Spring 2012 - Mercy High School

Congratulations Mary Carol; we are so PROUD of you!
Thank you ALL for your thoughts, prayers, and cards
sent to Mary over the last six months. Please feel free to
send ‘well wishes’ to her at 8022 Valley Street Omaha, NE
68124.”
1970s
Connie Ryan ’70 received an honorary doctor of
science degree from Creighton University at the winter
commencement on December 17, 2011. Ryan is a
Creighton University board member. For 19 years, she
has been the president of Streck Laboratories.
Connie Chatwood Hull ’71 deals in antiques and her
husband, Mike, practices law while living in San Clemente,
Calif. For the first time in seven years, both their children
are back in southern California. Their daughter Michelle,
26, after graduating from Harvard magna cum laude in 2008,
attended Columbia University School of Law where she
received her Juris Doctor as a James Kent Scholar in 2011.
She is now a first year associate in the Los Angeles office
of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Their son Thomas,
23, having earned his biology degree at Harvard in 2010,
is preparing for the Medical College Admission Test while
working in two emergency rooms in Orange County, Calif.
1980s
Karen Kripal Favor ’85 is the administrative assistant in
the counseling department at Creighton Preparatory High
School in Omaha, Nebr. She has been married to Jim, her
high school sweetheart, for almost 22 years. They have
two children, twins, now 20 years old. Daniel is employed
at Alegent Health at Lakeside Hospital, and Erica is a
junior at Northwest Missouri State in Maryville, Mo.
Lisa Schneiderwind Jacoba ’85 and her family moved to
London as she will lead the human resources efforts for a
newly created business union for Western Union. She and
friends gathered
and celebrated
over the Christmas
holiday before they
moved to London.
L to R from the class of 1985: Laurie Matya Czyz,
Zibby Gillen Cambridge, Lisa Schneiderwind Jacoba,
& Jackie Hughes Latka
Margie Walsh Haik ’88 has been hired as the director
of communications for the Missionaries of the Precious
Blood, Kansas City Province. She previously worked for
12 years for St. Peter’s Parish in Kansas City as a music
teacher, then youth minister and bulletin editor. Finding
that she loved the design aspect of her bulletin duties,
she pursued a certificate in graphic design at the Kansas
City Art Institute, which she completed in 2009. The Missionaries
of the Precious Blood provincial office is located
in Liberty, Mo. and is an Apostolic Society made up of
priests, brothers, and lay companions who are dedicated to
facilitating reconciliation and renewal in the Church. She is
responsible for their website, three print publications, and
other communications from the province headquarters.
Haik lives in Kansas City, Mo. with her husband David and
children, Marian and Jonathan.
2000s
Stacia Slezak Luther ’01 shares: “We have been blessed
with our second daughter (and future Mercy Girl)!
Emmery Nadine Luther, born February 23, 2012, at 12:05
a.m. Big sister Jayci, 16-months, and Seth and I could not
be happier.”
Sarah Brandeau ’05 began the accelerated nursing
program at Creighton University this spring. “This year
is going to be challenging yet rewarding as I work towards
becoming a nurse!” said Brandeau. “I am very excited to
start this new chapter of my life.”
Maggie Waltz ’06 married Chris Myers on October
1, 2011, at St. Robert Bellarmine. Classmates who
participated in the wedding were Meredith Wright ’06,
Sarah Lang ’06, and Abbey Engstrom Jackson ’06.
Briana Jordan ’08 married
Chris Brabbin on September
21, 2011.
2010s
Tiffany Anzalone ’11 and
Madeline Jewell ’11 were
debutantes at the Omaha
Symphony Ball in December.
L to R: Madeline Jewell ’11 and
Tiffany Anzalone ’11
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