During the Notre Dame-Pittsburgh football game on Saturday (Oct. 9), the University will recognize a special group of alumni and staff who represented the large Notre Dame contingent who helped with the after the January earthquake in Haiti.

Léogâne, the city hit hardest by the quake, is home to the , which was founded by , a professor of biological sciences, to eradicate lymphatic filariasis. Also volunteering in Léogâne are members of Emil’s Army, medical professionals who are former chemistry students of Professor Emeritus Emil T. Hofman.

While the earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city’s buildings, the Notre Dame structure remained standing and became command central for the entire region. Notre Dame was part of a critical team and relied on the efforts of alumni and staff to get food, water and medical supplies to the town.

Among those to be recognized on the field is Dr. Ralph Pennino, a 1975 graduate of Notre Dame who—just days after the earthquake—mobilized a network of alumni medical professionals and set up a makeshift trauma hospital in Léogâne. In the first few months after the devastation, the volunteer doctors treated more than 25,000 people, performed more than 700 surgeries, and delivered more than 250 babies.

To learn more about how Notre Dame continues to support Haiti in its rebuilding efforts, visit .

The University of Notre Dame honored the achievements of two Notre Dame graduates with awards this month.

Capt. Wendy Sue Kosek, a 2004 graduate and 2007 graduate of the Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ, received the Rev. William Corby, C.S.C., Award for distinguished military service.

An assistant staff judge advocate at the 316th Wing, Joint Base in Andrews, Md., Kosek graduated magna cum laude from the University with a bachelor’s degree in English and computer applications. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve and accepted an education delay to attend the Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ. After graduation, Kosek joined the Little Rock Air Force Base legal office as an assistant staff judge advocate before being deployed in June 2009 to Baghdad, Iraq. Just two months into her deployment to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, Kosek’s convoy was struck by an improvised explosive projectile, and she sustained significant injuries to her face, hands and leg, requiring multiple surgeries.

Kosek was awarded the Purple Heart, an Air Force Combat Action Medal and a Joint Service Commendation Medal for her service.

Victor Dukay, a 1978 Notre Dame graduate, was presented the Thomas A. Dooley Award for his outstanding service to humankind, specifically for his work with HIV/AIDS and improving the lives of orphaned children in Africa.

Dukay is the president and project director for the Lundy Foundation, an organization he founded in 1991 to assist local HIV/AIDS service providers. Recognizing the impact the Lundy Foundation was making in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Dukay was approached by another nonprofit organization that sought his help in developing an HIV/AIDS service program in Africa. The Lundy Foundation is now committed to helping Africans design and implement community-based projects that address the effects of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable children and women.

Currently, Dukay volunteers with an international group working in cooperation with the World Health Organization, South African leaders, the U.S. State Department, and other international foundations to effectively stop the transmission of HIV in Africa within seven years.

The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association has launched a new online program, “Tender, Strong, and True: Living the Gospel Daily,” which enables alumni, parents and friends to engage in spiritual discussions with University faculty and other expert members of the faith community live via the Internet.

The series kicked off with a discussion titled “Persevering in Prayer: Getting It Started and Keeping It Going.” Panelists included Rev. Brian Daley, the Catherine F. Huisking Chair in Theology, and Tami Schmitz, assistant director of spirituality for Notre Dame Campus Ministry. Monsignor Michael Heintz, director of Notre Dame’s Master of Divinity program, served as moderator.

“With this program, our aim is to use Scripture as a tool for contemplation and dialogue—how to take the seeds of our faith and apply them to enrich our lives,” said Kathleen Sullivan, the Alumni Association’s senior director of spirituality and service. “Topic experts and faculty from various University departments lead the conversations.”

Each “Tender, Strong, and True” broadcast will be aired live online via UStream, a platform for video streaming of events. Users simply type the address into their Internet browsers to access the program.

Once logged on, audience members will enjoy a high quality, TV-like viewing experience that allows them the opportunity to interact with panelists via Twitter, Facebook or other online social media. Those who cannot participate in live broadcasts may view videos of the events, which are archived on the Notre Dame Ustream site.

Each interactive broadcast is dedicated to one topic that will be discussed at length among a panel of University faculty and expert members of the faith community. Discussion topics include life balance, work satisfaction and life purpose.

The next broadcast, titled “Confronting Job Loss: Finding Christian Hope,” will air at 8 p.m. on March 14 (Sunday). The discussion will contemplate the effect unemployment has on the psyche with regard to feelings of fear, futility and worthlessness. Panelists will discuss how we can experience the real presence of God in our lives, His hand directing us and leading us to true success, and whether it is possible that such oppressive times can become huge opportunities to re-shape our beliefs and to live from a place of authenticity.

Monsignor Heintz again will moderate the panel, which will include James Davis, the John F. O’Shaughnessy Professor in Family Business, and Christine Heslin Powers, a former executive and a 1990 Notre Dame graduate.

For a complete schedule of future broadcasts, as well as archived broadcasts, visit .

Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, University of Notre Dame Alumni Association, 574-631-6724, Sullivan.6@nd.edu

The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association, in collaboration with the University’s Career Center, Mendoza College of Business and Notre Dame Law 91��Ƶ, has established ONWARD: Alumni Career Development, a comprehensive career and networking program.

The ONWARD Web site () provides tools for job seekers and those looking to network with other alumni. It includes job postings, webinars on career topics, links to articles, and access to the alumni mentor program. In addition, there are career advisors available to answer questions and provide guidance.

The program’s main components include the following:

• Career Catalyst provides step-by-step guides and resources to help alumni define their career interests, set goals, market themselves, advance their careers and achieve professional satisfaction. It includes career searches, self-marketing campaigns, networking techniques and tips on maintaining a healthy working environment.
• The Notre Dame Alumni Group on the LinkedIn networking site has grown to more than 10,000 members. The space allows alumni to post profiles, resumes and cover letters that they can then make available to prospective employers, who can post positions for job seekers through the same system.
• Search engines include Indeed and OneWire, both of which are available through ONWARD. In addition, CareerShift is an innovative search engine that allows alumni to search jobs across all boards alongside up-to-date contact information for the companies. The site includes a “school attended” search field through which alumni can locate industry professionals or employees who are Notre Dame graduates.
• The Savvy Landings series of online video seminars provide easy access to job information.

The ONWARD Web site also features a calendar of events for upcoming educational seminars across the country, and alumni can register to work with one of 4,000 Notre Dame alumni mentors.

Assistance with navigating ONWARD is available by sending an e-mail message to onward@alumni.edu or by calling 206-350-3949.

Contact: Marc Burdell, 574-631-8467, or mburdell@nd.edu

The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association recently launched a new initiative called ND Women Connect, which provides opportunities for women graduates to enhance their personal and professional relationships and make valuable contributions to Notre Dame, their local communities and causes that inspire them.

ND Women Connect, which is facilitated through local Notre Dame clubs, currently has chapters located in Washington, D.C., Denver, Chicago and Detroit.

“Our women graduates have told us they face challenges integrating their work life with the rest of their life,” said Dolly Duffy, associate executive director of the Alumni Association. “We created ND Women Connect to provide a channel for our alumnae to help one another. One of its unique features is that each chapter has the flexibility to decide what type of programming will best serve its members. Whether it is professional networking, book clubs, moms and babies playgroups, happy hours or retreats, ND Women Connect recognizes that our alumnae have a common bond based on shared values and backgrounds that is worth cultivating to help ND women reach their full potential.”

Each chapter hosted events in May to celebrate the initiative, and the national steering committee also will do so by hosting a “Work-life Balance” seminar in conjunction with Notre Dame’s Alumni Reunion on campus. The seminar will take place Friday (June 5) at 2:30 p.m. in the Browning Cinema of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Presenters will be Duffy and Brenda Torres, a 1994 graduate and partner at Crowe-Horwath.

In addition, ND Women Connect, together with the University’s Gender Relations Center, will host a special reception in honor of Sister Jean Lenz, O.S.F., former special assistant to the vice president of Student Affairs at Notre Dame, who recently retired after 35 years of service to the University. A reception will be held after the seminar at 3:45 p.m. on the Irish Green terrace at the DeBartolo Center.
Additional information on ND Women Connect is available by visiting womenconnect.undgroup.org.

Contact: Karen Conway, director of academic programs, Notre Dame Alumni Association, 574-631-5940, Conway.57@nd.edu

In conjunction with the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association’s Reunion 2009, alumni will be honored for current and past military service during a flag retreat ceremony at 3 p.m.
June 5 (Friday) at the Pasquerilla Center (ROTC building). In case of rain, the ceremony will move inside the Loftus Sports Center.

Brig. Gen. Philip Volpe, a 1977 Notre Dame graduate and deputy commander of the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region Medical at Bethesda Naval Base, will serve as guest speaker.

A recipient of the Alumni Association’s Corby Award for distinguished military service, Volpe was awarded the Army Commendation Medal in honor of his heroic actions with the 2nd Ranger Battalion during their airborne assault on Rio Hato Airfield in Panama through Operation Just Cause. As the command surgeon during Task Force Ranger operations in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 (also known as “Black Hawk Down”), Volpe applied his expertise in joint medical operations and combat casualty care to save several critically wounded soldiers.

Volpe has held high ranking leadership positions throughout his career, including chief of the Department of Family Medicine at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, commander of the 62nd Medical Brigade at Fort Lewis, and assistant surgeon general for force projection at the Pentagon.

Volpe’s many personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Global War On Terrorism Service Medal, Korean Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, and Korean Order of National Security Merit Medal.

A reception will follow the ceremony and will include the dedication of a Class of 1959 memorial plaque in honor of classmates who died in service to the United States during the Vietnam War.

Missy Conboy, a 1982 graduate and longtime University employee, received the James E. Armstrong Award for distinguished service to Notre Dame.

The University’s deputy director of athletics, Conboy came to Notre Dame in 1987 when she joined the staff as assistant athletic director. She also has served as senior associate athletic director, associate athletic director, assistant athletic director and interim director of athletics.

A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Conboy was a four-year member of the Notre Dame women’s basketball team and led the team as a senior captain. She received her law degree from the University of Kansas in 1985. She then became an enforcement representative for the NCAA and spent two years in that capacity, investigating infraction reports and processing cases for the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions.

In her current position, Conboy is responsible for overseeing the legal affairs of the athletics department as well as the master plans for facilities, human resources and legal contracts. In addition to her role as liaison to the Athletic Affairs Committee and the Board of Trustees, Conboy is the sport administrator for volleyball, women’s tennis and men’s and women’s swimming, fencing and rowing programs.

Throughout her career at Notre Dame, Conboy has overseen NCAA compliance and event management for the athletics department. She served as a member of the NCAA’s Legislative Review, Interpretations and Men’s Tennis Committees, and was instrumental in bringing the 1994 Division I Men’s Tennis Championships and 1998 Division I Women’s Tennis Championships to Notre Dame. In addition, she has chaired the Big East Senior Women’s Administrators’ Committee; served on the Academic Honors, Finance, Volleyball, Executive and Championships Committees; and recently was appointed to serve on the Committee on Infractions and the Executive Committee of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

The Rev. Louis J. Putz, C.S.C., Award was presented to Arthur C. Frericks, a 1950 Notre Dame graduate and former student of Father Putz, for his exemplary dedication to improving the lives of others.

The father of five adopted children with the help of Catholic Charities, Frericks held top leadership positions with the Catholic Charities in Fort Wayne, Ind., and was instrumental in building a Catholic nursing home in the city and establishing its first lay board.

In the 1990s, Frericks brought the spiritual practice of the Centering Prayer to numerous parishes. He trained seven parishes in his diocese, and ultimately wrote a book on Centering Prayer—an effort to empower the laity in their prayer life. Frericks also started the first finance committee in the country to establish a social security system for priests.

More recently, Frericks made a significant donation to Notre Dame’s Basilica of the Sacred Heart—a bronze statue of Saint Peter that was used as the model to create the Vatican’s Saint Peter statue. In addition, Frericks donated monies to establish http://pray.nd.edu —now a focal point for alumni to connect to a life of prayer from Notre Dame— and his ideas were foundational in establishing the Web site’s mission, design and outreach.

The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association will present the Notre Dame Outstanding Educator Award to Joy Michnowicz Anderson, a 1996 graduate, at this years Excellence in Teaching conference Friday to Sunday (Oct.17 to 19) on campus.

For the past 10 years, Anderson has been a member of the faculty at Saint Francis High 91��Ƶ, a Holy Cross school, in Mountain View, Calif., where she teaches English, serves as chair for the English department and coaches swimming.She also works with outreach students who have limited educational opportunities and support at home.

Anderson wrote and developed a curriculum for aresource labto provide outreach students with one class period to catch up with the rest of the student body and practice the skills necessary for success in life and learning.Because of her dedication and commitment to these students, she received Saint FrancisHoly Cross Educator Award.

Before joining the faculty at Saint Francis, Anderson received her masters degree from the University of Portland in 1998.She then spent two years in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) teaching program in Birmingham, Ala.

During her time at Notre Dame, Anderson served as captain of the womens swim team and received the Knute Rockne Award for her leadership.

The Outstanding Educator Award is given annually to a Notre Dame graduate who has been active in classroom teaching for at least five years.Award winners are not only outstanding teachers, but also serve as models in competency and character to students and colleagues.

The Excellence in Teaching conference welcomes K-12 teachers and administrators from public, Catholic and private schools nationwide.It provides educators with practical applications and inspiration to take back to their schools and classrooms.

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Joan Lennon, wife of Notre Dame Alumni Association executive director Chuck Lennon and a leader in the fight against breast cancer, recently was named an honorary alumna of the University.

Lennon joins an exclusive group of 38 people who have been designated honorary alumni, considered one of the most prestigious awards presented by Notre Dame.Honorees are non-Notre Dame graduates who are chosen because of their unique contributions that singularly qualify them for special recognition as members of the Notre Dame family.

A graduate of the College of St. Francis in Joliet, Ill., Lennon earned her masters degree from Indiana University and has lived in South Bend for 40 years.In 1976, she co-founded Shamrock Pre-91��Ƶ, which remains in existence today.

In 1994, Lennon was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Joans experience with treatment and survivorship was the impetus that motivated her to become a leader in the fight against breast cancer,said Louis M. Nanni, vice president for University Relations.She has embraced the opportunity, not only to provide education to others, but also to serve as a mentor to those who are facing the same challenge she faced.

In 2001, Lennon founded the Womens Task Force of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend.The Task Force, of which Lennon serves both as director and an active participant, is a volunteer group that provides support for cancer patients in St. Joseph County.With the help of the programs annual Secret Sisters Style Show luncheon, the Task Force has raised more than $400,000 that will be used to fund mammograms for women who cannot afford them.All funds raised through the program are dedicated to the needs of local women.

Married for 48 years, the Lennons have five children and 14 grandchildren.

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Two University of Notre Dame graduates received special awards from the Notre Dame Alumni Association during Reunion 2008 ceremonies on campus.

John T. Goldrick , atriple domerand longtime University employee from Portland, Ore., received the Rev. John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C., Award for distinguished service to Notre Dame.

Goldrick earned his bachelors degree in 1962, masters degree in 1970 and law degree in 1984.A Notre Dame employee for more than 20 years, he began as an admissions and guidance counselor, then served as director of admissions before becoming an associate vice president for residence life.Currently, he is vice president for enrollment management and student life at the University of Portland.

As Notre Dames director of admissions, Goldrick designed and directed the Universitys undergraduate student recruitment and selection processes and saw the Universitys applicant pool swell from 3,000 to 7,000 prospective students.He also chaired the University Committee on Admissions and Scholarships.As associate vice president for residence life, he monitored all facets of student residential life.In this role, he also functioned as acting vice president for student affairs and assisted in managing the $3.5 million budget operation for the student affairs division.

Goldrick served for five years as country director for the Peace Corps in Ghana and Kenya before accepting his position at Portland.He and his wife, Jacqueline, have three children: Sean and Shaheen, who were graduated from Notre Dame in 1993 and 1994, respectively, and Shannon, a 2001 Portland graduate.

The Rev. Edward Frederick Sorin, C.S.C., Award was presented to Dr. Salvatore J. LaPilusa , an orthopedic surgeon, 1941 Notre Dame graduate and benefactor, for distinguished service to the University.

LaPilusa established an endowed scholarship in memory of his wife of 35 years, Lorraine.Since its creation, the LaPilusa Scholarship has benefitted more than 70 undergraduate students.He also recently funded the physiology wing in the Jordan Hall of Science.Beyond the Notre Dame campus, he founded the Lorraine M. LaPilusa Cancer Treatment Center at Bayonne Medical Center in New Jersey, which allows patients to be treated locally rather than having to travel to New York for treatment, as did his wife.

Born in Bayonne to parents who immigrated to America from Italy in 1914, LaPilusa earned a bachelors degree from Notre Dame in 1941 and his medical degree from Loyola Medical 91��Ƶ in Chicago.Following his military service in a M.A.S.H. unit during the Korean War, LaPilusa started a practice in Bayonne, where he became a well-respected bone surgeon.

LaPilusa belongs to several orthopedic societies, including the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, the Eastern Orthopedic Society, and the Irish American Orthopedic Society in Ireland.Partially retired, he now travels to Third World countries, including Vietnam, Indonesia, Bhutan and Bangladesh to work with young orthopedic doctors and learn about their cultures.

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