President:
Emilie DesJardins '05
Cell-269-861-1907
Email -
emiledes@gmail.com
Vice President:
Cynthia Rodriguez '05
cyndi226@hotmail.com
Treasurer:
Maura Nugent Bardsley '77
6329 Ryeworth Drive
Frisco, TX 75035
Home - 972-390-8441
E-mail - mabards@yahoo.com
Book Club Coordinator:
Lettie K. Albright '83 (Jon Muckley)
817 808-7811
lalbright@twu.edu
How to Join this Club:
Call or email one of the club officers with your:
• name
• address
• phone number
• email address
Dues for the Dallas Club are paid once a year and the costs are:
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2004 & Earlier Graduates - You Decide!
~ $25 - Regular Membership
~ $50 - Gold Level Membership
~ $100 - Platinum Level Membership
• 2005 - 2009 Graduates - FREE
Please make checks payable to Saint Mary's College Alumnae
Club of Dallas. Mail checks to the club's treasurer.
Dues are used to pay for the printing of invitations and postage.
Dues pay for serving you, the SMC alumnae, as well as prospective students
through event planning, i.e., the yearly Student Send-Off and the Dallas
Scholarship Fund.
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Saint
Mary's Dallas/Fort Worth Alumnae Book Club Reading List
Below is a list of
all the books that have been read since 2001.
Now, if you need a book to read you can refer to this handy list!
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Gundersloh
Jewel
Brett Lott
Midwives
Chris Bohjalian
Jazz
Toni Morrison
Big Stone Gap
Adriana Trigiani
Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
The Reader
Bernard Schlink
Moghul Buffet
Cheryl Benard
Empire Falls '
Richard Russo
A
Bigamist's Daughter
Alice McDermott
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
The
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The
Nanny Diaries
Emma
McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Mary
Called Magdalene Margaret George
The
Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides
Life
of Pi
Yann Martel
One Thousand White Women....
Jim Fergus
Sideways
Rex Picket
Angry
Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik
The
Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The
Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
A
Woman's Education
Jill Ker Conway
Wild
Swans
Jung Chang
The
Weight of Water Anita Shreve
Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
My
Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult
The
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards
Female
Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy
Then
We Came to the End Joshua Ferris
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
The Divide
Nicholas Evans
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
On Chesil Beach
Ian McEwan
Water for Elephants
Sarah Gruen
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson
A Thousand Slendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Girls in Trucks
Katie Crouchi
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffengegger
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins |
Book Club
The January book club selection is The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins and will be held January 31 at the home of Andrea Schweitzer. If you'd like to get emails on upcoming book club meetings, send us an email at smcdfwclub@gmail.com
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Christmas Dinner and Mass
Our annual Christmas party was held, as our club’s tradition has been, on December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We celebrated mass, followed by a Saint Mary’s Christmas dinner at Carole Dziminski Klaudt's home.
Notre Dame Football Watching Party
We joined the Dallas/Fort Worth Notre Dame Club at their football watching party at the Fox and the Hound in Richardson as ND played Navy. We hope to do more of these next season as well.
Student Send-Off
Our annual Student Send-Off was held this year at the home of Mary Beth Beauchamp Berry '87. Her daughter, Lauren, was one of the 16 students heading to campus in the weeks following.
Book Club
In August, the book club met at the home of Jennifer Kacarab Holloran ‘92 to discuss Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch and for our most recent book, we read The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffengegger.
Wine Tasting
Alyson Miller Rau '85 hosted a wine tasting event Sunday, July 12 for our club. Everyone brought their favorite wine and we covered the labels while we tasted and picked our favorites, then revealed each wine.
Passing on the Torch: Emilie DesJardins '05 takes on the role of Club President
After 5 years of service to the Dallas-Fort Worth Alumnae Club, Andrea Sondag Schweitzer '00 is passing on the role of Club President to Emilie DesJardins '05 who has been serving as the Club's Vice President for the past year and a half. Thank you, Andrea, for your many years of service! Thank you, Emilie, for taking on the position!
Endowed Scholarship Update
In addition to the $7,500+ that had been collected up to the beginning of this year (and the $5,000 contributed by the Lilly Foundation), almost $500 more was contributed to the scholarship fund by those turning in their 2004-2005 dues checks and Christmas party R.S.V.P.s. Thanks for your continued generosity!!! At this point, these contributions permit us to award a $500 scholarship to one of our local students each year.
The Dallas Club looks forward to continued growth and we are especially interested in enticing more younger alumnae to join the club. So, if you are new to the Dallas/Fort Worth area, please do not hesitate to give one of the club officers a phone call to join the club. The club is here to serve our local alumnae and we have over 200 alumnae living in the DFW metroplex. So, go ahead and make that phone call and join the club!!
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