She is a singer and librarian who studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she received degrees in history and library and information science. She also studied for a time in Wales.
She gained a position at Saint Louis University as a History Librarian where she compiled and created many documents and gained her Master of Arts in history at the same time. While in Saint Louis she was a member of the Saint Louis Cathedral Choir and with them she visited Italy to sing for Pope John Paul II and also sung for him on his visit to Saint Louis.
Alongside all of this, she also held the position of Chair of the IRC/IRRT Joint Committee of International Exchanges. She went on to work for a 5-year period at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and currently she is the Head of Reference/Bibliographer and Theatre Bibliographer at the University of Loyola in Chicago, Illinois.
St. Louis Cathedral Choir recordings
Angels We Have Heard on High (Traditional French/ James Chadwick / Edward Shippen Barnes)
MusicMasters MM20047 (CD: Christmas at the Cathedral)
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