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HOMECOMING WE E KE ND
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Everybody Knows Her Name Rose Hemstreet is a true Ursuline fixture. This happens when you greet every person who walks through the school’s front doors for 43 years. Rose was the warm and welcoming presence greeting everyone as they stepped through the main entrance. Candy was always on her desk. “When you walked through those doors and saw her smiling face, you instantly knew you were home,” Director of Alumnae Relations Claire Blanshard Webb ’97 says. “She is a friend to all, and everyone who knows her simply adores her.” Rose didn’t graduate from Ursuline, but she might as well have. She moved to Dallas for her husband’s career in 1960. Soon after her oldest daughter, Julie, enrolled at Ursuline in 1971, Sister Frances Marie, the school’s then-principal, offered Rose the position. Rose’s four other daughters also graduated from Ursuline: Margaret ’76, Lenore ’78, Virginia ’81, and Joan ’86, but so many more Ursuline girls consider her “family.” “It has been an honor and a privilege to be part of the Ursuline community,” says Rose.
Rose Hemstreet
2016 YOUNG ALUMNA
Envisioning a Better World No challenge is too big for E lisa R ingholm , Class of 2004. She’s worked for the Latino Union of Chicago, a non-profit that improves immigrant workers’ economic conditions, and co-founded Café Chicago, a worker-run cooperative that roasts, packages, and distributes organic coffee. “I’ve realized that Serviam doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” Elisa says. “Serviam is about healing the brokenness of the world.” Elisa led a sexual assault awareness group at Loyola University Chicago and later graduated Cum Laude in 2008 (anthropology and environmental science major and Spanish minor). She also spearheaded the multicultural Chicago Coalition of Household Workers Project and became a founding member of Koinonia House, an interfaith intentional community in Chicago. Elisa now works as the Director of Finance and Operations for the Story of Stuff Project in San Francisco. The organization strives for a healthier planet. “I’ve worked as an ally alongside day laborers who are fighting against wage theft, domestic workers lobbying for basic legal rights, and survivors who come together to heal from sexual violence,” she says. “I’m forever changed.”
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Elisa Ringholm ’04