Mrs. Jeanne Ruesch to Give Inaugural Sr. Seton Address at Mother Son Mass and Celebration

The Gonzaga Mothers Club is thrilled to announce that former Gonzaga parent and Board member Mrs. Jeanne Ruesch will serve as the keynote speaker for the 37th Annual Mother Son Mass and Celebration coming up on Sunday, March 6, 2022. For the first time this year, the keynote address will be named the Sr. Seton Address, in honor of longtime Gonzaga faculty member Sr. Seton Cuneen, SNDdeN, who passed away in March of 2021.

Jeanne Ruesch serves as chair of the Ruesch Family Foundation, a charitable entity primarily focusing on medical research, education, and the arts, which she founded in 2004 with her late husband, Otto J. Ruesch. In 2009, she established the Otto J. Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Ruesch Center combines expertise in treatment, research, patient care, and advocacy in GI cancers. She and her late husband also funded the Christoph Ruesch Neuroscience Research Center at Medstar National Rehabilitation Hospital which focuses on the rehabilitative needs of persons with disabilities and the development of better ways to deliver and fund such services.

Jeanne is immediate past chair of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and trustee of the National Symphony Orchestra, member of the Advisory Board, and Institute for Women, Peace and Security, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She has previously served as a trustee of Georgetown University and Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, vice chair of Gonzaga College High School, chair of the Corcoran Museum and College of Art, trustee of the Washington Performing Arts Society, chair of the advancement committee of Catholic Charities, trustee of the Washington Jesuit Academy, and member of the finance committee of Holy Trinity Catholic Church. She serves on various corporate boards and is a member of The Committee of 200, a worldwide organization for entrepreneurial businesswomen.

Prior to establishing the family foundation, Jeanne and Otto Ruesch founded Ruesch International, an international financial services company that provided global payment solutions for corporations worldwide, with offices in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Zurich, London, and Prague. The company was sold in 2004. Jeanne Ruesch resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland and Zurich, Switzerland.

Current Gonzaga mothers and female guardians can register for the event by clicking here.

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