I am so happy to be starting my twelth year as the second grade teacher at Our Lady of Lourdes!
My husband, Jim, and I have three children, all of whom graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardinal Gibbons, and the University of Notre Dame. Our oldest, Colum, received his PhD in Theology from Notre Dame. Colum and his wife Katie, a NICU nurse, live in Providence, Rhode Island, where Colum is a theology professor at Providence College. They have three darling children, James (6), Brigid (3), and Fiona who will turn one in January. Patrick is our second son and is an attorney. He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 2022, is living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is serving as a law clerk for Judge Raymond M. Kethledge of the Sixth Circuit. Our youngest, Maggie, and her husband Zach have our precious granddaughter, Lucy, who will turn one on September 14th. They live in Virginia but will be moving to Hawaii this fall. Zach is a fighter pilot who flies F-22s in the Air Force. Maggie works remotely for the Department of Homeland Security as a security analyst.
I attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia where I received a degree in Early Childhood Education. I taught for a year at St. Joseph's Catholic School in Macon before moving to Durham with my husband where I taught at Immaculata Catholic School . After our children were all in school, I volunteered as a parent at OLL, became a substitute teacher for grades K-8, was an assistant teacher in fifth grade for five years, and finally became the second grade teacher here at Lourdes!
Catholic education is very important to our family, and I feel truly blessed to be able to teach in a loving community that puts faith first. Thank you for entrusting your children to our care here at OLL. We are looking forward to a wonderful year together.