Join us for our SMC Romance/Fantasy Book Club! Our traditional book club has been meeting monthly for over a decade (and will continue to do so!), but we're exploring this niche interesting club based on popularity and demand.
For this first meeting, don't let it stop you from joining if you aren't able to read or finish reading--just be prepared for spoilers!
📖 Book: Power of Draken by Alex Lidell
💌 Host & Discussion Leader: Amelia Crowe '23
Please RSVP below if you’d like to attend!
Join us for our SMC/Chicago Talks Zoom Series! This is a virtual series where we will feature Belles from all years, industries and backgrounds to speak on topics you want to learn about and give advice. Each zoom webinar will be one hour and include a discussion from our featured Belle and a Q&A.
Speaker:
Rose Baldonado ‘19, Lead Recruiter, Motion Recruitment
Topic:
Attend this webinar to hear from a recruiter on:
How to clearly communicate your value
How to stand out in a crowded market
Where AI helps & hurts you in the process
All attendees who sign up will receive a link to the Zoom webinar. Make sure to RSVP via the form below!
We are partnering with the ND Club of Chicago to provide Saturday lunch service to Lincoln Park Community Services at their Lincoln Park location (600 W Fullerton).
We will be volunteering in person - cooking and serving dinner together for 40 residents. Please wear closed toed shoes and arrive at 5:45pm with your ingredients. We are looking for 10-15 volunteers to serve with us.
We will follow-up with more specific details regarding ingredients to purchase and bring one week prior to the event.
For more information on this event, check out our recap blog posts from when we volunteered in January 2026 and April 2025.
Read along with us this month! For May we are discussing STONE MATTRESS: NINE WICKED TALES by Margaret Atwood. This month our genre is a collection of short stories. May is celebrated annually as National Short Story Month to honor the concise literary form, encouraging readers to explore anthologies and authors to produce new work.
Synopsis:
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace. A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," an elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.
In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game.
If you would like to attend the meeting, please contact us and we will send you the address.
Please join the monthly Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College Senior Alumni lunch on Thursday, May 21st at the Kerryman Irish Bar and 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.
Join us for our SMC/Chicago Talks Zoom Series! This is a virtual series where we will feature Belles from all years, industries and backgrounds to speak on topics you want to learn about and give advice. Each zoom webinar will be one hour and include a discussion from our featured Belle and a Q&A.
Speaker:
Dr. Vanessa Silverio, DNP, FNP-C, MSCP, SMC Class of 2005
Family Nurse Practitioner, Certified Menopause Practitioner
Currently employed with Proactive MD in Merrillville, IN.
Topic:
Attend this webinar to hear from a Family Nurse Practitioner and Certified Menopause Practitioner on:
Overview of the transition to menopause
How to assess if you are in menopause
Symptoms of menopause
Menopause Hormone Therapy
Trusted resources to learn more about menopause and where to find a certified menopause practitioner near you
All attendees who sign up will receive a link to the Zoom webinar. Make sure to RSVP via the form below!
