AN ENDURING Endowment

Marymount’s endowment plays an essential role in supporting the School’s mission and work, and in ensuring the School’s relevance in our evolving and increasingly complex world. The endowment is designed to provide future stability as a source of income from which to plan for current and future needs.

As Marymount anticipates its 100th year, the Centennial Objective to expand our School endowment to $23,000,000 encompasses several distinct mission-aligned pillars:

• FINANCIAL AID

Ensures that the financial aid program will remain broad in scope, serving students from households throughout our city.

• FACULTY & STAFF

Assists in attracting and retaining excellent faculty through professional development opportunities, competitive salaries, and abundant classroom resources.

• ACADEMIC & CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMS

Provides operational funds for new and innovative curriculum and programs.

MARGO LEONETTI O’CONNELL ‘60 SAILL PROGRAM

Marymount is honored to have received a generous gift from the Leonetti / O’Connell Family Foundation to fully endow the Margo Leonetti O’Connell ‘60 SAILL Program (Students Advancing in Internship Leadership and Learning). This visionary gift ensures that Marymount’s internship program will continue to grow and flourish for generations of students to come.

A beloved alumna from the Marymount Class of 1960, Margo Leonetti O’Connell is well known for her advocacy and support of initiatives that benefit Los Angeles and improve the wellbeing of communities throughout our city.

The SAILL program at Marymount is open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and provides students with the opportunity to work with extraordinary mentors who are not only role models, but who have made important contributions within their chosen fields.

The SAILL program has rapidly grown from fewer than five students a decade ago to more than 60 student interns each summer. This signature program fosters personal, educational, and professional growth as students become involved with a community of scholars and leaders outside of Marymount, while also learning the technicalities of various professions within some of the most renowned organizations in Los Angeles.

The celebration of our Centenary Year is the celebration of the thousands of people, Religious and laity, who joined together to form a special kind of community, the purpose of which was - and is - to be life-giving to students and to one another.

This mission has endured throughout the various movements and moments that shaped our collective history as a nation, and shaped in a particular way the history of Los Angeles.

As we embark upon this milestone year, we celebrate and honor those who came before us, and we applaud the administrators, faculty, and students of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, who carry on the extraordinary vocation of inspiring lifelong-learners, ethical leaders, and global advocates.

MARGARET MCKENNA, RSHM Desktop Publishing/Yearbook Visual Arts Department

As a part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Marymount’s founding, we are excited to create a commemorative Centennial Courtyard, through which donors of $3,000 and above have the opportunity to make their mark on campus with a personalized paver.

Gifts can be made online at www.mhs-la.org/giving. All donors who have made an eligible gift during this fiscal year (July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023) will be contacted by the Development Office in the spring with details regarding how to customize the text for their paver.

The Centennial Courtyard will be installed in Summer of 2023 as a lasting testament of this unique time in our School’s history.