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Cancer research. Service trips to Appalachia. Original student performances in the DeBartolo Center. Urban renewal projects. National championship teams. Bioengineered tissues. Tax assistance programs for low-income families. Peace-building excursions to Africa.
These are just a few of the things our students have been up to. And a few of the many hundreds of academic, service, and athletic projects that your dollars help to fund. At Notre Dame, every gift matters, because every gift helps give our students the chance to enrich their minds, cultivate their character, and make a difference in our world.
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It was the myriad kinds of support Notre Dame offered that appealed so much to Joseph Teller.
When he and his wife, Marianna, made the decision to move their new family from California to Indiana, they had turned down four other English doctoral programs. The distinction of Notre Dame’s faculty and curriculum played a large role in their choice, but there was something more.
First of all, Joseph was offered the Joseph L. Gaia Distinguished Fellowship, which provided the monetary aid he needed to support his family while pursuing his education. And then there was another kind of support—the feeling of acceptance and community that Joseph experienced when he visited campus. It was the crucial selling point.
“Notre Dame’s generosity, the feeling of collegiality and personal support I find in the faculty and students here, have all been very special to me and my family,” Joseph says, “not only in my own professional development, but in the personal challenges my wife and two young sons have faced.”
Those challenges have proved immense but, thankfully, not insurmountable. Just before coming to South Bend, Marianna nearly died giving birth to the couple’s first son, Andrew. Since then, Andrew has been diagnosed with severe cerebral palsy. Joseph says that it is only because of the Notre Dame community that he has been able to pursue his dream.
“That sense of family and community we felt on our first visit continued from the moment we moved here,” he says. “The people of Notre Dame supported me as a whole person, with an intellect and a soul, as a father and a husband who was also a scholar. They were nothing short of incredible during that first difficult year. I found that this holy place and its people would not leave us orphans.”
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Natalie Hupf ’00
Los Alamitos, California
“The spirit of Notre Dame can be summed up as ‘family.’ Whether friend, parent, student, or alumni, you are welcomed and embraced by the Notre Dame family, which is a group of people who will support you and help you grow intellectually, spiritually, and socially. The spirit is about realizing that there is a greater good and that it is every person’s decision to try and do their part in order to achieve their own personal greatness and the greater good. Realizing the spirit of Notre Dame in my daily life is knowing that there is a standard of excellence and expectation attached to my association with Notre Dame and that, in order to sustain the prestige of the University, I must be a model of all the good that Notre Dame stands for.”
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