FrOIIl the President

Dear Alumnae and Friends of Emmanuel:

As the academic year begins and our stu­ dents and faculty return to the campus, it is a time to reaffirm the meaning of a col­ lege community. We, at Emmanuel, refer to ourselves as a community oflearning and li ving, a community of responsibility, a community of conscience. During the coming year at Emmanuel, we hope to re­ flect on the meaning of community and take actions which wi ll enhance the shap­ ing of our coll ege community. Emmanuel's relationship with the wider community - those outside the immediate confines of our campus - is a profound reality for us. During the past several months, we have been affected deeply by several unrelated but distinctive happenings. Recently, wejoined people around the world in mourning the death of His Eminence, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. Finally, the College joined twelve classes Inauguration of Sister Janet Eisner, SND During extremely difficult times, the in celebrating their reunions on Alumnae as President of Emmanuel College on Cardinal served the Archdiocese of Boston Weekend. One of the high points of the September 15, 1979. Left to right: well by doing what he did best: setting an weekend was a gathering of the first Elizabeth M. Twomey, Member of Board example of pastoral leadership inspired by graduating class from Emmanuel, the Class of Trustees; Honorable Edward King, the Gospel. The reactions of those who of 1923. The women from this class shared Governor of the Commonwealth; Sister attended the special liturgy on campus, with us a truly special occasion, their sixtieth Janet Eisner, SND; His Eminence and ofthose who represented the College anniversary. Personally, I have been en­ Humberto Cardinal Medeiros. at his funeral, confirmed the admiration ri ched by their enthusiasm for life and and respect expressed by so many. To pay their strong commitment to Emmanuel, lasting tribute to Cardinal Medeiros, Em­ and I know that countless others have, too. manuel College is establishing a scholarship During the coming months, I wi ll be in his name to be awarded annually to a meeting with many of you, both on campus student from the Archdiocese of Boston. and at Alumnae events throughout the In August, the Emmanuel campus was country. I will be visiting Alumnae in the site of the International Conference on Connecticut and ew York during the lat­ the Ministry of Higher Education. The ter part of the fall , and in Florida during Conference brought together Sisters of February. As always, I look forward to see­ Notre Dame from all over the world, to ing you and welcome the opportunity to reflect on future directions for Catholic share with you news about the College, its higher education. This Conference pro­ programs, its fa culty and its community vided an opportunity for us at Emmanuel activities. to share our concerns and experiences with those from our sister institutions. Sincerely yours, ~.~

ister Janet Eisner, S D President

3 Profile: Members of the Class of 1923

When Emmanuel College opened its doors in Mary Paula Brodbine 1919, a group of twenty-nine "gentle, timid" young women were ushered into a classroom, to Revere is "the place where I was born," be welcomed by Sister Helen Madeleine, Dean of and after attending Beachmont Elemen­ the College. As they began with the prayer, "Oh, tary School there, I went to Notre Dame Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Ex­ Academy in Roxbury. I went on to Em­ pected of Nations and their Savior, come to save manuel and received my A.B. ; then off to us, oh Lord our God," there was a sense that this the University of Tours in France for fur­ was an auspicious moment, that they were begin­ ther education. I also spent two years ning something much bigger than they knew. As travelling throughout Europe. they grew to love "young Emmanuel" theyfelt "a From 1923 until 1953 I had a very busy certain distinction, and with it, a sense of re­ schedule. I taught Languages at Chelsea sponsibility at being Emmanuel's pioneer class." High School; was the assistant manager of Sixty years after the graduation ofth e Class of Brodbine Travel Service in Boston; the 1923, we look back to its members with gratitude assistant manager of Theatrical Enter­ and admiration. Their commitment gave life to prises - managing eight theatres - and Emmanuel and to the educational ideals which it spent time at Rindge School in Cambridge, ....T ationa\ embodies. both as the assistant librarian and the co­ nts teh l" .... ry Brodbine aeeer honor for ber Ifyou haven't had a chance already, we ordinator and director of night school lUa \\ of Fal11e thought you might like to meet some of those citizens' social activities. While at Rindge, I Baseball Ua \ iteher '{imothy baseba\ p pioneer women. There's Mary Brodbine, who taught English and Americanization, une\e , taught night school at the Rindge School in which included interpreting work in the J. Keefe. Cambridge until she was 80 and who is still night school. active in Boston's Brodbine Travel Service; Ida Much of my life has been spent in and Finn Hackett, who is a writer, a volunteer at around education. I served as first and My interest and activities have been Faulkner Hospital, and keeps the Class of 1923 second Vice President of the Chelsea many over the years. My show dogs­ in touch with one another; Sisler Liana Vannini, Teachers' Club; chairman of the commit­ Chows - won 1st and 2nd place in shows. I who marched "Ulith the Suffragettes the year be­ tee to revise the constitution of that club; also love Chesapeake Bay Retrievers and fore women got the vote; and more. Their lives Vice President of the Retired Persons' Collies. I enjoy both classical and popular continue to express the spirit and energy which Association; and a mem ber of the music and have an interest in sculpture, brought Emmanuel to life. ational Teachers' Association. Several lamp making, gardening and furniture J oin us in discovering what paths their lives years ago, I submitted bills to the Massa­ reupholstering. since Emmanuel have taken and in wishing chusetts legislature to benefit disabled One of my special interests - not typical them many more years of strength and joy. teachers. probably of a retired female teacher - is that of baseball. In 1964, I received a are

4 when it comes to baseball. Ovel-the years, I horizons and in 1932, at the ripe old age of that doesn't preclude my seeking adven­ have collected, classified, and correlated 3 I, I deserted the noble profession of ture. old time baseball material pertinent to teaching and moved to New York City. I've As a matter of fact, I am just off to Ber­ missing data wanted at the Baseball Hall of always looked for adventure in my life and muda with some of my friends for a week­ Fame. Today, I am still very active and New York is the kind of place where you long vacation. I think going to Bermuda at interested in baseball as we ll as many other can't avoid things happening to you. m y age (82) is either disgraceful or fun .. . I sports including hockey, football, dog rac­ My fi rst job interview was for an entry­ think it will be fun! ing, sled racing and horse racing. (M y level position at Macy's. It was an incredible father owned pacers and trotters, and was scene - there were hundreds of applicants the proud owner of the great horse, 'Le­ in one room and when they finally called Ida G. Finn Hackett canda' of ' Ripley's Believe It or Not' fame. m y name, the woman scrutinized me close­ I rode and drove my father's famous horses ly, asked me to take off my hat and my I was born in Dedham and grew up in as a young ladv.) white gloves, and then offered me ajob Roslindale. I was an only child. We heard selling tropical fish in Macy's basement. I about Emmanuel when a nun, who was a politely turned it down. family friend, called up to see if I might Doris Melanson Ellis I went over to Lord & Taylor where I like to go there. It was a wonderful idea, had the honor of being appointed to a and I set off to study French and English. When my father read in the Boston Post group of eight women who were called the Those were happy days with lots of about the opening of Emmanuel College, "Fl ying Sq uad." We were speciall y trained activities, and always a new adventure he thought it would be a good idea for me to take customers all over the store and sell around the corneL We weren't conscious to attend. I, on the other hand, had two merchandise from any department. I re­ of it, but as the first class at Emmanuel, we close friends who were bound for Smith member one of my customers, a young had a lotofindirect responsibilities. Every­ and I had decided to go along with them. I French socialite, who spent $8,000 in one one was concerned with our appearance, made a terrible fuss but my father was a day! That was a huge sum in those days deportment, and values. We were taught man of definite ideas - he felt it was our and I didn't get over it for weeks! that ethics is an important facet of life. Of duty to support the first Catholic women's I married a man who was in the public college to open in ew England. So, I went. relations and advertising business and after I wasn't that interested in studying; in a few years ofliving in ew York, we fact, I avoided my classmates who were moved and established a home in Marble­ studio us. It was only after maturity had head. knocked some sense into my head that I My esteem for Emmanuel has grown came to appreciate what solid , beautiful over the years. In particular, the accom­ characters those women were. Fortunately, plishments of the Alumnae have been im­ they have been kind enough to bear with pressive. Their record reflects we ll on the me over the years. success of the College, which has pro­ I li ved in Boston wh il e attending Em­ gressed proudly through the years, some­ man uel and then moved back to Gloucester times with little or no encouragement from and taught school for several years. My the outside. I praise Sister Janet for the job parents encouraged me to broaden my she is doing - she seems to have the leader­ ship quality that a college president needs these days. We were innocent you ng women - green as grass - in the 1920's. Today, a woman has to be more aggressive, more worldly. There's not much sincerity in the world Ida Finn Hackett around us and women have to be prepared to deal with that kind of environment. The young Emmanuel graduates that I met at the Reunion are much more sophisticated course, being young, we spent much of than we ever were. our time thinking about how to spend the I've always believed that life is what you next vacation! make it and whether you're young or old , The courses at Emmanuel were wonder­ it's how you feel that counts. My advice to ful. I so enjoyed Sister Marie Margarita's younger people is to make friendships French class, and Sister Julie de la Ste. when you're young, and your friends will Famille's English class. We worked hard, be there when you are oldeL My life today but I managed to find time for lots of sports . -I / is filled with activities that interest me. I - tennis, swimming, skatin g and toboggan­ read and paint, keep up extensive cor­ ing. I also loved dancing. DOrisAfel r anson Ellis respondence, and go on a great many out­ When I graduated from Emmanuel, I ings with my friends. I've calmed down a went on for a Master's degree at Boston lot - I'm a real lady now, but I must admit University. Later, I studied French 19th

5 century history, art and literature at the course this meant everyone knew everyone H. Genevieve Lynch Sorbonne. I taught French for many years well- including Sister Helen Madeleine. at the Washington Irving School in Ros­ In fact, she rang the little hand bell for us My grandparents were from Ireland, but lindale. My Emmanuel education was a to change classes each day. She was very my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah]. good basis for teaching. The principles I good at keeping track of all of our comings Lynch, lived in Marlboro where I was born. learned became a part of my life, and I like and goings! (Sister Helen Madeleine, now There were six of us children. I was en­ to think that I passed them on to students in her 90's, lives in the Notre Dame Retire­ couraged by my parents to go to college as through the years. ment Home in Ipswich). they wanted all of us to have the oppor­ I have had a very full and happy life. For I feel one of Emmanuel's greatest con­ tunities a college education offered. I many years, I wrote a column called, "Sub­ tributions to my life was to help me began my college life at Simmons, studying urbia," for the Parkway Transcript. I also appreciate the Catholic viewpoint and to to be a librarian. While at Simmons, I did book reviews for the Pilot and the Sign understand it better. My college life at learned about Emmanuel, and enrolled and had poetry published in the Boston Emmanuel formed a great background for there six months later. Newsletter. It was an honor to be featured in my life. I have been happy each step of the Since I had attended St. Anne's Academy the Boston Herald series on "Boston's way. in Marlboro which was conducted by Gracious Ladies," in the late 1940's. I married my high school sweetheart, French nuns, I had built a good foundation My family has been a source of great joy Raymond, who went to M.I.T.; we cele­ in French. When I began Emmanuel, I to me. I have two stepsons and eight brated our 57th wedding anniversary this chose French as my major. I commuted by grandchildren, each of whom I cherish summer. We have two wonderful children. dearly. Travel, bridge, and the theatre are My daughter also attended Emmanuel and my hobbies. I work with the Guild at she was the first daughter of an Emmanuel church, and am a volunteer at the Faulk­ alumna to attend the College. She is now ner Hospital. an Instructor in Science at Wellesley Col­ Of course, I would like to see more of my lege. My son, who is a doctor and Chief of old friends. Emmanuel has put out tremen­ Medicine at the American Hospital of dous people - some of them are well Paris, is married to a Frenchwoman and known, and some are just "quietl y marvel­ has a lovely family. ous." I so enjoyed Reunion Weekend, and I've been active for almost fifty years at the chance to meet some of the new people St. Joseph's Parish in Needham. Iorgan­ at Emmanuel. Over the years, much of my ized both adult and youth groups and was time and interest has centered around a Board member of the League of Catholic Emmanuel- and that will never end. Women. Over the years since graduation, I I would tell today's Emmanuel student, have also been very active in the Emmanuel "If each person treated the other as she alumnae. I was the second President of the wanted to be treated, we'd have a very Alumnae Association. I have enjoyed happy world. If you look for the happiness watching Emmanuel grow and develop and God-likeness in people, you will find into a great little college! it." My advice for today's student at Em­ manuel would be to realize how important it is to be versed in what is right and what is M. Frances Fallon Hewes wrong. Emmanuel can give you a good, train from Marlboro each day for the four solid foundation to put things in their years. In a way, it seemed like an extension You know, my father was one ofthe first proper perspective when you get out of of high school! The class was small, and we Rexall druggists in the country! I grew up school. were very close as students. It was an honor in Hyde Park and went to public high to be a member of the first class, and as school there. There were seven of us in the years went by, I appreciated even more family. I had one sister and five brothers, being a graduate of the first class. one of whom became a Monsignor in Because I commuted, which made my Watertown. My first year of college, I went day long, I did not have a great deal of time to Simmons, but I wasn't happy there. to take part in other activities, but I enjoyed While we were vacationing at our family my classes tremendously. When I gradu­ home in Scituate, a friend of the family ated from Emmanuel, I went on to Boston told me there was to be a new college in the University for a Master's degree. After Notre Dame Building on the Fenway. My that, I taught English and French in Boston father knew I wanted a change and said, for forty-two years. When I retired, I did "Let's go see what's going on over at Notre some tutoring and volunteer social work. Dame." So we did. I met Sister Helen Several former pupils still keep in touch Madeleine, who was in charge of the new with me. Two of them are brothers who college, and she had me practically signed are missionary priests. up that very afternoon. I was walking on My activities today are quite limited due air from the first day I found out about to my health. I very much enjoyed the Emmanuel! Reunion Weekend. It was a wonderful Our class consisted of only 25 girls. Of

6 chance to meet the members of our class My uncle always told me to "look for ing the summer that "someone" would again, and to attend the interesting activi­ character" in a person, and as it turned come along and take that math class! Well, ties provided for us. I still make an effort out, everyone I knew at Emmanuel was when I returned in the fall, 10 and behold, to keep in touch with other members of my someone I wanted to know. We were not there was a transfer student from Radcliffe class, mostly by letter and telephone. only classmates, we were friends. Some­ all ready to take that third year math class­ I would like to tell today's students at times, I would like to go back to 1923. so I smiled to myself and gladly stayed out Emmanuel how fortunate they are to be Everyone seemed to get much more pleas­ of it! chosen as students at Emmanuel! The ure out ofsimple things. There didn't seem I had decided early in my teenage years quality and variety of courses will prepare to be the concern for having more money to direct my life towards religious service. I them for many different professions. Em­ and having more things. There was much graduated from Emmanuel inJune, and manuel also has a high moral spirit and more freedom also - freedom to walk any­ entered the Order in October. Our Order Catholic background which will stand the where - without the worries we encounter was founded specifically for retreat pur­ test of time. today with crime and all sorts of violence. poses and we have Cenacle Retreats all over I am sure that if you live up to the ideals the world. I believe my days at Emmanuel given to you at a school like Emmanuel, have been a great help to my work over the Katharyn E. MacNamara you, too, will find yourself on the best path last sixty years. The strong basis in coun­ you can take in life. If you are true to these seling and instruction which I received at After the early loss of my parents, my values, you can't go far wrong! Emmanuel has aided me in my work with mother's youngest brother took me under others. This includes the work of the his wing. He was a bachelor, and lived in Order, as well as my work in Catechismic Stoughton where I went to live with him. I Sister Liana Vannini teaching and instruction. was interested in being a teacher, and he Over the years, I have travelled a great was interested in my going to college. I My parents came from Italy. My father was deal to set up Cenacle Retreats, both in this began planning and had decided to go to raised near Florence, and my mother was country and Europe. Currently, I continue B. U. when my uncle heard about a new from Venice. Both were well educated­ work with those with whom I have held Catholic college - Emmanuel. That was in my father was a musician and studied at retreats in the past. I really don't take on August 1919, a month before classes were the Conservatory in Venice, and my any new retreats at this time of my life. to begin! He said, "But you choose." I did. mother was certified as a college professor However, there is still much to do! I went to Emmanuel. of Italian Literature and Science. This I believe that Emmanuel's spirit of coop­ I commuted to Emmanuel like almost meant that our family dining had an air of eration which was instilled into us, as well everyone else in those early days. That of education about it. College was considered as its discipline, both mental and physical, course meant standing some mornings on an unspoken fact, and it was just a question have helped to mold a great many out­ the freezing station platform waiting for as to where my sister and I would attend. standing people. It is important to believe the train, and then walking from Back Bay InJune, 1919, I graduated from the Notre that choosing to be trustworthy and honest station to the campus. The walk was glori­ Dame School at The Fenway, not knowing, ous! I love the outdoors and if! ever feel however, that Emmanuel College was to blue, which is seldom, I just get out and open in the fall! walk, and right away I begin to cheer up! Sister Helen Madeleine called me one When I started at Emmanuel, I didn't day to tell me about the new college and to know whether I wanted to major in math ask me if I would like to attend. It was or Latin. I liked Latin - it is such a logical difficult starting a college, and she was language - and, I had studied it for four looking for girls who were willing to work years in high school. So, I chose Latin. I hard and to cooperate together. I was de­ took four more years of it at Emmanuel lighted, and immediately joined the enroll­ and some other Latin coursework as well. ing freshmen. When I graduated, I taught Latin at Boston Like my mother, I was very interested in Girls' Latin School where I remained for science. I particularly enjoyed chemistry. I many years. was always fascinated, you see, with the As the first class ofstudents at Emmanu­ constant revelation about how God created el, we came to realize that we did occupy a the universe. That seemed so apparent to special position in its history. The College me in chemistry. I also shared my father's was so appreciative of us; the professors love of music, and was always ready to stop thanked us for having confidence in them. everything to play the organ if! was needed Sister L' Emmanuel and its faculty have always been by the Sisters or the other girls. lana Vannini dedicated to helping its students make the It took five girls to open a class, and most of their lives. They were interested in because there were not many of us, Sister our growing together. After all, "educa­ Helen Madeleine asked me to be a "fifth" is the right way to live. Emmanuel has tion," which derives from Latin, means "to in those classes which were offered but always been dedicated to engendering a lead out." That is what Emmanuel stands needed another student. Well, I €nded up sense of responsibility and mutual toler­ for, to me, a place and a people who help to taking all of my course load as well as ance in its students. Parents should have a "lead out" those best qualities and talents Spanish, French and math. I didn't mind feeling of security in sending their children in each of us. as I was always curious, but I did hate to such a college because these are the math. After my second year, I prayed dur- values that will carry them through life.

7 Turning Back the Clock: Life at Emmanuel Fifty Years Ago by Manon Barry Cahill '33

A quote from our Class History in the Epi­ it was worth 50¢ and the feeling of disgrace families known to the Administration of logue reads: "Emmanuel! What emotions that Sister managed to arouse in us. My the College. that name will arouse in ten years - in feelings are still complicated and ambiva­ We satisfied our intellectual curiosity and twenty - in fifty!" Incredibly, those fifty lent about the practice, as I try to put it in made friendships that still enrich our lives years have flown by, and I have been asked the perspective of yesteryear. Had we been and provide us with endless reminiscences. to write about my personal recollections of children of the Aquarian Age, serious con­ During our eventful Sophomore year, we life at Emmanuel in the early Thirties. I troversy would have developed, but that gave a Christmas Party for a group of feel almost as baffled as I did by Logic I would have to wait another thirty years. underprivileged children, a dim forerun­ and Philosophy I I. Yet, I rememberthat in I n October of our Freshman year, 1929, ner of things to come. Since the Depression our undergraduate days, it never occurred we were excited by the prospect of our first was to last for several more years, it is not to us to resist;just plunge ahead, complain venture into the social stream. Can you surprising that many of us wound up perhaps, but do it. believe that we actually went to a Tea Dance working for the Welfare Department. The single main building, surrounded at the Hotel Somerset at four o'clock on a It was that same fateful year, 1929, while by what seemed acres of grass, was more Saturday afternoon draped in a floor­ I was Treasurer of the French Club (known than adequate for the classes at that time. length creation that escaped being an as Le Cercle Louis Veuillot), that the Beth Israel was in its infancy and there was evening gown by the camouflage of a Federal Reserve Bank closed its doors for­ a row of apartment houses on Brookline jacket? Add a tiny veiled hat, a beaded bag, ever, taking with it our $1 ,000 bank Avenue where the dormitories are now and gloves for a complete picture of the account which it had taken ten years for located. A long line of immense poplars f emme fatale. The joyous prospect far out­ the French Club to amass. Once a year, for concealed the back of the apartment houses shone the anxious experience of the actual the following nine, the bank paid a divi­ in the French manner. event. dend of varying amounts until it finally We had few choices in our curriculum as That same month, we attended a picnic closed the books. Remaining the Treasurer Freshmen, but when we left Emmanuel at Fieldston, arranged by our adversaries, of the French Club until 1942, I managed four years later, we were changed people. the Sophomores. All in good fun, we were to collect $900 out of our original $1,000, When choices had to be made later in life, subjected to what was euphemistically re­ but never again quoted the one about the our experience at Emmanuel shaped them. ferred to as "hazing" - a rite of passage that bank being always right. After the confinement of high school, we consisted of having to rush into a 50 degree TheJunior prom was as ecstatic an event felt that a whole new dimension of liberty or less Atlantic Ocean, run a gauntlet of as our imaginations would allow. Winter was opened up to us. At last, no more paddling Sophomores, gorge oneself on that year seemed an endless succession of uniforms! Actually, our choices were cold spaghetti, etc., until such time as we formal dances, and many of us eventually guided by a supervision that bordered on were deemed fit to become bonafide dso1\ control, but eventually we found our way Emmanuel students. It did leave us hazy, ~f.t\all d and settled on a major. In those Depression but at dusk, we buried the hatchet for good. i \9~~ _C.: Grad'!, all years, majors were an anomaly. One took After these openers, we settled down to teSO \\atC C\asstt\a DotOW'! oU'l.\l· any job that she or her relatives could scare the daily round of slogging through hours \\atdi1\'l.' ~ lAcDoU up for her. of homework and trying to beat the five . l\aft] lAat\e We were not offered equal independ­ o'clock rush at Park Street Under. Most ence in our campus life. Attendance at students used the MBT A for transporta­ Noon Assembly was compulsory and the tion, connecting at North Station for the Dean of those days, Sister Helen North Shore commuters who lived as far Madeleine, gave all the announcements. away as Lawrence or Manchester. Others In my four years at Emmanuel, she never went as far as Providence, to the south. Still missed a day. The various class secretaries others boarded in nearby houses with took attendance and woe betide the absen­ tees! It was forbidden to leave the building between 11 :00 and 2:00, although to do so was easy since Sister was at Assembly and lunch . T he bad news was getting back in again. Sister had a sixth sense which told her who had actually left the campus, and from her crow's nest at the head of the stairs, she would corral the guilty ones and fi ne them 50¢. We were all agreed that, occasionally,

8 married our Prom dates. I remember the '60, attended, and I discovered that the mission remains the same - to give each squabbles I had with my sister, Eleanor, more things change, the more they remain graduate the capacity to live life in the light '36, over our one shared pair of twenty­ the same. By that time the campus had of a Christian philosophy. In subtle ways button white kid gloves! It went to arbitra­ grown, classes were larger, and the making or more overt ones, Emmanuel has shaped tion, my mother's, and the grievance was of friends was mainly governed by majors. our lives. Perhaps this accounts in part for settled by one getting the gloves and the Many customary and lovely practices have the feeling of belonging we still have when other wearing the white, fur-trimmed over­ become obsolete. Gone was the Baby Party we enter its chapel fifty years later. shoes. Between us, we had more evening for Freshmen dressed in juvenile outfits. MarYR gowns than sweaters! Gone were the Juniors in white dresses and '33 eeny Galt Cap and Gown Sunday in our Senior gloves carrying flower bedecked hoops for celebrate ~ '33 and F oVer .Reu . d their 50th I rances Bl year was one of those once-in-a-lifetime the white-clad Seniors, for the tree plant­ nlon ~ C ass r ute days. When we wore our stocks (white net, ing exercises. Gone was the May Pro­ eekend '83. eUniol} boned, bracelike arrangements for our cession, a major event, held on a weekday necks) we looked as though we had come and attended by the entire student body! from another planet. After that glorious All its outward changes not withstand­ day in October, we wore our caps and ing, there is much at Emmanuel that will gowns with a fl at white collar every day, never change. Each class is different, each announcing to the world, Oxford style, year brings changes, but the underlying who we were. We were so few and so close to each other for four years that Com­ mencement was both ajoy and an ordeal. All great events took place in the Chapel, giving them an aura of supreme impor­ tance. This last moment found us brim­ ming with emotion, knowing that we would never see some of our classmates again, as, in fact, we never have. Due to the size of the College at that time, Emmanuel's education was a very participatory thing. I relived it all again, vicariously, when my daughter, ancy,

9 Reflections on Our Reunion Class of 1958 fly Elizabeth Dolan,Joanne Cannon Murphy and Martha Egan Madar

We were called the quiet generation, always In the assured manner of quiet accom­ on the periphery, never at the heart. We plishment, the Class of) 958 points proudly li ved during the Eisenhower years, too to its five holders of d6ctorate degrees, its early to be flower children and too late to triumvirate of attorneys, and over half of its be "bobby-soxers." Ours were memories members who have obtained Masters' de­ of Vaughn Monroe at the Meadows, grees in a wide variety of disciplines. Even Johnny Mathis on the radio, the jazz at the more notable are those who pursued grad­ Ell iot Lounge, dancing at the Totem Pole, uate work and careers while at the same and innumerable cups of coffee at Yueh's. time committing devoted hours toward Such was the atmosphere when the Class raising families and participating in com­ of 1958 graduated and we set off on our munity li fe. separate ways. slater - Marie Famil y life has been the primary focus of Twenty-five year dJudge Elizabeth This June , convinced that our twenty­ McClintock Barry an our generation. Contrary to recent statis­ fifth reunion was a milestone not to be tics, many in the class have found enduring Dolan. missed, seventy-three members of the Class domestic success. We have produced 192 of 1958 returned to Emmanuel to remi­ girls, 177 boys and 9 sets of twins. An nisce and celebrate the past twenty-five compiled by Elaine Fasano Kelly and Jane accolade as the "Model Mother" goes to years. We started with a class party in St. Loughran Allen, with Ann Cavanaugh Mary Ryder Cavanaugh, mother of 12, Joseph's Hall, where with her usual style Ennis contributing the artwork. Memories who writes, "Emmanuel gave me a good and grace, the Honorable Eli zabeth]. of Emmanuel include: Joan Collins Drane, start, but education is an ongoing process Dolan delivered the reunion toast. T he " I remember my days as a student at and I am still learning. Children are great high point of the weekend, Friday's Emmanuel as days filled with hard work educators." gathering found us all reluctant to leave and much laughter. It seems difficult to A reunion the size of our twenty-fifth until after - what might have been termed figure out how three hours on the M.T.A., does not emerge fu ll blown from the in our day - the curfew hours. ot to be classes from 9 to 4, and a freezing locker imagination of one person. It takes a group outdone, the many who stayed overnight room could make me remember mostly of dedicated workers and a leader to guide on campus continued their reminiscing happy times, but they do!" Martha Egan their efforts. Class of '58 Reunion Chair­ until a less than respectable hour the Mador, "My years at Emmanuel prepared man, Joanne Cannon Murphy, combined following morning. me for anything and everything - a fact intimidation with diligence to track down A reunion booklet incorporating not I've come to appreciate more and more as the whereabouts of everyone of our class­ only the personal data of all of the gradu­ the years go by." Bernadette Madden mates, and her energetic committee ates of '58 but also their reflections, was Gibson, "When I look back on my four worked long and hard to make it a years, I wouldn't change a thing. Em­ memorable reunion. manuel instills a way of li fe and li vi ng that As we we ll knew before we returned to stays forever." Anne Mooney, the Fenway, we are no longer the young "Emmanuel was an experience; of self­ adults that we were when we graduated in understanding; of appreciation for others; 1958. T he same may be said for the campus of conceptual and factual knowledge; of we remembered. But that is as it should be. grasping for life's challenges; and of secur­ In the words of our classmate, M. ity." And El izabeth Walsh: Cassandra Hickey, "Emmanuel offers many different degrees of richness both Twenty-jive years ago this very month inte ll ectuall y and spirituall y. For me, the l traded my sneakers for a sensible pump. joys and sorrows of li fe after Emmanuel I pounded the pavement in order to see are experienced with a depth and growth Every school superintendent in my vicinity. that are probably different for each gradu­ With degree in hand and confidence in tow ate. T he spirit of individuality and the llanded a job teaching high school, you know. dignity of women wi ll always permeate The years haveflown fly, as I can readily attest, Emmanuel. I think that Emmanuel recog­ A nd my education from Emmanuel, nized the potential of women before it be­ Class of '58 R emembers I'm convinced was the best.' came a popular media message. T he most important aspects of Emmanuel are fe lt rather than verbali zed. Emmanuel is spe­ cial and true to its name of "God with us."

10 Stepping Through Time

Each one of Emmanuel's twelve reunion Alumnae, the display made meaningful the classes was represented during Alumnae tradition they had joined. Weekend, making this year's reunion - the At Sunday brunch, Alumnae got a lesson 60th anniversary of the Emmanuel College in analyzing handwriting and on Sunday Alumnae Association - the biggest and best afternoon, the weekend culminated in a ever! A grand total of 1,000 Alumnae, in­ grand celebration with live music, a barbe­ cluding seven members of the first cue, mime, art activities, and a special per­ graduating class, attended the variety of formance by the eighborhood Children's events held throughout Alumnae Week­ Theatre of Boston. end 1983,june 10- 12 . Plans are already underway for next "The spirit of friendship across the year's reunion weekend but the consensus decades was what was most outstanding," is that the 60th anniversary will be "a tough commented weekend Chairperson, julia act to follow." Miller Christo '53. "The theme was 'Step­ ping Through T ime' and I think the events that we planned helped make that possible. But the common experience of having attended Emmanuel was what made our differences disappear and a feelingofhar­ monyemerge." ilnneMarj Under the guidance of Maureen Elizabeth e Mahoney '73 McCaffrey '6 1, Director of Alumnae take t' and da h C elebratio line Out from th Ug ter Affairs, julia Christo and her extensive n. eGrand Alumnae Committee engineered a 60th anniversary celebration which itself wi ll become a part of Emmanuel's history. Probably the most popular events were the individual class parties on the first evening. Approximately 795 Alumnae attended class reunion cocktail parties, both on and off campus, many of which lasted until the wee hours of the morning. Alumnae spent part of Saturday touring Boston's historic North End, tracing family genealogies, viewing the Federal Reserve Bank's contemporary art collection, learn­ ing about home computers, and li stening to fe ll ow "Alums" discuss significant women in their li ves. Former Emmanuel President, Sister Ann Bartholomew Grady, SND, '28, amused alumnae with her anec­ dotal history of Emmanuel past, and Presi­ dent Sister janet Eisner, SND, inspired the group with her news of Emmanuel's vitality and its hopes for the coming decade. Saturday's highli ght was the opening of the "Emmanuel Through the Years" exhi­ bit which included items such as 1920's prom dresses, photographs of special events and guests at Emmanuel, as well a a history of the growth of the Fenway cam­ pus. For many, the exhibit was a reminder of days gone by, and for the younger

11 Maureen Walsh '63, Ellen WOOds Laughton '63 and Catherine A. Reppucci '63 are all smiles at their 20th class reunion party. MaryLo ughreY'29 . prom gown. adnures a 1920's

Gail McCauley Alcarez '63 and her new baby visit with Mary Camden Rudolph '63.

---- International SND Conference - The Ministry of Higher Education~ __

by Sister Mary Ellen O'Keefe, SND

Peace Studies, Exchange Programs, imple­ The conference was convened in order In one session a panel ofleaders of Notre mentation of the Pedagogy Project, a to provide an opportunity for Sisters of Dame-affiliated institutions presented their renewed commitment to the apostolate of Notre Dame to share on an international concerns and challenges to the group, higher education - these were but a few of level ideas about higher education in gen­ alerting the participants even more to their the topics that some seventy Sisters of eral and the role of the Sisters of Notre common needs as well as their differences. Notre Dame de Namur from around the Dame in this ministry in particular. Focus­ Sister St. John Watanabe, SND, Presi­ world debated, discussed, and affirmed in ing on the relationship between the Notre dent of Notre Dame Seishin University in their first international conference on Dame Mission and the apostolate of higher Japan, gave her colleagues a picture of Ministry of Higher Education held at education, presentations included such what it was like to operate a Christian Emmanuel from August 3 through August topics as "The Mission of Notre Dame: A college in a non-Christian country. "Every I I. Participants included college presi­ Challenge to Higher Education," "The year, we receive more than 2,000 applica­ dents and principals, administrators, Changing World Order: Its Impact on tions from which we take only 400-500 faculty, and staff from Notre Dame Seishin Higher Education," "The Justice Agenda freshwomen," said Sister St. John. The University inJapan, St. Andrew's College and Higher Education," and "Our Stu­ largest Catholic women's college in Japan, in Scotland, Christ's and Notre Dame Col­ dents in 1999." Seishin University has 2,000 female lege in England, as well as Trinity College, In her address on "The Mission of Notre students from all over Japan. Only 3% of Washington, D.C., College of Notre Dame Dame," Sr. Elizabeth Michaels, former the students and 20% of the teachers are in Belmont, California, and Emmanuel professor of mathematics at Emmanuel Christians. "Under such circumstances, College itself. Also active in the meetings College and presently member ofthe Notre our unifying educational goal is the forma­ were Sisters involved in higher education Dame General Government Group, re­ tion of persons," explained Sister St.John in many other institutions, Sisters pursuing viewed the founding and histories of the Watanabe. "Non-Christian teachers readily advanced studies, and some lay and clerical SND colleges around the world and dis­ accept this . . . they see an urgent and great colleagues. cussed the challenge to "refounding" these need of humanization in Japan .. . . same institutions that today's realities "J apanese education is very competitive. demand. "The question we are trying to Up until college, students are rated and probe during these days together is - What valued only by their test scores. Coming to impact does our congregational mission a Christian college, such as ours, for the have on our institutions of higher educa­ first time many of them are taught that tion and on the service of those of us who each person has her own value regardless serve in them or in other institutions? And of her performance, wealth, family, etc . . . . conversely, what is our place as educators Parents send their children to us not to at this level, as bearers ofthe mission of the make them Christians, but to make them congregation? Will those who follow us more human. fifty years from now be able to look back "In a country such as Japan, the mission and see our work as central, and in fact, of Catholic schools may not be to directly Sister], ' anetE' essential to the living out of the congrega­ feed the hungry or instruct the ignorant, SIster A. ISner, SND fo nn Barth I ' Presid tional mission in our time ... ?" but rather to humanize the dehumanized, l"lner preSide 0 OlJJew Grad em, with nl ofEIJJIJJ y, SND anllel C ' Ollege,

Sister St. Joh .... r of N n "atanabe SN otre DalJ)e Seishi ',D, PreSident Japan and S ' n UIJlVersity , ~ , Ister Mar In Ollng, SND PhD g'aret Pallline Spanish and 'p , Professor ElJJer' .... ortuD'1J huS of e ollege, <:>-ese, ElJJlJJanueJ

14 to put love into a materialistic, loveless Sr. Barbara Gill, to shepherd the process - and were able to affirm a variety of society - in other words, to baptize the through its first months and to facilitate proposals including plans for peace studies culture with Gospel values." exchange both on a national and inter­ in SND institutions, exchange programs, Workshops centering on such topics as national basis. access to institutions, sponsorship of pro­ "Moral Issues/Ethical Choices," "New Tech­ Still another concern - how to make it grams related to the Pedagogy Project, and nologies," and "Notre Dame Governing possible for SND students to work directly a special request to the SND congregation U nits and the College" enabled those with the materially poor on an inter­ as a whole for affirmation and support of attending to explore in depth areas of par­ national basis - was explored in depth. T he our institutions of higher education. ticular interest across a variety of cultural problem of how to assure that the exper­ Perhaps the best gauge of the value of backgrounds. ience benefit all concerned wi thout over­ the conference came on the penultimate Noteworthy was the extent to which burdening those presently working in day when the group proposed that the many concerns crossed national bounda­ Third-world countries with the added meeting be held again and formed a com­ ries. The unemployment worries of Liver­ responsibilities of overseeing our students mittee to begin making plans fo r future pool may be paralleled by the economic was a subject of much debate. meetings. anxieties of the United States. The colleges The conferees set aside Friday, August Emmanuel College was privileged to in Britain have recently experienced com­ 5th as a special day to honor the SND host this first conference, and the com­ plete reorganization, with attendant emeritae ofSN D institutions. T he lunch­ munity is proud that its president, Sr. j anet separation from properties, long tradi­ eon celebration brought back many of Eisne r, SND, convoked the meeting, tions, and SND control of institutions. At Emmanuel's beloved faculty and adminis­ bringing together the depth of scholarly the same time, they have suffered "re­ tration. Their presence reminded the and creative talent of Sisters of Notre dundancies" - what Americans call "cut­ entire group that the work oftoday is built Dame from Britain,j apan, and the United backs" - in their faculty and staff positions. on the solid foundations laid so carefully in States. The declining number of "traditional" age the past. college students has already had an enor­ The themes of peace and justice were mous effect on British schools; currently, never far from the thoughts of those American colleges are seeking to deal with attending the conference. A simple but it; and it is a reality which our Sisters in moving liturgy on Au gust 6, the 38th J apan recognize clearly in their future. anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, During the conference, small groups together wi th the presence of Sr. St. j ohn formed to discuss areas of mutual concern Watanabe, President of otre Dame including academic discipli ne areas, where Seishin University, were reminders that much of the d iscussion focused both on talk about peace and justice must find ex­ the need to use the new technologies crea­ pression in action. The endorsement of a tively across subject areas, and on the ques­ proposal to establish Peace Studies Pro­ Sister Ann M ASSOCiate; cary O'Donnell, SND tion of the access to otre Dame insti­ grams at our colleges, after initial research C th rO~esSor fE ' tutions by Sisters who are interested in this into existing programs, was the first step to a olic Unlverslty' . 0w: ngJisb at apostolate. such action. Emmanuel College began its , asbington, DC. Of special interest to many of the partici­ program with the presence of Reverend J. pants was the development of structures to Bryan Hehir, Director for International allow for international exchange of stu­ justice and Peace, U.S. Catholic Confer­ dents and faculty. For many who attended , ence, at its fi rst seminar of the new scholas­ the possibility of sharing resources was a tic year on Monday, September 26. stimulus for exciting dialogue. Before the By the end of the conference, the parti­ conference closed, the group had agreed cipants had come to know one another upon a process to follow and a coordinator, better - both personall y and profe ssionally

15 Notre Dame's Commitment to Higher Education: The Challenges Ahead

fly Sister Elizabeth Michaels, SND

In her keynote address before the first inter­ I would like to highlight a few specific areas national SND conference on the Ministry of for our ongoing reflection. Ofthe many Higher Education, Sister Elizabeth Michaels, topics we might very profitably explore, I S N D, traced the history of the Notre Dame con­ have chosen four - our educational tradi­ gregation's involvement in higher education, tion, our commitment to improving the from the founding of a teacher training college role of women in society, the growing need in Bastogne, Belgium in 1849 through the for a global awareness, and the challenge founding, over twenty-jive years ago, of its of peacemaking. youngest institution, Notre Dame Seishin junior From its origins, our congregation has College, located in Hiroshima,japan. made a commitment to the training of Offering this rich tradition as a backdrop, Sr. teachers. I n light of the present situation Elizabeth posed several questions for discussion, in which there is a temporary surfeit of suggesting that "we may well be in a period of teachers, at least in some fields , are we not 'refounding' Notre Dame's commitment to higher being called to broaden this commitment? education. " The following is adapted from Sr. What are the special educational needs of Elizabeth's speech. our time? Who are the groups in our society who have special claims on our ser­ vices? What qualities should mark our f. educational endeavors as we prepare our students for a new century which futurists tell us will differ radically from our own times? ( I r Such questions raise to consciousness the whole field of adult education. I am aware ,( of the creative efforts in adult education l which some of our U.S. colleges have made. . At times, however, I fear that there are .. ~ those among us who see these programs as a financial expediency rather than a natural development in otre Dame's tradition of responding to real educational needs. In the area of teacher education itself, we can and should devote more of our energies to the project for developing a pedagogy of the non-poor . .. .Through the Pedagogy Project, our teacher educa­ tion departments could make a truly significant contribution towards the trans­ formation of the curricula in our schools at all levels, a transformation certainly con­ sonant with the direction of our congrega­ tional mission. Two recent General Chapters have called Sisters of Notre Dame to a special awareness of the role of women in society and the existing patterns of discrimination against women. As the U Decade for Women (1976-1986) draws to a close, we could well take time . .. to re-examine our commitment to the process of conscious­ ness-raising in this regard. I know there are special programs in some of the colleges, for example, the Women's Theo­ logical Center at Emmanuel. At her

16 Emmanuel alumna, Sister Elizabeth Michaels, SND '46, a member of Notre Dame's General Government Group.

Promise and Our Response." The Bishops state:

Since war, especially the threat of nuclear war, is one of the central problems of our day, how we seek to solve it could determine the mode and even the possi­ bility oflife on earth; we cannot escape this responsibility. Therefore, we urge ... balanced and objective educational programs to help people of all age levels to understand better the issues of war and peace. Development and imple­ mentation of such programs must receive high priority during the next several years.

What will be the response of our colleges? What part will Trinity, Emmanuel, and Belmont play in helping our students, our alumnae, and the American public to understand the issues and to take respon­ inauguration as President of Trinity the skills of social analysis to reflect on our sible positions? How can their British and College, Sr. DonnaJurick, S D, recom­ realities and support the social changes J apanese counterparts help to form the mitted that institution to the exploration necessary to establish a new international consciences of those whose lives they touch? of the male-dominated structu res that per­ economic order. To what degree do the Let me close by quoting from the section vade our society. In her presentation, she curricula and programs we offer foster a on mission ofthe latest draftof our revised stated: global awareness among ourselves and our Constitutions: students? Certainly, Third World Aware­ It is not enough to explore alternatives. ness Programs like those at Liverpool We adopt a style of ministry which is We must not limit our understanding of Institute and at our Japanese colleges are educative, which develops capacity to women and their contribution (to significant moves. analyze experience and to assume society) to the professional women Lastly, I direct your attention to otre responsibility for shaping life according among whom we have taken our place. Dame's need to continue to join worldwide to gospel values. We must touch also the poverty, depri­ with others who are committed to the task vation and hurt of women forced to live of peacemaking, and more specifically, to We dare to embrace this mission at the margin of society. We must seek to the end of the nuclear arms race. This year because we have confidence in God understand the lot of the majority of marks the twentieth anniversary of the so­ who is so good, women at the socio-political, economic called "last will and testament" of Pope John who has called each of us by name, margins of our world. We must explore XXIII, his encyclical "Pacem in Terris." and who continues to call us as a people." ways of designing not theoretical but The peace which Pope John emphasizes is meaningful and workable alternatives to not simply an absence of conflict. It is a Sister Elizabeth Michaels, SND, is a member such modes of being. positive presence of sets of relationships of Notre Dame's General Government Group, a between women and men, between in­ group offive Sisters - based in Rome - who [ ask also- to what extent do the students dividuals and the government, between coordinate and unify the Congregation's we teach develop a global awareness? They, nations, and within the world community­ activities internationally. An alumna ('46) and even more than we, must be made aware relationships marked by truth,justice, former faculty member of Emmanuel (Professor that any solutions to the problems which charity and freedom. One of the clearest of Mathematics, 1954-71), Sister Elizabeth face the human community today will th reats to maintaining such relationships is holds an M.A. from Boston University and a demand a global approach. Narrow, pro­ the senseless race for nuclear superiority doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. vincial attitudes will not do for these times. in which our various governments are We need to become more deeply sensi­ engaged. Such is the message given by the tized to the inequalities.in our world. We Catholic Bishops of the U.S. in their recent need experience and knowledge; we need pastoral "The Challenge to Peace: God's

17 Welcome to the Class of 1987 ra nging from the Class of 1944 to the Class of 1986. Ninety-six percent of Emmanuel's On Campus On September 5th, the residence halls freshmen are from the ew England area, o pened once again and students from 70% from Massachusetts. The remaining Maine to Texas began to move their be­ freshmen are from Texas, Florida, Puerto longings in for the coming year at Rico and Virginia. Emmanuel. The newest group of Backgrounds and interests of the Class Emmanuel women , the Class of 1987, o f 1987 are va ried. T wenty students are New Campus Ministry Team numbers 160 students and over 120 of the ente ring Emmanuel from SND high stude nts took up residence on campus. schools in Massachusetts, 40 others gradu­ Sister J anet Eisner, S D, recently ap­ Emmanuel's freshman class was selected ated from parochial high schools. T o date, pointed two campus ministers, Reverend from a pool of 422 applicants, an increase business is the most popular choice for a George G. Hogan and Reverend Ronald of 22% over last year's applicant total. Class major; music therapy is the second favor­ H. McKinney, SJ , to join Sister Connie ra n kings and Scholastic Aptitude Test ite. Medical technology, art therapy, and J ames, SN D, on the Emmanuel College (SAT) scores were also higher than in pre­ biology were among the other fi elds of in­ Campus Ministry Team . vious years. Of special note to Alumnae is te rest, although most freshmen are un­ Father Gerry Hogan, who has a BA in the fact that 28 Emmanuel applicants had decided about the career they will choose. Philosophy a nd a Master of Divinity from some Alumnae connecti on - mothers, sis­ Welcome and best wishes to the Class of St. J ohn's Seminary College, has served as ters, aunts or cousins who have graduated 1987! a Parish Priest in Quincy, West Roxbury, or will graduate from Emmanuel in classes and most recently in Wellesley, at St. Paul's. T he Archdiocese of Boston has released Father Hogan part-time for service in the Annual Alumnae Fashion Show Campus Ministry at Emmanuel. Father Ronald McKinney, SJ , received his PhD in Philosophy from Fordham Uni­ versity in 1980 and his Master of Divinity from Weston School of T heology in 1983. He has taught at St. J oseph's College in Philadelphia, Boston College, and at North Cambridge Catholic High School; he also '47 no\\Y ClanCY served as Assistant Chaplain in Campus leanne Con Ministry at T ufts Uni ve rsity. The Campus Ministry T eam at Emmanuel seeks to provide a place for the entire Emmanuel community to comple­ ment their li ves on campus with refl ection, prayer, discussion grou ps, service acti vities and liturgical celebration. This year faculty and staffluncheon discussion groups will be held monthly to discuss topics such as the American Bishops' Letter on Nuclear Disarmament. Student programs will in­ clude retreats, prayer and scripture groups, service activities, pastoral counsel­ ing and social activities. The Student Jus­ An •, . .- ~.~ ;: . ne -~eBcl , ~ tice and Peace Committee will make a AlIce Bels son 64 with h On. er mother major effort to involve the community in its acti vities, which will include at least one seminar on a justice topic each semester. The Campus Ministry also plans to expand its scope and will work closely with the Office of Alumnae Affairs and the Alum­ nae Board to develop programs designed specificall y for Alumnae.

18 Calendar of Events March 1984

November 1983 I Thu N.E.W. Dinner

I Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting 5 Mon Alumnae Association Board Meeting Student/ Alumnae Mentor Reception 6 Sun All Day - Admissions Open House 12Mon-16Fri Student Alumnae Mentor Week IOThu Career Exploration Day 19 Mon - 23Fri Student Alumnae Mentor Week N.E.W. Dinner 19Mon Annual Phonothon (ends April 5 Thu) 19 Sat Educational Institute "The Secondary School: Present and Future" 24 Sat - 25 Sun Educational Institute

December 1983 April 1984

Educational Institute "Introduction to the 3Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting Use of the Computer in the Classroom" Alumnae Board Christmas Party 24Tue N.E.W. Meeting

Emmanuel Club Reception 28 Sat - 29 Sun Educational Institute

Alumnae Association Board Meeting May 1984

I Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting January 1984

3 Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting June 1984 24Tue N.E.W. Dinner I Fri - 3 Sun Reunion Weekend

February 1984 12Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting

I Wed Overnight Visit for Prospective Students

7Tue Alumnae Association Board Meeting

12 Sun Class Agents Meeting

Summer Programs at Emmanuel from the St. Francis de Sales School in New Dean of Students Roxbury, Mass., headed by Sister Dolores The Division of Continuing Education's Harrall, SND. The program focused on Maureen H . Powers has joined Emmanuel summer programs brought over 395 such topics as Christian education for stu­ College as Dean of Students. A native of people from 35 states to the Emmanuel dents of various religious beliefs, positive Worcester, MA, Maureen brings a diversi­ campus inJune and July. The most suc­ role modeling, cooperation rather than fied background as a public administrator cessful programs were the Elderhostel competition among students and staff, a and a coll ege administrator in student Program and two Graduate-level Institutes team approach to staff development, affairs. for Educators. parent involvement, and the need for con­ Maureen received her BA from George­ Elderhostel, an annual summer program sistency of approach in the learning en­ town University in 1975 and her MA in which features low-cost, short-term vironment. All themes for the Institute Urban Affairs from St. Louis University in residential academic programs for adults were scripturall y based. 1979. She served as Assistant Dean of Stu­ aged 60 and over, was attended by 250 A second Institute, "Healing and the dents at North Adams State College for people. Liberal arts and science courses Healer," was offered by professionals who two years, and she was the Director of a were offered, although no particular level minister to the ill, the elderly, and their large housing complex at St. Louis Univer­ of formal education was presupposed. In families. Chaplains, pastoral associates, sity. For the past three years, Maureen has addition to their studies, participants health care professionals, teachers and been employed by the Worcester Housing enjoyed recreational trips and events such counselors were among the 95 people who Authority as a modernization coordinator. as a night at Fenway Park watching the attended. Sisters Rea McDonnell, SSND, Boston Red Sox. and Helen Wright, SND, were among the "Creating a School That Works," a faculty. The agenda included such issues Graduate-level Institute for teachers, ad­ as death and dying, aging, hospice care, ministrators, and parents, was offered the peer ministry, burnout, family issues and week ofJul y 11-1 5. The workshop was con­ the care of the wounded healer. ducted by a team of professional educators

19 The Class of 1929 had a well-attended Congratulations to Mary Beatty Muse, Class Notes and much-enjoyed luncheon on April 26, who was appointed ajudge of the Suffolk 1983, in the Alumnae-Faculty Lounge at County Probate and Family Court and Emmanuel. received an honorary degree at Emmanuel's Commencement. Sister Therese Gerard Kleh writes from Mary Thompson Mongovan, Ruiru, Kenya, that "it is nice to know you 22 Martin Road, 31 now have a new alumnae quarterly. God Milton, MA 02186 Send your news to your Class Secretary, whose bless the venture!" name and address are printed at the beginning of each Class Note. Ifyour class does not have a Loretta Robinson Toye, 29 Durso Catherine Guinee, 7 Rush St. , secretary, please send your note directly to the Ave., Lawrence, MA 01843 33 Somerville, MA 02145 Office ofAlumna e Affairs at Emmanuel. And if Constance M. Hurley Knauber partici­ 42 you would be interested in acting as a Class pated in a "very enjoyable Alumnae Week­ Secretary, let the Alumnae Office know. We look end. Emmanuel College '33 experienced Jean Reddy Murphy, 6 Yarmouth forward to hearingfrom you. the first sunny weekend inJune." Over 40 43 Road, Canterbury Estates, members of the Class of 1933 attended the Sandwich, MA 02563 weekend celebration, with some alumnae Anna DiPirro Del Torto's husband died Our 60th reunion was a happy travelling from as far as Texas and Florida occasion! At the liturgy, a plaque suddenly inJuly. Sincerest sympathy to 23 for the event. Anna and her family. planned by Sr. Vannini to honor the first As a result of renewing acquaintances in Alumnae President, Margaret Higgins Marian Lynch Gehagao's fifth and last June, Marian Cahill, class president, is child graduated from Michigan State Univ. Healey, was presented to Margaret's planning a luncheon at her winter home in inJune. Marian is preparing for retire­ daughter, Betty Goodhue '53, by Ida Clearwater, Fla., for Gerry Soles, Mary Hackett. On Sunday, we were the guests of ment by "learning about raising sheep, Dolan Greene, and Winifred Killoran spinning and weaving wool." Sr. Janet at a champagne breakfast; Sr. Weber. R. Edna Murphy Wischmeyer writes Grace Ayers was an honored guest. Sr. Marian also agreed to arrange another from Dallas, Tex. that she and her husband Janet took the time to chat with each gathering next spring because everyone have eight grown children - seven living in member of '23 who attended including, had such a wonderful time at the reunion. Mary Brodbine, Doris Ellis, Frances the suburbs of Dallas and one in Massa­ Hewes, Ida Hackett, Genevieve Lynch, chusetts - and 13 grandchildren. During the past six years, Edna has been studying Katharyn MacNamara, and Sister Agatha C. Maguire, 217 Bishop Dr., church history and the Bible. Vannini. Everyonejoins me in saying 35 Framingham, MA 01701 "Merci beaucoup." Kathleen M. Shevlin is Director of the Katharyn E. MacNamara says that her Department of Social Work at Georgetown "life at this age is not very colorful, but I do Frances Carr Fleming, Univ. Medical Center and Associate Pro­ want to thank Sister Janet Eisner and the 36 Ship'S Lantern Road, Box 692, fessor, Georgetown Univ. School of Medi­ Emmanuel Alumnae Association for the North Eastham, MA 02651 cine. She is listed in the "Who's Who in wonderful hospitality extended to us on American Women," "International Who's Alumnae Weekend." Who of Women," and Directory of Distin­ Loretta Murphy Regan, 410 Dover guished Americans. Kathleen is also a 37 Rd., Westwood, MA 02090 member of the Alumnae Board of Gover­ Beatrice P. Eaton, 59 Ridgewood nors, Catholic Univ. of America. Her most 25 Road, Milton, MA 02186 Frances Connoughton Mitchell, recent publication is "Why a Social Service 38 81 Emerson Road, Wellesley Hills, Department in a Hospital?" Hospital Social Work Services, New York: Praeger, 1983, L. Mary Sheehan Loughrey, MA 02181 Hubschman, Ed. 1226 Massachusetts Ave., 29 Our 40th reunion was a gala event Arlington, MA 02174 Eugenia Mullin Dromey enjoys attended by 58 members from Texas, Sister Catherine Joan, SND (our senior 41 being a social worker. She works Washington, Michigan, Washington, D.C., class president, Kay Skelley) has been in part-time with St. Elizabeth's Hospital New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Notre Dame for 53 years, mainly spent in Child and Youth Clinic and the Joseph M. A social hour was held at Emmanuel and the Maryland Province. Sister was profes­ Smith Community Health Center's adult followed by dinner at the Copley Plaza. sor of biology for many years at Trinity clinics. College and taught high school science in Eileen A. Kelley was delighted with the Kenya, East Africa, from 1967-73. Since two computer courses she recently took at Rose Cafasso Merenda, 258 1979 she has been a pastoral associate with Emmanuel. She would like the former 44 Nagansett Ave., Warwick, R102888 the priests at St. Peter's Church, Waldorf, campus store turned into a computer cen­ Md., performing such functions as distrib­ ter "for talented students and for teachers Eleanor Kennedy Winn, uting Holy Communion, visiting the sick, involved with teaching talented students." instructing, lecturing, heading discussion 45 175 Quincy Shore Dr., Apt B-43, Barbara McNamara is enjoying retire- Quincy, MA 02171 groups, and being Sister and friend to all ment. she meets. Our Kay is still full of pep.

20 Jeanne Connolly Clancy, 22 Lockhill Rosemarie Murphy Casey Sue Sweeney Oates does a great job of 47 Rd., West Roxbury, MA 02132 56 received her MA in Education keeping in touch with classmates. She and from California State Polytechnic Univ., Mary Lou Maney Cahalane recently sten­ ~omona inJune. She is a Resource Special­ cilled a kitchen. She also attended a party Martha Catalogna DeSimone 16 Ist at Mountain View Elementary School. given by Ann Marie Joyce and attended by Warren Street, Danvers, MA 01923 48 Carol Swan Purtell and Claire Perdigas Marie Carey Doyle of Rye Beach, N.H. Nichols. divides her time between her family, Marie Murphy Clausen, 6 Lexington Sue and I cross paths in several places­ travelling, and real estate consulting. She St., Canton, MA 02021 5 7 at the Regal Players performances in and John have two sons living in London; Waltham, at Catholic League basketball Shauna taught at the Univ. of Peking; and games involving our daughters, and at daughter Lisa has enhanced their lives Joan T. KeefeO'Donoell reports that she survived three gradua­ Holy Cross College where we both have with two darling granddaughters. 58 tions in three weeks. Joan says it was "won­ freshmen. Barbara L Dandeneau Burns is working I also met Carole Stebbing Meskil at for the Social Security Administration, derful seeing so many classmates and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham where studying art part-time, and "still maintain­ friends" at the 25th reunion. her Kara and my twins Paula and Patrice ing hearth and home for 3 of my 6 chil­ Joanne Cannon Murphy, class presi­ are juniors. Another familiar face at dren; still too young to be a grandmother." dent, writes that the Class of ' 58 has really N .D.A. is Sister Marie Barry (Sister Marie Claire Hart Russo reports that she is at spread its wings throughout the U.S. of the Trinity) who teaches an accelerated home, a housewife, and very happy with "2 A prize goes to Conoly Brugman Melley for driving the greatest distance (from English course and is a favorite friend of instant daughters and 7 instant grand­ girls there. children" via her first marriage in 1977. Nashville, Tenn.) to the June reunion. Dr. Martha Collins lives as far away as Tan­ Hope to hear your ideas on the reunion Jeanne M. Gaffney Costello says that 48 and also some news for the class notes. members of the class attended their 35th zania, East Africa. reunion dinner at the Marriott Long "We had such a fantastic reunion," writes Joanne, "that no one wanted it to end. We Wharf; 28 class members, including Lois Louise Wadden Guilmette, 9 Cherry have had two mini-reunions, one at my Wallace and Sally Rollins, attended the Ridge Rd., Acton, MA 01720 home in Harwichport and one at the home 61 Saturday night banquet on campus. Patricia Coomey Crosby recently com­ Margaret McKenna Sanders is Professor of Carolyn Harney Harrington in Ply­ pleted a year at Boston College as a Learn­ mouth. One classmate said that she felt like of Business Information Systems, Western ing Specialist for the School of Nursing. Michigan U niv. College of Business. She she had come home again. Sheila Wino Pat's three children are Mark, 19, Cathy, gives seminars on office automation and commented that although she had been 18, and Gabrielle, 17. away for many years, as she looked around enjoys living in Kalamazoo. Anita Giardullo McDuffie lives in the room the years began to slip away and Andover, Mass., and is making good use of she could still see the 'girl in the woman.' " a MA in Music from Lowell University. She Virginia M. Donahue would like directed a summer production of "West to establish an Emmanuel Club in 49 Side Story" at a community theatre in the Fairfield, Putnam, New Haven and Phyllis McManus Hayes, 3 Oak Andover; her son played a major role. Litchfield counties of Conn. 59 Road, Canton, MA 02021 Congratulations to our new bride Virginia Marilyn McCarthy Power is serving as (Ginny) Gray! The Big anniversary is com­ class agent for the 35th reunion year and has been making reunion plans. She would ing up inJune and we must start planning now. Please send me ideas on what you like some help in organizing the best cele­ would like - on or off campus events, bration and class gift. which include husbands and guests or not, etc. Some classes reserve rooms on campus Maria M. Mahoney Burwell "had for the weekend and have a great time 53 a wonderful time renewing staying up all night talking. Prompt re­ friendships" at Alumnae Weekend. sponses would be appreciated. Rosemarie L Busalacchi Buckley was Lorraine Miniutti Bordonaro and I en­ chosen to serve as class president for the joyed talking to so many of our classmates next 5 years. She "looks forward to pre­ during the phonothon in April. The re­ paring our 35th reunion with great sponse in donations was terrific. We also enthusiasm!" picked up information on out-of-staters many of whom are looking forward to o~r reunion inJune. Jacquelyn Marston, 378-8 Pond St. , Kentuckian Madge Devereux Lynn Westwood, MA 02090 54 plans to combine the reunion with a college Claire Knowles was married in May to tour for her oldest child. Louis Drinkwine. They li ve in West Har­ Virginian Ellen Hayward MacCall, wich, Mass. mother of nine (including a toddler and Helen Hennessy Vendler directed a daughter Amy at Emmanuel) also looks Harvard seminar on lyric poetry for high forward to the 25th. Smiling Joan Murray at 25th reunion. school teachers this summer.

21 Mary Parent has moved to Lexington, Rosemary Covino Smitzel, Linda Scalfati 2Y2, and Joseph, 9 mos. Paul is a law partner Mass., and is again a private consultant in McMenimen, Mary Ryan Ryan and Judy with an Attleboro firm and Cindy is active the software field. She enjoyed a successful Barrett. Mary also says that "there is politically and is President of the League of seven-year association with LTX Company, already talk about a big extravaganza for Women Voters in Attleboro. which makes test equipment for the semi­ the 25th." Mary Ryan Ryan was elected Elizabeth McIntyre, PhD (Oxford) is a conductor industry. the new class president for the class of Foreign Service Officer with the govern­ Kathleen Tierney Maloney and her 1963. ment. Recently, she held the capacity of husband George enjoyed the successes of Desk Officer to Finland. Erin, 12,andKim, 10,atCollegeAcademy Frances Dapice Marinelli '72 passed the Ann McLaughlin Tuite, 13 Western this past summer. The girls seem to thrive New York state bar exam in May. Ave., N. Easton, MA 02356 on the school's accelerated learning pro­ 64 The class of'72 extends its best wishes to Katherine Monaghan Cullinane and gram. George's new food service business Mary Rogue Flaminio's uncle, Bishop family are back in the Boston area after 5 Y2 is also doing well. Francis Rogue, who was recently conse­ years in Indiana. She teaches music part­ crated in St. Patrick's Cathedral, N.Y. time (K-4) in the Avon public schools. Belated best wishes to Paula Carroll on Lorraine Calise Going, 70 Perry St., Katherine and husband Thomas are the her recent marriage. 62 Newport, RI 02840 parents of 8-year-old John. Barbara Miletta lives in Cranston, R.I. and Constance Mele Baldman, after having teaches languages at Win man Jr. High taught Spanish in the Boston public schools MayreMcGrathHammond,75 School in Warwick, R.I. She is continuing for ten years, is devoting her energies to 73 Myrtle St., E. Weymouth, MA 02189 her study of German and Italian at Provi­ the rearing of three lively boys, Andrew, I hope that many of you will drop me a dence College. 9Y2, Anthony, 7Y2, and Alexander, 5Y2 . note to say what you have been doing these Peggy Cox McSoley is busy raising 10 past ten years. Based on the class list I have, children (6 boys, 4 girls) ranging in ages Margaret Argento Catoline, 5 we have alumnae in 23 states; most are still from 2Y2 to 17 years. Presently living in Orchard Drive, Acton, MA 01720 in New England, but we also have alumnae Pawtucket, R.I. the McSoleys plan to move 67 and Marcia Grandone Powers, 1587 in D.C., Tex., Oreg., Fla., Calif., Wis. , Md. , to Naples, Fla. in the near future. Washington St., West Newton, MA 02165 Va., Minn., Pa., Ill., Ohio, Mont., N. Mex. , Ann Harrington Brockette will gradu­ Ireland and England. Three members of ate with a PhD in Humanities from the the breakfast crowd at "Yueh's" now live in Univ. of Texas in the spring of 1984. Ann Cecilia Caputo Gauthier, 132 Florida (maybe Yueh's down there too!) is writing her dissertation and teaching at a 68 Gulliver St. , Milton, MA 02186 and I'd like to know what they've been up private boys' school where she initiated a Elaine F. McNamaraJastrem taught a to. humanities seminar. She and her husband conversational French course entitled Please write your news as soon as possible and three children live in Dallas, Tex. "Bonjour" at College Gate, Easton. The - by November 1st for the next issue (I'll Kathy O'Donnell teaches in the Provi­ 3-week program was for academically excuse Nancy Novelline since she was the dence Public School System. In her leisure gifted youngsters in K-3. subject of an interesting article in the first time, she enjoys singing with the famed Dianne Stackiewicz Kudrez, co-chair­ issue!). Peloquin Choral. person of the reunion of '68, reports that Patricia MacCarthy Sullivan is Coor­ "the Wine and Cheese evening at Emman­ dinator of the Annual/Alumnae Fund in uel was really a great success. More than 60 Jane Hopkins, 24 Owens St., Apt. the Development Office of Emmanuel alums toasted one another in renewed 74 301, Hartford, CT06105 College. friendship and we all remarked at how Since graduation I have worked in the Barbara McNeil, MD, has been named a terrific we looked!" pension field for seven years and am now full Professor at Harvard Medical School. employed by Phoenix Mutual Life Insur­ ance Co. I earned my MBA, as well as a Jane O'Connell Nowak, 1930 Oak­ professional designation as a Certified Linda Scalfati McMenimen, 14 69 dale Ave., West St. Paul, MN 55118 Employee Benefit Specialist, and I am cur­ 63 Grace Drive, Wilmington, MA 01887 rently attending the UConn. School of Maryellen Cullinan Sievert will complete Susan Cooney Murphy, 81 Cranston Law. course work for a PhD in Educational Circle, Wickford, R102852 Media this fall and will begin a tenure-track 71 position as an instructor at the School of Marie Franklin, 97 Winthrop St., Library and Informational Science, Univ. Congratulations to Mary Barret 75 Brookline, MA 02146 of Missouri in Columbia. 72 Chatel and her husband David Karen Cooney is a member of the Adver­ Mary Ferraro Conley writes that on the birth of their second daughter, tising Services Dept. of the Gillette approximately 85 classmates returned for Michaela. Mary and David are also the Company of Boston, where she has worked Alumnae Weekend. Classmates came from parents of Elizabeth, 3. Mary is a Regional since 1978. as far as California, Florida and Arizona. Supervisor with Social Securities in Provi­ Ronalee Keenan Crocker and her hus­ Mary sends special thanks to Coletta dence, R.I. band Peter welcomed their second child, Fiandaca Faneule, Mary A. Nicosia Cynthia Dorman Lorinez and her hus­ Justin Richard, in June. They also have a Marotti, Cathy Reppucci, Carol Thomas, band Paul live in Attleboro, Mass., and are daughter, Caroline, 3. The Crockers are in parents of Gregory, 4Y2 , Ann Elizabeth, Evanston, Ill. , where Peter is studying for an MBA at Northwestern Univ.

22 Michelle Demers has relocated to Bur­ Patricia Joyce, who lives in Onset, Mass., School in Lynn as chairperson of the lington, Vt., where she is the Editor of is teaching math, English and reading at Foreign Language Department. General Electric's company newspaper. the Minot Forest School in Wareham. Michelle married Michael Quaid in Ellen Kevorkian works in the Bank of September. Boston's International Department. Ellen Michele Giardello Sdougas, 99 Man­ Lucy Flynn recently married George A. enjoyed an August tour of Europe, includ­ 81 thorne Road, W. Roxbury, MA 02132 O'Toole, Jr. Lucy is an attorney with the ing a swing through England and Holland. Theresa Garnham is planning to wed this National Association of Government Em­ Patricia Lynch works part-time as a October. ployees and lives in Winchester, Mass. social worker at McLean Hospital in Bel­ Karen Milinazzo became Mrs. William Marie Campagna Franklin received a mont, Mass., while completing an elec­ Taylor in June. MA in mass communication from Boston tronics program at the G.T.E. Sylvania Mary Ann Wattendorfhas accepted a Univ. in September. For her thesis project, School in Waltham, Mass. Pat lives in job in Jamaica as an in-residency counselor Marie produced and hosted a series of Somerville. and coordinator for the handicapped and cable television shows in Winchester, Mass. , Marcia O'Neil Bowen and husband Joe retarded. She left in September. where she is a high school English and send greetings from Arlington, Mass., Best ofluck to all! media teacher. where they reside with baby daughter, Marianne Marrinan is an independent Coleen. Marcia is on leave from the Mary Donlan, 24 Green St. , consultant in the software technical docu­ Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue Compli­ 82 Wollaston, MA 02170 mentation field . She worked as a technical ance Bureau where she has worked since Linda Scott Feeley was married in the writer for five years in Atlanta and Boston. 1978. College chapel in August. The new Mr. Marianne lives in Brookline. Bridget Tammaro Testa works as a Pro­ and Mrs. Richard Feeley honeymooned in Susan Lantagne Schranze is a clinical duction Coordinator at the Harvard Bermuda and now reside in a new home in social worker at the Norwood Hospital Business School. Bridget and her husband Wrentham, Mass. Best ofluck, Linda and Comprehensive Alcohol Center. Susan re­ Francesco live in Arlington, Mass., where Rich!! ceived an MSW from Columbia Univ. in he is the Director of the Cultural Heritage Anne O'Malley is in her second year as a 1979. She and her husband Bernie re­ Alliance Tour Agency. kindergarten teacher at St. Joseph's in turned to Massachusetts in 1982. They live Somerville, Mass. in Roslindale. Nancy Gibbons Baird, 21 Bennett Debbie Soucy recently became engaged Elizabeth Dolan Whitehead and her Dr., #6, Stoughton, MA 02072 to marry Tom Turlick in September, 1984. husband Walter had their first child, 79 Ann Canning is an Editorial Assistant in Sarah, in June. Beth is a special education the Public Relations Department at Beth teacher in Littleton, Mass. Jane Owens, 28 Matchett St. , Israel Hospital. 8 0 Brighton, MA 02135 Mary Donlon is pursuing her PhD in Carlene Brown spent the summer at Laurie Shannahan Wenger, Chemistry at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. Tanglewood doing music therapy with 1203 Longmeadow St. , We're waiting to hear from all of you!!! 76 teenagers. She is now in Seattle at the U niv. Longmeadow, MA 01106 of Washington for her second year of the Maureen Fennessey received her PhD in In Memoriam Master's program for Systematic Philosophy from Boston College in May. Musicology . Susan Murdock Tully '29 Carla Collopy Hrbek has been married Louise Boulard Vaupotic '29 Mary Herlihy-Gearan, 3049 South for a year and lives in Tarrytown, N. Y. She Mary Powers Gilgun '30 78 Buchanan St., I-B, Arlington, VA works for the NYU Medical Center in Delrise Beauchamp Harrington '30 22206 Manhattan. Eleanor O'Connell O'Connor '42 Linda Fournier is a teaching instructor at Sr. Mary F. McGrath is a Pastoral Sr. Marion Louise Dolan '44 East Catholic High School in Manchester, Minister at Project Care and Concern, Irene R. Gwynn '44 Conn. and is completing a MA in Special Columbia Point Housing Project, Dor­ Sara Cunningham Geary '52 Education at Saint Joseph's College in chester, Mass. Sr. Mary works on such Hartford. Linda and her fiance plan to projects as home visits, emergency food wed inJuly 1984. pantry, and crisis intervention. Sister is a Kathy Gannon Farley is a social worker member of the Senior Home Care Board, at the Kelliher Adult Work Activity Center Area III. in Arlington, Mass. Kathy and her husband Congratulations to Jeanne S. Charello Robert reside in Winchester. on her recent marriage to Michael Fusco. Mary Herlihy-Gearan has left the staff Jeannie and Mike will reside in Fairfax, of Congressman Joe Moakley (D-MA) and Va. is a law clerk in a Washington law firm. She Congratulations and good luck to Carole is in her second year at the George Greene and Mary Griffiths who have been Washington Univ. National Law Center, accepted to attend nursing schools this fall. Evening Division. Mary's husband Mark is Maria Catarine worked as Assistant Administrative Assistant to Congressman Director of Conferences at Emmanuel this Berkley Bedell (D-Iowa). summer. She returns to St. Mary's High

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