Board Members A-L
Christie Braeckel Besancenez
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1984
"When I must leave you, I leave you with good memories and an important place in my heart."
-K. Schenk
Amy Voloto Brand
Villa Duchesne, Class of 2008
"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Angela Maley Brennan
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1982
"May the road rise to meet you. May the wind be always at your hand. The sun shine warm upon your face. The rain fall soft upon your field. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand."
- Irish Proverb
Dede Sheehan Brunetti
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1981
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crosby Barnhart Burns
Villa Duchesne, Class of 2013
"I cannot remember all of the times I tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they past."
- The Counting Crows, "A Long December"
Mary Niemann Ciapciak
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1975
"Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will."
- Rose Philippine Duchesne
Laura Sliney Clark
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1986
"The love in your heart wasn't there to stay; love isn't love until you give it away"
- Anonymous
Sallie Braeckel Crandall
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1992
"I am trying to tell you something about my life. Maybe give me insight. The best thing you have done for me is to help me take life less seriously. It's only life after all . . . I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind, got my paper and I'm free. . .fasten up your earthly burdens, you have just begun!"
- Indigo Girls
Carolyn Miler Dames
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1983
"And the seasons, they go 'round and 'round, and the painted ponies go up and down. We are captured on a carousel of time. We can't go back, we can only look behind from where we came and go 'round and 'round and 'round in the circle game. . ."
- Anonymous
Anne Hegeman Donnelly
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1982
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
- James Taylor
Anne Warner Dorr
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1978
"Now for you and me it may not be that hard to reach our dreams, but that magic feeling never seems to last. And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past.
- Jackson Browne
Julie Desloge Dubray
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1984
"You gave me a vision of what life is to be. You showed me the world, what I wanted to see. You promised me love 'cause you'd always be there to lend me a hand to show me you cared.
- M. B.
Mary McNery Fonseca
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1980
"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."
- Cicero
Laura Condie George
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1987
"The man who made friendship only made you and me."
- Anonymous
Mary Walsh Giles
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1998
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them."
- Evelyn Waugh
Amanda Chivell Hager
Villa Duchesne, Class of 2003
"What lies behind us and what lies beneath us are all small matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kelly Sheehan Harris
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1980
"Wasn't it yesterday we used to laugh at the wind behind us? Didn't we run away and hope that time wouldn't try to find us? We don't have tomorrow, but we had yesterday."
- Diana Ross
Laurie Jane Hegeman
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1985
"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
- Heraclitus
Caley Barnhart Lawlor
Villa Duchesne, Class of 2007
"So we can pull on through whatever tears us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around."
- Dave Matthews
Mary Catherine Leeker
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1985
"We're free to go where we wish and to be what we are."
- Richard Bach
Missy Rosenthal Leggat
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1989
"When some cold tomorrow finds you, when some sad old dream reminds you; how the endless road unwinds you . . . while you see a chance, take it."
- Steve Winwood
Kathleen Mills Lovett
Villa Duchesne, Class of 1988
"Just remember the fun and laughter, the pain and tears, and the love experienced; and only through these memories will high school never leave us as we leave it."
- K.A.M.