Newsletters
The Institutional Advancement Office publishes a newsletter several times per year for alumni, parents and friends of the School. To read the latest addition please click below:
Web Exclusive:
Mary Lou Quinlan, 2009 Commencement Speaker
Here is a copy of Mary Lou's Address
Thank you so much for the honor of speaking at this wonderful occasion. And for breaking a nearly 50 year tradition. You let a Dougherty girl in.
It’s an honor for me to be part of your big day.
As Tony mentioned, I’ve got a lot of Holy Ghost connections…and a lot of love and affection for this school, starting with my husband Joe who’s an alum. ..and both of my brothers in law. But the first Joe Quinlan to enter the school was actually back in the fall of 1911 when it was called Holy Ghost Apostolic College. He was "my" Joe Quinlan's great uncle, Father Joe Quinlan. He had a distinguished career as a Spiritan, both at the motherhouse when it was in Paris...as well as in the overseas missions.
Father Joe was buried some 40 years ago just 100 yards from here...and he's been joined in recent years by many of the priests whom he recruited into the order when he served here, first as teacher and then as rector. Like Joe’s mentor and our friend, Father Henry Brown, a wise and wonderful priest who married us 30 years ago. To read the rest of Mary Lou's Address to the graduating Class of 2009 click here
