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The Grapevine Online will be uploaded, depending on the amount of information sent to the editor, every month. It will have a couple of sections (when information is available), namely, Class Notes (your basic information on alumni babies, weddings, jobs, etc.), Calendar of Events, and Links to various recent stories about Christendom College and/or the Alumni of Christendom.

August 2003 edition of The Grapevine Online

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Class notes (Click here for the NEW Print Edition - for spouses at home to read)

Candice Meza '03 (one of the twins of Instaurare fame) says that her twin sister, Amber '03, is engaged to Christendom student Louis Massett.

On May 31, 2003, Benjamin Fisher and Theresa Ford were joined in marriage in Indianapolis, IN. Their wedding party included alumni Molly Becker ('03), Elizabeth Butina ('03), James Maldonado-Berry ('03), and Justin Smith ('03). The Christendom Choir provided the music for the occasion, and many more Christendom friends travelled from far and wide to witness the nuptials. Ben and Theresa now reside in Chattanooga, TN. And the good news doesn't stop there. It has just been announced that Ben and Theresa are due to have their first baby in April of 2004! Congrats!!!

Mike Wallacavage '89 was hanging out with CC professor Dr. William Fahey and family and CC alumnus Marc-Pierre (get a life) Jansen '02 in Bavaria. Poor Marc-Pierre did not get his visa for Prague so they had to leave him at the border. To the left is a picture of Marc-Pierre, Mike, and William Fahey above the Weltenberg Abby on the Danube. The brewery is the oldest Kloster brew in the world from 1050AD.

According to Mike Meredith, Matthew Kent was just hired for 1 yr as a full time Philosophy Prof. at a University in St. Paul, MN, and he is working on completing his Masters thesis.

Brendan McGuire '03 has fallen off the face of the earth. He is now working in the Construction Department for the Legionaries of Christ (Thornwood, NY). He heartily thanks all his friends who have written him letters, and apologizes for not writing back. The commute every day is pretty bad, so that makes for long days and exhaustion (hence, the falling off the face of the earth). Thinking of January 3rd.

Eric Kingsepp ('98) on August 2nd will join classmates Chuck Shunk, Alphonse, and several other worthy scholars in receiving NDGS's Master's Degree, in Sacred Scripture. Personal projects for the Brooklyn Rat now include some Latin translations, his own Paul- and Pentateuch-studies, and intense language study to prepare for doctoral programs, to which
he will be applying this fall, for entrance next year. He's thinking of a program of Bible studies with Patristic and Rabbinic study, but he's also toying with the idea of approaching the scripture field via some other programs, e.g. Egyptology, semitic languages, linguistics, or who knows what else. In other news, the Rat has been making meteorological and geographical comparisons between the Great Lakes State and the Old Dominion. Michigan is actual size, but it seems much bigger to him.

Jeanette (Fischer) Wassell (Class of 1991), husband Ed, and their family will be moving to Fillmore, CA about August 15th. Ed will be teaching at Thomas Aquinas College starting this fall. They don't have a definite place to live yet so if anyone wants to contact them the best chance is through the college: 10000 North Ojai Rd, Santa Paula, CA 93060-9622.

Daniel McGuire '03 (one of the other sets of twins of Instaurare fame) is currently working at his old summer job as a golf caddy, but in September he will begin teaching at Holy Family Academy in Manassas, VA, joining Pat Storey and Maria Bissex of the class of '02. He expects to be teaching sixth grade, as well as Latin and Greek in the High School.

Maria Virginia Bissex ('02) has been appointed director of sacred music at Holy Family Academy in Manassas, VA, where she also teaches second grade. She asks the prayers of her fellow alumni in this new endeavour. Viva musica sacra!

Andrew Walz and wife Liz gave birth to their 5th child on June 30th. Their son is named Abraham Joseph and the delivery was smooth and the baby and Liz are doing fine. Jack, 6, Frank, 5, Teresa, 3, and Kate, 2 really have taken a liking to him. He is well adjusted and not moody; just like his father. He will be baptized on August 10th. Andrew is now working with the Army in the Edgewood Area of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds and adjusting to Federal as opposed to industrial employment.

And here are August's Alumni Happy Birthdays........

Matthew Norris 8/1 Jim Kelly 8/1 Erica Zepeda 8/1 Kelly Drew 8/1 Patrick Twomey 8/2 Daniel Gossin 8/2 Jim Blaney 8/2 Leslie Hofbauer 8/2 Beth Wiener 8/3 Alphonso Pinto 8/3 Bernadette Moriarty 8/3 Stacey Fontaine 8/3 Stephen Pilon 8/4 Dustin Keas 8/4 Fr. Peter Williams 8/5 Edgar Whipple 8/5 Teresa Fedoryka 8/5 Fr. Paul Vota 8/7 Pablo Florez 8/7 Jeanette Wassell 8/7 Rachel Oberman 8/7 Fr. Mark Wenzinger 8/8 Annemarie Ciskanik 8/8 Patrick Griffin 8/8 Raeanna Williams 8/8 Lauren Tanner 8/8 Sarah Akers 8/8 Michael Storck 8/8 Pearse Marschner 8/9 Anastasia Desmond 8/9 Katherine Schmiedicke 8/9 Thomas McGraw 8/10 Mollie Halpern 8/10 Maria IGF O'Brien 8/10 Michelle Gacioch 8/11 Eileen Hester 8/12 Christopher Mirus 8/12 Miriam Bauer 8/13 Joseph Cervantes 8/13 Robert Gasper 8/13 Peter Mirus 8/13 Theresa Flay 8/14 Steffanie Maynard 8/15 Therese Brown 8/15 Tedmund Chan 8/15 Mary Anne O'Hare 8/16 Annemarie Waupotic 8/16 Marie Gates 8/16 Jill Watson 8/16 Joanna Hofbauer 8/17 Anna Polley 8/17 Jennifer Tutwiler 8/17

Joseph Stuart 8/18 Kimberly DeLozier 8/18 Loretta Ferguson 8/18 Richard Kephart 8/19 Gerard DesRochers 8/19 Scott Peters 8/19 Valerie Clark 8/19 Chris McFadden 8/20 Anna M. Schmitt 8/20 Robert Kish 8/21 Michael Matt 8/21 Michael Turecek 8/21 Alfonse Schaeffer 8/22 Janice Horschak 8/22 Maria Ellis 8/22 Catherine Francis 8/22 Steven McCoy 8/22 John Francis 8/23 Amy Sly 8/23 Megan LaMuro 8/23 Heather Helminiak 8/24 Jacinta Wahlmeier 8/24 Angela Pfister 8/25 Kathleen Kosten 8/25 Lorien Randolph 8/25 Anne Staab 8/26 John Cuddeback 8/26 Paul Kucharski 8/26 Chris Vander Woude 8/26 Sharon Higby 8/27 Melody Pegis 8/27 Joanna Catabui 8/27 Therese Zepeda 8/27 Stephen Collins 8/28 John Collorafi 8/28 Mary Lou Foley 8/28 Kristin Cronkhite 8/28 Michelle Scheurer 8/29 Emily Eidem 8/29 Albert Starkus 8/29 Thomas Furtado 8/30 Mary Walker 8/30 Caroline Syversen 8/30 Frances Jensen 8/30 Jessica Hickey 8/30 Sherry Spring 8/30 Katherine O'Brien 8/31 David Marra 8/31 Patrick Orr 8/31 Erin Vander Woude 8/31 Thomas Wittman 8/31

Calendar of events

October 10-11, 2003: Homecoming

October 14-21, 2003: Alumni Pilgrimage to Rome

February 21, 2004: Alumni Network Career Mentoring Reception

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Stories

CC Alumna's New Book is a Labor of Love

Agnes Curley graduated from Christendom College in 1997. A couple of years later, she married convert to the Faith and Christendom grad Daniel Penny, ‘97. They were very much excited about raising a family and were well-versed in the Church's teaching on the nature of marriage and the family. But, the specifics of the various trials and tribulations, joys and sorrows to be experienced during pregnancy had never really been "catholicized" in a book before. So, Agnes Penny, being the English Literature major that she is, decided to write a book for expectant mothers, but this time, with a Catholic twist to it. She chose to name it, Your Labor of Love: A Spiritual Companion for Expectant Mothers, thus turning pregnancy into a grace-filled nine months.

"I wanted to sort out for myself the seemingly endless morning sickness and discouragement of the previous nine months," says Agnes, "and the inexpressible joys I was experiencing in caring for a baby all my own at last."

In her book, Agnes shares the very Catholic spiritual solutions she found to the problems and struggles of pregnancy. In 36 short chapters, everything the expectant mother experiences is covered, including, tiredness, mood swings, waiting, post partum, praying for your baby, marital difficulties, in-laws, and much more.

The book is written for women who are trying to accept the joys and challenges of motherhood according to God's Holy Will, rather than the "wisdom of the world" by avoiding children.

Although only a young mother of three (so far!), Agnes seems to have made her mark on the world of Catholicism through her deep insights into this most treasured time of a woman's life: pregnancy and motherhood.

This book is available through Tan Books (www.tanbooks.com) and is Number 1913, ISBN-7789, $12.00. (Toll-Free 1-800-437-5876)
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Christendom College Alumni Pilgrimage to Rome!
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