The IndyStar caught up with Martha Carlson, BCHS Class of 1966, in their food section, ‘5 Things I Love’. ‘Martha Carlson is a longtime artist with a studio at the Stutz Business and Arts Center. She’s not only busy expressing herself through paint, wood and photographs, but as president of the Stutz Artists Association, working with more than 80 artists who lease studio space in the Stutz to showcase their artist talents. She also is focusing her efforts on the Secret Doors Gallery Exhibition opening Oct. 7: a special exhibit designed to bring fine art to children by displaying art at their eye level. Carlson’s love of art is comparable to her love of food’. Curious what her 5 food favorites are? Read the article in the IndyStar.

The life of a medical resident – it is the stuff that TV drama series are made of. But a decade of education and training that includes days lasting well beyond 24 hours is real life for Bishop Chatard Class of 2006 alumnus Dr. Seth Ball. Seth just completed his first year as an emergency medicine pediatrics resident at the University of Maryland Medical Center. As part of the combined emergency medicine and pediatrics program, the Class of 2020 resident will spend five years in the medical residency program. “It was eye-opening to find there was a specialty in pediatric emergency medicine,” Seth said. While at Indiana University School of Medicine his interest in emergency medicine grew, but he also knew he had a love and passion for working with kids. (more…)

Ann (Wagner) Bourque, BCHS Class of 1984, shares that, as an accomplished artist, her artwork has been featured in solo exhibitions, as well as public and private gallery showing. She also sells her work online nationwide. View her artwork at fineartamerica.com. You can also purchase a work at that website! Ann enjoys donating her work to her parish for display and for fundraising events. She is a member of Fine Art America and contributes to many online art blogs and forums. She also teaches art, grades 1-12 and recently finished a post-grad minor in studio art.

Congratulations to Martin Kavanaugh, BCHS Class of 1971, on his second book, ‘Mr. Satisfactory, Memoirs of an Excellent Life’, published in 2015. Mr. Satisfactory is an autobiography and history of growing up in a large family in Indianapolis, as he takes you through the ‘shenanigans and mischief’ that a boy can get into in twelve years of parochial education. Martin’s first book, ‘A Hockey Road Well Traveled’, was published in 2009.

Lucy Eisgruber, BCHS Class of 2015, has continued writing since she’s left BCHS and now has several articles published on futurefemaleleader.com, where she is a one of their contributors. Future Female Leaders is a group that supports women who believe in the traditional American values of independence, hard work, personal responsibility and accountability. Read some of Lucy’s published articles: Diversity of Thought: A Rarity, Yet Necessity on College Campuses
Keep Your Head, Heels and Standards High.
Congratulations Lucy! We look forward to reading more of your works!

Ellen Collier, BCHS Class of ’11, just took a job in Washington D.C. and is a designer for The Express, the commuter magazine of the Washington Post. The photo is of her first cover design. Good luck on the new job, Ellen! Ellen is a graduate of Ball State.

Congratulations to Allison Graham, BCHS Class of ’13, who was recently named editor of the IDS (Indiana Daily Student) at IU. This a huge responsibility and a great honor for her. This summer she interned and published with the Pulitzer prize-winning The Post & Courier in Charleston, SC.

We recently heard from Emily Schafer, BCHS Class of 2010. She writes:

I entered Candidacy with the Daughters of Holy Mary of the Heart of Jesus. They are a religious order from Madrid, Spain. They have a Novitiate in Steubanville, OH where I will be for Candidacy, Postulancy and 1 year of Novitiate.

Lauren Brown, BCHS Class of 2013, had the opportunity to work with the Indiana Writers Center this summer as an intern for their Building a Rainbow outreach program. She spent a few weeks writing with Indianapolis youth at the Saint Florian Summer Camp–a leadership development camp downtown organized by a few Indianapolis Firefighters from the Saint Florian Center who give up their vacation hours to run this camp. She writes: “I got to sit down with these kids–obtusely and unfairly considered “at risk”–and hear them tell their stories on paper. We took the kids’ writing and published it into a book called “I Remember: Indianapolis Youth Write about Their Lives 2016,” which was just released this past weekend. In it, kids whom I grew to love tell stories about what kind of animal they most identify with, a time when they felt strong, a time when they didn’t feel heard. They shared both hilarious accounts and heartbreaking accounts. I’m telling you this because these kids, this experience, this book all mean a great deal to me.” If you’re curious about the book, it is available on Amazon at this link