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CNR Class Notes

CNR Class Notes

OCT. 16, 2023–MAY 13, 2024

Our alumni achievements.

CNR Class Notes is a way to stay connected. We would love to share your recent news, life events and accomplishments. Tell us about them, and we will include it in the next issue. Email: cnralumni@mercy.edu with your class note.

1950s & 1960s

Margaret (Mardy) Moore

Margaret (Mardy) Moore SAS ’51 was featured in March’s issue of the Daily Gazette in an article entitled: “At 94, Niskayuna’s Mardy Moore reflects on pioneering civic career.” Moore was the first female supervisor ever in the town of Niskayuna, New York’s 200-year history.

Reverend Pat Miod Kriss

Reverend Pat Miod Kriss SAS ’69 is now Reverend Doctor Pat Kriss. The Doctor of Ministry was conferred upon her in May 2023 by Hartford International University of Religion and Peace. Dr. Kriss holds two other graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School: a Master of Divinity and a Master of Sacred Ministry. She graduated from the College of New Rochelle with a bachelor’s in Fine Arts and Education in 1969. Her career led her into nonprofit fundraising for 34 years in health and education before a call into ministry. She is a full-time senior pastor for First Congregational Church Danbury UCC, and is marking her 14th year as a pastor.

1990s

Denise Sampson

Fulton Books author Denise Sampson SNR ’90, a widow and a loving mother of seven and grandmother of eight, has completed her most recent book, “Meet Cleo and Mindy,” about two animals who are best friends despite the rude comments they hear from the other animals because of how different they are from each other.

Victoria Coudray McMullen

Victoria Coudray McMullen SAS ’93 started a new role as vice president of marketing for the New Jersey Innovation Institute in Newark, N.J. This institute, an NJIT corporation, helps turn ideas into workable solutions across health care, entrepreneurship, defense and homeland security, and professional and corporate education. Previously, McMullen was the vice president of marketing for Certara, a consulting firm for the biotech industry.

Heather Archibald

Heather Archibald SAS ’94 has been elected to the Board of Directors for the Berkshire County Historical Society. Archibald is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and Kiwanis International as well as other volunteer groups giving back to the Berkshire community.

JoEllen Revell

JoEllen Revell SAS ’98 has started a new position as vice president of Child Integrated Services at LifeStream Behavioral Center, Inc. in central Florida. LifeStream is a behavioral health and social services organization that provides high-quality treatment, education, care management, rehabilitation, child welfare, primary care and homeless services to children, adolescents and adults.

Christine Simoneau-Hales

Christine Simoneau-Hales GS ’98, Art Therapy, will be exhibiting at the Angels by the Sea Episcopal Church gallery at Longboat Key, Fla. Over 20 Byzantine-style icons will be displayed. "In a convent in France, I met an iconographer named Sister Miriam," Simoneau-Hales said. “She explained to me about icons and it just changed my whole world. It just seemed to encompass great art."

Don Keene

Don Keene GS ’99 recently exhibited artwork in a show titled “Abstract Reality” at the Guilford Art Center in Guilford, Conn. The exhibit featured a selection of 15 works encompassing both realism and abstraction created in the past 23 years.