UND Celebration welcomes Dolly Duffy, new students

UND Celebration welcomes Dolly Duffy, new students
More than 85 people gathered to celebrate our Club’s annual Student Send-off on Aug. 13 at Millennium Park. The event, sponsored by the Notre Dame Federal Credit Union, allowed incoming students and their families to meet and ask questions before
the start of the school year in South Bend.
Welcome to the Class of 2018
Hesburgh Lecture this fall
Our Club is proud to welcome 11 students from the Grand Rapids and Holland areas attending Notre Dame as part of the class
of 2018. We’re thrilled you are joining the Notre Dame family.
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On the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 15, Brad Gregory, a Notre
Dame professor of history and Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate
Chair, will give a Hesburgh Lecture titled, “The Reformation
Era and the Makings of Modernity,” to a joint gathering of
the Catholic Studies Program of Aquinas College and the St.
Benedict Forum of Hope College. Gregory is the director of the
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study and a historian of late
medieval and early modern Christianity and of intellectual history
in early modern Europe. His research focuses on 16th- and 17thcentury Catholics, Protestants and radical Protestants in England,
France, the Low Countries and Germany. Of central concern to
his work as well are the long-term ideological influences and
institutional consequences of the Reformation era on the making
of the modern Western world. Another area of interest is methodology and theory in the understanding of religion and history.
Watch your email and our Club website for a specific time and
venue for this lecture.
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WGVU Service Project
William Boeschenstein, East Grand Rapids
William Bottema, Catholic Central
Katherine Clarke, Forest Hills Northern
Christopher Collins, Catholic Central
Nicholas Gary, Forest Hills Eastern
Elizabeth Hascher, Grandville
Gabriela Larumbe, Zeeland West
Alexandria Smith, Forest Hills Central
Callee Stim, Chippewa Hills Remus
Kyle Vachon, Jenison
Aristotle Zervoudakis, Catholic Central
NDSA: Attend monthly breakfasts and volunteer
Join Mark Levandoski and other senior alumni on the second
Tuesday of each month for breakfast at 9 a.m. in Grand Coney,
809 Michigan St. NE. NDSA also will volunteer at Bat for the
Cure during the Whitecaps game in Fifth Third Ballpark on Aug.
11 (rain date is Aug. 25). Call Mark: 616-452-5503.
Five volunteers answered phones for the WGVU pledge drive
on June 3. As always, it was a great opportunity to get to know
fellow alumni and help support a worthwhile cause at the same
time. Please watch your email and our Club website for more
service opportunities this fall and winter.
ND Lawyers Subcommittee holds networking event
The Club launched a new ND Lawyer’s Committee with a kickoff
event on July 15 at Rockwell | Republic. The Committee will
Club members gathered at the West Michigan Catholic Charities focus on law related programming, including networking, pro
office building, 40 Jefferson Ave. SE, on May 12 to help celebono, and continuing education events. It will also serve as a
brate the annual Hesburgh Month of Service. In honor of Father formal contact point for ND and NDLS alumni looking for jobs
Hesburgh’s birthday during May, volunteers painted and cleaned in the area. Thanks so much to everyone who attended the
an office used by a counselor on the behavioral health team.
subcommittee’s first event. A crowd of 15-20 and three students
The result was a much warmer and more welcoming space in
said they made good connections at a successful event. Please
which to work with and counsel families. Thank you so much
contact Nick Curcio at [email protected] if you’d like
to Ray and Mary Stitt and Joanie and Alexandra Stembaugh for
to participate, or if you have any ideas for future events.
their efforts that evening.
Hesburgh Month of Service at CCWM
Our Club’s Universal Notre Dame Night Celebration was
held June 19 at Watermark Country Club. The event was a huge
success with 87 attending, including the families of five incoming
freshmen and three incoming Saint Mary’s College students. The
Notre Dame Club of Muskegon also joined us for the event.
Dolly Duffy, associate vice president for University Relations and executive director of the Notre Dame Alumni Association, was our guest speaker. She shared updates on happenings at
the University and within the Alumni Association. We were pleased
Regional Director Hugh Sonk could join us and introduce Dolly.
Hal Smith was presented with the Award of the Year for
his years of service to Notre Dame, the Grand Rapids community
and our Club. Hal’s wife, Sharon, along with many family and
friends were there to support Hal. Hal has been a member of the
University’s Hesburgh Library Advisory Council since 1998 and Hal
and Sharon established a library endowment at Notre Dame. Hal
also has been a strong supporter of our Club’s Golf and Scholarship
Invitational, which is our primary scholarship fundraiser.
As is our tradition, Tim McMorrow lead the group in
the singing of the Alma Mater to close out the evening. We are
grateful to the new and familiar faces who were able to attend and
celebrate with us.
Alumni Association Executive Director Dolly Duffy speaks
at the Club’s UND Night Celebration on June 19 at Watermark Country Club.
Andrew Blum presents Hal Smith with the 2014
Award of the Year. At right: Hal’s family, including
his wife, Sharon, front row third from left, was
there to celebrate his honor. Hal gave a lovely
speech honoring his family and his time at the
University.
Dear Development Office,
Please earmark my contribution to the University of Notre Dame Grand Rapids Club Scholarship —
Expendable Fund­to assist West Michigan students attending Notre Dame.
My contribution will be applied to the annual football ticket lottery.
Please mail to:
University of Notre Dame
Name
Attn: Carol Hennion
Development Office
Class Year
Contribution
1100 Grace Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5612
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Newsletter
Notre Dame Club of Grand Rapids
AUGUST 2014
31st Golf & Scholarship Invitational raises $15,000
A donation by the Club to Sparta Health Center helped to fund a baby shower for 15 expectant women in June. Different stations that evening offered the women advice on car seat use, breastfeeding, first aid, infant well-being, information on the Catholic Charities West Michigan Baby & Toddler Pantry and WIC. The women also received gift baskets and a tostada dinner. Summer Service Learning Student Elizabeth
Hillman, front left, and Kathy Bego helped to host the event.
N O TRE D A M E C L U B O F F I C ERS A N D D I RE C T O RS
2014-15 OFFICERS
Kate Nagengast ‘03,
President, Newsletter
[email protected]
Maureen Salerno ‘94 SMC,
Vice President, Networking, Fundraising Committee
[email protected]
Jim Kirkwood ‘89, Treasurer
[email protected]
Patty Schrand ‘90 MBA,
Past President, UND Night,
ND Women Connect
[email protected]
Mark Przybysz, Chaplain
DIRECTORS
John Ashby, ‘91, Student Send-Off
[email protected]
Kathleen A. Bego ‘83,
Summer Service
[email protected]
Bob Belmonte ‘77,
Golf Outing
[email protected]
Andrew Blum ‘95, ‘98 JD,
Community Service
[email protected]
Larry Burns ‘72, ‘75 MA,
Scholarships, Alumni Schools Chairperson
[email protected]
Joan Stembaugh, Parent, Final
Exam Student Care Packages
[email protected]
Patrick Burns ‘05, The Shirt
[email protected]
Angel VanGorp ‘94 MBA,
ND Women Connect, Urban Plunge
[email protected]
Timothy Clark ‘86, Golf Outing
[email protected]
Tom Vereecke, Subway Alumni
[email protected]
Nicholas Curcio, ‘07, ‘10 JD, Young
Alumni, Law School Subcommittee
[email protected]
Brian Donovan ‘96
MBA, Game Watches
[email protected]
Conor Dugan ‘03 JD, Faith
Initiatives, Continuing Education
[email protected]
Joseph Harmon ‘05, Communications
[email protected]
Mark Levandoski ‘66, ‘68 MA,
Senior Alumni
[email protected]
Kevin McDermott ‘73,
UND Night, Monogram Club
[email protected]
More than 80 golfers, our best turnout in four years, attending
the 31st annual Notre Dame Club of Grand Rapids Golf and Scholarship
Invitational were greeted by lovely, humid weather after a dicey forecast
at Watermark Country Club on June 30. Great golf, delicious food and
camaraderie rounded out the day.
We are grateful to the generosity of our players and sponsors as
nearly $15,000 was raised for our Club’s Scholarship Endowment Fund.
Special guest Mike Denbrock, Fighting Irish Football offensive
coordinator, updated banquet guests on the season ahead. And Rob Smith
was the third person inducted into the Golf & Scholarship Invitational Hall
of Fame for his more than 25 years of participation and sponsorship of our
Club’s primary fundraiser.
VOLUNTEERS
We are extremely grateful for all the hard work and dedication
of our 2014 volunteers, who made everyone feel welcome and helped the
event run smoothly: Event co-chairs Bob Belmonte and Tim Clark; Volunteer Coordinator Maureen Salerno; Treasurer Jim Kirkwood; volunteers Sue
Harmon, Sally Hormouth, Barry and Pam VanDyck, Dale Kris, Mark Levandoski, Paul Heroman, Jeanne Clark, Gary Allietta, Angel VanGorp, Rockne
Belmonte; and students William Bottema, Callee Stim, Alana Kenny, Emily
Lenahan, Lauren Crawford, Elizabeth Hillman, Libby Schichtel, Anthony
Salerno and Rachel Thome.
WINNERS
Low Team: Coach Mike Denbrock, Rockne Belmonte, Bill Vance and Bob
Belmonte with a score of 56.
Long Drive: Tim Clark and Lisa Piatek; Longest Putt: Jim Nelson
Closest to Pin (#11): Jim Nelson; Closest to Pin (#4): Ryan Paniwozik
Team Skins (#18): Jim Nelson, Bill McDonough, Dave Harr, Brian Donovan
All are welcome and encouraged
to attend our monthly club business
meetings. They are on the third
Tuesday of each month. Please
contact Kate Nagengast for locations
and times.
ROCKNE EVENT SPONSOR
Northwestern Mutual: Rob Smith, Mitch Glover, Jeff
Darter
HOLTZ SPONSORS
Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge
Pat Geary & Tom Blackwell
Brian & Maureen Salerno Family
KELLY SPONSORS
Marty & Sue Allen
John & Jane Ashby
Belden Brick & Supply, Paul Belden III
Larry & Chris Burns
Tom Vereeke, Brickley DeLong
Tim Clark
Brian Donovan
Amy L. Flick, DPT Solutions
Chris Duba, Duba & Duba PLLC
John Ferroli & Jim Brady, Dykema
James Hagene & Family
Thomas J. Hicks
Bobby Belmonte, Maximized Living Health Center
Mary O’Connor, in honor of her late husband, Rex
Tom Hogan & Mark Fatum, Rhoades McKee
Patty & George Schrand
Hal Smith & Family
Mike VanderPoel, Wells Fargo
HOLE-IN-ONE SPONSORS
Fox Ford Motors
Barracks 616
Mark Levandoski is director of the
Club’s Senior Alumni group (age
55 and older). Notre Dame Senior
Alumni (NDSA) meets on the second
Tuesday of each month at 9 a.m. in
Grand Coney, 809 Michigan St. NE.
Contact Mark at 616-452-5503 (H).
The Club’s Young Alumni group (for
those who graduated in the past
10 years) is led by Nicholas Curcio.
Contact him at [email protected]
to get involved.
MANY THANKS TO
OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS
Winning team, from left: Bill Vance, Bob Belmonte, Coach Mike
Denbrock, Rockne Belmonte