Newsletter - Notre Dame Academy

Notre Dame Academy
Worcester
Volume 6, Issue 1
Newsletter
Fall 2009
A Day We’ve Long Awaited!
After a week-long celebration of
the opening of the new addition to Notre
Dame Academy, students and faculty are
enjoying the expanded space, the new
classrooms and state-of-the-art technology.
The Academy’s new wing includes a new
multifunctional student center, the Lauring
Music Room, an art center, the John and
Virginia Flagg Art Gallery, the Kenary Terrace and expanded office space. The science laboratories and the Cuvilly Auditorium also underwent complete renovation.
Building renovations included the installation of white boards and Smartboards in
all classrooms, new flooring, lighting and
paint.
A preview party was held at the
Academy the evening of September 11
and Sr. Ann Morrison, principal of the
Academy, thanked everyone involved in
the success of the Future Fund campaign.
“The outpouring of support we received
from our alumnae, parents and friends,
especially in these hard economic times,
demonstrates the confidence our Academy
family has in the mission of the Sisters of
Notre Dame. The Foundress of the Sisters
of Notre Dame, St. Julie Billiart, instructed
her sisters to ‘equip students with what
Students, faculty and friends gather for the Dedication Ceremony.
they need to for life’ and this building helps
to fulfill that mission,” said Sr. Ann.
The Most Reverend Daniel P.
Reilly, Bishop Emeritus of the Worcester
Diocese and the Most Reverend George
E. Rueger, Retired Auxiliary Bishop/Vicar
General of the Worcester Diocese blessed
the new wing at a dedication ceremony held
on the first day of classes, September 14.
Konstantina Lukes, Mayor of Worcester,
praised the Academy as “one of the jewels
of the city”. Robert Kennedy, chair of the
Academy’s Board of Trustees, thanked all
who had helped make the addition a reality and predicted that the students who
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Women of Achievement
Women of Consequence
Patricia Kelleher Bartram ’74
Jean McMurray
Ann-Marie Hines Blute
The Knollwood Awards at Notre Dame Academy were established 20 years ago to honor alumnae and women in the Worcester
community who reflect the Academy’s tradition of service to others. In the same vein, the St. Julie Award, established in 1989, honors
individuals who reflect the spirit of St. Julie Billiart, Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. This year’s recipients, Patricia
Kelleher Bartram ’74 , Jean McMurray and the late Ann-Marie Hines Blute join the ranks of 48 outstanding women and men who have
been honored by the Academy. The 2009 Knollwood and St. Julie Awards were presented at the Knollwood Reception held October 16th.
(Photographs of the Knollwood Awards are available on our website: www.nda-worc.org.)
Patricia Kelleher Bartram ’74 received
the Knollwood Alumna Award. Patricia is
Associate Vice-President of Development
for the Campaign for Catholic Schools,
Boston, a non-profit organization dedicated
to rebuilding and revitalizing the Catholic
schools in the Archdiocese of Boston In
her acceptance speech, Pat credited her parents and the Academy for instilling in her
the need to serve others in the community.
She has worked for the American Heart
Association, Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology; as Associate Director
of Communications at Clark University,
Worcester; as Director of Public Relations
for the Donovan Group, an advertising/
public relations agency in Worcester; as
director of major gifts and foundations at
the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and
as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Development and then Director of Development
Research at the UMass Memorial Foundation in Worcester. Patricia is a driving force
in promoting the Barton Center for Diabetes in North Oxford, MA.
Jean McMurray, Executive Director of the
Worcester County Food Bank in Shrewsbury, received the Knollwood Community
Award. From 1982 to 1992, Jean worked
in Washington D.C. as a media analyst for
the Embassy of Jordan, as a research assistant to David Gergen, former White House
Communications Director, and as a consultant to the Central American Peace Scholarship Program at the United States Agency
for International Development. In her acceptance speech, Jean described the work
of the food bank and the logistics required
to feed the hungry. Since its incorporation
in 1982 the Worcester County Food Bank
has collected and distributed more than 50
million pounds of food and grocery product
through a network of local shelters, food
pantries, senior centers, residential rehabilitation programs, soup kitchens, afterschool programs and neighborhood centers
that help feed hungry people of all ages in
60 communities in Central Massachusetts.
She urged those in attendance to visit the
food bank to see first hand the work that
they do.
Ann-Marie Blute has received the St. Julie
Award posthumously. The mother of eleven children with her husband of sixty-two
years, Dr. Robert Blute, Mrs. Blute considered motherhood her highest calling. Her
daughters paid tribute to their mother and
their words were inscribed on the award
presented to Dr. Blute:
“To be Ann-Marie Blute’s daughters and to love her was to know that her
deepest wish for you was a deep and personal relationship with God, and the ability
to pass on His love to the rest of the world.
Her warmth and radiant smile drew people to her, and always made us extremely
proud. While she worked to help others
in silence, we witnessed what she chose to
do with her time, and her commitment to
issues of social justice and service to the
poor spoke volumes about her priorities
in this life, and her constant focus on the
next. In good times and in bad, she lived
and firmly believed the words of St. Julie
Billiart: “Ah, qu’il est bon, le bon Dieu,”
“How Good is the Good God.”
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Ann-Marie was a board member
of Prospect House, the McCauley Nazareth Home for Boys in Leicester, and the
Mustard Seed, She was an avid supporter of
Marillac Manor, the Pernet Family Health
Center and the Society for the Propagation
of the Faith, Mass Citizens for Life, Aid to
Incarcerated Mothers, Catholic Charities,
the Bishop’s Fund, the Ladies’ Auxiliary
of St. Vincent Hospital and the Massachusetts Medical Society. She was a founding
member of the Associates of the Sisters of
Notre Dame de Namur and supported both
Notre Dame Academy and St. John’s High
School where her children attended She
was named a Dame of Malta in 1994 for
her humanitarian work to aid the sick and
the poor.
Her proudest achievements were
her eleven children: Margaret Blute Marshall ’68 of Shrewsbury; Carol Blute
Ryan ’73 of Worcester; Mary Blute ’73
of Shrewsbury; Ann Marie Blute ’76 of
Shrewsbury; Kathleen Blute Madaus ’78
of Shrewsbury; Paula Blute Ebben ’85 of
Wellesley, Dr. Robert Blute, Jr. and his wife
Elizabeth Kennedy Blute ’67 of Northboro;
Dr. Michael Blute and his wife Debra Molloy Blute ’69 of Rochester, Minnesota;
John Blute of Columbus, Ohio; former US
Congressman Peter Blute of Shrewsbury;
Joseph Blute of Natick; and her twentythree grandchildren, including Elizabeth
Madaus ’11, and four great-grandchildren.
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will use the facility now and in the future
will make the Academy proud. Sr. Evelyn McKenna, provincial leadership team
member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, and
Katherine Lemons, student council president, cut the ribbon officially opening the
new wing. The celebrations continued with
an Open House for alumnae on September
20 and an Open House for potential students on October 7.
Photographs of the renovations
and new addition can be viewed on our
website: www.nda-worc.org.
Class of 1979 Honors Their Mentor at Reunion ’09
“I’m very grateful to the members of the class of 1979 and
today’s Notre Dame students .
. .who continue to assist us in
feeding those who are hungry,”
said Donna Domiziano, Mustard Seed director.
The Class of
1979 relaxes after
their day of volunteering
and donating
to the Mustard Seed .
Members of the Class of 1979
celebrated their 30th reunion from the
Academy by organizing a trip to the Mustard Seed, a Worcester food and community pantry, where they spent the day
preparing bag lunches and participating
in a general “fall clean-up” of the facility. “This effort is a tribute to one of our
favorite faculty members, Sister Mary
Anne Laughlin, who organized the Love
in Action program and had a passion for
the Mustard Seed and its importance to the
community,” said alumna Cathy Woods
Goodwin, who organized the event along
with Gina Ravelli Iadarola and Lynne
Gemma Perreault. (The Love in Action
program began in 1971 and was originally called “Contact”, a club formed to
help others both at the Academy and in the
community. ) The Class of 1979 worked
in conjunction with juniors and seniors at
the Academy currently involved with the
Love-in-Action program. Students in the
program gathered supplies to package 120
lunches. Cookies were donated by the
Academy’s sophomore class. Alessandra
Delbrocco ’10 and Julie Wood ’11 organized the donated food. Emily Finn ’11
and Liza Perreault ’13, Lynne’s daughter,
joined the co-chairs, Cathy, Lynn and Gina,
and Pat Maher-Harrington, Beth Loconto,
Jean-Marie Paradis, and Michele Italiano
-Perla at the Mustard Seed. In addition to a
thorough cleanup, the Class of 1979 made
a gift of $275 to the Mustard Seed thanks
to donations from classmates.
After their day of service, the
alumnae returned to the Academy and
joined the other reunion classes for a Mass
honoring Sr. Mary Anne and the many
Sisters of Notre Dame who have taught at
the school. The Mass was followed by a
Reunion Reception in the Academy’s new
Student Center. Alumnae toured the new
addition to the academic building and
classroom renovations before going off to
their individual reunion dinners.
Photographs of Reunion 2009 can
be viewed on our website: www.nda-worc.
org.
The Notre Dame Academy newsletter is
published twice a year
in the fall and spring by the
Office of Institutional Advancement.
Director of Development
Julie Glavin ‘69
[email protected]
Director of Alumnae
Nicki Carignan Lazaros ’89
[email protected]
Director of Publications
Mary Shea Kennedy ’65
[email protected]
A color version of the newsletter is
published online on the
Alumnae page of our website:
www.nda-worc.org
The Academy’s webmaster is
Christina Duggan O’Donnell ’75.
chrisod@webdesignersofmiddlebury.
Guidance, Language and Library See New Faces
Margaret Mathurin Phoenix ’71
of Shrewsbury is the new Director of
Library/Media. She has worked as a library/media specialist at Bellingham High
School and Abby Kelly Foster Charter
School and was a substitute librarian at
Northborough Free Library where she
was also circulation supervisor. She has
worked as a teaching assistant at Abby
Kelly and at the Montessori Center of
Shrewsbury. She also has been a sales
consultant for Scholastic Books. She
holds a B.A. in English from Marymount
College, N.Y. and a M.A. in Library and
Information Science from the University
of Rhode Island.
New faculty (l to r): Margaret Mathurin Phoenix ’71 , Valerie Kerxhalli, Cynthia Xenakis,
and Ernie Bardier P ’00
The Academy welcomed four new faculty
members to its ranks this fall:
Cynthia Xenakis of Wayland MA is our
new Director of Guidance. She comes to
us from Our Lady of Nazareth Academy
in Wakefield and has also served as Director of Guidance at Trinity Catholic High
School in Newton and as counselor at Keefe
Vocational Tech High School in Framingham. Mrs. Xenakis received her B.A., cum
laude, and her M.Ed. in Counselor Education/Psychology from Boston College.
Ernie Bardier of Charlton Depot has also
joined the Academy’s Guidance Department. He comes to the Academy from Algonquin Regional High School where he
was a counselor for more than thirty-two
years. He graduated with a B.A., magna
cum laude, in Social and Rehabilitation Services and received his M.A. and C.A.G.S.
in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling all
from Assumption College. His daughter,
Jennifer, graduated from the Academy in
2000.
Alumnae Dedicate Classrooms
Kudos to the Classes of 1976 and
Watch for Our New Website
Notre Dame Academy is working with FinalSite, a Connecticut-based
web design firm, to develop the Academy’s new website scheduled to go online in early 2010. Members of the Institutional Advancement Office and our
webmaster, Christine Duggan O’Donnell
’75, will be helping FinalSite design and
implement a more interactive site. The
new website will provide the Academy
with the ability to add information instantaneously; give perspective students
the ability to apply to the Academy online; allow athletic teams to post results
and directions to opposing teams; post
news articles, photographs and video;
give teachers access to their own class
pages; and aid the Guidance Department
in providing students with personalized
on-line information regarding the college-application process.
Valerie Kerxhalli of Holden has joined
the Academy’s Language Department.
She began her career as a private English
instructor in Paris, France and has taught
Spanish and French at Epping Middle/
High School, Epping, N.H., Natick High
School, Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C., Kennedy Middle School in
Natick, Wachusett Regional High School
and West Boylston Middle/High School.
She graduated from the College of the
Holy Cross with a B.A. in French and
from l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in
Paris, France with a Certificate de Didactique des Moyens Audia-Visuels.
FinalSite has already developed
websites for the Academy of Notre Dame
in Tyngsborough and Notre Dame Academy in Hingham as well as Notre Dame
Academy in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
The company specializes in bringing cutting edge technology to private and independent schools throughout the globe.
“We are excited about this new partnership,” said Director of Development Julie Glavin ’69. “It will allow students,
faculty, parents, and alumnae greater access to what is happening at the Academy and better means of communicating
with us. The ability to put applications,
request forms, emergency forms on-line
and the ability to send e-messages instantaneously to our constituents will streamline communications and also play into
the Academy’s “Going Green” campaign
to save natural resources,” said Julie.
1977 who each made a class gift to the Future Fund of $25,000 or more. The Class of
1976 undertook this challenge in memory
of three deceased classmates, Carol Gabbett, Melanie Maher Moberg and Mary Ellen Murphy Stidham. Signs on Rooms 23
and 27 indicate that the room is a gift from
the respective class. Congratulations on a
job well done!
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TAKE A SEAT!
According to Director of Development, Julie Glavin ’69, there are still a limited
number of seats available in the Cuvilly Auditorium should you wish to dedicate a seat to a
classmate, parent, or friend. If you would like to
“Take a Seat”, please contact Julie at 508-7576200, Ext. 226 or e-mail: jglavin@nda-worc.
org.
Alumnae
In Memoriam
Joseph G. Gemma
Father of Lynne Gemma Perreault ’79
and Grandfather of Liza Perreault ’13
Evelyn May Brann
Grandmother of Cecily Brann ’93
Blanche K. Grudzinski
Mother of Regina Grudzinski ’65
Donald Berg
Grandfather of Nina Pagano ’05
Henry V. Karolkiewicz
Father of Karen Karolkiewicz Logan ’75
and the late Diane Karolkiewicz ’66
John Caissie
Grandfather of Beth Caissie ’93
and Marcia Williams Cronin ’96
John M. Kilcoyne
Father of Julia Kilcoyne Konola ’73
Lucille B. Cammuso
Grandmother of Tiffany Cammuso ’10
and Sara Cammuso ’12
Robert E. Carrelli
Grandfather of Ashlie Anctil ’06
Child
Carl H. Koontz
Father of Pamela Koontz Dillion ’88,
Kimberly Koontz Doncaster ’90 and
Melissa Koontz O’Connor ’93
Dr. Erin Mary McLain
Daughter of Mary Turpin McLain ’59
Loretta T. Langevin
Mother of Marilyn Langevin Carroll ’65
Parents
Darald R. Libby
Father of Margaret Libby ’66,
Therese Libby ’69, Sue Libby ’71 and
Martha Libby Dandurand ’75
Kathleen Dowd Burke ’61
Mother of Margaret Burke ’87
and Maureen Burke Powers ’89
Suzanne Donlin Kelly ’61
sister of
Marla Donlin Maykel Pyle ’75
Paula McGrady Mielinski ’60
Deborah Mancini Wharff ’84
Susan Palmer Wright ’65
sister of
Catherine Palmer ’73
Ann-Marie Hines Blute
Mother of Margaret Blute Marshall ’68,
Mary Blute ’73, Carol Blute Ryan ’73,
Ann -Marie Blute ’76, Kathleen Blute
Madaus ’78 and Honorary Trustee Paula Blute
Ebben ’85
Mother-in-law of Elizabeth Kennedy Blute ’67 and
Debra Molloy Blute ’69
Grandmother of Elizabeth Madaus ’11
William F. Casey Jr.
Father of Patricia M. Casey ’73
Richard M. Creamer
Father of Jennifer Creamer ’82,
Brother of Ann Creamer Firlings ’61
Mary C. Fessenden
Mother of Mary Fessenden Sardo Infirri ’59,
Patricia Fessenden DeFeudis’62 and
Virginia Fessenden Holston ’64
Catherine M. DeCharles
Mother of Jacqueline DeCharles ’02
and Kelly DeCharles ’04
Margaret B. Demers
Mother of Jean Demers Abdella ’64
Grandmother of Lee Abdella ’94
James P. Diggins Sr.
Father of Molly Diggins Duggan ’83 and
Deirdre Diggins Erb ’85
Dr. James L. McCarthy
Father of Margaret McCarthy Herzig ’70
Madeline L. Murphy
Mother of Eileen Murphy Clark ’75 and
Maryanne Murphy Gelsomini ’72
Eileen C. O’Connell
Mother of Elizabeth O’Connell-Inman ’75 and
Eileen O’Connell Costello ’72
Mother-in-law of faculty member, David Inman
Grandmother of Elizabeth Inman ’11
Marguerite H. Palmer
Mother of Catherine Palmer ’73 and
the late Susan Palmer Wright ’65
Francis J. Pepper
Father of Paula Pepper ’75
Lynda B. Pratte
Mother of Dianna LaPlume ’86
Thomas R. Reney Jr.
Father of Carolyn Reney Lane ’81
Leona Saunders
Mother of Ann Saunders ’78
Jane L. Tivnan
Mother of Maureen Tivnan Lentz ’74
Tracy R. Dingmon
Mother of Samantha Dingmon ’13
Grandparents
John F. Duggan
Father of Judith Duggan Freeman ’75
Alice J. Allard
Grandmother of Beth Caissie ’93
and Marcia Williams Cronin ’96
Raymond J. Foley
Father of Beth Foley ’71 and
Joan Foley ’74
James L. Baker
Grandfather of Mary-Kate Haylon ’13
Edmund F. Foley
Grandfather of Kara Foley ’03
and Leah Foley ’04
Antanasia G. Isildakli
Grandmother of Daniella Isildakli ’01
Howard F. McGovern
Grandfather of Katy Budra ’08
William P. Simitis
Grandfather of Aileen Simitis Breen ’93 and
Father-in-law of Susan Donoghue Simitis ’64
Ingrid S. Ward
Grandmother of Wendy McAfee Casker ’83
and Trina McAfee Lachance ’84
Siblings
Bernard D. Clifford, Sr.
Brother-in-Law of Susan Mulvihill Clifford ’63
Uncle of Meghan Clifford Cumisky ’96
James P. Diggins Jr. and Eileen Diggins
Brother and Sister-in-law
of Molly Diggins Duggan ’83 and
Deirdre Diggins Erb ’85
Joseph G. Donnelly
Brother of Megan Donnelly ’08
Robert LaPlume
Brother of Dianna LaPlume ’86
Mark S. Umphrey
Brother of Joy Umphrey Borrello ’89
Friends
Edwin W. Johnston
Husband of Lorraine Johnston, former faculty
David Joubert
Nephew of Anne Marie Joubert, faculty
John A. LaPorte
Cousin of Fr. George L. O’Brien
Alumnae Artists Display Their Talents
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Nineteen alumnae artists - representing every decade of the
Academy’s history - shared their work at the inaugural exhibit of the
Academy’s Flagg Art Gallery. The exhibit included watercolors, digital
art, pen and ink drawing, needlepoint, photography, acrylics, pastels,
oils, charcoal, oil pastels, and graphic design. “Many of our graduates have made a career of their talents, while others consider their art
work a hobby or a way to gift family and friends,” explained Mrs. Mary
Zywar, Gallery Director.
Alumnae participating in the exhibit include: Kathleen Ryan
Bedard ’83 (Rockport Harbor), Jennifer Byrne ’87 (French Waiter) ,
Sarah Carter ’08 (Number 9), Laura Ceredona ’01 (Sprite on the Rocks),
Donna R. Desautels ’74 (Hawaiian Floral), Nancy Achorn Engberg ’69
(Abandoned in Uxbridge), Susan Henchey Hanam ’66, (Smell the Flowers), Brianna Howe ’08 (Birch Benders) , Michele Italiano-Perla ’79,
(The Nutcracker), Katherine Liberatore Kelly ’93 (Farmhouse Lawn),
Mary Shea Kennedy ’65 (Sydney), Patricia O’Grady King ’58 (Homage
to the Limners), Christina Lauring ’07 (Coloseum), Nicki Carignan Lazaros ’89 (Full Bloom), Julianne Martin ’06 (Wreath), Nina Pagano ’05
(Shorn Hair), Michaela Prouty ’04 (Footbridge Sunset), Rose Ranauro
’07 (No Flashlight), Allison Seibold ’09 ( The Dock), Maryanne Lauring
Seibold ’79 (Little Island Beach), Rachael Seibold ’05 (Nuda Signora
Firenze), and Alene Stuart ’67 (Portland Lights II).
The next show at the Gallery, entitled a “Winter Solstice
Show”, will feature the works of Worcester artists and run from December 6 to January 11, 2010.
Class of 1955
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 55 years!
Meg Kirkendall, Rosemary Cronin, Bea Tosi,
and Jane Moynagh Padro reunited once again
at the Annual Cape Cod Luncheon at the Hyannis Yacht Club on July 16th. Alumnae will
celebrate in Falmouth on July 14, 2010 at the
Conamessett Inn. Come join us!
Class of 1956
Scribe Mary Lou Ballentine enjoyed the NDA
Cape Cod Luncheon at the Hyannis Yacht Club
in July. There she renewed a long-time friendship with classmate Jacqueline Grenier Fitzpatrick. Mary Lou even discovered a cousin
she didn’t know she had when Maureen Handlin Corrigan ’64 introduced herself. Mary
Lou launched a small business in April called
Affordable Transportation Services which assists Cape seniors in getting to medical appointments, the hairdresser, etc. Barbara Coffey
Silva and husband Manny are on their way to a
28-day adventure in South Africa, and looking
forward to several safaris. The last leg of their
trip will include Egypt and a Nile River cruise.
On their return they will fly to Florida for the
winter. Evelyn Baroni had a busy summer running senior trips for St. Mary’s parishioners in
Shrewsbury and is now getting ready to return
to Florida for the winter. Mary Fran Collins
Donohoe writes, “My grandkids, Louis and Au-
Patricia O’Grady King ’58 ’s
“Homage to the Limners”
drey, came from Switzerland to spend two weeks
at a camp in Florida and I took them back home.
We all traipsed around France and Switzerland
for a week. I am teaching a literature and writing
workshop for kids which is lots of fun”.
Class of 1961
Class of 1957
Class of 1963
Joyce Harney Dubuque and her husband Roger celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary on
Cape Cod with their 6 children, spouses, and
11 grandchildren. Nan Connor can be found at
the organ at Notre Dame Long Term Care every
Sunday for Mass and a sing-a-long afterwards.
Lauraine Longval Laurence conducts a Book
Club with the residents at NDLTC every Thursday afternoon.
Class of 1964
Class of 1958
Class of 1959
Class of 1960
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 50 years!
Scribe Rosemary is eager to start the planning
of the class of 1960’s 50th Reunion. If you are
interested in helping plan this milestone event,
please contact Rosemary.
Class of 1962
Martha Dee recently moved from Kittery,
Maine to Florida. Mary Doyle Williams is a
traveling grandmother going back to Rhode Island to babysit for her grandchildren. Margaret
Fay Donabedian and husband Noel are celebrating their fortieth anniversary in a “first class
fashion” with their son Christopher in California. Trish Tinsley Steen recently celebrated
her son’s marriage and honeymoon sendoff to
Ireland. Special thanks to Marianne Birch McWilliams and Trish Tinsley Steen for coordination our forty-fifth reunion!
Class of 1965
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 45 years!
Barbara Dench McMenemy is happy to announce the birth of a new grandchild. Eva Marie arrived on June 27.
Class of 1966
Class of 1967
Scribe Kathy Colling has a new granddaughter,
Elizabel Iris, born to her son, Tim, and daughterin-law, Angela, in Kodiak, Alaska.
Class of 1968
Class of 1969
Carol Starr Wheeler has been living in Malden, MA for the last 17 years. Presently Carol
works at an elderly housing complex in Malden,
as a Resident Service Coordinator. She has one
child, Brian, 16 years of age, who is a student at
B.C. High School.
Class of 1970
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 40 years!
Frances Buckley Monaghan writes, “I have
lost touch with just about everyone from my
graduating class and next year is our fortieth anniversary of our graduation. I would like to see
some old faces. I have been living in Canada for
33 years and will make sure that I can be there
for the reunion. I hope others in my year feel
similarly motivated”.
Class of 1971
Justin, a graduate of St. John’s High School, is
studying at Santa Clara University; and Ben a
student at St. John’s. Anne is a nurse midwife at
St. Vincent Hospital. Lisa Fanning Cummings
and husband Mark have been married for 28
years and are the proud parents of 2 daughters,
Bridget and Tara. Lisa and Mark are doting over
3 grandsons, Liam, Gain and Finnian. Maryclare O’Donnell Himmel and husband John live
in Quincy. They have been married for 20 years.
Their daughter, Julia, a freshman at Fontbonne
Academy in Milton plays JV soccer. Maryclare
works in Commercial Real Estate. Lisa Ursoleo Eddy and husband John have been married
for 25 years. They have two children, Zachary,
a student at Worcester State, majoring in Business Management and Amanda ’07, a student
at UMass Amherst majoring in English. Lisa
works part time at Facemakers in Shrewsbury.
Nancy Arvanigian Brown and husband Kermit
have been married for 14 years. Nancy has been
an employee of the Massachusetts Department
of Mental Health for 30 years, most recently
as Compliance Coordinator at Worcester State
Hospital. During the Halloween season she can
be found helping out at her brothers’ family
business, The Halloween Outlet.
Class of 1977
Class of 1978
Class of 1981
Rita Moran-Greiman, Director of Customer
Policy and Satisfaction for National Grid, was
honored with the Katharine F. Erskine Award
at the YWCA’s Tribute to Women Luncheon in
May. Wendy MacIver Mara left teaching high
school English after 13 years in 2006. With her
MBA in hand, she then started law school and
is currently practicing business law in Ormond
Beach, FL. On August 1, she married Robert
Mara, a fellow law student. Wendy has four
children: Melissa (25), who lives in Savannah,
GA after graduating Savannah School of Art
and Design; Angela (23) who attends college in
Daytona Beach, FL; Mitchell (21), a student at
the University of Central Florida; and Felicia, a
senior in high school. The newest addition to
the family is a yellow lab, named Frodo. Julianne Tamasy is senior managing director of
the foreign exchange group for First Republic
Bank, a subsidiary of Bank of America, as well
as being mother to three active boys, Alexander
(15), Julius (13), and Nikolaus (11). Julianne
is also an avid quilter and surfer, having travelled the world in search of the perfect wave.
If anyone is interested in joining Julianne in a
surf/yoga retreat in Morocco in February, please
contact her on Facebook. Kara Cenar Foster
has moved her practice of intellectual property
law to the international firm of Bryan Cave, LLP
in Chicago. She has been recognized for the past
five years as one of the top 5% of intellectual
property lawyers in the state of Illinois. She is
also on the national board of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Kara has
three children: Samantha (19) who is studying
cosmetology; Tom (17), a high school senior
and Ricky (13), a sports enthusiast. Her dog,
Rai, as she sees it, is her “Rai of hope” in a busy,
hectic life.
Class of 1972
Lisa Cataldo is a member of a creative writing group that was featured in the New York
Times, Fashion & Style section in an article entitled Therapists Wired to Write. Paula Mahon
d’Entremont is a doctor who has worked for
years in the Refugee Clinic of Catholic Medical
Center Hospital in Manchester, NH.
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Class of 1979
Class of 1982
Class of 1974
Sarah Mulkern Morris is living in Southern
France with her husband, daughter (16) and son
(14).
Class of 1980
Class of 1983
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 30 years!
Scribe Rosemary recently had an impromptu,
informal reunion with Ann Murray Paige and
Suzanne Wyman Froio. Ann’s documentary film, “The Breast Cancer Diaries”, will
be shown on the Discovery Health Channel.
Suzanne works as a nurse in UMass Medical
Center and has two daughters attending Notre
Dame. Marianne McLaughlin MacDonald
lives in the metropolitan Washington, DC area
with her husband and children Kelsey (18),
Amanda (16) and Hayden (13). Marianne is a
board member for the regional youth soccer program. Maria Goodney White recently joined
the management team at BlockCross Holdings
in Boston. She is also enjoying some time at
home with Allison (3). Several classmates have
joined Facebook.
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Margaret Mathurin Phoenix has joined the
NDA staff as Library/Media Specialist in the Sr.
Justina Daley Library.
Class of 1973
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Marianne May O’Day writes, “35 years… it
can’t be true!” Marianne has three children: Patrick works for WEEI doing Red Sox and Celtics
games, Julianne, a student in Pharmacy Tech,
and Gracie, a student at UMass Dartmouth.
Class of 1975
Reunion May 1, 2010 Celebrating 35 years!
Class of 1976
Dianne Bruce, Executive Director of Edward
Street Child Services in Worcester, received an
Alumna Award from an Assumption College’s
Passport Program for her service to the local
community. The Passport Program works to
raise awareness of women’s issues around the
world. Anne Hallisey Covino and husband
Paul reside in Upton and are the proud parents
of four sons: Mat, a recent grad of Dean College
who works for Home Depot; Peter a graduate
of Xavier University with a degree in Nursing;
Scribe Patricia Mahon Hurley writes, “One of
the nicest things about returning to NDA with
my daughters is running into former classmates.
Kathleen Monahan Myshrall’s daughter, Liz,
is a junior with my daughter Sheila. Kate works
for the United Way in Central Mass. She organizes a multitude of programs for adolescent
girls including self-esteem programs and educating girls on financial literacy by tapping area
business women to mentor these teenage girls.
I sat at the Senior Mass with Allison Doody
LeDoux who is the Director in the Office of
Marriage and Family/Respect Life Office for
the Diocese of Worcester. In my Holden travels, I learned that Maura Marshall McCarthy
recently redecorated The Bagel Inn. Maura is
a self-employed decorator and interior painter,
working under the business name “Colors By
Maura,” and I can attest to the fact that Maura’s
work looks terrific.”
Class Scribe needed.
Class of 1984
We have two sites on Facebook! One is called
“Notre Dame Academy of Worcester, MA –
Class of 1984” and the other is called “NDA Reunion Class of 1984 – Notre Dame Academy”.
Trina McAfee Lachance lost her grandmother,
Ingrid Ward, this past July. Trina writes “she
was a working mom back in the day when that
was unheard of. She was truly very ahead of her
time”. She was also very proud of the fact that
Tricia and her sister, Wendy McAfee Casker
’83, attended NDA.
Class of 1985
Michelle Clermont is in the middle of her
nonprofit’s annual audit in DC. April Farber
Walling is currently living in Shrewsbury with
her husband of 15 years and her two sons, 11
and 7 years old. April is the ELL teacher for the
town of Grafton. The Class of 1989 wishes to
remember Kathi Clark Aveta through memorial donations to this years’ annual fund drive.
Class of 1990
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 20 years!
Suzanne Lavigne Gibbs and her husband Brian
are the proud parents of Jason Paul “JP” Gibbs.
Suzanne stated, “He was born May 25th, 2008
and came home to us April 21st, 2009. He is
from South Korea and we’re just crazy about
him!”
So far we have over 40 of our classmates on
Facebook and would love to have others join!
Look us up on the Facebook page “Notre Dame
Academy of Worcester, MA Class of 1990.”
Gaylen McCann went back to grad school in
2004 and is now practicing as a Surgical Physician Assistant at Cambridge Health Alliance
in Cambridge, MA. Gaylen currently lives in
Cambridge with a friend and dog, Tucker.
Class of 1987
Class of 1991
The Worcester Business Journal recently recognized Tammy Ragsdale Pozerycki in their 40
Under 40 event at Mechanics Hall in Worcester.
Tammy is the owner and director of Pleasantries
Adult Day Services in Marlborough.
Kara Kennedy Spaulding and her husband
Scott announce the birth of their son, Keegan
Frances, on October 2, 2010, 7.5 lbs and 20
inches. After many moves, Jen Salvatore
O’Connor currently resides in Boca Raton,
Florida with her husband Ryan and their two
children, Cashel (5) and Ruari (2). Jen is currently a Partner in the Capital Markets Group
of Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and has been with
Kilpatrick for almost 8 years. Class Scribe
Katie married Brian O’Connell in May at the
Omni Parker House in Boston. In attendance
were Kara Howard ’93, Melissa Rocha Meyerowitz ’91, Elisabeth Allen Harrington ’91,
and Kim Schupp Green ’91, The newlyweds
live in Brighton, MA. Katie works as a Marketing Communications and Events Specialist
at Philips Color Kinetics, an LED lighting systems manufacturer. Congratulations to Scribe
Tracy O’Connell Novick on her election to the
Worcester School Committee!
Reunion May 1, 2010 Celebrating 25 years!
Class of 1989
Dianna Higgins Cronin and her husband
Robert welcomed twins Lucy Higgins - 6 lbs.,
5ozs, 19 3/4 inches, and Emerson Gallagher
(Emme)- 4 lbs., 15 ozs, 17 3/4 inches, on Saturday, August 1. Dianna states, “Both children are
super healthy and adorable . We have been loving every minute of this experience…even the
sleepless ones”! Aimee Murphrey Merrick’s
daughter Abagail is a junior at NDA. Loretta
McKenna Dion received both her bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from Anna Maria College
in 1993 and 1996, respectively. She, her husband Mike and their two boys, Timothy (8) and
Andrew (6), have relocated to West Virginia.
Loretta is employed part-time as a Developmental Specialist with the West Virginia Birth to
Three Program working with developmentally
disabled infants and toddlers. Melissa Tivnan
Gravois and her husband, Patrick welcomed
daughter, Evan Bouquet, in April 2008 into
their home in Austin, TX where they have lived
for the past nine years.. Missie is training for a
half marathon and does IT training for Service
Group Insurance and Financial Training. Christine Hebert Foskett is living in Leicester with
her husband Troy. They have two sons, Tyler,
11, and Jeremy, 6. Christine is celebrating her
20th anniversary with Liberty Mutual. Jennifer
Dorsey has recently relocated from Cambridge,
MA to Portland, ME. Maureen Burke Power
is an assistant principal at Vernon Hill School.
Maureen has 4 kids: Meg (10), Patrick (7), and
twins Katie and Matthew (5). “I see Maria
Bergin Cotoia all the time. She is busy with
her 3 boys Anthony (9), David (6) and Christopher (4). Steve and I are living in Shrewsbury”.
Class of 1992
Scribe Eloise Thibault Woodruff, husband
Chris and daughter Olivia (3) enjoyed their first
summer with their first boat. They had lots of
fun exploring the rivers of southeastern Virginia. Eloise continues her work at the Children’s
Hospital of The King’s Daughter in Norfolk, VA
as the NICU Clinical Pharmacist. Carol Virzi
McLaughlin and husband Brian welcomed their
first child, Sofia Nancy, on July 3, 2008. Carol is
a 5th grade teacher in Shrewsbury.
Class of 1993
April S. Lionett
Karen Walsh Rullman and NDA Theater Director, Virginia Byrne spent some time together
in Westport, CT after Karen’s performance as
Mary Featherstone in “How The Other Half
Loves” at the Westport Country Playhouse in
August.
Class of 1994
Meighan Guiney has been the Head Field
Hockey and Lacrosse coach at Franklin Pierce
University in Rindge, NH since 2006. Meighan
runs her own FH camp, as well as coaching at
many others camps in New England throughout
the summer. Classmates can also see Meighan
on occasion at the Flying Rhino Café in Worcester where she has worked for nine years.
Class of 1995
Reunion May 1, 2010: Celebrating 15 years!
Laura Virzi Estaphan and her husband Brian
welcome their third child, Benjamin Brian on
April 16, 2009, weighing in at 9 lbs. Big sister
Paige is 4 and big brother Brendan is 3. Deirdre
Burke Fornari reports that her first son, Matthew Michael, was born on June 2, 2008. She
is currently working full time as an emergency
veterinarian at VESCONE in Waltham and resides with her family in Shrewsbury. Kate
McGuirk Culley writes that she and her husband, Matthew, welcomed their second child,
Ryan Michael, on June 4, 2009. Cypriana
Slosky Coelho and her husband, John, have
welcomed their first child, Julia Grace. Class
scribe, Stephanie, is proud to be Julia’s godmother. Deirdre Garry Ita De Ranieri writes
that she married Aladino De Ranieri, whom she
met in medical school in New Orleans five years
ago. They were married in Galway, Ireland, and
honeymooned in Malpais, Costa Rica. Dee is a
pediatric resident at University of Chicago and
lives in Lincoln Park. Elizabeth Dolan Grimes
was Dee’s maid of honor. Liz is celebrating the
five-year anniversary of opening her real estate law firm in Newton, MA. She is working
at balancing this with being a mom to her 22month-old son, John, and 3-year-old daughter,
Nora. Maureen McIntyre writes that she is in
her last year of nursing school at UMass Boston
and will graduate in May with her BSN. She
works full time at Tufts Medical Center and is
living in Dorchester.
Class of 1996
Scribe Elizabeth O’Connor Bartlett writes,
“Facebook has allowed us to enjoy seeing pictures of new babies and new moves. I drove
cross country for the first time and finally got to
see the Grand Canyon this summer. I also spent
some time on Block Island with Niki Desjardin. Niki is still in Florida and just bought her
first home in Juno Beach. She is very busy renovating and invites anyone who is handy with a
hammer down to the Sunshine State”!
Class of 1997
BethAnne Reidy DiFonso
124 Ridge Rd.
Northborough, MA 01532
[email protected]
Meera Bhalotra Reynolds has recently moved
back to New England with her husband, Rob,
and is working in the energy efficiency field
with National Grid. Melissa Joseph Nussey is
pleased to announce the birth of a daughter, Annalise. Scribe Bethanne announces the birth of
Ben James, born October 20th.
Class of 1998
Meghan Kane Bride
29 Teele Ave. #1
Somerville, MA 02144
[email protected]
Nicole Dow
69 Eastwood Circle
Gardner, MA 01440
Erika Lazar Farrell
903 Providence Place #327
Providence, RI 02903
[email protected]
Reunion May 1, 2010 Celebrating 10 years!
Brittney Lazar Burgess
18 Ginn Rd.
Winchester, MA 01890-2607
Bhartiben Patel is currently pursuing an MD
degree at the American University of Antigua
Medical College. She is in her second semester. Kristina Sacovitch Evanowski and her
husband Michael happily announce the birth
of their son, Benjamin Robert, born on August
18th. Kristina enjoys her new role as a mother
and reports that all are doing very well!
Class of 2001
Katy Noone
16 Prior Drive
Framingham, MA 01701-4139
[email protected]
Scribe Meg Kane Bride and husband Jim welcomed their first child, Maryanne, on September 13, 2009. Lucy Ebersold Swedberg and
her husband have recently purchased a home
in Sharon, MA. Angela Iandoli Medeiros is
living in California while her husband studies
for his Master’s degree at Stanford. Angela is
teaching Spanish at a private girls’ Notre Dame
high school in Palo Alto.
Melanie Muccio was married on May 30, 2009
to Nicholas Perraglia at the Fordham University Church, Bronx, New York. Fellow 2001
NDA graduate Stephanie Logan served as a
bridesmaid. Jayme Fraioli has been working
for Carnival Cruise Lines as an entertainment
technician-lighting since February of 2008. She
spends most of her time sailing to Progreso and
Cozumel, and when she is not working, enjoying everything the ports have to offer, from Mayan ruins to scuba diving. She will be home for
the holidays and hopes to head out to another
ship in February.
Class of 1999
Class of 2002
Catherine West
2900 Broadway Apt. F
Redwood City, CA 94062
[email protected]
Meghan Coonan
3 Washburn Ter., Apt. 3
Brookline, MA 02446-6355
[email protected]
Marisa Borst recently finished building &
rendering 3-D Drawings for The Grand Lodge
at Brian Head, Utah. They’re opening in November of this year and are featuring Marisa’s
renderings on their website to market the hotel.
Marissa recently purchased a home in South
Riding, VA and began teaching lyrical, ballet
& hip/hop 3 days a week at the South Riding
Dance Academy. Marissa is enjoying watching
her daughter’s “firsts” – words, steps, move to a
toddler bed, etc. MacKenzie Lewis left her job
in NYC last year and after travelling the world
has been in in Beirut, Lebanon for the past month
and is hoping to stay a bit longer. “A big change
from New York but I’m very happy!” Scribe
Catherine writes that she earned her master’s
degree last year through the National Urban Fellow Program. She is back in the Bay Area and
recently started a new job at Gilead Sciences,
in Government Affairs trying to stem the domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic through working
with community partners across the US. The
Class of 1999 now has a Facebook page! So
far 54 classmates have signed up. Please email
[email protected] to join the group.
Sarah Epstein
7 Jasmine Drive
West Boylston, MA 01583
Class of 2000
Dana Karlsson is currently working at the nonprofit Cedar Tree Foundation. The foundation’s
focus is predominately on three issue areas-environmental education, environmental health
and sustainable agriculture. Scribe Meghan
spent three weeks of September living in Dome,
Ghana. She was volunteering for an organization
called The Sankofa Center for African Dance &
Culture, which travels to remote villages and
schools to educate people and raise awareness
of HIV/AIDS using traditional African dance,
drama, and music. This fall, Meghan will begin
volunteering as a mentor with a group called
Project Adventure. Project Adventure matches a
disabled child with an adult mentor for weekly
visits at a local YMCA where they will use recreation and exercise to build a positive, productive relationship.
Class of 2003
Julie Beer
24 Cooney Road
Spencer, MA 01562
[email protected]
Lynn Sarcione
28 Dorothy Road
Millbury, MA 01527
[email protected]
Class of 2004
Michaela Prouty
134 Partridge Hill Road
Charlton, MA 01507
[email protected]
Heather Leary graduated from Rensselaer with
a degree in Architecture in May after completing a yearlong thesis investigation. Heather
redefined edge conditions along the coast of
Narragansett Bay by challenging existing environmental, historic and social dynamics. She
is currently working at BRM, Inc. in Worcester
as an administrative assistant and design liaison
until she finds a job in the architecture/design
field. Meg Mills moved to Colorado in May
and is volunteering for a year with AmeriCorps*
VISTA and working for Colorado’s Lt. Governor Barbara O’Brien. She is the Service Project
Coordinator at the Governor’s Commission on
Community Service. Jen Shea spent the last
year in Washington, DC completing her Masters
degree in Tourism Administration, Event and
Meeting Management from George Washington
University. She has since moved to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin where she is working at the Medical
College of Wisconsin’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Recruitment Office. Christina
Kach graduated from Northeastern University
in May with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial
Engineering and a Minor in Business Administration. She started working in Andover, MA at
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in June.
She is in her first rotation as a participant in
their Operations Talent Development Program.
Christina moved to North Chelmsford, MA after
graduation and loves it there, but really misses
Boston! Kate Dalton-Hoffman is working as
an administrative assistant in the Global New
Media department at Cengage Learning in Boston.
Class of 2005
Reunion May 1, 2010 Celebrating 5 years!
Maude Okrah
6 Vanessa Circle
Rutland, MA 01543
[email protected]
Maude Okrah is working in Business Development Marketing Strategy for Shell Oil Inc. in
Houston, TX after graduation from Simmons.
Hill Holland Sadler is currently living in London, England and published a book of poetry
called “The Island Year”. Hill’s first book is an
exploration of human relationships in different
locations across the globe throughout various
historical landscapes. Hill is the Recipient of the
High Distinction Award in Poetry at Emerson
College, chosen representative of the College
for the 2008 Intercollegiate Poetry Festival and
recently gave a public reading at Boston College. Classmate Katherine Walsh and former
teacher Barbara Tsantinis are listed in the dedication of Hill’s book.
Class of 2006
Scribe Lianne Henderson writes that she spent
the summer at the Cape before returning to St.
Anselm College where she is a criminal justice
major. She is looking forward to her spring fulltime internship win the Domestic Violence Unit
of the Manchester District Court. Lianne is also
very involved with the Spring Break Alternative
program which will take her and others to Orland, ME to work in a co-op. Lindsay Belec had
a fun summer working and living in Providence.
Lindsay is currently working on a paper with
her professor on the research she did this summer. “We’re submitting it to a chemistry journal
by the end of the semester, so I’m pretty excited
to be published! I hope everyone’s doing well
and that you all have an awesome senior year!”
Siobhan Lyons is student teaching seventh
grade English at McDevitt Middle School in
Waltham and loving it. After school she heads
straight to the pool for swim practice as she is
captain of the Brandeis University Swimming
and Diving team. Last year she broke 5 school
records and is hoping for the same or better this
year. She is also works at the Brandeis Athletic
Center at the front desk and at school athletic
events. Marissa Frongillo is a senior at the
College of the Holy Cross, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Biological Psychology and Pre-Med. She is currently working on a
year long senior thesis project for her Bio-Psych
concentration regarding the impact of emotional
affect on facial memory throughout the lifespan.
Cori Wooldridge is studying Dance and Italian
in Florence, Italy this semester. In the spring she
will choreograph Emmanuel College’s musical, Gypsy, perform in a Senior Dance Recital,
and hopes to intern at a local Dance Company.
Kasey Soucy attends Salem State College in a
5-year nursing program. Currently, she is doing a Med-Surg rotation and next semester will
move to Maternity and Pedi. Kasey is also
working at UMass Memorial in Worcester in the
Cardiac Cath Lab as a PCA. She continues to be
a Resident Assistant at Salem State and is still
part of the National Residence Hall Honorary
which is the organization for the top 1% of the
student body. Patricia Valarioti will be graduating in the spring from St. Anselm’s. She also
worked and lived at the Cape this summer and
is keeping busy this fall with a full time internship at Allstate Insurance and Financial. Jamie
Massarelli spent the summer in Philadelphia
working at a child advocacy non-profit organization and will be applying for pediatric nursing
positions for next year. Jamie was also named
sprint captain of the 09/10 track team at UPenn.
Erin Iandoli has played softball all four years
and loves being a senior on the team. She is a
nursing major. Deirdre Milionis was in Rome
last summer at the American Institute for Roman Culture, studying archaeology and topography. She also interned in NYC for COACH,
Inc. working for Retail Merchandise Planning.
Elena Simoncini worked in a lab at BU this
summer and hopes to go to Medical School in
2011. Pamela Ritacco will graduate in May
2010 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical
Science. She hopes to then start working in a
lab at a hospital, veterinary clinic, or aquarium
and pursue graduate studies. Rachel Paige has
finally returned to the East Coast after spending
close to nine months in Los Angeles, where she
worked at The Tonight Show being responsible
for feeding the entire crew and staff nightly. Rachel was recently offered an internship at Saturday Night Live, but it would be too much of a
commute! She’s still a Cinema Productions major and an RA, looking forward to graduation.
Class of 2007
E.J. Silverberg has recently enlisted in the
Army and will ship out to Fort Jackson, South
Carolina in January. Katherine Murphy has
started an accelerated masters program in communication management at Simmons College in
Boston. Kate Barry is spending the semester
studying French and interning at a French hotel in Paris through Boston University. Ally
Longvall transferred to Worcester State College
to study nursing. She’s currently living in Auburn and settling in with her new puppy, Kady.
Jess Lajoie is studying Biology at UMassAmherst and working to obtain a certificate
in Coastal and Marine Sciences. She will be
spending the spring semester studying at James
Cook University in Cairns, Australia. Maria
Albano recently spent the summer studying
abroad in Florence, Italy, in the same program
as fellow alum Jess Bové. Maria was accepted
into the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State
and is beginning research on an honors thesis
in International Currency. She plans to spend
next summer in the UK doing research on living standards and their correlation with currency fluctuations across developed countries.
Maura Coyne spent two weeks in Ghana this
past January. Scribe Meg Quick is the student
coordinator for a service/immersion trip to the
Jemez Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico this
January. She is also facilitating a group on campus called Dialogues on Race, where students
meet in small groups to discuss issues of race
and racism on campus.
is currently a sophomore at Catawba College
and is a member of the women’s golf team. She
is thinking of transferring to pursue her dream
of being a meteorologist. Lacy Ludvigsen is
at the University of North Dakota, majoring in
biology (pre-med), and is hoping to go onto vet
or med school. Scribe Sam Pegg is at Xavier
University in Ohio and changed her major last
semester from psychology to physics! Scribe
Lucy is at Rider University in New Jersey and
loves it. She is still playing Division 1 softball
for the Broncs and is the starting first baseman.
Lucy now has a major - Communication: TV &
Radio and Multimedia Communication with a
minor in Film and Media Studies. She is also a
member of Lambda Pi Eta which is a Communication & Journalism honors society.
Class of 2009
2009 / 2010 NDA Alumnae Events
Nov. 7 NDA Memorial Mass
Dec. 12 New York City Shopping Trip
Jan. 30 Flora in Winter, Worcester Art Museum
Feb. 1 Deadline for Knollwood Award
Nominations
Feb. 19 Cirque Dreams Illumination,
Hanover Theater
Mar. 12 Alumnae Wine Tasting Education
Apr. 1 Deadline for Spring Newsletter updates
Apr. 10 Cherry Blossom Luncheon,
Washington, D.C.
(Let us know if you will be in the area)
Apr. 12 Alumnae Book Swap
May 1 NDA Reunion Mass and Reception
(0’s and 5’s) Reunion planners needed.
June 30 Close of Annual Appeal
July 14 Cape Cod Luncheon,
The Coonamessett Inn, Falmouth
(Let us know if you will be in the
area.)
Class of 2008
Colby Chaput, currently at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, finished Combat Survival
Training at the beginning of the summer, which
involved living in the woods for 8 days and then
Resistance Training, which is learning how to
be a POW. Colby was also awarded her Jump
Status by jumping out of a plane multiple times!
Colby is also a Division 1 gymnast for the Falcons! Melanie Leary is currently at URI and
joined the Ultimate Frisbee Team and is loving
it. They play tons of other schools including
Helen Longvall’s. Allie Meehan is a Biology
major at Roger Williams and is leaning toward
becoming a physician’s assistant. Allie is also a
chemistry tutor and runs a weekly workshop for
those needing assistance. Meaghan Williams
What’s New?
We reserve the right to edit
Class Notes in order to
accommodate news
of all our graduates.
The deadline for Spring Newsletter
Class Notes is April 1, 2010.
Please send your news to your Class
Scribe or to Nicki Lazaros at
[email protected].
NDA Holiday Shopping Trip to New York City
Saturday, December 12, 2009 – Day Trip
Departure from NDA: 6:30 a.m. Arrive back at NDA: 11:00 p.m.
$40 per person (including the driver’s tip) Luxury bus - 44 person capacity
Flora in Winter at Worcester Art Museum
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 11:00 am
Join NDA Alumnae and friends for our annual tour of floral arrangements
and art work. Free admission for Museum Members, $10 museum fee for non
members. Following the tour we will gather for lunch at a local restaurant.
Please verify your interest in attending lunch when registering for this event.
Cirque Dreams Illumination at the Hanover Theater
Friday, February 19, at 7:00 p.m.
Join NDA alumnae, friends and parents at this European-style circus.
$27 per person. Tickets are limited.
For any of these events, please contact Nicki Carignan Lazaros ‘89 at
[email protected] to make your reservation or register online at
http://www.nda-worc.org/alumnae.
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