Spring 2015 Issue by Barry University

SPRING 2015

Sister Stories The sisters who shaped Barry

Grand Tour

New app offers historic campus tour

Tennis Ace

Coach celebrates 25 years

At a

Glance

SPRING 2015 *Departments

*Features

At a Glance

Campus Currents News from across the university.

Spotlight on Sports On the move with Barry’s student-athletes.

Barry Beat Stay in tune with student happenings.

Sister Stories A three-year project to document Barry’s rich history highlights 21 remarkable sisters.

A Living History Decades of stories woven together illustrate Barry’s past, present, and future.

A Picture Perfect Way to Help Children Barry alum Kelsa Bartley shows that photography is the best medicine for children battling cancer.

Faculty Focus Highlights from Barry’s impressive faculty.

Buccaneer Bookshelf Read up on the latest publications written by alumni and faculty.

Class Notes Alumni news and updates.

Barry has the single largest collection of BUILDINGS BY architect Gerald A. Barry (nephew of the university’s founders) in one place, including Adrian Hall (built in 1940). Barry MAG | 2

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President Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD Vice President for Institutional Advancement and External Affairs Sara B. Herald, J.D. Associate Vice President for Brand Marketing and CommunicationS Kimberly Cox

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT As 2014 was fading into history, I was aware of abundant anticipation. This coming September we shall begin a yearlong celebration of Barry’s 75th anniversary! The planning for multiple events is underway, historic photographs are being restored, and the oral histories of some of our Adrian Dominican Sisters are being recorded.

Managing Editor Emilie Wernick News Editors Jessica Alexandre Gladys Amador Jeff LaLiberte

That same anticipation and growing excitement led us to focus this issue of Barry Magazine on the importance and relevance of studying history and of celebrating and featuring historic events. Through personal storytelling we are also illustrating the enduring, momentous, and positive impact Barry has had on individuals, civic and religious communities, our nation, and the world.

Art Director Artis Design Group Writers Jessica Alexandre Gladys Amador Jazzmyne Holmes Jeff LaLiberte Jim McCurdy Julie Myers Walter Villa Rebecca Wakefield Emilie Wernick

Though my undergraduate education at Barry College for Women prepared me to be a competent teacher, the most meaningful impact was encountering the Adrian Dominican Sisters. I experienced them as highly educated, strong, caring, and faithful women of the Church who exuded a joy that was palpable.

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With the sisters’ encouragement, I left Barry to earn a PhD from Michigan State University. Following her election as Barry’s fifth president, Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin wooed me to return. Once again and until 1986, Barry’s realities, colleagues, students, and Sister Jeanne contributed to my personal and professional development.

Barry Magazine is published biannually for all current students and their parents, alumni, trustees, employees, and other friends of Barry University. Communications may be addressed to: Barry Magazine Department of Brand Marketing and Communications 12550 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 900 Miami, Florida 33181 305.899.3188 • publications@barry.edu Unsolicited manuscripts and art must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Copyright ©2015 Barry University www.barry.edu

SPRING 2015

The sisters who shaped Barry

Grand Tour

New app offers historic campus tour

They were committed to helping “Barry girls” mature into “valiant women.” They encouraged me to develop as a student scholar and leader. Besides respecting and admiring the sisters, I grew to love many of them, but I had no desire to “be them” — until my senior year when I knew God’s Spirit was calling me. Following graduation, I entered our Congregation in June 1962. Barry and I met again in 1969 when I returned for nine years. I had the privilege and pleasure to work with and learn from two of my predecessors, Sister Dorothy Browne, OP, Barry’s first resident president, and Sister Trinita Flood, OP, who had been my academic dean. (As a student, I had also met our first president, Mother Gerald Barry.)

Fast track to 2004 — Barry and I reunited. As Barry’s sixth president, grateful for the riches I have received over the years, I respect and honor my beloved alma mater’s past – a splendid, amazing, and impactful history. I pray that by living and working faithfully in the present, the faculty, staff, and I are ensuring Barry’s vibrant future so that thousands of students will continue to be transformed by a Barry education and their immersion into the Barry community, its Mission, and Core Commitments. Reading Barry Magazine, I hope you cherish your favorite Barry memories, thank God for Barry — its Dominican sisters and friars, faculty and staff, trustees and benefactors, graduates — and plan to join us for our 75th celebrations. Barry may be turning 75, but there is more exciting and impressive history to be made! Blessings,

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Tennis Ace

Coach celebrates 25 years

Currents

As this focus developed, I realized that, on and off for almost 30 years, my history and Barry’s have been entwined. Since I was 17 and Barry was 18, my alma mater and I have been in a relationship, and Barry has meaningfully fashioned and formed me and my life journey. I believe there are no accidents in the Providence of God, so I believe that Barry — College and University — and I were meant to meet.

Photography & Illustration Adrian Dominican Sisters Barry University Archives and Special Collections Daniel Bock Justin Brown Jimmy Harris Jeff LaLiberte David McSpadden David Ohmer Olipan Romain Onteniente Stephanie Rodriguez Victoria Sherman Alma Touzon, courtesy of The Pablove Foundation Emilie Wernick Mitchell Zachs/MagicalPhotos.com

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ON THE COVER: A Living History

Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD Class of ’62

A PLACE TO REFLECT

In the Catholic intellectual tradition, integration of study, reflection, and action inform the intellectual life. Now Barry has a new, peaceful place for spiritual reflection – a plaza around a statue of St. Dominic. Commissioned by the late Vivian Decker ’49, the statue is dedicated in honor of the Dominican friars who have served at Barry since 1940. The statue, flanked by four benches, was created by renowned religious sculptor Vicky Reid and is located between the Fine Arts Quadrangle and Cor Jesu Chapel. Creating spaces for spiritual reflection is part of the university’s strategic agenda, so the plaza is a welcome addition to the Mary Bearer of Goods News statue, located in the Garner Quadrangle. Benches surrounding St. Dominic were generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Celli, the late Robert Twohig, Victoria Villalba (in honor of her parents), and The Weiss Family Foundation (in honor of the Dominican friars). A formal dedication will be held soon. Barry MAG | 5

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History

Since its founding in 1940, Barry has cultivated a history that lives and evolves as students flow through the campus. Now the university is adding a new, interactive way to learn about the past through an app called the Barry University Mobile Historic Walking Tour. The hourlong tour allows users to explore the Miami Shores campus, using the landscape and buildings to frame the university’s story and unique values. Employing the perspectives of recent graduates, two friendly and enthusiastic narrators guide the tour through the campus, share historic photos that illustrate the campus’s beautiful environment, and introduce some of the fascinating individuals who contributed to Barry’s success. In the background you’ll hear the melodic sounds of Barry’s Tara Singers.

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Making

The app, offered in English and Spanish, is simple and intuitive to use and is available for Android and iOS devices.

A Le g e n d Lost The Barry community lost a good friend, a former trustee, and a major benefactor – R. Kirk Landon, who died on March 24. Landon was the chairman of the board of trustees of the Kirk Foundation and the former CEO of American Bankers which was sold to Fortis in 1999. He also served as a member of the Barry board of trustees for 21 years. In 1999, Landon made a gift to Barry of $5 million toward the construction of a new student union that now bears his name. He was an avid supporter of education and will be missed for his commitment to making a difference in the South Florida community.

IN SERVICE Barry received the 2015 community engagement classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Barry, which earned the prestigious honor for the first time, joins 239 U.S. colleges and universities, including 82 other inaugural recipients, in receiving the distinction. The Carnegie Foundation’s community engagement classification is an evidence-based recognition of an institution’s commitment to community service. Colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement were invited to apply for the classification, which was first offered in 2006. Colleges and universities that earned the distinction showed evidence of improving and producing research that makes a difference in communities, revitalizing their civic and academic missions, and developing deeper community partnerships.

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THE HEIGHT

of Learning Barry alumnus Shaquille O’Neal, EdD ’12, appeared as a guest lecturer the Adrian Dominican School of Education’s organizational learning and leadership master’s level course, HRD 653: Career Development and Life Work Planning. O’Neal and Cynthia Atterberry, EdD ’12, spent the majority of the lecture discussing the work-life-school challenges they faced as they completed their doctoral degree in organizational learning and leadership with a specialization in human resource development. O’Neal encouraged the ADSOE students to focus on having a balanced life that includes time for themselves. O’Neal will be at Barry again on Oct. 3 to host Barry’s Birthday Bash, part of the university’s 75th anniversary celebration. The Birthday Bash will be from 7 p.m. to midnight at SoHo Studios, 2136 Northwest 1 Ave., Miami, Fla. 33127. For information, contact Caridad MacNamara at cmacnamara@barry.edu or Greta Moncayo at gmoncaya@barry.edu.

COME TO

PASS

The School of Podiatric Medicine reported 100% pass rates for the class of 2016 on the American Podiatric Medical Licensing Exam (AP M LE) part 1 board examination. This is the second successive year that Barry students have attained this benchmark. Students enrolled in any of the nine colleges of podiatric medicine in the country are required to pass parts 1 and 2 of the APMLE series before beginning residency training. Part 3 of the APMLE is taken during residency. The APMLE series is overseen by the National Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners.

Bring to THE

TABLE

Dissection just went digital at Barry. Students and faculty can now examine the human body virtually courtesy of an Anatomage table, a gigantic tablet that offers lifesized, layer-by-layer dissection. The high-tech table allows users to customize various pathologies and X-rays, ultrasounds, and MRIs to visualize skeletal tissues, muscles, organs, and soft tissue. Barry is one of four schools in Florida, and the only school in Miami-Dade County, to own the new equipment. An alternative to cadavers, the new technology is especially beneficial for inexperienced students, who can use the table to practice their skills by redoing incisions, which isn’t possible on a real cadaver. The table also allows students to view images at infinite angles and better understand how different structures relate within the body. The table was made possible by a grant from Florida Blue, a generous university partner. Barry MAG | 7

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Music Matters

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The Saint Martha-Yamaha Concert Series, with a mission to bring world-class music and international artists to the public at affordable prices, has made Barry’s Broad Center for the Performing Arts its new home beginning this year. Catch the last show of the series on May 30 at 7:30 pm, when the world-acclaimed Amernet String Quartet and pianist Paul Posnak are joined by the Nova Stars.

By Julie Myers

Yves Congar Award Sheds Light on Theological Excellence Lisa Sowle Cahill

Credit Where

CREDIT IS DUE

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) reaffirmed Barry’s institutional-wide accreditation for a term of 10 years, the maximum length of time a school can receive reaccreditation. A rarity for many institutions seeking reaccreditation, Barry received a “no report-back required” mark. SACSCOC is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. The mission of SACSCOC is to assure the educational quality and improve the effectiveness of its member institutions.

Barry recognized Lisa Sowle Cahill, PhD, the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, with the 2015 Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence. This award acknowledges a theologian whose achievements follow

What a

in the tradition of Yves Congar, OP (1904-

RIDE Team Barry proudly represented the university with new jerseys at The SMART Ride, a two-day, 165-mile bike ride from South Miami to Key West this past November. The SMART Ride, aimed to make a significant difference in the lives of those infected, affected, and at risk for HIV/AIDS, has raised more than $5.3 million since 2003, 100% of which has been distributed throughout Florida. The Barry team was comprised of Dave Fletcher, Barry’s senior director of graduate admissions; Fletcher’s husband Elio Ramos; Linda Marino; and Sohan Patel, DPM ’14. Fletcher, who typically bikes to Barry’s Miami Shores campus every day, captained the team and raised more than $10,500 in 2014. In total, Fletcher has raised more than $77,000 since he started participating in the ride. Barry MAG | 8

1995), a Dominican friar and theologian who pushed the Church to let go of outmoded ideas and be part of the modern world.

From left: Dave Fletcher, Elio Ramos, Linda Marino, and Sohan Patel, DPM

Cahill was selected for her modern Catholic leadership in three areas: scholarship, education, and world change. An eminent Catholic theologian and ethicist, Cahill has published more than 200 articles and influential works on contemporary issues from gender and sexual ethics to bioethics and war and peace. She has taught at Boston College since 1976, and has been a visiting professor at Georgetown and Yale Universities. Among many other activities, she has served on committees for Barack Obama, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. In a recent interview with Barry Magazine, Cahill touched upon the issue of human sexuality and change in the Roman Catholic Church:

How did the Church respond to the issue of human sexuality after Vatican II? Vatican II ended in 1965 under Pope Paul VI. Just three years later, he released the encyclical Humanae Vitae in 1968 in response to scientific and societal changes that made artificial contraception both available and desirable. The encyclical reaffirmed Church teaching prohibiting contraception, insisting that procreation is an important part of sexuality. Yet, it affirmed the importance of mutual love in marriage, and the use of natural family planning. How is Church thinking on human sexuality still valid for Catholics? The values of mutual respect, commitment, and responsibility for any child remain valid for today’s cultural problems, such as hookups, date rape, sexual abuse, violence toward women, and the widespread belief that the Church’s teachings on sexuality are irrelevant. Many Catholics today disagree with Humanae Vitae’s specific teaching on contraception, and its use is prevalent among Catholic women. Although motherhood is important, it is no longer seen as women’s only or most important role. Yet, deeper values in the tradition can still be important guides. How will Vatican II continue to shape Church thinking on this issue? The Church not only teaches but learns from science and modern social realities. The social equality of women, only gradually recognized by the Church, is one example. Another is respect for gay and lesbian people. A 1975 Vatican document recognized that, since sexual orientation is innate, to be a homosexual is not a sin. Although the Church does not approve same-sex relations or gay marriage, it has grown in its acceptance of diversity at the level of parishes, families, and educational institutions. This spirit is embodied by Pope Francis, who famously remarked in 2013, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” In the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family in Rome, these very questions continue to prompt debate and ongoing reflection. Barry MAG | 9

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This past November, Barry celebrated Founders’ Week, commemorating the university’s history, mission, Catholic identity, and Dominican heritage. The week celebrates Barry’s founders: Mother Mary Gerald Barry, Bishop Patrick Barry, Monsignor William Barry, John Thompson, and the Adrian Dominican Sisters for whom Barry is a sponsored institution. Students showed their Barry pride by taking pa r t

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events

throughout the week, including a 5K fun run, Arbor Day campus planting, Moonlight Madness pep rally, mass and reception, community fest, men’s basketball game, and more.

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Homecoming and Reunion festivities. T h e w e e k lo n g c e l e b r at i o n o f Buccaneer pride highlighted the

Reunion & Homecoming

Weekend

cultural hub of Brazil and featured a dance competition, golf cart parade, fashion show, homecoming dance, tailgate, and plenty of school spirit. The class of 1965 also was inducted into the Golden Shield Society, and seven impressive alums were honored at the Distinguished Alumni Awards (photos in Class Notes ON PAGE 41).

Members of the Class of 1965

Homecoming tailgate

Festival of Nations

Homecoming fashion show

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It was an “Escape to Rio” at this year’s

BASKETBALL DIARIES

ALL ROADS LEAD TO

ROME

JOIN SISTER LINDA BEVILACQUA, OP, PhD FOR A HISTORIC TRIP TO ITALY IN CELEBRATION OF BARRY’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY, CULMINATING IN VATICAN CITY AND ROME.

MAY 18 – 27, 2016

$2,850 per person (double occupancy) and $3,410 per person (single occupancy). Includes five-night hotel accommodations (four-star), three-night accommodations in Tuscan villa, four dinners, daily breakfast, airport transfer, guided tours, tour manager, motorcoach, papal audience, and admissions where necessary. Group airfare from Miami and New York available.

The Bolivian Basketball League’s Universidad Mayor de San Andres Bolmar club has added former men’s basketball player Aaron Martin to its squad. Martin, a forward who spent the 20122013 season with the Buccaneers, landed a spot on the team after averaging 9.3 points and 3.3 rebounds per game, while starting eight of the 27 games he appeared in for the Bucs. He shot 34.4 percent from three-point range, and his 251 points that season was third most on the team. Martin led Barry in free throw shooting at 78.2 percent.

SPOTLIGHT ON

SPORTS

Aaron Martin

For more information, contact Amy Deutch at adeutch@barry.edu

FLORENCE SIENA ASSISI VATICAN CITY ROME

TAKE THE

LEAD

Former men’s tennis standout Max Wimmer is now coaching at the highest professional level. Wimmer, who finished his Buccaneers career in 2013 by helping Barry go 29-0 to win the program’s second national title, is coaching with Lars Uebel on the ATP Tour. Together, they are working with professional players Peter Gojowczyk, Matthias Bachinger, Tim Puetz, and Benjamin Becker in their Germany-based academy.

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spotlight on sports

Wish List Barry Athletics partnered with Make-A-Wish® Southern Florida to host a reveal party for 14-year-old Nathan, who was the recent recipient of a heart transplant and suffers from muscular dystrophy. The Make-A-Wish ® party took place during Barry's doubleheader basketball game against Eckerd where Nathan joined the men’s team as the “sixth man” before the game. During the reveal, Nathan also learned of his wish – a trip to Atlantis in The Bahamas, which he took this winter. Since 2009, Barry University has been one of the top wish granters among NCAA schools and in South Florida. Together, Barry Athletics and the Sports and Exercise Science Department have raised more than $65,000 for the foundation in the past six years, granting the wishes of two children a year since 2011 and three children in 2014.

thAT’s THE

GOAL

The Buc women’s soccer team brought home the regular season Sunshine State Conference trophy this past November. Led by Player of the Year Lavinia Nkomo, co-Defensive Player of the Year Katie Turner, and Freshman of the Year Christy Grimshaw, the team earned a record 21st NCAA Tournament bid – the most of any Division II school. Head coach Denise Brolly also won her second straight Coach of the Year award as the Bucs repeated as champions.

WI T H

HONORS

The Sunshine State Conference Faculty Athletic Representatives (FARs) decided unanimously to name the Sunshine State Conference Female Student-Athlete of the Year Award after Eileen McDonough, PhD, who has been Barry’s FAR since the inception of its athletic program in 1983, in addition to serving as associate vice president for student affairs. The prestigious award goes to a student who demonstrates scholarly excellence, athletic prominence, and involvement in the school and community.

All-American Girl Soccer star Lavinia Nkomo was selected to the 2014 National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire Women’s AllAmerica second team for NCAA Division II. Nkomo also earned honorable mention on the Daktronics All-American team, making her the first Buccaneer in history to earn awards from two different bodies.

March

Madness

Buc men’s basketball finished with a school-best 25-6 record. The team beat Union in the first round of the NCAA Division II tournament and advanced to the South Region semifinals before falling to Lynn. It was Barry’s second-straight appearance in the NCAA tournament and fifth overall. It marks the first time in school history that the Bucs made back-to-back trips to the national tournament. The team was led by junior forward Yunio Barrueta, who was named to the First Team All-South Region by Daktronics/College Sports Information Directors of America. The winner of the championship was Florida Southern, a team with only one loss — which was to the Bucs.

A Welcome Site

The name’s the same, but Barry Athletics’ website has a whole new game. GoBarryBucs.com now has a cutting-edge look with exciting features like social media and navigation integration, as well as recruiting and fan enhancements. Be sure to check out the live scoreboard to follow all of your favorite Buc sports. Dr. Eileen McDonough Barry MAG | 16

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spotlight on sports

George Samuel:

Barry’s Coaching Ace for 25 Years By Jim McCurdy

How it all started

A record-breaking career

George Samuel remembers it well.

Entering this spring, Samuel brings with him a 451-125 record, two NCAA titles, five NCAA runner-up finishes, 11 SSC Championship titles, one league regular season crown, two Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Coach of the Year awards, six South Region Coach of the Year selections, and a league-record 14 SSC Coach of the Year honors, including the last seven – all while coaching 40 All-Americans, 41 Scholar All-Americans, seven SSC Players of the Year, and 95 All-SSC selections. He’s taken the Bucs to 20 straight NCAA tournaments, with 18 trips to the site of the national finals. And, his 2013 team went 29-0 to win the national championship, becoming the only team in any sport at Barry to go unbeaten. That’s just with the men’s program.

It was four years into his tennis coaching career at Barry when his players started asking about their next opponent. A match with Rollins College loomed and the Buccaneers – a little green to the college tennis landscape – wanted to know what they were getting into. “Coach, are they any good?” a new crop of players asked him. “Nah, it’s an average team,” Samuel said. Little did they realize their coach was being coy about the top-5 ranked Tars, who were at the top of the Sunshine State Conference at the time. Sure enough, Samuel’s psychological tactics paid off as the Bucs pulled out a 5-4 win. “Then the respect started coming,” Samuel said. “People were saying, ‘Hey, Rollins got beat by Barry.’” Before you knew it, the Buccaneers’ tennis program started to thrive. Soon the Bucs graced the national rankings for the first time in school history. “That was just the beginning,” said Samuel, who took over the women’s program in 1990 before inheriting the men’s team a year later. Samuel was the first Barry coach to have both the women’s and men’s teams ranked. Nowadays, the Buccaneers tennis program is regarded as a perennial national power with NCAA Division II National Championships to back it up – all of which have transpired under Samuel’s 25 years of service at Barry. Never did he think he’d be celebrating silver anniversaries. In fact, when he first got into coaching after a collegiate playing career at Miami Dade College and East Tennessee State and then furthering his education, Samuel thought 10 years of coaching would be enough before he’d commit to teaching in the classroom.

His women’s teams went 308-122 in 18 seasons, with 17 trips to the NCAA tournament. His women’s teams advanced to the site of the NCAA finals 14 times. He guided those teams to three SSC titles. Samuel coached 24 All-Americans and 26 Scholar All-Americans, while earning two South Region Coach of the Year honors and four SSC Coach of the Year awards. “You’re here to win a national championship,” Samuel tells his players year-in and year-out. “You need to work.”

A coach with Barry pride For 25 years, Samuel has carved out his share of highlights on the hard courts. His 759 victories between the women’s and men’s programs validate that. One win led to another. One belief paved the way to the next. “It just grows on you,” Samuel said. “It’s contagious. They may have to go through one year, two years to see how close they got, and they didn’t work hard enough and they didn’t quite do enough to come through on it. They’re going, ‘This is it. I’ve only got one more year. Let’s win this thing.’” Samuel has worn Barry pride for a quarter century. He’s seen the school change, cultivating a transformation in himself. A once-tiny Catholic school founded for women has risen to national heights in different ways, and Samuel has been around to witness a lot of it. “I’ve seen this school grow by leaps and bounds,” Samuel said. “Just watching Barry develop in all these stages was exciting for me. I walk through here now and I can look at things that never existed. The courts weren’t even here when I first started.” A quarter of a century at Barry has left Samuel with his share of silver memories. “Barry has been a very special place to me,” he said. “It always was from the moment I first started here. I used to live within the area, only a couple of blocks from Barry, and I said to myself, ‘Someday I’d like to work for Barry University.’ Then when I finished my degrees and my PhD, the opportunity fell into my lap, starting as the women’s tennis coach. And it’s been fantastic ever since.” George Samuel

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The verdict is in: Barry Law’s dynamic Trial Team is making a name for itself The first state championship in the history of Barry University School of Law’s Trial Team drew a euphoric reaction from those involved. Barry won the prestigious Florida Bar Chester Bedell Mock Trial competition, held Jan. 21-23 in West Palm Beach, beating Florida State and 21-time champion Stetson, among other universities.

Tried

& True By Walter Villa

“When we won, we jumped out of our seats,” said Chloe Zubkin, who was participating in her first competition. “I was ecstatic because that was something we had worked on for almost eight weeks. We were all glowing.”

Luis Herrera, president of Barry’s team, became the school’s first three-time competition champion after leading his group to previous wins in San Francisco and Puerto Rico. Barry’s James Smeriglio III became a twotime champion, and Herrera was named the runner-up for the overall Best Advocate Award during the final round. “You have to look at the core of our team, Luis and James, and see that they have competed together before, and they have that belief in each other,” said Michael Kraynick, Barry’s faculty advisor. “You have to trust that the person next to you will do the job right, and we have that.” Smeriglio and Herrera teamed with Christina Figueroa and Amanda Dunn to win the aforementioned Puerto Rico Trial Advocacy competition in November, defeating Harvard and Georgetown, in addition to other universities. Herrera, who earned Perfect Score and Best Advocate awards in Puerto Rico, gave much of the credit to Barry’s coaches, who are all working attorneys in the Orlando area, where the law school is based. “Law school teaches you about the law but not how to

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be a lawyer,” Herrera said. “On the trial team, however, we do exactly what we would do in a courtroom - it teaches us practical skill.” Kraynick said most of the lawyers who coach his students are graduates of Barry’s Law School. That includes Jordan Ostroff, J.D. ’12, Nicholas Primrose, J.D. ’13, and Denise Kim Beamer, J.D. ’09, who were the team’s three coaches for the Florida Bar competition in West Palm Beach. Those coaches also helped Barry’s second team in that event, which was comprised of Zubkin, Tracy Scowden, Andrew Abreu, Sofia Hernandez and Christopher Bailey. That team qualified for the Top 8, which marked the first time in recent school history that Barry had two of its teams advance in the same competition.

Barry won the prestigious Florida Bar Chester Bedell Mock Trial competition, beating Florida State and 21-time champion Stetson, among other universities.

“I know for sure that we could not accomplish all this without our coaches,” Herrera said. “They are practicing attorneys, yet they work with us at night and on the weekends, putting in 30 to 40 hours per week. “Other schools are student-run or don’t have practicing attorneys, so that gives us an advantage.” If there is a down side to all the winning the Barry law students have done is that they haven’t been able to do much sightseeing at competitions. That’s what happens when you make it to the finals. The teams eliminated early can visit Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco or El Morro in Old San Juan, but Barry’s students had other ideas. “We treat these competitions like business trips,” said Kraynick, who is a former Barry Trial Team member, circa 2005 to 2007. “We told the students that they can party once it’s over – with the trophy in their hands.” Kraynick added that because of these recent wins, Barry’s reputation as a law school is growing rapidly. “It’s a phenomenal opportunity to stake the Barry name throughout the country,” he said. “We’re showing we have a great trial program, and that’s giving great pride to the students and the school.”

From left: Nikki Metzgar-Schall, Dean Leticia M. Diaz, William Sepulveda, Luis Herrera, coach Nicholas Primrose, James Smeriglio III, faculty advisor Mark Summers, coach Denise Kim Beamer, and coach Jordan Ostroff. Not pictured: team member Jackson Lubin and adjunct faculty advisor Michael Kraynick.

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BARRY BEAT

The first time Barry podiatry students Romain Onteniente and Timothy Graham found themselves at a community hospital in a small city in Togo, Africa, they were immediately thrust into the challenges of health care in developing countries. “There were people with bandages on their feet and wounds, people needing help,” recalls Onteniente, who earned a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from Barry in 2014. “There was so much need. They were lacking not only supplies but also the knowledge of alternative treatments.” It was December 2013 and the pair were in Togo to start Podiatry Overseas Association, a nonprofit mission to provide medical services to Africa. It was their response to learning that, as students, they couldn’t yet participate in another Barry humanitarian project, the Yucatan Crippled Children’s Project. That project, founded by Dr. Charles C. Southerland, takes doctors and residents to treat poor children in Mexico.

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Podiatry residents and students provide aid to residents of Togo, Africa

Taking a Stand BY REBECCA WAKEFIELD

“So we decided, why not start one ourselves?” explains Onteniente, a native of Nice, France. “My father had a connection in Africa and Togo is French-speaking, so that’s why we went there.”

Romain Onteniente, DPM, Timothy Graham, DPM, and Mario Cala, DPM

Onteniente got his undergraduate degree from Nova Southeastern University while on a soccer scholarship, but an encounter with Dr. James Losito in Barry’s School of Podiatric Medicine made him decide to get his doctorate at Barry. He is currently completing a surgical residency at the Barry University Foot and Ankle Institute at Mercy Hospital. “It’s amazing that he took it on himself to do this,” says Losito. “Our students and residents are really involved in the community and overseas.” The first trip to Africa was funded by the students and other private sources. They were surprised by how quickly and easily they were able to set up an agreement with local authorities. “The simple fact that we wanted to help was enough to trigger everybody’s interest over there,” Onteniente says. “We did everything in our power to create mutual respect, to help in general with what their needs were. It took more time for us to set up the organization [than the mission].”

“A patient, whose leg they wanted to amputate, is now walking,” Onteniente reflects. “It was a good day.”

The group went back in June 2014, treating dozens of patients with a variety of foot and leg conditions, some requiring surgery. They took every opportunity to turn the treatments into workshops for local doctors who didn’t have access to the level of foot and ankle surgery procedures available in the United States.

“A patient, whose leg they wanted to amputate, is now walking,” Onteniente reflects. “It was a good day.” The group couldn’t go back in December 2014 because of the Ebola scare in West Africa, but they are raising money to return in June 2015 with a group of five doctors. “We have patients who are waiting for us,” Onteniente says. Barry MAG | 22

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FEATURES

Stories

“They were just two young sisters being a bit naïve and entering Mexico without all the proper documentation,” Dean said. “They conducted their experiments, but their orchids were confiscated when they tried to leave the country.”

A three-year project to document Barry’s rich history highlights 21 remarkable SISTERS There were many surprises along the way, but the sight of 100-year-old sister Maura Phillips playing the piano and singing as if she were at Carnegie Hall was perhaps the most unexpected delight. Barry University assistant professors Connie Hicks and Adam Dean witnessed that and much more over the past three years as they documented some of Barry’s rich history, particularly as it pertains to the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Hicks, who had a distinguished career as a journalist for Miami’s ABC television affiliate before coming to Barry, was the perfect choice to interview the sisters. And Dean, whose specialty is new media production, was the obvious selection to film the interviews for what is intended to be a five-minute video history. The interviews will also be digitally archived and indexed at Barry. The duo ended up taking two trips to Adrian, Michigan, site of the Dominican sisters’ motherhouse. They interviewed 21 sisters, both in Adrian and at Barry, and what they found were 21 extraordinary women — some of whom may be elderly chronologically but not in their ideas or their energy. “These are very progressive, forward-thinking women,” Hicks said of the sisters she met while working the project that was grant funded by the Adrian Dominican Sisters. “They come from all walks of life – some from families who discouraged them from becoming sisters and others who encouraged them.” “They all had great senses of humor. They would say things like, ‘Oh, I don’t think Catholics have all the answers.’” Hicks said many of the sisters interviewed grew up between the 1940s through the 1960s, when women were expected to get married, have babies, and not do anything more than that.

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“But these women were more interested in getting educated and traveling, and the Dominican sisters encouraged them to get their master’s and doctoral degrees,” Hicks said. “I found them to be so much more than stereotypical. These are women with opinions and thoughts – not sheltered at all. They are fascinating.” Barry’s history dates back to 1940. That’s when construction finished on what was then called Barry College for Women. It became Barry University in 1981, and six Adrian Dominican Sisters have served as the school’s only presidents from 1940 to present day.

“It just symbolized how they winged it. These were two bold, faithful women who did what they were told but were smart enough to get it done.” Another of Dean’s favorites is Sister Nancy Murray, whose brother is famed comedic actor Bill Murray. “Nancy told us that she wanted to join the Adrian Dominican Sisters because she always saw them laughing and having a good time,” Dean said. “She would see them having ice cream. They were pious, but they were not these old curmudgeons. They were the fun Sisters.” Besides being joyful, the sisters were powerful.

But the declining number of sisters – there are only four full-time sisters currently on the Barry campus – means that, realistically, there may soon be a day when the school is run by a “lay person.” That’s why, Dean said, there is a larger, archive project in which he and Hicks are documenting a crucial part of the university’s living history. “When we started the project, we didn’t know what the sisters were like,” Dean said. “Luckily, Connie is a skilled interviewer, and it was very enjoyable and enlightening to hear what the sisters had to say.” Dean said he has put in nearly 400 hours on the project, and one of his favorite stories from the interviews involves Sister Paul James Villemure and Sister John Karen Frei. “The sisters took a road trip to Mexico to get orchids for a science project,” Dean said. “If they didn’t have lodging, they slept in their car.” Hicks added that the sisters always “checked to make sure there were no snakes under the car. Sister [Villemure] did not know how to drive, so she learned the day before they left on the trip – except that she learned on an automatic and the car they borrowed from a faculty member was a stick shift.” The sisters put 9,000 miles on the car during that trip – 6,000 round-trip from Barry and 3,000 while in Mexico.

Sister Rosemary Ferguson told Dean the story about the university’s first president, Mother Mary Gerald Barry, dining with politicians and businessmen, all males, and holding her own at the table as a leader back in the 1940s and 1950s. Dean said the sisters see their diminishing numbers as the natural progression of things. “They are proud to have founded a mission,” Dean said. “To them, it’s not about the sisters. It’s about Barry’s mission of inclusiveness, empowerment, service, truth, and social justice.” Some of Barry’s sisters will return for the university’s Thanksgiving Mass on Sept. 13, 2 015, as part of the university’s 75th Anniversary festivities. The video will also premiere this fall as part of the anniversary celebrations.

Sister Maura Philips

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D e c a d e s o f sto r i e s wov e n to g e th e r i l l u s t r at e B a r r y ’ s past, present, and future On Valentine’s Day, Eileen McDonough got a card from a former student that made her cry. “It said, ‘Thank you for all you have done and continue to do,’” she reads aloud from the card sent this year by a student who graduated more than two decades ago. “‘You have touched the lives of so many. I will be forever grateful to you for saving my life and caring about me as a person when I did not know how to take care of myself.’”

Sister John Karen Frei came to his rescue, personally lending Carvalho $2,000 to stay on course and complete his degree. He went on to teach at Miami Jackson Senior High School and was proud to pay her back with some of his first paychecks.

McDonough, associate vice president for student affairs and faculty athletics representative, recalls the student as a bright, energetic single mom who played women’s basketball and struggled to balance her coursework.

“She was a kind individual with a great heart,” Carvalho remembers. “When times were tough, she helped me out with living money. She had an open-door policy and a warm hug that really sustained me.”

McDonough and other faculty took her under their wing, babysitting as needed, guiding and helping her get her undergraduate degree. The student went on to get a master’s degree and even came back to Barry for a second master’s, in sports psychology. The woman’s daughter grew up to also earn a master’s degree.

Dr. Jesus Mendez, an associate professor of history who has taught at Barry for 34 years, says that values like that have always been at the core of the school, even as it has evolved into the vibrant institution it is today.

“You rarely have students come back to thank you,” says McDonough, clearly touched. “She wants to help motivate kids, to help them believe in themselves. She’s a marvelous, energetic woman.”

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to a scholarship awarded by Barry’s president. But at some point, he faced a financial reality that would possibly delay his education.

In 75 years of Barry’s history, stories like this abound. Founded as a tiny Catholic women’s college in 1940, Barry has played a critical role in the development of thousands of students, many of whom have gone on to impressive careers.

“One of the values of having been at a place for so many years is you better appreciate the continuity of certain core commitments,” he says. “Barry has grown enormously in enrollment, physically, and in terms of diversity. But it’s amazing how much of the values and core ideals have remained the same.”

Alberto Carvalho received a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Barry in 2014

Miami-Dade Superintendent of Schools Alberto Carvalho, for one. Carvalho came from humble beginnings in Portugal and entered the United States after high school, hungry to succeed. He studied biological sciences at Barry, thanks

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1940

Changing times shape Barry’s future

Barry College was built on 40 acres of Miami Shores pineland in 1940. Founded primarily by the Most Reverend Patrick Barry, Bishop of St. Augustine, and Reverend Mother M. Gerald Barry, prioress General of the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan, the school was envisioned as a place of higher education for Catholic women. Its first graduating class included just 10 students. The Dominican values of the sisters who ran Barry were and remain a key element, but the college adapted to changing times by opening the college to men in 1975. In 1981, then-president Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin presided over a critical name change, to Barry University. She also kicked off decades of expansion that led to today’s 122-acre campus, numerous satellite programs in Florida and abroad, a staff of 2,100 and a student body of more than 9,000. Mendez says that the women leaders of Barry had a vision that accomplished remarkable things during a time when female leadership was rare. “Mother Gerald Barry [president, 1940-1961] insisted all the sisters get their PhDs,” he says. “These sisters were not your run-of-the-mill second-grade teachers. When I first got here, I met a lot of the sisters who were very Barry MAG | 28

active in the civil rights movement in the ’60s. Barry lived a commitment to social justice 50 years ago.” McDonough has been teaching at Barry for more than 40 years, when it was still a small college for women. Over the years, she also assumed duties as an administrator and dean or associate dean of various schools and oversees the freshman orientation course and university commencement. McDonough says that Sister Jeanne’s entrepreneurial spirit built on decades of Barry leadership to transform the university through sheer force of personality. She engaged the entire campus. For instance, she asked faculty to create more master’s programs and pushing the sports program to compete in NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics, both of which attracted more students. She also built buildings, connected the campus to the modern sewer system, and bought a law school, all of which required robust fundraising. “Sister Jeanne was a turning point,” she says. “She was very different. She learned to dance because somebody had challenged her to do so. She did it and said to the man, ‘Open your checkbook and write me a check.’”

The mission stays constant All of these efforts resulted in a much larger Barry footprint, both physically and in the community of higher learning, says E. Timothy Smith, professor of history, and part of the faculty since 1985. “When I got here, there was nothing on the west side of Miami Avenue but parking and a dog track,” he recalls. “The faculty used to fit in one room for opening meetings. Barry has had a major impact on nursing, podiatry, arts and sciences, and other areas. It has become a very respected institution that gets lots of media attention for our expertise.”

For her part, McDonough believes that the Dominican spirit of service not only helped Barry connect and grow with the community around it, but also imbues the school with a different quality than in many other universities that focus more on producing degrees than on producing successful, integrated individuals.

TODAY

“Their sense of mission, being around them helped you understand why you were here at Barry and were involved in the work we’re doing,” she says. “Their spirituality, their selflessness, their willingness to work with any student no matter where they were academically. It really is a place like no other.”

Smith says that Barry has changed, with a more diverse student body and more first-generation degree-seekers, but academic excellence and female leadership have remained constants.

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Rebecca McCann ’99

Rebecca McCann always wanted to be a lawyer. So her goal for her undergraduate degree at Barry was simply to study something interesting while she bided her time for law school.

Nelson Fonseca ’96

Nelson Fonseca is a Catholic school boy from way back. A Miami native, he grew up in Catholic schools, and was thrilled to get a basketball scholarship to attend Barry University. Initially, his focus was on being a great point guard, but eventually he settled on computer science, getting his BA in 1995. “The diversity of the school was helpful for me,” Fonseca says. “I formed strong friendships and relationships that I hold dear to this day.” Fonseca began his career as a software programmer at Nortel Networks before moving on to more executive roles at Bellcore and getting an MBA from the University of Miami. The turning point came for Fonseca when one of his clients, Terramark, hired him in 2000. At Terramark, he took on increasing responsibility as the company grew from a small operation with 30 employees to a large company that was sold to Verizon for $2 billion. He stayed on as president of the company during its first year of transition. In 2012, he partnered with former Terramark founder Manny Medina to form Medina Capital, a private equity firm that invests in data security, cyber solutions, and early stage technology. The pair also started a not-for-profit conference called Emerge Americas, to promote the nascent tech sector in South Florida. The conference has a broadcasting deal with CNBC. “It’s the best kept secret in Miami, but you’d be amazed at how many really successful people in the community came from Barry,” Fonseca says. “There are a lot of people making an impact on a daily basis.”

The PrODUCER

Kaye McGarry, MEd, was sweating into her pinstriped suit, frightened out of her mind by the prospect of speaking in front of the small group of freshman girls in her class. Nervously, desperately even, she told her secretarial sciences professor, Sister Christopher, she just couldn’t do it.

“Randomly, I took broadcast journalism,” McCann remembers. “And I fell in love with it.”

“I told her I was too shy,” McGarry recalls. “She made it clear that I wouldn’t pass without doing it. I was sweating. I thought I wouldn’t survive the day.”

She says the unique environment at Barry is the reason she caught the storytelling bug. “For me, the key was the small classroom environment, working hands on in the studio,” McCann says. “The way the teachers really worked with the students, you weren’t just a number. A lot of people from that class went on to do well.”

However, the painfully shy freshman did survive. She went on to thrive at Barry College, as it was still known in the early 1960s. She got a two-year degree in secretarial sciences and later her experience at Barry led her to get a degree in business administration at the University of South Florida and a master’s degree in education in guidance and counseling from University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

More than 15 years later, McCann is an executive producer for CBS News in Chicago, winning an Emmy in 2014 for best morning newscast.

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That personal attention continued when McCann got her first producing job thanks to a recommendation from her professor, Vickie Frazier Williams. “The person doing the interview said I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to offer you a job on the spot based on her recommendation,” she says. McCann worked her way up the producing ranks at the Fox and ABC affiliates in Miami, covering everything from the Elian Gonzalez controversy, to Hurricane Wilma, post-earthquake Haiti and the Miami Heat championships. She moved back to her native Chicago two years ago. “The fact the professors really truly cared about you as an individual and you succeeding made a huge impact on me,” she says.

Perhaps most remarkably, McGarry became a successful public speaker, author, and community leader. Less surprising was her choice of topics for her first book: “A New Beginning: A Survival Guide for Parents of College Freshmen.” She lectures on the topic at high schools and colleges around the country. McGarry credits her experience at Barry, and the mentorship of Sister Christopher, for giving her the confidence to achieve her lifelong dreams. “Someone believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself,” she says. “It was a turning point for me. I had this urge to speak, and she planted the seed that you can do it.” McGarry was so grateful for that early push that this year she established an endowed scholarship for women in Sister Christopher’s name at Barry and included her in a chapter about remarkable women. “Sometimes teachers make an influence on your life but never know it,” she says.

The Speaker Kaye McGarry ’63

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James Losito, DPM, is best known for keeping the Miami Heat on its feet as attending podiatrist, a role he also plays with the Barry University athletic program and the University of Miami men’s basketball team.

The Healer James Losito

Losito, a professor of podiatric biomechanics and orthopedics in Barry’s School of Podiatric Medicine, has been part of the school almost since its beginning, nearly 30 years ago. Back then, the clinical program was rudimentary and residency programs had yet to be established. “The clinical program was just getting off the floor,” he recalls. “It was growing faster than we could imagine. We were doing everything on the run. It’s been fascinating to watch how the quality of the program has increased and improved.” In the 1990s, a podiatric fellowship and the Physician Assistant Program were established at Barry, greatly improving the university’s appeal and impact on medical education. Losito, meanwhile, got deeply involved in Barry’s sports program as an advisor and team physician. “It just fit in with what I like to do,” he explains. In 1999, the Miami Heat tapped him to replace its retiring podiatrist, a role he continues to play more than 15 years later. He also began to focus on building the clinical program, first at Cedars Hospital and now at Mercy Hospital, where he serves as attending faculty in the residency program. Losito says that in the past decade, the school’s focus on clinical research has begun to create an impressive legacy that also includes several humanitarian programs in the community and abroad. “Overall, the level of podiatric care provided in this community has been incredibly improved and increased due to Barry’s presence here the last 25 years,” he asserts. “We’ve helped raise the level of education in South Florida.”

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The Shutterbugs enjoy taking photos outdoors

A Picture Perfect Way to Help Children

B a r r y a l u m K e l s a B a r t l e y s h ow s th at p h oto g r a p h y i s th e b e s t m e d i c i n e f o r children battling cancer

By Walter Villa With her mother battling breast cancer, Kelsa Bartley almost dropped out of Barry University. The people at Barry didn’t let it happen. And Bartley, who graduated in 2010 with a degree in photography, is grateful to her university. “Barry shaped me a lot,” said Bartley, 34, who now works as a reference assistant at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. “When my mother was diagnosed, it was a very traumatic experience. But everyone rallied around me.” Now it’s Bartley’s turn to give back. This spring, she will again participate in a five-week program called Pablove Shutterbugs, in which she teaches children stricken with cancer about photography.

Bartley’s love for learning has transferred over to a passion for teaching. The kids she works with in her photography course are from ages 6 to 18. At first, Bartley said, the children are often shy. But once they shifted from a theoretical discussion of photography to actually snapping pictures, things changed. “I remember the first time we went outside to shoot,” Bartley said. “The kids were so excited to be running around. There was one little boy, Christopher, who was about 7 or 8 – he was really thrilled. He had missed the previous class due to cancer treatments. I think this was a nice break for him, which makes it so rewarding.”

“Being at Barry helped me realize how important it is to give back to the community.”

“Being at Barry helped me realize how important it is to give back to the community,” Bartley said. “Seeing how the school rallied around me made it obvious that I had to pass the blessings around.” Bartley, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, came to Miami to study at Barry. It helped that her mother was already here, working as a nurse, but Bartley was also attracted to Barry’s smaller class sizes and its diversity.

Kelsa Bartley (left) and a Shutterbug student snap a selfie

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“The woman who gave me my first tour of Barry was Trinidadian,” Bartley said. “I also loved the family atmosphere and how you can get to know your professors.”

By the end of the program, Bartley put together a slideshow with five photos from each child. All the parents showed up for the “graduation” ceremony, and each child received a certificate and a hug from Bartley. “It was nice to see the proud faces of the parents, seeing what their kids had done,” Bartley said. Bartley, who eventually wants to earn her master’s degree in photography, believes that what she teaches can open up a new world for anyone who takes part. “Being able to see the world through photography,” Bartley said, “changes how we look at things.”

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Years of Service

Welcome new Andreas School of Business faculty:

Samuel Doss, PhD Associate Professor, Marketing Charles Evans, PhD Associate Professor, Economics/Finance Jana Rutherford, PhD Assistant Professor, Marketing Anthony Sadler, PhD Assistant Professor, Management

Civic Duty

At a reception this past March, Barry honored

Five of Barry’s finest faculty have been granted the distinguished title of:

faculty and staff who have been with the university for more than 20 years.

Faculty Emerita Dr. Linda Peterson

20 Years of Service

25 Years of Service

Michael Bill, instructor of biology

Maria “Estela” Azevedo, assistant to the provost

Dr. Jacqueline M. Brill, assistant professor of podiatric medicine

Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD, president

Dr. Roxanne S. Davies, associate vice president, mission and institutional effectiveness

Dr. Carl R. Cramer, associate dean and professor of sport and exercise sciences

Terri R. Day, J.D., professor of law

Regina E. Lopez, director, database services

Dr. Leticia Diaz, J.D., dean and professor of law Marcia O. Dixon, library technician, Interlibrary Loan

Dr. Alicia C. Marill, associate professor and director, Doctor of Ministry program

Dr. Patricia M. Feito, associate professor of English and humanities

Dr. Allen F. Sanborn, professor of biology

Louise Hardenburg, administrative assistant I, occupational therapy

Sister Veronica Koperski, SFCC Dr. Susan Gray

Faculty EmeritUS

30 Years of Service

Dr. John (Jack) Dezek

Dr. Gerhild R. Packert, associate dean and professor of biology

Carol A. Albrecht, senior director of operations and budget manager

Dr. Edward Sunshine

Dr. Teresa Petrino-Lin, associate professor of biology

Angela C. Curreri, professor of art

Frank Schiavo, J.D., associate professor of law

Dr. Carol A. Marinas, professor of mathematics

Angela Scott, associate vice president, enrollment services

Nancy R. Perez, director, accounts payable

Dr. Sanjay Sesodia, associate dean and professor of anatomy and neurophysiology

Dr. E. Timothy Smith, professor of history

Gloria Munoz, manager, graduate records Terry Nelson, database specialist and trainer

Dr. Agnes Shine, associate professor of social psychology

45 Years of Service Dr. Eileen McDonough, associate vice president and professor of education

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Sean Foreman, associate professor of political science, was recently given the 2014 Graham-Frey Civic Award from Florida Campus Compact. Named in honor of former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham and U.S. Congressman Lou Frey, the award recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of civic learning and engagement in sustaining our participatory democracy. A faculty member at Barry since 2005, Foreman has been involved in numerous civic engagement activities as a professor, student club advisor, forum moderator, political analyst, and author. Florida Campus Compact is part of a national presidential membership organization that advances the civic purposes of colleges and universities by deepening their ability to improve community life and to educate students for civic and social responsibility.

With Flying Colors Leticia M. Diaz, dean of the Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law, has been named to Lawyers of Color’s Fourth Annual Power List, a comprehensive catalog of the nation’s most influential minority attorneys and non-minority diversity advocates. It is the second consecutive year that Diaz has been named to the Power List. Diaz is the first female Cuban-American dean of an ABAaccredited law school in the U.S. and minority enrollment at Barry Law has nearly doubled since Diaz was appointed dean in 2007. The school recently received an A+ diversity rating from preLaw Magazine.

Rest in Peace Sister Agnes Louise Stechschulte, OP, PhD, died on Dec. 26, 2014, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Mich. She was 90 years old and in the 72nd year of her religious profession in the Adrian Dominican Congregation. During her 40 years at Barry, thousands of students took her biology courses as part of their core requirements, and hundreds of science and nursing majors were appropriately challenged by her in their upper-level coursework. Barry MAG | 37

FACULTY FOCUS

Celebrating

Marie-Michele Beauchesne, PhD Assistant Professor, Management

Show Your Pride While You Drive

BUCCANEER BOOKSHELF

Human Resource Development: Performance through Learning

Small Business Entrepreneurship: A Sourcebook

Getting a Barry University license plate is a great way to show your Barry Pride every day. But the benefits don’t end there: Barry license plates also support student scholarships!

Barry professors Philip Mann, Rose McClung, and Kevin Kemerer provide information for those planning to start a business or seeking to kick-start an existing one. This comprehensive trove of data will help readers know what to do and how to do it. Professors can also use the book to teach students about how small businesses operate. Readers will learn how to write a business plan, obtain funding, deal with creditors, manage inventory, conduct business overseas, read profit-andloss statements, manage cash flow, and act in a socially responsible manner. Checklists, forms, and step-by-step procedures that have been validated through years of business counseling enable readers to respond to almost any situation with confidence.

Barry professor David M. Kopp, PhD, CPLP, views training from a human resources lens and asks interesting questions like: “Is training about learning or performance?” and “What ROI should an organization expect from training interventions?” He goes on to investigate the ethical dimensions of training and development. The course book will assist readers in developing an understanding of human resource training and development roles and procedures in organizations today, and evaluating global, national, and regional implications of human resource training, development planning, and decision-making.

Visit your local tag agency and get your new license plate for only $25, in addition to your annual registration fee. 100% of the $25 fee goes toward the Barry University Alumni Scholarship Fund to benefit current students. For more information, please call 305.899.3170 or email fund@barry.edu

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Greek Mythology and Modern American Comic Books: How the Heroes of the Ancients Influenced the Superheroes of Today Susan Dorta ’14, was recently published in Queen City Writers, a journal that publishes essays and multimedia work by undergraduate students affiliated with any post-secondary institution. Dorta’s article, Greek Mythology and Modern American Comic Books: How the Heroes of the Ancients Influenced the Superheroes of Today was born of her love for Greek mythology, modern superheroes, and storytelling. The work highlights the influence of Greek mythology on the culture and content of comic books and the superheroes they portray, both visually and textually. It includes analysis of the connections between historic artistic depictions of Greek myths and the pictorial representations of heroes in comics, and an examination of the archetypes and characters created by the Greeks that continue in modern superhero stories. The result is an exploration of the similarities between how mythological heroes were viewed by the ancients and how we view superheroes today, and the idea that these enduring narratives are a testament to how storytelling is a significant, intrinsically human characteristic. Barry MAG | 39

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2015 Distinguished Alumni Award Winners with Sister Linda Bevilacqua, OP, PhD

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BAHAMAS

Barry’s Distinguished Alumni Awards gala was held on Feb. 19 as a kickoff to the university’s Reunion weekend celebration. The awards honor Barry’s outstanding alumni for their distinguished professional achievements, contributions to society, and support of the university.

ATLANTA CAPITAL CITY/Tallahassee

The 2015 honorees were: Mirta Fuentes ’01, executive director of the Leadership Learning Center; Saima W. Hossain ’97, MS ’02, SSP ’04, a licensed school psychologist, member of the World Health Organization’s expert advisory panel on mental health, and chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism; Nelson Lazo ’84, chief executive officer of Doctors Hospital; Maria Mas Blet ’01, chief executive officer/managing principal of GSK Wealth Advisors, Inc.; and Sen. Allyson Maynard Gibson ’75, attorney general of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

CENTRAL FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE NEW YORK CITY (COMING SOON!) SPACE COAST SOUTHWEST FLORIDA THE BAHAMAS WASHINGTON, D.C. WEST PALM BEACH LAW SOCIETY MBA SOCIETY Student Alumni Association

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The Rising Star Award recognizes alumni under the age of 35 or those who, within the first five years of their career, have lived Barry’s mission by making contributions to society and strides in their career. The two recipients were: Adriane Jackson, MSW ’12, executive director of Partners in Education, Inc.; and Joy Taylor ’09, sports radio host of The Zaslow and Joy Show.

Your graduation marked the beginning of a lifelong relationship with Barry. By staying connected to your alma mater, you are part of a global network of more than 50,000 alumni, working in industries around the world. Join one of Barry’s regional alumni chapters to take advantage of events, programs, and services – it’s free!

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CAMPUS classCURRENTS notes

1950

Joyce Nolan Straka is happily residing in an assisted living home in Wayland, Mass. where she enjoys attending lifelong learning classes at Regis College. She has fond memories of serving as president of Barry’s student body.

1954

ALUM ACTION

Matthew Blair ’04 is now Barry’s associate vice president for alumni relations and annual giving. He joins Barry after an extensive nationwide search and will focus on the continued growth and improvement of the Alumni Association. For the past eight years, Blair served as the director of affiliate relations and marketing for The Delilah Show, one of the longest running and most successful radio programs in the world, reaching over 10 million listeners each month.

Connie Baldwin Perko retired from Orange County Schools and is celebrating her four great granddaughters, who are all under the age of three.

1955

Winifred Biehl is retired and living at the Rossmoor Retirement Community in Walnut Creek, Calif.

1967

Carol Ann Price Goddard, Jo Ann Price Robertson, Maureen Mooney McCarthy, Ruth Kocanda Bill, and Joan Piencykowsky Grayson met recently to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving at a cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario. A wonderful time was had by all and the group is looking forward to the 50th reunion at Barry in 2017.

Dean’s List

Pleshette McPhee, MS ’12 was recently appointed as the dean of academic studies at The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute. In the senior management position, McPhee now assumes responsibility for the academic affairs of all disciplines.

1991

Brenda Stephens has opened Sunf lower Health & Wellness Consultants, PC in Gaithersburg, Md.

1992

John G. Ducey is mayor of Brick, N.J. Ducey also practices law at his firm, the Law Offices of John G. Ducey, PC, where he specializes in adoptions, estates, wills, criminal law, and municipal court/DUIs.

On a High Note

Robyn Hinds ’08, a native of Turks and Caicos, is the first college graduate in her family. And now she’s an award-winning gospel artist. After completing her degree in economics, Hinds followed her dream of becoming a successful singer and songwriter – and most recently won a Marlin Award for Traditional Recording of the Year for her song, “Jesus.” “Dreams and aspirations keep us going in life. I never imagined my voice would take me as far as it has,” she says. Hinds is working hard to get discovered and is promoting her album “This Could be It,” while serving as a youth ambass ador for the Tu r k s a n d C a i c o s Islands. While it is difficult to get discovered in her home country, she is continuing to pursue her dream. The advice she lives by is to “trust God, seek His face, and realize His blessings in abundance.” Barry MAG | 42

1989

Kathy Martin, dean for Community Programs and Governmental Relations at Lewis-Clark State College (“LCSC”) was among 50 women selected to receive the honor of Idaho Business Review Women of the Year for 2014. Martin helped create the Distance Learning Program at LCSC in 1995, has served as the Chamber of Commerce chairman of the board, and was appointed to statewide committees by Idaho Govs. Kempthorne and Risch.

1996

Left to right: Carol Ann Price Goddard, Jo Ann Price Robertson, Maureen Mooney McCarthy, Ruth Kocanda Bill, and Joan Piencykowsky Grayson

1970

Kathleen A. Ladner (Winchell), a retired chief nursing officer, is now working part time in the graduate nursing program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

1980

Francis R. DeLuca, DMD, J.D., lectured to the International Congress of Oral Implantology in Chicago this past August on the topic “Dental Implantology - a Legal Primer.”

1982

Randall L. Sidlosca is now a partner at Fox Rothschild, where he is part of the Miami office’s labor and employment department. Sidlosca represents clients in matters related to immigrant and non-immigrant visas, labor certification and priority worker petitions, dependent visas, and employment authorization for spouses.

Elizabeth Ricci received The Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Award this past January.

1998

Lisa S. Lullove, MSW, of the law firm Roig Lawyers, has been appointed by The Florida Bar to serve on the 15th Judicial Circuit Grievance Committee “D.” The grievance committee reviews complaints with a similar purpose of a grand jury. Lullove concentrates her practice in the areas of personal injury protection/no-fault litigation.

2002

Marie Sanguinetti, MS ’04, joined HBO Latin America as director of human resources. Her 15+ years of H R/ organizational development and business experience includes global director of organizational development at Jarden Consumer Solutions and director of human resources at NewellRubbermaid, The Home Depot Corp. and Avaya. Sanguinetti resides in

2005

Eugene Haas, DO, MS, married Dana Michelle Jenkins on December 19, 2014. Dewey Riou welcomed his first grandchild, retired from law enforcement after more than 26 years, celebrated his 50th birthday, and will graduate with his second Barry degree, a Master of Arts in Administration, this spring. Riou was also elected president of the Barry University Alumni Association Capital City (Tallahasee) chapter.

2010

Kellyn George, founder of the Sickle Cell Cares Foundation, has been selected to receive the U.K.’s prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award, which recognizes exceptional young persons who are taking the lead in their communities and using their skills to transform lives. George will receive her award from Queen Elizabeth II this June. Jennifer Szczepanski and Jarred Totin tied the knot on May 9, 2014 at Galloping Hill Golf Course in Kenilworth, N.J. The couple now resides in N.J. and work in New York.

2006

Tawana Akins won MiamiDade County Public Schools’ Education Transformation Office’s Region Teacher of the Year award for her work at Holmes Elementary School.

2007

Tara Yudenfriend loves her new job as an art assistant at the Broward County Cultural Division. K ate Montero is an instructor in the Communication Arts Department at Florida International University. She recently coauthored and published a children’s book, “The Epic Adventures of Big Binks,” which blends lessons of intercultural communication with the language of surf.

2009

Asma Anwar, J.D., attorney at the Public Defender’s Office of the 20th Judicial Circuit was selected for Young Turkey, Young America. She was the only attorney selected nationwide for the Department of State and U.S. Embassy Ankara’s joint leadership program. Anwar spent two weeks on a fullyfunded trip to Turkey, where she met with leaders of all three major political parties. In November, Anwar will visit Washington, D.C. to greet the Turkish delegation and complete her assigned project on the minority rights of ethnic groups. Christopher E. Brown, J.D., attorney with The Health Law Firm, provided a seminar to Florida Hospital family medicine residents and medical students [with fellow alum Lance O. Leider]. This presentation gave residents and students an overview of Florida licensure regulations and disciplinary proceedings.

Jennifer Szczepanski and Jarred Totin

2011

Christopher Raymond Miller, J.D., has accepted an appointment as an assistant deputy solicitor for the City of Atlanta. Lance O. Leider, J.D., attorney with The Health Law Firm, provided a seminar to Florida Hospital family medicine residents and medical students [with fellow Barry alum Christopher E. Brown]. This presentation gave residents and students an overview of Florida licensure regulations and disciplinary proceedings.

2012

Victor Tejera, EdD, had his capstone dissertation published in MedCrave Online Journal of Public Health. Leontine A. Wells, M S, welcomed her handsome son, Amir A. Laing, on Nov. 4, 2014. She is enjoying her bundle of joy! To submit information for class notes, visit www.barry.edu/alumni.

In Memoriam Kristin A. Bradley ’05 Larry A. Jessamy ’11 Patricia S. Jones ’55 Sister Katherine P. Kenny, MSW ’77 Mary E. Sanders ’66 Harmon E. Starling ’83 Barry MAG | 43

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1988

Alfredo J. Gonzalez, a shareholder in the land development practice in the Miami office of law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. received the James McDonnell Outstanding Board of Governor Award from the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce. The award is given annually to recognize a member of the board of governors for providing years of dedicated service to the advancement and growth of the chamber.

Pembroke Pines, Fla. with her husband John Paul Plasencia and sons, Joel, Michael, Kevin, and Ethan.

SAVE T HE DATE

BARRY’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS SEPT. 13, 2015 Anniversary Thanksgiving Mass and Return of the Sisters OCT. 3, 2015 Barry Birthday Bash DEC. 4, 2015 Barry Special Christmas FEB. 1 - 7, 2016 Homecoming/Reunion FEB. 4, 2016 Distinguished Alumni Awards Luncheon APRIL 2016 Ryder Benjamin Golf Tournament MAY 18 – 27, 2016 Barry Trip to Italy

There are too many exciting events to list so be sure to check out www.barry.edu/75 for more information.

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