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Annual Fund 138 Madeleva Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 Phone: (800) 762-8871 Email: [email protected] Online: saintmarys.edu/give Annual Fund volume 86, number 3 features fall 2011 3 Furthering the Unity in Community TABLE OFCONTENTS Carol Ann Mooney ’72 5 Smarts and Hearts The Class of 2015 6 A Vision Fulfi lled The Class of ’61 8 Reunion 2011 14 Move-In Day 2011 Loaded with Legacies 16 Extended Family Holy Cross College Community 17 College Website Has a New Look 18 Actress Sigourney Weaver’s Campus Visit 20 Beautiful Wedding Belles 24 Down the Avenue Gala Raises $200,000 departments 2 Inside Saint Mary’s 21 Belles Athletics 22 Avenue News 26 In Memoriam 27 For the Record Visit saintmarys.edu/courier 29 Club News to view the Courier online. 31 Class News ABOVE: Kathy Knych Dapper ’87 visits with her two daughters, Sarah Dapper ’15 (front) 44 Excelsior and Katelyn Dapper ’12, in Sarah’s room in McCandless Hall. Photo by Matt Cashore The Saint Mary’s College Courier (USPS Courier Staff Letters The Mission 135-340) is published four times a year Ann Jacobson Send letters to the editor to: Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, residential, women’s college by Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN Interim Editor Courier Editor in the liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the education of women, 46556-5001. Periodicals postage paid [email protected] Saint Mary’s College the College is an academic community where women develop their at the Post Offi ce at Notre Dame, IN Christine Cox 303 Haggar College Center talents and prepare to make a difference in the world. Founded 46556 and at additional mailing offi ces. Staff Writer Notre Dame, IN 46556 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes a POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Gwen O’Brien life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic appreciation, religious sensibility, Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, (574) 284-4595 Director of Media Relations or email [email protected] and social responsibility. All members of the College remain 110 Le Mans Hall, Notre Dame, IN faithful to this mission and continually assess their response to 46556-5001. Sarah Miesle ’07 Sports Information Director Alumnae Relations Staff the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. Copyright 2011 Saint Mary’s College, Christina Duthie Kara O’Leary ’89 Notre Dame, IN 46556. Reproduction in Graphic Designer Director of Alumnae Relations whole or part is prohibited without written [email protected] on the cover permission. The opinions expressed are Matt Cashore those of the authors or their subjects and Zara Osterman Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 Front Cover: Julie Melvin Ulliman ’82 and her daughter, Anna are not necessarily shared by the College Joe Raymond Assistant Director Ulliman ’15, visit with Sister Viola Marie Byrnes, CSC, at Holy or the editor. Marcia Tumminaro of Alumnae Relations Cross Hall on Move-In Day, August 18. Julie’s older daughter, Mary Roseann Enyedy Cyngier ’81 [email protected] Elizabeth Ulliman, graduated from Saint Mary’s College in 2010. Shari Rodriguez Photographers Photo by Zara Osterman Vice President for College Relations Class News [email protected] correction Back Cover: Kelly Wilson ’15, Colleen Fahrenbach ’15, Send alumnae class news to: A photo caption on page 20 in the Madeline Wilson ’14, and Katherine “Kate” Russell ’14 are all Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Alumnae News Editor summer 2011 issue of Courier fi rst cousins who live in Holy Cross Hall (clockwise from top Acting Assistant Vice President gave the incorrect fi rst name of 110 Le Mans Hall left). Colleen’s mother is Katherine Wilson Fahrenbach ’83, and Integrated Marketing Communications the father of the fi ve Boyce sisters Saint Mary’s College Kate’s is Mary Pat Wilson Russell ’78. The mothers are sisters. [email protected] of Oak Lawn, Illinois. He is Matt Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 Photo by Zara Osterman or email [email protected] Boyce. We regret the error. The Alumnae Association Board of Directors Honorary President insidesaintmary’s Carol Ann Mooney ’72 President Rebecca Anne Votto ’93 600 Monterey Blvd., Apt 6 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254-4583 Mission of Saint Mary’s Community is Alive and Well (310) 597-9210 • [email protected] By Sister Veronique Wiedower ’70, CSC Vice-President Karen McNamara Weaver ’91 3027 Windsor Drive Bettendorf, IA 52722-2616 Contemporary Catholic author Peter Steinfels has said: “A people (816) 304-7682 • [email protected] [‘community’] is not an undiff erentiated mass, but a group with a sense Secretary of itself, a collective memory, a solidarity, an anticipated destiny—all of Abby Van Vlerah ’04 1560 Lane 110 West Otter Lake which must be preserved in formulas, rituals, [and] written or recited epics.” Angola, IN 46703-7632 (307) 399-0652 • [email protected] We at Saint Mary’s exemplify a community whose mission is alive Directors Sarah Brown ’05 and well. We—students, alumnae, administrators, faculty, staff , friends 704 Churchill Drive Charleston, WV 25314-1743 of the College, and the Sisters of the Holy Cross—continually tap into (304) 993-7761 • [email protected] our collective memory to rekindle the passion and zeal of our pioneering Dr. Kelly O’Shea Carney ’84 7128 Blossom Lane and visionary founders, preserve and treasure our well-loved rituals, Coopersburg, PA 18036-9723 (610) 965-9880 • [email protected] and fi nd creative ways to tell our story anew. Jill Moore Clouse ’99 951Waverly Road Th is school year, Saint Mary’s College is focusing on Community, one of its core values. Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-4849 (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] Blessed Basil Anthony Moreau had a vision of community that encompassed women and men, Cass Rydesky Connor ’60 lay, religious and cleric, working interdependently for the sake of the mission of Jesus. Th e 1411 North Druid Hills Road NE Atlanta, GA 30319-3812 sisters, brothers, and priests of Holy Cross who came to Indiana, and the lay women and (678) 641-2277 • [email protected] men who joined them in their educational mission, were people who owned this sense of Nora Barry Fischer ’73 U.S. Post Offi ce and Courthouse collaborative ministry. Th ey believed in the importance of educating the whole person— 700 Grant Street, Suite 5260 Pittsburgh, PA 15219 mind and heart—to meet the needs of the society in which they served. judge_nora_barry_fi [email protected] Kathleen Gibboney ’73 Women like Mother Angela Gillespie, the fi rst American to head Saint Mary’s Academy, 13 Evergreen Circle Cincinnati, OH 45215-1368 and later, Mother Pauline O’Neill, fi rst president of Saint Mary’s College, planted and nurtured (513) 771-1162 • [email protected] the seeds of Moreau’s vision here. Th ey believed that women were critical partners in the Annette H. Isom ’83 2 South 019 Taylor Road enterprise of building American society, and their vision has evolved and been clarifi ed by Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6823 (630) 790-0397 • [email protected] the many women and men who have led the College over the years. Angeline Johnson ’07 114 South Varsity Drive Moreau believed that unity, one of the hoped-for graces of community, was a “powerful South Bend, IN 46615-2538 (219) 617-2281 • [email protected] lever with which we could move, direct, and sanctify the world.” Achieving unity requires all Linda Kawecki ’79 of us to strive for right relationships with self, God, the cosmos, and our neighbors. Th ere is 6948 Lakeshore Drive Dallas, TX 75214-3550 synergy between Saint Mary’s College and our neighbors, Holy Cross College and the University (214) 327-9355 • [email protected] of Notre Dame. We not only share the Notre Dame, Indiana, address, but so much history. Monica Stallworth Kolimas, MD ’74 13230 Club Road We also share the Holy Cross philosophy of education: seeking to educate the whole person to Hagerstown, MD 21742-2669 become an agent of God’s transforming love. Each of our three institutions has tailored this (301) 791-3825 • [email protected] philosophy to its unique circumstances of founding and subsequent history. Our varying Kathryn Wiedl Mettler, MD ’63 715 Registry Lane NE strengths and resources have allowed collaboration, academically and otherwise, and a diversity Atlanta, GA 30342-2865 (404) 262-7454 • [email protected] of gifts to blossom on our individual campuses. Academically, socially, in civic responsibility Genèvieve Morrill ’98 and shared faith, this larger community invites us to participate in an enriching exchange of 1924 North Rockwell Street Chicago, IL 60647-4203 these gifts while our diff erences invite us to question and seek diverse ways of articulating (773) 315-1316 • [email protected] our visions as we carry out the one mission of Jesus.