Hall of Fame
Adeline Ogier Bracken graduated from College of Notre Dame of Maryland in 1937 and was inducted into the Notre Dame Hall of Fame in 1992.
While earning a degree in mathematics, she was a four sport athlete who was named tennis champion three times during her career at Notre Dame.
A mother of ten, two of her children went on to graduate from Notre Dame in 1965.
While attending college, the summer before her senior year, she would make visit a classmate in Spain. However, the day she arrived, the military coup that touched off the Spanish Civil War would occur. Fortunately she would manage to escape the country and house arrest by fleeing over the Pyrenees Mountains into France.
An avid lover of sports, she enrolled her large family into a membership at the Stoneleigh Pool and would compete in the School of the Cathedral of Mary our Queen mothers club bowling league until she was 85. She would also coach sports throughout her life.
Bracken would pass away in 2012.
