Every year since 2000, at least two graduates of Mount Saint Joseph Academy or Junior College have been awarded the Maple Leaf Award, given to those who “personify the values of their Mount Saint Joseph education in contributions to their local faith communities, civic communities, and/or Mount Saint Joseph.” Here are the winners below. An * denotes they have since gone to heaven.
2023
Sheila Ward A’71
Sister Pam Mueller A’68
2022
Mary Margaret Drury A’66
Sister Jacinta Powers A’72
2021
Mary Costello A65
Phyllis Costello Bresnik A66
2020
Sister Louis Marie “Luisa” Bickett A47
Kathy Ford Young A70
(These awards were given in 2021 because the 2020 Alumnae Weekend was canceled.)
2019
Judith Calhoun Ward A60
Betty Drury Byrne A69
2018
Anna Mattingly A’66
Paula Chandler Gray A’73
2017
Lou Highland Goings A’72
Sister Mary Irene Cecil* A’45
2016
Patricia Sherron Ringswald A’44
Stephanie Warren A’73
2015
Sylvia Rightmyer Hunt O’Reilly* A’53
Carolyn Sue Cecil A’73
2014
Betty Rumage Bickett* A’49
Sally Murphy Buford A’64
2013
Sister Michael Marie Friedman* A’64
Mary Ann Shewmaker Willett A’72
2012
Sandi Boswell A’67
Rosa Palazzo Schmidt A’51
2011
Joyce Weikel Grady* A’56
Sister Rosemary Keough* A’56
2010
Dorothy Payne Krumpelman* A’46
Sarah Kranz A’72
2009
Gertie Hall Mayhew* A’49
Nancy Mills* A’72
2008
Jean Spalding Allen A’55
Joy Robinson Keller A’59
Dorothy Walz Jackson* A’45
2007
Audrey Pierce Durbin* A ’39 / C ‘41
Marguerite Powers Thomas* A ‘46
2006
Joan Sherron Hofman A ‘51
Mary Lou Byrne Payne A ‘66
2005
Mary Anne Kevil* A ‘58
Margaret “Peg” Eileen Bourke* C ‘48
2004
Mary DeVoy Kelly A ‘54
Sister Marie Julie Fecher* A ‘40
2003
Phyllis Troutman A ‘63
Louise Fowler Gaddie* A ‘45
Mike* (A ‘44) and Theresa (A ‘46) McCarty*
2002
Winifred Cecil Riney* A ‘37
Margie Hardesty* A ‘45
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Ruckriegel Berger* A ‘55
2001
Mary Danhauer A ‘71
Marjorie Weaver Slack* A ‘53
Becky Collins Morris A ‘71
2000
Lillian Calhoun* A ‘38
Mary Blandford Goetz* A ‘37
Sister Agnes Catherine Williams* A ‘23