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Magazine Editor Susan Hurley Corbran ’73 scorbran@mercyhurst.edu 814-824-2090 Design Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 jhewitt@mercyhurst.edu 814-824-3022 Contributing Writers Susan Hurley Corbran ’73 Deborah W. Morton Mary Solberg
Inside this issue 3 HURST ALUMNI LAUNCH THRIVING BUSINESSES
Contributing Photographers Leena Clint ’16 Ben Friesen Jeremy C. Hewitt ’07 Curtis Waidley ’19 Anna Wesley Director of Alumni Engagement Lindsay Cox Frank ’12 ’14M lfrank@mercyhurst.edu 814-824-2330
Read profles of Sara Andriacchi Brennan ’07 ‘09M, Whitney Otto Berkowsky ’11, Anthony Maher ’02, Ben Bluemle ’06, and Dawn Peske Britt ’90.
6 MERCY NUN’S PIONEERING CANCER RESEARCH
Sister Eymard Poydock’s work in the 1960s and ’70s led to creation of ‘Mercytamin,’ which once looked like a promising cure for cancer.
18 LAKER FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN OFF TO EXCITING START Fields get new turf surfaces; ice center gets major upgrades; new feld to bring softball program to campus next spring.
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NEW PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE HAS TIES TO MERCYHURST HISTORY GRADUATES INVOLVED IN HIGH-PROFILE FORENSICS CASES 10 12 MNE PROGRAM HELPS SINGLE MOMS PURSUE COLLEGE DEGREES HAPPENINGS AT THE HURST 14 ATHLETICS 18 ALUMNI AWARDS, HALL OF FAME 22 CLASS NOTES 25
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