Winter 2008

The Revolution of Residential in the Digital Age imaginea stronger community Sarah Dalton ’09 has already made a diff erence and she’s just getting started.

as a fi rst-year Led Circle K at Saint Mary’s, a student service group

as a sophomore Encouraged students to serve the community

as a junior Raised $60,000 for Riley Hospital for Children

as a senior Plans to pursue a graduate degree in counseling

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 Sarah at saintmarys.edu/sarah-dalton

You can give them the scholarships and fi nancial aid that sets it all in motion, just like you did for Sarah. you make education possible for our students. Please make a gift to the Annual Fund for scholarships and fi nancial aid. Visit us online at saintmarys.edu/give or call 800-SMC-8871. The Annual Fund Volume 83, Number 4 tableof contents Winter 2008

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, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001.

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Shari Rodriguez Vice President for College Relations [email protected] Page 4 Page 10 Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Acting Assistant Vice President Integrated Marketing Communications [email protected]

Courier Staff: Scot Erin Briggs Editor features [email protected] Natalie Davis Miller Staff Writer 4 Spes Unica: Plugged 12 Part of a Community ... Shannon E. Brewer ’03 In and Part of a Even After You Leave Staff Writer Joya Helmuth Community Alumnae Kim Holly Maher ’05 and Graphic Designer The new technology in Spes Unica Ashley Thornburg ’05 carry on the Saint Mary’s tradition. Matt Cashore Hall is bringing students and Janet Graham professors together—and moving Zara Osterman Photographers them into the future. Letters: Send letters to the editor to: departments Courier Editor 6 Going Where We Saint Mary’s College 303 Haggar College Center Are Needed Notre Dame, IN 46556 Saint Mary’s new communicative 2 Letter from the Editor or e-mail [email protected] disorders major offers students a Class News: new career option. 17 Avenue News Send alumnae class news to: Alumnae News Editor 110 Le Mans Hall 20 For the Record Saint Mary’s College 8 Crosses of Spes Unica Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 23 Club News or e-mail [email protected] New artwork evokes mission Alumnae Association Staff: and future. 26 Class News Kara O’Leary ’89 Director of Alumnae Relations 28 Excelsior [email protected] 10 Thoughts That Count: Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 12 Days of Christmas Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations [email protected]

Saint Mary’s students, faculty, and The Mission staff look at the causes of poverty and Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, what can be done. residential, women’s college in the liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the education of women, the College is an academic community where women develop their talents and prepare to make a difference in the world. Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes On the cover: a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, and Offi ce for Civic and Social Engagement organizers of the Twelve Days social responsibility. All members of of Christmas project. See story on p. 10. the College remain faithful to this mission and continually assess their Photo by Matt Cashore response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. The Alumnae Association letterfrom the editor 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 People Make the Difference Secretary JudyMary MardoianSue Dunn GavoorCurry ’85 ’76 10305434 SirFlowering William Dogwood Lane Lane LakeCharlotte, Forest, NC IL 28270-3729 60045 This issue focuses on the modern residential college experience. In what has been dubbed (847)(704) 235-2759814-7967 • [email protected]@carolina.rr.com a digital age, when college students can take classes online and information can be delivered Directors at nearly the speed of light, the benefits of a residential experience merit a second look. As Sheila Conlin Brown ’56 7251 2390 East Street my staff and I began planning the stories we wanted to tell, we had to ask ourselves in what Princeton, IL 61356 (815) 659-3040 • [email protected] ways students benefit by moving away from home to live with roommates they’ve never met, by walking to an actual classroom everyday taught by an in-the-flesh professor, or by getting Jill Moore Clouse ’99 3202 North Paulina Street, 2S involved with philanthropic efforts when they could just make a donation online? Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] The answers emerged gradually as we interviewed people. Even more revealing than what

MaryNora BarrySue Dunn Fischer Curry ’73 ’85 they told us about projects and ideas near and dear to them, was the way they told us. 5434U.S. Post Flowering Office Dogwood and Courthouse Lane For one story, I went to speak with Professor Phyllis Kaminski, chair of the Religious Studies Charlotte,700 Grant NCStreet, 28270-3729 Suite 5260 (704)Pittsburgh, 814-7967 PA 15219 • [email protected] Department, about iconography. I asked her what happens when you begin combining sacred

NoraLinda BarryKawecki Fischer ’79 ’73 symbols from different cultures. “Ah!” she said and picked up a book that was lying open on her U.S.6948 Post Lakeshore Office Driveand Courthouse 700Dallas, Grant TX 75214-3550Street, Suite 5260 desk, Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside, flipped to find the Pittsburgh,(214) 327-9355 PA 15219 • [email protected] right page, and handed it to me, as if she had just been pondering that very question. Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 Afterward, I went to the library to look up a word in the Oxford English Dictionary when 944 Spannwood Road Indianapolis, IN 46228 Librarian Bob Hohl came over to offer his assistance. When I told him what I was looking for, (317) 253-4494 • [email protected] he too responded with, “Ah!” He picked up a Greek etymological dictionary and looked up the ElizabethLeeAnn Franks Bermingham McConnell Lacy ’85 ’66 word in its language of origin. I always knew Bob’s knowledge was encyclopedic, but I was still 5051006 Welwyn Eastland Road Drive Richmond,Sturgis, MI VA49091 23229-8105 amazed to find out he is fluent in Greek. When I said so, he just smiled and shrugged. (804)(269) 741-5301651-9955 • [email protected]@yahoo.com Another feature took me to visit Carrie Call, director of the Office for Civic and Social LeeAnnKathryn FranksWiedl Mettler, McConnell M.D. ’85 ’63 Engagement, to ask her about the Twelve Days of Christmas program she coordinates and what 1006715 Registry Eastland Lane Drive NE Sturgis,Atlanta, GAMI 4909130342-2865 the response has been from Saint Mary’s community. “Oh!” she said. “They love it!” Call went (269)(404) 651-9955262-7454 • [email protected]@bellsouth.net on to recount that she began the program at the College because she wanted to replicate a KarenAdriana Zagrocki Garces McDonaldPetty ’01 ’76 P.O.1615 Box Altgeld 87 Street program that she had seen blossom at a church she had pastored in New Jersey. UnionSouth Pier,Bend, MI IN 49129 46614 It didn’t stop there. As we talked to people about the new technology in Spes Unica, the new (269)(574) 469-9625514-3237 • [email protected]@saintmarys.edu academic building, they lit up. The same happened when we interviewed the faculty of the new AdrianaDawn Parker Garces Santamaria Petty ’01 ’81 16152 Gravel Altgeld Hill Road Street communicative disorders major and the families that had been impacted by it. SouthAsbury, Bend, NJ 08802-1347 IN 46614 (574)(908) 514-3237735-6716 • [email protected]@tallshipunicorn.com Excitement was recurrent throughout and the benefits of a residential experience became apparent. Students at Saint Mary’s move away from family and in with roommates who begin LisaSusan Maxbauer M. Suchy Price ’89 ’99 Post9225 Towers South Clifton Park Avenue as strangers and end up as life-long friends. They walk to class everyday in an atmosphere 75Evergreen West Street, Park, AptIL 60805-1508 2B New(708) York, 636-5915 NY 10006-1791 • [email protected] intentionally designed to remind them of how their education is distinctive and what they are (917) 518-4345 • [email protected] called to do with it. They are met along the way by staff members eager and able to help them. Kimmi Martin Troy ’00 Susan14644 Stonington M. Suchy Court ’89 They are taught by professors who spend a lot of time pondering big questions and important Granger,9225 South IN 46530Clifton Park Avenue (574)Evergreen 271-8588 Park, IL• [email protected] ideas and who walk into their classrooms impassioned. They become active with philanthropic (708) 636-5915 • [email protected] Barbara Wolfston Urrutia ’74 programs on campus and they get to see the results, the way their efforts have helped people. Kimmi423 Bark Martin Drive Troy ’00 Every story in this issue illustrates how people interacting with each other—sharing ideas, Redwood936 Currie City, Place CA 94065-1101 (650)Wauwatosa, 593-4958 WI 53213• [email protected] implementing new teaching methods, connecting people who want to help with people who (414) 771-0306 • [email protected] Phyllis Sullivan Van Hersett ’62 need it—can be revolutionary. Phyllis10507 Jaguar Sullivan Drive Van Hersett ’62 Littleton,10507 Jaguar CO 80124 Drive (303)Littleton, 790-9265 CO 80124 • [email protected] (303) 790-9265 • [email protected] Abby Van Vlerah ’04 Abby1560 Lane Van 110 Vlerah West Otter’04 Lake Angola,303 East IN LaSalle, 46703 Apt. 112B (307)South 399-0652Bend, IN 46617 • [email protected] (307) 399-0652 • [email protected] Scot Erin Briggs is editor of Courier. Rebecca Votto ’93 RebeccaApt. C, 930 W.Votto Balboa ’93 Boulevard NewportApt. C, 930 Beach, W. Balboa CA 92661 Boulevard (310)Newport 597-9210 Beach, CA• [email protected] 92661 (310) 597-9210 • [email protected] Karen McNamara Weaver ’91 Karen513 Southwest McNamara Gentry Lane Weaver ’91 Lees513 SouthwestSummit, MO Gentry 64081 Lane (816)Lees Summit,761-4374 MO • [email protected] (816) 761-4374 • [email protected]

2 COURIER | | Winter Spring 2008 2008

By Natalie Davis Miller

From the rafters to the routers, the newest building on Saint Mary’s campus was built to help students stay plugged in and part of a community. The 68,000+-square-foot building houses 18 state-of-the-art classrooms, offi ces, laboratories, conference rooms, and a café. Faculty, students, and staff can access the outside world and each other through hardwired and wireless internet access. High-tech doesn’t have to translate to isolated and disengaged. Saint Mary’s remains committed to the residential experience while it moves into the future with cutting edge technology. This commitment can be seen in the way technology campus-wide is put to use to bringing people together. In Spes Unica Hall, basic technology in every classroom is the common denominator, according to Janice Thomasson, chief information offi cer in the information technology department. Spes Unica Plugged In and Part of a Community For example, all classrooms have access to computers with internet connection, DVD players, and what Thomasson says is a “hot” item that faculty have embraced—document cameras. Very much like an opaque projector, a professor can lay an object on it and the object will be projected onto a screen. Two collaboratories, or high-tech classrooms, come equipped with a central touch panel, similar to a universal remote. “It turns on all of the equipment in one place without you having to go all over the room. That to me is probably the coolest,” says Thomasson. Mary Connolly, professor of mathematics and management information systems, speaks highly of how the collaboratories are used in Spes Unica. Students work on a computer, and the professor has the ability to view their work from his or her computer, as well as share it with the rest of the class. “In our programs we focus on learning to work in a group, getting around a computer,” says Connolly. She sees Spes Unica as a “showcase” and adds that the technology in Spes Unica is seamless. “A professor doesn’t have to worry about how to use it—it’s very user friendly.” Professor Connolly sees this kind of technology as having a real impact on students’ educational experience as well as their future. “We graduate people into fabulous jobs,” says Connolly. Staying connected with the world is a priority met through the state-of-the-art videoconferencing equipment located in a meeting room in Spes Unica. The equipment is used in many ways, including staying connected to students participating in our study abroad programs. The utility of high-tech, however, often depends on unplugged functionality. The furniture in Spes Unica received critical consideration. “We found out that confi guring furniture is very important,” says Thomasson. “A lot of it isn’t even about the technology, it’s more about having furniture where you can move it around and easily get a bunch of students together quickly with their laptops.” Wireless internet access allows students to stay connected to the internet, as well as each other as they work on projects. All of this new technology complements the existing technology at the College that professors use to bolster the residential experience. One such program is Blackboard, a learning management system, explains Dan Mandell, assistant instructor of instructional technology. Blackboard is a software

A student reviews class work in one of the comfortable chairs found on 4 COURIER | Winter 2008 the second fl oor of Spes Unica Hall. program that facilitates interaction between students and Blackboard also allows students to follow their progress in their professors. It encourages small group work, allows the course, so that they know how they’re doing and when it’s for interactive feedback online, and it helps professors to time to come to me to look for extra help.” evaluate students’ progress. Kingcaid also uses other existing technology on campus, “It’s set up so that students can work collaboratively in such as the language labs in Regina Hall. “In language groups, which is a little more motivating than struggling teaching and learning, the ability to connect with the real alone,” explains Mandell. “It facilitates collaboration— world in real time has been revolutionary. Students have students can be in different locations, but working together already lost their old sense that language is ‘book learning,’ on the same project.” and know from their own experiences online that the world’s For professors, Blackboard is a tool that supplements cultures all use different languages to communicate,” their courses online. Psychology major Michelle Couri ’09 explains Kingcaid. “So the internet has given language is required to use Blackboard for one of her classes. Even teaching an immediacy that was never possible before.” though she may be working from the comfort of her bedroom Kingcaid gives an example of learning expressions for on her laptop, she’s staying connected to her professor and weather in another language, and then being able to go other students. “When you have a Blackboard discussion, online to find out more about that area. “We can get news, you go online and you are basically able to take everything cultural pieces, and language practice exercises almost you’ve learned from class—lecture, readings, homework, instantaneously. This is an enormous difference from the old model of relying primarily on the textbook and needing significant money and time to gather and Plugged In and Part of a Community disseminate similar materials to enhance the audio-visual component of all material involved—and it gives you a chance to collect the class,” explains Kingcaid. Nursing and business students information and take it in, then put it into your own words are also studying language in the Interlangua Lab located on online with the group,” explains Couri. “It enhances learning the library mezzanine. The lab is equipped with computers because you have time to reflect—more time than you would with Web cams and headsets, allowing students to converse sitting in class.” with native Spanish speaking tutors in Guatemala. Renee Kingcaid, chair of the Department of Modern Whether learning to speak a new language, working Languages, uses Blackboard as both a learning and through a complicated equation, or collaborating as part assessment tool. “I use Blackboard in all of my courses to of a group, students at Saint Mary’s reap the benefits of post daily class activities and homework, provide guidelines both cutting-edge educational technology and the personal for test preparation, and guide the students to online attention that no technology can replace. resources for the course,” says Kingcaid. “Posting grades on Students study in the spacious atrium in Spes Unica Hall.

COURIER | Winter 2008 5 Communicative disorders professor Susan Latham ’91 with communicative disorders Latham ’91 works with Danny, a client of Saint majors Amanda Blackwell ’09, Kendra Mary’s Speech-Language-Hearing Services. Fallet ’10, and Ashley Moritz ‘09.

Ashley Moritz ’09 designed a therapy program for Danny, whom she works with each week. going where we are needed

By Shannon E. Brewer ’03 “Founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, and social responsibility. All members of the College remain faithful to this mission and continually assess their response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world.” —Saint Mary’s College Mission Statement

Saint Mary’s continues to live by the tenet set by the With the assistance of the College’s curriculum committee, College’s founders, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, to go where Latham designed the major program, which became official we are needed. This year, with this directive in mind, the this year. Now Saint Mary’s provides the only communicative College has established a new communicative disorders disorders program in northern Indiana. The communicative major. The major, which prepares students for careers in disorders program is an intensive study of speech, language, speech and language pathology, audiology, and other speech and hearing disorders, mild to severe, in populations, infant and hearing professions, has been a minor here since 1995. to elderly. Research and study prepares students to work with But according to Assistant Professor Susan Latham ’91, the population they choose. They learn, for example, to guide coordinator of the communicative disorders program, two stroke victims through recovery of their speech and language, very important factors inspired her to broaden the program. diagnose and help treat children with speech delays, or work “We needed a major program here,” she says, “because the with infants in need of feeding therapy. students demanded it, and my profession needs it.” There For students, the new major is a pathway to another is a growing need for speech and language pathologists career choice that they have readily embraced. According throughout the country, and students with an interest in to Latham’s November 2008 count, there are currently 21 providing those kinds of services are responding to that need. students planning to major in communicative disorders,

6 COURIER | Winter 2008 Latham ’91 and Danny’s mom, Kathy Ratkiewicz, watch Danny’s therapy session from the observation room.

Ten-year-old Danny works on pronouncing words he’ll use in everyday life, like “slushy,” one of his favorite treats. going where we are needed along with 19 intended minors. Amanda Blackwell ’09 is a double major in communicative disorders and psychology, double major in communicative disorders and education. have been profoundly affected by their work with clients She is preparing for graduate coursework and an eventual through Speech-Language-Hearing Services. Moritz works career as a speech and language pathologist (SLP). “I have a with one client, 10-year-old Danny, one day a week as part strong desire to work with children who have autism,” she of a clinical practicum class. Danny has difficulty producing explains. “While growing up in Columbus, Ohio, I worked certain sounds and Moritz has designed a therapy program with a family who had quintuplets. One of the children is for him, which they work on together during his visits. After profoundly hard of hearing.” Blackwell was fascinated by five weeks of preparation in the clinical practicum class, the job of the SLP who came to work with her young charge. Moritz researched Danny’s background and spoke with “But it wasn’t until I took Introduction to Communicative his mother to learn more about his needs. “With all of this Disorders with Dr. Latham that I began to seriously information, I came up with some long-term objectives contemplate making it my career.” Blackwell is now the to design the therapy sessions around,” she says. But, as president of the Communicative Disorders Club, a student with most clients, Moritz finds herself constantly adapting group on campus that promotes the profession and brings her original plan to accommodate Danny’s needs. “As we awareness to the populations the students serve. progress, I am constantly evaluating his performance on the Blackwell is already working with the children she’s speech and language activities we do. As his communication interested in helping after graduation. Perhaps the most skills develop, I am modifying the objectives we focus on in profound and impactful parts of the program are the hands- therapy to meet his needs.” on learning components. “Hands-on learning experiences Therapy takes place in Spes Unica Hall, Saint Mary’s new really enhance learning in the classroom. I don’t think we academic building. In the Department of Psychology and could do what we do on a daily basis without having had Communicative Disorders, there is a lab filled with toys and some direct interaction with clients,” says Blackwell. books, all colorful tools that engage children during sessions. Throughout their courses, communicative disorders The therapy that takes place here and the bonds students majors put theory into practice, applying their study and form with their clients are at the heart of the communicative research of speech and language to real-life client situations. disorders program. “I think that working with Danny has They also learn the ins and outs of the speech and hearing been great,” says Moritz. “I feel much more prepared for the sciences and participate in supervised therapy through career path I have chosen to pursue. Through internships various internships, volunteer positions, and the Speech- and work experience with children, I have learned to follow Language-Hearing Services at Saint Mary’s College program. each child’s lead and to learn what motivates each one of Blackwell and a fellow classmate Ashley Moritz ’09, a them.”

COURIER | Winter 2008 7 The Crosses of Tau Cross Spes Unica

By Scot Erin Briggs

This is a story of symbols. Once the new academic building, the longtime dream of more than 600 donors, stood Triparted Cross gleaming in the fall light, it needed a name. We needed a symbol, a concise way to refer to this new campus destination, but the name should also reflect both the tradition that is its foundation and the future that it represents. It was, in short, a tall order. Once suggested, however, the designation was accepted unanimously. It would be called Spes Unica Hall, borrowed from the motto of the Congregations of the Holy Cross and the College: “Ave Crux, Spes Unica,” which translates from Latin to “Hail O Cross, our only hope.” At this point in the story, serendipity steps in. Sister Agnes Anne Roberts, CSC, who is Saint Mary’s director of facilities planning, happened upon the artwork of PennyLea Mackie while visiting Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, a hospital founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. The art she saw was a series of crosses commissioned for the hospital. Sister Agnes Anne returned to Saint Mary’s inspired. Sun Cross A series of paintings was commissioned for Spes Unica. Again, the sine qua non was that the art should represent both the tradition and the future of Saint Mary’s. The result was a blending of symbols: the cross as it has been depicted within different cultures. The paintings include Indian, Chinese, and Native American representations, among others. The paintings are bordered with complementary symbols from each culture. The finished art now hangs outside Spes Unica classrooms. Symbols have an interesting history. The word “symbol” comes from the ancient Greek practice of breaking an object into pieces so that the owners of those pieces could prove their identity at a future date by showing that the pieces fit together. Think of those “best friend” pendants, shaped like a heart (or the symbol for a heart, more properly), where each friend wears half. Chinese Cross This idea of a symbol as a piece of whole, lends depth to the idea that the meaning of symbols can change and that they can be combined to create a new meaning. “It’s a wonderful playground for me to immerse myself in, these symbols,” says the artist, PennyLea Mackie, who calls herself “a lover of God.” For Mackie, the cross represents “that point where the seen and the unseen meet.” The borders “bring it into the material world, onto a more material plane without subtracting from that transcendence. The borders let you feel comfortable enough with the image to immerse yourself in what it symbolizes.” “The cross is an ambiguous symbol,” says Professor Phyllis Kaminski, chair of the Religious Studies Department. “A symbol of death,” she says, noting that in the time that Jesus lived, execution by crucifixion was common, “becomes a symbol of salvation.” Sister Rose Anne Schultz, vice president for mission, says this symbol of salvation leads Latin Cross students back to the College’s mission. “As you pass the cross, you remember that you are loved, that Jesus loves you very much. It’s a sign of that love. Anytime you know you’re loved, there’s an invitation to express that love yourself. How are you willing to give of yourself?” “These crosses become a symbol of our catholicity with a small ‘c’ as well as our Catholicism. So it becomes a kind of outreach,” says Professor Kaminski. “We are using a traditional symbol to point us in a future direction.” Tau Cross The Tau Cross is an ancient symbol named after the Greek letter it resembles. Saint Francis of Assisi often told his brother friars that their religious habit was in the same shape as the Tau cross. He exhorted them to go out into the world, wearing this cross like an incarnation Tullylease Cross of Christ. St. Francis used the Tau Cross as his signature, and it continues to be cherished by Franciscans worldwide.

8 COURIER | Winter 2008 Triparted Cross The Triparted Cross represents the Trinity. It is comprised of three vertical and three horizontal arms, all of equal length and arranged in such a way that their intersections resemble basket weaving, each piece integrated with the others in a woven center. The resulting twelve arm ends can also correspond to the twelve Apostles. Sun Cross The Sun Cross is one of the oldest and most widespread of spiritual symbols, appearing in Asian, American, European, and Indian religious art. Composed of an equal armed cross within a circle, the four divisions within the circle represent the four seasons, marked by the solstices. In Christian iconography, it most closely resembles the monstrance with the Eucharist displayed in the center. St. Cuthbert’s Cross Chinese Cross on Lotus Flower The mounting of the cross on the lotus flower is a common iconographic motif to be seen on Indian and Chinese artifacts dating from the fourth century. This is evidence of an early Christian presence on both continents. In Buddhist symbolism the lotus flower represents purity and beauty. Ancient Vedic teachers considered the world to be a giant lotus with India, Iran, Central Asia and China seen as its four petals with the Himalayas as its center. The cross at its center symbolizes the rule of Christ over the entire world. Latin Cross The cross on which Jesus died became a later symbol of the Christian faith, replacing the lamb, fish, alpha/omega, and phoenix as emblems. The Latin Cross has become associated with Roman Catholicism and is often shown in different shapes and sizes, in many St. Brighid’s Cross different styles. When the cross has a figure of our Lord painted or sculpted on it, it is called a crucifix. Tullylease Cross Many freestanding upright crosses, depicting a labyrinth of various patterns, were erected by Irish monks in Celtic regions of Ireland. The Tullylease Cross is an 8th century artifact found in the ruins of the monastery founded by St. Berichter in County Cork. The cross consists of a labyrinth of key patterns. The labyrinth is an ancient symbol found around the world. In the Christian sense, it represents the journey of life, or pilgrimage, toward God. St. Cuthbert’s Cross St. Cuthbert, originally a Celtic Christian, was a medieval Anglo-Saxon monk and Bishop of Lindisfarne in the Kingdom of Northumbria. He is called Eastern Orthodox Cross “Wonder-worker of England” due to numerous and extraordinary miracles celebrated in his name. St. Cuthbert’s Cross is a replica of the cross with which he was buried. The cross is seen mainly on heraldic regalia and similar ceremonial dress. It has four equal-length arms to fit the shape of shields in coats-of-arms. St. Brighid’s Cross The St. Brighid’s Cross is a very delicate looking cross usually made from plaited straw. According to legend, the Irish St. Brighid was comforting a dying pagan chieftain and picked up some rushes from the floor to weave into a simple cross as she told him the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. After hearing the story, the man asked for forgiveness of his sins, converted to Christianity, and then died. Eastern Orthodox Cross The Eastern Orthodox Cross is made up of three bars crossing Patonce Cross a vertical pole. The top bar represents the plaque bearing Pontius Pilate’s inscription. The lower slanting beam represents the footrest, since the Eastern Church believed that Christ was crucified with his feet side by side, and not placed one on top of the other. Its angled position suggests the Cross of St. Andrew, the apostle who introduced Christianity into Russia. Patonce Cross The Patonce Cross is any form of cross which has expanded ends with each arm terminating in floriated points like the Fleur-de-lis Cross. In heraldry, the three petals represent faith, wisdom and chivalry. The four arms spread these to the four corners of the world. As a Christian Cross, the three petals represent the Trinity and the total twelve petals represent the Apostles. Titulus Cross Titulus Cross When crucifixions were commonplace it was customary to place a board at the top of the cross listing the crimes of the crucified person. The board on which the proclamation was written was called titulus cruces. If a Christian cross has an inscription, it is most often INRI, since this represents the wording on Christ’s cross. Native American Cross This cross image dates back to the late 19th century, southwestern United States territories. The chevrons and the arrows pay homage to the four cardinal directions while pointing to the center position of the heart. Many followers of Native American spirituality do not regard their spiritual beliefs and practices as a “religion” in the way in which many Christians do. Their beliefs and practices form an integral and seamless part of their Native American Cross very being.

COURIER | Winter 2008 9 Thoughts that Count: Twelve Days of Christmas

Members of the Saint Mary’s community—students and student-athletes, faculty and staff, religious and laity—come together to contribute to the Twelve Days of Christmas program. The “Jingle Belles Rock” shirts many are wearing were sold as one of many fundraising projects this year.

By Scot Erin Briggs

“How much do we really know about poverty and the comes together to try to meet their need. This year, fourteen people who live in poverty?” This is the question that Carolyn families and more that 25 individuals in need in St. Joseph Call hopes the Twelve Days of Christmas program raises County received food, clothing, and gifts as a result of the and begins to address. In its fourth year at Saint Mary’s, the program. program was established by Call, director of the Office for The program includes 12 days of events, a blend of both Civic and Social Engagement (OCSE), and has been met exuberant celebrations and solemn reflection, designed with enthusiasm from students, faculty, and staff. “They to both celebrate the season and raise awareness in the love it,” says Call. “The students here have the biggest spirit of the season. This year, members of the Saint Mary’s hearts of anywhere I’ve ever been, and faculty and staff are community sold their art, their crafts, and t-shirts, all to raise unbelievably generous.” money for the program. They also made gingerbread houses, Reaching out to organizations such as the Salvation Army, sent candygrams, and decorated cookies and ornaments, Saint Mary’s Title 1 partner schools, Mental Health America, and made Christmas cards for children at St. Joseph Regional Grandparents as Parents, and REAL Services, OCSE first Medical Center. They gave blood. They learned about identifies people in need. Then the Saint Mary’s community other cultures at Multicultural Desserts night hosted by

10 COURIER | Winter 2008 Thoughts that Count: Twelve Days of Christmas Multicultural Services and Student Programs, learned about the traditions and history of Kwanzaa, and participated in the Latin American tradition of Las Posadas. Advent Vespers and a bilingual Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadelupe were also held as part of the week’s celebration. Carla Killelea, Principal at Warren Primary Center, a Title 1 partner school, says the benefits of this program are both tangible and intangible. “Saint Mary’s College in partnership with Warren Primary Center is making a difference in a single mom’s life with three boys—one is autistic—and making sure their living conditions are appropriate, such as having a furnace that works for the winter. Christmas is the most celebrated Christian holiday and together we can stamp out apathy for the less fortunate, provide hope for those who’ve lost it, and work together to make this world a better place for all.” Principal Killelea emphasizes that the real gift of a program such as 12 Days of Christmas “is not temporary wealth but hope. Hope is the foundation of belief in one’s self because others believe. Hope is the glimmer of faith that sustains us all in our most difficult moments.” One of the powerful effects of this program, both for the giver and the receiver, is the way it can impact their thinking. Office for Civic and Social Engagement organizers of the Twelve Days of Christmas project. “We want to invite people to ask why,” says Regina Wilson, Row 1 (standing, left to right): Assistant Director of OCSE Olivia Barzydlo assistant director of Campus Ministry. “Why are there women Critchlow and Director of OCSE Carrie Call and children living like this? And what’s the next step for Row 2: Alicia Wilkins, Joellyn Frain, and Anabel Castaneda me? Could I advocate for a living wage? Join Bread for the Row 3: Lizzy Pugh and Beth Caldwell World?” Campus Ministry is leading awareness-raising efforts Row 4: Caitlin Cummins and Jen Kornexl with fliers about poverty and its causes. Their fliers include Row 5: Jayde Kennedy and Emily Tarnacki thought-provoking statistics about poverty, such as the fact Row 6: Alma Bravo that children make up 39% of the total poor, that women account for 58% of the low-wage workforce, and that 28 million people between the ages of 18 and 64 earn less than Theresa Klinkhammer ’09 organized the dinner. “It is $9.04 an hour. important that, while celebrating Our Lady and Saint Mary’s “Saint Mary’s is a place that wants to educate women … College, we keep in mind those of the community who have we talk about changing the world,” says Wilson. “If not experienced the love and beauty which are a part of our transformation is change, then root systems must change, daily lives,” says Klinkhammer. structural mechanisms and systems that keep people in Klinkhammer sees the dinner as having ties to both the places of oppression and poverty.” past and the future. “I was researching the feast day in the At the same time that students are reflecting on these archives in the library and found that there used to be a weighty questions, they also have a lot of fun with the group on campus called the Sodality of the Virgin Mary,” says fundraising according to Maura Clougherty ’09, president Klinkhammer. “This group, one of the most popular groups of Residence Hall Association. This year, Clougherty is on campus, had a Mass of celebration … near the feast of the coordinating the Penny Wars. “Milk jugs sit at the front desk Immaculate Conception. The sodality would have the Mass, of the residence halls,” Clougherty explains. “Pennies are followed by a wonderful dinner where one of the sisters or counted positively while silver coins count negatively.” So, a priest would give a short talk on the Mother of God.” For if a student wants her hall to win and sees that another hall Klinkhammer, holding the dinner on the feast day of the is leading, she can take points away by contributing to the Immaculate Conception is “in some part a remembrance of other hall’s collection. It all adds up to friendly competition former times, but also a hope for the future of Saint Mary’s according to Clougherty. “It’s a really great idea. It’s easy to College.” get involved. You’re doing your part even if you can’t drive off Events such as the dinner, offer the best of what this campus and buy a toy for a child.” program can teach us according to Call. “I hope that it Saint Mary’s students also hosted a dinner on December teaches compassion,” says Call. “One of the things we focus 8, feast day of the Immaculate Conception, and invited on in Catholic social teaching is solidarity: standing with residents from the Center for the Homeless as their guests. people in their need.”

COURIER | Winter 2008 11 Part of a Community ...Even After You Leave

By Shannon E. Brewer ’03

Kim Holly Maher ’05 and Ashley Thornburg ’05 share a passion for Saint Mary’s that has compelled them to stay involved in College life long past their graduation. The two friends and former roommates are now successful career women. They live in different cities and have lives apart from each other. But they make time to reconnect as leaders of the Class of 2005, and participants in their class’s gift campaigns. “At Saint Mary’s I learned that there is no limit on the ways you can share yourself with the people around you,” asserts Maher. These young alumnae make it a priority to give back to the College, which, in their opinion, has given so much to them—challenging academics, lifelong friendships, and preparation for successful careers. It was these experiences that prompted the two friends to donate their time and treasure to the College at an early point in their education. Maher’s and Thornburg’s joint participation in Annual Fund efforts began in their sophomore year. The roommates participated in the sophomore Quarters Campaign, encouraging their classmates to participate as well. The Quarters Campaign, now called the Class Gift Campaign, is a way for students to begin raising funds toward their Senior Gift Campaign. During Maher’s and Thornburg’s tenure, they asked their classmates to give a quarter for each year they had been on campus. The twosome joined forces again for the junior class Quarters Campaign, and then during their senior year Maher and Thornburg decided to co-chair the Class of 2005 Senior Gift Campaign. Both women say the decision was an easy one to make. “Kim and I were roommates for three years and because we were involved in the sophomore and junior class quarters campaign together, it just seemed natural that we would assume that leadership role at the end of junior year,” explains Thornburg. When asked why she decided to chair her class’s Campaign, Maher responds with enthusiasm for the Saint Mary’s experience and a desire to give back. “As a senior, I was in awe of the experience I had and felt a great deal of gratitude,” she says. “By being a part of my class’s Senior Gift Campaign, I was able to give back to Saint Mary’s, and help my classmates see the value of reciprocating the support we had received over the past four years.” Maher is now a third-grade teacher in Manhattan, Ill. She credits her success as a teacher to the example given her by the faculty of Saint

12 COURIER | Winter 2008 Ashley Thornburg and Kim Holly Maher.

Mary’s nationally accredited education program. “In their own ways, each professor I came in contact with helped me to flourish as a student and future educator. I am the teacher and leader I am today because of their support and dedication to this profession.” For Maher, supporting the College financially is her way of ensuring that future Saint Mary’s students are equally challenged and inspired. For Thornburg, a coordinator of amateurism certification for the NCAA Eligibility Center in Indianapolis, Ind., and volunteer cheerleading coach, the leadership skills she developed at Saint Mary’s continue to motivate her participation. “Saint Mary’s gave me the confidence to know that I could make a difference in the lives of others,” says the sports enthusiast. During her senior year, Thornburg was not only the Class Gift Campaign co-chair, she was also the public relations commissioner for the Board of Governance (BOG), a member of the PR and Advertising as they related to class. Dr. Plamondon helped me get an Club, and a member of Lambda Pi Eta, the communications internship at the sports information office at Notre Dame,” honor society. The communications studies graduate says says Thornburg. Now she also holds a master’s degree in she’s grateful for those experiences and the people who sport administration from Indiana University. shaped them. “I loved being challenged by my professors Both Thornburg and Maher want to ensure that the Saint and classmates,” she says. Two professors in the Department Mary’s tradition of educating women lives on, and hope their of Communications, Dance, and Theatre in particular, participation in efforts like the Class of 2005 Gift Campaign Professor Michael Kramer and Professor Ann Plamondon, will inspire fellow alumnae to give something back. “Saint encouraged Thornburg to develop the skills that interested Mary’s is a place that produces some of the best women in her. “Dr. Kramer did a lot in giving me the flexibility and the world and so many alumnae want to preserve that,” encouragement in class to take on athletic-type projects says Thornburg.

COURIER | Winter 2008 13 publishedand presented

John Fotopoulos, associate professor of Religious Studies, his presentation to approximately 100–125 students and the attended the Pauline Symposium of the Ecumenical Patriarch Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at University Putra Malaysia, of Constantinople for the 2008 Year of St. Paul, October Kajang, Malaysia, on March 3. At the 69th Annual Meeting of 11–17. This international academic conference on St. Paul the Association of Southeastern Biologists, April 16–19, 2008, was held in various cities of historical significance in Turkey Platt and D.A. Zelmer presented “Structure and similarity of and Greece. The Orthodox Christian Church sponsored the Helminth communities of six species of Australian turtles.” event. Fotopoulos is the only Orthodox Pauline scholar from Additionally, Platt and J. Sharma presented “Symbiotic the United States invited to attend. Fotopoulos is one of the association of a monhysterid nematode in the perianal folds few Pauline scholars in the world to have been invited to of stinkpot turtles” at the fifth International Congress of the academic conferences of both the Orthodox Christian Nematology, July 13–18, 2008 in Brisbane, Australia. Platt’s Church and the Roman Catholic Church celebrating the exhibition of drawings “Taxonomy” was on display in the Jubilee Year of St. Paul. Fotopoulos recently traveled to Rome Sister Rosaire Gallery in the Moreau Center for the Arts from for the Colloquium Paulinum, a small academic conference August 29, 2008, to September 26, 2008. of international Pauline scholars that met under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Vicente Berdayes, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Dance and Theatre, published an article titled “Official Statistics as Curriculum: Biopolitics and the United States Census in Schools Program in The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies,” 30(2), 85–114. This article discusses a government program that introduces school children to census concepts and practices. Jeffrey Jacob, professor of music, performed a solo piano recital as part of the Guest Artist Series at Rice University’s Kominkiewicz Platt Russ Shepherd School of Music. He also gave a lecture-recital for graduate students on contemporary American piano music. Terri L. Russ, assistant professor of communication He also performed a solo recital at Texas Lutheran University. studies talked to hundreds of college-age women from two other higher education institutions for her new book Bitchin’ Bodies, which was released September 25. As a communication instructor, Russ’ book is largely made up of recorded dialogue of young women talking about their bodies. The book’s title is a double entendre. In popular culture, the ideal body is often referred to with the adjective bitchin’. As a verb, bitchin’ means complaining. Russ believes that by listening to women talk about their quest to have an ideal body, we can better understand how body dissatisfaction impacts all women. Fotopoulos Berdayes Jacob Susan Vance, professor in the Department of Business Administration and Economics, attended a Roundtable Frances Kominkiewicz, associate professor of social Discussion on Financial Education in the Hispanic work, authored a chapter in an internationally published Community in Washington, DC, on June 10, 2008. The book titled “Facilitating Young People’s Development: discussion was sponsored by The Financial Literacy and International perspectives on person-centered theory and Education Commission, which is part of the U.S. Treasury. practice.” Kominkiewicz’s chapter, “Freeing Children to The keynote speaker was Treasurer of the U.S. Anna Tell Their Stories: The utilization of person-centered and Escobedo Cabral. experiential psychotherapy in child welfare investigations,” Bonnie Bazata, associate director of the Center for appears under “New therapeutic methods.” Women’s Intercultural Leadership (CWIL), and Joy Evans, Jerome L. McElroy, professor of economics, and Kara assistant director for scholarship and research at CWIL, B. Pearce ’04 co-authored “The Advantages of Political along with students Adriana Lopez ’08, Sarita Fritzler ’08, and Affiliation: Dependent and Independent Small-island Razia Stanikzia ’08, published an article, “The Catalyst Trip: A Profiles,” pp. 45–55 in G. Baldacchino and D. Milner (eds.), Journey of Transformation,” in the fall 2007 issue of Diversity The Case for Non-Sovereignty: Lessons from Sub-National and Democracy. The article discussed the pedagogy of the Island Jurisdictions. London, UK: Routledge, 2008. McElroy intercultural leadership development program, the Catalyst also published six poems: “Trout Hollow,” Avocet: A Journal Trip, developed by CWIL. CWIL researchers Kimberlie of Nature Poetry (January 2008): 16–17. “Earthy Incense,” Warren and Erin Crawford Cressy also co-authored the Nomad’s Choir (December 2007). “The Man Born Blind,” article. Diversity and Democracy is a periodical published by National Catholic Reporter (January 11, 2008). “Soir Terese the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The of Jesus,” “Simeon Says,” and “Samaritan Spring,” Penwood publication provides campus practitioners with information Review (Spring 2008). about successful diversity initiatives around the country as While on sabbatical, Thomas R. Platt, chair of the they design their own diversity programs, civic engagement Department of Biology, presented a seminar titled “Deer, initiatives, and global learning opportunities to prepare lungworms, the Canadian Rockies and…Malaysia?” He made students for today’s complex world.

14 COURIER | Winter 2008 60th Reunion Record-Breaking

Left to right, top row: Kathleen McCaffery Ward, Martha Finke Faulhaber, Rita Hanley Hupp, Sally Fox Shannon, Katherine McNamara Monaghan Left to right, middle row: Marguerite Chenal Jans, Lila Chenal Milford, Carolyn Powers Powell, Rosemary Kisgen Mullahey, Ruth Ollinger Harwood, Harriet Enneking Moster Left to right, bottom row: Jeanne Remlinger Clark, Dorothy Wick Cornwall, Alice Simons Chermak, Regina Milligan Sweeny, Rosemary Gauer Costa Not pictured: Mary Lou Quinlan Loughlin and Betty Terstegge Dougherty.

Both Moser and Powell note the physical changes of the When it comes to staying campus, with the addition of new buildings such as Spes connected, the class of 1948 Unica Hall. “Every time I return to Saint Mary’s it seems that another building has been erected, and they always seem to wrote the book on it. be building new dining halls,” says Moser. “What is called the ‘old’ dining hall was to us a new one. As for my classmates, well, These octogenarians have stayed in touch with each other new wrinkles do have a way of appearing each year—including and the College over the last sixty years since they graduated mine.” from Saint Mary’s. Eighteen classmates returned for Reunion Powell and Moser stay connected with each other as well 2008, and much of the credit for such a large number of as other classmates via phone, letters, e-mails, and Christmas participants is due to active classmates Carrie Powers Powell cards. The two also have a passion for traveling, and have and Harriet Enneking Moster. They worked with the Alumnae traveled together, including two trips to Europe. Moser, who Relations Offi ce to include a special note to the ’48ers in the describes herself as an “obsessive-compulsive traveler,” says reunion invitations, and then they followed up by phone, the broadness of the subject matter she studied while at Saint e-mail, and postcards to a number of their classmates. Mary’s helped her to enjoy the good things in life. “My liberal “Many of the people who have been faithful in the past were arts background provided the basis for a greater enjoyment.” unable to attend because of family concerns, and then some When she’s not globetrotting, she’s a zoo volunteer educator. showed up who hadn’t been there in 60 years!” says Moster. Powell refl ects on her Saint Mary’s education, and Two classmates, Rosemary Kisgen Mullahey and Mary Lou remembers a class that both she and Moser shared, Survey Quinlin Loughlin came from as far away as California. “It’s of Fine Arts 101, taught by Sister Marie Rosaire. “Our trip to always wonderful seeing classmates, those I see fairly often, and Tuscany with the Saint Mary’s alumnae and families in 2006 was those who I see rarely,” says Moster. “On a couple of occasions probably the culmination of our fi ne arts education, because we I recollect, connecting with a classmate whom I hadn’t known saw so many Renaissance art treasures together!” well in school, and wish I had. That was particularly nice.” Whether they’re on the road, across “the pond,” or making Carrie Powers Powell says returning to campus is “joyful a return trip down the Avenue, these two will surely stay as always” and has attended most of the reunions since she connected to each other, and to the college they love. “Saint graduated. Of the last reunion she says, “It was especially good Mary’s is my college and I have always proudly announced it as to see those who had to make a maximum physical effort my alma mater,” says Moser. “I am extremely impressed with its to be present.” progress—actually somewhat overwhelmed.”

COURIER | Winter 2008 15 developmentnews

Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Honor Roll November 16, 2007 – November 4, 2008

In Memory Of Etta Failla Mary Lou McGill Patricia Podesta Crumley ’65 Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Stephen Amer Adaline Stefanac Cashore ’70 Karla Schultz Goodyear Charlotte Hanley Morrill ’44 Chicago Advisory Council Genevieve Clare Morrill ’98 George S. Brengel Mary Ryan Buddig ’81 Walter Kavanaugh Barbara A. Mudd ’54 Ann Kiefer Casey ’83 Maureen O’Brien Doyle ’67 Lorraine Nigro Cervanyk ’54 Chicago Advisory Council Gretchen Ann Flicker ’93 Mary Lennon Kennedy ’21 Sister M. Alma Peter, CSC Amy Cunningham Goodwine ’91 Helen Kennedy Ryan ’50 Ann Korb ’54 Dona Duncan Hotopp ’63 Kathryn Houser Sanford ’42 Veronica Henry Kessenich ’70 Mary Agnes Majewski Kinnucan ’54 Deborah Johnson Schwiebert ’74 Ann Korb ’54 Beverly Bierbusse Campbell ’54 Jo Ann G. MacKenzie ’69 Jane Flynn Carroll ’54 Dorothy Abel Purcell ’44 Barbara Jacobs Mueller ’74 Lorraine Nigro Cervanyk ’54 Joseph P. Campolo Francine White Quigley ’86 Rose Marie Murphy Foley ’54 David and Wendy Shapiro Jean Ricchiute Ann Korb ’54 Jacqueline Mullins Stent ’87 Marne Roark Roche ’68 Mary Ann Fellinger Ryan ’49 Margaret Sullivan Slankas ’68 Ann P. McCullough ’54 Evelyn Reed Jennifer Mooney Stevens ’74 Marlene Gaubinger McGinn ’54 Barbara Borchers Bernath ’66 Kathleen Huisking Sullivan ’68 Jacquelyn Casey Morsch ’53 Barbara Wolfston Urrutia ’74 Janell Wenzel O’Barski ’54 Patricia A. Manfroni Russ ’79 Ann Meagher Vander Vennet ’59 Olga Nelson Connor Julia Schneeman Gough ’79 KrisAnne Josetta Wilson ’01 Joan A. Rossi ’54 Susan Zurcher Margaret H. Schultz Erin White Schaefer ’54 Rena Bianucci Sereno ’54 Judith Jones Sullivan ’54 Agnes Lauck Darko ’42 Judith Jones Sullivan ’54 Wayne and Linda Adams Jean Zimmerer Thomas ’54 Maxine Trompeter Waltman ’40 Robert and Mary Beth Braitman Rosemary Winters Michael and Margaret Smith James D. Kemper Lewis and Terry Mumford Helen Ridgely Lauerman ’41 Helen Lauerman Thoesen In Honor Of Dolores David Pamela Carey Batz ’70 Mary Lou Ley Delaney ’47 Nancy Stoll Lyman ’82 Adaline Stefanac Cashore ’70 Virginia Lynch Collins ’62 Vallary Dawning Francine White Quigley ’86 Jennifer Veselik Bourjaily ’88 and Deborah Johnson Schwiebert ’74 Ann Bourjaily-Maney ’82 Grace Sullivan McGuire Rita Conley Bourjaily ’56 Kathryn A. Faccenda Adaline Stefanac Cashore ’70 Deborah Johnson Schwiebert ’74 Dagny Lenon Diamond ’49 Reverend Drew Wood Ann Korb ’54 Susan Greco Chambers ’77 Jane Ragen Fahrner ’50 Georgina Voll ’48 Helen Kennedy Ryan ’50 Liesl Yost ’05 Camille Sullivan Yost ’66 The Alumnae Memorial Scholarship

Established in 1994 by past and current members of the Alumnae Association Board of Directors, this endowed scholarship fund enables donors to commemorate a cherished relationship or special occasion with a lasting gift to the College. Scholarship recipients are selected by the College in accordance with financial aid guidelines. Preference is given to relatives of alumnae. 2008–2009 Recipients Kristin Hingstrum ’09 Maura Sommers ’11 daughter of Shawn Foley Hingstrum ’72 sister of Erin Sommers ’07

Erin Valencia ’11 Elizabeth Wade ’11 daughter of Colleen Cannon-Valencia ’81 daughter of Jennifer Janecke Wade ’82

To obtain a gift card packet, please contact the Office of Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556, (574) 284-4578, or e-mail [email protected]. Gifts may also be made online.

16 COURIER | Winter 2008 avenuenews

African American Alumnae Homecoming Shaping a Better Future

“This weekend is as much about the future as the past,” commented President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 in her welcome at the opening of the African American Alumnae Homecoming. The weekend gave current students, alumnae, and administrators the opportunity to talk openly and honestly about past experiences as well as plan for the future. The event also addressed one of the goals of the President’s strategic plan to diversify Saint Mary’s campus. Participants included Juanita Boozer Bay ’52, the first known African American graduate of the College, and Paula Dawning ’71, a member of the College’s Board of Trustees, and members of the student club Sisters of Nefertiti. At the opening reception, the alumnae were presented with red roses from members of the student club, further illustrating the importance of the student-alumnae connection. Alumna Karen Love ’83 expressed feelings about the weekend in a letter summarizing the experience. In closing out her letter she stated, “For African American alumnae pose with members of the student club Sisters of Nefertiti. whatever may or may not come of it, my experience on this weekend, at Saint Mary’s, was one of kindness and caring, and it came from a humble place in the heart of the College. We are needed. What is most striking about the group of administrators with whom we met is their sincerity and commitment to constructive engagement and change.” Love concluded, “This is an amazing time for our country and our world, and much healing can take place, even in small places.”

Mary Lou Mullin, director of major gifts, Board of Trustee member Paula Downing ’71, and Elaine Meyer-Lee, director of the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership, share a laugh at the opening reception of the African American Alumnae Homecoming.

Kristle Hodges ’10 presents a rose to alumna Nancy Harris Funches ’66.

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Panel Discusses Interpretations of Constitution Assistant Professor Michael Kramer teaches the importance of the Constitution to his students and the campus community. For the past four years the College has hosted a Constitution Day Panel for students, faculty, and staff. Kramer has organized the past two. The 2008 panel took place in September. It featured Amy Cavender, assistant professor of political science, Peter Gehred ND ’01, case manager at United States House of Representatives, and attorney Brooks Grainger, husband of Elizabeth Dobrzykowski Grainger ’92. The three spoke about their interpretations of the Constitution and its application in their professions. The Panel is an event that echoes the topics Kramer explores with his students. A communications professor, he Constitution Day Panel members (left to right): Brooks Grainger, Asst. teaches courses on persuasion, political communication, Professor Amy Cavender, Asst. Professor Michael Kramer, and Peter public address, and rhetorical criticism. “From a Gehred (ND ’01). communication standpoint, First Amendment freedoms are absolutely critical to an inclusive and vibrant society,” he Kramer hopes students went away from the panel explains. “Freedom of speech, press, assembly, and petition with a wealth of perspectives on the Constitution and all have profound implications on our communication its application. They should understand, he says, that practices. Also, other constitutional issues such as separation politicians, lawyers, scholars, and citizens all interpret the of powers, due process, and equal protection are at the heart Constitution and its meaning in a variety of ways. of much of our public dialogue and debate. Students need to know about these issues to understand much of what is going on today.” Outstanding Accounting Alumnae Award Recipients

an audit partner with Ernst & Young, LLP, both in McLean, Va. Harper received a bachelor in business administration. She says she appreciated the Writing (W) requirement, noting that today’s employees often lack writing skills. “More and more, I’m encountering people who cannot write well thought-out sentences, convey ideas, prepare analysis, and write in an easy to understand, meaningful way. I don’t think I appreciated back then what I think people should appreciate today, which is the value of the liberal arts education and being able to write well.” Kummer received a bachelor in business administration, with a minor in Italian. She spent a year studying in Rome and she says the experience brought to light that the world is a small place. “It helped me to appreciate that Italians have the same issues, concerns, and desires as those in the U.S.” Both Kummer and Harper look to retired professor Claude Kate Murray Harper ’89 and Katie Scott Kummer ’89. Renshaw as a mentor. “It’s his dedication to his field that I appreciate. It has helped me realize the impact I have on This past October Kate Murray Harper ’89 and Katie Scott people that work for me—and I make sure I show them a Kummer ’89 returned to campus to receive the Outstanding personal commitment and interest in them,” says Kummer. Accounting Alumna Award. They also shared career advice This points to what Harper says was the best part of and anecdotes with the College community. “I think that it’s being a student at Saint Mary’s—the friendships. “You make important for the students to see the success women can lifelong friends and start relationships with the professors,” have after they’ve left Saint Mary’s,” says Harper. Harper is a says Harper. “The relationships here just can’t be beat.” partner in KPMG’s Structure Finance Group and Kummer is

18 COURIER | Winter 2008 avenuenews

Poet Advises Students, “Don’t Be Afraid to Take Chances” In between readings, Tillinghast imparted bits of truth, humor, and glimpses into his life. A scholar and former classmate of the poet Robert Lowell, Tillinghast told the story of visiting Lowell’s father’s grave. Lowell had written about his father’s tombstone in a poem, and Tillinghast discovered that what was written wasn’t factual. “Gosh, if a poet will lie about his father’s tombstone, he’ll lie about anything,” recounted Tillinghast. But, he added, “Sometimes one needs to lie in order to tell the truth.” On advice to writers he said, “Try to be someone on whom nothing is lost,” good counsel borrowed from writer Henry James. Tillinghast continued, “Notice everything. Don’t be afraid to feel intensely. Don’t be afraid to take chances, go out on a limb. Pretty soon the whole tree will be gone.” To write about a poet is to write about his words. But in the case of Richard Tillinghast, his physical presence makes an argument for talking about his aesthetic first. Reading in the Welsh Parlor in Haggar College Center, Tillinghast, a tall The New Life man, first stood behind the podium then moved to the side of it, comfortable without a microphone. Tillinghast wore gray The new life tweed cuffed pants, a medium blue pinstripe shirt, a navy means deciding to leave, blue and cream polka dot tie, and a brown and tan jacket shaving your head, with patches on the elbows. The only other accoutrement putting your things into two shopping bags needed was glasses. He delivered, wearing signature round, black-rimmed specs. Meeting him for the first time one and getting on a bus. would have to say, that man is a writer. And his words proved no less so. excerpted from: The New Life, The distinguished poet and writer has been visiting Saint poems by Richard Tillinghast, Copper Beech Press 2008 Mary’s College since 1984. He returned October 15, reading from past work and his new books, Finding Ireland, and The New Life.

Turning Trash into Treasure Saint Mary’s Environmental Action Coalition opens the Free Store You’ve heard the phrase. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” According to Ashley Cook ’11, president of Saint Mary’s Environmental Action Coalition (SMEAC), the concept is one that can help change our planet for the better. “Many people throw away perfectly good items,” says the biology major. Cook and her fellow SMEAC members have opened up the Free Store in the basement of Le Mans Hall to “capitalize” on used goods supplied by the campus community. The Free Store, which is open twice a week and manned by members of SMEAC, is a place where students, faculty, and staff can bring their old things and trade them for new things. Or they can simply make a donation or pick up something that suits their fancy. Cook says the whole initiative really emphasizes the reuse in reduce, reuse, recycle. “The idea is that the Free Store is a place for everyone to bring things they don’t want anymore, but that could be of interest to someone else,” says Cook. The store has a great collection of items, from shower caddies and ironing boards to shoes and CDs.

Students can scout out treasures at the Free Store in Le Mans Hall.

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Alumnae Deaths Marita Oppenheim Larkin ’43, Sister Marion Klein, December 29, 2006, Catherine Freiesleben Ramsey ’97 Ramona Oppenheim ’50, and Rose- and Robert J. Klein, August 22, 2008, and John, July 25, 2008. Eugenia Haggart Cassady ’30, Marie Oppenheim Dilenschneider ’54, parents of Mary Jane Klein Kefalas ’82. Lisa Budzynski Ezell ’98 and November 26, 2007. uncle of Susan Larkin Heintz ’73 and Eugene “Gene” Knop Jr., husband of Stephen, August 2, 2008. Constance Scully Lockrem ’35, May Mary Dilenschneider Condon ’87, May Karen Finkenbinder Knop ’81, March Beth Schafer Coyne ’99 and Kevin, 17, 2008. 20, 2008. 20, 2008. June 21, 2008. Paul T. Berndt, father of Carol Berndt Frances Rolles Kenney ’40, Terry L. Lantry, husband of Judith Kruszewski ’68 and Mary Berndt Lovett Tina Alley DiSanto ’99 and Michael, November 22, 2007. Bloss Lantry ’61, July 8, 2008. ’70, October 1, 2008. October 6, 2007. Berenice Santucci Ventrella ’40, Esther E. Lanchsweerdt, Rose Mary Corcoran, grandmother Robyn Chmielewski Albert ’00 and January 25, 2008. grandmother of Keri Lanchsweerdt of Stephanie Artnak ’04 and Shannon Mike, August 2, 2008. Florence Molyneaux Hargrave ’43, Sackowski ’01, August 1, 2008. Artnak ’05, July 31, 2008. Kathleen Giel Alessi ’01 and Thomas mother of Susan Hargrave Bell ’74 and Carolyn Malburg, grandmother of Charles W. DeGroote, father of ND ’03, August 2, 2008. grandmother of Dorian Wolff Ellsworth Kristyn Fogle ’08, August 20, 2008. ’97, July 28, 2008. Kimberly DeGroote Miller ’88, August Autumn Palacz Andronis ’01 and 21, 2008. Maria Lucci, mother of Laura Ann Peter, October 20, 2007. Sister M. Margery “Ruth” Mitternight, Lucci ’08, September 11, 2008. CSC ’44, September 16, 2008. Timothy J. “Tim” Diener, brother Christine Diana Crissman ’01 and of Michelle Diener Filicicchia, ’81, Mary Ann McIsaac, mother of Cathy Eric, May 17, 2008. Dorothy Abel Purcell ’44, mother of September 7, 2008. McIsaac Branigan ’85, September 7, Alicia Purcell ’74, Andrea Purcell Katz 2008. Nina Riconosciuto Eilers ’01 and ’82 and Adria Purcell Hall ’85, sister of Clayton “Brad” Doss Jr., husband of Tom, August 23, 2008. Jeffrey O. McGeary, husband of Kathleen Abel Curry McAndrews ’46, Patricia Ciocca Doss ’70, February 7, Ann Rockenstein McGeary ’65, June Amanda Shock Johnson ’01 and Friday, October 3, 2008. 2008. 19, 2008. Matthew ND ’01, April 19, 2008. Helen James Lutz ’46, December Peter Deibler Dunne, son of Mary Frederick C. Shafer, husband of Gina Case Kasper ’01 and Robert, 31, 2007. Ellen Deibler Gleason ’49, April 10, 2008. Rosemary Hardig Shafer ’49, and uncle March 29, 2008. Joan Cooney Kearney-Childers ’50, of Janet Shafer Sabo ’84, August 2, William H. Dyer, husband of Dorothy Carolyn Kelley ’01 and Jorge September 20, 2008. 2008. Szweda Dyer ’79, father of Denice Aguilera, July 25, 2008. Erin White Schaefer ’54, August 26, Dyer Wasikowski ’75 and grandfather Richard A. Spiering, grandfather of Mary Wisniewski Serrahn ’01 and 2008. of Heather Marie Wasikowski ’06, May Victoria Spiering ’05, July 20, 2008. Sean, September 15, 2007. 3, 2008. Sister Celeste M. Huszcza, DML ’60, John R. Tobin Jr., M.D., father of Mary Jennifer Turner Stachler ’01 and June 18, 2008. Jeannette Eyerly, mother of Jane Kay Tobin ’73, July 29, 2008. Adam, September 24, 2005. Eyerly Kozuszek ’58 and Susan Eyerly Marjorie Ann Neuhoff ’61, cousin of Camiel Robert “Bob” Van De Walle, Katie Quinn Veeneman ’01 and Joe, Pichler ’61, August 18, 2008. Barbara Neuhoff Schlachter ’67, August father of Debra Van De Walle Skwarcan August 9, 2008. 28, 2008. Arthur F. Field, III, father of Karen ’77, October 9, 2008. Jennifer Wyatt Bennett ’02 and Field McDowell ’78, and grandfather of Margaret “Peggy” Kabbes Norgren Edward L. Varga, father of Sharon Matthew, May 24, 2008. ’78, sister of Martha Kabbes Hesse ’75, Kristin T. Heath ’07, August 2, 2008. Varga Hughes ’67, September 21, 2008. Katharine Miller Quinn ’02 and Sean, August 4, 2008. Raymond P. Harris Jr., brother of Donald C. Weiden, father of Mary September 29, 2007. Patricia J. Raaf ’81, daughter of Jane Harris Conley ’56 and Mary Harris Weiden Gruenes ’83 and Amy Weiden Angela Courter Raaf ’39, sister of Russell ’65, August 10, 2008. Williams ’86, August 4, 2008. Kari Larkin Espel ’03 and Patrick, Angela Raaf Widdel ’72, Barbara Raaf October 4, 2008. Louise Hart, mother of Carolyn Hart Hazel Ruth Yuhas, mother of Wolff ’75, Maria Raaf Medlock ’78 Irvine ’66 and grandmother of Amy Kathryn Yuhas Kwinn ’70, June 9, 2008. Lisa Hudes Frey ’03 and Eric, June and Susan T. Raaf ’82, niece of Marie Irvine ’93, July 13, 2008. 21, 2008. Garofalo Raaf ’42, cousin of Nan Kelly Long Jackson ’03 and Chris, Raaf ’69 and Monica Raaf Huso ’73, William V. Holik, husband of Mary Jo Marriages July 19, 2008. September 16, 2008. Brown Holik ’49, July 28, 2008. Karen Bush Schneider ’73 and David Janelle Koop Keller ’03 and Joseph, Theresa M. Biondo Flick ’85, August Edward D. Holtcamp, father of Linda Havrilla, November 9, 2007. July 5, 2008. 23, 2008. Holtcamp McVoy ’74 and grandfather of Molly McVoy ’01 and Katie McVoy Karen Young Smith ’85 and Scott, Stephanie Janiczek Nora ’03 and Rebecca “Becky” Anne Dulin ’90, ’03, September 23, 2008. December 31, 2007. George, June 21, 2008. niece of Mary Beth DiGann ’74, September 28, 2008. Paul Anthony Hudak, father of Anne Bridget Farley La Bar ’90 and Kathryn Moorman Rahrig ’03 and Hudak Meyer ’85 and Kathryn Hudak Richard, September 13, 2008. Chris, April 2008. ’91, May 13, 2008. Family Deaths Maureen Abood Parish ’90 and Allie Higgins Rittenour ’03 and Rexie S. Jernigan, father of Amber Mark, August 9, 2008. Michael, May 10, 2008. Leigh Jernigan ’03, August 9, 2008. Alfred P. Adornetto ND ’54, father Dorothy Gass Lower ’92 and Brian, of Lisa J. Adornetto ’80 and Caroline Merideth Pierce Sullivan ’03 and Edward M. Kalamasz, father of April 12, 2008. Jesse, August 2, 2008. Adornetto Caudill ’84, August 26, 2008. Karla Kalamasz Abbott Detwiler ’78, Alison Spohn Kavulich ’93 and Larry, Rocco Ameduri, father of Gina M. December 29, 2007. Mary Pendergast German ’04 and August 2, 2008. Christopher ND ’04, September 20, Ameduri Loebach ’81, September 6, Robert E. Kasten, husband of Patricia Lara Mattison Bauman ’95 and 2008. 2008. McGuire Kasten ’65, May 5, 2008. Brent, April 18, 2008. Jennifer Urgonski Keck ’04 and Ernest P. Barlock M.D., husband Edward R. Kenefick, father of Kristin Mary Flynn Freeburg ’96 and Chris, Christopher, October 18, 2008. of Virginia Oppenheim Barlock ’48, Kenefick ’90, September 24, 2008. son-in-law of the late Anna Mathias September 13, 2008. Elizabeth Gerard Mann ’04 and Oppenheim ex ’17, brother-in-law of Joshua, May 24, 2008.

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Trish Kisor Melchert ’04 and Frank, Janet Kelley ’97 and Albert-Laszlo Andrea Herek Wetters ’01 and Keith: June 28, 2008. Barabasi, Izabella Kelley Barabasi, Jack Thomas, April 17, 2008. February 8, 2008. Elizabeth Diehl Newcamp ’04 and Monica Councilor Wohlberg ’01 and Jeffrey ND ’04, August 16, 2008. Marian Kelly Mangoubi ’97 and Matt ND ’00, ’02: Aaron Mathew, March Kathleen Lebiedz Poteracki ’04 and Dave: Abigail Kelly, August 21, 2008. 12, 2008. Adam, July 28, 2007. Katie Boyle Walicki ’97 and Rich: Meghan McGinty Anderson ’03 and Erin Krombach Groves ’05 and Sean Michael, April 14, 2008. Ben ND ’03: Drew Thomas, February Jonathan, February 16, 2008. Kristi Dawson Flaherty ’98 and Brian 28, 2008. Sarah Harward Haywood ’05 and ND ’97: Kaitlin McKenna, July 1, 2008. Melanie Burke Cameron ’03 and Christopher, March 29, 2008. Julie Kochman Soose ’98 and Ryan Mark: Esther Megan, March 28, 2008. Roselyn Boyle Heck ’05 and Chris ND ’98: Lydia Stella, April 23, 2008. Caitlin Duffey ’03 and Kevin ND ’05, July 26, 2008. Colleen Thomas Dewan ’99 and Abramson: McCauley “Mickey” Kevin ND ’99: Grace Marsha, July 1, McFarland Abramson, May 11, 2008. Births & Adoptions 2008. Nicole Strzyzykowski Mills ’03 and Courtney Wagner Kelly ’99 and Daniel: Aribel Ray, July 2, 2008. Sherry Green Antonetti ’88 and John: Shea Elizabeth, February 2008. Elizabeth Thomas Smith ’04 and Marc ND ’88: Paul Raphael Anthony, Micah: Devin Thomas, August 4, 2008. September 17, 2008. Rachel Villarreal Keyes ’99 and Thomas: Samuel Mateo, September Miranda Mikulyuk VanNevel ’05 Pattti Sullivan Weber ’89 and John: 21, 2007. and Tom: Alexandra Renee, August Thomas “Tommy” Bernard, July 30, 14, 2008 2008. Jennifer Mazurek Miles ’99 and James ND ’99: Sean Thomas, October Jane McGroarty Sampaio ’06 and Lisa Cellini Doyle ’90 and Kevin ND 14, 2007. Humberto: Sofia McGroarty, August ’89: Luke Robert, September 2, 2007. Trish Haigh Peterson ’99 and Kelly: 1, 2007. Jeanine Cook Lamb ’91 and John: John Kelly, March 16, 2007. Gabriela Catherine, April 18, 2006. Lori Gundler Reyes ’99 and Chris: Margaret Belin Temeles ’91 and Lillie, June 22, 2008. David: Luke, February 28, 2008. Melissa Hanson Wright ’99 and Lisa Reading Folkers ’92 and John: William: Amelia Hanson, October 30, Cecilia, June 8, 2008. 2007. Laura Neppl Considine ’94 and Tim: Lauren Oppolo Bukovac ’01 and William Anderson, May 27, 2008. David: Anna Kathleen, July 30, 2007. Ann Mercorella McAllister ’94 and Kelly Sterritt Clancy ’01 and Bill ND John: Liam Devine, June 20, 2008. ’99: Kaitlyn Grace, July 17, 2008. Andrea Cox Sullivan ’94 and James: Cortney Litka Couture ’01 and Jeff: Conor William, August 2, 2008. Olivia Taylor, June 30, 2008. Tara Belden Bell ’95 and David: Maureen Flannery Crowe ’01 and Sophia Araminta, April 23, 2008. Mike ND ’01: Twins, Timothy O’Day and Christine Singer Kasman ’95 and Michael Thomas, May 3, 2008. John: John Singer “Jack” Kasman, Kerry Gallagher Davis ’01 and Willie: August 12, 2008. Eva Marie, June 6, 2008. Nora Coletta McMerrell ’95 and Mary Sweeney Gates ’01 and Chris: Mark: Mary Kathleen, September 8, Lucas James, July 15, 2008. 2008. Julia Peterson Hannan ’01 and Sherry L. Doehrman Puglise ’95 and Philip: John “Jack” Philip, July 11, 2008. Brian: Marissa Lynn, May 11, 2008. Mary Ellen McGowan Landry ’01 Christina Wilschke Stoval ’95 and and James: James Hugh, March 22, Bill ND ’95: Spencer Jameson, March 2008. 21, 2008. Ellen Wright Riley ’01 and Michael Molly Brewer Velasco ’96 and Robert ND ’01: Maeve Irene, June 11, 2008. ND ’95: Adam Nicholas, August 20, 2008. Lori Schulte Smithe ’01 and Thomas: Thomas Charles Smithe, III, March 17, Brigid Keyes Fitzgerald ’97 and John: 2008. Anne Maureen, December 10, 2007. Jennifer Turner Stachler ’01 and April Sass Johnson ’97 and Jay: Adam: Elyse Josephine, May 2, 2008. Andrew Thomas, July 16, 2008. Kathryn Willkom Stopczynski ’01 Anne Poore Keith ’97 and Corey: and John: Jacob “Jake” Alexander, April Parker Francis, October 6, 2008. 26, 2008.

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Sister Rosaleen Dunleavy, CSC Sister Rosaleen Dunleavy, CSC, a long-time professor of biology at Saint Mary’s College, passed away on December 18, 2008. She was 95. Sister Rosaleen’s career at the College spanned four decades, from the late 1950s to the late 1990s. She taught for 22 years and spent 12 years at Saint Mary’s as the director of the College’s archive, where her organizational skills from her science background served her well. Biology, the study of life, was Sister Rosaleen’s area of expertise, and the students soon absorbed the respect she had for all forms of life including their own. Biology professor Thomas Fogle came to the College shortly after she retired from teaching in 1977, but knew her very well, and her legacy of commitment to the sciences. “Sister Rosaleen taught microbiology and cell biology. She was a talented teacher who believed wholeheartedly in educating women. She believed that a rigorous study of science was good for young women and very appropriate to their education,” Fogle said. In 1998 the College awarded her the President’s Medal for recognition of outstanding community service and contributions to the life of the College. In 2005 Saint Mary’s established an academic scholarship in her name.

Grace Sullivan McGuire

Picture from the 1950 Blue Mantle which recognized the pictured professors as: Mr. Harold J. Dulude, Dr. William Downey, Mrs. Joseph McGuire, Mrs. Paule Louise Simon, Mr. Robert J. Polacek, Mr. George Finn.

Associate Professor Emeritus Grace Sullivan McGuire passed away on February 27, 2008. McGuire served the College for 38 years, from 1942, when she was hired by Sister Madeleva, until she retired in 1980. She initially taught in the Department of Speech and Drama and directed theatrical performances. In the 1950s McGuire moved to the Education Department, and in 1964 she was named director of student teaching. McGuire was awarded the Spes Unica award in 1961, which recognizes a faculty member’s eminent service to the College in some particular aspect of its development. The award citation read, “For loyalty to Saint Mary’s College; for selfless service to her students often offered with valiant courage; for wisdom and prudence in counseling many student teachers over many years; for unfailing tact in public relations, Saint Mary’s college this year, the fiftieth anniversary of its department of education, chooses to present this award to the Supervisor of Elementary Student Teachers, Mrs. Joseph McGuire.” McGuire’s daughter, Kathleen McGuire Urda ’73, and granddaughter, Kathleen Urda ’97, both attended Saint Mary’s.

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Colorado Philadelphia clubclips clubclips clubclips The renewed Colorado Alumnae The Philadelphia Club enjoyed Club is getting off to a good start. a fall Founders’ Day brunch at Simon Our first meeting was in March. We Pearce on the Brandywine. An intimate met at a restaurant in Lone Tree, group of alums enjoyed meeting and and discussed what functions we re-connecting with each other while would like to have during the year. overlooking the beautiful scenery of A Founders’ Day event was first on the historic Brandywine river. everyone’s list, followed by a student The club participated in a send off, student care package party, community service project organized and another purely social event. We by Lisa Minichillo McGrath ’93. Alums celebrated Founders’ Day in October, provided clothes, supplies and with Mass and then lunch at a monetary donations for mothers and restaurant in Highlands Ranch. We are infants at the Buck County Woman’s fortunate to have an alumnae board of Shelter. directors’ member, Phyllis Van Hersett, If you are interested or have in our club, so we get current campus suggestions for the Philadelphia Club, updates at our get-togethers. please contact Katie Smith ’93 at (215) And it makes us all so proud to 280-1122 or [email protected]. hear how well our alma mater is doing! Colorado Founders’ Day, October 12, 2008, Highlands Ranch, In April of 2009, we will have a Cleveland Colorado (standing, left to right): Club President Sheila Flynn Boone student care package party. Since our ’65, Susan Buzbee Canham ’75, Kim Lynch Frye ’75, Shanna O’Connor first two functions have been held Founders’ Day was celebrated ’04, Alumnae Board of Directors Member Phyllis Sullivan Van Hersett just south of Denver, we’re hoping for with liturgy at Saint Ann’s Church in ’62; seated, left to right: Club Treasurer Cindy Meyer Wargocki ’99 a volunteer in the Castle Rock area to Cleveland Heights on Sunday, October (holding Kara, SMC 2028), Barbara VanDersari Slocum ’96, and host, so that some of our Colorado 26. A lovely reception followed in the Stephanie Prevost Hansen ’95. Springs alumnae can make an event. church rectory. Many thanks to Molly Our 2009 Founders’ Day celebration McVoy ’01, Linda Holtcamp McVoy will be held in Golden, hosted by Kim ’74, and Carrie Powers Powell ’48 for We brought back one of our Casa) followed by lunch at the Grand Lynch Frye ’75. co-chairing the event. popular events for the holiday Lux Café. We were able to “send off” For more information, please Exam care packages were season: the annual Christmas Cookie two incoming first-year students, Erin contact Sheila Flynn Boone ’65 at prepared at the home of Donna Exchange. It was held on Wednesday, Chastain and Sarah McCroy, as well as [email protected], or by phone: DeCrane Panzica ’78 on Monday, December 3, with great participation their families. 720-851-0985. Dues ($20) may be November 17. Thanks to Donna and to and enthusiasm. Alumnae enjoyed the On Saturday, November 1, alums mailed to Cindy Meyer Wargocki ’99 at everyone who donated their time and evening immensely with the exchange gathered for an “ND Game Watch” 5811 South Jericho Way, Centennial, goodies for the exam care packages. of Christmas Cookies and holiday and we were able to welcome Kate Co 80015. The students certainly appreciate our cheer. Reimann ’05 to the Phoenix area. time and consideration. Plans are underway for events Saturday, November 16, Lisa Coury in the spring, including our annual ’98 organized a group to run in the 9K meeting, a social event, and a benefiting Maggie’s Place, a home for community service project. If you expectant mothers. clubclips clubclips clubclips are interested in hosting an event The weekend before Thanksgiving or would like to be more involved, we will be collecting food items to be contact Cheri Petride Miller ’79 at donated to My Sisters’ Place, a women’s 440-526-8966 or at clmiller8457@ domestic violence shelter and Catholic earthlink.net. Charities organization. The first week of December we will The Des Moines Club be getting together to bake cookies and assemble “finals” care packages for Celebrated Founders’ Day by current Arizona students. welcoming Director of Alumnae Please feel free to get in touch with Relations Kara O’Leary to a brunch me, Kelly Cook-Lewis ’97, if you have hosted by Aimee Beckmann-Collier on any questions or suggestions for our November 8. Alumnae representing Arizona Club! [email protected] classes from 1943 to 2002 attended and all enjoyed Kara’s informative Dallas-Fort Worth presentation about the College. The club will engage in a service The Alumnae Club enjoyed a visit project in February 2009 with details from Saint Mary’s business professor, to be sent to area alumnae early in the Claude Renshaw, in October while he new year. was in Dallas to give a presentation to the American Women’s Society of Philadelphia, from left to right: Katie Smith ’93, Bobbie Schnaus Arizona CPAs. Many thanks to Jennifer Danahy McCarthy ’66, Patti Daly Blacker ’80, Julie Strazzabosco Graham ’85, Stewart ’93 for hosting a delightful Susan Tate Fitzgerald ’81, Pat Miller Witt ’60, Jennifer Rasmussen Gayla Spenney ’97 organized our reception for him and the local alums Turkos ’94, Christine Delaney Kennedy ’93. annual “Freshman Send-Off” back on who were able to attend. Our annual Sunday, August 10, starting with mass Christmas Dinner and Mass took at Franciscan Renewal Center (The place on December 8. Several local

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alums gathered at the home of Ellen In addition, this year the club Neuhoff Elpers ’80 to celebrate mass in has taken on a service project of clubclips clubclips clubclips honor of the Feast of the Immaculate collecting donations for The Women’s Conception and to share a traditional Life Care Center, which provides a holiday meal. It was a lovely evening Learn and Earn education program for and we greatly appreciate the Elpers women and families by which they for having opened up their home to us earn credits that can be redeemed for this special occasion. Wishing you for baby items of their choosing. The all a Happy New Year!! Check out the philosophy of the center is “a hand Club’s Web site to find out what we up not a handout.” They believe it is in have planned for ’09! the clients’ best interests not only to become responsible for their families St. Louis but to become a productive member of society. In addition, the center The St. Louis Club is back! In provides free diapers and formula August, close to thirty St. Louis to clients, free pregnancy tests, and alumnae gathered for drinks at Araka financial and material support to Restaurant in Clayton. We had a all women affected by unplanned fabulous time! Please contact Kara pregnancies. If you would like to learn Kezios at [email protected] to get more, please contact our service on the Evite list for upcoming events coordinator, Ann Spiess Clark ’97 via and Annette Canale at annette@ e-mail at [email protected] or by annettecanale.com if you are phone at 651-340-9100. Dallas-Fort Worth: (center) Professor Claude Renshaw, (clockwise interested in joining the book club! Finally, the Twin Cities Alumnae from left) Ellen McQuillan Drake ’92, Carolyn Madison ’05, Monique Club will continue to plan and host Sondag (sister of alumna Andrea Schweitzer), Andrea Sondag Twin Cities Alumnae Club monthly Young Alumnae Social Hours, Schweitzer ’00, Linda Kawecki ’79, Mandy Strauss ’98, Liz Cantu ’08, Book Club Discussion, and Mommies & The Twin Cities Alumnae Club Jennifer Danahy Stewart ’93. Tots playgroups. For more information, celebrated Founders’ Day with a please contact the club leaders via Mid-Morning Tea on Saturday, October e-mail at smctcalumnaeclub@gmail. 25 at the Lady Elegant’s Tea Room in Carolina. The following week the club and to Anne Murray McDermott ’85 com the St. Anthony neighborhood of St. held its annual Founders’ Day Dinner for coordinating the dates/books/ Paul. Even though the gathering was 16 at Saint Mary’s in Haggar Parlor. locations. Anne is working on the 2009 intimate, alumnae in attendance had South Bend Approximately twenty-five alumnae list, and it will be linked to the club gathered together to share a meal Web site as soon as it is available. a great time socializing with a pot of It has been a busy fall for the and commemorate the founding We stayed busy this summer and warm tea and a four-course. Thank South Bend Alumnae Club. On of Saint Mary’s College. Following fall, enjoying some regular activities as you to Kelly Roles (1992) and Jennifer October 11, alumnae gathered at dinner, Saint Mary’s senior and student well as new ideas. The annual Student D’Anastasio (1999) for co-chairing the Between the Buns to watch Notre trustee Courtney Parry discussed her Send-off was hosted by Julie Griffin event! Dame play the University of North experiences at Saint Mary’s, her role as Murphy ’74 and her daughter Kaitlin student trustee and her future plans Murphy ’09 in July. In September we following graduation. shared a regular Dinner Out to the Many of the club’s alumnae Sunflower Bistro in LaGrange hosted clubclips clubclips clubclips indicated that they would like to by Patty Piercy Cushing ’90. Finally, the have more community service annual Christmas Party, also hosted by opportunities. To that end, the club Patty Cushing, was held on December planned two events to make the 4, just prior to holiday stress. A relaxing holidays more special for those time to gather with friends and share less fortunate in our community. Christmas tales, the group collected In November, the South Bend Club gifts for the People’s Resource Center’s provided Hope Ministries with 80 pies Share the Spirit holiday campaign, as for its Thanksgiving Day meal. Then, in well as care package treats for Saint December, the Club gathered at the Mary’s first-year students from the local YWCA to wrap the Christmas gifts club area. donated for the children living at the Our creative juices were flowing shelter. this year, and among our new events Finally, in an effort to make the was a “Class of the 80s” Girls Night Out holidays brighter for our own Saint at the Salt Creek Wine Bar in LaGrange. Mary’s students, the club delivered We appreciate Laura Harris Walsh ’87 homemade cookies and candies for and Anne McDermott’s efforts for our local students to enjoy as they arranging this event. It was also our studied for finals. first event using the e-vite system which was well-received. Next was a Chicago West Saint Mary’s Game Night of Fun for Des Moines (standing, from left to right): Cindy Jones Helgason, couples hosted by Kristin Simono Michelle Nagle Lickteig, Sarah Sullivan Bigelow, Aimee Beckmann- The Chicago West Club wrapped Newell ’91 and her husband Mike Collier, Loral Baker Kirke, Kim Hermann Darr; seated, from left to right: up their Annual Book Club meetings on Friday, November 14. This event Kara O’Leary, Jeanne Sohm Thyberg. in October. Many thanks to all our filled November despite not having hostesses and book club participants, a book club meeting. It also allowed

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us to collect new games for the PRC’s To join the listserv or for general Share the Spirit campaign. We played questions about the Club, contact board games and made some new Genevieve Morrill ’98 at gcmorrill@ friends—this just may become an yahoo.com. annual tradition! Finally, the club wants to recognize Pittsburgh Joanne Tracy Marsh ’69 for creating and hosting monthly Lunch Bunch The Pittsburgh Club just celebrated gatherings in 2008. Joanne chose its 80th Anniversary! In honor of that different restaurants and rotated each benchmark, the Club hosted President month to a new city—encompassing Carol Ann Mooney, her husband our large club boundaries—from George Efta, and Kara O’Leary ’89 Geneva to LaGrange. Lunch fell on the and Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 from 2nd Thursday of the month at noon, the Alumnae Relations Office at a and invited anyone in the area to join reception held at the Pittsburgh Rivers her. The turnout varied by location, but Club. After a lovely speech, President feedback has been great. Everyone Mooney shared cocktails and hors really appreciates a mid-day event to d’oeuvres with the members of the get connected with the club. We’re club in attendance. looking forward to a new Lunch Bunch As the weather changes, Pittsburgh list for 2009. Thank you Joanne! alumnae should look in their The club will make a few board mailboxes for our Club’s newsletter. member changes for 2009. Watch The upcoming edition will give details for the annual newsletter to arrive in about the spring luncheon. This January/ February. As always, if you are year we are planning on a mother/ interested in getting more involved, daughter tea. please get in touch with Alison Spohn The board of directors is working Kavulich ’93 at irishannie93@yahoo. on a comprehensive database and com. We’d love to have you join us! directory for the alumnae living in and around Pittsburgh. If you are receiving Chicago East club mailings and do not wish to any longer, please contact Colleen Miles The Chicago East Alumnae Club at [email protected] to have held a scholarship fundraiser at 1154 your contact information removed Lill Studio on Tuesday, September from the club directory. 16, in Lincoln Park. Fifty alumnae and Want to help plan events and friends browsed 1154 Lill’s expansive maintain the club? The club is always assortment of styles and fabrics and looking for energetic alumnae to be designed one-of-a-kind bags, while on its board of directors. If you are catching up with classmates and interested, please contact Colleen friends. The event raised over $500 for Miles at [email protected] for the Chicago Endowed Scholarship. information. Thanks to Genevieve Morrill ’98, who chaired the event and her committee, Carolinas Club Francesca Casaccio, Martha Conlin ’93, and Lindsey Cotter McKenzie ’03. The Carolinas Club congregated On November 16, 2008, the at Kara Pearce Schroer’s ’04 house Chicago Club celebrated Founders on November 16 for their annual Day at St. Teresa of Avila parish in Founder’s Day Brunch. Sarah Tynan ’04, the Lincoln Park neighborhood. In Christina Vellucci ’93, Barbara Borchers recognition of the needs created by Bernath ’66, Sue Thompkins ’65 and the current economic situation, in lieu Katy Karr ’06 were in attendance. The of a raffle, the Club collected canned club welcomed their new president, food items for St. Teresa’s food pantry. Sarah Tynan, and thanked Kara for her Thanks to Karen McDonald ’76 for leadership and hard work over the past organizing the event. The club will few years as president. have a more formal celebration of The club met again on December Founders’ Day on Sunday, February 8, 7 in Davidson for the annual Notre 2009, to coincide with Blessed Basil Dame/Saint Mary’s Christmas party. Moreau’s birthday (February 11). Watch Many alumnae attended the event and the list-serve for details and if you enjoyed conversation and excellent have any questions, contact Karen food. The Carolina’s next event will McDonald ’76 at kzmcdonald@msn. be in March for the Spring Luncheon. com. Please contact our new president, The book group and wine club Sarah Tynan at 704-728-8281 for more meet monthly, check the listserv for details. what Chicago East alums are reading and drinking each month.

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invitations to daughter Ellen’s new Jordan Westphal phoned me back. Since Ellen Sheehan Berek Reunion June 4–7, 2009 cabin in Northern Wisconsin. She enjoyed reunion and was back lives just few miles from me, Jo Ann Jean Herman Bittner’s husband Phillips Kostelas and I convinced her ’49 Nancy Byrnes Riley at her desk working when she called. died in July 2007. I have tried to reach that she should go to reunion, even if 1188 Conway Rd. Mary Cay’s children live in St. Louis her. Perhaps we’ll have news of her one of us had to put a cot in our room. Lake Forest, IL 60045 and Chicago, and she has seven next time. When we arrived, there was a double (847) 234-4130 grandchildren. She, Randy, Carol Gill Please remember our 60th reunion room available for the two of them in [email protected] Sutherland, and Ellen Sheehan in June, 09. Berek are meeting for lunch in the new Hilton. Ellen’s son lives near Sadly, we will no longer be her in Glenview, and she has a young I spoke with Pat Webb Oertley Chicago this fall. Mary Cay hears from entertained, as we have been for so granddaughter to take care of after today. Her new address is 754 S.W. Celia McGuire Forristal, who lives many reunions, by Mary Majewski school some days. A week or so after Industrial Way, Bend, OR 97702. She in Iowa and winters in Palm Springs. Kinnucan ’54 impersonating Sister reunion, she flew up to Minnesota loves her new three-story townhome Celia’s health isn’t the greatest, and she Madeleva. Mary died in February, and to visit with Ann Haskins Kelly, and (with elevator) in a newly redeveloped just couldn’t get to reunion by herself. she will be missed by our class, as well they caught up on the news. Anne section of the city—very lively! Her art Pat Kerper Moriarty and her as her Class of ’54 who so generously doesn’t drive now, due to progressive studio is in the city, and she presently husband, Joe, have moved to the shared her with us. macular degeneration. She does have is exhibiting 20 of her paintings. condos at Notre Dame, and I have God bless you all—until June at several children and grandchildren She is enjoying the diversity of ages a note from Mary Jane McKeon Saint Mary’s. Nancy in the area who are a big help to her. and nationalities in her immediate Gray that she and Ed have so much Liz and I were to meet Anne surroundings, all built around a square. family in South Bend, and so many Glosser Wolfe for breakfast on the Sally Tiedebohl Billingsley friends in the retirement home that ’51 morning we left for Saint Mary’s. Anne was in town this past spring for two Nancy Wills Browne they, too, will move there next year. was visiting her son in the Chicago grandchildren occasions in St. Charles. 16862 Lockmoor Circle W. Ed is recovering from a second knee area; however, she was unable to Sally, Marie Murnane Walsh, Claire Northville, MI 48168-4404 replacement, and they were looking meet due to arrangements with other Daley Archibald, Mary Ellen Deibler (734) 453-3486 forward to summer. friends and was heading back to Dunne Gleason, and I met for lunch. I promised you that I would add Arizona that weekend. Since the death Since that time, Sally’s 44-year-old The leaves are changing color here a line about being on vacation with a of her husband, Jack, Anne has been daughter was diagnosed with breast in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, so big family instead of being at reunion. I doing some traveling—usually taking cancer, so please add her to your Dick and I will return to our condo in was really sorry that I did it wrong and tours. prayer list. Claire’s oldest grandson is Northville for the winter months in a couldn’t get to reunion, but the week About a week before reunion, off to college. Their family reunion was few weeks. Seven of our nine children in Tuscany with 18 of our 30 family Carol called with a great idea: Friday at her sister Jane’s and included 109 visited us at the lake this summer. members was wonderful. We had an dinner at the Studebaker mansion in people. We had a good time. One day, while enormous house with 10 bathrooms South Bend. So Carol, Mary Cay, Ellen, Sadly, I report that Mary Ellen’s son, lunching at the nearby George Young and dining tables both indoors and and I enjoyed an elegant dinner there Peter Dunne, died on April 10. Golf Complex, my granddaughter outdoors that fit us all. My favorite and caught up on our news in a quiet Also sad news. Sue Wagner informed me that a 2008 graduate of moment was when a going-on-six- and charming environment. Carol just Broeren’s grandson, Matt, died on Saint Mary’s was there celebrating with year-old granddaughter asked me, bubbles with enthusiasm and kept us May 17. Her entire family—38 in her family. She was the granddaughter “Grandma, when did this house stop moving. Mary Cay is still working at all—were in town to celebrate Sue’s of a lady who attended SMC in 1944 being a castle?” I assured her that it still her plastics business and is doing well. 80th birthday. Sue said it turned out to from near St. Louis. I did not get the is a castle, and that satisfied whatever She gets to travel, and is planning on a be a four-day celebration. new graduate’s name, but this was her fantasy needed. Actually, the visit to Chicago with Carol in October, Mary Ellen told me that Sue Caron very unusual due to the remoteness house was three years old, and we along with any of you classmates in Riley’s son was married in August. of this area. loved all its mod cons! the area who can make it. Emily Dennard Sant Amour has A letter from Mary Terry Bader I thank Randy for doing my work I had a nice chat with Marguerite kept me up to date on Mary Jo Brown arrived in July encouraging us to have for me this time, and with help from Edwards, who said that she would try Holik,who has Alzheimer’s disease. hip replacements if needed. Mary my classmates, will do better next to hop on the South Shore and meet Mary Jo’s loving and devoted husband, has had two hip replacements and time. us. She is still active with the Gary Civic Bill, died in July. Mary Jo has since is much more comfortable. She took From Randy: As we checked into Center Symphony but isn’t making moved into a nursing home. a cruise down the Mississippi on a our hotels, The Inn at Saint Mary’s violins at this time! She used to drive to Emily and Jack rented a very large riverboat as part of her high school and the Hilton Garden Inn, we were Saint Mary’s from Gary just to visit the house in Santa Rosa, Fla., for two weeks reunion. She also took a trip to visit her greeted with a personalized bottle bookstore but no longer! in August for a reunion with all their daughter and son-in-law in Maine. of wine from the Easley Winery in Just before reunion, Muriel children and grandchildren—23 in all. There is no other news of our Indianapolis, Ind. It was sent by Joan Flanagan Cullen e-mailed that Dick I had a very enjoyable reunion with class, so I will close with best wishes Crawford Easley from their family was not doing well, so she would not Gloria Clark Allan, another friend of to you all.” winery. Each label had Saint Mary’s be able to attend. A few days after Mary Jo’s, in August. Gloria came into Reunion 2008 and our name. How cool my return, she sent a notice of Dick’s Chicago from her home in Florida for was that! Thanks, Joan! We gathered in ’53 death. Our sympathy and prayers to a long weekend and visit with her son, Lorry Riley Lambert the evening to toast you and to wish Muriel and all the family. A note from who is living here now. We met for 17 Ridgebrook RD. that you had been able to join us. her a bit later said that she is doing lunch in the city, and I will have to say Greenwich, CT 06830 Because of emergency surgery as well as can be expected. She has that she looks terrific! (203) 661-8683 on the way from Florida to Minnesota three grandchildren at Notre Dame Mary Ann Fellinger Ryan had a [email protected] this spring, Liz Wolter Paul called and and a granddaughter, a graduate of delightful trip to Aspen this summer said she would not be able to come to Saint Mary’s, working in Chicago. A trip with two of her children, Carol and I was not able to attend reunion, reunion as she had planned. She was was planned with her two sons and Mark. They heard Condoleezza Rice so Joan Randag Maloney (“Randy”) to fly to Chicago and drive down with their wives to attend the ND-Michigan speak on an interesting interview kindly offered to report on it. me. Tests found cancer, but when I last game in September. forum. A regular highlight for her First, though, I have a few things talked to her, she was doing well and Transportation for “Older Than is attending vespers at a Trappist to add. I phoned four of you in the planning on going to Florida as usual Golden” ladies was most welcome, monastery. She also had two middle of last week, and Mary Cay in October.

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with a choice of autos or trolleys to Peggy Curtain Hutchinson from Lannan Galligan ’56 and Tom have a from Saint Mary’s, I knew that it was a Notre Dame, then large or small carts Pennsylvania, Lois Welch Donovan condo in the same building, so they all special place. I visited and fell in love. I for buzzing around campus—all with from Iowa, and Pat Doyle Mulligan had a marvelous time reminiscing. [Ed. immediately felt at home and wanted chauffeurs. The Saint Mary’s campus from Chicago. Everyone agreed Note: Sadly, Kitty died June 13, 2008.] to attend the College...The scholarship has many new buildings, walkways, it was a most wonderful time. This summer, the sharp eyes of means so much to my family and me. and roads—with some still under Pat Hoag Ziperski caught a reference Your generosity has enabled me to construction. Around campus, I had to Sister Mary McCauley, sister of experience Saint Mary’s. It is great to my walking pals of several reunions: ’55 Barbara Bridgman O’Connor the late Monica McCauley, in Time know that I have the support of the Ann Bronsing Klein and Connie 2612 Payne Street magazine and the New York Times. entire Class of 1957 behind me this Stempien Deighan. We wandered Evanston, IL 60201 Sister, as a pastoral administrator at St. year.” Allison’s eloquent thank you through Holy Cross visiting our old (847) 328-4977 Bridget’s in Postville, Iowa, has been should be shared with all of you. How rooms, the newer Arts building, and [email protected] aiding residents in this small northeast good to know that we are making a the Welcome Center. A large new Iowa town after an immigration difference. facility takes the place of the old Rec, Charlie Wolf has made a generous investigation and dispute. with food most any time, and a nice donation to our endowed scholarship Did you notice that the brochure Reunion June 4–7, 2009 outdoor space. I finally was able to fund in memory of Joan Hemingway advertising this fall’s Saint Mary’s trip to visit Riedinger House, where all the Wolf, who died two years ago. Greece and Turkey quoted our Katie ’59 Barbara Benford Trafficanda home ec students lived for a quarter Charlie indicated that he intends to Perry, who enjoyed the last Tuscan 40 Camino Del Prado or semester. make annual contributions. What a trip? Our sympathy to Katie, whose San Clemente, CA 92673 Because of two children, spouses, wonderful way to honor our late senior long-time friend, Joe Kaye, died this 949-498-6244 and three grandchildren in Naples, class president. Thanks, Charlie, on June. Prayers also to Peggy Kearin [email protected] Jim and I go for part of the winter. This behalf of our class and all the young Carey, whose brother, John, passed last season I was able to talk to Ann women who will benefit from the away in April. Can you believe that we will Sullivan Bajc, who was getting ready fund! Ruth Keefe Herman was in be seeing each other come June to leave for Chicago in a few days. I heard from Joan Kershaw Chicago in June. Her purpose was to to celebrate our class’s wondrous Ann’s daughter works for the Chicago Putnam, who had finally reached help her daughter, Judy, and husband milestone? Fifty-four years have Tribune and has several children, too. Jeanne Jenk Goen. After several days, Mike move into a newly remodeled passed since we arrived on campus in Jim and I met for lunch with Mary the floods in Iowa ended just two condo. Mike has special requirements September 1955 and strutted to our Maher Stablein and husband Bill blocks from Jeanne’s home. after a disabling accident last year. state songs in the Pebble. I particularly toward the end of our stay. They are Kitty Nolan Calacci reports that Ruth did report that Pat Smith Parish remember Thamer Sacco Riley and looking great—enjoying golf and the general area of Iowa City was visited her in Washington, D.C., in Sue Linbeck when we sang The entertaining lots of children and hard hit. Kitty continues, “Typical of April, and they had a wonderful time Eyes of Texas are Upon You—they did grandchildren while there. Iowans, they scraped most of the mud enjoying the city. everything in a big way. We all have Mary Jane bought a Saint Mary’s off the streets and buildings and are In June, seven of us appreciated fond memories of our years at Saint notebook for everyone to write some starting to rebuild….some serious field the beauty of the Outer Banks in North Mary’s, and we get to relive them and comments to send Lorry. I ended up damage along the rivers in Iowa and Carolina, while staying in Nags Head. renew our friendships on campus June with the book and sent the four notes Illinois…slow growing season.” Kitty The group included Peggy Balfe, who 4 -7. Please mark your calendars and on to Lorry! met Maureen Sullivan this spring just sold her home on Cape Cod but plan to attend. The Older Than Goldens had on campus, and they toured the new remained on the Cape in a condo, Barbara Kelley Toepp and Friday dinner in the Stapleton Lounge. classroom building. “Very impressive,” Sheilamae Shannon O’Hara, Dee husband Bud celebrated their 50th Margaret Wodetzki and her husband, she says. The dedication of the new Kiley LeFevour, Mary O’Connor, wedding anniversary last summer with Richard Johnson, were at our table. Spes Unica Hall was on Oct. 20. Katie Carroll, Josie Murphy Vorda, a trip to Cancun, Mexico, with their They are still active in Jackson, Miss., and myself. In August, Mary Lou children and grandchildren. Barbara with the University and other projects. Ahern Colfer and Janet O’Connell has lost track of her Saint Mary’s Townies Mary Curley McDougal ’57 Mary Gladys Turner McCue made a trip to Traverse City, friends who were in her wedding. If and Barbara Norton Powers joined Enderle (M.G.) Mich., to attend the surprise 50th anyone knows the whereabouts of Vi us both evenings for dinner and 444 Ashland Avenue, #4 anniversary party of Jim and Pat Kovacs Fischer ’57 or Pat Quinlan conversation afterwards. Our meeting Evanston, IL 60201 Bauervic Leonard. The party was Sullivan ’58, please let Barbara know place was not the assigned room but River Forest, IL 60305 arranged by Jim’s and Pat’s children. at [email protected]. Sue Brown the hotel breakfast room. We looked (708) 488-1101 Janet had been a bridesmaid in the Bapst and Bill also celebrated 50 years at old photos, caught up on news of [email protected] wedding, as was Jeannie Haenn of wedded bliss last spring with a large other classmates, and mostly jogged Rainey. (Jeannie’s family travel plans weekend celebration in Jasper, Ga., each other’s memories. God Bless any “news sharer”! This kept her from joining the celebration.) their hometown. Over 150 family and Jodie Biddle Adler tooled around column, due Sept. 1, comes during a Pat is taking their children on a trip to friends attended. We were graciously campus and stayed up with the rest of dry period of communication during Croatia in September. Jim and Janet invited but due to a prior commitment us in spite of some health problems. the lazy days of summer. McCue’s daughter, Colleen Groves, has were unable to attend. Saturday evening after the banquet, I did hear from Jacque Buckley left for a year’s stay in Hong Kong with On a sad note, Mary Kay Moran the weather was so nice that we Hobbs, who had glowing memories her family. Colleen’s husband, Phil, is Smith’s husband Tom, passed away walked and talked our way back to the of reunion. Jacque retired Dec. 1, but the son of Anne Keating Groves. May 15, 2008. Mary wrote, “Tom’s hotel. She and Joe have been living in her employer convinced her to return I want to share with all of you a death came suddenly after he began Sarasota, Florida. one day a week. The Hobbs’ 14th heartwarming letter I received recently treatment for esophageal cancer. God Other classmates attending were grandchild arrived last January. that was addressed to Eva Haas Dolan called him while he was sleeping.” New Yorkers Betty Kiley Roach, I had a delightful phone call from and me on behalf of all members of Jeanne Mavigliano Conley’s former Joan Hoffman DeCrane, and Jo Mary Taylor Spalding (“Chickie”) our class. Allison Betourne is now a husband, Tom, also passed away after Ann Lyden Soch. From Oregon in late spring. She and Tom had a first-year student at Saint Mary’s and a lengthy illness. Our prayers and came Madeleva Millar Steffens; wonderful visit last winter with Dave the recipient of the Class of 1957’s sympathy are with Mary and Jeanne from Texas, Meg Grignon Tormey. and Mary Lou Reedy Ahlering at endowed scholarship. Allison wrote, and their families. Between these far points came their condo in Boca Raton, Fla. Kitty “As soon as I talked to a representative Prayers are needed for Ann

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Meagher VanderVennet as she continues undergoing treatment for lung cancer. It is a rough road excelsior excelsior excelsior excelsior excelsior for Ann but her faith and her dear husband, George, sustain her on this Congresswoman Alumna Receives Recognition difficult journey to wellness. Prayers Congresswoman Donna Christensen (D) ’66, who represents the U.S.Virgin Islands, received an are also needed for Colleen Taffee award from the Century Council on July 23 for her efforts to fight drunk driving and underage drinking. Goldkamp Harmon, who has been The Century Council is a national not-for-profit organization funded by distillers fighting drunk driving diagnosed with lymphoma. She will be and underage drinking. Thirty-seven members of the House of Representatives received the recognition. in treatment for six to eight months. Sharon McGee Sitton Bradshaw Sewall Joins AACTE Board e-mailed that she had spoken with Dr. Angela Maynard Sewall ’68, dean of UALR’s College of Education, has been selected to serve on Colleen. “She sounded strong, like the board of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE). her old self. She’s in her third week of AACTE, a national association of higher education institutions and organizations, is dedicated to this series, and if all goes as planned, promote learning by all students through high-quality, evidence-based preparation and continuing she should be finished in October. education for all school personnel. After that, she will need regular blood Alumna Recognized for Service to Persons with Disabilities testing so she won’t be able to go Maureen Barber-Carey ’72, will receive the EP Maxwell J. Schleifer Distinguished Service Award on too far.” Colleen’s daughter, Kathy, was July 27. The award is the highest honor given by EP Global Communications, publisher of Exceptional recently diagnosed with breast cancer Parent Magazine. The late Maxwell J. Schleifer is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Exceptional but has completed radiation and is Parent and was an advocate for people with disabilities and other special needs. doing well. She is the mother of three children under the age of 5. Alumna to Teach Mini-Course on Human Clinical Trial Research and International Marty Gillis Esrig and Aaron Drug Development recently hosted us and the Bradshaws Saint Mary’s College was proud to welcome back to campus alumna Mary Anne Luzar ’72, PhD, for dinner in their lively home in Chief of the Regulatory Affairs Branch, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Laguna Beach. We had a fun evening Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Luzar, who works on international AIDS research for the catching up on news of all our families. Department of Health and Human Services and is originally from Greencastle, Ind., taught a not-for- Murray and Sharon continue to be credit mini-course called “Human Clinical Trial Research: The Complex World of International Drug very involved with ballroom dancing Development,” October 6–9. and attend dance clubs wherever they travel. Aaron and Marty are avid golfers Executive Alumna Appointed to Girl Scouts Board of Directors and spend a good deal of time at their Girl Scouts of the USA has added Susan P. Peters ’75 to its National Board of Directors. Peters was desert home on the links. elected and confirmed on Nov. 1 at the 2008 Girl Scout National Council Session/51st Convention in I visited my sister, Betty Benford Indianapolis. Peters is a vice president at GE (General Electric) and leads executive development. Belfiore, in Venice, Fla., for a week in May in between a baptism, three Holy Indiana Governor Appoints Alumna as Superior Court Judge Communions, three confirmations, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced his appointment of Margot Fisher Reagan ’77 as St. Joseph and two graduations! Gerry and I Superior Court Judge on October 24, replacing retired Judge William T. Means. Reagan has been in had a busy spring. Betty visited me private practice since 1989 and is a partner in the law firm of Tuesley, Hall, Konopa, LLP, in South Bend. in July for our ladies’ beach week on She earned a law degree from the University of Notre Dame and received a bachelor’s degree in business Balboa Island and then we headed 26 administration from Saint Mary’s College. miles across the sea for a few days on Alumna wins Outstanding Teaching Awards Catalina Island. Kathleen Kilway ’85, a chemistry professor at University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), recently Next week, Gerry and I will fly to received the University of Missouri President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. University President Milwaukee to meet up with Tom and Gary Forsee presented Kilway with the award at a ceremony in Columbia, Missouri, on June 5, 2008. The Sarah Sceales Mulcahy to attend the honor carries with it a $15,000 stipend and invitations to participate in teaching forums throughout the San Diego State and Michigan games University of Missouri system. Earlier this year, Missouri Governor Matt Blunt awarded Kilway with the at Notre Dame. We hope to see Bud Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. and Mary Hughes Enright, Jim and Betsy Finneran Kennedy, George Alumna Promoted to VP at American Forest & Paper Association and Ann Vander Vennet, and Brian and Elizabeth VanDersarl ’92 has been promoted to vice president of government affairs of the American Carol Podesta Foley. Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA). In her new role, VanDersarl will manage the association’s advocacy Also next week, 20 of our efforts in Washington, DC, as well as on the state and international levels. classmates who are on the Reunion planning committee will be meeting Alumna Launches Campaign for House Seat at Saint Mary’s in final preparation for Gabrielle Campo ’03 was recently selected by the GOP to run against incumbent Rep. Andre Carson our big weekend. In making travel (D) in Indiana’s 7th District in December’s Congressional election. The world traveler, social worker, and plans next June, be aware that reunion advocate for children and families, is currently the director of Theology on Tap Indianapolis. Theology for the Class of ’59 will commence on on Tap provides those in the Indianapolis area with an informal platform to meet and socialize, while Thursday instead of Friday. strengthening their faith. My next deadline is March 1. Hope Librarian Alumna Honored for Inventiveness to hear from you! The Pennsylvania Library Association in Valley Forge honored Colleen Miles ’03 with the New From the Courier Office: Rosalie Librarian Honors Award this week. Miles is a librarian at the Upper St. Clair Township Public Library Riegle reports the joyous wedding of her oldest daughter, Kathryn, to near Pittsburgh, where she has been for four years. The award honors a librarian who has been in the Donny MacMillan in August. 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friends and relatives on the Leelanau of October 2008. This painting can 2008. She also organizes a monthly “loving.” Myrna stays in touch with Peninsula in Michigan and Rosalie be seen on Judy’s Web site: www. luncheon for the Los Angeles Alumnae Phoebe Blake, Joan Dorgan, and M. hosted a Sunday shrimp boil on the judyenright.com listed under Series 21. Club. She and husband Don enjoyed a J. Pauli Landry. Ann Purcell Perini shores of Lake Michigan. Sherry Reardon Gibbons wrote Notre Dame trip to Italy in the summer reports four married children, four A highlight of last winter was a trip from Glen Carbon, Ill., that she and of 2008. Her seven grandsons, all of grandchildren, and involvement with to Syria, where Rosalie met students husband John enjoyed a delightful whom live nearby, remain a joy. the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums. in the Iraqi Student Project, including trip to Japan in June 2008 to celebrate Despite the disclaimer of “how Nancy Van Etten Haske teaches Randa Adil, who received a full the baptism of their granddaughter, calm her life is,” Mary Roemer reported sixth grade at her parish school in scholarship to attend our own Saint Margaret Maire-Therese Riordon, born from South Bend, Ind., that she spent Omaha and is active in the St. Vincent Mary’s. “Saginaw Valley State University, to daughter Judy Gibbons Riordon two weeks in Vienna with her daughter de Paul Society. Cathy Ryan Condon where I taught for 33 years, also ’86 and her husband, John. The proud and three grandchildren—there for showed up at our reunion looking gave a full scholarship, and I’ve been grandparents also participated in a year on a Fulbright. She also spent like a 12-year-old, the envy of all our providing support for Jaafar Raad, the Eagle Scout Court of Honor for four additional days in Paris with two 66-year-old bodies. Kathy Wiedl who has matriculated in computer grandson Patrick Riordon. Sherry granddaughters, ages 19 and 17, a Mettler brought a healthy-looking engineering. These are wonderful and John had great fun sightseeing, long-ago promise to each other. In Steve to reunion and attributes young people who have been through shopping in Japanese stores and September 2008, Mary plans to travel prayer, ours and that of others, for his incredible hardships. I’m so thankful malls, eating many kinds of Japanese to Rochester, N.Y., for the wedding well-being. She continues her medical to the institutions that have provided food, and, especially, taking a ride on a of Mary Ann “Cookie” Cooke practice in Atlanta and boasts thirteen the scholarships and the generous “bullet train.” Campbell’s son, Matthew. In the “small grandchildren. Diana Castaldi friends who are providing their living From Santa Fe, N.M., Beth Mackin world category,” she discovered that Scheeler, retired from teaching, is expenses.” Baxter sent news that it had been the mother of her next-door neighbor coordinator for her parish Respect Life two years since her colon cancer was best friends in high school with group, and volunteers at the Women’s diagnosis, and she seems cancer-free Lenore Hennebry Madden. To finish Center. She sent a picture of herself ’61 Wini Kristufek except for some lingering side effects with her “calm life,” Mary stills enjoys with ten darling little people. Patty 29297 Piney Way from chemo and radiation. In the her work as a family therapist, with Greeley Lechman, a water colorist Breezy Point, MN 56472 spring of 2008, Beth and husband Bob doses of culture provided by the Notre and retired teacher, is now very active 218/562-4512 enjoyed a week in Bangkok and three Dame Marie P. DeBartolo Performing in her church: lector, Eucharistic [email protected] days in Hong Kong. In October, they Arts Center. minister, and teacher of baptism will return to Bonita Springs, Fla., but I truly appreciate hearing from classes to adults and first communion It’s been a good summer, and I’ve she will miss the desert, mesas, and all who answered my request classes to fifth and sixth graders. She’s enjoyed my flowers at home and in my mountains. for news. I hope to hear from particularly proud of daughter Laura “adopted” gardens at City Hall; but, as Emery Reistetter in Annandale, more of you next time. My next Lechman Rodriguez ’97 having usual, I’m ready for the next season to Va., shared some history and loving deadline is March 1, 2009. And been recognized by the Cardinal for begin. That’s one of the things I enjoy remembrances of his wife, Donna keep in mind…Our 50th reunion her work with confirmation classes about living up here in the woods… Sheridan Reistetter, who died is only 2-1/2 years from now! in their diocese. Mary Clemens the scene is always changing. Before unexpectedly on May 15, 2008, while Becker, a community volunteer and too long, the geese, ducks, and loons in rehab at a local nursing home spiritual director, very proudly boasts will gather to start their trips south, following surgery for a broken left ’63 Kathleen M. Owen of her first grandchild, daughter of and the leaves will start to fall. After tibia. Donna had Type I diabetes since 5600 Lake Resort Terrace Holly ’87. Pat Martin writes of her that, my wish is for a lot of snow. Bring she was 9. In recent years, she suffered Apt. 480-P continued involvement with the Art & it on!! a stroke, two heart attacks, and then Chattanooga, TN 37415 Environment committee of her church, Peggy Hill wrote from New underwent triple bypass surgery in (423) 875-5856 and as an advisor for Deborah’s Place in York to say she was most pleased the spring of 2003. The leg break [email protected] Chicago. Judy Durlak Romz belongs to report that she now has her first happened when she experienced to the contemporary choir of her grandchildren—twin boys, Declan and a low blood pressure episode and Terry Abbatemarco Comiskey church and does much sewing and Dashiell, born to daughter Stephanie fainted while walking with a walker writes she has, with husband Mike, quilting for charities. Barb Bernhard in February of 2008. Peggy’s other from her bed to the bathroom. ND ’60, four grown sons and three continues as development director news is that she is producing a revival Emery and Donna met their grandchildren. She continues of the Congregation of St. Joseph. of David Mamet’s play “Speed the freshman year, when she was at Saint teaching part time, and is involved Susan Hoehn Sullivan did not like Plow.” It originally starred Madonna in Mary’s and he at Notre Dame, on the in Soroptimist International, a retirement, so is “providing academic her only appearance on Broadway. Notre Dame campus—ironically, on business and professional women’s advising and support to students in From Door County, Wis., Anne their way to the bus stop following the volunteer service organization. Terry occupational programs and students McGovern Gerard, recapped her last Notre Dame-Navy game pep rally. They seems active, very content, and with disabilities.” This is her Alzheimer’s 46 years—from meeting and falling in were married in 1963. Emery describes accomplished. But we still wish she prevention plan. Good for you, Susan! love with her husband, Bill, to marrying Donna as a courageous and valiant had attended Reunion 45. Eileen Mary Beth Miller Gemperle and at Notre Dame, and then on to her five woman, a wonderfully beautiful, Delaney Jones, a kidney transplant Dick are very involved volunteering in children and 10 grandchildren. Anne lovable wife, and a caring mother. recipient, writes from Omaha, where their parish and with the homeless in is a broker associate with Properties of Despite battling Type I diabetes that she graduated from Duchesne and Seattle. They also enjoy opera, travel, Door County, LLC, and loves living in required at least one insulin injection a taught for 18 years. Then she married, and the theater. Susie Duncan Lawler and selling Door County. Her “Door” is day (in the last few years, five injections adopted Jimmy, now 28, and Bill, continues her decorating business always open to Saint Mary’s and Notre a day were required), Donna immersed 27, and sounds quite pleased with while involved in numerous volunteer Dame friends who come to visit. herself totally in her life as the wife of her life. Myrna Walker Hall has activities. And she tells jokes! Judy An e-mail from Judy Halter a Navy nuclear submarine officer and retired from the vice presidency of Reardon is now a Ph.D. in psychology, Enright in Brighton, Mich., reported as a mother. development of Women and Infants the preparation for such being her that her painting Power to Superpower Susan Fitzgerald Rice sent word Hospital of Rhode Island, sings in choir “anti-senility plan.” Margaret Nutting had won first prize at a Saginaw, Mich., from Los Angeles that she plans to in Providence, but is soon moving Ralph continues as teacher and author art exhibition. The prize included join Mary Cotter Fee at a high school to Maine with husband Howard, to at Lexington Theological Seminary. “In a one-person show for the month reunion in Evanston, Ill., in October enjoy their retirement which she is my next book, I am thanking Sr. Maria

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Pieta and Father Thomas Heath. Each Char Carroll Daniels, and Terry had Janice Misuriello Horan and Next, I’m happy to include a had a profound effect on me.” Beverly Miltich Murphy. It was a delightful her husband, John, visit for a week wonderful update on several of you, Troxler O’Grady continues as an lunch and a spirited conversation, in August. They have remained close courtesy of Alison Whittaker Rink. investment advisor in New York, “trying complete with news, photos, and friends and see each other a couple of “Tom and I are regularly in touch to” retire. Judy Galle Falout and plenty of laughs. There were many times each year. with Betsy Beck Cormany and her husband enjoy amateur photography, walks down memory lane, and we From Cambridge, Mass., Maryanne husband, Tim, and Phyllis Redgate even with work in galleries in Door lingered so long at the table that Char Wolf sent news. “Let me tell you Finn and her husband, Dan. We all County, Wis. Peggy Woodin Green is had to get back to her office before we about a few good things, each with get together at least three times a a lector and Eucharistic minister, and took the picture. Now we can’t wait to a bittersweet edge. I just finished a year (in Cincinnati, Connecticut, and with her husband is section rep for do it again. book that took seven years to write: Florida) and have traveled together to (Diocese of Beaumont) the Knights Proust and the Squid: The Story and Hawaii, the Caribbean, Ireland, Mexico, and Ladies of the Holy Sepulcher Reunion June 4–7, 2009 Science of the Reading Brain. It has and France. We are in the process of of Jerusalem. Joann Vanek is the been translated into eight languages planning a trip in 2009 to celebrate our director, Statistics Program for Women ’69 Joyce O’Donnell Bussewitz already and has been both a great fortieth anniversaries. in Informed Employment: Globalizing 1511 Jupiter Hills Circle joy and a great responsibility for “Betsy and Tim, both retired, live and Organizing and is an active Wilmington, NC 28411 me to finish. Recently an Atlantic in Stamford, Conn. They vacation in member of the Voice of the Faithful. (910) 686-6787 cover article “Is Google Making us Florida for three months each winter. Joann and Gail Donovan, who moved [email protected] Stupider?” used part of my book as its Betsy enjoys playing bridge and golf, to New York recently, have enjoyed platform for worrying about whether tending her beautiful gardens, and lunching from time to time. Barbara Hello, dear classmates! Once again the intellectual development of our volunteering in her community. Phyllis Beemsterboer Claire, with ten I am delighted to share the updates children—particularly their capacity and Dan reside nearby in Greenwich, children and ten grandchildren of her that you have been so good to send for ‘deep reading’ will be truly altered Conn., and also spend winters in own, continues working with special me. I received several e-mail responses by immersion into digital media and Florida. Phyllis is a member of several needs children as a case manager and to my pleas for news and phoned a the digital mode of dealing with choral groups, plays golf, and is a “actively practicing a spiritual path few of you, so I will jump right into the information. I am suggesting that community volunteer. She and Dan called A course in Miracles.” Maggie reporting! we need a societal discourse on how are the proud grandparents of two McMahon Adrian has visited with Becky Golubski Bahu responded we can both preserve our present (soon to be three) little girls. Tom and our dear Lynne Baur and reports her with her news since graduation. “I reading brain and move inevitably into I have lived in the Cincinnati area to be the ever-busy whirling dervish never left South Bend—except for the digital epoch already at our kids’ for 34 years. He is a tax and estate we’ve always known her to be. A true vacations, of course! I am working fingertips. planning attorney...and isn’t even inspiration to all of us. God bless ya, with the St. Joseph County Public “As for my personal life, my thinking of retirement! Our son, Collin, Lynne. And Kathy Owen continues Library in South Bend as branch husband and I just took our last child and his wife have two daughters, 3 the pleasant life of a retired old maid services coordinator. I received my to college, and even though I have and 7. We are truly blessed, as they in Chattanooga, volunteering for MLS in 1974 from Western Michigan seen a thousand parents do this with live approximately five minutes from Ronald McDonald House, Volunteers in University and have been with the their children, I was quietly devastated us. Our son, Brian, lives and works in Medicine, and my church. Life is good, public library system here since our by the experience and feel like my Philadelphia. I love to play tennis and it seems, for all of us. I’m so impressed Saint Mary’s College graduation, with heart is missing one more part. Since I paddle tennis, and also volunteer in with the volunteerism among us. seven very different job experiences was an ‘older mother’ (especially older our community. Please keep it up, as people need us throughout the years. My husband and than my dear roomie Helen Meihaus “Phyllis keeps in touch with and God’s waitin.’ I met in 1977 on a blind date arranged Canfield, who has grandchildren who Alice Fanning Horney and sees Reunion was the best yet—for by library patrons who were mutual read!), I thought that this stage of life her each year in Florida. Alice and 55 of us. The rest of you were sorely friends, and we married a year later. might have its benefits—e.g., not John live in Atlanta and enjoy missed but are definitely expected My husband was a widower, originally going to soccer matches at sixty. I miss their many grandchildren. Phyllis for our grand fiftieth. Please begin from Palestine, who was working every moment of it already.” also communicates with Janie that mindset today. Love to all. in South Bend. Without the contact I’m going to jump in here as both Kirkhoff Johnson and loves arranged by these mutual friends, I a book lover and an “older mother” receiving photographs of her three doubt we would have ever met each myself! When my husband, Roy, and I grandchildren. ’65 Sheila Kelly Ames other! We have a daughter, Jean, retired to North Carolina in July of ’06, “I am in touch on a fairly regular 1200 Eustace Drive who is finishing her BSN at Indiana I, too, ached for my role as mother. Our basis with Mary Bramlage Minton, Dixon, IL 61021 University South Bend. I run into older daughter had recently graduated who lives in the Chicago area. Sadly, (815) 288-2640 classmates from time to time, and that from The College of William and Mary in Mary’s father, who lived in Cincinnati, [email protected] is always a wonderful experience.” Williamsburg, Virginia, and had just left passed away last year. At the funeral, I Prudy Schober Smith e-mailed for an internship in Kenya. Our younger was able to visit briefly with Mary and On May 16, SMC ’65 Belles from the with a personal and professional daughter started college in Aug. of ’06 say hello to her children, Melanie and Washington, D.C., area held a luncheon update. “Chris ND ’67 and I have lived at East Carolina University. Granted, Michael. at The Irish Inn at Glen Echo, Md., a in the Gettysburg, Penn., area for 35 Greenville, North Carolina is and was a “I hope that this finds all of you and delightful spot near the C&O canal years. We have three children and four whole lot closer than Kenya, but I did your families happy and healthy. Betsy towpath. We were so delighted that grandchildren. Chris has retired from feel an unspeakable void. While it wasn’t and Phyllis join me in sending warmest some out-of-area alumnae could join 35 years at Mount St. Mary’s University a cure-all, I did appreciate reading The regards to everyone!” us: Mary Ellen Kinney Baruch ’64 in Emmitsburg, Md., where he taught Empty Nest, which is a compilation From further west. Denver, Col., was visiting Marcia Black McMahon sociology. I taught high school art for of essays from 31 writers describing Mary Ann Tavery wrote, “I can’t from Tucson, and Therese McCaffrey 25 years and have recently retired to their own empty nest experiences. believe I’ve been retired for seven McConville brought Claire Donohoe work on my own art full time. I enamel I know many of you classmates are years, but I love the extra time. I spend O’Mara, who was visiting from New forged copper wall sculptures. I have grandmothers, but I offer the book more time with my husband, Willie, Jersey. Other attendees were Janine my work at a gallery in Gettysburg suggestion to those of you trying to doing outdoor things like biking, Renaud Burns (who drove up from and at CircaArts in South Bend. I also separate from hands-on mothering hiking, and skiing. I visit my parents the Virginia Bay country), Theresa have a website:www.prudysenamels. roles, or at least trying to define new more often (I’m so lucky to have Lapenta Silio, Pat Sears Kraemer, com.” Prudy added that she and Chris long-distance mothering roles. both of them), and I spend more

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time with my siblings and friends. section of the magazine twice each Greater Chicago, and board member “proud grandmother.” I love volunteering for the Denver year. I am including the next e-mail of the Illinois Council Against Handgun Because this year’s reunion Art Museum, which has a wonderful along with its compliment because it’s Violence and the Leadership Council conflicted with the wedding of Kathy education program that includes a shout-out to our whole class as well. for Mercy Homes For Boys and Girls. Breitenbach Zarnacki’s daughter, tours and talks. I get more out of Theresie Ambrusko responded to my In 2005, Peg and her husband, some classmates chose to have a the museum than I put into it. Willie e-mail request for help on this issue Don, relocated from Chicago to Mount delayed reunion in June at Dede and I have been traveling for over 30 with the following news. Pleasant, S. C., where she’s a Junior Stevenson Cable’s Colorado vacation years. In July 2008, we visited China. “First, I want to thank Joyce for League member and ALS advocate. home, writes Mary Anne Madden Highlights for me were a scenic cruise doing this column. I really look forward Judy Fong Clavin, senior Hoffman. Among the highlights was on the Yangtze River and seeing the to reading news about our class (I technical analyst for Computer consumption of a Dainty Maid Red terra cotta figures guarding the tomb always thought we had a great class!), Science Corporation’s GBS Americas/ Velvet cake. of Emperor Qin near Xian. We enjoyed and we owe it all to Joyce for actually Consulting Group, lives in Torrance, Of the eight women, including having my sister, Sue Tavery Brennan getting this done. I have been living in Calif. At our 35th reunion, she was able Dede, Kathy, Mary Anne, Teresa ’71, and husband, Terry ND ’71, on this San Francisco since 1990. My husband to rendezvous with Nancy O’Donnell Aversa Maganzini, Rozy Owens, trip.” and I came here from Minneapolis, Guhman, Pat Haffey Clemency Mary Friedman Slattery, Mary Beth My latest update from Margaret and I took a job as general counsel (president of Make A Wish Foundation Curosh Finkey, and Nancy Weber- Roberts Richards, serving as a Peace of a construction company. We were of Greater New York), Lorraine Foley, Curth, Nancy came the farthest. She Corps volunteer began, “As you have not able to have children, so we Maureen McPhee Donhauser, Cathy divides her time between Iraq and read and heard, a couple of weeks ago adopted a baby girl in 1992. Ten days Szczerbienski Mathews, Mary Ellen Vermont. the Russians and Republic of Georgia later, my sister Sara was murdered. Hayes Schaefer, and Peggy Klaybor Mary Anne’s daughter, Meganne had a small war. Well, if your family I spent the next five years going to Weber. “Due to family illnesses, Jan Hoffman ’03, is resident director of was killed in the ethnic cleansing and trials and working with the police and Rewers McMillan couldn’t attend, but Saint Mary’s Rome Program. Mary house burnt down, not so small … I district attorney. Her husband was we kept her informed by phone as we Anne and her husband, Howard, were was assigned to the area of Eastern convicted of arranging her murder. By revisted our old haunting grounds,” in the first class of Rome participants. Europe/Central Asia. I could have gone the time the trials were finally over, it says Judy. Last year, Mary Anne taught career to Georgia and been there one week was time for me to spend time with Judy’s proudest moments this development classes at Indiana before becoming a volunteer. Ever our daughter, and I have been a stay year? Celebrating her children’s University’s business school. so glad not to have that experience! at home mom/volunteer since 1998. graduations. Her son completed “My art work has changed from Learning life here is enough Now she is in high school, and I am a master’s in civil engineering/ watercolors of still lifes and landscapes excitement for me… I am more settled going to go back to work. If any of you environmental studies and her to Mickey Mouse, Elmo, and Curious into daily life in Fushe-Arrez. I am come to San Francisco, please call. It daughter graduated from high school George for my third grandchild, taking more things as natural—that has been way too long since I have and is bound for UCLA. expected in October,” writes Teri really are not. They are my new normal seen anyone from our class. And I Kathy Brems Durbin is still Maloof Kratus, who just celebrated …” Margaret’s e-mail and blog were hope that you all come to reunion!” working part-time at Providence her 34th wedding anniversary with in our last class column, but they are Just to reinforce Theresie’s wishes Hospital in suburban Detroit in the Stat Gene Kratus ND ’72. “Since my four worth repeating here. I know you all of getting us together again … be Lab. “I want to thank everyone for their children are grown, I’ve enjoyed will be interested in seeing her photos sure to get a new calendar for 2009, prayers for our son-in-law, who’s doing playing golf, traveling, and best of all, of Albania and reading more details of immediately circle the dates of June 4– very well after his liver transplant,” staying connected to my SMC friends. her new life. I’m also sure she’d love to 7, and plan to attend our 40th reunion! she writes. “Bridget graduated from Volunteering on various charities is still receive your good wishes and prayers! Take good care of yourselves, and Georgetown in May, and she and a large part of my life.” Her contact info is margaretjrichards@ thank you again for writing and calling! Lindsay both became engaged last Cathe Moran, an IBM senior gmail.com and http://margaretalbania. summer.” human resources partner in blogspot.com/. Mary Ann Hornback Egan Chicago, and Beth Lombardi Oliva While flipping through our ’73 Mary Kay Davy Mulvaney teaches English at Loyola Academy in recently spent an evening with Pat community’s directory not long 5116 Johnson Avenue suburban Chicago. Mary Ann and her McCracken, visiting from Tennessee. ago I came across a familiar name Western Springs, IL 60558 husband, a Cook County judge, went “It was a great to catch up and hear … Michael Farnam! I called and (708) 246-5232 to Spain and Rome this summer on an about Pat’s life in Tennessee and about discovered that we are indeed Ignatian Pilgrimage. Beth’s adorable grandsons,” says Cathe. neighbors here in Wilmington. We Ann Therese Darin Palmer has Teaching with Mary Ann at Loyola She and Anne Rogers Roche “also hope to get together in the near graciously written for me this time. Academy is Jane McCormick Carney, had a long, laughter-filled lunch with future. Mike and her husband, Rick Congrats to Peg FitzGibbons a fine arts instructor. This summer Denise Donofrio, in Chicago visiting Norman, moved here about four years Higgins, recipient of the Saint Mary’s Jane, also a painter, was awarded family.” ago from the Bay area of California 2008 Distinguished Alumna Award, a residency at the Vermont Studio Mary Kay Davy Mulvaney had after selling several of their horses which President Carol Mooney gave to Center. Four of Jane’s paintings were an extremely busy summer. On her and downsizing. Mike retired from her her at the June reunion. installed in the Prudential Building in summer calendar: Daughter Katelyn’s advertising business but not from her While working in demanding jobs Chicago, where they will be displayed graduation from Notre Dame; son riding! She still has one horse, which for Citibank and KPMG in Chicago, during the coming year. Bobby’s from high school; two she rides frequently. Mike’s daughter Connecticut, and Singapore, Peg has Mary Ann Weis Fenimore and her European trips, including teaching a and family live here in Wilmington never stinted on the time she devotes husband Mark “are enjoying retirement course overseas; and work related to as well, so she is thrilled to have that to Saint Mary’s. Her involvement has since Mark sold his software company heading Elmhurst College’s honors family (which includes two boys) in included the roles of Courier class six years ago,” Mary Ann writes. “It was program. town. Her other daughter lives a bit reporter, co-chair of the Chicago Club’s so special having my three college Ann Therese Darin Palmer, a north of New York City and also has programs supporting Saint Mary’s roommates, Peg FitzGibbons Higgins, BusinessWeek and Chicago Tribune two children, a boy and a girl. 1996 capital campaign, and member Teresa Trenor Wilkins, and Mary Business Section freelancer for almost Several of you thanked me for of the President’s Alumnae Advisory Jo Geffert Lahr, at my daughter twenty years, also is racking up miles: writing our column, and I appreciated Council. Michaela’s wedding last year.” Speaking Guam-Saipan with one of her two your very warm comments. I am happy Peg also has served as president of Mary Jo, she continues to work as an Marine Corps sons; Hawaii, where to put your news together for our of the Mental Health Association of optician in Cambridge, Mass., and is a both sons are stationed; and a trip to

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Lourdes, where A.T., a breast cancer —A.T. Darin Palmer ’73 pinch-hitting for Ray and Ann Spencer Network for writes that Gail Eichorn Kroeger, survivor, volunteered for a week Mary Kay Davy Mulvaney ’73 Congregational Leadership. (Kate also Naperville, Ill., will visit her in Colorado helping chronically-ill Americans. From the Courier Offi ce: Mary coaches Catholic clergy, she says!) in September. (Kim added that Gail Susan Oglesbee Payne is an Anne Madden Hoff man writes: On other travels, Kate drove south lost her husband, Doug ND ’74, in economic development consultant. “Celebrating their 35th graduation from Charlottesville to visit her niece, 2002.) We hope to hear about that She lives with her husband, David, in took on a special meaning for a group Jennifer Burke Harris ’89, in Baton get-together soon; it’ll be Gail’s fi rst a vineyard in the Finger Lakes region of the Class of 1973. The “Big Eight” has Rouge, La., then continued on to trip to Colorado. of New York State. “A special thanks to managed to see each other with some Innerarity Point, Fla., to see Mary Jo And after 27 years of living in the all for their prayers and support while regularity each summer in Chicago Emmanuel Hanover and Dennis, same house in Centralia, Wash., Denise dealing with breast cancer,” Susan for a “girls” weekend. This year was a ND ’74. Mary Jo is now business Boulac moved to a new home on writes. “Almost to the fi nish line and special trip. development services coordinator a mostly treed fi ve acres in Oakville, doing well.” “DeDe Stevenson Cable, Fort for the city of Baton Rouge, a position Wash. (that’s southwest of Seattle and In Chicago, Claudia Traudt Lauderdale, Fla, arranged for the that requires extensive national and northwest of Portland). Denise says “Muggs,” is a lecturer-artist in the other seven (Nancy Weber-Curth, international travel. (Kate sang at Mary that she enjoys working with kids—it University of Chicago’s Basic Program Burlington, Vt., Kathy Breitenbach Jo’s wedding in Pensacola back in keeps her young. That’s obvious: She’s of Liberal Education. “Our SMC buddies Sarnacki,West Chester, Penn., Teresa August ’75.) Over at Mary Jo’s parents’ in the second half of her 32nd year realized every fi ve years was too Aversa Maganzini, Chicago, Ill., house in Pensacola, they were joined as a special education teacher, her infrequent to reunite,” writes Muggs, Rozy Owens-Salem, Ore., Mary by Christine Broderick Emmanuel 20th at the high school level, her 19th “so, for many years, we’ve gathered in Friedman Slattery, Parkland, Fla., and Miriam “Mimi” Donnellon year as assistant girls’ tennis coach, ‘house-swamings’ yearly.” and Mary Anne Madden Hoff man, Kimball and Jim, ND ’74, whose and her 20th as assistant boys’ tennis Among the ten hostesses Indianapolis, Ind.) to come to her daughters also graduated from Saint coach! Denise has been teaching in nationwide are Maribeth Cashman vacation home in Durango, Col., Mary’s (Shannon Kimball ’99 and Chehalis, Wash., for 28 years so far. “I Coughlin and Carol Wangberg for an extended weekend visit this Casey Kimball Compton ’01). Kate will teach until I fi gure out what I want Haines, both of Massachusetts; past June. The women took in the writes, “The dinner sparked much to do when I grow up and am open Suzanne Head McAuliff e, Syracuse; Western sites and savored the chance conversation of the merger that never to suggestions on that front. Truck and Anne Faherty and Sharon Ames to be together and visit leisurely. was, and yet there was so much rich driving looks good from here (less Nelson, South Bend. “My treasured DeDe and her husband, George, experience to recall.” paperwork)!” Grandma Rosie McCullough Sullivan thought of everything to make the Kate also spent a few days this Patricia O’Loughlin Erickson— ’11 always lived the truism: ‘Your Saint visit memorable—from luxurious summer in San Diego, Cal., with Mary okay, Trish (Atlanta, Ga.)—has been Mary’s friends are friends for life,’” writes and spacious accommodations Clare Cullen Parme and Bob, ND ’75, keeping in touch with her roommate Muggs. to delicious food and even great recalling “those freewheeling days during junior year, Marjorie Fuchs Carol Riordan is vice-president of weather. One of the highlights of and nights in Augusta Hall.” Mary Begin, who lives in Boston, Mass., and programming and personnel at the the visit was seeing DeDe’s mother, Clare’s son just graduated from Notre although they haven’t seen each other American Press Institute in suburban Pinkie Wolff Stevenson ’42, who Dame’s law school and has joined a in years (they’re threatening a South Washington, D.C. In April, she visited is the niece of Sister Madeleva. Her San Diego fi rm. A bonus of that visit, Bend reunion), they still keep up, Saudi Arabia for the opening of the energy and enthusiasm inspired us writes Kate, “was an intense discussion perhaps because both have daughters Prince Ahmed bin Salman Applied all. She recently had a hole-in-one! of faith and family life with Mary Clare’s about the same age. “Margie is such Media Institute, the fi rst of its kind in The group is already looking forward uncle-in-law, Father Len, who works in a great person, and I was so lucky to the Middle East. to another chance to see each other!” admissions at Notre Dame. Father Len be her roommate. Our relationship is Recently Jan Leibold Zorn joined gave us all his blessing before we went such a great example of the power MonoGen Inc. in suburban Chicago our separate ways.” of fate—being randomly matched as vice-president of regulatory and ’75 Mary Sheeran Lots of us, not just Kate, have been as roommates in McCandless and clinical aff airs. In August, Jan, husband 216 Seventh Ave., 5E on the move! growing into fast friends in spite Peter, a retired German high school New York, NY 10011 While visiting family in Des Moines, of the march of time and distance.” teacher, and their four children –all in (212) 691-7288 Iowa, Sue Sarcone had dinner with They haven’t been able to make that healthcare professions—went on an [email protected] Aimee Beckmann-Collier. (Sue and reunion yet, “but we will!” says Trish. Alaskan cruise. Recently Jan visited her husband, Mitchell Schneider, own Sara Morrison Cusick, Carrollton, with Kathy Murphy-Keedy, a career Way back then, in February 1975, a real estate company in Washington, Texas, writes that her son, 1st Lt. placement counselor, who lives near I was sitting on the stage fl oor with DC.) Aimee is director of choral music James Cusick, is once again deployed East Lansing, Mich. Kathy “Kate” Burke (who had just at Drake University, where she’s with the Marine Corps, this time on Stay tuned for details on our mini- played an electrifying Medea) and been teaching for 20 years, and, as ship. He was last docked in Kuwait. reunion in Chicago: March 2009. talking about future plans. Kate said noted in the Summer Courier, was Their son-in-law, Capt. Julian Flores Finally, thanks to everyone for she planned on teaching theater, elected president of the North Central (daughter Katie’s husband), a pilot in the prayers, Mass cards, and support which is what she’s doing: she is Division of the American Choral the Marine Corps, was just deployed to during the last two years, especially associate professor of voice and Directors Association (the professional Iraq for his second tour of duty there. everyone at my dad’s Chicago and speech at the University of Virginia in organization for America’s choral And daughter, Helen, and son-in-law, Detroit memorial Masses: Julie Webb, Charlottesville. But from the note she professionals). Joey Dahlvig, became parents for the Mary Gay O’Neill Kay, Mary Beth sent me, it sounds as if she’s hardly When Janet Wertheimer fi rst time on July 3, 2008, so Sara has Denefe Anderson, Kathy Brems there! Recently, Kate presented at a Kelly, Germantown, Tenn., came to a lovely granddaughter, Emma Ann Durbin, Mary Lou Gorno ’72, who conference on translation in Dublin Chicago in August, she and Kimberly Dahlvig. read at the Chicago Mass, Marianne sponsored by the University of Roma Hendricks went to see the air and Also becoming grandparents for Palmer ’00, Teri Maloof Kratus, Tre. At Glasgow’s Royal Scottish water show along Lake Michigan and the fi rst time were Genevieve Musick who drove round-trip same day Academy of Music and Drama, she then had lunch. They hadn’t seen each Goss (Fincastle, Va.) and her husband, from Cleveland to Detroit, and Susan taught New York City and American other in 23 years! Kimberly writes, “If John, now enjoying newcomer Oglesbee Payne. A wow! to Susan, who southern accents. And, she has you or anyone else comes to Chicago, Caroline. Genevieve is teaching at fl ew from New York City where she’d facilitated voice and preaching skills call me! There’s lots to see and do nearby Roanoke College and is active had breast cancer chemotherapy the workshops for Baptist pastors at the here!” in land conservation. day before to read at the Detroit Mass. invitation of Richmond, Virginia’s Kim Lynch Fry, Golden, Col., Busy sending her daughter off to

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school, Sharon McKernan Gottlieb a very special ceremony. from you. His address is: P.O. Box 839, As Linda notes, our 30th reunion is writes, “I find myself thinking back to By the way, according to Saint Notre Dame, IN 46556-0839. just around the corner, so please plan the late summer/fall of 1971. So much Mary’s Web site, these teak benches From the Courier Office: on attending! has happened in my life since leaving “are built to endure and provide Stephanie Temme writes: I am From the Courier Office: Saint Mary’s in 1975.” Sharon has been perpetual tributes for members of currently a math support specialist Elizabeth S. Scheurer writes: “I was living in the Washington, D.C., area, the Saint Mary’s family. A plaque for at a middle school in Germantown, promoted to principal clinical research working at Merrill Lynch for 13 years personalized inscription is included Md., and still ride horses in my spare scientist at Boston Scientific Cardiac before marrying Mark Gottlieb in 1988. for display on each bench.” The cost is time. My husband, Brian ND ’78 is Rhythm Management (formerly the They now have four teenagers—two $2500. Something to think about… the director of projects for Jacobs Guidant Corporation). I facilitate in college and two at home in Fairfax Please keep writing. It’s wonderful Engineering Group based in Arlington, clinical research studies out of the Station, Va. Along with keeping up to hear from you. Spread the word! Va. Aiden, our son, is in his second year research department. My work with her busy household, Sharon Send me a note any time! And…stay as a cadet at the United States Military typically involves technology that manages all the finances for Mark’s well and be happy, you and yours! Academy at West Point. Our daughter, is eight to ten years from a product various companies, is treasurer of her Hannah is a senior in high school and application, if at all. It’s very cool son’s high school marching band (over has been applying to colleges. She and very risky stuff. I also have two 200 strong!), and an active volunteer ’77 Beth Daugherty-Campanale also earned her Girl Scout Gold Award patents pending—one in an area of for both church and community. 2956 Layne Court by creating a small library for the neuromodulation and the other in the “It makes for a sometimes crazy but Richmond, VA 23233-8015 National Children’s Medical Center in renal space. (Sorry, but I can’t be more rewarding life. Our entire family has (804) 270-2480 Washington, D.C. Both of our children specific until the Patent Office officially traveled all over the world, and God are competitive swimmers. Aiden was assigns our company the patent.) I will has blessed us immensely.” Jane (Janie) Ann Schiltz writes the captain of his high school team be attending the European Society Kathleen Clapp wrote that that she has two young children: and was recruited by the Army Black of Cardiology meeting in Munich this she is working as a psychologist in David, 9 and a fourth grader, and Knights. He also qualified for and swam August and will be presenting data on Albuquerque, N.M., and for the past Katherine, 7 and a second grader. Both at the Junior Nationals in Orlando, one of my studies. year has been director of the domestic children were adopted as infants from Fla., his senior year in high school. “I still hear from Nancy Lang, violence treatment program with Guatemala. They are active and enjoy who is at Johns Hopkins practicing the Second Judicial District Court in visiting the SMC and ND campuses Reunion June 4–7, 2009 in pediatric oncology and from Kim collaboration with the University of during football weekends. Janie Rusnak Sandler, who lives and works New Mexico: “It is challenging and remains with Northwestern Mutual, ’79 Jean Powley Murphy in La Jolla. I spent a great weekend last inspiring.” where she began right after her law 1150 Kylemore Court summer with Nancy touring Maryland Kathleen McFadden Devine, school graduation. While she’s spent Des Plaines, IL 60016-8711 and the Naval Academy, which is Chagrin Falls, Ohio, near Cleveland, her entire career with one company, (847) 699-0645 beautiful. I also made my annual trek informs us that her husband, Brett, she’s not had the same position. [email protected] to La Jolla to be a total slug and hang retired from Nestle after 34 years. She is currently the vice president out on Kim’s balcony looking at Scripps Katie is a freelance business writer, of the business markets group I recently received a note from Pier. Kim recently changed design who, after 10 years of full-time public and responsible for the sales and Linda Kawecki containing both sad firms and is enjoying her new business relations work, spent the next 20 marketing activities in the business and happy news. She wrote: “The first situation.” years taking assignments and doing market. She said her undergraduate bit of sad news was the sudden death Lisa Morel Las is entering her volunteer work for her children’s public degree in business has been a great of Greg Harry ... husband of Rosemary fifth year as CEO of Big Brothers Big school, her parish (Saint Joan of Arc), background for her career. Serbent Harry ’79. He died in a traffic Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties in and the Cleveland chapter of the Christ Suzanne Baker Cox writes that accident in October 2007. Colleen Joliet, Ill. In June, her daughter, Lauren, Child Society. Daughter Cathleen, 23, she and Jim are busy with their four O’Brien Schiedler and Gina Kubicki graduated from Harvard University, graduated in ’07 from Miami University children. Three are now in college. Her Ogden and I attended the funeral in where she was a four-year NCAA in Oxford, Ohio, and lives in New York oldest, Kathryn graduated from Smith Seattle, Wash. Rosemary has since Division I volleyball scholar athlete. City, in Gramercy Park, working in sales College; Caroline is a senior at Saint. relocated to Connecticut, to be close and marketing for News Corps. Katie Mary’s; and Jimmy is a sophomore at to family. Rosemary has an 11-year-old wrote, “I’m so jealous. She is living ‘the the University of Maine, where he is a daughter, Nicole, who seems to be ’81 Cindy Jones Helgason life’ in Manhattan and having a ball.” pitcher on their baseball team. John, adjusting well to all these life changes 906 25th St. Her youngest, Patrick, just graduated the baby, has multiple choices for his thrown at her in the past year. West Des Moines, IA 50265 from high school and is going off freshman year in college. Some of “On a happier note, my freshman- (515) 222-6932 to Columbia College in Chicago Suzanne’s most precious memories year roommates and I (Rosemary, [email protected] this fall. Patrick is already winning are of her years as a Saint Mary’s Colleen, Ann Marie Calacci, Marie awards for his photography in gallery student—particularly the one spent in Vitali Black, and I) took a trip to the Patty Sehn Ruffin reports: showings. Katie writes, “I hope to touch Rome during her sophomore year. California Wine Country to celebrate “Rick ND ‘81 and I just emptied our base with many of my Saint Mary’s On a personal note, my dad, our 50th birthdays this past January. nest—sending our youngest, Will, to friends in Chicago, now that I will be Dr. Eugene Campanale, former While there, we stopped at the Creighton in Omaha. Middle child visiting there more often.” (Chicago is department head of education, has Sapphire Hill tasting room to see Andrew is a senior at Duke, and our beginning to sound like the place to recently undergone heart bypass another classmate: Anne Giere. Anne eldest, Julie ND ’07, is living and gather!) surgery. While looking forward to a and her husband, Tim Meinken, own working in New York City. As we And finally, Patricia Lauerman quick recovery and early release, he Sapphire Hill Vineyards. approach our 50th birthdays next year, Nobbe, Oshkosh, Wis., and her instead spent nearly three months in I also just returned from the SMC we are grateful for good health, faith, family gathered outside the Le Mans the hospital with multiple difficulties, campus this past weekend. I was there family, and friends.” entrance on May 9 to dedicate including several times where his body for the ND-Michigan game and also Roberta De Pieroi-Perkins benches honoring her mother, Helen almost didn’t make it. I’m glad to say for the Alumnae Board of Directors’ reports: “Joan Grabowski ’82, Patricia Ridgely Lauerman ’41, and her aunt, he’s had his “miracle birthday” and meeting. I have just begun a three- Williams, Ann M. Trucano ’82, and Mary Ridgely Root ’37. She praised reached the age of 80 the last week of year term on the Board. It was great I are all meeting over Labor Day Addie Stefanac Cashore ’70, of the August. If anyone would care to drop to be on campus, and I look forward to weekend for our annual SMC Chick Donor Relations office for coordinating him a line, I know he’d love hearing our 30th Reunion.” Reunion in Rapid City, S. Dak., at Ann’s

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home. We are all looking forward to From Nancy Roach Stauder: “I go to our 30th. I was a CSC for 20 years out to Denver to surprise my SMC three glorious days of reminiscing and moved recently to Raleigh, N.C., as and then felt called to be a lay person roommate Pat O’Brien Harrington making new memories. . .I have had I am engaged to a wonderful man in the church. I am very fortunate to ’80 for her birthday. We had a great the fortune to finally meet two fellow whose job has taken him to the have great relationships with many time reminiscing. My son, Kevin, Saint Mary’s graduates here in Key Raleigh area. My job allows me to of them and still stay connected by graduated from Miami University West. I was attending a garden club move—which is very good. I will miss offering some consulting services.” in December, and Pat’s daughter meeting at which the guest speaker getting together with the New Jersey Karen Parrott Lilley writes: “I graduated this past May. Now was Coleen Fitzsimmons ’98 of the alumnae club, since it is currently run live with my family in Beverly Hills, my daughter Ashley is a senior at Monroe County Mosquito Control. I by Dawn Parker Santamaria. My son Mich., and work part time for Abbott Miami and Pat’s daughter, Kelly, is a was so surprised to learn that she is is in graduate school in Savannah, Ga, Laboratories as a medical nutritional sophomore. Next weekend, Mary a Saint Mary’s graduate with a BA in and my daughter is attending Rowan sales rep, now celebrating 21 years Maloney ’84 is coming out for the ND biology—just like me. Over Christmas, University in Glassboro, N.J”. with the company. I have been game and then spending a couple of I was talking to another woman at From Mary Ryan Buddig: “I am married to Kurt Lilley for 12 years and days with us.” a party and we got to discussing finally done with grammar school at have two girls: Lizzie, 10, and Julie, 9.” From Maureen O’Brien Kohler: Indiana. Lo and behold, she is also a St. Isaac Jogues after 15 years. Sarah is From Molly Woulfe: “I spent “Our daughter, Katie Kohler ’09, has graduate of Saint Mary’s: Marianne a junior and Jennifer is a sophomore a week in Palm Springs with my been writing for The Observer since Loner Schippereit ’71. The three of us at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. sweetheart’s family, returning freckled, she set foot on campus. She enjoys feel so lucky to have found each other Erin is a senior, Margaret is a junior, not tan. Trip highlights included the challenge and the small paycheck, with our college in common. Happily and Bobby is a freshman at Hinsdale Joshua Tree National Park, watching but I’m not sure she enjoys the long married to my wonderful husband, Central High School.” the lunar eclipse in the desert, and hours that often end at 2-3 a.m. Her Reef Perkins, I continue to do ad sales Ann Elliott Simsarian writes: “I am a visit to San Clemente, where I was junior year, she served as the Saint here in Key West.” thankful to live in southern California. born. Son James turned 16 in April, Mary’s editor and has been appointed From Martha Maggio Merizon: My husband, Greg, is an emergency and Liam became an official teenager assistant managing editor for the “In July, Jane Kopec Bentkowski, medicine physician at Saddleback in July.” 2008-09 school year.” Way to go, Katie! Cathy Sweeney Dunn, and Maria Memorial Hospital in Laguna Hills. I am Maggie O’Neill writes: “My Bladowski Sobczak flew out to Sun home raising two boys: Aris Elliott, 12, daughter, Clare, is a senior, and Maeve Valley, Idaho, to spend six days with and Douglas Gregory, 9. They are both is a freshman at the Academy of the ’83 Sue Poss Harrison me. Highlights of the visit included in Scouts, piano, band, and baseball. Holy Cross in Kensington, Md. It is 4468 North Prospect Ave. a day of white water rafting on the My volunteer positions consist of Boy run by our dear CSCs. It has a great Shorewood, WI 53211 Salmon River, a chair lift ride up to the Scout committee member, catechist, community feel and provides an (414) 763-8352 top of the famed Sun Valley ski resort, Cub Scout den leader, and PTO outstanding education that reminds [email protected] and a hike to a lake in the Sawtooth auditor.” me in so many ways of Saint Mary’s; Mountains. I loved having the gang in From Beth McPherson: “I live in plus, many of the names and symbols Thanks to all who filled out the my home and even hosted a cocktail Long Beach, Calif. I’ve been in Catholic are familiar: Moreau, Madaleva, cross questionnaires that were sent out prior party so that my Sun Valley area friends health care my entire career, first with and anchor.” to the reunion! You might recall that could meet my dear Saint Mary’s the Holy Cross Health System in several Catherine Shaughnessy Brennan the questionnaires included a space to friends.” locations (sponsored by the Sisters writes: “We are on our 13th year in write about a personal triumph, so you From Ann Coryn Lohmuller: of the Holy Cross) and now with St. Michigan. John continues as a law can read about those in this issue. “In July, Maureen Daly Martin Joseph Health System in Orange, Calif. professor at Cooley Law School. I am Melinda Albert lives in Garland, traveled from Boynton Beach, Fla., to My area of work is mission integration, working as a case management nurse Tex. Her personal triumph: “Helping Bettendorf, Iowa, to visit me. We then i.e. how we integrate the mission and at the Ingham Regional Wound Care my mom fulfill a life-long dream of went to Glen Ellyn, Ill., to visit Julie values into the infrastructure of the Center in Lansing. In January, we took starting/owning her small business. Evans Detmer. All drove to South organization and how we develop lay our three children, Eddie,17, Clare,14, In August 2005, Merle Norman Studio Haven, Mich., and met up with Kim leaders to lead a faith-based ministry. and Kevin,11, to New York City, where & Spa opened for business. The Kosier Schoone (Norcross, Ga.) and I love to travel! Last year, I participated we had a wonderful dinner with Adri experience has been an adventure. I Deb Carey (Chicago) for a weekend in the beatification of Fr. Moreau in Le Trigiani, her husband, Tim, and her am truly grateful to be able to share of fun at the Detmers’ Lake Michigan Mans, France with the CSCs. This year, adorable 5- year-old-daughter Lucia. this experience with my mom.” cottage. (The last get-together was in I am taking a group from St. Joseph Joining us at dinner was Adri’s sister, Barbara Case Andrews lives 1995 at a Notre Dame game.) So many Health System on a pilgrimage to the Toni Trigiani ’82, who has her own in Munster, Ind. with her husband, laughs and SMC good times were place in France where the Sisters of St. professional organizing business. We Steven. They have four children: Chip, shared. This mini reunion is destined to Joseph were founded. also saw ND grad Mary Testa in the 21, Carolynn, 19, Billy, 17, and Becky, be a yearly event!” “I stay in touch with Kathy Keegan play Xanadu, which was hilarious.” 15. Kathleen Culhane Battis lives From Katie Walsh: “The St. Louis and Kathy Kane Kegg, who both live Mary Kay Ramelow Green in Chanhassen, Minn. She and her Alumnae Club had an excellent happy in Houston. Kathy Keegan works for reports: “Several years ago I decided to husband, Timothy, have two children: hour at a local restaurant. I saw Anne Halliburton and goes to interesting leave my job and was at a loss for what Christine, 19, and Thomas, 17. Lynch Pittman in July when she and places like Dubai. Kathy Kegg has to do next. My last day was a Friday, Rene Holthouse Chronert her husband, Tom, and daughter Brigid four kids: Katie, Matt, John, and David. and on Sunday, there was a blurb in lives in Riverside, Conn. She and her came through to celebrate the 4th and I also hear from and see Angie M. our church bulletin about a job at St. husband, Stephen, have two sons: Tom’s birthday.” Brown occasionally. She is a mom Patrick Church in Lake Forest. On my Thomas, 17, and Michael, 15. Lisa From Teresa Gorno-Reid: “This of three—two boys, one girl—and first day, one of my new co-workers Fornataro-Clerici lives in Beaver, is a big year for us—my youngest, is an IBM executive in Washington asked if I had gone to Saint Mary’s (she Penn. with her husband, Frederick, and Grace, will be making her First D.C. And Mary A. Sullivan lives near spotted the ring). Turns out, not only their three children, Cameron, 14, Lena, Holy Communion and my oldest, Spokane, Wash. She is the world’s best were we both Class of ’81, we both 9, and Maylee, 5. Lisa homeschools all Evangeline, will be graduating from teacher—both in special and primary lived in Le Mans junior year. Our paths three kids. She writes of her personal our parish school and selecting a high education. had never crossed in South Bend, but triumph: “I traveled around the school. (Alice is thriving in 5th grade “I missed the 25th reunion because now Kathy Wadsworth Newcomb United States lecturing others in my but is anxiously waiting for even one of I was traveling in Croatia and did not is one of my most treasured friends! profession about treatment of patients her five missing front teeth to grow in!)” keep track of the year, but I will plan to In May, my husband, Jon, and I flew with tracheostomy. I also published a

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text on the same subject. My husband for President Campaign and I spent personal triumph: “I’ve been able to leaves behind a son, Ben, and her and I traveled twice to China to bring a week in South Carolina prior to the keep a small non-profit afloat for the husband, Rick. I am really thankful for home our beautiful daughters.” primary.” Carole Dziminski Klaudt last six years in a very difficult arts the good friends—Anne Gilmore Eileen O’Connor Cox lives in New lives in Dallas. She and her husband, market. I’m actually using my degree. Feith, Maryellen May, Meg Rowley, Jersey with her family. Eileen’s personal Dave, have three children: Stefanie is a I’ve completed a novel manuscript.” Mary Ann Potter Ruthmeyer, and triumph: “Raising four children! Past freshman at Texas Christian University, Kim Kisling Walsh and her Trisha Glomb Ladner—who joined president (2004-2007) of Social Service while Davin and Caroline are in high husband, Jim, live in Glenview, Ill. me for the funeral in Hamilton. Association of Ridgewood and Vicinity, school. Carol’s personal triumph: and are parents of Kaitlin, 18, Jimmy, “I am also sorry to relay the news a local organization serving needy “My husband and I celebrated our 17, Conor, 14, Jack, 9, and Matthew, that Cathy McIsaac Branigan’s families with emergency financial 20th anniversary in Ireland and saw 4. Cathy Reddy White’s personal mother passed away on Sept. 7. She assistance, food and food vouchers, Nora Barnicle. I also hiked the Grand triumph: “I consider my children my was a frequent visitor to Saint Mary’s childcare assistance, clothing and Canyon rim-to-rim—24 miles in greatest triumphs (as I suspect many when we were in school and always shoes in the northwest Bergen County, one day!” Fran Spaniola-Lutz is a mothers do). I am particularly proud brought great food to Cathy and her N.J. area.” registered nurse in Hudsonville, Mich. that they did well in high school and friends. I have talked to Cathy and her Margaret Meek Duggan works as She and her husband, Barry, have two were accepted to two great colleges old roommate Ellen Byrne Willertz a bookkeeper in Buffalo. She and her children, Nate, 18, and Cara, 15. Mary (Notre Dame and Wake Forest), where recently. Cathy is doing her best, but as husband, Michael, have three children, Jo Gill Lynch writes that “after 15 I hope they will continue to develop she said ‘has her ups and downs.’” Maggie, 18, Michael, Jr., 16, and years at home raising my children, life into well-rounded, public spirited, and Thank you Debbie, for sharing the Mary Catherine, 13. Loretta Barrett has altered my perspective. I am back spiritual adults.” Beth Bunker Williams news of Theresa’s passing, along with Evans and her husband, Jerry, live in in school pursuing a nursing career has relocated to the Midwest. She news of Cathy’s mother. Lynchburg, Va., where Loretta is an while volunteering in hospice care.” and her husband, Kent, have moved If you have news you’re willing administrative assistant in the Dean of Mary Beth Kinsella Malloy lives in from Texas to the Naperville home to share with us, please send me an Students Office at Lynchburg College. Newtown Square, Penn. She and her where Beth’s parents used to live. Their e-mail before the next deadline, March Karen Bossy Feller and her husband, husband, David, have five children: children are Kent, Jr., 15, and Kate, 1. Thank you! John ND ’82, live in Palm Desert, Calif., Maureen, 24, Maggie, 14, Michael, 12, 13. Julie Lowins-Zielke’s personal and have four children: Kyle, who will Bridget, 11, and Danny, 8. Mary Eileen triumph: “Finding so many ways to graduate this year from Villanova; Shelley Morrissey’s oldest daughter, share my creativity that I explored as ’87 Elisa Cullina O’Neill Kaitlin, who will graduate from Saint Colleen, is a student at the University an art major at Saint Mary’s: through 3191 Andover Court Mary’s in 2011; Alek, 16; and Emma, of Georgia. Monica Dornbach teaching my children, teaching in Aurora, IL 60504 8. Beth Wentling Gales owns Gales Munson’s personal triumph: “I am school settings, tutoring children in [email protected] Designs, a jewelry design company in working on a master’s in organizational need, and continuing to make art.” (630) 978-7675 Lancaster, Penn. She and her husband, development.” Marianne Orsinelli Finally, the news from the Charlie ND ’82, have four children: Misiti lives in Mentor, Ohio. She Harrison home front is that we are Hello, everyone! It’s been a while Kate ND ’07, Kristin ND ’11, as well as and her husband, Vincent, have five getting ready to send another child (to say the least) since there has been Michael, who attends Penn State, and children: Bianca, 15, Gabriella, 13, off to college. Our second oldest, anything to report from our class! Mark, 13. Domenic, 11, Olivia, 9, and Mario, 6. John, will be a freshman at Tufts Please e-mail or mail me your personal Meghan Brady Gies and her Mary Beth O’Brien is a trust officer at this fall. It’s an exciting time, and it update for inclusion in future issues. husband, Joseph, live in La Canada, LaSalle Bank in downtown Chicago brings back memories of starting If you’re like me it’s disappointing to Calif. Their children are Thomas, Maria Groff Reynolds and at Saint Mary’s all those years ago. open the Courier to the update section 22, Linnea, 19, and Callan, 13. Liz her husband, F. Fisher Reynolds III and watch the dates go from 1985 to Kentra Gorey lives in Carrollton, Ga., ND’82, live in Houston, Tex. Maria is a 1989 with nothing in between with her husband, Rian, and their second-grade teacher at an all-boys ’85 Elaine Suess Kathy Kynch Dapper reports that children Erin, 16, and Aidan, 13. Liz is school. She and her husband have two 15 Rawson Woods Circle on Aug.21, she and husband Bob took a physician at an ear, nose, and throat boys and two girls who are in middle Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 their oldest daughter, Katie Dapper, to practice. Sharon Xaver Guess lives and high school: F. Fisher IV, Stephen, (513) 708-2136 Saint Mary’s as a member of the Class in Columbia, S.C., where she is a CPA. Maria, and Virginia. Maria’s personal [email protected] of 2012! Kathy discovered that Linda Sharon’s children are Nichole, 22, triumph: “Raising four beautiful Joerger Cross’s daughter, Jessica, is Amanda, 19, Sarah, 16, and Hannah, children who are very spiritual and Greetings, classmates! I’ve not also a first-year student—even living 8. Mary Jo Russo Henke and her deeply devoted to God, friends, heard much from you in the last year, in the same dorm as Katie. Jessica will husband, Edwin, live in Rhinebeck, N.Y. and family. I am so proud of them. but I have been in touch with Sheila be marching with the Fighting Irish in Their children are Kathleen, 19, Patrick, They’ve turned out so beautifully Donahue, who owns a successful the ND band. Kathy enjoyed visiting 17, Timothy, 15, and Paul, 13. Mary and are a wonderful source of love marketing communications business with Linda and her husband, Tom, at Laue Iberle’s son, Tim, is a student at and friendship for me! (They’re also in Chicago. She’s been very gracious in the Legacy luncheon sponsored by Western Illinois University. terrifically successful and handsome!) receiving my calls for advice as I make the Alumnae Relations office. She was Paris Wilson de Ivanissevich’s Mary Sweeney Roddy is a pharmacist my own foray into the entrepreneurial excited as well to find out that she and personal triumph: “Balancing my in Charlottesville, Va. Her children are world. daughter Katie will be on the same family’s life throughout our different Sarah, 20, and Katie, 16. I did hear from one classmate, “reunion cycle,” meaning that when moves (different countries and Patti Zukaitis Russo is the Debbie Hickey, unfortunately, with Katie celebrates her 5-year reunion, cultures), an 80% traveling husband, associate director of the Monroe Owen some very sad news: “It is with great Kathy will be celebrating her 30th with and learning something new every County Medical Society in Indiana. She sadness that I am e-mailing you. My the rest of us. (Gulp! Did that number day.” and her husband, Charles, have three roommate for all four years at Saint 30 make any of the rest of you catch Maura Kahn’s personal triumph: children: Michael, 24, Rebecca, 22, Mary’s, Theresa Biondo Flick, passed your breath?) Kathy admits that it is “I resigned from my company last and Samuel, 20. Ellen Placey Wadey away on Aug. 23. She was like a sister quite an adjustment not having Katie July, took a four-month sabbatical and is now, in addition to her co-hosting/ to me, and I can’t recall a Saint Mary’s at home, but she is happy about the got my priorities back in order. Now, I producing duties of a Pittsburgh-based memory that doesn’t include her. opportunities that await her at Saint am doing consulting work with small NPR radio show, an adjunct instructor She was a true inspiration of late, and Mary’s. Kathy’s youngest daughter, biotech companies. During this time, of literature and professional writing valiantly fought every ‘health-related’ Sara, is a sophomore in high school. I am also volunteering on the Obama at Columbia College in Chicago. Ellen’s curve ball that came her way. She She is learning to drive and is a

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cheerleader for Cathedral High School. Wheeland Luhmann writes that loves keeping in touch with all her Reunion June 4–7, 2009 Kathy volunteers at school and hopes they continue to live in the St. Louis Saint Mary’s friends and misses those to make it to a few ND football games area and enjoy it very much. She and college days! ’89 Karen E. Crespy this year. Mark have three children: Matthew, Elizabeth Hughes Boice and 10613 Weymouth St., #103 Anna Gaffney Conway reports 11, Anna, 9, and Kate, 7. They go the husband Don live in the Rochester, Bethesda, MD 20814 that her daughter, Clare, a freshman parish school and are growing way N.Y., area with their two sons: Owen [email protected] in high school, is also learning to too fast. Liza works part-time as a and Zachary. She is a technical writer. drive. Caroline is in 8th grade and son registered nurse for a call center run by All is well! I hope this New Year finds Stefan is in 5th grade. She continues to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. As for me, Elisa Cullina O’Neill, everyone doing well. Reminder: our substitute teach in their school district She enjoys her job and is fortunate I have been blessed to experience 20-year reunion (wow, where did the Mary Elizabeth (“Liza”) to be able to work from home. She many travel opportunities this year time go?) is in June! Call, text, write, as a result of my children’s interest in or e-mail your friends and classmates, music. In December 2007, our family and make plans now so we can have a Nominate a distinguished friend joined the Waubonsie Valley High great turnout. School marching band on a trip to Jackie Benchik-Osborne shares Florida. Son John, then a freshman, is Do you know a Saint Mary’s alumna wonderful news. With the help of a trombone player in the band. The her husband, John, her twin sister who is a rising star, a business sensation, band had the opportunity to march in Marilyn Benchik Klimek, and her a parade at Disney World, then march mom, Rosemary Boughal Benchik a distinguished academician, or has in the Outback Bowl parade and play ’61, Jackie beat stage-three breast dedicated herself to service? at half time with other high schools cancer! Jack, 12, Marirose, 9, and from across the country. Between Sean, 7, know she had cancer and their musical engagements, band Each year the Alumnae Association honors deserving are happily moving forward and members had plenty of time for play enjoying life with their mom. Last alumnae who have made significant contributions to in the Disney theme parks. Our family fall, Jackie presented the initial draft the College or in her field. Please take a few minutes to was able to enjoy this trip together. of her study in education to her nominate an alumna. Submit her name, class year, and In March 2008, my daughter, Melissa, dissertation committee and hopes to why you think she should receive an award. Nominations then a junior, participated in the high graduate from the University of Illinois school choir trip to Italy. I was pleased must be received by February 20, 2009. Graduate and at Chicago in May. Congratulations, to be chosen as a chaperone for this Jackie! non-graduate alumnae are eligible for the award. Please great trip! The kids sang at a Mass send nominations via e-mail, fax, or mail to the Alumnae Samira Kamel Gozaine in St. Peter’s Basilica and had two connected via Facebook from her Relations Office, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN nighttime concerts—one in Rome and home in David, Panama. She was back 46556. E-mail [email protected]; fax (574)284-4749. one in Florence. It was a beautiful trip! in the U.S. last summer and spent time Rome, Sienna, Florence, and Venice in Distinguished Alumnae Award with Christine Hobart ’90 for the first five days! To top it off, in May 2008, my time in 13 years. Samira is considering The nominee should exemplify the standards, ideals, youngest son, James, 12, was named and mission of Saint Mary’s in her vocation and be of sending her girls to the Saint Mary’s the Midwest Regional Champion of art camp this summer—sounds like a oustanding service to the College through ongoing work Irish music in his age group for the great idea! for the Alumnae Association, either with a local club tin whistle. That meant that he was From Ashland, Wisc., Linda Baily or with the association direction. That service should qualified to compete for the world Dunk sent news that she ran her also be demonstrated through yearly benefaction and title in Ireland. So, the O’Neill family second marathon last October. She packed our bags in August 2008 for other consistently devoted support and friendship to the completed her first one in just under a two-week trip to Ireland. We had College. four hours and hoped to do the same, the opportunity to travel for a week or better, in her second. Linda would Alumna Achievement Award before settling into Tullamore, County love to hear from any classmates who The nominee should be outstanding in her personal Offaly for a week. James attended have tackled marathons. and professional accomplishments. As a recognized leader music school and then competed for Running in a different way (and the world title. He played beautifully, in her field, she should exemplify the quality of a Christian probably many different directions!) and it was clear he belonged there are our new moms, who are surely liberal arts education and uphold the standards, ideals, to contend for the title. While he did and mission of Saint Mary’s College. on the go after little ones… Megan not take the title, James certainly gave FitzGerald Burke and Patrick live Humanitas Award the Irish a run for their money! The outside of Cleveland and welcomed suitcases are tucked away and life is The nominee should be outstanding in her personal their first child, a baby girl, Kyleigh back to normal. My husband, John, Elizabeth, on May 20, 2008. Patricia and volunteer accomplishments and recognized for her is the senior vice president of civil concern for the interests and welfare of her fellow human Sullivan Weber and John greeted engineering for a firm in Chicago. I baby #4 on July 30, 2008. Thomas beings. She should exemplify the qualities of personal continue to substitute teach between “Tommy” Bernard joins Danny, 9, dedication, compassion, selflessness, and sacrifice my various volunteer commitments Clare, 6, and Bridget, 5, at their home through social action, education, and reform within the with the school and church. in Winfield, Ill. Patti Swain Stark community, church, or world. PLEASE let me hear from you and Katherine Wetoska attended for the next update! I am sure more Outstanding Young Alumna Award the baby shower thrown for Patricia. people care about and want to hear Katherine lives in New Lenox, Ill., where The nominee should exhibit leadership in her personal, about you than you know! she works as the president of Wetoska professional, or volunteer accomplishments and also in Packaging and is looking to buy a new her involvement with Saint Mary’s College. Alumnae from house. the classes of 1994–2007 are eligible for the award.

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Patti has been a stock broker in Jackie and Karen tailgated before to work. Please note my new address for the Linebacker at 10 p.m.! I live downtown Chicago for over 17 years the Navy game in Baltimore along and phone number, although my in Wheeling, W.Va, with my husband and is working at UBS. She and her with several of Karen’s Notre Dame e-mail will stay the same. Thanks to of 10 years, Mike. After teaching at husband, Mark, have four children: friends. Karen also went to the ND- everyone who writes in and keeps our St. John Central Grade School for twins, Dylan and Griffin, 9, Ryan, 6, and Purdue game and met up with Barb class news so fun to read! nine years, I am now at home with Kelly, 2. Last summer, the Stark family Moorhead Vedders, her husband, On April 18, 2008, Lara Mattison Madeline Kathleen, 3, and Emily vacationed at the Wisconsin Dells and Joel, and their children, Abby and Jack. married Brent Bauman in an intimate Karolina, 1. Motherhood is very busy! enjoyed every slide in the water park Before heading back east, Karen met setting at his family’s cabin in the Caroline DeChatelet Olsen lives in (bruises prove it!). Patti confesses that up with Karen Krok Hasler and her mountains of Pennsylvania. The Chicago with Eric and her three boys, she’s starting to like sports. After taking girls, Rebecca and Eleanor, for Sunday following day, they held a reception for Matthew, 7, Daniel, 3, and Andrew, 2. up tennis—and loving it—she’s even Mass and brunch. family and friends at the Antique Auto Caroline works part time as a service softening to ESPN’s perpetual presence Kara Cudzilo Nasif went Museum in Hershey, Penn. Lara was a coordinator in a social work agency. in her home. international for her vacation. Along beautiful bride and the reception was Kathy Maruna Corwin has been Kim Kihnke Laninga shared some with her husband, Mahar, and their lovely. The Baumans now reside in married to Steve for 13 years. After great video from the Laninga family two sons, she took a trip to Egypt to Camp Hill, Penn., near Harrisburg. many stops with Steve’s naval career, winter in Northern Michigan. If you see Mahar’s relatives. This was the Jennifer Taylor Porter reports they are now located in Pensacola, want to be jealous of a natural skier, Nasifs’ first trip back to Egypt in 8 years, that after her December 2007 marriage Fla. Kathy has two children, Josh, watch Kim’s daughter, Lilah, 2, take to and was the first trip on a plane, boat, to husband Micah, they hosted a 6, and Maddie, 4, and works as a the slopes on YouTube by searching or train for her boys! Everyone traveled reception for family and friends in the recruitment consultant for Morningstar for “laningahomevids.” well, and her sons enjoyed meeting spring. Jennifer shares, “Our reception Consulting. Cyndi Herman Doherty Linda Dvorak Gilbert and Keith their grandmother, aunts, uncles, and was held over the past weekend at the and her husband, Gary, live outside of vacationed in Cancun and recently cousins. Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island, Ga. Sacramento, Cal., with their children moved into their newly constructed Becky Jasper Seibert and We had a wonderful time with family Allison, 5, and Kevin, 3. Cyndi works home in Houston with their daughters husband Scott packed up the house and friends from across the country in part time at a child care center. Kristen Caroline, 4, and Caitlyn, 17 months. and kids, Isaac and Zoë, and headed the lovely coastal setting. The weather Faherty Konowicz and Matt live in Linda continues to work full-time at to Jamestown, N. Dak., for Becky’s was perfect, so we were able to have Columbus, N.J., with their children Hewlett-Packard. She took a July 4th new supply chain job with Goodrich. the party on the riverfront lawn. SMC Owen, 3, and Ethan, 1. Kristen is on trip to see Patti Swain Stark and enjoyed Realtor Margo McMahon is selling alums who celebrated with us include leave from her teaching job but plans the Oak Brook fireworks with her. Becky’s home in New Hope, Minn. Nicole Cioper Janninck, Dyana Leon, on getting her learning consultant More classmates met up for fun… Theresa Kress Marks has started and Kim Varzi ’97.” certificate. The rest of the gang lives in Heidi Hirschle Hexamer and Carrie a blog from her home in Kihei, Hawaii, Tara Belden Bell and her husband the Phoenix area. Alison Sciaudone Deane Corcoran spent an August about living in harmony with nature. welcomed their second child, Sophia Kozel and Mike have been married day in New York City sightseeing with You can find “The Green Mama” at Araminta Bell, on April 23, 2008. Sophia over nine years and have Abby, 6, Heidi’s girls at the Central Park Zoo greeniemama.blogspot.com. Theresa joins big sister Samantha. Emma, 3, and Matthew, 1. Alison and Dylan’s Candy Bar. Lisa Montpetit will explore practical ideas for reusing Tanya Wilson Meagher writes, works part-time as a speech language Brabbit and Jenny Doroff Sedivy items, simplifying life, composting, “I am still living in Northwest Indiana pathologist for children birth to three met in Chicago with their mothers and growing herbs and plants, and of with my husband and four boys: Sean, months but enjoys her “mommy” time daughters for a day at the American course, keeping chickens; as well as 10, Michael, 8, Joseph, 4, and Nicholas, more. Karen Flach Pescatore and Girl Store. The Brabbit family also a variety of subjects for living a green 1. We are insanely busy with sports. James have been married 10 years and spent time with Nora McQuillan life: plastic bags, permaculture, reusing My sister, Sonya Wilson Dumont ‘96, have Claire, 6, Anthony, 5, and Jake, Coleman, her husband, Kevin, and water, climate change, crops of the had her fourth baby as well. Baby Alex 1. Karen teaches in a middle school. their four children. The Colemans future, alternative energy, and more. joined big sisters Anna, 8, Alysabeth, 2, She and Alison get together often were traveling to their family cabin in Make plans now and we’ll see you and big brother Aaron, 6.” with Colleen Lanigan Bowen, who is northern Minnesota when they were on campus in June! Maryse Pflum Naman and married to Chris. Colleen stays at home persuaded to take an overnight detour From Alison Spohn Kavulich: husband Mark have some updates, with Callie, 4, and twins Paige and to visit with the Brabbits. The families Alison wrote, “I married Larry “We are so blessed to have three Meghan, 2.” spent time boating and tubing on Kavulich on Aug. 2, in Le Mans Hall beautiful children in our lives, Mia, 4, Mary Catherine Sullivan Payne the St. Croix River and the husbands at Holy Spirit Chapel.” Alison’s college Madison, 3, and Mason, 18 months. is on the move again! In spring 2008, managed to get in a round of golf. roommate, Anne-Marie Schommer I am still practicing social work; she wrote, “This summer will bring Karen Crespy traveled from Miller ’93, was a bridesmaid. Also however, it is now on a part-time another move, this time to Fort Riley, Bethesda, Md. to spend a jam-packed, in attendance were: Julie Griffin basis. I currently work three days a Kan., where Matthew will join the First long weekend in Chicago last July. Murphy ’74, Kristin Simono Newell week as the school social worker at Infantry Division, though we have no She stayed with Katy Burns in her ’91, Patty Piercy Cushing ’90, Monroe Township High School in specific unit assignment as of yet. We downtown condo, and they enjoyed Linda Beaty Collins, and family. Monroe Township, N.J., and love each expect to be there about two to three a day-long festival in Crystal Lake, a and every minute of it! I was very years, so it’ll be a good opportunity to visit from Katy’s parents, and a boat disappointed to have missed our be homeowners again and to make trip along the lake front with Katy’s ’95 Colleen M. Morrissey 10-year reunion in June 2005 and am new friends. As involved as the kids brother, Tommy. Karen took one day 933 W. Van Buren St. Apt. 819 looking forward very much to our next have gotten with their activities this to ride the South Shore to meet up Chicago, IL 60607 class reunion so that I can reconnect year, it shouldn’t be hard. Carmen, with Jackie Brody Tavitas ’91, and (312) 731-0090 with old classmates.” 6, is getting ready for spring soccer, they spent the day on the Saint Mary’s [email protected] Kate Curran Ross writes, “It’s and Rosa, 5, and John, 3, couldn’t be and Notre Dame’s campuses. She was hard to believe that it has been 13 more excited about their first recital. lucky to find Kara O’Leary in her office Hello, Class of 1995! As a reminder, years since our time at SMC. It is nice Rosa is enjoying ballet, and John has for a nice visit. Before heading out of my next deadline for the summer to know, however, that our group of fun with his acrobatics class. John town, Karen also took the train out to edition of Class News is Feb. 25, 2009. friends still keeps in contact with each continues to do well with his diabetes, La Grange for lunch with Karen Luby My only news to report is that I have other. We would like to believe our and even got an insulin pump last Burton. It was a busy and wonderful bought a condo in the West Loop area lives are glamorous, but going to bed fall—what a blessing! So far, Anna, 16 weekend. of Chicago; I love the short commute at 10 p.m. has replaced getting ready months, is just glad to be along for

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the ride! We hope to plug right in to with Chocolate Dreamz cookies that their new brother (born Feb. 25, 2008), Enjoy the time with family and similar activities when we get to Riley, are mouthwateringly delicious! Michele says “the girls are doing quite friends. I wish you all the best in 2009! and will also be looking for a Catholic Before moving here, we spent a well, weathering all the changes that Take care, mes amies, and à bientôt! homeschooling group to participate in good part of the summer in Europe— Andrew has brought. They are thrilled while we’re there.” in France and Spain. It was wonderful. with ‘baby brother’ and so he gets Reunion June 4–7, 2009 In August 2008, Nancy Mulcare Sevilla is truly a maravilla—you should lots of sometimes-gentle, sometimes Zgutowicz and husband Andy packed definitely plan to visit if you haven’t not-so-gentle love pats and kisses. ’99 Jenny Wejman up their family and moved from already. And, if you are ever in Arles, Anna is especially vigilant and runs to 1437 W. Belle Plaine #2 Glen Ellyn, Ill. to Hingham, Mass, just France, make sure to go to Le Criquet… tell me when he is crying, even if I am Chicago, IL 60613 outside Boston. They are settling into at least once. in the room! She is also right beside (773)-412-6570 East Coast life as Jack, 5, started pre-K, As I write this, it is 83 degrees and him whenever he makes the slightest [email protected] Caroline, 3, entered preschool, and sunny in Greensboro. As you read noise. Cate and Cari are interested in Peter, almost 1, enjoys staying home this, it is probably much cooler so him, but not to the same extent. My Tina Alley was married on Oct. with his mom. please take a few moments to prepare ‘little mama’ Anna is quite sweet.” 6, 2007, in Covington, Ky., to Michael Christina Wilschke Stoval and yourself a cup of tea, coffee, or hot Christine Riesenberger Davis DiSanto. They met in San Francisco husband Bill ND ’95 became the proud chocolate and come back to spend a and her family are also doing well. Son about four years ago. Ironically, both parents of Spencer Jameson on March few minutes catching up with some of Ryan is now 4 and daughter Paige is 2. Tina’s and Michael’s families live within 21, 2008. His big siblings Will, 6, and our classmates. À tout de suite! Christine writes that she is “doing the 30 minutes of one another back in Natalie Ann, 4, absolutely adore him! Several of our classmates Komen three-day walk in San Francisco the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky On May 19, 2008, Lisa Baumann welcomed little ones in spring and the first weekend in September. 60 area, so they decided to have the Musielewicz and husband Ted Arch summer 2008. Katie Boyle Walicki miles over 3 days! I am nervous and wedding in their hometowns. Meggie ND ’96 welcomed their second child, and her husband, Rich, had their excited!” Fischer Spartz was a bridesmaid Lydia Ilene. Lydia joins big sister third child, Sean Michael, on April 14, Alex Norris Pfeifer shares an and Marge Schugt, Karen Kellner, Helena. The Musislewiczes live in 2008. Katie writes: “Sean Michael joins update from Down Under: “Things Meghan Nash Cannavan, Charise Columbus, Ohio. his big sister Bridget, 5, and brother are going fine here. Patrick starts Desmarteau Oelger, Aimee Ellis, and Chris Singer Kasman writes, Ryan, 2. I am really enjoying staying kindergarten (they call it prep here) in Carey O’Neill were all there for the big “John and I welcomed our third kiddo at home with them. We continue to February, so that will be exciting for day! Michael and Tina continue to live on Aug. 12, 2008:- John Singer “Jack” live in Jackson, Mich. My husband him. Mark is in the process of looking and work in San Francisco, where he Kasman. He joined his two big sisters, works as the general manager of a car for jobs and we’re planning on moving is a corporate attorney and she is an Tessa, 4 and Ava, 3. Bridget Bartley dealership in town.” back to the States in summer 2009. It’s HR business partner for a technology McGuire recently moved to Singapore Marian Kelly Mangoubi and been great here, but I really miss being company. with her husband, Andy, who took a husband David welcomed their first in the U.S. I have no idea where we’re Kristin Liptak Williams ’98 lives position with CAT, and 2-year-old son, child, Abigail Kelly Mangoubi, on going to move to though…” in Bedford, a suburb of Cleveland Danny. Sounds like they’re doing great Aug. 21. Marian writes: “Dave and I are Another classmate on the move about 20 minutes from downtown. and enjoying Singapore! Also, please adjusting to our roles as parents but is Regan Doherty. Regan e-mailed She married Ryan Williams on Dec. keep Tina Gruben Nester’s 6-year-old are loving absolutely every minute me in late July with some exciting 28, 2002. He is a teacher in Cleveland little girl, Catie, in your prayers... at the of it. Abigail actually sleeps quite a news: “I’ve accepted a job as a writer Heights and the head varsity football end of May 2008, she was diagnosed bit at night, which is nice. She’s also at a new magazine in Bahrain that coach for the Beachwood City Schools. with ALL (Leukemia) and has spent somewhat laidback and yet strong- focuses on economics throughout the They have two children: Katie, 4, and most of the summer in Memphis at St. willed. It’s amazing to have a child. You Gulf region. I’ll be covering finance in Jake, 1. After SMC, Kristin worked for Jude’s Hospital. She’s doing really well find yourself wanting to watch them Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, a short time at Sea World in human and is in remission now in Peoria but every minute of the day as they’re so which means I’ll get to do quite a bit resources and then went back to still needs lots of strength and prayers.” peaceful.” of travelling throughout the region school—at Notre Dame College in April Sass Johnson and husband on a regular basis. I’m moving over Cleveland—to become a teacher. Jay also welcomed their first child this there Aug.15 and am really excited After teaching 1st grade for four years ’97 Amy L. Brabeck summer. Andrew Thomas Johnson was about it! It’s a great time to be in the at a Catholic school in Bedford, she Greensboro, NC 27455 born July 16. April writes that “Andrew region, which is financially booming. is now an at-home mom and enjoys [email protected] is precious and, for the most part, a I am hoping to improve my Arabic experiencing watching her children good sleeper. . .we are feeling very skills, too. grow. Bonjour to all from Greensboro, blessed by all of that.” “I was in Bahrain a few weeks ago Jen Mazurek Miles and her N.C. (about an hour from Durham)! Congratulations to Katie, Marian, looking at apartments and getting to husband, Jim ND ’99, are enjoying time Ignacio and I bought a home here and April and others of you who have know the city. Bahrain itself is tiny but with their son, Sean Thomas Miles, and moved in late July for new jobs had recent additions to your family. (If highly westernized. Dubai, Abu Dhabi, born Oct. 14, 2007. Jen started the at the University of North Carolina at you haven’t written yet, please do, as and Doha (Qatar) are all close by, so I 2007-2008 school year, and now stays Greensboro. Ignacio is an assistant we would love to hear your news!) should get to know the region fairly home with Sean. professor of Spanish, and I am a Michele Kuhlmann Nelson sends well. Also, Northwestern’s journalism After completing her time with the lecturer of French. Classes started on an update on her family: “We are well school (Medill) just set up a campus for Air Force, Amy Townley Bellenbaum Aug. 25 . . .so far all is well! but busy, as always. Cate is almost undergraduates in Doha, so I’ll know a and her husband live in Grayslake, a We are still settling into our new done with her first year of school, few people over there. northern Chicago suburb. They both home and think that may take some Cari’s dance recital is coming up, and “I’ll be the only American on staff. work in North Chicago. time. It is difficult to find the energy we battle Anna daily over one thing The magazine is run by a British group Melissa Hanson Wright moved to organize a house when you return or another. Andrew is growing well and all the writers/editors are from from Chicago to Washington, D.C., from work! We are getting to know and remains very easygoing. I’m busy the UK. I’ll keep you posted on my about four years ago. On Oct. 30, the town better and are getting lost organizing, always organizing some adventures in the Gulf!” 2007, Melissa and her husband, Bill, far less than we did in the beginning. thing or other, trying to keep up with Please do, Regan, and I hope welcomed their first baby, Amelia My favorite culinary finds so far are all the ‘stuff’ that goes along with four others of you will keep me posted Hanson Wright. They currently live Riva’s Trattoria, an Italian restaurant kids. The days are flying by.” As for on your adventures as well! For now, in Arlington, Va. She has returned to downtown, and Ganache, a bakery how her three girls are adjusting to I wish you a blessed holiday season. work part-time at the Office of the

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Director of National Intelligence—in Gwendelyn, 3, and Olivia, 1. She Lori Schulte Smithe and her combination, but I thrive increasingly the Inspector General’s Office. started up her own website (www. husband, Tomm, welcomed their first on stress!” Melissa also wrote that Courtney sugarlocks.com), which now carries child, son Thomas Charles Smithe III, Julie Norman shares, “I’m still Wagner Kelly, her husband John ND over 700 personalized items that she on March 17, 2008. What a way to working for ESPN as an associate ’98, and big sister Carlin welcomed embroiders. Married to Greg, they celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! producer in event production. I work their second daughter, Shea Elizabeth, will celebrate their 7th wedding Mary Ellen McGowan Landry primarily on the NBA but also cover in February. anniversary in October! and her husband, Jim, welcomed baby other sports throughout the year Rachel Villarreal Keyes and her Trish Haigh Peterson and her boy James Hugh Landry on March (Winter X Games and Wimbledon to husband, Tom, welcomed their second husband Kelly welcomed baby John 22, 2008. Mary Ellen reports that she’s name just two highlights thus far). son, Samuel Mateo Keyes, on Sept. 21, Kelly (Jack) on March 16, 2007. Kelly not sleeping like she used to, but “He’s I also just relocated from our NYC 2007. According to Rachel, he looks and Trish were married in 2001. She so beautiful and a very smiley, happy office to the ESPN headquarters in just like his big brother, William. finished her master’s in reading literacy baby!” Bristol, Conn. I’m living in Bloomfield, Thank you so much to so many of through Walden University in 2005 and Ellen Wright Riley, husband Mike Conn,, which is near West Hartford. you who joined the Saint Mary’s Class has been teaching 2nd grade at a local Riley ND ’01, and son Aidan welcomed It’s quite a change from the crazy of 1999 group on Facebook. To join, public school. Since Jack was born, baby girl Maeve Irene on June 11. lifestyle of Manhattan, but I am excited create a profile at www.facebook.com she has been job sharing—teaching Elizabeth Rockwell Noonan, about the new chapter in my life and join “Saint Mary’s College Class of three days a week with her teaching her husband, Tim ND ’01, daughter in Connecticut. I also just attended 1999.” Facebook is a great way to catch partner taking the other two. Trish is Colleen, and son Timmy relocated to Kathy Giel’s wedding last weekend up with everyone and see pictures, so happy that her two younger sisters Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for in South Bend/Elkhart. Kathy married too! are now sophomores at SMC, and her Tim’s work. Tom Alessi ND ’03 and it was quite the Kelly Madden Manzo is currently brother is a sophomore at ND. The Kathy Fech Thompson started a SMC-ND party! Erin Martin Williams, teaching AP World History and World Haigh tradition continues at ND-SMC. new job as pastoral care minister for Mirella Siciliano, and Katie Paccione History at Sharon High School. Kelly Christ the King Catholic Church in Des were bridesmaids. Other Belles in and her husband have a son, Drew, Moines, Iowa. attendance: Julie Glud, Kelly Dugan who will be 2 in January. She was able ’01 Molly Kahn Jill Fenske Boerstler writes, Prina, Betsy Zack, Heather Podraza, to catch up in July in Wrigleyville with 6201 W. Red Cedar Lane “After working for over five years as a Autumn Palacz Andronis, Allison Whitney Conrad, Kim Kusack, Mary Edwards, IL 61528 buyer in purchasing, I am continuing Webb DeMong, and Julie Scheib Liz Tully Lehman, Kelly Herro Fikri, [email protected] my career path with the Sisters of Martin.” and Heather Showalter Stepan. St. Francis Health Services (based in Kate Middlemas Kessler started Carah Smith Tabar and her family Alyson Leatherman Mishawaka, Ind.). I recently received a new job back on New Year’s Eve moved to the States this summer from 504 Southeast 61st Avenue a promotion to contract analyst, and in marketing for Baxter Credit Union Scotland and are now living in the Portland, OR 97215 I will now load and maintain system- in Vernon Hills, Ill., celebrated the Virginia Beach area. If anyone needs to [email protected] wide and locally-negotiated contracts, one-year anniversary of her Mary Kay get a little sun-n-sand let Carah know. research pricing discrepancies, and business, and filmed an Esurance Lori Gundler Reyes and her Maureen Flannery Crowe and help ensure contract compliance. commercial back in April that’s running husband, Chris, welcomed a baby girl husband Mike welcomed a double I will finish my master’s in hospital nationwide right now on many basic on June 22. Named Lillie, she joins big bundle of joy. Twin sons Michael administration in spring of 2009, and cable channels. You can check her out sister Mia, 2. Thomas and Timothy O’Day were born I am grateful to already utilize some on the Esurance homepage. Jennifer Peterson is the proud on May 3. After some time in the NICU, of that education! It’s been difficult Amanda Shock married Matthew mom of three children: Reed, 5, the boys are home and thriving. to balance the work/school/life Johnson ND ’01 on April 19, 2008,

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in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, of things. If any Belles are in the Boston (“Jack”) was born on July 11, 2008. We From Stephanie Shevik: “I’m at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church. area, I’d love to see you and/or hear are so excited to have him join our busy teaching biology and coaching Many ND and SMC friends attended, from you. My e-mail address is julia. family.” volleyball at Lake Central High School and Amanda was lucky enough to [email protected].” Autumn Palacz Andronis shared: in St. John, Ind.” Melissa Wheeler have five Belle bridesmaids: Teresa And Annie Rolfes Atkinson wrote: “On Oct. 20, 2007, I married Peter checked in to say: “I am moving back O’Neill, Sherry Desautels Prisco, “I’m currently living near Nagoya, Andronis at St. Francis of Assisi in to California and starting pharmacy Katie Kelleher, Molly Kleinhenz Japan! My husband is here on an Orland Park. We honeymooned in school at the University of California, Wicklander, and Jennifer Turner assignment with Toyota until February, Hawaii for two weeks...the wedding San Francisco in September!” Stachler. and we’re trying to see as much of the and honeymoon were perfect. We also Melissa Grabek Boltz wrote: Eric Fontaine married Colleen country as possible.” built a new home in Orland Park.” “Matt and I are still living in Chicago, in Borkowski on May 3, 2008, at Our Weddings and babies are the From Monica Councilor the Portage Park area. We bought our Lady of Loretto. Colleen shares, “My latest and greatest, so here is all the Wohlberg: “On March 12, 2008, first house about two years ago and sister, Sarah Borkowski ’06, was blessed news: Gina Case Kasper my husband Matt ND ’00, ’02 and are planning a trip to Europe (Holland, my maid of honor and my SMC wrote: “I married Robert Kasper I welcomed our first child, Aaron Germany, and France) in December. bridesmaids included Colleen Carey on March 29, 2008, in Huntington Mathew. I continue to work in strategic I am still working in the early Passolt and Cathy Schroeder Ward. Beach, Cal. Our reception was held planning and corporate wellness at intervention system (birth-3 years, Other SMC grads in attendance were aboard the RMS Queen Mary in Long Saint Mary’s Hospital in Connecticut. Spanish/English kids) for ICG Rehab classmates Katie Kelleher, Colleen Beach. Tara Butz was my maid of Balancing work and being a ‘Mommy’ as a speech language pathologist Sullivan Schaefers, Sherry Desautels honor, while Kerry Gallagher Davis, is hard at times, but all is very and recently became a supervisor. Prisco, Amanda Shock Johnson, Stephanie Bissler Arden, and Nina rewarding.” Matt continues to work for WGN radio Shannon Ross Perrino, Stephanie Riconosciuto Eilers were bridesmaids. And Mary Gates reported: “Chris as the producer/engineer for the Rosenthal Boreale, Brook Hughes, Other Belles in attendance were Molly and I welcomed our third son, Lucas Pat/Ron show.” And Jessi Taberski Casey Russell, Maura Frailey ’04, Strzelecki, Sarah Merrick Granger, James, on July 15. His brothers, Charlie, Barnett reported: “I have a new Kathleen Fisher Leppert ’98, Melissa Wheeler, Beth Teagan, 3 and Andrew 1, are thrilled to have addition to my family! Our little girl, Jennifer Johnson Barth ’74, Mary Nora Byrne, and Kerry Butz ’07. I another boy around. We are very Olivia Layne, will be 1 this October. My Buehl ’06, and Natalie Lutz ’02. just started another year of teaching blessed.” three-year-old twin boys are so sweet Crazy how many family members are for Paramount Unified Schools. I In further exciting baby news, and precocious! I am still working at SMC grads! For the time being, we are have made a change in grade levels, Katie Willkom Stopczynski wrote: Memorial in the PACU.” calling Waltham, Mass. (the Boston now teaching 6th-8th language arts, “Jacob (Jake) Alexander was born on Megan Shaughnessy added: “I suburbs) home.” Congratulations, and look forward to a year of new April 26, 2008. We are still living in am in my fourth and final year of an Colleen and Eric! experiences. In June, I traveled back Brentwood, Cal. After being blessed internal medicine/pediatrics residency I, Molly Kahn, recently moved to to South Bend to visit Kerry Gallagher to be able to stay home with my at the University of Michigan and will Dunlap Valley Middle School, a brand- Davis and to meet her beautiful new daughter, Madilyn (Maddie)—she will start applying for infectious disease new school, as assistant principal. The baby girl, Eva Marie.” be 3 in December—I will be going fellowships soon. Before starting the experience of opening a new building Nina Riconosciuto Eilers shared: back to work for Banana Republic as a fellowship, Kurt and I plan to move to has been exciting and challenging. “On Aug. 23, I married Tom Eilers. merchandise presentation supervisor Africa for 10 months to work/volunteer Again, Belles, thanks for your Tara Butz and Gina Case Kasper were in September 2008. I am so excited to in a hospital. We are currently trying willingness to share updates. bridesmaids. Also in attendance be getting back into the retail field!” to decide between offers in Tanzania From Alyson Leatherman: Hello, were: Melissa Wheeler, Sarah Merrick And Lauren Oppolo Bukovac added: and Zambia. After our time in Africa, 2001 Belles! Per usual, our class has Granger, Stephanie Bissler Arden, “My husband, David, and I welcomed we are hoping to settle back in the lots to report, so let’s not delay: Anne Senger, Beth Teagan, Molly a baby girl on July 30, 2007. Anna Minneapolis area.” Jennifer Turner Stachler checked in Strezelecki, Asha Mukerjee Ruiz, Kathleen has just turned 1. I decided Christine Draper wrote: “I am a for the first time with this update: Laura Brennan Schlidt, and Kerry to take a break from my advertising full-time personal trainer and group “After graduating, I moved back to my Gallagher Davis. We just returned from career in Chicago to spend time with fitness instructor. I’ve started taking hometown of Dayton, Ohio, where I our honeymoon and are moving in to her while working part-time on a classes to work on a degree in exercise passed my nursing boards and started our new house in Winnetka, Ill., over non-profit restoration project in an physiology, and I’m planning to go working as a renal/diabetes nurse in Labor Day.” underserved community.” back to school soon for physical the largest Dayton hospital, Miami Kelly Sterritt Clancy caught Lindsay Landvogt wrote: therapy. I recently spent a weekend Valley. I married my grade school/high us up: “On April 17, Andrea Herek “It’s been a busy summer here in in San Diego with Martha Hartwich, school/college sweetheart, Adam, on Wetters and Keith welcomed their Washington, D.C., with lots of yummy Adrienne Galvez, and Amanda Sept. 24, 2005. My matron of honor adorable son, Jack Thomas, in Bay dinners at Molly Strzelecki’s house, a Myers. Amanda has made a HUGE was Teresa O’Neill, and two of my City, Mich. Andrea is starting her fifth trip to Miami for the 4th of July, and move to Japan to teach English to bridesmaids were Amanda Shock year teaching English in a Bay City a long beach weekend in Delaware Japanese students for a year.” Johnson and Michelle Johnson. In high school. She also completed her about a month ago. Kicking off the Tara Butz wrote: “I just finished up 2006, I took a job on a postpartum master’s in teaching from Saginaw summer back in May, Allison Sarnecki a fabulous wedding weekend for Nina unit at Miami Valley, and shortly after, Valley State University during the Morales came to visit Heather Riconosciuto and Tom Eilers at the became pregnant with our first baby. spring. On May 17, Christine Diana O’Donnell and me, and with her came Knickerbocker in downtown Chicago. We welcomed a beautiful baby girl, married Eric Crissman in Ann Arbor, her son John Paul (who is the cutest Gina Case Kasper was one of the other Elyse Josephine, on May 2, 2008.” Mich. I was a bridesmaid along with little guy ever!). As the summer winds members of the Class of 2001 in the Julia Malczynski chimed in: “I’ve Andrea Herek Wetters, Alice Fox down, I’m closing in on almost a year bridal party. It was great to catch up been living in the Boston area since Fasula, Mary Wald Duncan, and as a senior convention sales manager, with everyone. This year, I am teaching the summer of 2003. I currently work Molly McVoy. And, on July 17, my a role I was promoted to with Marriott 3rd grade, still out in Barrington. I am for a company called New Union Work husband and I welcomed our beautiful Hotels and Resorts at the end of taking last year’s 2nd-graders with me.” Systems, a software company that daughter, Kaitlyn Grace, in Grand 2007. It’s been a challenging year And Beth Kledzik Davis sent this helps labor unions and grassroots Rapids, Mich.” with much to learn, but I’ve enjoyed news: “Carolyn Kelley was married in organizing campaigns manage and Julia Peterson Hannan added: the opportunity and look forward to the Dominican Republic on July 25. I organize their data. I work in the “My husband, Philip, and I had our continuing on this road for at least couldn’t make it, but her sister, Janet support/training/documentation end second son this July. John Philip another year.” Kelley ’97, did as well as Tish Baltes.

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Katie Quinn was married in New York Stephanie Redwanski Belschner, From Amanda: Thanks for all of 19, she married Chris Jackson in Vail, on August 9—to Joe Veeneman from Cindy Cvengros McCutcheon, Katy your updates! The next deadline for Col. Torie Cox and Meghan McKeon ND. Meghan McCormick and Tara Disinger, Amy Greene, Beth Didier the summer issue of the Courier is Doud were bridesmaids. Other Cupelli Raposa were in attendance. Krieg, and Kim LaVigne ’07 were in Feb. 25, 2009. You can send us any SMCers in attendance included: Sara I just keep plugging away at my new attendance. Janelle and Joe recently new contact information, too. It was Bishop Nelson, Kara Beck, and Corrine job as of January—I work for a linen moved into a house in Noblesville, great seeing everyone at the five-year Negrelli. manufacturer doing their marketing to Ind., and are excited to start their lives reunion! I can’t wait for the next one! Corrine is enjoying life in the hospitality industry.” together as a couple. Janelle is in her Melanie Burke Cameron Columbus, Ohio. Recently promoted And lastly, I am starting my third second year of her master’s degree in welcomed Esther Megan Cameron to associate designer, she is happy year this fall as a high school counselor nursing and continues to work full- into the world on March 28, 2008. to report that she is still with and still loving it! I’m proud to report time in the pediatric intensive care unit Melanie is also successfully running Abercrombie and Fitch. In August, she that I ran my second half-marathon at Peyton Manning’s Children’s Hospital a freelance writing, editing, and web had an opportunity to celebrate an in June with my students as part of at Saint Vincent’s in Indianapolis. design business, Renee de Burgh. upcoming event with Bridget Myers, an after-school running program Merideth Pierce married Jesse Nicole Strzyzykowski Mills and Torie Cox, and Amy Wall at a party in that I initiated with colleagues. I Sullivan ND Ph.D. ’07 on Aug. 2, 2008, her husband, Daniel, were blessed with Cleveland and traveled to Vail, Col., in spent my summer relaxing, running, at Holy Spirit Chapel in Le Mans Hall. their third child on July 2, 2008: Aribel July for Kelly’s wedding. There, she was hiking, and enjoying all that the Lorri Wright, Lauren Dasso Stalter, Ray Mills. Daniel is stationed overseas able to catch up with Meghan McKeon area has to offer. Great to hear from Adrienne Dorbish Pietropaolo, Amy in Kuwait so he was not there for the Doud, Sara Bishop Nelson, Kara you all! Until next time, my best. Greene, Candi McElligott, Katie birth, but he received lots of pictures. Beck, and Torie Cox. McVoy, Kendall Reidlinger Ymalay, Chloe is 5; Bradley is 3. Lauren Hofer is in the midst of Karen Schaff, and Linda Holtcamp Lisa Hudes married Eric Frey on her final year of pharmacy school at ’03 Amy Greene McVoy ’74 were in attendance. Renée June 21, 2008. The wedding was held Auburn and can’t wait to announce 1215 W. 10th Street #207 Donovan Genetti and Mary Dugan in Virginia, and they spent two weeks herself as Dr. Hofer! Cleveland, OH 44113 were bridesmaids. The Pierce/Sullivan in Costa Rica for the honeymoon. Tita Allie Higgins wrote to report [email protected] reception was held at the Morris Moreno and Marnie McKee Kuhn that she married Michael Taylor Performing Arts Center and Palais were bridesmaids. Rittenour on May 10 in the U.S. Virgin Amanda Sula Goman Royale in South Bend. The couple Mackenzie McGee moved to Islands. After a small wedding and 26B Rolling Oaks Road honeymooned in Costa Rica and Royal Oak, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, honeymoon, they held a reception in Sugar Grove, IL 60554 currently resides in Providence, R.I. to start her residency in radiation her hometown of Elizabethtown, Ky., [email protected] Amber Taylor O’Rourke and oncology at Beaumont Hospital. Just on June 7. Several SMC grads made husband Howard ND ’02 welcomed before that, she had the chance to the trip to help them celebrate: Sarah Meganne Madden Hoffman their first child, Howard Timothy attend Erin Moran Crill’s beautiful Stegmaier, Leslie Kleczek, Erin Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 110 (“Little Howie”) on Feb. 7, 2008. wedding. Mackenzie’s husband, Joe, Maloney ’02, Shannon Maloney ’99, 00186 Roma, Italia Amber is enjoying being a full-time is still in Chicago for his job, so she is and Katie Harrison ’04. Mike and 347.443.4049 stay-at-home mom. Her husband is in doing lots of traveling. Allie are living in Alexandria, Va. [email protected] his third year of residency, specializing Monica Cannon-Meeker stopped Alaina Indriolo wrote with in radiology, at the University of working full-time and has now opened fantastic updates from so many of From Amy: Greetings, Class Pittsburgh Medical Center. a tutoring company. Monica tutors our classmates! Alaina is still working of 2003! I hope that your summer Meghan McGinty Anderson students in Highland Park and works as at Children’s Memorial Hospital in was filled with lots of fun, sun, and and Ben Anderson ND ’03 welcomed a substitute teacher for the district as Chicago on the respiratory floor and relaxation. I can’t say that mine was their second son, Drew Thomas, on well. After an illness, Monica’s husband writes that she is “busy traveling from too relaxing, but it was very nice. We Feb. 28, 2008. Meghan writes that son is back on track to graduate from Florida to Las Vegas and a few places had gorgeous weather in Cleveland (a Luke, 2, is a great older brother. Luke medical school in 2010. They traveled in between!” She let us know that rarity for us in the Great Lakes!), so that was recently diagnosed with Wilms to Breckenridge, Col., for Christmas Katie Moorman Rahrig was married made summer much more enjoyable. Tumor (a childhood kidney cancer) 2007 and Big Bend National Park the in April to Chris Rahrig. Attendants Now for the updates: and is undergoing treatment. Meghan, last weekend in May. Monica wishes were Alaina Indriolo, Nina Ready Stephanie Janiczek married Ben, and their families appreciate all she could have made it to the reunion, Sina, and Adria Hamel. SMC alumnae George Nora ND Ph.D. ’07 on June thoughts and prayers that have come but hopes to be there in five years! in attendance were Nicole Garcia 21, 2008, at Holy Spirit Chapel in Le and continue to come their way. Ann Hoover Sinclair opened her ’04, Rachel Fanning ’04, and Emily Mans Hall. Alumnae in attendance Christine LaVigne Osburn has new store, The Fig Tree, in Chicago Storer Perkins. “We had a great time were: Candice Janiczek Arriola ’00, been living in Milwaukee for the past last August. Take a peek at www. and danced the night away to some Colleen Weigel ’02, Saundra Alaniz year while her husband, Matt ND ’03, thefigtreechicago.com . Linebacker favorites. Katie is currently ’04, Jodie Emerick ’05, Esther Probst teaches ROTC at Marquette University. From Meganne: Erin Moran residing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and ’06, and Ximena Williams-Olivera Christine writes, “I love being a married Ben Crill in Indianapolis working as a neonatal ICU nurse at ’06. Suzie Schugt ’04 served as one stay-at-home mom to Elizabeth. She on June 21, 2008. SMC grads in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical of Stephanie’s bridesmaids. Stephanie keeps me busy as she discovers new attendance included Torie Cox, Center.” and George are living in West Palm pieces of furniture to climb on every Meganne Hoffman, and MacKenzie Brooke Wilkins Curry writes that Beach, Fla., where George is a day. We’re taking a Mommy-Daughter McGee, as well as Cathe DeCleene, the she is the manager of the Anytime post-doctoral researcher in chemistry dance class in the fall. Elizabeth already director of women’s health at Saint Fitness franchise in Granger, Ind., with for Scripps Florida and Stephanie is has great rhythm and loves music Mary’s. Erin made a beautiful bride. her husband Derrick Curry, ND ’04. She a therapist at the Children’s Place at of all kinds, including rap, which she Congratulations, Erin! is spending most of her time personal Home Safe. showed off quite a bit at her Aunt Kelly Long Jackson graduated training and teaching fitness classes. Janelle Koop married Joseph D. Janelle’s wedding reception last in June from the University of Denver Nina Ready Sina is still living in Keller on July 5, 2008, in Cincinnati, month.” Christine also is starting a new Daniels College of Business with her West Palm Beach and working as a Ohio. Christine LaVigne Osburn work-at-home career as a medical international MBA and started working therapist. and Meghan McGinty Anderson transcriptionist and recommends it to for Hitachi Consulting. She is traveling Katie DeMent Pohlmeyer and were bridesmaids in the wedding. any other nurses out there who want a lot, but writes that she is enjoying her husband are busy with Claire, Adrienne Dorbish Pietropaolo, to stay at home. the project she is working on. On July who will be turning 1. Katie graduates

42 COURIER | Winter 2008 Come to Ireland& Poland with us Great news! The Saint Mary’s Alumnae Association In addition to a member of the Saint Mary’s College has been invited to partner with the University of Alumnae Relations staff accompanying the trip, Notre Dame Alumni Association Travel Program. Father John Pearson, CSC, will serve as our tour Not only will we be able to expand our travel host for this trip. Fr. Pearson is assistant superior at offerings, but we will also be able to continue to Moreau Seminary at Notre Dame and the campus focus on our traditions and values with an emphasis minister at Saint Mary’s. on the educational and religious character common to both institutions. This new partnership, however, Don’t miss this opportunity to explore Ireland, a will not come at the expense of our current travel captivating island of legend and history, lively program. Saint Mary’s will continue to host one villages, and peaceful countryside. or two trips each year that are exclusive to our alumnae, family, and friends of the College. Over Poland the years Saint Mary’s has hosted trips to places such The Legacy of Pope John Paul II as Tuscany, Hong Kong, Peru, Spain, and Ireland. July 11–18, 2009 $1,649 per person,Poland plus airfare While Notre Dame offers over 45 trips each Enjoy a week in Pope John Paul’s Poland. Start year, Saint Mary’s has agreed to participate in in Warsaw with guided sightseeing featuring the only programs that are exclusive to Notre Dame Cathedral of St. John and the Warsaw Ghetto, alumni. A member of the Saint Mary’s followed by an excursion to community will travel with the Niepokalanow and its Franciscan group and we will be heading to Friary, founded by St. Maximilian the following destinations: Kolbe. In Czestochowa, visit the Shrine and the famous Black Ireland Madonna, an image and devotion Ennis Pope John Paul II held very close to June 19–27,Ireland 2009 his heart throughout his life. Visit the $2,695 per person, plus airfare remains of the former concentration Set on Europe’s outskirts against the waves of camp in Auschwitz, as well as the Martyrdom the Atlantic Ocean is a rare land—the legendary Museum and St. Maximilian Kolbe’s cell. Next is Emerald Isle. Begin your exploration in Ennis, Krakow, the city where Pope John Paul II served County Clare, and travel to the ancient Burren and as archbishop. Guided sightseeing includes Wawel windswept Cliffs of Moher. Visit Bunratty Castle, Castle, St. Mary’s Church, and the world-famous the most complete and authentic medieval castle in Shrine of Divine Mercy. Also enjoy an excursion to Ireland, then continue to Bunratty Folk Park, whose the Pope’s hometown of Wadowice. Visit his recreated 19th-century village provides insight into birthplace and boyhood home, as well as Kalwaria the life of bygone days. Cruise to the Aran Island Zebrzydowska, one of Poland’s most famous shrines of Inishmore and marvel at the cliffside fortress of and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Dún Aengus. Appreciate the country’s epic literary heritage at Coole Park in County Galway, with its For more information beech tree bearing W.B. Yeats’ initials and the 16th- about these trips, visit: century tower of Thoor Ballylee, where he resided. saintmarys.edu/alumnae-travel classnews

in December with a master’s in Pamela Kane married David Kelly, education. ND ’04 in April. Pam’s wedding was full Caitlin Duffey is the proud of Saint Mary’s grads, including maid Getting Married? Expecting? mama of a baby girl named McCauley of honor Amy Kane ’08, Pam’s mom, McFarland Abramson (“Mickey” for Linda Montella Kane ’73, and guests We’d like to help you celebrate, but we short) who was born on Mother’s Day Shannon Artnak, Annie Basinski ’04, can’t print news about future weddings 2008, May 11. Born with lots of black Allison Black, Jennifer Concannon, or babies. When your plans become reality, please hair, she is the light of her mom’s life. Emily Creachbaum, Therese Cullen, Congratulations to Caitlin and her Andrea George, Michelle Biersmith let your class reporter or the Courier husband Kevin Abramson! Hennings ’04, Tricia Michalak, office know, and we’ll gladly print In personal news, I am starting my Katie Noble, Maureen MacDonald fourth year with the Rome Program. Rousseve, Katie Taylor, and Emily your news after the fact. I had a blast at our class reunion this Wagoner. past May and truly enjoyed spending Julie Breen reports that Michelle convent. They are now living in Dallas. Shannon Greenwell-Wright time with 2003! I am already looking Cooper married Richard Knox last Erin is the fourth grade team leader married David Wright in St. Louis on forward to the next gathering. It was December. Kendall Krische was the for an elementary school in Plano, Oct. 27, 2007. Molly McCavitt and a beautiful weekend! I spent the maid of honor. Julie, Becky Davies, Texas. She is also pursuing her master’s Elizabeth Anderson were both in summer in Elkhart, Ind., working on Angela Saoud, and Amanda Wiehe degree in curriculum instruction and attendance. a horse farm and made several trips attended the wedding reception in counseling. Meghan Flick married Stefan to campus to visit my sister, Jenny Iowa in February. Michelle recently In the beginning of August, Schmelzer on Aug. 23, 2008. Danelle Hoffman ’10. Driving down the Avenue moved to Missouri and works for Adriana Puente started a new job Duffy was part of the wedding party. never gets old—and campus looks Deloitte. Kendall is currently working at True Partners Consulting, LLC Meghan and her husband are living in great! as the preschool director at a Catholic in downtown Chicago. Adriana Fenton, Mich., until Meghan graduates Keep your updates coming! As school in southern California. Julie is completed the first semester of with her master’s degree in social work always, it is a true joy to hear what you teaching at St. Ben’s as a kindergarten an executive master’s in taxation from the University of Michigan. are up to. teacher on Chicago’s north side. program at the University of Illinois This past summer, Michelle From the Courier office: Jenny Foertsch married Mark Urbana-Champaign. (She notes that Stanforth was involved with RIMPAC Gabrielle Campo is running for Zepf ND ’04 on June 14 at the Basilica Professor Renshaw would be proud!). 2008, a Navy exercise involving 10 Indiana’s 7th Congressional District of the Sacred Heart at Note Dame. She said that the program is pretty countries across the Pacific Fleet. seat. She has yard signs that read Jenny reports that it was a beautiful rough, but she has learned a lot and In July, she returned to Saint Mary’s “She Has My Vote” and the other, day. Elisabeth Baldwin, Carey Batz, somehow had a lot of fun as well. She for Roselyn Boyle (Heck)’s wedding. “Another Democrat For Campo.” Anne Mahoney, Kate Lohmuller, and will graduate in May 2009 and then Then, back in Hawaii, she was able Quinn Shern Nelson ’02 were all move on to take the CPA exams. She to enjoy another mini-reunion with bridesmaids. Mark is currently living is still living in the city with Veronica Mary Kartheiser ’04 and fellow Belle ’05 Kelly Hradsky in New York City, and Jenny plans to Saavedra, who just participated in swimmer Julie McGranahan ’04, who 651 W Roscoe, Apt 2 join him after she graduates from Ohio the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer were vacationing on the island. In Chicago, IL 60657 University’s medical school in 2009. Walk in the Chicagoland area. Veronica October, she left her station in Hawaii [email protected] Jill Roberts graduated from was able to raise even more than her and moved to Tampa, Fla. where Chicago-Kent College of Law on May monetary goal and completed the she started teaching navigation and Meghan Scallen Welch 18 and sat for the Illinois Bar in July. three-day, 60-mile walk for the cause! seamanship at University of Southern 14335 Wynhollow Downs Lane, In September, she started a one-year On July 13, Cassie Gerstner Florida’s Navy ROTC program. Apt 217 judicial clerkship at the Department of Kaplan married Giordan Kaplan in Sarah Harward Haywood Charlotte, NC 28277 Justice immigration court in Detroit, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her wedding reports that she married Christopher [email protected] Mich. party included Lyz Carmody and Haywood on March 29, 2008, in Jessica Sloan recently accepted Jodie Emerick. Cassie and her Denver, Col. Lisa Christiano, Maria Hello, Class of 2005! It was great a job with Marist College in husband recently purchased a home Corso, Claire Higgins, and Marianne hearing from all of you who sent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She is one of two in Wheaton, Ill. Rutz traveled across the country to updates. We would love to hear from resident directors for the college’s Cortney Watson is currently a be there for Sarah’s big day. Sarah and others! Please continue to update us program in Florence, Italy. Her time will graduate student at the University her husband are now expecting and with your contact information so that be spent utilizing her experience and of Michigan in the public policy can’t wait to welcome the little one in we can keep in touch. passion to ensure that other students program, entering her second year this mid-February. Kim Holly Maher reports that she have a meaningful and memorable September. She spent three months In August, I met up with Jodie married John Maher on July 12. Ashley time in Florence. Jessica is looking in Cambodia working as a women’s Emerick, Erin Korreck, Abby Thornburg, Margie Schaffner, forward to her return to L’Italia and rights advocate/researcher focusing Ragan, and Meghan Scallen and Megan Beauchamp stood up cannot wait to have some gelato. on domestic violence and women’s Welch in Washington, D.C. Abby for Kim. Rachel Casciari, Michele Cynthia Rodriguez just moved access to justice. is working there as a teacher and Firmstone, Elisabeth Baldwin, Kate to Dallas, Texas, where she works as Margaret BonDurant moved to logging quite a few miles running Lohmuller, and Anne Mahoney a bilingual family therapist for Youth Chicago and is working for Modern in various races and giving tours of were also in attendance. Kim and her Villages. Cynthia says that she doesn’t Luxury Media (which publishes the Capitol to her visiting friends husband recently built a new home in know very many people out there Chicago Social magazine). and family. Erin graduated in May Manhattan, Ill. and would love to hear from any SMC Roselyn Boyle married Chris with a master’s degree in sociology Lindsay (Downs) Valencourt ladies in the area! Heck ND ’05 on July 26 at the Basilica from Indiana University- Purdue reports that she married Jesse Erin Krombach Groves married of the Sacred Heart. Lucy Andaloro University Fort Wayne. I graduated Valencourt on June 28 in Indianapolis, Jonathan Groves in Dallas, Texas, on served as the maid of honor, while from Chicago-Kent College of Law Ind. Mary Holland, Sarah Brown, Jill Feb.16. The couple honeymooned in Maureen Garavan, Jess Jandrain, on May 18, took the Illinois Bar in Roberts, Theresa Mills, Ellice Gregg the Dominican Republic and recently Sarah Paladino, Courtney Shaffer July, and am currently spending my Bedel, Christina Schmidl, and Molly traveled to SMC,where they were able and Michelle Stanforth were all part time job hunting in the Chicago area. Ritter ’06 were in attendance. to visit with Sr. Francis Helene at the of the wedding party.

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’07 Brooke Sheldon c/o Emma Willard School 285 Pawling Avenue Troy, NY 12180 [email protected]

From the Courier office: Kelly Ann Hickey writes that she was married to Matthew Lilly ND, BA ’05, JD ’08 on June 28, 2008, at Our Lady of Grace Church in Edina, Minn. Kelly’s cousin, Lindsey Krawczun ’09 was the maid of honor. Classmates Anne Spyhalski and Lauren Briatta were bridesmaids. Bridget Borg delivered the first reading, Bridget Green helped bring the gifts to the altar, and Kate Fenlon ’08 was a Eucharistic Minister. Kathryn Roth Lilly ’76 was the mother of the groom. A reception was held at the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minn., following the ceremony. Also in attendance at the ceremony and reception were a cousin of the bride Kate Hickey Devine ’87, Carolyn Logan, and Sheila Gallagher Dillon ’76. Kelly and Matt have relocated to Charlotte, N.C., where they will begin their life together.

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June 4–7, 2009 Thursday,Reunion June 4 ’09 3 p.m. Registration begins Friday, June 5 9 a.m. –5 p.m. Alumnae continuing education opportunities 5:30 p.m. Eucharistic liturgy—honoring the Jubilee class of 1958 and all “Older than Golden” alumnae 6–8 p.m. Class dinners 8:30–midnight All-class party Saturday, June 6 8–11 a.m. Alumnae continuing education opportunities 11 a.m. Presidential address: Carol Ann Mooney ’72 Noon–2 p.m. Picnic and class photos 2–4 p.m. Special class gatherings 7 p.m. Reunion banquet: program highlights include presentation of the annual Alumnae Association awards and the Reunion Gift Campaign awards Sunday, June 7 9:45 a.m. Sunday liturgy 11 a.m. Champagne brunch

To register online and view the full schedule of events, visit saintmarys.edu/reunion

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