Connections Fall'08

Holy Cross College — Alumni and Friends Magazine

Notre Dame, Indiana fall.winter 08

2008-2009 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Chairman: Jerry Love ’72 Vice Chairman: Richard Rice President: Br. Richard Gilman, CSC, PhD

Holy Cross students Tom Raymer and Matt Qualey hammer shingles on a Habitat for Humanity house in South Bend.

David Bender Jr. John Berges John Carnesale Br. James Everett, CSC Br. Robert Fillmore, CSC Daniel Fitzpatrick Deborah Foley-White ‘75 William Giles Thomas Gryp

Luanne Hallett John Hardesty Gregory Hoffman, MD Christine Klauer Paul Laughlin Lucille McKenna Mark McNamee ‘80 Terry O'Reilly Mark Pulte ‘83 Brian Regan John Rosenthal Rev. Kevin Russeau, CSC, ‘94 James N. Scanlon Tim Shelby ‘93 Hastings Siegfried Thomas Sopko

Br. Donald Stabrowski, CSC Mark Tabit Anthony Uebelhor ‘81 Gary Vanderbeek ‘73 Robert Wade Paula Waters Emeritus Arthur Decio Jerry Hammes Elizabeth Barkyoumb Louis Carnesale Robert Corrao Bazil O'Hagan William Shannon John Wilson

letter from the president

First it was the Ants, now it’s Habitat for Humanity You may have noticed in some of my previous musings in Connections that I try to find paradigms of thought that take antipodal elements and show how they are united.

When we use antipodes (or opposing concepts) to explain a single concept, we call this consilience. Antipodes literally are two cities that are diametrically opposite on the earth (The Rock of Gibraltar and Auckland, New Zealand, for example). Yet, antipodes are constrained by being on the unifying surface of Mother Earth and the opposites are not free to escape her unifying gravity.

In Catholic liberal arts education, we are always stretching ourselves to achieve consilience (or unifying antipodes). For example, we unite the humanities and the sciences, faith and reason, and teaching and learning for that matter. Our own Congregation of Holy Cross Constitutions say: “We ourselves stand to learn much from those we are called to teach.”

The scientist and humanist E.O. Wilson revived the term consilience about two decades ago. After I read his book “The Ants” (1990) I became a great proponent and was attracted to read more socio-biology. In this book, Wilson has proposed that altruism is an evolutionary trait, not learned behavior or cultural appendage. Rather than practicing “the law of the jungle,” or every ant for himself, individual ants readily sacrifice self for the sake of the colony. Isn’t this antipodal to the theory of evolution?

On the contrary, Wilson argues that it makes sense that evolution would reward species and societies that paid attention to building strong communities—like the ants— not threatened by “sharing the wealth” but rather thrive on it. Perhaps that is why God gave the ant physical strength pound-for-pound 100 times that of our own because they only use it to serve the greater good.

Now I don’t mean to imply that a Catholic College would promote service because it is in our genetic makeup whether we choose it or not. We are not ants! But I do believe it makes us stronger.

Keeping with the theme of this issue of Connections— “Service Learning” and practicing a bit of consilience myself, I want to see if I can convince you that we need to “learn to serve” to fulfill any meaningful vocation in life.

Almost every college has some service learning requirement both for its faculty and its students. Faculty members enjoy putting their knowledge and scholarship to practical use outside the academic classroom, often in the civic community—giving back to those from whom we often seek support. Both faculty and student service are traditional but somewhat antipodal because of the contrast between remuneration and volunteer service—an undertaking for which compensation is not anticipated.

Students volunteer—doing freely for others—because it enhances the dignity of all and builds community. Hopefully, students pick up some useful knowledge, skills and strength as a result.

Athletes have long recognized that the endorphins produced by strenuous physical activity have an analgesic effect, relieving bodily pain as well as providing a psychological bump not unlike euphoria.

Serving others has an analgesic effect on our souls, relieving the pain of guilt and a religious effect of induced joy in the privilege of participating in the very work of creation.

We make service experience a requirement because learning to serve is good consilience of the human and the divine; of working and praying. The consilience approach would be to view all our productive activity as altruism— community building at its core—because no matter what we do to make a living in this world, our activity nearly always helps somebody other than ourselves.

Inevitably when the spring returns you will encounter an ant. Perhaps it will be crossing a trail on a nature walk or maybe in your sugar jar. May it remind you of this little treatise. May it also remind you to support our college as so many of you do. The ways to support are as many as the species of ants—the most bio-diverse genus on the planet. I pray that you will find as many opportunities to support as you have encounters with these very social insects. And, I pray that you garner more strength from this support than we do.

Sincerely,

Br. Richard Gilman, CSC, PhD, President

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Connections Spring ’08 cover was photographed and donated by Lance Lovejoy BA ’08

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Pfeil Center Opens

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Iraqi Student Project

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Annual Report

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Cross Training: Service Learning

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Editor: Michael Davids, Director of Communications, Marketing & Public Relations Assistant Editor: KP Palmer, Community Relations Specialist Acknowledgements: Connections Editorial Board Hank Borne, PhD, professor of sociology John Raymer, PhD, professor of English

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Are we on the brink of the Great Depression of 2008? Are we experiencing a new economic world order, or is history just repeating itself? Thomas Burzycki, head of business curricula at Holy Cross College, spoke on these topics November 5th to a well attended public lecture in the Driscoll Auditorium.

In October, 2007 the Dow Jones Industrial average reached 14,164 points in a relatively organized and predictable market. The question for most investors was how long it would take to reach 20,000. One year later, after losing almost 50% of the value in the market, it suffers 500 to 1,000 point wild fluctuations on a daily basis.

Thomas Burzycki, Business Department Chairman

Some of the world’s largest financial institutions have either gone under or were forced to be sold. How could these seemingly invincible businesses falter and fail so quickly? What has happened and what should we expect to happen next? Tom Burzycki discussed these questions and more. He reviewed causes, how they interlink, and what history reveals in comparison. He also spent time answering audience questions.

Tom has taught at Holy Cross College for five years after retiring from a 35-year career as an executive in the commercial business world. His last position was president of an international musical instrument manufacturing conglomerate that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Burzycki Speaks on Credit Crisis and Recession

Included in the awards that he has received are the Indiana Governor’s Sagamore of the Wabash Outstanding Businessman’s Award, the World Trade Club International Business Person of the Year Award, and the Colonel Samuel Rosenbaum Memorial Award of the National Guild of Community Schools for the Arts Business Person. He has also served on many national boards of directors and advisory councils. Professor Burzycki is a Certified Public Accountant, holds an MBA from DePaul University in Finance, and a BA in accounting from Loyola University.

When he was the age of many current Holy Cross College seniors, Captain Charles P. Sullivan of the 29th Fighter Squadron was already an ace fighter pilot in the Pacific theater of World War II. While flying a P-400 fighter (a P-39 export variant) near Port Moresby on June 17, 1942, 2d Lieutenant Charlie Sullivan scored his first aerial victory, a Japanese bomber. But it wasn't until after the 39th Fighter Squadron transitioned to P-38s that Charlie Sullivan began his steady climb to ace status: 1st Lieutenant Sullivan downed a Ki-43 near Gasmata, New Britain, on January 6, 1943; a Zero over Lae on March 3, 1943; a Zero probable over Huon Gulf on March 4; a Betty near Port Moresby on April 12; and, finally, a Ki-43 near Lae on July 26, 1943.

On October 1st, 2008, almost 55 years to the month after his rescue from the jungles of New Guinea, Captain Sullivan told students about his closest brush with fate. In September of 1943, he was shot down in his P-38 by a Japanese patrol. The bullets from his attacker took out both engines and they would have killed him too if the hadn’t been able to lose his adversary by diving his plane into a cloud cover. When he broke out of the clouds, “Sully” could see only mountains and trees in the jungle below him. Engines dead and fuel streaming from his tanks, he had no choice but to look for a clearing before losing altitude. He considered bailing out with his parachute to be a lousy option because he had known too many comrades who had parachuted into trees only to have multiple injuries and broken bones. Instead he had just minutes to find a clearing in which to put the plane down. Luck (or God) was with him that day and throughout the next month because, he found a spot just large enough to land her before the jungle resumed. “The P-38 acted like a giant lawn mower, cutting off small trees, kunai grass, and brush” he said, “as the plane barreled into the ground at nearly 130 miles per hour.”

When the plane finally came to a rest, it was upside down and Sullivan was bleeding from a head wound.

Captain Sullivan described how he survived over the next month, including a deadly run in with a tribal people living a stone-age existence before he was finally rescued by an Aussie patrol. It was a story that could have been a Hollywood movie, instead the Driscoll Auditorium audience hung on every word of his clear but aged voice as their Holy Cross Village neighbor, Captain Sullivan, described his adventures.

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Faith, Determination, and a LIttle Irish Luck—Captain Charles P. Sullivan Recounts Fascinating Tale

Captain Sullivan answers audience questions in Driscoll Auditorium

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Robert Williams to Teach Public Relations Holy Cross College added local award winning public relations specialist, Robert B. Williams to teach a new course in public relations as part of the new Communications Major. The course will focus on the development, structure and rationale of public relations in business, government, nonprofit, and community organizations. The emphasis will be on practical applications of public relations leading to successful and persuasive programs using modern technology.

Currently an account manager for Taigs Marks, Inc., of Elkhart, Robert has taught public relations at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College as well as conducting a successful consulting business. Former career moves included stints with Michiana Public Broadcasting, J G Sullivan Interactive, Inc. and WSBT television.

Robert holds an MA in Communications/ Business from Ohio University.

Kloska Honored

by Coaches Vs. Cancer Robert Kloska, the director of campus ministry, was recently honored with the Cancer Survivors Award at a fundraising banquet for Coaches Robert Kloska meets with Mike Brey to help raise vs. Cancer and the funds to fight cancer Jimmy V Foundation (founded by Jim Valvano the exuberant basketball coach who led North Carolina State to their only national championship in basketball but tragically died of bone cancer at the age of 47.) Locally Coaches vs. Cancer is chaired

by Mike Brey, Fighting Irish basketball coach and his wife Tish.

Together they have raised over $1,000,000 for cancer research.

According to Robert, “I can’t take much credit for beating cancer.

But I did enjoy the opportunity to give credit where credit was due to my wife, children, family, doctors, and God. And, I can’t say enough about Mike and Tish Brey, they are truly wonderful people who do amazing work for the community. Even if I wasn’t one of the biggest fans for Irish basketball, I’d cheer for any team Mike coaches.”

“The best part of my personal meeting with Mike Brey was when Mike used my cellphone to call my brother, the only member of the Kloska clan who is not an Irish fan (a Marquette fan, do you believe it?) and tried to talk him into a new allegiance,” Robert joked.

Spotlight on Development: Craig J. Horvath (’85), Director of Development If you’re a Holy Cross College Saint, then you know Craig J. Horvath, director of development.

He has been advancing development for over a year as both the Director of Development and the campus Alumni Association Liaison, and with an Associate of Arts degree from Holy Cross College and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, Horvath is uniquely qualified to champion fundraising at the college at this pivotal point of growth.

Horvath is an integral part of the ever-increasing role of the alumni association at the college. He is a charter member of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, and he helped with the establishment of the Chicago Alumni Club. Craig currently acts as liaison for the alumni association and works closely with the Board of Directors to direct external relations initiatives for, and growth of, the alumni association as a function of increasing development opportunities.

Not only is Horvath an alumni advocate, he is also able to put his extensive experience in sales, his passion for youth service, and his love for the Brothers of Holy Cross to power in his work at the college. He recently completed a course in fundraising at The Fund Raising School at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is also intimately involved in the College’s strategic planning for external relations and works closely with the college trustees’ development committee.

Exemplifying the true sense of philanthropy, Horvath also strongly serves in the community as the Committee Chair for the Phoenix Scholarship Awards for Rotary International in South Bend, is the Sergeant-at-Arms for South Bend Rotary, coaches soccer that requires him to travel on weekends, and mentors youth whenever he has the opportunity. “I give because I am extremely grateful for the positive influence and tremendous impact that the Holy Cross Brothers have had in my life.”

Horvath is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and is celebrating success as coach of the Junior Irish Fire U-12 travel soccer team that achieved an undefeated season, a league championship and a tournament championship.

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Donors Meet to Celebrate the Pfeil Center’s Sneak Preview and Dinner t was a celebration of a job well (almost) done, when donors and

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The Pfeil Center has basketball courts, an indoor running track, locker

friends of the College came together to be the first to tour the new

rooms, meeting rooms and offices for student government, coaches, and

Pfeil Center facility. Holy Cross College athletes, coaches and

student activities, as well as state-of-the-art, health-club like, training

Student Government Representatives were the grateful recipients of

and exercise equipment. Both varsity and intramural sports teams will

this amazing multi-million dollar gift. They acted as tour guides

compete in basketball, volleyball and other indoor sports while every

and participated in the festivities along with faculty guests and

Holy Cross student will be able to work out, take recreation classes,

administration officials. Donors on hand included the Pfeil family,

and partake in campus-wide meetings and events in the Pfeil Center.

the Tabit family, most of the college’s trustees, and representatives from the Brothers of Holy Cross.

Dinner was hosted in Holy Cross Village in the new Andre Place Great Room and piano music was provided by talented Holy Cross Iraqi student project participant, Karam Salem (story page 6).

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Haverty Heads Lilly Center for Discernment and Preparation Daniel Haverty is changing the face of Holy Cross College’s career center. Formerly known as the Lilly Career Development Center, the name has been changed to the Lilly Center for Discernment and Preparation. Haverty plans to shift the focus of the center from strictly careers, work study, and internships to also helping students with post-graduate vocations like graduate school, religious life, and service.

Haverty received his Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. From there, he attended Eastern Michigan University School of Business where he earned a BA in Business Administration and then his MBA. Haverty has worked in banking, insurance, and real estate be-fore coming to work at Holy Cross College. “I felt this was a calling,” says Haverty, “I have always wanted to work for an organization close to my faith and I have always had a desire to train and teach.” He does not want to simply help students find internships to fulfill their graduation requirement. Instead, Haverty wants to work closely with the students from their freshman through senior years in order to establish suitable post-graduate placement.

He will mentor the students one-on-one throughout their junior and senior years as they complete their internship requirement as well as work with the underclassmen in a new required course for Holy Cross College freshmen called “Introduction to Liberal Arts.” This course will help to focus students’ interests right from the start.

“I will help students discern a direction for their careers by using a variety of tools such as the FOCUS assessment, talking with them about their interests and praying with them so they are guided to their ultimate fortune,” says Haverty.

The FOCUS assessment is an online evaluation and career compass tool now utilized by the College. He is supported by his wife of 17 years, Laurie; son Marcus, 11; daughter Shannon Rose, 7; and son Aidan, 4. .

Saints Adopt a New Mascot As the Holy Cross Saints become more competitive on the athletic fields a group of students and staff decided we needed a new mascot to represent the spirit of Saints athletics.

What better image for the Brothers of Holy Cross and our Catholic heritage than the St. Bernard dog! Powerful, loyal, heroic, intelligent, gentle, but with the courage of a lion, these dogs were bred for alpine rescue in the St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy. They are also known for the steadfast protection of herds and their ability to perform strenuous daily work. Their strength and size belies their peaceful nature.

The mascot was drawn by a well-known commercial artist Mark Coleman of Ogden Dunes, Indiana. When the mascot made its debut at a men’s soccer game this fall, it was joined by a real life example of the breed “Bosco” owned by Holy Cross student Eric Pilipow.

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HOLY CROSS FEELS LIKE HOME

Omar Rasheed, Karam Salem, and Guliver Rojas are international students who have found a home at Holy Cross

By K.P. Palmer ’07

The Iraqi Student Project The Iraqi Student Project purpose is to relocate Iraqi students to American colleges as sectarian violence has kept thousands from attending local universities. From over one hundred applicants, fifteen were chosen, including Karam Salem and Omar Rasheed who came to Holy Cross College.

Karam is originally from Baghdad but relocated to Syria in 2006 because his family, who are Iraqi Christians, feared violence. On a hike one day in Syria with friends, Karam met a group of Germans who knew people associated with this program. As he told them about his goals for the future they told him he would be a perfect candidate for the program and recommended him to the appropriate people. He was chosen for the program in November 2007.

Karam was sent to Holy Cross for general education and also takes music classes at Indiana University South Bend, where he intends to major in music. He loves the community at Holy Cross, where everyone knows each other, teachers have personal relationships with their students, and he has spent many hours entertaining passersby in the Atrium practicing piano as long as he likes.

Karam has the talent to become a world-class pianist and has taken nine years of private piano lessons. Now he is living his dream of studying music outside of Iraq as most of the classical music he loves originated in the western hemisphere. He devotes nearly all of his free time to practicing and attends as many symphonic concerts as he can at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College.

Omar Rasheed is also from Baghdad and relocated to Syria in 2007. His cousin got him an interview with the Iraqi Student Project. Like Karam, Omar was accepted in November 2007. “All my life, I wanted to study in a country with a more advanced education system. I like it {Holy Cross College} so much!

I love these classes where the professors are close to the students,” says Omar. In Iraq, he had studied production and metallurgy engineering for two years at the University of Technology. His classes had upwards of two hundred students, none of whom received any attention from the professor. He is majoring in business administration and plans to pursue an MBA. Over fall break, Omar went on the service trip to Bethlehem Farms in West Virginia (see story on page 7) He has a great work ethic and thoroughly enjoyed being out in the countryside.

The Iraqi Student Project made national TV news. Here Brother Richard is being interviewed for Fox 28.

Guliver’s Travels After earning a bachelor’s degree in Agronomy and a master’s degree in Crop Production from a university in Lima, as well as completing a five-month long course in Organic Agriculture in Japan, Guliver Rojas of Jaen, Peru was questioning what he was supposed to do with his life. He became interested in philosophy and theology. Through a series of coincidental events, he met the group of Holy Cross students on their International Experience in Peru and found himself drawn to the Holy Cross mission and view of these subjects.

Professor Mike Griffin, the leader of the trip, was impressed with Guliver’s passion for learning and took a special interest in him. “He was interested in how religion, science and culture were inter-connected. In 2007 Guliver joined the Holy Cross students on their hike in the Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu, the ancient city of the Incas,” said professor Griffin.

“While hiking along the Andean trails, I asked Guliver about his education. He explained that he had a bachelor’s and master’s in agricultural science but that these studies were leading him to more studies of philosophy and religion.

When I heard that, I realized what we could offer him, the sufficient grounding and preparation to pursue the study of

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theology and science at an advanced level. Upon return from the 2007 trip to Peru, I spoke with Brother Richard (HCC President) about helping Guliver come to study here. He was very receptive to the idea. So Guliver applied and was accepted. Then, on this summer’s 2008 trip, Guliver served as one of the main guides for the group in Peru, and when we boarded the plane heading for home, our group was one person larger than when we arrived,” Griffin continued.

Almost Heaven, West Virginia

By K. P. Palmer ‘07 This fall break, I had the privilege of chaperoning the service trip to Bethlehem Farms in Summers County, West Virginia in central Appalachia. The farm, once a Catholic Worker House, provided social services to the people in the area, but closed in 2004. It reopened a few months later under the supervision of new owners, Eric Fitts and his wife Colleen, who had previously worked at Nazareth Farm in Illinois and were interested in opening a similar organization.

Bethlehem Farm thrives on four cornerstones of prayer, community, service, and simplicity. This sounds pretty serious, right? On the contrary, it is an extremely straightforward way to live.

These cornerstones mean that the volunteers live together on a farm that is almost completely self-sustaining. They eat together, work together and pray together in the morning and before bed.

When the HCC group arrived, all of the caretakers came out of the house and greeted each one of us with a hug and said “welcome home” which seemed like a strange thing to say to a group of people who had just travelled over 400 miles.

On the first night of our trip, we met with other volunteers and were asked to share which cornerstone we were most excited about and which we were most nervous about. I was most excited about community. I chaperoned this trip with Amelia Marcum Ruggaber, ’02, and we were with eleven students who barely knew each other including Omar from Iraq and Guliver from Peru. There was also a group from Notre Dame at the farm with us that week, so, including the caretakers, there were close to forty people living together.

I was most nervous about living simply.

When I told my friends in South Bend that I was going to volunteer on a farm in West Virginia, they laughed in my face. I am the kind of woman who enjoys dressing

up, wearing make-up, and who generally shies away from manual labor. I was a little panicked about the likelihood of ruining my clothes at our work sites and of being allowed only two showers during my stay (to preserve water). I could not honestly say the last time I had weeded a garden, used a shovel, painted the outside of a building, or any activity that would involve getting dirty.

On this trip I did all of the above and even some chores I had never imagined in my wildest dreams like using power tools and cleaning guano out of a chicken coop.

To my surprise, it ended up being one of the most rewarding weeks of my life.

Everyday had the same routine, yet was never mundane. We were woken by music being played loudly throughout the house, everything from Dave Matthews to Christian rock to Bruce Springsteen. We were given about thirty minutes worth of music to get up, dressed and ready for the day. We would then gather in the living room for morning prayer, and then headed out onto the farm where we did chores like weeding the garden and mowing the lawn until breakfast.

All of the meals were prepared completely from scratch and most, if not all, of the ingredients were grown on the farm. After breakfast, we split up into our crews and set off to our work sites. We would eat lunch at the site, usually with the people who lived there, and come back to the farm around 4:00 PM. Bethlehem Farm serves its community by providing much more than physical labor.

Every day we were sent to a different work site to help people who were in need, but we weren’t there to just paint or hammer or fix the plumbing. The caretakers at the farm encouraged us to form relationships with the people we were helping. It wasn’t our mission to ‘fix their problems’, but to make a relationship, to sit down with them and let them talk

about their life or tell them about ours.

For example, on our first work site, my crew visited an elderly widow who cannot get around on her own anymore.

Technically, we were there to fix up the roofs of her house and two sheds on the property, but I ended up hanging out inside with her, washing her windows, vacuuming, and doing other little chores like that around her house that she was unable to do. We got to talking, and she was absolutely hilarious!

Another day my group visited a woman named Tracey to paint her house and build her a wheelchair ramp. My crew consisted of three women, including myself, and three men. We ladies painted the wood paneling of the house, which took up the entire morning. However, after lunch we were told that the men did not need help with the ramp they were building and so we went inside to spend time with Tracey, her daughter Tiffany, and Tiffany’s two young daughters. It was definitely the coldest day we experienced during the trip and were glad to be inside.

We spent the afternoon playing with Tiffany’s children, watching Lifetime, and bonding over a shared love of David Duchovny.

Bethlehem Farms is much more than a ‘volunteer work camp.’. It is a place where people have chosen to live simply, to rely on the Earth and their faith for their daily needs. Volunteers do not go there solely to provide service, they are welcomed into the fold and become a part of the mission.

The genuine acceptance of complete strangers showed to us by our hosts was refreshing and inspirational. There was no end to the hugs throughout the week! We went to West Virginia expecting an opportunity for service and ended up getting the opportunity to experience another way of life. As we drove away from farm on a small country road, I thought of the old John Denver song, “Country roads, take me home, to a place I belong, West Virginia…”

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2007-2008 ANNUAL REPORT SAINTS $42-$99 Patrick M. and Judith D. Adamo Brian R. (1992) and Kelley E. Archambeault Steven J. and Jane A. Bentkowski Mark and Nancy Bolitho John D. (1988) and Robijo Burzynski T.J. Campbell Donald E. Cellini (1970) John and Joanne Connaughton John and Susan Corcoran Colette A. Couture Michael and Susan Davids John W. and Jean M. Dell Eaton Corporation Andrea M. (1991) and Jeffrey M. Faltynski Andrew M. Flack (1999) The Gillespie Family Joseph and Gina Harjung Kirt A. Hartman (1999) Mrs. Mary Kay Hennessy Elliot and Judy Jaffee Robert L. Joers F. Robert and Dianne M. Kalthoff Robert J. Koch (2002) Thomas J. (1973) and Carolyn A. Koepp Peter M. and Mary Ellen Kogge Daniel P. Kropp (1975) Jacqueline (Pagley) Lezynski and Gregory Lezynski Edward M. Long (1999) Norma Lundquist Mr. and Mrs. Richard McCall Jon Scot and Sandra McCallie Michael P. (1986) and Ana McCann Bonnie McFadden (1983) Robert A. McKelvey (1977) Merck Partnership for Giving Charles P. (1978) and Julie (Faini) Neises (1978) David M. Nye (1971) Shawn and Mary Pat O’Neil William R. and Marilynn R. Quasney Malachi J. and Lani Redington Denis and Louise Rochette Rotary Club of South Bend Reverend Edward J. Ruetz John R. and Mary Lou St. Aubin Anthony and Deborah J. Sawyer Stacey A. (1993) and William Sperow Jim (1972) and Teresa Sweedyk Robert L. and Jean M. Underwood Matthew J. (1993) and Carrie C. Urbanski Patricia M. Hogan-Vidal (1978)

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and John Vidal James and Susan Weidner Daniel F. (1979) and Barbara Wood

CROSS & ANCHORS $100-$249 Thomas Allandrice AT&T Foundation Matching Gifts Program Julianne (1974) and James E. (1974) Bankowski Linda M. Barry (1984) John A. and Claudia Berges Brother James J. Bluma, C.S.C. Adolph A. and Anna Bolanowski Thomas John Brecht Tom and Mary Ann Brecht Maureen Flanigan Buckner (1972) James C. and Frances Burke Ryan D. Butt (1998) Thomas J. and Adaline S. Cashore Marjory T. Cleveland Brian A. Colville (1999) Community Foundation of St. Joseph County Peter D. and Judith Connolly Merry and James R. Crews, Jr. Robert F. Dailey (1970) Megan Quinn (1984) and James P. DeLess Robert E. (1975) and Linda M. Diltz John (1976) and Maria Disser Colleen Cook Dobslaw (1974) and Bill Dobslaw Michael J. (1972) and Susanne E. Donlon Maureen A. McFadden-Dorgan (1977) and James Dorgan Mirta Evans

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Richard J. (1979) and Debra Flahaven Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Timothy and Katherine Fulnecky Edward T. and Ardeth Gareau Vincent V. Giles (2000) W. H. Giles (1995) William A. (1970) and Adrienne Gillen Maria (1987) and John Griffin Mary Ellen Hegedus Patrick P. (1982) and Margaret M. Hartigan Thomas and Alberta Haunert Mr. and Mrs.William A. Hendrick Ron and Barbara Henry Mark A.Vander Heyden (1977) Michael J. Hill (1995) Jim and Jane Hough George and Fran Haley Philanthropic Fund Thomas and Barbara Jemielity Amy Moren-Kenesey (1987) and Timothy J. Kenesey Joseph A. and Virginia A. Kennedy John and Linda Knapp Paul J. Laughlin, Jr. (2005) Nancy Lavelle William and Sharon Leahy Robert E. Letherman (1990) Thomas J. and Pamela Lieb Charles (1968) and Grace Lippert Lockheed Martin Corporation Matching Gift Program for Colleges and Universities Lawrence J. (1977) and Gina M. (1979) Loebach Amy Louise (1983) Mary T. and Gary Merrill Matthew V. McCauley (1992) Emmett T. McEnery (1986) Eugene T. McEnery, III (1984)

and Laura McEnery Michael J. and Kathleen Marien John O. (1988) and Tamara Moody William Morris Patricia Connor Murphy (1981) Thomas P. and Lucile B. Nichol Aloysius J. Niemier Novartis Matching Gift Center John J. (1979) and Tina L. Nurkowski Sandy Ohlund Bruce J. Piechocki (1977) Brian and Kathy Radecki Elizabeth Raven Francis H. and Therese S. Raven Paul F. (1981) and Cyndi Raven John D. Raymer Thomas Rini Roger and Anne Robertson David A. and Mary Roos Tomas C. Saavedra (1988) Lorrie and Bill Schmuhl Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Schuster (1971) Jonathan M. Shean (1992) Mr.Wilfred G. and Mrs. Eleanor (1976) Stoeckinger James P. Sullivan (1996) Thomas M. (1972) and Diane Taylor Adam J.Tracey (1998) Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.Tull Christopher T. Uebelhor (1982) Mark E. (1987) and Elizabeth M. Urbanski Hugh and Doris J.Van Auken Vickie L. (1975) and Jan Warner Joseph B.Wilson Rob (1997) and Alyson Wolfle WJXT/TV 4 Matching Gifts Program

ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008

TRUSTEE’S CIRCLE $2,500+

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE $1,000-$2,499

ADVOCATE $500-$999

ASSOCIATE $250-$499

Anonymous John L. Carnesale (1982) Crowe Chizek and Company LLC James M. and Kathleen Dolezal Brother Richard B. Gilman, C.S.C. Brian and Patricia Hurley Independent Colleges of Indiana Foundation, Inc. Thomas A. and Judith L. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Charles McNamee Richard and Lucille McKenna John and Barbara O’Connor Robert L. Pfeil John A. and Pamela Purdie Patrick T. and Louise A. Rainey Milann Siegfried and Family Sodexho, Inc. Anthony P. (1981) and Shelley Uebelhor Mary Jo Uebelhor

Anonymous Arthur J. Gallagher Foundation Brian C. Regan and Kathleen Beeler-Regan Mr. and Mrs. Jack Berges J.Thomas and Peggy Chandler Terry A. (1973) and Susan Coddens Robert F. Cullen, Jr. and Karen J. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Curto Jack F. and Kathleen L. Gibbons Kevin (1972) and Sarah Harnisch The J. A. LaFortune Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Klauer Mark (1980) and Julia McNamee Dr. and Mrs. Michael Method R.Wood and Anne M. Northup Frank and Kay Slocumb Daniel and Yvette Thompson Paula S.Waters

Franklin K. and Delores H. Dietzler Charles Emma (1981) Barbara and Patrick Ferraro Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Giel Thomas and Alberta Haunert Robert A. and Judith Hurst Thomas F. and Mary Ann McKenna Dick and Donna Pfeil William J. Powers (1969) Michael J. (1980) and Louise Riley Christopher Ruhe (1979) Lou Somogyi (1982) John H. Suddarth, Jr. (1974) and Lindsey Suddarth Thomas and Patricia Sullivan Reverend Michael B. Sullivan, C.S.C. Christopher T. Uebelhor (1982) Whirlpool Foundation

Louise and Paul Davenport Brendan F. (1987) and Jennifer Doran Frank L. Dunham Express Scripts Foundation Dorene and Jerry Hammes Michelle and Joseph R. Fabiano, II (1991) Col. Daniel and Lt. Col. Patricia Falvey Edward and Terry Geldermann The Thomas and Patricia Gryp Family Mr. and Mrs. Charles Haddix Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Hanley (1995) Robert J. Hayes (1993) Thomas X. Hoban (1980) Caitlin A. Hurley (2002) Tom Kinsella Dr. John and Mary Jane Koch Illinois Tool Works Foundation Jon (1983) and Diane Pilarski Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. Joseph R. Pozsgai, Jr. (1973) and Sue Pozsgai Caryl S. O’Connor Lawrence G. Kruse (1969) and Mary Ann Osuch Robert C. (1978) and Theresa (1980) Priebe David W. and Lisa A. Stopczynski Andrew W.Wendelborn (1997) Franklin J. (1974) and Cynthia Yensel

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ANNUAL REPORT 2007-2008 GIFTS TO ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship Fund Timothy J. (1989) and Pamela De Geeter Holy Cross College Alumni Association

Endowment Jesus M. (Rookie) Guzman Scholarship Fund Pablo A. and Lucille Guzmán

Endowment Joseph T. Sullivan, Sr. and Gertrude M. Sullivan Scholarship Fund

Tennessee Armature & Electric Independent Colleges of Indiana Foundation, Inc. John C.Wattles Welsheimer Funeral Home LLC Indiana Campus Compact Wells Fargo Trust Department

Endowment Notre Dame Federal Credit Union Scholarship Fund Notre Dame Federal Credit Union

CAMPAIGNS Passageway Campaign Mrs. Michael J. Kiley

GENERAL Alumni Association

Endowment Martin P. Thurin Scholarship Joe and Julie (1982) Harmon

Endowment Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund Anonymous John and Nancy Berendsen In Memory of Brother Bernard Berendsen, CSC Nancy Butler Cassady, Neeser & Brasseur Christopher and Susan Coughlin Madeline C. Deyerling Peter and Nellie Gapczynski Maurice S. Hahn William and Jeanne Klem Ronald and Doris Menges MPA Architects Richard and JoAnn Koesters Debra M. Kuspa National Electrical Contractors Association Richard and Harriet Flowers River Commons Home Owners Association Inc. Lou Somogyi (1982)

HCC Chicago Alumni Club

Kyle Akin (2008) Jonathan E. Carrillo (2008) Adam J. Dick (2008) Trevor Gibney (2008) Lance Lovejoy (2008) Ellen M. Ludwig (2008) Christopher M. May (2008) Tara Morin (2008)

Craig J. (1985) and Lisa Horvath

Driscoll Lounge Renovation

Henry Meers Scholarship Fund

Deborah A. Foley-White (1975) Mark (1980) and Julia McNamee David W. Miller Robert Wade

Frank Snyderburn, CSC Scholarship Fund Charles D. and Kim V. Snyderburn

Marilyn Sullivan

Endowment Lemuel G. De Jesus Scholarship Fund Pablo A. and Lucille Guzmán

Driscoll Lounge Class Gift

Cardinal Buses, Inc. Matthew and Laura (1989) Hartz Richard and Lucille McKenna Anthony P. (1981) and Shelley Uebelhor

Buildings and Grounds Norbert J. and Rachelle L. Dolniak Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Gary and Marie Koenig Donald J. Ritschard, Jr. (1988) James and Susan Weidner F. A. and Cheryl Vervaet Jane K. and Marty Zusman

Campus Ministry Stephanie Cunningham Craig J. (1985) and Lisa Horvath Robert L. and Margaret M. Kloska Father Bill Miscamble, C.S.C. Students of Holy Cross College

Driscoll Lounge Booths Brendan G. Heatherman (1992) Jim and Marion Heatherman

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HCC Hockey Team Boss Construction, Inc. Students of Holy Cross College

HCC Men’s Soccer Team Timothy D. Falvey (2004)

Nancy B. Meers (1991)

Hesburgh Grove Dorene and Jerry Hammes Kevin and Jeri McEnerney John and Barbara O’Connor John D. Raymer Ron and Barbara Henry

General Athletics Ron and Barbara Henry Craig J. (1985) and Lisa Horvath Students of Holy Cross College

Holy Cross Service Corps

General Scholarships and Grants

II Timothy Youth Conference

Anonymous Jocelyn Arvisais Ms. Rebecca Quintanilla Cedillo Community Foundation of St. Joseph County Experian John R. Gildea Reverend Michael J. Heppen, C.S.C. Thomas E. (1986) and Therese Hanlon Independent Colleges of Indiana Foundation, Inc. Victoria L. (1992) and Sean Kennedy Mary Jo Krizman National Recoveries, Inc. Gregory and Mary Anne Ralko Carl F. and Beverly A. Rockrohr John and Barbara O’Connor Don and JoAnn Sporleder Harold G. and Laurie M.Van Tassel Patrick J. (1989) and Tammy J.Vargo Halene von Wiegandt John and Joanne Connaughton Elizabeth Ann Welch (1992) Rob (1997) and Alyson Wolfle

Frank and Catherine Belatti Family Fund

Steven and Jennifer Deane David H. Niswonger The Sergio Corporation

Jenny Lynn Nemeth Scholarship Steve J. Nemeth, Jr. and Paula L. Nemeth

Kirk E. Barbieri Science Scholarship Kirk E. (1978) and Renee Barbieri

Lacrosse Team Students of Holy Cross College

Library Patricia P. Rheinheimer (1975)

Library Barcoding Project University of Notre Dame University Libraries John J. and Tina L. Nurkowski

Other Edward and Deborah K. Dick

2007-2008 ANNUAL REPORT Parent’s Council Wireless Project Charles and Jane Ammeson E. Dick and Celeste S. Bendel Steven J. and Jane A. Bentkowski Robert and Elizabeth Curtis Jon Scot and Sandra McCallie Terence and Diane Neary John and Barbara O’Connor John R. and Mary Lou St. Aubin Rob and Kathi Thoreson

Pfeil Center Patricia Adams Jane E. Allen John E. and Sueann Alter Stephen A. Anella and Louise Habeeb Anella David P. Bender, Jr. and Susan F. Bender Berges Family Walking Track Fund Kirk E. and Renee Barbieri Douglas C. and Cynthia M. Baumgartner Brother James J. Bluma, C.S.C. Tom Burzycki Casteel Construction Corp.

Lori Crawford-Dixon and David Dixon The Fabric of America Fund

Daniel B. Fitzpatrick Diane M. Fox Vickie Frohne William H. Giles Mrs. Alice R. Gilman Brother Richard B. Gilman, C.S.C. D. John and Sandra Grace Michael Griffin John R. and Mary Anne Hardesty Luanne and Burdett Hallett Matthew Henry Hoffman Legacy Foundation, Inc. Craig J. (1985) and Lisa Horvath Kevin and Antoinette Joyce Dylan Kent (2008) Michael E. Klauer (2000) Bev (1970) and Jerry (1972) Love Richard and Lucille McKenna Mary T. and Gary Merrill Aloysius J. Niemier Gregory and Susan Payne Robert L. Pfeil Anne Berges Pillai Dianne C. (1996) and Patrick Reardon Richard and Patricia Rice Steve and Jeanne Robinson Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Mary Ellen Hegedus and Jack Stewart Richard J. and Susan Sullivan

Mark A. (1980) and Jill Tabit Daniel and Yvette Thompson Brother John F.Tryon, C.S.C. (1969) William H. and Mary P. Upjohn Gary A. (1973) and Lynne Vanderbeek Wachovia Foundation Matching Gifts Program Zane S.Way (1994) Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign

Sopko Endowed Scholarship Thomas C. and Joyce A. Sopko

Special Projects Indiana Campus Compact

Student Government Association Joseph A. Lafferty (2006) Students of Holy Cross College

Urbanski Family Endowment Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Mark E. (1987) and Elizabeth M. Urbanski Ellen M. Urbanski

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By Mike Davids

A fundamental step in the educational process comes when students bridge the gulf between knowledge and understanding.

As Tom Burzycki, adjunct professor of business explains it, “Knowledge does not equal understanding. For example, think about the word ‘riot.’ You “know” what the word means, but unless you have been in the middle of one, you can’t really understand it.Then after you have experienced it, and try to explain what it is like to someone else, words just don’t do it justice.”

A former CEO for a major manufacturing company, Professor Burzycki has spent much of his life in the middle of the corporate world—mergers, acquisitions, divestures, strategic planning, public stock and registered debt offerings, financing, and the daily rigors of running companies.

“True understanding only comes with experience.The thing that makes our educational approach at Holy Cross so superior,” Tom says, “is that, in a controlled way, we help our students get into the middle of things so that their knowledge leads to understanding.”

Ever ybody can be gr eat, because ever ybody can ser ve.

Mar tin Luther King, Jr.

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In some professions like the military, skilled trades, or medicine, the transition from knowledge to understanding is carefully controlled. Students graduate into the lower ranks of their professions and work through apprenticeships serving a mentor, master craftsman, senior officer or physician.This process teaches humility and promotes competence as it leads young people from the inherent narcissism of youth, wanting all the reward for themselves, to the mature role of accepting responsibility and sharing the rewards of work with their group, their family, their customers and their society.

Uniquely, Holy Cross College requires four experiential programs before graduation. One of these four experiential programs is the Service Learning Experience (the others are the Global Perspectives Experience, the Internship

and the Capstone Presentation). For many college graduates, the transition from knowledge to understanding or theory to practice is woefully abrupt.Young graduates are plunked into the real world, destined to learn hard lessons and sink or swim in corporate environments.

“We want our graduates to be ready for the real world. Not simply trained in a specific skill, but ready because they have already solved real-world problems and gained the confidence that comes from accomplishing difficult tasks outside the classroom.We want them to apply their liberal arts book learning in a very practical, get-your-hands-dirty fashion. Service opportunities provide a means to do this as well as serve a greater good.” says Justin Watson, PhD, Dean of Faculty.

What is Service Learning?

The concept of service learning is not new.

In the past twenty years, US educators have made attempts, with varied success, to make service learning opportunities more prominent in the educational system.

The National Commission on Service Learning is a government program that studies and promotes the issue and is headed by Senator John Glenn.

According to the commission, the benefits of service learning* are many, it: • Promotes learning through active participation • Provides structured time for students to reflect • Provides opportunities to use skills and knowledge in real-life situations • Extends learning beyond the classroom • Fosters a sense of caring for others • Promotes teamwork and citizenship through cooperative rather than competitive experiences; • Addresses complex problems in complex settings rather than simplified problems in isolation • Engages problem-solving in the specific context of service activities and community challenges, rather than generalized or abstract concepts from a textbook Service learning is often equated with volunteerism which is a growing trend on many college campuses and in society in general.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 60 million Americans donated an average of 52 hours in activities like fundraising, coaching, teaching, serving food, providing information, and general labor in 2006. Volunteering has even become a social activity for many college students. Volunteer trips during Spring Break are a welcome alternative to the popular raids on

Ft. Lauderdale. Some students prefer to clean beaches, than lay on them.They still enjoy the weather and meet new friends, but they feel good about the time they’ve spent and don’t wake up with hangovers.

Service learning is often wrongly associated with punitive “community service” programs where teen offenders or traffic violators for example, are forced by authorities to perform a certain number of service hours to pay for their crimes.

However, where service learning differs from either of these is in the classroom component where an opportunity for formal reflection and analysis helps transform the experience. For example, a science class may clean a beach to serve the community. It only becomes service learning if they also conduct basic ecological research.

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* Adapted from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse at www.servicelearning.org

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You'r e gonna have to ser ve somebody Bob Dylan

(continued from page 13) By analyzing what they find, they can answer such questions as:What does the flotsam on a beach say about the ecology of the water system?

What is the weight of the trash collected divided by the number of beach visitors? What are the most common components of beach trash and are there biodegradable alternatives? How does human behavior on the beach affect the wildlife?

Are humans causing a negative impact on the beach, and what can be done about it? In such a teaching environment, service is neither altruistic, social, nor punitive, but a valuable tool to promote understanding.

Service as Initiation At Holy Cross, service learning is both a means to transform knowledge into understanding and an initiation into our Catholic mission.

Service is an integral component of the charisms of the Brothers of Holy Cross. In fact, they see their role as educators as a service to God and society. As their founder Blessed Basel Moreau describes it:“With the eyes of faith consider the greatness of the mission and the wonderful amount of good that one can accomplish. And also consider the great reward promised to those who have taught the truth to others and have helped form them into justice: “They will shine eternally in the skies like the stars of the heavens.” With the hope of this glory, we must generously complete the Lord’s work.”— from the treatise, Christian Education.The theme of the Holy Cross Bachelor of Arts program, “developing the competency to see and the courage to act,” is an idea also taken from this treatise. In a way, this theme also succinctly describes the main benefit of service learning.

According to Michael Griffin, Adjunct Professor and Director of the Service Learning

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Program, “In our theology classes, we view service as an initiation into the way of Jesus.

After all, the Christian Gospels are not a set of rules and guidelines, but a narrative o service.”

“In other tracts,” Griffin continued,“service learning can be an introduction to teaching, business, law, psychology, sociology, science, even art.”

Br. Chris Dreyer has led Holy Cross students on service learning experiences across America and across town—from building a home in New Orleans after Katrina, to fixing homes for the elderly in Appalachia, to teaching math and reading on Indian reservations in Montana, to building homes for South Bend residents in the Habitat for Humanity program. “Service learning provides a living laboratory for all the real world skills we want to teach, especially compassion for our fellow man,” says Brother Chris.

The Student Experience “For me service learning started as volunteer work,” said Randy Ebreit ’09. “As a junior in high school (at Marian High School in Mishawaka), I volunteered for the Big Brother program as a way to help my community. I found it was a great way to make friends with other socially conscious people and it has taught me a lot about young people. I have always wanted to be a teacher and so by getting to know young kids on an individual basis, I have come to better understand how they think and how they learn. For example, I was surprised to find how short their attention spans are, but that they are very astute at noticing everything that is going on around them. Also, by getting to know the problems these youngsters

face, I think I will also be a more empathetic teacher, understanding that there may be more difficult problems in their life than doing homework.”

“Ironically,” Randy continued,“the Big Brother experience has both reinforced my decision to become a teacher and made me question it. I am definitely better prepared and less likely to be surprised by what I’ll find when I finally do get a teaching job.”

Randy’s Big Brother work satisfies his service learning requirement, however, in professor Griffin’s class he has learned to reflect on the experience by talking about it in class and writing research papers. “The class work has forced me to examine and explain my experience to others, and this has made it even more meaningful for me,” Randy concluded.

For Nichole Molnar ’09, President of the Social Concerns Committee, the service experience has been a real eye opener.“I grew up in a normal middle class family,” Nichole relates.

“However, every week when I go to the Take Ten program in South Bend to teach non-violence strategies to 6 and 8 year old inner city kids, I enter a culture that is very different from my own. I hate to admit it, but at first I didn’t enjoy going there. It was hard for me to tell if I was getting through to the kids or making a difference. However, now that I have been doing it for a while, I find that they are learning new, nonviolent ways to relate to each other. I have learned about the problems these children face in their lives, to be more patient with young people,

Love causes love… love conquers all Vir gil

and to remember that change takes time.”

According to the head of the Holy Cross Business Major,Tom Burczycki, “Every successful business person knows that true service, which is putting the wants and needs of the customer ahead of your own, is the fundamental key to success.While this is an important business lesson, it is also an important lesson seen ‘with the eyes of faith’ in that service is what we Christians are called to do.”

“The experiences of service work can also be invaluable for building a resume,” says Daniel Haverty director of the center for discernment and Preparation. “A Holy Cross graduate who has gained experience managing volunteers, will have a shorter learning curve when it comes to managing a sales force or a group of office workers. Management skills must be practiced, they can’t simply be learned.”

Chantel Albert ’09 is a student who has organized a new service sorority at Holy Cross College called AGI (Alpha Gamma Iota). “AGI is a fun thing for HCC girls to do together, where we can experience the joy of bringing joy to others,” she says, “It’s also a great way for commuter students and dorm students to have shared experiences outside the classroom and to develop friendships.” Some recent AGI projects have included planting trees and flowering shrubs on campus during Fall Break, running a blanket drive for homeless people of South Bend, and helping to beautify the yard of an elderly woman in need of help in a nearby South Bend neighborhood. “We will also be

handing out free hot chocolate and baked goods instead of tailgating at future Notre Dame football games,” Chantel added. “People can donate what they want, but we get the joy of putting smiles on their faces as they warm up their hands on a steaming cup of hot chocolate.

All donations will go to our future projects.”

By organizing, recruiting, and leading this new service sorority, Chantel is developing important skills for future employment. But mostly, she

says, she is “making friends, having fun, and helping people.”

The Service Learning Experience is a great way for students to put their belief in justice, their desire to be a positive influence on society and the principles of their faith into action.What they get in return is the experience of a lifetime.

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Fall Sports Men’s & Women’s Cross Country Led by Coach Dave Barstis, Holy Cross runners placed in intercollegiate competition this year for the first time. The team is led by seniors Nic Kovatch of South Bend, IN and Tim Holewczynski of New Carlisle, IN. “Running for Holy Cross helped me realize my full potential,” said Holewczynski. “It completed my search for mind, body, and spirit.” Tim was able to shave off seven minutes from the beginning of the season until his last race. “Running for Holy Cross College meant finally being able to assimilate two aspects of my life [academics and athletics] which I care for a lot,” said Kovatch.

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Not to be outdone, the women’s team was also able to place for the first time. Freshman standout Victoria Scheid of Denver, CO led the Saints all year, including a great showing at the National Catholic Invitational at the University of Notre Dame. Scheid posted consistent scores including a time of 23:36 at the National Catholic. This was the first time that the women scored as a team. “It was a big day for our runners,” said Athletic Director Nathan Walker. “I am very pleased with the way our program has developed in a short period of time.”

Review Men’s Soccer The men’s soccer team added ten freshmen to begin their 2008 campaign. First year Head Coach Thiago Pinto had his hands full with only two seniors on the roster and a knee injury that sidelined one of last year’s leading scorers, sophomore Ashley Wormall of Nottingham, UK for the year. However, the Saints collective effort in their second season as a varsity program led to a respectable final record of 7-10-2, including a 4-3 victory against Andrews University to end the season. Freshman goalkeeper Damien Marciniak of Michigan City, IN and freshman midfielder Romulo Nobrega of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil stepped up whenever the Saints needed them. Marciniak finished the year ranked 15th nationally in NAIA competition in saves per game (7.31) while Nobrega ended the year ranked 8th in shots per game (4.88), and 41st in goals per game (.75). Nobrega, and sophomore midfielder Oswaldo Garcia of Elkhart, IN were named to the all-conference second team in the Association of Independent Institutions (AII).

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Peter Holland is retiring from soccer. “Coach Holland has been an incredible help in developing a women’s program here on our campus,” said Athletic Director Nathan Walker.

“His dedication to building a strong intercollegiate club program has prepared us to enter NAIA play next year.” The Saints have a full eighteen game schedule including a season opening matchup against St. Mary’s College.

New head coach Reynolds won the NIC coach of the year in 2006, his Marian High School squad achieved a semi-state appearance where they also earned ‘team of the year’ honors. As well as successful coaching experience, Reynolds also played professional soccer for the Panamanian Men’s National Team and in Panama’s Premier League. He holds a Master of Science in Administration from the University of Notre Dame.

Women’s Soccer Also battling injuries to key players, the Holy Cross College women’s soccer team had a great second season despite a 1-7 record. Much like the men’s team, the women fielded a very young team, including 9 freshmen and only 1 senior.

However, freshman standout Valerie Patout of New Iberia, LA put together a terrific season for the Saints dividing her time between the sweeper and forward positions. Next fall will mark the first year as a varsity program for the women and it will be led by new coach Carlos Reynolds formerly of Marian High School. Head Coach

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Ángel Cortés Completes Doctorate Ángel Cortés, PhD, Assistant Professor of History, has been a very busy man for the past decade! After earning his BA in psychology from Biola University in 1992, he immediately went into graduate school. He earned a MA in religious studies from the University of Denver and another in history from the University of Colorado.

From here, he moved to South Bend to pursue a PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame. In addition to his scholarly endeavors, Cortés also worked fulltime as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Denver, the University of Colorado, and the University of Notre Dame, as an adjunct professor at Red Rocks Community College, and as an assistant professor of history at Holy Cross College.

Cortés has recently completed his dissertation entitled “Student Idealists and the Specter of Natural Science, 1870-1910.” “My dissertation examines critical normative conceptions in art, literature, and philosophy as these disciplines were developing their modern form a century ago. Specifically, my work explores “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” in the humanities curriculum at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of California (Berkeley) during the period 1870-1910,” says Cortés. As research, he has studied the ideas and beliefs of undergraduate students as found in notes, papers, and literary publications. He discovered that “students gravitated toward Idealism—in the form of Romanticism, Transcendentalism, and Protestantism— as a way of coping with the rise of scientific naturalism.”

When he is not in the classroom, Cortés keeps himself busy writing for publications like the Journal of Psychology and Theology and numerous book reviews. He has also managed to become fluent in Spanish, French, and Italian and travel the world. He is an exceptional role model for the students at Holy Cross College, a living testament to the advice ‘follow your curiosity.’

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Holy Cross College Students to Attend Inter national Psychology Congress

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s part of their Summer Session class, “PSYC 497, Special Topics in Psychology,” psychology majors at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana attended the Twenty-Ninth International Congress in Psychology in Berlin, Germany July 20 through July 25. Led by Dr. Doris Van Auken, Associate Professor of Psychology, HCC students joined over 8,000 psychologists, researchers and students from around the world attending this international scientific event.

Holy Cross students took part in educational symposia presented by leading psychologists as well as poster sessions and lectures. They also had the opportunity to attend a series of “debates” on controversial topics in psychology such as the role of “tracking” and “diversity” in education, the importance of neuroimaging in the cognitive sciences, and whether “culture” exists in chimpanzee social groupings.

Students attended a week of pre-departure classes to prepare for what they would encounter at the Inter-national Congress then flew to Berlin. While there, students journaled the events they attended and then wrote a research proposal for their senior Capstone project based on a topic of interest.

According to Dr. Van Auken, “this was a rare opportunity for our students to learn from some of the mostinternationally respected and renown experts in the field of psychology as well as making acquaintances amongst professional psychologists including potential employment and/or graduate school contacts. At Holy Cross we try to incorporate experiential learning opportunities into our classes whenever possible.”

Students also got the opportunity to explore regional highlights including the Holocaust Memorial, Berlin Zoo, and other sites within the city as well as the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Dora tunnel system where Nazi slave laborers built the V1/V2 rockets, and the Goslar UNESCO World Heritage site which holds the largest collection of medieval timber frame buildings in Europe.

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It’s More than Community Ser vice,

It’s a Tradition!

From humble beginnings, a Holy Cross College tradition was born. In 2002, the Social Concerns Committee at Holy Cross College began an annual fund raising effort to provide Thanksgiving food baskets to those in our community who need assistance during the Holiday season. Each year the committee works with the St. Vincent de Paul Society to bring a Thanksgiving Food Basket to a number of area residents.

Professor Mike Griffin and Jeremiah Van Auken help unload a bus full of food. Daniel Haverty waits to load his arms.

Baskets include all the trimmings for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, turkey, stuffing, yams, green beans, corn, pumpkin pie and – of course - cranberry sauce. There is also bread, mayo, and lettuce.

Everything you need for those wonderful after Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches. But in addition to that we provide other items as well. Items such as boxed potatoes, gravy, spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, peanut butter and jelly, and fresh vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, celery, and onions. There is enough food for several days.

But how did this effort come about you may ask? In 2002, HCC student, Chris Edwards, asked if it would be possible to raise money to assist area residents at Thanksgiving. The Social Concerns Committee thought this was a great idea and promptly put Chris in charge of fund raising. With less than two weeks to raise funds, Chris was able to provide six baskets that first year. It was humble, but it was a start. The next year, the committee began raising funds earlier and set a goal of twelve baskets. That goal was met and exceeded; fifteen baskets found their way to those in need. Unfortunately, Chris graduated from Holy Cross and moved across the street to ND to complete his BA. Before he left however, he extracted a promise from the Social Concerns Committee that they would not let his efforts end when he was no longer at HCC. The promise was made and a goal for 2004 was set – 30 baskets. Again, this goal was met. While it was thought that we could double our efforts each year, that goal was a little too ambitious. The committee decided that we should increase our goal for 2005 to 35 baskets. The outcome was never in doubt, the goal was met. In 2006 the goal was

By Doris Van Auken Ph.D. increased to 40 baskets and the committee began seeking donations from businesses located near HCC and frequented

by HCC students. That year, the faculty advisor of the Social Concerns Committee sent out an email to students informing them that they did not reach the goal of 40 baskets — they raised enough money to provide 50! This was such a boast to the committee’s confidence that in 2007 their goal was 65 baskets. Again, the goal was met. However, difficulties were encountered in delivering 65 baskets so the committee decided that 60 baskets was a more attainable goal. This year, 2008, the committee began raising funds for 60 baskets.

The estimated cost of each basket was $40.00. So the committee needed to raise $2400.00. By now, the entire college was in on our act and eager to help with fund raising.

The Development Office and the Alumni Association were notified and given the opportunity to help in this effort.

They worked their magic, and the contributions started coming in and kept on coming! The goal was easily met and exceeded. Since our beginning efforts the committee has raised over ten thousand dollars and provided 263 baskets. And if you ask anyone on the Social Concerns Committee we are just getting started!

You may be wondering how it is possible to provide so much food for only $40.00. The only way this is possible is because we have an ally in the community. That ally is the Meijer corporation. Each year, they price match the lowest price we can find. This year alone, discounts and in kind contributions totaled $1835.00. Without the help and support of Meijer we would have great difficulty reaching our annual goal. Many of the staff at Meijer await our annual call and know us by name. This year they even helped load the HCC bus!

How do I know all this? Well, I am Dr. Van Auken, and I have been the faculty advisor for the Social Concerns Committee since 2001. While I have been involved in helping the committee grow and develop many new events, this is without a doubt the highlight of the year for me.

For the first several years I would get very anxious, because I was afraid that we would not have enough funding to meet our goals. But, over the past few years, I have discovered that I need not worry. I just put my faith in God and all the wonderful students, faculty, staff, parents of students, and HCC alumni, and every year things fall into place. I have never been disappointed. I believe that when there is a need, HCC will step up and help meet that need. I feel blessed and honored to work at a college that will provide me with the opportunity to be part of such wonderful tradition of giving.

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Charles E. Schell Foundation Awards $100,000 Grant to Holy Cross College Holy Cross College has been awarded a $100,000 student loan grant from Charles E. Schell Foundation (Fifth Third Bank, Trustee) to help students fund their four-year undergraduate educations.

This grant is intended to create a self-funding student loan program within the college that continues to provide resources for students indefinitely into the future as long as previous loan recipients successfully repay their loans. Repaid funds become available for future student needs. Loan recipients will understand upon receiving the loans that failure to repay will be a hardship to the college and future students (rather than a faceless corporation). Because the loans are interest free, students will not have the increased stress of compounding debt as they get their first jobs and become independent.

The award enables Holy Cross to provide educational assistance to students who meet the following qualifications: • Citizens of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia or adjoining states (Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan among them) with parents of moderate means; • Between the ages of 18 and 25; • Loyal to the United States and its institutions including the Army, Navy and Air Force; • Honest, upright, intelligent and of practical appearance; and • Maintaining a minimum 2.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale “Holy Cross College has been very successful over the years at helping lower income students, gain a fine private college education at a fraction of what many comparable schools charge,” said Craig Horvath, director of development. “This loan program will allow us to help even more students. On behalf of all those who will benefit, we extend our sincerest gratitude to the Schell Foundation for helping us give students a great college experience.”

According to Robert Benjamin, Director of Financial Aid at Holy Cross, “I am particularly excited about receiving this grant because it provides one more tool which I can use to help students meet their financial needs. Students who qualify can receive the money without regard to calendar deadlines or long application processes, we can help students who have immediate needs, and financially rescue students who may otherwise be considering dropping out.”

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Here’s One that Didn’t Get Away!

When he is not hunting down phishing scams, Br. Charles Drevon CSC, Director of Information Technology, likes to hunt fish. On his annual Canadian fishing trip with 12 other guys, a Northern Pike (22 lbs. 4 oz, 47 inches long, and a girth of 18 inches) struck his line. He won the feisty battle in Lac Seul, a reservoir in Ontario, Canada on July 30, 2008 at approximately 7:00 pm in the evening. Lac Seul is 200 miles north of International Falls, MN.

Thomas Gryp and Jim Scanlon Join the Board of Trustees Thomas Gryp, whose son David attended Holy Cross, comes to the college’s Board of Trustees with over 25 years experience in the banking industry. Currently Thomas is the President/Managing Director of the Northern Trust’s Scottsdale, Arizona region. Tom earned his BBA from the University of Notre Dame, ’79 and his MBA from Arizona State University, ’82.

James N. Scanlon, of Camarillo, California, has been the CEO of Scanlon and Associates Insurance Brokers, Incorporated since 1985. An expert in the insurance business, Jim is also an active member of two international Catholic organizations, Holy Sepulchre and Legatus. Jim and his wife Maureen are the proud parents of 11 children, eight girls and three boys ranging in age from 23 to 3.

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70s Dr. Rebecca (Towner) Silva (1977) is Administrator at Riverside County Office of Education in Riverside, California. She resides in Riverside with her husband and children. She earned her doctorate from the University of California at Riverside in Special Education, and has focused her research on the well-being of parents with children who have severe disabilities.

Patrick Mahoney (1978) has just published Tibet: Lamplight Unto a Darkened World (see story p. 22)

80s Peter A. Bosco (1980) resides in Oak Park, Illinois. He is Executive Producer at Bosco Productions in Chicago.

Michael McMahon (1983) resides in Palatine, Illinois.

Tomas Saavedra (1989) resides with his family in South Bend, Indiana.

He is a National Sales Manager for Fluke Corporation in Everett, Washington.

90s Ellen Needham Imbur (1992) resides in South Bend, Indiana. She is an Art Director for Villing & Company, and holds a B.A. in Art History from Indiana University.

Joe DeCola (1993) and his wife Andrea reside in Boerne, Texas.

Michael Kostyk (1993) resides in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Jose "Pepe" Anastas (1993) resides in New Ipswich, New Hampshire.

James Maloney (1993) and his wife Leanne reside in Upton, Massachusetts. James received a B.S. in Business and an MBA from Boston College, and is a firefighter for the Watertown Fire Department.

Amy Watt McFadzean (1998) and her husband Rob reside in Boulder, Colorado.

Megan Fitzgerald (1999) and her husband Dr. Sean Finnegan reside in Chicago, Illinois.

James A. Chodzinski (1999) resides in Granger, Indiana.

Jihoon Kim (1999) resides in West Palm Beach, Florida.

00s Shannon Firks-Albers (2000) resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband Eugene. She is a Nurse at Select Speciality Hospital, and holds a degree in nursing from Ivy Tech Community College (2002).

John David Gardiner (2000) resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is an Associate Attorney, Beck & Chapman P.C., and holds a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Kalamazoo College (2003).

Mike McCarthy (2000) resides in South Bend, Indiana. He is the Social Studies Department Chair, Head Track & Field Coach, and Assistant Cross Country Coach for Saint Joseph’s High School in South Bend. He holds a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame.

Sara Pendley (2000) resides in Marietta, Georgia. She is an Account Manager for CareerBuilder.com in Norcross, and holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from Saint Mary’s College (2003). She recently created a LinkedIn group for Holy Cross College graduates and is working on social networking strategies for alumni.

Elizabeth (Muilnaro) Willing (2000) resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband and children.

She attended Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis following Holy Cross College.

John “Tex” Reese (1994) lives in West Chester, Ohio with his wife Tina.

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Amy (Koga) Haskell (1996) resides in Westville, Indiana with her family.

She is a Project Manager for Fas-Pak, Inc. and holds a B.S. from Benedictine University.

Stacy Lee-Price (2001) resides in Peoria, Illinois with her husband and celebrated the birth of Addelynn Anne Price on June 1st.

She holds a B.S. degree in Family and Consumer Science from Indiana State University (2003).

Brian Nordan (1997) resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is General Manager and Chief Marketing Officer for Afdent in Fort Wayne.

Michael Drzewiecki (2001) and his wife Megan reside in South Bend, Indiana. He is a Senior Consultant for Cognizant Technology Solutions, and holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Purdue University.

Gillian Hurley (2001) resides in Rockford, Michigan. She is a preschool teacher at AppleTree Christian Learning Center, and she holds a B.A. in English from Indiana University.

02s Elizabeth (Feighan) Kelly (2002) resides with her husband Tony in Chicago, Illinois.

06s Ryan McGovern (2006) resides in Placentia, California. He is currently in the final semester of his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame.

Robert J. Koch (2002) resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Christine Roche (2002) resides in Chicago, Illinois. She is a Project Engineer/Field Operations Manager for Reed Illinois Corporation, and holds a B.A. in English Literature from Saint Mary's College.

Wagner Dacosta (2006) resides in Hagerstown, Maryland, and works for the EOP Group in Washington, D.C. He majored in sports communication at Shepherd University following his career at Holy Cross College.

Elizabeth Stake (2002) resides in Lansing, Illinois.

Christopher Nichol (2006) and his wife Nicole reside in East Lansing, Michigan. He holds a M.A. in Counseling from Michigan State University.

03s Stephen Kent (2003) is a Transportation Planner with the California Department of Transportation (CaTrans) in San Bernandino. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma – Norman in May 2008 with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning. He lives in Redlands, California.

07s Stephen Baumgartner (2007) resides in South Bend, Indiana. He is an Admissions Counselor and Head Coach for Men's Basketball at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Brian Ledley (2003) resides in Brewster, New York. He holds a BA in communication studies from Fordham University.

Casey St. Aubin (2003) is Director of Student Activities at Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

He holds a B.A. in Elementary Education from Illinois State University.

Kevin Martin (2005) resides in Naperville, Illinois and works for the Educator’s Advancement Group in Mokena, Illinois.

Sean Miller (2005) resides in South Bend, Indiana. He is a Payroll and Benefits Specialist for Schurz Communications, Inc. in Mishawaka, and holds a B.B.A. degree in HR Management from Loyola University Chicago (2008).

Maria Ribaudo (2001) resides in Granger, Indiana. She works at Memorial Hospital and holds an Associates of Science in Nursing.

Daniel Perry (2003) resides in Maineville, Ohio. He holds a B.A. in History from Purdue University, and plans to continue his education at the University of Dayton School of Law this fall in Dayton, Ohio.

05s Christie Corcoran (2005) resides in San Francisco, California. She is a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Neurology at California Pacific Medical Center.Corcoran holds a MSN from the MGH Institute of Health Professions.

08s Joseph (Tyler) Martin (2008) resides in Washington, D.C. Michael Hodge (2008) is the Sports Information and Marketing Coordinator at Holy Cross College, Notre Dame, Indiana. He holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Holy Cross College.

Ellen Ludwig (2008) resides in Sigel, Illinois. She works as a Direct Service Personnel/QMRP in Training for Community Living Options in Effingham working in a home with the disabled population, and will begin corporate training to become a qualified case manager and manager of a CLO home.

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Mahoney ’78 Publishes Historical Novel Graduating from one of the most prestigious Business schools in the country, U of Michigan; Patrick Mahoney (’78) fast tracked a corporate career in the world’s largest consumer products company, Clorox/P&G/Henkel, learning marketing from the masters. Then, he went on to International business at Krupp Polysius. Subsequently, he became an entrepreneur with startling wins and losses. Turning to education, he spent eight years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ending with his design and construction of their Fundraising database/systems, participation at the 1996 Olympic Games, and 6 years work on a PhD in Computer Science. After disillusioning experiences at Delta Airlines, he traveled extensively around the world….the highlight being a cycling trip through rural Tibet, Everest base camp, and an extended Trek through the Annapurna Mountains.

He has recently completed an historical fiction novel in two volumes: Tibet, Lamplight Unto a Darkened World. These volumes draw upon his distillation of multivariate experiences, and arduous research; covering over half a century of America’s most tumultuous years of unbridled growth.* (Excerpted from description at Amazon.com.)

Holy Cross College Alumni Board Donates to Student Lounge As part of a continuing effort to encourage growth and development on campus, the Holy Cross College Alumni Board of Directors recently donated $2,500 toward the soon-to-be renovated Driscoll Lounge. This student lounge has not had a full renovation since its construction in 1966. In 2005, the Student Government Association began to fundraise and make plans for its complete reconstruction. Two years later, the original group’s proposal has become a fully realized architectural plan, and the 2008-2009 SGA is very close to meeting their $134,500 fundraising goal.

Holy Cross College Student Government members, Elliot Magers, and Mark Curtis, accept a $2,500 gift from Alumni Board Members Mark Urbanski and Andrew Wendelborn.

“We are so grateful to the Alumni Board of Directors for their generous gift,” says Elliott Magers, president of the SGA, “the Board has been a great support system for us throughout this process.” The Alumni Board of Directors also contributes $2000 annually toward a scholarship for the College.

The Farkas Family Gives Sports a Black Eye Ever wonder why football and baseball players at every level put black marks under their eyes?

Well according to a Yale University study, the evidence of eye black use dates at least to a 1942 photograph of a Washington Redskins player named Andy Farkas. Andy was a star running back for the world-champion Redskins in 1942. He also happens to be the grandfather of Brian Farkas (’01) a popular Holy Cross student who finished his degree at Notre Dame. After graduation, Brian became a Holy Cross College admissions counselor for a year.

But does the stuff really do anything other than making you look tough? A 2003 study by Brian DeBroff and Patricia Pahk published in the Journal of Ophthamology proves it really does! According to Wikipedia, “they tested whether black eye grease actually had anti-glare properties. The subjects of the study were divided into

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three groups: wearers of eye black, wearers of antiglare stickers, and wearers of petroleum jelly. The subjects’ vision was tested using an eye chart while being exposed to natural sunlight. The study concluded that eye black reduced glare of the sun and improved contrast sensitivity, whereas commercial antiglare stickers and petroleum jelly (the control substance) were found to be ineffective.”

Today, Brian Farkas has started a new company to market an eye black that is blacker, stays on longer and comes off easier. You can find “Farkas Original Eye Black” in the gift shop at South Bend’s College Football Hall of Fame.

Kyle Akin ’08

Speaks Out

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Four Who Make a Difference Serving Michiana When the Michiana 40 Under 40 were announced this year, Holy Cross College found four former students, on the list: Mark Macheca, Manette Tepe, Travis J. Hamel, and Hodge Patel.

Shy, physically limited by cerebral palsy, and lacking self esteem, when Kyle Akin was in high school, he was told in an evaluation by an Indiana State Vocational Rehabilitation psychologist that he wouldn’t succeed in college.

That was then. Last spring he earned his bachelor’s degree from Holy Cross and today, he is so confident that he has become an inspirational speaker. What’s the difference?

Kyle explains to Connections, “As a freshman, I didn’t know what to expect from myself or other people, and I never really tried my hardest. But as I began to make real friends like my roommates Andy Buehl ‘08 and Dave Bendel ‘08, and got encouragement from my teachers, little by little I started to come out of my shell. I realized I could accomplish anything I wanted to if I put my mind to it.”

His Capstone speech was the culmination of his four year experience when he told family, friends, faculty and business leaders how he had grown and what he had learned about himself in the last four years. Using humor, sports analogies, and self-revelation, Kyle is a talented speaker who had the audience laughing and crying at the same time.

“Yeah, I’ve got challenges to overcome,” he said. “But I realized that everyone does. Some folks have a lot more to overcome than I do. But, now I believe that if you keep a positive attitude and believe in yourself, great things can happen.”

Kyle has teamed up with motivational speaker Charlie Adams to give speeches for businesses and schools and has already spoken in front of an audience of 460 students. Will Kyle become our next Rudy?

He may never tackle a running back, but he isn’t afraid to tackle life’s challenges. He won’t admit that a script is in the works, but don’t ever think he can’t.

If you would like to have Kyle speak to your group you can contact him at kakin17@yahoo.com or call 574-360-8566.

Mark Macheca, husband and father to three little boys, is the president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s northern Indiana branch and works for Make a Difference Michiana. This is an organization that helps connect resources to non-profit organizations. His company donates office furnishings to non-profit organizations, and since he has been there, his company has donated nearly $250,000 worth of furniture to organizations like Hope Rescue Mission.

Manette Tepe is a licensed architect and interior designer. She graduated from the Notre Dame School of Architecture in 1993 and did an extended study at the Prince of Whales Institute of Architecture. She donates her services to organization who need design like St. Anthony’s Parish. Tepe co-chaired a year-long playground project for them, as well as volunteered her services to the church, the Family and Children’s Center, and Christ Child. She is also a member of the design technology committee at Ivy Tech State College. She is known for her interest in creating trails and bike paths, schools in subdivisions, and overall ‘traditional’ neighborhoods. “It’s my generation of parents that are forgetting about how we grew up,” she says, “I’d like to see more kids riding their bicycles, more people walking.”

Travis J. Hamel is a young entrepreneur who is “willing to try anything.” He started a catering business out of the kitchen of his family’s restaurant, Holly’s Landing Restaurant, now known as Club Landing. Through the renovation of Hans House restaurant, he created The Landing banquet facility. His friends helped him with the renovations and he booked his first event before the project was even completed. Recently, Hamel has been giving back to the community by hosting events like the Marian High School auction and Right to Life activities.

Hodge Patel believes that politics is about helping others, and works towards this every day as district director for U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly. It is his job to help Donnelly meet individuals’ needs, “Some people look at the big picture, but I look at the small picture. When someone contacts the district office it’s because they need something. They come to Joe Donnelly to ask for help.” Additionally, Patel volunteers his time at the Center for the Homeless, the Bend Area Service/Sports/Social Club, Young Professionals Networking, and Rotary Club of South Bend. “I always want people to walk away from a meeting with me thinking it was positive; that they know I am always open to having a discussion.”

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Chris Castagnetti, second from left, carries his share in one of the many physical challenges at Quantico.

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The Few, The Proud, & the Top of the Class

Chris lives up to his nickname, “Hawaii” by wearing a traditional lei while speaking with his grandfather and former Governor Kernan on graduation day.

How do you prepare to lead the most elite military force in the world? How about starting with a BA in Liberal Arts from Holy Cross College?

“It’s definitely an advantage,” said Chris Castagnetti ’08, who graduated among the top 16 Officers in his class of 886 officer candidates this summer at the Marine Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. “I think the degree gave me an edge because I wasn’t a specialist in one subject,” he told Connections in a recent interview.

“At Quantico, the criteria they use to judge you is 50% leadership, 25% academics, and 25% physical fitness.

While I wasn’t tops in any one area, being well-rounded definitely made a difference.”

“At Holy Cross, you take philosophy and theology classes where you learn about morality and ethics. History and business helps with strategy. The math and science helps with logic and in reading charts and orienteering, while the literature and psychology helps you understand people and their motivation.”

Chris received the Leadership Award from Officer Candidates School that included a certificate and a personalized, engraved Mameluke Sword. The stated mission of the Marine Corp Officer Training Program is to screen candidates to make sure they have the “moral, intellectual, and physical qualities” to be an officer. That does sound similar to Holy Cross College’s holistic educational philosophy of training the “mind, body and spirit.” The Marine commissioning process also looks for individuals who “think tactically, act with courage, and lead 24 CONNECTIONS fall.winter2008

with confidence.” At Holy Cross, we expect graduates to gain “the competence to see, and the courage to act.”

Quantico provides one of the most intense training programs in existence which Chris prepared for through a dedicated self-training program that included participating in Holy Cross club Lacrosse, flag football, running and weight lifting as well as an occasional ultimate fighting contest in South Bend.

“Chris was a soft-spoken guy,” said Athletic Director Nathan Walker, “but he was always a leader on the Lacrosse field. He was one of those guys who naturally got the respect of other people by working harder than anyone else.”

“I am so proud of Chris, I could cry,” said Tina Holland, PhD, Senior Vice President, a Naval Academy graduate and Marine (former officer) herself. “Chris is exactly what you look for in an officer. He is smart, dedicated, disciplined, and highly ethical—or as they say in the Corps, he has ‘Honor, Courage, and Commitment.’ He is exactly the kind of person you want leading others into dangerous situations. I am extremely fortunate to have shared in his experience here and look forward to following his career.”

At Holy Cross, we expect graduates to gain “the competence to see, and the courage to act.”

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Holy Cross College Showcases New Pfeil Center to Business-Before-Hours Chamber Group Over 100 local business professionals from the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce enjoyed a Business-BeforeHours breakfast this Fall at Holy Cross College. They were also treated to the first public tours of the new Pfeil Center for sports, student activities, and recreation. “What an attractive building for sports and other big events!” said Michael Lacognato of PentaVision Communications. “People will love coming to games here.”

For many of the Chamber guests, it was their very first time on the Holy Cross College campus, and for others, it was their first time returning in several years. “A lot of the people I met were surprised that there was a four-year college campus back here. Personally, I’m amazed at how much this place has grown,” said Jim Guibert of Burkhart Advertising.

While many of the college facilities have been newly built or refurbished in the last ten years, the Pfeil Center is the

Craig Horvath (center) Holy Cross College director of development welcomes guests to Business Before Hours.

latest addition to campus. The facility has basketball courts, an indoor running track, locker rooms, meeting rooms and offices for student government, coaches, and student activities, as well as state-of-the-art, health-club like training and exercise equipment. Both varsity and intramural sports teams will compete in basketball, volleyball and other indoor sports while every Holy Cross student will be able to work out, take recreation classes, and partake in campus-wide meetings and events.

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GHOSTS&GOBLINS Michiana families with young children from ages 3 to 8 were invited to the Holy Cross College Campus for a ghoulish good time on Wednesday, October 29th. Children were tricked by Holy Cross students wearing costumes and they were treated by Holy Cross Village residents where the children went door to door.

Back at the “Max” children played games, competed in a costume contest, explored a “Sorta-Spooky” haunted house, enjoyed refreshments and won cool prizes!

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Please nominate deserving alumni for the Holy Cross College Alumni Association Awards.

Holy Cross College Service Award The Holy Cross College Service Award recognizes a Holy Cross College alumni who has furthered the mission of the College through service to their community.

Outstanding Alumni Award This award recognizes a Holy Cross College alumni who has aided in the development of the College through contributions of time, talent, or treasures.

Nominate Deserving Alumni Today!

Alumni Awards to be Announced at Ave Crux Weekend To nominate, please submit the following: A paragraph explaining why you have nominated this alumni A list of the nominee’s accomplishments Send nominations to: Holy Cross College Attn: Alumni Association Awards P.O. Box 308 Notre Dame, IN 46556 Fax: (574) 239.8324 Or, email to chorvath@hcc-nd.edu February 15, 2009 is the deadline for nominations. The awards reception will be held during Ave Crux Weekend on March 21, 2009. For more information, please contact Craig Horvath, Director of Development, at 574.239.8368 or chorvath@hcc-nd.edu.

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