didn’t enjoy life, because I did (and still do), but I enjoy characterization and encouraged me to embrace the beauty always tucked it underneath her desk. Always. She tucked her permanently in the powerful medium of the written word.” escaping to different worlds, either in the sense of other of the present.” chair in and looked around. Her closet? The door seemed to from Testimony: peoples’ lives, or even to fantastical places.” from Full Count: be standing ajar. She never left her door like that. Someone excerpt excerpt was behind her. “Hi Sam,” a voice whispered into her ear. I blindly let her help me down from the witness stand and excerpt from Alone No More: Crack. guide me away from the judge’s bench. I close my eyes as we As concerns for Dogberry consumed his mind, he briefl y As the sound of leather making solid contact with metal Sam whipped around and saw a face staring right back at approach the defendant’s table, I don’t want to feel his eyes on forgot most of the misfortunes of the evening. He forgot the broke the silence in Yale Field, Brandon unleashed a blood- her. Before she knew what was going on, her entire body went me any longer. way Beatrice had turned his heart’s pace up about seven curdling scream from the mound. The intended, hard, line- numb and everything went black. Passing through the gate that separates the court arena notches when she walked in the door. He forgot the way he drive by the husky batter ricocheted off the side of Brandon’s from the gallery, I can feel a huge weight lifted off me and had so quickly managed to gain and lose her interest in a face. The ball was halted by the fl eshy skin between Brandon’s notice that my breathing is coming more easily. As we walk single hour. He also forgot how the Ginkgo trees that lined the temple and ear. Both fell to the ground with a thud. down the aisle to leave the courtroom, I see my parents dart sidewalk suddenly seemed darker and more threatening as The audience gasped as the infi eld stood in position with back to their seats to grab their coats and belongings before soon as she had departed... shock written across their faces. All the players were immobile following behind us. Yet all I can think about is how I still just as if they were standing in hardened cement. megan sotak want to get out, want to leave. I want to get out of the stifl ing major: English Literature and room of grand columns, mahogany woodwork, and grated Writing windows, and leave those piercing eyes behind.

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sarah sheppard aspirations: Editor, Professor, or Novelist : English Literature and major : “I write because English Writing kelsey knoedler why i write I must; within me is a need jamie peterson : Grosse Pointe, hometown major: English Writing to write that cannot be Michigan ignored. Writing allows for the hometown: Mosinee, Wisconsin major: English Literature and English : Law or Publishing preservation of memories, the sharing of ideas and opinions, aspirations : “This week? To work Writing aspirations the exploration of something different, and the birth of new why i write: “I write to express my for a wedding magazine. But hometown: Austin, Texas characters and new worlds. That’s the short answer.” thoughts, to free my stress and ask me next week, and I may aspirations: Publishing, Editor explore my imagination.” have a different answer for excerpt from A Masked Man: : “I write because it As I walked, I was captivated by the storefronts overfl owing why i write excerpt from A Whirlwind of Snowfl akes: you.” with masks of all shapes, sizes, colors, and materials. There feels natural. I write in hopes that On the way home from school, Katie gripped the steering : “…I don’t have to why i write were masks with long noses, short noses, and no noses. Masks one day, just one person, will be wheel hard, letting her fi ngertips turn purple from the think about it…I just put a pen to paper, and words come with full faces in all colors of the spectrum. Masks with inspired to write.” pressure. She watched the road intensely with her body out. I don’t always like what comes out; it’s not always very feathers and bells, with crystals and ribbons. Papier-mâché excerpt from Exploding Grapes: leaning forward. She drove slowly, careful not to slide on the good. But when I summon words, they come.” wet snow and lose control. Almost there, Katie repeated in her masks and others made of metal, though especially delicate- Now she had someone else’s hot breath on her neck and from First of May: head, wondering why she decided to drive. The trip home was excerpt looking. There were even masks of animals—elephants, pigs, it was making her think of him. She did not want to react The clown walked nearer to Scarlet; she hid behind the agonizing. It was her fi rst day driving since his accident. She giraffes, lions, camels, frogs, hippos, rams, unicorns. I had wrong again. Making the fi rst move however was not in her giant wheels of the wagon. He slammed down his bucket and was in constant fear while in control of the wheel. Katie could never seen such enchanting stores, never even imagined them. repertoire. She shifted uncomfortably and the hot breath left took out a cigar and matchbox from the giant pocket of his hardly breathe until she pulled into the narrow driveway of Some stores sold glass made on Murano Island that came in her neck. Charlotte began to relax muscle by muscle but the denim pants. The clown sat down on the overturned bucket, her small, brick house. She waited before getting out of the car bizarre shapes, mostly wavy cones with brilliant blues and weight beside her on the couch did not budge. Connor was lit the cigar, breathed it in, and sighed, looking up at the so she could recover from the drive. The light snow covering oranges, branching out from a spherical base. Shelves in still sitting there. Charlotte kept her eyes closed hoping that stars. Slowly and softly, between puffs of the vanilla-scented her house and the colorful Christmas lights her father hung windows were decorated with fi gurines of animals, French Connor would think she had fallen asleep and would become cigar, the clown began to hum a sad tune. Scarlet thought she last week were lit around the roof. Katie took three deep cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix, holiday ornaments, uninterested. recognized it from a broken music box she had gotten rid of breaths, before going inside. and fl owers all made of glass. The mask and glass stores made “Charlotte, you awake? I just want to talk.” a few summers ago. And slowly and softly, as Scarlet leaned up Venice; one store with material to hide you and one with against the enormous wheel beneath the circus wagon, she material to expose you. began to drift off into a dreamless sleep.

To read more of the stories, go to saintmarys.edu/stepping-out. 8 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 9 Perozek says. “My education gave me the confi dence to Therese J. Borchard ’93 continue to always grow, change, evolve, and explore the Author and blogger Therese J. Borchard dealt with life’s big person I am meant to become.” questions as a religious studies major. “Saint Mary’s prepared me about as well as any small liberal college could, because Kathryn Christenson Janiszewski ’64 IN STACKS I learned to become an analytical thinker,” she says. This THE with Alumnae Authors became an important skill for Borchard as she began to write “Write about something you know well, are passionate By Shannon E. Brewer ’03 after graduation. She has published books that explore the about, and know that you will revise again and again.” That history and theology of Catholicism, compilations including sound writing advice comes from Kathryn Christenson The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living Janiszewski. And she should know. This alumna author As a liberal arts college focused on educating profi cient Congregation. in the Real World (Broadway, 2006), and various articles and graduated from Saint Mary’s with a degree in elementary writers, Saint Mary’s has graduated generations of published Sister Madeleva I passed a wood of beech trees yesterday essays. education, then went on to obtain her master’s degree in authors. From Sister Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., to Avenue served as president And I am shaken with its beauty yet. After giving birth to her daughter, Borchard experienced education with an emphasis on reading for adults from afi cionado Kymberly Dunlap ‘04, our alumnae have made of the College Why should my breath catch and my eyes be wet what she considers a nervous breakdown. While recovering, Loyola College in Baltimore. Her career has involved teaching great strides in the literary world. As alumna and author from 1934 to 1961. Because a hundred trees some yards away she wrestled, once again, with the important issues of faith writing to elementary school students, which, she says, Therese J. Borchard ’93 puts it, “In a sense, I think Saint A contemporary Know simply how to dress in simple gray, and now mental health. The breakdown changed her life, helped build her own writing skills. Mary’s has prepared every student to be a writer if she of C.S. Lewis and including her creative life. “I wanted to combine my faith Recently Janiszewski published a book she has been chooses to follow that path.” Below we feature a small Thomas Merton, Are poised beyond the need of epithet, perspective with mental-health information that would working on sporadically for thirteen years. Only One selection of notable alumnae authors, many of whom she corresponded And beautiful past power to forget? help others who suffer from mood disorders,” explains Returned tells the story of her father’s harrowing return from attribute their literary know-how to a Saint Mary’s education. regularly with both —Excerpt from “Beech Trees” Borchard. She does this every day through her blog “Beyond a fl ight-bombing mission over Germany during World War on theological by Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, CSC Blue” on Beliefnet.com. Her memoir, Beyond Blue: Surviving II. “I often told the story of my father’s escape and by the matters. Sister Depression and Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes time I would fi nish, those listening were often in tears,” says Adriana Trigiani ’80 Madeleva is considered one of the great theological (Center Street, 2009) will be released in May. Janiszewski. “They would say to me, ‘You should write that minds—male or female—of her time. Wander through the rows of Cushwa-Leighton Library’s story.’” Janiszewski heeded their advice. “I think I can offer an fi ction section and you’ll fi nd the shelves stocked with example for those who like to write, have the time, and want bbooks by alumna author Adriana Marijean Boueri ’82 Karin Gurtzweiler Perozek ’94 to preserve stories for their families.” TTrigiani. Of course, you’ll also fi nd Alumna author Karin Gurtzweiler hher books at any bookstore worth Marijean Boueri studied English literature at Saint Perozek recently published a book iits muster. The bestselling author Mary’s. She now writes for children. She has published two for teens with her husband Timothy Kymberly Dunlap ’04 oof the Big Stone Gap series, Trigiani children’s books, Lebanon 1-2-3 (Publishing Works, Inc., Perozek (ND ’93) called Up Your Kymberly Dunlap corresponded with hundreds of Saint hhas published a novel per year since 2005) and Lebanon A-Z: A Middle Eastern Mosaic (Publishing Aspirations by Thinking Like a Kid and Mary’s alumnae while compiling her book Saint Mary’s 22000. She recalls Saint Mary’s fondly Works, Inc., 2006), co-written with Jill Boutros and Joanne Earning Like a CEO (iUniverse, 2007). College: Her Memories Beyond the Avenue. The alumna aas the place she was encouraged to SSayad. The books refl ect her It’s a timely publication for those graduated from the College with a B.B.A. in business hhone her craft. “I was lucky to go to iinternational lifestyle and concerned with the current economic administration. On a return visit to campus the October SSaint Mary’s and have the world’s iinterest in sharing Lebanon’s crisis. But the book addresses teens, after her graduation, Dunlap spoke with fellow alumnae of bbest professors guide me as a young rrich cultural heritage with not adults. other generations. She realized the importance of preserving wwriter,” says Trigiani. “Max Westler cchildren across the globe. Boueri Perozek says the idea for the book, advice for teens their stories. “It occurred to me that these intriguing stories sset me on a path of whimsy and joy; hhas lived in Beirut, Lebanon, looking to make and save money, formed from her and her would be lost forever if they were SSister Jean Klene—Shakespeare and wwith her husband and children husband’s life experiences. As teenagers, the pair earned not documented by the women who storytelling; Reg Bain—theater—well, I could go on and on.” ssince 1997. money for college by doing odd jobs, from mowing lawns to experienced them,” she explains. This spring Trigiani released her latest novel Very Valentine Lebanon 1-2-3 is subtitled teaching private art lessons. Recently they compiled all of Dunlap set about gathering (Harper, 2009), a story about a family of shoemakers in ““A Counting Book in Three the ideas and wrote the book in what Perozek calls, “a very alumnae memories, largely via e-mail. Greenwich Village. “Very Valentine is a full expression of LLanguages: English, French, fun, tongue-in-cheek, somewhat irreverent, straight-forward “I quickly learned that our alumnae the fundamentals I learned and built upon: storytelling, Arabic.” Boueri’s words, framed in colorful detail on the manner for teens. It’s a humorously written book that teaches are so giving of themselves, whether dialogue, arc, and substance,” says Trigiani. “All of these, I right-hand pages, appear in poetic couplets, which are kids how to make money and have fun while doing so.” it’s making a new lifetime friend or learned and cultivated at Saint Mary’s.” then translated in French and Arabic beneath. The book is Perozek, who graduated from Saint Mary’s with a degree achieving a childhood dream,” she beautifully illustrated by Mona Trad Dabaji whose paintings in fi ne art, says her experience at the College prepared her to says. In writing the book, Dunlap depict a family’s cozy home life write the book and pursue any other goal she fulfi lled a dream of her own. “Writing Sister Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C. 1909 in Lebanon. wished. “Attending Saint Mary’s a book has been a childhood dream One of our most revered alumnae, Sister M. Madeleva gave me the courage to be of mine that was forgotten until that Wolff, C.S.C., was a prolifi c writer. She published a cadre open to whatever fi rst weekend in October 2004, and of literary works throughout her life, including collections life brought my love of Saint Mary’s rekindled of her poetry and theological essays. Sister Madeleva my way,” that memory,” Dunlap refl ects. “The one thing that stands transferred to Saint Mary’s as a sophomore from the out the most for me is that the Saint Mary’s community is a University of Wisconsin at Madison, fi nished her sophomore transformational leader that teaches each student that she and junior years at Saint Mary’s, and then joined the convent, can be anyone and achieve more than ever thought possible.” completing her degree as a member of the Holy Cross Did we miss an author? While we could not feature every alumna author in this story, the library can. If you know of an alumna who has published a book, please contact the director of the Cushwa-Leighton Library, Janet Fore, at [email protected] or (574) 284-5281.

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The fall of 2008 saw four of the College’s varsity athletic Basketball teams take their respective rings of competition. This year’s Saint Mary’s Junior nursing major Megan McClowry had a break-out basketball team had the most Best of Both Worlds season for the cross country team as she fi nished fi rst for the successful season in program Belles at each race this fall. McClowry fi nished 13th at the history. The Belles won a school MIAA Championships to earn All-MIAA Second Team honors record 17 wins and fi nished for the fi rst time in her career. She became just the fourth second in the MIAA, which was harrier for Saint Mary’s to earn All-MIAA honors. As a team, By Natalie Davis Miller the highest fi nish ever by a Belles Saint Mary’s fi nished the MIAA season in fourth place for the basketball team. The team hosted second consecutive year. No other Belles’ cross country team A liberal arts degree may not seem like the fi rst step on the and won the fi rst two rounds has fi nished higher in the MIAA. of the season-ending MIAA path to becoming a scientist. For Dr. Mary Anne Luzar ’72 Also posting a break-out season was sophomore golfer however, her liberal arts foundation led to a successful career tournament and made their fi rst and business major Rosie O’Connor. O’Connor fi nished the trip to the conference tournament in the sciences and an opportunity to make a difference in fall season with 403 strokes in the world. championship game. Senior league competition to average Senior Erin Newsom broke forward Erin Newsom has been Luzar returned to campus this past October to present 80.6, edging out her nearest the school record for career a four-day, non-credit mini course, titled Human Clinical leading the way for the Belles competition by a single stroke, rebounds, scored her 1,000th much of this season. Newsom Trial Research in the 21st Century: The Complex World to become the fi fth Belle in the career point, and was named First Team All-MIAA has broken the school record for of International Drug Development. Luzar is the chief of past six years and the youngest the Regulatory Affairs Branch, Division of AIDS, National this season. career rebounds, surpassing the Saint Mary’s golfer to earn old mark of Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National MIAA Season Medalist honors. Institutes of Health. She currently works on AIDS research 683 set by Julie By fi nishing second overall McGill ’98, while for the Department of Health and Human Services, and has as a team in the fall season, traveled to over 20 countries for work-related projects. Her Mary Anne Luzar ’72 works and lives in the Washington, also becoming D.C. area with her husband, the Honorable William J. Saint Mary’s will host one of work has appeared in numerous journals, including her just the eighth Tattersall, and their 13-year-old daughter, Mary Isabelle. the three 18-hole rounds of clinical fi ndings from her dissertation, which were published player in school MIAA play in the spring that history to score in the New England Journal of Medicine. She is fl uent in will determine the conference’s both French and Spanish, and defended her dissertation in more than 1,000 automatic qualifi er to the NCAA career points. French, becoming the fi rst American to receive the Ph.D. experience that shaped my life. Angers was the leg of three tournament. summa cum laude in microbiology from the Free University segments of my life spent abroad and it helped me adjust to Under the guidance of fi rst Rosie O’Connor became the fi fth of Brussels, Belgium. Prior to that she obtained a Master all of them.” year head coach Ryan Crabbe, Belle in the past six years to earn of Science degree from the University of Tennessee. Luzar In addition to her study-abroad experience, Luzar the Saint Mary’s soccer team MIAA Season Medalist honors. The Belles celebrate the closing seconds of a was then recruited by Baxter Corporation to work in their appreciates the relationships she’s had with her Saint Mary’s featured an all-conference historic 91-84 win over #1 Hope. European Research Center in Belgium, where they funded professors. “Having been a teaching assistant in graduate athlete for the eighth consecutive season. Senior forward Swimming and Diving her Ph.D. studies. Needless to say, she has received a myriad school myself, I realize how special it is to have faculty of Lauren Hinton earned All-MIAA Second Team honors for the Some young talent has emerged this season for the of professional honors. And she got her start right here at such high caliber at Saint Mary’s teaching undergraduate third time in her career after leading the Belles in goals and swimming and diving team. Eva Cavadini and Barbara Saint Mary’s College. students,” explains Luzar. “Because I learned to trust my points last season. Beidler, fi rst-year swimmers, have already found themselves Luzar double-majored in humanistic studies and French intellect at Saint Mary’s, I was ready to take on academic The 2008 volleyball among the All-Time literature at Saint Mary’s. As a fi rst-year student, Luzar challenges in graduate school.” team had one of the Top Five fi nishers heard Dr. Bruno Schlesinger speak on the humanistic Today, Luzar is responsible for ensuring that the 400 most successful seasons in their respective studies program. “He was mesmerizing,” says Luzar. “He human clinical trials in 45 countries sponsored by the U.S. in recent history with 18 events, and Audrey spoke eloquently about the role of history, religion, art, and government, here and internationally, meet pertinent U.S. wins in the fall. Junior Dalrymple, has philosophy in our western culture—but more importantly, laws and regulations. The four-day mini course gave Luzar outside hitter Lorna broken six school he wove them together into a ‘cultural basket’ and made me the opportunity to share current information on clinical trials Slupczynski recorded records. Dalrymple understand that this program could give me the foundation for testing new drugs and vaccines for the prevention and her 1,000th career dig has come out of the on which to build anything I wanted in my life. And so I treatment of HIV. and kill in the same starting blocks to decided that night to major in humanistic studies…” “Because Saint Mary’s has a student body interested in match, which also be one of the best Luzar spent her sophomore year studying in Angers, making a difference in their world, and because this world is Cathy Kurczak (left) and Lorna Slupczynski happened to be the breaststrokers in France, living with a French family. “My French family with increasingly international in scope, I believe this course…will both earned All-MIAA honors at the end Audrey Dalrymple became the second team’s 18th win of the school history as she eleven children spent hours teaching me French—at dinner be of interest to them and will provide an additional tool for of the season. Belle to earn the right to compete at the season. She and senior has set four separate there was a French dictionary between the father and me at them to help realize their goals.” NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Cathy Kurczak both earned All-MIAA Second Team honors at school records this the table and there was no hesitation in using it,” describes Luzar embodies how a liberal arts foundation works hand Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. the conclusion of the season. season. She also Luzar. “Learning about the French language, people, and in hand with the discipline of science. “I always tell people Through the fall athletic season, Saint Mary’s was in third became the second swimmer in College history to qualify culture sparked my interest in travel and work abroad.” She that humanistic studies taught me to see the connections place in the MIAA’s Women’s All-Sport standings, which are for and participate in the NCAA Division III Swimming and traveled throughout Europe, visited her father’s relatives between complex issues that do not appear on the surface based on each school’s season fi nish in the conference. Saint Diving Championships. The Belles fi nished the season in fi fth in Slovenia, and in the summer, she worked with a French to be related. The Saint Mary’s liberal arts education I Mary’s had their highest ever fi nish in the standings last year place at the season-ending MIAA Championships hosted by architect and other college students restoring a chateau received with humanistic studies has been invaluable to in fourth place. Saint Mary’s from February 19–21 at Rolfs Aquatic Center at in Southern France. “In hindsight, I see it was a signifi cant me as a scientist.” the University of Notre Dame.

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Saint Mary’s got to peek into Professor Krista Hoefl e’s is a pair of working lungs, hanging from the ceiling, breathing wacky laboratory of anatomical abstraction, which was part eerily. They are three times the size of actual human lungs of the Department of Art Faculty Exhibition this semester. and are made of hot-ironed biohazard bags, which are Hoefl e’s new installation entitled, “My Tomorrowland is infl ated and defl ated by a prototyped circuit. A paper-mâché an Empty Space,” fi lled heart, also three times the size of a human’s, hangs from the the Hammes Gallery ceiling as well, and a pair of elongated femur bones made of with scientifi c imagery polyurethane are mounted on the opposite wall. that took the forms of “Each component acts as a type of prosthesis; a series of sculpture, printmaking, artifi cial replacements that creates an eccentric landscape of photography, video, the body.” Hoefl e says, “I work in a semi-abstract sort of way,” and design. and explains that in order to develop these casts she used “I would say I’m a medical lungs, heart, and bone models, but made them her sculptor,” Hoefl e says, own with various materials, prints, and dimensions. but both the media “As a whole, this system is intended to establish a sense she uses and what she of discovery for the viewer; interactive surprises in small depicts may not be what corners, unexpected treasures up-close, playful intrusions comes to mind when overhead.” With you think of sculpture. this installation, “I love working in video Hoefl e’s lively An Interview with Art Professor Krista Hoefl e and building my own vision of scientifi c By Shannon E. Brewer ’03 computer programming, imaging and medical prototyping circuits, neat visualization is As an art professor and one of the many creative minds do-it-yourself section for a wealth of books and magazines electronics type of stuff.” brought to life and on campus, Krista Hoefl e knows a thing or two about the related to techniques and processes. I love learning about Hoefl e’s electronics made a memorable pursuit of creative passions. As a college student, she started how others work or how they cultivate their ideas. It gives me are arresting in sight experience for out as a history major—“I love history,” she says—but as she great ideas in return! and sound. A vintage gallery viewers. sculpted away her spare time in the art studio at her alma polygraph machine Assistant mater, Hoefl e decided to make a major change. Strapped How do we connect with fellow creatives? sits, tentacles and knobs unmoving, up against Professor of Art with her creativity and curiosity, Hoefl e established herself Artists lectures are a great way to gain new insight. Going a corner wall. “There is something so seductive Kelly Harrington as a furniture design student at Savannah College of Art and to art openings is another way you can meet artists and tap about pulling levers and pushing buttons,” Hoefl e said the faculty Design, went on to earn her M.F.A. from Pennsylvania State into what, how, and why they do what they do. I love learning explains. The polygraph machine is coupled with exhibit showcased University, and eventually landed at Saint Mary’s. new techniques that way. three large-dialed television sets, each of them “the diversity of not In addition to running the Moreau Art Galleries on displaying Hoefel’s digital and analog video designs. only media utilized campus, Hoefl e teaches courses in sculpture, design, and And the audiovisual they emit are out of this world, and art forms special topics in new media, video, and theory/criticism. Her so to speak. Churning gears, images of a head created within the installations, animations, works on paper, and videos have 5 Ways to incorporate creativity replacement surgery, and fl ickering light beams department, but also appeared in national and international venues. Below, Hoefl e into your daily routine are brought to life through Hoefl e’s sound artistry the various themes shares her advice on how people can cultivate creativity in in ominous frequencies, pulsating throbs, and and research topics their own lives. Explore. Take a different route to work, or a different mode of shimmering digital tones. that each faculty transportation. If you usually drive, try walking or taking the Hoefl e explains in her artistic statement that, member is currently What’s your advice for people who say, bus. New scenery often inspires new ideas. “in addition to traditional methods of art-making, engaged in.” She “I’m not creative”? I use digital tools that are adaptable through noted the importance Shake up your routine. Perform your daily tasks in a different programming, and have the potential to create of students having Start with a technique or process you’ve always wanted order. This will retrain your brain to think in new ways. interactive experiences with the viewer.” the opportunity to to try and go with that. Just dive in and try to fi nd as many Hoefl e’s interest in cyborg feminism and science Professor Krista Hoefl e’s artwork is on display in the Hammes see their professors’ resources and as much information on the topic as you can. Gallery, part of the faculty exhibition this spring. Take a walk in the woods or spend time fi ction led her to utilize sounds and images that are work. As students If you’ve always wanted to try knitting, for example, buy a Get Close to Nature. in your garden. Poets and other writers and creatives often reminiscent of old monster and mad scientist movies, which become more familiar with their professors’ various research book, join a knitting group, watch “Knitty Gritty” on the DIY draw inspiration from the natural world. add to the theme of the cyborg experience. In particular, on areas, she says, it encourages them to explore and develop Network, or go to a yarn and fabric store. Find a podcast one television set, Hoefl e remixes the audio and visual of the interests of their own. about what interests you. Just Google-ing “knitting” on 1958 fi lm Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. The Department of Art Faculty Exhibition showcased work the Web will give you a plethora of information and Pray or Meditate. Just fi ve minutes spent alone in a quiet space can reconnect you with your creative side. The body parts you fi nd inside the space, which Hoefl e from six other professors. Bill Sandusky, Julie Tourtillotte, resources. The more you engage the more you’ll get out thinks of almost like a body, belong to the 50-foot woman. Sandra Ginter, Sheilah Wilson, Kelly Harrington, and Marcia of the experience. Take note. Carry a small notebook and pen around with Upon entering the installation, one of the fi rst things you see Rickard were all featured artists along with Hoefl e. Where can we go for inspiration? you. When you see or hear something out of the ordinary—a —Kristen Edelen ’09, Courier intern Getting back in the classroom is a terrifi c way to gain funny joke, an interesting magazine ad, a new song on the a new perspective on what you’re doing. If you can’t take radio—write it down. Use the things going on around you as a class, go to your local bookstore and check out their fodder for a creative act later.

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Witnesses to a New Era Physiology and Dance: Bodies in Motion history and excitement,” says Cunniff. This February Saint Mary’s dance Social work major Anna Frantz ’11 was not only present students performed in the College’s at the Inauguration, but she also attended the “We Are One” annual Dance Arts program. One concert the Sunday before, as well as a ball afterward held by body in motion was aspiring marine the University Presidential Inaugural Conference, of which biologist Tara Strong. The junior she was a guest. Frantz describes the atmosphere at the biology major is working toward Inauguration as “one of its own,” with people being friendly, minors in dance and chemistry. She happy, and excited to witness history. “I believe that no says her three areas of study are matter what race, religion, or party you are you can still agree more related than one might think. that seeing the fi rst African American president take the oath “Right now I am in a human is a once in a lifetime experience.” physiology class and learning all Psychology major Brittany Dian ’12 says of her experience about the body,” Strong explains. that, “I will always remember the surreal feeling I had “This knowledge allows me to fully standing in the midst of millions of people, all witnessing an understand and appreciate the event that will be talked about for years to come.” The Tinley movement required for dancing Park, Ill., native also attended the Inauguration as part of the in a technique class, all the way to Anna Frantz ‘11 with friends at President Barack Obama’s Inauguration. University Presidential Inaugural Conference. the different bodily responses and Left to right: Anna Frantz , Johnathan Richardson (Indiana University), Blaine Nolan ’10 was already in Washington, D.C., signals when performing on stage.” Renee Gonzalez ‘09, Tara Brennan (Quinnipiac College), Leila El-Kara (UCLA) spending the semester there attending American University This year’s dance program, titled three days a week and interning two days a week for South “Dancing Salmagundi,” showcased Cold weather didn’t keep Saint Mary’s students from Bend congressman Joe Donnelly. She too attended events several genres of dance including venturing to Washington, D.C. on January 20th to witness surrounding the Inauguration, but says of the top-billed ballet, jazz, modern, pointe, and the swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th president of event, “It was incredible. I have never felt such excitement.” dance theatre. Strong performed in four numbers. One piece, While Strong plans to dance throughout her life and the United States. “Words cannot begin to describe what it Nolan was active throughout the campaign season, as entitled “Eupnea,” is a modern dance created by Strong’s maybe own a studio someday, she has scientifi c career was like to be able to stand in the National Mall as President the president of the College Democrats at Saint Mary’s, and fellow biology major Jen La Vigne ’09. Strong explains, “She aspirations too. “I would like to go on to graduate school Obama was being sworn into offi ce,” says junior Aimee as a member of the political science club. Her career plans incorporated her biology knowledge and created a piece for marine biology and go wherever that takes me,” says Cunniff of Park City, Utah. Cunniff is a business major who include attending graduate school for public policy and then about cellular respiration. It is a modern dance, and many of Strong. This summer, she will conduct research for her senior says she knew she was going to attend the Inauguration since moving to Washington, D.C., where she hopes to work on the formations we make are based on the Krebs cycle.” comprehensive project on Little Corn Island, Nicaragua. November 4, the night Obama won the election. “After seeing Capitol Hill. Obama win that night, I decided I wanted to be a part of the The Second Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative March “As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always At 5:30 p.m., the march ahead.” sun was setting — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 and snow fl urries were falling, but the Nearly a half-century later, King’s message of hope marchers advanced continues to inspire students, faculty, and staff of Saint onward and set the Mary’s College, who came together to pay homage to King on campus aglow with his birthday. their beacons of light Following a panel discussion on non-violence and civil and song. Even a rights activism, the Sisters of Nefertiti, a student club that student who could celebrates African American culture and history, and Campus not see the procession Ministry sponsored a candlelit march in honor of King on from their dorm room January 19. The entire college and public community was or library cubicle invited to gather in the Student Center Atrium for an opening would have heard it. ceremony. LaQuay Boone ’10, president of Sisters of Nefertiti, The marchers’ voices welcomed the attendees. Jacquitta Martin ’12 prayed over rose from the icy the event. Lynn Coleman, the assistant to the mayor of South sidewalks to the tops Bend, explained the historic signifi cance of the Martin Luther of buildings as the King, Jr., march occurring one day before President Obama’s group sang in unison inauguration. Adriana Rodriguez ’10, president of the Student “We Shall Overcome” Diversity Board, spoke about why it was important to march. all the way to Haggar Concluding the opening ceremony, Kristle Hodges ’10 led the Parlor. There, participants listened to refl ections from group in singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” After leaving the President Carol Ann Mooney and a choral reading of King’s warmth of the Student Center, each marcher shared a single “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” directed by Professor Katie fl ame, passed from one hand to the next. Sullivan. —Jessica Huang ’09, Courier Intern 18 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 19 forthe record forthe record

Alumnae Deaths Sister Marie Helene Farrer CSC ’55, Joseph F. Dillon Sr., husband of Hope Lee Phernetton, October 24, Sheila Feeley Dodds ’89 and John, Kristy King Zadrazil ’08 and Chad, Sarah Sullivan Bigelow ’96 and Shannon Swaff ord Levin ’00 and December 8, 2008. Barbara Donahue Dillon ’48, November 2008 and Chace Adam Phernetton, June 21, 2008. July 12, 2008. Nicholas ND ’96: Sarah Jolenne, Sean: Lucy Leigh, July 29, 2008. Grace Burke Boemer ’31, mother of October 29, 2008, infant niece and January 16, 2009. Alana Moynahan Rosshirt ’55, aunt 22, 2008. Erin Kelly LaCoste ’91 and Jody, Michelle Harbinak Shapiro ’00 and Elizabeth M. Boemer ’70, Jane Boemer nephew of Shannon Blair Olsen ’92. of Laura K. Moynahan ‘82, sister-in-law Christopher Joseph Donovan, son March 1, 2008. Jennifer Paluszak Hadden ’96 and J. Jared: Ayla Rae, November 15, 2008. Foster ’71, and Ellen Boemer Loring ’73, Births & Adoptions of Virginia Thomas Moynahan ’58, of Jane O’Boyle Donovan ’66, and William S. Plough, grandfather of B.: Harold Augustus, November 2, 2008. sister of the late Margaret Burke Gude Elizabeth Urban Cody ’96 and Ryan Amy Dooms Taylor ’01 and John: January 16, 2009. Rosshirt was the nephew of Kathleen O’Boyle Kearney Kathleen Maxbauer McNulty ’97, Lisa Elizabeth Sweeney Rykaczewski ’89 ’33, aunt of Sister Mary Louise Gude Matthew, October 18, 2008. Kelly Kilmer Mullagh ’96 and Kelly: Morgan Rebecca, November 22, 2008. editor of the Courier in 1956, and later ’62, March 19, 2008. Maxbauer Price ’99 and Jill Maxbauer and David: Mark David, October 7, CSC ’63 and Sheila Burke Vollman Abigail Louise, October 14, 2008. served as president of the Alumnae Niemi ’03, December 16, 2008. Angela Kelver Hall ’97 and Bryan, 2008. Karen Higley Szpak ’03 and Jerry: ’62, sister-in-law of the late Margaret Joseph Garritano, father of June 7, 2008. Mia Pavlik Koch ’97 and Douglas: Owen Anthony, October 2, 2008. Board. Carolyn Prosser, mother of Margaret Erin McNally-Poche ’90 and Robert Katholing Burke ’35, January 9, 2008. Mary Garritano Halbritter ’70 and Henry, August 28, 2008. Mary Suzanne “Suzi” Scanlon Rynn grandfather of Katherine Halbritter ’99, Prosser Brown ’87 and sister of Kelley Hart Rendziperis ’00 and Poche: Katharine Casey, June 7, 2008. Anne Bernardin Wenderoth ’03 and Dorothy Jane Pryor Armel ‘38, ’58, October 2, 2008. January 18, 2009. Marianne McCrudden Walters ’57, George, November 15, 2008. Courtney Reagan Crawford ’98 and Brad: Ian Asher, December 1, 2008. mother of Nancy Armel Maddock ‘63 Jeanine Cook Lamb ’91 and John: October 6. 2008. Jennifer Nall Weinacht ’00 and Alana Margarit, December 15, 2008. William ND ’98: Millicent Elizabeth, Margaret Garigliano Busam ’04 and Susan Armel Haley ‘66, twin sister Mary Charlotte Carroll Daniel ’65, Elige “EG” Hannah, III, husband of December 5, 2008. of the late Betty Pryor Marzano ’38, December 3, 2008. Allison Murphy Hannah ’95, December Timothy J. “Tim” Reddy, husband of Christopher, July 12, 2008. Michaeline Feldman Barnes ’92 and and Luke ND ’04: Joshua Gabriel, Joan Gundlach Reddy ’86, February Elizabeth May Smith ’98 and David: November 5, 2008. grandmother of Ann-Marie Haley Berg Virginia R. Manley ’69, December 19, 2008. Mandy Schomas Soderstrom ’02 Lee: Jillian Sidney, December 5, 2008. ’91, aunt of Beth Marzano Fleming ‘77, 17, 2008. Mia Therese, August 26, 2008. 7, 2008. Cyril P. Hughes, husband of Deanna and Daniel, October 11, 2008. Nicole Dugan May ’92 and Phillip: Stevi Flowers Kovalik ’04 and Eddie July 16, 2008. George F. Restovich, husband of Holly Hosinski Busick ’99 and ND ’04: Beatrice Rose, January 8, 2008. Mary Ann Kerins ’72, December 29, Derwin Hughes ’62, March 27, 2007. Maureen Dempsey Alfermann ’04 Sara Elizabeth, September 17, 2007. Kathryn Walsh Burns ’38, October Helen J. Reichert Restovich ’65, and Michael: Brady Jonathan, October 7, 2008. Robert J. Ketchum, father of and Nick, April 12, 2008. Celynn Krueger McClarrinon ’92 and 17, 2008. father of Catherine Restovich Whitton 2008. Kathleen Ketchum ’06, October 14, Kathleen “Katie” Dillon McLeod ’04 Scott: Mary Celine, November 11, 2008. Vivian N. Elortegui Zapfel ’78, ’92, October 3, 2008. Jill Fenstermaker Stowers ’99 and Lorraine O’Hara Purdy ’39, April 21, November 8, 2008. 2008. and Christian, June 21, 2008. Maria Ayala Rodarte, mother of Erin Peter Wolf ’94 and Jacob: Scott: John William, October 20, 2008. 2008. Susan J. Killion, daughter of Mary Jennifer Herzog Clark ’90, January Lucia Rodarte Madrid ’72, November Molly Welton Boyle ’05 and Kevin Samuel Joseph, October 13, 2008. Agnes Lauck Darko ’42, Wieland Scheetz ’54, January 23, 2009. Patrick ND ’05, November 1, 2008. Kathryn Goolsby Flavin ’00 and 19, 2009. 22, 2008. Carolyn Withers Patterson ’95 and Edward: Margaret “Maggie” Grace, grandmother of Laura Darko Flight ‘93, Martha Bourgon Kozmer, mother Pamela J. Rohrmann, sister of Lisa Eileen Chester Briggs ’05 and Joe: Annabelle Grace, October 29, March 13, 2007 and Lillian “Lily” Maeve, September 15, 2008. of Jeanne Kozmer Marszalek ’64 and Faculty Deaths Melinda Rohrmann Lorenzen ’66, Aaron, August 26, 2007. 2008. October 27, 2008. Regina Neville Hamilton ’44, Marilyn Kozmer Sommers ’66, January November 9, 2008. Alison Golubski Bauer ’07 and Alex, Mary Horner Thomas ’95 and October 2, 2008. Rita Cassidy, (Associate Professor, 6, 2009. Alison Wade Kennedy ’00 and Herbert “Herb” Score, husband of July 5, 2008. Edward: Adrianne Elizabeth, June 6, Terrence ND ’96: Terrence Luke, Carolyn Murray Powley ’44, mother History Department, 1961–1980) Leo B. Kunkel ND ’48, father of Nancy McNamara Score ’57, November 2008. October 9, 2008. of Carolyn Powley Head ‘67, and Jean January 3, 2009. Catherine Kunkel Forslund ’83, May 5, 11, 2008. Powley Murphy ‘79, sister of Jo Anne 2008. John D. “Dan” Sherman, husband Murray Libert ‘51, aunt of Cathleen Family Deaths Col. John W. Lacey, (USAF retired), of Gretchen Hartman Sherman ’55, Libert Fourman ‘77, Mary Ann Murray father of Joan Lacey Egan ’62, Anne Rita M. Cassidy Harriet J. BonDurant, grandmother December 15, 2008. Kimball ‘79, Eileen Murray Froehlke Lacey Hoff man ’63 and Carol Lacey of Margaret Stoller BonDurant ’05, ‘81, and Stephanie Libert Mauger ‘90, Foley ’72, uncle of Sara Johnson Walz John J. Sweeney, Jr., husband April 14, 1915–January 3, 2009 December 6, 2008. great aunt of Meaghan Froehlke ‘06, ’65, and great uncle of Elizabeth Walz of Mary Beth Allen Sweeney ’64, November 10, 2008. John J. “Buck” Borich, stepfather of Carmody ’91, September 14, 2008. September 19, 2008. Associate Professor Rita Cassidy passed away on January Marietta Hart Fitzgerald ’46, Leslie Zielinski ’99, November 15, 2008. 3, 2009. Cassidy came to Saint Mary’s in 1961 to introduce Luke P. LaValle III, ND ’99, son of Donald R. Taylor, husband of a program in African Studies, and taught in the History grandmother of Emily Fitzgerald ’09, John L. Carey, father of Deborah M. Nancy Wagner LaValle ’65, December Lorraine N. Taylor ’72, October 30, 2008. December 13, 2008. Carey ’81, January 16, 2009. Department until she retired in 1980. In her retirement, 31, 2008. Otto E. Tempel, father of Linda M. Sister M. Rosaleen Dunleavy CSC Cassidy spent one year abroad as a counselor for the Saint Adele Castle, mother of Elizabeth Ralph J. Liguori, father of Claudia M. Tempel ’76, April 14, 2008. Mary’s Rome Program, and afterward remained with the ’47, aunt of Tamara Malopsy Smith ‘92, Castle Chapman ’80, December 11, Liguori ’79, November 22, 2008. Corinne H. Wales, former part-time December 18, 2008. 2008. College for two more years, working as a consultant in the William J. Maxbauer, grandfather instructor in Nursing from 1984–1985, Dorothy Edwards Waddington ’47, administration on a project-to-project basis from 1981 to Dr. Theodore M. Chrobak, father of Kathleen Maxbauer McNulty ’97, mother of Kathrene Wales ’76, 1983. Current department chair of history for the college, October 5, 2008. of Vickyann Chrobak Sadowski ’72, Lisa Maxbauer Price ’99, Jill Maxbauer November 29, 2008. October 2008. Associate Professor Kelly Hamilton, was a student of Cassidy’s Jeanne Remlinger Clark ’48, mother Niemi ’03, and Audra Maxbauer ’07, Jay A. West, father of Angela Maria of Mary Clark Bidwell ’79 and Julie uncle and great-uncle to several other in the 1970s, and Hamilton remembers her as a “feisty, Dorothy Linnig Crimmins, mother of West ’02, January 1, 2009. principled woman, who was way ahead of her times relative Clark Herrmann ’87, December 14, Marilyn Crimmins Benkelman ’75 and Belles, March 14, 2008. Curtis Wilson Sr., father of Almira 2008. sister of Carolyn Linnig O’Rourke ’55, to civil rights, equal opportunity, and interest in issues of John Joseph McCracken, young Wilson Cann ’69, December 1, 2008. Joanne Maloy Moore ’48, mother January 26, 2009. son of Annette Henry McCracken ’88, diversity.” Marilyn Davenport Carder Woody, Cassidy served the College for 22 years. Prior to Saint of Patricia Moore SMC-ND ‘75, sister Daniel J. Culhane, husband of Mary November 7, 2008. grandmother of Theresa Carder award on May 4, 1974, at the president’s dinner. The award, of Molly Maloy Griffi n ‘55 and aunt of Baker Culhane ’57, father of Kathleen Mary’s, Cassidy spent two years teaching at University College Daniel E. Martin, father of Jeanne M. Martinez ’02 and Dorothy Carder ’03, which recognizes a faculty member’s eminent service to the Kathleen M. Griffi n ‘81, December 6, Culhane Battis ’83, and brother-in-law Martin ’81 and uncle of Maura Martin in Lesotho, South Africa. This experience coupled with her June 14, 2008. college in some particular aspect of its development, read, 2008. of Marcia Baker Schug ’58, October Smith ’73 and Colleen Burns Cuscaden additional research opportunities to revisit Africa developed Sister M. Wilfrida Peabody CSC ’49, 26, 2008. ’87, January 20, 2009. Cassidy’s specialized interest in African studies. She was a “Dr. Cassidy’s constant concern for the attention to the needs and well-being of each of her students have won her their January 11, 2009. Lewis Cusano, father of JoAnn George J. McHugh III, father of Marriages pioneer in organizing and conducting programs in Afro- respect, admiration, and friendship. In many ways, she is a Geraldine Posvic Norris ’50, April Cusano Szewczyk ’77, October 31, Honey McHugh ’78, May 12, 2008. Mary Fran Gleason-O’Connor ’66 American history and culture for school systems in South 2008. Bend and Elkhart. Her programs were even further developed prototype of what the Christian educator should be.” 22, 2008. John J. McInerney, father of Mary and John O’Connor, August 3, 2008. for the police departments of St. Joseph County as a method Mary Barany Birder ’51, sister of Julia F. Danford, mother of Cynthia McInerney Meade ’82, July 4, 2008. Christine Jack Blum ’86 and Philip, A. Danford ’79, January 10, 2009. of in-service training. Cassidy was presented the Spes Unica —Kristen Edelen ’09, Courier intern Anne Barany Monserez ‘48, November Jack B. Norris, father of Nikie Norris October 12, 2008. 25, 2008. Maxine “Mickey” Davis, grandmother Hamilton ’89, November 1, 2008. of Angela Comfort ’07, October 18, 2008.

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Buff alo and Western For more information, please impressed by the modern classrooms, Club president, Janet Horvath at New York contact Sheila Flynn Boone, ’65, at offi ce spaces, and technological [email protected] or (219)778- [email protected]. clubclips clubclips clubclips capabilities along with common areas 4941. Members of the book club where students and faculty can gather attended a lecture in the University of Dallas/Fort Worth (including a café, a refl ection room, Utah Buff alo’s Distinguished Speakers Series and a second-fl oor patio). Following Dallas/Fort Worth alumnae and The Utah Club had a small and very on November 16, 2008. The guest the tour, the Club hosted a Valentine’s signifi cant others gathered together to good gathering in Park City hosted by speaker was Khalid Hosseini, author Day party for its local Saint Mary’s celebrate the coming of the holidays Holy Cross Ministries on November 22. of The Kite Runner. (The book club students, with cookies, punch, and at their annual Christmas Mass & We met for lunch at the home of the had previously read and discussed cocoa for everyone to enjoy. Dinner held on December 8, the Feast Sisters of the Holy Cross, and instead of the book.) The group discussed the Later that same month, the club of the Immaculate Conception. Many gifts to exchange, members donated lecture over coff ee and dessert later arranged to cater the Mom’s Support thanks to Kevin and Ellen Neuhoff diapers for clients served by Holy Cross that evening. Group sponsored for former residents Elpers ’80 for graciously hosting the Ministries. Ten alumnae were able to A trip to the Shaw Festival in of Hannah’s House. After dinner, while event. attend. Sister Cathy Kamphaus CSC Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada is the mothers participated in a group updated the club members on new being planned for May 2009. Please discussion about topics related to buildings on the campus. Afterward, remember to send 2008-2009 dues! Philadelphia women and children, alumnae helped some members visited the St. Mary’s For more information, please contact with child care. Philadelphia area alumnae were Parish Park City Boutique where Nancy Dobson at (716) 632-7392. Speaking of moms, the club will treated to an evening with Adriana be organizing a monthly Mom’s play the Holy Cross Ministries Women’s Trigiani ’81 at a signing of her new Cleveland group for local alumnae. If you are Microbusiness Project had a booth. book Very Valentine. The crowd was interested in participating or want Submitted by Sister Mary Ann entertained by Adriana’s anecdotes The Cleveland Club welcomed information on how to get more Pajakowski CSC ’69 and accounts of writing this new book. spring with its annual meeting and involved with the club, please contact She signed everyone’s edition, as well Philadelphia area alumnae attended a book signing for Adriana a book discussion on April 15. Katie as her page on the SMC yearbook! Trigiani’s new book. From left to right: Susan Tate Fitzgerald ’81, Bobbie McVoy ’03 welcomed alumnae to The club is looking forward to an Schnaus McCarthy ’66, Katie Smith ’93, Ann Kiefer Casey ’83, Annabelle her house for this event. Upcoming early spring event at the Philadelphia Logue Curran ’74, with Adriana Trigiani ’81 events were discussed including a Museum of Art—a private guided tour service project and fundraising for the of Cezanne and Beyond. Philadelphia Club. After the meeting, The Memory is the only worldwide venue for this clubclips clubclips clubclips clubclips clubclips clubclips clubclips Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards a Mothers & Daughters Tea at the [email protected] to join the club! exhibit, so don’t miss it! produced interesting discussion by Omni-William Penn Hotel. Mothers old For information or suggestions for attending alumnae. Many thanks and young, daughters old and young, San Francisco club activities, please contact Katie to Katie for hosting and to all who grandmothers, and sisters are all Smith, [email protected] or The Saint Mary’s Alumnae Club attended. It was a great turnout. invited. Be sure to look in your mailbox (215) 280-1122. of the San Francisco Bay Area is Events to look forward to include a for important information regarding organizing an Easter Egg Hunt on April Founders’ Day celebration in October this fun celebration. 4th with KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise and a Cookie Exchange in December. Pittsburgh Since starting the Club back up Now), a volunteer-led organization Watch your e-mail and the club Web in 2006, the Board of Directors of the The New Year got off to a rousing that provides one-to-one recreational site for information about these and Pittsburgh Alumnae Club have been start for the Pittsburgh Club. Having opportunities for children and young other upcoming events. For more working to create a comprehensive completed three years of service, adults with mental and physical information, contact Cheri Petride directory of all Pittsburgh area the members of the Club’s Board of disabilities. SMC Alumnae Jen Senecal Miller ’79 at [email protected] alumnae. In the Club’s most recent Directors have been reorganized. Leslie ’01 is the Executive Director of KEEN. or (440) 526-8966. newsletter you will fi nd a form to fi ll Kruger, who has diligently served the out which will help us in creating this The hunt will take place from 11 am–1 Club as Director of the Board, stepped Colorado document. Please take time to fi ll it pm at Speedway Meadow in Golden down, and Colleen Miles, the current out, or contact Colleen or Kathryn with Gate Park. Volunteers are needed Club Communication Coordinator and The fi rst 2009 event for the your new information, so that we can to arrive at 10:30 am to help hide member of the Board, took her place. Colorado Alumnae Club will be April successfully complete the directory. eggs and do other set-up. If you’re Kathryn Harrison, Board member, 25; we will be having a “care package” If you have any questions about interested in volunteering or getting is the new Club Communication party in Colorado Springs, at the home the Club, or wish to become more involved with the Club in other ways, Coordinator. The Board would like of Kelly O’Brien, ’90. involved, please contact Kathryn please contact Michelle Lagos at to wholeheartedly thank Leslie for Dallas/Fort Worth. Back row, left to right: Andrea Sondag Schweitzer ’00, Mary Lettie Albright Muckley ’83, Maura Nugent Bardsley ’77, Emilie DesJardins ’05, We’re planning to have events Harrison at [email protected] or [email protected] her hard work in resurrecting the Jane Neuhoff Brezette ’85, Carolyn Neuhoff Shaw ’83, Carole Dziminski Klaudt Lydia Haggar Novakov ’72, Nancy Rix Kraft ’77, Ellen McQuillan Drake ’92. Front along the I-25 corridor, from Colorado Colleen Miles at colleenbmiles@gmail. Pittsburgh Club and tirelessly working ’83, Mary Beth Beauchamp Berry ’87, Linda Kawecki ’79, Tia Barrett Bisignano row, left to right: Ellen Neuhoff Elpers ’80, Hayley Dawson-Owens ’02, Jeannette Springs, in the south, where this com for more information. South Bend for the Club’s success. ’70, Cynthia Rodriguez ’05, Patty Dunlevy Watson ’88, Erin Krombach Groves ’05, Friedewald Lynch ’64, Mary Holland ’05, Jennifer Kacarab Holloran ’92 fi rst one will be held, to Golden, in This spring, Pittsburgh alumnae In February, members of the the north, where our Founders’ Day can look forward to celebrating St. Louis South Bend Alumnae Club gathered celebration will be held. We hope Mother’s Day early. On Saturday, May on campus for a tour of Spes Unica this will be convenient for as many The St. Louis club is planning 9, the Club will host its annual spring Hall, the new academic building alumnae as possible to participate in at a happy hour in March but details event. This year we will be having on campus. Alumnae were quite least one event during the year. have not been fi nalized. Please e-mail

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class. Your shared news has enriched with her helpmate. I had met Sister us. After dining, we had a champagne her but included no news. Write again, fellow classmate, Agnes Eckhardt the market. This time Mary Theresa have a lot of fun together. She has me other classes that are silent. Marillo, C.S.C. and Jeanette Friedheim toast and sang Auld Lang Syne about 9 Marianne, and tell your news. Jeanne Nixon. It was a blessed time for Dot invoked the help of Blessed Basil over to dinner every night. I really am ’36 Julia Mendez Rawak I am told that we have followers Burdell ’87. We had a brief visit. I p.m., then went home like 80-year-olds and Bill ND ’45 are a blessed couple. and for me. She was a great friend, and Anthony Moreau. Within two days, spoiled. She says her job is taking care 62 Hillside Road of our class news from across the way asked them to relay my greetings to should! We’re all grateful to Floy for They are relatively well and are always I shall miss her. they had a signed contract for 97% of me. Greenwich, CT 06830 (at ND). We are part of SMC’s evolving Sister Basil Anthony ’46. Watching keeping her tradition of a New Year’s interested in news of Saint Mary’s. Carolyn Murray Powley died Nov. of the asking price! Mary Theresa This morning I stopped over to (203) 869-2555 history. So….applause, applause for the two of them support each other, Eve Party alive! In the mail, I found a beautiful 10, 2008. We had known each other attributes their good luck to the see my friend of 66 years: Liz Stang the Class of ’40 loyalists—sharing your I witnessed a loving example of SMC I received Christmas cards from picture of Louise Peterman Prosser. the fi rst two years we attended Saint intercession of Father Moreau. Drinkworth. It is so nice to have such From the Courier Offi ce: Julia adventures in our class columns for alumnae loyalty. Please let me know some of our S.M.C. classmates. Miriam She was visiting Ireland, with a Mary’s. In 1941, I had decided not to a close friend living here. Liz looks Mendez Rawak’s son, Steve Hatch, 69 years. what is happening in your individual Marshall Hemphill and Mary Mayle granddaughter, and posed in a return to Saint Mary’s. That summer exceptionally nice and likes to do a called to let us know that his mother As I was writing this column, lives. Class of ’40 adult children are Hickey sent out nice handwritten jaunting cart near a picturesque lake. I changed my mind and requested ’46 Irene Vodicka Monaghen lot of things that I do. I guess that is is doing well. She fell and broke her Dorothy Ann Kirley Dooley encouraged to respond as well. notes. I also heard from Ann Sheets Weesie, you’re irrepressible! Thank to be readmitted. Carolyn had made 23933 Kaleb Drive why we have been friends so long! hip last spring and is bedridden, but is telephoned. Though she is dealing Butler and Marg Kotte O’Hara. Pat you for your youthful spirit and your the same request. Because of the Corona, CA 92883 She is busy now getting ready for her still in her own home with a full-time with a multitude of health problems, Nolan McLaughlin was pictured extreme photogenic qualities. It is late request, we were assigned to (951) 277-9605 granddaughter’s wedding in June. nurse. Steve checks in with her each her interest in Saint Mary’s remains ’42 Bunny Wagner Barker on the front of her card, which was always a joy to hear from you. room together in the store room in [email protected] I have tried several more day. focused. She has two sons, Steven 704 Circle Hill Road a pleasure to see. Amy Ryan and Mary Jane Kane and I visited the annex. We became roommates, calls with no luck. Have a good As of December 2008, Julia is still and Patrick, who are living near her in Louisville, KY 40207-3627 husband Jerry ND ’41 looked great on in December. She’s doing well and juniors, and great friends. It was a Happy 2009, everyone—though year and let me hear from you! mentally strong and vibrant, wanting Kewanee, Ill. Patrick graduated in the (502) 895-7732 the fi rst page of their card, then the wanted a commitment from me for happy, life-long alliance. I learned by the time you receive this issue of to connect with any of her classmates. same ND class as my son, David. There [email protected] words of “High Flight” by John Gillespie Reunion. At fi rst I hesitated, I don’t much from her, and she said the same the Courier, it will be four months into She reads the paper and is current on are allegiances and clan connections Magee, Jr. with a faint picture of a know what I am doing tomorrow, of me. During these years, she met the new year. Writing this newsletter is ’48 Marguerite Chenal Jans all that is going on in the world. among many of our Class of ’40 on Since I reported to you last, in July plane (Jerry is a pilot). Bob ND ’40 and much less in June!!! Do you? soon-to-be Ensign Bill Powley…and, as very diffi cult, as I hardly ever hear from 3900 Dundee Road #209 Julia turned 94 years young on both sides of the road. I went on a three-day trip to St. Louis Kay Houser Sanford sent their usual After talking to Jeanne Sohm they say, the rest was history. you, my dear classmates. I have many Northbrook, IL 60062 Aug. 20, and enjoys visiting with her Marty Abberger Daly ’41, with a group from United Crescent Merry Christmas letter, which gave us Thyberg, whom I see monthly for Another note about the news of ways for you to contact me. Please (847) 559-0543 daughter, Kathy Hatch Barrett; friends Sacramento, Calif., reports that her Hill Ministries. Colette Dumstorf was a great report of their 2008. I received lunch in Des Moines, we both decided Dorothy Purcell…after Thanksgiving, I give it a try. who drop by; her parish priest; and her days are fi lled with bridge, meetings, my roommate. When we visited the two e-mails, one from Miriam we would enjoy another reunion. We went again to Florida for the Christmas Last May, I went to Wisconsin for Reunion started early for doctor. shopping, and visiting. Her six children botanical gardens, my granddaughter, Hemphill and one from Pinkie Wolff hope to see all of you there! holidays. I was astounded to fi nd in my the 40th wedding anniversary of my Rosemary Kisgen Mullahey. In from Julia has served as reporter for are attentive. The tragic loss of her Ashley Clark Bass ’98, and her two Stevenson. Almarie Sackley Matthews seems mailbox a letter from Dot written at niece, Ronnie Vodicka Simon ’68, California, she was picked up by her the Class of 1936 for many years. son three years ago draws on her sons, Collin, 6, and Evan, 4, came to If any of you use the computer, to change little through the years. Easter 2008. It was a real surprise. My and her husband, Denny ND ’68. All Chicago hostess, Katie McNamara She has devoted time and energy to heart. Yet, thinking of others, she meet us. On July 14, Ashley came to please send me an e-mail, She is always good for visiting. She eyes were so tear-fi lled I could scarcely my nieces were there, as well as my Monaghan, and driven north to Jim the benefi t of Saint Mary’s and her plays the piano for the residents of town with Collin and Evan. They visited [email protected]. I’m hears occasionally from Marguerite read. It was a lovely note…to wish me brother, Al, a Notre Dame graduate, Lovell’s restaurant in Lake Forest to visit classmates. If any of you would like to her Regency Park’s Assisted Living us, and I had pictures taken with all always grateful for news! Shaughnessy Wittebort but had not another joy-fi lled holiday. Dot, I miss and his wife, Eleanor Toff enetti with Jean Bresnahan Kasian and her contact her, she would love to hear complex for several hours a day. This four great-grandchildren, although the Mary Lucia Wolff Stevenson heard any recent news. you already. I loved you. God bless you. Vodicka ’45. All but one of their husband, as well as Ann Dailey Locke from you. Just send your notes to pleases the residents and it keeps photos managed to evade us when writes: “One of the results of my last Another good visitor is Geraldine As I said, I came to Ft. Lauderdale girls—Vivian Vodicka Koralik ’67, and me. Ann and Jean were unable to the Alumnae Offi ce and they will be Marty in practice. Her goodness and the time came to print our Christmas stroke was the forgetting of various Roche Fahey. Gerry told me about right after Thanksgiving. I called Veronica Vodicka Simon ’68, Valerie go to South Bend, so we were happy forwarded to her. graciousness continues. card. things, including how to use my Mary Coty Brown, who was in our Carolyn…I did not know she had (a graduate of Saint Norbert’s), for this meeting. We even have a

Maggie Waltman Smith, August was Cumberland time. My computer. A few days ago, I had a Freshman class and will be coming died earlier in November. Receiving Cynthia Vodicka O’Kelley ’74, and photo with Jim Lovell, the astronaut,

daughter of the late Max Trompeter son Kenny, ND ’69, his wife, Mary, and call from Cleo Young in Long Beach, to our reunion. Surprise! Surprise! no answer, I dialed the offi ce where Laura Vodicka Sroka ’81—went to who is the host for his son’s restaurant. ’40 Mary Fran Meekison Waltman, deserves a fi rst class salute son, Steve, came from California. Mary’s Cal. She is getting along well. Her Mary lives in South Bend. She has fi ve she lived. I thought they could at least Saint Mary’s. Eighteen of our classmates 318 W. Washington Street as our class child. Maggie has stayed son, Tom, and his wife, Diane, fl ew in husband, Roger ND ’42, passed away children. We will learn more from Mary tell me about her. A voice answered, This was a bad summer for me, attended Reunion. Three of Napoleon, OH 46545-0253 connected to us through our class from Minneapolis. Grandson Kenneth nearly two years ago. I had a pleasant in June. I identifi ed myself, and they just said, as my 18-year-old poodle, Abby, died us—Jeanne Remlinger Clark, Ruth (419) 592-659 column. Her son, Christopher, 26 years and his wife, Cori, couldn’t get away. surprise during Christmas when I had It seems strange not to have news “Oh no, no, no.” with increasing despair. June 10, and my sister, Marion Vodicka Ollinger Harwood, and Rosie Gauer old, remembers his appearance at our Cori had fallen and broken her foot— an e-mail from Leona Kulka Jarabek. from Mary Alice O’Laughlin. She’s Thinking I had gotten the wrong Casey, died June 16. Marion graduated Costa—came with their charming I am writing this news on Class of ’40 reunion picnic in 1985. she was on crutches. Jose and Bethany I called her in her villa at a community been in Mexico so many years, she number, I quickly hung up. I couldn’t from Saint Mary’s in 1939. Her death daughters. Rosie has three daughters Inauguration Day 2009. America is It was his grandmother’s last SMC Barker Ronchetta, both ND ’03, drove living facility in Ohio, which her two can dance a fandango on a sombrero! get Carolyn off my mind. It was as was very hard to take. Two of Marion’s who graduated from Saint Mary’s. beginning a new chapter of history. reunion. Even though Max has been down from Chicago. Granddaughter daughters visit frequently. I’m feeling Miss you, Alice…see you at Easter in if she was in the room with me… girls went to Saint Mary’s: Susan Casey Busy Harriet Enneking Moster still Our small class, fewer than 35, is with God more than a decade, her Lauren and her children were here. All fairly well, but wish I felt like I did last Chicago and at Reunion! speaking to me. It was uncanny…the D’Amico ’65 and Liz Casey ’70. volunteers at the Cincinnati Zoo; her preparing for our exit from Courier daughter and grandson still search for came to my house for Kenny’s favorite year. Strokes take a lot out of you. I’d Another Mary Alice…Nevins closeness I felt to her. Later, when I Yesterday, I called Marianne Van trip to Iceland is her favorite foreign and the world at large. We are looking news of ’40 and ’76. dinner on Aug. 7. Kristen McNerney, still like to get back to the golf course Sasso… didn’t have any news as she learned she had died, I knew. She had Drisse for some news. She keeps destination. forward to a 1940 class reunion with Prescription for old age: “return to my granddaughter, had organized if I could regain my arm strength. Keep had not yet attended the Chicago been with me. I strongly believe that. herself very busy with her community Alice Koscielski Lesniewski the late Jean Wolf Corby as our your roots.’’ Last October, I drove alone all the food each was to bring. The in touch with me, and pray for my Area Sewing Club. (No one has seen These experiences…after their service work for the hospital and the missed Reunion, as she was visiting her cheerleader…in the future. There is to our old stomping grounds, Saint rented houseboat was fabulous—six return to good health.” anything they have sewn, but they do deaths…Dot’s letter and the call to church. She sees Pat Dieckelman son and his family out east. She wrote always the anticipation of another SMC Mary’s and ND. It was great to review bedrooms, complete with hot tub I hope all of you have a great 2009! lots of good visiting!) We will check at Carolyn…proved to me again that often. She said Pat recently moved that after graduating from Saint Mary’s party…in this world or the next. old memories and our association on the top of the boat. My daughter, Please send me news! Reunion. death is only prologue. The presence into a very nice assisted living home in she earned a master’s degree at Notre Those of us on “terra ferma’’ have with special friends. While driving Esther, her son, Gavin, and I slept in the Now for my last sad news about of my friends is always in the moment. Milwaukee. Dame and then worked in the South reason to toot our class horns. To on Douglas, a small deer dashed Lodge. Kenny would come for us in REUNION June 4–7, 2009 two of my favorite friends…I am My aff ection for these Saint Mary’s I just talked to Lois Brown Smith Bend schools for 40 years. date, we have marched through the across the road from the woods in the ski boat each morning and return devastated to write this. I delayed in women can never end. They will hoping to get some news. Lois went to Katie McNamara Monaghan pages of Courier without missing the direction of Moreau Seminary. us home each night. On Saturday, ’44 Mary Alice Wright Connolly writing this, as I am still in a state of always remain in my thoughts and reunion at Saint Mary’s this year along still lives in the same house in the a beat. Our Class of ’40 columns I smiled, as this is the same woods Rod, Esther’s husband, drove in and 2501 Southwest Thornton extreme shock and sorrow. Dorothy prayers. I have found it to be that way with her daughter, Irene. Lois is the Edgebrook area of Chicago after have been published without a gap. where I went hunting with a Notre we met him at Holy Spirit Church in Des Moines, Iowa 50321 Abel Purcell died Oct. 3, 2008. She with Saint Mary’s women. only one to write me a letter this year. 48 years. Bill died in 1998. Katie’s This is longer than any other class Dame friend 70 years ago. Walking Jamestown (it is a Mission Church was beloved by her husband Jim ND Thank you, God, for sending me I really appreciate it. daughters live in California and in the history of Saint Mary’s. After on both campuses I thought of all of of our Holy Spirit Church here in Jeanne Yuncker Klem always ’42 and her big family of 11 children. back to Saint Mary’s. Since I already talked to Marianne, Indianapolis with a husband, son, and graduation, Elizabeth Zeindler you and the fun we had in spite of Louisville). The priest remembered that has news for me. God bless you, dear We were good friends, Dot and I, From the Courier Offi ce: George I thought that I should call Pat daughter each. Gaspar wrote our class news. In rigid restrictions. At the Grotto, I lit a I took care of the fl owers at Holy Spirit friend. She tells me Ginger Hienen walking across campus from Angela and Mary Theresa Voll Coquillard Dieckelman and see how she liked her Rosie Gauer Costa says, “Jim November 1944, our lovable fi rst candle for the intentions of all of our when he was stationed there a few Swoyer has moved from her big Hall to Le Mans. We enjoyed times were selling their home in Vermont. home. She sounded so happy! It was and I are still in the same home in editor, Marion McCandless, Class of class. It was there that I caught sight of years ago. house and is far from well, as is her together, especially because of our They put it on the market the fi rst time very uplifting talking to her. She said Springfi eld. Two daughters live in 1900, asked me to become your class an elderly Holy Cross nun. As she left On New Year’s Eve, Floy Terstegge husband, Len, who is now bedfast. love of music and the theatre, in which in the fall of 2007. Nothing—not a that it was very cold in Milwaukee, Springfi eld, one lives in Joliet, and one news reporter. I am beginning my 65th the Grotto with her walker, she and Meagher ’43 entertained a group of The golden years are not so shiny, we were actively engaged. Dot and I single visit or off er. So, they took it off though—24 below zero! Here in lives in Chicago. We lost our only son year of reporting—without missing her companion headed back to SMC old friends. Her daughter, Maureen Ginger. Please call me. We will all keep sang and laughed and discussed the the market during the winter, which California it has been in the 80s. I prefer in 1995 to a brain tumor. He was just one assignment. This record-breaking along the long path to her convent. Meagher Orsini ’85, husband Tony, you and Len in our prayers. Jeanne latest play on Broadway, and of course, is not a great time to sell property in the warm weather. 39. One of our two granddaughters fact is due to the enduring spirit of Quickly, I ran over to introduce myself. and two sons came from Chicago to also reported that Marianne Iddings the latest play at Saint Mary’s. The Saint snowy Vermont. This past summer, I have been very lucky that my graduated from Saint Mary’s in 2007. the Class of ’40. You, who have helped This nun greeted me warmly, along cater and serve a delicious dinner to Templeton has written a greeting to Mary’s play was often directed by our they once again put their home on daughter, Renie, is living here. We We were so blessed that our four girls keep this column alive, have gifted our 24 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 25 classnews classnews

were able to attend Saint Mary’s. Schaff Meekison ’40, who has been husband, Bob ND ’51, have been living commander of the VFW in Colt’s Neck, of six months. To add to the family’s packed up her possessions once the-Lake, Canada. In October, Midge Jane’s late husband, Tom, was in the Rita Hanley Hupp has been to a dear friend since we met while in California for several years but have N.J. Recently, Danny and Joanne were sorrow, Jane’s youngest daughter, Ann, again and, with Harry, moved back Myler Russo and Joan joined the Saint Careys’ wedding. Ireland many times and is intrigued by serving on the Alumnae Board in the relocated this past year to Oceanside, joined by all their children for their fi rst died suddenly, just ten days before to Harbor Springs. She and Julie had Mary’s tour to Greece and the Greek Patti Denholm Connor’s and an elder hostel trip concentrating on 1990s. She comes to Cleveland from Calif. Several of their children and grandson’s wedding in North Carolina. Jane. resumed their routine of golfi ng and islands, and reported it as excellent. Mike’s Christmas letter began with Ireland’s architecture and gardens. her home in western Ohio a few times many grandchildren live nearby. They Bernie Lang Fareri just fi nished The last Courier reported the death kayaking in the summer, skiing in the Speaking of Midge, you may recall very happy news. Daughter Tricia, Lila Chenal Milford and Bob ND a year for medical appointments at had a gathering for Christmas that chemo treatment and asks us to keep of Joan Cooney Kearney-Childers in winter, and working in the Christ Child that her late husband, Rocco, was a whose husband died suddenly 13 ’41 still live in their home in Marion, the Cleveland Clinic. What makes her included a new baby girl just a few her in our prayers. September in Fort Wayne. This was a Society. Harry had a stroke and died in WW II veteran of D-Day, and in 1994, and 1/2 years ago (her children were Ind. In spite of Bob’s increasing outstanding as a Saint Mary’s woman weeks old. Honey Kennedy Ryan wrote with shock to us, because we were planning 2007, and Mary decided to pack her they attended the 50th anniversary 5 and 1 at the time), has met and, at dementia, Lila and her three in-town is that she has been the faithful and I heard from Joanne Hoelderle sad news of the death of Jane Ragen to see Joan and her husband in the belongings once more and move to a events in Normandy. At the request Thanksgiving, married a widower just children sponsored a great family only Courier reporter for the Class Zamorski. Danny enjoys his role as the Fahrner last October after an illness spring. We had lunch with them here nursing home in the summer of 2008. of their children, Rocco wrote his her age. (They in fact graduated from reunion—a whole week of picnicking, of 1940 for 64 years! That must be a about a year ago when they came She died en route, with two of her memoirs, and we asked Midge for a Ohio State in the same class!) Patti and swimming, boating, and fun! record. to our area to visit John’s daughter children at her side. copy. To quote a bit of Dick’s e-mail to Mike are “doing a fair job” of keeping Preparing musical programs for a “Our granddaughter, Madeleine in Northville, Mich. Let us keep these I think she decided she would be Midge, “...very powerful and moving, up with tennis and golf, have a few retirement home and for a University Powell, is currently a fi rst-year student excelsior excelsior excelsior classmates and their families in our bored there and decided to cast off both terrifying and tender...putting a medical problems but are “doing fi ne” of Chicago music group keeps Martha at Saint Mary’s, carrying on a four- prayers. one fi nal time. very personal stamp on these world- and pray that all of us and families are Finke Faulhaber busy. She has also generation legacy that started with my Mary Elizabeth Ott ’82 was sworn in as an Associate Circuit I had a short chat with Jean Please pray for the changing events.” well and happy. written a book about the piano for mother, Carolyn Tobin, Class of 1923. Judge of the Twenty-First Judicial Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Suelzer Streicher recently. She is adventurous soul of Mary. Sue Whalen Heyer sent a Despite a few medical bumps young readers. “We all enjoyed seeing you and Missouri. retired now and had a great party to postcard in November reporting that along the way (“not really pot holes”), Mary Lou Quinlan Loughlin is Lila at our reunion in June. Don’t you Lucia Anna (Pia) Trigiani ’80, a principal in the law fi rm celebrate her birthday. Mary Ellen REUNION June 4–7, 2009 all is well with her in Maggie Valley, Ed and Mary Schmitz Bartley are looking forward to the fall weddings think that our group of 18 was an of MercerTrigiani, has been named to the 2009 edition of Best “Toby” Black Kress was among the N.C. She was planning a March trip to much the same in Pinehurst, N.C.— of two of her granddaughters, one in attendance record for grads 60 years?” Lawyers in America for real estate law. Trigiani was also honored guests. ’54 Judy Jones Sullivan Florida for “another 50th birthday” of with golf, tennis, volunteering, and Napa Valley, the other in Baltimore. by the Washington Metropolitan Chapter of Community Johnny and I will be in South Bend 23 Upper Oak Drive one of her children. Mary helping clients with travel. Their Sally Fox Shannon is proud of her Associations Institute (WMCCAI) as the 2008 Educator of the in May for the second year in a row. San Rafael, CA 94903 In May-June, Pat Byrne Lyren own 2008 travel included an agents’ son, who was named chief medical ’50 Joanne Morris O’Brien Year Award during the 2008 annual dinner. The honor marks the This time it will be for the graduation (415) 472-0137 and daughter Maura spent three tour to Dubai and the Arab Emirates offi cer of Parkland Hospital in Dallas. 32865 Faircrest Drive sixth time that Trigiani, a principal with the real estate law fi rm of of our grandson, Patrick MacKenzie, [email protected] weeks “going from Edinburgh to (...wondrous...to see the desert turned Recently, Sally was in China before the Beverly Hills, MI 48025 MercerTrigiani, has received this award from Notre Dame. Svalbard on the Polar Star, a converted into modern metropolitan cities and... Olympics and observed many changes (284) 647-1654 Erin M. Matis ’94 was named a partner at Husch Blackwell I am wishing for cards, notes, Our sympathy and prayers are with Swedish icebreaker, via the Orkney feel completely safe in a Muslim since her last trip in 1986—particularly, Sanders. She focuses her practice on tax and estate matters. or calls with more news from all the family of Erin White Schaefer and Shetland islands and Norwegian country”). Three cruises took them more cars and fewer bicycles. We are having an old-fashioned Amy Walsh Kern ’93 has been elected shareholder at Leonard, of our classmates, especially those on the loss of their dear mother, fj ords. Went ashore in Zodiacs, walked through the French Polynesian Islands, Regina Milligan Sweeney came Christmas here in Michigan. When Street and Deinard law fi rm. Kern focuses her practice in whose names are not here this time. grandmother, and mother-in-law on on packed ice, saw millions (literally) of transatlantic on the Queen Mary 2 from Cleveland. Her husband attended we can stay in, it looks really beautiful employment and labor law. Aug. 26, 2008, fewer than six months birds, whales, seals, walrus, and three from New York to Southampton and the Notre Dame reunion, and we outside. The driving is another story! Sister Virginia Jung, O.S.B., ’80 pronounced perpetual vows after the death of their father Jerry, polar bears. Best trip ever!” Pat reported return, and up the Croatian coast learned that Regina’s volunteer work By the middle of January, we have during a Sunday afternoon Mass on December 28, 2008. Following ’52 Mary Rose Shaughnessy Erin’s late husband, as reported in our Thanksgiving with grandchildren, to Venice. They “probably will slow last column. Mary Lou Leim O’Beirne life spanned 40 years serving on surpassed the total number of inches a traditional monastic ritual, she made a lifelong commitment as 5050 S. East End Ave. 14A and “...as one of the granddaughters down...in 2009.” phoned me, then sent obituary and behalf of persons with disabilities. that we had last winter. And since I a Benedictine Sister. Chicago, IL 60615 received a new karaoke machine Enjoying Peg Tiernan Sheehan’s information about the Mass. Lois Her family includes ten children, am not a winter sports fan and do not M. Michelle Licktei ’02 has joined the Business Division of (773) 493-2950 for her birthday, we spent a lot of Christmas letter is easy; condensing Lane Berry was able to talk on the 30 grandchildren, and three great have to take small children sledding Davis Brown Law Firm in Des Moines, Iowa. Michelle practices in [email protected] time screaming I Will Survive into the is harder. “Oh, woe is me...or is it I? I’m phone with Erin’s daughter, Kathleen, grandchildren. and ice skating, I can just look out and the area of Government Relations. She previously operated a solo ether until we all were hoarse. I never wooing that our fi rstborn, precious, while she was with her mother at the This summer, Carrie Powers admire the snow-covered trees and lobbying practice and was an Associate at BrownWinick. Julie Fries wrote to tell me that dreamed I’d race into my declining sweet baby boy just had his 50th hospice in San Diego. Powell joined Harriet Enneking hills. It’s good to count our blessings. Vanessa Indriolo ’99, vice president and director of private Mary Spencer Williams had died this years like this!” b’day! HOW possible? Jerry and I are In early July, following a Jones’ Moster at the Vatican exhibit, which Sister Pat Brewer and I had a equity at Fifth Third Bank, was recently elected to a two-year term summer in Harbor Springs, Mich. Her Marianna Marcucci Hassett and 60 playing tennis, but when we get cousins reunion in my hometown of was powerfully beautiful. None of great chat the other day. She sounds with the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) board passing will be of interest to all of you Jim are “doing just fi ne” in Clearwater, home: 85! HOW?! Our sons’ names Dixon, Ill., Dick and I met for lunch these treasures had been outside of just the same as always. None of us of directors. She was also asked to serve on the board’s executive who came to our 2007 reunion and Fla. As you may recall, Jim is deacon of (Patrick, Michael, Gerald, Timothy)...fi ne, seem to get any older, do we? Pat is at Oak Brook Mall west of Chicago Italy before. committee as membership chair. heard Julie tell us the fascinating story their parish and walks the fi ve blocks we thought, but—they must’ve gotten still working at St. Joseph College in with Joan Rossi, Rena Bianucci Dorothy Wick Cornwall’s Dr. Mary Catherine Flath ’84, Professor of Anatomy & of Mary, who had roomed across from daily to the church, as well as keeping together and all changed their names West Hartford and also in the prison Sereno, Rose Marie Murphy Foley, mother was a dear friend of Sister Physiology at Ashland Community and Technical College (ACTC), her on the third fl oor of Holy Cross Hall up the yard of their 50-year-old house. to DUDE! That’s not even a saint’s with the Kairos group “All in God’s Janell Wenzel O’Barski, Art and Madeleva’s. They grew up in the same has received the fi rst annual Gussler Family Endowed Chair in freshman year. Now that we know the Marianna works one day weekly at the name. Another name puzzler, when time.” Mary Beth Adler Wilhelmi, and Liz town—Cumberland, Wisc.—and Sister Math & Science Award. The endowment was established in 2007 ending, there’s a symmetry to Mary’s St. Vincent de Paul thrift shop, plays we go out to dinner: the young waiter Carl ND ’49 and Mary Agnes Kiley Wilson and Jim. A wonderful Madeleva encouraged Dorothy to by Dr. C. Gordon Gussler and his wife Dixie Gussler to recognize story. bridge with a women’s group, and she calls me Ewe guise...our daughter tells Garside Liebscher celebrated gathering—thank you, Joan, for attend Saint Mary’s. Sister was always full-time math and science faculty who foster in their students a To refresh your memories and for and Jim continue with their couples’ me it’s two words and I’m spelling it their birthdays with their children arranging! After overnighting and eager to hear the hometown news desire to learn and reach their maximum potential. those who weren’t at reunion, Mary bridge group. wrong.” and grandchildren—quite a large breakfast in Joan’s lovely apartment in from Cumberland. Dorothy left early Nancy Harris Funches ’66 will be honored as Teacher of the transferred her sophomore year to In April, Nancy Gibbon Ross will Sister Jo Lucker and Sister group—with a party at their home. River Forest, we fl ew home. Sunday morning to fl y from South Year for Hefner Middle School at the annual Teacher of the Year Michigan State and later married John visit Mary Wieland Scheetz in Sun Lori, the Maryknoll Sister with Bend to Minneapolis. The Liebschers have many reasons O’Sullivan. She and Julie had stayed in Hope you saw the article in City West, Ariz. Mary will take her whom she lives in El Paso, continue reception for the Putnam City Public Schools Foundation in Mary Danielson Denucci added to visit South Bend. Their daughter, touch and resumed a close friendship Sept. 2008 National Geographic “The to the Grand Canyon, Sedona, and their dedicated work for abused, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. much good cheer to our group. We Sara, works for Notre Dame, and when Julie and her husband, Bob, Green Sahara,” about some recent Flagstaff —Nancy’s fi rst visit to Arizona. undocumented women at Las Janet Horvath ’00 was made a partner in the law fi rm Jones were happy as well to see Kathleen three grandchildren are students on moved to Michigan in 1957. Over digs of Rena’s son, Paul Sereno, They hope also to connect with other Americas Immigrant Advocacy Obenchain, LLP in South Bend, Indiana. McCaff ery Ward, from South Bend, campus there. Another grandchild, the years they had played tennis and a National Geographic Society Phoenix-area classmates before Nancy Agency. Jo also wrote that a highlight Patricia Lurel Cook ’75 was named executive vice president of who rounded out our group of 18. the daughter of Mary F. Liebscher bridge, skied, and been active in the explorer-in-residence. Wonderfully returns home to Lancaster, Pa. of her year was going to New York for business development for Green Tree, headquartered in St. Paul, From the Courier Offi ce: Carrie Stopulos ’76, is spending a semester Christ Child Society together. Mary and photographed, the article about Jane Flynn Carroll wrote at two weeks in October, to attend the Minn. Powers Powell writes: “Earlier this in Italy. I hope she will meet my John divorced, then Mary remarried “one of the world’s most prolifi c Christmas from Dundee, Ill., that she every-six-years General Meeting of the Susan Karling Chai ’85 recently wrote a case study regarding summer, I took a two-week tour with granddaughter, Callagee O’Brien, (and divorced) Art Latimer three dinosaur hunters” chronicles the regretted missing our July gathering, Maryknoll Sisters. return on investment (ROI) analysis for training courses that my oldest daughter (who went to SMC a student at Fordham, who is also times, continuing her friendship and unearthing of 6,000-year-old human but enjoyed receiving pictures from Mary O’Shea Judd’and Jerry’s appeared in the January issue of Chief Learning Offi cer magazine. for only a year) to the national parks studying in Rome. activities with Julie, who thought Art remains—“some-200 graves...near a Joan. Two of Jane’s children live grandson, K.J., is 14, and playing the Patricia Quinn Murnane ’84 was promoted to Director of of the West. We traveled with a group Mary Hanson Peaslee was also was a great guy through it all. After her vanished lake hint at life in a once- nearby: Mary Campobosso ’81 trombone with the church choir. Corporate Risk and Insurance Department of AIG, Inc. from Yellowstone and Grand Canyon, honored with a big family birthday last divorce, Mary packed her worldly fertile land.” and her four children in Glenview, They enjoy having him with them Laurie Bracken Flanagan ’74 received a Pearson Technology stopping to be awed by all the parks party. Guests came from as far belongings onto her sailboat and Beginning on Labor Day weekend, and Nancy in Crystal Lake. She and when mom Julie Judd Leisenfelt Innovation award for her initiative and creativity in developing in between. away as Spain and included triplet headed down the Mississippi River, Joan Rossi and “Murph” and Ben Foley Helen Kuhn Carey ’51, who lives in ’78 travels for IBM and dad Kevin innovative new practices to train internal employees and external “I had an unexpected but very grandchildren. meeting Harry Williams in New Orleans enjoyed four days of (eight!) plays at Northfi eld, get together every fall with occasionally accompanies her. All live pleasant luncheon with Mary Fran Louise Amati Riddle and her partners how to use the company’s content management systems. and settling there. After Katrina, she the G.B. Shaw Festival in Niagara-on- their daughters, who are good friends. in the Dallas area, as well as the Judds’

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twin daughters Susan and Lisa—both would be graduating in ’09 from Carolinas to be near their daughter. a visit to South Bend between visits children’s art classes through a local art watch for that one! Mary Jo and Larry I would strongly encourage Georgia met last September in the doing well. Rody Oppenheim eighth grade. It is a continuing success Sheila Conlin Brown will with family in San Francisco and the institute in Augusta, Ga. Martin ND ’60 enjoy spending time members of the Class of ’64 to make resort of Ogunquit, Maine. They had Dilenschneider relates “the story regarding Lauren, their juvenile complete her term on the Alumnae wedding. We managed to visit with I received a Christmas card from with Honey Hurley Gfroerer ’58 and their plans/reservations to attend a grand time walking the rocky coast, globalization” of the family—sons Joe diabetic granddaughter. She is active Board this spring. She and Dick ND ’56 Bruno Schlesinger and his wife, Alice, Joan Renehan Thompson featuring her husband, George, when they come our 45th reunion! Our class will be enjoying the prolifi c fl owers that the and Bob are teaching at universities in horseback riding, ballet, cross spend a lot of time in Chicago and will in their home; then Bruno, Ann, and I a pyramid of six wonderful looking to Chicago to visit her mom. In March, clustered at the new Hilton Garden Maine coast climate cradles, viewing in Japan, a grandson in Hokkaido, country, and track. The Thompsons’ be in their time share in Palm Springs went out for coff ee another afternoon. grandchildren. Joan and husband Elaine will be a grandmother for the Inn, so please make your reservations solitary light houses from boat rides, one in Germany, two in London, one travel in 2008 included an April week for six weeks this winter. Both Alice and Bruno are living with Frank took three “grands” to Hawaii for third time; however, this will be the with the Alumnae Offi ce soon. Call and taking in a small but very sweet in Surrey, and their eldest grandson in Palm Springs with friends, and three Mary Dahm Kearney and serious health issues, but they are a week and enjoyed being in the water fi rst Cassidy and will live in Chicago, someone who was in our class, museum. All this was greatly enhanced with the State Department is the weeks cruising in the Mediterranean. Paul are still travelers. Mary has the gallant and sharp mentally. with the dolphins. Joan wrote, “We not Philadelphia. Diane’s daughter, even if only that fi rst year, and try to with lots of visiting and good meals. vice consul in Tunisia. Rody and Jack Jim was anxious to return to Alaska, so inquisitiveness of a history major that Ann lives in a house she designed came home exhausted!” Lisa Williams, R.N.,M.S., is in Nigeria reconnect and ask if she would like Janet spent some extra time at Kay’s ND ’54 hope to be in South Bend in in the late fall they took a cruise there. I somehow missed! They spend much and built in Cairns, Australia. She sold Sue Lipetska Cierzniak called me with PEPFAR (President’s Emergency to come back June 4th-7th to tell her that was greatly relished. Sadly, Mary June for Reunion ’09, then they plan a At this point, the classmates I time visiting grandchildren, some of her day care center and interrupted to ask for prayers for Nancy Schwind Plan For AIDS Relief) as part of a grant story..... Beth unexpectedly lost her husband Mediterranean cruise visiting Istanbul, know of who plan on our (55th—eek!) whom are in college! her study of botany at the local Gallagher’s husband Don, who fell received by Northwestern Memorial Through Christmas cards shortly after that trip. Greece, and Rome. reunion in June are: Mary Bartley, Evidently, Mary Carey Swift and university to build the house. She now on the ice the day after Christmas. He Hospital for doctors working in Third and conversations, I know that Kay published a book on her A lovely photo of their 11 Bev Campbell, Rody Dilenschneider, Joe have moved into a new condo in works part-time as a learning support subsequently suff ered a stroke and is World countries. The doctors planned Kathy Menzie Lesko, Mary Kay father’s World War II experience in grandchildren accompanied Jim and “Murph” Foley, Bernice Hopp, Anne the Washington, D.C., area. According teacher for Wontulp-Bi-Buya College in in a hospital in Peoria, Ill. a conference in Abuja, the capital of Brady Turner, Roberta Limarzi the fall. Titled Only One Returned, it is Liz Kiley Wilson’s Christmas greeting. Hubert, Eileen Karp, Pat Lyren, and to Maryjeanne, Mary and Joe go each Cairns, Queensland. The name means Enjoy each day. Nigeria, for nurses working with AIDS Weinsheimer, Ellen Brown McBride, the story of her family traveling the They reported celebrating their Joan Rossi. Our column deadlines year to Lourdes with the Knights of “Light on the Hill.” Sponsored by four patients. Lisa and another nurse from Sis Reynolds McBride, Carole country as her father went through 50th anniversary in ’08, with all their are June 1 and Jan. 1. Please keep in Malta, providing service to the many mainstream Christian churches, the Northwestern made presentations Barskis Weber, and Margie Carroll pilot training. The story then moves to children and grandchildren. touch—by postcard, note, phone, pilgrims who visit that magnifi cent college brings adult students from ’60 Maureen Hogan Lang each day to 90 nurses from all over Flynn are planning on attending. I the missions he fl ew from Great Britain, Jim and Marie Mertes Hertig’s e-mail...but do it! Love you all, JJ shrine. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island 108 Cascade Drive Nigeria. hope that each of you reading this to landing his very crippled plane near July bus tour in Switzerland included I received a beautiful letter from communities for two-week study Indian Head Park, IL 60525 Karen Wilke Galvin went to St. will pick up the phone to make that Versailles, and then his escape through searching for Jim’s ancestors. They the latest recipient of aid from our blocks. It grants certifi cates and [email protected] Barth’s to visit her sister rather than personal contact and encourage the French Underground. You can see found the two towns, but no luck ’56 Catherine Shaughnessy Class of 1956 Scholarship. It is so diplomas in theology and community have lunch with us. What a choice! everyone to be there. No, don’t put her website at www.onlyonereturned. with records or at the cemetery. Nessinger gratifying to know that our eff orts development. Many go on to become Molly Bolster Frawley Grrrr! this off until our 50th...... com. Kay keeps busy traveling and Their Christmas letter pictures them 13156 North 104th Street are enabling a young woman to priests, pastors, and deacons in their 6920 Centennial Road Last, but most important… If you can’t come, please send me says her trip Down Under in the fall with the gorgeous Matterhorn in the Scottsdale, AZ 85260 receive a Saint Mary’s education. churches. Teachers are generally Spearfi sh, SD 57783-8051 let’s get our bags packed! By the a letter or an e-mail with where you was spectacular with its scenery. Hope background. Jim and friends “dig up (815) 469-3253 Please continue to contribute to indigenous men and women who are [email protected] time you are reading this we will live, what you are doing, what interests to see you at the reunion in June! the local golf courses a couple times [email protected] this scholarship. It is a perfect way clergy. Ann helps the class with literacy have one short year to get ready you, books you have enjoyed, and your a week” and Marie’s “knitting, sewing, to remember family members and skills, as English is generally their third Remember, it is almost time for to head to SMC for reunion. M fondest memory of Saint Mary’s. and non-bridge bridge groups are As usual, my mailbox has classmates. language, after a local language and us all to return to SMC for our 50th. and M cannot wait to see you! From the Courier Offi ce: Patricia ’65 Sheila Kelly Ames going strong.” yielded very little class news. This And please—write! Creole. How did that time go so fast? In the (Pat) Ralicki McGowan writes: I retired 1200 Eustace Drive Bernice Boucher Hopp and Christmas was the poorest ever. Early in December, I received meantime, here are a few updates. in August 2006. I am volunteering at Dixon, IL 61021 Jim enjoy good health, share yard Where is everyone? I wrote some an e-mail asking for prayers for Kay In August, Cecile Hudson Grant ’62 Anne Casey Beaudoin St. Joseph’s Social Services Center in (815) 288-2640 and garden upkeep, volunteer, and letters and garnered a response from ’58 Ann Leonard Molenda Duff y O’Leary’s husband, George ND and her daughter, Mary Frances 1340 Indianwood Drive Elizabeth, N.J.—teaching Excel in the [email protected] exercise in Irvington (Indianapolis Barb Schettig Brennan, Mary Lee 51310 Windsor Manor Ct. ’41, who had just undergone heart (Muff ) Grant Linnane ’02, took a Brookfi eld, WI 53005-5511 “Project Ready” program, working out area). She served on the 100th Wheeler Schuler, and Pat O’Leary Granger, IN 46530-8307 valve replacement surgery and three business trip to South Dakota, where (262) 784-1285 at the gym to keep the knees (and Editor’s Note: The Alumnae Relations anniversary committee for Our Lady of Ring. Barb has been in touch with Pat (574) 273-0310 bypasses in Rockford, Ill. George now they detoured to Spearfi sh and [email protected] the rest of me) going, and babysitting Offi ce regrets that the entire report for Lourdes Church, where she made her Bushey, who is back in Gettysburg [email protected] sports a pacemaker but is off oxygen enjoyed a whirlwind visit with Molly when invited. I fi nd that all this, and the Class of 1965 was not printed in the fi rst communion, was confi rmed, and after a career in music education. She and is recovering his strength. Bolster Frawley. What a delightful From the Courier Offi ce: Joan two book clubs, keeps me pretty busy. last issue of Courier. The missing portion married Jim. Mary Fran Koehnemann enclosed a picture of Pat and herself In the reunion roundup, I forgot to Kay mentioned that Bebe surprise! Then Molly went to a Lacey Egan is searching for classmates News this year: two fi rsts! First follows: Nolan wrote at Christmas from taken two years ago—could have mention that Gretchen Wiedemann Doyle Wharton had a stroke before decorative painting convention in on Florida’s southeast coast, having grandson: Reese William McGowan The Class of ’65 turns 65! Daniels, W.V., where she is doing well. been from 1956 they looked so much O’Loughlin drove with Pat O’Shea Thanksgiving and is in a nursing home. Columbus and had a great visit with recently returned from 14 years living born Jan. 19, 2008, to son Martin (Chip) I think Junie Miller Smith echoes Christmas greetings from the same! Mary Lee is still having Dorfmeister, Lockie Coulter McGill, The stroke has aff ected the part of Carol Cavanaugh Ryan and Abby abroad in the U.K. and Shanghai, McGowan and his wife, Laurie Kessler. every one of us when she writes from Lakewood, Ohio, reported both health trouble getting around, but plays and Gail Matousek Waldeck to the brain which involves speech, but Gage Hurd. China. Early in 2008, Ann Harwood First granddaughter: Helen Elizabeth Texas: “Well, I guess this is the year and family news from Paul and Bev bridge every week (a skill learned in reunion and roomed next door to the good news is Bebe can walk with Mary Lou Ashley Summers and Callaghan escaped the Indiana winter Domashinski, born April 24, 2008, to we are all eligible for Medicare. Who Ritz Campbell. Just before their the ’Rec’). Pat O’Leary Ring’s mother Patricia “Ricky” Elen Costello and help. Husband Cliff is an hour away, Maureen Hogan Lang always enjoy weather to visit. (Ann and Joan spent daughter Maura and her husband, would have ’thunk’ it way back in late-April-planned return from Mesa, passed away at age 98—Pat is busy Joanie Drymalski Heuel. which is diffi cult, but their daughters getting together in Michigan at Mary several years raising their families Mark Domashinski. 1965? I couldn’t believe it on March Ariz., for spring and summer, Paul had with grandchildren like most of us. Gretchen and I missed each other can visit daily. We hope that members Lou’s daughter’s cottage on Corey in northern Virginia.) In February, Sue Hayes writes: “After 30 years of 1, 2008, when my card arrived in the a massive heart attack, followed by In October, Marie Gillespie when she came to South Bend with of the class will send cards to Bebe Lake. Ann Maher Lee and Marg Burns teaching graduate students at Western mail.” triple by-pass surgery and aortic valve Egan had a luncheon in her home her husband, and then we could not while she is recovering: Bebe Wharton The Chicagoans lunched in DeMartini will have a mini-reunion Washington University, I am working On a lovely day in May, E. J. replacement—and a late-May return for Chicago-area classmates. In get together shortly after reunion. (Mrs. Cliff ), Evergreen Health and Oakbrook on Jan. 22. No calories were with Joan in Jupiter, Fla. They are also with high school students who are Caluwaert McFadden had another home. In July, Bev had a double knee attendance were Mary Alice I also forgot to mention that Rehabilitation Center, 300 Douglas St., consumed by Jane Simpson Kiep, high school classmates from Winnetka, sometimes struggling with a major great mini-reunion at her beautiful replacement. At her writing, both of Parsons, Bunni Hennessey Griffi n, Peggy Lomasney Kegaly is part of Petaluma CA 94952. Mary Jo O’Callaghan Martin, Elaine Ill. Joan’s sisters, children, and lack of motivation about education home in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Our group their surgeries and rehabs were over Maryjeanne Ryan Burke, Rita Conley the 1958 winter crowd in Naples. I just spoke with Martie Slavin Van Etten Cassidy, Nancy Prawdzik grandchildren gathered in December and school in particular. About 60% is growing every year. We had E.J., and both are “fully recovered and Bourjaily, Mary Kay Shanahan Paula Lawton Bevington came Fogarty, and Marilyn Miller Lyon Kidder, Nancy O’Toole Doppke, to celebrate the life and death of of the students are members of the Mary Delaney Willer, Barb Leahy grateful.” Bev’s son, Paul Bierbusse, Cesarone, Sheila Siebert Gallagher for the Christian Culture lecture in was visiting her in her new home in Diane Zarantonello Sullivan, Arlene their father, Jack, who received a full Colville Confederated Tribes, a large Sutton, Cille Sorrentino Bucolo, has been made a partner in Ernst and Julia Gibbons Revane. We had September, and we had lunch with Jacksonville, Fla. After reunion last Lagona Feldmeier, Barbara Graham military Air Force ceremonial funeral reservation that enrolls about 10,000 Colleen Leahy, Anne Harvey Lewis, and Young. Bev had run into Eileen already left for Arizona, and I was so a group of my South Bend friends. June, Marilyn drove over from Naples Stotzer, and Maureen Hogan Lang at Arlington National Cemetery. While members. I worked here half time Marianne Spalding Schiavone, Cox Karp, and both of them hope sorry to have missed this wonderful She and Milton are well. Paula is to help Martie unpack when she because we never stopped talking living in London, Joan hosted a dinner last year so I can start the new year Mary Harris Russell, Molly Martin to attend our June reunion. (Eileen gathering. Also missing was Jane working part-time as a fundraiser for and Mike moved in. Both Martie and about grandchildren, exercising, water for alumnae and would be happy to with some fairly good ideas about the Mannino, Sara Johnson Walz, recently phoned me, reporting that Doyle Burke, who had some health Atlanta Legal Aid in addition to their Marilyn mentioned getting a group of aerobics, golf, bridge, reading, or aches organize a gathering in Florida. Her issues that are ahead of most students. and myself. The topics discussed Anne Feldpausch Hubert also hopes problems. I understand she is home consulting business. SMC classmates together this winter and pains. You would think a multitude e-mail is: [email protected] This is my view of retirement.” around the luncheon table had to attend.) now and recovering but would no Thanks to Hannah Grasberger in Florida. of news would come from this, but Kay Christenson Janiszewski us all in hysterics (remember “just REUNION June 4–7, 2009 Marilyn Austgen Thompson’s doubt appreciate our prayers. Kreps for sending me pictures from Pat Hurley McMahon sent a it is just the same old, same old. We writes that she and three of her wiggle,” ladies?). There were so and Jim’s Christmas letter had news Maryjeanne has provided me our 50th reunion. They bring back such wonderful picture of John and herself need some fun in our lives! Here are classmates get together on a yearly many memories, and so many of grandchildren and travel. I don’t with much news. She has heard from happy memories. in front of the Sydney, Australia opera just a few bits of news: Mary Jo’s son, ’64 Mary Ann Curnes Fuller basis for mini-reunions. Janet Walton funny episodes. We thank E.J. for have an accurate count, but Lauren Jean Wargin Schloegel that she and Late September, Ann Harris house. The McMahons visited both Rob Lorenz, is in Africa producing Clint 501 N. Oakwood Avenue Gisleson of Louisiana, Mary Beth a very special and enjoyable day. and Megan “went from little girls John ND ’54 have sold their home in Mohun came to the U.S. for son Australia and New Zealand in March Eastwood’s new movie about Nelson Lake Forest, IL 60045-1964 Allen Sweeney of Pennsylvania, Another mini-reunion took place at to charming teenagers” in ’08, and Milwaukee and have moved to the Charlie’s wedding in Ohio and fi t in 2008. Pat continues to teach adult and Mandela (Morgan Freeman). Let’s (847) 234-6767 and Mary Jane Foley Brisbane of the magnifi cent Driehaus Museum [email protected] 28 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 29 classnews classnews

in Chicago in August, followed by friends returning north for the June 16, 2008. She loved Saint Mary’s, Baumgartner ’10 is from Naperville, Division Street with views of Lake as her own. Our personal author lives Fran and John live in River Forest, Ill. Kate O’Hara Aubert, Kay Casellini (of course) lunch. It included Mary summer. I traveled to New Jersey/ and one of her joys was receiving her Ill., and states that she “fell in love with Michigan and the city to the west. in Staniel Cay, Exumas, Bahamas. In her During the week, Mary Fran works with Wasinger, Kathleen Macelwane Delaney Willer, Rosann Gorman New York City for my sister’s—Pat Courier in the mail. We have lost a fi ne Saint Mary’s the fi rst time I stepped on Sharon helped with several wonderful note, Marty said that Sheila Beirne children from three inner-city schools. Wernert and Anne. Arline Hagan Conroy, E.J. Caluwaert McFadden, Pindar ’65—and my fi rst annual Saint Mary’s woman.” We send our campus.” Caroline is most thoughtful decorating ideas. E.J. even agreed! Conry came to visit the Island retreat. Along with John, Mary has made Saturdayborn ’63, Ann’s sister, myself, Pat Hoben Daniels, Colleen family reunion weekend. It included sincere sympathies to Sue on the loss in her sincere thanks for our class Donna Christian Christensen, Sheila lives in the Fort Lauderdale area. several trips to South America to help attended as well. The group celebrated Leahy, and Sara Johnson Walz. It was some Broadway plays and a jazz of her dear mother. scholarship. She hopes to fi nd a career a delegate for the U.S. Virgin Islands Dede Cotter Delaney marked in poor villages. Ann’s life, her love of Boston teams, unanimously decided to get together cruise around Manhattan. I have Happy and contented news from in public relations after graduation. to Congress, was recently recognized a fi rst as mother of the groom when Congratulations to Marianne and her passion for photography. again, and soon! signed on as events co-chair for the Beverly Senda Defoe in Georgia: “We As Lil mentions in her note, it is so for her eff orts to fi ght drunk driving her son, Dan, married this summer Voglewede Sylvester, who married From the Courier Offi ce: Cille Bucolo and I have a long, Roch for Obama campaign, which have had a wonderful start to 2008. good to have this scholarship in place and underage drinking. Along at Michigan Beach in Indiana. Dede Jerry McLaughlin on a beach in Hawaii. Paulette Raczkowski-Baz ’96 writes: chatty get-together every couple should be fun. Am still doing ’crew,’ Cameron retired last year, and I called for these deserving young women. with 37 members of the House of kindly shared the wonderful photos Marianne lives in Florida…one smart “The Saint Mary’s Club of Toledo is of months or so in Chicago. Neither and am rowing in a regatta or two it quits from Sears in January ’08 after Representatives, Donna received from the wedding. Dan’s mother-in- lady. proud to honor Diane Pacella, who of us is ever at a loss for words. We this summer, God and joints willing! 24 years. We have been traveling ever honors from The Century Council, a law is a dear high school friend of Last fall, my husband, Larry, ND was honored at the Toledo Race for both were on the SMC trip to Greece In August, I will spend some time since—including a 60-day road trip ’66 Mary Duff y Gott national not-for-profi t organization. Hillary Clinton, who attended the ’64, visited our son, Dan, ND ’94, in the Cure on Sept. 28, 2008.” this past October, along with Judy with family at the New Jersey shore. in January/February to Vegas to see 237 Donlea Road Donna began her career with a fi rst wedding. Now Dede can say she San Francisco. He preceded his wife, The newsletter The Promise Piers Locher, Darlene Currier Our godchild, Christina, goes off to son Dean and Carolyn; three weeks in Barrington, IL 60010-4014 of becoming a doctor from George personally knows the Secretary of Heather and daughter, Coco, to the contained the following: “Diane Unger, and Marcia Black McMahon. college—Bowdoin, in Maine—this California to visit long- time friends; (847) 381-4541 Washington School of Medicine in State. Bay Area for a new position with Pacella is an incredible asset to the With our children raised, we often fall. I’m helping her shop, which brings two weeks in Seattle and Whistler [email protected] Washington, D.C. She was the fi rst Jane McCoach McKee also played Safeway Foods. During our visit, we Toledo community in her quest to have just a bit more time for these back memories of shopping for SMC in with son Patrick and Tara; and two female physician in the Virgin Islands, her fi rst role as mother of the bride were guests of Carolyn Hart Irvine help fi ght breast cancer. Over the past great get-togethers. But, joyously, the summer of 1961! At least we had weeks in Arizona with my sisters. We Our class was known for fi rsts. In where she worked in emergency when her daughter, Catherine, married and Mike ND ’67 in their lovely home decade, she has volunteered countless grandchildren have entered the uniforms that fi rst year!” went to Saint Mary’s/South Bend in our years at Saint Mary’s, our class medicine and family practice June 14. Jane’s grandson, Conor, was outside San Mateo, Calif. They shared hours with various organizations, picture for many of us, and we make Rosann Gorman Conroy and her June to see friends, on to Detroit and leaders organized and instituted a medicine. Concerns for the Virgin also in the wedding. their plans for a cruise of the Aegean including the Victory Center and special time for them. I have joined husband, Martin, live in Flossmoor, Ill. Mackinac Island, and Youngstown major change in how the students Islands made her the fi rst female to The young couple bought a Sea with Notre Dame. On the trip, they Reach for Recovery. She has spent the ranks of grandmotherhood, as Their fi ve children are living nearby for a family wedding. A fun, low-key governed themselves. In the early’60s, represent an off shore territory in the home in Danbury, close to Jane and, met Mary Donaghue Buregga ’69. time calling, visiting and counseling my daughter, Kelly, and her husband in the Chicago area. So far, they have time with family and friends, and back the governing body was a student U.S. government. She worked hard for her husband, Mike. Their son, Will, Caroline said they renewed a 40-year- newly diagnosed patients and has also presented us with a gorgeous, happy one two-year-old granddaughter and roads in the convertible are so much council, mostly an advisory board. Our an amendment on giving territories lives three hours away in South New old friendship. volunteered on the oncology fl oor at little boy in April. Now I know what two more grandchildren on the way. fun. Mid-July to mid-August found class took a dramatic step in asking the right to vote. Now in her 7th term, Hampshire. Caroline and Mike had dinner Flower Hospital. everyone is talking about. Mary This year, they will spend six months in us in Arizona celebrating my sister’s the Sisters for sole power in dealing Donna was the fi rst female to be a Jane and Mike visited Gettysburg, with Mary Kay Roberts Nelson and “Diane was diagnosed with breast Harris Russell wrote with news of her Naples, Fla. Martin has been fi ghting 50th anniversary; in Vegas celebrating with fellow classmates. Under the delegate of the U.S. Virgin Islands. She Pa., in February to witness the George in San Francisco in September. cancer in October 1990 at the age new granddaughter. “My news is a colon cancer for the past year, and he Dean’s graduation from the Nevada leadership of Pam Smith Malone, a is also a delegate to the Democratic dedication of the Wills House Museum The Nelsons remained calm as a of 46. She is now an 18-year cancer new grandchild, Isabella Guadalupe is now feeling good. police academy; and Portland, Ore., for student governing body accepted the Convention. Her website lists all these by the National Park Service. David powerful hurricane hit the Houston survivor.” Peterson Veeder, in New Mexico. Very “I help with a community a cruise on the Columbia/Snake Rivers. reins and governed the young ladies achievements, plus many more, but Wills, Mike’s great, great grandfather, area. Since the storm battered a good Frank Nader, husband of Nan pink and sweet and will grow into her newspaper in Ft. Myers”, writes Pat Family and friends—what memories attending Saint Mary’s College. it also shares her photos from the organized the foundation of the part of Houston, the Nelsons spent Koob Nader, writes: “Nan has been lovely long name.” Hoben Daniels, “where we spend the we recalled and how many new ones We have come a long way from Obama inauguration. Gettysburg Cemetery and invited a few extra days in San Fran. Mary recovering slowly from spine fusion From Sheila Flynn Boone in winter. Our youngest and his wife just we made. Life is good!” You deserve those days, but we continue to make Martha Crikelair Wohlford Lincoln to speak at the dedication. Kay’s son, G.R., was godfather to Mike surgery done on Dec. 4. Our hope is Colorado, news as follows. “We skied had their fi rst baby, Campbell Hoben every minute, Bev. fi rsts. Our present president of the created another “fi rst” for this class by Of course, Lincoln penned part of his Irvine’s new daughter, Lucy Laura. that this will get at the cause of her four days a week, all winter—Michael Daniels, and they are remarkably Our sympathy and prayers to Alumnae Association, Elizabeth publishing her fi rst book. Her latest famous Gettysburg Address while G.R. and Mike were friends at Notre condition of the past eight years. We says he has to make up for all the impressed with their exceptional Mary Harris Russell upon the loss Birmingham Lacy, achieved many project, Chaos to Serenity, is a collection staying at the Wills’ house. Dame. Caroline’s three children and are optimistic. ’week day’ skiing he missed when he product. Tim works for National City of her brother, Raymond Harris, fi rsts in her career as a lawyer and of stories spanning her 40-year Congratulations are in order for grandchildren live in the area. “Nan will be released from was working. And, fortunately, the Bank and is happy to be back in after a valiant struggle. “At the time judge. Recently, Liz received honors involvement with the Island. She has two classmates. Mary Fran Petricca Kathie Donovan Dur sent a Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital conditions were excellent, with tons Chicago with family and friends after of his death, he was the oldest and for her role as Supreme Court Justice also established Serenity Press as a Gleason married John O’Connor at beautiful picture of her new grandson, (Wheaton, Ill.) on Dec. 30 and will of new snow every week. I’m trying two years in Cleveland. My sister, Mary longest serving volunteer in the of Virginia from the Virginia Women means to publish other works as well her childhood parish in August. Mary William O’Rahilly Hardart. William is fi nish recuperating at home. The to get the Colorado Saint Mary’s Ann Hoben Jensen ’55, has not been Resurrection Healthcare Program for in History organization. Liz started the second child for Kathie’s daughter, various therapies off ered there have Alumnae Club going again. It’s tricky, as well as she would like, and I know the Homebound Elderly in Chicago. her fi rsts after graduating from law Courtney, and her husband. The baby done great things for her so far. I will what with people so spread out. We she would appreciate your prayers Even when he could no longer drive, school at the University of Texas. She joins older sister Catherine. Kathie be spending a couple of weeks home don’t have a really big concentration as well as those of her classmates. he took a bus and train to get to see was the fi rst female Deputy General in classclips classclips classclips still lives in Washington, D.C., in the with her helping her get stronger, get in any one place; I hope to have our My love-hate relationship with golf his ’shut-ins,’ as we used to call such the state. She continued to become Georgetown area. more at-home therapy, and see a few fi rst offi cial meeting for Founders Day and watercolors continues. I still like folks.” A man like Raymond deserves the fi rst female judge in the state. Many of our classmates prayed for of her doctors. in the Fall. We spent the month of to read and am in charge of a book mention. Liz marked a spot in Virginia history Ann Hagan as she fought leukemia “Nan will have limited use of April in Australia and loved every mile group in Florida. I’m always looking for From Lil Chard Beshel: “Just by being the fi rst female Supreme for eight years. Ann died after a gallant e-mail until she can manage stairs. and minute of it. We had hoped to recommendations for good books for off the phone with Joan Marskey Court justice. And in retirement, she fi ght July 13, 2008. She is survived She would appreciate a call from you go ever since our Australian daughter discussion. We generally look forward Slattery. She and Bill are back is continues to be recognized for her by her husband, Allen Durling, and at home any time: (708) 544-7141.” came into our lives and has told us to coming north in the summer to from a trip to Lithuania, Latvia, and detailed and professional opinions on many close families. Ann graduated so much about her country. It is a recover from all the winter activities, Prague. Back home in Minnesota the cases that appeared before her. from Suff olk Law School in 1975. She lovely and interesting place—and but this summer has been just as busy they are enthusiastic golfers and Although Liz is the current worked for the Girl Scouts in Detroit ’70 Mary Lou Wylie Aussies are the nicest people you’ll here as there. We did a cross-Atlantic grandparents to two young misses. president of the Alumnae Association, but returned to the city where her 437 East Wolfe Street ever meet! As often as possible, we get cruise in April to Spain and Portugal Joan and Darlene Unger Currier Pam Smith Malone holds the fi rst heart lived, Boston, to work with a Harrisonburg, VA 22802 to San Francisco and Omaha to see and are now happy to have absolutely and I managed a dinner date in honor of this title for our class during consulting fi rm on civil rights and (540) 433-8593 our fi ve grandchildren. We are always no plans to do anything for a while.” New York City this summer. Bill and the ’80’s. Pam now works for NALF, a diversity issues. In 1985, she co- [email protected] exhausted at the end of our stay but From sunny California, Sue Casey Larry were permitted on the outing. foundation that promotes placement founded Cavanaugh, Hagan, & Pierson have so much fun! In August, we’ll D’Amico writes: “Dick ND ’64 and I Darlene has retired from teaching in of lawyers. She recently scheduled Consulting Company in Washington, From the Courier Offi ce: If you Savannah, Georgia, was this year’s site for the girls’ get away weekend, class head to Maine for a ’mini reunion’ with met John and Kathleen Walsh Harty Michigan and is now a Southerner. several meetings with the University of D.C. are interested in serving as a reporter of 1970. In attendance were Liz Casey, Mary Beth Tetlow DeNiro, Cathy Michael’s ND ’66 college roommate, at Del Mar Race Track in July. It was a She has a condo in South Carolina. Chicago and Northwestern University, The Saint Mary’s College Book for the Class of 1970, please contact Linnehan Cronin, Debbie Byrne Tynan, Margie Goodwin Harrison, Sue Tony ’66, his wife (Katie Cooney beautiful day at the track and Kathleen Darlene was considering purchase and also visited several top law fi rms Group of Washington, D.C. Maryland Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 at (574) 284- Gudgeon Reilly and Jessica Rinna Beling. The women spent the weekend at Lisa ’67), and some other ND friends had great luck with the horses. After of a condo in Austin, Tex., at the time in the Windy City. To our great fortune, and Virginia helped Allen organize a 5332 or [email protected]. Sue Gudgeon Reilly’s winter house in Savannah and did a lot of site seeing and their wives. On the way, we plan the track, the four of us met Kathleen of our meeting...does that make her Pam saved time in her busy schedule festival in Ann’s honor. According to Edith Hill Gibney and most of her including the historic city, houses, churches and cemeteries. Of course the to stop in Boston and visit with my McAnaney Glaser for dinner. We a south-westerner? It is such a treat to have lunch with Mary Dunn Anne Sheehan Garbarino, the festival family took a ten-day pilgrimage to the best part about the weekend was the opportunity to see each other, fi nd roommate, Pat Devine McCarthy, and had a wonderful time visiting and to catch up with college friends.” And Finneran, Sharon Priester Lewert, was held at Helenmarie Anderson Holy Land, following the steps of Jesus out what everyone has been up to as well as how each one’s families are her husband, Dick ND ’65. remembering our years at Saint Mary’s. also from Lil and Saint Mary’s, news and me. Corcoran’s ’61 Alliance Dance Studio and Mary and attending Mass every doing. This event was the second get together of the women and plans are Ann Pindar writes, “I am having a On a sadder note, my mother, Marion of the latest recipient of the Class of Mary and E.J. Finneran, ND ’66 in Alexandria, Va. About 15 belles day in these sacred places. Last May, to repeat the good times in another city location yet to be determined. relaxing summer, enjoying snowbird Vodicka Casey ’39, passed away on 1965 Memorial Scholarship. Caroline purchased a beautiful condo on attended. Our classmates were Edith’s second grandchild was born

30 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 31 classnews ¿5]ReO\bSRb]Q`]e\VWaQ`SObW]\a]]\bVS A deluxe tour for alumnaeandfriends ZOabROgVSQ`SObSRbVS1`]ObWO\/R`WObWQ T`][VWabSO`abVSabO`aO\RaSOP`SShSÀ ½;Ycf[Y6YfbUfXG\Uk two weeks early, so Edi didn’t arrive in my classmates are as happy as we Colorado until after the birth. It was are in Chicago about this change in classclips classclips classclips lucky that the birth was early, because Washington.” that allowed Edi to see her youngest, Joann Yandow Maneri celebrated Brendan, graduate from Notre Dame, with a family gathering in Chicago. which is the alma mater of all his Her husband, Carl ND ’70, retired on 1`]ObWO sisters. the same weekend, so there were lots Nancy Erdman Coff ey lives in of celebrations and surprises. Among Sterling, Va., and is a social worker with the celebrants were daughter Kristen the Department of Family Services in Maneri White ’94, her husband, Pier Fairfax. Her husband was a Foreign White ND ’94, and their fi ve children. Service Offi cer who retired in October. Joann also took a trip to Notre Dame They have three kids scattered that weekend, as Kristen and family live throughout the world in Japan, New in South Bend. Joann is contemplating York (that one is married), and Chapel retirement from the University of Hill, N.C. Colorado Foundation this spring. As Donna Farrell MacPherson she says, “Too many places to go and continues to live in Burlington, Va. She people to see to be spending my day has retired and is loving it! at a computer!” During the past year, most of Martha Luken Best is enjoying Alumnae gathered in Nashville in July 2008, left to right: Tilly Fiehrer the members of the Class of ’70 “doing the grandmother thing,” Pfeiff er ’72, Rene Mirro Zimmer ’72, Carole McRedmond Nadler ’72, Evelyn observed their 60th birthdays, and based in Jackson Hole, Wyo. She and McRedmond Rodgers ’68, and Maureen McRedmond Foy ’73 they had a variety of ways to celebrate her husband, Bill, celebrated their the milestone. Several classmates 60th birthdays, their 35th wedding fi rst note, we were entranced! It was by spending the weekend with Mary described their celebrations, so I’ll anniversary, and his retirement by the weekend of Pope Benedict’s Lou’s brother and sister-in-law in report in this issue on those whose taking their kids and families to Europe visit to New York, and we saw him Philadelphia. Food seemed to be the celebrations involved travel, then for a week. It was a memorable trip, make his trip in the Pope-mobile theme of the weekend, as they ate and report on other celebrations in our and Martha says, “We’re thankful those up Fifth Avenue. We enjoyed being shopped at the Reading Terminal and next class notes. occasions only come once in a lifetime. tourists—from Greenwich Village to the Italian Market before having dinner Becky O’Connnor Chandler and It took us two months to recover! Next museums to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. It at a wonderful Italian restaurant that her husband, Jim ND ’70 took a trip to time, we’ll go alone!” was a great birthday celebration.” specializes in food from the Abruzzi Ireland as part of the commemoration Beverly Kenton Temple Nancy Delaney Nesbit also had region. She and her husband also had of their shared 60th year. On Becky’s celebrated turning 60 by going to great fun celebrating her 60th in New an earlier celebration with three other actual birthday in May, they gathered Disney World with husband Walt York City with friends. Then Nancy’s couples from high school by spending in Boston with their immediate Tunnell. They enjoyed the rides, husband, Bob ND ’69, and children a weekend together at the home of families at a restaurant in the South observing fi reworks, and watching Caroline (along with her husband, the couples in the Ozark Mountains in End of Boston called Sibling Rivalry. parades, just as they had done on their Jim), Peter, and Tracy arranged a southern Missouri. Her children and siblings “roasted” honeymoon! She describes it as “Great surprise birthday party. The kids put 60th birthday celebrations to be her as part of the fun of the evening. fun being a kid again in what is really a together a beautiful scrapbook, which continued in our next class notes! After dinner, they went to a sing-along diff erent world!” included greetings from Sue Chase From the Courier Offi ce: Jessica piano bar with limousines transporting Sara Bateman Koehler celebrated Hildebrand, Margie Goodwin J. Rinna Beling writes: This year’s them to and from her sister’s home in turning 60 by getting together with Harrison, Sue Gudgeon Reilly, and site for the girls’ get-away weekend, North Andover. The birthday weekend fi ve high schools friends for four days Bernadine Connolly Travers as well Class of 1970, was Savannah, Ga. In also included the graduation of in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. ncient cities, architectural marvels, and sites of as lots of great memories! Nancy attendance were Liz Casey, Mary Becky and Jim’s son from Wesleyan “We hadn’t spent a decent amount of recently enjoyed a dinner with Sue Beth Tetlow DeNiro, Cathy Linnehan A cultural, natural, and historical significance are University. Teddy Kennedy was the time together for all these years and Reilly and Marilyn Riedy Claise and Cronin, Debbie Byrne Tynan, Margie intended speaker (his step-daughter decided it was time. We had more yours to experience in Croatia, destination of the keeps up with SMC news with the Goodwin Harrison, Sue Gudgeon CWhcVYf%)!&( &$$- is in Michael’s class), but he had to fun than we ever imagined and have Fall 2009 Alumnae Association tour. Boston area SMC Book Club. She is still Reilly, and Jessica Rinna Beling. We cancel because of his illness. At the last already decided on a week-long event working as a paralegal in Wellesley, spent the weekend at Sue Gudgeon minute, Barack Obama (at the time, next June. All we did for four days was Mass., and says, “Life is good! Happy Reilly’s winter house in Savannah and Highlights of the city of Dubrovnik included Stari Grad, Becky’s senator, neighbor, and friend) eat, drink wine, and share the stories 60th to all!” did a lot of sightseeing—including stepped in, and the students and their of our lives for the past 41 years. I think the old town founded by the ancient Greeks in 34 BC Croatia Donna Feliciello Holtz and her the historic city, houses, churches, and parents were nearly hysterical when we all need more time with wonderful husband, Bill celebrated their 33rd cemeteries. Of course, the best part and the 15th century Rector’s Palace home to 15,000 the news was announced. The speech friends from long ago.” Jewel of Adriatic wedding anniversary in New York last of the weekend was the opportunity Venetian and Dalmatian works of art. Split and Ljubljana about the importance of public service New York City was a popular February. Both are retired, so they to see each other and to fi nd out was well received by all, in spite of destination for celebration. Pam Carey also boast historical landmarks and the Upper Town of travel a lot from their home base in what everyone has been up to as the security, photographers, and long, Batz and her husband went there for a per person, plus airfare. Long Beach, Calif. In the fall, they went well as how each one’s families are Zagreb is considered one of the best preserved medieval $1,989 long lines to the grounds for the event. wonderful weekend. “We had so much to New Orleans, with a stop at Lake doing. This event was our second $250 per person non-refundable deposit due with reservation. Becky shared another interesting fun that we are repeating the trip in cities in Europe. Powell in Arizona. “What a treat it was get-together and plans are to repeat Final payment due 90 days prior to departure. experience toward the end of her 60th two weeks. I recommend it.” to motor around in a houseboat and the good times in another city. year. Mary Lee Carr Charles and Natural wonders are found all over Croatia, including spend the warm days kayaking into “And, now, at the close of our Kathleen Ryan Hughes celebrated the narrow arms of the lake. It’s an Plitvice Lakes, the Postojna caves, and Alpine lakes 60th year, we got to join Michelle the “big 60th” in New York City with absolutely gorgeous place to visit.” ’72 Melissa Underman Noyes and Barack in our local elementary two other high school classmates and peaks. Although she is retired, Donna makes 209 Southwest Hatteras Ct. school to vote for his presidency. My last April. (Mary Lee and Kathy For additional information contact “artsy” plants to sell at a local garden/ Palm City, FL 34990 son and I were locked into the voting attended high school together in Come with family and friends to experience the gift shop. (772) 781-4066 the travel agency directly place with the Obamas, about 10 the Washington, D.C. suburbs.) They Mary Lou Wylie celebrated with [email protected] cultural riches of Croatia, Jewel of the Adriatic. at 877-303-7735. neighbors, and 30 media personnel. reported, “The high point of the trip her husband, Lennis Echterling, along It was an exhilarating close to our was going to see the wonderful revival with their son and daughter-in-law, Greetings! This class news column election eff orts on his behalf. I hope of South Pacifi c. From the orchestra’s For more information about this trip, visit comes from a wedding, as well as saintmarys.edu/alumnae-travel. 32 COURIER | Spring 2009 classnews classnews

several e-mails and Christmas cards! although he did not play in the bowl Lohle, Bobbie Kuhn Riconosciuto, arrived earlier from California to visit husband Brian ND ’74 at their crowded for the game on New Year’s Day. The wedding took place Aug. game. Jeannelle Naquin Brady, Julie with Dede in Chicago, and when our and delicious tailgate. We tried to fi nd Ellen Wuellner Moran shuttles 9, 2008, in New York City. Bill and A Christmas card with a picture Griffi n Murphy, Carol Longo Kaupp, little getaway was fi nished, she was Judie Moore Green and her family, to South Bend regularly to visit classclips classclips classclips Heather Tripucka Carr’s daughter, of her three grandchildren and two Jan Gabler Cranfi eld, Natalie going on another vacation in Yosemite as she was joining a tailgate with her daughter and her family, with Ashley, married Terence Huvane at dogs arrived from Mac and Kathleen Dwyer-Haller and me. Judie brought with her family. Jackie still has the Anne Cisle Murray and Deb Schwarz grandchild number one. Ellen’s second Fordham University Church with a Cotter Cauley. Kathleen and Mary stories of her recent trip to Rome with youngest child in our group—we Pierre, but our cell phones couldn’t grandchild was born this year, and he reception at Tavern on the Green. It Lou Gorno see each other often—this daughter Emily and husband Rich as all can’t believe that Richard is still in reach each other! lives a short drive from the Morans in was a mini-reunion for several of us, year at a wedding, the Notre Dame-Pitt well as her hopes for Chicago winning middle school! I hope he can do an Some news I received from Ginny Anchorage. Ellen works in the Alaska including Tom and Janet Teichen game, and an annual trip that took the Olympics 2016 bid, as the week we “egg beater” impersonation for his Gilbert Pfeff er: Following graduation court system. “Sarah Palin” was not a McHugh, Kate Berney Werring, them to North Carolina. Mary Lou met was “Olympics week” in Beijing. classmates too. from Saint Mary’s, she married Dr. new name to these Alaska voters! Frances Spinks Caver, Maura Carroll, is on the executive committee at Natalie was preparing to imagine Ann O’Boyle Nash dropped Robert Pfeff er, a neurologist in New Teresa LaCava Gaydosz is one of and Bill and Claire Mignelli Hughes. the University of Chicago. Mac and life with the twins starting college in in to our “large cottage” because York. Their lovely daughter, Katharine the few SMC grads who still live in the It was a beautiful wedding and a lovely Kathleen live in Washington, where two years, while Kate would still be in she had heard from Judie that we Gilbert McAneny, has just graduated town in which she grew up. Theresa summer evening. We met for brunch she has a practice and teaches, and Marquette. Jeannelle, grandmother of would be gathering—her family has from the SMC Accelerated Nursing and Steve have raised their four kids in the next day, and most of the group she still travels to her practice in Tampa lovely Ellie and Ben, baked the most a shared home nearby. It was lovely Program. Ginny herself is a nurse case Ellwood City, Pa., and now boast that went to Claire Hughes’ home in Wall, several times a year. They are also still marvelous fresh blueberry pie ever. to see her, even if it was only briefl y manager in New York City. Ginny, all of their kids are married and out of N.J. By the way, Heather is now Dr. training and fostering guide dogs. Bobbie was preparing for the wedding as husband Tom ND ’74 went off to do you remember the lost ring in the house! Carr, having earned her Ph.D. last year. Where have the years gone?? My of daughter Nina Riconosciuto play golf. She mentioned that Joan the shower of Le Mans? THAT was a Patti Gorman Mazzacavallo and Several weeks later, Heather attended column used to be fi lled with our own ’01 later in the summer. Meanwhile, Dautremont Gluck had organized a memorable day. her husband Bob ND ’76 celebrated a J.V. soccer game coached by her weddings and careers; then news of Jan had started preparing for the get together for several of their mutual Please write, dear old friends, their 25th anniversary this year and new son-in-law at Pelham (New York) our children. Now we have moved wedding of her oldest daughter, Bree, college friends at the Jersey shore with your news, and even if you don’t fl ew from their home state of Oregon High School. On the sidelines, she into an amazingly wonderful new in December. It was hard to keep track for later in the autumn. I hope it was remember me, please write because to South Bend for the Stanford game. thought she saw a familiar face—it realm—that of grandchildren!! Those of all of Julie’s grown kids out on their super! Ann noted that Joan is a great your friends would love to hear your Their son Tom is now a senior at ND was Ed Davey ND ’71, whose son is on of you who have none will tolerate own, but we all noted that it must host—knocks herself out to do it right. news and how you are doing. and will graduate this year with a This class of ’80 grads celebrated their 50th birthdays together in Santa Fe, the team. those of us who do—but just wait have been tremendously fun for both I traveled to the ND-Purdue From the Courier Offi ce: degree in chemical engineering. Patti NM. (It comes sooner than you think recent grads!) A spa visit, The Wine The fi rst e-mail I received was . . .they will change your life! I spent Murph and her husband, Bob ND football game, which was a good Maureen Mustico Kimble writes: chairs the parish food drive, which and Chili Festival, and power shopping x8 created a memorable milestone. from Terri McLaughlin Patterson the Christmas holidays in New York ’74, to enjoy the time son Kevin was one, with my son Willie, 16. He was Suzanne Curtin Haley, Maureen provides needy families with Christmas Friendships renewed were the true highlight of the weekend. The gift of ([email protected]), who must City. On Dec. 14, my daughter, Jessica, on the ND basketball team recently. amazed at the environment—had Mustico Kimble, and Phyllis Quinn dinner and a week’s supply of food. attending SMC continues to be unwrapped after all these years. have more stamps on her passport gave us a wonderful Christmas gift: Now he’s all grown up and out there never seen anything like it. I told him met in Bethesda, Md., this past Leslie Wilson is winding up her than most of us put together! Terri Sadie Harper McEntee! She joins a big in the working world in Dallas. As for that the ND guys, back in my day, had November. Maureen has been friends years of service as country director Pictured in back left to right: Rosemary Borris Hughes, Pam Zinger Pedler, and her husband, Kevin, had been in brother, Finlay, 2. I melt when Finn Dede, in the same year, son Patrick rolled beer kegs to Lafayette for the with both since attending Saint Mary’s. for Save the Children in Afghanistan. Jocelyn Harvey Bosick, Barbara Pratt Kinel, and Lisa Mistretta. Front: Mindy Kazakjstan until a sudden job change. says my name (“Mimi”) and promise graduated from medical school and away games. He couldn’t believe it, This was the fi rst time that Suzanne Living in Kabul, Leslie has endured Murphy, Laurie Kielbasa Casazza, and Mary Jo McCormack Meyer. They are now in Duri, Indonesia, about him anything he wants! After all, isn’t daughter Michelle received her MBA but I do remember team Barry/Bob and Phyllis had seen each other in many physical and cultural challenges midway up the island of Sumatra. that what we are supposed to do? from Harvard and joined a major ND ’74/Milt/Jeff huffi ng and puffi ng 32 years. Suzanne and her husband with grace and wit. She will leave Kevin is with Chevron, now Chevron Over the holidays, I was also able to investment fi rm . . .a great deal to be away! Although our visit at ND/ Martin have three grown children and Afghanistan knowing that the in June. The dates are June 4-7, 2009. Del Giudice. Kelly has been married Pacifi c Indonesia. They are living in see Maura Carroll in the Hamptons proud of, and some lovely photos were SMC was short, we did manage to live in Easton, Md. Phyllis is a reading programs she administered changed Kathleen Murphy and Elaine Hocter for four years to Bruce Fretwell. They a company camp again and Terry and Claire Hughes and Heather Carr, shared from the graduations. Carol meet Jeannelle Naquin Brady and specialist with Montgomery County the lives of Afghan women and Moore have been working on the have a darling three-year-old girl says that procuring necessities is who helped me celebrate another School System and lives in Bethesda, children now and in the future. reunion this past winter. Murph has named Annie. Kelly says that she’s a challenge since they are not in a birthday with a long lunch at Saks in Md. Marianne McCabe Brehl works a request for any contact info on the having so much fun but knows now metropolitan area. They have many the City. I am back in Florida, enjoying for Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, following classmates: Judy Trippe why women have babies when opportunities to travel and have been the weather—until I need another classclips classclips classclips in New York’s Hudson Valley. Folks Geaslen, Diane Cardis Tripp, and they are younger! She practices to Bali, Thailand, Singapore, and had grandchild fi x! ’76 Mariann McCabe Brehl say “Got cookies?” when she tells Brigid Donaher MacDonald. She workers’ compensation and social a big trip to Australia planned for the I hope by the time you read this 324 Old Route 304 people where she works. The joke is tracking down Judy for a senior security disability law in Port St. Lucie, holidays. Terry also mentioned that it is news that we are well into a healthy, New City, NY 10956-5718 is: her job is to help the council sell bar reunion; reaching out to Diane Fla., which is just next to her own hot as the blazes! She is not teaching happy, and prosperous (if possible!) (845) 638-0627 cookies! Marianne’s oldest daughter because she was a good friend of Julia community of Vero Beach. but continues her stained-glass hobby, 2009. [email protected] will graduate from the University Kraft Matisko, who passed away from Lynne Masini Eckardt sent an golf, and mah jongh and is learning As always, I send my love to all of of Chicago in June, and her second breast cancer on Sept.16, 2005, and e-mail. She has been married for some Asian cooking. you! Leslie F. Wilson daughter, Genevieve, is an engineering trying to contact Brigid because she almost 22 years to Don. They have two After receiving her Christmas card 333 W. North Ave., PMB 139 major at Notre Dame. was a close friend of Carol Schirmer children: Hank, 16 and Alexandra, 20 with a new e-mail, I asked Ann Marie REUNION June 4–7, 2009 Chicago, IL 60610-1293 Hunt, who passed away on Feb. 12, and a junior at Saint Mary’s majoring Tracey for an update. She promises [email protected] REUNION June 4–7, 2009 1994. We would like to include a prayer in biology. Alexandra spent spring ’08 to do something outrageous for my ’74 Jill Fahey Birkett at our reunion Mass for the deceased in the Rome program, and Lynne and next report! Ann Marie chairs the Ohio 15 Auldwood Road Mary Reynolds O’Connor has ’84 Diane Smith Poirier members of the class. If anyone has Don enjoyed two weeks traveling with Ethics Commission and is in her sixth Stamford, CT 06902-7815 been traveling a lot lately: following 810 Washington Road an address or e-mail for Judy, Diane, or her. They live in Canton, Mich., just year teaching business law and ethics (203) 353-9647 her daughter Siobhan’s basketball Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 Bridget, please forward it to Murph at outside of Ann Arbor. Lynne runs her at Xavier University. Her family life is [email protected] career at Villanova. Siobhan was [email protected] [email protected]. own distributorship of professional most important. She and her husband, red-shirted her fi rst year, so this, her Also, our condolences to Murph day spa products, and she and her Dan Buckley, have a blended family Summer ’08 was the scene of a fi fth year at Villanova, is her last year Sharon Manion Trockman and her family on the loss of her father reps cover the state of Michigan. of fi ve daughters with one grandchild great get-together in New Buff alo, of playing guard for the team. Mary 133 Carol Gate Road this past summer. She gets together with some of our and two on the way! (traceya@xavier. Mich., for a group of my dear college teaches high school, and took a Wheaton, IL 60187 Clare Condon Engling wrote classmates about once a year: Kim edu). friends. Kudos to Mary Ellen Raphael, leave of absence this year. Mary took [email protected] me a short note while on vacation Mayer Stoff t (Del Ray Beach, Fla.); Geri Another e-mail came from Beazy who organized it on rather short graduate courses and traveled to Africa in Florida over the holidays. She is Burge Greger (Cornelius, N.C.); Anne Suzanne Curtin Haley, Maureen Mustico Kimble, and Phyllis Quinn, all Pohl Zielony who lives in Oregon. notice and managed to pull most of to share her skills with students there. From Diane: Hope all is well with enjoying her vacation with her four Posega ’85 (St. Louis, Mo.), and Alice graduates of 1974, met in Bethesda, Maryland, this past November. Her youngest daughter, Kathryn, us together. She and her husband, Pam Gavelda Hummer has just all of you! Thanks to everyone who children (ages 2, 5, 7, and 9) and Kaufmann (who attended SMC from Maureen has been friends with both since attending Saint Mary’s College. teaches fi rst grade in Oahu for Teach Rob, spent much of the spring and completed her 33rd year of teaching in responded to my e-mail request for husband, Tim. She looks forward to 1980-82.) She also writes that on April This was the fi rst time that Suzanne and Phyllis had seen each other in 32 for America. Kathryn attended the summer on driving trips around the the Cleveland school district and also our class news. This June is our 25th seeing everyone at reunion. 27, 2005, we lost our very dear friend years. Both have been very good friends throughout the years. Suzanne Hawaii Bowl and had her picture on U.S., where she learned how to fl y fi sh! works at the teachers’ union. Pam’s son class reunion! Hard to believe! I know Kelly Cambron Fretwell writes Mary Pat Golden. “She was such an and her husband, Martin, have three grown children and live in Easton, the front page of the Observer holding Between those trips, she managed to John is a freshman at the University of that some of you now have daughters that she is looking forward to inspiration during her struggle with Maryland. Phyllis is a reading specialist with Montgomery County School signs supporting Notre Dame. Beezy’s pull together Jackie Schimizzi Ehlert, Cincinnati, and as his mom did in 1972, at Saint Mary’s. attending the reunion with Maria cancer and is missed so much.” System and lives in Bethesda. nephew is on the football team, Judie Moore Green, Dede Simon he headed down to the Orange Bowl I hope we have a great turnout Lopez Honan and, she hopes, Janet Sheila Russ Robbins writes a

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note from Columbus, Ohio. She was forward to seeing everyone at prestigious ‘fi rst ever’ Gussler Fellow Susan Roab Kloberdanz and anniversary! We stayed in a villa in Scheid, who was back in the Chicago commissioned in the U.S. Navy in reunion!” Endowed Chair Award at ACTC. The I ran into each other this summer Tuscany for a week, and toured Rome, area for a family visit. Later in the December of 1983 through the Navy Thanks to everyone for newly established award is given to a as we dropped our daughters off classclips classclips classclips Assisi, Venice, for another week. The summer, Clare Van Hecke Korte and ROTC unit at Notre Dame. She has responding! My husband, Joe, and I professor of math or science who has at Doug Bruno basketball camp in sites, the food, the wine—amazing! I jetted off to Honolulu for ten days of been stationed in numerous locations spent two weeks in Playa Del Carmen, ’changed the lives’ of their students Lisle, Ill! Susan is doing great! Her Our daughters, Catherine, 13, and sunning on the beach and hanging over the years: Gulfport, Miss. (son Mexico, last spring and loved every in a positive fashion. I love teaching thirteen-year-old daughter Abby is a Megan, 11, will be attending Fine out at my grandparents’ home (no Tyler born at Kessler AFB in Nov. 1984), minute of it! We also spent some time community college students and learn good basketball player, like her mom. Arts Camp at Saint Mary’s again this spouses, no children, plenty of fruity Agana, Guam (daughter Morgan was in northern Michigan last summer. We from them everyday.” As a teen, Susan also attended the summer. In fact, it will be Catherine’s cocktails!). I’ve been zipping e-mails born there Sept. 1987), Washington, are enjoying our new home in Grosse Rosie Crowe Rowland writes: same Doug Bruno camp that Abby fourth year to attend. They both love back and forth with Regina Rudser D.C.; aboard the USS Hunley, Norfolk, Pointe, Mich., and have some projects “I’ve been busy trying to perfect the attends. Pretty cool! Susan and her it! Cece Gallagher Kilpatrick’s daughter Hoyt of Newton, Mass., Andrea Va.; and Sasebo, Japan. Sheila earned planned for this spring. Joe just multi-tasking ability thing that so husband Brian also have twins who are Nora was also at Fine Arts Camp on Thomas Barnes of Atlanta, Ga., and her MBA at Old Dominion University in celebrated his 20 years on the Grosse many of us fi nd ourselves doing at fi rst graders, Claire and Drew. Susan the same week last summer. It was fun Karen Chandler Axelrod of Fairfax, Va. May of 1995. She was commissioned Pointe Park Public Safety Department. this age! I am working as a critical e-mailed, “I have to bounce back and to run into them. Our oldest, Brendan, Reg and I plan to meet An in Atlanta on the USS Bonhomme Richard in Take care everyone, and hope to care fl oat nurse at St. Joseph Medical forth from the teenage world and the is a sophomore at Montini Catholic for a girls’ weekend in January. Hello Pascagoula, Miss., and San Diego, Calif. see you all at reunion this June! Center in South Bend, as I have young elementary school age!” Susan High School, and is on the golf team. to Mary Leonard, Elizabeth Arthur She retired in December of 2003 from From Sharon: Mark your calendars since graduation. I’ve really enjoyed writes, “Brian is an oral surgeon, and Please share your news with us! Meyers, and Anne Borgman. I’ve the Defense Supply Center (DSCC) for our 25th Reunion, June 4-7, 2009. my work and profession...I guess I I am busy with the universal mom Send me an e-mail soon! God bless. thought of you often and hope that in Columbus, Ohio, and is currently Please plan to attend and reconnect made a good choice in a major all stuff …driving kids everywhere, scout you’re doing well. Cheers to 2009! a contract administrator for DSCC. with classmates. Unfortunately, I will those years ago as an undergrad. In leader, volunteering, vacation Bible Colleen Harty Taricani writes: She has been married to Emberson L. not be able to attend because of a addition to work, I’m busy with my school, watching kids’ sports and ’88 Amanda Falvey Conmy My oldest Joey just turned 5, and Robbins for 25 years and spent their family commitment. If you, too, are husband, Chris, raising, supporting, music events. We live in St. Charles. 638 Friar Drive my daughter Kate is 3. They keep anniversary this year by vacationing not able to attend Reunion 2009 but encouraging, driving, feeding, Now that they’re older I want to go Yardley, PA 19067-3467 me super busy! I volunteer at their in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Their son, Tyler, is would like to share your latest news nurturing, etc., our fi ve kids. This past back to work/school.” Susan earned her (215) 736-8468 preschool, and they both are into working on his master’s in mechanical with classmates via the Courier, please May, our oldest, Ben, graduated from MBA and MPH over a decade ago. [email protected] soccer. I’m training for a half marathon In December 2008 Sister Virginia Jung, O.S.B. ’80 pronounced perpetual engineering at Purdue University; e-mail your information to me at ND. Our second child, Meredith, is Susan says that she meets up in California in January. I recently vows as a Benedictine Sister. Her current ministry is at Grace House, a Morgan is working on her bachelor’s [email protected]. If you plan to graduating this May from ND as well. with Carol Branka, Carolyn Reppa, Debra Keller Shishman joined Facebook and have loved program of St. Leonard’s Ministries, where she holds the position of After- in computer graphics at Mount Union attend Reunion 2009 and have news It’s been a lot of fun to see them and Kathy McNeeley for dinner from 19389 County Road 16 getting back in touch with so many Care Director. The women who are residents there are transitioning from College in Alliance, Ohio. you would like to share, please feel free grow in friendship with their college time to time, and that those ladies are Bristol, IN 46507-8952 Saint Mary’s friends. life in prison to independent living. I also received a note from Katie to forward it to me. roommates and friends over the doing well. Thanks for the news, Susan! Meghan Farley Astrachan, Keenan Chelsky: “Mark and I are My own news: I have lived in years via the dances, football games, Jeanne Grammens Hidalgo Mary Kathleen Scheid director of drama and performing 264 Teague Drive looking forward to our 25th in June. Wheaton, Ill., for the past 14 years. and tailgates! We still have three to is doing well in Indy. Jeanne says, prayers are with you all. Ill. They somehow manage to attend arts chair at LREI in New York’s San Dimas, CA 91773-3374 Our oldest daughter Christie is a My daughter, Laura, is a freshman go, so I hope to have a daughter “I continue to be blessed with my Susan Avitabile Huschke and a wonderful trip every year with Paul’s Greenwich Village relates: “I will be (909) 592-7737 freshman at Notre Dame, living in at Indiana University and currently attend SMC, too! Looking forward work/ministry at Marian College. I Mark continue their busy outdoorsy family. Dan Earner ND ’86, Dennis taking another production to the marykay@[email protected] Walsh Hall and loving every minute rushing for a sorority. The sorority to our 25th anniversary celebration! am often amazed by the students.” lifestyle in Eden Prairie, Minn. Suzie Murphy ND ’86 and his wife also joined Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.” of her college experience. Our son concept is completely foreign to me, Jeanne says her position in campus says, “I’m teaching at the same Catholic us. Fun to catch up with the Ireland In 2006, Meghan took her production Jamie Smith Taradash Connor is a sophomore at Xavier as I know it is to all my classmates. I ministry, with an “emphasis on service school for the third year now, fi ve group! of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of ’86 Mary Fran Gisch Kitz 939 West Argyle Street, #1-E High School, running cross country am so glad we did not have a Greek and social justice is heaven sent” and diff erent math classes for 6th, 7th, and We missed Chicagoans, Sheila Being Earnest” to Edinburgh and won 4931 Lee Ave Chicago, IL 60640-3805 and track and just starting to look at system on campus. Son Aaron is a calls the job a “perfect fi t” for her. All 8th graders. That and following the Beary Quinn and Shaun, at the Ireland a Sell-Out-Show Award! Meghan lives Downers Grove, IL 60515 (773) 531-4710 colleges. It’s nice to know we won’t junior in high school and recently of us who know Jeanne realize the kids around keep me out of trouble.” gathering. Sheila is an attorney in in downtown NYC with her husband, (630) 541-3886 [email protected] be too lonely, since we have two received his Eagle Scout award. many gifts that she brings to those Elizabeth, 16, plays cello (like her Chicago and busy with their little ones, French-American architect Isaac-Daniel [email protected] more boys at home: Riley, 7th grade, Youngest son Ryan is trying to see lucky Marian students! Jeanne is busy mom!) and soccer and enjoys French Katie, Colleen, and Connor. Astrachan and her young son Aidhan. Mary Kay Scheid writes: 2009 and Jack, 5th grade—both basketball how many diff erent sports he can play helping her oldest, Nicholas, choose camp. Adrienne, 14, is on the Nordic Teresa Keefe Konrad, another Please keep me informed Hello, classmates! Lori Janko marks the tenth anniversary of my players. Our lives these days revolve in one season. His newest passion is the right college, as well as keeping ski team and soccer team, and plays from our Ireland program, and her throughout the rest of this year! Wilke e-mailed that she is doing well second move to California. Fellow Los around tournaments and just trying lacrosse, for which I am trying to learn up with Gabrielle, 16, Madeleine, 14, saxophone and piano. Daniel, 11, plays husband, Scott, are doing well in I check e-mail regularly and am in Peru, Ill. Lori says, “In August, I will Angeles SMC Alumnae Club member to keep up with the boys. Looking the rules. and Tomas, 10. Jeanne says, “I enjoy many sports, trumpet, piano, and likes Brooklyn, N.Y. Their oldest son, Kevin, learning how to use Facebook. be celebrating my 19th year as a State Anne Borgman and I have had forward to seeing everyone at reunion.” From the Courier Offi ce: Mary going up north in the summer with fi shing. Add in a little family hiking and is in high school, and Caleb and Ian Farm agent in Peru. Business is great, multiple conversations about moving Thanks for the note, Katie! Catherine Georgas-Flath writes: the children to Alpena, Mich. We go to canoeing and I’m exhausted!” are both in grade school. Teresa is a and I love my work. My children are elsewhere (neither of us are native ’90 Lisa Catenacci Midkiff Anne Archibald Deutsch “In July 2008, my family (husband my grandma’s cottage, where we pick Betsy Van Devere Grosser, free-lance writer. Mason, 13, and Emma, 10, and in June, Californians), but California continues 626 Blackthorne Court accomplished a great feat! She ran Al ND ’83 and son Allen, 14) visited strawberries and make jam. We also husband Jurgen, and four children Marci Woods Kilpatrick and Bill and I will be married for 18 years.” to treat us well. My son Michael started Chesapeake, VA 23322 and fi nished the Chicago Marathon in with my Saint Mary’s best friend and enjoy bike riding in the area.” visited us in Downers Grove this Kevin ND ’86, who were both in our Lori says, “Emma is already set to go high school this year and I have been midkiffj [email protected] October of 2008 along with 33,000+ roommate, Mary Beth Delaney Laura Ingallinera Cody writes summer. The family lives in Germany, Ireland Program, are still living in to Saint Mary’s. She visited a local girl slowly processing the idea that he will runners! Anne did the Chicago Weber, at her home in Indianapolis. that she and Bill are doing well in and it was a treat to have them here Kazakhstan. I got to visit with Marci last year overnight during Little Sibs be off to college in about three years. Amy Junius Marathon in 1979 at the age of 17 Mary Beth’s husband, Jim (IU), and their Wilton, Conn. Laura says, “Billy is now for a few days, as they spend most briefl y this summer in South Bend, weekend and had a blast.” Good job I teach middle school students by 875 W. Cornelia Ave., Unit 1 and always wanted to try it again! She four children, Madeline, 14, Delaney, a sophomore at Boston College… of the summer with Betsy’s family in where her parents live, while the recruiting! day and graduate students by night; Chicago, IL 60657 writes: “Juggling six kids’ schedules and 12, Mary Grace, 9, and Johnny, 8, He loves all things BC…Tommy is a Akron, Ohio. Their daughter, Katie, is family was spending some time there. Lori notes that she keeps up with it’s hard to say which is the tougher (773) 296-2093 fi nding time to train was a feat in itself.” entertained us in spectacular fashion, senior at Wilton High School and is deciding on colleges, having options Marci, Kevin, and their fi ve kids do an Liz Meehan and Theresa Hardy audience to please. I enjoy frequent [email protected] Great job, Annie! and we plan to make this “mini- waiting to hear from colleges. This both in Germany and the States. John amazing job of adapting to all the Gaff ney and that both are well. During trips back to Chicago, where it is And from Betsy Quinn: “Greetings reunion” an annual July event from spring he rowed in the Youth National and Annie are in grade school, and interesting locales in which they have freshman year, Liz, Theresa, Lori, and always a pleasure to visit with Jamie Sharon Marie Kahn from the Windy City! I am currently now on. Mary Beth and I are looking Championships in Cincinnati. Lauren is little Mary is a preschooler. lived. Their oldest, Connor, is now a I lived down the hall from each other Smith Taradash. 1100 N. Dearborn Parkway the president of the American forward to our upcoming reunion at a sophomore at Wilton and continues We had some of our Ireland freshman at West Point; Quinn and on fourth fl oor McCandless. Lori and Jamie Smith Taradash shares: As Apt. 405 Alliance for Theatre and Education. Saint Mary’s. We can’t wait to see our to bless us with her beautiful group over to visit with Betsy and Eileen are in high school; and Liam and Theresa were both at Liz’s wedding I write, it’s New Year’s Eve. Looking Chicago, IL 60610-5011 In addition, I am the drama teacher other roommates and friends. Christmas card each year. She can’t Jurgen while they were in town. Cece Aidan are in grade school. We’ll see three years ago. Liz and her husband back, 2008 was a challenging year, and arts department chair at Haven “Mary Beth is the IT director for wait to start driver’s ed in February… Gallagher Kilpatrick and Dan joined where they land next! live in Wilmington, Del. Theresa and but the reunion was certainly a Shannon McGowan Gannon Middle School in Evanston, Ill. I am a group of Catholic hospitals in the when did that sneak up on us? Bill and us. Cece is working as an attorney part- As for us, we are happy and Ted live in Wakefi eld, Mass., with their highlight. Reconnecting with so many 836 North Catherine Ave. also the drama department chair Midwest region. I am a professor of I are well, happy, and grateful for a life time and is busy with their three girls healthy. Mike ND ’85, the kids, and I fi ve children. Lori and I both say, “Hi, we classmates has been great fun! On LaGrange Park, IL 60526 of the Evanston public schools and anatomy and physiology at Ashland blessed with faith, family, and friends.” in Chicago. Julie Lackner Ryan and were blessed with a wonderful family miss you!” to Rosemarie Drake, Lori’s a sultry night in July, I had a lovely [email protected] teach in the theatre department at Community and Technical College in Laura’s brother is ill, and she asked for Paul ND ’86 also made it. Julie is busy trip to Italy with Mike’s family to roommate. Thanks for your update, dinner in Evanston with Mary Kay Northwestern University. Looking Ashland, Ky. In May of 2008, I won the prayers for him, his wife, and sons. Our with their four children in Willowbrook, celebrate his parent’s 50th wedding Lori!

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From Shannon: I need to off er Tracey Hayes Uruba and her Dan welcomed their fi fth child, Adam Annie Martin Flynn and John ND update fi nds everyone doing well! As was born in Landstuhl, Germany, and everyone a quick apology for my husband, Bill, welcomed Sean Patrick Dennis, on June 5, 2008. Adam was ’92 have relocated from Naperville, Ill., usual, I have a plethora of information most recently, on July 20, 2007, their absence over the past year or so. A Uruba on Nov. 19, 2008. Sean joins classclips classclips classclips welcomed home by his siblings: to Menomonee Falls, Wisc. They and to report. third daughter, Brigid Genevieve was few points of craziness in my life (aside big brother, Liam, at their home in Madeline, Ben, Becca, and Annie. The their fi ve kids are slowly adapting to Starting with myself: It was an also born there. Big siblings Reilly from turning 40!) shifted my attention Winnetka, Ill. Tracey continues to be an Borgmeier family lives in Rochester, life there. eventful 2008 highlighted by an and Claire, 3, love the company! The to other issues, but now I am back and outstanding teacher in Lincolnwood. Minn. Finally, I have to apologize for eight-week trip abroad. Five of those happy family now lives in Heidelberg, fully engaged, as they say. Thankfully, Deirdre Lyne married George Beth Caponigro Buckley and missing the last column. Our move weeks were spent in Ireland, with Germany, but will be moving to we have Lisa Catenacci Midkiff to Churchill this summer in a Neil live in Hoboken, N.J., with their in July 2008 from Rochester, Minn., the last three spent making my way Minnesota when Patrick leaves the always pick up my slack. I can never breathtakingly beautiful wedding. three sons. Along with their parents, to Baltimore was very overwhelming, toward Italy. The adventures were all Army. claim to be remotely tech savvy, but I Deirdre continues to shape and form brothers Shay and Nick welcomed but we all have settled nicely into our part of my new plan, which included Allison Gagliani Cherry and her reluctantly joined Facebook (FB) at the lives as the principal at Crow Island James Vincent on Feb.18, 2008. Beth new routine. After so many moves in leaving the fi eld of college athletics husband, Mike ND, MSA ’00, currently urging of my sister, Patsy McGowan School in Winnetka. The Churchills and Sarah Burke Man headed to Lake the last ten years, I hope this is the last and returning to school to pursue a live in La Grange, Ill., where they have Donahue ’92. It has been quite live in Elmhurst, Ill. Also in Elmhurst Geneva in the fall for the wedding of move that I will complain about. We PhD in industrial and organizational two active little boys, Owen, 4, and entertaining and delightful! There are are Moira Scully Papp and Christine Stephanie Tight ’91. Sarah and her were so very happy to see so many psychology. And what better way to fi ll Sean, 2, who keep them very busy! In a number of 1990 SMCers out there, so Cronin Falkenberg. Moira and her husband, Gabe, live in Maplewood, college friends and their families in the gap in between work and school addition, Allison teaches Kindermusik come join the fun. Everyone looks just husband, Jim, welcomed James N.J., with their three children. Baltimore for the ND/Navy football than to take a trip! Thanks to everyone classes at Owen’s preschool and at great and unbelievably similar to the Edward Papp, Jr., on Sept. 8, 2008. Big Annie Hartzel Olsen and Chris live game—those friends included Erica who e-mailed updates during my trip. a local arts center. Colleen Murray days when we left SMC! sisters Annie and Claire were thrilled in the Twin Cities with their adorable Riehm Howley and Shelly Plesco As I traveled alone it was great to have Kartychak and husband Rob Lisa Amore wrote: “After spending with the arrival of their little brother. daughter, Maria. O’Brien. If you have a chance, please the connection to familiar people welcomed their fi rst baby, Robert nearly seven-and-a-half years in Christine and Tom ND ’87 stay busy Amy Carlisle Keating and James send me an e-mail with your news or back home! All in all, I set foot in eight James Kartychak, Jr. (“Bobby”), on Seattle, I grew tired of the rain and with their own little basketball team: welcomed Ainsley Bridget on May get onto Facebook and reconnect with countries and had the most amazing May 21, 2007. Beth VanTiem Nesbitt missed the excitement of a big city on Tommy, Danny, Patrick, Kevin, and 24, 2008. Amy works part-time doing so many of our classmates. Hope to time! and husband Garett welcomed the East Coast. I moved back ’home’ Ryan. Since her fantastic wedding physical therapy for Sundance Rehab. hear from you soon! Shortly after my return, I found their fi rst child, Holly Nesbitt, in to Washington, D.C., in the summer shower on the porch of Navarre almost Kathy Benz Jackoboice and Otis From the Courier Offi ce: myself out in Sacramento, Calif., March 2007. They are having lots of of 2007.” Lisa owns a boutique PR twenty years ago, Christine looks the Classmates from the class of ’90 celebrate their 40th birthdays in July ND ’92 are enjoying life in Savannah, Michaeline Feldman Barnes writes: with Mary Udovich Baginsky, E. fun with her and feel very blessed. agency specializing in consumer same—great! 2008 at Bethany Beach, Delaware! Top row, left to right: Kathy Frederick Ga. They and their two daughters will My husband, Lee, and I are proud to Chace Caven, and Laura Boeckman Angela McNulty Bannon and technology and digital media: AMORE I frequently have the chance to Grashof, Sheila Dooley Evans, Beth Bowman Zuhosky, Patty Piercy Cushing, eventually return to Grand Rapids, announce the arrival of our seventh Cauley to attend the Labor Day husband Greg had their third baby Marketing and Public Relations, www. catch up with fellow classmates in Mary Beth Blajda Green. Next row, left to right: Lisa Catenacci Midkiff , Amy Mich., but are happy to avoid winter in child, our sixth daughter: Jillian Sidney weekend wedding of Stacia on Dec, 28, 2007. William Christopher amorepr.com. Lisa is very busy on the the LaGrange area. Lisa Cellini Doyle Heimberg, Deirdre Milon Ralph, and seated Maria Telesca the Midwest. Barnes, born Dec. 5, 2008. She was Stornetta and Scott Morabito. The Bannon is a beautiful addition to Washington PR scene. She has been and Kevin ND ’89 keep busy with their Maureen Lowry Fritz and Don ND welcomed home by Nicole, 13, Lee wedding was beautiful and elegant the family! And, in more baby news, to all types of political shindigs for darling brood of fi ve: Maggie, Kevin, appointments to discuss continued great tailgater and game. ’92 live in Naperville, Ill., with their four Jr., 11, Lauren, 9, Kathryn, 7, Caroline, with the vineyards of the area in the Daniel Stephen was born on Jan. 14, President Obama. Her excitement is Kate, Caroline, and Luke. Lisa and treatment, progress, and the future. I received an e-mail from Jane children: twins Tess and Nolan, Danny, 6, and Jennifer, 4. Jillian is wonderful backdrop and Stacia sparkling just 2008, to Mary Pence Walsh. He is a palpable! Kevin are both very active at their kids’ Please keep the Monahans in your Schnell McNamara. Jane lives and Ike. Maureen founded and runs and has settled into our busy family as a bride should! In fact, everything welcomed little brother to proud big Tina Donahue Darrah is living a school and in local sports teams. Also thoughts and prayers. Peggy and near Charleston, S.C., with husband a special education law consulting perfectly. We are so blessed, and the was perfect—from the hospitality sisters Abby and Lolly. Katie Rose very busy and full life. She has three in LaGrange, Erin McCarthy Sheridan Jon wish to extend their deep thanks Tom and three children: Tom, 16, practice. kids adore her. of Stacia’s mom and dad, Jackie Hulett is currently enjoying being a kids: Blair, 10, Conan, 7, and Brody, 4. and Luke ND ’89 run a similar lifestyle for all the prayers and support they Jimmy, 14, and Caroline, 12. Jane is Christine Penote Rogers and Tim I am keeping busy taking care of Banach Stornetta ’63 and Lou, to the mom to Aiden, 1. Shane Kaniecki Tina is a freelance makeup artist, which with their kids: Cullen, Deirdre, and have received from the SMC/ND busy keeping the family running. ND ’92 live in Dallas with their two our children, helping my husband wonderful speeches given by Stacia’s Palumbo and husband, Robert, had allows her a great deal of fl exibility. Patrick. Erin evens fi nd time to run a community. kids, Burke and Stella. Tim is executive with his software consulting business, oldest friend, Julie Foster, and Scott’s their fi rst baby, Louisa Maria Palumbo, She remains active in juvenile diabetes business, Stationery Stop, out of her From Lisa: First of all, please note editor at D Magazine; Christine is coaching my kids’ volleyball and brother, Jordan. Stacia and Scott are on Aug. 11, 2008. The happy family advocacy as her little Conan fi ghts this home. Christeen O’Brien Paulison my corrected e-mail address in this ’92 Patricia McGowan an account director at a PR agency basketball teams, and being a hockey, living in the Boston area. lives in Pittsburgh, Penn. Christine condition. Tina is an active FB user, so and Woody ND ’89 and their whole edition. I hope to receive more news Donahue overseeing non-profi t arts, culture, and baseball, and softball mom on the Last September, I also had the Camara Thompson and husband that allows for frequent updates with gang (Andrew, Sam, Mary Kate, Annie, next time! 2315 Ken Oak Road education clients, working four days sidelines. There is rarely any downtime, opportunity to meet up with fellow Jeff welcomed their fi rst baby, Connor lots of good news! Molly, and Michael) recently left Happy 40th birthday, everyone! Baltimore, MD 21209 a week. but we wouldn’t have it any other SMC alumnae Beth Luedtke Petrie Martin, in May 2008. And, just in Liz Ehret Bardwell is happy LaGrange to head to the northern I hope everyone enjoyed their day. I [email protected] Annie Lopez Kiperman and her way. Thanks for sharing our news! and Madeline Wahl ’97 back in time for Christmas, Barbara Howells and healthy living in Maine with lights in Edina, Minn., for Woody’s job celebrated mine in Bethany Beach, family moved to Chicago in August South Bend as we cheered on the Boukater delivered baby #2 in early REUNION June 4–7, 2009 her husband, Dwight, and their with United Health. Del., with a few names you may Rachel Lamb 2007 just in time for the start of school. Irish against Purdue and saw the December: a future Belle named darling children: Zoe Grace, 9, Jack, Ellen Willson Hoover and Gary recognize. Kathy Frederick Grashof, Schrepferman They are living in Hinsdale, just a few many changes that have occurred Brooke Morgan. ’94 Jane Murphy Fitzgerald 8, and Alexis, 5. Courtney Jamieson are leaving beautiful North Carolina Beth Bowman Zuhosky, Patty Piercy 3729 Fairway Lane blocks away from her sister, Maria on campus. Simone Barber Vecchio Kelly Kilmer Mullagh is happy 598 Washington Street Dorning and her husband, Mike, to move to the Bavarian hills in Cushing, Mary Beth Blajda Green, Louisville, KY 40207-1414 Lopez Honan ’84. The kids have also visited me in Ohio last October, to report that her husband, Kelly, Emhurst, IL 60126-4347 have kept busy this Christmas with Germany this summer for a three-year Amy Heimberg, Maria Telesca, (502) 897-0044 made lots of friends and, fortunately, and Maddie even made a trip to visit returned safely from Kandahar, (630) 993-0777 the arrival of Caroline Maeve. What assignment. As for the freelancing, Sheila Dooley Evans, Deirdre Milon [email protected] love the snow. Hannah is now in the me for my birthday and help me to Afghanistan, on Oct. 7 after a seven- janemfi [email protected] a cutie! Courtney works as an editor Ellen is active with her writing. If you Ralph, and I enjoyed a fabulous girls’ second grade, and Nico is in pre-K. The ring in 2009 in style. All are doing well, month military deployment. They at National Public Radio. They live check out FB, you can fi nd links to weekend together in July. Thanks to From Patsy: Congratulations to family was back on campus for the with Maddie and Simone still living in welcomed their daughter, Abigail From the Courier Offi ce: Erin in Washington, D.C. Barbie Jeff ers some of her articles. In addition to all the generosity and bravery of Deirdre’s Brigid Brooks Zvirbulis and John, ND/Purdue game, and the kids loved Pittsburgh, and Beth and family living Louise, on Oct. 14. Kelly says, “While Peter Wolf writes: “My husband Reif wrote that she and her husband, of that, the Hoovers keep busy with parents, Bill and Suzanne Milon, we who were married on June 21, 2008, the campus and tailgating. They also in the Virginia Beach area. As always, Kelly cut it a little short this time Jacob and I are happy to announce John, moved “to the St. Louis/Belleville their darling children: Nora and Jack. took over their house and enjoyed in her hometown of Grosse Pointe got together with Lisa Kosty Dincolo it’s truly wonderful to catch up with around, at least he was here for Abby’s the birth of Samuel Joseph on Oct. area for his job with the local utility Ellen provided an update on many laughs, happy hours, and Shores, Mich. Nora Brooks Hard ’93 ’91 and Maureen Nicknish Goldin old friends! birth. Our son, Benjamin, is still trying 13, 2008. I am a nurse practitioner company buying and selling electricity Peggy Sullivan Monahan and Jon memories. After pampering ourselves was the matron of honor, and several ’91—Annie’s old neighbors from Holy Speaking of old friends, Clare to fi gure things out with Daddy and a at a cardiology offi ce affi liated with and natural gas. We love it here. I am ND ’90. Jon began having a series at the spa and nail salon, we enjoyed a Saint Mary’s grads were in attendance: Cross Hall. Heekin Lynch accepted a new job in new baby home, but all is well here in Ohio State University in Marysville, able to stay at home, so I now play of strokes in the fall of 2008. After weekend at the beach and dining out. Jennifer Kacarab Holloran, Suzanne Lisa Scott Coe and Dan moved September as a communication and Ottawa!” Kelly also reports that Stacey Ohio. We live in Dublin, Ohio.” chauff eur to my daughters, Keeley and spending over a month in the hospital, I will treasure the memories always! Sanders Burzynski ’93, Mona Diegel to Shanghai in August after living in pursuits strategist for Ernst & Young in Reding Sutter, husband Tom, and Katie, and play with Facebook way too he is progressing well. He is at home Then in October, we did it (almost) ’91, Susan Murphy Harvath ’91, and Singapore for eight years. Dan’s job Pittsburgh. It’s a huge change from the daughter Sadie welcomed Tucker John much. I stay in touch with Kristene now and is swallowing almost fully, Heather Jackson Martin ’93. Brigid with Coca-Cola brought the Coe family health care world, but she loves the on Nov. 11, 2008, and all is well with again, meeting at the Navy/Notre ’96 Julie A. Steinke Murphy Hergenrother, who was very motoring around with a cane, and is currently a principal engineer for to Asia. They are slowly adjusting to new writing challenges the position the Sutter family! Dame game in Baltimore, Md., but 1039 E. Main Street disappointed when we moved to St. working part-time from home. Peggy an environmental consulting fi rm life in China, as it can be challenging brings and the fact she can work from Ann Zielonka Wallin and this time we included spouses and Troy, OH 45373 Louis instead of Houston, and Martha says his spirits are always good. working with the Air Force, Army some days. Knowing Mandarin is an home a couple of days a week. husband welcomed their daughter, children. Beth Bowman Zuhosky, (937) 205-0265 Judge, who just moved back to Spring Jon’s fi rst real meal was Christmas Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, advantage, so Lisa is taking a class to Sheila Doran Shane and husband Ava Elizabeth, to their family. Their Patty Piercy Cushing, Amy [email protected] Lake, N.J. I am really excited to be dinner with the family. In the early Heimberg, Maria Telesca, Sheila and the National Guard. She and John learn some basics just to get by. Lisa Patrick have had a few additions twins, Grace and Charlie, celebrated closer to South Bend. In fact, two SMC part of 2009, they will spend a large live in Grosse Pointe Shores. and Dan have three children: Patrick, since their last update. On Feb. 24, their second birthday last December. Dooley Evans, Deirdre Milon Ralph, Hello, classmates! I hope that this alums live across the street!” amount of time with follow-up doctor Irene Quinn Winston, and I enjoyed a Jan Campbell Borgmeier and 10, Cate, 8, and Ryan, 7. 2006, Margaret “Maggie” Kimberly Gretchen Weigel is godmother

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to Grace. Gretchen and her sisters, Sampson attended the wedding, and dancing, and celebrations were Meghan McNally Allison married Genevieve Morrill was chosen the Tabitha Sobel Eden was Mary’s Department of Information Jeanine Weigel Pickering ’99, Kelly’s sister, Jennifer Prosser ’00, was enjoyed by all. The beautiful couple Scott Allison in Sept., 2008 at Saint Outstanding Young Alumna at SMC promoted to the rank of Lieutenant ’00 Kimberly Martin Troy Technology since graduation. It’s a very Colleen Weigel ’02, and Kristen maid of honor. Kelley resigned after honeymooned in Paris and currently Michael’s Church in Chicago’s Old Reunion over the summer, which she Commander, United States Navy, on 14644 Stonington Court busy offi ce, but I’m happy to be here!” Weigel Schauger, are all wonderful seven years as director of distance lives in Wyandotte with their daughter, Town. They had many Saint Mary’s considers a great honor considering Oct. 1, 2008. Granger, IN 46530 Robyn Chmielewski Albert and very helpful babysitters when learning for the School of Computer Victoria. ladies in attendance to support all her fabulous classmates! Genevieve Mia Rinehold Datena organized (574) 271-8588 writes: “I married Mike Albert on Aug. Ann and Joel need an extra set of Science at DePaul University and now Whew! That’s a lot of great news! them: Anne Parente Taylor, Emily ran the Las Vegas half-marathon for a tree dedication at SMC in honor [email protected] 2, 2008. Bridesmaids and friends in hands—as three kids under the age of has two children: Eoin, 2, and Maeve, 5 Best wishes to everyone—have Broussard Nash, Katie Diestelkamp the second time and shaved fi ve of Tara Mooney’s daughter, Katie, attendance were: Janet Horvath, two keeps them on their toes! months. Kelley was also kind enough an enjoyable summer! Huff man, Anne Geisler Nelson, minutes off her time from last year. who passed away in March 2008. The Angela Little Berg Andrea Bueno ’99, Megan Flaherty On the workfront, Paulette to let me stay in the family’s Ireland Laura Schachtrup Gonder, Jamie She’ll be doing a fourth half-marathon tree dedication took place on Nov. 8, 3963 North Pennsylvania St. Kogut, Sarah Shannon, Sara Cwidak Raczkowski-Baz has been promoted home for part of my journey. I had a McDonald Thomson, Chiara in May 2009 at the 500 Festival in 2008, and it was really lovely. The tree Indianapolis, IN 46205 Kurzhal, and Ellie Wassenhove ’98. ’98 Lisa Coury to role of superintendent at Swanton great time meeting Thomas’ family Marcheschi Wrocinski, Carolyn Indianapolis. dedication was attended by Prof. Pat (317) 217-1158 The wedding was on Tiscornia Beach 6804 E. 2nd Street #21 Local Schools after serving as the high (thanks again, Kelley!). Lukas Rocchio, Cathy Lukas Kimberly Jeselnick Gray and Pierce (POSC), Addie Cashore ’70, [email protected] in Saint Joseph, Mich. We could not school principal and director of special Megan Bruchas Brunson was Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Brookfi eld, Amy Junius ’90, Emily husband Timothy had a baby girl, Brigid Coleman and her husband, have asked for a more beautiful day!” (602) 796-8587 education. Lisa Siefert is now the HR married in February 2000 in Dallas, Junius Harrison ’00, Kelly Meyer Ainsley Elizabeth Gray, on Nov. 13, Eric Robben ND ’99, and their two Nicole Longar Lieber [email protected] director for TD Securities in addition Texas, to Keith Brunson. Shortly Girsch, and Allison Holloway Altherr. 2008. After 10 years living in Chicago, children, Megan McHugh ’97, Mia 37105 Deer Run ’02 Lori Sichtermann Seidler to continuing as the fi tness director thereafter they moved to Atlanta to Right after their honeymoon, the Bridget Thomas Muckle and family Rinehold Datena, Carrie Minogue Solon, OH 44139-2503 Kate Votruba married Charlie Frey 155 Phingsten Road, #205 at Cheetah Gym in Chicago. Needless follow his job, and Megan worked Allisons left Chicago and moved to are moving to Chelsea, Mich., a small Bloom, her husband Gordon Bloom, (440) 542-9355 on Sept. 27, 2008, at Old St. Patrick’s Deefi eld, IL 60015 to say, she’s super busy but loves it. as an RN at St. Joseph Hospital of Atlanta for a new job opportunity for town outside of Ann Arbor. Bridget’s and their three children, Martha [email protected] Lisa also mentioned meeting up in Atlanta in the open heart CVICU. She Church in Chicago. Becky Jacobs Scott. Meghan was asked to launch husband, Tim ND ’99, took a new job Moylan Kirby, Amber Jones Liu (847) 405-4019 Dempsey was the matron of honor, [email protected] NYC last spring for a small visit with advanced to charge nurse of the 24- an offi ce for her design fi rm in Atlanta. as the director of testing services for and her husband, George Liu. They From the Courier Offi ce: and Katie Drew was a bridesmaid. Jen Mahoney and Megan Maloney bed unit. Although Megan loved the They are looking forward to exploring the American Association of Nurse dedicated a beautiful sweet gum tree Merideth Drudge writes: “On May Belles in attendance included: Mary Katie Corsentino O’Sullivan. She also passes on good job, the couple recently moved back their new city as newlyweds. Anesthetists, and he will be working on the Alumnae Green, located just 10, 2008, I married Troy Drudge at Jones Dalzell, Maureen Monahan 1503 S. State St., Unit 505 news in that Karen Gerlach and to Dallas (Frisco, Texas) to follow her Sarah Mullen Schwab and remotely. Bridget is job hunting for off the walkway in between Regina Little Flower Catholic Church here in DeHond ’97, Stephanie Pasas- Chicago, IL 60605 husband welcomed a baby girl, Ginger, husband’s job. She currently works at husband, Carl ND ’99, welcomed a another nurse practitioner position but and Le Mans. Donations for the tree South Bend. My attendants included Farmer, Julie Fetch, Kathleen Finke, [email protected] to their family. Megan still lives in NYC Medical City of Dallas as the night shift baby girl, Katelyn, on Nov. 29, 2008. plans to stay home for a little while to were sent in from family, friends, and my sister, Sheila Lax, and my former Beth Renken Hancock ’95, Tricia with her husband, John, and three supervisor of the CVICU. Megan and She has been enjoying her time at help get their twin boys settled in to alumnae from our class. Tara and roommates Laura Carroll DeBolt Tellmann Van De Ryt ND ’98 and Lisa From Lori: Greetings, fellow ’02- boys: Nyhan, 5, Ian, 3, and James, 19 Keith have two children: Maddy, 5, and home with Katelyn and her older preschool and small town life! her husband, Joseph Thelin, were and Katie Burns. Also at the wedding Coury. ers! After fi ve successful years of class months. son Sam, 8 months old. sister, Anna, 2. They are still living in Sara Pluta Gibson has returned very touched by the outpouring of were Mary DeKever, Jessica Alwood, Lori Allen Remington and reporting, Katie Rzepka has passed Michelle Kluth Shufelt married Mitzi McAndrews Neighbor and Minneapolis. to Washington, D.C., after spending a love they received. Tara had wanted and Emily Parker Taylor ’01. It was husband Alex Remington ND ’97 are the torch to me, Lori Sichtermann, to Gregory Shufelt on June 10, 2006. husband Matthew welcomed their Keri Ruscito Clavin and husband year in Paris with her husband, Josh. Katie to go to SMC some day—now a beautiful day, and everyone had a proud to announce the arrival of their continue her legacy of documenting The couple had a beautiful reception fourth child, Deaglan John, on June Nick welcomed their baby boy, She is now working as the director she feels as if part of her is there. good time. Troy and I are now living son, William Richard. Little William was quality class news for our class. Well, at Germania Place in Chicago’s Gold 5. His siblings Dominic, Emeline, and Hudson Parker Clavin, on July 25, 2007. of development at a local homeless in South Bend, and believe it or born on Aug. 1, 2008. lucky for me, our class has nothing but Coast neighborhood. SMC attendees Daschel love him to pieces. Mitzi is still Now that Hudson is a year old, Keri is service nonprofi t called Miriam’s not, I’ve been working in the Saint included Amy Hiniker Robert, working as a labor and delivery nurse Arwen Dickey Moore married getting back to events and starting up Kitchen. quality news to report! For example, Megan Reilly, Robin Walsh Bourjaily, in Columbus, Ohio, and really enjoys Matthew Moore on May 3, 2008, in her own company, Clavin Kelly Events Gina Farrell O’Connor, Kimberly watching the miracle of life unfold Kansas City, Mo. Maid of honor was (www.clavinkellyevents.com), focusing Dehner Davis, Joanna Finegan everyday! She also had a chance to Lara Dickey Lewis ND ’94. Bridesmaids on wedding and social events. included Megan McMahon and Lori aRP\_b McDonough, Paulette Raczkowski see Laura Boekman Cauley a couple Lisa Budzynski Ezell married ^eT^d Baz, Kari Fantasia VanVuren, times while Laura and her triplets were Mrowka Cornell ND ’98. Other 1998 Stephen Ezell in summer 2008. They Saint Mary’s College c^[ and Julie Polek Hill. The couple visiting Laura’s parents in the area. SMC alums in attendance were Kate were married at Dahlgren Chapel X]V honeymooned in Greece and currently Mitzi raved about how wonderful it Brower, Nora Meany, Laura Meyers at Georgetown University. Donna V^ resides in Chicago. Michelle is a was to relax with their children and Malec, and Rachel Torres Bell. Also in Mirandola was matron of honor, and aT physical therapist at the Rehabilitation catch up. attendance was Nicole Borda ND ’99. Angela Bill Bolton and Michelle P Institute of Chicago. Amy Hiniker Jennifer Peterson ’97 sent the On Oct. 30, 2007, Shannon Crunk Ziemba were in attendance, along ^d Robert and husband Justin Robert ND following update: Molly Kelsey Hipp and husband, Tim ND ’95, ’96, with their husbands. Lisa is still living H ’96 welcomed babies Carolyn Helene married Brian Clayton of Grosse Ile, welcomed Flannery Jane. Now 13 in Washington, D.C., and working at and Dylan William to their family on Mich., on May 10, 2008, at St. Anne months old and walking everywhere, the Federalist Society. She fi nished her CAMPS Dec. 10, 2007. The couple is elated to Chapel on Grosse Ile. Molly was she loves to look at books and master’s in public policy at George be parents of twins! Megan Reilly is attended by seven bridesmaids, magazines, especially the Courier! Mason in 2006. In Fall 2008, Lisa had Dylan’s godmother. Amy is working among them Jennifer Peterson ’97 Jessi Lentych Loyd is working as dinner with Katie Brown Netto, her part time as a fi nance manager at and Tiff any Bowman-Allred ’98. Her the curator of education at the South husband, Anthony, and their little boy, Each July, Saint Mary’s College offers a variety of summer camps for talented young women interested in the arts, General Growth Properties in Chicago. maid of honor was Erin O’Donnell, Bend Regional Museum of Art. Charlie, in Baltimore when they were in athletics, and sciences. Summer camps present opportunities to experience Fine Arts Camp, Athletic Camps, and Megan is a director at CNA in Chicago. and her matron of honor was Cheryl Audrey Linden Miller Price and town for the Notre Dame game. Kelley Prosser was married in Rockwell. Corinne Hanrahan ’97 husband, Brian Price ND ’95, welcomed Rachael Sederberg Ferrell and Saint Mary’s Summer Academy. Ireland in 2003 to Thomas McNamara also attended. The reception was their fourth child and third son, Teague husband Dustin welcomed their from County Mayo. Beth VanTiem held at the Grosse Ile Yacht Club, Eoin, on Sept. 3, 2008. He joins his second child, Colin Joseph, on July Campers stay in Saint Mary’s residence halls which feature 24-hour supervision by our camp staff. Nesbitt and Sara Stronczek where delectable chocolate cupcakes, brothers, Cael and Sorin, and sister 12, 2007. He joins his big sister, Emma Class instruction is provided by Saint Mary’s faculty, varsity coaching staff, and area educators chosen for their Esmé. They are still living in Pittsfi eld, Catherine. They are living in Chicago. educational expertise and experience. Meals are prepared by Saint Mary’s College Food Services/Sodexo in our college Mass., and Audrey is loving being Rachel is a stay-at-home mom and home with her little brood! loving it. dining hall. For the health and safety of all our participants, the programs offer nursing services and security on campus. Getting Married? Expecting? Sara Nienaber VanSlambrook Lisa Gutilla has moved back to Background checks are required for all of our staff employees and volunteers. We’d like to help you celebrate, but we loves working at a nonprofi t Chicago. community development organization Anna Antes Patterson and can’t print news about future weddings in Indianapolis. She and Greg ND ’98 husband Tommy welcomed their Fine Arts Camp - July 12-17, 19-24, 26-31 or babies. When your plans become reality, please welcomed their son, Elijah David, in beautiful son, Luke Thomas, in April Athletic Camps - July 12-16, 19-23 let your class reporter or the Courier May 2007. 2008. Big sister, Siena, 2, loves having Eleanor Casella Loebl and a real, live baby to “play” with! Tommy Summer Academy - July 12-17, 19-24, 26-31 offi ce know, and we’ll gladly print husband Don Loebl, Jr., ND ’98, and and Anna are doing well and having your news after the fact. their son, Donny, welcomed Carol fun chasing after their babies. Elizabeth Loebl into their family in April 2008. For more information visit saintmarys.edu/camps. 40 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 41 classnews classnews

in June 2008, Shannon Watts earned Cara Dunbar Kalogerov is she, husband Jeff , and newly instated deployed to Baghdad in spring 2007 Janelle Picciano Jankowski husband, Matt ND ’02. completing her MBA through Notre Ohio. We could not have asked for a master’s degree in speech-language currently in her third year of podiatric big brother, William Mateo, joyfully as part of the surge, and Shanna was announced the birth on March 5, 2008, Lauren Macchia Solberg had her Dame’s Executive MBA program in a more beautiful wedding day and pathology from Nova Southeastern surgical residency, in Youngstown, welcomed 9-pound, Winter Elena, redeployed in May 2008. She now of her daughter, Rylee Marie. Janelle fi rst daughter, Julia Rose, on Sept. 24, Chicago and is looking forward to were blessed to celebrate with our University, Davie, Fla. She reports now Ohio. Nov. 11. And, as if plural children didn’t reports from Alexandria, Va., where and husband Ryan are still living in 2007. Lauren took a year leave from graduation in May. In April, Katie wonderful friends and family. Kerry from Stuart, Fla., where she works as a In the realm of holy matrimony, keep her busy enough, Maria Pilar also she’s working as the chief of criminal Ridgefi eld, Conn., but only for one her duties as a merchandise planner at is meeting up with Mary Hermes Gill was my maid of honor. My speech-language pathologist for the Katie McIntyre and David Lesh were pens an original, must-have product law for Fort Belvoir and as a special more year. Then their family will be off Crate & Barrel to enjoy being a mom. and making a two-week long trip to bridesmaids included Erin Roberts public schools. united in marriage Sept. 15, 2007. column called “Cosmotot” for Chicago assistant United States Attorney for the to a new location to be determined She writes, “I know I am a little late Zambia in Southern Africa. Katie and Davidson, Megan Keleher, Tracey Coincidently, Jamie Norton The two were married on a beach Baby. Additionally, she is a guest writer Eastern District of Virginia. sometime in the fall. with the news, but it has been a hectic Mary will be visiting Mary’s sister, who Quinn, Laura Stevens, Jenny Trailov earned a master’s degree in in the Pocono Mountains. Katie and at Mommy Track’d — the working Tracy Graf was promoted to a Meghan Sirotek Miller and her seven months adjusting to being a does relief work for Catholic Relief Wejman ’99, Erin Quinn ’04, Beth speech-language pathology from David are living happily ever after in mother’s guide to managed chaos. position within her company, Feld husband, Greg, welcomed Charles mommy!” Services there. Mary recently moved Quinn ND ’06, and Mary Miller ’11. I Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., McAlisterville, Pa. Katie Quiroz Tate and her Entertainment, that will allow her to “Charlie” Rex on Sept. 24, 2008. Charlie Kristin Thompson Martin and her to the lower east side of Manhattan was also honored to have Saint Mary’s and is working as a speech therapist Jackie Knier married Brad husband, Matt ND ’00, welcomed their move to Denver in February. arrived on his exact due date! husband, Daniel ND JD ’04, welcomed and works as a senior media buyer for alumnae in attendance: Michelle at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Myers March 27, 2008. Brigid fi rst son, Liam Matthew, into the world Amy E. Kocis Weatherhead Lauren Bossy married Peter their fi rst child, Alexander James, into GroupM Motion. Chandler, Muff y Grant, Kate Chicago. Additionally, Jamie married Buhrfi end and Tracy Graf served as May 13, 2008. According to Katie, “Little celebrated fi ve years at Northwestern Caruso in October of 2008. The the world on Aug. 25, 2007. Kristin has As for me, last year I left my job at Lapinski, Marlee Seiler, and Brianne Jason Trailov on July 12, 2008. Fellow bridesmaids. After a honeymoon in Liam has brought much joy into our Bank in Traverse City, Mich. She also wedding was held in Chicago, and decided to leave her teaching career Davis & Hosfi eld Consulting for the Bibbs ’06. We live in Chicago where ’02 alums Colleen Collins Marrs and Anguilla, the happy couple returned lives.” Currently, the family resides in has taken on the role of mentoring/ attended by many Saint Mary’s to stay at home with her new baby exciting world of market research. we have just purchased a condo in Michele Oliverio Grabenstein served home to Raleigh, N.C., where Jackie Lexington, Ky., while Matt fi nishes his training employees bank-wide. graduates, including bridesmaid Katie and is loving every second! I am a project director for Ipsos, a Sheridan Park.” as bridesmaids. works as a marketing coordinator radiation oncology residency. Jennifer Lacopo Matchett and O’Connell. After the wedding, Lauren Jessica Klink and Sara Duff y worldwide market research fi rm. I Jennifer Wyatt Bennett writes: Rachel Deer is living in Charlotte, and Brad is the vice president of Michelle Noto Titus and husband her husband, Charles, report from and Peter moved to the western continue to teach together at Alcott work in the marketing division, and “I married Matthew John Bennett, a N.C., and works as an assistant principal marketing for the Carolina RailHawks, a Scott welcomed a baby girl, Sophie South Bend. Since graduating from suburbs of Chicago in Clarendon Hills. Elementary School in the Lincoln Park spend most of my time on new Purdue graduate, on May 24, 2008, in at Bethel Elementary School and local men’s professional soccer team. Rae, May 30, 2008. The happy family SMC, Jennifer has been teaching in Liz Kocourek is very excited to neighborhood of Chicago. Last year, product innovation research studies. Fort Wayne, Ind. Our guests included coaches a junior Olympic volleyball Kaitlin Duda and Bill King were resides in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Plymouth, Ind. at a Catholic school. announce she married Brian Dunleavy, they had the opportunity to represent I’m also halfway through my MBA Anne Conrad, Brooke Wagner team. This past March, Rachel and married May 31, 2008, and, Kaitlin Michelle is a pediatric nurse. Holly James writes from Los a 2002 graduate of Georgetown. The their school at the conference of the at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Desapio, Erin Bush Gennuso, Abigail Erica Burket, who lives in Austin and says, “the wedding was a dream.” The Adrian Kirby Reither, her Angeles, where she works as the senior wedding was held in her hometown National Association for Professional Management and thoroughly enjoying Stahoviak McLoughlin, Siobhan works as a nurse anesthetist, traveled couple honeymooned in France and husband, Jonathon ND ’02, and paralegal and marketing director for of Edina, MN. Katie O’Connell, Erin Development Schools in Orlando, Fla. my classes and all the new friends I’ve Murphy, Brooke Verbosky Steines, to Chile and Argentina, where they returned home to Madison, Wis., where their son, Charles Jonathon, report the L.A. branch of a San Francisco law Weldon, and I were three of her ten Jessica is also working on her National made in the program! Jamie Mortens Ervin, Jennifer Rea, visited Lauren O’Neil. each is pursuing a PhD, she in French from Ann Arbor, Mich., where fi rm. (yes, 10!) bridesmaids. Liz and Brian Board certifi cation for teaching. There are so many of you I haven’t Candace Reilly, Tracy Silvey, Mary Since the SMC friends’ visit, and he in biomedical engineering. Adrian currently works part-time as And now for me! My husband moved to Connecticut following the Katie O’Connell reports that she heard from in years. Please e-mail me Brennan Stiers, Kara Tirimacco, Lauren O’Neil has returned to the “I married Kyle Pline on Oct. 4, a molecular biologist. Jonathon will James Seidler ND ’02, and I live in wedding. recently accepted a director position at [email protected] with Danielle Kraft Meyer ’04, and United States after completing the 2008, in my hometown of Ravenna, graduate from medical school at the Chicago and work as magazine editors. Kelly Roberts Panzer is living in with a boutique consulting fi rm in your updates. We would love to hear Jennifer Wagner Kleber ’04. Notre Dame-Chile ACE program. She Mich., surrounded by many family University of Michigan in March. 2008 proved to be a busy 12 months the Indianapolis area and working Chicago, AArete LLC. They are focused what you’re up to! Amanda Schomas Soderstrom lived in Ecuador for two months and and friends,” writes Bonnie Arends. Michelle Nagle Lickteig is for us as we celebrated the (self) part-time for Alliance Home Health on strategic sourcing and operational From the Courier Offi ce: Katie writes: “I married Daniel Soderstrom on studied Spanish, then continued on The happy couple honeymooned working as an attorney and lobbyist in publishing of James’ fi rst book, FLYMF’s Care doing marketing. She has been improvement, and she is always Miller Quinn writes: I married Sean Oct. 11, 2008, at Saint Vincent de Paul to Santiago, Chile, where she taught in Hawaii and returned home to Des Moines. Greatest Hits. I also volunteer at the keeping busy playing with her son, looking for new clients. (katieocon@ Quinn of Chicago on Sept. 29, 2007, Church in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Ill. from October 2007 to December 2008. Ravenna, where Kyle works as a family Stefanie Roth received her Boys and Girls Club of Chicago, where I Brien, 2, and spending time with her gmail.com.) Katie is also working on at St. Joseph Cathedral in Columbus, Fortunately, several Saint Mary’s ladies Lauren earned an English-as-a-New physician in nearby Muskegon, Mich. master’s in education and is currently teach art to a group of talented (albeit Language certifi cate and plans to Currently, Bonnie is looking forward in her fourth year teaching eighth energetic) youngsters. pursue her doctorate in linguistics and to completing her family medicine grade science for the Chicago Public Thank you, everyone, for your second language acquisition. She now residency in June 2009. Schools on the Near West side. Meg updates. Best wishes to you all, and lives in Portland, Ore. And the good news continues! Deluca Wright and Erica Burket have a safe, relaxing, productive, and Explore Poland Christina Holdvogt received a Trish Moore Hands reports from visited Stefanie in the Windy City this sun-fi lled summer! I look forward to master’s degree in higher education Madison, Wis., where she’s working in past summer, and the three had a blast hearing from each of you in the fall! administration from Boston College. property management. In the summer catching up. From Katie: Hello Class of 2002! Sponsored by the Saint Mary’s Alumnae Association in partnership with the She’s currently living in Chicago and of 2008, she and her husband, Phil, Jessica Coulter recently moved It’s been a while since I’ve written an University of Notre Dame Alumni Association Travel Program. works as an academic advisor for the bought their fi rst home, and on Nov. 4, back to Chicago after living in update, so I have lots to share from Liautaud Graduate School of Business 2008, they celebrated the birth of their San Francisco. She is pursuing her 2008. at the University of Illinois, Chicago. son, Owen. doctorate in psychology. Akmaral Omarova was accepted Christina also reports that she traveled Gina Caponi Parnaby and In February, Allison Doherty into the two-year MBA program at The Legacy of Pope John Paul II to Argentina, Jordan, Israel, and the husband Gary welcomed their fi rst McSherry received her MBA from Harvard Business School and started July 11–18, 2009 West Bank, and looks forward to more child, Elizabeth Anne Grace Parnaby, Indiana Tech, Fort Wayne, Ind. Currently classes last September. While in the $1,649 per person, plus airfare globetrotting throughout 2009. on July 16, 2008. In addition to being she’s working as constituent liaison for states, she would love to meet up On the subject of globetrotting, a mother, Gina works at the Marist Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) of with SMC friends. Please email her at Enjoy a week in Pope John Paul’s Poland. Start in Warsaw with guided sightseeing Erin McGarry enjoyed seeing the School in Atlanta, teaching British the 3rd District in Indiana. She also is [email protected]. featuring the Cathedral of St. John and the Warsaw Ghetto, followed by an excursion sights in Eastern Europe last summer, literature and composition. the county coordinator for Kosciusko Mary Crawford Nolan left the to Niepokalanow and its Franciscan Friary, founded by St. Maximilian Kolbe. In particularly those in Budapest and Kristen Wojtas Berg and her and Whitley counties. The past election Chicago city life in September and is Czestochowa, visit the Shrine and the famous Black Madonna, an image and devotion Prague. Erin continues her work as a husband, Erik ND ’03, announce the proved fruitful for the McSherry now living in Canton, Ohio. Despite senior speech pathologist at Gottlieb birth of their son, Leland John Berg, on family as Allison’s husband, Jason, was having to leave all her SMC friends in Pope John Paul II held very close to his heart throughout his life. Visit the remains of Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill. She’s also Oct. 5, 2008. elected Kosciusko County Clerk. Their Chicago, she and husband Bill ND ’02 the former concentration camp in Auschwitz, as well as the Martyrdom Museum and accomplished a lot of R&R (reading Amy Lazzarotto Nelson reports, daughter, Madelynn, 2, was on hand to are getting adjusted to and loving life St. Maximilian Kolbe’s cell. Next is Krakow, the city where Pope John Paul II served and running) lately as a member of the “We have much to be thankful for this celebrate her dad’s big win! in the suburbs. Mary now works as a as archbishop. Guided sightseeing includes Wawel Castle, St. Mary’s Church, and the monthly SMC Chicago East Book Club year!” She and her husband, Mike “Stu” Sunny O’Brien Shaw and her RN for Aultman Hospital. world-famous Shrine of Divine Mercy. Also enjoy an excursion to the Pope’s hometown and as a participant in the Chicago Nelson, welcomed James Michael husband Nick report from Woodstock, Courtenay Lauer Taylor is still of Wadowice. Visit his birthplace and boyhood home, as well as Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Marathon last fall. Nelson on Sept. 1, 2008. “He’s such a Ga., where they live with their two living in snow-fi lled Alaska and loving one of Poland’s most famous shrines and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Christina Tatay Brecht recently joy and so much fun,” Amy writes. children, Ashley, 3, and Vinny, 1. Sunny it. She and husband Rob are proud to obtained her master’s degree in special Megan McCoy Parker and her works part-time as a grant writer for announce they have a new addition to Please note, the Ireland trip scheduled for June 19–27, 2009, has been cancelled. education from Indiana University, husband, Greg, welcomed their future the recovery residence Hope Homes. the Taylor family: James McGann, born Bloomington, Ind. Christina and her SMC alumna, Marin Abigail Parker, Shanna Conner Cronin and her July 6, 2008. Court graduated from husband TJ ND ’01 live in South Bend, June 21, 2008. husband, Brendan, both serve in the nursing school in December and is For more information Ind., where she works as a sixth-grade Christmas came early to Maria U.S. Army as attorneys in the Judge ready to get her nursing career going. about these trips, visit: teacher. Pilar Paulick Clark’s house this year as Advocate General Corps. They were saintmarys.edu/alumnae-travel

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Kathleen Fisher Leppert, Jennifer past summer. Melissa and Andy are wore her maternal grandmother’s catching up with family and friends. Alexandra MacPherson and Johnson Barth ’74, Mary Kay living in Rochester Hills, Mich. Manda wedding gown, a dress also worn by ’08 Cate Leone Cetta Audrey recently moved to Colorado I work only a few blocks from one classclips classclips classclips Conaty Leicht ’74, Sharon Brown Wishin also fi nished law school and is her mother, Mary Grace Diehl, at her 1201 N. Fillmore St., T 701 Springs, Col. where she interns for another, she at the Corcoran Gallery Sobolewski ’74, Susan Murphy practicing in St. Joseph, Mich. 1977 wedding to Michael Jablonski. Arlington, VA 22201 the U.S. Olympics Committee. She of Art and I at a law fi rm on K Street. Janko ’74, Anne Faherty ’73, Joanne Vanessa Hetrick Friedman wrote: Bridesmaids and former Saint Mary’s [email protected] reports making a smooth transition This makes spontaneous Saint Mary’s Alban Amenta, Joann Frailey Heap “My husband, Matt ND ’04, and I just classmates included myself, Kathryn back to “dorm life,” but has to adjust happy hours especially convenient. ’75, Rooney Frailey Russell ’73, and moved to Chicago in June. He is a Harrison, and Nicole Haeberle Natalie Elizabeth Grasso to the city’s 7,000 feet above sea level At the time of publication, she was Margaret Kirby Frailey ’46. fi rst-year resident at Northwestern/ Laubacher. Also attending the 1201 N. Fillmore St., T 701 elevation. wondering if she’ll survive the three Becca Doll recently moved to Children’s Memorial Hospital. We’re wedding were Amanda Garno and Arlington, VA 22201 During the week we also met up inaugural balls being hosted at the Chicago and is living in Lincoln Park. enjoying the city and are very excited Sarah Catherine White ’05. Elizabeth [email protected] with Mary Esler. She lives in Southfi eld, Corcoran. She works as a special She is the coordinator at Tiff any and to be living closer to friends and and Jeff now reside at Edwards Air Mich., and works on media relations events coordinator at the gallery and Co. on Michigan Ave. (I think we family...our dog Bella (yes, after SMC) Force Base in Edwards, Calif. Jeff From Cate Leone Cetta: I hope for Microsoft at Airfoil Public Relations. lives on Capitol Hill. should take a class fi eld trip to see loves it here, too. Now that we’re in attends the United States Air Force Test all of you are happy and healthy, and Some members of our New Year’s I’m learning a lot at Wiley Rein, her!) She wrote that Carrie Freeman the city, we get together with Molly Pilot School. Elizabeth graduated from totally shocked that it has been almost group also saw Abby Hinchy and where I work as a project assistant with is learning the family business, and Mulvihill Sundby and her husband, Emory Law School in May ’08 and is a year since we graduated! Natalie and report that she is doing well. attorneys in the fi rm’s communications Kristin Hansen recently took a job Ryan ND ’04, all the time.” currently working as a public relations I have since moved to the D.C. area From Natalie Elizabeth litigation practice group. Along with at translations.com. Stella Barruita Jeanne Berger is working and specialist at NASA Dryden. and are loving life. I attend American Grasso: Most of the news in this fi rst work, I mentor at Thurgood Marshall Coomes sent me several updates. “My living in New York City. She is a Jennifer Gilbride Wernig and her University, getting an M.A. in broadcast edition has been made in Chicago. Academy, a law-themed public husband, Mark Coomes ND ’03, and fi nancial adviser for JP Morgan Chase. husband reside in Annapolis, Md, while journalism and interning for NBC’s I fl ew in from D.C. on Halloween to charter high school in D.C.’s Anacostia I have been living in Providence, R.I., My SMC-Pittsburgh friend, Emily he fi nishes his current assignment Today Show at the Washington Bureau. attend Kate Holloway and Brooke neighborhood. The post-collegiate life for fi ve years. I have been working as a Welsh, has left me for New York City with the Navy: teaching at the Naval The ability to cover the election and Trudeau’s housewarming/Hallows Eve has been an adjustment, but Cate and school social worker at an international as well! She is in Cohort 16 of the New Academy. They recently welcomed inauguration with NBC has been a soiree—“Eat, Drink, and Be Scary.” Kate I have both taken well to Washington. school, and Mark has been fi nishing up York City Teaching Fellows Program. their fi rst baby, Madeline Paige Wernig, great experience, plus rubbing elbows and Brooke live together in Lincoln Here’s to a bright and cheerful his medical school program at Brown She is living in Brooklyn and teaches on their one-year wedding anniversary, with Matt Lauer and Luke Russert Park. Erin Hogan and Caitlin McGee spring. We look forward to hearing Starting with the back left in the blue dress we have: Sarah Robinson, University. Now, after it is starting to sixth grade special education. She Oct. 20, 2008! stopped by and agreed it ought to from you, and hope you’ll be in touch Marcia McDonnell, Allie Greene, Kate Fenlon, Caitlyn Flanagan, and Jackie hasn’t been too shabby either. Please, feel like home, we will be moving in writes that Mary Watrobka was Maggie Garigliano Busam and please send us updates on all your become an annual event. should you fi nd yourself in the Capital Sias. In the front row beginning with the blonde in the blue sweater from June to another location for Mark’s married in June 2008 to Mark Albrecht. Luke Busam, ND ’04 welcomed their Brooke reports that she is loving City. All the best! left to right are: Katie Thompson, Emily Matus, Meg Schmitt, and Anna happenings. Thanks! medical residency program. We will Mary lives in northern Indiana and is fi rst child, Joshua Gabriel Busam on In November, Connie Walsh, every minute of teaching second Fricano. We graduated from Saint Mary’s in 2008 and gathered for our fi rst be fi nding out later this month on the teaching at an all-boys’ high school in Nov. 5, 2008. Maggie enjoys staying grade at Seward Academy, a Chicago reunion in Chicago for New Year’s! who also lives in D.C., and I drove up exact location. Regardless of where Chicago. Carrie Freeman is living in home with Josh. The family currently to Baltimore for the ND/Navy game public school on the South Side. She we end up, we have made some Chicago and working for her family’s resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. and spent the weekend with Jenn busies herself after school bartending were able to attend the wedding: Amy the great alumnae club we have here wonderful memories here in the east fi nancial fi rm.Jaclyn Thompson As for myself, I had the wonderful McLean, Corey Duff , and Megan at Mad River. Kate works as a nurse Modic, Connie Williams O’Connell, in Pittsburgh. It gives us the chance coast, including having both of our moved to New York City to dance opportunity to dust off my passport Staley. It was great to be back in the intensive care unit at St. Mary Kelly Armbrecht Perry, Amy to work with and socialize with many daughters born in Rhode Island. Elena, professionally with a modern dance during the past year. Plante Moran together and tailgating! of Nazareth Hospital. Elizabeth Lazzorotto Nelson, Meghan Meyer, wonderful Saint Mary’s women from our oldest, will be 2 in April and our company after spending last year as exported me to France, Belgium, Spain, Jenn lives in Philadelphia, where Bush, Erin Hogan, Colleen Kielty, and Kelly Leonard, who was my maid many class years. newest addition, Cecilia, was just born the interim dance department head at Germany, and Austria throughout the she is receiving her master’s in social and Shawn Redington also live in of honor. We met while studying at Emily Spore married Jim Lowder Dec. 19.” Saint Mary’s. year, and I now consider Europe my work at the University of Pennsylvania. Chicago. Colleen began working for DePaul University—my program was ND ’04 in Pittsburgh, Pa. Saint Mary’s Danielle Kraft Meyer and her Frances Bruder moved back to home away from home. In between Corey lives in Pittsburgh, Pa., where Deloitte Tax LLP in July and so far, she a master’s in writing and Daniel’s was women in attendance at Emily and husband, Andy, recently bought Colorado and is doing marketing for travel adventures, my incredible she works as the executive marketing reports, so good. She spends a lot of law. We live in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. Jim’s wedding were her sister and a house in Kettering, Ohio. They a chemical distribution company. She boyfriend, Darin, and I kayaked, assistant for WorldDealer, Inc. time at the offi ce, but six months in, maid of honor, Bridget Spore ’08, her have two boys, Brady, nearly 3, and writes that she was back in South snowmobiled, and skied in northern Megan, who lives in Kettering, she’s beginning to understand the REUNION June 4–7, 2009 mother, Mary Beth Roitz Spore ’79, Austin, nearly 1. Annmarie Marquez Bend for Michelle Winter’s wedding. Michigan. Ohio, reports that she enjoys attending world of public accounting a little ’04 Heather Hammond, Rachel Waldron Villegas recently had a new addition Michelle married Kevin McCall ND ’04 Please remember to keep in touch, graduate school at the University better. Over Thanksgiving she traveled Kathryn Harrison ’03, Kate Hartman Rozenszweig, and to her family, as well. She and on Nov. 8, 2008. Sara Mahoney wrote: live well, laugh often, and love much. of Dayton; however, it is impossible abroad with two of her sisters to visit 2501 Liberty Ave. 1-A Maura Murphy. Emily and Jim live husband Zeke welcomed Jonah in “I am currently working at Georgetown Life is too short not to! to replace Saint Mary’s. She is also a her third sister, who was studying Pittsburgh, PA 15222 in Chicago. She works as a manager December. Other children are Ezekial, University as the learning skills From the Courier Offi ce: Jessica full-time nanny for Jennifer Mathile in Segovia, Spain. She commented 724-991-5600 in the pediatric intensive care unit 3, Annalise, 1. Annmarie also works specialist in the Academic Resource Millanes writes, “I am currently back Prikkel’s ’95 three lovely children. that it made her miss her college [email protected] at Children’s Memorial Hospital in doing commercials for Lithia Corp. Center. I work with students with in Iraq on my second tour. I am To ring in the New Year, Mary days, especially her own time abroad. Chicago and is fi nishing her PhD in throughout the western states. disabilities and all students who need the offi cer in charge of the Lioness Bridget Fearon hosted Nora Casey, Shawn works as a site director at the Kymberly Dunlap nursing research at the University of Hannah McDiff ett Finch married academic assistance related to study program for the Marine Corps. I train Megan Staley, Sarah Griffi n, Allison Bolingbrook Y.M.C.A.; Elizabeth is a Birmingham, MI 48009 Illinois at Chicago. Jonathan Finch ND MBA ’07 on Aug. skills, etc. I just started this job back in female Marines to be members of Fleece, Audrey Ballinger, Renee fi rst-year student at Illinois College of [email protected] Maura Frailey Barth wrote that 8, 2008, in Hannah’s hometown July. I am still living in Fairfax, Va.” female search teams, which give the DiNovo ’06, Jenny Wolff , ’06 and me Optometry; and Erin works as a nurse she married Christopher Barth on of Anchorage. In September, they From Kim: As I write our class Marine Corps the capability to search at her apartment in Chicago. in the pediatric surgical heart unit at From Kathyn: Reunion Aug.16, 2008, at the Church of Loretto moved from Chicago to Seattle, where update right now, it’s a week into the female Iraqis at entry control points Mary attends Loyola University Hope Children’s Hospital. She loves the for the Class of 2004 is quickly at SMC. There were 28 SMC alumnae in Jonathan is a strategy consultant, and 2009 New Year. I’m now beginning and interact with the female Iraqi Chicago, where she is working life made possible by three to four day approaching. I cannot wait to see attendance, ranging from the Class of Hannah has started her own graphic to realize what “older” people mean population. I enjoy my job very much, toward two masters’ in the school of work weeks, and is currently “looking everyone this summer! Thank you 1946 to the Class of 2006! Participating design business called Colorbutton. when they say that time fl ies by. Our and it has been a very rewarding psychology. Nora lives in New York to pick up some extracurriculars.” for continuing to send me your in the wedding were: Amanda Beldin Abby Van Vlerah sent me a few fi ve-year reunion is just months away, opportunity. I have worked with our City and works for FOX Broadcasting Meagan Walerko spent a updates. Congratulations on all of the Douglas, Terri Niemeier Dwyer, updates, as well. She is now living on and I sincerely hope each of you will Iraqi counterparts and have met Company as a sales assistant in the weekend in Washington this past wonderful news that keeps coming! Maggie Wurst , Katie Weiss Sebesta, the lake in Angola, Ind., working at attend it. In the meantime, here is just many of the women and children of national promotions department. summer, helping ease my transition to I am currently living in Pittsburgh. I and Shaun Russell ’03. Others in Trine University. She writes that she a glimpse of a few changes that have Iraq. I have been impressed at their Sarah lives in the Chicago area and the new apartment. She’s currently in graduated from Duquesne Law in May attendance from the Class of ’04 and Joan Muecke traveled to Ireland occurred in the past year. progress since my last tour, and I am works in the assurance and advisory South Carolina, where she’ll graduate and recently passed the Pennsylvania were: Abby VanVlerah, Courtney together in July. They had a blast On a misty Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008, hopeful for their future. Some Iraqi business services division of Ernst from Adjutant General school in bar. I clerk in the Federal District Court King, Erin Quinn, Becky Dalsin, and had the chance to meet up with Elizabeth Ruth Jablonski-Diehl women have said our equal role and Young. She reports that currently February. Next is Airborne school in in Pittsburgh, alongside my friend from Mary Braun, Becky Gindelberger, friends they met while living in Rome. married Captain Jeff rey Michael alongside our brother Marines has her favorite song is “Tom’s Diner” by Georgia for about a month. There, she both SMC and Duquesne Law, Carolyn Colleen Campbell, Amanda Wishin, Joan recently began volunteering Newcamp ND ’04 at the Cathedral given them something to look up to.” Suzanne Vega—it’s catchy, you’ll love reports, she’ll “learn how to jump out Batz ’05. Ellen Burns also graduated and Jennifer Bachtel. From other with Mission Honduras. She will be of Christ the King in Atlanta, Ga. it! Allison lives in Germany, where she of airplanes.” Then she’s off to Seoul, from Duquesne Law with Carey and classes were: Mary Buehl ’06, Sarah moving there in January for three to Maureen Russell played trumpet works for Adidas in the global footwear Korea, at the end of March for one to me and passed the Pennsylvania bar. Borkowski ’06, Angie Battista Penn six months. Abby attended Melissa during the evening ceremony. The marketing department. She enjoyed a two years. We are all three lucky to be involved in ’01, Colleen Borkowski Fontaine ’01, Knauss’ wedding to Andy Wood this reception was held at the Georgian great trip to the States for the holidays, Ballroom at the Biltmore. Elizabeth 44 COURIER | Spring 2009 COURIER | Spring 2009 45 Periodical

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