We are searching for dependable and energetic temporary workers for Reunion Weekend 2015 (June 4-7). We especially need friendly, helpful greeters and Registration workers. Those who are 21+ with a clean driving record could be hired as shuttle drivers. If you would like to earn some extra money and work a great event, please apply today.

The application deadline is May 15 or until positions are filled. To view Reunion postings, visit the Notre Dame HR website and type “REUNION” as the keyword to search postings. Please note, employees must be 16 years of age or older to apply.

Christa Leevan
Travel Program Director

You are invited…

I am sincerely excited to announce the move and promotion of Craig Horvath from an Associate Regional Director with the East team to a Regional Director of Athletics Advancement. As you know, Craig has been a strong contributor to the East team in terms of production, camaraderie, and support. In his new role, he will continue to build relationships for Our Lady’s University specific to our Athletics needs and mission. Despite his golf game and inability to use his left driving to the hoop, I am confident he is going to be greatly successful in this role.

The announcement of his regional assignment will be shortly forthcoming, while his official start date with Athletics Advancement will be next Friday, May 1st.

Please join me in congratulating Craig as he takes this next step in serving Notre Dame.

Sara Liebscher

The Mothers of Notre Dame Mass is an opportunity for our Notre Dame community to gather and celebrate the mothers and women of Notre Dame in the month of May and to honor Our Blessed Lady.  Masses across the country will be celebrated bringing the Notre Dame community together in prayer and inviting all to join in this worship.  We encourage inviting the newly admitted families to welcome them to the Notre Dame family.

My deepest thanks to the parents who have offered to coordinate this Mass with their parish, to the pastors and priests who have graciously agreed to include the Notre Dame community in their parish for this Mass, and to the Notre Dame Clubs that have also coordinated the Mass and receptions in their region as well as communicated information about the Mass to their membership. This is the fourth year the Notre Dame Parents Program has encouraged this tribute to Our Lady, our University, and our Notre Dame mothers and women.

Barbara Kelly, Parents Program

Please join me in thanking Lois Zygowiec for her contributions in her role as Coordinator on our Global Advancement Team.  Lois will move on to some important personal experiences and so has decided to leave the University.

Lois’s last day at Notre Dame is Friday, May 15, 2015.  We wish her all the best.

Michael Loungo

The James E. Armstrong 2015 Award Recipient
Jean T. Collier
Presented by the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association

With this award, Jean T. Collier ’83 is honored for her years of dedicated service to Notre Dame’s alumni, parents, and friends. Collier is the Senior Corporate Advisor for Corporate & Foundation Relations in Development at Notre Dame. She graduated from the University in 1983 with a degree in accountancy and went on to earn her M.B.A. in finance from The Stern School of Business at New York University in 1991. Collier was a public accountant for Peat Marwick (KPMG) for two years before joining General Electric, where she worked for 22 years in a variety of leadership capacities.
Collier has been a tireless volunteer leader on behalf of Notre Dame’s alumni, parents, and friends. She served as the president of the Notre Dame Club of Fairfield from 1990 to 1993 and has remained an active club member and leader. She has chaired the club’s UND Celebration Committee for 20 years. For the past ten football seasons, she has hosted at her home the club’s Mass on the Grass, a popular annual event at which members celebrate Mass before watching an Irish football game. Collier’s volunteer leadership on behalf of alumni, parents, and friends extends beyond the club level. She sat on the Notre Dame Alumni Association Board of Directors from 2000-2004, including a term as board president during her fourth year. She was a member of the University’s Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2004. Collier served on the University’s Advisory Council for Graduate Studies and Research from 2004-2008 and was a member of the Spirit Campaign Cabinet. She has been a particularly strong advocate for the University’s alumnae as both a director of the Thanking Father Ted Foundation and a member of the national ND WomenConnect steering committee.
Collier lives in Stratford, Connecticut with her husband, Gary Anderson.

CANDIDE, based on Voltaire’s cynical, realistic and comic 1759 novella, follows the amazing trials and tribulations of a ceaselessly optimistic young man as he makes his way through life. In the half-century since it was composed, Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant and joyous adaptation has been hailed as a landmark of American music and is a favorite in opera communities around the world.

Mark Beudert, Stage Director
John Apeitos, Conductor
C. Kenneth Cole, Set Designer
Lynn Holbrook, Costumes
* Lauren LaMore, Assistant Stage Manager
* Susan Shields, Chorus

April 23, 24, 25: 7:30 p.m.
April 26: 1:00 p.m.
Patricia George Decio Theatre, Debartolo Center for the Performing Arts

Tickets: $25 general public; $19 seniors, faculty, and staff; $5 students

Call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu

Reunion 2015 attendees are invited to attend Navigating Your Financial Future on Saturday, June 6 at 10:00 am in Washington Hall.

Attendees will hear how financial markets and other factors may impact individuals in the future.  Our panel of experts will discuss the economic outlook and how it may impact your financial future.  Topics include global markets, U.S. economy, short and long term trends, inflationary risks, debt outlook, and opportunities to leverage the Notre Dame Endowment.

Sponsored by Love Thee Notre Dame, a gift planning initiative

HOST:  John Affleck-Graves, Executive Vice President, University of Notre Dame

MODERATOR:  Jack Brennan, Chairman Emeritus, Vanguard, University of Notre Dame Trustee and Fellow

PANELISTS:  Scott Malpass ‘84, Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, University of Notre Dame, Jim Rohr ’70 Executive Chairman (Retired), PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. & Ann Combs ’78, Principal, Vanguard.

For more information, please contact Laura Snell at lsnell@nd.edu.

It is my great pleasure to announce that Jeanne Monsma has accepted the position of Manager, Learning and Organizational Development in the Office of Human Resources, effective July 1st.

In her new role, Jeanne will be responsible for assessing the learning needs for all levels of campus staff and supervising faculty, which includes designing, developing, implementing appropriate learning programs and educational opportunities. She will also oversee development and delivery of career services for staff and for organizational development activities, such as performance management processes, team development and custom-designed programs​.

Since 2013, she has served as our ​Learning and Organizational Development Program Manager in University Relations. Jeanne has been a wonderful partner who brought creativity, vision and passion to our professional development efforts. I have also appreciated the manner in which she has lead, often with humor and a genuine caring spirit. I am grateful that we will still have the opportunity to work with Jeanne in her new role.

So please join me in congratulating Jeanne on this exciting career opportunity!

Tim Willis

Mass next Monday, April 20th, will be at the regular time of 8:45 am ~ 9:15 am and may possibly be the last mass of this school year. Monday, April 27th, is Notre Dame Day so watch for the potential cancellation of Mass on that day.

We extend our condolences to the family of Barb and Terry Patnaude on the loss of Terry’s mother, Marjorie J. Patnaude, who at the age of 99 passed away on April 9, 2015. 

We finished last year as the No. 1 fundraising team on campus. Let’s continue to lead the University in this quest for a cure.

Starting today, we would like to invite everyone receiving this email to register with our UR Walking on Sunshine team and to each raise $50 in 50 hours. It’s as simple as asking 10 friends to donate $5.  Together we can do this and together we can make a difference.  Visit our team page at http://main.acsevents.org/goto/URwalkingonsunshine to register and make your donation.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend Relay for Life in the past, we invite you to do so this year.  You will, no doubt, be moved by the passion and dedication that goes into making this event so successful.

There is something for everyone, including, entertainment, children’s activities, a mobile auction, numerous food vendors, ice skating, karaoke, a reflection area and a luminary ceremony to remember our loved ones. It’s an opportunity to come together and unify for a common cause. It’s a community event so bring your family and friends. Visit http://relay.nd.edu for event details.

April showers bring May flowers. Please join us in turning those showers into sunshine. We can and we will make a difference—one person at a time.

Thank you for your support! It is an honor to be walking on sunshine with all of you!

UR Walking on Sunshine committee

Jessica Brookshire 1-5829

Katie Carter            1-6181

Leah Corachea       1-7164

Rachel Hughes      1-1481

Libby Mountsier     1-1009

Roberta White       1-8696

…rallying to turn rain into rainbows

Please join me in sympathy for Brian and Christine Diss. Christine’s grandfather, Ron Mueller of Northbrook, IL, passed away yesterday unexpectedly from a suspected heart attack. He was 80 years old.

Visitation is Saturday, April 11 from 9:15 a.m. until the time of the Funeral Mass at 10:30 a.m. at St. Norbert Church in Northbrook. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to St. Norbert Church or to Santa Lucia/Santa Maria Incoronata Parish in Chicago, IL.

Kristin Trosper

Come enjoy an afternoon of beautiful music as Brian Dean’s son, TJ, performs his senior vocal recital, featuring the works of Schubert, Holst and Puccini, among others.
Sunday, April 12th at 1:00p.m. in the Penote Performers Assembly at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Hope to see you there!

Carolyn Hardman

In attempt to save money, we are using tailgating “pop-up” tents for student activities on Notre Dame Day, April 26-27. We already have 1 of the 2 tents, which has Notre Dame logos on it (the tent sold at the bookstore). To keep it a little cleaner looking, I am trying to find someone else with that same tent who is willing to help us out. Since it was sold in the bookstore, I figure that there has to be someone in UR with one. Please contact Erin Fessler, 1-3222.

Thank you so much,

Erin

Notre Dame Relay for Life
Friday, April 17
Compton Family Ice Arena
6 p.m. – 12 midnight

Hello Friends,    

A few updates leading up to this year’s Relay for Life event on Friday, April 17.

Registration and Fundraising:
For the past few years, our team has been the #1 fundraising team on campus and also one of the largest.  Let’s aim for 100% participation this year and keep the tradition going by making a donation or pre-registering your family and friends at http://main.acsevents.org/goto/URwalkingonsunshine

Mobile auction:
Our mobile auction bidding opens today at 8:00 a.m. and continues through Friday, April 17 at 11:00 p.m. UR Walking on Sunshine acquired many of the auction items.  All proceeds from these items will go towards our team goal. This is the biggest fundraising event for our team, so spread the word and bid often at https://ndrelay15.myab.co

We have an assortment of items including autographed Notre Dame and Chicago Blackhawks memorabilia, custom colored blue and gold Kitchen Aid mixers, Chicago concert tickets and autographed guitar, experience packages, restaurant and spa gift certificates and just about everything in between.  With over 125+ items, there is something for everyone.  New items being added daily, so check back often.

The “Put Your Feet Up” campaign has kicked off. Purchase a $1 purple foot at LaFortune, Hammes-Mowbray Bookstore, North and South dining halls or from any committee member.

Committee Members
Jessica Brookshire  1-5829
Katie Carter           1-6181
Leah Corachea       1-7164
Rachel Hughes      1-1481
Libby Mountsier    1-1009
Roberta White       1-8696

Roberta, Team Captain
UR Walking on Sunshine

…rallying to turn rain into rainbows!