Hello Colleagues,

Our Mission:  Possible meetings may seem like ages ago! During these meetings, we tracked the overall progress of each “new” team in the Team Challenge. The top team would be awarded a FABULOUS prize and be recognized by all, far and wide. We are happy to announce that the EAST COAST REGION wins top honors for success in all three categories of production, unrestricted, and leadership gifts. GEORGE WEST and his team including CHRIS BAGUER, TOM CUMMINGS, JILL DONNELLY, BILL DOYLE, RON LINCZER, TOM MOLNAR, BOB MORTON, DARRELL PAULSEN, and PIER WHITE will enjoy a happy hour with our fearless leader LOU NANNI at a local establishment of the team’s choosing.

Before we get too far into the 2020 fiscal year, let’s pause to recognize the colleagues who achieved 100% of their goal in the following areas:

PRODUCTION:

MIKE BROWN, BRIDGET GILMAN, GIOVANA HEETER, LYNN HUBERT, TARA REILLY, TOM CUMMINGS, JILL DONNELLY, BOB MORTON, KEN HENDRICKS, TJ PILLARI, MICHELLE SHAKOUR, JEFF FERSCH, JESSE MEYER, DAN SANTUCCI, HENRY SCROOPE, RAY HERRING, JANET JESSUP, BILL KEMPF, STEVE SOLLMANN, AARON WALL, GEORGE DUKE, RILEY KOVAL, and TONY ROBERTS.

UNRESTRICTED:

MIKE BROWN, MELISSA LECHLITNER, SARA LIEBSCHER, BRIDGET GILMAN, GIOVANA HEETER, LYNN HUBERT, TARA REILLY, JASON SCARLETT, CHRIS BAGUER, TOM CUMMINGS, JILL DONNELLY, BILL DOYLE, TOM MOLNAR, PIER WHITE, CHRIS DETREMPE, KEN HENDRICKS, TJ PILLARI, JEFF FERSCH, MEGAN MACRI, EILEEN MURDOCK, MARY CAROL MURPHY, DAVID BALKIN, RICH REYNOLDS, BILL RIBERA, KIM BIAGINI, BRIAN GREEN, DAN SANTUCCI, HENRY SCROOPE, SEAN SHARPE, GAIL SLEVIN, BRUCE DANIELSON, RAY HERRING, JANET JESSUP, ANNE OVERLY, STEVE SOLLMANN, AARON WALL, LUKE CONWAY, RILEY KOVAL, DREW BUSCARENO, GREG DUGARD, and STU FORTENER.

Thank you for coming together and executing on a strong finish for FY2019!

Your Mission: Possible Team,

Ryan Brennan

Brian Diss

Anne Griffith

Tim Willis

Beginning Friday, July 26, at 8:00 a.m. through Sunday, July 28th, 6:00 p.m. (ET), Office of Information Technologies (OIT) systems engineers will perform an upgrade of Xtender to the latest version.

Xtender will be UNAVAILABLE during this maintenance period.

If you have any questions please contact the Development Help Desk at devhelp@nd.edu or 1-2678

Our deepest condolences to Matt and Casey Gelchion on the loss of their maternal grandmother, Helen R. McNulty on July 16th.

The full obituary can be found here: https://www.everhere.com/us/obituary-bayonne-helen-r-mcnulty-9452688.

Please keep Matt, Casey and their family in your thoughts and prayers.

Michael Loungo & Patty Kokesh

Athletics Advancement would like to welcome four new team members (Brian Benedict, Sean Carroll, Marie Labosky, and Matt Weldy) and congratulate a current staff member on a new position (Kevin Nugent).

Kevin Nugent ‘13, after serving six years as an Associate Director, will transition to a Regional Director fundraising role. In the past five years, Kevin has been instrumental in the creation and execution of stewardship programming and marketing materials for Athletics benefactors.

Joining Kevin as Regional Directors on the Athletics Advancement team will be Brian Benedict ’13 and Marie Labosky ‘04.

Brian transitions to the team after serving two successful years as an Associate Director in Annual Giving, where he raised critical funds for Giving Societies. Prior to that role, Brian was instrumental in the sales of Notre Dame Stadium club and loge seating as a member of the Legends team.

Marie returns to Notre Dame as a 2004 graduate and four-year monogram winner on the women’s swim team. For the last six years, she has excelled in a sales and marketing role with Speedo, based out of Philadelphia.

As regional assignments and metro areas of coverage for Brian, Kevin and Marie are finalized, we will share them with the larger UR team.

Also as you may be aware, we are integrating the Monogram Club into Athletics Advancement, and are fortunate to have Matt Weldy ’09 (IU), the Executive Director of the Monogram Club, leading those efforts. Matt will lead and oversee all engagement, strategic initiatives, and Club activities for over 9,000 Monogram winners and team participants. Matt has served the Monogram Club since 2015 when he came on staff as an Associate Director, and prior to that role served in the Camps Office for Athletics.

Sean Carroll ’02 (IU) has been a part of the Notre Dame family since 2004, working in various roles with Athletics Communication, and in recent years, the Monogram Club. He will transition to serve both the Monogram Club and Athletics Advancement as the Associate Director leading the teams’ efforts in communications, marketing, and storytelling. He will also work to coordinate the organization’s efforts to work with other Development and Athletics partners in areas such as stewardship and event management.

Congratulations and welcome to Sean, Matt, Marie, Brian and Kevin on their new roles with our team. We are excited to see your talents at work in advancing Notre Dame’s mission through the vehicle of Athletics.

—Sara Liebscher
SR. DIRECTOR, ATHLETICS ADVANCEMENT

I am excited to announce that Leah Corachea has accepted a new role as Associate Director, Annual Giving. In this role as a fundraiser within Annual Giving, Leah will meet and work with benefactors in targeted areas to increase giving society revenue.

Leah is a 2014 graduate of Notre Dame. She has been working in Development since August 2014 and most recently as Assistant Director, ND Listens & ND Parents. Her extraordinary work ethic and dedication to Our Lady’s mission will ensure her success in this new role.

Please join me in congratulating Leah!

All my best,

Ashley Gerard

Staff,