The Michaelight

(Special Reunion Edition)Saint Michael Academy Alumnae Association (SMAAA)

"Round his flag we'll rally ever. Nothing can our union sever."

In This Issue

Who's Who on the Board

Tax Information

Order Photos

And a Good Time Was Had By All

Update Your Contact Info

Board of Directors

Reunion Program

What's Up???

Class of '60

Class of '61

Michaelites Across the Ages

SMAAA Website

Get the Word Out!

Support the Presentation Sisters

Saint Michael Academy

Mission StatementRooted in the Catholic tradition and

Spirit of the Presentation Sisters, the

mission of Saint Michael

Academy was to educate young

women in a loving and caring

community, assisting each to develop

her unique gifts and talents to live a

fully Christian life.

New York Times ArticleAfter more than a century

on the West Side ofManhattan, St. Michael

Academy had assumed the

traits of some of its beststudents: cash poor,

REUNION 2011

PHOTO FINISH The reunion may be "finish(ed)" for this year, but the "photo(s)"

are in!

Photographer Marianne Smith, daughter of Joan Laffey Smith (Class of '49), was kind

enough to lend us her (considerable) talents at the October 8th reunion by photographing the

event. Out of her and her mother's love of all things "Michaelite", Marianne is offering these

photos to us at no profit to herself. Simply go to http://photobucket.com/stmichaels, create an

account, create your own photo album from Marianne's pictures, and start ordering your

photos directly from the Photobucket site.

Please visit Marianne Smith on her website

http://www.mariannesmithphotography.com/

and let her know how much you like the pictures and appreciate her gesture.

And a Good Time Was Had By All!

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underestimated by peers,capable of defying

expectations with

breathtakingregularity...(read more)

SMAAA Board of

DirectorsJeanne Boyd Billings '74(Secretary - Association and Charitable

Foundation)

Blanca Camacho '74(VP - Association)

Sr. Kathleen Cusack, PVBM '54 Sharon Duritzo '72 Mary Krulis '49 Jessica Libroia '87(VP - Charitable Foundation)

Mary O'Hara '62(VP - Charitable Foundation)

Genevieve O'Hare '47 Maria Pani '74(Treasurer - Association and Charitable

Foundation)

Lorraine Pogan Shef '64(President - Association and Charitable

Foundation)

Patti Wu '70

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Tax InformationContributions made(including any dues

Update Your Contact Info

Our outreach efforts can only be as good as ourcontact information, which is outdated. Inorder to be a successful entity, our alumnaeassociation needs to have the correct contactinformation for all of us. Please send your fullname (maiden and married), address, phonenumber, email address and year of graduation(or, in the case of the displaced Michaelites,the year they would have graduated from SMA)

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paid) to the SaintMichael AcademyAlumnae Association,Inc. are not deductiblefor Federal income taxpurposes.

to SMAAANYC@aol.com. We will not shareyour information with, or sell your informationto, anyone. (Please know that our definition of an SMA alum is anyone who everattended, or was on staff at, Saint Michael Academy. Sisters,brothers, teachers, administrative staff...we invite you all to join ourmailing list by clicking on the "Join Our Mailing List" link to the left.)

SMAAA Board of Directors

Left to right: Jessica Libroia ('87), Lorraine Pogan Shef ('64), Mary O'Hara ('62),

Sr. Kathleen Cusack, PBVM ('54), Patti Wu ('70), Jeanne Boyd Billings ('74),

Sharon Duritzo-Spocinski ('72), Genevieve Ryan O'Hare ('47), Mary D'Addario Krulis

('49) Not pictured: Blanca Camacho ('74), Maria Pani ('74)

Reunion Program

We thought you might like to see the program that was handed out at the reunion on

October 8th. Please click here to do so.

You will notice that we included an "In Memoriam" section in the program for the

anniversary classes. When we asked the alumnae to help us update our list of those

women who had passed since graduation, we got a response from Barbara Helmick

('61), who wrote a lovely remembrance of her friend and classmate Margaret (Kelly)

Land. Because space was limited in the program, we were unable to run it there.

We would like to print it here for you, for Barbara, and for all of our beloved

classmates who have gone before us...

"Peggy Kelly worked as a secretary on Wall Street for

three years (after graduation in 1961). In 1965, she

married David J. Land. They lived in Texas where

Peggy was the secretary to the TX Attorney General

in Austin, TX until 1967.

The Lands returned to New York and had four

children: David J., Anna, Sean and Robert. She and

her husband were founding members of the Gilead Community and House of Prayer

in Unadilla, N.Y.

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Peggy lost her husband in 2003 (he had Multiple Sclerosis for many years). Peggy

has eight grandchildren and, from 2000 to 2007, worked as a Parish Social Minister

for Sacred Heart Parish in Sidney, New York.

Peggy always had a beautiful, operatic voice. In 2006 she stated that she was still

'taking singing lessons and performing regularly.' She was a Reiki Master and taught

many classes on energy medicine.

We lost our friend and classmate on November 23, 2007."

What Are You Up To???

What are you up to these days? We'd love to know. Send uspictures, write a blurb or (if you are too modest) tell us of a

website that we can link to that fills us in on where you workand/or what you're doing. Are you on YouTube??? Let us know

that too. C'mon! Let's have some fun with this!

Class of '60

Class of '61

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Michaelites Across the Ages

Time has no meaning if you are a Michaelite! Eileen Fox ('61), Samantha Perez ('12), Mary O'Hara ('62)

and Jeanne Boyd Billings ('74) find common ground at Reunion 2011

SaintMichaelAcademy.com

It's official...our website is up and running!

Visit us at www.SaintMichaelAcademy.com and let the good times roll!Make sure to register, so that you can begin to connect with your classmates.

Read past newsletters and keep current with all of the SMAAA news.

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We find ourselves when we find each other.

Come find yourself at www.SaintMichaelAcademy.com.

Get the Word Out!

Use the icons at the top of this

newsletter to post to your facebookpage, and please encourage your friendsto join our mailing list. (Don't forget toadd SMAAANYC@aol.com to your

address book!)

Support the Presentation Sisters

Might We Suggest... that those of you who would like to ensure

the legacy of Saint Michael Academy do so

by giving a donation to the PresentationSisters. Please send your contribution

directly to the Sisters' motherhouse, and

note in the memo line that it is an SMADonation:

Sisters of the Presentation of the

Blessed Virgin MaryAdministration Office

84 Presentation Way

New Windsor, NY 12553-4949

Annual DuesIf you have already paid your 2011 annual dues to the SMAAA, Thank You! We appreciate your

support! We have set this year's dues at a reasonable $25, just to cover our start-up costs (which

are mounting quickly!!!) At the moment, we are emailing this publication to just over 1,000people. We have an "open rate" of approximately 40%, which means that only 400 of the alumnae

are aware of our existence! We need your help to do better than that.

Please make out your check for $25 (or more?) payable to "SMAAA", and mail it to Jeanne

Billings (SMAAA), 6 Greenacres Avenue, Scarsdale, NY10583. Be sure to include your updated

contact information - name, maiden name, address, email address, phone number, year of

graduation - and please encourage your classmates to do the same.(Hand in hand we'll work

together!)

Contributions made (including any dues paid) to the Saint Michael Academy Alumnae

Association, Inc. are not deductible for Federal income tax purposes.

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