For Immediate Release
June 28, 2007
Contact:   Melanie McDonald, director of media relations, 574-284-4579

Saint Mary's College Senior Serves on Board of Trustees

NOTRE DAME, Ind.--The Saint Mary's College Board of Trustees welcomes Catherine "Cate" Cetta as one of two new members. Cetta, a Saint Mary's College senior and 2004 graduate of Downers Grove North High School, will serve a one-year term as the board's student trustee.

Over the past three years at Saint Mary's College, Cetta has participated in student government, political science club, campus ministry as a Eucharistic minister and lector, and on the University of Notre Dame figure skating team. She spent a year studying abroad in Rome during her sophomore year and held an internship at South Bend's NBC affiliate WNDU-TV during her junior year. She is spending her summer interning at Women for Women International in Washington, D.C.

Cetta is a political science and history double major, and hopes to pursue graduate studies in communications after commencement in May 2008.

Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind., is a four-year, Catholic, women's institution offering five bachelor's degrees and more than 30 major areas of study. Saint Mary's College has six nationally accredited academic programs; a large number for a school of 1550 students. The accredited programs are: social work, art, music, teacher education, chemistry and nursing. "U.S. News & World Report" ranks Saint Mary's #1 among Midwest Comprehensive Colleges offering bachelors degrees. Sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, the College was founded in 1844.

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