Mary Peyton McGrover ’57 has been active with the National Alliance on Mental Illness for the past 12 years; her son suffers from bipolar disorder. Mary is a group facilitator for support groups, is on her parish’s bereavement committee, sings at nursing homes, assists residents, sews for mothers in need and belongs to a weekly prayer group of 18 women. She is in Naples, Fla., from January to February, and in Point Lookout, N.Y., in August. Mary stays in contact with her five siblings across United States. She has six granddaughters from her three sons. She is related to the Rev. Patrick Peyton (1909-1992), who is close to being beatified. She believes “a family that prays together stays together.”
