USD Magazine Fall 2013

CHANGE MAKER

ANNETTE WELSH ’79, director of USD’s Founders Chapel Choir, has been changing lives through the power of music for as long as she can remember. She joined the choir as a freshman at USD, after hearing the student singers at a Sunday evening Mass. Six years after graduating, she came back as the director, a post she’s held for nearly three decades. She says, however, the choir is about the students, who come from across the nation and around the world to sing, build faith, bring comfort, share love and spread happiness. “We aim to share joy and song in places where, maybe, it’s really, really needed,” Welsh says. “It helps people broaden their world and teaches us to be thankful and to think of others.”

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