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Support Center for Irish Studies
The Center for Irish Studies is an academic and cultural program within the Department of Arts and Sciences. Nevertheless, the Center operates almost entirely on donations from individuals, companies and foundations like you. We welcome all support, including monetary, volunteer and in-kind. |
Study Abroad in Ireland
The Center has two funds dedicated to scholarships and travel grants for students to study in Ireland during the academic year or the summer. We need your help to build those funds so that more students can study in Ireland in the coming years. We have the Bishop McCarthy Travel Grant for study abroad in Ireland, which we plan to use in 2007. We also have the Bishop McCarthy Endowed Scholarship for Study Abroad in Ireland, some of which will be available for distribution in 2008. Please help us build these funds for the future so that we can make our students’ life-long dreams to study in Ireland come true!
Recently, we dedicated particular funds for study abroad in Ireland in memory of Joan Meade DeDitius of Dallas, Texas. Mrs. DeDitius introduced the Center to the Irish American Cultural Institute, which provides the Center with as many as four speakers and performers each year for its cultural outreach program. Mrs. DeDitius also was instrumental in assisting the Center in locating an Irish language professor, Dr. Aileen Curtin, of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas, for its first Irish language program in Summer 2006. We are very grateful to Mrs. DeDitius for her encouragement and support. If you would like to make a donation in memory of Mrs. DeDitius, please contact Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or irishstudies@stthom.edu. |
Center for Irish Studies Cultural Outreach Forum
The Center for Irish Studies and The Irish Society co-sponsor 9 to 12 free cultural events during the academic year. Last spring, Center for Irish Studies Advisory Board member Bill Slick devised the concept of a Cultural Outreach Forum. The Forum is a group of individuals and companies who have agreed to sponsor Center for Irish Studies cultural events on an annual basis. This sponsorship frees the Center from requesting a separate sponsor for each event and provides funding to cover the cost of transportation, accommodation, meals and honoraria for the speakers and performers, as well as the cost of publicity, printing, postage and recording the events.
The Center would like to recognize the members of the Cultural Outreach Forum and thank them for their loyal and valued support. We welcome you to become a member of the Cultural Outreach Forum. Contact Lori Gallagher at 713-525-3592 or irishstudies@stthom.edu. |
Cultural Outreach Forum Members 2006-2007
Ambassador
Honorary Consul of Ireland John B. and Alayne Kane
Michele Malloy
George and Colleen McCullough
Patrick and Debbie Moran
William T. and Sally Slick
The American Ireland Fund
Consul
Freebird Partners L.L.P.
Legate
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Jim and Mitzi Gillespie
Dr. Joseph and Norma McFadden
Ralph S. O’Connor
Kathy Ridley/Wells Fargo Bank
Trinidad Mendenhall Sosa
The Marek Companies
Steve and Mills Toomey
Donors
Ray and Dorothy LeBlanc
The Doherty Group, L.L.C./Shell Oil Company Foundation |
The Center for Irish Studies Circle of Friends
We welcome Friends of the Center for Irish Studies at any level. If you are a Friend, thank you for your friendship. Your friendship assists us in awarding study abroad scholarships, developing courses and providing other benefits to students and the community through our academic and cultural outreach programs. If you are not already a Friend of the Center, you are invited to become one at any of the following levels:
Fr. Lamb Circle: $10-$249:
Named after the late Fr. Robert Lamb, C.S.B., a University professor of history who arduously collected many of the current Irish materials in the Doherty Library at the University.
Fr. Murphy Circle: $250-$499
Named after the late Fr. John F. Murphy, C.S.B., the second President of the University from 1959-1966.
Fr. O’Rourke Circle: $500-$999
Named after the late Fr. Thomas P. O’Rourke, C.S.B., one of the founders of the University.
Bishop Byrne Circle: $1,000-$1,499
Named after the late Bishop Christopher E. Byrne, one of the pioneers whose vision of a Catholic university in the heart of Houston became a reality at the University of St. Thomas.
Fr. William Young Circle: $1,500 and above
Named after the late Fr. William Young, CSB, President of the University from 1966 to 1967 and then again from 1979 until 1985 and member of the Center for Irish Studies Advisory Board.
Fr. William Young Circle
Aquinas Corporation
Marion Bell
El Paso Community Foundation
ExxonMobil Foundation
Freebird Partners L.P.
Curtis Huff
Hon. Consul of Ireland John B. Kane and Alayne Kane
Dr. John Rains Kelly
Colleen and George McCullough
Jill and Jim Metzger
Pat and Debbie Moran
Moran Resources Company
Maureen O’Driscoll-Levy M.D.
P.J. Moran Foundation
William T. and Sally Slick Foundation
Bishop Byrne Circle
BJ Services Company
Cathy and Giorgio Borlenghi
Buffalo Marine Service, Inc.
Diageo-Guinness USA, Inc.
Mary Elizabeth Donovan
Hackett Family Foundation
Mitzi and Jim Gillespie
Cheri and V. Gregory Hartford
Jeani and Tom Horan
Jerry Lowry
Barbara Miercort
Maconda B. O’Connor Ph.D.
Ralph S. O’Connor
John O’Donnell
Leanna Reidy
Kathy Ridley
The Irish Society
David Speck
Wells Fargo Bank
Fr. O’Rourke Circle
Andrews Kurth L.L.P.
Melinda and Patrick Flannery
James Patrick Herlihy
Patrick Hill
Len Ivins
Irish American Heritage Association of Katy, Texas
Madeline O’Brien
Jack O’Connell
Joan and Dan Sullivan
Raye White
Fr. Murphy Circle
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Carroll
William J. Coffey, II
Alice and Mike Conlon
Rosemarie Donnelly
Susan Gallagher and Andy Durham
Elinear, Inc.
Ann and Gregory Gallagher
Rose Mary Gibson
Bernard Hebnick
Ann and Tom Hoar
Rev. Hubert Kealy
Rev. John McCarthy, Bishop Emeritus of Austin
Dr. Joseph and Norma McFadden
Michele Malloy
Mary E. Murphy
Union Pacific Railroad
Patrice Ward
Fr. Lamb Circle
Nancy Anderson
Marilyn Arendt
Garrett Barry
Kathleen Walsh Beirne and Tom Beirne
Georganna Bell
Dr. Virginia Bernhard and Jim Bernhard
Stephen Boane
Jim Booth
Conlin and Linda Brogan
Melinda Brunger
Dorothy Caram
Mary Charlton
Michael Clennan
Linda Crosson
Edgar J. Conner, Jr.
Dr. Patrick Cook
Margo Cooper
Barbara Cowan
Delia and Chris Cowles
Elizabeth Curran
Dorothy Davitt
Ted Dinerstein
Dr. Charles Davis and Dr. Charlene Dykman
Ruth Doughtery
Dan Downey
Cissy and Pat Duane
Brigid Earthman
Editorial Resources, Inc.
Ann Ellis
Rafael Enriquez, Jr.
Rev. and Mrs. Gary Ferbet
Kathleen and Bill Fenwick
Eamon Finnerty
Jim Foley
Rose Mary and Michael Gibson
Janet and Randy Gilmore
Noreen and Dr. Stephen Gottschalk
Lawrence Gruber, Jr.
Amy and Bill Guest
Harris County Historical Society
Bruce Harrison
Tim Healy
Angela and Noel Hennebery
James Hodges
Eileen Miggins Hohlt
Mrs. Barbara Hurwitz
Jim and Sydney Hussey
Kearns Family Trust
Mary Keegan
Colin Kennedy
Dr. Jerome and Patt Kramer
Dr. Robert and Dr. Rebecca LeBlanc
Alford Lee, III
Connie Little
Klinka Lollar
George McCarthy
Katie and JL McConn
Harriett and Phil McGonigle
Barbara Mack
Jim Makshanoff
Joan Merkl
Kathleen and Larry Miggins
Neil Patrick Miggins
Daryl Moore
Kurt Metyko
Emil Nakfoor
Peggy Ann O’Connor
Sr. Mary Brendan O’Donnell
Gail and John O’Hare
Ronica and David O’Keefe
Grace O’Malley Ebaugh and Nelson Ebaugh
Pearland Physicians, Inc.
Ann and Denny Pearson
James Podraza
Joan Radcliffe
Margaret Rather
Sheila Ann Rooney
Diana Rose
Carl Ryan
Judge Frank Rynd
Dr. Beverly Schneller
Patrick and Mary Sharkey
William Shiffick
Sisters of the Incarnate Word
Rose Slaton
Monica Slover
Maurice Smith
Maureen and Jim Swanson
Karyl Tyler
The Forum at Memorial Woods
Kittsie and Charlie Thomas
Deborah Thomas
Doris Thomas
Guy Thomas
Charla Trader
Jeanne White
Dr. Lee Williames
Mary Alice and Robert Wills
Marilyn Wood
Special and In-kind Gifts
Consul General of Ireland Charles Sheehan and Alice Sheehan
Honorary Consul of Ireland John B. Kane and Alayne Kane
Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
Conlin and Linda Brogan
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Carroll
Delia and Chris Cowles
Dorothy and Jim Davitt
Ken and Molly DeDominicis
Rachel Duhon
Raphel Enriquez, Jr.
Melinda and Patrick Flannery
Jim Foley
Freebird Partners L.P.
Dr. Kurt and Janet Geisinger
Tom and Jeani Horan
Curtis Huff
Christine Imber
The late Ann Caraway Ivins and Len Ivins
Dr. Jerome and Patt Kramer
Johnnie Lallinger
George E. McCarthy III
Pat McCauley
Kate and J.L. McConn
Dr. Joseph and Norma McFadden
Michele Malloy
Jill and Jim Metzger
Kathleen and Larry Miggins
Moran Resources Company
John D. (Jack) O'Connell
Maureen O’Driscoll-Levy M.D.
David O’Keefe
Kathy and Joe Ridley
Joan and Dan Sullivan
The Burkitt Foundation
The Center for Irish Studies Advisory Board
The Irish Society
The University of St. Thomas
(and its wonderful faculty and staff)
For further information on becoming a Friend of the Center, including donations in kind, please contact Lori Meghan Gallagher, J.D., Director of the Center of Irish Studies, at irishstudies@stthom.edu or 713-525-3592.
Your generosity is greatly appreciated. |
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