EDGECLIFF SPRING CELEBRATION 2025
This years Edgecliff Spring Event will be on Saturday, April 12th, 2025, from 4:00 - 6:30 pm in the Gallagher Student Center, Arrupe Overlook.
More details/registration coming soon.
Sister Mary Sullivan Award:
Please consider nominating a fellow Edgecliff Alum for the prestigious Sister Mary Sullivan Award. This award is given for outstanding service, in areas such as the church, family, arts, business profession, politics, or civic and charitable organizations. This service could be in public or private life through career or volunteer work.
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Questions? Please email Alumnievents@xavier.edu or call Dori Moellering at 513-745-3192.
We would like to congratulate Nancy Ochs McDonald, Last year's Sister Mary Sullivan Award recipient.
Nancy Ochs McDonald is a 1976 graduate of Edgecliff College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Magna Cum Laude. Nancy chose a life of service after graduation, becoming a social worker assisting clients entering the job market, doing home visits and assisting victims/children of abuse, sometimes putting herself in harm’s way.
When her son was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, she became deeply involved in the Tourette Association of Ohio and subsequently served as Executive Director. She was also a caseworker for the American Red Cross assisting military families and assisted fire, flood, and other disaster victims. Additionally, Nancy made an impact in her jobs at Medtronic Neurologic Technologies and most recently at Xavier University, where she worked for 15 years.
Throughout her various careers and busy family life, Nancy always found time to volunteer at places that were near and dear to her heart. Her work at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church and School has been extensive. She has served on the PTO board, has been a Sacristan and Eucharistic Minister, and chaired the church festival’s bid & buy multiple years. She served as a home visitor and call taker for St. Bartholomew St. Vincent de Paul and as a volunteer for the Mt. Healthy Alliance Food Pantry.
Nancy has also always been a huge support to her family and extended family in so many ways. She is humble, gracious and kind hearted and truly deserving of the Sullivan Award. Congratulations Nancy!
| Sr. Mary Virginia Sulivan Award Recipients | ||
| Award Year | Name | Class Year |
| 2022 | Mary Margaret Kindel | 1967 |
| 2021 | Christina K. Klocke | 1963 |
| 2020 | Sr. Victoria Vondenberger, RSM | 1968 |
| 2019 | James W. Jackson '76 & Mary Margaret Mazza Jackson '77 | 76 / '77 |
| 2018 | Martha Graf Teter | 1968 |
| 2017 | Helen Yeraout Vollman | 1970 |
| 2016 | Virginia (Jinny) Power Berten | 1962 |
| 2015 | Paula Geers McIntosh | 1971 |
| 2014 | Charlene Firstos Dittrich Hatton | 1961 |
| 2013 | Margaret A. Clark (Hornschemeier) | 1971 |
| 2012 | Patricia L. Kruse Herbold, BA | 1962 |
| 2011 | Sr. Phyllis Ann Kemper OSU | 1974 |
| 2010 | Charles H. Matthews, PhD | 1975 |
| 2008 | Kathleen Frances Byrne Kammer | 1961 |
| 2007 | Cathy Croes Tepe | 1966 |
| 2006 | Frederick LaMont Martens | 1977 |
| 2005 | Susan Rains Garry | 1957 |
| 2004 | Barbara Widmeyer Trauth | 1969 |
| 2003 | Theresa Duwel Thiemann | 1950 |
| 2002 | Adele Gratsch Lippert | 1954 |
| 2001 | Rosellen Galterio Creighton | 1971 |
| 2000 | Joan Shirley Halloran | 1950 |
| 1999 | Mary Jo Beresford | 1971 |
| 1998 | Ruth E. Meyer | 1940 |
| 1997 | Theresa Stavale Bruemmer | 1959 |
| 1996 | Bonita Neumeier | 1971 |
| 1995 | Sylvia Sieve Hendon | 1965 |
| 1994 | Not Awarded | |
| 1993 | Anne Dammarell | 1960 |
| 1992 | Mary Jo Kramer Brauner | 1964 |
| 1991 | Joeline Adams Lecture | 1969 |
| 1990 | Margo Jill Dugan Bohnert | 1964 |
| 1989 | Pat Robinson Scherer | 1953 |
| 1988 | Margie Rack Richter | 1949 |
| 1987 | Sr. Mary Ellen Buchignani, R.S.M. | 1967 |
| 1986 | Adele Pohl Corbett | 1936 |
| 1985 | Laverne Muldrow Summerlin | 1959 |
| 1984 | Betty Dierker Hagerty | 1946 |
| 1983 | Sally Bunker Fellerhoff | 1953 |
| 1982 | Sr. Elaine Charters, R.S.M. | 1954 |
| 1981 | Sally Thompson Watson | 1947 |
| 1980 | Margie Ebertz Adams | 1940 |
| 1979 | Meg (Margaret) Duwel Mazza (Bollin) | 1954 |
| 1978 | Claire Arling Cahill | 1963 |
| 1977 | Louise Meyer Doering | 1940 |
| 1976 | Sr. Mary Dolora Brinker, R.S.M. | 1936 |
| 1975 | Joanne Homan Schweer | 1945 |
| 1974 | Jean Decker Kemper | 1947 |
| 1973 | Mary Burns Bohlen | 1945 |
| 1972 | Peggy Becker Jackson | 1953 |
| 1971 | Claire Bassman Seidenfaden | 1944 |
| 1970 | Mary Imm Labelle | 1963 |
| 1969 | Marjorie Ruff Christian | 1943 |
| 1968 | Mary Overbeck Bedinghaus | 1948 |
