Our deepest condolences to Lori Pope on the loss of her father, Michael C. Pope on Sunday, June 30th. Mr. Pope was surrounded by his loving family at the time of his passing.

Visitation and Services for Mr. Pope will be Monday, July 8th, starting at 11:00. For full details, including the obituary, please click here.

Thank you for keeping Lori and her family in your thoughts and prayers,

Dean Ernzen

Thank you to everyone who submitted feedback to Leadership is Listening in the month of June. We appreciate you taking the time to help us improve our workplace culture. As a reminder, if you have feedback that you would like to submit anonymously, but would still like to be entered into the water bottle giveaway, please be sure to leave another piece of feedback that does include your name. You do not need to submit it on the same day or address the same topic as your anonymous feedback. The Hidrate Spark smart water bottle winners for the month of June are Carolyn Hardman and Cheryl Schlimpert. Thank you again, and remember to keep submitting your feedback!

-The Leadership is Listening Team

Our sympathy and prayers go out to our colleague Katy Orenchuk who over the weekend lost her father, Darl Hall.

Darl was a lifelong rail fan, and especially loved the Wabash River B&O railway bridge. The family is raising funds in Darl’s memory to install a wooden bench near the bridge so there might be a place where people can come together to remember him. If you would like to make a contribution, please follow this link.

Expressions of sympathy can be sent to Katy at her office address at Eddy Street Commons.

Michael Loungo

It is a pleasure to welcome Natalie Sargent to the University Relations team as the Academic Advancement Director for the Mendoza College of Business.  Natalie will be responsible for driving philanthropy to Mendoza.  She begins her role with us on Monday, August 5.

Natalie has her undergraduate degree from Smith College, and anticipates completing in August 2019 her Ph.D. in History here at Notre Dame.

Concurrent with the pursuit of her doctoral degree, in 2015 Natalie took the first of several roles at Notre Dame as a Graduate Reviewer and Assistant at the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA).  After her time at ISLA she interned in Development, working with Maria DiPasquale in Academic Advancement at the College of Arts & Letters.  Natalie also served on the University’s Student Health Insurance Advisory Committee as the Graduate Student Union Healthcare Committee Chair.  She is currently a Fellowship Consultant in the University’s Office of Grants & Fellowships.

You can expect Natalie to be present at Eddy Street Commons working on proposals with our fundraisers and Storytelling team, and in the Mendoza College of Business serving the dean, faculty, staff and students of the College.

Please contact Natalie at nsargent@nd.edu to extend congratulations and welcome her as AAD for the Mendoza College of Business.

Dear Team,

I am delighted to announce that Mary Scott ’01 will join our team as the Alumni Education Programs Director on Monday, July 1st when she will become responsible for the portfolio of existing alumni ed programs and upcoming launches of ThinkND and Big Questions.

By way of introduction, Mary has worked at Notre Dame for 16 years over which time she’s been involved in launching Mendoza’s Institute for Global Investing — in support of a 4,500 member community of students, alumni, and investors. Prior to that, she led a cross-departmental team to design, implement, and launch a student financial literacy program which included web and live session programming components. Mary has also served Notre Dame through the management of the annual budget strategy and planning processes, financial modeling, and sensitivity analysis.

In these roles, and through her previous consulting experience, Mary built positive relationships with faculty, staff, alumni, and various experts from government, non-profit, and business. We look forward to benefiting from her talents of collaboration, communication, creativity, project management, and strategic thinking.

On a personal note, Mary and her husband, Mike ’99, MBA ’07, have two young children Anthony (10) and Sophia (8). Mike also works at the University holding various human resources roles since 2007. Her hobbies include travel, reading and engaging with St. Andrew Greek Orthodox Church and the children’s St. Pius X Catholic School.

It will be a pleasure to introduce Mary to everyone and I know you will give her a warm welcome to our team.

Best,

Sharon

Lauren Brown (lbrown22) and her husband, Stephan, were married this past weekend in Mishawaka and celebrated shortly after with a reception for family and friends. Congratulations to the happy couple as they enjoy their honeymoon!

-Brandon Tabor

To:      University Relations

CC:      Controller’s Office

From:  Stacy Koebel-Harder

Date:   June 21, 2019

Re:      June 30, 2019 Year End Close

In order to properly account for pledges and gifts through June 30, 2019 please keep in mind the following items:

Gifts/Pledges

• Gifts in the form of cash and wires need to be received by the University by June 30, 2019 (in hand or post marked) and need to be delivered to Donor Services by noon, July 3, 2019.
• Gifts in the form of securities should be in the University’s investment by Friday, June 28, 2019 to be considered a FY19 gift.
• Gifts sent to the lockbox with postmarks through June 30, 2019 will be processed by the end of day, July 3, 2019.
• FY19 pledges with the appropriate supporting documentation should be to Donor Services by noon, July 3, 2018 for FY19 processing.
• Gifts and pledges received on July 1st for FY20 will be processed on July 5, 2019 and reflected in July 6^th

Reporting

• The Daily Transaction Report delivered on the mornings of July 1 through July 5, 2019 will reflect FY19 transactions only.

Please let us know if you have any questions.  Happy Fiscal Year End!