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Winter 2010 Faith IN THE REAL WORLD imagithen impacte you can make Your gift to the Annual Fund provides scholarships and Rachael Chesley ’11. as a Jumped into Saint Mary’s life by joining the Class Gift Campaign and working as a phonathon caller. as a sophomore Lived “La Dolce Vita” with other Saint Mary’s women in Rome. as a junior Pioneered Saint Mary’s new student exchange program recruited other students for this transforming experience. as a senior Leads the campus community as Student Body President while using her experience abroad to create a mentoring program for international students on Saint Mary’s campus. Saint Mary’s students are dynamic women determined to change the world. Saint Mary’s provides the academic foundation and spiritual focus they need to build a better tomorrow. Read more about Rachael at saintmarys.edu/rachael-chesley. You can give our Saint Mary’s students the scholarships and financial aid that sets it all in motion, just like you did for Rachael. you make education possible for our students. Visit us online at saintmarys.edu/give or call 800-SMC-8871. The Annual Fund volume 85, number 4 winter 2010 The Saint Mary’s College Courier (USPS 135-340) is published four times a year by Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001. Periodicals postage paid at the Post Offi ce at Notre Dame, IN 46556 and at additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, 110 Le Mans Hall, TABLE OFCONTENTS Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001. Copyright 2010 Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. The opinions features expressed are those of the authors or their subjects and are not necessarily shared by the College or the editor. 4 The Realist: Faith, One Step at a Time Shari Rodriguez Vice President for College Relations [email protected] 5 The Optimist: Keeping the Faith Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Acting Assistant Vice President Integrated Marketing Communications 7 Saint Mary’s religion professors [email protected] share their scholarship on faith. Courier Staff Kay Kenney PAGE 4 • Mary: Woman of Faith, in the Real World Editor • Faith and the Company You Keep [email protected] the realist Shannon E. Brewer ’03 Contributing Writer 10 Alumnae Pay Tribute Ann Jacobson to Bruno Schlesinger Contributing Editor and Writer Sarah Miesle ’07 Sports Information Director 11 Young Alumnae Arrive on Campus Christina Duthie To Share a World of Experience Graphic Designer Matt Cashore Zara Osterman 13 Social Media: How to Connect Photographers Julie McGrail Editorial Intern 16 Lily Tomlin Letters PAGE 7 Send letters to the editor to: Courier Editor 17 The Age of Norman LaLiberte Saint Mary’s College scholars discuss faith 303 Haggar College Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 284-4578 or email [email protected] Class News Send alumnae class news to: departments Alumnae News Editor 110 Le Mans Hall Saint Mary’s College 3 Inside Saint Mary’s Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 or email [email protected] 19 Avenue News Alumnae Association Staff Kara O’Leary ’89 21 Published and Presented Director of Alumnae Relations [email protected] PAGE 17 22 For the Record Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations laliberte 24 Club News [email protected] The Mission 26 Class News Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, residential, women’s college in the 27 Excelsior liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the education of women, the College is an academic community where women develop their talents and prepare to on the cover make a difference in the world. Communications major Julie McGrail ’12 Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, and Photo by Matt Cashore social responsibility. All members of the College remain faithful to this mission and continually assess their response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. The Alumnae Association Board of Directors Honorary President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 insidesaintmary’s President Linda Kawecki ’79 6948 Lakeshore Drive Dallas, TX 75214-3550 (214) 327-9355 • [email protected] Vice President Rebecca Votto Bennett ’93 600 Monterey Blvd. Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (310) 597-9210 • [email protected] Secretary Karen McNamara Weaver ’91 513 Southwest Gentry Lane Lees Summit, Missouri 64081 (816) 761-4374 • [email protected] Directors Christine M. Bodewes ’87 4696 Snow Hill Road Salisbury, MD 21804-1516 (217) 971-0923 • [email protected] Faith, in the Real World Sarah Brown ’05 by Kay Kenney, Courier editor 704 Churchill Drive Charleston, WV 25314-1743 (202) 413-5083 • [email protected] Jill Moore Clouse ’99 Experiencing and planning life is a full-time job. How you 3202 North Paulina Street, 2S Chicago, IL 60657 go about your daily business may be defi ned by your personal (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] faith or, more practically, by the amount of patience you have Mary Sue Dunn Curry ’85 at any given moment. Our faith and principles instruct us on 5434 Flowering Dogwood Lane Charlotte, NC 28270-3729 how to treat the cashier working at the grocery store. But if we’ve trudged a long (704) 814-7967 • [email protected] line for 20 minutes to buy one carton of milk, our faith may take a detour. Nora Barry Fischer ’73 U.S. Post Offi ce and Courthouse 700 Grant Street, Suite 5260 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 Our faith, in the real world, gives defi nition to our successes and sorrows. For the judge_nora_barry_fi [email protected] past few months, I’ve been reading and re-reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Tw o Kathleen Gibboney ’73 13 Evergreen Circle of the main characters, Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, aspire to accomplish Cincinnati, OH 45215-1368 (513) 771-1162 • [email protected] some great purpose to improve the lives of others. Th ey both fail, in part because of Annette H. Isom ’83 their own fl awed humanity. Yet, Dorothea comes to the realization that any small act to 25019 Taylor Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6823 help “our fellow creatures” is just as essential to living a life of faith as is accomplishing (630) 790-0397 • [email protected] something greater. Lydgate, undone by a scandal not of his making, chooses to Angeline Johnson ’07 114 South Varsity Drive abandon his longheld ambition of caring for the poor while contributing to medical South Bend, IN 46615 [email protected] science by fi nding the “primitive tissue” that animates all life. He goes on to become Monica Stallworth Kolimas, M.D. ’74 a physician to the wealthy, attains fi nancial success, but always regards himself a 20361 Kings Crest Boulevard Hagerstown, MD 21742 failure because he never achieved what he fi rst had dreamed. At the end of the day, (240) 527-3220 • [email protected] Eliot suggests that we must have faith that good works done through small acts of Elizabeth Bermingham Lacy ’66 505 Welwyn Road kindness are just as essential as any grand achievement for the good of our world. Richmond, VA23229-8015 (804) 741-5301 • [email protected] Kathryn Wiedl Mettler, M.D. ’63 In the real world, there will be diffi cult times when we resolve to believe in God’s 715 Registry Lane NE Atlanta, GA 30342-2865 presence, even though we cannot sense it at that moment. In the real world, we (404) 262-7454 • [email protected] may need to defi ne faith as Heidi Cerneka ’87, a Marynoll missionary who works as Priscilla Karle Pilon ’86 5478 Doliver Drive a human rights advocate, does—simply by taking one step at a time. In the real Houston, TX 77056 (713) 622-3438 • [email protected] world, we may fi nd our faith renewed through a simple letter sent by an acquaintance Lisa Maxbauer Price ’99 who will never know how much that letter meant in restoring our faith. 3088 Pinveview Drive Traverse City, MI 49684 (917) 518-4345 • [email protected] From the Courier, here’s hoping that your faith in the real world brings you joy. Dawn Parker Santamaria ’81 2 Gravel Hill Road Asbury, NJ 08802-1347 (908) 735-6716 • [email protected] Barbara Wolfston Urrutia ’74 423 Bark Drive Redwood City, CA 94065-1101 (650) 593-4958 • [email protected] Phyllis Sullivan Van Hersett ’62 10507 Jaguar Drive Littleton, Colorado 80124-5200 (303) 790-9265 • [email protected] Abby Van Vlerah ’04 95 Beekman Avenue, Apt. 517H Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591 (307) 399-0652 • [email protected] Student Member Jingqiu Guan ’11 374 Regina North Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame, IN 46556 (574) 339-9709 • [email protected] 3 | Winter 2010 COVER STORY = faith in the real world THE REALIST: Faith, one step at a time by Shannon E. Brewer ’03 One early evening as she was walking home from work, Heidi Cerneka ’87 was stopped on the stoop of the bakery near her house in São Paulo, Brazil, when she heard some- one call her name. She turned and saw Fabiana, a Brazilian Moreover, Cerneka says she was born with the “it’s not fair” gene. She has always had the desire, the drive, and the woman, mother of an HIV-positive son, and former prison confi dence to contribute what skills she had to making the inmate whose case Heidi has followed through the Brazilian world a better place. “In college, I remember my mother told me that she thought I should be a public defender.