Below are but a few of the thousands of remarkable women whose Ursuline education laid a foundation for lives of service, scholarship, accomplishment and imagination.

2003: Jean Weiner Johannigman ’47, entrepreneur and educator; Anne Scheidler McGraw ’68, school program director, Hematology/Oncology unit, Children’s Hospital; Theresa Rebeck ’76, playwright; Celeste Simon ’73, research scientist

2002: Suzanne Adrian DeYoung ’76 chef, food ministry volunteer; Chris Inkrot Schroder ’69 volunteer and caretaker for handicapped child; Linda Haller ’75 lawyer and public servant.

2001: Lisa Maechling Debbeler ’73 attorney, homemaker and volunteer; Ann Ouelette Wehr ’75 vice president of health care division and chief medical office of Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico; Marianne Utz Sahms ’78 Class A member of the PGA of America, golf pro and coach and volunteer; and Jean M. Geoppinger ’83 attorney specializing in Holocaust restitution.

2000: Elaine Brinker Marchetti ’54 social worker and volunteer for developmentally disabled; Sister Nancy Vollman, O.S.U. ’55 educator and counselor; Sylvia Sieve Hendon ’61, judge; Diane Castelli ’71 President of Ursuline Academy.

1999: Mary Ann Vogele ’49 accountant and caregiver, Angie Hoetker Buechner ’71 homemaker, mother and volunteer, and Gigi Greiwe Robison ’78 expert in oncology nursing.

1998: Kay Stagaman Napier ’73, general manager, North American Pharmaceuticals, P&G; and Jane Naberhaus Gardner ’53, homemaker, artist and volunteer.

1997: Margaret Drain ’63, executive producer of The American Experience, PBS series on American History; Amy Wenstrup ’86, McNerney & Associates, cancer survivor, caregiver and inspiration to those fighting the disease.

1996: Laura Massa ’72, Associate Athletics Director and Senior Women’s Athletic Administrator at the University of South Carolina; and Diane Seiwert ’73, president and CEO of Geriatric Nursing Care, Inc.

1995: Jane Gusweiler Cooper ’73, president and chief executive officer of Paramount Parks; and Susan Rains Garry ’53, homemaker and volunteer.

1994: Carol Muething Meirose ’66, teacher and cued speech specialist.

1993: Madge Smith Scheidler ’44, homemaker and volunteer.

1992: Margaret Long ’31, public library coordinator of children’s services; and Julie Isphording ’80, marathon runner and marketing director.

1991: Linda Vester ’83, international news correspondent.

1990: Mary Joe Osberger ’65, researcher, advanced bionics; and Sister Mary Carren Herring, R.S.M. ’69, educator and revitalize of inner-city schools.

1989: R. Elaine Dreidame ’60, University of Dayton athletic director; and Sister Joan Leonard, O.S.U. ’47, founder of Arts and Humanities Resource Center.

1988: Sally Bunker Fellerhoff ’49, City Council member/Vice-Mayor; Sister Ruth Podesta, O.S.U. ’50, Haitian Task Force coordinator; and Ruth Hittner Steinert ’62, Greater Cincinnati Women-Church co-founder.

1987: Peggy Farrell Stier ’50, Ed.D., learning consultant and owner of Learning Plus.

1986: Judith Ball ’60, first woman editor of the Catholic Telegraph; Elizabeth Beckman ’75, liturgical choreographer/dancer; Nancy Brockman ’44, recognized Montessori authority; Anne Dammarrell ’56, State Department AID program director; Rosemary Beatty Furlong ’46, church and community volunteer, Sister Rosemarie Kleinhaus ’56, mathematics professor at Xavier University in New Orleans; Mary Ann Kokenge ’76, Appalachian service project director; Mary-Therese Dellekamp Mennino ’68, Chatauqua Arts Institute program director; and Sheila McPhelin Mutchler ’60, special education chief at Smithsonian Institute.