Please join the monthly Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College Senior Alumni lunch on Wednesday, September 17th, at The Kerryman Irish Bar & Restaurant (661 N Clark St).
While this lunch is hosted by the ND Senior Alumni Committee, it is open to all ages, and open to both alums and friends.
RSVP to Jim Hynan (ND ‘74) at jhynan74@gmail.com if you’d like to attend.
All Alumnae are invited to a Tailgate event on Saturday, September 20 when the Irish take on the Purdue Boilermakers! The Tailgate will take place on the University of Notre Dame's campus on the Tailgate Lawn, which is located East of Hesburgh Library and South of McCourtney Hall.
Enjoy the gameday spirit amongst your fellow Belles, and look forward to an appearance by President Katie Conboy! There will be a DJ, lawn games, photo opps and more! Food and Drink will be available from 12:00 - 2:30 p.m..
Register today to attend with your family, friends and Belles!
Tailgate Location:
The Notre Dame Tailgate Lawn is located East of Hesburgh Library and South of McCourtney Hall and just North of the ROTC building off of Library Circle. Look for the "SMC Alumnae Tailgate" Banners. Bookmark it on your maps app here.
Gameday Parking Available at Saint Mary's:
SMC offers a Pay-to-Park option of $40 per car / $80 per RV. They do NOT offer bus parking. First come/First serve. Cash and credit cards are accepted. All parking proceeds benefit Saint Mary’s College Athletics.
Shuttle Service to and from the Game:
As a thank you for parking with SMC, they provide a FREE shuttle to the campus of Notre Dame. The buses will be labeled “Saint Mary’s” in the window.
The pre-game shuttle runs in a continuous loop between two on-campus pick-up points: Spes Unica Hall and Madeleva Bus stop to McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus beginning 3 hours prior to kick off.
Postgame shuttles will begin post-game and will run for 2 hours. The shuttle will pick up where they dropped off at McKenna Hall and return to Saint Mary’s College campus.
The Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture presents An Evening with Julia Alvarez. Join Saint Mary’s College for an evening of conversation with Julia Alvarez, best-selling author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies.
This event will be streamed live via Zoom for SMC Alumnae only. The event will begin at 6:30pm CT. Check your email for the Zoom link and password or contact us for more information.
This is a ticketed event. Special discounts are also available for area educators and their students; contact hust@saintmarys.edu for more information. Tickets for this event will be available beginning August 4, 2025.
About Julia Alvarez:
Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of 10. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and 11 books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Her work was included in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.”
Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling. In 2024, she was the subject of an American Masters documentary, “Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined,” on PBS. Alvarez is one of the founders of Border of Lights, a movement to promote peace and collaboration between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She lives in Vermont.
About the Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture
Julia Alvarez joins us as part of the Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture, previously known as the Christian Culture Lecture. This lecture series has welcomed remarkable writers, historians, philosophers, and theologians to campus for more than 15 years. The Francis A. McAnaney Humanities Lecture has been endowed by a gift from the Peter B. and Adeline W. Ruffin Foundation. This continues a lecture series revived by Donald and Susan Rice ’61 in 2006 in memory of Bruno P. Schlesinger.
Read along with us this month! For October, we chose to get into the spooky spirits with a mystery - THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB by Richard Osman.
Synopsis:
The Thursday Murder Club is a jaunty and light-hearted cozy mystery focused on four friends living in a retirement village called Coopers Chase who enjoy getting together on Thursdays to investigate and solve cold cases -- the Thursday Murder Club.
One day, just before a large new development is soon to break ground in Coopers Chase, the main builder is murdered, with the killer leaving a photograph let next to the body. The Thursday Murder Club immediately gets on the case, but when another body is found, the plot thickens and the group knows they need to find the killer before it's too late!
If you would like to attend the meeting, please contact us and we will send you the address.
Come celebrate Saint Mary's College Founders’ Day with your Chicago Belles on Sunday, October 26th for a casual brunch and gathering.
We are looking for a Belle to host our Founders’ Day brunch this year. We are looking for a hostess who could open up her home and provide a nice space for Belles to gather. We will take care of everything else including catering!
If you would like to learn more, check out the recap and photos from last year’s Founders’ Day celebration!
SAVE THE DATE: Join us on November 20th for our holiday happy hour! This year, the event will be at an alumna’s home in Lake View.
We will be putting together final exam care packages for Chicago-area first years attending Saint Mary's. This is an annual tradition for the Chicago club and a fun and festive evening with your Belles.
Stay tuned for more information!
