Alumnae Awards
Each year two awards are given to outstanding Ursuline Academy St. Louis Alumnae.
Young Alumna Serviam Award
The annual Young Alumna Serviam Award honors an outstanding alumna who through her service, leadership and achievement, embodies the Serviam spirit of an Ursuline Academy education. The annual Young Alumna Serviam Award will be presented to a young alumna at the annual Thanksgiving Liturgy on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
In the summer, you may download and print the 2013 Young Alumna Serviam Award application/nomination form.
The recipient of this honor must :
- Have graduated from UA St. Louis within the previous 10 years.
- Demonstrate a desire to serve others in her daily life through continuing service to the Academy, the Alumnae Association, or the local or national community.
- Engage others in her service mission.
- Have been changed by her lived experiences of Serviam.
Young Alumna Serviam Award Recipients:
2005 Anna Agniel Bushlack ‘99
2006 Colleen McLaughlin Clark ’00
2007 Jackie Gallo ‘99
2008 Kristine Schneider '01
2009 Erin O'Toole '03
2010 Jennifer Mohan '02
2011 Bridget Cromien '05
2012 Maggie Brueggen '08
Distinguished Alumna Award
Presented to an alumna who exemplifies in her public and private life the Christian ideals and standards of Ursuline, for distinguished service in her profession or to her community or to Ursuline Academy.
Distinguished Alumna Award Recipients:
1988 Sylvia Persow Friedman ’37
1989 Rosemary Phelan ’57
1989 Jane Mitchellette Hanneken ’48
1989 Clare Ann Maguire Wick ’69
1990 Alice Shaughnessy, OSU ’36
1990 Carol Schutz Classe ’60
1990 Maria Rodgers O’Rourke ’81
1991 Mary Viszeneki ’56
1991 Fonda M. Fantroy ’73
1992 Mary Barrett Paspalas ’69
1993 Mary Jeanne Stuever Wehner ’44
1994 Livvy Herbert Rasp ’62
1995 Sr. Carol Lehmkuhl, PO ’64
1995 Kathy J. Wilmering ’76
1996 Judy Van Cleave Chiodini ’69
1997 Marjorie “Gee” Kaiman ’62
1998 Jeanne Devaney Dennis ’33
1998 Dr. Irene Riddle ’51
1998 Mary Louise Hesse White ’78
1999 Patricia Barrett ’55
2000 Nancy Maczko Benz ’50
2001 Sally Maguire ’76
2002 Challen Cody Koch ’49
2003 June Datillo Pashia ’57
2004 Emily Byrne Newsham ’49
2005 Sr. Mary Catherine O’Gorman, CSJ ’50
2006 Margaret “Peggy” O’Neill Williams ’36
2007 Colleen Joern Vetter '83
2008 Jane Marie Blanke '73
2009 Capt. Kathy Beasley '74
2010 Kim Santen Blackford '85
2011 Rosalie Redington Duvall '60
2012 Pat Witt Harris '62 & Maureen Walsh Herrmann '77
Honorary Alumnae:
1990 Thelma Hartnett
1990 Marie Sherman
2007 Rosalie Bannister


