From
The Alumni
Office
Graduate Focus: Mary Fairweather
THEOLOGICAL STUDIES GRADUATE 2001
Mary enrolled in the Flint program. She
chose to take one class at a time and
eventually completed the requirements
for certification from the Diocese as a Lay
Minister and received a Bachelor of Arts in
Theology from Siena Heights. Mary says the
program changed the way she looks at her
life and her work. She now sees her job as
a pharmacist as a true ministry. “It is often
overwhelming and always humbling to hear
the stories of people who bare their souls to
me …they trust me, as a pharmacist, with
their story. I am continually striving to see
each patient as Christ who has walked into
my workplace in need of a kind word, a helping hand, and service,” she explained.
Over the past year, the Siena Heights Alumni Office
experimented successfully with a number of new activities. Unfortunately, if you don’t live somewhere near
Adrian, you might not know about such things as:
• Alumni Cabaret, a dinner-theater event last March
that attracted 100 alumni and friends for a festive
reception, fine meal, 1930s jazz performed by Siena’s
jazz band, insights into 1930s Germany from Professor
Emeritus Spencer Bennett, and comments from Doug
Miller ’74, director of the Theatre Siena production of
“Cabaret” which was the culmination of the evening.
• Tea & Trumpets, an afternoon “garden party” gathering in April that delighted about 50 alumni and friends
with an English tea, the sharing of favorite poems
about spring, and a concert by the Siena Heights
Chamber Ensemble.