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Trinity Announcement on the Front Lawn
Opening Remarks: 200 Years of the Sisters of Notre Dame: The
Legacy of St. Julie Billiart and The Contemporary Challenge To
Educate Girls and Women Throughout the World
Welcome: President Patricia A. McGuire
Remarks: Catholic Social Teaching: Context for Mission and Message,
John Carr, Secretary, Department of Social Development and World
Peace, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Session I: Overview of SND Ministries Worldwide
The Vision of St. Julie Billiart: Sr. Mary Daniel Turner
Ministries in Africa, Focus on the Congo: Sr. Marie-Angele Kitewo,
Congregational Leadership Team
Perspectives: Sr. Dorothy McCormick, Kenya; Sr. Mary Margaret
Pignone, South Africa; Sr. Mary Hayes,
Historical Perspective; Trinity Faculty: Dr. Minerva San Juan,
Philosophy
Session II: Concurrent Sessions: SND Models of Education
and Action for Justice
Action for Justice: The South Africa Project, Presenter: Sr.
Mary Margaret Pignone; Trinity Faculty: Dr.
Adona Wright Wimberly, Psychology
Sister Academies/Notre Dame Education Centers Washington Middle
School for Girls, Presenters: Sr. Joan Ferraro and Sr. Mary Bourdon;
Trinity Faculty: Dr. Deborah Litt, Education
Notre Dame Americorps, Presenters: Sr. Katherine Corr and Americorps
Members
Communications Outreach, Online Education, Notre Dame Virtual
School, Presenters: Sr. Kristin Hokanson, Sr. Karen Hokanson,
Sr. Maureen Griffin
Trinity Faculty: Dr. Carlota Ocampo, Psychology, Dr. William Steel,
Information Technology
Notre Dame Education Center, Presenters: Sr. Joanne Schneberger
and Sr. Joan Kerrigan
Trinity Faculty: Dr. Roberta Dorr, Education
Session III: International Perspective and Student Voices
Global Review: Dr. Robert Maguire, Director of Programs in International
Affairs
Remarks by Trinity Students on Women's Education and International
Experience
Reports from the Sr. Seton Cunneen Fellows: Eileen
Denny '07, Institute on Religion and Public Policy
Leticia Rochelle Maya-Callen
'07, Spanish Catholic Center; Khrysle
Roberts '07, N Street Village
Sanada Spellman '06, Paul
Public Charter School.
Session IV: UN Perspective on the Global Challenge of Educating
Girls
Sr. Joan F. Burke, SND, Sr. Ann Scholz, SSND, NGO Representatives
at the UN for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur/ School Sisters
of Notre Dame as Non-Governmental Organizations in Special Consultative
Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Convocation: 200 Years of Julie's Mission and Charism
Invocation, Campus Minister Barbara
Humphrey McCrabb
Welcome: Dr. Peggy O'Brien, Chair of the Board of Trustees
Greetings from the Trinity College Alumnae Association: Ms. Eileen
Maxwell, President of the Alumnae Association
Greetings by Trinity Faculty and Students: Ms. Rewa Burnham,
President of the Student Government Association; Dr. Minverva
San Juan, Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences; Dr.
V.R. Nemani, Business, School of Professional Studies; Dr.
Roberta Dorr, Education, School of Education
Trinity and the Sisters of Notre
Dame: Sr. Margaret Claydon, SND, President Emerita
Recognition of the Congregational Leadership Team and Presentation
of Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to Sr. Camilla Burns, SND:
President Patricia McGuire
Keynote Address: Sr. Camilla Burns,
SND, Congregational Leader
Closing Remarks: President Patricia McGuire
Session V: Sharing the Legacy Through New Generations
Sr. Mary Johnson, SND, Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel College,
Co-Author of Young Adult Catholics
Liturgy in Notre Dame Chapel
Celebrant: Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington
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