Milestones
Your classmates are eager to hear about you! Please share births, adoptions, marriages, employment news, retirements and other joys of life with our readers. Send your news to JOURNEYS, College of Saint Mary, 7000 Mercy Road, Omaha, Nebraska, 68106, or email news to JOURNEYS [at] CSM.edu.
New Beginnings–Marriages
Kimberly Mihulka ’09, M’10 to Benjamin Messman. Mihulka is an occupational therapist at Southlake Village Rehabilitation & Care Center in Lincoln, Neb.
Jamie Lee McDermott ’10, ’11 to Matthew Baker. McDermott is a pediatric nurse practitioner at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
Kiley Johnson ’12, M’13 to Conrad Connealy. Johnson is an occupational therapist at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha.
Joanna Drummey ’14 to Eric Weber. Drummey is an elementary special education teacher in the Council Bluffs Community School District.
Christin Molaek ’14 to Tim Zbylut. Molaek is in marketing operations at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Emily Jarecki ’15, M’16 to Kyle Varon.
Abby Miller ’16, M’17 to Wade Walters.
Class Notes
Sisters of Mercy who celebrated Jubilee years as Sisters include: Sr. Margaret Sutton ’62 (80 years); Srs. Evangela Dorris ’55 and Jeananne Sutton ’58 (75 years); Srs. Mary Ellen Devereux ’59, Helena Naviaux ’52 and Karen Yarkosky ’60 (70 years); Srs. Diane Davidson ’65, Michon Rozmajzl ’65, Susan Severin ’64 and Lisa Staudacher ’59 (60 years); and Sr. Elaine Lopez Pacheco (50 years).
Joanne Kuhl VerBockel ’55 wrote to share how much her CSM education meant to her. She is very involved in her church in Appleton, Wis.
Sofia Grochala Kock ’71 retired as principal at Holy Name Elementary School in Omaha.
Mary Kay Esser ’71 received the Archdiocese of Omaha Educator of the Year for Elementary Schools during the Archbishop’s Dinner for Education. She teaches at Mary Our Queen in Omaha.
Sybil Yutesler Finken ’72 retired as elementary music instructor at Glenwood Community School District, Glenwood, Iowa.
Sheila Griep Haggas ’74 retired as head of school at Duchesne Academy in Omaha.
Toni Watkins ’88 authored Swinging-out & Chicago Style Steppin’ into Love and Quiet as It’s Kept.
Jennifer Shuman ’93 is the program services director at Make-A-Wish Nebraska.
Michelle Copsey ’94 was named director of home care services for the Good Samaritan Society Home Care in Omaha.
Debra Brockelsby Hoag ’99 graduated with her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati for women’s health nurse practitioner program and works for Metro OB-GYN in Omaha.
Suzie Antoniak ’01 was named head volleyball coach at Elkhorn High School in Elkhorn, Neb.
Susie Spethman Sullivan ’03 was named principal at Marian High School in Omaha.
Jackie Barber D’08 was named dean of graduate nursing at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.
Sarah Miller ’15 received the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nurses for her work at CHI Health Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha.
Martine Quartey M’09 and her husband Sam are leading “Back to Our Roots A Journey to the Motherland” travel groups to Ghana, West Africa.
Cynthia Buettner Gamerl ’84, ’09 was honored with a 2015 Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award. Gamerl is an early childhood education specialist at Skinner Magnet Center in Omaha.
Dr. Kari Wade D’11 was inducted into the Northeast Community College Alumni Hall of Success. Wade taught nursing courses at CSM and served as the director of the master degree in nursing program.
In Memoriam
FACULTY, STAFF & FRIENDS
Meg Cardella, friend of the University, Feb. 3.
Sr. Elaine Delaney, RSM, June 5.
Kathleen Gurnett, former health information faculty member (mother of Patrick Gurnett ’80), July 10.
Carlynn Hartman-Kurtz, former director of career services, Sept. 1.
Barbara Rippey, former English professor, July 28.
ALUMNAE
1930s
Helen Machacek Tomek ’33, (mother of Marilyn Tomek Lindquist ’61), March 29.
1940s
Claire Schemel Hauptman ’40, April 8.
Jane Knight Tell ’42, Jan. 6.
Marjorie Thorton Wiles ’42, April 13.
Patricia McNamara ’45 (sister of Kathryn McNamara Von Seggern ’33), June 23.
Norma Jean Lock Bataillon ’46, Oct. 8.
Cecilia Stilmock Teshack ’48, Feb. 20.
1950s
Sr. Mary Norbert Flesch, RSM, ’53, Aug. 27.
Dolores McManaman Murphy ’53, May 19.
Sr. Rita Ann Podhola, RSM, ’53, July 14.
Mary Cacioppo ’57, Aug. 15.
Sr. Rita Jane McCarron, RSM, ’58, June 25.
1960s
Patricia Collins Fitzgerald ’61, April 20.
Katherine Shonka Nosal ’62, July 16.
Sr. Adele Mondragon, RSM, ’64, Oct. 10.
Sr. Lois Mary Morrissey, RSM, ’64, July 8.
Kathleen Cardwell ’66, April 27.
Joan Turner Hamilton ’67, March 7.
1970s
Kathleen Kenney Maloney ’72, June 28.
Therese McCoy Rosse ’72, July 10.
