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Chronicle Published by the Boston College Office of News & Public Affairs february 13, 2014 VOL. 22 no. 11

•BC to resume a storied rivalry, page 2 •New Testament scholar Fr. Harrington dies, page 3

By Jack Dunn Director of News & Public Affairs

‘Going to Be Pretty Hard to Top This’ •Roche Ctr. launches Emmaus Program, page 4 •Church in the 21st Century Center spring slate, page 5 •Q&A: STM’s Fr. Massa, page 5

•New exhibit uses comic books to talk about US history and culture, page 6

•Musician Jimmy Noonan receives Mass. Cultural Council award, page 6

Boston College Law School student Caitlin Cahow, a two-time Olympian who won bronze (2006) and silver (2010) medals as a member of the US women’s hockey team, headed to Sochi, Russia, last week as part of an American delegation attending the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. She spoke with the Chronicle’s Sean Hennessey prior to her departure.

You had two successful experiences competing at the Olympics.

Did you consider trying for a third time?

I was training to go to a third Olympics and then I suffered a terrible concussion. After my second Olympics, I enrolled at BC Law and at that point I was making a decision as to whether I wanted to attend law school and whether I wanted to retire from hockey. BC Law was incredibly supportive of my career, so I was able to keep playing at a really high level for the Boston Blades [of the profes-

sional Canadian Women’s Hockey League] and also with the national team. For two years, that was my reality. I was a busy, busy girl.

And then the concussion hit and it took me a year to really come back. I took a year off from school, I stopped doing everything. I actually was able to come back and play for the Blades, and we won the Clarkson Cup title that year as the first American team to do that. I was the captain, so it was mostly a labor of love and to prove to myself that, you know, no one was going to make the decision for me to retire other than me. It was really a cathartic experience, but when I got back to playing with the national team it just wasn’t the same. The joy and ease that I had playing with before had been a little bit beaten out of me just because I didn’t always feel safe on the ice.

The pressure to compete at that level, the pressures of training, the Continued on page 4

Feb. 18 Town Meeting Will Detail New Phase of Core Renewal Project

•Mauro on STEM delegation

By Sean Smith to Ireland and Northern IreChronicle Editor land, page 7 A new phase in the effort to •Three from Connell School revitalize Boston College’s underto be honored by Mass. nursgraduate core curriculum is under es organization, page 7 way, with the creation of a task •Gawlick’s Mass “Missa force to build on and refine the gentis humanæ,” page 8 Core Renewal Committee’s work of the 2012-13 academic year in producing a proposal for the new core.

College of Arts and Sciences Senior Associate Dean Gregory Kalscheur, SJ, will chair the Core Foundations Task Force. Other

members include College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean David Quigley, Carroll School of Management Dean Andy Boynton and Institute for the Liberal Arts Director Mary Crane, leaders of the Core Renewal Committee.

Fr. Kalscheur, along with Interim Provost and Dean of Faculties Joseph Quinn, will talk about the core renewal initiative at a town meeting event Feb. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Other Continued on page 3

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Boston College and Campus School parents have reached an agreement to collaborate on a strategic plan with the goal of strengthening the Campus School and maintaining it at its current location on the Boston College campus.

This agreement was reached after extensive conversations among Boston College administrators and parents of students at the Campus School, which serves children with multiple disabilities.

As a result, the Campus School parent leaders agreed to submit a strategic plan to BC administrators that will include an assessment of the Campus School, specific strategies to increase enrollment, and a plan to balance the school’s budget.

Specifically, the plan will provide a mission statement for the Campus School that clearly states the school’s vision to provide the best possible educational experience for its students, as well as an assessment of

the school’s strengths and weaknesses and challenges and opportunities.

The plan will address ways to increase enrollment by utilizing parent ambassadors and enhanced marketing initiatives to promote the school among referring school districts and prospective parents. It will also include a fundraising component to achieve financial stability, provide competitive wages for staff and help fund capital improvements for the Campus School facility.

“We are very pleased to have reached this agreement,” said Interim Provost and Dean of Faculties Joseph Quinn. “These discussions have been very helpful as they have given Campus School parents a better understanding of the issues facing the school, while giving Boston College a greater appreciation of their commitment to preserving and strengthening the program. The Campus School parents asked for an opportunity to keep the Campus School at BC, increase enrollment and balance the school’s budget, and we have agreed to give them this opContinued on page 3

Baker to Address Feb. 24 GSSW Forum on Health Care Reform

By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor

Photo from Wikimedia Commons

•Undergraduate Research Symposium, page 2

BC, Parents Agree on Strategic Plan for the Campus School

Photo courtesy Caitlin Cahow

INSIDE

Q&A: Caitlin Cahow

Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate and former Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO Charles D. Baker Jr. will present the keynote address at a Feb. 24 forum on health care reform sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work.

In addition to the talk by Baker, the event will feature a panel discussion on the roles social workers can – and should –­ play as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) begins to exert a greater influence on the health care landscape. National Association of Social Workers CEO Angelo McClain PhD ’01, former commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, will serve as moderator.

“Health Care Reform: From Policy to Practice,” which is free and open to the public (registra-

Gubernatorial candidate and former Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charles D. Baker Jr.

tion is required), will take place from 1:30-4 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. A reception for McClain will follow immediately.

“This is a very timely conversation,” said forum organizer GSSW Associate Professor of Macro Practice and former Massachusetts Commissioner of Mental Health Continued on page 5

“Burns, like all BC’s libraries, is a tremendous resource, and students should know how to make use of it...Like all scholars doing research projects, students have to draw upon time management and other organizational skills.”

–O’Neill Library Bibliographer/Reference Librarian Elliot Brandow, page 6

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‘CONVERSATION ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER’ The Undergraduate Research Symposium isn’t a decade old yet, but has blossomed into a muchanticipated campus event – and a valuable experience for students who want to put their scholarly interests out there for all to see.

Once held as a luncheon gathering, the eight-year-old symposium took place over the course of some three hours on Jan. 31, spotlighting more than 50 undergraduate research projects through panel and poster presentations at several locations in Fulton Hall.

The undergraduate researchers explored subjects such as Haitian youth in the American education system, Venezuelan debt, Northern Ireland sectarianism, stress reduction techniques among nurses, the impact of China’s economic surge on its rural areas, and infants’ understanding of numbers. Some students had been supported through the University’s Advanced Study

Kaitlin McMenany ’14 presented her poster project with Brooke Hopkins ’14 at the recent Undergraduate Research Symposium. (Photo by Christoper Soldt, MTS)

Grant program; other presenters were authors of articles in the University’s undergraduate research and literary journals, or had done their projects through various independent means.

For students like Jonathan Makransky ’14 and Katherine Dullea ’15, the process of conceiving, planning, researching and presenting a topic meant a lot of work,

but also represented the fulfillment of interests that went beyond the strictly academic.

Makransky, an Islamic Civilizations and Studies major, was drawn to examine the complex dynamics between popular and state-sponsored Islam in Morocco, where he was studying.

“There’s nothing like immersion in another culture to get the cre-

BC-HC: IT’S BACK (SORT OF) You’ll have to wait another four years for it to happen, but the storied BC-Holy Cross football rivalry is being renewed after nearly three decades.

Director of Athletics Brad Bates announced recently that BC will host the Crusaders for two games at Alumni Stadium, on Sept. 8, 2018, and Sept. 5, 2020. The 2018 meeting will be the first gridiron contest between the two teams since 1986, when BC won, 56-26.

“This will be a renewal of one of the oldest and greatest traditions of college football in New England,” Bates said.

“For many years, this was ‘the game’ for alumni and fans of both schools, and I am delighted that we are able to renew – for at least two years – this spirited and long-standing rivalry.”

Despite the long hiatus, Holy Cross maintains its distinction as having played BC more often than any other opponent in Eagle history. The series, which began in 1896, stands in BC’s favor at 48-31-3.

However, as BC football historian Reid Oslin – who retired in 2012 after working for 40 years in Athletics

and the Office of News & Public Affairs – points out, the Crusaders won the first game to be played at Alumni Stadium, 9-0, in 1915. The stadium was then located along the east side of College Road, which is now the site of Stokes Hall.

Probably the most famous, and tragic, chapter in the rivalry was the 1942 game at Fenway Park, a 55-12 Holy Cross victory that was overshadowed by the deadly fire that night at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub – where BC rooters had planned, and subsequently cancelled, a victory party for the team. BC’s equipment manager Larry Kenney, who hadn’t heard about the cancellation, and his wife were among the nearly 500 victims.

But there have been plenty of other memorable BC-HC games, Oslin says. “In 1971, a Thanksgiving week snowstorm had blanketed Eastern and Central Massachusetts with six inches of soggy, wet snow, and HC’s Fitton Field was unfit for play.

So the game was abruptly shifted to Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, where ticketholders were offered

Director of NEWS & Public Affairs Jack Dunn Deputy Director of NEWS & Public AFFAIRS Patricia Delaney Editor Sean Smith

Contributing Staff Melissa Beecher Ed Hayward Sean Hennessey Rosanne Pellegrini Kathleen Sullivan Michael Maloney Photographers Gary Gilbert Lee Pellegrini

open seating. The change of venue didn’t matter: BC won, 21-7, before 22,000 fans.”

Then there was the 1984 edition, Doug Flutie’s last regular-season collegiate game, which took place in Fitton Field a week after his iconic “Hail Mary” pass, says Oslin. “Doug had already established the all-time major college passing record, and he stated that his only unfulfilled on-field goal was to throw a touchdown pass to his brother, Darren, a freshman wide receiver for the Eagles. Midway through the game, he found Darren alone down the sideline for a score in BC’s decisive 45-10 win.

“After the game, the two of them jetted from the Worcester Airport to New York City, where Doug was named winner of the 1984 Heisman Trophy.”

On a related note, BC also announced its football schedule for this fall: home games are Pittsburgh (Sept.

5), USC (Sept. 13), Maine (Sept. 20), Colorado State (Sept. 27), Clemson (Oct. 18), Louisville (Nov. 8) and Syracuse (Nov. 29); the Eagles play at UMass (Aug. 30), NC State (Oct. 11), Wake Forest (Oct. 25), Virginia Tech (Nov. 1) and defending national champion Florida State (Nov. 22).

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ative juices flowing,” says Makransky, who published his work in AlNoor, BC’s undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies journal. “In my case, my daily exposure to the religious culture of Morocco served as a constant source of inspiration, particularly as personified in the enormously generous and kind Moroccan people.”

While Makransky sees the project as informing his current course of study – and serving as a reminder “that the Islamic world is almost infinitely diverse” – he also found it important from a personal standpoint.

“The subject matter has illuminated my own, non-Islamic, faith, and the process has been valuable in preparing me for future projects,” explains Makransky, who envisions research and academia in his future, and the possibility of doing comparative studies in Islam and Buddhism.

Dullea, a Presidential Scholar, studied how microfinance programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina have served to empower women struggling with the effects of their country’s war. The topic represented a perfect intersection of Dullea’s academic interests as a finance major with a minor in women’s and gender studies, but like Makransky, she felt a personal dimension.

“I wanted to put a human face on microfinance,” she explains.

“The Bosnian war ended more than 15 years ago, but many women there have had to deal not only with economic devastation but the emotional fall-out. By spending time in Bosnia, I was able to see the significant healing and support that microfinance initiatives through Women for Women International has helped bring about.”

As much as students have praised the symposium, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs Donald Hafner, a guiding force behind the event, says he is especially pleased by the testimonials from faculty who volunteer as chairs of the presentation panels.

“I often hear the remark that the student panels are far more interesting and engaging than similar panels at academic conferences,” says Hafner, who offered a welcome at the Jan. 31 symposium. “Part of that no doubt comes from our effort to assemble related presentations from several disciplines on each panel. I’ll grant you, sometimes one has to dig deep to find the linkages among the panel presentations, but that is both the challenge and reward when a group of scholars — young or old — gather for conversation about things that matter.”

–Sean Smith

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A funeral Mass was celebrated last night in St. Ignatius Church for Daniel Harrington, SJ, eminent scholar, author, editor and professor of sacred scripture at the School of Theology and Ministry, who died at Campion Center in Weston on Feb. 7 after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 73.

Fr. Harrington’s dedication to Biblical scholarship was reflected in the more than 60 books he authored, shedding light on Scripture and the life and times of Jesus, and his decades-long tenure as the general editor of New Testament Abstracts, summarizing literature on the New Testament from hundreds of books and journals throughout the world. He also wrote “The Word” column for America magazine for three years.

A longtime faculty member at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Fr. Harrington – who held two degrees from Boston College, and was awarded an honorary degree in 2009 – returned

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Daniel Harrington, SJ: New Testament Scholar, Beloved Teacher

to his alma mater in 2008 as part of Weston Jesuit’s re-affiliation with BC and joined the newly established School of Theology and Ministry.

Last November, after Fr. Harrington had announced that this was to be his final year of teaching, STM hosted a tribute that was attended by family members, friends,

colleagues, and current and former students. Among the speakers was best-selling author and media commentator James Martin, SJ, who described the powerful impact of Fr. Harrington’s teaching.

Fr. Harrington’s Introduction to the New Testament class “changed my life,” said Fr. Martin, who dedicated his forthcoming book Jesus: A Pilgrimage to Fr. Harrington.

“Today, I feel like I see the gospels through Dan’s eyes. What I mean is that I see the gospels with both the eyes of faith and a critical mind.

“In a sense, Dan’s teaching was very much like Jesus’ use of the parables, communicating complicated truths to us in simple ways. And as with Jesus’ parables, this was a great act of charity and love.”

Fr. Harrington’s five decades as a Jesuit were also marked by his pastoral service to the faithful. Every Sunday for more than 42 years, he celebrated Mass at St. Agnes Parish in his hometown of Arlington, Mass.; he also presided at the noon

Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s in Cambridge for more than 20 years. Fr. Harrington delighted in telling fellow Jesuits that a parishioner once said to him, “You know, I used to think you were boring until I started listening to you.”

Fr. Harrington was born in Arlington and attended St. Agnes Grammar School, where he was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph.

He won a full academic scholarship to Boston College High School where he also played hockey and baseball. Citing his positive experience with his Jesuit teachers, he chose to enter the Society of Jesus upon graduation and was in the first class of novices to enter the Jesuit Novitiate in Gloucester in 1958.

In 1962 Fr. Harrington studied philosophy at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, where he met Rev. John J. Collins, SJ, then editor of New Testament Abstracts, who enlisted his help in writing abstracts and book notices. He would be associated with New Testament Ab-

stracts for more than 50 years, serving as its editor from 1972 until his death.

Following Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Fr. Harrington went on to study Ancient Near Eastern languages at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate.

While studying at Harvard, he took courses at Hebrew University and the Dominican École Biblique de Jerusalem. Fr. Harrington completed his theological studies at Weston Jesuit in 1969. He was ordained in 1971 at St. Ignatius Church, and after serving as a professor of sacred scripture at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Illinois, became a faculty member at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1972.

He is survived by his brother Edward, of Braintree, Mass.

Fr. Harrington will be buried today following a 10 a.m. Mass for the Jesuit community at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Campion Center in Weston, Mass.

–Jack Dunn and Sean Smith

Core Foundations Task Force Created

Continued from page 1 members of the task force will also be present.

Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Core Renewal Committee held extensive meetings with diverse groups of faculty, administrators, staff, students and other stakeholders in the University community in an effort to address concerns and hear views regarding the core curriculum, last revised in the 1990s. By last spring, the committee had formulated a proposal that envisioned a 42-credit structure of courses encompassing numerous disciplines, and with an emphasis on student formation and personal discernment.

After submitting the proposal to University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and following a subsequent series of discussions, the committee established the task force to move the core renewal initiative along. This phase, expected to be complete by April 15, is viewed as helping to realize the goal of developing pilot courses for the fall of 2015.

“There was a sense that further progress depended on a clear articulation of the vision for the renewed core,” said Fr. Kalscheur. “That will be the critical part of our mission, so that the vision statement can provide focus for pilot course proposals and further discussion of governance of the core.”

Fr. Leahy, in his charge to the task force, said the group’s work would draw both on the Core Renewal Committee proposal

and the document developed in 1991 for the previous core revision. In addition, he said, the task force would explore “relevant Jesuit sources” to ensure the core is appropriately rooted in Jesuit history, pedagogy and spirituality; conscientiously incorporate student formation more fully into the core and its courses; describe the “special role” for faculty teaching in the core, and explain the core’s contribution

“There was a sense that further progress depended on a clear articulation of the vision for the renewed core.

That will be the critical part of our mission, so that the vision statement can provide focus for pilot course proposals and further discussion of governance of the core.”

–Gregory Kalscheur, SJ

not only to undergraduates’ academic experience, but to campus life and the University’s mission.

The task force also will consider the increased emphasis on faculty-student engagement, inquiry-based pedagogy and other directions in higher education since the 1990s core revision; consult with leading experts at BC and elsewhere on Jesuit education and emerging developments in teaching and learning; and describe the special charac-

teristics of core courses compared to major and elective courses.

Fr. Leahy said the task force would strive to “articulate the core’s vision so that it will be recognized as derived from, and consistent with, the Jesuit educational tradition, and as animating a dynamic and energizing core experience for the 21st century.”

“Thanks to the work of the Core Renewal Committee, there is a good basis with which to continue the conversation on, and exploration of, what a BC education should be,” said Fr. Kalscheur. “We look forward to the Feb. 18 town meeting so we can explain where the core renewal process is now, and where it will go from here.”

Other members of the Core Foundations Task Force are: Assoc. Prof. Julian Bourg (History), Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, SJ, Newton College Alumnae Professor of Western Culture and Theology Chair Catherine Cornille, McIntyre Professor of Mathematics Solomon Friedberg, Student Affairs Vice President Barbara Jones, Professor and Philosophy Chair Arthur Madigan, SJ, – who chairs the University Core Development Committee – Jesuit Institute Visiting Scholar Robert Maryks, Connell School of Nursing Associate Dean Catherine Read and Prof. Juliet Schor (Sociology).

Contact Sean Smith at sean.smith@bc.edu

A performance at the Feb. 8 South Asia Student Association show in Robsham Theater. More photos on page 8. (Photo by Christopher Huang)

Campus School Agreement Continued from page 1 portunity. We are all committed to making this plan work.”

Kristen Morin ’86, co-president of the Parent Advisory Committee, said she was pleased that an agreement was reached to give parents and Campus School staff an opportunity to strengthen the school. “We plan to take all of the reasons that we love our school and translate them into a sustainable program on behalf of the Campus School,” said Morin. “By working together with Boston College, I have 100 percent confidence that our plan will enable the Campus School to thrive in the years to come.”

Added BC senior Chris Marino, co-president of the Campus School Volunteers of Boston College, “The Campus School Volunteers are grateful for the opportunity to work with Boston College in our efforts to not only keep the Campus School on the Heights, but to help it thrive and grow into the strongest program possible. We are excited to continue working towards a sustainable future for the program.”

Last November, Campus School

Director Don Ricciato informed parents that Boston College was considering a possible affiliation with the Kennedy Day School (KDS) that would bring Campus School students, staff and BC volunteers together with KDS students and staff at the new KDS facility in Brighton.

Ricciato stated that affiliation discussions were prompted by declining enrollment (from 49 students in 2007 to 38 in 2014) and by the changing landscape of special needs education in which school districts are less willing to refer students to private programs. The discussion prompted an impassioned response from Campus School parents who expressed their strong desire to maintain their children at the Campus School facility in Campion Hall.

“This agreement is a win-win for BC and the Campus School,” said Ricciato. “We all want what is in the best interest of our students, and we hope that this plan will enable us to continue to provide them with an excellent education within an even better Campus School.”

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Cahow Sees Opportunity ‘to Be Inspired’

Roche Center for Catholic Education Executive Director Patricia WeitzelO’Neill (second from right) discusses the center’s Emmaus program with (L-R) Lynch School of Education Associate Dean Mary Ellen Fulton, Saint Joseph’s Prep Headmaster Tom Nunan Jr. and School of Theology and Ministry Associate Dean Adam Krueckeberg. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

BC Center Offers Professional Development for Catholic Schools

By Ed Hayward Staff Writer

The speaker in the Yawkey Center’s Murray Room looked out over a gathering of Catholic school principals, business managers, advancement directors and board members and asked a straightforward question.

“Do you have a cash reserve?”

The response: a few nervous chuckles, very few raised hands.

The attendees were on campus for the latest workshop in the Emmaus Series, an initiative of the Roche Center for Catholic Education that works to strengthen the management skills and professional network principals need to build exceptional Catholic schools.

The question from guest speaker Adam Krueckeberg, the associate dean for finance and administration at the School of Theology and Ministry, highlighted one of the overarching themes of the workshop, which was titled “Mission-Driven Finances for Catholic Schools.”

If Catholic schools are going to survive, they are going to have to embrace a range of best practices used by leading non-profit and for-profit organizations.

According to Krueckeberg, it’s not simply a question of fiduciary responsibility, but one that goes to the core mission and ministry of Catholic schools in an era of declining enrollment, school closures and consolidations and increased competition from public and charter schools.

“This is the mission of the Church, especially in Boston given the difficulties over the past 12 years,” said Krueckeberg, who earned an MBA and an MA in pastoral ministry from BC in 2012. “I see Catholic schools as one of the best ways the Church serves the world, but also one of the best forms of evangelization.”

To fulfill that mission, Catholic schools need to embrace financial planning, data analysis, and transparency, then support those practices with a team of administrators, teachers and parents.

Some ideas, like opening up the budgetary process to the eyes of parents, mark departures from the tra-

ditional approach of many schools and parishes.

Josie Citta, principal of Trinity Catholic Academy in Southbridge, said the parents at her school welcomed a new, open budgeting process.

“It was so well received,” she said.

“If you’re honest with people and give them the respect of knowing you trust them with the information, it makes a big difference. They know they can trust you.”

To support making these types of changes, the 40 principals in the two Emmaus cohorts don’t attend the workshops alone, according to Roche Center Executive Director Patricia Weitzel-O’Neill. They bring teachers, support staff, pastors and board members to the workshops, which focus on helping schools meet the new National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools, which WeitzelO’Neill helped to craft in 2011.

In addition to developing core teams within the schools, Emmaus strives to create a professional network the principals can rely on, either in person or through an online social network, said Kristin Melley, the Roche Center’s associate director for professional development.

The two-year-old Emmaus Series is the latest BC program designed to bring together principals for leadership development. The Roche Center’s Leadership Team Initiative (LTI) tackles many of the same issues as Emmaus. BC’s Lynch Leadership Academy (LLA) brings together public, charter and Catholic school principals.

Tom Nunan Jr., the head of school at Brighton’s Saint Joseph Preparatory High School, attends LTI and is also part of this year’s LLA cohort. He said it’s crucial to bring school leaders together and break down the barriers – whether real or perceived – that have prevented them from collaborating with their peers.

“Whether it’s LTI or Emmaus, it’s crucial to break down the sense that we are always in competition with each other – be it for students, or teaches or donors. Catholic school principals have a lot to learn from each other and I think that can enhance the brand of Catholic education for all of us.”

Continued from page 1 demands it takes on your body – my concussion affected me in so many ways that I’m still discovering. And looking around the room at all the women who were chomping at the bit and ready and dedicated and determined, and who had maybe not been there before, I decided it just wasn’t right for me to continue to be in that position. While I still love the game and I love my country, you can’t be in that mindset going for a gold medal. We need people who are ready to go, and I was holding on a little too much and so I made the very difficult decision to retire.

At the end of the day, it’s been an amazing transition for me and enabled me to do a lot of things that I hadn’t been able to do. I feel like I’ve almost been reborn in a lot of ways.

I’m excited to watch some really great hockey in Sochi and I’m excited for what the rest of my life holds.

Did you ever think you’d be back at the Olympic Games this way, representing the US at the closing ceremonies?

No, I never really thought it was an option. I knew there were presidential delegations in the past and I had briefly flirted with the idea of trying to take on a more diplomatic role with the International Olympic Committee or the US Olympic Committee as a way to give back to sport for all that it’s given me.

So I did have some aspirations to do something like that but never to this magnitude. I mean, this was a surprise and a very humbling honor.

What does it mean to you to have been chosen to be part of this closing ceremony procession?

This is easily the greatest honor of my athletic career. Who knows what my life will hold, but it’s going to be pretty hard to top this. I have such a profound respect for the office of the President of the United States as someone who is a law student and a student of history. I’m so proud to be an American and so grateful to have grown up in the United States that when the president asks you to represent him, I can’t imagine a greater thrill. It’s just very, very humbling and an incredible honor.

What do you think your selection represents?

I think it represents a lot of things.

The president chose to focus on a lot of successful female delegates, which I think is a fantastic message because the president has also made gender equality an important issue for our country to be moving towards. But obviously, I’m openly gay and so is Brian Boitano and so is Billie Jean King [Boitano and King also were selected to the delegation; King announced Feb. 5 she would not attend due to her mother’s ill health]. Billie Jean, probably more than any of us, has been active in LGBT equality over the course of her lifetime.

I’ve certainly been outspoken about LGBT equality, so it does send a message – but I think it also says to

the citizens of the United States that, you know, this is what our country looks like, that people come in all different shapes, sizes, colors. Our country is a country of diversity and we need to remember that. Our representatives really demonstrate that to the world, so I think it’s a great all-around message.

Photo courtesy Caitlin Cahow

“Our country is a country of diversity and we need to remember that. Our representatives really demonstrate that to the world, so I think it’s a great all-around message.”

–Caitlin Cahow, shown as a member of the Boston Blades

Was your selection, and that of Boitano and King, also perhaps a shot across the bow to Russian President Vladimir Putin, given his country’s anti-gay legislation?

The president made his thoughts clear about Russian LGBT policy in press conferences well before the delegation was announced. I think it’s been very clear. Certainly, being in Russia as an openly gay person and retired athlete will be a very different experience based on political underpinnings of the occasion, but at the same time my focus is on the athletes.

So nothing has really changed for me in the sense that I’m representing my country, I’m supporting my teammates.

Whenever you compete internationally, sometimes it’s a hostile environment – but you have to get over it and you have to complete the mission that you set out to do. So this experience in that sense will be no different for me than competing.

Do you expect any hostility?

I don’t anticipate any hostility. I think once the games are opened, the focus is going to be on the athletes and rightly so – they’ve been working their whole lives for this opportunity.

So I think once athletes start competing and once people get drawn into that Olympic spirit, it’s going to be

much less about me and my personal life than it is about the great achievements of the athletes.

What are your thoughts on Putin and his country’s less-thanwelcoming attitudes about gays?

I think it’s made me even more proud to be an American, to realize that I’ve grown up with the benefit of people who welcome me and embrace me and have supported me my whole life. Granted, you know, it’s not perfect in the United States. We have a lot of work to do and it’s been a reminder, being put on a pedestal representing the LGBT community in some ways for my country, that there are certainly a lot of misconceptions and there is still discomfort in our own country with regard to LGBT people. That’s become a prime focus of mine – how do we alleviate that? – and so looking to Russia, I see an opportunity to engage in really great discussions. I see an opportunity for citizens and politicians from around the world to get involved in some discourse about issues that really matter. But mostly, I see an opportunity to be really inspired by the Olympic spirit, the idea that the Olympics can bring out the best in all of us for the greater good of humanity. Hopefully, that message and inspiration will carry over into new political decisions and diplomatic discussions moving forward.

As a female athlete, you’ve said there’s a lot of silence when it comes to LGBT issues and that this hurts women. Is taking part in this Olympic procession part of an effort on your part to get LGBT issues out into the open more?

My primary goal is to represent the president and represent my country. But to me, it’s an incredible honor and a great opportunity to demonstrate that there’s a lot of inequality in the world and also in society, in the United States. I mean we have a big gender gap problem in the US and often times I equate that with these preconceived gender norms we’ve adhered to for hundreds of years. It gives women more of a barrier than I think we really understand, and as a gay woman certainly I think there’s an added barrier. I know a lot of athletes who don’t want to come out of the closet because they’re afraid of what the media will think, what it will do to their sport, and that’s become glaringly apparent to me through this process.

I really hope that I can be one step towards making a change so that athletes don’t have to be in the closet.

I don’t know how many gay athletes there are, but I would imagine it’s more than the ones who are out. So my goal is to try to move our society towards a time when you no longer live and die with those classifications.

Contact Sean Hennessey at sean.hennessey@bc.edu

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Church in the 21st Century Center

Programs Focus on ‘Intimacy and Relationships’ “Intimacy and Relationships in Catholic Life” is the focus of The Church in the 21st Century Center’s programming this semester, through a series of campus events that began earlier this week with Lonergan Institute Associate Director Kerry Cronin’s lecture “Making the Move: Navigating Dating Transitions.”

Cronin, who is a faculty fellow in the Center for Student Formation, also served as co-editor with Monan Professor of Theology Lisa Sowle Cahill of the spring 2014 edition of C21 Resources, another outlet for the “Intimacy and Relationships” theme.

Among this semester’s highlights is an April 30 talk by novelist Alice McDermott on “Astonished

by Love: Storytelling and the Sacramental Imagination.” McDermott is the author of Charming Billy, a National Book Award winner, and most recently, Someone. Her lecture will take place in Cadigan Alumni Center at 6 p.m.

On Feb. 20, Boston College doctoral student Daniel P. Horan, OFM, an America magazine columnist and author, will present “Dating God: Intimacy, Prayer, and Franciscan Spirituality,” in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons at 5:30 p.m.

A panel discussion on “Pope Francis and the Future of the Global Church” will be held on Feb. 25, with Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard Gaillardetz, Assumption College President Francesco Cesareo and Mar Muñoz-Visoso, executive director of the US Conference of Catholic

Bishops’ Secretariat for Cultural Diversity in the Church. Theology Professor M. Shawn Copeland will serve as moderator.

Archbishop of Indianapolis Joseph W. Tobin, CSsR will deliver a lecture on March 24 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons at 4:30 p.m. The archbishop previously served as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury Rowan Williams, a professor of theology at Cambridge University, will give a lecture on “Revelation and Interreligious Dialogue” on April 7 in the Heights

Room at 5 p.m.

On May 1, Cardinal Walter Kasper will present “The Message of Mercy and its Importance Today” in the Heights Room at 4:30 p.m. The cardinal is president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Co-sponsors for C21 events include the Theology Department, School of Theology and Ministry, Center for Student Formation, Alumni Association, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and English Department. For more information on C21 events, see www.bc.edu/church21.

–Kathleen Sullivan Frank Curran

The School of Theology and Ministry hosted an event last week that was both ecumenical and musical: the second annual Boston Theological Institute Choirfest, a gathering of Boston-area divinity schools, seminaries and schools of theology and ministry featuring the music of different religious traditions.

STM’s own choir, under the direction of Lynn Burns, was among those performing at the Feb. 4 concert, held in St. Ignatius Church.

The school’s choir, along with that of Saint John’s Seminary, offered a rendition of Anton Bruckner’s “Ave Maria” (above).

Other participants at Choirfest were Andover Newton Theological School, Boston University School of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Hebrew College, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, and the Noor Ensemble, led by Abdoul Adam.

Baker, McClain to Appear at GSSW Forum Continued from page 1 Marylou Sudders, who will offer introductory remarks at the event.

“One of the key aspects of the ACA is it promotes the integration of physical and behavioral health care – treating the whole person, not just managing symptoms.

“Social work, as a unique discipline that combines clinical and policy practice, stands to make a vital contribution to this new era of health care,” said Sudders, who serves on the Commonwealth’s Health Policy Commission. “So it’s very appropriate for GSSW to host an event on health care reform.”

Sudders said the forum will benefit from the presence of Baker, whose extensive experience in the public and private sectors includes serving as secretary of administration and finance under two governors and more recently as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners.

“Health care access, quality and cost are pressing issues in the Commonwealth and across the nation,” she said. “Charlie has impressive credentials, having led Harvard Pilgrim to become the top-ranked health plan in the US. He knows the public and private aspects of health care. So the opportunity to hear his perspective on health care reform, as he campaigns to be the Commonwealth’s next governor, will be of great interest to the public as well as to practitioners.”

Baker will present “Social and Health Care: One View of the Future” for about 30 minutes and participate in a Q&A. The panel discussion will offer a “boots on the ground” view of social work in the ACA era, said Sudders. The four panelists – Carol Kress, Mary Neagle, Rebecca Osario and J. Scott Turton – are all trained social workers involved in innovative pilot programs and initiatives that use the integrated physical-behavioral health model

to address physical and mental health-related issues such as addiction.

Turton, for example, directs efforts to integrate addiction treatment with primary care as an administrator at Gosnold Addiction Treatment Center on Cape Cod. As co-director of the Integrative Care Management Program for Partners Health Care, Neagle – who along with Osario is a GSSW alumna – works to improve hospital discharge policies so as to decrease the likelihood of readmissions.

“It is crucial for social workers to be engaged in health care reform,” Sudders said. “The more that health care costs eat up state and federal budgets, the less there is for other resources and services that social workers seek for their clients.

We feel this forum will show how social work is integral to the success of health care reform.”

For information and registration, see http://bit.ly/1bII3tu.

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MARK MASSA, SJ SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY

The School of Theology and Ministry (STM), which opened in 2008, is the newest school at Boston College. How would you describe its mission and goals?

The School of Theology and Ministry is the most exciting development in Catholic ministerial and graduate theological education in a generation. There really are no analogues to the STM in the world of American Catholic higher education. Our closest institutional models are the great Protestant divinity schools founded in the 19th century: Harvard Yale, Chicago and Duke.

Notre Dame, Harvard Divinity and Yale Divinity are the three places we most commonly compete with for students. Like them, we describe our misLee Pellegrini sion as preparing well-trained leaders in ministry and theological education (from parish coordinators of religious education to training theologians for the academy). But unlike Notre Dame, we are a freestanding faculty of theology separate from the Theology Department; unlike our Protestant and nondenominational competitors, we are deeply committed to serving the Catholic Church locally, nationally and internationally. So, while we overlap with other elite institutions of ministerial and theological education, our own identity is somewhat unique: We are a mission-driven professional school at Boston College, educating and forming highly qualified students who want to serve the Catholic and Christian communities.

Our strategic goal is actually a simple one: We want to become the professional school where the Catholic community in the United States does its best thinking about theology, ministry and ministerial formation, as well as the place that Catholic Church leaders turn to when seeking the strongest ministerial and theological personnel.

The STM has a significant international population, and the student body is a combination of laypersons, ordained and members of religious orders.

What impact does this diversity have on teaching, learning, and the community as a whole?

The STM is the most diverse professional school at BC: Fully a quarter of our students come from outside the US. Two-thirds of our students are laymen and women; the other third are “religious” of various kinds. Besides the men from the five religious orders who come to us to prepare for ordination, we have religious women from Vietnam and Africa. We have a cadre of lay students preparing for work directing the religious education programs in newly-formed dioceses in China. We also attract a number of Protestant students from both mainline and evangelical denominations. What this means is that our community is an incredibly rich mix of many people from various geographical and religious backgrounds.

Beyond its degree programs, how is the STM connecting with and educating the faithful in the US and beyond?

Tom Groome’s summer institute began four decades ago as a six-week series of courses offered to both American and international ministers. Now housed within the school, the STM Summer Institute brings students from Australia and Europe, and all over North America, to Boston College to experience a rich blend of classes, worship experiences, personal sharing, spiritual formation and field trips.

While it’s delightful to welcome students to BC each summer, we also recognize that there are many who cannot come to us. So, through the wonderful vehicle that is the Internet, we’re reaching out to them where they live with our continuing education offerings. Starting in 2004, we decided to put a few non-credit courses online under the title “C21 Online” – opportunities for the faithful to engage in facilitated conversations to deepen their professional, spiritual, and theological formation.

We also produce and run a vibrant series of on-campus events open to the public on a wide variety of ministerial and theological topics. Many of our events are the result of partnerships with other great organizations within Boston College – another example of how the richness of BC’s academic and theological environment is such a benefit for our students and the wider community we serve.

–Kathleen Sullivan

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BC students’ exhibit shows comic books’ historical, cultural value

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Ripped from the Headlines: American History in Comic Books

By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor

Pow! Zap! Wham! Kaboom!

Cold War! Watergate! Women’s Liberation! 9/11!

Comic books have never just been about super-powered heroes in skintight costumes whose exploits are depicted with vivid illustrations and onomatopoeic words. Scholars, commentators and journalists alike have shown how, in and amongst the pages of Superman, The Avengers, Wonder Woman and Spiderman, lurk often fascinating snippets about American life, offering X-ray vision-like insights into societal and cultural shifts.

Now, a group of Boston College undergraduates has contributed its own perspective on the deeper messages conveyed by comic books, with a project that includes a just-opened exhibition in Stokes Hall. “Revealing America’s History Through Comics” was created by students in the Making History Public class taught by Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson, working with Justine Sundaram, reference librarian at the John J. Burns Library.

Using popular Marvel and DC titles from the 1940s through present day – from an immense collection donated to Burns Library

by Carroll School of Management Professor Edward J. Kane – the students examine a range of cultural themes and trends in comic books reflecting major historical events and societal trends of those decades. The students’ considerable reading and other research on the eras covered in the exhibit provided a solid historical context for their exploration of the Kane collection.

Among the students’ topics are the connection between the John F. Kennedy assassination and Captain America; Batwoman as “the perfect housewife”; Iron Man versus environmentalism; the transition from the Cold War to the antiwar movement in Marvel comics; and how superheroes’ myths – the supporting narrative that accounts for their individual strengths and weaknesses – have been recast in the wake of changing beliefs and attitudes. Students also lend analysis to a sometimes underappreciated but just as revealing aspect of comic books: their advertisements (“You can have

(L-R) Burns Reference Librarian Justine Sundaram helps seniors Remy Hassett and Lindsay Crane put the finishing touches on the “Revealing America’s History Through Comics” exhibit, assisted by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson (History), O’Neill Library Bibliographer/Reference Librarian Elliot Brandow and Bapst Exhibits Specialist/Senior Library Assistant Kevin Tringale.

a he-man voice!” “Own a real Texas ranch!”).

The Making History Public class is a collaboration between the History Department and University Libraries, which also produced the recent Burns Library exhibition “Common Boston: Exploring the City’s NineteenthCentury Transformation through Burns Library Collections,” based on work of students of Professor Marilynn Johnson. Faculty and library administrators say the History-Libraries partnership helps undergraduates gain valuable experience in planning, researching and organizing a research project, and learning how to utilize archival material.

“We want students to see Burns Library as a laboratory for the humanities,” says O’Neill Library Bibliographer/Reference Librarian Elliot Brandow. “Burns, like all BC’s libraries, is a tremendous resource, and students should know how to make use of it. They can learn the rules and guidelines for working in an archive: How to figure out what you’re looking for, to refine your search, to handle the materials. Like all scholars doing research projects, students have to draw upon time management and other organizational skills.”

“The task, essentially, is to give the students a tremendous amount of material, and the responsibility for making it understandable,” says Richardson, who was inspired to have the class work with Kane’s collection after Sundaram mentioned his do-

nation. “What are the major themes and supporting ideas they want to put across, and how can they do this in a way that’s coherent and comprehensible for the public? This class did a phenomenal job in coming up with a concept and turning it into a creative, intelligent, stimulating and visually engaging exhibition.”

The student researchers, for their part, say the organizational phase of the project was sometimes daunting.

“This was different than any history class I’ve ever taken, and I was a little overwhelmed at first,” says Remy Hassett, a senior from Atlanta. “The collection contained about 11,000 comic books, and I couldn’t imagine having to sort through all of them. It took some doing for us to sort out the different parts of the project: ‘This is what I’m doing,’ ‘No, I’m doing that.’”

Plymouth, Mass., senior Lindsay Crane says, “You had 15 different personalities coming together, which wasn’t easy, and it was hard to get the papers culled down. But Justine helped us find our way around Burns, and the feedback from everyone made a difference.”

Once the project was underway in earnest, and the students were able to focus on the subject matter, they found plenty of compelling storylines and snippets of American life.

Crane, for example, looked at the fitness movement of 1970s America.

“There seemed to be a lot of anxiety and uncertainty in the US during that decade, and people perhaps felt the one thing they could exert control over was their bodies – so memberships for fitness centers soared, and recreational sports like tennis and jogging became very popular.

“You can see this interest in fitness show up in comic books like Batman: In earlier periods, he was strong but not very toned; then he

got eight-pack abs and his body became sculpted, almost larger than life.”

Mikayla Burke saw the pervasive grief and shock over the Kennedy assassination as a factor in Marvel’s 1964 reintroduction of Captain America, which had been discontinued a decade earlier. “Marvel wanted to create a patriotic, uplifting atmosphere, and Captain America embodied many great American ideals, including the notion that an average man could be come a hero.”

Captain America also was a barometer for Watergate-era America, according to Willem Van Geel: In one story arc that unfolded during the Nixon presidency’s final months, the star-spangled champion exposes and defeats a political conspiracy inside the White House that leaves him so disillusioned with the US government he abandons his superhero identity.

Later, Van Geel notes, Cap has a change of heart “after he recognized

the American people and their ideals were worth fighting for, even under a corrupt and crooked government.

This individualistic patriotism mirrored a conservative voice in society that was growing louder and called for more individualism and a less important, less powerful government.”

Richardson lauds these and other findings that came out of the students’ research.

“Because they didn’t live through the ’60s and ’70s, they saw things I didn’t see about the events and trends of the era. It’s great for teachers to learn from their students’ work, and I certainly did in this case.”

The illustrations on this page are photos of the exhibit “Revealing America’s History Through Comics, on display in the History Department, located on the third floor of Stokes Hall South.

Contact Sean Smith at sean.smith@bc.edu

Noonan Earns Artist Fellowship Jimmy Noonan, a faculty member in the Music Department and Irish Studies Program, is the recipient of a $10,000 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship award.

The fellowships “recognize exceptional work by Massachusetts artists across a range of disciplines,” according to the MCC website.

“These highly competitive awards provide artists crucial validation among their peers and the public. They catalyze artistic advancement and pave the way for creative innovation of enduring cultural value.”

An acclaimed and award-winning Irish flute and tin whistle player, Noonan was one of two fellows chosen in the Traditional Arts category, and one of 15 overall. More than 700 applications were received for this year’s awards, including 17 in Traditional Arts.

“I’m very honored to have been chosen,” said Noonan, a Cleveland native who has taught at BC since 1996. Citing previous recipients of the Traditional Arts fellowships, including Sullivan Artist-in-Residence Seamus Connolly, director of Irish music programs at BC, Noonan said, “I feel as if I am in very distinguished company.”

Noonan is a two-time US Western champion on tin whistle and flute, and has performed at a number of premiere Irish and

Photo by Gary Gilbert

Celtic music events, including BC’s Gaelic Roots festival, the Milwaukee Irish Fest and National Folk Festival. He has played at events for Irish Presidents Mary McAleese and Michael D. Higgins, as well as for Taoiseach Enda Kenny, and is a member of the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Hall of Fame Northeast Region. His recordings include the albums “The Clare Connection” and “The Maple Leaf.”

Noonan plans to use some of the MCC Artist Fellowship award to bring his young son Seamus – a budding tin whistle player – to music events such as the Fleadh Cheol. Doing so, he said, is part of carrying on the work of generations of musicians before him – especially those who have been his friends and mentors.

“I see one of my greatest attributes as being able to pass on their music, their humor, and what they thought was important in life onto students such as my son, so hopefully he in turn will feel the same way. If this happens, not only will the standard of music remain strong but so will the tradition itself.”

–Sean Smith Watch a video of Jimmy Noonan and Seamus Connolly performing at the 2013 National Heritage Fellowships awards banquet at http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=H7n-YV1zbJY.

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Irish Institute’s Mauro Joins US STEM Delegation Irish Institute Executive Director Robert Mauro traveled to Ireland and Northern Ireland recently as part of a US Department of State initiative that aims to support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, promote entrepreneurship and increase overall economic growth.

Mauro was among a group of American entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, representatives from academia and civil society, and others with Irish affiliations that visited Limerick and Belfast Jan. 27-30 through the State Department’s Partnership Opportunity Delegations (POD) program. PODs were created by the Office of Global Partnerships at State to find solutions to glob-

al challenges through facilitating public-private connections.

Led by Andrew O’Brien, SecLee Pellegrini retary of State John Kerry’s special representative for global partnerships, Mauro and other POD members met with local government officials and private sector representatives in Limerick, and attended a forum on global technology sponsored by an Irish technology group.

The POD also met with public and private sector representatives in Belfast to talk about potential projects, partnerships and business opportunities. The visit included a discussion with members of Northern Ireland’s academic community and a trip to the Northern Ireland Science Park to hear from local public and civil society orga-

nizations and start-ups.

“It was an honor to be part of this effort to help facilitate a transatlantic network that will mutually benefit the people of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United States,” said Mauro. “The POD served as a venue for a diverse group of professionals to connect and enhance educational, economic and other kinds of opportunities across the Atlantic. This kind of activity is part of the core mission of the Irish Institute and the Center for Irish Programs at Boston College.

“The visit allowed us to strengthen ties between Ireland, Northern Ireland and the US to help enhance exchange activities between these peoples, and to further the normalization process across Ireland and Northern Ireland.”

–Sean Smith

Three Connell School Faculty to Be Honored in April Three Connell School of Nursing faculty members will be honored for their contributions to the nursing profession by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses (MARN) at its convention in April.

The MARN awards recognize those nurses who have made a difference at the bedside, in the classroom and in the practice of nursing.

Associate Professor Judith Shindul-Rothschild will receive the Mary A. Manning Mentoring Award, given annually to a nurse who exemplifies the ideal image of a mentor and has established a record of consistent outreach to nurses in practice or in the pursuit of advanced education. ShindulRothschild, a certified psychiatric nurse clinical specialist, teaches psychiatric mental health nursing to undergraduates and graduate students. She is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice, a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and a past president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association.

Assistant Professor Lichuan Ye, whose research has focused on women with sleep disorders, will receive the Excellence in Nursing Research Award. Ye is a member of the Sleep Research Society and her work has appeared in the Journal of Nursing Administration, Journal of Sleep Research and Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Associate Professor Emeritus Jean O’Neil will receive the Excellence in Nursing Education Award.

During her tenure at the Connell School, O’Neil was involved in theory, clinical and on-line teaching for students from the baccalaureate

to the PhD levels, as well as the continuing education program.

“They’ve all made a difference and they’re all passionate about what they do,” said Lisa Presutti, an administrator for MARN, an affiliate of the American Nurses Association dedicated to advancing the

profession of nursing in Massachusetts through advocacy, leadership development, enhanced diversity, education and mentorship.

–Kathleen Sullivan Angela Bowser of the Connell School of Nursing contributed to this story.

NOTA BENE Two Lynch School of Education professors rank among the top 50 most influential US education scholars identified by Education Week blogger Rick Hess.

Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves ranked 12th in Hess’s 2014 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence rankings. Cawthorne Professor of Teacher Education for Urban Schools Marilyn Cochran-Smith ranked 45th among scholars who “contribute most substantially to public debates about education.”

Hess, an American Enterprise Institute education policy specialist, based the rankings on a metric that includes Google Scholar activity, books, Amazon.com rankings, media mentions and “klout.”

Both Hargreaves and Cochran-Smith earned the highest marks possible on Google Scholar, an indication their research is being viewed and cited by scholars around the world.

See the rankings at http://bit.ly/1iyxPko. Carroll School of Management freshman Nazifa Subah, has been awarded a Boston College Chief Executives’ Club of Boston Scholarship.

A Brooklyn, NY, native with a concentration in management and leadership, Subah received a scholarship named in honor of SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott in recognition of his exemplary leadership during an era when SAP experienced significant growth in market share, revenue and customer satisfaction. McDermott joined CEO Club Executive Director Warren Zola in the presentation of the award to Subah prior to McDermott’s Chief Executives’ Club speech on Feb. 6 at the Boston Harbor Hotel.

For more on this story, see http://bit.ly/1cp51Ws. –Ed Hayward

The Lynch School of Education held its ninth annual Faculty Scholars Luncheon, “Facing Immigration Today: Using Research to Inform Policy and Practice,” on Feb. 3 in Campion Hall, with presentations by faculty members Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Leigh Patel, Brinton Lykes and, above, Usha Tummala-Narra. (Photo by John Gillooly)

Newsmakers

Time and a Half

Libby Professor of Law and Theology Cathleen Kaveny wrote on Catholic Schools Week in the US and on the recent firing of a pregnant unwed teacher at a school, in recent posts for the Commonweal magazine blog “dotCommonweal.”

Research Prof. Peter Gray (Psychology) gave a presentation at the Boston Public Library based on his book Free to Learn.

Music Department Chairman Prof. Michael Noone presented “Sacred music in El Greco’s Toledo” at an international symposium in Toledo, Spain, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the painter’s death.

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Nearly a year after Ireland’s Taoiseach made his emotional apology to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries, these women continue to suffer poverty, ill-health and trauma, wrote Assoc. Prof. James Smith (English), a committee member of Justice for Magdalenes Research, in a co-authored op-ed for the Irish Times.

Adj. Assoc. Prof. Richard McGowan, SJ (CSOM), discussed the growth of gambling in the region and across the country on National Public Radio affiliate WHYY-FM show “Radio Times,” and offered comments to the Boston Herald on Las Vegas magnate Steve Wynn’s efforts toward a casino in Everett, Mass.

Wild turkeys are exemplary citizens of the messy hybrid of pristine wilderness and the artificial metropolis in which we all live, wrote American Studies Director Prof. Carlo Rotella (English) in an op-ed for the Boston Globe.

The growth in participation of fathers in childrearing over the past three decades is an important shift that employers need to understand better, said Center for Work and Family Executive Director Brad Harrington in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio. Harrington’s colleague at the center, Executive-in-Residence Lauren Stiller Rikleen, discussed in a post for the WBUR Cognoscenti blog the insights provided by Super Bowl commercials into how major corporations view their customers – and the results are not good.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Alison CottiLowell presented the paper “A Pleasure Fit for a King: The Pineapple in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines” at the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, England. The paper has been nominated for the President’s Prize, awarded to the best paper given by a graduate student at the conference.

JOBS The following are among the most recent positions posted by the Department of Human Resources.

For more information on employment opportunities at Boston College, see www.bc.edu/offices/hr: Burns Librarian and Associate University Librarian Assistant General Manager, Dining Services Senior Associate Athletic Director for Marketing Director, Annual Giving, Law School Provost and Dean of Faculties Technology Manager, Residential Life Associate Vice President for Facilities Services Research Data Management Specialist, Carroll School Of Management Financial Analyst, Facilities Business Service Center Clinical Placement Specialist, Connell School Of Nursing

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LOOKING AHEAD Gawlick Set to Premiere His ‘Mass of the Human Race’

By Rosanne Pellegrini Staff Writer

BC SCENES

An octet from the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street will perform a Mass composed by BC’s Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (right) on Feb. 17.

calling upon over two decades of study of Masses from the late Middle Ages to the present.

“It is a great honor to place the world premiere of this work into the hands of Julian Wachner and eight soloists from the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, one of the preeminent choirs in the United States, and Boston College artists-in-residence for four days,” Gawlick said.

The source and origin of his Mass setting “lies in including Christ’s call to Love from the Gospel According to St. John into the traditional texts of the Mass Ordinary,” according to Gawlick. He was inspired to augment the Latin Mass texts with literary reflections, meditations and exhortations on love by authors throughout the centuries.

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The Mass, according to Assistant Professor of Music Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, is “one of the most celebrated musical genres of human expression.” And this Monday, Gawlick will formally add his own imprint to the genre.

Gawlick is the composer of “Missa gentis humanæ,” a Mass for eight-voice a cappella choir that will be presented Feb. 17 in St. Ignatius Church by a renowned, Grammy-nominated New York City ensemble whose members will be on campus as artists-in-residence.

Under the direction of critically acclaimed conductor Julian Wachner, an octet from the Choir of Trinity Church Wall Street will premiere “Missa gentis humanæ,” which is Latin for “Mass of the human race.” The free, public event, which takes place at 8 p.m., is the group’s exclusive Boston-area appearance, and Gawlick has dedicated the work to the choir.

The Mass, Gawlick’s largest work to date, “continues a long and distinguished tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages,” said Gawlick, who describes the piece as “an expression of my faith and work as a composer embracing this tradition. Writing for eight-voice a cappella choir was an extraordinary experience,

Borges, Virgil, Brecht, Dostoevsky, Plautus, Scott and the Gospel According to St. John – establish broad aesthetic, devotional, linguistic and literary perspectives that engage with the Mass texts and each other,” he noted. “This dramatic fusion of different languages, ideas, beliefs and Augustinian-type ‘confessions’ within the Mass Ordinary creates a profound dialogue with doctrine.”

It is singular as a Mass setting, he added, in its interweaving of texts from multiple languages

and time periods with the Latin.

With this approach “the Mass becomes and resonates as a multilayered dialogue of faith, expression and ideas. By embracing different languages and texts, the appeal becomes universal.”

Robert Schuneman, president of ECS [classical music] Publishing, praised “Missa gentis humanæ” as “a true masterpiece... [that] will live in the annals of this century as a significant signpost of our time.”

A labor of love, Gawlick composed the hour-long, grand-scale piece – with the music material based on the name of his wife (Basia, known as Barbara, also a Music Department faculty member) – from 2008-2010 and has long anticipated its debut.

“Patience,” he quipped, “is something one learns as a contemporary classical composer.

“One does not need to be a musician, or Catholic, to appreciate this piece,” according to Gawlick, “since it is a work tied to faith, linguistics, philosophy, theology, literature, history and music.”

Gawlick is pleased that it will now be brought to life by the Trinity Choir, hailed by the New York Times as “the superb resident ensemble of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan rightly renowned for its polished, spirited renditions of major works from the classical choral repertory.”

The Times describes its perfor-

mances as “transcendent” and “moving.”

Wachner is equally delighted to direct the choir’s performance of the Mass: “Ralf’s music is beautiful, well-crafted and singable. This work is a serious statement that simultaneously honors the ancient past while wrapping these varied and striking texts with the language of the present. The craft is solid and profound, creating an other-worldy beauty.”

In addition to its performance, the ensemble will record the Mass for the international distributed label Musica Omnia, and BC students will have the opportunity to attend some rehearsals and recording sessions.

Following its Boston College debut, a New York premiere is scheduled for 2015.

Gawlick’s work was sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts. The artists’ residency and premiere performance is supported by the ILA in addition to the Music Department, School of Ministry and Theology, Jesuit Institute, College of Arts and Sciences and Church of the 21st Century Center.

For more information on the upcoming performance, contact the Music Department concert line at ext.2-6004 or email concents@bc.edu.

Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu

A GLIMPSE OF SOUTH ASIA

The South Asia Student Association presented “Apna Zamana,” its 17th annual cultural show, at Robsham Theater on Feb. 8, with music and dance from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Photos by Christopher Huang