The Service to Society Award is presented to a graduate who best exemplifies the ideals of a Notre Dame education through the application of their education, initiative and humanity to socially useful ends in the community, nation or world.

In 1999, the Alumnae and Alumni Association established the Service to Society Award. All graduates are eligible.

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2023 Award Winner

Amy Rosenkrans

Amy Rosenkrans '93 PH.D.'16

Amy Rosenkrans is a proud double graduate of Notre Dame of Maryland University. She received both her bachelor’s degree and her PhD from Notre Dame. In 2017, she was awarded the Joseph L. Arnold Prize for Outstanding Writing on Baltimore History by the Baltimore City Historical Society. This past spring semester, she was a consultant to the Hard Histories Project at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked with undergraduates researching African American orphans who were housed in the Johns Hopkins Colored Orphan Asylum.

Amy is currently sharing her passion for history with middle school students in Baltimore City. She credits Notre Dame with fostering her love for history and providing her with the skills to develop that love in others. Dr. Rosenkrans has been recognized numerous times during her teaching career, most recently receiving the 2020 Ponzcak-Greenblatt Families’ Holocaust Endowment Fund Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education. In her spare time, she is the Secretary of the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Executive Board, where she was one of the volunteer researchers for the Woman’s Suffrage Centennial Project. Her research is featured in Preservation Maryland’s Ballot and Beyond Podcast Series. Additionally, Amy was successful in lobbying to get a historical marker in her hometown of Havre de Grace commemorating the work of Harford County Suffragists. Her current project, Memories of the Baltimore Woman’s Industrial Exchange, strives to document the history of the institution and the people who made it a Baltimore icon. She is especially proud that three NDMU Morrissy Scholars have been assisting her on this project.

Past Winners
Year Winner
1999 Patricia Fosarelli ’73, M.D., Ph.D.
2000 Diana Mand ’69
2001 Sue Ford Patrick ’67
2002 Retta Blaney ’78
2003 Diane Roberts McGlinchey ’59
2004 Carole Artigiani ’62
2005 Margaret M. Wintz ’45
2006 Susan Mueller Aumann ’83
2007 Mary Ellen Vanni ’69
2008 Mary Ellen Dougherty, SSND ’58
Kathleen Marie Engers, SSND ’47
2009 Mary Gabriel Roeder, SSND ’59
2010 Christopher L. Benzing, M’05
Virginia Bartlett Rugemer, C’91
2011 Susan Love, M.D. ’70
2012 Judy Geilfuss Dobson ’62
2013 Margaret O'Connor Markovic '82
2014 Andrea Bowden '69, Ph. D. 
Betty Contino W'89
2015 Susan Gardiner Larkin '65 Ph.D.
2016 Sr. Patricia McLaughlin, SSND '66
2017 Mary Ellen McFadden '67, MSN '85
2018 Nancy Ruiz Lee '91
2019 Sara Martinelli de la Guardia '69
2020 Veronica Walker Hackett '67
2021 Natalie Mistichelli Ramirez ’94
2022 Dorothy Pula Strohecker '52
2023 Amy Rosenkrans '93, PH.D.'16