Boston College Chronicle by Boston College

The Boston College

Chronicle Published by the Boston College Office of News & Public Affairs september 8, 2011 Vol. 20 no. 1

Lee Pellegrini

INSIDE •Church in the 21 Century app, page 2 •New look for Chronicle, page 2

•Q&A with Jonathan Laurence, page 5 •Undergrads’ summer experiences, page 6 •9/11, 10 years later, page 7 •Gaelic Roots fall schedule, page 10 •BC and preparedness, page 10 •BC Briefing, page 11 •9/11 play “The Guys” at BC, page 12 •‘Making History’ at McMullen, page 12

Gary Wayne Gilbert

•Mass of the Holy Spirit, page 3

•News from summer, pages 4-5

Fr. Leahy Sees Progress on Strategic Plan By Sean Smith Chronicle Editor

•McCann to speak at First Year event, page 3

•‘Coaches vs. Cancer,’ page 3

UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION

Gasson Hall: Back in Style After months of renovation, BC’s most iconic building looks better than ever By Reid Oslin Staff Writer

“Stunning” and “spectacular” are the words that most people are using to describe the newly completed renovation of the University’s most iconic building, Gasson Hall, says Executive Vice President Patrick Keating. “The building is approaching 100 years old and looks new,” Keating said of the multi-year exterior and interior renovation project that was completed in August. “The whole team did a fabulous job restoring this building to its original character and they accomplished the task literally to the day called for in the schedule.”

“I think that ‘stunning’ captures it quite nicely,” adds Associate Vice President for Capital Projects Mary Nardone, who helped to oversee the complex project that has restored the signature Collegiate Gothic-style building and bell tower to pristine form for Boston College’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2012-13 and provides modern and spacious classroom, study and administrative facilities for the current academic year and well beyond. In addition to a complete replacement of all of Gasson’s exterior pre-cast stone, the building got new weather-tight windows, stairways and entrance porticos

and improved handicap access ramps. “The new windows really make a difference to the exterior appearance,” Nardone says, “and are more in keeping with the original building design.” Inside Gasson, classrooms, offices, study and conference areas and restrooms were spruced up, renovated and refurnished. The large function room on the building’s first level – Gasson 100, also known as “The Irish Room” – received a similar facelift, including a new heating and air conditioning system, reconditioned floors, a new coat of paint that captures the historic character of the space, and specialty Continued on page 8

Boston College’s Strategic Plan — a broad-based blueprint for the University’s academic, formational and faith initiatives — was the subject of last night’s University Convocation in Robsham Theater, as the BC leadership offered assessments of the plan on its five-year anniversary. University President William P. Leahy, SJ, pointed to numerous indicators of progress in fulfilling the seven key facets of the Strategic Plan since it was launched in the fall of 2006. He also outlined what he called “imperatives” for the University in continuing to pursue the objectives of the Strategic Plan, and in meeting other challenges as it approaches its 150th anniversary in 2012-13. Executive Vice President Patrick Keating and Provost and Dean of Faculties Cutberto Garza also spoke at the convocation, one of the traditional kick-off events for BC’s academic year, and — along with Fr. Leahy — expressed gratitude to administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and others in the BC community for their roles in helping BC attain Strategic Plan goals. Fr. Leahy reviewed the seven “strategic directions” of the plan: leadership in liberal arts education; Continued on page 8

GSSW Celebrating 75 Years on Sept. 14 By Jack DunN Director of News & Public Affairs

Seventy-five years after its founding to train social workers to respond to the critical issues facing a nation mired in the Great Depression, the Graduate School of Social Work will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a day-long series of events on Sept. 14. The anniversary celebration, which will be highlighted by a

keynote address in Robsham Theater by Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, will also include a presentation on the “Power of Social Innovation,” an alumni reunion and luncheon, a liturgy with University President William P. Leahy, SJ, and an evening reception. “We are looking forward to marking this special occasion with a celebration of our school and the unique role our alumni have

QUOTE:

played as policy makers, academics, researchers and leading social service practitioners nationwide,” said GSSW Dean Alberto

School launches Social Innovation Lab, page 8 Godenzi. “We are particularly delighted to have Victoria KenVictoria Reggie Kennedy will give a nedy as our keynoter, given her keynote address at the GSSW 75th Continued on page 9 anniversary celebration next week.

“I can tell you that Welles loved Boston College. He loved it deeply. He would often tell his BC roommates, ‘When I make millions of dollars, I am going to endow a chair in the economics department or pay for a building or something.’ He always thought that would be his legacy.” —Jefferson Crowther (page 7)

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle

september 8, 2011

New set of wheels

Sean Smith

9/11 Novelist to Give Keynote By Melissa Beecher Staff Writer

Turning the page As you may have noticed, there’s a new look to Chronicle: the front page has been redesigned, and some features like “Around Campus” have a different format. You’ll also see some brand new displays for Chronicle at various campus locations, including McElroy Commons (in photo). These were custom built by the University’s Carpentry Shop in cooperation with Landmark Finish Inc. of Andover.

Boston College is rolling out a new — and, say administrators, improved — fleet of buses for its campus shuttle service this academic year. Three of the six new vehicles are running now, with the remaining three to come in January, said Transportation and Parking Manager P.J. Cappadona. The new buses can be distinguished by easier-to-read LED signs on the front and sides and bike racks attached to the front fender, said Cappadona. The floor in the new model is set lower, allowing for easier access,

especially for persons in wheelchairs, he added. Other improvements may not be visible, but are important nonetheless, Cappadona notes: “They’re more fuel efficient and operate on 5 percent biodiesel. They run cleaner than the old buses.” In addition, the new buses feature passenger-counting technology, which Cappadona said will be used to help improve service. Information on the BC shuttle service is available at www.bc.edu/ bus. —Sean Smith

The Boston College

Crosswalk crackdown Officers from the Boston College Police Department will team up with traffic officers from the Newton Police Department as part of an intensive campaign during the week of Sept. 12-16 to enforce pedestrian safety in crosswalks on Beacon Street near the Main Campus. “People tend to come down the Beacon Street straightaway in excess of the speed limits,” says BCPD Lt. Fred Winslow. “Our students are trying to get from the academic buildings to the buildings along Hammond Street or to the Chestnut Hill T stop. Sometimes they don’t get seen until they are four or five feet into the crosswalk. We have had several students hit by vehicles and a lot of close calls.” There are three marked crosswalks and pedestrian alert signs along the Beacon Street side of campus: at Merkert Chemistry Center and Campion Hall; at Lawrence Avenue; and at the St. Jude Gate between Carney Hall

and McElroy Commons. “We have reached out to the Newton Police Department,” Winslow says, “and they are going to put up some flashing signboards reminding operators that they have to stop when there are people in a crosswalk.” Winslow warns that a special police enforcement team will be handing out citations to drivers who fail to obey the crosswalk law. Winslow says BC officers will also assist their Newton counterparts in conducting crosswalk safety campaigns at other potentially hazardous crossings in the city. University administrators and city officials are also considering installing flashing yellow lights at the busiest Beacon Street crosswalks to improve pedestrian safety. “We just want people to slow down, pay attention and make sure that our students and others are safe when they cross the street,” Winslow says. —Reid Oslin

First Year Convocation

Jesuit spirituality is about “finding God in all things,” and today’s Boston College students can start this quest with a visit to the App Store. The Church in the 21st Century Center has unveiled the C21 App, an application for iPhone, iTouch or iPad devices that provides a distinctly modern way for students to connect, pray and deepen their Catholic faith. For Droid and Blackberry users, there is a mobile version of the C21 website that offers the same content and similar functionality as the app. The C21 App/mobile website has customized items from the C21 website, as well as new features. Among these are “God in Scene,” which allows users to upload an image and some text about something or somewhere that shows God’s presence, and “Pray for Me,” through which users can submit a prayer request. Other components of the app/mobile website include video clips from Agape Latte, excerpts from C21 books and C21 Resources magazine, access to C21 videos and podcasts, a calendar of events, the University’s prayer map and “Catholic Lee Pellegrini Voices,” profiles of inspirational people who share how they have been profoundly impacted by their faith journey. A highlight of the new app and mobile website is Engage, an innovative program designed by computer science major Dario Baldoni ’12 that provides students with a one-stop, inclusive starting point to learn about ways to get involved in University life, either through service, retreats, student formation or leadership. Students check off programs that interest them and provide an email address. Representatives from the perspective programs will follow up with the student and provide information on the program and ways to get involved. “I’m excited about the possibilities for this,” said C21 Associate Director Karen Kiefer. “The app is a way to reach a technology-driven generation and ‘super-charge’ the vast resources of C21 into a succinct, digestible, interactive resource that is still very powerful and profound. One of our focal points is to hand on the faith and this app will help us do that.” Special Assistant to the President Robert Newton, interim director of C21 said, “Since the beginning of the C21 initiative, BC students have always been a target audience. Although some programs attracted large student audiences, most attendees and website visitors were older Catholics. St. Ignatius has a saying: You need to go in their door but come out yours. A C21 Advisory Committee member observed that we were trying to reach students the way we reached faculty, staff, outside audiences, and that if we wanted to reach undergrads we had to use their channels of communication. So we are on Facebook, YouTube — and now we have the C21 App. We are optimistic that the app will allow us to go in the students’ door and emerge with greater student involvement in C21 programs.” The C21 App was a joint project of the Church in the 21st Century Center and Information Technology Services’ Web Technology Group. In addition to Kiefer, other members of the project team were: Web Support Manager Scott Olivieri, Center for Student Formation Director Michael Sacco, former C21 staffer Paul Wendel, and C21 Student Advisory Committee members John Kelly ’12 and Lauren Conti ’13. It also represents the first app completely created in-house by Boston College, specifically Lead Developer Andy Li and Web Interface Designer Kul Thapa. Students Stephen Buckley ’12 and JR Buteau also contributed. The C21 App can be downloaded free of charge through iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boston-college-the-church/ id457546786?mt=8. The mobile website is available at http://www. bc.edu/mc21. —Kathleen Sullivan

C21? There’s an app for that

Chronicle

Director of NEWS & Public Affairs

Jack Dunn Deputy Director of NEWS & Public AFFAIRS

Patricia Delaney Editor

Sean Smith Contributing Staff

Melissa Beecher Ed Hayward Reid Oslin Rosanne Pellegrini

Best-selling novelist Colum McCann, whose gritty 9/11 book Let the Great World Spin has achieved worldwide acclaim, will be the keynote speaker at the University’s eighth annual First Year Academic Convocation on Sept. 15. McCann’s address to the University’s recently enrolled freshman and new transfer students will be held at 7 p.m. in Conte Forum. The address will follow the traditional “First Flight” procession across campus, a beloved tradition that begins at Linden Lane where the Boston College Jesuit community offer a blessing and challenge BC’s newest students to answer the call of Society of Jesus founder St. Ignatius of Loyola to “set the world aflame.” Also invited as honored guests will be members of the Bos-

ton College Golden Anniversary class of 1962, who will join in the festivities. “We want to incorporate the students into the Boston College community — not only as students, but along with faculty and administrators, welcome them into the larger alumni community,” explains Rev. Joseph Marchese, director of the First Year Experience program. Fr. Marchese said the initiation rite is more than a welcome. The selection of a common text brings the entire class together in an academic exercise and establishes an academic theme for the year. Let the Great World Spin has been hailed by critics around the world and earned the 2009 National Book Award in the US, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and the 2011 literary award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A best seller on four continents, the novel builds a nar-

rative around Philippe Petit, a French acrobat who walked across a tightrope between the World Trade towers in 1974. The event serves as the backdrop to introduce other characters — an immigrant Irish priest and his brother, an aging prostitute, a Guatemalan nurse, mothers who lost sons in Vietnam, a judge and an artist — each who become profoundly connected in some way throughout the story. The book was selected for the new BC students because of its themes of hope, redemption and “transcendence in everyday life.” “Let the Great World Spin was a National Book Award winner. It gives us a way of thinking about the tragedy of 9/11 and how it has affected so many people,” said Fr. Marchese. “It explores issues of war and peace, the need for both social justice and our ministry to a broken world. Beyond all, it explores the idea that we are called by God, beyond the vision of self service,

BC Among Forbes’ ‘Top Colleges’ Boston College is ranked at 26th overall and 12th among research universities in the latest edition of Forbes magazine’s “America’s Top Colleges” survey of 650 public and private undergraduate institutions nationwide. Williams College placed first in the “Top Colleges” list, followed by Princeton, the US Military Academy, Amherst College, Stanford, Harvard, Haverford College, University of Chicago, MIT and the US Air Force Academy. Others

included Yale (14th), Wellesley (19th), Brown (21st), Duke

(22nd), Tufts (39th), Columbia (42nd) and Georgetown (47th). Princeton was the top research university, followed by Stanford, Harvard, Chicago and MIT. Also highly ranked were Duke (11th), Dartmouth (14th), Columbia (16th), Virginia (18th) and the College of

William and Mary (20th). Forbes described the survey methodology as focusing on quality of teaching, great career prospects, graduation rates and low levels of debt, while ignoring “ephemeral measures such as school ‘reputation’ and illconceived metrics that reward wasteful spending.” The rankings are prepared for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington, DC, think tank. —Office of News & Public Affairs

Kathleen Sullivan Eileen Woodward

to embrace our responsibility to leadership in a larger community.” A native of Dublin, McCann began his career as a journalist at The Irish Press. In the early 1980s he took a bicycle trip across North America and then worked as a wilderness guide in a program for juvenile delinquents in Texas. He traveled to Japan and eventually settled in New York, where he currently lives with his family while teaching creative writing at Hunter College. McCann has published sev-

eral books, including Songdogs, This Side of Brightness, Dancer and Zoli. He has written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly and GQ, among other notable publications. McCann will join a long line of prominent past speakers to the First Year Convocation program, including President Barack Obama, US Sen. John McCain, and authors Ann Patchett, Jeanette Walls, J. R. Moehringer and Tracy Kidder. Contact Melissa Beecher at melissa.beecher@bc.edu

Annual Mass of the Holy Spirit Set for Sept. 15 Boston College’s annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, a traditional start to the academic year at Jesuit institutions, will be held at noon on Thursday, Sept. 15, on O’Neill Plaza (rain location: Conte Forum). All noon classes are cancelled. The Mass is open to all members of the University community. University President William P. Leahy, SJ, will be the main cel ebrant and Law School Associate Professor Gregory Kalscheur, SJ, will be the homilist. Priests from the Jesuit Community, as well as other priests from BC, will concelebrate the Mass. Students, faculty and staff will participate as lectors and Eucharistic ministers. Music will be provided by the Liturgy Arts Group. The Mass of Holy Spirit is organized by the Office of Campus Ministry. For more information, contact Campus Minister Ellen Modica at ext.2-4665 or ellen.modica@bc.edu. —Kathleen Sullivan

Donahue Hosts ‘Coaches vs. Cancer’ Benefit This Saturday

Photographers

Gary Gilbert Lee Pellegrini

The Boston College Chronicle (USPS 009491), the internal newspaper for faculty and staff, is published biweekly from September to May by Boston College, with editorial offices at the Office of News & Public Affairs, 14 Mayflower Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 (617)552-3350. Distributed free to faculty and staff offices and other locations on campus. Periodicals postage paid at Boston, MA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes to The Boston College Chronicle, Office of News & Public Affairs, 14 Mayflower Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. Contact Chronicle via e-mail: chronicle@bc.edu.Electronic editions of the Boston College Chronicle are available via the World Wide Web at http://www. bc.edu/chronicle.

Colum McCann is the author of the best-selling novel Let the Great World Spin, which earned the 2009 National Book Award.

LUNCHEON VISIT—On Tuesday, the Center for Irish Programs hosted a delegation of Northern Irish officials, including Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly William Hay, speaking in photo above with Executive Director of Irish Programs Thomas Hachey, left, and Burns Librarian Robert O’Neill, right. The delegation also met with Irish Institute Director Robert Mauro to discuss the institute’s role in Northern Ireland. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

Boston College Men’s Basketball Coach Steve Donahue will serve as official host for the Coaches vs. Cancer 5K Classic road race to be held on campus this Saturday, Sept. 10. The 5K Classic begins at 10 a.m. in front of Conte Forum and will wind through the BC campus to Alumni Stadium. The event, organized through a collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches, encourages participants to dedicate their efforts in honor or in memory of a loved one with cancer, while raising funds to support the American Cancer Society.

Pre-event registration fee is $25 for adults, $15 for students, and $10 for children 12 and under. Day-of registration fee is $30 for adults, $20 for students, and $10 for children 12 and under. The first 300 registered participants will receive an event T-shirt. Refreshments, prizes and an opportunity to meet members of the Boston College men’s basketball team will be available following the race. For more information, or to register, contact Katy Meagher at 508-270-4618 or katy.meagher@ cancer.org. To learn more about the Coaches vs. Cancer program, see coachesvscancer.org

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle

september 8, 2011

While You Were Away

A LOOK AT BOSTON COLLEGE NEWS FROM THE SUMMER of 2011

The Graduate School of Social Work has established the International PhD in Social Welfare Program, through which it will form partnerships and exchanges with Jesuit, Catholic universities worldwide to advance and professionalize the field of social welfare. Next fall, the International PhD in Social Welfare Program is expected to welcome its first group of students, who will enroll in courses in both BC and the partner university. A major hallmark of the program is its emphasis on preserving students’ connections with their home countries, according to Louise McMahon Ahearn Professor of Social Work James Lubben, the initiative’s director and director of GSSW’s doctoral program. During the first year they study at the partner university and take two online courses from BC. The second year is spent entirely at BC, while the third and The Lynch School of Education has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation that will support graduate students preparing to lead city schools. The grant will fund the new Bank of America Leaders in Urban Education program, providing scholarships to graduate students at the Lynch School who are preparing to work as educators and leaders

ies to reflect the College’s evolving mission. In May of 2002, the name of the College was formally changed to the Woods College of Advancing Studies following a gift from Katherine B. and Robert M. Devlin that symbolized their high regard for

(L-R) Graduate School of Social Work Dean Alberto Godenzi, President William P. Leahy, SJ, Santander Chairman Emilio Botín and Ahearn Professor of Social Work James Lubben at a ceremony formalizing an agreement to establish the International PhD in Social Welfare Program.

fourth are split between BC and the partner university. The fifth year (and if necessary, sixth year) is spent completing a final dissertation that deals with a social problem in his or her home country. The International PhD in Social Welfare Program is being funded by a three-year agreement with Sovereign Bank, a part of Spain-

based Banco Santander. University President William P. Leahy, SJ, joined GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi, Lubben and other BC representatives, along with officials from Sovereign Bank and Banco Santander — including Santander’s chairman, Emilio Botín — to formally launch the program at a campus ceremony in June. —Sean Smith

in city schools in Boston, as well as throughout Massachusetts and the US. The program will expand upon BC’s successful Bank of America Scholars Program, which has been preparing urban teachers since 2004. Approximately 92 percent of the graduates of the program are teaching in elementary and secondary schools, with 80 percent teaching in urban schools. The high retention rates far surpass urban teacher retention rates

of less than 50 percent. The Bank of America Leaders in Urban Education program will recruit highly qualified graduate students with leadership experience working with community-based organizations focused on improving urban schools. Participants in the program will undergo rigorous academic and hands-on educational experience at one of the nation’s top-ranked schools of education. —Ed Hayward

Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean for Student Development Sheilah Shaw Horton, a student life administrator at Boston College for more than 20 years, accepted the post of vice president for student affairs at Loyola University Maryland. Horton, who began her duties at Loyola Sept. 1, served as associate VP for student affairs since 2004 — she was named assistant VP in 1999 — and became dean for student development in 2008. Vice President for Student Affairs Patrick Rombalski said, “Sheilah Shaw Horton has served the division of Student Affairs and the students of Boston College for almost 25 years. She has been responsible for the growth of the division of Student Affairs and the improvement of the quality of student life on campus. Students and faculty members have grown

Today’s dads want to share equally in the duties of raising their children, but most acknowledge that they are not yet doing that, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 fathers by the Boston College Center for Work & Family. The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted, the latest assessment of the changing role of fathers by the center, delivers an in-depth portrait of America’s working fathers, revealing that today’s dads associate being a good father just as much with the role of effective caregiver as the traditional role of “breadwinner.” These men want to be engaged parents and successful professionals, yet find conflicts as they try to achieve both objectives, the researchers report. These survey findings confirm that “balancing work and family is not just a woman’s issue” said Brad Harrington (in photo), executive director of the Center for Work & Family, which helps global organizations create effective workplaces that support and develop healthy and productive employees. “We see

Lee Pellegrini

Boston College and the unparalleled dedication of Fr. Woods, who had been a mentor to two generations of the Devlin family. University President William P. Leahy, SJ, said, “Fr. Woods has had an immense impact on the Boston College community during his many years here, both as an educator and as Jesuit priest. Thousands of individuals have benefited from his compassion, encouragement, and pastoral care. He enabled so many to realize their educational and career dreams by earning degrees at BC and on behalf of all of us, I thank him for his boundless energy and wholehearted commitment to advancing the mission of Boston College.” —Reid Oslin

Rose Lincoln

Rev. James A. Woods, SJ, Boston College’s longest-serving dean and namesake of the University’s Woods College of Advancing Studies, announced this summer that he will step down from the leadership post he has held in the school since 1968. He will continue to serve as WCAS dean until a successor is named. During his tenure as the longest-serving dean in University history, Fr. Woods has overseen comprehensive changes in curricula at Boston College and designed and introduced a graduate degree program for part-time students. At his request, the name of the Evening College was changed in 1996 to the College of Advancing Stud-

Lee Pellegrini

These and other summer news items can be found via BCInfo [www.bc.edu/bcinfo]

to appreciate her advocacy for student issues and her commitment to diversity. She has shown a real passion for working with students and has mentored dozens of them over the past several years in various capacities.” Horton, who first arrived at BC as a graduate student in 1984, served as an assistant dean for student development from 1986-90 and as associate director of AHANA Student Programs from 1990-99. —Sean Smith that fathers, too, need a familysupportive work environment when it comes to aligning work and family, and this has tangible benefits for their jobs and careers, and in turn for their organizations.” The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted expands on the center’s 2010 study of new dads by drawing on a national sample of nearly 1,000 professional fathers from Fortune 500 companies in four different industries. Among the study’s significant findings: •Job security rates as the most important job characteristic by fathers. •Most fathers aspire to share equally in caregiving with their spouse/partner, but often are unable to bring this desire to reality. •Fathers who spend more time with their children report having more confidence as parents. For additional information about the findings and recommendations of the study, see the full report at www.bc.edu/cwf —Ed Hayward

The Boston College community mourned the deaths of several members this summer including: •E. Thomas “Tom” Babbin, a BC technology consultant for 14 years, died in a hospice in Needham on May 13 after suffering a cerebral aneurysm on Dec. 28. He was 58. Mr. Babbin joined the University’s Information Technology department in 1997, working with departments across campus to help them set up FileMaker Pro databases and ensure that they had all the support they needed, said Technology Consultants Manager Sami Karachi. •Professor Emeritus John F. Travers Jr., who was a faculty member in Boston College’s Lynch School of Education for more than 50 years, died on May 27 after a long illness. He was 84. Dr. Travers, the author or coauthor of a number of books on child development and educational psychology, joined the Boston College faculty in 1957. He retired from full-time teaching in 1995, but continued to teach on a parttime basis for several more years. In 2004, he and his wife, Barbara, a librarian, wrote a reading skills and development textbook, Discovering Children’s Literature in the 21st Century — one of dozens of books and essays he authored on increasing children’s learning skills. •Sister Elizabeth Stuyvesant White, RSCJ, a scholar of Medieval and Renaissance English who taught at Newton College of the Sacred Heart and Boston College for more than 50 years, died on June 15 at the age of 90. Sister White came to Newton College in 1953 as dean of students and a lecturer in English. Academic and service-related honors earned by current and former Boston College students during the past few months: •Jooyeon Koo, a senior history major, was named to the 2011 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program, which identifies and supports the top undergraduate majors in American history across the country. One of only 10 students in the nation to be selected — chosen from more than 250 applicants — for this prestigious scholarship, Koo participated in a five-week intensive history research program in New York City this summer. She and other scholarship recipients developed primary source research projects using rare, unpublished historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection, and participated in seminars led by distinguished historians. The students also received behind-thescenes tours of rare archives at the

Gary Wayne Gilbert

Sister White

She taught there until its merger with Boston College in 1975, after which she taught in the College of Arts and Sciences English Department and Honors Program at BC. In 2006, Sister White received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from BC, with the following citation, which praised her for a “lifelong commitment to teaching...[that] has awakened intellects, shaped values, and changed lives for countless young women and men throughout the second half of the 20th century and now firmly into the 21st.” •Toochukwu “Tony” Nwokedi ’13 was found dead near his home in Oil City, Pa., on July 19, three days after being reported missing. Mr. Nwokedi, 21, a political science major who aspired to become a lawyer, had taken a leave of absence from Boston College in the spring but had planned to return to classes in the fall. Memorial and burial services took place in his native Nigeria. •University Trustee Keith Francis ’76, a Boston College track legend and a mentor to many BC students and alumni, died July 27 at his New Bedford home after a long illness. He was 56. Mr. Francis set school records in seven different track events, earning All-America recognition and a ranking as the No. 2 half-miler in the nation. He represented the United New York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other institutions. •Senior Angela Donkor received the “Spirit of Taylor Michaels” Award at the 2011 Leadership Conference held by the Magic Johnson Foundation (MJF). She also was one of the inaugural winners of MJF’s Rishwain Scholarship, awarded to students who display exceptional commitment to academic and extracurricular activities. Donkor — who grew up on three different continents, and didn’t live with her parents until she was eight years old — has conducted research in Kuwait and worked with children suffering from HIV/AIDS in Rwanda and Uganda. She also has served as a tutor at BC’s Connors Family Learning Center, worked for BC’s 48 Hours retreat program and volunteered at the Suffolk County House of Correction through the University’s PULSE program.

States in international meets against the Soviet Union and China and competed in the 1976 US Olympic Trials, and was inducted into the BC Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1981. But Mr. Francis — who worked as a superior court probation officer in Washington, DC, an agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and a senior intelligence analyst for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — became equally, if not more, well known for reaching out to BC students and alumni. Last month, the New Bedford School Committee voted to name

the new track at the city’s Andrea McCoy Recreation Field in honor of Mr. Francis. •John S. Romeo, director of capital construction at Boston College and supervisor of the recent renovation of Gasson Hall, died on Aug. 6 at a hospice in Danvers after a long battle with cancer. He was 60. A BC employee for more than 30 years, Mr. Romeo was instrumental in the establishment and supervision of Facilities Management’s Special Projects Group, a team of skilled tradesmen who handle emergency and time-sensitive construction projects on campus. He also mentored numerous new employees in Facilities Management over the years, colleagues said. While working for Perini Corp. at a BC residence hall construction project, he caught the eye of thenDirector of Buildings and Grounds Fred Pennino, who hired Mr. Romeo to help oversee future University construction projects. Mr. Romeo took charge of scores of new construction and major renovation works on campus over the next three decades.

•Tedd Wimperis ’11, and Robert Kubala ’09, were selected as two of 16 new recipients of Lilly Graduate Fellowships, an initiative of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts that supports outstanding doctoral students who want to explore the connections among Christianity, higher education, and the vocation of the teacher-scholar. Kubala earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and is pursuing a doctorate at Columbia University. He was a recipient of BC’s Peter Gray Award for creative achievement in psychology, two advanced study grants from BC for work in language and linguistics, and a prestigious George Marshall Scholarship. Wimperis, who received a bachelor’s degree in classics from BC in May and also was a two-time winner of BC advanced study grants, is attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a PhD in classics.

Q&A

A FEW MINUTES WITH... Jonathan Laurence

Associate Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence is a leading expert and researcher on European politics, transatlantic relations and Islam in the West. The author of a forthcoming book on issues surrounding Muslims’ integration into Europe, Laurence has begun a new project that examines the impact of Turkish and Moroccan diasporas in European countries.

Why the focus on Morocco and Turkey? How are they significant to the Muslim experience in Europe? Both Morocco and Turkey have a diaspora of 3-4 million in Western Europe, accounting for nearly half of the Muslim-origin populations there. Since the European Muslim minorities still include many of their own citizens, each country sends hundreds of imams and language and religion teachers to work with them for four to five-year tours in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and elsewhere. Moroccan and Turkish officials in newly designed ministries for citizens abroad are also engaged in helping finance mosques, civil society groups and even professorships in theology in Western European universities. I am looking at the new outreach policies by Turkey and Laurence speaking with Turkish officials this past summer. Morocco towards their European diasporas. These factor into the broader questions of how Muslims integrate and what kinds of Islam will flourish in European countries. I realized the importance of this topic while completing my new book, The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims, which is due out in January. That book examines the creation of Islam Councils across Europe in the last decade, as a “domesticating” response by European governments to challenges of immigrant integration and the wave of Islamist terrorism. This new project looks at the curious persistence of foreign governments’ involvement in religion and integration policies in Europe. The idea of this kind of outreach often creates unease among many in the West, who tend to associate it with the work of radical Islamists. But you have found the situation is more complex than one might think — how is that reflected in what Turkey and Morocco do? Actually, the growth of religious extremism abroad is part of what explains this new spurt of governmental activism. Morocco and Turkey want to be positive influences in Europe and to spread their own brands of religious moderation. Another main motivation is to nurture close economic ties that are worth billions in annual remittances and foreign direct investment. This foreign involvement can have the positive effect of granting more awareness of cultural heritage – linguistic, historical and religious — and thus give second-generation migrants a stronger sense of where they come from. It is hoped that this would also leave them less vulnerable to other non-governmental religious movements (including more orthodox or politicized variants) that have sometimes filled the cultural-political void and hampered social integration. But European governments can be suspicious of Moroccan and/or Turkish intentions, and don’t want to leave European citizens open to undue surveillance or proselytism from abroad. After all, not all Turkish- or Moroccan-Europeans want to be under the “tutelage” of their ancestral homelands. So European governments are working together with their Moroccan and Turkish counterparts to help improve both the status of Islam as well as the integration of Muslims in Europe. What has your work on this project entailed? My fieldwork in Istanbul and Ankara spanned 10 days this July. My graduate research assistant Kerem Oge, a PhD candidate in political science at BC, accompanied me and served as a translator during many of our meetings with government officials, intellectuals, and religious organizations. During the winter, I did fieldwork in Rabat, Morocco, which — like the summer visit to Turkey – was made possible through research grants from BC’s Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy. —Sean Smith

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle

september 8, 2011

W HAT THEY DID THIS SUMMER Boston College undergraduates worked with kids in Vietnam, got

9/11

a hands-on view of health care in Nicaragua, shared their World Youth Day experiences via social media -- and more

California from Mexico, Central and South America shared personal stories about their immigration experiences with local residents. The trio is putting the finishing touches on a documentary chronicling their work over the summer as an aid to help facilitate immigration discussions across the country. WHAT HE SAYS: “I was driven to work with the Guestbook Project because of its ultimate goal, which I feel is to break hostile cultural divides through productive and innovative dialogue. Professor

Kearney’s influence on heading this project was a huge factor for my involvement. [Immigration] is a controversial topic, but I believe if we keep these forums up, and the Guestbook Project continues what it is doing, the immigration debate can become much more approachable, less black-and-white. I would love to continue working along borders around the world, applying philosophical and ethical thought to old, stalemate issues.” —Melissa Beecher

WHO THEY ARE: Gabriella Karina ’13, communication, Cincinnati; Kimmi Vo ’14, finance (International Studies minor), Dorchester. WHAT THEY DID: During August, Karina and Vo participated in Magis — a pastoral experience organized by the Society of Jesus in collaboration with other organizations — and World Youth Day 2011 [http://www.jesuit.org/wyd/] in Madrid with a group of 24 BC undergraduates and School of Theology and Ministry students, and Tim Muldoon, assistant to the Vice President for University Mission and Ministry. The two were among six students from Jesuit universities reporting on the experience via Facebook and Twitter. WHAT THEY SAY: Karina (below): “We and 3,000 other people gathered in the Sanctuary of Loyola [built over Ignatius’ birthplace] for three days and then we were split up around cities in Spain and Portugal in groups of 25 people for a

week where we participated in experiences of pilgrimage, social service, art, spirituality, ecology, faith and culture. On the 15th of August, we had another day together as Magis and then we incorporated ourselves into the programs of WYD from the 16 to the 21st of August. “Personally, being able to participate was such a blessing. I came home with a heart full of emotions, memories, and things to cherish. Though there were challenges during our pilgrimage, I’m glad and thankful that I went. I got to attend a meeting with Fr. Adolfo Nicolás (the Superior General of the Society of Jesus), [and] got to know more people from BC and make friends with people from all around the globe. Most of all, I am glad to have been able to look over my life and examine whether Christ is at the center of my heart, my life, and my future.” Vo (at right in photo above): “Magis was probably one of the

hardest, but most enjoyable and spiritually fulfilling things that I’ve ever experienced. When you’re walking and hiking for 10 hours a day, there’s only so much you can do – talk, sing, pray, and think. For seven days straight, while doing all of the above, I learned so much about the Mauritian and Taiwanese people, their culture, and myself. I also grew so much closer to God and my faith. I finally had that opportunity to think about the paths in my life and which to take. There were several times on the trip where I’ve felt God’s presence, through other people, through nature, and through little mishaps that occur. “Overall, tweeting, hiking, praying – all these were great, and even with all of the inconveniences of having no hot water, sleeping on the floor, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.” —Rosanne Pellegrini

WHO THEY ARE: (above, L-R) Thomas Coburn ’13, biology and theology/pre-med, Hopkinton, Mass.; Jeb Thomas ’13, finance and information systems, Coral Gables, Fla.; Peter Casinelli ’14, computer Science, Medway, Mass. WHAT THEY DID: This Boston College undergraduate trio founded Jebbit, a service that makes online advertisements more engaging for consumers and provides measurable return on investment for companies. After winning the Boston College Venture Competition (under the name Additupp), Jebbit was one of 10 teams across the nation accepted into Highland Capital Partner’s Summer@Highland Program, an intensive 10-week summer start-up “incubator” program. Each team was given $15,000 and office space for the summer. The students spent the summer learning from visiting speakers arranged by Highland Capital – CEOS, venture capitalists, technical experts, etc. Jeb-

bit plans to launch a web-based business development and sales program to the Boston College community this fall. WHAT THEY SAY: Casinelli: “I have learned how to understand new concepts in a changing environment that cannot be taught in a classroom. The real world experiences will carry over to any goal I set out to accomplish in the future.” Coburn: “Numerous problems and obstacles emerged daily, which I’ve come to accept is simply the nature of creating a start-up. But what I’ve learned is that it’s how you choose to react to these obstacles that will ultimately define the company. All you can do is focus on moving forward.” Thomas: “The main thing I took away from the program was ‘Just do it.’ Be prepared, but don’t stress over the small things. As with many investments, the larger the risk, the greater the reward.” —Reid Oslin

Jefferson and Alison Crowther (back to camera), along with their daughter Paige, at the 2003 dedication ceremony for the University’s memorial labyrinth for alumni killed on 9/11. (Photo by Lee Pellegrini)

Perhaps no Boston College graduate has so completely and heroically fulfilled the University’s mission of “men and women for others” as Welles Remy Crowther ’99. Crowther, an economics major and varsity lacrosse player as a BC undergraduate, was working as an equities trader for the investment banking firm of Sandler O’Neill and Partners, LP, at an office high up in the South Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, when the second plane struck the building at 9:03 a.m. Crowther, who was also a volunteer firefighter in his hometown of Nyack, NY, wrapped his trademark red bandanna around his face to help him breathe through the smoke and debris, and organized a rescue effort to guide more than a dozen survivors down the building’s stairwells to safety. He twice returned into the burning building – once carrying an injured woman down 17 floors to safety – and then joining a New York Fire Department team on their way back up the tower to free victims still trapped under debris. He was killed when the building collapsed at 9:59 a.m. “That was the nature of Welles Crowther,” said his father, Jefferson Crowther. “The good Lord put him here knowing that he would be needed at some point. And, when the time came, Welles stepped up. He did what he had to do and he did it well. There is nothing else I can say.” “Boston College was such an incredibly huge and influential part of his young life,” said his mother, Alison Crowther. “His experiences there truly forged the fine character of the young man as fully as we could have wished as loving parents.” “I can tell you that Welles loved Boston College,” Jefferson Crowther said. “He loved it deeply. He would often tell his BC roommates, ‘When I make millions of dollars, I am going to endow a chair in the economics department or pay for a building or something.’ He always thought that would be his legacy. “But, no,” he said softly. “His legacy is what he did in the last hour of his life.” —Reid Oslin A native of Brooklyn, David Quigley is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of history whose research focus is 19th-century New York City. I spent much of the summer of 2001 in the city finishing off research for Second Founding, my first book. I had just been back in Boston for a few weeks when September 11 came. One of my clearest memories of that time was how much I had been in and around Manhattan in the weeks and months leading up to September 11. I was focused on 19th-century New York and the crises leading up to the Civil War. I was working on how to refine my argument for the book while the greatest catastrophe in the city’s history was laid out in front of me, in front of all of us.

September 11 stands out as the defining American event of my lifetime. While many historical forces have shaped my generation and my children’s generation, I would point

to that day and its aftermath as singularly transformative. Maybe this is the New Yorker in me, but 10 years on so much of who we are – our politics, our global economy, our culture, our religious life, the way we think – all have been shaped by 9/11.

As we approach the 10th anniversary, I’m becoming convinced that in many ways, we’re just beginning to understand how 9/11 changed who we are.

Lee Pellegrini

WHO HE IS: Clay Venetis, ’13, philosophy, Thousand Oaks, Calif. WHAT HE DID: Building on his work with the Boston College Guestbook Project [http://bit.ly/ pem0hs], directed by Seelig Professor of Philosophy Richard Kearney, Venetis dedicated his summer to creating conversations between Latino immigrants and local residents of his Southern California town. He and two hometown friends organized a community picnic where men and women who came to

WHO THEY ARE: Emily Charnowski ’12, psychology and theology, St. Louis; Kyle McCartan ’12 finance, Dallas; Hannah Mulvey ’14, Milton, Mass.; Marlotte van den Bergh ’11, sociology, Greenwich, Conn. WHAT THEY DID: The four student-athletes were BC’s first participants in Coach for College, a program in which American college student-athletes travel to rural communities in developing countries to support students in grades 6-9 and motivate them to pursue higher education. The quartet traveled to rural camp sites in Vietnam’s Hau Giang Province, more than four hours south of Ho Chi Minh City, where they taught subjects such as English, biology, physics, morality, financial literacy, leadership skills, team building and higher education. They also coached the campers in sports such as basketball, soccer, tennis and volleyball. Their participation in Coach for College was organized by the University’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. WHAT THEY SAY: McCartan: “Higher education is not frequently sought after in rural Vietnam. They are busy with day to day life. There is pressure to work on the farm and there is often no money for college. Coach for College provides inspiration, letting kids know that higher education is a possible. At first the language barrier made it hard to gauge the impact we were having, but on our last day, the campers were crying because we were leaving. It was pretty intense.” For more photos of the BC students and the children they worked with, see http://bit.ly/qGAXhC —Kathleen Sullivan

A native of Dracut, Mass., Caroline Ogonowski ’09, MA’11, is the daughter of John Ogonowski, the captain of American Airlines Flight 11 who was killed when the jetliner he was piloting was hijacked by terrorists on 9/11 and flown into New York City’s World Trade Center. Ogonowski works as a supported employment specialist at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Mass. In past years, I have observed the anniversary of 9/11 both publicly and privately. Some years I have gone to the memorial services in Boston and other times I have stayed home and observed the day privately with my family. This year we will be participating in the events in Boston.

Caroline Ogonowski holds a photo of herself and her father, John, who died on 9/11.

with other family members, and others from Massachusetts, whether they knew someone or not, is healing.

There were so many wonderful qualities about my dad that I hope to pass onto my children one day. One of the things that I remember most about him was that he spent his life building and contributing. When I want to feel close to him, all I have to do is go to the farm and walk into the peach orchard or into the blueberry fields.

These events are a great way to come together with other family members who lost loved ones on 9/11 and to remember and honor them together. I imagine after this year’s events I will spend the future anniversaries more privately. This being the 10th anniversary, I feel it is important to be there to remember. Despite the events being public, sharing the memories together Thomas Massaro, SJ, is a professor in the School of Theology and Ministry and a frequent researcher and commentator on Catholic social issues. The events of 9/11 touched my life in a particularly strong way, since I grew up in Queens and attended Regis High School in Manhattan. That school, and many other Jesuit-run high schools and colleges in the New York area, lost many alumni to the terrorist attacks. One of my friends from the high school debate team, Matt Leonard, worked on the upper floors of the World Trade Center and was killed that day. One of my sisters lived just a few blocks from the World Trade Center. It was by sheer luck that she was out of town with her husband and two infant children on that fateful day. She never slept another night in their apartment, instead choosing to move back to Queens as soon as she could re-enter her former home to pack up her belongings.

As a Catholic social ethicist, and simply as a Christian, I found much encouragement in the few weeks or months in late 2001 when people went out of their way to be polite and display more human kindness and empathy. In the wake of the tragedy and massive loss of

It may sound silly, but each year when the peaches and blueberries, and all the other vegetation that he planted on the farm come back, I feel like that is part of his legacy living on. I remember watching him plant those little peach trees when I was a little girl, and now they have grown so tall and thick that I can sit underneath them and be invisible to people passing by. The fact that each year they grow back is just another sign of his contribution and how it will continue to live on, despite his life having been cut short. tragedies and the attendant uptick in empathy with the less fortunate. Unfortunately, the “there but for the grace of God go I” sentiment was short-lived, and our political and economic arrangements display, if anything, less compassion than before. Not just irony, but competitiveness, vanity and even callousness have returned.

Frank Curran

have to hitchhike from place to place, but the Navy donated fuel so we could get around easier. “What stood out to me was how so many problems we treated were chronic, and could be addressed by a system of preventive care — even just informa-

tion about things we take for granted, like brushing after every meal. The baby teeth in about 75 percent of the kids we saw were rotted to the roots, because the parents just weren’t aware of basic dental care or nutrition. If you don’t have access to that kind of information, it makes a big difference. “I’ve always enjoyed playing music, and sometimes it’s a good therapeutic release. When I worked in a San Juan battered women’s shelter, I brought over a guitar and played a little while. I am very interested in working with under-served populations in a community setting, and this experience really opened my eyes.” —Sean Smith

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, members of the Boston College community discussed with Chronicle their reflections on 9/11. Their responses are excerpted below; to read the full texts, go to http://bit.ly/oimoiS

Frank Curran

WHO SHE IS: Elizabeth Sierocinski ’13, music/pre-med, Davie, Fla. WHAT SHE DID: Through a Boston College Advanced Study Grant, Sierocinski worked for six weeks in health care settings in Nicaragua, including for eight days on a US Navy hospital ship stationed in San Juan harbor. WHAT SHE SAYS: “I wanted to go to Latin America, to see what health care systems in other countries are like. I really got a panoramic view of health care in Nicaragua, especially when I worked as a translator in a community center, and was able to practice a lot of medical Spanish. Normally, medical professionals

10 YEARS LATER

life, we were more attentive to the needs of the grieving and more aware of the quiet suffering of just about anyone. Drivers actually let you merge in front of them on highway on-ramps! I even wrote an article for America speculating that our national commitment to anti-poverty programs might experience a boost in the wake of these

If any good can come from these horrors, it may be the reminder that morally serious people will insist on proportionate approaches to the ends they choose and the means they adopt toward those ends. The way of violence, certainly violence against civilians, must be rejected. Thousands of us were the victims of unjustified violence on that fateful day 10 years ago; we must never be the perpetuators of similar deadly means.

Boisi Center Seeks 9/11 Reflections The Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life has begun a “9/11 Reflections” project that includes a website where the Boston College community may post reminiscences, thoughts and feelings about 9/11 and the decade since then. The center asked selected members of the community to write 150-words-or-less responses to the question, “What have you learned since 9/11?” and posted these this week on the website http://www.bc.edu/911reflections. Current and former administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and guests of the University are now invited to contribute to the site.

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle

september 8, 2011

Convocation Focuses on Strategic Plan Continued from page 1 a model student formation program; research that addresses urgent societal problems; emphasis on natural sciences; leadership in critical professional areas through BC’s professional schools; utilizing its Jesuit and Catholic resources to become an “intellectual and cultural crossroads”; and become the world’s leading Catholic university and theological center. He identified key points of comparison between 2006 and 2011 that indicate BC’s progress. Among these: increases in the number of AHANA students, the average BC undergraduate SAT score, external research and grant support, financial aid and building space, as well as $800 million in gifts and pledges toward the Light the World campaign’s $1.5 billion goal. Focusing on the student formation and Jesuit, Catholic aspects of the Strategic Plan, Fr. Leahy noted enhanced cooperation among faculty, deans, administrators and the Student Affairs and Mission and Ministry divisions, the reorganization of the Center for Student Formation and promotion of a positive campus culture — through introduction of late-night programs, student health initiatives and increased opportunities for student retreats, among other developments. However, he said, BC must continue clarifying the nature and mission of student formation in the BC community, while increasing the involvement of faculty, administrators and staff and achieving the necessary scale in programming and outreach to students. Similarly, while BC has seen success in its ambition to be the leading Catholic university and theological center — through its reaffiliation with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, establishment of the Church in the 21st Century Center and publication of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition — its challenges include the need to recruit and educate faculty, administrators and staff supportive of the Jesuit-Catholic mission, while coping with the decline in numbers of Jesuits and tensions within the Catholic Church on governance and other issues. BC, Fr. Leahy said, should “stay on the course” it has set for investments in faculty, academic and student life programs, financial aid and facilities, but be ready to adapt “as conditions change,” especially given the troubling world economic situation and the stress on higher education financing. He said the University’s Light

the World $1.5 billion fundraising campaign must be completed by 2015 and efforts to increase support from alumni, parents and friends must be strengthened. Fr. Leahy also urged that BC “remain true to our Jesuit, Catholic traditions and beliefs,” which differentiates the University from other institutions. The newly reopened Gasson Hall [see story on page 1] — regarded as BC’s most iconic building — and its distinctive lighted tower serves as a metaphor for the University’s mission, concluded Fr. Leahy: “We are to be beacons of faith and hope, a light to the world.” Keating, in his remarks on facilities and finances, also noted the reopening of Gasson — “our signature building” — and drew considerable applause from the audience. The work on Gasson was part of a very active series of campus building projects, he said. These include the construction of Stokes Hall, the transition of University finance and human resource personnel from More Hall to 129 Lake Street on Brighton Campus later this fall, and a proposed new dining facility at the site of Carney Hall. But these should be viewed as more than a bricks-and-mortar enterprise. “These buildings, and the other construction we’re planning, will help support academic and student formation goals contained in the Strategic Plan. It’s vital to make that connection.” Garza discussed academic-related trends and outlooks, such as the continuing academic excellence of BC’s student body as well as its diversity, not only ethnically but geographically and economically as well. Garza also pointed to the transition occurring in the BC faculty: one-third of the faculty has been at BC for five years or less; 41 new faculty were added for this year, and 49 new faculty searches are planned for this year; the proportion of fulltime faculty at BC has grown to 85 percent, above the national average of 65 percent. The establishment of new centers and programs — including the Roche Center for Catholic Education, the McGillycuddy-Logue Center for Undergraduate Global Studies and a new PhD in mathematics — has invigorated and strengthened BC’s academic and intellectual offerings, said Garza. Garza predicted that the poor economy and increased competition among peer schools will mean “hard choices” for BC. However, “tightening our belt is only a defensive tactic, and will not advance our mission,” he added. Concluding the event, Garza said, “BC has every reason to be proud. Even in adversity, this institution has done very, very well.”

Gasson Hall Rebirth Tops Campus Projects Continued from page 1 lighting to illuminate the room’s centerpiece stained-glass window of St. Patrick, patron saint of the Archdiocese of Boston. Nardone offered praise to the principal contractors, Shawmut Design and Construction and Grande Masonry, who finished the project on time for the start of the fall semester. “The day that they projected for setting the last piece of stone was exactly the day that they placed it, in spite of a very tough winter” she says. “Their workmanship was excellent. The restoration architect, McGinley Kalsow & Associates, held the bar very high throughout the project and they met the challenge every time. It was done on an aggressive schedule with a lot of interlocking parts.” Nardone said that working on such an old and venerable building proved to be a special challenge for construction crews. “There were a lot of things that we discovered about the building as the work went along. When Gasson was first built [it opened in 1913], work was shut down periodically – so they could do more fund-raising, I guess,” she laughs. “So, whatever the workers might discover behind one façade would not necessarily be the same thing when you went around the corner. “They constantly had to move and react to what they found to be different in many locations.” Nardone says the most difficult part of the project was rebuilding the portico on Gasson’s east side, which faces O’Neill Library. “We anticipated that it would be challenging, but it had surprises beyond even that. The setting of the new pre-cast portico dome, which came in one piece, was critical. It weighs nine tons and took days to set in properly.” Nardone provided updates on other major campus construction projects: •Stokes Hall — the 186,000 square foot academic building being constructed on Middle Campus — “is taking shape,” she says. “The big push now is to get the structure weather-tight by the end of the calendar year. That is an important milestone for us before we can go inside and start to do finish work. They have to get that roof on and get it sealed.” Nardone said the first pieces of exterior stone have been placed

At 75, GSSW Is Building An International Presence

The renovated Gasson Hall opened its doors again late last month. (Photos on this page by Lee Pellegrini)

on the side of the Stokes structure nearest Lyons Hall. “In the next couple of weeks, we will be moving onto the west side of the south wing – the College Road side – so people will be able to see the exterior stone going on. A lot of energy is being put into the color blend of the stone as it goes onto the wall. There’s a lot of stone – 55,000 square feet of it.” Work on Stokes Hall is scheduled to finish in the fall of 2012 and classes will be held there starting with the spring semester of 2013. •Repair work and structural bracing has been completed on the ramp bridges leading to the top level of the Commonwealth Garage, said Nardone. The ramp to the top of the parking facility was opened in time for last Satur-

day’s BC-Northwestern football game. •The renovation of Bishop Peterson Hall on the Brighton Campus is expected to be complete later this month and current plans call for the transfer of employees from the Financial Vice President and Human Resources division into the new facility starting in late October. The new Peterson Hall building will also include a dining facility for the Brighton Campus. •Reconstruction of the former Archdiocesan Chancery building is scheduled to conclude in February, according to Nardone, when personnel from the University Advancement divisions will move into the building. Contact Reid Oslin at reid.oslin@bc.edu

“There were a lot of things that we discovered about the building as the work went along...whatever the workers might discover behind one façade would not necessarily be the same thing when you went around the corner.” —Associate Vice President for Capital Projects Mary Nardone

Continued from page 1 role as an attorney and advocate ing those in need by providing for women, children and fami- social workers and policy makers lies, as well as her present work with the skills necessary to make as co-founder and trustee of the a difference in the world. As Edward M. Kennedy Institute an alumna, I am proud of the for the US Senate. It will be a school and wish it the best as it wonderful day for the GSSW celebrates its 75th year of service and all of our students, faculty to the world.” and alumni.” Added GSSW Associate ProDescribed by the New York fessor Katie McInnis-Dittrich, Times as “Senator Kennedy’s “This is an important celebration closest confidante in politics and for the GSSW. Our trajectory life,” Victoria Kennedy was a toward excellence has been unleading advocate for national wavering for 75 years, even as health care reform and stood at support for the poor and marginPresident Obama’s side at the alized has fluctuated depending White House as he signed the upon the political climate. The landmark legislaGSSW is tion into law in well tooled 2010. She conto train sotinues to procial workmote the new ers for the policy while 21st century overseeing the thanks to an establishment outstanding of the Kennedy faculty and Institute, which the quality was founded to of our stuinvigorate public dents. We discourse, enproudly carcourage particiry on a trapatory democdition that racy, and inspire is rooted in the next generaour pursuit tion of leaders in of social public service. justice and The fourthour commitSuzanne Camarata ment to our oldest and highest-ranked Jesuit mission “We are proud of what Catholic school and to beof social work in we have accomplished as ing men and the United States, an international leader in women for and the Univerothers.” sity’s highest- social work,” says GraduIn recent ranked profes- ate School of Social Work years, the sional school, GSSW has Dean Alberto Godenzi. the GSSW offers enhanced its both a master’s internationdegree and a doctor of philoso- al focus, with its faculty and phy in social work to its more students actively engaged in inthan 500 students. It is also home ternational research and service to two acclaimed research hubs, collaborations. The school has the National Resource Center also established a global practice for Participant-Directed Services concentration that infuses global and the Sloan Center on Aging content throughout the entire & Work, both of which are part GSSW curriculum. of the Boston College Institute “We are proud of what we on Aging. have accomplished as an inter“The Graduate School of So- national leader in social work,” cial Work has been a national said Godenzi. “We look forward leader in the field through its to the challenges of the next commitment to helping to im- 75 years in fulfillment of our prove the lives of those in need mission to initiate and sustain through a variety of programs change and to foster the attainthat reflect the University’s Je- ment of social justice.” suit, Catholic mission of service,” For more information regardsaid Fr. Leahy. “We congratulate ing the Graduate School of Social them on their 75th anniversary Work’s 75th Anniversary Celand look forward to many more ebration, visit their website at productive years to come.” www.bc.edu/gssw75th. Eileen Connors, MSW ’95, Contact Jack Dunn at jack. BS ’66, said, “The GSSW has dunn@bc.edu had a profound effect in help-

Stephanie Berzin, right, and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes co-direct a Graduate School of Social Work program that trains social workers in the entrepreneurial practices of social innovation. (Photo by Caitlin Cunningham)

GSSW Offers Field a New Approach

Lab focuses on blending social innovation with social work practice By Ed Hayward Staff Writer

In an effort to transform the traditional yet outdated model of social work, Boston College has launched the nation’s first program to train social workers in the entrepreneurial practices of social innovation. The Social Innovation Lab, developed in the Graduate School of Social Work, blends social work and entrepreneurship in a new approach considered critical during an era where government funding cuts have forced human and social service agencies to serve more clients with fewer resources. “The entrepreneur and the social worker are both problem solvers at heart,” said GSSW Dean Alberto Godenzi. “But their worlds are so different that there are few opportunities to bring these two groups of professionals together. The goal of the Social Innovation Lab is to provide that space where both can work together to find solutions that can help organizations or companies and the people they serve.” Lab co-directors Stephanie Berzin and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, assistant and associate professors of social work, respectively, designed the lab as a place that promotes “social innovation from within” for existing social service organizations and offers a place to develop and test new approaches to problem solving. Agencies involved in social work have had limited opportunities to pursue social innovation because they are often under pressure to address immediate needs, said Pitt-Catsouphes, who also directs BC’s Sloan Center on Aging & Work. The goal of the lab is to begin to change that. “Social service and human ser-

vice organizations need to reposition themselves to take full advantage of new ideas,” said Pitt-Catsouphes. “The world has changed and social work needs to keep pace. So there are some tremendous opportunities for social work to be a part of the social innovation discussion.” The lab will admit a class of four or five organizations on an annual basis, assigning faculty and graduate students to work with their project teams. At a “rapid prototyping day” each project will be reviewed for possible solutions and strategies. That process produces an action plan that’s then tested by the organization in a pilot phase. Finally, the teams will return to the lab to discuss the results of the project. Two organizations that are participating in the inaugural class say the lab offers a rare opportunity to take on a tough issue and quickly develop a workable solution. The Boston-based Home for Little Wanderers, one of the oldest child welfare agencies in the country, wanted to improve the range of expertise offered by life coaches working with 100 young adults, ages 18–22, who need services designed to help them successfully transition from their involvement with the state’s Department of Children and Families to independent living. “The Social Innovation Lab at BC has given The Home For Little Wanderers a process to guide our team in its efforts to develop innovations we think will transform the lives of the young people we serve through our Young Adult Resource Network,” said Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president and CEO of the agency. “The lab has given us the support and structure to create the best new ideas enabling us to implement and sustain

a vital program that encourages young adults to make good decisions about their futures and gain access to the resources they need.” Founded in 1998, HouseWorks has served as a business that combines entrepreneurship with health care services. The private home care company provides home health aides (associates) to seniors who need support to live independently. HouseWorks entered the lab to advance a project to better connect associates with prospective clients, the company and each other. “We invited associates to participate on the lab team, and their input made the results of our pilot project more relevant,” said HouseWorks co-founder and CEO Andrea Cohen. “Staff at all levels of the organization has been involved. We knew we didn’t want it to be a top-down process. We collaboratively solved problems and created solutions.” Berzin — author of an upcoming article titled “Where is Social Work in the Social Entrepreneurship Movement?” — said the lab provides faculty with unique research opportunities and gives graduate students a broader range of experience. “It is no secret that funding for social services has been jeopardized by the financial and budget crises,” said Berzin. “Our students are going to be entering a new professional world where they need to be aware of business models, in addition to the practice of social work. This experience will allow them to tell their future employees they know their way around a business plan. They’ve done that and they are comfortable incorporating that into their work for others.” Contact Ed Hayward at ed.hayward@bc.edu

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle

september 8, 2011

BC Observing ‘Preparedness Month’ Irene, earthquake point up need to plan and prepare, say administrators By Reid Oslin Staff Writer

Boston-born Irish music legend Joe Derrane will be the focus of the first event in this fall’s Gaelic Roots schedule. (Photo by Sean Smith)

Gaelic Roots Begins Sept. 22 A special in-depth look at the legendary Joe Derrane – and a performance by the Boston-born Irish accordionist and composer himself – will highlight this fall’s Gaelic Roots Music, Dance, and Lecture series. The series, under the direction of Sullivan Artistin-Residence Séamus Connolly, also will feature priest-musician Monsignor Charlie Coen, fiddlepiano duo Gráinne Murphy and Kathleen Boyle, and a program of holiday music by harpist Aine Minogue. This fall also will introduce a new venue for Gaelic Roots, which is sponsored by the Center for Irish Programs. Unless otherwise noted, Gaelic Roots events — previously held in Connolly House on BC’s Chestnut Hill Campus — will now take place at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue on the BC Brighton Campus. A look at this fall’s Gaelic Roots schedule: •“The Genius and Growing Impact of Joe Derrane,” Sept. 22, Gasson 100, 7-9 p.m. Since his historic comeback in 1994, Derrane has released seven celebrated albums, received a National Heritage Fellowship, and was the subject of an all-star tribute last November. This living legend of Irish music will be the special guest of distinguished Wall Street Journal and Irish Echo music writer Earle Hitchner and Berklee College of Music faculty member John McGann, an award-winning guitarist and mandolinist and a frequent Derrane collaborator. This combined lecture/concert will feature presentations by Hitchner and McGann about Derrane’s recent music and expanding influence, commentary from Derrane himself, a live performance of some Derrane tunes and others by McGann with Connolly, and neverbefore-seen film footage of last year’s tribute. •Monsignor Charlie Coen, Oct. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The southeast Galway native is an accomplished singer and performer on concertina, flute and whistle, as well as one of the most revered Irish music teachers

and mentors. Monsignor Coen also has drawn acclaim as an organizer and leader of Irish music concerts, sessions and other events, whether in his former Dutchess Country, NY, parish or elsewhere. His honors include being selected as Traditional Musician of the Year for 2005 by the Irish Echo and as a member of the Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Mid-Atlantic Region Hall of Fame. •Gráinne Murphy and Kathleen Boyle, Nov. 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. A native of Boston and a former student of Connolly, Murphy is known to many Irish music fans as the fiddler for the long-popular Irish-American band Cherish the Ladies. Her first solo album, “Short Stories,” was released last year and garnered positive reviews. Boyle comes from a family steeped in the traditional music of Donegal. A talented pianist and accordion player who has won All-Scotland and All-Britain titles on both instruments, she released her wellreceived first solo album, “An Cailin Rua,” during the past year. •Áine Minogue, Dec. 8, 6:308:30 p.m. A native of Tipperary, Minogue is widely recognized as a premier Irish harpist and singer who conveys the lyricism and richness of Irish music, mythology and poetry. Minogue also is attuned to the traditions, rituals and celebrations associated with the ancient Celtic world, and often presents special concerts that evoke a particular season or major theme. For her Gaelic Roots show, she will offer music of the winter solstice and Christmas, with tunes and carols that have roots in ancient traditions of the British Isles such as “The Horn Dance” and “Hunting the Wren,” and a performance in Gaelic of “Oíche Chuain,” the Irish version of “Silent Night.” All concerts are free and open to the public. There is free parking available adjacent to 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, which is handicapped accessible. For more on the Gaelic Roots series, see www.bc.edu/gaelicroots. —Sean Smith

The unexpected late-August incidence of a distant earthquake and the arrival of Hurricane Irene, along with a planned severe weather evacuation drill in Alumni Stadium, gave University planners a hands-on “laboratory” for disaster readiness efforts that will be shared with the Boston College community during National Preparedness Month activities on campus throughout September. “We can’t anticipate what the next emergency will be,” says Director of Emergency Management and Preparedness John Tommaney as he outlined a wide variety of programs that will help prepare students and others to cope and survive if an unexpected crisis should hit the area. Representatives of various University offices will be manning tables and offering tips, suggestions and safety demonstrations at bus stops, building lobbies, dining halls and scheduled student events throughout the month. “If people take a little bit of time to put something together, they are going to be much better served if something should happen,” Tommaney says. “They won’t be panicking and will have a much better idea of what they need to do and where to get their information. The University has a lot of support systems in place already, but every little bit that a student or others can do to prepare makes the University that much stronger.”

Tommaney suggests all students develop an emergency communication plan involving family, friends and roommates. “The most helpless feeling that people have in a crisis is the inability to communicate with the people they care about,” he says.

tunately, was not even felt by many people on campus. What it did point out is that an earthquake can happen. They are not a frequent event, but it only takes one time.” The University’s Emergency Operations Center was activated on Aug. 28 as Hurricane Irene barreled “If people take a little bit of up the East time to put something togethcoast with 100 mile-an-hour er, they are going to be much winds and better served if something soaking rains. “It was the first should happen.” time we had a — John Tommaney serious hurricane threat to the campus in He also recommends readying several years,” he says. “Thanka small emergency kit with basic fully, we suffered only some broneeds such as a flashlight, first ken tree limbs and some isolated aid kit, change of clothing and power outages and by Sunday some food and water, and urges night we were pretty much back all members of the University to a normal status.” community to register with BosHe said BC administrators ton College’s emergency contact and work crew went on alert and information service [http://www. had pre-positioned supplies and bc.edu/emergency/communica- equipment across campus in the tions/register.html] to receive event of more serious damage. text messages, e-mail and voice- “We were ready if the situation mail alerts and updates if any got worse,” he says. type of crisis situation occurs. The Alumni Stadium evacu“We have a lot of tools that ation drill on Aug. 24 involved we use to communicate with University officials, key athletics the University community,” he administrators, public safety ofnotes, “but you have to know ficials from local and state powhere to turn for official infor- lice, fire and service agencies, and mation.” some 450 volunteers – mostly The weather events of August students – who took part in the as well as the planned emergen- mock evacuation. cy evacuation drill were helpful “Drills are a way to bring it events to prepare Boston College all together,” he says. “We would for any future incidents, Tom- rather fail in a drill because you maney says. can go back and correct it. You “I think people are more don’t ever want to fail in a real primed, more interested in being crisis. Overall, I think we learned prepared,” he says. “The earth- some great and valuable things. quake in Virginia [Aug. 23], for- Everyone performed very well.”

Michalczyk to Premiere Film on Kenya The story of Kenya’s struggles to restore its standing as a peaceable, democratic icon of East Africa, is depicted in “Kenya: Passing the Baton,” a new documentary produced and directed by Fine Arts Professor John Michalczyk that will premiere at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Sept. 21. The 90-minute film will be screened at 7:30 p.m. at the MFA’s Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Avenue. Once a stable, democratic country with a robust economy, a highly admired tourism industry and — despite a population of 37 millions split into 40 ethnic groups — a relatively peaceful

society compared to other African nations, Kenya saw drastic changes with the December 2007 election of President Mwai Kibaki. Amidst challenges to the election results, violence quickly broke out across the country, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,400 people and the displacement of 300,000 others. “The goal of ‘Kenya: Passing the Baton’ is to shed light on the struggle of a people and a government to create a united, civil society from one currently split by disturbing tribal tensions, corruption, land distribution, and social issues exacerbated by the severe drought of 2009,” said

Michalczyk, co-director of the BC Film Studies Program. Theology faculty member Raymond Helmick, SJ, served as associate producer, Rogelio Thomas ’11 assisted with camera work and editing, and Stone Yu ’11 was an assistant cameraman. Funding for the project came from the Thomas and Erma Jean Tracy Family Foundation, the Jesuit Institute at Boston College and Rotary International. Ticket information for the movie is available at http://www. mfa.org/programs/film/kenyapassing-baton. —Kathleen Sullivan

NOTA BENE

Newsmakers

No longer a one-time, permanent FoodService Director magazine recently selected Boston College event, a retirement that continues for the rest of your life is now the Dining Services Director Helen Wechsler exception, rather than the rule, acfor its “Director of the Month” feature. The cording to a series of studies by Mcprofile noted that Wechsler, since her 2005 Intyre Professor of Economics Joappointment, has introduced initiatives to seph Quinn, Kevin Cahill PhD’00 help promote local, sustainable food options, and Michael Giandrea ’97, PhD’03 provide alternative meal selections for students that were featured in US News & with dietary restrictions, and encourage staff World Report. retention and health. The magazine is produced by FoodServiceProf. Kent Greenfield (Law) specuDirector.com, a customizable website created Lee Pellegrini lated in an interview with New Engspecifically for the non-commercial foodserland Cable News on what Libya’s vice industry. post-Gadhafi government may look Doctoral student Peter Cajka has received the 2011 Catholic Press like. Association first place prize in the category of Best Feature Article in a Scholarly Magazine for “Riding with Saint Paul in the Passenger Side: Although commentators often atThe Archdiocese of Milwaukee Enters the Automobile Age, 1920- tribute the rising cost of Social Security to the retirement of the baby 1965” in the journal American Catholic Studies. The article “offers a great exploration of how technology and reli- boomers, it is the long-term aging gion interact. Its moral implications stand next to a solid analysis of past of the population due to a decline and present use of technology within the Catholic faith,” according to in births and an increase in life expectancy that bears responsibility, the CPA. Cajka’s interest is in the American Catholic experience from 1930 explained Center for Retirement Reto 1985, especially “how religion worked” in 20th century America. search Director Alicia Munnell in a His faculty advisor is Clough Millennium Professor of History James blog post for SmartMoney.com. O’Toole. Cajka, who earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Higher education franchising is a Dayton and a master’s degree from Marquette University, received the growing phenomenon, and as with 2008 Richard Scharchburg Student Paper Award in Automotive His- all commercial investment in the sector, there are potential problems, tory from the Society of Automotive Historians. wrote Lynch School Monan ProfesBoston College’s Student Affairs division hosted 250 colleagues sor Philip Altbach, director of the from 46 Catholic colleges and universities this summer for a conference Center for International Higher Edthat explored ongoing issues and interests among student affairs profes- ucation, in Times Higher Education. sionals in Catholic higher education. The 2011 Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and As the nation considers the advantagUniversities conference, which took place July 26-29, also served as es and disadvantages of involvement ASACCU’s introduction to BC, which joined the organization only a in wars abroad, it might do well to few years ago. Founded in 1999 and affiliated with the Association of study the Civil War, wrote University Catholic Colleges and Universities, ASACCU includes student affairs Historian Thomas O’Connor in an professionals from 149 Catholic colleges and universities in the United essay for the Boston Globe Magazine that examined the conflict’s States and Canada. Office of Student Affairs Executive Director Carole Hughes chaired effect on Boston as a case the conference, and numerous BC administrators, faculty, staff and in point. students spoke or facilitated at the conference. In addition, Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley OFM, Campus Minister Donald Cap., celebrated a welcoming Mass with University President William MacMillan, SJ, was interP. Leahy, SJ, Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Jack viewed by WCVB-TV Ch. 5 News regarding reports that a former El Butler, SJ, and Campus Ministry Director Fr. Tony Penna. Salvadoran military officer who allegedly played a role in the 1989 obituary massacre of six Jesuit priests has been tracked down to a Boston suburb.

BC in the Media

Scientists at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Weston Observatory, including Director John Ebel (above)and New England Seismic Network Operations Manager Michael Hagerty, were interviewed by dozens of media outlets about the Aug. 23 5.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia and felt up and down the east coast. Among the outlets featuring Weston were WCVB-TV, WBZ-TV, New England Cable News, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Forbes, International Business Times and WBUR-FM. “It’s not like we can say, ‘OK, we expect an earthquake in the next year or two, therefore, now’s the time to prepare,’ which means we have to be preparing all the time,” Ebel told WBUR. “Today’s earthquake is a reminder that we really do need to prepare.” The earthquake, of course, was overshadowed only days later by the arrival of Hurricane Irene. While the Weston Observatory personnel were not involved in any direct way with the assessment of the hurricane, says Ebel, the winds and waves from Irene increased the seismic noise being recorded by its seismographic stations, much like a strong winter Nor’easter. And Irene did affect the observatory in another way: A visit by staff members from the US Congress planned for last week had to be cancelled in the wake of the hurricane. The visit will be rescheduled for a later date. Auditor Independence Post-Enron and Post-HIH” and “The Impact of CEO Influence and Management Incentives on Auditor Judgments” were accepted for publication by, respectively, Managerial Auditing

BC BRIEFING

Fr. Nicholson; law professor, rector

A funeral Mass was celebrated on Sept. 1 at the Campion Center in Weston for Rev. Francis J. Nicholson, SJ, a retired professor at Boston College Law School who also served as rector of the Boston College Jesuit Community and a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. Fr. Nicholson died on Aug. 26 at the age of 90. A native of Medford and a 1942 graduate of Boston College, Fr. Nicholson earned degrees from Georgetown and Harvard law schools and was ordained a priest in 1953. As a member of the BC Law faculty from 1958 through 1999, he taught courses in international law, conflicts of law and jurisprudence. In addition to his service as rector of the BC Jesuit Community from

1971 through 1978, and later as assistant rector, during the 1960s he was a dormitory prefect in BC’s Upper Campus residence halls. While fulfilling his roles as teacher, administrator and mentor, Fr. Nicholson found time to say the daily 6 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Chapel for 25 years — from 1958 through 1993. In tribute to his service to the University, and BC Law in particular, the Rev. Francis J. Nicholson, SJ, Award was established, honoring a volunteer whose dedication to the advancement of legal education at BC Law “reflects the loyalty and constancy of Fr. Nicholson.” He is survived by his sister Rosemary and brother John. —Office of News & Public Affairs

Publications Founders Professor of Theology James Keenan, SJ, published the essays “(The Lack of) Professional Ethics in the Academy” and “Conscience” in respectively, Louvain Studies and Dialogue: A Journal of Religion and Philosophy. A new edition of his book A History of Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences has been published in India. Prof. Jeffrey Cohen (CSOM) published “The Role of Managers’ Behavior in Corporate Fraud” published in Journal of Business Ethics. His essays “An Investigation of the Impact of the CFO’s Affiliations on

Journal and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

Honors/Appointments Libby Professor of Law Sanford Katz was reappointed a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association Family Law Section Council for 2011-2012.

Time and a Half The conference “The Econometrics of Demand” featured the following Economics Department faculty: •Roche Professor Arthur Lewbel presented “Nonparametric Euler Equation Identification and Estimation.” •Assoc. Prof. Stefan Hoderlein was a conference organizer and also presented “Nonparametric Random Coefficient Models” and worked jointly on “Semiparametric Estimation of Random Coefficients in Structural Economic Models.” •Prof. Hideo Konishi presented

“Choosing a Licensee from Heterogeneous Rivals.” •Professors Utku Unver and Tayfun Sonmez presented “Altruistic Kidney Exchange.” Prof. Scott FitzGibbon (Law) was co-organizer of the international conference “Jurisprudence of Parenting and the Influence of Culture,” held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. At the conference, he also presented the paper “Parenting and the Culture of Friendship.”

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/: Administrative Assistant, Office of International Programs Staff Psychologist, University Counseling Academic Certification Specialist, Student Services Student Services Associate, Student Services Research Statistician, Academic Technology Services Technology Consultant Chief Technologist, Office Of CIO

T he B oston C ollege

Chronicle september 8, 2011

LOOKING AHEAD

McMullen Showcases Three Centuries of History By Rosanne Pellegrini Staff Writer

The McMullen Museum of Art is presenting the North American debut of the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries in Britain,” which traces milestones in Britain’s history and explores ways in which scholars have interpreted that history over the past three centuries. “Making History,” which runs through Dec. 11, showcases treasures from the Society of Antiquaries of London, a 300-year-old organization concerned with the study of the past which still thrives today. The exhibition features 98 of the society’s most significant works, including manuscripts of the Magna Carta from 1225 and the Winton Domesday Book, as well as royal portraiture, and internationally important artifacts which provide a timeline for British history. “The McMullen is pleased to share the distinguished and unparalleled collections of the Society of Antiquaries with a North American audience and to have the opportunity to celebrate the society’s contribution to more than 300 years of writing history,” says McMullen Museum Director and Professor of Art History Nancy Netzer, who is a fellow of the society. “Making History,” based on an exhibition shown in 2007 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, has been organized by the Society of

BC SCENES

The “Making History” exhibition at the McMullen Museum includes manuscripts of the Magna Carta (right), the Winton Domesday Book and internationally important artifacts which provide a timeline for British history.

Antiquaries of London in association with the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, and the Yale Center for British Art. It has been underwritten by Boston College and the Patrons of the McMullen Museum. The exhibition has been curated by Netzer and Elisabeth Fairman, senior curator of rare books and manuscripts at the Yale Center, in association with Society of Antiquaries of London Head of Library and Collections Heather Rowland and Collections Manager Julia Dudkiewicz. Originally formed before the existence of national museums, libraries, and galleries, the society has amassed collections of antiquities, drawings, historic books, manuscripts, and paintings that provide

a timeline for British history. In addition to manuscripts of the Magna Carta from 1225 — the English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 — and the Winton Domesday Book (a 12th-century English administrative document which records the landholdings in the city of Winchester), exhibition highlights include detailed records of lost buildings and objects, an outstanding collection of panel paintings including royal portraits from Henry VI to Mary I, and works from the Arts and Crafts movement by fellow William Morris. These works are displayed alongside loans from the celebrated collection of the Yale Center for British Art including rare books and paintings and drawings by Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones and

Caitlin Cunningham

Augustus Welby Pugin. A number of campus events taking place during the fall — including concerts of music by English composers, a conference on AngloSaxon history, and a lecture on the Magna Carta by former Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall — will serve as complements to the exhibition. Free group tours of the museum are available on Sundays from 2-2:45 p.m. starting Sept. 18. For more information on the McMullen Museum, the “Making History” exhibition and the related campus events, including times and locations, see www.bc.edu/artmuseum. Contact Rosanne Pellegrini at rosanne.pellegrini@bc.edu

9/11 Play “The Guys” in Gasson 100 on Sunday A staged reading of Anne Nelson’s powerful play, “The Guys,” which honors New York City firefighters, will be presented on campus this Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Produced by the Theatre Department and the College of Arts and Sciences, the play — which takes place at 7 p.m. in Gasson 100 and is free and open to the public — is a poignant portrayal of a fire department captain who lost eight men in the World Trade Center attacks, and the writer who helps to eulogize them. Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre John Houchin, the two-person production features husband-andwife actors David Anderson Lewis of BC’s Information Technology Services Department and a member of Actors’ Equity and actor/director Patricia Riggin, a Theatre Department faculty member. A post-performance reflection will be moderated by Erik Owens, associate director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and a Theology Department faculty member. —Rosanne Pellegrini

NEW YEAR, NEW BEGINNINGS As the start of the 2011-12 academic year beckoned last week, new and returning students — including (in photo at left) freshmen Nicole White and Sarah Fisher — moved into campus residence halls, and (right) University President William P. Leahy, SJ, offered formal — and informal — greetings to the Class of 2015.

Caitlin Cunningham

Lee Pellegrini