Xavier was busy with Thanksgiving community service projects! The Mothers’ Guild made Kindness Kits for Circle the City, Key Club packed boxes for Operation Christmas Child and National Honor Society hosted a bake sale with the proceeds going to the canned food drive at St. Vincent de Paul. The Canned Food Drive set records. Thank you Gators!

Margaret Coughlin Beardsley enjoying a hike with 1977 classmates.

Alexa Penalosa graduated from ASU Law School in 2022 and successfully passed the Arizona Bar Exam.
After graduation, she completed a one year clerkship at the Arizona Court of Appeals, and in September 2023, moved to Washington D.C. to begin work as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division!

Amelia Videan returned to her alma mater and is a new addition to the guidance and counseling department at Xavier College Prep.

Rebecca Embry Lisk and Trish Wilson Norton have remained best friends since high school, even with Trish living in Ireland. When Trish’s daughter Mia came to visit the states, Rebecca brought her on a tour of Xavier so she could see where her mom had lived and gone to high school.

Allison Connelley DaCosta and husband Stephen welcomed Henry French on May 18, 2023.

Anita Verma-Lallian was listed as a Trendsetter to Know by Arizona Foothills Magazine. She is the CEO of Camelback productions in addition to her real estate positions.

Chelse Henry, Marie Hoie and Ashley Ladd came from near and far to tour the campus. They couldn’t believe the new buildings and wonderful classes avalable to the students today!

The Alumnae Board celebrated another successful year, thanking Val Jacobs ’01 for her leadership this past year and welcoming Sarah Jennings ’01 as the President for the 2023-24 year.

Xavier Golf won the AIA Division I Girls High School State Championship! Go Gators!

Khalia Lanier made her debut playing in the 2023 Volleyball Nations League.

Nicole Macias has come full circle as she finds herself teaching at her alma mater, ASU. She leads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Comunications Initiative for the Cronkite Agency as its director and professor of practice. Nicole graduated from ASU in 2003 and teaches along side her father, Albert Macias, a 1974 graduate of ASU and longtime valley journalist.