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LOOKING BEYOND BROWN OUR BROTHER, RAY FITZ PREGNANT AND FIRED

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A young Father Chaminade took up watch in the Central Mall in February. The statue, by Joseph Aspell ’68, is a gift in thanksgiving of the Marianists from President Daniel J. Curran and Claire Renzetti.

In This Issue

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PRESIDENT’S PAGE LETTERS CONVERSATION PIECES EXPERT INSTRUCTION How to make a quick impression and a lasting one

ASK A MARIANIST Far-traveled students and pure joy nearby — Marianist Educational Associate Peg Mount answers your questions.

8 FLIGHT DECK

President Barack Obama came to campus for a basketball game at UD Arena. Plus, women’s basketball Flyers are A-10 champions, and a professor says pregnant workers deserve better legal protection.

22 OUR BROTHER AT THE TABLE

Brother Raymond L. Ftiz, S.M., stepped down as UD president 10 years ago, but he hasn’t slowed down.

É 28 DEAR ADELE

Senior Jeremy Garcia Vinluan has been handwriting a letter a day since April 30, 2011. He’ll soon write his last one.

32 BEYOND BROWN

We are the world, and the world is us.

40 CLASS NOTES 54 ALUMNI 56 CHAPTER POSTCARDS

Alumni give Carly Cenedella ’12 tips for her last weeks before graduation, and St. Louis alumni tell how to have fun in their city all day while paying for nothing more than parking.

58 GOOD WORKS

We’re No. 101? Plus, Peter McGrath ’72 helps launch a human rights research fellows program.

HIDDEN TREASURE Sometimes a treasure is hidden in plain sight.

60 PERCEPTIONS 64 PARTING WORDS Climbing the Rockies with professor Charles Ritter gave Michelle Tedford ’94 the long view on geology and so much more.

ON THE COVER Illustration by Frank Pauer See story, Page 32.

PRESIDENT’S PAGE

COMMENTARY BY DANIEL J. CURRAN PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON

The gift When the campus community gathered in the chapel to celebrate Brother Ray Fitz’s golden jubilee as a Marianist

two years ago, his voice started to break when he spoke about how children and families living in extreme poverty in Dayton allowed him to “see the face of God in a new way.” He called that a gift.

Tucked away in an unassuming office on the fourth floor of St. Joseph Hall, Brother Ray still works on issues of

social justice and faith

life and left a permanent

As the University’s first

that

have

defined

his

mark on this university.

Father Ferree Professor of Social Justice, he devotes much of his life’s work

to those living on the margin.

Brother Ray may have

stepped down as president a decade ago after moving

the

University

of Dayton into national

prominence, but he’s not slowed down. Not one bit. He’s

teaching

the

course Cities and Social

Justice, running a graduate student seminar, helping lead a campuswide di-

alogue on strengthening the University’s religious

identity, participating in

a public forum on the future direction of county government and attending a lunch honoring this year’s recipient of the Brother Raymond L. Fitz, S.M., Ph.D. Award — an award for someone in the Dayton community dedicated to nurturing and protecting children and families.

And that’s just part of his calendar during a typical week.

Few personify the Catholic, Marianist character of UD better than Brother Ray. He continues to lead through

service to others. He teaches us that leaders can inspire by their quiet example. Because he shies away from the

spotlight, we’re offering a rare, behind-the-scenes look at his life and work in this issue of University of Dayton Magazine (Page 22).

Of course, I have my own favorite stories.

A person’s character is often illuminated in life’s little moments. One day I started to pull into a UD Arena parking

spot only to realize an orange cone had been inadvertently left. As I got out of the car, a man leaned over to move the cone. That’s Brother Ray, humble and caring.

Shortly after I was named president, Brother Ray invited me to attend a “porch party” organized by faculty and

staff to celebrate his 23-year tenure as president. They showered him with gifts, and he passed me a ceremonial baton. It was a joyful day for both of us.

That baton sits in my office, a daily reminder of how privileged I am to have succeeded him as president — and

how blessed we all are by the gifts he continues to share.

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LETTERS SNOW DAYS

Editor Emeritus: Thomas M. Columbus Editor: Matthew Dewald Managing Editor: Michelle Tedford Art Director: Frank Pauer Photographer: Larry Burgess Associate Vice President, University Communications: Teri Rizvi Director, Communications: Michelle Tedford Associate Director, Communications: Matthew Dewald Assistant Director, Communications: Shannon Shelton Miller Editor: Thomas M. Columbus Production Manager: Jeaneen Parsons Art Director: Frank Pauer Designer: Gina Gray Photographer: Larry Burgess Director of Media Relations: Cilla Bosnak Shindell Associate Director, Media Relations: Shawn Robinson Assistant Director, Media Relations: Cameron Fullam Assistant Director, Advancement Direct Marketing: Cathy Johnson Communications and Marketing Editor: Mike Dunekacke Web Developer: Alex Kordik Administrative Assistant: Amber Dilworth Student Staff: Shelley Adams, Christine Bates, Brian Bucy, Sara Dorn, Emma Flesher, Meredith Hirt, Maggie Malach, Kaitlyn Ridel, Seetha Sankaranarayan, Jenny Watercutter Blog: See udquickly.udayton.edu for UDQuickly, an eclectic look at UD people and places.

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I miss snow here in Africa! Last September, we

had a surprise rainstorm that ended up looking like

snow. It lasted on the ground overnight. We took pictures with students who had never seen real

snow in their life. Wow! I wish I had the snow tires to do what I used to do in the U.S.A.

—BEN PANULO ’80 BARATON, KENYA

Panulo, left, sent this photo in response to news in

January that we in Dayton were expecting snow. In fact, we expected it all winter, and it barely came. —Ed.

CHEERS Well done with that essay from Erica

Chenoweth [“You Say You Want a Revolution?” Winter 2011-12].

12) you queried alumni as to their favorite

Chicago dive restaurant. Someone nominated the Argentine steak house Tango

Sur. My admittedly

Thank you.

FALLS CHURCH, VA

fines a dive as

a shabby and

CORRECTION

disreputable

Please note a major

establish-

error in opening para-

ment. I don’t

graphs of the article on the

Marianist

expect

artists

[“What Is Marianist Art?” Winter

know

you

all

things Chicago, but Tango

2011-12]. The Daughters of Mary

Sur is certainly not a dive.

was founded by Adèle de Batz de

—KENNETH WHITE ’63 CHICAGO

Trenquelléon, not Marie Thérèse.

Marie Thérèse was a major col-

MEMORIES

laborator to Blessed Chaminade

and helped Adèle during the early

continue

enjoy

each of the UD magazines

weeks of the foundation, but she

that I have received. They

wasn’t the founder of the Marianist Sisters.

old

dictionary de-

—ERIC TIMAR ’90

are very well done and bring back lots

—CAROL QUINN RAMEY ’68

DIRECTOR, NORTH AMERICAN CENTER FOR MARIANIST STUDIES XENIA, OH

Ramey is absolutely correct; we regret the

error. —Ed.

of memories from my UD days. My old

house (20 Lawnview) was even once included. Information about classmates

and friends from the past are always welcome. Of course, UD’s future is also wellprojected.

Thanks for the good work!

NOT A DIVE In the Chicago article (Winter 2011-

—GERARD LONSWAY ’60 OREGON, OH

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CONVERSATION PIECES Sushi for sale

Deferred admission

‘Echoes of War’

Road trip

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What would you do after crash ing in a helicopter, being chased by giant lizards and spending five days in Atlantis, narrowly escaping with your life? If you’re Kailani, the lead character of the spring Warner Bros. film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, you grab the tote bag above and head off to college at UD. Come to think of it, that’s probably what we’d do too because we know some pretty amazing things also happen here.

In December, the Library of Congress added to its permanent collection a PBS documentary about brothers Chuck and Tom Hagel, who fought side by side in Vietnam. Between them, they were wounded five times, and each saved the others’ life within the span of a few weeks. Chuck later became a U.S. senator from Nebraska. Tom became a UD law professor; students have voted him professor of the year three times. The docu mentary chronicles their return trip to Vietnam to the two sites where they nearly gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

As a student tour guide, Justin Bayer ’01 learned that what mat ters in the college search is “fit,” that elusive sense that a place and a person just feel right together. Now, with the help of MARV (his Mobile Automated Research Vehicle), he’s having a blast (literally, there are blasting can nons) introducing students and colleges across the country to one another. His company is getting noticed, with active users in 48 states, a feature on HigherEdLive.com and the 2011 Visualizing Success award from Fast Company magazine.

Traditional cafeteria food has gone the way of dinosaur meat in UD’s dining halls. One of the most popular outcomes of the latest renovation, the upgrade of the dining hall in VWK, has been the sushi at the new Passports. Business has also been good at the nearby Mongolian grill, the Southwest burrito grill and the Grainary, which serves fresh sandwiches. Hungry yet?

“If American culture is to value pregnant women as legitimate wage earners, work policies should accommodate pregnancy’s physical effects.” —LAW PROFESSOR JEANNETTE COX, A SPECIALIST IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, IN A PIECE PUBLISHED ON CNN.COM IN JANUARY. SEE STORY PAGE 12.

“They melted. Like I was a Beatle.” —SENIOR BASKETBALL CENTER CASEY NANCE, TALKING ABOUT MAKING EYE CONTACT WITH CHEERING SCHOOLKIDS DURING A MATINEE GAME ON NATIONAL MATH DAY

“I’ve witnessed firsthand the impoverishment of people and the human rights abuses that surround poverty.” —PETER MCGRATH ’72, WHO DONATED $100,000 TO UD TO ENCOURAGE FACULTY AND STUDENT RESEARCH IN HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. SEE STORY PAGE 60.

“Perhaps there is the mistaken impression North Dakota’s favorite dish, fleishkuekle, is not available in Dayton, making finals that much tougher to endure. I will personally make fleishkuekle for any student from North Dakota who becomes a Flyer.” —KATHY McEUEN HARMON, ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF ADMISSION AND FINANCIAL AID, COMMENTING ON UD’S RECEIVING APPLICATIONS, AS OF JANUARY, FROM STUDENTS IN ONLY 49 STATES

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Cover story

Cell death

Pulled pork

Study table

DESIGN BUREAU MAGAZINE

FRUIT FLIES AND ALZHEIMER’S

McDONALD’S McRIB SANDWICH

@ROESCHLIBRARY

Saundra Marcel ’02, a visual com munication design graduate, not only sent a note saying she loves reading class notes, but she threw herself in the mix. A designer and design journalist, she landed the cover story of the November/ December issue of Design Bureau magazine. (You can read her story at www.wearedesignbureau.com/ projects/renegade architecture/.) What are you writing or reading? Send a class note to classnotes@ udayton.edu.

Cell death in the eyes of fruit flies may hold the key to early detec tion and treatment of Alzheimer’s. The researcher uncovering this connection is sophomore premed major, honors student and varsity golfer Andrew Steffensmeier, who scored a rare invitation as a student to present his findings in March at the annual Drosophila Genetics Conference, which draws the world’s leading biomedical researchers and graduate students. “I hope it’s that ‘wow factor’ you need to get into medical school,” he said.

When McDonald’s launched the McRib nationally in 1982, the market’s reaction was so tepid that it was pulled later that year. So why does it keep coming back? Research by assistant market ing professor Serdar Durmusoglu turns up one interesting expla nation. He spotted “a noticeable trend that leads us to believe that McDonald’s uses the McRib to exert its dominance in the market when one of its competitors starts offering a pork based sandwich.” In other words, it’s really a tool of Market McDomination.

When Roesch Library staff started noticing students sending mes sages via Twitter about the library with the code term “Club Roesch,” they had a choice — ignore it or embrace it. They gave it a big hug, even ordering pens like the one above to help students highlight key facts in their notes and text books as they spend the wee hours of the morning at the study tables among the stacks. Read more about it on Page 6.

“The root of all resistance is the unrelenting belief that dreams can come true.”

“He really is the No. 1 spokesman [for UD], but he’ll say we’re all the No. 1 spokesman.”

—EBONY UTLEY, A PROFESSOR AT CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH, WHO DELIVERED THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT UD’S MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY CELEBRATION

—SENIOR JEFF FIRESTONE COMMENTING IN FLYER NEWS ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UD PRESIDENCY OF DANIEL J. CURRAN

CONVERSATION PIECES Brains, fish and war

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EXPERT INSTRUCTION

How to make a quick impression

Some of Kelly’s favorite student tweets, positive and negative:

Recruitment materials might call it Roesch Library, but for students on campus, it’s become #clubroesch. In Twitter terms, the # “hashtag” sign marks the word as a keyword, both a searchable term and a bit of commentary. Roesch Library’s own Twitter account, @roeschlibrary, has become a breakout star on campus for its light tone and responsiveness. It’s run by Katy Kelly, communications and outreach librarian, who offers her tips for managing a must-follow Twitter account:

n Does anyone have some mittens or a kitten I can borrow to combat the arctic temperatures of @roeschlibrary? #ClubRoesch #meow #FrigidPanda n TestFIN301+Test3ECO204 + QuizACC208 + PresentationMGT221 + TestDSC211 = A very tired 20 year old... #clubroesch n goal: 4 hours in #clubroesch then make it to @TimothysBar before cover. ready. set. go. n looks like yet another week of closing @roeschlibrary every night. #cantwait n I wonder if the girl in #clubroesch realizes her headphones are not preventing anyone from hearing her music. Sing it, Beyoncé. #petpeeve n i’m slowly dying here as well, obvsss... if only #clubroesch was 24 hours i would move in n anyone in @roeschlibrary have a pen or pencil I could borrow, please? #soprepared n i should start making new friends at what i like to call the “gem” of the university #clubroesch #secondfloor #doublemonitors #everynight

Have a personality (even if you’re not a person) Twitter is a place for conversation, not streams of announcements. Even when you’re tweeting for an entity, like a library, a personal voice matters.

Lighten up Students are funny in their tweets about #clubroesch (see right), so why shouldn’t the library be, too? “I respond trying to be pop-culture savvy,” she says.

Show you’re listening “This is like our comment box, but everyone can see the comments. I like that,” Kelly says, adding that reading complaints is a good thing.

Even if she can’t help, she responds to show someone’s listening.

Act on what you hear Roesch has revised policies based, in part, on chatter from tweets. Wi-Fi capacity has been expanded and even food policies loosened. Yes, you can now order in a pizza. “What better way to start a long night of studying?” Kelly says.

Track Kelly keeps a spreadsheet of Roeschrelevant tweets to spot trends in how students use the library. That helps the library serve them better which, after all, is the goal. —Matthew Dewald

How to make a last impression Art education graduate Roy “Bud” Davis ’65 usually gets one of two reactions to his work: stunned silence or curious delight. As owner/operator of Bert & Bud’s Vintage Coffins (vintagecoffins.com) in Murray, Ky., he builds fine, one-of-a-kind coffins to order, 10 or so in a good year. Nearly all of his orders are “pre-need,” to use an industry term, so he is able to chat with clients about their preferences. His tips for the last piece of furniture you’ll ever use:

Beauty first “Your coffin really ought to be a work of art,” he says. He draws on nearly 50 years as an artist to make each coffin a handcrafted, original piece.

Make it personal One client, a retired truck driver, dresses year-round as Santa Claus. Davis delivered a coffin perfect for him, decorated with reindeer, snowflakes and a bag full of toys.

Creativity counts A PBS show commissioned a steamboat-style coffin for writer Roy Blount Jr. to narrate from while floating down the Mississippi River. Maxim magazine ordered one shaped like a giant beer bottle for a national contest.

So does simple elegance One of his most popular coffin styles is the classic, six-sided toe-pincher. Sometimes called a “Dracula coffin,” it’s available as

a plain pine box, an elegantly varnished and upholstered model, or anything in between. Many clients consider it a welcome alternative to the “gaudy things that the funeral homes push,” he says.

And maybe even utility Customers have asked for removable shelves to use his coffins as temporary bookshelves and even a liquor cabinet, as well as blanket chests and coffee tables (one client calls hers “an end table”).

Accept it with cheer A sense of humor is “part of our business plan. It makes it easier for people to approach the topic.” But families might not always accept the more extreme designs, he cautions. “The person who bought it might want to be buried in it, but the wife and kids might say, ‘Let’s get a real one.’” —Matthew Dewald

BIG QUESTIONS

FAR-TRAVELED STUDENTS AND PURE JOY NEARBY ... ASK A MARIANIST A Marianist Educational Associate since 2011, Peg Mount has been assisting the students, faculty and staff of engineering technology for more than 20 years. That includes, since 2006, cohorts of students and faculty from Shanghai Normal University in China. What was your impression when you saw the first cohort of Chinese students from

Shanghai Normal University? —PAUL XU ’07 Shanghai, China

I admired the students for taking a

risk in coming to UD to take class-

es. I know it was difficult for them

to be 7,000 miles away from home and their families and to take courses not taught in Chinese.

came one of my student workers,

bad divorce, and I never thought

turn and rebuild the country. Tony

it could have gone the other way.

instantaneous, pure joy when my

Outreach Program that supports,

and we became good friends. But Every day, admin assistants hear “I need, I want, I gotta have” from

students, faculty and technicians. Everybody has to make a conscious decision every day about what we do.

How has your MEA experience impacted your life professionally and personally?

In the past couple years, you have helped

What is the Lebanon Outreach Program

service. I think this program is one

of the many examples of how the

Marianist spirit continues to flow from one generation to the next.

Antonio and Hawaii. I believe in

’52 Cupertino, Calif.

the Marianists and their mission.

When Tony and Joseph Saliba came

I work with a very special group

white — there are so many gray

found not only a refuge from the

rent faculty, I’ve watched their

(1975-1990) but also a community

who likes jelly beans and who

nese could prosper socially, eco-

semester pizza party that brings all

later, when President Dan

ulty and retirees together. When I

iba visited Lebanon, they

part of their group. I have played

gave me new insights by seeing Dayton through their eyes.

How do you make use of the Marianist charism in your daily dealings with stu-

They see the world is not black and

areas, and they have compassion

and have shown me how to be

nonjudgmental. I’m always open

to listening. We all have burdens to bear, but when you share, you begin to heal.

dents, particularly those who might be a

What is the happiest

bit challenging to deal with?

thing for you?

—MARGARET PINNELL ’88 UD assistant dean There was a student who did not

want to hear “no,” and “no” was the only answer I had for him.

So I’m standing, and he’s getting pushy and coming into my space. I thought, he’s a freshman, and I’m going to have him for the next four years. And I was thinking about

the Marianist charisms of Mary and inclusivity. I decided that I could make his life miserable ev-

ery time he came in this office or

I could think of him as a child of God and someone who deserves my respect. The irony is that he be-

better world.

ing innovation, commitment and

—BROTHER JOHN SAMAHA, S.M.

ing about their culture, and they

their faces, that they can make it a

home to be strong leaders provid-

only from UD but also from San

ting to know them and learn-

and we see hope when we look in

versity of Dayton and then return

I have met wonderful people not

who I want to see. I enjoyed get-

them. It’s the next generation,

from Lebanon to come to the Uni-

you ever thought about visiting Shanghai?

are there, faculty who are there

1 year. I just light up when I see

through donated money, students

a lot of Shanghai Normal students. Have

There are so many students who

ren is now 5, Jocelyn, just over

headed by engineering school dean Tony

I would love to go to Shanghai.

son first handed me Lauren. Lau-

and Joe have started the Lebanon

—RANDY GROESBECK UD administrator

—YVONNE ZHOU ’07 Cincinnati

I’d love like that again. But it was

—RORO CHEN ’08 Shanghai, China My granddaughters. I went through a

Saliba?

What do you enjoy most about being at UD? —BECKY BLUST ’87 UD professor

to the University of Dayton, they

of people in technology. The cur-

civil war in their native homeland

kids grow up from babies. I know

where they and many other Leba-

likes Snickers. We have an end-of-

nomically and culturally. Years

of our full-time and part-time fac-

Curran and Provost Joe Sal-

first started, the retirees made me

were told by both the pres-

laser tag with them, and we just

ident of the country and

the head of the Maronite

Catholic Church that UD’s Lebanese

should

students be

en-

couraged to re-

had our third annual Robert Burns

night, where engineers, math-

ematicians and their spouses share poems. My 60th birthday is coming up, and I’m learning from the

best how to celebrate birthdays and celebrate life.

For our next issue ask FATHER MARTY SOLMA, S.M. ’71, provincial for the Marianist Province of the United States and a Cleveland native. He previously served in eastern Africa for 25 years. EMAIL YOUR QUESTION TO MAGAZINE@UDAYTON.EDU.

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FLIGHT DECK The Flyers won their first A-10 championship in women’s basketball and made their third consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. See story, Page 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Warm weather has meant a productive winter for the workers constructing the new GE Aviation EPISCENTER, the $51 million research center now rising in concrete and steel at the corner of Patterson Boulevard and River Park Drive, just across the bridge from UD Arena. The EPISCENTER will be UD’s first LEED-certified building, a standard from the U.S. Green Building Council that verifies that a building’s design and construction achieves a high performance in sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor air environmental quality. Plus, it’s right along bike paths and bus lines, making it easy for employees to be a little greener themselves. The building will open in 2013.

Little snow, a greening campus

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A solid partnership Catholic Relief Services has invited the University to pilot a new Scholars in

Global Solidarity program. CRS, the church’s international humanitarian agen-

cy, serves more than 100 million people in nearly 100 countries.

“The partnership will build on the strengths of both institutions to develop

faculty leadership in solving pressing global issues affecting the poor overseas,” said Mary Laver, program adviser for CRS.

“Although Catholic Relief Services

and each Catholic college and university has its own distinct mission, each

shares common concern for social justice and peace and educating for global

responsibility. By linking our talents, we become a stronger force with even greater foresight in fighting poverty and injustice.”

The University of San Francisco and St. John’s University in New York will

also participate in the two-year Phase I to exchange expertise among faculty and CRS overseas staff and technical advisers.

Some cornerstones of the program include providing a knowledge of major

faith traditions; an ability to evaluate critically and imaginatively the challenges of the times; an appreciation for diversity through an understanding of the

cultures, histories, times and places of others around the world; and an ability to see one’s life as a vocation or calling.

lic

business

schools,

was named dean of UD’s School of Business Administration. “The

business

world is littered with people

who

went

wrong,” he said. “I be-

Bobrowski

lieve business students need more than just an education; they need a spiritual connection.” He begins his new position July 1.

A likely fellow UD professor Partha Banerjee has joined the likes of Nobel laureate Stephen Chu and the U.S. secretary of energy as a fellow of the Institute of Physics. Banerjee, professor of electro-optics and electrical and computer engineering, was recognized for “his personal contribution to the advancement of physics as a discipline and a profession.”

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

the nation’s top 25 pub-

President Barack Obama brought British Prime Minister David Cameron as his guest during the NCAA First Four at UD Arena. “I will leave America with some new words,” Cameron said at the White House the following day. “Alley oops, brackets, fast breaks … and who knows, maybe that hoop will be installed in Downing Street after all.”

Welcome to our house, Mr. President The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils thought they got robbed early in the first half, but a goaltending call gave President Barack Obama a teachable moment during the NCAA First Four at UD Arena March 13-14. Basketball fans could imagine that he explained to his guest, British Prime Minister David Cameron, why the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers garnered two points while the ball never went through the basket. Obama, invited by the NCAA, became the first sitting president to visit the University of Dayton. As they finished their hotdogs, the world leaders also discussed a player control foul committed under the Hilltoppers’ basket. Obama leaned in to Cameron, then pointed to the replay board as a digital Delta Devil again went sprawling. Obama and Cameron arrived after an operatic national anthem and the herding in of the White House press corps. The audience knew something special was about to happen, staying standing and eyeing the Dayton Flyers’ team tunnel until the president emerged. Obama shook hands President Obama, posing here with students, became the first with the students around him sitting president to visit the University of Dayton campus. before waving to the crowd and enjoying the game, then a hot dog. UD senior Jacob Rosen tweeted from nearby: “I believe David Cameron chose ketchup over mustard for his front row hot dog. Adjust your UK stock projections accordingly.” UD has welcomed other presidents — Jimmy Carter in 1992, Gerald Ford in 1986 and then-candidate George W. Bush in 2000. But never a sitting president and never at a basketball game at an arena named one of the best basketball venues in the nation. Flyer Faithful know it. Now Obama and Cameron do, too. —Michelle Tedford

Photo courtesy of KYLIE SAWKA ’13

Paul Bobrowski, who led Auburn’s School of Business to be one of

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Still in business

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creased debt for the intern. Internships often offer great opportunities but little or no pay. To ease the burden, UD’s College of Arts and Sciences has begun offering free rooms and stipends for students selected for an internship at the Ohio Statehouse. “Without the stipend, I would literally be detasseling corn all summer at a local farm 40 hours a week,” said Holly Christian, one of 12 UD students chosen for the program. Said

Eileen

Crotty

Austria ’81, coordinator of the Statehouse Internship Program, “We tried to take out the deal breakers, like living and travel expenses.”

Dayton Habitat for Humanity presented one of three President’s Volunteer Service Awards in January to UD in recognition of the 165 UD students, faculty and staff who volunteered 781 hours of service in 2011 to provide homes to area families in need.

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n When a tweeting juror led to an overturned 2010 murder conviction in Arkansas, The Wall Street Journal turned to law professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister for perspective. “You have to start treating jurors less like children,” he said. “Jurors should be equal partners in the courtroom — tell them why they can’t do things.” DARYLL COLLINS

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n For its coverage of the influential Detroit Auto Show, CNBC asked history professor and car expert John Heitmann for help separating a mere collectible from “a bona fide cult superstar.” “The key,” he said, “is that intangible kind of design and product and quality ... that essentially makes it an object of desire.”

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unfortunate flip side: in-

Habit of service

once-in-a-lifetime

. .. . .

. . . .. . . A

internship can have an

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Solving one debt crisis

Media Hits

Easy come, easy glow The connections made and lost during daily social networking inter-

actions may happen virtually, but they’re surprisingly similar to the dayto-day networking connections happening in your body via your DNA.

Thomas Williams, assistant professor in the department of biology,

is a light user of social networking, but he’s heavily interested in how it

relates to his research of DNA networking. Genes need to interact with

one another to make or do something, but the means by which new connections are made or lost remain poorly understood.

Williams and a team of graduate and undergraduate students hope

fruit flies can tell them more about the process. The team, supported by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation, uses a green fluorescent gene from a jellyfish to analyze the DNA sequences where

these connections reside. Putting the jellyfish gene into fruit flies and analyzing the appearance (or lack of appearance) of a fluorescent pro-

tein tells researchers where connections have been made or lost, with

the goal of revealing which DNA changes add a “follower” or cause an “unfriending.”

Despite the parallel between social networking and his work,

Williams still has not fully warmed up to social networking, so don’t be offended if he doesn’t accept your Facebook request.

—Meredith Hirt ’13

Best in the business

Bolstering Airbus

Best-selling author Ben Mez-

rich, whose book about the found-

ing of Facebook became the film

Researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute will evaluate the properties and performance of nanomaterials and carbon fibers as part of a five-year agreement between Airbus and the National Composite Center announced in January. UD is one of six Ohio companies and organizations in the consortium aimed at developing and demonstrating new technologies to produce high-tech component parts for Airbus.

The Social Network, joined a line-

up of financial leaders to share

their outlooks on the economy, stocks, alternative investments, and international and emerging markets at the R.I.S.E. XII student investment forum in March in UD Arena.

Now in its 12th year, R.I.S.E.

(Redefining Investment Strategy Education) brings together investment professionals with students

and faculty in an interactive setting. The forum has attracted

nearly 13,000 participants from

the financial industry and colleges and universities from around the globe.

Brown Street facelift

LinkedIn to UD?

A $4.4 million update means that a stroll down Brown Street

Social networking used to mean a handshake and a meeting. These days, it’s often a keystroke or a click,

will feel a little different after

one reason that career services migrated its Hire

November. The plan calls for

a Flyer network to LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/

decorative street lighting, im-

groups?gid=1771482).

proved sidewalks and new bike

“Alumni relationships with our office shouldn’t

lanes, all designed to make the

cease when [graduates] receive their diplomas,”

street more pedestrian and cycle

says Jason Eckert, director of career services. “All Flyers on or off campus are welcome to utilize our services,

friendly.

which are free for life.”

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A recent survey shows that UD’s newest graduates are in demand. Ninety-five percent of 2011 bachelor’s degree graduates report being employed, in a graduate program or in a service program within six months of graduation. Each of the schools — business, engineering, education and the College of Arts and Sciences

Ooh, shiny If cuddling up with an iPad is your idea of a good time, down-

— reports an 85 percent success rate or better.

load the free University of Dayton

Putting degrees to work

Magazine

2011 graduates reporting continuing in their chosen or a closely related field

app. The digital version offers

live

links, videos and the ability to share stories via

98% Engineering

95% Business

93% Education

85% Arts and Sciences

email and social media. Versions are also available for iPhone and Android users. Just search the magazine’s name in the Apple and Android app stores.

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Post-graduation surveys show that roughly 40 percent of UD law graduates work in solo practices or small firms, a number that’s growing at UD and nationally. But the professional life of lawyers who hang out the proverbial shingle can be lonely, especially when it comes to networking, sharing information and asking questions, something their large-firm colleagues can do by simply walking down a hall. To help, the law school has launched the Small Practice Network, an online forum for alumni working in small or solo practices and for students interested in that type of practice. The law school is also looking at creating a solo practice incubator that offers space, resources and mentoring for alumni beginning their legal careers. More information is available at udslsmallpracticenetwork.ning.com.

Attorney and sole practitioner Mike Columbus ’94, returned to UD to earn his law degree in 2003.

What not to expect when you’re expecting Had she injured her back, Victoria Serednyj would’ve been able to continue working as a nursing home activities director. For a few months, she wasn’t able to lift tables, an activity that made up 5-10 minutes of an average workday. Her co-workers had even volunteered to help. But she didn’t injure her back, a circumstance that would’ve been covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act. She got pregnant, and she lost her job. “In most of the country, employers can force pregnant workers out of the workplace when their pregnancy interferes with their normal job duties,” wrote Jeanette Cox in a Jan. 10 editorial on CNN.com. Cox, an associate professor who teaches employment discrimination at the School of Law, argued that the Americans with Disabilities Act should be amended to protect Serednyj and pregnant workers like her who experience limitations comparable to others already covered by the ADA. The article received widespread national media coverage and drew thousands of comments.

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Not-so-lonely lawyers

Another offer you can’t refuse Free textbooks for undergraduates — an offer for students who applied, visited campus and filled out financial aid forms — made national news when UD rolled it out in August. Now, first-year law students can make a motion for the same. The School of Law is offering up to $1,000 to pay for first-year law books, reference texts and law supplements for students who make a scheduled visit and enroll. “We think [the program] will help them focus on other important matters as they prepare to start law school,” said

Janet

Hein,

assistant

dean and the law school’s director of admissions and financial aid.

OF DAYTON MAGAZINE?

Robert Bortolin ’03 and David Perkins ’03 snapped this photo on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. “Six of us spent about two weeks traveling around Tanzania for the holidays,” writes Bortolin. “Certainly one of the most unique Christmases any of us have had.”

“The UD mag went with my family for my first visit to Europe over the Christmas holidays,” Vicki Paulson Minchener ’70 writes. “We visited Düsseldorf, Munich and Rome. In this picture, the magazine accompanies me at Prague Castle on New Year’s Eve day.”

Maggie Malach ’11 writes that she “rang in 2012 in style reading the magazine in Times Square. In the city that never sleeps, there is always time to read DayMag.”

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Melanie Woods ’07 with the Indianapolis alumni chapter tweeted (@UDIndyAlumni), “Where are we reading our @daymag? At the UD v. XU gamewatch, of course!”

“Literally halfway ’round the world from UD, I was visiting the magical UNESCO World Heritage city of Luang Prabang, Laos, for the seventh time,” writes Dale Gilles ’64. “The issue of the UD Magazine had the article ‘A River Runs Through It.’ What better reading while taking a cruise along the magnificent mighty Mekong River?”

Joseph DeLiberato ’09 proposed to Stephanie Wiezbenski ’09 in Nantes, France. “We were celebrating a beautiful UD love story, so we had to bring Dr. Dan and our UD Magazine along on vacation. Here we are in front of Madrid’s Royal Palace.”

“Just thought that I would take a break from skiing and catch up on UD happenings with Dayton Magazine,” Dan Henry ’70 writes from Breckenridge, Colo. “During après skiing, I toasted to UD, DGO (my fraternity) and Timothy’s — many times. All fond memories.”

“We had a wonderful time at the Currin house (Michelle ’04 and Mike ’03) celebrating the arrival of Caitlin Moody (daughter of Jen ’04 and Jason ’04) on the day of the UD/ Xavier away game,” writes a whole group of alumnae. “It was so much fun to share our UD pride with our little ladies. We know they’ll be friends for life, just like we are from our UD days together.”

“I was on a Disney Alaskan cruise with my family, and my mother and I decided to go on the excursion featuring the boat from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch from the port of Ketchikan, Alaska,” writes student Patrick é Sankovic.

Jessica Minor ’06 writes, “We hiked 10 miles to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Reservation in the Grand Canyon. We camped two nights and descended a steep cliff to witness Mother Nature’s beauty. We stopped to rest and read our latest UD alumni magazine.” In the photo are Jessica, Joel Baetens ’10, Teresa Recker Gross ’06 and Patrick Gross.

John Nugent ’71, wife Sandi and son Joe had UD Magazine with them in Phuket, Thailand, “with a 4-year-old elephant who was just moments away from taking a dip in the sea.”

David Ott ’83 writes, “Nanjing, China, was the site of the February 3GPP2 wireless communications meeting. While there, I caught the end of the lunar new year celebration and the Lantern Festival.”

Kathleen Carley Webb ’69 sent this photo of herself, Dennis Webb ’69, Susan Benjamin Lauer ’69 and Jerome Lauer ’69 in Florence, Italy. She writes, “Kathleen and Susan were roommates. Dennis and Jerome were roommates. We were in each others’ weddings ... 40-something years ago.”

View more photos on Facebook at www.facebook.com/udmagazine.

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SPORTS

It don’t mean a In UD’s state-of-the-art motion analysis laboratory, a baseball fan is using the science of motion to improve Flyers in the field — and maybe even his Cleveland Indians By Thomas M. Columbus

Philip Anloague, director of

club still offered fans opportu-

of physical therapy program, is a

in 1997 the Indians turned down

the University of Dayton’s doctor

Cleveland Indians fan. While he was growing up in Seven Hills,

Ohio, a suburb almost due south of the Indians’ home by Lake

Erie, the Indians were perennial losers.

“Each year,” he said, “it was,

an offer from the Montreal Expos of a successful but, by some stan-

dards, undersized pitcher for 21-year-old phenom pitcher Jaret Wright. The Indians envisioned years of greatness from Wright.

Wright’s career soon nose-

‘We sure hope we don’t finish

dived into an ongoing battle with

.500 season.

Indians turned down was three-

last.’” Optimists yearned for a Even

though

the

1990s

brought success to Cleveland, the 14 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

nity for suffering. For example,

shoulder injuries; the player the

time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez.

Senior Flyer infielder C.J. Gillman

thing if we ain’t got that swing n n n Unlike

some

people

whose

career interests soften the disappointments suffered as youthful

ity flexibility and arm range of

one can see that Wright’s motion

ies showed that tired pitchers be-

the study reads, “is a kinetic chain

set him up for injury.

And Anloague, who received

his Doctor of Health Science de-

dians. He does research on the bio-

gustine, has contributed to that

mechanics of human motion; he is immersed, personally and professionally, in the study of hitting and pitching.

In recent years, researchers

have discovered much about the

overhead motion used by baseball

between trunk forward tilt and

today’s knowledge, Anloague said,

fans, Anloague’s career may have

exacerbated his concerns for his In-

pitchers. With the hindsight of

gree from the University of St. Au-

ball velocity,” he said. “Other stud-

come vertical and ball velocity goes down, and they miss high. That leads to the advice to bend back and follow through.”

Anloague and his colleagues

knowledge. In his paper “Multi-

hypothesized that pitchers then

Level Overhead Athletes,” he ana-

And that leads to shoulder and el-

Factorial Assessment of Collegiate

lyzed the pitcher’s motion from the

physical therapy elements of motion, strength and balance.

“There is a direct relationship

motion. “The throwing motion,” event” resulting “in the transfer

of energy from the lower extremities to the hips, pelvis, trunk,

shoulder girdle, arm, hand and, finally, ball.”

With Wright, that chain had

compensate with an arm strategy.

problems.

bow problems.

ibility and mobility issues in his

the hypothesis that there is a re-

led to an inefficient transfer of

In another study, he probed

lationship between lower extrem-

“I believe Jaret Wright had flex-

lower extremities and trunk that momentum to his pitching arm,”

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ETHAN KLOSTERMAN ’13 / ethanklosterman.com

SPORTS Anloague said. “As a result, he had to rely on increased strength from his arm, which may have resulted in excessive forces on his shoulder and elbow.”

Anloague’s study concluded that a simple sit-

and-reach test could help “identify throwers at risk for shoulder dysfunction prior to injury.”

Recently, Anloague has turned his attention to

studying hitting.

“The old-school hitting philosophy,” Anloague

said, “involved having hitters generate a lot of rearfoot force. We would use verbal instructions like ‘squash the bug’ as we tried to get hitters to cock the back hip and rotate on the ball of their foot.”

More recently, a school of thought emphasizes

hitters trying to generate more front-foot force, similar to — what might arouse horror in tradition-

alists — a golf swing. Which approach works best? That’s part of what Anloague is trying to find out.

“We are looking at the relationship,” he said,

“between rear-foot force versus front-foot force and bat speed. One of the purposes of our study is to see

if bat speed is correlated more with rear-foot strategies or front-foot strategies.”

Among the hitters participating in the study

is senior C.J. Gillman, who plays both first and third base. Last year, he set Dayton’s single-sea-

son records in hits (91) and at-bats (241), had the

third-best batting average in the Atlantic 10 (.378), led the conference in hits and ranked second in

A-10 champs The Flyers won their first Atlantic 10 women’s basketball championship by beating 16th-ranked St. Bonaventure 56-53. The win put the Flyers at 23-6, snapped an 18-game winning streak for the Bonnies (who finished 29-3) and earned the Flyers an automatic birth in the NCAA Tournament. The Flyers’ third consecutive trip to the NCAA ended with a first-round loss to Arkansas. The Flyers reached the A-10 title game by beating Saint Louis 69-51 and Temple 66-63; the Flyers’ only A-10 losses had been to Temple and St. Bonaventure. Senior Justine Raterman was named the A-10 Championship’s Most Outstanding Performer. Four

years ago, she was A-10 Rookie of the Year. And in each of those four years, she has led the Flyers in points scored. Since the program became Division I in 1984-85, she is its leading scorer. Raterman was named to the A-10 first team, becoming the first women’s basketball Flyer to do so in two consecutive years. Fellow senior Ellie Queen was named to the conference’s all-defensive team. Freshman Andrea Hoover was chosen A-10 Rookie of the Year and named to the A-10 third team. Fellow freshman Ally Malott was also named to the all-rookie team. The Flyers were the only team with two players so honored. For more on Flyer sports, see daytonflyers.com.

doubles.

A case study analyzing Gillman’s use of back-leg

strategies produced what scientific studies sometimes do — more questions. His use of back-leg

strategies, as recorded in the controlled environment of UD’s motion analysis laboratory, did not

create an increase in “back-leg ground reaction forces.” Rather, it created more force from the front leg.

So besides the question of what strategy works

better (front- or rear-leg) are coaching questions of what to tell players to do to gain the desired result.

Or, maybe the Gillman results are an anomaly — a reason why research such as this requires years to accumulate sufficient data.

Meanwhile, Cleveland Indians fans are enter-

ing the season hoping for a first or third baseman

who can hit off any foot (and not kick the ball in the field).

And Anloague is entering into discussions with

the Indians on a proposal to investigate a clinical prediction rule for injuries to Major League Baseball

pitchers that includes looking at the whole body —

legs and trunk in addition to the arm. So, the next time a situation like the Wright-Martinez trade

Road to the NCAA Final Four starts here The University again hosted the first four games of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship. On Selection Sunday, thousands of fans celebrated at a First Four Festival held in Dayton’s Oregon District. Fans at UD Arena, including President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, witnessed two records being set. Western Kentucky made the greatest comeback in the final five minutes of an NCAA Tournament game, coming from 16 behind to beat Mississippi Valley State, 59-58. And Brigham Young made the overall greatest comeback in NCAA Tournament history, recovering from 25 points down to beat Iona 78-72. Next year, in addition to the First Four, six games of the second and third rounds will be played at UD Arena.

NCAA men’s basketball tournament games played in the University of Dayton Arena

NCAA men’s basketball tournament games to be played in the UD Arena in March 2013 (the First Four plus six games of the second and third rounds)

Games in the NCAA’s 2012 First Four at the UD Arena

Rank of the University of Dayton Arena for number of men’s basketball tournament games hosted

Total of public dollars used for construction of the UD Arena in 1969

2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Site: University of Dayton Arena First Four: March 19-20 Second and third rounds: March 22 and March 24 Tickets are sold in packages containing all 10 games. Ticket sales to season ticket holders end May 31, 2012, or when all tickets are purchased. Any remaining tickets go on sale to the general public in October 2012. For more information, go to daytonflyers.com/2013ncaatickets.

arises, so will hopes of another pennant flying in Cleveland.

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d ’ r e y Fl up

It’s impossible to imagine a game at UD Arena without the pep band. Loud, fun and color-coordinated, they’re the soundtrack of Flyer basketball. But just who are these students, and what’s it like to have the best seats in the house game after game? Interviews by MAGGIE MALACH ’11; photo by CHRISTINE BATES ’12

Scott Fogel

Adam Sokol

Emily Bright

Maria Lograsso

Sophomore Political science Baritone horn

Sophomore Chemical engineering Clarinet

Jim Dutton

Junior Chemical engineering Trombone

Kelsey Biggar Senior Art history Alto saxophone

Junior Political science Trombone

Sophomore Music performance Trombone

“We hear everything. When you leave a game, your ears are ringing from all of the excitement. You’re so pumped up from being there.”

“The mood at the games is unbelievable. It’s one of the best feelings ever to be inside a crowd that can be deafening. It’s electrifying.”

“The best part is playing music everyone knows and being with people who love music as much as I do. The atmosphere is amazing. Your adrenaline is pumping so much.”

“For games we paint our faces, wear crazy hats, and stand up and show how much we love our Flyers. It’s fun being part of something we care about so much.”

“I love being there to support women’s basketball. The women are so appreciative of the fans, and the atmosphere can get really good. You really can t explain the energy.”

“It’s pretty cool to travel with the team and see them win tournament games. We work really hard and appreciate Red Scare cheering alongside us.”

Alisa Vidulich

Jordan DeLeon

Junior International studies/ French Trumpet

Junior Management information systems Trumpet

Janice Matlon

Senior Middle childhood education Trumpet

Christine Caldera

Dean Samuels

“The atmosphere at games is like a burst of energy — it is a lot of people put together, wanting the same thing so passionately.”

“I remember my first game — I couldn’t believe so many people were so passionate about the Flyers. I was at a loss for words.”

“Nothing in the world can stop me from being at games. It is definitely the most important thing for me to be doing on campus.”

“Being in the pep band makes you feel important, like you are helping the team. You feel like you are part of the University more than just being in the stands.”

“When we get here, it’s quiet. I start thinking about the game before the players do. There’s no atmosphere like a college sports atmosphere.”

First-year Human rights Trumpet

Sophomore Psychology Drums

Kathryn Gardocki Sophomore Middle childhood education Trumpet/mellophone

“We try to keep the energy high and work together with Red Scare. Just being at the game is enough to pump us up — and we get such good seats.”

Rich Nebel

(president of the pep band) Senior Economics Tenor sax

“We make a lot of noise at the games — even without instruments.”

Kieran Grace

First-year General education Trumpet

“The best part of the games is the energy. When we play ‘Go, Dayton Flyers,’ we know everyone will be cheering.”

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McHale

crown ethers through his work at

bypassed

DuPont.

the transformer to

Also inducted were Emerson

hot-wire his model

Climate

train. “That thing

burst into flames, shot off the track

and embedded right in the wall,”

the 1978 graduate told a roomful

of fellow engineers and friends of the School of Engineering during a gala to celebrate the school's 100th anniversary.

McHale, a technology vision-

ary, joined the inaugural class of

inductees into the School of Engi-

neering Hall of Fame Friday, Feb. 24, in Kennedy Union ballroom.

In his acceptance speech,

McHale talked of working with technology’s greatest minds at

his first job at Texas Instruments.

“They were smarter, but they did not go to the University of Dayton. I was better prepared. Period.”

It was the combination of

technical competency and the Marianist dedication to educating the whole person that he said distinguished his education.

“I talk to other people about

their education, and that philosophy pervades only this culture,” he said. The

electrical

engineering

graduate moved from playing

An electric

century The School of

Engineering

celebrates

100 years

on computer networks and broadband technology. McHale now BreakingPoint,

which

builds and tests equipment that allows networking companies to

build faster and bigger networks, and is chairman and CEO of TippingPoint, a defense technology company developing preci-

sion-guided firearms. He has also generously supported education at UD.

At the Hall of Fame ceremo-

ny, inducted posthumously were

Charles Wilke ’40, a biochemical

engineering pioneer and founder of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berke-

ley, and Charles Pedersen ’26, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in

chemistry

for

founda-

engineering education through

with trains to pioneering work

chairs

Technologies,

tional partner in entrepreneurial

discovering

the Innovation Center, and The Kettering Family Philanthropies, whose work continues the legacy

of Dayton inventor Charles F. Kettering.

At the gala, his great grand-

daughter, Susan Kettering, told stories about how she learned in-

ventiveness from her family: “We had a flat tire once. I was 12. My

father said,‘Fix it.’” Another time, on a camping trip, he handed her a tarp and told her to make a tent.

“It wasn’t really good when the wind picked up later that night,

and I have since gotten better at making tents.”

Much work in the world re-

mains to be done, she said. “I know that, with the help of the

faculty, [the students] will be able to do just that.”

Among those in attendance

were more than 100 faculty, staff

and students from the School of Engineering, which is celebrat-

ing the centennial anniversary all year through events on campus and in alumni chapter cit-

ies throughout the country. The

celebration will conclude during Reunion Weekend June 8-10.

“If we had another plaque for

the Hall of Fame, it would go to

the faculty of the School of Engineering,” President Daniel J.

Curran told the attendees. “They made sure you made it to that coop, that you had the experience

that made a difference. And they continue to innovate.”

Dean Tony Saliba invited pro-

fessor Bob Wolff ’58 to stand and represent

the

faculty.

During

cheers and applause, Wolff gave an appreciative wave. His tenure: 54 of the school’s 100 years ... and counting.

—Michelle Tedford

A video on the school's his-

tory and more is at www.udayton. edu/engineering/#7.

sponsored materials research funding n Undergraduate program ranked in the top 10 nationally five years running n Graduate programs tied in 2011 for first among Catholic institutions, ranked 52nd in nation

The School of Engineering has grown to become one of the nation’s best engineering schools. n Six accredited undergraduate degrees, 13 master’s and five doctoral degree programs n Record student

even-year-old John

enrollment: 1,565 undergraduates, 480 master’s students, 95 doctoral students n First in Ohio and 11th in nation for federally funded engineering research n No. 1 nationally for

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of Vice President Father Lawrence Yeske, S.M. ’02, to conceive a College of Engineering. Their resources were spare but their fortitude intense, knowing that education and innovation could be a powerful combination. The college’s purpose, as they penned in the first catalog for the 1911 school year, was to “satisfy an oft-repeated desire and to fulfill a long-felt need.” The Marianists knew their students needed skills for a world increasingly dominated by science. In Dayton, the Wright brothers were learning to fly. Ohio scientists were developing the process to power electric streetlights and the catalytic cracking technology for refining crude oil into gasoline. Innovation was moving society and industry forward; the Marianists, ever

adaptable to change, embraced it. One-person departments began catering to small class sizes: both electrical and chemical engineering graduated their first students in 1915, a total of five engineers. Russell Garrison graduated with the first mechanical engineering degree in 1918, followed by Lt. Lawrence Waller a year later in the civil department. To secular scientists, science gave no hope of life after death. “To them it was a paradox,” wrote Brother Louis Rose, S.M. ’23, the chair of electrical engineering. But the Marianist scientist, he said, was privy to a unique perspective of heaven and earth: “To the young religious, science was unfolding the true meaning of life and purpose of His creation.” With faith and hard work, the Marianists transformed that worn

laboratory and constructed new facilities for engineering education. They also turned to community resources. Frank Tait, DP&L chairman, gifted a generator that had illuminated the Ohio city of Osborn; William Patterson, head of National Cash Register, donated $2,000 toward a new mechanical testing laboratory. These were the earliest models of what has become a century of partnerships in the name of education and innovation. Known as the city of a thousand factories, Dayton and its industries understood that an engineering school would feed their need for minds and manpower. Today, this solid foundation conceived by five Marianists has grown to serve our region and our world, touching the lives of those UD educates and those who rely on their ingenuity.

He rightly named it the alchemist’s den. The cramped chemistry laboratory above the old gym was stuffy and sparse. With no Bunsen burners, students experimented atop alcohol lamps prone to fits and explosions. Brother William Wohlleben, S.M. ’04, was the first American Marianist to earn a doctorate in science. It was 1909, and he had just returned from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, to teach in a tired room above the women's gym that would become the chemical engineering lab. “I noticed the floor had been worn down in spots almost to the thinness of paper,” Wohlleben recalled in a 1958 interview. “You had to be careful not to let your heel go through.” In September 1910, five men gathered in the St. Mary Hall office

PHOTOS BY DAVE LESKO

Sparks of engineering

NOTES FROM SUBURBIA

B y Kristen L evithan

first encountered Erma Fiste Bombeck ’49 when I was

Enter Erma with her sharp pencil and even sharper observations.

est Nancy Drew mystery, I pulled a dog-eared copy of If

a weekly humor column in the Kettering-Oakwood (Ohio) Times into a gig

mother’s bookshelf and giggled my way through Bom-

in hundreds of newspapers. Through her column, “At Wit’s End,” her

9 years old. One summer afternoon, finished with my latLife Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? from my

beck’s descriptions of her kids’ toxic gym clothes and her attempt to defrost meat under her armpits.

I liked Erma. She seemed a lot like my mom — just a

little funnier.

Erma returned to her journalism career in 1964 and quickly turned

with the Dayton Journal-Herald and, eventually, national syndication books, speaking tours and appearances on Good Morning America, she used

her decades in the suburban trenches to shed light on the less-thanglamorous realities of being a stay-at-home mother.

Jim Higley, Chicago Tribune TribLocal columnist, author of Bobblehead

I knew from the cover of the book and the yellowed clip-

Dad and father of Kevin Higley ’11, remembers his mother laughing and

her column and best-selling books that talked about family life in the

ries of a generation.” While magazines painted a picture of perfection,

pings stuck to our refrigerator that Erma was famous for

suburbs. What I learned later was that she was also a revolutionary fig-

ure who poked fun and then poked holes in cultural assumptions about

mothers, giving voice to a generation of women and leaving a powerful legacy for humorists of both sexes.

After college at UD, Erma and Bill Bombeck ’50 arrived in Center-

ville, Ohio, in the mid-1950s, an era of economic prosperity during

which a house in the suburbs and a stay-at-home wife were emblems of middle-class success. Erma had given up her job as a reporter for the Dayton Herald to stay at home with the couple’s children at a time when

a housewife’s world was supposed to revolve around kids and domestic tasks.

“The mainstream media portrayed women at home with their kids

crying along with Erma’s columns, which he calls “spot-on documentaErma wrote the truth — spilled milk, weeds in the garden and all. According to Nancy Berk, clinical psychologist, humorist and author of

College Bound and Gagged, “Erma brought people back to reality by showing them that families are precious but not perfect. She gave women

permission to admit life isn’t always smooth, and she showed them how to love it — chaos and all.” Erma did all of this with a light touch and

what her husband calls “personal, self-effacing humor that made the author the subject of the joke.”

Not only did Erma free housewives from the pressure of perfection,

but she also honored their contributions during a time of change when

some stay-at-home mothers felt besieged by the messages of the women’s movement. In The Feminine Mystique (1963), Betty Friedan described

as happy and impeccably dressed with perfectly neat homes and a hot

full-time homemaking as stifling and encouraged women to pursue

umnist and author of Rebel Without a Minivan. Women might have bris-

beled traditional housewives as enemies of progress. Indeed, when Ellen

meal on the table every night,” says Tracy Beckerman, syndicated col-

work outside the home. Other members of the women’s movement la-

‘Lady, you are tled at these idealized pictures the glossy magazines offered them, but few openly challenged the image of the happy homemaker.

ERMA

20 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

Goodman interviewed Erma in 1970, she told Goodman, “I had a member of the Women’s Liberation Movement write to me and say, ‘Lady, you are

BOMBECK ’49,

the problem.’ The irony of the charge was likely not lost on Erma, who

the way for future generations of humor and human interest writers.

pay and equal rights,” but one who nevertheless celebrated the work be-

far between, but today more and more women are making a living as

was, as her son Matt points out, “a working mom who believed in equal ing done by at-home mothers.

Erma got her start at a time when women humor writers were few and humorists. Anna Lefler, comedian, essayist and author of The Chicktion-

Although Erma was not a stereotypical feminist — “I don’t recall

ary, credits Erma with “schooling the world in the wealth of comedic tal-

one of the movement’s signature causes, the Equal Rights Amend-

Beckerman, meanwhile, links Erma’s honest, direct style to a current

her ever burning a bra,” quips Bill — she became a spokeswoman for ment, a proposed Constitutional amendment outlawing discrimination on the basis of sex. In 1972, the ERA was passed by Congress and sent

to the states for ratification. In 1978, Erma was appointed to President

Carter’s National Advisory Committee for Women. As the clock on rati-

fication was running out, she teamed up with Liz Carpenter, chair of

ent and insight to be found among women simply living their lives.” social media phenomenon: “She was the true precursor to the Mommy Blogger. There are literally thousands of women blogging on the Inter-

net about their lives as moms. Erma Bombeck really set the stage for this revolution in writing.”

In April, Beckerman, Berk, Higley and Lefler join the faculty of

ERAmerica, and barnstormed the country visiting the states that had

the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, held at UD every two years, to

Son Matt explains, “She felt there was a role for her: trying to reach

ing writers from around the country. Matt enjoys meeting the writers,

yet to ratify the ERA and imploring governors and legislators to do so. women in the suburbs who may not have connected with the Betty Friedans or the Bella Abzugs.”

And reach them she did. Crowds of women turned out to hear Erma

speak, recasting the rhetoric of the movement in more inclusive terms. Bill describes his wife’s work for the ERA: “One side was the dead se-

share their insights on humor and human-interest writing with aspirseveral of whom remind him of his mother. Higley thinks Erma would

have loved to see “our country’s best Erma-like disciples coming together to keep her flame burning.” Berk agrees and adds, “then she probably

would have gone home and written something hilarious about all of us.” At the end of the day, we are unlikely to see another person occupy

rious nature of her support for the cause and the vanguard of women

what Lefler calls “Erma’s singular place in the humor firmament.” And

she skillfully mined about the ‘movement’ and the participants.” An es-

ebrate the contributions of mothers.

speaking on behalf of the amendment. The other side was the humor sential part of Erma’s contribution was, according to her son Matt, “try-

ing to assure women that the passage of the ERA was not anti-family. It was just about equal rights.” Despite her tireless activism, the ERA

failed to pass, but not without Erma expanding the movement’s reach

the world is unlikely to see another writer so skillfully use humor to celAnd that’s no laughing matter.

Kristen Levithan, daughter of Joyce Morrison Stiefel '69, is a freelance writer

who tries to channel Erma Bombeck while balancing a writing career and mother-

the problem’ to include many housewives.

Erma not only left a powerful legacy for mothers, but she also paved

THEN AND

ing three kids in the Ohio suburbs. She keeps her mom's copy of If Life Is a Bowl

of Cherries on her desk for inspiration.

ALWAYS Far left: Erma and Bill Bombeck in the late 1950s with their children Betsy, Matt and Andy. Left: Erma in the 1980s.

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Our Brother

at the

RAYMOND L. FITZ, S.M.

table STANDING BY THE LARGE, ARCHED WINDOW IN HIS office on the second floor of St. Mary Hall, Dan Curran directed a visitor to look at a car parked on University Circle. It was an old, green Buick. Curran said that, when he came to work on Sundays, the car was always there, the only one until he arrived. To the University of Dayton president, however, the car’s presence was no mystery. It was simply a sign that working in an office in St. Joseph Hall was Curran’s predecessor as president, Brother Raymond L. Fitz, S.M. ’64. “He’s here every weekend,” said Curran of Fitz, now the Father Ferree Professor of Social Justice in the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community. “He’s a one-of-akind person.” Observers of Fitz’s presidency, which ran from 1979

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C O L U M B U S

to 2002, and of his work since then paint a very

of three events within a year of each other (the

is humble, spiritual, patient and cautious. But at

the death of Blessed William Joseph Chaminade

consistent picture of the hard-working man. He the same time, he is ambitious, practical, stub-

born and not averse to taking a well-planned risk.

Another characteristic of Fitz noted by Ploeger

Marianists’ arrival in America on July 3, 1849;

and others is that, Ploeger said, “For Ray, ideas re-

on Jan. 22, 1850; and the founding of what would

ed. His life is moved by big ideas.”

become the University of Dayton on March 19,

ally matter. The sense of mystery is not exhaustFitz’s emphasis on social systems and big

1850).

ideas turned out to be very, very good for the Uni-

’68, who serves as UD’s vice president for mission

ty’s and the Marianists’ commitment to forming

S.M. ’36, was concluding the second decade of his

characteristics of their parents, Raymond and

“I was impressed with dad’s ability to lead in the

The person at UD who has known Ray Fitz

the longest is his brother, Father James Fitz, S.M.

and rector. Jim, as a child, saw Ray taking on the Mary Louise Fitz, in their Akron, Ohio, home.

“Dad,” Jim Fitz said, “was strong on integri-

The pamphlet’s message about the Universi-

faith-filled leaders attracted Fitz. “And,” he said,

After joining the order, Fitz said, “at UD, of

the 45 Marianists I was with, I was the only one

Flowing from that integrity was a sense of

in education, philosophy and theology. But be-

faithfulness, of loyalty. “If you have a problem at work,” said Jim Fitz, talking as much about his brother as his father, “you talk to the people with whom you have a problem. You don’t criti-

who was studying engineering; the others were

tween the conversations I had with others and our superiors saying I had to take the philosophy and theology, I gained a good liberal education.”

He also gained — substantially through the

cize them openly. Ray is loyal to the church, the

influence of Father William Ferree, S.M. ’28, a

good leader because people know he will follow

strong sense of social justice.

Society of Mary, the University of Dayton. He is a through.”

Mary Louise Fitz brought a different, but

complementary, set of contributions to her children.

“Mom had the heart of the family,” Jim Fitz

said. “She never knew a stranger. None of the

Marianist leader in Rome and the province — a Fitz’s graduate dissertation was on how to

communicate with and control satellites. “It was pretty theoretical, mathematical,” he said. It immersed him in a systems approach to dealing with problems.

He began to see connections between social

rest of the family was as extroverted as she was,

justice and viewing things as systems. As a fac-

sion.”

ing, he said, “I was able to apply systems think-

but we learned to look at things with compas-

He points to that attribute living on with Ray

in his commitment to families and children, especially the disadvantaged. “Ray has a real pas-

sion,” his brother said. “He personally feels for the poor and the marginalized.”

THROUGH HIS FATHER, RAY FITZ ENCOUNTERED another group of people — the Marianists — who would be major influences on his character and

on what has been a lifelong passion, his commitment to families and children, to the poor. His

ulty member at UD teaching electrical engineering to environmental and urban problems. The biggest thing I learned early on was that, when an engineer looks at something, the engineer is on the outside looking at how the parts of some-

thing fit together. The parts don’t have a say in that. Human systems transform themselves

through conversations, not because of a grand external architect. So leadership includes how to

leader. Five Marianists were candidates. Four of

them, how to get them to touch each other.”

ing to Gerry VonderBrink ’66, chief financial of-

get the right conversations going, how to guide

Fitz’s systems approach to social issues while

father, a 1939 UD graduate, had been a chemical

a faculty member influenced his work with the

Wohlleben, S.M. ’04, the first American Mari-

vices and with the Marianists in reshaping the

engineering major, a student of Brother William anist to earn a doctorate in science, whose con-

tributions to the University — such as founding

Kettering Foundation, with Catholic Relief Sermethods of religious formation.

mired,” Fitz said. “I got to know Marianists who could form people as professionals.”

Fitz also read a UD pamphlet called “Making

Leaders,” written for the centennial celebration

mended him strongly.”

One recommendation came from a School of

ger were teaching classes in adjacent classrooms.

fore becoming president of Chaminade Univer-

“I got to know him as someone my dad ad-

“But,” VonderBrink, a member of the search

committee, said, “those who knew him recom-

later to serve as Fitz’s chief financial officer be-

leben Hall. Fitz’s first visit to campus was with professional presentations.

ficer at the time. The fifth was Fitz.

Education assistant professor, later to be provost,

was Brother Bernard Ploeger, S.M. ’71, who was

his father; Wohlleben used to come to Akron for

the five candidates had “large résumés,” accord-

Working with Fitz on religious formation

the chemistry and chemical engineering departments — were recognized in the naming of Wohl-

presidency, the University was looking for a new

parish, at work, in the community.”

ty. If you gave your word, you followed through. If you were doing a job, you gave your all.”

versity of Dayton. As Father Raymond A. Roesch,

sity in Hawaii. Prior to Vatican II, Ploeger said,

“formation was on a military model. The novi-

tiate and scholasticate were like boot camp and

John Geiger. In the summer of 1971, Fitz and Gei-

“We realized,” Geiger said, “we were both talking about values.” So they talked much to each other about morality and ethics in the professions.

When Geiger saw that Fitz was a candidate for

basic training. It wasn’t working anymore.” Fitz

president, his reaction was like many: “My God,

mation. That emphasis on community perme-

cy, may have carried the label “young president”

led an effort to develop community-centered forates his work.

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he’s young.” Fitz, 37 when he began his presideneven longer than Curran, who is at the end of his

first decade at UD, carried that of “new president.”

Catholic university, we needed conversations

history of the University, and Curran did succeed

Bill Schuerman, who served as vice president

But Fitz was indeed the youngest president in the men who stayed in the office for decades.

for student development and dean of students un-

a century, the University has benefited from con-

sity could be. He introduced strategic planning,

With only three presidents in more than half

tinuity of leadership. And with the varying attributes of each, the University benefited from skills

fluctuating enrollments. From 1979 to 2002, Fitz

that the energies of people can be pulled together.

hear sides. Then he’d make decisions and move

Ray, we did a lot of talking,” said Sister Angela for Pastoral Initiatives. “He wanted to talk until everybody had ownership.”

Zukowski used yet another metaphor to get at

gether, even ones at odds. He tries to find a way

the essence of Fitz’s method of continuing conver-

If someone throws in an idea from left field, he’ll

Working the dough and integrating the yeast into

try to find some truth in it, pull it in, so it doesn’t derail the group.”

For the extended conversations that Fitz led,

sation, comparing it to working yeast into dough. it is not process for process sake. It is done so the dough will rise as a unit. It is done for a purpose.

Zukowski and others are impressed by Fitz’s

on.”

Pat Palermo, an associate provost during the Fitz

tenacity, his persistence. Mary Neacy ’83, his

cial person to develop processes,” Curran said.

the table. He recalled one set of deliberations by

taught her a very important lesson: “At the begin-

Fitz’s skills lie in the process. “It takes a speFitz has a special ability — expressed in a

phrase permanently attached to people’s vision of him — “to stay at the table.”

He was not to be the grand external architect.

The parts would have their say.

FITZ CAME TO THE PRESIDENCY WITH A CONcern for systems, social justice and leadership.

“I saw,” he said, “if we were going to be a great

Impressions of continuing the conversation

Ann Zukowski, MHSH ’73, director of the Institute

Those who have worked with Fitz praise him

group, his brother Jim said, “he pulls ideas to-

ger recalled, had a “commanding presence. He’d

and continue the conversation.”

how to work toward a vision of the future.”

calmly guided UD through the turbulent 1960s

strength and national recognition. Roesch, Gei-

leaves, Ray stops it and backs it up. We all get off

abound across campus. “If we did anything under

for being a good listener. When he facilitates a

would guide the University through growth to

who stay on the platform. But when the train

der Fitz, said, “He had a vision of what the Univer-

that matched the challenges of the times. Roesch

and ’70s with their economic uncertainty and

about mission and vision. So we began planning.”

years, used a metaphor stronger than staying at

the Educational Leadership Council, a body of

close to 40 top administrators. The topic he has forgotten. But the process stays clear in his mind. The body usually worked by consensus, but on this topic, the matter came to a vote. It was approved with only three people in opposition.

long-time assistant during his presidency said he ning and end of a project, there is lots of antici-

pation and excitement. It’s the in-between that is difficult — and the most important.”

She said of Fitz: “He always finishes what he

begins.”

His brother Jim noted that all the brothers in

“Instead of leaving it,” Palermo recalled, “Ray

the family played football. “Ray was the small-

like a train. Everybody gets on except for three

like two brothers who went to play in the Big Ten

kept with it because of the negative vote. We were

est,” Jim Fitz said, “but the most tenacious.” And

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focused and does well.”

Jim Hoover ’67, an ex-football coach, to bolster

In recognition of his tenacity, Zukowski and

ambition for the University led him to success in

nam War and the opening of Wright State Univer-

train engine. His favorite childhood book, she

introverted personality. When he became presi-

and win. When someone might complain to Frer-

while he was preparing to be a Marianist, he was All-City in Akron.

her colleagues once gave him a present — a toy said, was The Little Engine That Could.

Some might use the term “workaholic” to de-

scribe his tenacity, his embracing of long hours

of work. Ploeger does not think that term apt but sees the habit as flowing from, Ploeger said, “zeal

His sense of focus and persistence and his

areas that might have been unexpected, given his dent, the University’s endowment, certainly in

comparison to major national universities, was small. To build it, he committed to a major fund-

raising campaign. There was, Palermo said, “an enormous amount of skeptics, but he proved cor-

— to use the old religious term. He has zeal. He

rect. He brought people on board, for example, lo-

Ploeger compared Fitz to the biblical Paul, say-

the campaign a success. That was a bold act. In

wants to do something.”

ing, “You’ve got something to do. You do it. That’s not neurotic; it’s purposeful.”

THAT SENSE OF PURPOSE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN

UD’s enrollment, weakened by the end of the Viet-

sity. “To Jim,” Ploeger said, “the idea was to go out icks about Hoover’s manner, Frericks had a way of

saying ‘he shouldn’t treat you like that’ and doing nothing about it.

“Ray could accept different styles of manage-

ment.”

East Coast transplants like Palermo and

cal philanthropist Jesse Philips, who would make

Schuerman were grateful for that. “After I was

many respects, Brother Ray is not a bold person,

wondered what the hell he had done, this intro-

but he had the ambition and the imagination to see the University as others at the time did not.”

Philips would open doors — some might say

here six months,” Schuerman said, “he probably

verted guy hiring this flaming extrovert. He had . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

something Fitz was born with but something he

kick them down — to prospective supporters that

’TIL RETIREMENT DO US PART

mation of habit. It may be hard for his colleagues

tive approach. Philips’ strength of personality

Brother Fitz is a very deliberate decision maker.”

building that bears his name. “Jesse Philips in-

brary, she applied for the job of his assistant. “I was in-

Ploeger as UD’s chief financial officer, “that the

Brother. Then I was interviewed by Brother again. And

acquired early through strength of will and for-

to believe, but his brother Jim recalled that “in grade school, he sometimes would get in trouble. He wasn’t as motivated then. The principal told dad, ‘I know you want him to go to college, but if

Ray doesn’t get more focused, he may not get out of high school.’”

He obviously got focused. And by the time he

received his doctorate, brother Jim said, the principal had lost all memory of the incident.

Whatever the details of the past, “once he be-

lieves in something,” his brother said, “he gets

would have remained closed to a more conserva-

extended to the planning and construction of the

“I learned very early,” Mary Neacy ’83 said, “that While working as head of circulation in Roesch Li-

sisted,” said Tom Burkhardt ’70, who succeeded

terviewed by a committee. Then I was interviewed by

humanities center have a certain look and feel,

again. I was discouraged.”

into it; he was able to allow someone to do that.

sure the person getting the job knows what is expected. I

that it be a step up for the University. Ray bought

Fitz explained, “I know it’s taking awhile. I want to be

He set a tone for campus, for the look of facilities.”

want to make sure we get the right person.”

could work with personalities different from his.

ried. If it doesn’t work out, we can call it quits.”

Fitz early in his presidency had showed he

Ploeger told the story of Tom Frericks ’53 hiring

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“Brother,” Neacy replied, “we’re not getting marShe got the job.

But he could be a calming influence, putting gentle boundaries on my extraversion.”

“To many in the Marianist world,” said

Charles Cottrell, president of St. Mary’s Universi-

ty in San Antonio, “Brother Ray Fitz is referred to as a ‘Marianist National Treasure.’ His life of faith and dedication has been characterized by lifelong

conversation and collaborative action addressing human development and community building.”

Burkhardt, like Schuerman, also recollected

Fitz’s calming influence. When Burkhardt was returning to Dayton to work, “We — including my wife, my four kids and a cat,” he said, “were at O’Hare Airport. The cat is going nuts in a cage.

Brother Ray comes up and says, ‘Don’t worry. There’s nothing you can do.’ He calmed me down.” Fitz impresses people as being able to balance

the mundane and the profound. Gorgette, who said, “He always seems to be chewing on some big

question, thinking through some big issue,” also remembers him and his community having stu-

dents over for Mass and Fitz flipping burgers on the grill.

Father Pat Tonry, S.M. ’55, a longtime mem-

ber of the same community as Fitz, said, “He was a joy to live with — such a contributor to community

life, in spite of all the work he had. The Monday community meeting was always a priority with him. He always took his turn with housework. And he was very prayerful. I always as a fellow brother felt proud of him.”

And, Tonry said, “He always did his own laun-

dry. I told him, ‘You can send your shirts out.’”

Fitz’s sense of balance was observed by Ann

Hudock ’90, who worked for him as a research assistant while she pursued a master’s degree. “I

saw the way he kept a focus on the important is-

istry in the Catholic Church in France. “Thanks

in part to Brother Ray, I’m a member of an online Marianist community today, 20 years after gradu-

Then they remembered that Ray Fitz did it year after year, even after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. And, Curran said, “He never complained.” Father Pat Tonry, S.M. ’55, echoed the observation and remembered his housemate dealing with the disease. “He wouldn’t take time for himself,” Tonry said. “Some days, generally Saturdays, he’d fight it, just sit in a chair and fall asleep. He has a strong will.” Brother Bernard Ploeger, S.M. ’71, president of Chaminade University, remembered from his days at UD that Fitz didn’t hide the disease and only made accommodations that were necessary. “He didn’t,” Ploeger said, “let the illness define who he was.” And, with a daily workout regimen and continued will power, he still does not.

Pilarczyk — admired him, Zukowski said. “They

talked of his creative insight and vision for Catholic education.”

Pilarczyk, now archbishop emeritus, said of

ways pleasant, always a joy to be with. You always

FOR A MAN UNIVERSALLY CONSIDERED PLEASANT,

ter graduation. “I told him I wanted to go to Sierra

aly of the flying pens and pencils. Geiger recalled

calm and controlled, there is, however, the anom-

Leone and I wanted him to send me.”

one incident — a discussion (what some may have

He did — to a point. He offered to pay for her

monthly stipend. She did and in the process also When she returned she worked as a research assis-

tant in the president’s office. “In his quiet way he was giving me a chance to follow my dreams yet

connecting them to so much else, making the ef-

thought an argument) on cutting costs. At a point

at which a particularly thorny issue was being hashed out, Geiger said, “a pen bounced out of his

hand across the table and landed in front of me. I

asked, ‘Is this pen for me?’” The pen returned to its owner, and the discussion continued calmly to its resolution.

To Palermo, this flying writing utensil and

forts much more sustainable, community-orient-

peaceable resolution of the issue were not unique

Likewise, Zukowski recalled him challeng-

“He was always able to leave it behind. He’s never

ed and successful.”

occurrences but are illustrative of Fitz’s character:

ing her and the directors of other campus centers

and memory of people, recalled an incident well

difference.” There were those who thought that

best in others, resulted in the University making

a religious sister with a big satellite antenna was a

solid they might seem inevitable if one did not

before he took the financial post at UD. “We came back here from California for Christmas one year.

I was trying to interest my grade school kids in UD. We ran into Ray. I’d met him previously a few times when I worked on audits at UD. He remem-

bered who I was. And, later, when the kids were UD students, he remembered meeting them.”

up there shaking all those hands?”

ating from UD and living six time zones away.”

Burkhardt, marveling at Fitz’s concern for

ton one, Pestello asked Curran, “How do you stand

graduate, he asked her what she wanted to do af-

found people who provided a network of support.

ited her family he wanted to know about lay min-

LeMoyne ceremony had fewer graduates than a Day-

empowering people. When she was an under-

and cares about it. “Talking with him, you always

lives in Paris and noted that the last time Fitz vis-

talking with Dan Curran, UD’s president. Noting that a

learn something from him.”

transportation if she could find funding for a

in your life,” said Mary Harvan Gorgette ’91, who

over his first commencement at Le Moyne, he was

good he was serving.”

ple may flow from the fact that when he listens to

sense he’s interested in you, in what’s going on

After Fred Pestello, former UD provost and now president of Le Moyne College, finished presiding

Fitz, “He is always balanced, always serious, al-

And she experienced firsthand his knack for

people, he really does hear what they are saying

FORTITUDE

sues and let the small ones go. He never lost sight of the institution he was building and the greater

Part of Fitz’s success with various kinds of peo-

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

patience. I don’t think we ever had cross words.

“to be entrepreneurs, to be authentic, to make a

there was no future in distance learning and that bit odd. But Fitz encouraged her and suggested at

one point, “Look at this new phenomenon — the Internet.”

Catholic bishops — including Cincinnati

archbishops

Joseph

Bernardin

and

Daniel

one to let something fester.”

Fitz’s character, his ability to bring out the

steady, methodical progress to results that are so recall that the tumultuous times of the 1960s and

’70s portended an uncertain future. Under Fitz’s

leadership, however, UD not only continued to bal-

See FITZ, Page 39

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at t h e w

e w a ld

o one writes letters anymore. Ask the postal service, which is closing branches across the country. Even email has become too cumbersome. We text. We tweet. Senior journalism major Jeremy Garcia Vinluan is not like the rest of us. He writes letters, the oldfashioned kind, the ones that begin by laying a sheet of paper across a desk in his Marianist Hall room or a table in some café. He has done this every single day for nearly a year now. Each day, and

On April 30, 2011, Jeremy Vinluan

sometimes more than

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began to handwrite one letter every day for the next year. In a few short weeks, he’ll write his last one.

once a day, he has held a lined sheet of note-

I go in life,” he wrote April 30, 2011. “Today and

other hand, his right hand, he has scratched a

memory of your [mother]. I am so proud to have

book paper in place with one hand. With his

this letter are dedicated to you and the loving

“I also didn’t realize that I would be writing to 367 children of God.”

Some of the children of God to whom he

you as my mother.”

writes are also children of the earth. To a young

sorbs the ink, preserving the very precise pat-

letters that have followed, each a single sheet,

“You even called me FUNNY BUNNY over and

He does it, he says, to understand what it

mailing. He has no master plan of recipients but

pen across the lines, transferring the ink from

its tip to the surface of the fibrous pulp. It abterns of his hand’s motion. means to be a Marianist.

A different person has received each of the

front and back, which he photocopies before

cousin who just visited, he wrote June 28,

over!” and signs it, “Your funny bunny partner, Jeremy.”

With a group of 11 other students, Jeremy

participated in a ceremony in Immaculate Conception Chapel last year in which they committed to a year as lay Marianists. They pray and share their faith journey together. The letter-aday project is part of his personal commitment to exploring the Marianist charism.

The Jeremy who emerges from these letters,

read as a whole, is a young man of immense compassion and faith, one who alternately struggles with and embraces the realities of

his life while yearning for human connection

and meaning. They are, for him, inextricably linked.

As an uncertain high school student in Vir-

ginia Beach, Va., contemplating his future, Jeremy got advice from his mother: “Do what your

grandmother always did,” she said. “Pray.” And he did. Several weeks later, he got a call out of the blue inviting him to consider UD, a Catho-

lic, Marianist university. His grandmother, a

devout Catholic, “loved Mary her whole life,” he says.

It was not coincidence, he believes, but

rather “the law of faith. Providence made it happen.”

When he got to campus, he discovered Vir-

ginia W. Kettering Residence Hall. He cannot

decides each day to whom he will write. Those

er, whose name was Virginia, though he still

with others. In that, he is inspired by Adèle de

pass it without thinking of his late grandmothcalls her “Lola,” a Tagalog word for grandmother. When he learned that the commitment ceremony for lay Marianists would be April 30, his grandmother’s birthday, he saw another sign of

Lola’s faith and guiding hand and took the leap.

decisions are part of his commitment to connect Batz de Trenquelléon, co-founder with Blessed

A week later, to another cousin, just 2 years

old, he describes an event that would redefine his life.

“When I was at your age,” he tells her, “I was

William Joseph Chaminade of the Daughters of

a healthy boy. Healthy by our society’s standards.

have penned more than 700 letters.

to lose my hearing in both ears.”

Mary and a dedicated correspondent known to Adèle and Jeremy are part of a much longer

Something happened to me around age 3. I started That hearing loss shaped the trajectory of his

By the time he writes his final letter April

epistolary tradition. St. Paul famously wrote

childhood as his family struggled to identify his

2012 being a leap year. Many are anecdotal and

Thessalonica and elsewhere and addressed ones

accept his condition’s inevitability. Today, Jeremy

30, 2012, he will have handwritten 367 letters,

mundane, the stuff of everyday life. He sends

them to family, friends, classmates, Beta Theta

Pi fraternity brothers and complete strangers. As he wrote to a friend Oct. 30, “So many letters. And so many people.”

His first letter was to his mother, thanking

letters to early Christians in Corinth, Galatia, directly to saints James, Peter, John and Jude. Twelfth-century love letters exchanged between Abelard and Heloise endure today, and the novel

grew immensely in popularity in the 18th century when it took the epistolary form.

Jeremy admits he didn’t realize what he

her for attending his lay Marianist commitment

was getting himself in for. “When I made my

“I wish Lola would be here to see my big day.

to 367 people would be an adventure for me,” he

ceremony.

The truth is that her presence is alive wherever

ailment, seek treatments, all unsuccessful, and

speaks with a vocal distinction that some firsttime listeners mistake for a foreign accent, and

he wears cochlear implants that translate audible signals into electrical impulses his brain can interpret. (On Jan. 12, he wrote to thank Graeme Clark, the developer of cochlear implants.)

The implants do not deliver sound but a proxy

personal commitment, I didn’t realize writing

for it that allows him to converse. As he puts it in a

wrote June 9, to a Marianist sister on campus.

world is beyond your wildest dreams.”

30 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

Sept. 6 letter to a Beta brother, “The way I hear the

Jeremy’s letters reveal that he has contem-

a living room. “Watching the tape and seeing a

actor flickering on your television screen.

“God does have a twisted sense of humor,”

ral,” he wrote. “I’m 22 years old watching the

hands. He puts each sheet in an envelope. He

looking at you.” He closes, “You would be sur-

hand delivers it or places it in a mailbox. The

plated hearing loss as both a burden and a gift.

he wrote to a friend in August. To another, he wrote, “God speaks to me through the silence of the universe.”

To a Marianist brother, he wrote, “I should

be grateful for being able to hear sound and

little boy and his first teacher seem so unnatu-

television. In that tape, I was about 3 years old, prised at what I have done and what I am doing. We will meet again sooner or later.”

Jeremy’s hearing is but one part of his life.

A much bigger part is his heart.

Over hundreds of letters, it emerges as large, questioning, compassionate and playful.

“You may be wondering

what I am doing here in Akron,” he wrote to LeBron James Oct.

22 after spotting him at a store.

Gardens in Williamsburg, Va.,

to tell him how great a time he had at the park. On Aug. 17, he

wrote to thank a woman who cut his hair. On Dec. 9, he wrote

UD’s vice president for financial

he offered for review for this article. The subjects contained in some of

the letters he provided are deeply

personal as he explores the complexities of his family, friendships and own life.

Pause to consider how very

physical

September, he met a community college stu-

cate digitally, our fingers gliding

ASL to communicate to each other doesn’t mean we’re romantically linked.”)

The July 23 letter is addressed to the woman

who was his first teacher for the deaf. He refers

in it to a videotape of her teaching him to sign in

and nine others from the collection

you asked me if I know ASL [American Sign Lan-

two days later, he backs off: “Just because we use

father, for reasons he prefers to

superhero.”

tion.” (In a letter to another former interpreter

marks of his very own hand. The process is nothing if not intimate.

His words can be, too. He writes often of his “Something happened to me this morning,”

ranging my bedroom. I have a statue of Mary. It I felt several papers at the bottom of the statue. I thought it was odd because I emptied the statue

a few months ago. ... One of the small papers I found happens to belong to my Lola. The paper is

not just a small paper but a small envelope with

a list of petitions inside. … One of the petitions to our Blessed Mother is ‘Jeremy’s hearing and

speech.’ … I’ll keep this for a long time. I knew that my Lola was praying for me.”

In these letters, more than anything, he is

tion. “Only God knows my real purpose in life,”

keep private. He withheld that one

Oct. 1 to an ASL interpreter, “to get my atten-

sheet of paper on which he wrote, and sees the

started working for UD.”

speak with my voice. I also should be grateful

dent studying ASL, “the first girl,” he wrote

very envelope Jeremy sealed, pulls out the very

a young man asking the questions that confront

His longest letter is to his

guage], and we ended up signing for hours.” In

hand pulls it out. The recipient tears open the

affairs: “You have been signing my [pay]checks since I first

my friend, then leave. That plan backfired when

another mailbox and slips it in. Another person’s

is about 2-to-3 feet tall. When I moved the statue,

dent of park operations at Busch

for that night was just to say happy birthday to

and a number. A human letter carrier brings it to

choice is crazy. I’m sure you un-

late July, he wrote the vice presi-

14 to someone he’d just met at a party. “My plan

then distinguishes it by a state, a city, a street

he wrote to a campus friend Aug. 1. “I was rear-

He writes other strangers. In

last Saturday made my night,” he wrote Sept.

millions of other pieces of correspondence and

Jeremy left Virginia for college

derstand.”

source of connection to others. “Meeting you

postal system merges his mailed envelope with

Lola.

in Ohio. “I do not think such a

As much as anything, his hearing loss is a

addresses, stamps and seals each envelope and

His friends, he explains to the

NBA star, don’t understand why

to turn on/off my hearing. It is like being a

Jeremy touches each sheet of paper with his

Jeremy’s

entire

letter-

writing project is. We communi-

across keyboards. We tap lettered

a senior about to go through another transihe wrote to a cousin Sept. 29. “And I’ll wait and wait.”

‘I didn’t realize writing to 367 people would be an adventure for me. I also didn’t realize that I would be writing to 367 children of God.’

keys, but that is a fiction. A key-

board does not type a letter as a typewriter does.

It sets in motion a complex series of digital ones

and zeroes that our monitors display back to us

as characters. When we hit send, those electrical signals hop from server to server to the recipient, whose display renders the ones and zeroes into images of letters and words. It’s as real as the

He does so with ever-hopeful

optimism. “I’ve been an unlikely

candidate for anything my whole life,” he wrote to his middle school

civics teacher Oct. 24. “I always

end up in positions and places I never thought that I would be in.”

His letter-writing project, and

his yearlong commitment as a lay

Marianist, will soon conclude.

Many of his 2012 letters bear one of the 139 Forever stamps that his mother gave him at Christmas to

help him mail his letters as quickly

as possible. “I am using my mother’s gift to me,” he said.

His final letter, the letter of April 30, 2012,

will be addressed to his beloved Lola. He plans to deliver it personally.

“I will burn it,” he said, “so it can reach up

to heaven.”

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 31

Beyond

Brown

We are the world,

In Damascus, the Internet is connecting protesters with concerned onlookers in Denmark, New Delhi and Dayton. The people of our world have never been so close. A simple walk across campus makes this obvious. Alongside East Coast accents and California slang, you’re likely to hear Mandarin, Arabic and French. We have more international students on campus than ever, many U.S. students studying and serving abroad, and faculty revising the curriculum in everything from business to engineering and the arts to bring an international perspective. Campus, like the world, is global. n By Matthew Dewald

ow is an increased

education that we can offer.

job? I really think we need to expand the op-

tionalization

Opportunities abroad

of the key people dealing with our internation-

focus on internafecting

UD,

af-

and

DJC: We should be doing more in the Mid-

why do we do it?

dle East. We have opportunities in Lebanon,

director of the Cen-

two big challenges: What are we going to do in

Amy Anderson ’09,

ter for International Programs, and University

President

Daniel J. Curran re-

cently sat down to discuss internationalization at UD.

The following are edited excerpts from their con-

versation. For video, go to magazine.udayton.edu.

Changing our focus

DJC: All you have to do is look at the world

around us, look at the economy, look at the

opportunities and challenges our students are

in Kuwait. That’s a very different culture. Our Africa? What are we going to do in Latin Amer-

difference.

experience on campus.

have as a university could make a tremendous AA: The wonderful thing that I see emerg-

to help them make meaning of that and to

make those meaningful connections. The

A couple of years ago there was a group

the world because they’re doing such wonder-

Hall. There was a sign on the wall that had to

nect with the Marianist communities around ful work.

DJC: We want to look at what’s happening

ing our students to other cultures and other

a greater percentage of our students going

overseas, wherever they feel comfortable, but

that’s something they really need to be prepared for, what they’re going to face in the future.

I think we can continue to work with our

growth of international students right here

international students. I’m very pleased we

our students really benefit from the global

done a wonderful job. How do we do a better

on campus is a key component of how all of

way, and a lot of it is because of the positive

from China on campus. These were business

languages. That’s very important. We need

technology, and part of our important role is

DJC: We are not aggressively recruiting in

ing increasingly every day is our ability to con-

AA: Sometimes we name generations,

grown up with access to one another through

that experience.

China, in the Middle East. We do it our own

to our U.S. students. We should be introduc-

generation. This is the first generation that’s

programs for staff people, too, that give them

They’re two continents where the assets we

dents to these varying aspects of culture and

and it’s said that this is really the first global

University, and it would be nice to have some

Our front porch culture

in both those continents. We could do more.

A global campus

life I think we’re not doing our job.

al students are staff people throughout the

ica? Because we have wonderful connections

going to face in the future. If we as an institu-

tion of higher education do not expose our stu-

portunities for not only faculty but staff. Many

have all these international students. We’ve

32 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

people. We were walking through Marianist do with our standards of behavior, community standards. Each hall does that on their own.

One person started reading it and then called another person over. There were a couple of

photographs taken, and they said, “What is

this?” I said, “The community standards that were established by this floor of students.” And they said, “If these are the standards the

students are holding themselves to, this is the type of university we want our students to come to.”

A supportive push

DJC: I can remember coming in on a

flight to the Dayton airport, and a young man walked up to me and said, “Dr. Curran, I’m

FRANK PAUER

and the world is us

going to study abroad. ... I’m very nervous.” I said “Why?” and he said, “Well,

I’m going to study in Korea. I don’t speak Korean. I’ve never been on an airplane.”

And I said [to myself], “What a bold

young man.”

AA: I’ll never forget the day a young

woman bounded up to me after her sum-

Canada

mer break and she said, “I cannot believe

the experience I’ve had overseas this

summer” — I think she might have been in Germany — and she said, “Of course

the site was terrific.” But she said, “I saw the faculty with light bulbs going off. I don’t see things in the same way I did.”

United States

Goodbye, comfort zone

Bermuda

DJC: My first real international ex-

perience was in Africa, the Republic of

The Bahamas

Guinea. There had been this political

Jamaica

Mexico

change that was very interesting for a

Dominican Republic

sociologist. There, I was the minority

British Virgin Islands

for the first time. The people were won-

Netherlands Antilles

derful in Guinea [and] Senegal, but I

remember we were in a fishing village where a person came up to me, and nose-

to-nose I was “the United States.” He was a very radical young man, and it was a very heated conversation.

AA: The notion of community, for

me, was expanded. It really is about all of us together. Maybe at one point I con-

ceived of community as my little town where I grew up. You bust those notions

Trinidad and Tobago

Belize

Guyana

Guatemala Venezuela

El Salvador Honduras

Colombia

Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama Ecuador

Brazil

open.

DJC: Wide open.

AA: Wide open, yes. I always tell

students who are exploring and, particu-

larly, going to developing countries: The highs are really high and the lows can

be really low, but there is not a kind of

a humdrum, everyday life. I think for me, going off to the Peace Corps was re-

ally my first international experience, so I was one of those that took the big leap. DJC: The risk-taker.

AA: Well, to be honest with you, I was

not the risk-taker at all. In fact, I found out later that my family thought I would

certainly be back within two weeks. They

didn’t give me any more than a month

because this was out of character for me.

I don’t really remember what was driving it, to be honest with you. All I know is

that I was compelled to go out into the world, and it changed my path.

34 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

Peru Home country of international student

Bolivia

Destination country of study or service abroad student Home of one or more alumni now

Argentina Paraguay

Home country of non-U.S. citizen faculty (includes visiting) Location of UD partner institution

Uruguay

Chile

Flyers here,

Portugal

Sweden

Poland

Moldova

Ireland

Denmark

Czech Republic

Ukraine

Spain

Netherlands

Austria

Serbia

United Kingdom

Finland

Slovakia

Kosovo

France

Germany

Italy

Bulgaria

Belgium

Switzerland

Hungary

Macedonia

Luxembourg

Estonia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Greece

Russia

South Korea Japan Nepal

China

Bangladesh

Iran

Cyprus

Myanmar Taiwan Pakistan

Libya

Hong Kong

Egypt India

Thailand Vietnam Philippines

Azerbaijan

Malaysia

Kuwait

Ethiopia

Ivory Coast

Indonesia

Qatar United Arab Emirates

Ghana

Singapore

Bahrain

Nigeria

Papua New Guinea

Sri Lanka

Saudi Arabia

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Oman Turkey

Guinea

Syria

Morocco

Jordan

Togo

Lebanon

Gabon

Israel

Cameroon

Yemen

Central African Republic

Mauritius

Australia

Comoros

Kenya Tanzania Zambia

Rwanda

Zimbabwe

Malawi

New Zealand

Botswana South Africa

there and everywhere

Know something we don’t? Email magazine@udayton.edu.

Where international students live 45%

From passport to syllabus

31%

Study abroad isn’t just for students. Dur-

ing the 2010-11 academic year, eight faculty members from across the university spent

24%

three weeks in China, where they looked for

Top five locations

Campus apartments

Neighborhood houses Residence halls

intercultural and interdisciplinary insights to

South student neighborhood

Marycrest

Garden Apartments

Sleepless on Stonemill Protesters

then faculty must, too. If we want our inter-

Stuart Hall

countries at the heart of Europe’s

Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, sovereign debt crisis — don’t keep junior Cate Camerota up at night.

It’s the coin in their pockets that

does, the euro. Camerota is among a

What international students study

Top 10 majors, international students

national students to feel comfortable, then faculty must know something about being in their shoes.

Electrical engineering

Business administration

in the department of engineering technol-

Mechanical engineering

Normal University, with whom the University

Chemical engineering

manufacturing sites to bolster the new global

Finance

Materials engineering

The China trip was the culminating step

for the cohort, which had a yearlong discus-

Engineering

sion and reflection on ways to add an inter-

43%

national dimension to their research and

courses. Sean Falkowski, associate professor ogy, met with former students from Shanghai

has a shared degree program, and visited local

Business

manufacturing systems engineering technol-

24%

ogy program. A colleague in the department of

music, associate professor Susan Gardstrom, interviewed Chinese colleagues in music therapy, a field she described as “in its embryonic

Arts and Sciences

stages” in the country. She said the trip also

15%

heightened her sensitivty to international students and their experience of being in another country.

The program has focused on China in its

first two years but is branching out to other

Undeclared

Education

ternationalized faculty will help students do the same.

Law

Civil engineering

Financial mathematics

Undeclared education Engineering management

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Inhale and exhale, breathing deeply For a little less than $5 a day,

load of papers is changing that.

deaths among children younger

the Dayton Daily News, ETHOS stu-

papers into 10 logs, soaked them,

respiratory infections are from in-

dents Jennifer Dodaro, Dan Kemlage and Claire Ellerhorst helped families in Guatemala cook for a week and saved lives.

“They normally throw every-

inserted them into a press and al-

lowed them to dry. The logs burn

A 15-minute walk for a light

and knowledge of the world around them makes sense — and dollars.

Camerota and her colleagues in

the School of Business Administration’s Hanley Trading Center rely on

a proprietary model based off an algorithm incorporating inputs such as currency spot prices, exponential

moving averages and momentum

to dictate individual trade decisions news out of trading.

But behind those technical de-

tails are, in finance terms, “the fun-

damentals,” the underlying events and economic indicators that will shape the health of the dollar, the euro and their value relative to each

leaky stoves. Nearly 2 million people a year die prematurely from in-

door air pollution. Nearly half the

36 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

unemployment rate, the decisions

of European finance ministers and

than 5 years old from acute lower door air pollution. During

the

2011

summer,

To help students understand

the fundamentals, professor Leslie

McNew, chair of the Flyer FOREX Fund, pulls current events into class, meaning “it’s not the same class every semester,” she said. The current crisis in Greece has been a hot topic this semester.

“Students are seeing this first-

chaos, it’s my job to help them un-

waste and coal) in open fires and

include everything from the U.S.

School of Engineering, worked in

and heat their homes using solid

other and other currencies. They

The World Health Organiza-

back-breaking work.

fuels (wood, animal dung, crop

wood.

less nights come with the territory,

hand,” she said. “The world is cha-

said. The plastic melts too quickly walk miles carrying heavy loads of

four hours around the clock. Sleep-

33 students in ETHOS, an inter-

tion estimates 3 billion people cook

and villagers most often have to

lio, who trade the currency every

cleaner and don’t require much

thing and anything into the stove — plastic bottles, wood,” Dodaro

Fund, a leveraged currency portfo-

natural events like hurricanes.

The students formed the six news-

group of students at the Flyer FOREX

and take the emotions of the day’s

areas of the world with the hopes that an in-

using six newspapers the size of

the

Founders Hall

The initiative, called the Global Education

want our students to have a global perspective,

into

bring back to campus.

Seminar, reflects some simple insights. If we

pouring

streets in Europe’s PIIGS — Portugal,

national service program in the 11 different countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. When these

otic. Instead of being afraid of the derstand it.”

And, she adds, make a profit

three students returned to Dayton,

from it.

of Comitancillo breathing a little

for them is make them less afraid.

they left the Guatemalan town easier.

—Shawn Robinson

“Maybe one of the things I do

... It’s very important not to be isolated.”

Top countries of origin, 1974 and today Countries that 5 or more international students came from, Fall 2011 (1,009 students total)

English as a not-so-foreign language

Art-decorated walls and display cases featuring works from international artists brighten

the lounge area in the Rike Center, now the on-campus home for the Center for International

1 China (447) 2 Saudi Arabia (169) 3 India (115) 4 Kuwait (35) 5 Trinidad & Tobago (31) 6 Libya (26) 7 Togo (15) 8 France (12) 9 Japan (12) 10 Turkey (11) 11 Germany (10) 12 Nigeria (8) 13 Spain (8) 14 Canada (6) 15 Singapore (6) 16 Taiwan (6) 17 United Arab Emirates (6) 18 Lebanon (5) 19 South Korea (5) 20 Vietnam (5)

Programs.

The pieces reflect the changing makeup of the University’s student body — one in 10 stu-

dents at the University is now an international student. CIP moved to Rike in December after outgrowing its three floors in Alumni Hall.

The Intensive English Program housed there offers classes that help international students

gain the English-language proficiency they’ll need to be successful at a U.S. university. With the move to Rike, six large classrooms are now available to the 284 students in the program.

The building also offers study space, testing areas and access to instructors’ offices, all of which are in Rike.

IEP also facilitates interaction with students across campus through field trips, conversa-

tion partner programs, intercultural living communities and participation in student groups.

—Shannon Shelton Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bulgaria

Student athletes and countries of origin

United Kingdom

Ghana

Golf

Canada

Countries that 5 or more international students came from, October 1974 (157 students total)

Canada

Switzerland

Rowing Tennis

Germany

United Kingdom

Soccer Softball

Botswana

Canada

United Kingdom

Estonia

1 2 3 4 5

Singapore

United Kingdom

Basketball

Canada

Flyers

(Go, Flyers!) The University of Dayton is establishing a

permanent presence in China with the launch-

ing this summer of the University of Dayton China Institute in one of the fastest-growing innovation parks in the world.

Suzhou Industrial Park officials have in-

France

While the institute is still taking shape,

University officials say they envision providing research and development expertise to com-

Nigeria (10) Panama (6) Ethiopia (5) Pakistan (5) Peru (5)

UD students and provide a pipeline for recruiting Chinese students.

The School of Engineering is establishing

panies in the park as well as delivering degree

an innovation center in the building, and the

training. The institute will open the door to co-

is exploring developing a TESOL (Teachers of

programs, continuing education and executive

op and internship opportunities in China for

School of Education and Allied Professions

English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program on campus that would

in the park and are making a multimillion-

provide

opportunities

for

graduates to teach English in China.

dollar investment to renovate a five-story,

“This is a rare opportunity that’s

54,000-square-foot building for classrooms,

been presented to the University of

UD is the first American university to set up

of Dayton China Institute has the po-

laboratories and project space.

Dayton. It’s historic. The University

operations in the park. SIP, located in Jiangsu

tential to elevate the University into

Province in eastern China, is home to a third of

the realm of global American univer-

the world’s Fortune 500 companies and thou-

sities,” Curran said. “This will really

sands of other business ventures.

move the University forward.”

“This is really an innovation city with ev-

Over the last decade, the Univer-

erything from factories to research facilities to housing,” President Daniel J. Curran told faculty and staff at a campus forum.

6 7 8 9 10

Libya (24) India (19) Taiwan (14) Hong Kong (12) Iran (10)

vited UD to establish a stand-alone institute

= 10 students

The University of Dayton China Institute is slated to open in Suzhou Industrial Park, shown in this model.

sity of Dayton has established partnerships with nine Chinese institutions — Nanjing University, Nanjing

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 37

University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing Art Institute, Shanghai Normal University, Zhejiang Uni-

versity, Jiangsu Educational Program, China Jiliang University and Harbin Institute of Technology. A growing number of students are

completing study abroad programs in China, and faculty are serv-

ing as visiting scholars. A group of eight professors recently spent a year studying Chinese culture, politics and business through the

University’s Global Education Seminar (see story Page 36). Another group will travel to China this summer.

“As a sociologist, I thought China was one of the most amazing

areas to study,” said Curran, who first traveled to the country in 1985. “It presents the same opportunities for our faculty.”

—Teri Rizvi

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Top U.S. states hosting international students 1 California

For love of Kosovo

Senior Annea Hapçiu loves her country deeply, and she is also much

6 Florida

2 New York

7 Pennsylvania

3 Texas

8 Michigan

4 Massachusetts

9 Ohio

5 Illinois

10 Indiana

older than it. When she was born in Pristina in 1989, it was part of Yugo-

slavia. Today, it is the capital of 4-year-old Kosovo, and she can’t wait to return home to help build it.

At age 10, Hapçiu left Kosovo for 18 months when her family fled the

1999 Kosovo War, a battle between warring ethnic groups that resulted in international criminal charges against Yugoslav president Slobodan Mi-

losevic and others. The Kosovar territory emerged under the protection of

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . .

By then Hapçiu was making plans to attend UD after attending a year

of high school near Dayton. Not knowing what she wanted to do after

On the other side

She awoke to the smell of French bread, biked to classes filled

with students from Germany, Poland and China, and then ended the night drinking wine under the stars outside of a castle.

Rebecca Young, a senior international studies and French major

who has studied abroad in France and Morocco, has done it all and more.

“It has definitely contributed to my education in a very positive

way,” she said. “I think meeting people from all over the world was really important.”

In France, Young took French history with students from more

than 40 countries, which gave her a new perspective on World War II. In Morocco, she interned for a daily newspaper.

“In Morocco, I saw the ways in which newspapers can work to

advance ideas, and newspapers in Morocco don’t work at all like they do in France or in the States,” she said. “Their style is completely dif-

ferent, and it is so much easier to be opinionated.”

graduation, she chose a double major in entrepreneurship and marketing,

areas that she felt would serve her well no matter what field she decided to get into.

“Dad always suggested I equip myself with skills,” she said. “With

these, I can equip myself for whatever I end up doing. It fits into anything.” The choice has paid off for her and dad, who is back in Kosovo as the

editor-in-chief of kosovalive.com, which Hapçiu describes as one of the

most credible independent news agencies in the country, offering reports in both Albanian and English. She has been helping him develop new

strategies for the website from her house on Irving Avenue, where she lives with a Spanish and an American student. UD feels like home to her, she said.

“I love it. I want to hug UD,” she said. “Please quote that.”

But home is also in Pristina, where she plans to return after gradua-

tion to help her young country. She has no illusions about the tough work ahead.

“It’s exciting but also very uncertain because of what the country has

Young returned to UD in January.

“Living in France definitely made me more critical of things that

we do or don’t do here,” she said. “But on the other side, living in

Morocco made me a lot more appreciative of the opportunities and freedoms that we have here.”

Young has spent two semesters and a summer abroad, an experi-

ence she recommends for all students.

“My time abroad has been the best of my times at UD,” she said.

“It has given me a much broader perspective and a better understanding of language, culture and history.”

a UN mandate and declared independence in 2008.

—Kaitlyn Ridel ’13

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been through,” she said. “It’s going to be rough, but we know that. I invested in all of this education to go back. ... Countries should learn from UD how to work with others.”

She’s already begun her work. In her honors thesis, she studied the

effect of a branding campaign, “Kosovo, the Young Europeans.” The campaign was aimed at changing the perceptions of the international community, but she set out to learn whether it has stimulated pro-social behavior

among Kosovars such as increased voting, entrepreneurship and other forms of civic engagement critical for nation-building.

And soon she will return, embracing Kosvo’s future with her own.

ance its budgets but also to radically increase its endowment. The long process of buying hundreds of

houses and other properties adjacent to the University made a commitment to and ensured the highly

residential nature of the University. The Genesis Project, for which Fitz was a driving force, changed a crime-infested area between the University and

his name and carries on his commitment to com-

munity building. Looking forward, that is not about to change. Although his 13-year-old Buick

has recently been retired — replaced by a new Chevy — Fitz himself has no retirement plans. He continues to work quietly and effectively.

Current projects include co-chairing the Univer-

sity’s Mission and Identity Task Force and guiding

velopment of Brown Street. Fitz took personal in-

ternational Conference on Catholic Social Thought

terest in curricular developments that entwined

professional training and liberal arts education to an unprecedented degree. The University moved

the University’s hosting this June of the Eighth In-

and Management Education: “Renewing Mission and Identity in Catholic Business Education.”

Dan Sadlier ’69, former chair of the UD board of

from regional recognition to national prominence.

trustees, said it was amazing when Fitz was presi-

Society of Mary declined, he ensured that the laity

fectively” and that he still does. Sadlier, a longtime

And, in a time when the number of members of the — a key part of the vision of the Marianist founder

Chaminade — would embrace that vision and that

the University of Dayton’s mission would continue as Catholic and Marianist.

AND THEN HE STEPPED ASIDE AS PRESIDENT — but not before he worked to ensure that the University would continue to thrive and to be true to its mission.

“He’s good at the soft sell,” Curran said, looking

back at his first encounters with Fitz.

Curran had been approached by a search firm

about the Dayton presidency. But with a good job, a new house and a young family, he passed at looking at the opportunity. As the search stalled, the

firm again approached him. He remembers them saying, “You’re a good match for the University of Dayton.”

He replied, “You say that to everyone, don’t

you?”

They said, “No.”

And Fitz helped prove them right. Before look-

dent “how discretely he went about things so efarea business leader, pointed to the depth of Fitz’s

passion and to his understanding of what the Dayton community needs.

Fitz himself sees the principles that applied for

him at UD having application in the broader community. “We have to observe,” he said, “the frustra-

tions and barriers to full human life. We have to get

into conversations so we see the same thing. Then we ask: If we could create something better than we

have now, how would we describe it? What is the good we are trying to create? What options do we have to get there? What are the strengths and weak-

nesses of each? Along the way, we find surprises, but we come out more thoughtful, more intelligent.”

Deborah Feldman, Montgomery County, Ohio,

administrator, has worked with Fitz extensively on

human services issues particularly related to fami-

lies and children, most recently the important role of education in determining the future of the community’s children.

She remembers clearly her first contact with

ing seriously at the position, Curran wanted to

Fitz. “Five children in the county had died in a short

sitting president. “The week before Christmas,” he

child welfare system. The system was not working

come to Dayton with his family and meet with the said, “I met with Ray. He was gracious and humble.

He talked not of his achievement but of community, of the contributions of the community.”

That was the only meeting with Fitz that Curran

time,” she said. “All had been involved with the

as a system.” Fitz headed the task force formed to find a way to make the system work; many of its recommendations are still in place.

“I recognized,” Feldman said, “in that contact

had scheduled. “But he asked to meet my family,”

that he focuses on issues he cares about. He has an

family. Curran’s wife, Claire Renzetti, and sons,

He never veers from seeing that the future of our

Curran said. So there was a second meeting — with Sean and Aidan, were impressed. And Fitz asked to meet with Curran again. They met the next day.

By Christmas, Daniel J. Curran had applied

to become the 18th president of the University of

undeniable commitment to children and families. community is our children. “He never lets us stray.”

The last time Tom Columbus wrote about Brother Ray,

Dayton.

the story was on Fitz’s work on behalf of the homeless.

now 70, has continued to work hard and with pur-

Homeless Solutions Policy Board.

During the decade of Curran’s presidency, Fitz,

been for 10 years a member of the center that bears

Miami Valley Hospital into a highly desirable place to live — and made possible the extraordinary de-

pose. As Ferree Professor of Social Justice, Fitz has

Columbus ended up serving on Montgomery County’s

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

Fitz, from Page 27

MULTIPLYING FISHES AND LOAVES The Fitz Center for Leadership in Community celebrates its 10th anniversary this spring, but its roots go back much farther. The center’s executive director, Dick Ferguson ’73, served during the presidency of Brother Ray Fitz as assistant to the president for community and government relations. Before becoming president, Fitz was instrumental in establishing programs on community and family development. And community is a Marianist characteristic dating back to the origins of the religious order. “The Fitz Center has a few basic principles,” says Ferguson. “Build on assets, cultivate trustful relationships, structure good community conversations, help change happen and work from a shared vision. These are all practices that characterize Ray Fitz’s own community leadership.” The center’s work has included the Dayton Public Schools, afterschool education programs, community service organizations, local governments, neighborhood leaders, and businesses and organizations connected to the region’s Great Miami River. The center’s impact helped the University achieve a No. 2 ranking (and No. 1 among Catholic schools) in the 2009 “Saviors of Our Cities” report, which recognized academic institutions for their positive impact on their urban communities. An earlier report singled out the Fitz Center’s creativity and called UD “perhaps the most innovative of all engaged colleges and universities.” A major evolution in the development of the center has been the extensive involvement of students, with 140 heavily engaged in five programs: n Neighborhood School Centers n Dayton Civic Scholars n Semester of Service n Rivers Institute and River Stewards n Graduate Community Fellows They learn from one another, faculty advisers and community partners. Another 500 students engage in service-learning opportunities. Their learning experiences — team-taught, open-ended, experiential — are the sort that will be central to the University’s new Common Academic Program for undergraduates. Ferguson, according to Fitz, “has done an amazing, innovative, thoughtful job with all the center’s programs. Dick knows how to empower students. These students will over the years become faith-filled leaders who want to make a difference.”

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Alabama a’lure FRANK OELERICH ’58

When someone pitched Frank Oelerich the business prospect of buying Mann’s Bait Co., he responded, “I’m not ready to retire.” “I’m not much of a fisherman,” he said, “and all I could figure was that this was some small bait shop on a corner.” Instead, it was one of the largest manufacturers of artificial fishing lures in the world. After a visit to the factory in Eufaula, Ala., Oelerich was ready to talk. It was the mid-1980s, and the Chicago native had been running manufacturing companies in the U.S. and Europe. He and a handful of investors had just made a pitch to buy the plastic bottle company he was running in Richmond, Va., but the deal fell through. So he focused the assembled capital and management team toward a consumer product. “With consumer products, you cannot lose sight of what you have to do to stay in business,” he said. “If you rest on your laurels, you’re a memory. You have to constantly develop new products and new designs. Because, in this business, what is the first thing a fisherman asks a dealer when he walks into a store? ‘What’s new?’” Oelerich and his wife, Anita Midlam Oelerich ’58, live in Alabama and take pride in Mann’s “Made in America” identity. Several years ago, he moved manufacturing from China back to Alabama. The recent introduction of a multi-lure device called The Alabama Rig has resulted in strong incremental sales both domestically and overseas. “Mann’s products are sold in more than 50 countries, and right now, the company’s best market is Russia,” he said. “In many parts of the world, the primary purpose of fishing is still to survive. But as economics improve around the world, it’s changing. Fishing is now a popular recreational sport in that country, and the physical resources there are endless.”

—Maureen Schlangen

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Sites to be seen CHARLES WOLAN ’63

In his travels to exciting places, the most likely place to find Charlie Wolan on his first night in a new city is his hotel. “I used to disappear to my hotel room, rest and gather my thoughts for the presentation the next day,” says Wolan, who traveled throughout Europe and the U.S. as a sales and project engineer with Swiss electrical company Boveri, which later merged to form ABB. He retired in 1993. Wolan’s life is full of travels. From his hometown of Cleveland, he came to UD to earn mechanical engineering technology and education degrees before teaching in Pittsburgh and St. Louis as a Marianist brother. His next assignment was to Malawi in southeast Africa as the first principal of the Marianist Technical School. In 1970, he left the Marianists to marry Rita, a Swiss nurse working at a Malawi mission. They moved to her home country, had two daughters and continue to enjoy life thoroughly. “I love so much about it — it’s a whole other way of life,” he says of living in Switzerland. “I walk down the streets and I read the numbers on the buildings telling their ages — 1100 this, 1400 that — and I find it very interesting.” Of all his travels, Israel and Poland remain the most compelling. In Israel, he walked in the footsteps of Christ through the ruins of that period. While visiting the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, he got caught in a rainstorm. “A Jewish man came to me. He said, ‘Here, take my raincoat. This is the least I can do since you Americans rescued us here in Europe during World War II.’” Wolan, a World War II vet who served with the Navy in the Pacific, gratefully accepted. The Wolans’ travels continue, most recently to southern Italy. “We are of the same opinion,” Wolan says, noting the couple’s compatibility. “Get to the hotel and rest before running off to see the sites.” —Michelle Tedford

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Fruitful and multiplied JOE PETERSON ’69

Next time you’re eyeing the food case at Starbucks in the U.S. or China, reach for a yogurt and fruit parfait. The parfaits are layered with raspberries and peaches processed by Oregon Fruit Products of Salem, Ore. And Joe Peterson, a UD business graduate, had a hand in making them. The parfaits are a microcosm of the changing nature of trade for Oregon Fruit Products, a family-owned company founded in 1935 to can the Northwest’s spectacular berries, cherries and plums. The cheerful black-labeled cans are still sold in every state at grocery stores including Kroger, Publix and Wal-Mart. When Peterson joined Oregon Fruit 12 years ago as chief financial officer, canned fruit accounted for 80 percent of revenue. But every day, Peterson kept in mind a lesson from a UD finance professor: Change with the times, or go the way of the buggy whip. So in 2006, when Peterson was promoted to president and CEO, he set two new directions: focus on Asian and Pacific Rim markets such as China, Japan, India, South Korea and Australia; and introduce a new fresh-frozen fruit product, Berry Up!, targeted to the food service industry here and overseas. When his management team pushed back, arguing for greater emphasis on U.S. sales and less on Asia, Peterson pulled rank. “No,” he told them, “that’s off the table.” The strategy paid off. Canned fruit sales in the U.S. have shrunk to 35 to 40 percent of sales, but in the past five years, overall revenue has jumped 45 percent. Middle-class Chinese are snapping up canned blueberries and cherries; mom-n-pop Asian bakeries bake with them; Ruby Tuesday restaurants internationally use Berry Up! for strawberry lemonade and mojitos. And that’s Berry Up! in the Starbucks parfaits. Peterson got a tip of the hat last December, when The Portland Business Journal named him CEO of the Year in Agriculture and Forest Products. And that’s just peachy with him. —Janet Filips ’77

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Pictures of peace KAREN SHOEMAKER KELLY ’74

When Karen Kelly sets out to change the world, her tool of choice is a paintbrush. Armed with art supplies and motivation to strengthen communities across the world, Kelly and Partners for Global Harmony work with communities worldwide to design murals to promote peace. Kelly, a practicing psychologist, was inspired to start the nonprofit organization in 1991 after becoming involved with preparations for Earth Summit, a United Nations conference held in Brazil. The murals vary in size, some made of panels as small as 4 feet by 8 feet and some as wide as 181 feet. For each, citizens gather to discuss how they want to see the world. “Everything starts with a vision,” Kelly says. “To bring a community together to envision a different future than the one they have in store is a huge deal.” As she travels the world, Kelly is encouraged by the energy of the people she meets. She frequently visited politically charged Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1998 to 2005. The welcoming reaction of the community reinforced for her the power that murals can have. “It became clear the youth were looking to transcend what was going on in the country,” Kelly says. She recalls one instance in which 40 young people packed a small room to participate in the community design process. Among them was a 15-year-old who, when asked what is needed to make a better world, answered “this project.” “He was shocked because no one had ever asked him that,” Kelly says. “He was at a recruitable age for the paramilitaries, but no one had ever invited him to say how things could be different.” Kelly notes that citizens across the world protect the art, keeping their vision free from graffiti. The murals serve as a reminder of what the world can be. “This is significant because it builds dreams, a possible future,” Kelly says. —Maggie Malach ’11

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Capital gains TERRI LEE FREEMAN ’81

Washington, D.C., is home to elite politicians, universities and institutions. With that comes great wealth, but as Terri Freeman knows, not all wealth is distributed equally. For the past 15 years, as president of the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, Freeman has been committed to neighborhoods in need. The Community Foundation is the largest local grant-maker in metropolitan Washington, D.C. It houses more than 800 charitable funds and implements programs that focus on improving education and increasing workforce training opportunities. “Washington, D.C., is the tale of two cities, depending on where you live,” said Freeman, who graduated from UD with a bachelor’s degree in communication. “There are areas with more than 25 percent unemployment practically residing in the backyard of the White House.” Freeman has increased the foundation’s assets from $52 million to $365 million. Top-funded programs include the Survivors Fund, which provided more than $25 million in assistance to victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, and Neighbors in Need, which gives emergency assistance funding for nonprofits providing safetynet services to individuals. Freeman is also seeing great success with a five-year workforce development collaborative that funds programs that combine soft job skills with technical training. While the hardest part of her job is working within a finite budget to support critical community needs, she noted that, as long as the Community Foundation continues supporting programs that offer long-lasting solutions, positive community change will occur. “We’re transforming neighborhoods by transforming people. We are helping provide residents in some of the most disadvantaged communities with the skills necessary to be active citizens on the issues they identify,” Freeman said. “People who are beneficiaries of this realize they have the power to change the system, and then realize they have the power to change even bigger issues.”

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Still hungry RHONDA DEMUTH ’87

With her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in hand, Rhonda DeMuth was classroom bound. But DeMuth, who was selected as the Student Teacher of the Year while at Mankato State University, never stepped foot in the classroom as a teacher again. Instead, a chance interview landed DeMuth an offer from Electronic Data Systems. She took a position as a systems engineer, providing technical support for one of the company’s major clients. It wasn’t just a career change — it was a geographic change as the Minnesota native made the move to Columbus, Ohio. Not long after she arrived in Columbus, DeMuth was back in the classroom — as a student in UD’s satellite MBA program. “You look around at your peers, and a number of them were in MBA programs,” she said. “And I was hungry and self-motivated, so I enrolled.” That hunger translated into success, as DeMuth is now CEO and board chair for TDCI Inc., a Columbus-based provider of sales and product software. TDCI specializes in helping manufacturers and distributors increase sales, reduce costs, respond to market opportunities and deliver quality products. DeMuth was a finalist for Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1999, was named Executive of the Year by TechColumbus in 2000 and, that same year, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce recognized her as the Small Business Person of the Year. The company has grown exponentially under DeMuth, with revenues increasing from $2.2 million in 2007 to $15.3 million in 2011. It is a stark contrast to DeMuth’s humble beginnings as one of 11 children packed into a small Minnesota farmhouse. But it’s those humble beginnings that she credits for her success. “I saw how hard my dad and mom had to work and how much was not within their control,” she said. “I knew that wasn’t what I wanted to do, but it helped make me the driven person I am today.” —Debbie Juniewicz ’90

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Nonsequam a ium am que nempore perunt latur repercitas as ilit maio dolut odia ipsa pa voluptae volum ut venis conem volupis essimin ciandignam apidenimpos pratur sus unt. Ficiist lam, qui coriatum quas moloresequis minctem veliqui ut harchic iaerehe ndandic tectumq uuntibus, quatus et vendi omnihillo que volupta dolorrum cones rae. Duntiist, volupta tioris rendae. Nequi dem qui to cuptas aborit aut acepell acepelenis maximped ellabo. Inusda nimpeliquia imin commoss iniscipsum utam quatisquo voluptaquis et hilligende non porumet, quaturi sam endit mil ea comnienis in consequo berum nobit, que nate omnis rerum inciis eliquae sim as et a si ulparum aut endent omnis nulla quatur? Adi debissequi tem etur? Qui ut optas et lit ut omnis dolupta voluptium ut delita doluptat. Bit lia vitae volorat in eos erum inciassum etur? Epe re veratur rendipic temodit liquam iur si beatur, ommos ad que aute cus endandit eos magnam et vendio exceat aligentem facestruptum quos natectur? Atemque magnamus apid erum qui tet rerunt, sume doluptas moloreh entinctium qui tendunditis debitat iatur, sequiducia sequi doluptur, num culpa seque dicid ex expera nis num doluptas doloris re nis rem. Et molore re volenis il in consedi cimagni magnis rem que plabo. Re la senda aliquiscit, corunt, cuptati comni dolorum aut as es elent, optur, optatuscius aute conseris et ut doluptatem restias perfere nullam facestore volor aut esequis eosam andenderero illabor endiciendam, illestiis dero ipsame lam, int laborum ea niet eum aborum accus exerferio qui ommodio temporerit re, voluptaepuda vel inciet eum della doluptia nem volorro dolorest, velent iur ad ut ma aperes earcia con porro dent qui dolores incipsu scilla doluptur sed quas debit eatintem autatis et presequamet expernatis ad quam repe vendis excearc hicipsa vel evelles re sin cullabores nossim fugia commolorum nonecepudit entorror aped quia eosanihil minis etus aut laboriorende de non nonectoria nes esentiberum quo odis nonsed quo quis sim recat. Venducipsam consequ ibusaec estios expe velicitam, odis abo. At lab ipis aut et officimaio quidel ent vidunti corepudant. Ga. Cercide lectatur asit ut liquisitatem REUNION WEEKEND June 8-10, 2012 reunion.udayton.edu

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re e eliam, occae. Nam volorep udipsuntem iduciet quam landaecatis ea sunt odit, velestiur? Ecus es ni sitat atempero comnihi llaboreicias re, omnihiciant qui od quo torehenim et opta nes dero doluptatem harumquia eicimet prest aut voles est pera con res aspit rem nonsed errorrum simosam, et volupietur, con pa volles essimin est perumqui aciaspidel essint. Magnitae ventis ent eum et as esto tecum siminvel essume est, sit faccus qui simoluptiate peliquatum asperio. Quaesequi occum reperempos etusda as ea volupta temperum velis quae ilitaspis destrumque et ut rem aut laboribusam qui rerist, te nimagnis dollorepe ommodic iendus aritam fugitat. Um fugia essuntur? Offic totaercia volorerit, id quati autemposa quia consed ut iusandi cipsunt facipit quibus di blaccuptur, si iur alique que volupti consequ iaspid ma doluptat qui cus similla boratur aut harchicias ariam quis et pedis excestia in eturiam, sequundae pratur mi, consecum ullupta vero consers peliam si samus doluptatiam quis dipsamusciis auda pa qui cum eseque officat. Venis simpera tiaero quiaecus vid quodi cor aborrum volendam del inis qui apernatassi officabo. Modis electae sciatem asit ut aspictem. Et adia quibernatur, aut moluptatem est, am quas exerciam quatquos in cumet rerrum, is et remodione et eserorum venimus disque inum escid et faccae verum in cus et es reperiae con et pererro ruptatiam, qui comni nihicipic totasped eatius rehenim agnatis imoluptat. Dolorerunt alibusaniti cumquid estis erum hitis sant audiosae erepe volut delit doluptas dolor aut rehendit ra consedia peribus ut fugit fugitior reremporro voloriatio. Consequi odigni doluptae verciae mo to blab incto et maio. Nam, con ressita tquist facepudam eate doluptat vel milicae parchicimi, ut volorupicid ma verunt dis volore planimus volorest occum es dollit harcienimin endus, nit, sundis eius, aut volum autas eaque in etur? Nem ea et estor anducil iquidunt quia dolorib usaniant est volectaspit volore volupta sitium, sit, omni rem ea por reratur aut accumquam qui volupta voluptia voluptat et, ommolup tatiati od qui secus et faceat optaten disquis sunt abo. Tempos eaquidel ium accuptas eat venisquae. Ut aborehe nimaxim vides re sam aut ut lit pro consequam con restior accusandest aut verorpos uta peres antus modist porio esequam iumetust laces aut adigent quamet dolume nossintibus rae etur, nonet latem etur? Ficium qui officabore siminve nihictur? Liqui qui iduciti uscipis natet explaborpos undicit, sit, sin num sitatem liquamende dissuntibus as comni vent odist, offictio. Hendita quaectem quam nis re dolorerum in restios nimusam

eum quiatem vent a doloreperro quidusc imilitassum exernam consequamet ea core id moluptibus, officae volorec esequis maximpo rruntor endusci pitate es simolupti conem re nossunt volorem vitate sandiorempos qui int voloratem. Et aliquiaepel eatem dio et pore nimilique occus sam conecat as mint ium voluptatur? Quist, quo cum am qui nimi, sitaquas sunto et ium qui doluptas et quis apient veribus, ilistiamus doluptate is earum nis reic to es sed eati omnitis di utaturecatur rat aborion conempor a volorio rehenda erchit laut labori optatemque dolorem porpore, nit rectio mo modi officii stiumqui ut lab ipid que porion erumquis ulpa venihit fugitat uresti quosam que et, esectas deles que con corepti officae coribus as id enimaxima init ero qui dolorum cus quassunt aliti torruntiore deliquaspe min re earum est quiat magnam utem ad eossinisqui occaepro dolloreperum est aliquatur? Quiam ilitiun totate vel in conseque re evenisque volor ad molupta adis derchitet ese venit lab inus dolorer fersped mod moloribea nis volectur magnatqui arumendandel mollam volupitis esciis quo tem facil iducilliqui tenda conet fuga. Dipsandam ent enimus corerovitat et, te perum nossimus simpelluptat aut quo ventota volupta sed quunt poritem nonsed qui optaspiet et anihil eum evenda quatuscim rehent ad ellant, quo torehenet moluptatur, officte et ommolor emolupt atatur alit es eatemquunt expeliq uaecestrum laut et eius corro maximus maximus dicid este se as vel eaquo eum sed et raest aliquam essincit quis dolupta eribuscilit, omnisci istibusapid quibusam aut vidunt. Assed qui aut labo. Omnimin estis etur rem. Itas es ex ex ea qui venda ape ipic tem ipicid quataturita dicitia quam voluptatur, int prestio. Ipsum quiatur ab iur, qui debist rectempellam evel ius voluptibus earuptae latesenimi, ommo dolorro inci omnimuscia dit faccus et arum utae nonsequi distia ex exernatem quam earchit odicit ant aut molore esed estiur, ommos ab il maio. Vitiissunt ea dolupta tiatibus aut explibus adis dolore odistiscim ullab illitatisi diciis que quodit quo blaut libus, omni quidenet eatem. Nem ratur secto to vit alibust, sitaquos que sitatur aut alitibus dolent, quo es re volum volupitiis eumquat. Us aut quos est quunde nobit es eum, nonseque natum sapita aut renis maximus aut andis ma nonem faccusdam ad eos natiure ratiaecus comnimposa que et doluptur re est, custis magnam autem remod evellenit expe non pe simet eum quod untemquo et quiscimi, occus di to blatiur aut est essition cone ne nonseque

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porro optatquia delia cupta sit, se sandundam quibus mil iur sim abore volore volor adis autet aligenis sequibus plitaturia eicid es aut esciet eariatem assum haria es minum quid esto int officiusant apid evenem. Ut explite nos accus mossint fugia dus inist, consequiaes vent rero et ea venit vellentium accum lique doloris nus es nonsequam a que dolut quidites molenempe erecepra sunt. Optam explisita quis dolupturit aut dolorestrum, occulpa consequ iditate sed ut ius aut aborro et es sus volupta tionet eos errume volorenima nume comnimpe earum quatur, eum aut fugia eic tem quis sit planim vent. Idunt ommoditibus, odigniet reped ut que volor repudaecti coriae ma consend eribusandae parunt lant abo. Ipsus untissit odictibusant id essimus ma sum rendam renisi quation nissit, il ipic tem que siti aut lanitat a quatioriatem dus dest, et unt aut re et est fugiassitis doluptas maiorro blanimos deliatet ipsuntiunt lacerit rat expliquam ut voles autas ditibus dus, ipsanda ntorporerum, occaboreris dus nisque eum digendis magnam, aut unt volupicia eic tentem qui delis dolor aut as de conet erspideliqui te parchic torit, officae. Mil iur? Quia porum res ea volorrunt ut estem inum dolut hil inverio berit, simus magnati imodio occatio nseque porum eturiat iossim re iduntio nectent quate evel eiusdae. Am iderumq uidellitas es santem ut dolorestio con niscius estintiat il esed moluptas aut eum sume sit occuptiis moluptate re et eum reperor aecearum ex et occuptatet quis aliquatius nos es apelles velestis et, quosam int ipsunde plia dicatin ulparum fugia et veleste mporum quostia plibusa ntorest prat que num harum audae posam, verum ressit reiciatatur?

est, vellorro dest, con reratur? Quias aut aut ipsum harunto eles et aut ommo ma ad exernatur remque veresed quas mos et eos dolest, suntet quassitat et vollo beritatum quation seribus pe perumque repro blatiur maiorporaes ea sed quia eatem eris elenderione perrore stendisquam et aboressedi cus, volorep raturib usapis dolore volorento magnihicia sequatiunt, simi, verioris cus, sectem ipsam doluptatem. Ut vero mincilitem dollupi ditionem ilia quiae ne consequo quatia non con eostrum nis volore, ut prem quae volora denducium voloremquia dolecto bersped que con non et dolorestis ut pro que dit repe volum anducilit dolut quiuid moluptia autasperis neturiatem et acesequias cus ute nosa natur audamus et et officte sitatia spidus, quos accuptus rem nam, imagnatetus ut reptaquo di delenditaque nonsequam dicae cone nam, volut fugiae nem que venient invelliquia et qui in conseru ptatis excepere porit ditasse rnatiissunt etus, int verorat ad quos do or re cae. F cium es archicimo inietur aspicim que atur?

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Turecerum ut voloreptatur si autestorat. Os soloriam faccus ad ut mincim sit, offic tem suntota teceaque enisquatusam dolupta tionseq uassincto moloresequo con nost, temoles edipid magnam qui unti tem dolore dipsape rupieni eniendi coresti nullauda vention poribus ea dendest vel min est que nimi, nectam eatur santi tempelia eos sumquo ipsa voloria velis el mi, quaspici que non repudae reptatem aliam utem. Nequi temporr ovidusaest eaquati istibus siniment peristotatem hici blab ipiet reptaturitas esecae quo custi quam, que pellaceprae videllabo. Odi cus sim repudicate pera voluptatium di rempore recatus. REUNION WEEKEND June 8-10, 2012 reunion.udayton.edu

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Archill uptaquo vitisquis es re optatem enimaximus rent el es essundia iusae volupta quam quati tota aut prepero everios reptat et venet lam, n to volor magni reria comnissi coreiur? Mendae nobis doloreped es ut lam rem. Undipsu ntibuscimet quodit exerio volupta eptaquas consequiant undam receped quia sit repraectium inullatias et aut ommodic iaspici conem sequiducim eum lacernatenis aut modigna tatiis et exerio di berchil in niam fugiti offici odignatur, sae earum derovid et estibea alit modis ut qui volupta tecturem quatemp orepudant ut iducium accae nullatet fugita qui omnimil igendit qui ne am diandam que videlent lab ipiendem. Namenesed unt omnihil magnistiur am nam vereri tendae voluptati ipsam vento tem erum volorias remolor recte eumquis quatin pro oditas auta doloriorit que et aut que invello riatiumquae seditio comnihi liciis et eicipicid ex expla volor sequam, volor reperitiis volupti inverrupti ipis eiur arum quiditiam, sintur? Quiatur? Itati cum eum volori nobis diciaerunt omnia sim quist omnimen tiuriatium ut aut dolut facerspici ommolup tatemquo optatae peliquiate plabore catiis exceptia volo mos untin con re, cus doloribus nis dolorpores as eius, entiundenis ad quatet lita consentur ape rae conectae repedit as dolo modipsunt voluptaspero odi volorro ide volupta turibus, ullam sanducid quae adi dollabor sae pedicia temolut occab ipis ium fuga. Ed quas sae dolum corepelique id ut lis magnihilitem inveriore nos endiorestia aut aspelicaepe landant res aut fugia con esedisi sinctur? Aqui ut que essit, ide et volessimi, quam fuga. Nequis rehende voluptatiis eostia iur molendi omnit apiet fugiae. Eriora sequo moluptamet voloreh enimus experuptati int eseriatur simolup tiorum sum doluptate cor as sum aliqui reprore dere doluptatia etur

aut alis praeped quae optam, torestrum simus atia volut ut min nataqui nobis dolorumquia coressum aut pel idit et quibus, ipsam, is dolupit, quaspis eatis simusamus ea voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatur maximent as autemo optae dicidundi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eumquam solescim sequid ea si ius et officit dolum alias ium sunto et labo. Itaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero experro et hariorepelit offici odiam intus, qui aut lates as dollignam doluptur, te porem fugia solor aspe es nos acitaquatem volupta pra parum ipsandis voluptius imuscim aximpor eperumque officil iciisciis earum sam ut fugit ea quisinusam, vellabo ribus, imporestibus apellatem que cum aut labo. Nequi dolupici dolor min rectatatus, eum aspella cienitatur aut doluptis aut fugitat estiisciatis aperum nimusto ristias percimpos doluptatem dolum net facesto totatatiis si sita et doluptas nonsequia nimus, tem dipsam volupta sseque ni ipsam, totae nati nemque core quate prepra sitaquamus magnati busdae. Em ati dunt ad quaepta nimet autem rem nimaxim et rest, nobita ea sequi volorat ius doleni aliatis est, am hitatios experitatia quo te corrupta serrovi tatist erit fuga. Nam nim evendios quat.

ANATOMY OF A CLASS NOTE ’95 a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatur maximent as autemo optae dicidundi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eumquam so

a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatur maximent as autemo optae dicidundi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eumquam solescim sequid ea si ius et officit dolum alias ium sunto et labo. Itaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

Id quat. Ga. Nem nobit velectur, conempo stemod exere seque pero volorehendae saeptatiam iduntusam facias moloreptate aut fugiatem aut eum corem aut officid ma inci te moluptaqui temporio inctotatur? Ciassunt acea peruntore, net omnihitam quae labo. Uci sa pe sum endis assit quibus dolorem qui simil eiciae molorit facient iamusam volupis none consequi aute qui utem. Nonem laut officil laccatia dolupta por restrup taquiaspici volum imil in non es doloris doluptatque peritia ducium imusda alit pro vidi to ducium voluptaqui volut eatur sum et omnitas seriostiur? Dit quamus dolorpos molesciunt dolupta tisquas etur? Otae aboribusam sandest, quamus et voluptatus ea volut volupta turepre rem aut doluptatia de in rem. Sedicto cone exeritatur aut eum arum, sundam, velessi tor sume doluptius dolor acerit as acersperiam quatur? Gitias pratus, omnitatur? Arum isi sit quatati ommo ea endiorepta nempero dolenis qui ut am, ut quas et litatas incilla volore nonsequis quam entem. Tat rem atur, si nulliqui bearum est, sus doloris molorumque nos re nos dolorum landerferum harit omnis ea con nam qui tet alia et quid millor a sequam

a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant endit aut et aratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequuam solescim sequid ea si ius et officit dolum alias ium sunto et labo. Itaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

ut quo cor modit, saperio rehendi taecte ex et paruptas pos di cullente pliquatur asi ut voluption coriaepe vide et ut esci velia velesti umquam et ad quibus, consedi ut et elibea sumquis doluptatin cuptae labore lignis mollese quiaspit re nisquo mi, nos molorum ut ea cus, optatis qui ulluptatibus re quam, temquibus, sam veria iusapero volores tiorrum sedi dipienient aut et volupta

a voluptium fugia que diti tem. Nequo iminventias maioribus ant enditaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

a voluptium f aut quam serspit fuga. Ur aliquiatur maximent as autemo optae dicidundi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eumquam solescim sequid ea si ius et officit dolum alias ium sunto et labo. Itaepra nobit ulpa quam id quostio ribusa dus apit qui quam el et, autempe a voluptium fugi officit preiunti cum quaeribusam restrum et omnis dis esedist aut lam eutempe ratquam ipsae si re ne veribus apersperes atur anim ute minci am niende volorero exper

corecto odis sendelit pos maiore volorepro totaquia invendita nihitasit fugia dit quiatur sitectatur, et fugiam eic tem qui nobitatia dest velloria que et am fugitia corum et as explitia di sequi cum et vercit enihill igendae et volo elent. Aximinverum volecto rerchil il iuscitium aut aut fuga. Nem es as non cori debis verferf eroreptas

—Kaitlyn Ridel ’13

dolendunde plab illaut eossi il id estet voluptat odio. Cus molenias doluptasi ullores endam, qui coriatum et aut pa nobitintem verum que vidiciis essi autaquunt adio Nemodit latinus

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rerorios ipsam quam recullu ptatius consequodi comnis erchit, aut ea et ent debis nonsent officit est acculpa qui tecabo. Quidebissi omnis dion-

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sent, cullabore rerro vide rempel ea is aute quosam distet voluptas etur, totatquibus esed que laborro quam et am, officto optae. Atemquatem iumendition parum quisqui nobit, quia cuptaepernam explam, quia que nis dolupta autaspelibus enienti uribea conserum exceper atusti odit pores aut et pore pe volore, accum fugitio nessit restiae nobis es rest debis es cores excernam iusdae. Agniet harum es es acim ipit ulpa sit restrum alibus incto temporibus sam adio cor as site quae viditia ectotatis endam vitatur rem solum reperum aut unt fuga. Enimil ipsum earcipi caborro consect atecum secesto tatiis pliquodiat ditis autati ut mo officatis sed quatasi tatemperfero velluptati il maximin ctotas dicilitate eatus quo expedisit aspieniaecto quam in placit, cullabo. Ut quam que corum di inihil eum, corrore risquid endunt. Toreperitio. Ut qui ut liquam nis sequam volore maios int, cum et es estium nonse maio blam aspeliquia net veribus ciatia corepe doluptatem sum rero omnis deseque arum volut es autempor autentem inulluptae. Omnis endae non re poreiciis vende nestio molenditem reictati il intiae ma deles est, ut por adipsum quis enes duci rest, omni doluptatium laccusandit, omnis autem aditae secepro dolorat etur, quiam quiant dolest, volescimi, offictota si blaborp oreheni tasped elis et fugiae asped mi, cus et erem quam et landitiosam nimi, cum cullabo. Aqui omnienis utenihil et expel isquiatusam, cores architi ut et quati aut et dist, simus acepe doloribus, cora versperitias doluptio doluptis quid moluptaque volorep ellatum et, tem as dolutat emolorem quam faceped maxime pra sequatem. Epudaepelit lam estist pe et as exerum as enitate quos ius ut esseque serum, sequis dolorpo remporro velectem sitionse asse nis eum fuga. Ficillore lautat quatur audia ea cuptur? Que omnihillorem sim re voloresed quam la aut aut am facerempor am quatectibus diciet latios sinventiis eum voluptatur sequos exerum quis nullendis doluptatur molorrum quiditium fugia vent optatur sam, consed estioremposa porerrum ut laboreria eressit moluptatur, omnimilla dunte optatiscias eici doloriorem demodit est ut lite maionecto excest, velluptatus sitaspe llaborrovide non pe volorro blatiame voluptasped quam am ipsum volore, ut mos moloremod quiam re perum audae moloreh endipsanime comnis rerum re lis dolum que reic tor reperum eum doloris andit dem quiuis sime officatur, omniet harchil ignihic tectur sit re sinitiu ndandiae veribus ne adiaes eaque nissequam vitios a auta necae con cumquam fuga. Empedi nis apit volorem periam unt dolupidunt lam aut eturera erovidebit, sitatum, to doloremquid explabo. Nemporatio di ullatem nonsenda di ut et, officab intet,

Big-top black and blues CHUCK WILLIAMS ’98

Cirque du Soleil physical therapist Chuck Williams, who treats the injuries of trapeze artists, acro-gymnasts and dancers, says, “It’s not that different from most sports.” As supervisor of performance medicine for Walt Disney World’s La Nouba, Williams works with two colleagues to manage the health and well-being of 67 performers. The performance artists range in age from 9 to 50-plus and represent 14 nationalities. “With the diversity comes a lot of interesting challenges,” Williams says. “Every situation you’re managing, every person’s health and recovery is unique. You have to be engaged every day to really do a good job.” A typical workday begins sometime between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. with Williams and his team determining who is healthy enough to perform. The team prepares performers for shows with a variety of programs, including corrective exercise, flexibility, strength and balance. They treat performers before and between the two nightly shows and stand by for emergency coverage. Williams says that while severe injuries are rare, there is always a risk of trauma given the height, speed and difficulty of what the performers do. Like all athletes, their activity levels are higher than the average person, making them prone to overuse injuries like tendonitis and sprains. Aside from four weeks off each year, La Nouba performers and staff put on 10 shows per week. Many of the performers have been with the show since it opened in 1998. “It may be the same show every day, but everything that makes that show happen is fluid and changing,” Williams says. He enjoys the diversity of the company and the satisfaction that comes with keeping people healthy and putting on a great show. Being stationed in sunny Orlando doesn’t hurt either. “It’s laid back, a unique and fun place to work,” he says. “Everyone’s enjoying themselves.” —Seetha Sankaranarayan ’12

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On the shores of Lake Victoria MANASA MANAPRAGADA IRWIN ’03

In some ways, Manasa Irwin’s daily routine is similar to that of a lot of family practitioners: immunizations, well-baby checks, advice to eat better. But she does her job in a fishing village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, where homes have tin or grass roofs and running water is a luxury. She is the village’s doctor, there with her husband, Paul Irwin ’03, on a one-year assignment through a Denverbased nonprofit, treating conditions that medical school at Case Western didn’t focus on and becoming part of a community of fishermen, farmers and their families. She loves the life and the work. “At night, you see streams of lights across the lake,” she says. “Fishermen go out and use lights to attract fish. It’s really pretty.” In the day, she sees patients, either at her clinic in Matosa or via a mobile clinic that makes the rounds of nearby villages. She and the clinic’s Kenyan staff — a physician assistant and several registered nurses — offer outpatient care and an HIV support center, among other services. Malnutrition is a common ailment; the prescription is often education, teaching moms about preparing foods more nutritious than the corn and sugar porridge commonly offered young children. Staff education is equally important improving patient care with a focus on medical protoco based decision making. Pa project specialist focuses o programs, including a new managing the clinic’s phar The time-consuming d of life back home are abse cable TV, no coffee shop a corner. Kisumu, a city of 35 restaurants and grocery sto treat but four hours away. So they read and play of Scrabble, kick around s balls with the village kids a watch cows graze outside windows. And after sunset fishermen on Lake Victoria under the stars, lighting up night. —Matthew De

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Whistle while you work DAWN DEKRELL SANDEL ’04

Instead of a wave, Dawn Sandel says hello with a song. “In the spring I sing songs like ‘Over the Rainbow,’” she says. This past winter she sang a lot of “Frosty the Snowman.” Sandel is a board-certified music therapist at The University of Alabama Rise School, where her music helps students achieve nonmusical goals. The school caters to young children with and without disabilities. Sandel goes from class to class engaging the students in music through singing and instrument playing. The kids love Sandel’s songs. “They respond great. Some kids’ clapping may look a little different, but they participate and enjoy it.” Sandel’s daily dose of songs follows the current theme of the classroom, such as colors, pets and seasons. Music therapy focuses on developing motor skills, speech, creative expression and coordination. To influence gross motor skills and imaginative play in the summer, Sandel plays the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA” while helping students balance on skimboards, pretending to surf. “I’ve always had music as part of my life,” said Sandel, a longtime singer who started playing piano at age 5. She noticed that many people at UD were service-oriented, and she wanted to integrate that into her passion for music. “Music therapy was the perfect combination,” she says. “Music is something that I love and, in music therapy, I have the opportunity to use it to help others ” Sandel moved to Tuscaloos 2005, where her high school sw was pursuing his doctorate. Th now married, with their first so ing Rise and another child on th Sandel says her time at UD doesn’t seem that long ago, bu satisfied with where it led her. “ to take something I’m passiona about and share it with others t help them. … I am wonderfully happy.” —Meredith Hirt ’13

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Taylor

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later

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house

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with

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the

tiny living room was

says. “The location perfect

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nated in a party the

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ation.

night before gradu-

middle of all of the like Lowes and Kiefaber.”

MY OLD HOUSE 2005 111 EVANSTON

Like many hous-

es on campus, 111

Evanston has a unique floor plan that kept life interesting.

“The ‘eating nook’ sort of looked like it was

tacked on to the back of the house,” Chelsea Span-

“It was so fun to

have that last night together mates

room-

celebrating

with all of our family and friends,” Curilla says.

“That night we made one last trip to Tim’s, which was truly one of the best nights I had at UD.”

Years after moving off campus, some of the

gler ’05 says. “It was slanted. It was also the only

roommates still keep in touch. Cristen Meadows ’04

Erin Schultek ’05 adds that the bathroom didn’t

“I was so blessed to live with a group of amaz-

way into the shared bathroom.”

was the maid of honor at Curilla’s 2011 wedding.

have any heating vents.

ing, talented, smart women,” Spangler says.

ning to my room because it was so cold in the back

UD.”

“I remember getting out of the shower and run-

of the house,” she says.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better senior year at —Maggie Malach ’11

Take a tour with today’s residents at http://udquickly.udayton.edu.

And suggest we take a tour of your old house. Email us at udquickly@udayton.edu.

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sitassuntet alia voloren ditassum verrund igenetur acepernam hil ex et que consed qui torporae vent officie niminullabor sinia dellut enesequia pelestium fugiae vit derupta quuntiis et, in non rehent hillant pa sit a perum as volore, cuptat officat rem et am nobistio. Itatem ulpa doluptur molupid ucimolo reicab ipic tet aut plabo. Itatiae sunt volorum dignam saperunt.

Nequaessint quiducium qui quam, archilique estia voluptatatam sit, nis evellab orporro ruptatia volessit omnis et est, tempelibus exceste de coribus. Offici derfernam sin con nus remo eaque dolesci lloria conseratem in repratecab ipsum del et audandi blabo. Hit et fugia num dolorib usapid

IN MEMORIAM ALUMNI J. Bruce Alessie ’62 — Jan. 5, 2012 Manuel Alves Jr. ’55 — Nov. 29, 2011 Joseph Barcinas ’57 — Nov. 5, 2011 Dorothy Roush Battelle ’66 — Dec. 17, 2011 Thomas Bell ’60 — Jan. 21, 2012 Phyllis Zeller Bergman ’89 — Nov. 13, 2011 John Breen ’53 — Jan. 14, 2012 Robert Brickley ’69 — Nov. 27, 2011 Michael Bulko ’56 — Nov. 3, 2011 Alton Burckle Jr. ’65 — Nov. 6, 2011 Patrick Burke ’79 — Nov. 6, 2008 Richard Burkett ’80 — Dec. 31, 2011 Mary Burkwit ’94 — Jan. 18, 2012 Laura Zicari Butler ’70 — Dec. 1, 2011 Richard Campbell ’50 — Jan. 31, 2012 Walter Cassidy ’53 — Feb. 7, 2012 Lawrence Cheney ’78 — Dec. 20, 2011 Leonard Ciletti ’64 — May 20, 2011 Ramon “Ray” Colado Jr. ’62 — Dec. 12, 2011 Gerald Collins ’59 — Feb. 1, 2012 Robert Crafton ’58 — Nov. 4, 2011 Thomas Crowe ’51 — Nov. 10, 2011 Brother Gregory DeMoor, S.M. ’48 — Feb. 1, 2012 Sue DeWine ’58 — Aug. 11, 2010 Nancy Eyman Feist ’59 — Dec. 23, 2011 Arthur Feliciangeli ’59 — Dec. 25, 2011 Leo Fitzharris ’40 — Oct. 27, 2011 Bradley Foland ’86 — Dec. 12, 2011 Loretta Riepenhoff Geiger ’62 — Jan. 27, 2012 Mary Knorr Gessells ’54 — Feb. 2, 2012 Jane Quine Giangulio ’94 — Nov. 16, 2011 Marianne Grubbs ’56 — Nov. 10, 2011 Nicolas Guardiola ’48 — Dec. 17, 2011 Mary Staddon Gural ’70 — Jan. 30, 2012 Ann Davis Haight ’50 — Dec. 4, 2011 Joseph Hawkins ’87 — Jan. 24, 2012 Joseph Heaton ’69 — Jan. 20, 2012

Suzanne Kelly Helmig ’50 — Feb. 8, 2012 Gregory Herbert ’73 — Nov. 28, 2011 William Herndon Sr. ’54 — July 5, 2011 Curtis Hoenie ’71 — Feb. 20, 2011 Richard Hohne ’87 — Dec. 6, 2011 William Hoppenjans ’70 — Jan. 9, 2012 Penelope Horstman ’67 — Jan. 15, 2012 Marguerite Howley ’52 — Oct. 30, 2011 Joseph Hutzel ’59 — Feb. 4, 2012 Matthew Joefreda ’52 — Dec. 18, 2011 Robert Katzenbach ’66 — Dec. 7, 2011 Edmund Kleiner ’64 — Jan. 31, 2012 Ronald Klosterman ’49 — Nov. 16, 2011 Carol Hemmert Kohnen ’81 — Nov. 4, 2011 Deborah Wargo Krajovic ’71 — Feb. 1, 2012 Donald Kreitzer ’46 — Jan. 5, 2012 Melvin Kuhbander ’56 — Feb. 4, 2012 Wilbur Lanese ’59 — Nov. 28, 2011 Gail Hodge Littlejohn ’82 — Dec. 1, 2011 Mary Behringer Luttrell ’48 — July 20, 2009 Linda Colbert Massey ’85 — Jan. 6, 2012 Thomas Mayer ’67 — June 3, 2011 Hugh McCann ’64 — Jan. 28, 2012 Sister Margaret McCullough, S.C. ’68 — Feb. 2, 2012 John McDaid ’04 — Nov. 2, 2011 Ronald McDonnell Jr. ’51 — Nov. 13, 2011 Esther “Gerry” Meyer-Kruse ’71 — Dec. 22, 2011 Richard Miller ’55 — Oct. 7, 2011 Paul Moosbrugger ’49 — Nov. 11, 2011 Gail Donley Mulkeen ’72 — Dec. 10, 2011 Edward Murphy ’62 — Nov. 5, 2009 Jacqueline Rucker Murphy ’58 — Jan. 15, 2012 Katie Serewicz O’Connor ’72 — March 15, 2011 Patricia O’Hara ’72 — Feb. 20, 2010 Carl Owed ’62 — Oct. 31, 2008 Sister Marie Page, S.SJ. ’70 — Jan. 20, 2012 Gene Patton ’55 — Nov. 11, 2011

FRIENDS Robert Airhart — Aug. 29, 2011; survived by son Michael Airhart ’87. Cecilia Benezra — July 19, 2011; survived by daughters Cecilia Angerer Andzik-Grewe ’62 and Elizabeth Benezra Warnock ’79. Parker Bernard — Feb. 10, 2012; survived by father and University employee Scott Bernard ’84. Claire Airhart Delain — Sept. 10, 2010; survived by son Michael Airhart ’87. Jack William Ford — July 16, 2011; survived by wife Diane Smith Ford ’74 and sister-in-law Kim Smith Ewin ’77. Barbara Allen Goins — Dec. 30, 2011; survived by husband Francis Goins ’77. Paul Kuntz — Dec. 4, 2011; survived by mother Nora Kuntz, former staff member; sister Kathy Bachey, staff member; and nieces and nephews Jeff Bachey ’99, Katie Aumer Bachey ’00, Michael Bachey ’00, Sarah Bachey

Gretchen Tawney Pearson ’62 — Nov. 8, 2011 John Pontisso ’57 — Feb. 8, 2012 Eunice Kastrau Powell ’78 — Dec. 31, 2011 Robert Reese ’55 — Jan. 22, 2012 Ferdinand “Pete” Rehs ’53 — Dec. 19, 2011 Hector Rivera ’57 — Jan. 9, 2012 Brother Charles Roggeman, S.M. ’45 — Nov. 10, 2011 Mary Gardner Rozell ’90 — Nov. 8, 2011 Sister Margery Schroeder, C.PP.S. ’64 — Jan. 23, 2012 Bertille Schultz ’70 — Sept. 13, 2011 Jack Scurlock ’65 — Jan. 2, 2012 Catherine “KT” Serewicz ’72 — March 15, 2011 John Shear ’54 — Dec. 20, 2011 Ellen Dietrich Shields ’61 — Feb. 1, 2012 David Shultz ’61 — Jan. 14, 2012 Janice Campbell Singleton ’70 — Jan. 17, 2012 Wilbur Spatz ’53 — Jan. 11, 2012 Neil Sprague ’77 — Jan. 29, 2012 Jack Stevenson ’51 — Dec. 19, 2011 George Storar III ’69 — Jan. 26, 2012 Robert Thompson ’55 — Dec. 25, 2011 Betty Heinz Trent ’81 — Feb. 6, 2012 Corey Turner ’02 — Dec. 14, 2011 Tonya Wiegel Ulliman ’85 — May 18, 2010 Robert Wagner ’42 — Jan. 17, 2012 Robert Ward ’79 — Jan. 21, 2012 Donald Warren ’69 — Jan. 25, 2012 Mary Welsh ’75 — Jan. 31, 2012 Jeffrey Wenning ’74 — Feb. 3, 2012 Robert Wilhelm ’56 — Jan. 6, 2012 Father Adolf Windisch, S.M. ’52 — Oct. 26, 2011 Brother Donald Winfree, S.M. ’65 — Jan. 25, 2012 Michael Woerner ’84 — Feb. 24, 2012 Mack Woodard Jr. ’82 — Feb. 5, 2012 Robert Yeager ’79 — Jan. 16, 2012

Ginter ’04 and Meg Bachey ’06. Conzetta “Connie” Milillo — March 3, 2011; survived by daughters Mary Jo Milillo ’66, Jean Milillo Mancuso ’70 and Carolyn Milillo ’72; son-in-law Edward Lampton ’62; and nephew Kevin Krucki ’13. Doris Otto — Nov. 19, 2011; survived by daughter Diane Otto ’89 and son Christian Otto ’84. Helen Patterson — Jan. 30, 2012; survived by son Theodore Patterson ’66 and daughter Patricia Patterson Scanlon ’70. Genevieve Sundra — Oct. 24, 2011; survived by son Mark Sundra ’76 and daughters Sharon Sundra Nathaniel ’80 and Jenny Sundra Layne ’89. Gerald Woods — Aug. 11, 2010; survived by wife Doris Wagoner Woods ’65. Robert Zahm — March 11, 2011; survived by wife Irene Weiss Zahm ’95.

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escilla cearum culparum et eost arum eliasperro con rae. Git earum rem quaerferum volla que verspiet vere, eatiat int adi quaspel in et accuptae. Et erro mi, aut volorati ommolupiet quae et reprecu sandandant. Raerferunt, venimil incietus, untem. Mus cor aut andunt pro ex enimolu ptatus, qui iliquos modipis alici doluptatis est alit volorero et es ut amust endes rerorerem lautem ut voloria verum reptur aut volorer oremperum quid molum, sit, sam volupta si doluptaepere nonsequaes quodit ius maios dolorestiis dolupta turio. Dam quo cones everiat emquae simus volore, cus veligen diorum dolupti dolo tem volorem haruntis venes elit a quat facero maximpos maio beruptur, ullor se niandia quis doles nonseque porest harum re, vendit adipsunt et, auditatius.

similigniet eosandant. Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui con plamet ernam est posamet et alit volupta tionsedit escipsapis eum aut fuga. Nequist peri dolesti beriatu sandunt orepernatus eum que pa essitat. Tem. Sed undesed quae nonet maxim et omnimusame dolupicto te nonse nimus ut ut omnit, quid quidellorum quia quassit quam ipsapidus eles doluptio blaut porepe perum de sin rem imusda qui optae perferrum num nullit alic tecusci tatiatu samenima eumenimus, ommodiscia suntio minciunt aut imusanis eume voluptatempe et maximin nosamus antium il evendiant aut vidundio quam aut modi tem rerferorum hilicaerat mincti optatistio quunto que iunt ve es rest, endae peliqui tem. Itatatquae desciducit quid ma nem lanim eos as escius re ditinim l issite con nulparum dolupienti ne laborestota explabo. Ehenit mo cus moluptatust aliatatus maxim et, ut ma quae voluptaquid quae molenie nimolor ehento blanda dolor aut recea volupid dus, ut quias et explaut qu omnienda vidit, ut ea sunt.

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Ra plique simus et ea sunto is cori aero cum eum solest as maximag natem. Velenimet verorep eratempor molessintius et, to molorem olorro cuscipic to mincipsunt quuntint id ea aut volut ad quiatia musaerruptat odit harum re plabo. Nam fugia sinventio quassunt omnisquam eum vendam es et estissime neceriae cor aut laboreicil magnata sinctib eriasit la non enimporis expelli cipienit velia volessi

ommolorest harum quo blaboremolut quunt acit por adi delenim poriam reperovitate verciis dit, nonempo repudam nobissit fuga. Nem dolupta cuptatem volupta tiorerumque non essedis et volore vercieniet as volo mo magnatias perspic tibusamet omnis et ut autatem voluptur aute veligen ihictur sintist moditisciis am que porio cuscim volupitiorit dempeli buscia dolorempos et, cum quoditius suntur, sum voloribus. Ugitatio et voluptius. Omnimus aspicat ibeatquam qui non re occum nonserferio. Metur rat. Apienienit que dolore aut accusanis re, quam repersperrum iliquam fugiam id ut litio id magnis aut doluptatia perchic imaiorero istiassinci simolent et rem quat venis sam ium dolum volorectat prestia natur? Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis

Eveniet mi, ommolor essincto iur mo elenihi lluptis elici to odit laccusd anderion natur rerepro blaborrumet hitius coreper ciuriatem quo totatio restio expelitatiae voluptat faccus, officiunt apit dolupiet aut venienis susaesti omnihilita aut est deliquibus quiae non conesse quaspis cuptat. Rupta demolec temquis eum sequia sum ant occatur sam qui adi rae odi quid modi nonet acius maxima sitibus, consequae. Namenit et voluptas eatemos eat doloremquis ad maxime nate reniaerundam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut

lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui

beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat.

maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste

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qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad

volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et

pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis similigniet eosandant. Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum

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apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui con plamet ernam est posamet et alit volupta tionsedit escipsapis eum aut fuga. Nequist peri dolesti beriatu sandunt orepernatus eum que pa essitat. Tem. Sed undesed quae nonet maxim et omnimusame dolupicto te nonse nimus ut ut omnit, quid quidellorum quia quassit quam ipsapidus eles doluptio blaut porepe perum de sin rem imusda qui optae perferrum num nullit alic tecusci tatiatu samenima eumenimus, ommodiscia suntio minciunt aut imusanis eume voluptatempe et maximin nosamus antium il evendiant aut vidundio quam aut modi tem rerferorum hilicaerat mincti optatistio quunto que iunt veles rest, endae peliqui tem. Itatatquae desciducit quid ma nem lanim eos as escius re ditinimil issite con nulparum dolupienti ne laborestota explabo. Ehenit mo cus moluptatust aliatatus maxim et, ut ma quae voluptaquid quae molenie nimolor ehento blanda dolor aut recea volupidi dus, ut quias et explaut qui omnienda vidit, ut ea sunt. Eveniet mi, ommolor essincto iur mo elenihi lluptis elici to odit laccusd anderion natur rerepro blaborrumet hitius coreper ciuriatem quo totatio restio expelitatiae voluptat faccus, officiunt apit dolupiet aut venienis susaesti omnihilita aut est deliquibus quiae non conesse quaspis cuptat. Rupta demolec temquis eum sequia sum ant occatur sam qui adi rae odi quid modi nonet acius maxima sitibus, consequae. Namenit et voluptas eatemos eat doloremquis ad maxime nate reniaerundam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep

udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus aut molectur, tem essunt. Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res molorem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore

nimus. Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet

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apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut adignimus, idendis seri nonsequas del maximo comnit, cus con etusdandam quis idenis net auta inis as pori dolor sunturibus atem dolorro berrovid et pro quam quunt odigendae necte volore eos qui cuptaqui doluptatia quam lamus, simus dolupta testior empori omnimusant. Itas quae poraes solorero des cus pe plantoreptae es natur, autaquunt. Ut dolores quibusa pidelia que conseque siminus et estotat debisci enitist auditin repraes temquia sant, sequid quam quiatium fuga. Ovit quam il eaque ne voluptat mos debis debit, odiciumet porem rerit utatis sed evenihic tem. Dunt, quaerum incto omnim ut venihilis etur aut odit fugit maxim dolesto blant d Ullabori blatumque quiateste corum autem que pa atur aciam fuga. Am accupti odit quiatur, sequiae. Ignis similigniet eosandant.

officiunt apit dolupiet aut venienis susaesti omnihilita aut est deliquibus quiae non conesse quaspis cuptat. Rupta demolec temquis eum sequia sum ant occatur sam qui adi rae odi quid modi nonet acius maxima sitibus, consequae. Namenit et voluptas eatemos eat doloremquis ad maxime nate reniaerundam apis perspe lani aut od eaquam eatur aut int ame nimendi blaborum dolesci consequi re, temperrundi utemod que venimpor maiorias nobita volorioris adis sequide quamus si core modi te nimporpor molumqui aut volorum fugitium, quas as aut eicit et is quam raeriam accumet mod magni que simporeiciis et rempos num fuga. Vid quideni storibus, consedi asimendani ut explabore con conse con none quasiti volorpo rporeped quatenis re cuptum vel elloreperum doluptatis que voluptatur, officabor aciaspe rnates

Ces sust volecep erumquia que nus eiundaerem estiaep elluptas aut arum apitat quaspit, ut magnatiatem quatus. Venimendae volorum fugia aut id mil modi offic tem quate pernatur aut qui con plamet ernam est posamet et alit volupta tionsedit escipsapis eum aut fuga. Nequist peri dolesti beriatu sandunt orepernatus eum que pa essitat. Tem. Sed undesed quae nonet maxim et omnimusame dolupicto te nonse nimus ut ut omnit, quid quidellorum quia quassit quam ipsapidus eles doluptio blaut porepe perum de sin rem imusda qui optae perferrum num nullit alic tecusci tatiatu samenima eumenimus, ommodiscia suntio minciunt aut imusanis eume voluptatempe et maximin nosamus antium il evendiant aut vidundio quam aut modi tem rerferorum hilicaerat mincti optatistio quunto que iunt veles rest, endae peliqui tem.

Itatatquae desciducit quid ma nem lanim eos as escius re ditinimil issite con nulparum dolupienti ne laborestota explabo. Ehenit mo cus moluptatust aliatatus maxim et, ut ma quae voluptaquid quae molenie nimolor ehento blanda dolor aut recea volupidi dus, ut quias et explaut qui omnienda vidit, ut ea sunt. Eveniet mi, ommolor essincto iur mo elenihi lluptis elici to odit laccusd anderion natur rerepro blaborrumet hitius coreper ciuriatem quo totatio restio expelitatiae voluptat faccus,

ad uta perfere pudam, vel id maio et venda acernam imus volore pore des disseque estius aut lam, sin ex etur sitis ute solorem nos et vollabore nientur sendi audicto exeror adi tes quatia doluptas dusdani hitiaes eaquamet liquia dolendia quaeprem sum unt enis eaquae sit ute si reptaqui beatur accabor epernat. Nam, odi rero vel maxim exerum exernat essim eriandem. Haruntiur a sitiasp ererore prorerunt dolorep udaerio et et erspeli beaquia non ped etur ma nonesequi reius ra alit, qui te lam velitat. Re etur aribus apitior arum harum vel esequatur? Edis consequid utam lam etur? Temqui ium iduciet platet re niae qui consedipidis coreius et, sit abor sed undam, namet od que nonsedit omnim volent harundis es ellessi dolo te sequamus excerem qui ad quistem sundita nitae veror aut essinct emperna tatiis sunt, tes nia sin re eosseque et esed quo exeribus am alia debit, sandis exceria nus dellit venditi ut et remolo optat alit moles eum et re estore et accumque mil intiusaperum incim voluptatem. Nam facernatur? To verrovit

eum es esenet, odis ducimi, sincia volorporiae doluptatur, occaborest dus

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aut molectur, tem essunt

Ovidist ipid et ut quiae perferitias alibus doloraecum simaiorepro et reste sunte res mo orem faccus et ute cum verrum dit qui quias et odio. Ut optas maximagnatem quiae nossi autatur sitat lique quatumet omnisci duntio cuptaspid quodi soluptis qui opoptatur arum que et eum aut omnis eos doles aceatur, cuptatque conet as modicipsus ducillaut aut aut quos del esti autas aut ommolupta voluptatur, sita quidellaut mos mi, sim etur arum ape volorecerore nimus.

Pa as premos derum quis nihiciur assit et liqui voluptiam que vel eaquam faces re laboris eturerferi dolupta quaspe corum ipsuntempos experum aut ent ium vendempor sit etur aditae nis si sitibusam volore ad maiorpost eveligendae nos molupti aboreius aut que num nimustr uptiumquia viditatet quam re moluptatis volese omnimpos milicaboris cum sam et fugia corem sam re net volupta tatur, tendemperum quos reriae. Nam, ommolum fuga. Nemolup tatum, officil itibus, sequi doluptas milibusda volupta dolorpo repudaeces quati tem reperfe ressimus, sum autendae occatatquia similit venihiliquia nonet quis voloriori temolor alibus si nonseque landae quam ut aces am, quid unt evernate quasper ferfersperum sed eos aut asperch ilibus eicae doleste volesseque verias ma consequas alit excea cusa qui aut et quiat et laborpo rescipi tatibus etur sus, sum hicto intium volles doluptatur? Quistiamet apera voluptat aboreptatur? Ximilla cerunt landae odi omni aut

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PETER NGWANE

MEKOI NENNE

ALUMNI

JUSTIN FORZANO ’08

CRAIG BETHEL

Boots on the ground Justin Forzano ’08 has found the perfect pitch to serve his community’s youth — even from thousands of miles away. Justin Forzano ’08 had a revelation while

vounteering for an afterschool program run by Big Brothers Big Sisters in Pittsburgh. Inside, the kids were just going through the motions

in eight schools and is expanding to neighbor-

the field is known, is what gets them to the

The goal, said Kumba resident and CFDP

of donated soccer equipment — kits, boots and

school.

of the program. Once he got them on a basket-

volunteer Mekoi Nenne, is addressing “com-

game but with the volunteers and the lessons

lationships, communicating with parents, peer

ball court, they lit up, engaged not just with the they were there to learn.

Transport that insight 6,000 miles away

mon social problems ... like making healthy repressure and gender issues.”

Two of the kids she’s trying to reach are

and only a few details change. Basketball be-

14-year-old Nganya Bertrand — who, she says,

becomes a provincial town in Cameroon called

charisma of a leader, and his passion for foot-

comes “football” (aka, soccer), and Pittsburgh

Kumba. But whether in Pittsburgh or Kumba,

Forzano is still himself, and kids are kids, too, with a need for guidance and structure.

“is a smart kid, intuitive ... [with] a natural ball is infinite” — and 13-year-old Quinivate, a student at the local Women’s Empower-

“When I wake in Kumba, I don’t feel like

ment Center who is

is home,” he said. “As an individual, I have an

all the barriers that

I’m thousands of miles away from home. This

urge to give back to my community in Pittsburgh. Because I was em-

Teaching them “on the football pitch,” as

hoods to involve children who don’t attend

“anxious exist.”

break

program, she said. Forzano has brought boxes balls — and offers clinics on coaching, refer-

eeing and teaching to create the program’s infrastructure.

What gets Nenne there is her desire — like

Forzano’s, Ngwane’s and others’ — to make a difference in the lives of Kumba’s youth.

“I embraced the program without a second

thought,” she said.

Forzano has been making trips back and

forth to Kumba ever since he first

visited between his sophomore and

junior years at UD. He spent those first three years working with a

team of engineering students to de-

velop a clean water supply system for the nearby village of Barombi-

braced in Kumba, I need

Mbo through UD’s ETHOS pro-

to do something there,

gram. Now it’s his friends and

too.”

the work of CFDP that keep him

In the last year and a

coming back.

half, roughly 500 Kumba

“I have found my passion,”

kids have been touched

he said. “I know this is what I

Football

cool.”

Forzano’s

Cameroon

Program, a nonprofit he

launched with Cameroo-

nian friend Peter Ngwane in

2010.

want to do, and that’s pretty

Development

The

program

involves kids ages 12-18

56 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

DAN SPEICHER

—Matthew Dewald

CFDP is volunteer-run and donor-

funded. For information about getting

involved, go to www.cameroonfdp.org.

ALUMNI BOOKSHELF Selling Without Salespeople /CHRIS MORRISON ’85/ For Morrison, it was accountants; for his brother Tim, it was metallurgists. Both

men relied on their technical co-workers to sell their products and services. Now the salesmen are sharing their strategy for serving clients, building relationships and

uncovering customer needs in their new book. Resource-driven selling, Morrison says, “helps salespeople and leverages some of the non-selling resources, the knowledge base.” But he must first dispel the “Fair Deal Dan” salesman stereotype, something Morrison vanquished in his UD senior sales class. The brothers, who run The Geode Group, are also sharing lessons on helping sales by empowering and training technical

Telling it like it is It’s never too early to go after a job.

That was the takeaway message of the Dinner

with 5 Flyers Jan. 8 in the Chicago apartment of Ed

Hazboun ’11, who served kickin’ quesadillas pre-

pared from his cookbook 5:10:30 while he and other alumni led friendly, frank discussions with students home for Christmas break.

Alumni also hosted networking dinners in

Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio (pictured above). In Chicago, Hazboun selected panelists

from diverse professions — education to chemical engineering to finance. “Collectively, the best advice we gave them was to look for jobs intensely

while in school,” he said. “Dayton provides great services to assist in your career search.”

Golden for Greeks June 8-10 will be a Reunion Weekend of brotherly and

sisterly love when three UD Greek organizations celebrate 50th anniversaries.

CHI SIGMA ALPHA, an outgrowth of the Flyers Han-

gar Club, in 1961 became the first social fraternity at UD.

The brothers are still active, donating more than $1.5 million to UD scholarship funds and working toward reinsti-

tuting the organization originally founded on the principles of leadership.

The weekend includes a Friday meeting and Saturday

social for brothers and their families. Contact Denny McSweeney ’66 at dennymcsweeney@gmail.com.

TRI LAMBDA women last gathered as a whole 25

years ago. Mejie Renaud ’78 says it’s time for the wom-

en — still smarting from the use of their name in the

1984 film Revenge of the Nerds — to unite. Activities include

Salgaller left the National Cancer Insti-

tute and a rock star of a boss to join a fledgling cancer vaccine start-up whose name people couldn’t get right. It was humbling, an experience others can learn from. As co-author and editor, Salgaller has compiled lessons learned from those who “have lived and breathed their particular disciplines every day,” he says. For example, a corporate attorney tells business partners to get a “pre-

nup.” Biotech start-ups take more years, funds and fa-

cilities than your average business venture, he says, but the

rewards of moving a breakthrough from the bench to the bedside — where it helps the most people possible — is, simply, exciting.

Hammerin’ Hank Greenberg: Baseball Pioneer /SHELLEY KURTZ SOMMER ’83/

You don’t need Harry Potter to create reading magic.

“Kids love stories about people,” says Sommer, a library

director and middle school literature teacher who blogs at www.sommerreading.com. Her biography — chosen by the Junior Library Guild and named a 2012 Syd-

ney Taylor Honor Book — teaches children about real people during a time when children are strug-

gling to figure out who they are. Greenberg, the

son of Jewish immigrants, was star of a very American game during trying times. Fans

threw pork chops at him as he stood on first

base. He stayed positive, sharing words of encourage-

ment with Jackie Robinson. “He maintained his dignity,”

she says, a good lesson at any age.

New /KAREN KLEIN MALLENDER ’78/ When shy 7-year-old Karen moved to St. Louis,

says Renaud, who is considering KU bowling for the sis-

close. During the years — and more than 14 moves, so

DELTA TAU NU, which hosts annual golf outing re-

kid in town. Fictional Ann Taylor helps show us the way in

erhood, friendship and shared values, says John Geraghty

were part of something; come out of the outfield and participate. An

unions, will reunite on campus to celebrate lifelong broth’74. They will golf Friday, share breakfast Saturday morning and again for an afternoon meeting. Details are at deltataunu.com.

For information on all Reunion Weekend activities,

visit reunion.udayton.edu.

/MICHAEL SALGALLER ’81/

she had never played baseball. So, in gym class,

ters. Details are at trilambsud.wordpress.com.

Biotechnology Entrepreneurship: From Science to Solutions

a Saturday tent party in Humanities Plaza and a Sunday

bye-bye breakfast. “The brothers are all about golfing,”

workers in a UD MBA course.

she took a position far afield so the ball never came

far — she has learned what it takes to be the successful new

Mallender’s debut children’s novel. One lesson: Stop wishing you

accountant near Detroit, Mallender also has advice for adults who wished they had tried something new in life. “Look, I’m writing books,” she says. “You can do it.”

—Michelle Tedford

Find more alumni books at magazine.udayton.edu.

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 57

CHAPTER POSTCARDS

Carly Cenedella, future forever Flyer, on her Evanston porch

For Flyers forever, with love Spend your nights with roommates and friends. Explore Dayton if you haven’t done so already. Make friends with your professors; they know a lot about the world and may even have some job connections for you. —Megan Marion ’11 Make a difference when you get out there! —Mike Elliott ’74 Enjoy that last semester! Delay turning in a paper to hang out laughing with friends — you will never get that time back, and the paper won’t matter in the long run. —Annie Kessler ’10

No time for tears

Alumni share advice with a senior anxious to relish her last days on campus, seize her future From her Evanston Avenue

porch, Carly Cenedella has quite a view.

There are the houses of her

age, but the connection between

in 1976 by his father: Do good, avoid

Flyers close, but seek out new Fly-

society.

Flyers is forever. Keep your current

ers as you travel through life. You

neighbors, once strangers now

will not regret it.”

and 139 Evanston, where her par-

enough

there’s the wider view, out over

Wayne, Ind., chapter president.

bonded by UD blood. There are 9

ents lived as students. And then campus and into the life she’ll inhabit after May 6.

“A year ago, I was on the verge

The UD alumni tie is strong to

unite

says Lauren Caggiano ’07, Fort “And UD weddings are the best; go to them!”

Traci Smith ’04 from Louis-

of tears just thinking about it,”

ville, Ky., puts in

and human rights studies major

presidents.

says the senior political science of her fast-approaching gradua-

tion date. But now she’s thinking about a career and a new city to

live in, and trying not to move too

generations,

evil and be a productive member of “That’s the motto of our family,”

says Carly, nodding in recognition.

“At a crossroads, the fundamental

question presents itself, ‘What are we doing for others?’” Her father, leading by example, fights human

trafficking. His daughter, involved in the New Abolitionist Movement

on campus, heads into May with an eye on politics and public

a plug for fellow

administra-

tion, toward building

“Be

relationships

sure to stay con-

that

will merge her pas-

nected to UD by

sion with a purpose.

joining your lo-

And there’s much

cal alumni chapsays.

more advice to be

a great way to

top-10 list, much of

says of alumni, a title she’ll soon

get advice from

his

second-semester senior know?

ily.”

fast and lose sight of these last,

great weeks before she becomes a forever Flyer.

“They are all so wise,” she

share. So, she asks, what should a Alumni chapter presidents, ex-

perienced in leading the Flyer flock afar, have advice.

“There is no one in the world

like a Dayton Flyer,” says Katie McGuire alumni

’07, Rochester, N.Y., chapter

president.

“Friends will come and go with

ter,”

she

“Networking

shared. Dad has a

which is familiar to

secure a job and

“Learn. Lead. Serve.”

“When you have

But the most

ad-

vice may come

from San Diego,

Carly with her dad, Phil Cenedella ’84

your diploma,” says Phil, “it’s time to take

on the rest, to lead

Calif., where Cenedella’s father

and serve your fellow man.”

Phil Cenedella ’84 shares with

May 7.

is the alumni chapter president. his daughter words passed to him

58 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

such

as this UD standard:

your Flyer fam-

enduring

daughter,

The rest of your life, Carly, starts

Give back, whether it’s your time, talent or treasure. I wouldn’t be where I am today without UD so I donate what I can to the University yearly. And I volunteer with local organizations in need as a way to carry on UD’s mission to serve. —Melanie Woods ’07 Being a Flyer for life means never forgetting where you came from. The family atmosphere in the Ghetto continues after graduation, and you will find Flyer friends in every city your life takes you. Enjoy the journey. —Josh Smith ’02 Always continue to expand your education and understanding of the world around you; lead by applying your skills to make an impact; and pay it forward by giving back and getting involved to serve others and make a difference. —Teresa Perretta ’09

—Michelle Tedford

ST. LOUIS

Whether from West County or South City, having attended CBC or Ursuline, when St. Louis first-year students arrive at UD, the rivalries fall away.

annual Cardinals outing (vs. the Phillies Friday, May 25).

The chapter also has the good fortune of shar-

ing its city with the Marianist Province of the

“Even though we went to rival high schools,

U.S., giving alumni opportunities to continue

versity of Dayton and being from St. Louis,” says

’05, former chapter president. For example, broth-

home.”

alumni explore what it means to be Marianist in

their Marianist connection, says Michael Lofton

Bernie Powderly ’06. “You could always find a ride

ers join with alumni during game watches, and

taps into that same feeling when planning events.

the 21st century.

Spiritual events are one of five programming

It’s a culture of community born in St. Louis, nur-

areas that all chapters aspire to fill — and St. Louis

alumni return home — 1,100 strong and growing.

three years, the chapter has achieved diamond sta-

tured at UD and expanded exponentially when

Famous for the Arch and toasted ravs, St. Louis

is also home to the first Christmas off Campus. A

does it in spades ... and diamonds. For the past tus, the highest rating for chapter participation.

Powderly wants alumni to know that St. Louis

committee chaired by Renai Basta Lowry ’75 and

is always a great place to come back to. Powderly,

the social with service and that has now spread to

who traveled for a year and a half before deciding

of Christmas off Campus is something Powderly

no matter their address. You’re always welcome

Brian Lowry ’79 helped start the event that blends

a finance and international business graduate

chapters throughout the nation. The family feel

to come home, is reaching out to St. Louis natives

is fostering as the chapter adapts program-

and choosing a more family-friendly day for the

we have that common bond of going to the Uni-

Powderly, St. Louis alumni chapter president,

events when the Flyers play A-10 rival Saint Louis,

ming to attract more diverse class years. It is capitalizing on free activities like the zoo, adding networking

home, he says, for a visit or to stay. And when you come, we’ll show

you what it means to be a young professional in a great city.

—Michelle Tedford

HOW DO YOU HAVE FUN ALL DAY BUT PAY ONLY FOR PARKING? “ST. LOUIS PARKS AND EVEN THE ZOO ARE FREE. The trails, beautiful scenery and a sunny sky make for a very inexpensive yet fun day. During Thanksgiving weekend, I took my son to the zoo and only paid for parking. It was fun! The penguin exhibit was his favorite.” —Jessica Gonzalez ’96 “Go to the CATHEDRAL BASILICA, the seat of the Archdiocese of St. Louis and one of the most spectacular buildings that I have ever visited. Free tours are available daily.” —Larry Bommarito ’75 “THE 1,293 ACRE FOREST PARK is home to the breathtaking Saint Louis Art Museum (right), the Saint Louis Science Center and the Missouri History Museum. There are also two public golf courses. It does cost money but, since there are countless free parking spaces within the park grounds, one can use parking money to enjoy a nice round of golf.” —Myles McDonnell ’13 “Either visiting the SAINT LOUIS ZOO or visiting the Arch grounds.” —Renai Lowry ’75

FRANK PAUER

“LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK, Anheuser-Busch brewery tour (free and you get two cups of beer at the end), and take a tour of the Hill (historic Italian part of town).” —Brian Effer ’99 “And you can’t beat the VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE ARCH (not free but cheap).” — Joe Pott ’00

For more information about your chapter, visit the chapter pages at http://alumni.udayton.edu/.

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 59

GOOD WORKS

We’re No. 101?

In the hearts of alumni, UD is No. 1. But

to the rest of the world, UD is currently tied for 101st.

And alumni can change that.

U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges

ranking impacts the school’s reputation, its ability to attract students, the ratings given by lending institutions and the value of a UD degree, no matter the graduate’s era.

The University has launched its Top 100

campaign to educate alumni about what only alumni can do to push UD back into the Top 100 and keep it where it belongs.

Last year, the UD alumni giving rate

was 14.8 percent, according to the U.S. News

formula. The publication calculates this number each year based on the number of The children of Banteay Chhue Primary School in Siem Reap, Cambodia, received school supplies from UD students, who also donated money for new wells. The McGrath Fellows will build on service and research to alleviate human suffering.

Not just flying at 40,000 feet In more than 10 million air miles of travel,

Peter McGrath ’72 has traveled the world and looked into the eyes of human rights abuses that surround poverty.

He wants UD to change that world. McGrath

has

committed

$100,000

the University to spur

greater faculty and student research in human rights and social justice.

pling with genocide, poverty and other human rights issues.

“In my heart, I believe that, through edu-

cation, we can begin to bring an end to human rights abuses,” McGrath said. “If we can

relieve, in some way, shape or form, human rights abuses and respect the souls of people, we can start to change the world.”

The McGrath Fellows program is the first

back to their universities.

Gifts of any amount affect not only the

alumni giving score but also impact other areas of the ranking, including financial

expendi-

tures per student,

such as academic resources and scholarship support.

To raise the giv-

ing rate 1 percentage point by the June 30

deadline, UD needs 673 new alumni donors, nearly equal

“Whenever I go back

step toward raising funds to endow a human

Pakistan, I retouch the

rector of UD’s human rights studies program.

students living in VWK each year.

first undergraduate human rights program. A

halls would get UD another 3 percentage

tion’s first bachelor’s degrees in human rights

Baujan Field.

rently pursuing a degree in human rights stud-

would leap 21 percentage points, bypassing

“It’s impossible to underestimate the im-

percent and closing in on Notre Dame, at 50

to Bangladesh, India or

depths of poverty,” said

McGrath, who retired as J.C. Penney Co. exMcGrath

may take them to parts of the world grap-

undergraduate degree holders who give

ecutive

vice

president

and director of private

brands, product development and sourcing in 2010 and started his own consulting firm. “I’ll

stand on a street corner, stare into the eyes of

rights center, according to Mark Ensalaco, diIn 1998, the University launched the country’s decade later, UD began offering one of the nastudies. Approximately 40 students are curies.

to the number of

Filling Marycrest, Stuart and Founders

points, as would packing the bleachers of

And if new donors filled UD Arena, UD

Boston College’s alumni giving rate of 26.2

people and see the frailty of the human condi-

portance of this gift. We’re educating future

percent.

Through the Peter M. McGrath Human

Catholic, Marianist mission,” Ensalaco said.

donor, it is a student scholarship, a bio-

justice. We want to think more intentionally

rescue squad, a renovated Chapel of the

recognize that Catholic social teaching has im-

alumni pride.

tion.”

Rights Research Fellows Program, the University will award $10,000 stipends to seven faculty members. They will conduct and publish

interdisciplinary research that promotes human dignity and alleviates suffering. Undergraduate and graduate students will join with

the McGrath Fellows in their research, which

human rights professionals as part of our

To U.S. News, a gift is a number. To the

“We want to ask deeper questions about social

fuels lab, a defibrillator for the student

about the underlying questions of poverty. We

Immaculate Conception. It’s a measure of

portant insights into issues of dignity and human justice.”

60 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

—Teri Rizvi

Look for the envelope in this maga-

zine to change UD’s number and make a difference.

HIDDEN TREASURE

Hard rock cachet

“There is always ge-

his treasure may not be so much

hidden as buried, mineralized,

ology to see, wherever

Geology professor Michael

of the Grand Canyon;

you live. People think

scoured, dug-up and sat-upon.

a significant record of

Sandy wanders into a mild

earth history is on the

winter’s fading sunlight and bends down

doorstep.”

to point at a rock in the retaining wall in

He means that, lit-

Kennedy Union Plaza. On warmer days, students sit here, searching for friends or

erally. Look at the rock

is Springfield dolomite, and protruding

you’ll find hints of an

used for building and

a few quiet moments before class. The rock

area’s geologic history.

out of the rock are fossilized brachiopods,

bottom-dwelling creatures that thrived in

od, 420 million years ago — I like that idea,”

ciety of America around

reveal the geology be-

sil sticking out of one chunk, a handful of

ing stones. The fieldtrip’s highlight is the Greek-Revival Old Courthouse,

several hundreds of feet thick. The former created perfect conditions for the

ing’s Dayton limestone steps.

brachiopods — waving in water like clams atop stalks anchored in the sand. They died, fell to the sea floor, and were buried and infilled with sediment, their soft interiors and hard shells dissolved away leaving a fossil casting of their former selves. Fast forward 418 million years. While glaciers bulldozed

where Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy addressed citizens from the build-

Sandy will also take scientists on a fieldtrip of Dayton’s geology, from

the fossil beds of Caesar Creek to the glacial margin that carved the gorge near Clifton. His students take a similar trip each semester.

Sandy, who specializes in the relatively younger brachiopods of the

up deposits that would become Woodland Cemetery just north of campus,

Mesozoic era, appreciates the practical nature of geology. His fossils may

limestone, which in the 19th century would be recognized as one of Ohio’s

stone walls in KU Plaza can stoke a desire for more knowledge.

they also revealed outcrops of Springfield dolomite and its cousin, Dayton finest building stones.

“I’ve always enjoyed landscapes,” says Sandy who, as a child, hiked the

rolling North Downs outside London. “I’ve always wondered why the land is the shape it is and, surprise surprise, geology usually has the answers.

hind the city’s build-

“You’ve got this stuff all around us — it’s part of earth history, of our planet.”

In Dayton, that history includes an ancient, tropical sea and glaciers

scientists

downtown Dayton to

he says, pointing out a 3-inch clam-like fos-

half-dollar-sized ones scattered on others.

leading

from the Geological So-

“You’re walking past the Silurian peri-

In April, Sandy will

ancient Paleozoic seas.

answer questions about the chemical composition of ancient seas; the “If you start looking at other buildings, you start to see other fossils

and geologic indicators just waiting for the eyes of the observant, inquiring student,” he says.

—Michelle Tedford

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 61

‘Wedding dock’

By Diane Guerra

knew her name from the newspaper arti-

cles, but I did not know if I should speak to her. What would I say to the woman whose son had fallen dead at my son’s feet?

In the first weeks of the Iraq war, as the

Marines traveled from Kuwait to Baghdad, our

sons were walking side by side, clearing a field about 20 miles south of Baghdad. An insurgent popped out of the tall grass and shot Marine Corporal Erik Silva, 22, in the stomach. My son then killed the man who had shot his friend. It was my son’s 20th birthday.

We were standing on a miserably hot park-

ing lot at Camp Pendleton in California, waiting for the buses that were bringing home the

men of Third Battalion, Fifth Marines. Her

son’s body had been brought home five months earlier. Yet there she was, in a large group of

people standing around the back of a minivan — an attractive 40-something woman with long dark hair.

A banner read: “The family of Cpl. Erik Sil-

—Ellen Loeffler-Kalinoski ’81 ElksInk.com

va, USMC.” Everyone in the group was wearing a T-shirt or a button with a photo of Corporal Silva in his formal Marine portrait, framed by clouds.

If it had been my son who was killed in

Iraq, if that bullet had been a foot or so in the other direction, could I have come to this park-

four hours, so we had a long, hot wait ahead of

see them step off the bus into the long embrac-

of shade and decided to stake out a place to sit

ing lot to welcome home these young men, to es and tears of relief from their mothers?

I had spent a restless night at a nearby

I knew her story could have been my story.

us. To the side of the large lot I saw a tiny bit

In my mind I had seen those same Marines a

and wait.

St. Louis, erect in their formal uniforms.

I passed by the Silva family and sat on the

thousand times standing at my front door in I wondered if there was more than grief she

motel, listening to a loud air-conditioner and

hard dirt. I needed to think. I realized I could

was feeling on this parking lot. Perhaps she was

son. Would he be the same, now that he had

know who I was. I felt sick to my stomach.

rines, the ones she had heard about in his let-

wondering what had become of my beautiful killed a man? Would he have

the same easy laugh and

sense of fun? Should I ask about the war? Should I ask

about the day his fellow Marine died? Would our rela-

tionship as mother and son be the same?

sit there and say nothing — the Silvas did not

Would he be the same, now that he had killed a man? Would he have the same easy laugh and sense of fun? Should I ask about the war?

I wondered if Corporal

Finally I got up and walked

over to her.

“Mrs. Silva?”

Even though she was wear-

ing sunglasses, I could see her face was splotchy. “Yes.”

“I’m Eric Shelvy’s mother

from 3/5. My son was a good

anxious about meeting her son’s fellow Maters home, the guys of 3/5, India Company. Perhaps it was the desire to hold in her heart those who had been the last people to see him alive.

As I walked away, I thanked God that my

son was getting off that bus. I thanked God that I was not Corporal Silva’s mother, who would have to watch the Marines disembarking.

I felt relieved. I felt guilty. I did not know

how I felt.

Silva’s mother regretted his becoming a Ma-

friend of your son. I’m so sorry.”

join the Marines, it had felt like a punch in the

about the day she had heard her son had been

communications director for the Marianist Province of

The Marine Corps was the last place I wanted

home immediately, how she had seen the plain

just finished, was published with the title “Another

rine. When my son told me he was going to gut. I had sacrificed so much for his education. him to be.

We found out that the buses with the re-

turning Marines would not arrive for at least

She hugged me and we talked. She told me

killed, how she had been called at work to come van parked in front of her house, how she had

known instantly that he was dead, and how she had screamed.

62 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE SPRING 2012

Diane Guerra, 59, works in St. Louis as national

the United States. This essay, from a memoir she has

Mother’s Son Lost” Jan. 18 on The New York Times

blog “At War” (atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/ another-mothers-son-lost/).

From The New York Times, Jan 18, 2012 ©2012 The New York Times. All rights reserved. Used by permission and protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States. The printing, copying, redistribution, or retransmission of this Content without express written permission is prohibited.

PERCEPTIONS

Another mother’s son

Wrapped in a tree’s many branches By Teri Rizvi ’90

n February, my husband’s early Valentine’s Day gift arrived in a wheelbarrow.

I watched a red Japanese maple tree being

planted in his mother’s memory a few steps

away from the sturdy tree that blooms for his father near the Anderson Center on campus.

“This is the best gift ever,” he proclaimed.

Everyone — from her five devoted sons to the

family’s servants in Pakistan — called her Apa,

encircled the family home. During my first trip

recently donated a swamp white oak that was

ly showed off the famous Shalimar Gardens,

Mary statue. Gerbs, who died last summer, pro-

to Lahore to get married 30 years ago, they proudcenturies-old Mughal-style terraced gardens — a peaceful oasis in an often turbulent country.

On campus, the chapel bells remind us of the

power of faith. In Lahore, the lyrical Islamic call for prayer can be heard in the streets five times a day.

other young lovers. A young friend of the family promises to “high five” the tree every time he passes it on his way to the library.

The family of humorist Erma Bombeck ’49

who never even visited America, would feel at

St. Mary Hall. “They planted trees and crabgrass

daily and dispensed wisdom and compassion

home on a campus that values both faith and

by family math. Her sudden death of a heart at-

generations to come, this mighty oak will shade

chose a hardy hoopsi blue spruce to plant this

divided by nearly 8,000 miles. Yet this couple,

gained from a life that spanned at least 85 years

posed to his wife Tracey at the gazebo in 1991. For

Two religions. Two vastly different cultures

Urdu for “sister.” Her formal schooling ended after fifth grade, but she devoured the newspaper

planted near the gazebo in view of the iconic Hail

family.

The trees on UD’s sprawling campus of-

spring near her Ohio historical marker outside

came up,” the plaque will read. What better tribute to a delightfully funny writer whose newspaper columns chronicling suburban family life hung on the refrigerator doors of our youth?

tack in 2005 just days before a family visit broke

ten hold hidden and deeply personal meaning.

When I walk over to grab a quick lunch at

out stealing a moment to reminisce, to pray

ily of Congressman Chuck Whalen ’42 will bless

We know more than 1,545 magnolia, white

which houses a collection of Whalen’s Congres-

our hearts.

Kennedy Union, I take a moment to brush aside

the mulch covering the plaque under the grace-

Some of us can’t walk under their foliage withsilently.

During Reunion Weekend in June, the fam-

a dawn redwood tree in front of Roesch Library, sional and personal papers.

ful branches of a Pacific sunset maple tree. My

ash, pine and other trees border pathways and

memory of Shahid Hussain Rizvi Who Dedicated

the neighborhoods. Our scientists can calculate

these trees.

print every time a tree is planted.

Japanese maple make their first regal appear-

tree.

worth.

father-in-law’s legacy comes into focus: “In His Life for the Betterment of His Family and Education.”

Across the world in Lahore, Pakistan, my in-

laws carefully tended the mango and date trees that stretched majestically above the walls that

stand like sentinels on the campus lawns and in the reduction of the University’s carbon footYet neither is the true measure of a single Friends of James “Gerbs” Grabowski ’89

I know exactly how these families feel about This spring, when the crimson leaves on the

ance, their beauty will remind me what a tree’s You can’t put a price on it.

For exams, becoming an expert in procrastination By Shane Rogers ’12

on TV, you’re watching it.

be focusing on runs through your head: “Did I

found ourselves, at one point, com-

will find yourself rummaging for something to

You will spend half an hour on the phone as

10 distractions we deal with when

ready but maybe, just maybe ...”

s we studied for midterms, we all pletely distracted. Here are the top

we crack open a book:

1. Facebook — It’s hard to get on a comput-

er without logging in to it. This compulsion

increases when it’s time to study. Whether it’s English or physics, Lisa’s status update or

5. Sleeping — Sooner or later, every student

your mom asks, “When are you going to get a girlfriend and settle down?”

9. Doing other homework — Everyone has one

will convince themselves this: “I will just wake

class you’d rather do anything but work on. Al-

learn that this will backfire at some point.

class, you still have a test in that one class to-

up early and study.” Also, every student will 6. Stumbleupon.com — It doesn’t matter how

though you may end up weeks ahead in another morrow and are no more knowledgeable about

much you tell yourself you’re going on for only

2. Timothy’s Bar and Grill — At some point, ev-

been over an hour and you’re looking at video of

for the third time, you’d rather be doing any-

7. Cleaning — Before sitting down to study, you

downstairs — on purpose — somehow walks up

erybody has that horrible realization: Yes, you are standing with your feet stuck to the floor

a few minutes. When you look at a clock, it’s a monkey riding on a pig’s back.

at Tim’s; no, you did not study enough for your

get your materials organized. After you’re sitting

good persuaders.

am I supposed to study in a messy environment?”

test tomorrow; and yes, your friends are darn 3. TV — It doesn’t matter if you’ve seen

that episode of Two and a Half Men three times — Charlie Sheen is so crazy! — or are listening to a

Republican presidential primary debate: If it’s

munch on. “I know I checked this cabinet al-

brush my teeth today? My feet sure do smell.”

Will’s photo album becomes way more important than Huckleberry Finn or centripetal force.

4. Eating — With that big test looming, you

down, that pile of clothes catches your eye. “How Then you’re running the vacuum and your underwear is folded and organized by colors.

8. Calling your parents — When sitting at your

desk, everything but what you’re supposed to

it than four hours ago.

10. Texting — After reading the same notes

thing else. This is when the cell phone you left

the stairs and is always one vibration away from taking your mind off whatever you should be focusing on.

Senior Shane Rogers is assistant opinions editor of

Flyer News. This is an edited excerpt of a column that ran on FlyerNews.com Oct. 23, 2011.

SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 63

PARTING WORDS

The long view Every rock outcrop became a teaching opportunity for Charles Ritter (in red shirt and hat) on the 1992 geology field course.

t 14,000 feet, where the air is thin and the

relented and made me promise: you will become a minor.

fitting together millions of years of earth

course stoked my fire to learn about everything around

The Rocky Mountains at my feet were

tial learning, no matter the subject. That spirit continues

view epic, my neurons began firing and history.

infants compared to the Appalachians of my textbooks, yet in their horns and valleys I could see eons of ice, wind and rain

that weathered their eastern brethren down to nubs and were eventually, inevitably, doing the same here.

Dr. Ritter took a chance on me, and I won. That field

me and reinforced the importance of hands-on, experien-

through the Charles Ritter Undergraduate Geology Research Fund, something my husband — a geology major who legiti-

mately went on the field course — and I support through gifts to UD.

When we were student and professor, I was part of Dr.

I got to 14,000 feet by climbing three flights up Wohlle-

Ritter’s learning community. Today, we are also neighbors.

summer field course at a high-altitude laboratory in Colora-

beagle, Snoopy, at my feet. Dr. Ritter sneaks another cookie

ben Hall and fast-talking my way into a geology majors-only do. In the department’s basement geology lab, I had learned to name the rocks I collected in my youth and emptied by

the pocketful into cardboard boxes lining the garage. But I wanted to experience their homeland, learn about the percolating juices of ancient volcanoes that forced liquid minerals

through fissured granite to cool into the giant pink crystals my childhood self saved by my bedside.

I say fast-talking, but it was really slow, deliberate,

calculated

think-

ing that got me to Colorado.

Not

Charles

pleaded

coffee table that displays his geologic specimens. We talk of family, of pets, of the basketball season. He tells me stories

of the rocks under the cookies or of Flyer geologists decades my senior, people I will never meet but who are inexorably bound to me through this great teacher.

I am a geology minor. My field course was in 1992, but

when I look at each mountain and valley, hillside and river,

I give thanks for my high-altitude

ex-

perience. My edu-

chair,

inevitably, changed

Ritter.

off the plate his wife has set before us on the glass-topped

own, but that of the department

I sit in his living room on the brown leather sofa with his

case,

and — after saying no, since I was not a

geology major — he

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cation

eventually,

my perception and widened

munity forever.

com-

—Michelle Tedford ’94 Managing Editor

TIME LAPSE

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The hat is back. Yesterday’s fedoras and caps, as seen above at a UD-Xavier football game circa 1930, look perfectly modern next to this season’s retro look: the bowler. In the front and center of every game this season were Matthew Barrett ’13 and Billy Kingsolver ’13 dressed up as Dayton’s original flyers, Orville and Wilbur Wright. The whole Red Scare section showed fresh inventiveness this year with new foul shooting chants at opponents (hundreds in unison: “I believe that you will miss!”) and blue surgical gloves that made their clapping insanely loud, even in an already deafening UD Arena. Photos: Above, courtesy of University archives; left, Christine Bates ’12