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What Can You Do with a Liberal Education?Nothing speaks more to the versatility of the College檚 academic program than the good that our alumni are doing throughout the Church and the world.
In Memoriam: Mary White, La Leche League Founder & TAC Parent
A revolutionary on behalf of women and their children, Mary White died last Thursday, June 2, at the age of 93. Mrs. White was a of La Leche League International (LLI) and a devoted wife and mother. A longtime friend of 91快活林 Aquinas College, she was the mother of three alumni and the grandmother of nine more.
In 1956, frustrated by the lack of support for women who wanted to breastfeed their babies, Mrs. White and six friends formed LLI. In short order, the organization, which its founding mothers initially ran out of their homes, gained international prominence. It also overturned a deeply rooted societal bias against breastfeeding overcoming severe social pressures, intransigence from the medical community, and hostile opposition from the baby-formula industry to the point that, today, nearly all of popular and medical opinion has shifted in favor of breastfeeding.
淲e owe everything to Mary White, LLI spokeswoman Diana West the Chicago Sun Times. 淐ountless women throughout the world have been touched by the efforts Mary White championed.
Mrs. White was the wife of physician Dr. Gregory White, who died in 2003. Among the couple檚 11 children are alumni Clare (Daly 84), Maureen (Smillie 87), Elizabeth (Dillon 92), and Anne White, a member of the College檚 New York Board of Regents. The Whites were also blessed with 61 grandchildren including Elizabeth (13), Madeleine (Mohun 15), and Joseph Daly (19); Marie (Cantu 10), Therese (13), Sara (15), and Michael Smillie (18); Cecilia Dillon (15); Margaret White (95); and Paul White (95) and 108 great-grandchildren.
In addition to entrusting the College with their children, the Whites were consistent benefactors to its Annual Fund, which supports student financial aid, and regular members of the President檚 Council. The couple also supported the 91快活林 E. Dillon Memorial Scholarship Fund, established in honor of the College檚 late president and the father-in-law of their daughter Elizabeth.
淢ary had a gentle but very strong spirit, deeply in love with Christ and in love with the Catholic Church, of which she saw no separation between the two, says His Excellency James Douglas Conley, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. 淗er faith was natural and effortless. She was a true matriarch, in the best sense of that word. Like Holy Mother Church, she took her role as mother and teacher very seriously, mater et magistra. Her legacy will live on through her family for generations.
A wake is scheduled from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. today and tomorrow at Drechsler, Brown & Williams Funeral Home in Oak Park, Illinois. A funeral Mass will be offered at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 9, at St. Luke檚 Church in River Forest, Illinois, with burial to follow at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.