PUBLIC SERVICES:

Coordinator and lecturer in Continuing Education non-credit lecture series on Medieval Traditions, Winter 1975.

"The Bible as Literature," North Central Kiwanis, September 29, 1978.

Coordinator and lecturer in Continuing Education non-credit lecture series on Ireland, Spring 1981.

Tour leader, Continuing Education Abroad, Ireland: Munster and Dublin, May-June 1981.

"Ireland: Historical Past and Present," a lecture and slide presentation, Fauntleroy Community Church, March 5, 1982.

Master of ceremonies for Seattle's Irish Week Festivities, March l2-l3, 1982.

Discussant, ACT Theatre, on Hugh Leonard's Da, May 9, 1982.

Master of ceremonies, "Christmas in Ireland," at the Museum of History and Industry, December 5, 1982.

Irish Festivities Committee, 1982-84.

Writer, Editor, Publisher. Blessed Sacrament Parish: The Church and the People 1908-1983 (1983).

Seattle's 1983 Bloomsday Committee, co-chair.

Discussant, Seattle Repertory Theatre, on Brian Friel's Translations, February 9, 1983.

Irish Week Committee, 1983-84.

Master of Ceremonies, Irish Week Proclamation Luncheon, March l0, 1983; March 8, 1984. March ll, l985; March 7, l986; March 11, 1987.

"Ireland: An Introduction." A talk and slide presentation to the Ethnic Heritage Council of the Pacific Northwest,

Seattle Public Library, March 2l, 1983; to Queen Anne Manor, 3 April 1984.

"Ireland: The Land and its History," talk and slide presentation, Tukwila Senior Center, 7 June 1984; Greenlake Plaza, 23 October 1984; Madison SPICE, 14 March 1985; Edmonds Public Library, 25 March 1985; Women's Century Club, 5 April 1985.

Irish Heritage Club, Board of Directors, 1984-85.

Parish Council of Blessed Sacrament Parish, Seattle, 1984-86; l989-92.

"Brian Friel's Translations," lecture and discussion, Women's University Club, 25 January 1985.

Readings from Yeats and other Irish Writers. Seattle Center, IrishCultural Festival, March l6, l985.

Panelist, "Campus Ministry and Higher Education," Conference on Campus Ministry, Seattle University, April ll, l985.

Class presentation and discussion on Joyce's Dubliners at Juanita High School, May l7, l985.

Readings from Seamus Heaney, Seattle Center, Irish Cultural Festival, March l6, l986.

Master of Ceremonies, Irish Cultural Festival, Seattle, Center, March 14, 1987.

Talks on Kent Stowell's ballet, "Hail to the Conquering Hero:" Bainbridge Island Ballet League, 1990, 1996.

Seattle-Galway Sister City Scholarship Committee: 1991-98; chair, 1995-98.

Seattle-Galway Sister City Board of Directors: 1994--.

Panelist, Panel discussion of Kent Stowell's Carmina Burana, Pacific Northwest Ballet, January 25, 1995.

Poetry readings, Greenspire Medieval Faire, Seattle, September 1997, September 2000.

Acted in (and dramaturg for) performances of the Second Shepherds' Pageant, Greenspire Medieval Faire, Seattle, September 12-13, 1998.

Panelist at Pacific Northwest Ballet's Annual Meeting, 19 September 2000.

Member, RCIA Team, Blessed Sacrament Parish, 2000--, Co-Director 2001-08.

Member, Advisory Committee on Search for new Artistic Director, Pacific Northwest Ballet, 2004.

Guided church tours, and organized talks on medieval saints for Greenspire Medieval Faire, September 2004.

Dominican Centennial Committee, Blessed Sacrament Parish, Member, 2008-09.

Contributor, To Praise, To Bless, To Preach: Dominicans in Seattle, 1908-2008.

Talk on "Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and Christian Ministry" at the Seattle G. K. Chesterton Society, 17 November 2011.