ST. MARY'S GRADUATE EARNS NATIONAL RECOGNITION

Jeanne Livers, a graduate of St. Mary Cathedral Catholic School, has been named a 1995 National Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduate.

She graduated in 1972 and is a math consultant for the Missouri education department. She also graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University.

Livers credits St. Mary's for preparing her for her adult life. "Catholic education is the only total education," she said. "It is through this unity of school, church and family that the total being of the child is molded."

She joins other Catholic school alumni who have received the award including an FBI director, a governor, a missionary, a circuit court judge, a television news producer, an Air Force combat training division chief, a senator, a mayor, a corporate president and a state representative.