Summer 2013 Welcome Dear Trinity Alumnae and Alumni, Families and Friends: With much joy and excitement, I am pleased to share magnificent news with you! Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Trinity alumnae and friends, we are fully engaged in the design work on the new Trinity Academic Center, with groundbreaking anticipated in early summer of 2014. ...

Trinity Accelerates Plans to Build the Trinity Academic Center $10 Million Gift from Trinity Alumna, Largest Gift in University’s History, Speeds Construction Plans President Patricia McGuire announced plans for construction of the Trinity Academic Center, a $40 million, 80,000-square foot, LEED certified building that will feature state-of-the-art science and health labs and classrooms. “Thanks to the great ...

Maria Gomez: Creating a Model of Social Change In May, Maria S. Gomez, R.N., M.P.H., gave Trinity’s 110th Commencement address. Gomez is the president, CEO and founder of Mary’s Center, established in 1988 as a clinic to provide prenatal and postpartum care to vulnerable women in D.C., especially Latin American immigrants who had migrated there. In ...

Meet Trinity’s most recent graduates Over the last year, Trinity celebrated the graduation of more than 400 women and men. These parting interviews were collected just after they graduated Jenea “Elle” Howard ‘13 – College of Arts and Sciences “Trinity has taught me the importance of the strength of the positive bonds of sisterhood, learning effectively how to ...

Campus Update Three Trinity Faculty Publish Books Three Trinity faculty, Sr. Mary Johnson, SND, Dr. Roberta Goldberg and Dr. Karobi Motira, recently published books. Sr. Mary Johnson, SND, Trinity’s distinguished professor of sociology and religious studies, published a co-authored book, New Generations of Catholic Sisters: The Challenge of Diversity by Oxford University Press. She co-wrote the text with ...

Notre Dame Chapel: Sacred Space Re-Dedicated at Reunion Hundreds of alumnae gathered in Notre Dame Chapel during Reunion weekend to honor Sr. Margaret Claydon and the Sisters of Notre Dame, and to celebrate the re-dedication and re-opening of the Chapel after several years of extensive repairs. Thanks to the great generosity of the late Mary Field Goubeau ’27, ...

A Tribute to Sr. Margaret Claydon, SND, ’45 Hundreds of alumnae and Sisters of Notre Dame gathered in Notre Dame Chapel during Reunion Weekend in June to honor Sr. Margaret Claydon ’45. Sr. Margaret was surrounded by her family when President McGuire ’74 gave the following tribute. Among all of the Sisters of Notre Dame, our guiding star, greatest ...

Remembering Fr. Vincent Mathews By President Patricia McGuire ’74 Fr. Vincent Mathews could never sit idly by while injustice ran amok, whether in the court system or politics or right here on Trinity’s campus. Revered, respected and beloved through several Trinity generations as professor and chair of the sociology department, from the late 1960s through the mid-1990s, ...