Members
Freshmen
Ethan Brown
Hometown: White Plains
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Political Science
Dorm: Zahm house
Hobbies/Interests: Writing creatively and reading
Favorite Quote: With great responsibility comes the great need to sleep more than usual.
Favorite Color: Red
Interesting Fact(s): I’ve never broken a bone in my body but I have gotten 8 stitches in my toes.
Dream Job: Getting paid to sleep
Favorite Song: Chainsmoker by Chance the Rapper
Favorite Place on Campus: My bed
Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel to 80,000 people and having a small heart attack
Jill Ann Buettner
Hometown: Belleville, Illinoi
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Elementary Education with Mild Intervention and Spanish Minors
Dorm: McCandless Hall
Hobbies/Interests: Ballet and Pointe, tennis, piano, traveling, reading, history, 80s Rock music, thunderstorms, and foods with peanut butter and chocolate
Favorite Quote: “We are not here to wait for the storm to pass, but to learn to dance in the rain.”
Favorite Color: Yellow
Interesting Fact(s): I can clap with one hand.
Dream Job: Ballerina
Favorite Song: “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC, “Piano Man” by Billy Joel, “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, “100 Years” by Five for Fighting
Favorite Place on Campus: Rock Garden by Lake Marlan
Favorite Band Memory: Seeing everyone in the stadium stand up and start cheering as we played Wagon Wheel in my first night game halftime show.
Amanda Jarosik
<Hometown: Arlington Heights, IL
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Science-Business Pre-Professional
Dorm: Walsh Hall
Hobbies/Interests: Band, listening to musical soundtracks, running, journaling, eating too much chocolate
Favorite Quote: “No day but today” -Rent
Favorite Color: Green
Interesting Fact(s): I collect lapel pins… so far I have 281!
Dream Job: Head of animal care at Animal Kingdom by day, Broadway “critic” by night
Favorite Song: “‘Hallelujah” “Can’t Help Falling in Love”
Favorite Place on Campus: The Grotto, the Tunnel
Favorite Band Memory: My first Midnight Drummer’s circle!
Caroline Langley
Hometown: McMurray, PA
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Biology!
Dorm: McGlinn
Hobbies/Interests: tennis, skiing, jigsaw puzzles, constellations, crafty stuff, anything outdoors, talking about Pittsburgh, CATS
Favorite Quote: “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty” -Winston Churchill
Favorite Color: Maroon and gray-blue
Interesting Fact(s): My great - great - great - great granduncle almost invented the plane. Family legend says he actually did.
Dream Job: Epidemiologist for the CDC
Favorite Song: Boulevard of Broken Dreams, House of Memories, and literally anything in 6/8
Favorite Place on Campus: SDH
Favorite Band Memory: Rudy Night
Allison Okeley
Hometown: Crown Point, IN
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Double major in communications and marketing with a minor in Spanish
Dorm: McCandless
Hobbies/Interests: Sports
Favorite Quote: You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take
Favorite Color: Red
Interesting Fact(s): I am left handed
Dream Job: Sports announcer
Favorite Band Memory: Being a member of the first concert band to go to state in school history my senior year of high school.
Eileen Mostyn
Hometown: Kennett Square, PA
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Political Science
Dorm: Flaherty Hall
Hobbies/Interests: IReading, listening to musicals, Parks and Recreation, and clarinet (duh!)
Favorite Quote: “Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato’s unexamined life, is not worth living.” -Fr. Hesburgh
Favorite Color: Maroon
Interesting Fact(s): One time my senior year of high school, I plugged in my laptop charger before one of my classes and sparks shot out of it, making my tights catch on fire and causing my life to flash before my eyes. (Everything turned out okay)
Dream Job: Not sure yet, but something where I can have a positive impact on the lives of others
Favorite Song: Almost Home by Ben Rector (or basically any other Ben Rector song)
Favorite Place on Campus: The basement of the library
Favorite Band Memory: Halftime at the Georgia game and hearing the crowd’s reaction to Living on a Prayer
Riley O’Mearns
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Chemistry, Biochemistry
Dorm: McCandless
Hobbies/Interests: Playing clarinet, watching game shows and documentaries, reading, all things relating to Chicago sports (especially hockey), big band and swing music from the 30’s.
Favorite Quote: “You are the music while the music lasts.” - T. S. Eliot
Favorite Color: Blue
Interesting Fact(s): My mom and I have the same birthday (June 12th)!
Dream Job: Film score composer
Favorite Song: Scheherazade Movement III by Rimsky-Korsakov; Yellow by Coldplay
Favorite Place on Campus: The sidewalk leading from the band building to Ricci Fields.
Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel for the first time.
Rachel Perez
Hometown: Oswego, IL
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: undecided
Dorm: McCandless
Hobbies/Interests: Eating. 80s music/movies
Favorite Quote: the best is yet to be
Favorite Color: purple
Interesting Fact(s): I was born with a broken collar bone.
Dream Job: Zookeeper lol
Favorite Song: Bohemian Rhapsody
Favorite Place on Campus: Lakes
Favorite Band Memory: Making the marching band
Andrew Peterson
Hometown: Roanoke, IL
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Chemistry
Dorm: The Better Pasquerilla
Hobbies/Interests: Music (guitar and clarinet), theatre, skiing, game of thrones, lord of the rings, dabbling in baseball and soccer
Favorite Quote: “The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.” ~Bilbo Baggins
Favorite Color: Green
Interesting Fact(s): Can touch nose with tongue. Played bassoon for a month. Was homecoming king.
Dream Job: In some kind of band
Favorite Song: Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time ~Panic! at the disco
Favorite Place on Campus: The Basilica
Favorite Band Memory: First trot thru the tunnel
Cory Shaw
Hometown: Three Rivers, MI
Graduation Year: 2021
Major: Major: Elementary Education
Dorm: Regina (Saint Mary’s)
Hobbies/Interests: band, wiener dogs, netflix.
Favorite Quote: “They told me I couldn’t; that’s why I did”
Favorite Color: light blue, neon green, pink, and purple
Interesting Fact(s): In high school, I was in the drumline
Dream Job: Kindergarten Teacher
Favorite Song: Humble by Kendrick Lamar & Malibu by Miley Cyrus (very big difference I know lol.. I have a wide variety of music taste)
Favorite Place on Campus: ND: The Dome SMC: Lake Marian
Favorite Band Memory: Trotting out of the tunnel for the first time at ND. (High School was ending off my last season with a win at every competition) :)