This holiday season, Notre Dame Development is again partnering with the Center for the Homeless to collect some of their most-needed items. Cardboard bins will be placed in both ESC and Grace Hall through Thursday, December 19th. Some of the items needed by the shelter include:

• • • Baby wipes
    • Size 6 diapers
    • Shampoo
    • Conditioner
    • Toothpaste
    • Blankets
    • New pillows
    • Cold/flu medication
    • Alcohol-free mouthwash
    • Hand and body lotion
    • Feminine hygiene products
    • Men’s and women’s razors and shaving cream
    • Bus passes

 
Thank you in advance for helping those in need in our community this Christmas.

Please join me in welcoming Nick Sorg to the Illinois Region. Nick recently accepted the RD role and his first day will be Dec. 9th. Nick graduated from Notre Dame in 2006, with a degree in English. His wife, Megan is also a Notre Dame graduate (class of 2004). Nick informs me they have been “blessed by four terrifying/awesome boys, Andrew (11), John (9), James (4), and Tommy (1). Yes, everything in our house is broken, and it is very loud.”

Nick comes to us by way of Press Ganey Associates where he spent the last 11 years performing a variety of roles, most recently as the Director of the Talent Development (internal training) team. Nick spends a lot of time volunteering at his parish, St. Pius, X, playing soccer, and coaching his boys’ soccer teams. He is eagerly anticipating joining UR. Welcome Nick!

-Jesse Meyer

Our sympathy to Jill Calderone whose father, Antonio (Tony) Tavares, passed away last week.

Here is the link to the obituary: https://www.hahnfuneralhomes.com/notices/Antonio-Tavares

Visitation will be on Tuesday, December 3, from 3 to 7 p.m. at Hahn Funeral Home in Mishawaka. A Mass of Christian Burial will be on Wednesday, December 4, at 11 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Mishawaka.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Heartland Hospice.

Colleagues,

Please note that you can access your headshots at the following link:

https://photos.nd.edu/gallery/PR-Nov-2019-Development-Headshots/G0000T5KAgzoQJB4

Each person has access to 4 options. You can click “download image” and select “original file” to download the image without a watermark.

On April 25, 2020 ONE REPUBLIC will play the Purcell Pavilion as part of IDEA Week 2020.

https://news.nd.edu/news/onerepublic-to-headline-idea-week-2020/

There are a limited number of tickets reserved for our Notre Dame benefactors, in section 10, rows 3-5, which can be accessed only with a special registration code starting on Nov. 27, 2019.

For registration access for your benefactors, please contact Karen Deak (kdeak@nd.edu), AAD for the IDEA Center.

In order for all staff to join in our celebration this afternoon, we will be locking the main door of the Eddy Street offices at 4:00 today. If you have a benefactor scheduled to come in to pick up tickets after 4:00, please contact Carolyn Hardman (chardma1@nd.edu or ext. 9477) and she will make arrangements for a staff member to meet your donor. Thank you!

Colleagues,

Please use this link to access a shared document containing all registered guests for this weekend’s Annual Giving football events:

AGSM Boston College Football Events Attendees

Please contact Shannon Longo with any registration questions, or Sean Boudreau with any event questions. Go Irish!

Colleagues,

Tom Fuja, interim Dean of the College of Engineering, was originally scheduled to present at the Campaign College on Friday, November 22nd, but unfortunately will now be out of town on business travel. Tom is sorry to miss this event but trusts that you will understand.

Not wanting to miss an opportunity to share a College of Engineering priority with our Development colleagues, we have arranged for two student teams to present on experiential learning. This is a campaign priority for Engineering, as Tom shared during his 2018 Campaign College presentation, and as was highlighted at the 2019 UR Summit.

The Robotic Football and Rocketry teams will each share what the their team does, why experiential learning is an important part of their Engineering education, and what the experience has meant to them, personally and professionally. Additionally, they will be bringing “show and tell” hardware, expected to be a Robotic Football quarterback and kicker, and Rocketry team rockets, controllers, and example payloads. After the teams present, we have time in the agenda for small group or 1:1 conversations so please come and meet some of our Engineering students. I fully expect that you will be impressed with them and their work.

Thanks,
Jeff Arnold

Calling all blood donors!

During the Holiday and winter months, the blood bank always struggles with donations amidst the hustle and bustle! Please help us combat that this year by donating blood at Harper Cancer Research Institute on Tuesday, Dec. 17th from 11:30am-2:00pm. Your donation will save the lives of patients at our local hospitals!

As a thank you, all donors will receive a $10 Hacienda gift card. In addition, for every successful unit collected, $5 will be donated back to Harper! Click HERE to sign up!

Colleagues,

Please keep Megan Andedo and her boys Ezra and Eli in your thoughts and prayers. Megan’s husband Dave Andedo passed away last Monday, November 11th. Dave’s full obituary can be found here.

Our deepest condolences to Megan and the boys.