Snapshots with Friends The Classes of 1961 and 1968 Shown with Dr. MacDowell, from left, are Class of 1961 members Sandra Della Croce, Rosemary Fitzpatrick MacIntyre, Claire Schall Simington, Elizabeth Glosser, and Mary Alice Lawlor Harrington.
June 2011 — Between Friends
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. We’ve been n steady givers, but not big givers bee has s clas our rs, yea the er “Ov ted to in the past few years that we’ve star busy and successful and it’s only e lasted and, ings. Even so, the friendships hav th have time for reunions and gather of a substantial class gift for our 50 a ide our de ma t tha hip nds frie really, it’s more, and so te to another who wrote to three wro nd frie One k. wor ry rsa ive ann onnecting, ted in November and just kept rec on. It was very grass roots. We star establish s. Our goal was to raise $25,000 to catching up, and gathering pledge the Class of 1961 Scholarship. the ceremony n’t really know where we stood. At “When June rolled around, we did ‘future ting our 50th, it was announced as a after the Alumni Luncheon celebra classmates our $25,000. Well, soon one of our gift’ because we’d raised $22,500 of ial hour that $1,500 commitment. During the soc a de ma r the ano and 0 $50 d dge ple or give a de the rounds, asking people to give followed, Mary Frances Byrnes ma evening, s on napkins and, by the end of the little more. People wrote their pledge those napkin ple sent in their checks, honoring we’d raised the last $500. And peo pledges. That’s friendship.” Mercy: “We body the mission of the Sisters of The Class of 1961 continues to em t of s in the same way, yet they were par didn’t talk about the Mercy charism ing careers.” one another and we chose nurtur for ed car ple Peo . did we ing ryth eve
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Bettsi Jaeger ’68 knows th
at although yo how much a cl u can measure ass gives back to Misericord measure what ia, you can’t Misericordia gave the class: confidence, an “Careers, d a conviction that you can d Maybe it’s mas o a little more s cards for feed . ing the poor o children with r fostering fetal alcohol sy ndrome or se of her town, m rving as mayo y classmates r have lived ou Sisters of Mer t th e name the cy gave us: th e valiant wom en.” And Jaeger kn ows, because she keeps up keeps their n with them an ews circulatin d g . In sh ar Maria Grilli G ing that classm atta had died at e of cancer, Jaeg rolling to crea er started the te a scholarsh ball ip in her mem 1968 consequ ory. The Class ently establish of ed the first clas reaching the s scholarship $25,000 minim , um endowmen in 2003. In 20 t threshold 12, they expec t to reach the second schola threshold for rship. a Jaeger acknow ledges that M isericordia has since 1968 bu changed a lot t notes, with h er trademark dir hadn’t, the sc ectness, “If it hool would be gone and we’d reunions in a be holding ou hotel ballroom r .” On a more se says, ”The Mer rious note, sh cy charisms, es e pecially our se keep the heart rvice projects, of Misericord ia the same th years.” She urg rough the es her own clas s to keep in to other classes, uch and for especially the younger ones In the end, the , to do the same. greatest and ye t least measu Misericordia ra b le gift of may be friend ship.
ent Michael University Presid ted the Class of MacDowell presen Reunion awards 1961 with all four
Where W e See Ou rselves Going: M ission “Miseric ordia Un iversity is Catholic a stellar and Mer cy institu nationall ti on, y recogn ized for o seamless ur integrati on of mis academic sion and excellen ce.” —From Acclama tion 2015
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Members of the Class of 1968 are shown at the 2003 Convocation Lunch. Seated, from left, are Bettsi Jaeger and Mary Lawless Denney. Standing, same order are Cathie McAndrew Stevens, Susan Bernini, Janet Rugato Lehecka, Barbara Burns O’Hara and the late Mary Lou Komerek.
this year: Award for the · The Class of 1968 largest class gift Award for the · The Class of 1943 ge of donors highest percenta McGinty Trophy · The Sister Eloise erage gift for the highest av 1968 Award · The Bettsi Jaeger rcentage of for the highest pe ing for Alumni classmates return Reunion Weekend 2010–2011 Donor Report | 5