Class Notes Update
Historically, Xavier’s Class Notes has been featured in our Connections magazine. In a conscious effort to go green and maintain Xavier’s STEAM goals, Class Notes is now available online. Similarly, in order to maintain continuity as well as keep our community informed the featured notes will be updated twice a year (January and July). As the feature note is updated the prior will be archived as a viewable PDF available at all times. Class Notes featured prior to May 2017 are available through our Office of Alumnae Relations and are physically archived on campus in the Xavier Archive.
Help us keep our featured lists updated and accurate by updating your information and by contacting Polly Bayless Fitz-Gerald ’68 our Director of Alumnae Relations.
Polly Bayless Fitz-Gerald ’68
Alumnae Relations
alumnae@xcp.org - 602.240.3131
Jenny Butts McKone and husband Tommy welcomed Mack Dawson on August 23rd. He joins brothers Brady and Teddy.
Ashley Menne, currently a junior at Arizona State University, won her third Arizona Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. It puts her in elite company, joining fellow Xavier alumna Heather Farr and Tui Selvaratnam, Xavier’s Golf Coach and Associate Athletic Director.
Tatum Zale was honored by the Greater Arizona Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals as the Emerging Fundraiser of the Year. She works for FSL, Foundation for Senior Living.
The Xavier ambassadors at the BVM 190th Anniversary Celebration in Dubuque, Iowa in June. Two pictures!
Deanne Poulos hosted a theater preview event for the upcoming The Truth About Winnie Ruth Judd. Pictured here are a group of Xavier alumnae attending.
Dear Xavier friends Ginny Tiffany Sweeney ’53 and Maggie Romley Mikkelson ’51 visit on a regular basis.
Monica Madden is working as a political reporter for KXAN, the NBC station in Austin. She’s been covering state politics in the Lone Star State since 2021 after covering state politics and the Iowa caucuses in Des Moines at the NBC station (WHO-TV) there for two years. She got a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, where Monica developed a deep passion for holding the powerful to account and informing the public in a non-biased, factual manner.
Bella Leonard was named Gatorade Player of the Year.
Kathryn “Kat” O’Neal is a mother, an international finance attorney and an advocate for women’s empowerment. Her 24-year-old son was born while she was a law student, which may explain his love for legislative history, but which does not explain his love for physics. Since graduating from XCP, Kathryn has gone dancing on five continents, and her poetry has been published in four literary journals. Find her poetry on Instagram @wordsbykathryn.
Lynn Bruni-Perkins and Maridela Cerini Siethofs celebrate old times in California.
Congratulations to Sister Margie Meckley, BVM and Sister Patrcia Tang, BVM, two of the Diamond Jubilarians who will celebrate 70 years in the BVM community this fall. Both are from the Xavier Class of 1953!
Kristin Isbell Maller and Mariefe Nellas enjoying the Fourth of July in Pinetop, Arizona.
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