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FALL 2016 To Serve as Jesus Did The AHA Impact on the World AHA Alumna Mary Jo Copeland ’60 © L’Osservatore Romano Photo Holy Angels Annual Report 2015 – 16 Alumni Profiles Class Reunions Sports Highlights Class Notes Alumni Calendar of Events p. 3 p. 4 p. 7 p. 22 p. 29 Academy of Holy Angels 6600 Nicollet Avenue South Richfield, MN 55423 612-798-2600 The mission of the Academy of Holy Angels is to educate and nurture a diverse FALL student population so that each student, as a whole person, may achieve 2016 2016–17 Board of Trustees full potential to excel intellectually, to live spiritually, to lead responsibly, to act John Arms ’86 – Chair Brian McGrane justly and to serve selflessly. Pat Brekken Laura Keinz Miler ’85 Tim Cleary Susan Oeffling, CSJ Jon Duval ’93 John Orner 2 Perspective — 8-21 Annual Report Summary Beth Frye Jeff Patrias Scott Hemenway Carolyn Puccio, CSJ The Holy Angels Mission, and Thank You Donors Michelle Dupont Johnson ’80 Dan Riley Alumni and the Impact Michael Jones JoAnn Sperl-Hillen on Our World 22-27 Class Notes Chuck Knapp Father Mike Tix Michelle Lynch Todd Vollmers 3 Alumni Profiles 28 In Loving Memory Marie Povolny Maslowski ’98 AHA President Tom Shipley – ex officio 29 Mark Your Calendars 4 News for Alums Sue DePauw, Executive Assistant to the President – ex officio 5-7 Around the Campus 2016–17 Administration Thomas E. Shipley, President Heidi J. Foley, Principal Michael Kautzman, Athletics Director AHA Alumna and Angelus Award Winner Mary Jo Copeland ’60 Mark H. Melhorn, Assistant Principal/Activities Director Meg Angevine, Admissions Officer is the founder and director of Sharing and Jesse A. Foley ’89, Major Gifts/Alumni Officer Caring Hands and Mary’s Place in Minneapolis, Brian M McCartan, Annual Fund Officer which provides food, clothing, shelter, Sarah Hauer, Marketing/Communications Officer transportation assistance and medical help to Rebecca Tofte, Chief Campaign Officer more than 20,000 poor and homeless people Joe Berg ’05, Admissions Associate each month. Mary’s Place Transitional Housing 2016-17 Alumni Board offers 92 apartments that can accommodate Annette Margarit ’73, President more than 500 needy people at a time. Mary Jason Boerboom ’02, Vice-President Jo has earned a multitude of awards for her Joan Rourke ’65 work including the McKnight Foundation Mark Erazmus ’85 Award, Minnesota’s Best Entrepreneur in Social Allison Rufsvold Cadogan ’02 Responsibility, the Norman Vincent Peale Blake Bauer ’06 Unsung Hero Award, the Pax Christi Award, Jack Finnegan ’06 the Crosier Award for Outstanding Ministry, Terry Garland Braun ’98 Dan Meyers ’82 The Presidential Citizens Award, the Relevant Radio Leading in Faith Award and more. Lauren Gazich ’12 Mary Jo has dedicated her life to serving the very poorest of the poor and as an AHA alumna, we hold her up as a model of someone who serves as Jesus did. Information Communiqué is published three times is from Sharing and Caring Hands website: sharingandcaringhands.org a year. Submit items to [email protected]. AHA reserves the right to edit all submissions. The cover picture shows Mary Jo Copeland being received by Pope Francis in 2015 Special thanks to Charlie Gorrill, David Frear, Joe Berg ’05, with Saint Paul and Minneapolis Bishop Andrew Cozzens in the background. Kathy Cassidy, Gretchen Amigon, John Waterston, and others Credit: Viaggio Apostolic Negli USA-Congedo Nunziatura Apostolica. 24/09/2015 for photos for this publication. AROUND THE CAMPUS Glue From the President What holds us together Greetings from the corner of Nicollet and 66th! I am hopeful that this and keeps us coming back letter finds you enjoying the beautiful Glue. Have you ever noticed that there Minnesota fall and the wonders that is a powerful, indescribable glue that come to view during this changing holds your Holy Angels circle together? season. It is with pleasure that we send For many, Rock the Lawn 2016 was the mortar that bound you this Fall Communiqué, which us together in the form of music, brats, drinks and the simple, includes our 2015-16 Annual Report highlighting the many familiar proximity to each other on a warm evening in June. exciting happenings from this past year. And what a year it was! As I walked the lawn, I found myself reverting to habits that Academy of Holy Angels was blessed with many tremendous are 30 years old and counting. “Well hello, Mrs. Hanley!” student and faculty achievements. We can speak to a financial “Hola, Senora Murray!” “Coach, can I get you a brat or a picture that not only is fiscally sound but also positively beer?” “Eich, your hair is getting gray.” positions AHA for the next step in our plans to maintain and Many in my AHA world have formed lasting impressions in enhance an exciting learning environment filled with new my memory, in my life. They are the first person I met those opportunities for the students and families we serve. many years ago when I began my freshman year. The person We have much to be proud of and to celebrate in 2015-16 I laughed with during homeroom. Over the years, they turned including: into the person who propped me up when I needed propping. Our Students and Staff The person I propped up when it was their turn. The person who was in my wedding. Upon returning to AHA, each friend • An extremely successful AdvancEd Accreditation visit is a bit longer in the tooth, but every bit as wonderful, funny and school appraisal ranking Holy Angels as exemplary and giving of smile and spirit as they always were. Though time in programs and student achievement has passed, we remain connected — glued — through an intangible • Three National Merit Honor Scholars and two bond that is the AHA spirit. commended students That glue is strong for those of us with long histories at • A senior class of 2016 with a cumulative average ACT AHA and it’s just as strong with the new AHA community score of 27 — our highest score ever. members as well. People I’ve only met these past few years: teachers, alums, students, parents, coaches. Amazing people • A total of $5.1 million in scholarships was accepted by who all make up and carry on the common bond that is AHA. 52% of the graduating seniors of 2016 In the coming year, I hope all of you find a moment here and • 96% of our students participated in co-curricular activities there to strengthen your own AHA glue. Call that old classmate. Return to campus for a play or game. Warm your spirits with • A Girl’s State Basketball Championship that wonderful AHA connection, and build upon it for years • A State Championship in Knowledge Bowl to come. • One Act Play “Starred” at State The AHA glue. I don’t have the recipe for it. But thankfully, I know where to find it. Our Financial Outlook AHA experienced the largest Annual Fund gift total in the John Arms, Class of 1986 School’s history with total contributions over $1.4 million. In Chairman, Board of Trustees addition, we increased the number of total givers to the school by over 400. Supporters also helped fund the renovation of the Richfield Ice Arena adding new lockers and other general improvements. For the fifth consecutive year, our fiscal budget ended with a positive revenue balance. Our Enrollment Admissions and marketing efforts provided a great result for our 2020 class. We enrolled 166 freshmen which is the school’s largest class in recent history. Continuing a trend that speaks to the programs we offer and the services we provide, AHA started the 2015-16 school year with 615 students and ended our academic year with 627. Sincerely Yours in Christ, Tom Shipley, President John Arms and his classmates at Rock the Lawn FALL 2016 COMMUNIQUÉ 1 perspective By Major Gifts/Alumni Officer, Jesse Foley ’89 The Holy Angels mission, alumni and the impact on our world In accepting the Angelus Alumni Award in 2015, 12,000 graduates have had their lives transformed by our Joe Clubb ’79 reflected on the collective impact of the AHA mission. AHA graduates by the thousands have gone out in mission on the world. His thoughts about how the AHA the world and, as the Sisters of St. Joseph would say, “found mission had molded his life and guided his career in the field and fulfilled the unmet needs of the time and helped the dear of personal counseling and mental health struck me at the neighbor without distinction.” time and have inspired me ever since. What are some of those unmet needs of 2016? To answer In the same breath, Joe was quick to point out how that question, just look at the pictures below. many of his AHA classmates have also lived lives of servant An AHA education prepares students to achieve, lead and leadership and have been instruments of change in a variety serve in college and beyond. 12,000 graduates strong means of fields. He listed the many ways that his AHA classmates that AHA alumni are a powerful force for good and for and friends were taking the mission of AHA into the fields of change in a world that desperately needs both. science, law, education, politics, business and social service How has the AHA mission transformed your life? and, each in their own way, positively impacting people and How has your response to that mission affected our world? communities locally, nationally and globally. What are you doing to support your alma mater and our If you consider the collective impact on the world of great mission so that it can serve more students and have an Joe’s class of 1979, combine it with your own class and all even more profound impact on the world? graduating classes since 1877, you’ll find that approximately Clockwise from top left: Peter McGrane ’13, works on a model for a bridge that he’ll build in Nicaragua; Nickolas Murdakes ’13 volunteers with Journey of Hope; Leah Geislinger ’94 serves our country; Jessica Boerboom’s friends meet to plan her son Joe’s fundraiser (see page 24); and Anne Keppel Rusert ’84 on an Annunciation Youth Ministries trip to Pine Ridge, SD, in July 2016.
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