Rose Philippine Duchesne Award

In celebration of the canonization of our school’s foundress, the Alumni Association initiated the practice of conferring an award on an alum who has distinguished him or herself in areas of loyalty, service and exemplary community involvement since graduating from the Academy. This special degree of recognition has become an annual feature of the spring Congé Reunion.

In 2012 there will be two recipients of the Duchesne Award honored at the Congé Reunion on June 9.

  • Sister Mary Loretta Busch ’56 was chosen to receive the award last year but was unable to be present on the date of the Congé and so her presentation was postponed to this year.
  • Another member of the Class of 1956, Marlene Schultehenrich Schneider, will be this year’s recipient of the award.  Marlene attended the Academy in grade school, and Sister Busch was a high school student here.
2010 Mary Pat Thro, RSCJ ’55
 
2009 Conchy Fajardo-Hopkins ’69  
2008 Elizabeth (Eleanor) Mayer, CSC ’63  
2007 Laura Weber Haeusser ’77  
2006 Rachel Groneck ’88  
2005 Ann Thirolf Spieth ’70  
2004 Joan Cotter Frigillana ’62  
2003 Ann Johannesman Tollefson  
2002 Beverly Zoellner Groneck ’69  
2001 Theresa Grass ’67  
2000 Mary Lou Denker Becker ’34  
1999 Catherine Holmes Broyles ’49  
1998 Helen Rosenthal, RSCJ ’48  
1997 Mary Dean Wilmes Glosier ’50  
1996 Lucy Rauch ’68  
1995 Kathie O’Sullivan ’48  
1994 Kathleen Burkemper Hopper ’57  
1993 Anne Zerr, M.D. ’74  
1992 Dolly Holmes Johannesman ’50  
1991 Margaret Rafter Moffatt ’36  
1990 Gloria Meyer Dalton ’42  
1989 Anna Mae Marheineke, RSCJ ’34  
1988 Mary Conroy ’29