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President:
 Emilie DesJardins Moreland '05
Cell-269-861-1907
Email -
emiledes@gmail.com

Vice President:
Mary Holland '05
mkholland@gmail.com

Treasurer:
 Maura Nugent Bardsley '77
6329 Ryeworth Drive
Frisco, TX 75035
Home - 972-390-8441
E-mail - mabards@yahoo.com

Book Club Coordinator:
Lettie K. Albright '83 (Jon Muckley)
817 808-7811
lalbright@twu.edu

How to Join this Club:

Call or email one of the club officers with your:
• name
• address
• phone number
• email address
• graduation year

Dues for the Dallas Club are paid once a year and the costs are:

• 2006 & Earlier Graduates - You Decide!
~ $25 - Regular Membership
~ $50 - Gold Level Membership
~ $100 - Platinum Level Membership

• 2007 - 2010 Graduates - FREE

Please make checks payable to Saint Mary's College Alumnae Club of Dallas. Mail checks to the club's treasurer.

Dues are used to pay for the printing of invitations and postage. Dues pay for serving you, the SMC alumnae, as well as prospective students through event planning, i.e., the yearly Student Send-Off and the Dallas Scholarship Fund.

 

Saint Mary's Dallas/Fort Worth Alumnae Book Club Reading List

Below is a list of all the books that have been read since 2001. Now, if you need a book to read you can refer to this handy list!

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Gundersloh

Jewel
Brett Lott

Midwives
 Chris Bohjalian

Jazz
Toni Morrison

Big Stone Gap
 Adriana Trigiani

Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton

July's People
Nadine Gordimer

The Reader
Bernard Schlink

Moghul Buffet
Cheryl Benard

Empire Falls '
Richard Russo

A Bigamist's Daughter
Alice McDermott

Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon

The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger

The Nanny Diaries
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown

Bel Canto
Ann Patchett

Mary Called Magdalene Margaret George

The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd

Middlesex: A Novel
Jeffrey Eugenides

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

One Thousand White Women....
Jim Fergus

Sideways
Rex Picket

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
Lorna Landvik

The Red Tent
Anita Diamant

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

A Woman's Education
Jill Ker Conway

Wild Swans
Jung Chang

The Weight of Water Anita Shreve

Teacher Man: A Memoir
Frank McCourt

My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards

Female Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy

Then We Came to the End Joshua Ferris

Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult

The Divide
Nicholas Evans

The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls

On Chesil Beach
 Ian McEwan

Water for Elephants
Sarah Gruen

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Winifred Watson

A Thousand Slendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini

Girls in Trucks
Katie Crouchi

The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffengegger

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

The Shack
William Paul Young

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress:
A Memoir of Going Home
Rhoda Janzen

The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan

The History of Love
Nicole Krauss

The Brink
Mark Fadden

Same Kind of Different as Me
Ron Hall

Bossypants
Tina Fey

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Circling My Mother
Mary Gordon

She's Come Undone
Wally Lamb



If you are new to the Dallas/Fort Worth area or would like to join our club, email one of our officers at their email to the left.  We have over 250 alumnae living in the DFW metroplex. We hope to see you at a future club event!

 

Book Club
March 25, book club will be held at the home of Mary Holland '05 where we will discuss She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

 



Book Club
Linda Kawecki '79 hosted our One Book, One Saint Mary's meeting for Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon.

Rangers World Series Game Watch
We watched the Rangers in the World Series at Sherlock's Pub in Dallas in October.

Book Club
On November 6 we met to talk about, The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern.

Book Club
September 25, we met at Si Tapas and Spanish Cuisine in Uptown for a discussion about Tina Fey's new book, Bossypants.

Katy Trail 5k
We ran this fun 5k walk/run to benefit "Friends of the Katy Trail" on Thursday, May 12 and enjoyed the after-party as well.

Book Club
We read Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and meet at Emilie DesJardins Moreland's '05 house to discuss it on May 22.

St. Vincent DePaul Society Volunteering
On April 9 club members helped the St. Vincent de Paul Society for a few hours when they were in need of volunteers for their thrift store. 

Book Club
Sunday, April 17 we met at the home of Ellen McQuillan Drake '92 for book club.  We read The Brink by local author Mark Fadden, and Mark attended our gathering!

Saint Mary's College Student Event
In March, alumnae and admission counselors held an event for local high school students interested in attending Saint Mary’s College.

Book Club
For our last couple of book club meetings, held in November and January, we read The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan and the "One Book, One Saint Mary's" selection, The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.

Members of our Book Club met to discuss the "One Book, One Saint Mary's" selection, The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.



Christmas
As is tradion for our club, last year's Christmas party was December 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. We celebrated Mass, followed by a Saint Mary's Christmas dinner at the home of Ophelia Flegle Camina '78.

Student Send-Off
We had 1 new first year student and 13 returning students this year. We held a send-off with some of them at Ellen McQuillan Drake's home in August and got to reminisce about all the memories that haven't changed as well as hear about all the new additions to campus.