BE EMPOWERED TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT The Catholic High School of Baltimore ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017 2800 Edison Highway | Baltimore, MD 21213 thecatholichighschool.org | 410.732.6200 institutional advancement A Message from the President office “Every gift makes a difference in helping us to provide a Dr. Barbara D. Nazelrod ’68 President community in which young women are empowered each day by their Catholic High education.” Ms. Dori DiVenti Director of Institutional Advancement Dear Friends of Catholic High, Ms. Grace Purce Coordinator of Communications Our 2016-2017 Green & Gold Fund Campaign, Be Empowered to Shine Your & Alumnae Relations/Editor Light, ended successfully on June 30, 2017. As we meet with our donors at various events, I am impressed by the sincere commitment and love they have Mrs. Beth Frevel for Catholic High. I am proud of our alumnae and the significant differences Coordinator of Development and Fundraising they are making in our community and world. Most of all, I am amazed by our students as I watch them grow into empowered women, ready to change the world for the better! Our McCafferty Visual & Performing Arts, Biomedical, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Programs continue to attract creative and visionary minds. These programs are helping our students gain acceptance into top universities with significant scholarships and awards. contents Members of the Class of 2017 were awarded a record-breaking $11,126,636 in scholarships, grants, and awards, and were accepted into colleges and Annual Report 3 universities such as Rutgers, Georgetown, Temple, and Virginia Tech. 2016-2017 Gifts & Donations Students of the Year In addition to being proud of our academic achievements, I am pleased to present Freshman 21 this Annual Report acknowledging our many benefactors. Once again, our Sophomore 21 Board of Trustees and faculty/staff achieved 100% participation representing Junior 22 their commitment to our mission and students. Our Reunion Class Giving Miss Catholic High 22 Program, Alumnae Awards recipients, and special events are also highlighted in this report. I hope you will take the time to review the information included. Alumnae Awards Recipients 23-28 I extend my deepest appreciation for your continued support. It is only through the generosity of our committed donors that we will continue to grow and Memorials & Tributes 29 achieve our mission of educating young women in the Franciscan tradition, as we have since 1939. Sincerely, Barbara D. Nazelrod, Ph.D. ’68 President Catholic High is grateful to each of our donors. This report details gifts made during the 2016 fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2016 and ending June 30, 2017, and includes unrestricted and restricted gifts. Every effort was made to ensure the accuracy of this report. Please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement with questions or concerns. Class of 1943 Class of 1947 $300.00 $120.00 leadership giving clubs “Every gift makes a difference in helping us to provide a Patrons Patrons community in which young women are empowered each Lucille Fox Ciganek Carolyn Coonan Belzner PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE day by their Catholic High education.” Kathleen O’Connell Marciniak Bachman: $1,000,000 + Class of 1944 Shirley Griffith Nohe Neumann: $500,000 - $999,999 $275.00 Margaret Lorden Tiburzi San Damiano: $100,000 - $499,999 Troubadour Club Class of 1948 Sisters of St. Francis: $25,000 - $99,999 Dear Friends of Catholic High, Mary Wanger Cawley $75,823.00 St. Francis: $10,000 - $24,999 St. Clare: $5,000 - $9,999 Our 2016-2017 Green & Gold Fund Campaign, Be Empowered to Shine Your Benefactors Sisters of St. Francis Assisi: $2,500 - $4,999 Light, ended successfully on June 30, 2017. As we meet with our donors at Frances Scherer Culotta Jane Buxbaum Mother Generosa: $1,000 - $2,499 various events, I am impressed by the sincere commitment and love they have Ellen Langley Rehak for Catholic High. I am proud of our alumnae and the significant differences St. Clare Patrons Brig. Gen Margaret Brewer Troubadour Club: $500 - $999 they are making in our community and world. Most of all, I am amazed by our Frances Trinite Forte students as I watch them grow into empowered women, ready to change the Green and Gold Club: $250 - $499 Assunda Baglioni Nuth Mother Generosa Benefactors: $100 - $249 world for the better! Jacqueline Hieber Hart Class of 1945 Mercedes Stevens Patrons: up to $99 Our McCafferty Visual & Performing Arts, Biomedical, and STEM (Science, $10,700.00 Technology, Engineering, and Math) Programs continue to attract creative and Green and Gold Club St. Francis Mary Trageser Armstrong visionary minds. These programs are helping our students gain acceptance Eileen Benhoff Gallagher Dorothy Haas Elsnic into top universities with significant scholarships and awards. Benefactors Benefactors top ten classes Members of the Class of 2017 were awarded a record-breaking $11,126,636 Rosalie Patti Corliss Doris Eikenberg Argo in scholarships, grants, and awards, and were accepted into colleges and Mary Thuman Doris Elizabeth Svasek Beltz universities such as Rutgers, Georgetown, Temple, and Virginia Tech. Anna King Kielek Marita Kasal Comber 1948 $75,823 Dolores Huebler King Mary Jean Robinson Gahagan Lucille Bognanni Valle Bernadette Twardowski Huebler 1956 $25,614 In addition to being proud of our academic achievements, I am pleased to present Rosemary Hanratty Mastracci this Annual Report acknowledging our many benefactors. Once again, our Class of 1946 Helen Tetkoski Szech 1965 $16,985 Board of Trustees and faculty/staff achieved 100% participation representing $480.00 their commitment to our mission and students. Our Reunion Class Giving Patrons Program, Alumnae Awards recipients, and special events are also highlighted Benefactors Mary Lou Schwarzkopf Darrell 1968 $16,625 Margaret Ely Kelleher Regina Ey Fitzsimmons in this report. I hope you will take the time to review the information included. Margaret Bracken Lana Eleanor Pope Tritle 1950 $11,420 I extend my deepest appreciation for your continued support. It is only through Patrons 1967 $8,444 the generosity of our committed donors that we will continue to grow and Mary Jane DeAngelis Brunner achieve our mission of educating young women in the Franciscan tradition, as Frieda Chetelat Flick we have since 1939. Sister Mary Louise Heinle, OSF 1954 $ 8,080 Bernadette Frey Hergenhahn M. Evelyn King 1962 $ 6,920 Sincerely, Evangeline Nickel Lorber 1955 $ 6,725 1951 $6,650 Barbara D. Nazelrod, Ph.D. ’68 President 3 The Catholic High School of Baltimore Class of 1949 Patrons Troubadour Club $3,210.00 Domenica Butta Greensfelder Angelina DiBlasio Baum Thomasine Mannion Lange Lorraine Cork Lehnhoff Mother Generosa Sister Marie Michelle Michel, OSF Floraine Saboy Muffoletto Irene August Kuras Norma Massey Reihl Lucille Brady Samluck Green and Gold Club Troubadour Club Claire Lange Schwartz Margaret Mary Dietz Theresa Jasinski Zerhusen Helen Marschat Rush Class of 1951 Green and Gold Club $6,650.00 Benefactors Dolores Panis Wible Helen Sushinsky Coyle Mother Generosa Elizabeth Pocta Huber Benefactors Marian Sushinsky Altoz Christine Bizon Kouneski Jeanne Cora Etzel Marilyn Lee Eser Bolton Joan Tanner Matejka Dolores Dernoga Gremminger Eleanor DeCarlo Romadka Norma Welk Widerman Jean Lawler Gumnick Dorothy Foretell Streb Dolores Childress Kelly Patrons Ellen Creamer Linardi Green & Gold Fund Margaret McQuade Kraemer Mary Pilachowski Dr. Frances Torino Bond Jean Meckel McElroy Joan Centurelli Sewell Helen Klecka Mechura Phyllis Whitney Wieser Benefactors Lillian Gaskin Mitchell Agnes Warfield Malec Lola Noonan Nadolny Patrons Joan Bonnett Smith Joan Uhl Notarangelo Audrey Weber Bierley Theresa Marrocco Weiss Agnes Schenning Oldewurtel Mary Leimkuhler Hamilton Barbara Pfaff Payne Bernadine Rybacka Hartlove Patrons Geraldine Schwartzhaupt Pugh Frances Huber Heck Anna Sciuto Bavett Annette O’Connor Hooper Catherine Kuhn Coster Class of 1954 Catherine Nickel Irvin Joan DeVoe Fiorino $8,080.00 Shirley Paul Mullen Mary Jane Florence Hatcher Charlotte Kurek Trageser Mary Catherine Debelius Robertson Assisi Patricia McKenna Ward Dolores Wille Zorn Elaine Jones McAbee Regina Maciejewski Whittington Class of 1952 Troubadour Club Class of 1950 $2,625.00 Carole Boone Stolba $11,420.00 Mother Generosa Green and Gold Club St. Clare Rosemarie Liberatore Rosalie Gayhardt Wessel Irene Bolewicki Marlene Veystrk Peters Sister Virginia Spiegel, OSF Benefactors Gold and Green Club Catherine Banz Green and Gold Club Loretta Gajewski Becker Ann Miller Hayward Mary Lou Lubertine Jones Carol Eisenhauer McGorray Benefactor Rita Baldwin Petrucci Benefactors Jeannette Rabbitt Superczynski Kathleen Klein Taylor Gladys Delamar Bloom Margaret Bartecchi Weber M. Lalide Metzger Patrons Florence Lelonek Michalski Patron Sister Patricia Kane, OSF Shirley Brown Miller Valeria Masaitis Gegorek Elizabeth Lochte Rita Bauer Miller Marie Lisek Loeffler Marya Gryken Pazourek Sister Dolora Taylor, OSF Sister Mary Schoberg, IHM Class of 1953 Faith Glossner Spriggs $3,290.00 Annual Report 2016-2017 4 Class of 1955 Judith Fowler Fabella Carole Wagner Lochte $6,725.00 Marie Deck Lindung Carolyn Born McFaul Agnes Hudlicka Macek Assisi Benefactors Patricia Lubertine Martel Agnes Geraghty Lois Barger Barrett Carol Mackin Miles Barbara Mason Callahan Kathleen Gossman Musciano Mother Generosa Helen Burness Dimock Geraldine Kresslein Woytowitz Vilma Mecchia Lonsdale Jacqueline Minardo Endryas Mary Zamenski Rutemiller Mary Kay Garrity Kness