In December, Don Criqui ’62, the longest-tenured network television broadcaster in NFL history, was named the 2024 recipient of the Edwin Pope Orange Bowl Vanguard Media Award, an honor given to those who have made lasting impacts on college football, the Orange Bowl and the South Florida community. Criqui, whose broadcasting career spanned six decades, covered 14 Orange Bowl games, some of which determined national champions, and also brought the action to Notre Dame fans as the football radio play-by-play announcer from 2006 to 2017. . . .
Kate Chambers ’18M.Arch, won the New York City-based Institute for Classical Architecture & Art’s top prize for emerging professionals whose work “exhibits a holistic understanding of the principles of classical design.” Chambers, who taught at her graduate alma mater for three years, is a senior project architect at Tippett Sease Baker Architecture in Montgomery, Alabama, a firm that exclusively designs by hand. The ICAA’s award website at classicist.org, features examples of her work, including designs for the Damascus Center for Peace and Religion Studies, a lake retreat, a country house, and a proposal for workforce housing in Mishawaka, Indiana. . . .
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce arrived at the 2025 AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium in a custom suit designed by Thom Browne ’88. The look featured a three-piece camel-hair sport coat with gray stripe detailing, a tie and pleated trousers to match, and a striped gray knit docker hat. . . .
Brian Hainline ’78 is now a three-time hall-of-famer. In January, the United States Tennis Association inducted Hainline, a four-year player for the Irish in the mid-1970s, into its Midwest Hall of Fame as part of its 2024 class. The honor came a year and a half after the physician’s entry into the Men’s Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame in Athens, Georgia, and 13 years after his induction into the USTA’s Eastern Hall of Fame. A specialist in sports neurology, Hainline dedicated his career to athlete health and safety with a particular concern for concussions and mental health. Notably, he was chief medical officer for the USTA and the U.S. Open before becoming the first person to serve under that title for the NCAA. In such roles, he led the shaping of health standards for tennis in the United States, including drafting eligibility rules for wheelchair tennis. . . .
Denise Bruesewitz ’08Ph.D., a biologist known for her teaching and research in the field of aquatic ecosystems, has been appointed provost at Colby College, a 2,200-student liberal arts institution in Waterville, Maine. As a departmental leader in environmental science and current chair of the college’s interdisciplinary studies program, “Denise possesses the qualities and experiences that will make her a phenomenal leader of the faculty and a champion” for the school and its faculty, Colby’s president, David A. Greene, said. In her own work on the marine environment, Bruesewitz has contributed to nearly 40 research publications. . . .
On February 12, a federal jury found Michael Madigan ’64, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, guilty on 10 criminal counts including conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud related to a variety of political scandals. Madigan, a Democrat who represented districts on Chicago’s southwest side near Midway Airport for 50 years until his resignation in 2021, ran the state’s lower chamber for 36 of those years, making him reportedly the longest-tenured leader of a state or federal legislative chamber in American history. As recently as 2014, Chicago Magazine ranked him the second most powerful person in the city, a measure of his style of powerbrokering that earned him nicknames like “the Velvet Hammer” and “the Real Governor of Illinois.” Madigan’s trial, overseen by U.S. District Judge John Robert “Jack” Blakey ’88, ’92J.D., lasted four months, after the FBI spent a decade secretly recording Madigan’s conversations in his private law office. . . .
Patrick Dupré Quigley ’00, a conductor and producer of classical, modern and world choral music, is leading a project to revive a long-lost work believed to the oldest existing opera by a Black American composer. Morgiane, a grand opera in four acts, was completed in 1887 by Edmond Dédé, a free-born Creole musician and composer with whom Quigley shares his birthplace — New Orleans. During the COVID-19 shutdown, Quigley, the founding director of the Miami-based ensemble Seraphic Fire, immersed himself in music history and was astonished to discover Dédé’s contributions to 19th-century classical music. Determined to bring Morgiane to life, he collaborated with Washington, D.C.’s Opera Lafayette, where he is currently artistic director designate, and New Orleans’ OperaCréole, overcoming challenges in transcribing the damaged manuscript and interpreting Dédé’s hard-to-read notes. Now, after the opera’s premiere in Washington in February, Quigley sees the project as an overdue recognition of Dédé’s legacy. . . .
SiriusXM radio programmer Mary Sue Twohy ’91 was inducted into the Folk Radio Hall of Fame on February 19 at the 2025 Folk Alliance International Conference. Twohy began her career as an acoustic artist, recording and touring before working as a publicist. Her passion led her to volunteer in radio, where she pitched the idea for a contemporary folk show called The Village. Since then, she has interviewed nearly every major figure in the folk music world. “Mary Sue has introduced me to so much music I might not have otherwise encountered over the years,” singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter says. “Her playlists are beautifully broad and wide-ranging, and her thoughtfulness in the craft of creating them is artistry all by itself.” While at Notre Dame, Twohy was a singer in a band called Crust.