MSMC Magazine

1967Ronnie (Burns) Brady is now a retired registered nurse (medical oncology).  She is enjoying retirement and spending time with her five granddaughters! 1974Mary Ann (Kadera) Klicka attended the Pennsylvania Association of Developmental Educators’…

Many Mount alumni knew Lorraine Santacroce, former athletic director at the college, as Coach. Santacroce, an honoree in this year’s Athletic Hall of Fame, passed away in September of 2020, leaving behind a long legacy of love and dedication. She began…

1975 Linda Fagan Squires has retired after 35 years of service from the Dutchess County Health Department Communicable Disease Control Division. Since her retirement in 2016, Linda has assisted Sullivan County Health Department with the 2019 measles…

A family story intertwined with the Mount's history When James Ruggiero was 14 years old, he worked with his father, a mason supervisor at a new building in Newburgh: a Motherhouse for the Dominican Sisters.  Impressed with the piety of the nuns, he…

Two earn service awards at Alumni Weekend Two outstanding Mount alumni were given awards for their service to the college and the community as part of Alumni Weekend 2019. Hundreds of successful grads, spanning 60 years of Mount history, journeyed back…

Mount honors Derrik R. Wynkoop and David Potack at Tenth Annual Gala  Mount Saint Mary College was proud to celebrate two distinguished members of the local community at the Tenth Annual Gala Reception on Friday, December 6. Derrik R. Wynkoop, President…

The James Finn Cotter Villa Library was packed with familiar faces as the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) at Mount Saint Mary College celebrated its 50th anniversary. Held during the college’s 2019 Alumni Weekend, more than…

Charting the Course  Dr. Jason N. Adsit inaugurated as the Mount's seventh president  The Mount Saint Mary College community, distinguished local leaders, and friends of the college celebrated the inauguration of Dr. Jason N. Adsit, the Mount’s seventh…

A look at life the year the Mount was born Rod Serling’s seminal horror anthology The Twilight Zone had just whisked viewers into the fifth dimension, gasoline was 25 cents a gallon, and Mount Saint Mary College became a four-year institution of higher…