Mary Kelly

I continue to work for the University of Kentucky as a programmer/analyst – for 37 years so far – and hope to continue for a good long while, until they put me out to pasture. For an IT person, I am a dinosaur at the age of 60. I provide programming support (web-database) to the UK Graduate School. I do not get free basketball tickets! I have traveled quite a bit internationally, most recently with a choir from the Cathedral to perform in Rome (got to sing for Blessed John Paul II just months before his death). I have also done volunteer work for numerous (non-political!) organizations. I attend Mass almost daily. These days, I spend my free time maintaining my house, volunteering, playing with my yellow Labrador retriever, and exercising. I usually make it home to Fort Dodge twice a year to see my family. Mom and Dad (Gene and Betty) still live in fort Dodge and belong to Sacred Heart. They know a lot of my classmates. Surprising: I took up soccer at the age of 35 and played beyond my 50th birthday. I own power tools. :-)

Sr. Mary St. David holds a special place in my heart. I can still hear her saying, “Mr. McColley, M-Y-O-B.” And when someone proposed that two congruent angles had to be next to one another, Sr. replied, “No, one can be in Timbuktu and the other can be in Kalamazoo.” Did I mention that I went on to major in math in college? Who can forget little Sr. Innocence and her tales of the Vestal Virgins in Latin class.