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Chatter News & Notes from the Mount Saint Joseph Academy alumnae and school community. -Signifies a death in a alumnae or community members family.
1940s (Correction) Margaret Donoghue Coupe ’43 (deceased) was omitted in the Fall 2013 Mount Magazine legacy photo of freshman daughters/granddaughters. Margaret was the grandmother of Francesca Bernal ’17. Kathryn
Hyland Davis ’43, on the death of her sister, Frances Hyland Emanetoglu ’49. Rosemarie
Callaghan Ford ’48, on the death of her daughter, Christine Marie Ford Domitrovich
Mary
Carroll Hickey ’48, on the death of her sister, Jacqueline Carroll O’Donnell.
Helen Branagan Thomas ’48 (deceased), son, Major General Raymond A. Thomas, III, (Tony) and brother of Mary Katharine (Kate) ’83 and Sara ’86 Thomas, and nephew of Anne Branagan Letter ’50 and Charlotte Branagan Farley ’52 was promoted to Lieutenant General at a ceremony in Fort Myers, Arlington, Virginia, in November 2013. Tony is now a three star General and has been appointed Associate Director of Military Affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the liaison between the Army and the CIA. Previous to this appointment he was the Commanding General for NATO Special Operations Component Command in Afghanistan. Tony is a 1980 graduate of West Point and has served in many parts of the world. 28
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1950s Mary
Louise Shields Gallagher ’50, on the death of her husband, Matthew P. Gallagher, Jr.
Margaret O’Hara Givnish ’50, on the death of her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Regina Mimi Givnish Quinn.
Gloria Garcia-Velez Arazoza ‘54 states that every day she thanks God for the great gift of having lived at the Mount for her high school years. The education and spiritual formation she received from the Sisters of Saint Joseph has been invaluable during her life. Marjorie Todd Shaughnessy ’54 and husband, Jim, are enjoying their five kids’ families and their 15 “grans”. Still teaching preschool at St. Joseph’s, her 18th year as Director. Great Fun! Marjorie treasures her years at MSJA! Barbara
Holm Quinn ’56 and Christine Holm Horner ’61, on the death of their father, Alfred C. Clu Holm. Margaret
McGee McAleer ’59, on the death of her husband, Daniel John McAleer.
1960s Norina
Melograna Bonner ’61 and Delia Melograna (former faculty), on the death of their aunt and sister respectively, Lucy Schiavi Cappelli. Elvira Madden Breslin, Esq. ’61 is actively concerned in business, finance, reading, gardening,
design, animal rescue/rehab and woodwork. She continues as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, US Tax Court and U.S.D.C./PA and DC. Her children live in the Washington, DC area where her daughter is a pediatrician, and son uses his MBA in technology endeavors, and his wife is in real estate. Elvira and husband, John are living in Gettysburg to be closer to her children. Margaret O’Connell Feeny ’61 and husband, Bill, moved to Ohio to be near one of their three children, Norah. Their other children, Ted and Catherine, live in Denver and Seattle and they love them just as much! Joanne
Junker McConnell ’61, on the death of her brother, Jules F. Junker Jr. Gloria Lutsky Derham ’62 has retired from her accounting career. Hoping to relocate closer to her daughter, sister, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren. S. Mary Carroll McCaffrey, SSJ ‘62, is now working at Corpus Christi Parish, Lansdale, as a Pastoral Minister. She meets many Mounties who are parishioners. Lawler Keidel ’64 and Jamie Lawler Rosati ’80, on the death of their sister-in-law, Linda L. Robinson Lawler ’79.
Marie
Kathleen Kropp Hart ’65 earned a certificate in Thanatology from ADEC (the Association for Death Education and Counseling). Kathleen and her husband, Gordon, volunteer at “Peter’s
Elizabeth Jacobs Barker ’74 (seated l-r): Patricia Zugay Burkholder ’74, Susan Reynolds Antczak ’74 and Susan Narducci Harbaugh ’70. (back row l-r): Ellen RosaBian Cericola ’82, Margaret Gallagher ’66 and Elizabeth ’74.
she has entered academia, earned a PhD and just this year has been granted tenure as Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She also teaches cadets at the Norwegian Naval Academy and commutes between her home in Bergen and a flat in Trondheim. She still manages annual visits with her growing family, which now includes her four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Place”, a center for grieving children and families in Radnor, PA. She facilitates a group of four to six year olds who have lost a parent, while Gordon leads a group for the surviving parents. Both find this work to be very rewarding.
Bonnie
Susan
Virginia
Feeley ’66, MaryAnn Feeley Messmer ’72, Mary Beth Scott ’95, Joan Scott McHale ’97 and Carol Petermann ’05, on the death of their mother and grandmother respectively, Mary Jane Feeley.
Susan
Peruto de Marco ’68, Lori Nicoletti Peruto ’79, Christina Peruto Post ’97, Lisa Peruto ’99 and Samantha Peruto ’07, on the death of their father, father-in-law, and grandfather respectively, A. Charles Peruto Sr. Pamela Meitner, Esq. ’68 announces her son, Bill, is engaged to be married in 2014.
Kathleen
Cardamone Gerhardt ’69, on the death of her father, Peter Louis Cardamone. Cecilia Haskins ’69 announces that since relocating to Norway,
O’Rourke ’69 and Caroline Menapace ’08, on the death of their sister and mother respectively, Mollie O’Rourke Menapace ’71.
1970s Bendinger Wischhusen ’70 and Victoria Wischhusen ’09, on the death of their former husband and father respectively, Robert R. Wischhusen. Diane
Janton Mock ’72 and Stephanie Mock’ 03 on the death of their mother and grandmother respectively, Corrine Louise Bozzelli Janton (former MSJA Faculty). Elizabeth Jacobs Barker ’74 would like to share a photo of alums at the 21st Annual Golf Outing. (Pictured above) Lisa Bianchini Bergman ’76, on the death of her brother-in-law, John F. Bergman. Dawn Kownacki ’76, on the death of her father, George W. Kownacki.
Maria
Verde Castelucci ’77, on the death of her mother, Dolores T. Kipe Verde.
Rosina
Carlino Gilbert ’77, on the death of her father, Peter Domenic Carlino.
Victoria Walsh Garner ’78 is living and working in beautiful Buffalo, NY, as the Director of College Counseling at the Nichols School. Her work is challenging and extremely rewarding. She is living in the Elmwood Village which reminds her of Chestnut Hill and believe it or not, the weather, is for the most part, delightful! Esther
McDermott Malazita ’78, Elizabeth Malazita ’08 and Annemarie Malazita ’11, on the death of their father-in-law and grandfather respectively, Albert F. Malazita. Christine
Harris Farrell ’79, Marie Harris Shute ’81 and Barbara Harris Wagner ’82, on the death of their mother, Laura E. Byers Harris.
1980s Susan
Miazga Cecilia ’80 and Aileen Miazga Wexler ’82, on the death of their father, Peter M. Miazga. Ellin Jones ’80, on the death of her husband, Raymond Mang Jr. Linda
Vass Neducsin ’80 and Janet Vass Gallagher ’83, on the death of their mother, Lorraine F. Keller Vass.
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