Category: 1990s

Dr. Betsy Groves-Egan, ’96, gives Sight to Hundreds in Panama

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Groves-Egan, class of 1996, currently works as an ophthalmologist at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital. Dr. Groves is able to spend a week every year, traveling to Guaymi, Panama and performing cataracts surgery on patients who travel for days to visit them. She and her team are providing sight for hundreds of patients at each trip, and in one case allowed a person to see their grandchild for the very first time!

Alumni Supporting Alumni

Wenclewicz Insurance (Mark Wenclewicz ’98 and Scott Wenclewicz ’02) is excited to sponsor recent Bishop Chatard High School graduate Rob Dury (’13) in the 2013 Grange Insurance All-Star Classic! Dury will join with other top Indiana high school football players to compete in a north vs. south battle on July 19th at North Central High School. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Proceeds from the game annually benefit both Camp Riley, a camping facility near Martinsville designed specifically for children with physical disabilities, and the Indiana Football Hall of Fame.

Tracy (Silvey) Daeger, ’98, Teacher of the Year

Tracy (Silvey) Daeger, class of 1998, was recognized as Teacher of the at Year at Rosa Parks-Edison Elementary School (Perry Township). Tracy teaches the 3rd Grade there. She, her husband, Tom, and their 2 children live on the south side of Indianapolis.

Angela (Watts) Bond – ’98, Teacher

Noblesville student’s class project comforts children in crisis
It started out as a simple assignment in Mrs. Bond’s 8th-grade science class at Our Lady of Grace Catholic School in Noblesville. “Through this process, you all had to try to make a difference,” said Angela (Watts) Bond, BCHS Class of ’98,  as she addressed her students. One of her students was so inspired to make a difference, that her work started ‘Bella’s Crusade’,  which helps children of domestic violence. View the video from Fox 59 and read more about this caring student and her teacher who inspired her to ‘make a difference’.

Justin Cooper, ’93 – Artist

Justin Cooper, ’93, self-taught artist, blends layers of acrylic, oil, wet-sanded canvas and metallic leaf to create subtle pictures in the style of Christian art — but the subjects are animals, often with halos – and painted in a style similar to early Japanese printmaker and painter Katsushika Hokusai. His work was featured in exhibition as  “Missed The Boat”, presented in 2011 at the Primary Gallery, Murphy Art Center. In it, you can  see the influence of the Eastern Orthodox tradition of icon painting — in a raccoon’s halo, for example — and also the influence that the children’s literature classic, Aesop’s Fables, had. Read more about his art and this exhibit at  www.nuvo.net

Indy’s Best and Brightest 2012

Congratulations to Patrick Murphy, Class of 1990, who has been recognized as “Indy’s Best and Brightest” in the field of Health and Life Sciences. Patrick is the President and General Manager for Anthem Disability & Life Companies, and also serves on our Bishop Chatard Board of Regents. We also congratulate John Ryan, Class of 1991, for his nomination of “Indy’s Best and Brightest” in the field of Law.