Mother Evelyn O'Neill Award

Mother Evelyn O'Neill was the superior of St. Teresa's Academy from 1908 to 1915. It was during her tenure that the Academy was relocated from the Quality Hill area to its current site, and the college of St. Teresa's was founded - now Avila College. In her sixty-two years as a Sister of St. Joseph Mother Evelyn has come to personify the core values of the Academy, those of social justice, excellence in education, community stewardship and assistance to the poor.

Each year, during National Women's History Month, St. Teresa's bestows the Mother Evelyn O'Neill Award to two local women who demonstrate one of these values in their life's work. Past recipients of the award are:

2000: Maime Hughes and Georgia Lynch

2001: Sr. Corita Bussanmas, Sr. Berta Sailer and Connie Campbell

2002: Kathleen Andrews and Mary Lou Jaramillo

2003: Mary K. Meyer and Beth Smith

2004: Carol S. Marinovich and Lisa Hughes

2005: Suzanne Gladney and Angela Bennett

2006: Anita Gorman and Rita Valenciano

2007: Mary Davidson Cohen and Sheri Wood