Sister Nona Mary Allard was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 23, 1928. She attended Catholic elementary and high schools there and in 1950 graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, from the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, with a B.A. in mathematics and minors in music, philosophy and theology. She then taught mathematics, band and chorus at a high school in Cromwell, Minnesota for two years, after which she spent a year in Holland on a Fulbright Fellowship for studies in mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. Upon returning to the United States, she again taught high school Mathematics for a year. In 1954 she entered the Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation and made profession as a Sinsinawa Dominican Sister in August, 1956. She then was assigned to teach mathematics and physics at Visitation High School, Chicago, where she remained until June, 1958, at which time she went to the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. to study for a master’s degree. After completing that work in 1960, with a major in mathematics and a minor in education, she taught in the mathematics department at Rosary College for one year, after which she returned to the Catholic University of America to study for a Ph.D. in mathematics. Sister then returned to Rosary where she began her tenure in the mathematics department, teaching there during the periods (1965-1983) and (1989-1993). She served as Associate Academic Dean and International Student Advisor from 1983 until 1987, and as Director of the Rosary College in Strasbourg, France program from 1987 until 1989. During her years at Rosary/Dominican Sister Nona Mary was very involved with Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Mu Epsilon and the Mathematics Division of ACCA. From 1968 until 1972 she served as president of the Mathematics Section of ACCA; 1979-83, as Director of Region II of Kappa Mu Epsilon; 1983-87, National Treasurer, Kappa Mu Epsilon; 1984-87, Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Chicago area; and 1990-1993, Secretary, Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Chicago area. She retired from full-time work at Dominican University in 1993 but continued her ministry by serving as Secretary to the Board of trustees of Dominican University (1993-1996) and International Student Advisor (1993-1997). She then spent two years in New York City, here she ministered in the Office of International Students at Marymount Manhattan College. Sister returned to Dominican in 1999 and served as a secretarial assistant in the Graduate School of Education until she moved to St. Dominic Villa, in Hazel Green, Wisconsin, in 2005. Sister Nona Mary died at the Villa on October 20, 2011.
March 27, 1994, KME Induction Ceremony: Sister Mary T. O'Malley, Joanne Corwin ('69), Sister Nona Mary Allard, Paul Coe
April 20, 1995, KME Induction Ceremony: Mark Siwek ('81) and Sister Nona Mary Allard
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| November 12, 1977, KME National Convention: Tom LeKostaj ('78), Sister Nona Mary Allard, Tom Kourim ('78) |
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