Spring Spirits 2025

SAVE THE DATE:

Please join us for our 2025 Spring Spirits Fundraising event benefiting the Saint Mary's College Endowed Scholarship Fund on May 1st in Lincoln Park. This is a great evening to meet Belles from all years, network and give back!

Save the date and stay tuned for how to buy your ticket for Spring Spirits!

What is Spring Spirits? Our club hosts two flagship events each year: Spring Spirits in the spring and Founders’ Day in the fall. These are great events to meet Belles from all years, network and give back. These events are our biggest fundraisers for the Saint Mary’s Chicago East Endowed Scholarship Fund.

At Spring Spirits, we have a silent auction and raffle to raise money for the Saint Mary’s Chicago East Endowed Scholarship Fund. The scholarship is given to Chicago-area Belles. For the 2023-2024 school year, the scholarship awarded $15,900 to three students ($5,300 each).

Raffle/Silent Auction: If you would like to donate an item to our silent auction and raffle, please contact us. If you’d like more information on what types of items have been donated for our previous silent auctions/raffles, please check out this blog post.

To learn more about our past annual fundraisers, check out the recaps on our blog:

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2024 Founders' Day Celebration

We had a great group of 30 Belles gather for Mass at St. Clement & brunch at Galway Arms to celebrate Founders’ Day.

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2024 Spring Spirits

We had a fantastic group of 42 Belles gather at Chief O’Neill’s and raised over $3,400 for the SMC Chicago East Endowed Scholarship!

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Founders' Day 2023

We hosted our first Founders’ Day event since 2019! Over 30 Belles joined us for mass at St. Clement’s Church and brunch at Galway Arms.

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Spring Spirits 2023

We had a great turnout for our 2023 Spring Spirits event! We were able to raise over $2,000 to benefit the Saint Mary’s Chicago East Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Dinner Belles: Avec

Avec - River North (map)

Dinner Belles is a monthly dinner/brunch club and a fun, informal gathering to try new restaurants around the city and meet Belles of all class years. The dinners/brunches will be fairly small at 6-10 max to encourage conversation and develop friendships.

For our May outing, join us at Avec on Thursday, May 8th at 6:30pm. The restaurant is located in the River North area.

RSVP to attend and reserve your spot!

ND & SMC Senior Alumni Lunch: May

The Kerryman Irish Bar & Restaurant (map)

Please join the monthly Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College Senior Alumni lunch on Thursday, May 15th, at Meier’s Tavern (235 E Lake Ave, Glenview, IL). A cozy and casual setting, with reservations for us in the upstairs/mezzanine location as before. Big adjacent parking lot. Order food and drink off the menu and pay cash (they don't take credit cards) through our host Jim Hynan.

While this lunch is hosted by the ND Senior Alumni Committee, it is open to all ages, and open to both alums and friends.

RSVP to Jim Hynan (ND ‘74) at jhynan74@gmail.com if you’d like to attend.

May Book Club Meeting

Read along with us this month! The genre for May is a classic book, so we are reading The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Synopsis:

“The Secret Garden” follows Mary Lennox, a neglected and spoiled girl, who, after her parents die in India, is sent to live with her reclusive uncle in a gloomy English manor. She discovers a hidden, neglected garden and, with the help of her cousin Colin and a local boy Dickon, restores it, finding both personal growth and happiness in the process.

If you would like to attend the meeting, please contact us and we will send you the address.