Subject: RE: Katherine McCarthy
From: Christopher Ballantyne <[email-masked]>
To: "William M. Treanor" <[email-masked]>, All Faculty and Staff <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:06:57 +0000

My cares, prayers and thoughts are with Katherine and Katherine's parents.  It is a dreadful and unspeakable burden to bear the death of one's daughter. I would want them to know that I share a very small part -- and only that, smaller even than that -- of their immense grief.

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From: William M. Treanor
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 06:56
To: All Faculty and Staff
Subject: Katherine McCarthy

Dear Colleagues,
It is with the most profound sadness that I inform you that Katherine McCarthy passed away this morning.

Katherine touched all our lives profoundly. Since I emailed you about her illness, there has been a remarkable and wonderful outpouring of emails in which so many of you wrote of how much you loved and admired Katherine and how you treasured her warmth, her caring, her concern for others, her deep commitment to helping others, her generosity of spirit, and her wonderful smile. I have shared those emails with her family, and I know how much they meant at a very difficult time.

It was a great joy for me to have known Katherine and it was a privilege to have been able to work with her.   The daughter of Dean David McCarthy and his wife Mary McCarthy, she literally grew up in this community, and she was, as a number of you have written, our heart and soul. She was a treasure, and we will always remember her.

We will post a website where you will be able to contribute your memories of Katherine, and all the emails I have already received will be posted there. Please also feel free to send me any of your memories, and I will have them added to the webpage. We will also find other ways to honor Katherine - a number of you have already suggested establishing an award or scholarship - and I would appreciate learning of any suggestions you may have. It is important to all of us that we honor permanently her memory and all she means to us.

I will let you know about funeral arrangements as soon as the family has made them, and we will conduct a memorial service for her on campus at a later date.

Please keep Katherine and her family in your thoughts and prayers.

Sadly, Bill

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