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Last month, more than 40 CUA alumni, family members and friends took part in the CUA Travel Club's Ireland Pub and Shopping Reunion Tour, a six-day jaunt across the Emerald Isle filled with shopping, site seeing and — of course — pub-hopping!
Highlights of the tour included visiting the famed Cliffs of Moher, kissing the Blarney Stone, and enjoying plenty of authentic Irish hospitality as we took part in "a vacation as only the Irish could live it."
To browse photos from this trip, click here.
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This Saturday, Dec. 15, the CUA Alumni Association will join with Wreaths Across America to lay Christmas wreaths on the graves of fallen U.S. soldiers interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
More than 70 CUA alums have already registered to take part in this powerful and moving cause, and we welcome and invite fellow volunteers to join them. To R.s.v.p., contact Brandon Romanchok in the Office of Alumni Relations at 202-319-5608.
To learn more about Wreaths Across America, click here. | | |
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MoMA TOUR AND LUNCH IN NEW YORK CITY
 Kick off 2008 with CUA! Join our exclusive guided tour of the exhibit "Martin Puryear" at the Museum of Modern Art on Saturday, Jan. 12. Tickets are only $50, and include a scrumptious lunch with your fellow alumni at La Bonne Soup (48 West 55th Street) prior to the tour.
The Museum of Modern Art presents a major exhibition of the sculpture of the acclaimed American artist and CUA alumnus Martin Puryear, B.A. 1963. The retrospective will feature approximately 45 sculptures, following the development of Puryear's artistic career over the last 30 years, from his first solo museum show in 1977 to the present day.
To purchase tickets, please call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-288-ALUM (outside of the D.C. area). |
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Did you know that there are more than 2,600 "CUA Sweetheart" marriages? And that doesn't even include those countless other couples that found love while studying at CUA and have yet to tie the knot!
To celebrate these relationships, we're putting together a Wine With Your Valentine gathering right before Valentine's Day. Whether you're a recent graduate or a golden anniversary alum, we're inviting you and your CUA sweetheart-turned-spouse back to campus for an afternoon wine and dessert reception on Sunday, Feb. 10.
Additional details will be forthcoming. Contact Brandon Romanchok in the Office of Alumni Relations at 202-319-5608 with any questions, or to make sure that you and your loved one are identified as "CUA Sweethearts" in order to get an invitation. | | |
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Share your love of reading! Read-Across-America Day is also the birthday of everyone’s favorite author, Dr. Seuss. Join CUA students and fellow alums on March 3, 2008, at St. Anthony’s School, 12th and Monroe streets in Brookland (across from the Brookland-CUA Metro station, adjacent to Colonel Brooks’ Tavern).
Between 8:30 a.m. and noon, read your favorite Seuss book (or any book!) to a small student group and have a slice of birthday cake. To view photos from last year's event, click here.
We need readers! To participate, please call 202-319-5608.
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CU ON THE ROAD... TO FLORIDA!
 Anticipating the dirty slush and bleak landscape of late winter, the alumni office is heading to Florida to gather alumni on the west coast, from Tampa to Naples. We're planning a theater evening and reception, a Red Sox spring training game, a luncheon and more!
Invitations will be mailed to all our alumni who reside in Florida but if you simply winter there, you're invited, too! If you haven't already let us know of your winter address, please email gosney@cua.edu and let us know your name, year and email address so we can include you.
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In the past month, more than 3,000 alumni have visited the CUA Online Community. To join them, all you'll need is your security information — which is included in your e-mail copy of this newsletter. Click here to register today. |
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 Join fellow fans, friends and their families for alumni Game Break Gatherings at our Cardinals home basketball games. Call your friends and bring the kids to the DuFour Center for an up-close seat for some exciting college basketball! Plus, there will be a free CUA giveaway gift for the first 50 kids at each game!
Alumni admission for both the men's and women's games is $7 and can be purchased on game day. Alumni and friends are invited to gather immediately following the end of the 2 p.m. women's game for complimentary snacks and cold drinks before watching the men's game at 4 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 12
CUA vs. U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Sunday, Jan. 27
CUA vs. Juniata College
Saturday, Feb. 16
CUA vs. University of Scranton
There is no additional charge for any of these Game Break events. If you’d like to join, contact Brandon at romanchok@cua.edu for details and to R.s.v.p. |
Many of you may have already learned of the sudden death on Dec. 6 of Maggie Sullivan Beirne, B.A. 1998, leaving behind a husband, Kevin Beirne, B.A. 1999, and 19-month-old twins.
Friends and classmates quickly realized that Kevin and his 2 toddlers needed help, and so established the Beirne Family Fund. If you'd like to help this young family, please visit http://beirnefamilyfund.com/. | |
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CUA LAUNCHES WEB SITE FOR PAPAL VISIT
 His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will visit the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 17, 2008.
In preparation for this monumental event, CUA has launched a special Web site with complete details, FAQs and more. To visit the site, click here. | |
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On Thursday, Dec. 13 (tomorrow night!), the CUA Office of Alumni Relations is headed to the City of Brotherly Love for some holiday merriment at one of the city's most beloved watering holes.
Join your CUA "family" and friends for food, drink specials and some good old fashioned holiday fun from 6 to 8 p.m. at the the back bar of Kildare's Pub in Manayunk, Pa. Admission to this event is free, but R.s.v.p.'s are encouraged. For complete details, click here. |
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On Saturday, Feb. 2, enjoy an afternoon of lunch and art with your fellow CUA alumni in Philadelphia! Reserved tickets are only $40, and include lunch at Plate Restaurant (105 Coulter Avenue, Ardmore) and tickets to see the exclusive art collection at the Barnes Foundation.
The Barnes Foundation is home to one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani, as well as important examples of African sculpture. To purchase tickets, please call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-288-ALUM (outside the D.C. area).
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The results are in! Two months ago, we began a search for globe-trotting alums to let us know just how "far out" from CUA they are these days. We've heard from alums in more than two dozen countries, and we'll be sharing photo postcards from many of these "far out" alums and their exotic locales in the months to come.
One of our "far out" alums is Quinn Eighmey Byrnes, B.A. 1991, who lives in a town called Mons in the French-speaking region of Belgium with her husband and their two children, five-year-old Charlie (in the photo above) and daughter Alice, who is 22 months old. The family has traveled extensively over the European continent, and have visited Italy, Spain, Tunisa, Southern France, the German Alps, Paris and Amsterdam in the past year alone!
Are you a long way from "home?" Let us know! Send your name, degree year, current address, and a photo of you and your loved ones in a "far out" locale to cua-alumni@cua.edu. |
CUA HOCKEY NIGHT: CAPS vs. MAPLE LEAFS
On Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008, join your fellow CUA alums at Washington, D.C.'s Verizon Center (formerly the MCI Center) at 7 p.m. to root for the Capitals hockey team as it squares off against the Toronto Maple Leafs!
We've purchased a block of tickets exclusively for CUA alumni, and we are offering mezzanine-level tickets for just $20 to our CUA alums. Spaces are limited (two tickets per alum), so R.s.v.p. today! To save yourself a seat, contact Brandon at romanchok@cua.edu, or call 202-319-5608!
Before the game, join us at 5:30 p.m. at Washington's largest multi-tap brewery, RFD's (810 7th Street N.W.; Red Line: Chinatown), to grab a drink and pick up your tickets. Can't make the pre-game? Don't worry — tickets will be available at will-call after 6:30 p.m.
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 Jessica Towhey, B.A. 1997, is a press secretary for Congressman John Boehner (R-OH), but she'll be the first to admit that she never expected to end up in a career in politics.
"In my sophomore year I was a politics major and interned for my home congressman," Towhey says. fter that year, I actually switched majors to English and decided that I wanted nothing to do with politics!" To find out what made this alumna change her mind, click here.
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Are you one of the alums unburying your VW Bug in this photo? If so, we'll send you a free CUA T-shirt! Simply click here to let us know if you are one of the alums in the picture above!
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New job? Recently married? New baby? Submit an Alumni Class Note to keep your old friends and classmates up to date on the latest chapter in your life or professional career! |
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