News and Features Archives
SEPTEMBER 2009
Mary Harding and Becky Haven ‘08, graduates of the St. Kate's master of arts in education curriculum and instruction-distance learning program, have had a research article on peer coaching published in a special action research issue of the Journal of Dance Education. Their article is one of only three selected. The two were honored with the 2008 Sister Ann Harvey Award that recognizes educators and education students for outstanding action research projects.
Jennifer Driscoll SP '88 has been appointed vice president for investor relations for Campbell Soup Company based in Camden, N.J. For more...
AUGUST 2009
Cindy Leonard-Corbett SP '83 and her family started the nonprofit "Sharing Tree" to collect school supplies for needy students in the Hudson, Wisconsin area. They were profiled in the Hudson Star Observer. The Sharing Tree collected and distributed back-to-school supplies. For more on the Sharing Tree...
JULY 2009
Christine Niemi SP '99 was a leader in California in the fight against colon cancer, which finally took her life. A Memorial Service was held on Thursday, July 23, and the funeral on July 29. For more on the arrangements and on Christine, click here.
JUNE 2009
We are now St. Catherine University
as of June 1, 2009!
Highlights of Reunion 2009
- St. Catherine Alumnae Awards
- Mini Courses
- Campus Tour of Changes/Department Happenings
- Architecture of Our Lady of Victory Chapel
- and more!
Winners of the 2009
DEW DROP DASH,
5K Walk/Run
Sunday morning June 21, 2009--
Linda Vinz and Michelle Langer
Highlights of Recent Graduate Reunion 2009
- Evening social
- Mini Course on Career Journey with career consultant and Pioneer Press columnist Amy Lindgren
- Campus tour, including Fontbonne's Green Roof
- Family barbecue
MAY 2009
At Alumnae Association annual meeting, May 11, members learned more about how St. Catherine University will be structured with different schools, keeping the women's Catholic Liberal Arts College at the core. Also discussed was the future of the Alumnae Association. More »
Sherry Johnson Woods SP '82 was honored as Mother of the Year for the Washington D.C. Area. She founded and directs the UNIQUE Learning Center for struggling inner city youth in addition to mothering her own three children. For more...
St. Mary's Junior College Spring Reunion and Minneapolis Campus Open House. For highlights...
APRIL 2009
Bridgette DaSilva SP '07 was awarded an Abigail Quigley McCarthy Alumna Research and Creative Work Award of $500 and a certificate at the Women Awards Celebration from the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women, Thursday, April 23 (Shakespeare's Birthday) for her novel in progress: The Oracle of Bacchus.
Meet Kathleen Weflen WEC '81. She's passionate about the natural world and editor-in-chief of one of Minnesota’s most popular magazines — The Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. More »
MARCH 2009
The Irish Gazette Editor Mary Sue McFarland Brooks SP '77, MAOL '90, offers alumnae, alumni, and friends suggestions on how to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. For more...
FEBRUARY 2009
Wine, Chocolate, Cheese, and Art Evening Was a Success!
On February 28, 2009, alumnae attendees sampled wine, cheese, and chocolate, with a silent auction of fine art, special collections, and baskets of cheese. All proceeds went for alumnae programs. For more information on this successful event so you can consider coming next year...
JANUARY 2009
Debra Lindh MAOL '07 takes her patented Messy Face™ Bib to Hollywood's Golden Globes after it wins the 2008 Mom's Best Award. For more...
Twins Kelly and Colleen Marchwick '91 hosted a Bone-Marrow Donor Drive on January 17, 2009 in honor of Kelly's daughter, Nora. For more...
DECEMBER 2008
Kristine Ann Smyth SP '71 Named Director of Development at Catholic Eldercare. For more...
Barbara Caron SP '72, and former faculty member of the MLIS, is assistant director of the new International Quilt Center. For more...
Jennifer M. Haselberger SP ’99, newly appointed Chancellor of Canonical Affairs for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, maintains commitment to death row ministry and inmate. For more...
Jeanne Fleming Sedgwick SP '71 is selected as Minnesota School Nurse of the Year 2008 and wins Harvard Scholarship. For more...
NOVEMBER 2008
Alejandra Danielson Castillo SP '04 is among this year’s honorees in the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's annual Minnesota’s 25 on the Rise Awards, written up in Twin Cities Business!
ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES for 2009
Five alumnae were re-elected in state races and an alumna judge is key to Minnesota Senate recount:
Betty McCollum SP '87 earns 68.4% of the vote for the United States House of Representatives, MN District 4
Erin Murphy MAOL '05 earns 77.5% of the vote to represent the MN State House of Representatives District 64A.
Catherine Lang McLynn SP '71 earned 55% of the vote to continue serving as Itasca County Commissioner, District 2.
Elizabeth B. Langhilde Kautz WEC '82 earned 54% of the vote for Mayor of Burnsville.
Ramsey County Judge Margaret M. (Peg) Marrinan SP '69 ran and was re-elected uncontested.
Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin SP '67 has served on the judicial recount panel for Minnesota's U.S. Senatorial race.
Booked for the Evening, our annual Children's and Young Adult Literature Review, was on Monday, November 3rd, with an amazing panel of alumnae experts. For more...
OCTOBER 2008
Anne McKeig SP '89, known for her Indian Welfare and Protection work, is appointed Hennepin County Judge by Governor Tim Pawlenty. For more... She was spotlighted in October, 2008, in The Hennepin Lawyer. For more...
International Journalist Frank Wright presents "Talking with Our Enemies" as part of the Alumnae Lifelong Learning Great Decisions Program. For more...
SEPTEMBER 2008
Teen girls get a chance to document themselves with photos in THE GIRL PROJECT, an exciting Web and book publishing project centered around girls courtesy of Kate Engelbrecht SP '98. Get the girls you know involved! For more. . .
AUGUST 2008
Como Animal Specialist Sara Halverson Courteau SP’04 Educates Humans about Polar Bears, Seal Lions, and Other Wild Animals in Our Beautiful Endangered World
“What girl didn’t go to Sea World as a kid and say ‘I want to be a dolphin trainer’?"said Sara. “I sure did. But I didn’t really think I’d grow up to be one.” For more...
JULY 2008
At the Minnesota Fringe Festival, the play by Jana Brown Patrick SP '79 -- "Dying for the Chance", got rave reviews for - its musical hilarity. One of the twelve actors and designers of the award-winning web site was Jana's high school daughter Lauren, and music was by Anna Carey.)
JUNE 2008
Reunion 2008 is a success. For highlights...
First Annual Dew Drop Dash 5 K Walk/Run brings many participants. Fun was had by all! For more...
Outstanding alumnae selected for St. Catherine Alumnae Awards: Deborah Brown, D.V.M. '91, Tamara Kittelson-Aldred '75, Barbara Probst Wollan '58, Mary Madigan Gibbs '53, Catherine Murray Mamer '61, Kristine Thalhammer, Ph.D. '80, and Marie A. Prouxl '39. For more...
Outstanding faculty selected by alumnae for Myser Awards for Teaching Excellence: Gina Mancini-Samuelson, Chemistry Department Chair; John Christine Wolkerstorfer, CSJ, Professor Emerita of History; Brian Fogarty, Sociology Department Chair, and Eleanor Lincoln, CSJ, Professor Emerita of English. For more...
Two nursing alumnae from St. Catherine's have been selected as Twin Cities Health Care Heroes by Twin Cities Business magazine and Medica. The June 2008 issue tells their stories. For more...
Dorii Lucas Gbolo SP '95, is CEO of Open Cities Health Center and known for her advocacy in the area of community outreach and providing high quality specialty health care services for her patient who are mostly African Americans, immigrants, and people of low income. For more...
Catherine Pavlak Garvey SP '75, is the Transplant Coordinator in the University of Minnesota’s Living Donor Transplantation Program. She developed new protocols for allowing non-related, unknown donors to offer their organs to those who need them. For more...
MAY 2008
Go Green with the CSC Community Garden for Alumnae/i, Students, and Staff. For more...
St. Catherine's Provided a Rest Stop for Minnesota Sesquicentennial Wagon Train. For more...
Mary Louise Klas SP '52 honored by MN Women Lawyers. For more...
APRIL 2008
Brigid (Mary Ann) McDonald, CSJ, '62 (right), and her sisters (left to right) Kate, Jane, and Rita McDonald, CSJs, are highlighted for their peace and justice work on Minnesota Public Radio's Midday Program -- 4/04/08. For more...
Spring 2008 the Alumnae Association hosted a breakfast for CSC librarian alumnae who were in town attending the Public Library Association's national conference in Minneapolis. Ruth Brombach, executive director of the Alumnae Association, provided updates about the College and the Association. Mary Wagner, MLIS director, provided CSC library updates, especially on accreditation and the Urban Library program. Several graduates and current students from the Urban Library program attended. Our alumna who traveled the furthermost to this conference and breakfast was Judy McMakin '72 from Richland, Washington.
MARCH 2008
Entrepreneurs Mary Dodd SP '79 and Maggie Mortensen SP '79, and their company -- North Aire Market -- move to new headquarters and win Best New Food Award for their Banana Foster Dessert/Dip Mix. For more...
FEBRUARY 2008
Trish Windschill Marx SP '70 Launches Her Newest Book for Youth: Steel Drumming at the Apollo. Learn about her literary journey...
St. Kate's alumna Becky Roloff SP ’76 was honored by Minnesota Lynx. The CEO of YWCA of Minneapolis received the Community Assist Award for contributions to women in sports. The Lynx's event, "Slam Bash," celebrated National Women and Girls in Sports Day. For more...
JANUARY 2008
2008 Conversation With Books The recurring theme that emerged was CONSEQUENCES.
For the book list and highlights ...
Also consider the
books with connections to music and St. Paul in the 2008 Conversation with Books sponsored by the
Friends of the SPCO. For the book list ...
Nadine Shand Paitich M '78 Named Home Care Executive for Health East. For more...
Three Bendel sisters, all alumnae, were selected once again as "Top Docs" in the Twin Cities by Mpls-St. Paul magazine. For more...
DECEMBER 2007
90th Anniversary Celebration!
For highlights of the 90th Anniversary Open House...
Thank You for
the 90th Anniversary Cell Phones!
By the drive's end, we collected 340 phones to help threatened women and children through the St. Paul YWCA.
Christine M. Palumbo SP '75 is chosen as the 2007 Outstanding Nutrition Entrepreneur of the Year. For more...
Mary Lou Klas SP '52 -- noted alumna, attorney, and women's advocate -- urges graduates to keep up the good fight. For more...
Louise Gradstein Dillery SP '49 survives the Nazi-occupation of Paris and escapes war-torn France to come to Minnesota, where the Sisters of St. Joseph at the College of St. Catherine's save her life three times! For more...
NOVEMBER 2007
Tina Van Erp SP '89 is named MN Social Studies Teacher of the Year 2007"I didn't know what it was like to be an American until I left the United States. Overseas I grew as a person by being a bilingual minority struggling to live in a second language."
Her Global Citizenship Curriculum integrates her world-wide travels. For more...
Sheila Kozar SP '84 receives Commander's Award for her civilian efforts to support deployed Minnesota service members. For more...
Deployed alumnae tell their stories. For more...
Janet Lowe, '96, Master's Degree Alumna, is honored as School Nurse Administrator of the Year 2007! For more...
The 90th Anniversary Williamsburg Trip
was a great success!
OCTOBER 2007
The artwork of regionally acclaimed printmaker Cecilia Ianoco Lieder SP '64 decorates Derham Hall because of a donation to the College by classmate Mary Seifert McIntyre and her husband, Larry McIntyre. For more...
Annie Ballantine '05 is mentored by Alum Designer Mary Welliver Hickey '73, Starts Her Own Business, and Is Honored with Entrepreneur's Award.
"My experiences at St. Kate's constantly taught me to be a leader and to dream big." For more...
SEPTEMBER 2007
Weekend College Wellness Entrepreneur --Gloria Birch WahrenBrock '81 Opens Second "Massage Envy" In Less Than a Year! After opening her first Massage Envy clinic in Hudson, WI in 2006, she opened a second clinic in Stillwater, MN in 2007 and has plans for one more in the area.
"As I think back on St. Kate's, it is always with a sense of gratitude and thankfulness that I was given the opportunity to experience a truly women's college experience. Perhaps because I had various college and university experiences earlier, the time at St. Kate's is particularly precious to me and brought me to this place in life." For more...
New Residence Halls Allow for Cutting Edge "Learning Communities" For more...
AUGUST 2007
Nancy Conger SP '85 performs own plays. For more on Conger...
JULY 2007
The Children's Stories of Christine Johnson D'Amico '86 go live at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival, August 2007. For more . . .
JUNE 2007
Alumnae Reconnect, Remember, and Refresh Their Souls at the 2007 Reunion! For more. . .
Sr. Mary Virginia Micka SP '43 Serenaded Alumnae with Her Writing.
For more...
Alumnae Selected Eight Incredible Alumnae to receive the St. Catherine Alumnae Awards
. For more..
Alumnae Select Four Outstanding Teachers for the Myser Award of Excellence For more...
MAY 2007
May is the Time of Our Blessed Mother Mary. Mary Grace Elderer SP '41 Handcrafts a Shrine for Her. For more...
Alumnae/i Association Annual Meeting: For highlights...
APRIL 2007
Mother Mary Assumpta Nwulu SP '77 founded a Catholic center for counseling and education in Nigeria. For more on her inspiring projects...
MARCH 2007
Corridor Business Journal Names Marcia Mathison Rogers SP '78 a "2007 Woman of Influence" for Her Impact on Iowa and Cedar Rapids/ Iowa City
In March 2006, Rogers led a trade mission to New Zealand, which generated business partnerships and initiated a New Zealand-Iowa joint venture-fund project. For more...
Marcella Klasen SP '29 Celebrates Her Centennial -- A Hundred Years of Dedication to Education. For more....
Spring Gardening Advice Was Pleasantly Planted in Alumnae Minds in the Evening Scholar Program. Gain some container planting ideas and post some advice of your own.
For more...
FEBRUARY 2007
Minnesota State Representative Alumna Erin Murphy MAOL '05 Featured in a Photo in the New York Times. For more...
Alumnae Share Resources on Parenting and Finding Balance with Family and Career on the new Home and Family Connection Web page. For more...
JANUARY 2007
Beth Eidsvold-Basilio SP ’02 Helps Natural Disaster Victims
Whoever said “just” a mom? Many tsunami and Hurricane Katrina victims of 2005 are better off because of Beth Eidsvold-Basilio ’02, and her moms’ circle, the Rancho San Diego Playgroup. For more...
DECEMBER 2006
The 1971 "Lunch Bunch" Share 35 Years of Alumnae Friendship
This group has shared much of their lives by meeting monthly for lunch. Their story is a model of success for maintaining those important college friendships.
For more...
Minneapolis Alum Bob Kirk Uses Retirement for New Career in Nursing
Bob Kirk loves the flexibility and ability to serve he has in nursing. For more...
WEC Alumnae Connect at Katies Connecting Happy Hour
Maggie Weiland Myers ’02, Mary Martin-Kahn ’02, and others have fun and kick around ideas for more alumnae connections -- some of which are already being implemented! For more...
NOVEMBER 2006
Sarann Ryan Slattery SP '59 is awarded 2006 "Outstanding Professional Fundraiser of the Year" by the Minnesota chapter of Association of Fundraising Professionals.
For more...
Dee (Dolores) Stang Cotten SP ’47 is honored by McKnight Foundation with Virginia McKnight Binger Award in Human Service. For more...
Literacy Missionary Mourned
Ruey Archambeau Limerick SP ’32 left behind legacy of literacy for others. For more...
JUNE 2006
U.S. Congresswoman Betty McCollum SP 87 Gets Caught Reading, to see...
Alumnae Select Four Outstanding Teachers for the Myser Award of Excellence
Sr. Marquita Barnard, Chris Franke, Anne Maloney, and John Pellegrini. For more...Related Links:
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