Hello everyone,

I am sad to announce that Ben Lemery will be leaving the Alumni Association – his last day will be Friday, May 16^th. I am glad to report Ben has an excellent opportunity with the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan where he will be working with their regional alumni clubs.

Ben has done an outstanding job supporting the NDSA and diversity groups as well as our young alumni and student programs area.  Over the last three years he has built very good relationships with many of our volunteer leaders and was also instrumental in exceeding our Study Break and Care Packages goals for FY 2014.

Please join me in congratulating Ben and wishing him well with this exciting opportunity.

Thanks,

Mike Brown , Assistant Director, Alumni Groups

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that Matt Klawitter will assume the new role of Campaign Program Director, effective Monday, May 12, 2014.

As part of the Campaign Administration team, Matt will work closely with Julia Sama, Heather Hakanen, and me on nearly all aspects of the Boldly Notre Dame campaign – packaging campaign priorities, strategizing both internal and external campaign-related communications, and creating high impact events (in collaboration with our donor engagement team). Matt will serve as the key architect and project manager for a number of key campaign engagement activities, including the Campaign Inaugural which launches the public phase of the campaign, the regional events hosted throughout the public phase and the creation of the faculty/staff internal campaign (in partnership with our Annual Giving team).  In addition, Matt will research, create and oversee any campaign matching programs we deploy during the campaign.

Matt brings an aptitude for building teams and developing engagement strategies. Prior to this new role, Matt served as Director of Digital Communications for Northwestern’s Alumni Relations and Development Department, and Executive Director, Digital, at Washington University in St. Louis.

As a longtime resident of South Bend and former Notre Dame employee, Matt knows the Notre Dame culture and community very well. He served as Director of the Notre Dame Web Group from 2003 to 2008, working closely with our development team on the Spirit of Notre Dame campaign public phase communications strategy and website.

Matt earned his Bachelor of Arts in Germanic Studies with a minor in Sociology from Indiana University.

I owe special thanks to the UR Recruiting team and the search committee for their support and insights during this hiring process.

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Matt, his wife Erin ’01, and their daughter, Zoe, back to the South Bend community, and into this important new role.

Shannon Cullinan

Dear Colleagues –

I am delighted to share that Elizabeth Hasse has accepted the Consultant position within Information Strategy effective May 19th. Elizabeth has been a Notre Dame employee since September of 2009.  She joins Development from Notre Dame’s Office of Research where she served as the Assistant Director of Research Business Intelligence.  Prior to joining Notre Dame, Elizabeth held positions of increasing responsibility in Decision Support and Analytics in the healthcare industry.

Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Indiana University, and is a Certified Public Account (inactive status).  She has a broad working knowledge of business intelligence, business analysis, reporting, data warehouses, and query tools and brings excellent customer relationship skills to her new position.

Elizabeth and her husband Jim live in South Bend.  They have two children, Augusta and Tom, who both live and work in Indianapolis. Please join me in welcoming Elizabeth to the Information Strategy team.

Warm regards,

Cheryl Rimes, Director, Information Strategy

Dear Colleagues:

As you may recall, we hosted Scholarship Fellowship Recognition last month. Earlier today, we sent video highlights to both the donors who attended,

and those who were unable to make it. We thought our colleagues throughout the Division might want to experience these highlights too,

especially the student testimonials! See the sample email and link below.

Warm regards,

Katherine

 

Dear Jennie and Mark:

We were delighted you could join us for the Scholarship Fellowship Recognition Weekend last month. I write now to share several videos from the event.

Please use this link to view the following videos:

1)      Benefactor Awards Ceremony

2)      John Affleck-Grave’s Presentation on College Affordability

3)      Student Testimonials

• Bry Martin
• Laura Wolk
• Waleed Johnson
• Daniel Portilla
• Morgan Andrews

In Notre Dame,

Katherine Lane, Senior Director of Special Events and Stewardship

An Advisory Council member is sponsoring this production at the renovated Lerner Theatre in downtown Elkhart:

                                       Les Miserables

Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3 at 7:30 pm; Sunday, May 4 at 3 pm

Box Office: 574-293-4469      thelerner.com

Added bonus: Sean Leyes (Doug’s son) has the lead role!

Curious about opera but don’t want to jump in too deep?

Come Thursday ~ Sunday to a performance of THE CORONATION OF POPPEA at the DPAC:            http://music.nd.edu/ensembles/opera-notre-dame/

Lauren LaMore is the assistant Stage Manager with Aaron Fricke and Susan Shields in the Chorus. TJ Dean, Brian’s son, has a principal role on Thursday and Saturday nights. Antique musical instruments, costumes, singing, courtly dancing, and projected titles in English so you can understand what’s happening on stage:  it’s a golden opportunity.

 

 

Colleagues,

A shipment of 9,576 membership cards was mailed to Recognition Society members on Friday, April 11^th. Members should be receiving their cards at this time. Please contact Donor Experience at 1-5198 or donorexperience@nd.edu if you have any questions. The number of cards sent per society is:

Cardinal O’Hara Society – 400

Corby – 450

President’s Circle – 259

Cavanaugh Council – 78

Rockne Heritage Fund – 449

Sorin Society – 7,232

Thomas More – 708

Rita Udvardy

It is with great pleasure to announce Jennifer Harwell as Recruiting Coordinator.  Jen will work in close collaboration with Senior Recruiter, Ann Amico Moran.  Jen is fa graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, holding two degrees, one in Psychology and the other in Criminal Justice.  Jen began her career in Case Management for Madison Center, moved into a successful sales career in the aftermarket printer supply business  eventually taking her to California for 10 years where she helped start two different companies.  It was in the latter two roles where she gained valuable experience in hiring and recruiting.  Jen currently resides in Granger with her 4 year old son, Devin, boyfriend Matt, a dog and two cats.  Please join me in congratulating Jen!

Ann Amico Moran, Senior Human Resource Recruiting Consultant

Dear University Relations colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that effective April 28, Tim Willis will join the University Relations team as Senior Director of Organizational Effectiveness.

Tim joins the University having spent the previous 25 years with UBS / PaineWebber, where he served in a multitude of key leadership roles, including Head of Corporate Real Estate, Eastern Division Chief Operating Officer, Head of Security Services, and Head of Sales Development. Prior to his time with UBS / PaineWebber, Tim was employed by Thomson McKinnon Securities and Arthur Andersen & Co. (CPA).

Tim is a committed leader and serves as Vice Chairman on the Andean Health & Development Advisory Board, and is an Advisory Board member of the University’s “Play Like a Champion Today” Program.

A 1984 graduate of The University of Notre Dame, Tim is a dedicated father and with his wife Sue (ND ’86) they share the joy of their two sons, Mike (Princeton ’14) and Brian (ND ’16).

Please join me in welcoming Tim to our team!

Micki Kidder

Please consider joining the Notre Dame Alumni Association for our Holy Week Prayer Service on Wednesday, April 16^th at 12:15 p.m.  We will gather at the Grotto for a simple Stations of the Cross prayer, followed by the invitation to pray quietly the prayers that will be submitted to us from alumni, parents, and friends.  If you would like to submit prayers, please visit this link to submit prayer requests.

If you would like to assist in reading one of the Stations, or if you have questions please contact Angie Appleby Purcell at apurcel1@nd.edu.