Marquette Magazine - Winter 2018

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FACE TO FACE EVERYONE FORGETS A FACE NOW AND THEN, BUT SOME PEOPLE HAVE TROUBLE RECOGNIZING ANYONE — EVEN THEMSELVES.

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African-American men open up to researcher.

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Dr. Brad Duchaine says the ability to recognize faces starts early, minutes after birth.

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Making a pitch on Shark Tank is risky.

Will it pay off for Eric Janowak and his business partners?

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“As a Jesuit institution, we’re really called to be present to our cities.”

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“We draw students from some truly disadvantaged areas, and the byproducts of poverty often accompany them to school.”

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Dangerous waters 16 Ten million viewers tuned in but Eric Janowak’s team ABOVE

Dan McGrath woke one morning and surprised himself: “I think I need to do this.”

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“Pop Quiz” introduces Kaytriauna Farr, a first-generation student on a mission.

prepared for five sharks. They needed just one to bite.

Stained glass glory 18 It will be installed in 2018. This stage of the process is stirring to view.

Face to face 20 Everyone forgets a face now and then, but some people have trouble recognizing anyone — even themselves.

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Rookie season 24 One morning of startling clarity led Dan McGrath to St. Leo High School on Chicago’s South Side.

The house that Bell built 28 A gift for a faculty chair sets a movement in motion.

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GET PLUGGED IN The first “Marquette in Milwaukee” podcast took on one of this community’s most important issues — education.

Listen in and look for more conversations at marquette.edu/podcasts.

FUN FACT Marquette is now the No. 1 Jesuit destination for Jesuit high school graduates in the

United States. More Jesuit high school graduates are in our entering fall class than any other Jesuit university

in the country, according to data collected from all 28 Jesuit institutions for the fall 2017 first-year cohort.

CORRECTION

Our newly ordained Jesuit alumni, featured

on page 2 in the fall issue, graduated as follow: Brad Held, S.J., Arts ’06; Joe Simmons, S.J., Arts ’04; and Stephen Wolfe, S.J., Arts ’03, Grad ’08. We apologize for the error.

Editor: Joni Moths Mueller

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STROKES BY SPECIAL FOLKS

Some Bruce-Guadalupe Community School students tackled the challenge of decorating the School of Dentistry’s pediatric clinic with original works of art.

Thank you!

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ANYTHING IN THIS ISSUE

email joni.mothsmueller@ marquette.edu or find more information on the Marquette University website.

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CORNER OFFICE Construction of the Athletic and Human Performance Research Center began — and on a new site at the heart of campus, near the southwest corner of West Wells and 12th streets, across from Al McGuire Center.

Here’s an architectural rendering of what’s to come.

WOW. The new format is wonderful.

Color, exceptional editing really highlight all the GREAT things going on at MU. CONGRATS. PAT NORRIS, BUS AD ’76, LAW ’86

I recently finished reading the fall 2017 edition of Marquette Magazine and again felt so proud to be an alumna.

Long ago I graduated with a bachelor of philosophy degree. I had been a member of Alpha Kappa Delta and Delta Epsilon, the Jewish sorority on campus. No one knows what life will bring but my years at Marquette prepared me to become a loving and loved mother-in-law, grandmother and greatgrandmother to my Catholic family members.

Although I will always be Jewish, we all thank Marquette for the sincere love and respect we share!

In response to your “mystery photo” on the inside back cover of the fall 2017 Marquette Magazine and appeal for commentary and identification of the persons in the photo, here is the background: This photo was taken at the Jan. 8, 1963, Warriors basketball game at the Milwaukee Arena vs. then 2nd ranked and undefeated Loyola (outcome: Loyola 87–MU 68). ... Described as “spunky” in the 1963 Hilltop, the truly beautiful Ann McKenna, Med Tech ’63, was cheerleading team captain for the thrilling “roller coaster” 1962–63 season. After graduation Ann married fellow Green Bay, Wis., native David Dobesh. This information is respectfully submitted by the other cheerleader in the photo (McKenna’s sophomore engineering cheerleading partner).

DR. MICHAEL GRAHAM, ENG ’65

news online Catch up! The latest issues of the college magazines and our annual research magazine are available online.

Keep up with them all at news.marquette.edu.

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“HAD A FANTASTIC LUNCH TODAY WITH STUDENTS.” @PRESLOVELL

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onsidering my typical day might involve back-to-back-to-back discussions about university operations, off-campus meetings with corporate and nonprofit partners, and travel to New York City for Big East Conference business or Washington, D.C., for legislative conversations, it can be challenging to stay in touch with the real reason why faculty and staff are here: our students. To address this situation, I make every effort to offer or accept invitations to interact with students.

Take for instance my student lunches. Students apply to attend. Once introductions are made and grace said, no question or comment is considered offlimits. I encourage students to talk about the good and bad of their Marquette experience because we can’t solve problems we don’t know about or understand. Students always embrace the opportunity.

Vice President for Student Affairs Xavier Cole and I do our best to answer and, if needed, provide follow up after the lunch.

We listen to what students say. My favorite example happened when students suggested Marquette restart a Homecoming celebration. I had meetings after lunch that same afternoon with Marquette University Student Government President Zack Wallace and Vice President Aliya Manjee, who loved the idea, and with

Athletic Director Bill Scholl, who wished he came up with it first. Associate Vice President for Engagement Stacy Mitz was immediately on board. We launched Homecoming the following fall.

When I tell that story at lunches now, I let students know their ideas don’t have to be quite that big.

I also try to accept invitations to speak to classes and have smaller meetings with students working on class projects. Last fall I guest-lectured in instructor Kurt Gering’s business course, met with MBA students taught by assistant professor Margaret Hughes-Morgan, had two engineering students shadow me for a day as part of their engineering E-Lead Program, and worked with students conducting a communication audit and assessment for our police department for a class taught by associate professor Scott D’Urso. Every encounter leaves me so impressed.

By far the most student interactions happen through the President’s Running Group that meets three or four times each week. Whether on the track, in the classroom or at lunch on the fifth floor of the AMU, what I learn most from every interaction is how dedicated our students are to their education, university and finding ways to make a difference in the world. These young people are truly getting ready to go and set the world on fire.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell PRESIDENT

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“A MOUNT EVEREST-TYPE EFFORT” Guard Markus Howard broke men’s basketball’s nearly 60-yearold scoring record with 52 points in Marquette’s 95–90 win over Providence.

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ENGINEERING

leading voice

Dr. Paul Andrews’ announcement thrilled the School of Dentistry and its students.

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crowning moment Alumnus pledges $5 million gift to support scholarships for veterans and their families. B Y B R I A N D O R R I N G T O N

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elebrating his 20th year as dean of the School of Dentistry is no small thing.

Dean William K. Lobb got to mark it in a truly big way, by announcing Dr. Paul Andrews’ pledge of a $5 million estate gift to the school. The gift, which will focus on scholarships for veterans and their families, is the largest gift received in the School of Dentistry’s history.

Andrews, Dent ’74, the eldest of five kids and son of a dairy farmer, says he “grew up milking cows and fixing tractor tires.” In a speech to 200 alumni, faculty, staff and students about what inspired him and his wife, Patricia, to make the transformational gift, Andrews recalled the day he took his dental aptitude test. “The first time I walked through those doors, I was scared to death,” he said of entering the School of Dentistry.

Four years later, Andrews felt much different. “When we first walked out of

those doors, they opened up to the world.

And we walked out as dentists ready to take it on,” he said.

Andrews, a Vietnam War veteran, served six years in the Navy before college. He was inspired to make this a pay-it-forward promise to honor his godson, who aspired to attend dental school but never had the chance — he was killed fighting in Afghanistan. Andrews also remembered eight members of his high school class who died in Vietnam.

Andrews said the university made him into the person he is today and that he owes all that he achieved in his professional career to Marquette’s dental school. He also credits the military, reflecting on the time he received a Navy scholarship. One of his goals, he said, is to reduce student debt and give others the same chance he had.

The evening became even more memorable when, in addition to this gift announcement, School of Dentistry alumni committed $50,000 to start a scholarship fund in Dean Lobb’s name. ¤

Dr. Daniel Zitomer was named a Water Environment Federation Fellow, recognizing achievements, stature and contributions to the water profession. The interim chair and professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering in the Opus College and director of the Water Quality Center specializes in education and industrial/municipal wastewater management. He is an expert in biotechnology for waste treatment and renewable energy with a focus in anaerobic biotechnology.

HOUSING

welcome home Marquette joined with two partners to buy The Marq, an apartment building on West 20th Street and Wisconsin Avenue. The 231 units and 612 beds will be offered as another campus apartment option to juniors, seniors, graduate and professional students for the 2018–19 academic year.

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ENGINEERING

“guys like me” Milwaukee entrepreneur, business executive and philanthropist Michael Cudahy gave $1 million to support five full scholarships, including room and board, for students in the Opus College of Engineering. Four first-generation students started at Marquette this academic year, thanks to his generous gift.

“I have always felt that guys like me should, somehow, pay back society for success,” Cudahy says. “Perhaps we can help make it happen again with a young potential entrepreneur.”

Cudahy was the principal donor for Cudahy Hall, Marquette’s main computing facility, built in 1994 on 13th and Wisconsin and named in honor of his mother, Katharine Reed Cudahy.

Michael Cudahy is a 2017 member of the Marquette University President’s Society.

M A R Q U E T T E W I T H M I LWA U K E E

fitness factors Marquette Forum explores trajectories of multiple health inequities in this community and beyond.

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his year’s Marquette Forum, “Fractured: Health and Equity,” is exploring challenges to health equity — locally, regionally and globally.

In addition to key focuses on some of Milwaukee’s public health issues, including infant mortality, toxic stress and incarceration, forum events are also connecting with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services “Healthiest Wisconsin 2020” plan and national and international efforts by the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization and others.

The yearlong forum began during the fall semester by engaging students, faculty, staff, regional and national experts, and the communities making up greater Milwaukee in frank talk about health disparities, social determinants of health and opportunities for achieving greater health equity.

Key topics included: • Children’s health — social determinants of health • Mental health — enduring stigmas and challenges

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• Global health — developing Marquette networks • Incarceration and health • Milwaukee — accessing health care The conversations are continuing this spring and will culminate with a keynote address by sociologist and public health expert Dr. David R. Williams from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized authority on social influences on health, and served as key scientific adviser to the award-winning PBS film series Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? His 2016 TED Talk, “How Racism Makes Us Sick,” has been viewed nearly a million times.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the fair housing marches on Milwaukee, Williams will explore housing as a public health issue when he speaks on campus on March 27, 2018. The event is open to the public.

Learning throughout the year broadened perspectives. Here are some highlights of what occurred: Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, director of Native-American and disparities research in the University of New Mexico School of Medicine’s Department of

MU/360° Psychiatry, presented “Historical Trauma and Unresolved Grief Among Native Peoples of North America.”

Marquette, Harley-Davidson and Neighborhood House hosted the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s On the Table forum, bringing together more than 100 participants to discuss what can be done to improve the quality of life in Milwaukee.

A workshop at the Medical College of Wisconsin called “A Transformation of Global Health Knowledge Toward Community Disparities in Southeast Wisconsin” invited participants to share how to channel energy and enthusiasm gained from global service experiences back to Milwaukee.

The Marquette University Student Government distributed purple ribbons to mark Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Day. The Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies sponsored the “Men’s Health Across Difference Research Panel” with public health, medical and social justice experts discussing health disparities across gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background and ability.

Marquette Law School’s Lubar Center hosted a conference where 2016–17 O’Brien Fellow Mark Johnson, graduate and undergraduate students examined the growing threat posed by diseases that jump from animals to humans.

History assistant professor Dr. Bryan Rindfleisch presented a talk on the historical features of Native-American society and its oppression by colonialist forces that account for high rates of violence against women.

The university hosted the Milwaukee Film Festival showing of Bending the Arc, which followed the founding of Partners in Health.

The university also hosted a panel of medical providers, community stakeholders and journalists who addressed Milwaukee’s epidemic of trauma, discussing everything from individual therapies to efforts to strengthen the broader community.

This year’s Marquette Forum continues to seat friends, colleagues and groups around the table for critical and difficult conversations.

Read more on the university website. ¤

MARQUETTE NETWORK

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Every student is unique, but some trends and shared characteristics show.

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he first-year class is 2,021 full-time, first-time students, of which 31 percent are students of color and 23 percent are first-generation. There are 43 international students.

The students were asked to respond to a survey about their Marquette experience and 1,838 did.

Here are some results — • 96 percent said Marquette was among their top three college choices.

• 82+ percent feel a sense of belonging here.

• 77 percent expect to continue their education beyond a bachelor’s degree.

• 94 percent are likely to participate in an internship, co-op, field placement, student teaching or clinical placement.

• 68 percent are concerned about affording tuition and fees.

• 11 percent say their primary language at home is not English. Most common languages spoken at home include Spanish (53 percent), Chinese (9 percent) and Polish (6 percent). ¤

LEADERSHIP

building capacity Gina Sholtis joined Marquette in November as vice president for university advancement.

Previously she was assistant vice chancellor for advancement at the University of Missouri and served on the leadership team for Mizzou’s $1.3 billion Our Time to Lead campaign. Prior to that Sholtis was associate dean and senior director of development at Washington University in St. Louis, where she helped advance the $2.3 billion Leading Together campaign.

COMMUNITY TIES

shake a leg Wanted: Alumni dancers — even those with two left feet — to let loose Saturday, April 21, 2018, at Dance Marathon Marquette at the Al McGuire Center. Join students in raising funds to support Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. This year’s goal is $125,000.

Learn more at https:// www.marquettedm.com.

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BEYOND BOUNDARIES

LIVE LARGE

Education senior Kylah Gage studied women and gender

studies and sociology at University of the Western Cape in Marquette’s South Africa Service Learning Program. Most-treasured moments came teaching children at Nomlinganiselo Primary School, Sinako After Care Programme and Siyakhulisa Edu-care Centre. “Above all, I have learned to live in the moment and embrace the things or people that bring you joy, no matter what calamities surround you,” she says.

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latina experience Community-engaged research will show Proyecto Mamá the path to support Milwaukee-area Latina mothers.

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New graduate programs are available in psychology (behavior analysis), neuroscience, health care data analytics, ethically centered data science and STEM teaching. A resource for all Graduate School news about more than 50 graduate programs, 15 types of degrees and certificate programs is accessible at marquette.edu/grad.

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THREE WINNERS

“Research shows us that the mental health of mothers has an impact on generations to come,” says Edwards.

“At the close of this grant, I want to have a clear picture of the assets and needs of our community.”

three cheers Marquette Magazine won the silver award for “best alumni/ institution magazine, 10,000 full-time students and above” in the 2017 Pride of CASE V Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Marquette Magazine’s basketball commemorative, 100 Years of Hoopla, won the gold award for “best specialized or unit-level magazine.” The Marquette video, Off Hours, won the silver award for “best video PSA or commercial spot.”

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with church leaders who play an important role in the lives of this population, with the mothers themselves and with their partners.

The health care practitioners have already pinpointed the No. 1 issue Latinas face. It’s trauma resulting from isolation, migration experiences, fear of deportation, poverty, personal violence or lack of empowerment.

Proyecto Mamá will create a website with an “asset map” of support services.

The map will tell the story of where resources exist and also where there are holes.

“Research shows us that the mental health of mothers has an impact on generations to come,” says Edwards. “At the close of this grant, I want to have a clear picture of the assets and needs of our community.” ¤

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ive years from now the mothers Dr. Lisa Edwards interviews for Proyecto Mamá may share different stories. But today, at what should be one of the most blessed moments of life — bringing a new baby into the family — Edwards is learning Milwaukee-area Latina mothers experience stress and loneliness.

Edwards began studying various aspects of Latino health and well-being when she was in graduate school. Her interest in the perinatal health of Latinas came from a personal epiphany. “After I had kids myself I realized that even though I had everything at my fingertips, it was still hard,” says Edwards, a professor of counselor education and counseling psychology in the College of Education.

What happens to Latinas who don’t have access to support systems? Proyecto Mamá was born out of Edwards need to know.

The multiyear project won a Marquette Women and Children of Color grant, which Edwards says “was exactly what we needed” to fund the community-engaged research.

Data is being collected through focus group interviews with health care practitioners who have the most contact with mothers,

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ARTS + SCIENCES

open doors A new Center for the Advancement of the Humanities “will help make Marquette a standard-bearer for the importance of the humanities at universities, in our nation, and across the globe as we all grapple with the human condition and the pursuit of a better life for all,” says Provost Dan Myers. The center, directed by Dr. James South, professor of philosophy and associate dean for faculty in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, plans to sponsor faculty and student research, interdisciplinary conferences, internationally known speakers and public events.

TRANSFERS

new partners Marquette became the first partner from outside of Illinois to join City Colleges of Chicago, a public school system of seven Chicago community colleges. The alignment will help Marquette better serve transfer students and facilitate the transfer process. Qualifying students will be able to plan transfers in advance, assisted by Marquette advising resources. They will also earn transfer scholarships to help reduce the cost of tuition.

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ARTS + SCIENCES

think about us When some African-American men asked, this researcher answered. B Y J O N I M O T H S M U E L L E R

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frican-American men noticed Dr. Angelique Harris studying the health needs of African-American women in Milwaukee’s Lindsay Heights neighborhood. They expressed a surprising sentiment: What about us?

The question was a good one.

Harris, an associate professor of social and cultural sciences, began research the way she always does — by asking questions.

“As a sociologist, my approach is to look at the social and cultural factors that influence health and well-being,” she says.

She invited groups of men between the ages of 18–72 into focus groups where they chatted freely, and she conducted oneon-one surveys with 20 men. The survey questions spanned personal health, family connections, lifestyle, religious practices, challenges related to employment, support systems and demographics. Where do you live? What do you think about Milwaukee?

What does being a man mean to you?

The men opened up and talked broadly about their struggles with homelessness, with finding food. They revealed high rates of incarceration, drug addiction and poverty, trouble finding jobs and getting the insurance to drive a car to a job — if they find employment.

They talked about generational differences and about issues specific to Milwaukee and Wisconsin. For example, Harris noticed several of the men “got antsy” when sessions ran later in the afternoon.

The men told her they don’t feel comfortable standing at city bus stops after sundown, and they don’t feel safe in their own neighborhoods.

“I saw so many things I wasn’t aware of,” Harris admits. “You see that men are treated differently and need different kinds of help [than women].”

Now she is thinking about how to use the information to address the health and wellness of African-American men in the community and hopes to get funding for further study. ¤

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CLASS ACT

THE ONE-ROPE BRIDGE Task Force Ranger Challenge 2017 proved our Army ROTC cadets’ ability to handle themselves in another type of classroom — outdoors. They transported themselves and their equipment across a river using only a 150-foot rope, selfmade harnesses, climbinggrade carabiners, soldier skills, leadership and teamwork. The nine-cadet and five-cadet teams placed first in the task force competitions. The teams took second and third in brigadelevel contests featuring the best-performing Army ROTC programs in the Midwest.

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H E A LT H S C I E N C E S

depression research A planned gift pledge of $1 million will be used to establish the Michael and Jeanne Schmitz Family Depression Research Fund in the College of Health Sciences. The gift, from Michael and Jeanne Schmitz, honors their son Joey, who committed suicide as a college freshman. The fund will support depression research efforts in the Charles E. Kubly Mental Health Research Center, including the BioDiscovery Imaging Core and BioDiscovery Cellular and Molecular Core, for the underlying neurobiological causes of diseases like depression. The Schmitzes are members of the 2017 Marquette University President’s Society.

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A REMINDER TO NOTICE

what I nearly missed Wide-eyed newness brings its insecurities, slow starts and wrinkled road maps, but it also brings a new sense of the possible, a renewal of life for those of us who’ve been here a bit.

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hird year in the school, there’s no pretending I’m a veteran, but my emergent sixth sense told me to go downstairs often that first week of school. I turned the corner Tuesday to the biggest stretch of freshman lockers and freshmen trying to open them.

“Garrett, can you help this student?” a real veteran teacher asked; “I forgot how to do it.”

“Of course,” I smiled and turned to the young woman — “Do you have your combination?”

The student opened her hand, producing a paper with three numbers on it, wrinkled and smeared by some combination of August heat and nervousness. She smiled and offered a helpless shrug.

My hands flipped to the task, automatic, muscle memory, daily ritual, quick work flashing back and recalling my own first day, that tan locker two thousand miles away, clicking open successfully just like this one now.

“Here, you try — don’t forget to jump that middle number.”

A blank stare.

“Oh, I mean, you find it, go through it

once, then, once you hit it the second time, go left to the third number.”

Spinning the black dial five or six times, she pulled it. Nope. And again, nope. But third time was a charm and she pulled it open, triumphant, thanked me as she grabbed her books and pushed it shut.

“You’re welcome. I’m Garrett. What’s your name? … Well, Ellie, welcome to Red Cloud High School — have a great first week.”

I’m not sure how good Ellie is with her locker these days, but she hasn’t needed much help to share her giftedness at the school — curiosity in the classroom, creativity in her clubs, compassion for her classmates.

Whether in the workplace or the parish, the school or the neighborhood, we do well to welcome newcomers — the immigrant, the transfer and the freshman among us. And though we may not always be veterans, we often know just enough to be a huge help in a hard moment, a start of something like community when we exchange handshakes and names. It all begins with noticing who. ¤ ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jesuit Scholastic Garrett Gundlach, S.J., Arts ’09, teaches at Red Cloud High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

C U R AT E D

let’s do lunch!

Let’s be honest, lunch is a favorite pastime around here. Choices are wide and range from finger food to chef’s specialty. And, yes, we also “got milk.”

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DANGEROUS WATERS THEY PREPARED FOR FIVE SHARKS. THEY NEEDED JUST ONE TO BITE.

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Uncharted Supply Co., co-founded by Eric Janowak, Law ’05, was the first startup to walk down the iconic dark hallway and into the bright light to pitch a new business on this year’s season opener of Shark Tank. The pitch for a $100,000 investment in return for a 5 percent equity stake hooked shark Robert Herjavec — then he upped the ante and gave Uncharted Supply Co. three seconds to lock the deal.

That’s three seconds added to a whirlwind year spent developing the Seventy2, a backpack survival system of 35 tools organized in pockets with user-friendly instructions printed on each pocket, including these words: “The first five things to do when …”

It was Janowak’s friend and Uncharted founder, Christian Schauf, who spotted weaknesses in standard preparedness kits consumers believe equip them for emergencies. Schauf considered them poorly designed, filled with useless components and difficult to use. “We knew people buy these bags for peace of mind and then throw them in a closet and forget about them,” Janowak says. “But in an emergency, we also knew many don’t know how to access and use the equipment.”

They started researching emergency preparedness items and bought every survival kit they could find to analyze and break down. “We took them apart, poured over them to see the good and the bad, how they’re organized. Many were stuffed to the gills with useless stuff like slingshots and fishing kits,” Janowak says.

Then they went to the experts — first responders, survivalists and military specialists — for advice on core items to include and how to fit them together in a top-notch survival system that could be used on the go. After several months of research, they had their product, the Seventy2.

In November 2016 Schauf and Janowak started a campaign to pre-sell the Seventy2 on Indiegogo, a crowd-funding site. Within four weeks they sold their inventory of 1,000 kits and raised more than $350,000. Sales kept mounting, and within the next two weeks, they sold more than $450,000. Then they started the long process of assembling 1,000 kits in Schauf’s apartment to ship to customers around the world in time for Christmas. “That was the most stressful time. I never want to do that again,” Janowak says.

But the experience convinced Janowak to quit his day job at a hedge fund and commit full time to Uncharted Supply Co. as CFO. It also convinced them to apply to pitch their survival system on Shark Tank. “We knew what appearing on that show can do for small companies,” he says.

They made it through several rounds of the applicant-selection process, beating out 30,000 other companies for approximately 50 spots. They decided early in the application process that Schauf would appear on the show, but they both spent countless hours getting ready. They watched eight seasons of episodes, studied the sharks, anticipated thousands of potential questions. They committed a thousand answers to memory during practice session after practice session.

They prepared a 45-second sales pitch describing how the Seventy2 “reinvents” the personal preparedness space:

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Ultimately Herjavec’s bid drowned out the competition: “I think you need more money,” he said, before offering $200,000 for 10 percent equity and setting the stingy clock for a decision in three seconds.

On the day of the taping Janowak waited near the phone in case Schauf wanted to consult on an offer. Instead he got the good news of a deal done. “We were thrilled,” he says, “Robert is a really good fit for us. He ticked all the right boxes and will help us pivot to a broader audience.”

Uncharted Supply Co.’s sales rocketed to more than $1,000,000 in the week after the show aired and haven’t stopped. “I was hoping for a breather,” Janowak says, “but SHARK TANK’S it’s been full-on since the show aired.

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JANOWAK, LAW ’05, AND CHRISTIAN SCHAUF.

“Sharks, our world is changing. Situations like earthquakes and natural disasters are on the rise. … The Seventy2 helps you survive and thrive through the first often-deadly 72 hours in literally hundreds of situations.”

On the day of the taping the Sharks began to churn in what Janowak describes as a “free for all” 45 minutes. Only a small portion of the debate was televised, he says.

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Milwaukee artist John D. Van Koningsveld is creating a stained glass window that mirrors a 17th-century Peter Paul Rubens’ etching of St. Ignatius.

STAINED GLASS GLORY THIS FINALE TO THE JESUIT RESIDENCE CHAPEL WILL BE A BEAUTY TO BEHOLD.

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hey lean over the light table and touch brilliantly colored cuts of glass that are being painted, brushed and fired into the puzzled beauty of a stained glass window for the Donald J. Schneider Chapel in the Dr. E.J. O’Brien Jesuit Residence. The massive window will be installed in 2018, and that date, when it comes, will be celebrated with fanfare. But this stage of the process is stirring to view.

It has been two years in the making already. A chapel design group comprising Jesuits and members of Marquette’s Department of Facilities Planning and Management talked for more than a year before approving the stained glass rendering of a 17th-century etching by Peter Paul Rubens that depicts St. Ignatius at the moment of his greatest enlightenment at Manresa. The biography of Ignatius tells readers he “understood more things in that moment than he did for the rest of his life.”

“We thought about who we are as a university and chose this iconic image to communicate that,” explains Rev. David Schultenover, S.J. Now a handful of Jesuits, Revs. Grant Garinger, Joseph Mueller, John Laurance and Schultenover, pointing at pieces of the landscape, the river and Ignatius’ profile, express awe at the colors and textures. The window is being created with loving hands by Milwaukee-based artist John D. Van Koningsveld, who studied not only the landscape as Rubens caught it, but also searched for images of the landscape of Manresa at the time and movements of the river to capture the scene with precise detail. “I’ve touched each piece hundreds of times,” the artist says. “It’s challenging because I’m doing it in Old European style so it matches other (stained glass) forms on campus. I’m painting in all the details so, for instance, a piece of the forest is fired and painted three times, Ignatius’ robe is fired five times.” The artist bought an industrial kiln to fit this work.

Each firing takes 14 hours.

This finale to the Jesuit residence was made possible because late-alumna Bernice Shanke Greiveldinger, Jour ’42, established a charitable trust to support “brick and mortar” Catholic-related projects,

BY JONI MOTHS MUELLER with specific mention of her alma mater, Marquette.

The Shanke Greiveldinger Trust, a member of the 2017 Marquette University President’s Society, also contributed to the building of the Jesuit residence. ¤

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DR. BRAD DUCHAINE STANDS AT THE FOREFRONT OF FACIAL RECOGNITION RESEARCH.

BY PA M E L A H I L L N E T T L E TO N

Everyone forgets a face now and then. But some people regularly forget their own.

Their sight works just fine, but something in their brains works differently. They have trouble recognizing anyone, even themselves.

The face in the mirror is unfamiliar. They bring their children to day care in the morning but don’t recognize them in the afternoon if they’ve changed T-shirts. They walk past co-workers on the street without saying hello because one face looks pretty much like the next. It’s socially awkward, professionally damaging and potentially isolating.

They are mistaken for being rude, standoffish or conceited, when what they really are is challenged by an inability to recognize human faces.

It’s called prosopagnosia — “face blindness” — and one of the leading researchers in the field is Dr. Brad Duchaine, Arts ’94. Now an associate professor of psychology at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and two daughters, the Neenah, Wis., native is recognized internationally as a top prosopagnosia expert.

His research is prominent in academic journals and has been highlighted in The New York Times, the Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and on NPR and 60 Minutes, among other media outlets. Internationally some “20 to 25 labs are working on face processing,” says Duchaine, and his work is on the forefront of the relatively young field (the first medical paper on the issue didn’t appear until 1955).

Prosopagnosia can be acquired through a traumatic brain injury or a stroke. It can also be developmental — present from birth.

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PROSOPAGNOSIA CAN BE ACQUIRED THROUGH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OR STROKE. IT CAN ALSO BE DEVELOPMENTAL — PRESENT FROM BIRTH.

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PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE FACIAL BLINDNESS FIND WAYS TO COPE, OFTEN BY USING OTHER CUES TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE, SUCH AS THE WAY A PERSON WALKS, HER HEIGHT OR HAIR COLOR. AT THE OPPOSITE END OF PROSOPAGNOSIA ARE PEOPLE WITH WHAT’S CALLED SUPER-RECOGNITION. 22 / W I N TE R 2 01 8

“When I first got into research 20 years ago, acquired prosopagnosia from brain damage was what was studied,” says Duchaine. “Now we are more aware of a from-birth progression. Developed prosopagnosics are more common than those who are trauma-induced.”

Duchaine and his colleagues use neuropsychology, recognition and memory tests, and MRI and EEG neurology to look at brain damage and to reveal which areas of the brain “light up” with contrast material when a subject views faces. “This work helps us figure out how regular folks process faces,” he says. “This gives us insight into how bits of the brain are working, helps us chart what parts of the brain deal with what.”

He has also conducted twin studies, comparing facial recognition responses of identical and fraternal twins. That study and his other research into facial recognition ability among families indicate that a strong genetic component to facial recognition exists — important news for brain researchers.

Facial recognition, says Duchaine, “starts early, minutes after birth. Even in the womb, babies are primed to look at faces, they respond to lights that look like faces.”

The ability to recognize parents and friends is critical to a child’s development, and for adults, the ability to read emotions, gender, attractiveness, intention and other qualities in faces is socially and emotionally essential. The lack of such ability significantly affects a person’s daily life.

In the early 1990s, during a developmental psychology class at Marquette with Dr. Michael Wierzbicki, currently the department’s assistant chair, Duchaine remembers the professor mentioning prosopagnosia. “I know right where I was sitting when I heard that,” says Duchaine. “A light bulb went off in that class. I was struck by how the brain does this.”

For Duchaine, Marquette was a second chance.

His grades at the University of Arizona were “really bad. … I needed a change of scenery. I tried to transfer to the University of Wisconsin but didn’t get accepted, so I really appreciate that Marquette gave me a chance to turn things around.”

And turn them around he did, graduating summa cum laude in 1994 with a bachelor of psychology degree and joining the cognitive psychology doctoral

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program at University of California, Santa Barbara.

While searching for a dissertation topic, Duchaine learned through a family friend of a 17-year-old boy who suffered from facial recognition issues. “He was in Los Angeles. I was in Santa Barbara at the time, so I loaded my computers into my car,” says Duchaine, who tested the young man for prosopagnosia. The teen was part of an online community of prosopagnosics who communicated on a website run by a man named Bill Choisser, who digitally published his extensive writings about what he called “face blindness.” Duchaine began driving regularly to Choisser’s home in San Francisco for interviews and testing, and wrote his dissertation on Choisser.

Harvard vision researcher Dr. Ken Nakayama read Duchaine’s dissertation and hired him as a post-doctorate fellow. In June 2002 Duchaine published faceblind.org, a website of information about prosopagnosia that also asked people to reach out if they were interested in being research subjects. The researchers sent a follow-up questionnaire to interested participants, and the data collected formed the basis of how researchers around the world continue to identify those with developmental prosopagnosia. Duchaine estimates 2 percent of the population — some six million people — experience prosopagnosia to an extent that affects their daily lives.

n 2005 Duchaine moved to University College in London to run his own lab, but he and Nakayama continued to collaborate, and through their website, heard from more than 6,000 people who suspected they had prosopagnosia.

People with prosopagnosia work out coping mechanisms. They avoid social situations where they might mistakenly greet a stranger like an old friend or an old friend like a stranger. They avoid calling people by name. They choose careers that offer limited personal contact. Many are not aware that they suffer from face blindness, but instead think they have poor memories or bad interpersonal skills.

“Many can recognize their own family or a small group of co-workers,” says Duchaine. “If they have a limited office with five people, they know who they are seeing each day. They use other cues to identify people: shoes, ways of walking, height.

They develop ways to deal with it.”

Artist Chuck Close, known for his enormous, close-up portraits of faces, has prosopagnosia and can recognize faces best if he flattens them into photographs. Neurologist and writer Dr. Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015, wrote extensively about his own experiences with facial blindness, and employed an assistant whose job entailed, in part, helping him recognize who he was meeting for lunch. Actor Brad Pitt told Esquire magazine in 2013 that he “can’t grasp a face” and suspected he might have the disorder, though he had never been tested.

Primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall can recognize family, close friends and familiar chimpanzees, but has trouble distinguishing others.

“There’s a continuum of facial recognition, a spectrum,” says Duchaine. Prosopagnosics are at one end, and at the other? Something called superrecognizers, who can read faces with extraordinary accuracy. “There are people who recognize faces even if they are blurry or if they see only the ears,” Duchaine says.

In 2015 Duchaine and colleague Dr. Laura Germine of Harvard began studying super-recognizers by testing the facial recognition skills of officers on the St. Petersburg, Fla., police force. St. Petersburg was the first U.S. police department to try this approach, but the London Metropolitan Police have identified super-recognizers and put them to law enforcement use since 2011.

So where does Duchaine fit on the facial recognition spectrum? Has his research in the field for the last two decades turned him into a recognition wizard?

“Nah,” he laughs. “Maybe the 25th percentile. I’m only so-so.” ¤

FACE RECOGNITION STARTS EARLY, MINUTES AFTER BIRTH.

DUCHAINE ESTIMATES 6 MILLION PEOPLE EXPERIENCE PROSOPAGNOSIA.

PROSOPAGNOSICS USE OTHER CUES TO HELP RECOGNIZE PEOPLE.

THE OPPOSITE OF PROSOPAGNOSIA IS SUPERRECOGNITION.

Dr. Pamela Hill Nettleton is an assistant professor of journalism in the Diederich College of Communication and writes for online and print magazines.

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LIFE TOOK AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN DAN MCGRATH WAS “DRAFTED” INTO THE JOB OF HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT.

* ROOKIE B Y D A N M C G R AT H , J O U R ’ 7 2

I DIDN’T SEE A CORRELATION BETWEEN MY DEPARTURE FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND BOB FOSTER’S RETIREMENT AS PRESIDENT OF LEO HIGH SCHOOL ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE WHEN BOTH OCCURRED EIGHT YEARS AGO. BUT THE LORD, WE KNOW, WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

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IN OVER MY HEAD — ONCE AGAIN.

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I’M FIGURING IT OUT BY ADHERING TO ONE GUIDING PRINCIPLE: I CARE. THE KIDS KNOW I DO. I saw Dwight Clark make “the catch” that beat the Dallas Cowboys in the 1981 NFC Championship game and sent the San Francisco 49ers to their first Super Bowl. I was there when Kirk Gibson took Dennis Eckersley deep to give the Los Angeles Dodgers an improbable victory over the Oakland A’s in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. There were 4,000 of us packed into Toso Pavilion in December 1981 when skinny North Carolina freshman Mike Jordan announced himself to the college basketball world, dominating the Cable Car Classic in Santa Clara, Calif. Seventeen years later “Michael” Jordan was no less amazing when he hit the shot over Utah’s Bryon Russell that gave the Chicago Bulls a sixth NBA championship.

The kids at Leo High School enjoy hearing me tell these stories. Or maybe they’re humoring me.

Sports journalism was very good to me during 30-plus years in the profession — better than I could have imagined when I graduated from the College of Journalism. Two years covering Marquette Warriors basketball for The Marquette Tribune fueled an ambition to write sports for a living.

I wouldn’t trade a day of it.

The final act brought me home to Chicago for a 13-year run as sports editor at the Chicago Tribune. Along with three Bulls championships, a White Sox World Series win and a Bears Super Bowl, we covered Marquette’s 2003 run to the Final Four so zealously that a colleague suggested we were following the Golden Eagles as we might a local team.

“Your point?” I replied.

I left the Trib a year after it was sold in 2008, around the

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time Bob Foster was stepping down after 40 years as Leo High School’s president. “Distinguished service” doesn’t begin to describe his impact; he’d made it his life’s mission to keep my alma mater alive and thriving.

I’d been volunteering at Leo and was on the committee to find Foster’s successor. I thought my fellow committee members were joking when they recommended me for the job — Leo is in the education business, and I’m neither an educator nor a businessman. But I woke one morning with a feeling of clarity: I think I need to do this.

I was 32 years old when I became sports editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In hindsight, I didn’t know what I was doing. But I figured it out by figuring how to put people in positions to succeed, giving them assignments likely to generate their best work.

I was nearly 60 when I took over at Leo, in over my head once again. I’m figuring it out by adhering to one guiding principle: I care. The kids know I do, and if they know you care, you’ll get their best effort. It’s good enough that we have graduated 100 percent of our seniors for eight years running, with more than 90 percent of them going on to college.

The duties vary — one morning I’m raising money to keep the doors open and, in the afternoon, I’m walking the halls offering granola bars as an alternative to the chips and junk food that are staples of too many diets. I have an encouraging word for a kid who’s struggling; an “attaboy” for one who aces a test. I’m a sideline presence at almost every sporting event.

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We draw students from some truly disadvantaged areas, and the byproducts of poverty often accompany them to school. Eric’s mother had drug issues. His father was incarcerated. Eric lived with an aunt and was borderline hostile, suspicious of our motives when we tried to be nice to him: Why? No one else was.

But we stayed with it and gradually helped Eric build selfesteem. He had a nice career as a football running back, graduated from Leo (with his mom present) and is currently in junior college, intent on playing at a four-year school.

Shantrell was not a bad kid, just so desperate for attention that he worked at being a class clown. We considered letting him go after he acted up on a field trip to the Big Ten Network that had the other kids captivated. But a cometo-Jesus meeting about responsible behavior turned him around. By junior year Shantrell was a class officer. By graduation, he and his mom had dug up so much financial assistance that he’s attending one of Illinois’ top state schools virtually for free. He’s majoring in theatre arts. If he turns up telling jokes on late-night TV, we’ll be able to say we knew him when.

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adly, we’re not change agents for all the kids who come to us. For some the lure of the streets is too strong. Jerome was Leo’s quarterback my first year, a talented, charismatic kid who should have played in college. Instead, he went to state prison, implicated in a home invasion that turned into an armed robbery because someone carried a gun.

And we’re not immune to the street violence that plagues Chicago. Miles, a football lineman who was more teddy bear than terror, still uses a wheelchair five years after being shot while trying to extricate his cousin from an encounter with gang-bangers near his home.

Miles’ mother collapsed when a doctor told her the bone and bullet fragments lodged at the base of his spine might prevent Miles from walking again. Her anguish turned to joy six months later when he wheeled himself up to the stage to receive his diploma with Leo’s Class of 2013.

Antonio never made it to senior year. On the night he completed our summer bridge program, he was shot near his cousin’s house by neighborhood thugs who mistook him for a rival drug dealer. Realizing their mistake, they shot him four more times so he’d never identify them.

Antonio was 14 and looked 12, with a light-up-the-room smile that endeared him to everybody here. How anyone could perceive him as a drug dealer … it haunts me to this day.

I was roughly Antonio’s age when I took the placement exam for Leo as a nervous eighth-grader. One month later my father died, leaving a widow with seven kids. I remember my mother’s gratitude and relief weeks later when the Leo Alumni Association extended an offer to sponsor me.

What do you know when you’re 14, but I told myself that if I’m ever in position to pay this back, I will. And here I am. Eight years in it’s still a challenge, but I wouldn’t trade a day of it.

The Leo High School I attended was a robust, Catholic League powerhouse of 1,100 boys, mostly first-generation Irish kids from surrounding neighborhoods. But the 1960s were uneasy times on Chicago’s South Side. A shooting in a church parking lot a half-mile west of Leo touched off a round of white flight that occurred with supersonic speed.

As the area around Leo acquired an unsavory reputation, white alums stopped sending their sons, and over time the school population came to reflect the neighborhood’s; since the early 1990s, Leo has been nearly 100 percent African American.

But a mission doesn’t change because neighborhood demographics change. As residents, businesses and even churches were abandoning the Auburn-Gresham community, Leo has stayed put and stayed true to its mission to prepare young men for life. Those young men are the best ambassadors we have. After 91 years, Leo remains an oasis for learning, safe and nurturing, a beacon of hope in a troubled area.

The Lord knew what He was doing when He put me here. It’s an honor to serve. ¤

For eight consecutive years Leo High School has boasted a 100-percent graduation rate for its seniors.

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THE BELLS’ $3.75 MILLION GIFT LAUNCHED A NEW ACADEMIC FOCUS IN REAL ESTATE.

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THE HOUSE THAT BELL BUILT

PETER AND BETTY BELL BELIEVE DEVELOPING COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IS A NOBLE PROFESSION AND JESUIT EDUCATION CHANGES LIVES.

BY CHRISTOPHER STOLARSKI

Peter Bell builds things. The 1971 engineering alumnus has built buildings and whole communities. As a passionate supporter of real estate education, he also built something impressive at Marquette — a commercial Real Estate Program in the College of Business Administration for men and women who want to be the difference. Marquette’s program is ranked in the top 10 nationally and boasts a 100-percent job placement rate for graduates.

None of this would be true were it not for Peter and Betty Bell.

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eter’s passion for Jesuit education was passed down by his father, the late Robert B. Bell, Sr. “My dad wanted to go to St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago but his family didn’t have the money,” Peter recalls. “So he made the commitment to send all of his children to Catholic schools. In particular, he wanted to send the boys to a Jesuit high school. At that time Loyola Academy was downtown (Chicago), and we only had one car, so they shipped us all to Campion High School.”

At Campion, a now-closed Jesuit boarding school in Prairie du Chien, Wis., that Peter jokingly refers to as a minimum-security prison, the 67-yearold developed a fondness for Jesuits and the education they gave him. Armed with a national academic scholarship, Peter, like his five brothers and sisters, headed to Marquette where he met Betty Tompa, Jour ’73, his wife of 44 years and the charming half of this real estate duo. The two are cast perfectly as yin and yang, and lead, with three sons, the development of Pabst Farms, a planned, mixed-use community in Oconomowoc, Wis., about 30 miles west of Milwaukee.

Their success brought them full circle back to Marquette, and in June 2001 Peter and then-Dean of the College of Business Administration David Shrock inked a philanthropic gift agreement to establish the Robert B. Bell, Sr., Chair in Real Estate. The $3.75 million gift was the largest the college had ever received. It launched a new academic focus.

Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., was a relatively new president at the time. He remembers the gift as a pivotal moment in the early stages of the university’s $360 million Magis campaign. “We were pulling rabbits out of a hat,” Father

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Wild says with a laugh, “because we hadn’t been in campaign in about eight years. Dave Shrock had some good ideas. … One of them was to have a program in commercial real estate. Peter wanted to name a chair in honor of his father. So Shrock, as dean, pushed on that.”

Next Marquette had to find its inaugural Bell Chair holder. A July 2001 Milwaukee Business Journal article quoted Shrock: “We’re looking for someone who is academically trained in the area of real estate and can have a prominent role on campus.”

They found him.

Dr. Mark Eppli had a national reputation, credentials from his time on the faculty at George Washington University, and he had trained with the preeminent real estate scholar at the time, Dr. James Graaskamp at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Eppli — like Peter and Betty — liked to build things. “To be able to establish a program and then a center from scratch is a formidable task at any university,” Eppli says. “But this looked like a great university to do exactly that.”

The Real Estate Program and the Center for Real Estate cast a model for other marquee business programs, particularly the Applied Investment Management Program, which gives a select group of finance majors the opportunity to manage domestic and international equity and fixedincome portfolios, and the Supply Chain Management Program/Center, which is ranked in the top 25 nationally by three separate ratings groups, including U.S. News & World Report . Eppli launched the Associates for Commercial Real Estate Program in 2005 to train minorities for career paths in the commercial real estate industry.

“One of the best things Peter did was bring great focus to what he wanted to see in a successful program, essentially defining our first strategic plan right in the endowment agreement,” Eppli says. “And it clearly laid out what we needed to do over the first five years.”

Eppli praises Betty’s leadership as chair of the Center for Real Estate’s advisory board, particularly during the Great Recession when the Real Estate Program’s enrollment dropped to near-devastating figures. “There’s no question Betty was the steady rudder through some of our rougher waters,” he says.

Eppli announced in January that he will be leaving Marquette in May to assume a faculty position at UW– Madison, which means the College of Business Administration is now recruiting the second holder of the Bell Chair in Real Estate.

Marquette’s Real Estate Program remains the only such undergraduate program at a Jesuit university. It has been ranked ninth nationally by U.S. News for two consecutive years, and no one can deny its sterling job-placement rate for graduates.

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THE REAL ESTATE PROGRAM AND CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE CAST A MODEL FOR OTHER MARQUEE BUSINESS PROGRAMS.

“I wanted to introduce kids to the real estate profession Peter, who has taught in the ACRE program, hired Peter and Betty — not just on the academic side but also the responsible Agee as an intern on the Pabst Farms development project.

Bell are 2017 side,” Peter says. “When you see your own dad, who only “I barely knew what a pro forma was,” Agee remembers, members of has two years of high school but, through real estate, was “and I had no idea where Oconomowoc was.” Under the Marquette able to educate seven children in Catholic grade school, Peter’s mentorship, Agee learned the real estate ropes University high school and college, keep his faith and still be a good from landscaping to lending. Peter even agreed to pay for President’s dad. … It can be done.”

Agee’s sales and brokerage licenses — if he passed the Society.

No one knows it better than Deshea Agee, Bus Ad ’99, tests. (He did.) “It is such a blessing that Peter made that executive director of Milwaukee’s Historic King Drive Busiendowment,” Agee says. ness Improvement District and one of the first graduates of To Peter and Betty it was the right thing to do. “I always the ACRE program: “Without Peter Bell, I’d still be selling said when I taught the students, it’s not wrong to be super radio ads,” Agee says. successful in real estate — it’s what you do with that ACRE has already graduated approximately 150 success,” Peter says. ¤ individuals, including some Milwaukee alderpersons and others who have become some of the area’s most successful developers.

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N E E D A R E F I L L?

OFF&RUNNING Michael Gantz, Bus Ad ’05, loves a mug of strong, full-bodied coffee. He serves it up at Verena Street Coffee Co., founded in 2010 and named after the street he and his cousin/ business partner grew up on in Dubuque.

BY C LA RE PETERSON, COMM ’10

The company’s products are featured in more than 1,000 stores throughout Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

But home base is Dubuque, Iowa, where delicious blends are sold out of a new 34,000-square-foot facility.

Verena Street Coffee’s headquarters includes a tasting room, similar to what customers find at craft breweries. Gantz sees advantages in being a small, nimble company. “Because there are less hoops to jump through, we can easily test new products and change with consumer tastes and preferences,” he says.

They recently collaborated with Blaum

Bros. Distilling Co. on a limited-release barrel-aged Sumatra coffee, Knotter Blend, which was roasted and shipped all within one day. “That did really well,” Gantz says.

He attributes much of his entrepreneurial drive to his experience at Marquette, where local entrepreneurs and business leaders provided realworld perspectives during business classes. “Milwaukee has such a diverse history of manufacturing, financial and real estate businesses, which creates a vibe and passion that is highly contagious,” he says.

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John Neumeier, Arts ’61, Hon Deg ’87, choreographer and artistic director for the Hamburg Ballet, was engaged by the Lyric Opera of Chicago to create a modern production of Orphee et Eurydice to open the Lyric’s 63rd season in September.

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Jay Humphrey, Grad ’68, published his first book of short stories: The Day You Love Me, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and local bookstores.

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Peter Borrelli Hall, Arts ’71, was appointed chief digital marketing architect at Incubation, Commercialization and Acceleration Network of New York’s Hudson Valley. iCANny is committed to building the regional technology ecosystem and supporting region-wide economic development with an emphasis on the commercialization of products and

husband, John, Arts ’74, and family in Falls Church, Va.

services in alternative energy, cleantech, fintech, scalable digital business, bio-pharma/ medical and health care.

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Jim Robert Rettig, Arts ’72, Grad ’74, retired after more than 40 years in university library public service and administrative positions, most recently as director of Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval Academy. He and his wife, Monica, celebrated with a Door County vacation.

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Robert Chesney, Grad ’73, held a nature poetry workshop on Oct. 14, 2017 at Cedar Valley Retreat Center in West Bend, Wis.

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Phil Gloudemans, Arts ’74, was named associate director of university communications at Boston College, following seven years as director of strategic communications at Brown University’s Annenberg Institute. BC, a Jesuit institution with 14,000 students and nine schools and colleges, competes in the NCAA’s Division 1 Atlantic Coast Conference. He lives in Marblehead, Mass., with his wife and daughter.

Elissa (Abatemarco) Ruffino, Arts ’74, developed and taught the marketing course “Brand Management” for a summer session at John Cabot University in Rome. She is an adjunct instructor at Marymount University in Arlington, Va. In 2016 she concluded a 23-year career in public relations and communications at the National Italian American Foundation in Washington, D.C. She lives with her

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WHY IS SERVICE LEARNING VALUABLE? Marquette Magazine asks Service Learning Director Kim Jensen Bohat, Arts ’98, Grad ’06, to break it down.

It opens eyes: Working with the oppressed, coupled with Ignatian reflection, helps students think critically about issues of justice.

It defies boundaries: Students learn and retain more course content when service learning takes them out of the classroom.

It becomes a life skill: Empathy, appreciation for diversity, cultural competency and global world views are important skills students can take into any workplace.

Kevin Lawrence, PT ’76, was promoted to full professor at Tennessee State University’s Department of Physical Therapy and was awarded tenure.

Kathleen Rinehart, Arts ’76, Law ’93, Grad ’12, was named interim president at Cardinal Strich University in Glendale, Wis. John Wasowicz, Grad ’76, published his first novel, Daingerfield Island, a legal thriller. He and his wife, Robin Herron, Jour ’76, live in Mt. Vernon, Va.

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James Sartori, Bus Ad ’77, is CEO of Sartori Co., which received the Reserve Supreme Champion Overseas Award and distinction for “best cheese with health benefits” for its Reserve SarVecchio Parmesan at the International Cheese Awards and the American Cheese Society Competition.

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Mary (Schatz) Hoffman, Dent Hy ’79, is an instructor and co-program director in dental hygiene at Madison Area Technical College, Madison, Wis., and was named the American Dental Hygienists Association’s 2017 Educator of the Year. The award honors and rewards a full-time dental hygiene faculty member who is dedicated to providing highquality education to students.

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Greg Donaldson, Sp ’80, joined the American Heart Association as senior vice president of corporate communications at the

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? HA! YOU TELL US.

National Service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, circa 1966, courtesy of James D. Friedman, Arts ’69, who says fraternities, sororities and clubs had tables in the Brooks Memorial Union Grill (by tradition, not assignment). APO won many campus competitions and had great parties.

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Kevin Kluesner, Jour ’80, Grad ’94, was named chief administrative officer at Ascension St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee.

Thomas Schwendler, Jour ’80, retired in May 2017 after nearly 33 years with General Electric in employee communications. He completed an intensive one-year program with All Faiths Seminary International and was ordained an interfaith minister in New York in June 2017.

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Kay (Nord) Hunt, Law ’81, was named Minneapolis’ Best Lawyers Appellate Practice Lawyer of the Year for the second time. She is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and was named in the list of Top 100 Minnesota Super Lawyers. She was selected as a Minnesota Attorney of the Year in 2013

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Helen Mitternight, Jour ’81, launched the weekly 30-

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minute podcast, Keep It Juicy! targeting adults age 50 and over. The podcast features experts on health, finance and relationships, and is available on iTunes.

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Regina Dixon-Reeves, Jour ’82, participated in the inaugural cohort of the University of Pennsylvania’s MSI Aspiring Leaders Program. The Aspiring Leaders Program is a twoyear fellowship that prepares a diverse group of leaders to serve as presidents of minorityserving institutions. The fellowship includes participating in a forum, working on a capstone project and matching with an existing president of a minority-serving institution.

Anne McDevitt, Arts ’82, was elected to a two-year term as president of St. Gregory the Great Parish Christian Women Organization in Milwaukee.

She has been an officer and board member with the organization since 2014. She earned a master’s degree in human resources management and health services administration with distinction from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago.

Marie Revenew, Jour ’82, was named vice president for marketing and communications at the Denver Zoo, responsible for advancing the zoo brand through strategic and visionary marketing and promotions efforts. She has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and communication, involving management positions from several different companies.

Previously she served as group marketing and communication director at Centura Health.

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Brian Mulligan, Jour ’83, was named vice president of operations for Sharpe Contractors, a regional commercial builder based in the Atlanta suburb of Suwanee, Ga. William T. Purdue, Arts ’83, Law ’86, retired after 30 years of active and reserve service in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate Generals Corp. He has accepted the position of deputy general counsel — litigation for U.S. Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh.

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Dan Mueller, Jour ’85, is vice president and chief development officer at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin and recipient of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Scott M. Cutlip Professional Fundraiser Award.

Paul Stillmank, Eng ’85, had his company, 7Summits, named among Silicon Review’s 50 Best Companies to watch in 2017. The list identifies companies that provide innovative enterprise solutions and upcoming hot enterprises for technology decision makers.

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Kirk Tuson, Grad ’86, just celebrated the 45th anniversary of Stay-Lite Lighting as well as the company’s 240 percent growth in the past four years.

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♥ Sheila Bloomquist, Arts ’87, and Cayetano Martinez, wed March 18, 2016 in Gibraltar.

Rich Rovito, Bus Ad ’87, received the Milwaukee Press Club Gold Award for Best Sports Story of the Year for “Brotherhood of Bruisers,”

FABRIC OF LIFE CARRIE O’CONNOR GRAD ’01

SUSAN SULESKI

THE GREATER GOOD

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It’s assembly day, and Carrie and Susan help lead Operation Chemo Comfort team mates in tagging and bagging knitted and crocheted hats and hand-sewn headscarves to deliver in care packages to patients with cancer.

Since 2016 OCC has created and delivered nearly 6,000 hats and headscarves to Milwaukee cancer centers. ¤

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WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST, BEST MU EXPERIENCE? ALUMNI CHIME IN. “Square dancing at Orientation.”

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“Being dropped off in front of McCormick, knowing that everyone I knew was 1,000 miles away in New England and telling myself there’s no turning back now.”

PAUL

“Coming from Hawai`i, the only thing I had heard about Milwaukee was that it was cold.

When I got off the plane at Gen. Mitchell Field, it was 82 degrees.

I thought, “Wow, this is nice!” The next day, the high was 65 degrees and I was freezing! ... By the time I graduated in 1975, winter became my favorite season. ...”

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a story that appeared in Milwaukee Magazine focusing on the Milwaukee area’s outlandish professional wrestling scene. He co-wrote the story with Tom Conroy, Comm ’16.

David Wiatrowski, Eng ’87, was awarded the 2016 Motorola Solutions Business Patent of the Year by Motorola Solutions Inc. for “method for trunking radio frequency resources” and “method of communicating which channel is to be monitored by subscriber units that are idle in a communication system.” He joined the company in 1987, received an MSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1993; became a licensed professional engineer in 1996; received an MECE from IIT in 2008; was named a Motorola Scientific Advisory Board Associate member in 2008; received the honorary title Motorola Distinguished Innovator in 2009; received previous Motorola Patent of the Year awards in 2009 and 2015; received the honorary title Motorola Master Innovator in 2012; became a Motorola Dan Noble Fellow in 2013; and holds 190 patents in 14 countries. He is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Motorola Solutions Inc. and serves as the chief infrastructure architect for professional and commercial radio systems.

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Robert Divney, Bus Ad ’89, was promoted to colonel in June 2017 and was selected as the deputy chief of staff — logistics/G4 in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

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John Scott Lewinski, Comm ’91, is a freelance journalist writing regularly for the BBC, The Atlantic, Time, Playboy, Men’s Health, Popular Science, Modern Luxury and Esquire.

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Mark Anderson, Comm ’92, was named managing director and general counsel of Lazard Asset Management, an investment adviser firm headquartered in Manhattan. He has practiced law in New York since 1995.

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Jay Ebben, Eng ’93, published his first novel, Painted Hives, in May. The story was inspired by the five months he and his family lived in Slovenia in 2011 when he received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at the University of Ljubljana. He is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., where he lives with his wife and three children.

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Stephanie Bjork, Arts ’96, published the ethnography “Somalis Abroad: Clan and Everyday Life in Finland” in the Interpretations of Culture in the New Millennium series published by the University of Illinois Press (May 2017).

Tamara (De Leon) Brey, Eng ’96, was promoted to manager of regulatory affairs at Becton Dickinson and Co. in Vernon Hills, Ill. Rich Wood, Arts ’96, was named senior director at Rightpoint, an independent customer experience agency.

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Claire (Norton) Bartholic, Arts ’97, placed third in the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon on Oct. 1, 2017 with a time of 3:00:29. She also won first place in the female master’s division and became the 2017 State of Wisconsin Female Master’s Marathon Champion.

Brian Hamling, Eng ’94, is the senior naval science instructor at the NJROTC unit at West High School in Knoxville, Tenn.

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Erika Brown, Arts ’97, was named talent acquisition specialist for Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists Hospitals in Glendale, Oak Creek and Port Washington, Wis.

Theresa (Budde) Sebestyen, PT ’94, obtained her transitional doctorate of physical therapy in August 2017 from the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn.

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Jennifer (Konkel) Goforth, Eng ’95, was keynote speaker at the SAE International New Energy Vehicle forum held Sept. 12, 2017 in Shanghai, China. She is the chief engineer for China Electrification for General Motors. She and her family live in Shanghai.

Jackie Beauprez, Law ’99, joined D.A. Davidson Companies as senior vice president, general counsel, working in the firm’s Denver office.

Amy Estlund, H Sci ’99, is an assistant professor and public health program director at Lindenwood University.

Molly Nichelson, Comm ’99, is the public information officer for the County of Orange (California) Social Services Agency.

Kimberly (Eberl) Van Byssum, Comm ’99, is the founder/CEO of Chicago-based Motion PR and has been named the honorary chair of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society annual Women on the Move Luncheon in May 2018.

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Kirby (Harbeck) Rosplock, Grad ’01, released two books published by Wiley. The first book, The Complete Family Office Handbook, published in 2014, was translated into Mandarin and released this year in China. The second, The Complete Direct Investment Handbook, was released in May 2017.

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED He lives in Copenhagen

Jonathan Ward, Law ’01, joined Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt as an intellectual property attorney in the firm’s Portland, Ore., office.

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and plays professional soccer for Denmark’s Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe. But James “C” Nortey, Arts ’15 also does more, a lot more, by working as a character development coach at two youth organizations. “I’ve always been passionate about youth development.

I believe that if you give a kid who is ‘angry for success’ the basic tools he needs, more often than not that kid will thrive,” Nortey says. “This is why I studied social welfare and justice at Marquette.” Q WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT IN THE WORLD?

Joseph Camilli, Arts ’03, Grad ’07, is an attorney with the law firm of Neider & Boucher in Madison, Wis. Amber (Schmitz) Hearing, Arts ’03, joined Cedar Lake Counseling in Mequon, Wis., as a clinical social worker.

the central region of the country on federal and state research and development tax credits and incentives.

Previously he was a senior director in the firm’s Milwaukee and Los Angeles offices.

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Peter Coryn, Bus Ad ’04, opened an online false eyelash retail store, Lashaholic Lashes, with his wife, Danielle.

W Diane (Scheetz) Novotny,

H Sci ’04, and Andrew Novotny, Eng ’04: son Joseph David born Dec. 2016. He joins excited sister Emily.

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Amy Lulich, Arts ’05, earned her master of health care administration from the University of Illinois – Chicago. She is director of health policy and strategy for the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System in Chicago.

W Julia (Brzostowicz) Nilsen,

Arts ’05, and Mark Nilsen: daughter Harper Ann born May 24, 2017. She was 8 pounds, 11 ounces and 22 inches. She was welcomed by sister Autumn Mae.

W Michael Cosgrove, Arts ’05, and Melissa Cosgrove: daughter, Morgan Ann born July 25, 2017. She was 8 pounds, 2 ounces and 19.5 inches.

Bridget O’Connell, Eng ’03, earned a master of science in higher education administration and policy from Northwestern University in June 2017. She is a career coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business.

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Chad Paul, Bus Ad ’03, Grad ’04, was admitted to BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading accounting and consulting organizations. He is responsible for advising clients across

Tammylynne (Johnson) Jonas, Grad ’06, was named CIO for Holiday Station Stores in

Kathryn Neenan, H Sci ’06, Grad ’08, joined By Your Side, a unique autism therapy center that provides individual and group therapy for children, adolescents and teenagers.

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AWAY WE GO The Cliffs of Moher in County Clare were one stop for Kathleen Fugler, Comm ’11, and James Crean, Bus Ad ’11, who traveled to Ireland to visit the home of their grandparents and great-grandparents.

“We have wonderful memories from this experience that will last us a lifetime,” wrote Fugler.

Minnesota. She, her husband, Ben, and children Benjamin, 9; Molly, 5; and Emily, 3, relocated to Minnesota in December 2017.

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Benjamin Beran, Arts ’07, returned to the Milwaukee area as an assistant professor in obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

He completed specialty training during a fellowship in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston, Fla.

W Colleen (Kuenster) Castro, Arts ’07, and Karlo Castro, Bus Ad ’07: daughter Natalie Eve born Aug. 15, 2017. She was 8 pounds, 1 ounce and 22 inches.

♥ Sylvester Cutler, Arts ’07, and Laura (Nettesheim) Cutler, wed Sept. 2, 2017 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The couple lives in Milwaukee.

Monica Kuhnert, H Sci ’07, was promoted to senior director, North and South America, with Mazor Robotics. She is based in New York City.

W Caitlin (Schaffner) Miller,

Comm ’07, and Michael Miller: daughter Claire Gwendolyn born June 14, 2017. She was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 19.5 inches.

W Molly (Sanford) Vaklyes,

Eng ’07, Grad ’11, and Edmond Vaklyes III, Grad ’11: son Miles born July 8, 2017.

W Dan Voors, Bus Ad ’07, and Leah Voors: daughter Liana Melanie born Sept. 25, 2016.

She was 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 20.5 inches. The family lives in Wauwatosa, Wis.

W Alison (Seidl) Walsh, Arts

’07, Dent ’10, and Matthew Walsh: daughter Eleanor Daisy born Sept 1, 2017. She was 7 pounds and 19 inches. She joins sister Caroline, 2.

W Krystle (Meyer) Weaver,

Comm ’07, and Samuel Weaver, Arts ’06: son Harrison James born April 19, 2017 in Chicago. He joins sister Finley Sophia, 3. The family lives in Glen Ellyn, Ill., after returning from nearly two years in London.

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♥ Kevin Galbreath, Bus Ad ’08, Grad ’09, and Kristin (Lenz) Galbreath, H Sci ’08, wed July 22, 2017 in Racine, Wis. Many Marquette alumni attended.

Arts ’08, and Brad Reinke: son Lawson Robert born June 28, 2017. He was 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 20.5 inches.

He joins sisters Kennedi and Eliana.

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Ashley Carlevato, Bus Ad ’09, opened Levato Salon and Skin Lab in Hinsdale, Ill., with 20 employees. The high-end salon offers hair and beauty services.

Theresa (Miller) Dlugi, Grad ’09, is a research associate at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin Blood Research Institute, Wauwatosa, Wis. ♥ Timothy Gundert, Eng ’09, Grad ’11, and Sarah (Schmiedel) Gundert, Eng ’12, wed June 3, 2017 at All Saints Cathedral in Milwaukee. The couple lives in Menlo Park, Calif., where he is a program manager at Gala Therapeutics and she is a software engineer at HeartFlow Inc.

W Robert Mochel, Arts ’09,

and Christine (Diedrick) Mochel, Comm ’09: daughter Emilia James born Aug. 11, 2017. She was 6 pounds, 2 ounces and 17 inches. The family lives in Wauwatosa, Wis.

Grad ’13, and Catherine Hunt, H Sci ’08, Grad ’09: daughter Adeline Rose born July 11, 2017. The family lives in Denver.

♥ Lindsey (McKee) Tack, Nurs ’09, and Charlie Tack, Eng ’10, wed Sept. 22, 2017 in Milwaukee. They met on the first day of class freshman year. He held the door open for her inside the Wehr Chemistry Building, and the rest is history. Several alumni attended the wedding.

Kaitlin Lamb, H Sci ’08, was honored as an “Up and Coming Lawyer” in 2017 by the Wisconsin Law Journal.

♥ Aislinn (Whyte) Wake, H Sci ’09, and Nathan Wake wed May 20, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort

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W Keli (Wickersheim) Reinke,

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Who is your inspiration?

My grandmother, the late Margaret Ann Lee. She loved God and people, cared for all, and was a beautiful and admirable woman. I am often told I remind people of her.

KAYTRIAUNA FARR LOVES JESUS, FRUIT SMILES AND BEING A BURST OF POSITIVITY. What does it mean to be a first-generation student?

I have that ability to be a role model in a different way. I prepared in high school for this. My counselor told me about Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program, so I applied. On my birthday, the big envelope arrived, welcoming me to Be The Difference.

Are you a procrastinator or go-getter?

I go for results and stay as far as possible away from procrastinating. I don’t allow myself to do mediocre work because I understand the importance of presenting myself.

What fills your down-time?

Reading the Bible, listening to music, doing something to care for myself and spending time with my family.

What song is the soundtrack of your life?

Jekalyn Carr’s You Will Win. What’s your ideal super power?

This is the toughest question.

Flying? Everyone would love to fly so that’s not unique.

Healing? Being able to relieve pain and stress would be miraculous, but I know only God can do that.

What’s your major?

I came to study communication but after a sociology course, I was attracted to social welfare and justice and the idea of working to help people with their issues or problems or apply my skills to society.

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and Spa in San Antonio. They live in Selma, Texas.

 DAILY DIFFERENCE Pretend you are a waterfall! Stretch your arms up into the air and look at the sky (or ceiling).

That great piece of advice about positive movement fits everyone, but who would follow it with more enthusiasm than this 4K class, guided by Amy Leitheiser, PT ’86, physical therapist for the West Bend (Wis.) School District.

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Marc Adesso, Law ’10, is in corporate securities practice at Waller Law in Nashville, Tenn.

Carlos Angeles, Arts ’10, is academic dean at Regis High School in New York. He spent the previous five years at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School as a member of the faculty and corporate work study program.

W Brianne (Garrett) Conrath, Arts ’10, PT ’11, and Bob Conrath, Arts ’10, Grad ’11: daughter Harper Lillian born Aug. 4, 2017. She was 9 pounds, 14 ounces and 21.5 inches.

Nathan Fronk, Law ’10, was promoted to shareholder at von Briesen & Roper S.C. He is a member of the Milwaukee Bar Association, State Bar of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa Village Business Improvement District Board of Directors and Milwaukee Young Lawyers™ Association.

Jason Hallman, Grad ’10, was recognized by DesignNews magazine as one of 15 engineers transforming the auto industry. He is a principal engineer at Toyota Motor North America, responsible for development of crash safety technologies. He and his wife, Kristin, live in Saline, Mich., with their sons, Everett and Owen.

W Sara (Lamb) Hurtado, Arts

’10, and Fran Hurtado, Arts ’10, Grad ’14: daughter Amaia Concepcion born July 21, 2017.

Her birth date was the same as great-grandfather Gerald Hermsen, who turned 102.

John Lytle, Eng ’10, Grad ’16, was hired as global sales director for the Angelus Corp., a leading product and service provider of aerospace and defense industry solutions based in Sussex, Wis. Meghan O’Connor, Law ’10, was promoted to shareholder at von Briesen & Roper S.C. She works in the Milwaukee office and chairs the health information privacy and security section. She also serves as a member of the Wisconsin Humane Society Board of Directors and chair of the organization’s young leaders advisory board. She is a member of the Medical College of Wisconsin Institutional Review Board, the State Bar of Wisconsin, American Health Lawyers Association, American Health Information Management Association, Milwaukee Bar Association and Association for Women Lawyers.

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volunteer leader. He finished the 4,266-mile Trans-America Bike Race in the summer of 2017 and is pursuing graduate studies in business and sustainability at the University of Michigan. ♥ Megan (O’Malley) Paul, Bus Ad ’10, and Sebastian Paul, wed May 6, 2017 at Sacred Heart Parish in Winnetka, Ill. Several alumni attended.

They live in Chicago.

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♥ Amber (Danek) Anderson, H Sci ’11, Grad ’14, and Jim Anderson, Arts ’11, Law ’14, wed Sept. 9, 2017 at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee. Rev. Robert Wild, S.J., presided.

She is a physical therapist and he is an attorney.

Michael Derrick, Edu ’11, is the principal of Mary Queen of Saints Catholic Academy in West Allis, Wis. ♥ Cara (MacLean) Kerr, Comm ’11, and Simon Kerr, Eng ’12, wed Oct. 28, 2016 at St. Hugo of the Hills Stone Chapel in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

W Sarah (Quick) Olejniczak, Grad ’11, and Matthew Olejniczak: son Wilfred (Freddie) John born April 23, 2017.

♥ Clare (Keesey) Socker, Comm ’11, and Aaron Socker, Bus Ad ’11, wed Aug. 19, 2017 at Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago. The live in Chicago, where he is an equity analyst at Wells Capital Management and she is a meeting and event planner at the Institute of Food Technologists.

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WHAT’S SHAKIN’?

See all upcoming events and make the scene! Visit go.mu.edu/alumni-events.

DEEDS NOT WORDS ALUMNI CLUBS IN ACTION

Since 1973 alumni and students have shared meals, great conversation and a love of Marquette through the Association of Marquette University Women’s Supper for 12 Strangers gatherings held around Milwaukee.

They pull chairs up to the table, pass the potatoes, and soon strangers turn into friends. “It’s an authentic atmosphere to truly appreciate what it means to be part of the Marquette family.

I can’t wait to host when I’m an alum,” says Adam, a senior business administration student.

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Katelyn Baker, Comm ’12, is an associate art director of Allure and Teen Vogue magazines at Conde Nast in New York.

Stephanie “Sorrina” Beecher, Comm ’12, joined Mueller Communications in Milwaukee as an associate on the account team. ♥ Trent Carlson, Bus Ad ’12, Grad ’16, and Lauren (Polich) Carlson, H Sci ’13, Grad ’16, wed at Church of the Gesu June 6, 2017. Many alumni attended.

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Club of Northeast Ohio Mass and Brunch Rev. Paul Shelton, S.J., Arts ’03, will celebrate Mass Sunday, March 4, 2018.

♥ Irma (Munoz) Carrasco, Ed ’12, and Manuel Carrasco, Arts ’10, wed at St. Procopius Church in Chicago. Many alumni attended.

Michael Laing, Eng ’12, Law ’17, accepted a position as a patent attorney in the Madison office of Perkins Coie LLP, an international law firm headquartered in Seattle with more than 1,000 lawyers.

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Club of St. Louis Annual Business Leadership Forum featuring Dr. William Cullinan, dean of the College of Health Sciences Thursday, March 29, 2018.

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Spring Service In a nod to Hunger Clean-up, Marquette’s longtime service tradition in Milwaukee, alumni clubs across the country will participate in service opportunities throughout April.

Check in with your local club to learn about service in your area!

♥ Bailee Lauer, Arts ’12, and Shawn Davis, Bus Ad ’12, wed Sept. 2, 2017 at the Pritzlaff in Milwaukee. The wedding was officiated by Mike Herbst, Comm ’12.

W Allison (Prosen) Mohorek,

H Sci ’12, Grad ’13, and Matt Mohorek, H Sci ’12: daughter Jane Christine born April 7, 2017. She was 7 pounds, 2 ounces and 21 inches. She was named for great-grandmother Jane (Tesensky) Prosen, Arts ’47. ♥ Andrew Mountin, Arts ’12, Grad ’15, and Jena ThurowMountin, Arts ’15, wed June 3, 2017, at St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, Minn., where both are in graduate

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SECOND ACT Superhero? Police officer? Teacher? No, as a child, Aaron Rosko, Bus Ad ’09, had aspirations of owning a business. And a semester of study abroad in Belgium inspired his product.

BY C L A RE PETERSON, COMM ’10

Rosko launched PRESS, touted as “Milwaukee’s first authentic Belgian Liège Waffle Co.,” serving authentic, golden crisp waffles out of a mint-colored 1962 camper trailer.

Customers at Milwaukee-area farmers markets, festivals and private events line up at the camper’s window counter to order brioche-based waffles that range from simple lip-smacking delicious to loaded and luscious.

Entrepreneurship classes at Marquette put Rosko on this path. “Many of the entrepreneurship classes were taught by actual business owners. Their perspectives, anecdotes and curriculum

helped provide a balanced education, between practical planning skills and mental preparedness for the challenge of operating a business,” he says.

He and business partner Emily Thomas dreamed up their business while working together at a local architecture and design firm. “We knew we wanted to start a business together, and I had the idea for Liège waffles because I couldn’t find anything close to the ones I ate in Belgium,” Rosko says. “We’re really proud of our product and the overall food experience. We consider everything, including what the customer sees, smells and tastes.”

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theological studies. Rev. Bryan Massingale, Arts ’79, former Marquette theology professor, presided at the wedding liturgy.

Joshua Tueting, Grad ’12, is a nurse practitioner at the student health center at the University of Colorado Boulder. ♥ Ashley (Basten) Zachacki, Nurs ’12, and Dan Zachacki, Eng ’12, wed July 16, 2016.

Their wedding party included 15 fellow alumni.

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Jordan Calgaro, Comm ’13, was named in Florists Review trade magazine in its “35 under 35” list for 2017 of people blazing new trails in the floral industry.

♥ Audra (Walker) Zipple, H Sci ’13, and Nate Zipple, wed Aug. 12, 2016 at Turner Hall in Milwaukee. The couple met at Murphy’s.

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Missy (Wahlen) Gress, Law ’14, opened her own office with Edward Jones in Franklin, Wis. ♥ Hannah (Smyth) Lubar, Ed ’14, and Eric Lubar, Eng ’15, wed June 24, 2017 at Immanuel Church in Milwaukee. Many alumni attended.

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♥ Olivia (Knier) Batzner, H Sci ’15, and Jack Batzner, Eng ’14, wed Aug. 19, 2017 at Holy Redeemer Church in Madison, Wis. She is a third-year dental student at Marquette. He works at GE Healthcare. They live in Wauwatosa, Wis. Rachel Berkowitz, Comm ’15, was promoted to account executive at Mueller Communications in Milwaukee. ♥ Renae DeLucia, Arts ’15, and Patrick Mulroy, Bus Ad ’15, wed July 29, 2017 at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee. She is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Houston, and he is a senior tax associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers. The couple lives in Houston.

Seamus Doyle, Arts ’15, is serving in the Peace Corps in Indonesia as a secondary education and teacher trainer. He lives in Bangil, East Java.

Sara Johnson, H Sci ’15, was made a Cancer Research Training Award Fellow with the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Md. ♥ Rachel (Berkowitz) Kern, Comm ’15, and Patrick Kern, Law ’13, wed Sept. 3, 2017 in Walker’s Point, Milwaukee. He practices law at a firm in Glendale, Wis., and she works at a public relations agency in downtown Milwaukee.

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♥ Grace HeimerdingerBaake, Arts ’16, and Taylor HeimerdingerBaake, wed Aug. 12, 2017 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Pearl City, Ill. Many alumni and students attended.

James Price, Jr., Comm ’16, was named an associate on the account team at Mueller Communications in Milwaukee.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? HA! YOU TELL US.

Get the feeling the members of this group would go to the mat for each other? Marquette varsity wrestlers reunited this summer and reminisced. Wrestling was a varsity sport for 52 years. Several former MU wrestlers are honored in the M Club Hall of Fame.

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Jonathan Meulemans, Law ’13, joined von Briesen & Roper S.C.’s Green Bay, Wis. office.

Previously he was legal counsel for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. He also was in private practice for four years in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley.

♥ Lauren (Lehman) Mesko, Nurs ’14, and Matthew Mesko, Eng ’15, wed June 24, 2017 at the Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee.

Maggie Fitzpatrick, Arts ’15, works in recruiting in the Citadel’s New York office.

Bethany Harding, Ph.D., Grad ’15, accepted a position with National Louis University as assistant professor of history and political science.

She also provides leadership for NLU’s Pathways Student Success Collaborative, which provides academic support for graduates of Chicago’s public high schools.

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PLANTING A FLAG FOR LOVE

“Angelo’s and Real Chili.”

Clockwise from left: 24 Olivia (Knier) H Sci ’15, and Jack Batzner, Eng ’14; 25 Clare (Keesey), Comm ’11, and Aaron Socker, Bus Ad ’11; 26 Annie Burkhardt, Comm ’06, and Dan Gramann; 27 Jena (Thurow), Arts ’15, and Andrew Mountin, Arts ’12, Grad ’15.

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JERRY

“John Hawks Pub.” PATTY

“My guy (now husband) and I would walk down to Thursday night wing night at Hegarty’s after class.”

ASHLEY

“Major Goolsby’s for delicious Brandy Alexanders.”

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’16, and Trent Carlson, Bus Ad ’12, Grad ’16; 2 Ashley (Basten), Nurs ’12, and Daniel Zachacki, Eng ’12; 3 Kristin (Lenz), H Sci ’08, and Kevin Galbreath, Bus Ad ’08, Grad ’09; 4 Liana, daughter of Leah and Dan Voors, Bus Ad ’07; 5 Megan (O’Malley), Bus Ad ’10, and Sebastian Paul; 6 Lauren (Lehman), Nurs ’14, and Matt Mesko, Eng ’15; 7 Lindsey (McKee), Nurs ’09, and Charlie Tack, Eng ’10; 8 Laura (Nettesheim) and Sylvester Cutler, Arts ’07; 9 Amber (Danek) H Sci ’11, PT ’14, and Jim Anderson, Arts ’11,

Law ’14; 10 Harrison, son of Krystle (Meyer), Comm ’07, and Samuel Weaver, Arts ’06; 11 Rachel (Berkowitz), Comm ’15, and Patrick Kern, Law ’13; 12 Renae De Lucia, Arts ’15, and Patrick Mulroy, Bus Ad ’15; 13 Harper, daughter of Brianne (Garrett), Arts ’10, PT ’11, and Bob Conrath, Arts ’10, Grad ’11; 14 Irma (Munoz), Ed ’12, and Manuel Carrasco, Arts ’10; 15 Lawson, son of Keli (Wickersheim), Arts ’08, and Brad Reinke; 16 Natalie, daughter of Colleen (Kuenster), Arts ’07, and Karlo Castro, Bus Ad ’07; 17 Morgan, daughter of Melissa and Michael Cosgrove, Arts ’05; 18 Eleanor, daughter of Alison (Seidl), Arts ’07, Dent ’10, and Matthew Walsh; 19 Parker, son of Karen (Boyer), Arts ’02, Grad ’12, and Nathan Ziarek, Comm ’02; 20 Claire, daughter of Caitlin (Schaffner), Comm ’07, and Michael Miller; 21 Adeline, daughter of Catherine (Mueller), H Sci ’08, Grad ’09, and Andy Hunt, Bus Ad ’08, Grad ’13; 22 Miles, son of Molly (Sanford), Eng ’07, Grad ’11, and Edmond Vakyles III, Grad ’11; 23 Eleanore, daughter of Kathleen Conroy, Arts ’04, Dent ’07, and Michael Slupik.

LAURA

“Meet Market on 16th, Gatsby’s downtown, near the Safe House.”

FRAN

“Marquette Gyro.”

JAMES

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“Angelo’s for pizza or a movie at the Varsity!

Best years ever!”

PATTY

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“The Avalanche, Beat the Clock happy hour at the Polaris Lounge, Park Avenue and Papagaio night clubs.”

MARY KAY

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CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

1940s

Marjorie (Zien) Block, Arts ’41; John Bruecker, Eng ’41; Howard Menzel, Arts ’41; Russell Thiele, Eng ’41; Daniel Jenny, Eng ’43; Ruth (Arnic) Miller, Nurs ’43; David Nelson, Bus Ad ’43; Bertha (Trubshaw) Hibbard, Arts ’44; Beata (Aufreiter) Huss, Nurs ’44; Cyrilla (Kugler) Marcus, Nurs ’44; Bruno Nordberg, Eng ’44; Herbert Engel, Dent ’45; Bernice Fabian, Arts ’45; John Jusevic, Bus Ad ’45; Robert Moore, Dent ’45; Robert Della Flora, Eng ’46; Richard Haley, Arts ’46, Dent ’52; Robert Jeub, Med ’46; John Mueller, Eng ’46; Joseph Wolchko, Arts ’46; Ralph Gage, Med ’47; Darlene (Huber) Kerkorian, Jour ’47; Barbara (O’Callahan) Miller, Med Tech ’47; William Olin, Dent ’47; Thomas Droegkamp, Arts ’48; Harry Foerster, Med Tech ’48 ’57; Edward Frantel, Bus Ad ’48; Maryl Pittleman, Bus Ad ’48; Richard Stobbe, Eng ’48; Elayne (Bergin) Sullivan, Jour ’48, Grad ’55; Elizabeth (Ronan) Webb, Nurs ’48; Christ Alexopoulos, Law ’49; Hubert Anderson, Eng ’49; Alice Barina, Bus Ad ’49; Robert Bee, Arts ’49; Wayne Boulanger, Arts ’49, Med ’52; Gordon Durenberger, Bus Ad ’49; John Ganey, Eng ’49; James Hansen, Arts ’49; Beverly (Creighton) Keffler, Sp ’49; Albert Marriott, Law ’49; Marguerite (Niegelsen) Pierschalla, Nurs ’49; Frederick Resener, Bus Ad ’49; Kenneth Richter, Arts ’49

1950s

Melvin Askot, Arts ’50, Med ’53; Roger Binsfeld, Bus Ad ’50; Eugene Busack, Bus Ad ’50; Michael Dudeck, Bus Ad ’50; Dean Fenner, Eng ’50; Thomas Galles, Eng ’50; Mathias Hoffmann, Arts ’50; Robert Karnopp, Arts ’50; William Kortsch, Arts ’50, Dent ’53; Elizabeth (Schmitz) Mohr, Arts ’50; Robert Remiker, Bus Ad ’50; John Steigerwald, Eng ’50; Joseph Sterbenz, Arts ’50; Herbert Suerth, Eng ’50; Sylvester Warkoczewski, Arts ’50,

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Grad ’63; Peter Welcenbach, Bus Ad ’50; Mary (Zurfluh) Blair, Jour ’51; Doris (Banker) Conrad, Nurs ’51, Grad ’55; George Draelos, Bus Ad ’51; Robert Field, Arts ’51; Richard Kitz, Arts ’51, Med ’54, Hon ’00; Rosemary (Theis) Lane, Nurs ’51; Richard Meyer, Bus Ad ’51; Donald Niebler, Bus Ad ’51; Lawrence Oertle, Eng ’51; John Perample, Eng ’51; Edmund Podlaski, Bus Ad ’51; Bernard Saffron, Bus Ad ’51; Janet Sweeny, Bus Ad ’51; Charles Tamm, Bus Ad ’51; Richard Tarashuk, Arts ’51; Jane (Sheridan) Belt, Arts ’52; John Bidney, Arts ’52, Grad ’58; Doris (Zintek) Bishop, Sp ’52, Grad ’53; Edmund Clark, Bus Ad ’52; Raymond Doyle, Med ’52; Theodora Feulner, Nurs ’52; Shirley (Legg) Giffhorn, Dent Hy ’52; Gerald Heller, Bus Ad ’52; Douglas Koch, Arts ’52; Ruth La Mothe, Grad ’52; David Lesnik, Arts ’52; Newton Scherl, Arts ’52, Med ’55; Robert Stephens, Arts ’52; Gerald Sullivan, Arts ’52, Law ’56; Patricia (Harrigan) Adams, Jour ’53; Leslie Behm, Arts ’53; Frank Bertucci, Grad ’53; Dolores (Gencuski) Gencucki-Patin, Nurs ’53; Richard Kienzle, Bus Ad ’53; Mary Mickel, Nurs ’53; Dolores (Hudak) Miller, Dent Hy ’53; Donald Prehn, Dent ’53; Jack Sneesby, Dent ’53; Joyce (Petrykowski) Torcivia, Sp ’53; Lawrence Wilkinson, Arts ’53; Antoinette Yelek, Nurs ’53, Grad ’62; Thomas Zeiger, Bus Ad ’53; Beatrice (Hector) Bourgeois, Jour ’54; Robert Corcoran, Dent ’54; Paul Gannon, Med ’54; M. Grunloh, Arts ’54, Grad ’59; Eileen (Schnorf) Kaplan, Arts ’54; Athalie (Van Vonderen) Mueller, Arts ’54; Robert Murphy, Dent ’54; James Nerenhausen, Eng ’54; Edward Ryan, Arts ’54, Med ’57; Daniel Burschinger, Med ’55; James Carter, Med ’55; Robert DeBona, Bus Ad ’55; Thomas Greisch, Bus Ad ’55; Robert Koenitzer, Dent ’55; James Mallon, Bus Ad ’55; Richard Rogenmoser, Eng ’55; Thomas Behan, Jour ’56; Charles Bregel, Dent ’56; Alice (Goblirsch) Dorn, Nurs ’56; Mary Lou (Porinsky) Erb, Arts ’56; Kenneth Finch, Law ’56; James Mulvenna, Arts ’56; James Prager, Arts ’56; John Bures, Med ’57; Jean Carmody, Arts ’57; Mary (Monroe) Kreul, Med Tech ’57; Janet (Vogelsang) Lape-Bertani, Arts ’57; Ronald Maciolek, Bus Ad ’57; Singleton Major, Arts ’57; Eugene Muth, Dent ’57; Paul Reiland, Bus Ad ’57; Mary Stal, Grad ’57; Joseph Tanty, Dent ’57; Joseph Venturini, Arts ’57; James Wiebrecht, Bus Ad ’57; Eugenie

Williams, Arts ’57; Dennis Ahlert, Bus Ad ’58; James Durand, Bus Ad ’58, Grad ’71; Patricia (Novak) Gardetto, Jour ’58; James Kuszewski, Arts ’58; Paul Lukaszewicz, Bus Ad ’58; Donald McNamara, Bus Ad ’58, Law ’61; Suzanne (Murphy) Melville, Arts ’58; Carol (Zimmer) Nemitz, Jour ’58; Mary (Malicki) Powell, Arts ’58; Geraldine (Taylor) Scully, Arts ’58; Michael Bottum, Med ’59; Barbara (Korsch) Crisp, Bus Ad ’59; Terry Dineen, Arts ’59; Leonard Erdmann, Eng ’59; Marion (Weddeking) Geronime, Nurs ’59; Merlin Henkel, Dent ’59

1960s

David Blackwood, Dent ’60; Michael Dunne, Arts ’60; Mark Ebsen, Eng ’60; Donald Forrer, Eng ’60; Roxanne Hedin, Nurs ’60; Margery (McGinn) Heider, Arts ’60; Gerald Klomberg, Med ’60; Richard Strand, Dent ’60; Doris (Schreck) Bevandic, Nurs ’61; Frances Bock, Grad ’61; John Celichowski, Arts ’61, Dent ’69; Salvatore DeFrancesco, Med ’61; John Drees, Bus Ad ’61; Robert Grunert, Bus Ad ’61; H. Grunske, Dent ’61; Gerald Johnson, Arts ’61; Jerome Kay, Arts ’61; James Luther, Bus Ad ’61; L. Marsh, Bus Ad ’61; Patrick Murphy, Arts ’61; James Nicholson, Bus Ad ’61; Paul Weston, Arts ’61; Richard Alberts, Eng ’62; Joseph Dockendorff, Bus Ad ’62; Robert Graf, Arts ’62; Richard Hearn, Med ’62; Alan Kidd, Dent ’62; Robert Leonhardt, Bus Ad ’62; Patricia Rainier, Sp ’62; John Spindler, Arts ’62, Law ’64; Thomas Todd, Eng ’62; Marjorie (Braker) Wendt, Nurs ’62; Robert Bjelland, Eng ’63; Richard Gemma, Arts ’63; Ralph Kolinski, Bus Ad ’63; William Pavelchik, Arts ’63; Patricia (Brown) Dunn, Arts ’64; John Koepke, Grad ’64; Barbara (Grebliunas) Nieds, Sp ’64; Joyce (Smerlinski) Stankiewicz, Bus Ad ’64; MaryBeth (Mannasmith) Turner-Robinson, Arts ’64; John Young, Bus Ad ’64; Patrick Carlin, Bus Ad ’65; William Claybaugh, Med ’65; John Hyndman, Bus Ad ’65; Dolores McWhinnie, Grad ’65; Judith (Hauk) Mulroy, Dent Hy ’65; Joseph O’Malley, Grad ’65; Paul Piaskoski, Arts ’65, Law ’73; Martha Rabaut, Grad ’65; Edward Ratulowski, Eng ’65; William Willems, Eng ’65; Gregory Conway, Arts ’66, Law ’70; James Finnegan, Grad ’66; James Glosick, Arts ’66; Bronson Haase, Bus Ad ’66; Mary Morris, Grad ’66; Richard Rudolph, Eng ’66; Don Spiegelhoff, Med ’66; Brian Steinhaus, Med ’66;

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A professor at Marquette told us to read, watch, listen to as much media as possible.

I impress that on my staff, that you can find inspiration in ways you never think about.

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Know the company you’re applying to join, follow it on Twitter and LinkedIn. Show confidence and an ability to have a good conversation, hold your head high, don’t be intimidated by the process, and be a great writer — that’s almost become a lost art.

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CLASS NOTES Patricia (Butz) Barilla, Arts ’67; Thomas Blazek, Eng ’67; Paul Jaeger, Arts ’67; William Kaaikiola, Arts ’67; Mary Obear, Grad ’67; Mark Schommer, Grad ’67, Grad ’70; Robert Schultz, Eng ’67; Richard Bence, Dent ’68; Mary Dingman, Grad ’68; Lawrence Ekey, Eng ’68; Philip Kadowitz, Grad ’68; Paul Kustermann, Dent ’68; Eugene Minicucci, Arts ’68; Camille (Giroux) Ries, Dent Hy ’68; Larry Brumm, Arts ’69; James Graff, Sp ’69, Grad ’72; Gary Jungkuntz, Dent ’69; Barbara (Tolger) Kostrau, Grad ’69; Mary O’Reilly, Grad ’69; Michael Sherman, Med ’69

1970s

Michael Lemke, Eng ’70; Michael Nashleanas, Arts ’70; Margaret Schouten, Arts ’70; Mitchell Simon, Bus Ad ’70, Law ’73; Beverly (McKinley) Byrne, Jour ’71; Michael Fuhrman, Arts ’71; Paul Rocca, Bus Ad ’71; Scott Weaver, Arts ’71; Carolyn (Vance) Burrell, Grad ’72, Law ’75; Christopher Drayna, Arts ’72; Mary Kellogg, Arts ’72; Oza (Flowers) Holmes, Nurs ’73; Daniel Johnson, Grad ’73; Laura (Wright) Mathews, Nurs ’73, Grad ’79;

Daniel Slesar, Arts ’73, Arts ’80; Jack Woller, Bus Ad ’73; Steven Alpert, Law ’74; James Garr, Arts ’74; Sandra (Pollock) DeGraw, Law ’75; William Harmon, Bus Ad ’75; William Keeler, Arts ’75; James Mack, Dent ’75; Charles Shaffer, Arts ’75; Daniel Seelman, Arts ’76; Daryl Bradley, Eng ’77; John Casey, Bus Ad ’77; Thomas Kuemmel, Bus Ad ’77; Michael Martin, Bus Ad ’77; Margaret Miller, Grad ’77; George Waller, Arts ’77; Karen (Curda) Zeier, Med Tech ’77; Edward Butkovich, Sp ’78; Stephen Cripe, Bus Ad ’78; Thomas Walsh, Arts ’78; Peter Nemetz, Eng ’79

1980s

David DuPont, Eng ’80; Dale Chrisien, Eng ’81; David Greco, Grad ’81; Christopher Howard, Jour ’81; Chong-Chang Lin, Grad ’82; Cherie Lockwood, Nurs ’82; Brian Geraghty, Arts ’83; Patrick Koenen, Arts ’83, Law ’86; Ronald Roensch, Law ’83; Leo Ford, Eng ’84; Michael Krueger, Grad ’84; Joseph Washagan, Jour ’84; Diane Baughn, Grad ’85; Douglas Davies, Dent ’85; Brian

O’Driscoll, Eng ’85; Carol (Hanlon) Pontzer, Grad ’85; Heidi (Bentley) Hida, Law ’87; Ross Cannizzo, Arts ’88; Rodney Nap, Arts ’88; John Bryson, Comm ’89; Mary (Hess) Koehnke, Grad ’89

1990s

Aaron Anderson, Comm ’94; Kerry (Sachs) Taylor, PT ’94; Marc Dekirmandjian, Eng ’95; Craig Collins, Grad ’96; John Couture, Arts ’96; Christopher McGrath, Grad ’97; Andres Velez, Law ’98; Christian Tomsey, Arts ’99

2000s

Cory Payne, Arts ’00, Grad ’09; Michael Borowicz, Arts ’01; William Richards, Arts ’01; Virginia (Kiernan) Dahlberg, Grad ’03; Mary Quinn, Arts ’06; Katherine Jacobson, Arts ’14

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