Mercyhurst honors supporters at O’Neil Society celebration Christ the King Chapel and its foyer – built with gifts from some of Mercyhurst College’s earliest benefactors – provided the setting for the inaugural celebration honoring members of the O’Neil Society on Nov. 14, 2009. The society is named for Orva and James O’Neil, whose gifts to the college during the 1930s funded not only Christ the King Chapel, but also the adjoining Queen’s Chapel and the four-story O’Neil Tower in which the foyer is located. Alumni and friends of the college who have arranged planned gifts to Mercyhurst are recognized with O’Neil Society membership. Forty members attended the event, which began with a Liturgy of Thanksgiving celebrated in the chapel against the magnificent mural backdrop depicting both Christ the King and the mission of the Sisters of Mercy. Brunch followed in the Chapel Foyer. Special recognition was provided for alumnae Barbara Chambers ’60, Mary Katherine (Kathy) Murray ’77 and Eileen Zinchiak ’80. They received framed prints of “Springtime at Mercyhurst College,” a painting by Bethany Ann Krowsoski ’07 ’09 that depicts the magnolia tree outside the chapel. President Dr. Thomas J. Gamble expressed gratitude to the women for their consistent and continued support to keep the Mercy spirit, traditions, values and vision alive at Mercyhurst. The list includes friends whose planned giving is known to the college and who have consented to be included; others have chosen to remain anonymous. For information on making a planned gift to Mercyhurst, contact Dave Livingston at (814) 824-2241 or dlivingston@mercyhurst.edu.
Barbara Chambers, Tom Gamble, Eileen Zinchiak, Kathy Murray O’NEIL SOCIETY MEMBERS Virginia Adair ‘61 Sandra A. Adams ‘69 Dorothy Bryan Adema ‘34 * Marjorie M. Alge ‘37 * Elizabeth H. Ashton ‘47 * Jane Barr * Loretta Crowley Bauer ‘45 Corrine Braun Beck ‘49 Florence O’Neil Bernard ‘38 * Margene Betts * Mary Rita Brennan ‘38 * Alice Martin Brugger ‘36 * Ruth D. Brugger ‘41 * Gary L. Bukowski ‘73 and Roberta Donley Bukowski ‘78 Noel J. Burgoyne ‘57 Donald and Frances Q. Buseck Del* and Jean Caryl Josephine Ciancaglini ‘56 Dario Cipriani ‘74 Diane Wawrejko Cochran ‘78 H. Patricia Curran ‘52 * Mary Daly '66 Dr. George and Mrs. Mary D’Angelo Mary Ellen Dahlkemper ‘73 David and Beverly Heintz DiCarlo ‘66 Louis and Rose Marie Laskey Disorbo ‘60 Msgr. John Dollinger * Kathryn Barber Durkin * Albert F. * and Mary Duval Patricia J. Fessler ‘50 * Margaret Clark Filson ‘34 * Charles M. Furr, M.D. Collette Stegelske Gabreski ‘40 * William P. Garvey, Ph.D.
Coletta C. Ginnard ‘49 * Catherine Ryan Gray ‘33 * Rev Walter R. Green ‘80 Mary Anne Hayes Greg ‘54 Herbert and Catherine Hafenmaier Adelaide M. Hagar ‘38 * Martha M. Haley ‘43 * Mary M. Hanlin * Margaret Hock Heetman ‘65 Marilyn Heibel ‘61 Homer P. Herman * F. William * and Audrey Sitter Hirt ‘49 * Georgia M. Hitchcock * James and Diana Infantino John F. Jageman * J. Douglas James Rosemary McCabe Kaveney ‘54 Jane Kerstetter ‘78 Martha Kettering Kessler ‘37 Bonita Kinsinger ‘63 H. Vira Kolisch * Ambrose Kronenwetter * Patricia J. Liebel ‘53 Jeanne Q. Lillis ‘76 Margaret Blair MacInnes ‘33 Frances Malaney ‘37 * Margaret McMahon ‘37 Mary Michener ‘74 * Frances Mientkiewicz ‘43 * Marco and Elizabeth Monsalve Adaline B. Morelli ‘37 * Helen Fabian Mullen, Ed.D. ‘47 * Robert B. Munson ‘94 * James* and Elinor Nally Ingeborg Loesch Nelson ‘54 *
Deborah O’Keefe ‘70 Barbara Stone Perry ‘57 Judith Pitney, Ph.D. ‘67 Norman W. Plumb * Roderick Power ‘90 Bruce Raimy Josephine Musi Rakow ‘44 Mary Robaskiewiez Robie ‘29 * William M. and Frances Schuster * Pauline Scott * Mary Jane Walsh Seubert ‘44 * Frank P. Sirotnak ‘76 Martha Ann Soroka ‘70 James B. Spiegel Roy and Rosanna Strausbaugh Gloria Corrado Thompson ‘44 * Arloween Zurn Todd * Louis J. Tullio * Marguerite A. Urban * Lynn Varricchio ‘69 Virginia P. Vieser * Holly A. Villella ‘79 Dorothy Yaple Wagner ‘59 Barrett and Catherine McDonough Walker Mary Daley Wallace ‘33 * Therese Toflinski Walter, Ph.D. ‘63 Judy Wieczorek ‘61 Mary Baldauf Wiedel ‘84 Mary E. Wiesen ‘69 Terry and Marcia Wilson Mary Winston ’41 * Patricia Sontheimer Yahn ‘50 Mary Fisher Yonkers ‘69 Eileen Zinchiak ‘80