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Adonica Randall, Grad ’79, is the Opus College of Engineering’s first entrepreneurin-residence.

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Bending his arc, Dr. Peter Ullrich, Arts ’84.

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“Each day determine one thing to Be The Difference and

follow through with it.”

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Academy Award-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen’s portfolio features Bridge of Spies, The Grand Budapest Hotel, 12 Years a Slave and more.

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“One of the main factors that leads to people being bitten is the mosquito is attracted to the way we smell.”

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Strange attraction 18 Odors mosquitoes can’t resist may help researchers eradicate malaria.

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What happens when a championship meet collides with finals week?

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Jennifer (Fallbacher) Demski’s greater good reaches Cuba.

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Educating Adam 22 Adam Stockhausen credits his path to the company of Hollywood’s “A-list” to time spent with wonderful people.

Road tested 26 Student-athletes hustle and so does their academic adviser, with 56 final exams packed in her carry-on bag.

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“IT WAS EPIC!” Homecoming and Alumni Reunion Weekend unite, bringing students, alumni and their families together in a first-ever autumnal bash.

IN THE BAG “...I told our students and partners in the Near West Side that bringing a top-quality grocer to our community was the highest priority,” said Dr. Michael Lovell, when Sendik’s Fresh2GO opened on campus in September.

up close and personal “There is no way to do journalism and not see humanity, close up, sweaty and flawed and gorgeous.

It’s a privilege and an honor to get that front row seat. …”

GO BEYOND OUR EXCERPT

Read Dr. Pamela Hill Nettleton’s essay,

“Journalism as an act of grace,” at USCatholic.org.

Editor: Joni Moths Mueller

Submissions by Joe DiGiovanni, Jour ’87; Garrett Gundlach, S.J., Arts ’09; Paul Kosidowski; Jesse Lee; Maureen Lewis, Jour ’84, Grad ’12; Clare Peterson, Comm ’10; Jay Sanders; and Christopher Stolarski Design: Winge Design Studio Photography © Alamy, p. 10; Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images, p. 1; Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times, p. 22; Steve Donisch, p. 6; Jesse Lee, pgs. 1, 2, 8, 15; Joan Marcus, p. 13; Scott Paulus/ Wisconsin Business Journal, p. 30; Bert Rodgers, pgs. 1, 29;

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SEEN+HEARD SEVEN-YEAR HITCH Marquette announced a seven-year agreement to play men’s basketball home games in the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, starting with the 2018–19 season.

Illustration courtesy of the Milwaukee Bucks

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“Playing here will be a privilege for our student-athletes, and the experience will be such a thrill for our fans.”

— Vice President and Director of Athletics Bill Scholl

Interesting to see the picture of the cheerleaders on page 32 of the Spring 2017 edition sent by Dave Jorling. He was highlighting his wife in the picture, but I happened to notice the cheerleader in the center on the front row is my sister, Karen (Wolff) Barry, PT ’73. She used to bring me up to games, especially during Christmas break. ...I was 12–13 at the time but it made an impression on me, and I ended up at MU, as well, just in time for the NCAA Championship. Karen is doing well and living on the East Coast.

Thanks for the memories!

MIKE WOLFF, BUS AD ’80

As the husband and father of three Marquette grads, I truly appreciate the opportunity to learn more about the campus master plan, the remarkable accomplishments of graduates of all ages in the Class Notes profiles and the other fine features.

The balance of past, present and future is spot on. The redesigned print edition is a joy to peruse, and I even go online for additional features. Great showcase for a great university.

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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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MOVE-IN DAY GOT PERSONAL FOR PRESIDENT MICHAEL LOVELL AND FRESHMAN MATT LOVELL.

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ecently I’ve had opportunities to update groups on progress we’re making at Marquette. Increasingly audiences are attracted to one particular topic — and which one might surprise you.

The Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J., Commons, our first new student housing development in more than 50 years, is changing our skyline, but it’s not the top attention-getter.

Neither is implementation of Beyond Boundaries, our strategic plan document. People are most interested when I share what we’re doing to build our community.

Most often this means talking about the Near West Side Partners Inc., our continuing partnership with Harley-Davidson Motor Co., MillerCoors, Aurora Health Care, Potawatomi Business Development Corp. and dozens of area for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

We’ll celebrate the partnership’s third birthday in January 2018.

What captures people’s attention are stories about how the partners worked together to achieve visible results. They appreciate how we collaborated to shut down both a tobacco store that police were called to 150 times in a single year and a multi-unit rental property that had multiple code violations and was a center of area crime. The shutdowns happened

only after the partners lobbied state and city governments to lend very appropriate assistance.

Since transforming from a campus safety department, our Marquette University Police Department has reported significant decreases in robberies (down 28 percent in 2016 compared to 2015) and burglaries (down 53 percent in 2016 compared to 2015), as has the Milwaukee Police Department for its Near West Side patrol areas.

MUPD is further connecting with our community, thanks in part to one of their newest officers, a very nice dog named Nattie.

What’s gratifying is the recognition Marquette and the Near West Side Partners have received.

The Washington Center recognized us with a Higher Education Civic Engagement Award; the Wisconsin Leadership Institute named us the Collaborative Leader of the Year; and the International Town and Gown Association gave us the Presidential Excellence Award.

In the end, though, a comment from one alumnus summarized well our efforts. Referencing our university’s mission and commitment to service, he said: “Isn’t this what we’re supposed to be doing?” I couldn’t agree more.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell PRESIDENT

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GLORY DAY! The largest Midwest Jesuit class since 1995 reached its pinnacle moment in June with ordination at Church of the Gesu.

Congratulations and God bless alumni Revs.

Joe Simmons, Arts ’11, Brad Held, Arts ’86, and Stephen Wolfe, Arts ’03, Grad ’08.

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a ringing distraction Alexander Graham Bell kicked off this social network that has crossed a contested border.

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ust about every student can recall an instance when a ringing cell phone disrupted class and distracted the instructor. American students tend to consider it a lighthearted distraction. Do students elsewhere hold a different opinion?

Dr. Robert Shuter surveyed 920 college students in the United States and India, and found the answer is yes.

Students hold widely divergent views on the use of smartphones, tablets and laptops in classrooms, according to Shuter’s research. The findings led the emeritus professor of communication studies in the Diederich College of Communication to believe that it may be time to re-evaluate policies. “Theories on the use of digital devices in classrooms have emerged in the United States, but this study shows they may need to be re-examined through multicultural lenses,” Shuter explains.

More American students believe the instructor should either ignore it or address it in a light-hearted way if a cell phone rings during class. Students in India want harsher penalties, believing instructors should discuss any cell phone interruption with the student the moment it happens in class, and should reprimand, discipline or impose a grade penalty.

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Indian students want their university to establish digital policies for classrooms that prohibit use of devices during class unless the instructor requires it. Americans want the policies discussed in class, included on the course syllabus and established by the instructor.

More Indian students say they are distracted by the use of cell phones in class and become annoyed if a cell phone rings or makes noises. More Indian students also believe that use of a cell phone is significantly more disruptive to learning.

An interesting difference among the student groups is that American students reported owning significantly more tablets and laptops, while Indian students own significantly more desktop computers.

Unlike their American counterparts, students in India are much less tolerant of cell phone distractions in the classroom.

Shuter, who has taught in university classrooms for more than 40 years and also is a research professor at Arizona State University, has conducted several global studies on the use of digital devices in university classrooms. Other collaborators on this study include Drs. Uttaran Dutta and Pauline Cheong from Arizona State; Dr. Yashu Chen at California State University, San Marcos; and Jeff Shuter, a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa. ¤

Sheldon and Marianne Lubar and Marquette Law School established the Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education. The Lubars’ latest gift of $5.5 million, which expands upon an existing fund of $1.5 million created with a gift received from the Lubars in 2010, will support public events, funding for faculty and staff involved in the center, and research and reporting projects.

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cyber safe The Klingler College of Arts and Sciences unveiled the Center for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Defense. The center is the first of its kind in the region, with education and research opportunities in cyber security technology and preparedness, and a professional master of science degree with a specialization for cyber security professionals.

Contact Kelli Rael, development director in the college, for information at (414) 288-6586.

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ENGINEERING

house expert Opus College of Engineering’s first entrepreneur-in-residence, Adonica Randall, Grad ’79, is spending the academic year with the college. Randall brings expertise and entrepreneurial insights to students and academia gained through experiences working at General Electric, IBM, General Motors and A.O. Smith. She has owned and operated a consulting business in the Milwaukee area for the past 15 years.

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art + science Haggerty Museum of Art partners on a massive project that will one day light up the city’s water landmarks.

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strategic grants given The Office of Research and Innovation announced the 2017 Strategic Innovation Fund grants will go to eight projects working in the areas of water/environmental, community impact and interdisciplinary research infrastructure.

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et’s say a few years from now you’re driving across the Hoan Bridge and happen to look down toward Milwaukee’s inner harbor. This is what you’d see: An alphabet of illuminated red letters atop a colonnade of blue columns 25- to 40-feet high. And this: The Jones Island stack, illuminated along its entire length in lights that glow blue when the weather is clear, red when it’s about to rain.

What you’re viewing is the initial phase of a public art project that aims to (a) tell the history and future of water in Milwaukee, (b) prompt the question How much do we really notice the water all around us? and (c) create art at the scale of an entire city.

The project is “Watermarks: An Atlas of Water and the City of Milwaukee,” conceived

by New York-based environmental and sitespecific art pioneer Mary Miss and co-led by the Haggerty Museum of Art. The project’s

grand goal is to transform Milwaukee into a “city as living laboratory,” in which residents better understand their relationship with water and become smarter stewards of it.

“The clothes we wear, the foods we eat, the cars we drive all have an impact on our water sources,” Miss says.

To call the “Watermarks” project ambitious is an understatement. Bringing it to life — an effort now getting underway — will require the resources not just of Miss and her team, but also of a broad Marquette campus and community consortium that includes the Haggerty Museum as the project’s institutional home. “I see us giving it both roots and wings,” says Susan Longhenry, director and chief curator of the Haggerty Museum.

“There’s a remarkable brain trust in faculty and students working on it already.”

The Haggerty will serve as the “pivot point” connecting Marquette with a broad community consortium. Marquette has provided work space for Miss and her team in Milwaukee’s Global Water Center, conveniently adjacent to the inner harbor.

MU/360° It’s here that Milwaukee’s three rivers — the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic — come together and flow into Lake Michigan. Here that water resource issues are front and center, sometimes controversially so, day in and day out at the Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility. And here that the combination of visibility and proximity to Milwaukee city life could help launch “Watermarks” with a real, let’s say, splash.

The visual signature of “Watermarks” is its letter-topped columns. The letters call out specific aspects of water — “L” for lake, “R” for rain garden, “D” for deep tunnel.

Content at each pin location will invite deeper engagement via video, a “Watermarks” app, opportunities for people to share their own stories and more.

Towering over the stacks visually and conceptually is the Jones Island Water Treatment Plant stack. Lights along its length will transform it into a city-scaled barometer that turns from blue to red when rain is in the forecast, cueing Milwaukeeans to shepherd their use of water to limit wastewater overflows. “The idea is not about just getting a weather report, but bringing people together around smart use,” Miss says. “You become part of the cistern system, the green infrastructure of the city.”

“We need artists.

There’s a human element to art and a creative element that reaches people in ways laboratories don’t.”

Why take on something that seems more like a public policy issue than an artistic one? Because wrangling with big, important questions is a proper role for artists, who have a way of engaging people physically, viscerally and psychologically, Miss believes.

Longhenry agrees: “We need artists. There’s a human element to art and a creative element that reaches people in ways laboratories don’t. Art makes you think and feel at the same time.” ¤

ACHIEVEMENTS

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ON THE BOOKSHELF

x factor A small Marquette group translates a letter written to Pope Leo X in 1513 into English.

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ibellus (“little book”) is a letter to Pope Leo X written by Camaldolese hermits Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini. For centuries, its audience was limited to those who could read Latin.

Italian translations appeared in 1995 and 2014. But Libellus is available in English now, in the new book, Libellus Addressed to Leo X, published by Marquette University Press.

The letter has historical significance because it called for church reform and demanded holiness in all church members and education for the clergy, according to Dr. John J. Schmitt, Arts ’66, associate professor emeritus of theology. The work also emphasized the papacy as humanity’s sole connection to God. Some reforms Giustiniani and Querini proposed in their letter were enacted finally by the Second Vatican Council. For example, Catholics only then could celebrate the liturgy in the vernacular.

Marquette scholars who joined Schmitt in making this translation possible include Dr. Stephen Beall, as translator; Dr. Katherine Milco, Arts ’03; Dr. Constance Nielsen, Grad ’00, ’07; and doctoral student Lee Sytsma.

“I am delighted that our press accepted this project from its start for incorporation in its series ‘Reformation Texts with Translation,’” Schmitt says. ¤

Dr. Leah Flack, associate professor of English; Dr. Martin St. Maurice, associate professor of biological sciences; Dr. Monica Adya, chair and professor of management; and Dr. Tim McMahon, associate professor of history, claimed the 2017 Teaching Excellence Awards, the university’s highest decoration for teaching.

The Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Awards honored Dr. Lucas Torres, associate professor of psychology, and Latrice Harris-Collins, director of high school recruitment.

NURSING

anesthetists A doctor of nursing practice nurse anesthesia program connects education and research expertise at the College of Nursing with clinical and educational thought leadership at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Lisa Thiemann leads the program that is designed to respond to a growing demand for nurse anesthetists.

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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

Elementary education and Spanish senior Addy

Sadowski participated in the College of Education’s first student and faculty excursion to Peru. She observed teachers and students in two schools in Lima. She learned about ties between education and politics. She found that wonderful cuisine and breathtaking views renew spirits and small encounters matter. “The little things, whether funny moments or touching moments, even the briefest moments, aren’t ‘little things,’ they’re often the most memorable,” she says.

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funding clinical trials

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think tank Student entrepreneurs joined forces to launch ideas.

The 707 Hub work space is the first idea out of the gate.

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he idea for a work space evolved out of a chance meeting at a leadership retreat. Students Sam Wesley and Creighton Joyce were sophomores in the College of Business Administration and the Opus College of Engineering, respectively, when they bonded over a shared observation — Marquette lacked space to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration among students.

“We needed to make a space so students could work with each other on ideas with a scope larger than just campus,” says Wesley, Bus Ad ’17.

Wesley and Joyce, Bus Ad ’17, met with Kelsey Otero, associate director of the Social Innovation Initiative, and Megan Carver, associate director of the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship, for help getting their germ of an idea off the ground. “We used the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship as a test to help figure out what would make a new space successful,” Joyce says.

They gathered insights from as many people as possible and then brought their findings to President Michael Lovell. “After speaking to him,” Wesley says, “we realized we could really make an impact with this.”

Joyce and Wesley submitted a proposal to the Strategic Innovation Fund for their project idea. They called it The CoLab. The proposal was funded in 2015, and then evolved into the larger 707 Hub, which opened last spring on the corner of North 7th Street and Wisconsin Avenue.

The space offers multiple collaborative workspaces, tools such as 3D printers, and programming opportunities crisscrossing campus to foster new ideas. ¤

Promentis Pharmaceutical Inc., which was co-founded

by Drs. David Baker and John Mantsch in the College of Health Sciences, raised $26 million, including $17.2 million in its third round of funding. The investment will finance key clinical trials of its most promising compound targeting neuropsychiatric disorders. “This unique compound is one of the first attempts to treat central nervous system disorders by targeting glutamate release by astrocytes,” Baker says.

“This is groundbreaking because glutamate is one of the most powerful regulators of brain function, and astrocytes are the most abundant cell in the brain.” Mantsch adds, “We believe this approach — targeting glutamate release — may be effective against a wide range of CNS disorders.”

Some ideas already percolating: • Startup Networking Night for Marquette students to meet with startups.

• Dorm Fund student-run venture capital firm.

• Brewed Ideas Challenge funding competition for students who have the next great innovative idea.

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ARTS & SCIENCES

option for higher math minds A new master of science in applied statistics program is particularly well-suited to students from undergraduate programs in mathematics, statistics, engineering, economics and finance who would like to pursue careers in data science or predictive modeling. The main criterion for admission is the ability to grasp complex mathematical ideas.

CROSS-DISCIPLINE

stronger in STEM College of Education and Opus College of Engineering faculty received a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a 14-month master’s program for new science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers. Applicants may apply to the program that will begin the summer of 2018.

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RESEARCH

proteins run amok Proteins in cells can sometimes start behaving badly as the human body ages. B Y J O E D I G I O V A N N I , J O U R ’ 8 7

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hen these proteins “misfold” and aggregate and become what scientists call amyloids, it can cause a host of problems, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Dr. Anita Manogaran, assistant professor of biological sciences, is studying prevention — specifically how to prevent protein amyloids from forming and causing damage. This research could one day contribute to the development of therapies targeting diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Manogaran and her team are looking at the mechanics of a process called protein quality control. Understanding how these control processes work is key to determining how to prevent proteins from misfolding and forming amyloids. The key may be found in young cells, which seem to have fewer problems in protein misfolding. “How does a young cell naturally keep misfolding proteins from causing problems?” Manogaran asks. “By learning how young cells solve the problem, we may be able to develop

therapies that will help combat protein misfolding in old cells.”

Studying the initial appearance of a misfolding protein is extremely challenging in mammalian systems, so these researchers are focusing on misfolding-prone proteins in quickly reproducing yeast cells. “It distills our work down to basic systems,” Manogaran says. “We can closely study the fundamental questions underlying amyloid formation in a living organism.”

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases develop more often in older patients, but the amyloid proteins that are associated with these diseases are thought to build up in the brain many years before symptoms appear.

A study Manogaran and Dr. Stephen J. Merrill, professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science, completed earlier this year found specific amyloid proteins, called prions, are infectious when newly formed.

Manogaran and her team used 4-D live cell imaging, biochemistry and protein transfection techniques to observe how the prion amyloids form in the cell in order to learn more about these early stages of amyloid formation. This new study showed there are multiple ways prions can form to become infectious, suggesting that prion formation is more complex than previously thought. ¤

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CLASS ACT

“There’s a million things I haven’t done but just you wait. …” An opening salvo of the opening song in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton speaks to students in an Honors Program seminar. Who gets to study with a Broadway soundtrack as textbook? This is standard form for Assistant Professor of English Gerry Canavas, who taps brilliance in literature, filmmaking and other art forms to educate and ignite vigorous conversation. “Closely studying the musical, first in its entirety and then moving through it track-by-track, we will also explore the unexpectedly wide impact of Hamilton in the larger world of popular culture and national politics, including the 2016 presidential election.”

What fun.

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challenge beat The $3 million giving challenge set by Marcus Lemonis, Arts ’95, star of CNBC’s The Profit, was topped. Lemonis offered $1.5 million if the university community matched his gift.

In almost no time 2,769 donors responded, giving $1,792,748. The grand total of $3,292,748 will fund a student-run business program, the Marcus Lemonis Pay the Profit Forward Program, and provide initial funds for students to pursue business ideas.

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

gift for PT The College of Health Sciences received a $1.5 million gift from the estate of Capt. John A. Orlandini, Bus Ad ’60. Orlandini suffered a life-changing injury during his time in the U.S. Navy. He pledged an estate gift to the physical therapy program to help students who will provide hands-on care to patients in need, especially those with spinal cord injuries.

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A REMINDER TO NOTICE

what I nearly missed It all started with a simple question, as most adventures and misadventures do. “Garrett, can you and John take us to the creek?” asked one of a gaggle of middle schoolers.

“Sure — as long as we’re back for dinner.”

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hike to the creek became a hike up the hill became a hike to the cave became a hike along the cliff, down the valley, past the horses and over the river and the long way back. Luckily dinner was a little late: We returned just in time.

Of all the places and days to lose my keys, this was the worst: My pockets were empty when I got back. For all I knew they were a foot deep in a rattlesnake hole, at the bottom of the creek or hopelessly orphaned along the sheer edge of a shrubby cliff. But most likely they were sitting, shiny silver and gold, in anonymous grasses trailblazed by our ambitious expedition leaders. Hopeless, totally hopeless.

But I went back. I had to.

“Garrett, what’s wrong?” my friend asked.

“I … don’t know where … my keys are …”

I sputtered between catching my breath.

Luckily they made a lot of dinner — I was worried there wouldn’t be any left. I’d missed it re-hiking the same trail, retracing our steps as best as I could remember, scouring every inch of grassy soil for my keys. Nothing.

“Oh, we’ve got them over there.” She pointed toward the fire pit with her spoon.

“We found them in the chair after you left.

You should’ve asked! Did you eat yet?”

I got hit with a one-two punch of emotions, first solid relief and then shame and embarrassment. I replayed the whole thing in my mind later that night, staring up at the roof of my tent. Why didn’t I say something before? Why didn’t I ask? Why didn’t I wait? Why did I skip dinner for that?

Why am I always so stubborn?

Sometimes my prayer isn’t just about noticing unnoticed graces, the small gifts I nearly miss. Sometimes my prayer is about slowing down enough to notice my growing edges and my rough edges, actually listening to the day’s moments of shame or embarrassment, fear or anger that otherwise I like to conveniently forget. Sometimes my prayer is about just taking the time to learn from my mistakes — in this case, not losing my mind along with my keys, calming down and asking for help, and being more gentle with myself in moments of panic. After all, I would have enjoyed dinner more without the second hike. ¤ 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

star struck Maps illuminating 16th to 19th century explorations around the world and as far-reaching as the heavens are treasures held in Raynor Memorial Libraries Special Collections and University Archives.

See our resources at magazine.marquette.edu.

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Alumni Reunion Weekend and Homecoming together created a blow-out party and set a high bar for next year.

SAVE THE DATE! OCT. 1– 7, 2018

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WILL THIS SPECIAL DELIVERY ATTRACT MOSQUITOES? IT MAY BE THE ONLY TIME WE HOPE THE ANSWER IS YES.

STRANGE ATTRACTION The Père Marquette Day Dinner gives faculty an evening to honor outstanding colleagues. In an unusual twist this year President Michael Lovell paused during his remarks and raised a Ziploc sandwich bag above the lectern and into the light. Tucked inside was one pair of soiled socks — his own socks — worn two weeks earlier running the Boston Marathon. Lovell handed the sealed specimen to Dr. George Corliss. That pair joined another pair of Boston-proud socks contributed by runner Dr. Gary Krenz. Weeks later the celebrity socks were jetted 8,000-plus miles from Marquette to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in Corliss’ carry-on bag and then taxied to the Ifakara Health Institute, where the smelly socks met the olfactory sense of mosquitoes.

Research often buzzes along unusual paths.

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“THE BIGGEST ATTRACTION IS TO WORK WITH REALLY SMART, COMMITTED, GIFTED SCIENTISTS WHO ARE DOING WORLDCLASS RESEARCH.” Computer science student Colin Quinn was stung by the bug that attracts inquiring minds to unusual research. Quinn was also literally stung — dozens of times — by a particular type of the insect when he lowered his arm into a mesh enclosure where captured mosquitoes fed, drawing blood and leaving itchy welts up and down his forearm. He did it for the sake of science and realized he shouldn’t complain; his lab partner feeds that frenzy every day.

The objective of this daily bloodletting has formed a bond between Marquette and the global priority of eradicating malaria. Quinn became the latest personification of the bond when he spent the final five months of his junior year working a research co-op at the Ifakara Institute, which stands in the village of Ifakara, a place Quinn calls a “hotbed of malarial activity.”

He was present when CNN came to the institute to do a story about mosquito-repelling sandals developed by researchers there. A day later representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation arrived for what Ifakara

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Institute staffers told Quinn was the most important visit of the year. The Gates Foundation, which set the ambitious goal of eliminating malaria by 2029, could be a funding source for many research projects being undertaken by researchers at the institute. “It was cool to see the amount of energy in the room as leaders from Ifakara and the Gates Foundation discussed the future of the malaria-elimination movement,” Quinn blogged.

The idea of participating in research of deterrents to malaria at the Ifakara Institute was planted in Quinn after he met Dr. Samson Kiware, Grad ’10, ’14. Kiware is one of a handful of graduate students who’ve come to Marquette from Tanzania in recent years to earn advanced degrees.

Corliss, a senior research scientist and professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering in the Opus College of Engineering, and the students — Paul Kaefer, Eng ’13, Grad ’15, Kiware and Masabho Milali, Grad ’17— established the kinship credited with closing the distance between Milwaukee and Dar es Salaam.

Inspired by his students’ commitment to fight malaria in their home country, Corliss began traveling to the Ifakara Institute to help. He delivered Lovell and Krenz’s socks on his sixth trip in four years. “I help any way I can,” he says,

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“primarily by mentoring the young scientists on statistical analysis, writing and explaining their research. The biggest attraction is to work with really smart, committed, gifted scientists who are doing world-class research. But there is also the impact of that science, the prospect really exists to eliminate malaria from the face of the earth and the idea that I may have had a teeny involvement — the social impact is captivating for me.”

Bringing the socks to Tanzania, Corliss admits, was pure theatre. “They don’t need our socks,” he says. “They have plenty of kids playing soccer who can turn over a lot of their own sweaty socks. But this calls attention to and demonstrates Marquette’s commitment to advancing science. That’s what’s important.”

It’s what captured Quinn’s imagination and put him on the plane to Tanzania.

Quinn experienced a little culture shock his first day in Ifakara. He was alone and spoke very little Swahili. But speed the clock ahead a few hours, to when Quinn sat down with his new colleagues and their families at a welcome dinner, and his adventure was well underway.

Soon he began pitching in on the research, doing things he probably hadn’t anticipated. He hunted for wild mosquitoes, dissected mosquito abdomens to see if they’d mated and carried eggs, and he worked on the Olfactometer or smell machine.

Quinn’s research mentor at the institute, Dr. Fredros Okumo, designed the Olfactometer to bait mosquitoes with smells. “We have used chicken feathers, our fingers and dog hair. … and we hope to move to smelly socks soon,” Quinn blogged, before Marquette’s special package of socks arrived. “Many of the scientists have family here in Ifakara, and working toward the elimination of malaria, even on a smaller scale like mine, is a task everyone takes seriously.”

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merica has its own history with malaria, but thanks to science and medicine, malaria has been considered eradicated from the United States since 1951. That success doesn’t hold worldwide. In 2015 Medicines for Malaria Venture reported an estimated 429,000 malarial deaths worldwide, most heavily hit are children under five years of age, most of them living in Africa. The Centers for Disease Control lays out the size of the problem on its website: “3.2 billion live in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 106 countries and territories.”

Dr. George Corliss, emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering, and student Colin Quinn are working to swat mosquitoes and get malaria off the list of diseases transmitted in 106 countries and territories.

Insecticidal nets hung over beds and bug repellent sprays are some of the most effective tools currently used to reduce contact with mosquitoes. Both provide ample protection indoors. But mosquitoes feed on people and animals outdoors and, with each bite, certain species may deliver parasites into the blood.

If those parasites multiply, the result can be malaria. “The passing of the malaria parasite from one organism to another is one of the main areas of concentration when looking at the problem of malaria transmission,” explains Quinn.

Scientists at the Ifakara Institute want to identify the factors that lead to transmission.

It may be hard to conceive but this pesky insect that annoys us as it buzzes around and prepares to strike has a powerful olfactory sense. Quinn’s lab uses the smell machine to take advantage of that trait. “One of the main factors that leads to people being bitten is the mosquito is attracted to the way we smell, our perspiration and exhaled carbon dioxide. We are using the Olfactometer to learn more about the way human smells attract mosquitoes.”

The lab uses a controlled environment to bait the same batch of mosquitoes for as many smell experiences as possible. Mosquitoes are placed in a stimulus chamber, which Quinn calls a race course, and researchers watch and count the mosquitoes as they race toward the more alluring of two competing smell baits. “We record all of the outcomes to see what smell attracts the most mosquitoes,” Quinn explains.

When the Marquette socks were loaded at opposing ends of the Olfactometer, the scientific result was quickly clear. Krenz won a dubious distinction and the winner’s title.

The professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science admitted neither he nor his wife was surprised.

Quinn was able to demonstrate the smell machine for the representatives from the Gates Foundation. “They seemed to really like the idea of smelly sock races,” he says, “and mentioned it wouldn’t be hard for them to get socks that belong to Bill Gates to test their smelliness.”

That was precisely the reaction Quinn and Ifakara’s researchers hoped for. “One of our goals with this project is to enhance the public’s engagement with malaria research,” Quinn says. “I believe the next time they visit, they will be hauling some famous smelly socks with them.” ¤

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ADAM STOCKHAUSEN RECALLS HIS EARLY YEARS WORKING IN THE SCENE SHOP AND AS STAGE MANAGER AT MARQUETTE.

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Adam Stockhausen, Comm ’95, looks around a small, bland conference room in the Alumni Memorial Union. Outside he sees familiar sights from his days as an undergraduate in the early 1990s: McCormick Hall, 16th Street and the spot once occupied by the Avalanche Bar, and Wisconsin Avenue. I’ve asked the Academy Award-winning production designer to think of the room we’re in as a possible movie set. What does he see? “It’s small, so it’s a little tough,” he says. “But it’s got good windows, which is kind of nice. And a sink. It could be a dressing room or a dentist’s office.”

In his answer, Stockhausen’s years of Hollywood experience show through: “Sometimes you walk in and you say, ‘Great, this is exactly what I’m looking for.’ But more often, you’re thinking, OK, we have to shoot a scene in McCormick Hall. So that means the company is parked right there, and I can’t make the trucks move to shoot a little extra scene. I have to find something 45-second’s walking distance from there. You’re always asking, ‘What’s something that we can work with and achieve what we need?’”

ALUMNUS CREDITS HIS PATH TO THE COMPANY OF HOLLYWOOD’S ”A-LIST“ TO TIME SPENT WITH WONDERFUL PEOPLE.

To explain, Stockhausen talks about his experience making The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson’s 2014 film that earned him an Academy Award. To create the vast lobby of the 1930s-era hotel, the crew modified an abandoned department store near Dresden, Germany. “We were in that department store for a huge chunk of the shooting,” Stockhausen explains. “But there was a dilapidated building nearby that served almost all the other needs.

We shot 12 different sets there: a bakery, the staff’s bedrooms. Different nooks and crannies became lots of different sets. And that’s kind of a fun process.”

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Fun, indeed, particularly if you’re working with some of the most imaginative and acclaimed directors in Hollywood. In the last few years, Stockhausen has done just that. His recent credits include Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. When we talked in April, he’d just finished work on Wes Anderson’s new movie, Isle of Dogs, and was in the middle of work on Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and McQueen’s Widows.

At 44, Stockhausen finds himself at the very top of his profession, one of the reasons he was honored this year during Alumni National Awards Weekend with the Diederich College of Communication Professional Achievement Award.

It’s been a steady and rapid rise since his student days spent hanging around the Helfaer Theatre. “I think I had every job one could have,” says Stockhausen, recalling his years at Marquette, “scene shop, stage manager, electrician.” With his professors’ help, he branched out to work at Milwaukee professional theatres, as well, creating local connections he maintained after he specialized in set design at Yale School of Drama, where he earned his master’s degree in 1999. Some of his first jobs brought him back to his home state of Wisconsin, designing for American Players Theatre and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre.

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is years at Yale also connected him to the theatre world of New York, where he designed sets for regional theatres around the country and assisted designers on Broadway shows. It wasn’t necessarily steady work. He made ends meet by constructing sets and doing drafting work, which eventually led to that elusive first break into the film world. “I had an inkling about film work,” he recalls of his postgrad-school years, “but it’s kind of tricky to figure out your way into it. There’s this amazing thing that happens in New York — the theatre and film communities are kind of meshed together.”

He might spend one week doing drawings or building sets for a Broadway show and the next week working on a Manhattan film location. “The skills are just the same skills,” he says, explaining how designing for a play — a story in which a single

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stage might be transformed into several locations — isn’t that different from designing for film. “In a play you’re taking all this stuff and pressing it into a box. It all has to work together in real time and real space, so you’re always figuring out how everything turns and twists and nests together to create different scenes. In a movie those spaces are exploded across a schedule that’s 40- or 50- or 60-days long.

The company — cinematographer, electricians, grips and actors — is like a machine, which you are moving through this process. Instead of pressing it into a box, you stop and see all the sights at every step.”

Stockhausen’s entrée to the film world came with a call from his agent in 2009. Wes Craven, the legendary director behind Nightmare on Elm Street and the Scream movies, was considering Stockhausen for his next project, a film called My Soul to Take.

Craven died in 2015, but Stockhausen remembers him fondly: “We just hit it off. When you first meet, you listen to what a director wants to see and how he wants to tell the story. I could see it and hear it with him. And I think he could tell that I could see it and hear it. We had a very good bond immediately, and we became great friends and collaborators. He was an incredibly fun, wonderful man.”

Stockhausen’s meeting with Craven was one of what he calls “a series of fortunate events” that brought him from drafting tables and construction sites to the company of multiple-Oscar winners and A-list Hollywood. He worked in the art department of several films going back to the early 2000s (including The Producers and The Darjeeling Limited).

He worked again with Craven — on his final film, Scream 4.

If there is a secret to his success, he credits the people he’s known along the way. “When I see somebody who inspires me and is going to be a good person to learn from,” he explains, “I tell them I’d love to spend some time learning from you. You meet this wonderful person and they introduce you to the next wonderful person and it just goes like that. You try to work as hard as you can every single day and try to do right by those good people. And I guess it works out.”

As a production designer Stockhausen works intimately with the director from the very beginning of the project, and “doing right,” as Stockhausen explains, means different things at different times during the process. It begins, Stockhausen explains, with research and early discussions with the director: “What is this movie about? How does it feel? If it’s a period piece — what does it look like?

It’s about getting your hands around the story.”

“IT’S EASY TO GET PIGEONHOLED IN THIS BUSINESS, SO IT’S SOMETHING I ACTIVELY WORK TO AVOID.” At every part of the process Stockhausen stresses, you’re “serving the director’s vision of the story that he or she wants to tell. At the very beginning, I’m doing a lot of listening.”

Then comes the financial breakdown. What it will cost comes from asking some important questions. “Are we building these huge historical streets or are we able to find a real location that we can fix up? If we’re filming in New Orleans, are we going to find all the sets in New Orleans or are we going to have to put a big production unit on the East Coast?”

With this broad sense of a production plan, Stockhausen and his team look for the specific places to shoot the scenes, and bring in people to draw and develop the sets that will be built. From there, the shooting schedule moves the process into high gear, and Stockhausen follows the film from set to set. “When we’re shooting,” he explains, “I’ll come to the set in the morning and work with a team to make sure that everything’s going well — that the director and cinematographer are happy or to see to any last-minute changes.

Then I’ll drift away and move forward to what we’re shooting tomorrow and the day after that.

“All those shooting days are coming in the queue, and the one for tomorrow better be 90 percent done, and the one for the day after that 75 percent done. My main job is to be sure everything we decided on earlier is being executed. If it goes well, the director and cinematographer show up to shoot and look around and say, ‘Great, this is exactly what we talked about.’”

These days executing a director’s vision can also involve creating artificial worlds on a computer. Of his recent and current projects, one is being filmed entirely with stop-motion animation (Isle of Dogs), another is “absolutely traditional filmmaking” (Widows), and another is a mix of real locations and computer-generated imagery or CGI (Ready Player

One). Though he is familiar with the CGI process, Stockhausen calls working on this film “definitely diving into the deep end of the pool.”

But he welcomes it. “It’s easy to get pigeonholed in this business, so it’s something I actively work to avoid,” he says. “I actually love that feeling: ‘I don’t know how to do this, so I’m just going to give it a try.’ It’s a good feeling. Who wants to do the exact same thing a million times? It’s much more fun to keep moving forward.” ¤

Adam Stockhausen was production designer for several recent Hollywood smash hits, and he won the Academy Award for production design of The Grand Budapest Hotel.

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STUDENTATHLETES HUSTLE AND SO DOES THEIR ACADEMIC ADVISER, WITH 56 FINAL EXAMS PACKED IN HER CARRYON BAG.

ROADTESTED Brad and Amy start their exams early Thursday morning of finals week. I read the exam instructions, which include advice to move on if they get stuck on any one problem or they’ll run out of time. It’s a long exam — 13 pages. They sigh. They groan. They turn to a first set of problems, run their hands through their hair, rock back on their chairs, chew on their pencils, stretch, sigh again and buckle down to attack the exam.

Their groans grow deeper as the minutes tick away.

Brad asks if he can stand and stretch. “Of course.”

He paces the back of the room, his hands on his head.

Amy crouches forward, her face obscured by long hair.

I hear her sniffle, her head dips progressively lower.

Oh, wow, is Amy crying?, is all I can think. Then I wonder what I should do. Go to her? Hand her a tissue?

I continue calling out the passage of time. “Sixty minutes to go. Thirty minutes.” We are winding down;

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the clock is running out. Though Amy is still sniffing, she sits straighter and pushes through to the last page. “Five minutes left.”

Meanwhile I text the coach and ask him to please hold the bus that will leave shortly to take the track and field team to practice. We are fighting the clock now.

The bus will leave in minutes, and Brad and Amy still have to go back to their rooms to get their spike shoes.

Finally, they turn in their exams. “Were you crying?”

I ask Amy. “No! It’s cold in here so I was sniffly,” she says, “but I could have cried.” She walks out the door to where her roommate is waiting, holding Amy’s gear bag. “I threw some practice clothes and your shoes and some snacks in here. Run for the bus,” she says.

Go, team.

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“We spend seven hours in the rain wearing garbage bags over uniforms, school logo tattoos peeling off wet cheeks and biceps, muddy shoes, matted hair. Then we all crowd into the gym at Villanova, where trash cans overflow with food wrappers, banana peels, plastic bottles, vomit-soaked paper towels.”

That was just two of 56 final exams squeezed in on this road trip, taken between meets, taken in a little conference room at the end of the hall of banquet rooms at the hotel in Philadelphia.

I’m one of Marquette’s academic advisers serving 314 student-athletes.

Maureen Lewis is assistant director for academic services in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and a wonderful writer who often posts on Medium.

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ll NCAA Division I teams provide academic support in the form of a mandatory study hall or study table, tutor centers and a staff of advisers to help student-athletes negotiate the sometimes-clashing demands of school, practice, travel and competition. When the track team’s travel overlaps with final exam week, I join them on the road. This time my carry-on bag is loaded with exams in subjects ranging from anthropology to philosophy.

Athletes are responsible for alerting instructors when they will miss exams due to sports travel.

They have options to take exams early or have them proctored at nontraditional exam times, like in a hotel suite when they’re on the road. Every one of the 72 student-athletes who traveled to Philadelphia for the Big East Conference meet last May had at least one exam conflict to resolve.

Most of the college teams competing in Philadelphia were doing the same thing: balancing final exams with the championship chase. Villanova made its academic center available for us to scan exams and send them back to professors on our home campuses. We also used the local copy shop and the hotel business office. It’s our goal to get every exam completed before the meet begins so that our student-athletes can be just competitors.

We hustle to make it happen. Sometimes at track meets, you see student-athletes from opposing teams help each other up from the ground or congratulate one another on a great performance.

Those of us who work in academics do that, too.

We walk together to the copy shop from the practice field; we scan and fax from offices at the gym. Do you have a stapler, tape, a Sharpie, paperclips?

Go, team.

At this meet Day One is pretty successful.

A number of our athletes advance to the finals that will be held tomorrow. We feel positive, some medals are already won, and records and bestperformances already logged.

We’re all hungry. Our team is too big to take one place for dinner, so we pull up to King of Prussia Mall and descend on the food court. Georgetown and DePaul have the same idea. An all-athlete conga line snakes around Chipotle, different team names on multicolored uniforms but the same post-meet hunger being sated.

Day Two dawns with a dismal forecast: 100 percent chance of rain all day. I spot Amy at breakfast. She jokes that for the first time in the last three days she doesn’t get to sit in a room with me for three hours. She laughs and says, “If you see me on the track today in the rain, it’s just rain, I’m not crying.”

Later in the day, I try to remember that lighthearted breakfast.

By mid-day, we feel a gut punch when one of the fastest guys on our men’s 4 x 100 relay, the team going for a national-qualifying time, the guy who broke school records in four meets in a row this season, pulls a hamstring on the far turn. He makes the hand-off but has to be helped off the track.

Unbelievably something similar happens in the 100-meter dash, when a second athlete from that relay team pulls a hamstring on the straightaway

REPORT CARD Men’s golf, men’s tennis and women’ cross country performed among the nation’s elite

in the classroom, according to the latest Academic Progress Rate released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The APR is an annual scorecard of academic achievement calculated for all Division I sports teams. The teams were each recognized for posting scores in the top 10 percent of their respective sport.

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and falls, splayed out in his lane, then picks himself up and staggers across the finish and into the arms of medical support.

You wonder what next? Both of the young runners had already qualified for the 200-meter race. They pull uniform tops over sweatpants covering their tightly taped injured legs and hobble and limp the full 200-meter race to cheers from teammates, determined to add every possible point to help the team eke out a victory. In the end Marquette’s men finish second. The women cruise to victory.

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e spend seven hours in the rain wearing garbage bags over uniforms, school logo tattoos peeling off wet cheeks and biceps, muddy shoes, matted hair. Then we all crowd into the gym at Villanova, where trash cans overflow with food wrappers, banana peels, plastic bottles, vomitsoaked paper towels. The floor is sticky with spilled Gatorade, the air gamey with sweat. Wet clothes and towels are being shoved into duffel bags.

Suddenly Xavier’s seniors pull graduation caps and gowns from Ziploc bags and put them on over their wet uniforms. They’d missed their own

graduation day, sacrificing pomp to compete three states away in the rain with the name of their alma mater across their chests and “X” tattoos on their cheeks. They pull their track medals on over their heads, and someone calls each student by name in an impromptu graduation ceremony in that damp, smelly gym.

The other athletes who are busily changing out of spikes or searching their bags for dry socks look up. Then they stand and begin applauding. Someone starts humming the Pomp and Circumstance march, and, just like that, all of the Big East athletes honor Xavier’s seniors who put a conference meet before a formal ceremony, defining school spirit the best way they knew how.

Xavier’s athletes walk out of the gym toward the team bus, their graduation caps providing a little shield from the rain, and slap high fives with their competitors, bonding them forever to the sport they’d given their hearts and weekends to since they’d learned they had speed or hops or throws.

Soon, back with our team, standing on the wet infield for the trophy ceremony and photos in the driving rain, it’s hard to differentiate tears from raindrops. Amy catches my eye, points to her eyes beneath the brim of her fresh new Big East 2017 Champions hat, and mouths one word — “crying” — tracing the tears down her cheeks with her fingertips. “Me, too,” I mouth back. ¤

Marquette University’s track and field men’s and women’s teams made program history in 2016, when both won the Big East Outdoor Conference Championships.

Sights were set on repeating that feat in 2017 — with the championship meet scheduled during finals week.

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CLASS NOTES

A TA S T E O F H O M E

OFF&RUNNING Yollande Tchouapi Deacon, Grad ’03, didn’t know Marquette and she didn’t know Milwaukee when Dr. Thomas Bausch, then dean of the College of Business Administration, offered her a graduate student scholarship.

She came. She studied. And in time she grew hungry for the tastes of home.

BY J ONI MOTHS MUELLER

“I got homesick and started cooking,” says Deacon, a native of Cameroon in West Africa. Cooking led to bottling, which led to a product line based on family recipes.

She called it Afro Fusion Cuisine, and it was a hit at the Tosa Farmers Market, Wauwatosa, Wis. But demand for Africa’s aromas outgrew her tabletop distribution.

Wauwatosa foodies — and others — wanted more. So Deacon and her family complied, opening Irie Zulu restaurant in 2015 to serve up the

foods and cultures of Africa and Jamaica. It’s a way, she says, to conjoin her expertise in the social sciences — she wrote her dissertation on the culture of West Africa — with her training as a culinary expert.

At Irie Zulu, diners experience flavors from the north and south and east and west corners of the continent and Jamaica. They also get to taste pieces of culture in sponsored events and cooking classes.

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Tom Rohan, Jour ’43, celebrated his 95th

birthday in Cleveland with family and friends. He is retired associate editor of Industry Week magazine and was married 55 years to the former Agnes Glendinning.

They have four children and five grandchildren. He is former chairman of the Marquette University San Francisco and Cleveland alumni chapters and received an MUAA Service to Marquette Award in 1994.

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Ralph Windler, Bus Ad ’50, is a WWII

veteran, Rifleman, 29th Infantry Division in Europe.

He received the following awards: Combat Infantry Badge, three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, the French Legion of Honor and six lesser medals. He married Sally Luettgen in 1950 and has five sons, 11 grandchildren and one great grandson.

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Dennis Laack, Eng ’61, was named

Senior of the Year by the Camarillo California

Chamber of Commerce, based on his support of the citizens advisory committee at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility. He is president of the organization that provides tutoring and scholarships to promising youth. This award also recognized his support of the local Boy Scouts and St. Mary Magdalen Parish. He is a retired U.S. Navy captain.

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Joseph Finnigan, Jour ’66, published

his first book, Feisty: Chronicles and Confessions of an Old PR Warhorse.

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♥ John Guest, Bus Ad ’67, and Dianne Guest,

Arts ’66, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Pumping up the volume at the party were alumni Brian Eckl, Tom Dixon, Mike Dennehy, Diane Browning Conway, JoEllen (Koesterer) Stollenwerk and James Gilmore.

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♥ Timothy Frisby, Bus Ad ’68, and Bunny

Heppner wed June 18, 2016 at St. James Church in Lemont, Ill. ♥ Jim Hardin, Arts ’68, and Diane (Piering) Hardin, Arts ’66, met sophomore year and were married in 1967. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

Robert Neuman, Grad ’68, Grad ’73, published College Smart, a three-book series for students, parents and educators aimed at helping kids prepare for college, graduate on time and save money. He works with high schools around the country to provide College Smart course curriculum.

Bill Starr, Bus Ad ’68, opened his professional tree stump removal company “Stumped?” in the northwest Chicago suburbs.

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WHAT’S THE SECRET SAUCE IN A GREAT INTERNSHIP? Marquette Magazine asked Diederich College of Communication Internship Coordinator Sheena Carey to weigh in.

Look for the “triple X”: The best internships provide exposure, exploration and experience.

Take the leap: Why not? It’s a crucial step to learn what’s out there, build skills and make stronger career choices.

I see it clearly now: Interns come back more knowledgeable and intent on discovering the next growth opportunity.

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Joel Kriofske, Jour ’69, read and recorded

his book, And Good Night to All the Beautiful Young Women, for the Audio and Braille Literacy Enhancement program, which offers audio books to the visually impaired.

The organization’s recordings are available throughout the United States and Canada.

Donna (Stollenwerk) Setterholm, Nurs ’69, was a critical care nurse and served in the U.S. Air Force. She also was a manager, educator, and research/travel nurse. She wrote articles, including “Purpose of Informal Patient Rounding,” “The Affordable Care Act: An Explanation, Manager vs.

Foreman,” and more.

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Mary Elise Antoine, Arts ’70, received the

Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit for War of 1812 in Wisconsin: The Battle for Prairie du Chien.

Thomas Fehring, Eng ’70, Grad ’75, released the book The Magnificent Machines of Milwaukee.

The book shares more than 100 engineering accomplishments, summarizes stories of more than 70 early Milwaukee companies, including biographies of engineering innovators and their achievements. The book is illustrated with photographs and drawings that help tell the story of industrial Milwaukee.

Michael Neville, Jour ’70, had his play, Lamps for My Family, produced at In Tandem Theatre in Milwaukee from February to March 2016, and his play Dracula vs. the Nazis produced there

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CLASS NOTES in October 2016. Both plays played to capacity houses.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? HA! YOU TELL US.

Some McCormick Hall residents the first full year of operation (1968–69), courtesy of Mike Straub, Arts ’70.

“Although I am sure there may be many great people in the picture, the only one I think some will recognize is future well-known (at least in Chicago) sports writer, Dan McGrath (third from the left, standing).”

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Mary (Voytek) Kobelt, Grad ’71, retired from

her careers in real estate, religious education, special education and online schooling. She and her husband, Ken, live in a log home in Ashtabula County in Ohio’s wine country, home to covered bridges, the Grand Scenic State River and a wonderful rails-to-trails network. They will continue traveling, especially to the West Coast to visit daughters Lara, a botanist at the Mojave National Preserve, and Liza, a doctoral student in biophysics at the University of Washington.

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Jim Rettig, Arts ’72, Grad ’74, retired

as library director from the U.S. Naval Academy, concluding a 40-year career as a librarian. He and his wife live in Williamsburg, Va.

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James Karpowicz, Bus Ad ’76, is an

honoree with the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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John Decker, Bus Ad ’74, Law ’77, was

elected president of the Wisconsin Council for Local History and member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Board of Curators.

Robert Gegios, Arts ’77, was named a 2017 Leader in the Law by the Wisconsin Law Journal. He chairs the litigation department of Kohner, Mann & Kailas S.C. in Milwaukee.

Randy Nelson, Law ’77, was appointed to the business planning committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel for 2017–18. The committee focuses on planning techniques for owners of closely held businesses.

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Mark Darnieder, Law ’78, and Julie Darnieder, Law ’78, received the Friends of the Hispanic Community Award at the United Community Center’s anniversary celebration in Milwaukee.

Steve Olson, Sp ’78, was elected to a second three-year term as mayor of the city of Franklin, Wis. He also is an account manager for Canon USA’s professional engineering division, managing the Midwest dealer’s channel for cinema and professional video cameras. He and his siblings have endowed a number of awards and scholarships in the College of Communication, and physical therapy and student leadership programs. He lives in Franklin with his wife, Beverly, of 33 years.

Mike Walker, Bus Ad ’78, released his book, The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew, published by University Press of Kansas.

The book provides a complete

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account of a profoundly consequential clash of great powers between the World Wars.

Ralph Weber, Arts ’78, was named a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a partner at Gass Weber Mullins LLC and has been practicing law for 34 years.

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Melaine (Shannon) Rothey, Arts ’79, was

elected to a threeyear term on the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Board of Directors.

She is a senior attorney at Jones, Gregg, Creehan & Gerace LLP and heads the firm’s domestic relations department. She is immediate past president of the Allegheny County Bar Association Board of Trustees.

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Richard Leinenkugel, Bus Ad ’80, is presi dent and chief beer merchant for Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Co. in Chippewa Falls, Wis. The brewery is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year.

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Monica (Schlickman) Oliver, Sp ’81, receiv ed the President’s Award from Christ the King Prep, the Cristo Rey Network school in Newark, N.J., for ongoing commitment to building an urban school for students of limited resources.

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Dorothy Arimond, Bus Ad ’82, received

the Temple Law Alumni Association 2017 Distinguished Service Award. She was also recognized as president-elect of the association at the annual meeting. The Support Center for Child Advocates, an organization that provides pro bono legal representation for abused and neglected children in the Pennsylvania area, nominated her to serve on its board of directors.

SCORE!

JENNIFER (FALLBACHER) DEMSKI

THE GREATER GOOD

ENG ’93

A goal to give second life to used soccer gear went into overdrive when the Demski family and friends teamed up.

It took special connections but, as Jennifer says, the result was a “match made in heaven,” and a partnership formed with a soccer league in Veradero, Cuba. Collections at three Illinois locations yielded 400 pounds of gear. All of it was cleaned, packed and shipped, and soon 150 kids who once lacked uniforms and played barefoot were wearing colors and cleats. ¤

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WHAT MU MOVE-IN SNAGS DID FRESHMEN FACE? “Lofting the beds.”

LIAM

“Trying to organize everything with the tiny space in McCormick.”

TESS

“Long elevator lines so we walked to the 10th floor.”

SAMMY

“I did early move-in so when the time came to actually move in, it was less stressful. The hard part was organizing my things while my two roommates tried moving all their things in.”

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Tula Connell, Jour ’82, published Conservative Counterrevolution: Challenging Liberalism in 1950s Milwaukee, University of Illinois Press, 2016. The book examines grassroots political challenges to Milwaukee’s socialist mayor, Frank Zeidler (1948–60), during an era of escalating racial polarization and suburbanization, forces that continue to influence city politics today. She earned a doctorate in American history from Georgetown University in 2011.

Mary (Sullivan) Josephs, Arts ’82, founder and CEO of Verit Advisors, was named a member of the International Women’s Forum. The forum was founded in 1982 in the United States and spans six continents and 74 local forums representing 33 nations.

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Roberta (Palenica) Nadel, Jour ’83, was

promoted to nurse coordinator of the Pediatric Palliative Care team at Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C. Eugene Shoemaker, Arts ’83, Dent ’89, was awarded the 2016 Wisconsin Dental Association Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his contributions of time, energy and expertise to organized dentistry throughout a 27-year career. He is a general dentist who lives and practices in Waukesha, Wis.

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Paul DeGroot, Eng ’84, was inducted as

a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of devices treating tachyarrhythmias and the improvement of patients’ quality of life. He is a research director at Medtronic Inc. and

resides in Shoreview, Minn., with his wife, Terry.

Raymond Eppinger, Bus Ad ’84, was promoted to vice president, Reinsurance Claims Group, Allied World Assurance Company Holdings A.G. in New York. ♥ Jacqueline (Dier) Toepfer, Arts ’84, and Kurt Bullard, wed Jan. 14, 2017 at Old St. Mary Parish in Chicago. Jacqueline is a senior product manager for iManage. Kurt is a manager of presales engineering at HewlettPackard Enterprises. They are proud parents of Marquette student William M. Toepfer and live in Chicago.

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Jeffrey Huron, Arts ’85, is an attorney at

Dykema and was appointed secretary of the State Bar of California’s Financial Institutions Committee.

Thomas Lenz, Arts ’85, was named chair of the State Bar of California Labor and Employment Law Section. He leads efforts related to attorney education and public outreach on issues of workplace law. He practices labor and employment law at Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo in Pasadena, Calif., and teaches at the University of Southern California Law School in Los Angeles.

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Dan Hoefs, Eng ’86, was named manager

of engineeringoperations support at Aries Industries in Waukesha, Wis. Catherine Kibble, Eng ’86, retired from the Illinois Department of Transportation after more than 32 years of service.

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Monica (Stoll) Conners, Bus Ad ’88,

was named to the Commercial Real Estate Women Network Foundation Board of Directors for the 2017–18 term.

She is director of client development at Lawrence Group, a national design and development firm, and immediate past president of the CREW–St. Louis chapter. She has been a champion for women in the commercial real estate industry for 20 years.

Kelly (Murphy) Fenton, Arts ’88, was sworn in to serve her second term in the Minnesota House of Representatives. She also serves on the House Republican leadership team as assistant majority leader. Prior to the election, she worked as a school teacher and alternative certification trainer. She hopes to improve and expand educational opportunities for students in Minnesota.

Scott Steinke, Grad ’88, celebrated his 35th anniversary with Ziegler Wealth Management. He is a vice president and financial adviser.

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Mike Carr, Eng ’89, is vice president of

eCommerce Services at Amazon.com and was highlighted in the Spring 2017 edition of Careers & the DisABLED magazine.

James Casey, Grad ’89, was admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He is director of the Office of Sponsored Programs at American University in Washington, D.C.

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Jennifer (King) Rice, Arts ’90, was named dean of the University

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

of Maryland College of Education.

She joined the college in 1995 as an assistant professor. Prior to that she conducted research at Mathematica Policy Research and at the finance center of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Cornell.

Tori Vesely, Law ’90, was named Attorney of the Year at the Wisconsin Child Support Enforcement Association fall conference. She has been assistant corporation counsel for Sauk County, Wis., since July 1993.

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Ellen (Nowak) Belk, Comm ’91, joined

Milestone Retirement Communities as the first national director of community lifestyle and memory-support operations.

Since 2011, she has been president of Keep In Mind Inc., a consulting company she founded with her husband that specializes in dementia care solutions and caregiving resources.

The once-active volcano, Mount Ungaran in Central Java, ¤ releases puffs of sulfuric gas from natural vents. The site, within walking distance of the nine Hindu temples in Central Java and nearby pool of hot springs, is where Tiro Daenuwy, S.J., Arts ’08, makes his home.

After graduating, Daenuwy worked as a consultant for private business intelligence before he joined the Indonesian Province of the Society of Jesus in 2013. He is doing his regency as a Jesuit intern in a small parish in Danan, Central Java, Indonesia. “As a Jesuit seminarian, I have done work with refugees and vocations promotion as well as some organic farming,” he says. Q

Kevin Boyd, Comm ’91, was elected trustee for New Trier Township and began serving a four-year term in May 15.

Tim Koeppl, Arts ’91, was named CEO at Suspension Systems Technologies LLC. The company develops technologies for the transportation industry. He and his wife, Cindy, live in Edina, Minn., with their children: Sophie, 18; Maggie, 16; Grace, 14; and Max, 11.

was named to the national admission practices (ethics) committee of the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

Carole Casto, Arts ’92, became vice president of communications for Cummins Inc. in Indianapolis.

Maximiliano Trujillo, Arts ’92, is the head of MJT Policy LLC, a government affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. Previously he led the Washington, D.C., office of a New York-based government affairs firm.

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Jeanette Hurt, Comm ’93, published Drink

Like a Woman (Seal Press) a feminist cocktail and pop culture book.

Lindsay (Rupiper) Jordan, Bus Ad ’93, was appointed senior vice president, human resource officer at HNTB.

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Jeff Bahr, Arts ’94, became executive

vice president for Aurora Health Care and was also elected president of Aurora Health Care Medical Group.

Jennifer Lay-Riske, Comm ’94, and co-workers at WMAQ received the Illinois AP Award for Best Spot News and Best Newscast for the “Fire on Flight 383” segment. She is 10 p.m. producer at NBC 5 in Chicago.

Mark Anderson, Comm ’92, was named

managing director and general counsel of Lazard Asset Management in New York.

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Heather MacDougall, Law ’94, was appointed by President Donald Trump as acting chairman of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in Washington, D.C.

Ken Anselment, Bus Ad ’92, Grad ’03, is dean of admissions and financial aid at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He

Lisa Schreihart, Eng ’94, Grad ’97, earned her law degree magna cum laude from Northern Kentucky University Chase

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AWAY WE GO A son’s wedding?

“We’ll be there.”

Making good on their promise to attend the wedding of Tom and Jan Wojick’s son, Terry, are (left to right) Jan (Eagan) Wojick, Med Tech ’74; Ken Zolkoski, Bus Ad ’74; Tom Wojick, Bus Ad ’74; Darlene Dunmore, Sp ’74, Grad ’76; and Eileen (Wright) Dimick, Jour ’74.

College of Law and was sworn in to the Maryland Bar. She is a patent attorney at Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox in Washington, D.C.

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Lee Trepanier, Arts ’95, contributed to

A Political Companion to Philip Roth, published in May 2017.

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Tammy (Ericksen) Tobiasz, Comm ’96,

and Patrick Tobiasz: daughter Adalyn Ericksen Tobiasz born Aug. 19, 2016.

She was 5 pounds, 13 ounces and 18.75 inches. She is the couple’s first child after nearly 16 years of marriage.

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Robert Clemons, Grad ’97, published

his first novel, The Hiroshima Agenda, in Nov. 2016.

The book is available in paperback and e-book.

W Sarah (Schilke) Haroldson,

Arts ’97, and Derek Haroldson: son Ben Andrew born in China on April 17, 2013. He became part of the family through adoption on March 23, 2017. He joins sister Leah, 4.

William Vanasse, III, Nurs ’97, earned his doctor of nursing practice, family nurse practitioner, with distinguished academic performance from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is stationed at Ft. Stewart, Ga. Mike Vogel, Eng ’97, Grad ’05, is a principal at GRAEF, a Wisconsin-based engineering, planning and design firm. He is a leader of the sports and recreation group and senior structural engineer. He has been with GRAEF for 17 years.

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Daniel Finerty, Law ’98, joined Lindner &

Marsack in 2012. He works across a broad spectrum of industries, including senior living, health care, manufacturing, food manufacturing, hospitality, retail, transportation, construction, commercial laundry, dry cleaning and others.

W Katherine Heller, Arts ’98,

PT ’00, and Jeff Heller: daughter Megan Elizabeth born June 10, 2016. She joins brother Jacob, 2.

Joy Ouellette Palmer, H Sci ’98, received a VA health care appointment in neuromusculoskeletal medicine, the first and only such specialist in the VA– Maine system. She also serves as site director for the NMM/ OMM Residency Outpatient Clinic. She has been in private practice in Falmouth, Maine, since 2011 and served as program director for the University of New England since 2015.

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Rachel Monaco Wilcox, Arts ’99,

Law ’04, was named CEO of LOTUS Legal Clinic, a Milwaukee nonprofit serving

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victims of gender-based violence with legal advocacy, policy initiatives, education and survivor empowerment.

W Shannon (Cogan) Riley, Nurs

’99, and Daniel Riley, Arts ’99: daughter Bryn Elizabeth born Feb. 27, 2017. She joins siblings Cormac, 2; Holden, 7; and Susannah, 9.

W Michelle (Williams) Rivera,

H Sci ’99, Grad ’01, and Luis Rivera, Arts ’99, Grad ’01: son Maxwell Luis born Aug. 29, 2016. He joins siblings Ryan, 9, and Lily, 9.

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Brian Thompson, Eng ’00, AEGIS

Engineering founder, was honored in Consulting Specifying Engineer as one of 40 building industry professionals age 40 and younger with demonstrated commitment to excellence in academic, professional, personal and community involvement. He lives in Edmonds, Wash.

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Shannon (Courtney) Daubaras, Comm ’01,

and Marcus Daubaras: daughter Hannah Joan born Feb. 9, 2017. She joins sisters Kaitlynn, 23, and Melanie, 18.

W Ryan Dunn, Arts ’01, and

Natalie Dunn: son Patrick born Nov. 25, 2016. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 20.75 inches.

Daniel Mitchell, Comm ’01, joined the Seattle City Attorney’s Office land use group.

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Trisha (Haubrich) Brooks, Arts ’02, and

David Brooks, Arts ’00, Grad ’05: son Ian Vanden born Nov. 14, 2016. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 20 inches. He joins brother Sebastian, 3.

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You’re a student leader for SPARK , a new program for incoming students.

Has that been fun?

IT WAS 10 DEGREES OUT WHEN TADHG SCULLY DISMISSED MARQUETTE. What changed?

I told my mom not to wake me for my tour. Then I went — and loved it. My tour guide said hi to 20 or 30 people. I came back for National Marquette Day. The student section went crazy. An alum gave me a Marquette picture frame — my first piece of MU memorabilia.

That was four years ago.

How did you choose a major?

I jumped around and then found my fit in philosophy and political science.

How will you use your education?

I’ve learned a lot about planning ahead, coordinating with so many people, juggling a lot of balls at the same time and keeping track of moving pieces.

How else have you grown?

My passion for serving others has been heightened. The phrase “men and women for others” is an accurate way to describe how I see service.

I’ve stepped outside my comfort zone — first in coming to Milwaukee from Seattle but also learning to respect opinions that run counter to my own. I’m willing to have hard conversations in respectful formats. Most of all I’m more able to define my values. I’ve been put in situations when I had to grow and better understand who I want to be versus what I want to do.

What are your Marquette traditions?

I have fun at almost everything I do here — Bradley Center basketball games, playing Ultimate Frisbee, getting together with all the tour guides for our Sobelman’s at 6 tradition every Friday night.

Eventually I want to fight for equality and justice on some scale long-term, maybe in politics or with a social service agency or higher ed.

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 DAILY DIFFERENCE Yes, generosity abounds — in the heart of Marcy Ferriter, Sp ’61, who has led a mobile food pantry for nearly 10 years; through Len Dudas Motors, which supplies the van free of charge; through Redeemer Lutheran Church and the community of Portage County, which Ferriter says, make her proud in the way they respond to people in need.

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Michelle (Hellenthal) Carter, Bus Ad ’02, teaches business and marketing courses and leads the DECA Marketing Team at Eastside Catholic High School in Sammamish, Wash.

Jennifer (VanDerMolen) Gettelman, Arts ’02, received the WISN Teacher of the Month Award in May. She teaches at Lowell Elementary in Waukesha, Wis. Meralis Hood, Comm ’02, was named managing director of impact at City Year Milwaukee.

Previously she was a bilingual teacher at Milwaukee Public Schools and an instructional coach and assistant principal.

W Tanya Laskowski, Comm ’02, and Marty Laskowski: identical twin daughters Estelle Marie and Emily Juliet born Oct. 16, 2015.

Zach Whitney, Law ’02, is a shareholder of Kohner, Mann & Kailas S.C. in Milwaukee.

He practices business and commercial litigation and counseling.

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Joseph Camilli, Arts ’03, Grad ’07, is an

attorney at Neider & Boucher S.C. in Madison, Wis. ♥ Jessica (Petri) Jurasz, Comm ’03, and Justin Jurasz, Arts ’03, wed Oct. 1, 2016 at St. Michael’s in Old Town, Chicago. They met junior year at Marquette and fell in love 10 years later. The couple lives in the Chicago suburbs, where Justin is a police officer and Jessica is an event director.

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Nicole (Smith) Bernardo, H Sci ’04,

and Daniel Bernardo, Bus Ad ’04: son Luca Joseph, born Dec. 19, 2016. He was 8 pounds, 3 ounces and 21.5 inches. He joins sisters Giuseppina, 4, and Elia, 2.

Michael Delich, Arts ’04, was promoted to lead associate at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Va. Joseph Engler, Arts ’04, is a sergeant with the Madison Police Department in Madison, Wis. Steve Fisco, Eng ’04, is a principal at GRAEF, a Wisconsinbased engineering, planning and design firm. He has worked at GRAEF for more than 16 years.

Jaclyn (Worth) Miller, Comm ’04, is senior account manager at EPIC Creative in West Bend, Wis.

W Julie (Hageman) Wells,

Comm ’04, and Brian Wells: daughter Ada Emaline born Nov. 2, 2016.

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and Greg Bahr: daughter Macie Noelle born Dec 20, 2016. She joins sisters Kayla, 15, and Sadie, 3.

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W Tina (Zabel) Crichton, Bus Ad ’05, Grad ’06, and James Crichton: daughter Kate Laken born Nov. 26, 2016. She was 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 21 inches. She joins siblings Ryan, 4, and Ellie, 2.

W Cassi (Serena) Dermody,

Comm ’05, and Nick Dermody, Eng ’05: son Milo Stephen born Dec. 16, 2016. He was 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 21.5 inches. He joins sister June.

W Julie (Hornbach) Funk, H Sci

’05, and Phillip Funk: daughter Chloe Elizabeth born Jan. 6, 2017. She was 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 20.5 inches. She joins brothers Max, 3, and Leo, 18 months.

W Stefanie (Buhelos) Giachino, H Sci ’05, Grad ’06, and Nik Giachino, Bus Ad ’04: daughter Miranda Lynn born Jan. 31, 2017. She was 7 pounds, 5 ounces and 20.5 inches. She is the couple’s first child.

Lindsey King, Law ’05, founded the Law Offices of Lindsey King in Milwaukee, specializing in employment law consulting services for individuals and small businesses.

W Christopher Krueger, Bus Ad

’05, and Becca Krueger: son Samuel John born Dec. 17, 2016.

He was 8 pounds, 4 ounces. He joins brother Henry, 3.

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Jenna Herzog Coauette, Bus Ad ’06,

and Ben Coauette: son Cameron Joseph born Nov. 9, 2016. He joins brother Axel.

W Sarah (Padula) Craine, Comm ’06, and Kyle Craine, Bus Ad ’09: daughter Harper Lisa born May 12, 2016. She joins brother Emmett Thomas, 3.

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WHAT’S SHAKIN’?

Check out these alumni activities and more. Visit go.mu.edu/alumni-events.

W Roxanne (Puno) Gabrel,

Bus Ad ’06, and David Gabrel, Bus Ad ’06: daughter Zofia Krystal born Jan. 9, 2017.

She was 7 pounds, 2 ounces and 19.5 inches.

W Elissa (Flynn) McClure,

Arts ’06, and Sean McClure: daughter Tessa Isabella born Jan. 30, 2017. She joins siblings Alexa and Laila.

W Mary (Olson) Ronsheim,

Law ’06, and Joshua Ronsheim: daughter Vivian Ann born Sept. 2, 2016.

W Erin (O’Krongly) Spencer, A R I ZO N A

Club of Phoenix

DEEDS NOT WORDS

Phoenix Mass, Brunch and Golf Outing Orange Tree Golf Club Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017.

ALUMNI CLUBS IN ACTION

Washington, D.C., alumni gathered to mentor and pay it forward at B.Y.O.C. — Bring Your Own (Business) Card. The event, organized by club leaders Meghan Hickey, Comm ’15, and Kate Merrill, Arts ’11, featured a panel discussion with alumni who inspired young professionals and underscored the power of networking.

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Milwaukee Association of Marquette University Women Advent Reflection Luncheon Featuring Rev. Holly Whitcomb Friday, Dec. 1, 2017.

Comm ’06, and Greg Spencer: daughter Amelia Cheryl born Sept. 4, 2016.

Edison Uschold, Bus Ad ’06, was promoted to senior manager at Legacy Professionals LLP. Charlie Weber, Bus Ad ’06, Grad ’09, is a senior development officer for the American Red Cross in Milwaukee. He and his wife, Maggie (Seeler) Weber, Arts ’07, live in Milwaukee with their children: Eve, Wayve and Max.

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Robert Ebert, Comm ’07, was named

marketing director for Ansay International and leads advertising efforts for products imported from Europe.

Blue & Gold Fund Auction Friday, Dec. 8, 2017.

Christina Flowers, Comm ’07, was awarded the 2016 MidSouth Emmy, Best Spot News.

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W Jamie (Vrba) Freier, Comm

Men’s Basketball vs.

UW–Madison Regional Game-watching Parties; Pre-game Reception in Madison Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017.

’07, and Stephen Freier, Eng ’07, Grad ’09: son Henry Arthur born July 13, 2016. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 20.5 inches.

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SECOND ACT As an orthopedic surgeon for 19 years, Dr. Peter Ullrich, Arts ’84, watched patients who underwent spinal fusion surgeries suffer through long recoveries and experience less than ideal results. He did something about it.

BY JOE DI GI OVANNI , J OUR ’87

Back then doctors inserted threaded titanium cages, and later bone-colored, plastic devices between vertebrae.

Neither device worked well. Ullrich left his practice, went into research mode and developed a titanium prototype that supported the hard, outer edges of bone but had a large, easily accessible opening in the middle for bone grafts.

Now he is chief executive officer of Titan Spine, a Mequon, Wis.-company that developed a next-generation roughsurfaced implant that helps patients shorten recovery times while reducing inflammation and promoting fast bone growth.

Titan Spine is the only company to win FDA approval to manufacture medical devices with the nano-textured surface.

The device was given a diagnostic code by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which gives Titan Spine an edge over much larger competitors when selling to health systems. “This product is really unique in our industry,” Ullrich says. “That’s partly why I’m on my second act. I really enjoyed my practice, but these devices were working so much better than anything else we had used.

A validation of quitting a great practice is having a great product and making a big difference in peoples’ lives.”

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♥ Kathryn Meister, H Sci ’07, Dent ’10, and Matthew Krajnak, wed Oct. 21, 2016 at Three Holy Women Parish in Milwaukee.

W Amy (Getz) Niedziela, Dent

’07, and Jeffrey Niedziela, Dent ’06: son Hugh Getz born Oct. 14, 2016. He joins siblings Stuart, 6; Elsie, 4; and Louise, 2. ♥ Liam Ortega, Arts ’07, and Nora von Dorn-Ortega, Arts ’11, wed June 19, 2016. The couple relocated to South Carolina to start medical school at Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine. Nora is the daughter of Marquette Professor Jean Grow.

W Kathryn (Costello)

Provenzano, Comm ’07, and Charles Provenzano III, Arts ’07: daughter Kerry Colleen born Aug. 25, 2016. She weighed 7 pounds and was 20 inches.

W Maureen (Hultgen) Raught, Comm ’07, and Brendan Raught, Bus Ad ’07: son Jack William born Nov. 6, 2016. He was 6 pounds, 13 ounces. He joins brother Finn, 2.

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John Brunner, Bus Ad ’08, is business

development trade adviser, covering agriculture, food and beverage industries for the southeastern United States for Business France.

Previously he worked in communications in Europe for the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers and the French Music Export Office.

Kelly Candotti, Bus Ad ’08, is director of development for the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in Milwaukee. ♥ Mark Kane, Comm ’08, and Nicole Rakers Kane, wed May

13, 2017 at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Geneva, Ill. Nicole previously worked in Marquette’s Office of University Advancement. ♥ Sara Ellen (Johnson) Smith, H Sci ’08, and Charles Smith, wed Oct. 15, 2016 by Rev. Dr. Timothy Perkins and Rev. Julie Goranson at Grace United Church of Christ in Wausau, Wis. Sara is the director of the alcohol and drug prevention and education program in the Division of Student Affairs at Marquette.

Charlie is a doctoral student in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

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Hillary (Stevenson) Amon, Arts ’09, and

Heinz Amon, Eng ’10: daughter Ava Rose born Feb. 22, 2017. She was 7 pounds, 15 ounces and 21 inches.

Walter Bond, Arts ’09, was named executive director of Teach For America, Milwaukee region. He joined TFA in 2009 as a teacher and administrator in Washington D.C., and is now responsible for a network of more than 500 TFA corps members.

W Amanda (Lloyd) Burns, Arts

’09, and Bill Burns, Eng ’09: daughter Eleanor Joan born Jan. 17, 2017. She weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches.

Lauren Grebe, Bus Ad ’09, was promoted to chief compliance officer of FMI Funds Inc. in Milwaukee.

Claire Hartley, Law ’09, joined Buelow Vetter Buikema Olson & Vliet LLC as an associate.

Her practice focuses on representing school districts, municipalities and private employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, general school law and litigation.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST, BEST MU EXPERIENCE? ALUMNI CHIME IN. “Move in day: 20 minutes after my parents left, my roommate and I got stuck in the elevator.”

SHANNON

“The big scavenger hunt across the city.”

DEREK

“My first snow day!”

KATHLEEN

“My first Friday night in Cobeen, I burnt popcorn and made the fire alarm go off in my room.”

SHEILA

♥ Megan (Sajdak) Holtan, Comm ’09, and Tom Holtan, wed Aug. 27, 2016 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Milwaukee. Megan is the marketing director at Stan’s Fit For Your Feet and New Balance Milwaukee. Tom works in compliance at Northwestern Mutual.

Patrick Kummerer, Arts ’09, graduated from University of Colorado Boulder Law School.

W Lindsey (Mochel) Lynch,

Grad ’09, and Jonathan Lynch: daughter Peyton Leigh born Feb. 11, 2017. She was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 21 inches. She is the couple’s first child. ♥ Betsy (Benson) Maciejewski, Bus Ad ’09, and Dan Maciejewski, Arts ’07, wed June 4, 2016 at St. Hedwig’s Church in Milwaukee.

Betsy is a tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Dan is a talent acquisition manager at Astronautics Corp. ♥ Liam McElligott, Bus Ad ’09, and McKenzie Kennedy, wed Oct. 29, 2016 at St. James by the Sea in La Jolla, Calif.

“Tuesday night Mass.”

JIM

“Explaining how cold winter gets to a student from Malaysia and realizing we’d need to get him a coat.”

JOHN

“Being hypnotized at the Varsity Theatre at New Student Orientation.”

STEVE TELL US MORE!

We want to hear your voices.

Share your thoughts @ magazine.marquette.edu/ share.

Maria Novotny, Arts ’09, is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin– Oshkosh. She received a doctorate in writing and rhetoric from Michigan State University.

Her research examines the rhetoric of infertility. She is also codirector of The ART of Infertility grassroots advocacy organization.

W Megan (Everson)

Tzanoukakis, Bus Ad ’09, Grad ’10, and Gregory Tzanoukakis, Bus Ad ’08: son Colin Robert born Sept. 6, 2016.

W Kevin Voge, Arts ’09, Grad

’12, and Tiffany Helmbrecht Voge, Arts ’08: daughter Kiah Jean born April 18, 2017.

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♥ Tyler Bridges, Eng ’10, Grad ’14, and

Emily (Zei) Bridges, Nurs ’10, wed Sept. 16, 2016 at Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colo. The couple lives in Seattle where Tyler is a program manager for Amazon.

Emily is an oncology nurse for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. ♥ Alyssa Gerber, Arts ’10, and Steven Shearer, wed June 5, 2016 in Saratoga, Calif. Steven works as a QA software engineer at Apple Inc. Alyssa is a home study social worker for a foster care and adoptions agency.

W Jenna (Richardt) Hart, Arts

’10, and Teddy Hart: daughter Holly Joan born Aug. 26, 2016.

She was 8 pounds, 4 ounces and 20 inches.

Jessica Ray, Bus Ad ’10, and Jim Donahue, Arts ’04, were engaged Jan. 7, 2017, on the seven-year anniversary of meeting at Marquette.

W Caitlin (Ubert) Schueller,

Nurs ’10, and Andrew Schueller, Arts ’10: son Augustine Robert born March 28, 2017. He was 7 pounds, 6 ounces and 19 inches. ♥ Kelsey McCusker Schweitz, Comm ’10, and Shinji Schweitz, wed at the Disneyland Rose Court Garden in Anaheim, Calif.

Kelsey is a scheduler at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Group.

Shinji is an exporter.

The North Face, Energizer and Callaway revolutionize marketing execution to transform their business. ♥ 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. The couple resides in Chicago. ♥ Jennifer Mitchell, Comm ’11, and John Gallagher, Comm ’11, wed Aug. 26, 2016 at Eaglewood Resort in Itasca, Ill. Jacqueline Oraedu, H Sci ’11, was crowned Ms. Woman Wisconsin United States. She competed at the Ms. Woman United States pageant in July.

She is involved with mental health awareness and is an active member and public relations chair of the Milwaukee Urban League Young Professionals. She is a physician assistant at Aurora Healthcare and lives in Franklin, Wis. Ryan Ross, Bus Ad ’11, was named chief financial strategist at Party City Holdco Inc., the youngest CFS in the company’s history.

Maggie Rudersdorf, Arts ’11, was named Pediatric Nurse of

the Year for Excellence in Stem Cell Transplant & Oncology Nursing at University of Chicago Medical Center, Comer Children’s Hospital. ♥ David Spence, Bus Ad ’11, and Rachel (Volk) Spence, Arts ’11, wed May 28, 2016 at St. Daniel the Prophet Church in Chicago.

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Christina (Wright) Craig, Grad ’12,

Grad ’13, named associate editor of Country Woman and Farm & Ranch

BANNER DAY Maggie (Gervase), Arts ’12 and Nick Reedy flew the Blue & Gold on their big day, surrounded by friends and family, including alumni from the Alpha Chi OmegaTheta Omega chapter and Marquette College Republicans. Now they live in Chicago with their cat, Willa.

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and Capt. Kurt Bullard, (Retired), USAF; 2 Lillian, daughter of Wendy (Walker), Comm ’09, and Patrick Kummerer, Arts ’09; 3 Augustin, son of Caitlin (Ubert), Nurs ’10, and Andrew Schueller, Arts ’10; 4 Hudson, son of Megan and Matt Hetrick, Comm ’12; 5 Sara Ellen (Johnson), H Sci ’08, and Charles Smith; 6 Aiden, grandson of Andrea and Mike Ferris, Bus Ad ’79; 7 Kelsey (McCusker), Comm ’10, and Shinji Schweitz; 8 Nora von Dorn, Arts ’11, Grad ’17, and Liam Ortega, Arts ’07; 9 Megan (Sajdak), Comm ’09, and Tom Holtan; 10 Dr. Kathryn Meister, H Sci ’07, Dent ’10, and Matthew Krajnak; 11 Elisa (Kersten), H Sci ’14, and Andrew Schoeberle, Arts ’15; 12 Rachel (Volk), Arts ’11, and David Spence, Bus Ad ’11; 13 Cara (MacLean), Comm ’11, and Simon Kerr, Eng ’12; 14 Bryn, daughter of Shannon (Cogan), Nurs ’99, and Daniel Riley, Arts ’99, with Cormac, Holden and Susannah; 15 Miranda, daughter of Stefanie, H Sci ’05, ’06, and Nik Giachino, Bus Ad ’04; 16 Peyton, daughter of Lindsey (Mochel), H Sci ’09, and Johathan Lynch; 17 Michelle (Buch), Eng ’14, and Jerrick Backous, Eng ’14; 18 Ada, daughter of Julie (Hageman), Comm ’04, and Brian Wells; 19 Neil, son of Dr. Allegra Saving, Arts ’03, and Dr. Benjamin Lerner; 20 Vivian, daughter of Mary (Olson), Law ’06, and Joshua Ronsheim; 21 Kerry, daughter of Kathryn (Costello), Comm ’07, and Charles Provenzano III, Arts ’07; 22 Ava, daughter of Hillary (Stevenson), Arts ’09, and Heinz Amon, Eng ’10; 23 Patrick, son of Natalie and Ryan Dunn, Arts ’01; 24 Ben, born in China, adopted son of Dr. Sarah (Schilke), Arts ’97, and Derek Haroldson.

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♥ Katelyn (Roberts) Stoltenberg, Nurs ’10, and Mikal Stoltenberg, Arts ’02, wed July 18, 2016 at Glacier National Park in Montana.

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David Dicker, Eng ’12, is senior auto engineer at Lightspeed Go-Karts and Laser Tag. ♥ Stacey (Barnum) Emerton, Bus Ad ’12, and Brad Emerton, wed Aug. 26, 2016 at Heritage Hill State Park in Green Bay, Wis. Stacey is a human resources manager at Arrow Electronics.

Brad is a PT tech in the U.S. Army.

Bryan Fay, Eng ’12, is lead agricultural and irrigation engineer for Garden Co-op, Beets by Fay in Waupaca, Wis.

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Matt Hetrick, Comm ’12, and Megan Hetrick: son Hudson Bruce Hetrick born April 6, 2017.

He weighed 8 pounds, 15 ounces and 20.5 inches.

W Kelsey Lavinio, Comm ’12:

son Hayden Trayvon born July 28, 2016. He was 9 pounds, 2 ounces. ♥ Kelly (Boylan) McCloughan, Ed ’12, and Charles McCloughan, Bus Ad ’12, wed June 20, 2017 at St. Brigid of Kildare Church in Dublin, Ohio. ♥ Christopher McNamara, Bus Ad ’12, Law ’15, and Elise (Chapman) McNamara, Bus Ad ’12, wed Oct. 29, 2016 at Old St. Mary Catholic Church in Milwaukee. Elise is the daughter of Daniel Chapman, Eng ’84, Grad ’86, and Lauren Chapman, Eng ’84. Chris is the son of Robert McNamara, Bus Ad ’83, Law ’86; and Kate McNamara, Arts ’84; and grandson of Donald McNamara, Bus Ad ’58, Law ’61; Valerie McNamara, Sp ’87; and Kathleen Horning, Nurs ’56.

Vanessa Morrone, Comm ’12, serves as adviser to the White

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House Press Secretary. Previously she was an assistant press secretary to the Republican National Committee, working on the 2016 presidential race. She began her communications career in the Wisconsin State Legislature as a communications director for the majority leader. ♥ Meaghan (Donohue) O’Brien, Arts ’12, and Tyler O’Brien, Bus Ad ’12, wed Oct. 8, 2016 at Gesu Church in Milwaukee. ♥ Michalel “Micah” (Soriano) Oge, Comm ’12, and Jinx Aaron Oge, wed at the Bay View United Methodist Church in Milwaukee. ♥ Margaret (Gervase) Reedy, Arts ’12, and Nick Reedy, wed May 29, 2016 at Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago.

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Jason Braun, Comm ’13, became associate

product manager for the marine division at Power Products LLC, located in Menomonee Falls, Wis. Hayley Crossman, H Sci ’13, graduated from University of Colorado School of Medicine and is pursuing a residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. ♥ Brittany Hartl, Comm ’13, and Justin Provance, Arts ’13, wed Oct. 7, 2016 at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Justin is a chemical management program manager. Brittany is an admissions counselor.

Maximilian Hess, Comm ’13, is a senior account executive for consumer brands at FleishmanHillard, a leading global communications agency. He is based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Stephen Knoblock, Arts ’13, and Peter McNulty, Arts ’13, Law ’15, began a farming co-op in Port Austin, Mich. Their farmto-table farm comprises 50 acres of alfalfa, sugar beets and lima beans. In January 2017, Huron County authorized clean wind energy on their property as well as cage-free chickens, ostriches and Michigan’s first stingray sanctuary.

Clare Reszel, Ed ’13, chairs the history department at St. Anthony High School in Milwaukee, where she teaches freshmen, sophomores and AP History.

Max Stephenson, Bus Ad ’10, Law ’13, is president-elect for the Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association.

Curtis Taylor, Bus Ad ’13, received an award of distinction for his work at Creighton University. For the past two years he has served as assistant director of multicultural organizations and programming at the university.

Ryan Truesdale, Law ’13, joined Hupy and Abraham S.C. in 2013 as a law clerk and was recently named an associate attorney, working on the firm’s nursing home and neglect division in Milwaukee.

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Michelle (Buch) Backous, Eng ’14, and

Jerrick Backous, Eng ’14, wed Oct. 1, 2016 at St. Benedict Church in Chicago.

Jerrick works as a research and development engineer II at Boston Scientific in Maple Grove, Minn. Michelle is searching for a mechanical engineering position in the Twin Cities area.

Mary Hacker, Comm ’14, became a project manager at EPIC Creative in West Bend, Wis.

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Zachary Holochwost, Grad ’15, was pro moted to aid administrator at Educational Credential Evaluators, a charitable initiative to help vulnerable international populations obtain credential evaluation services at no cost. He has been with the Milwaukee-based nonprofit for more than 10 years. ♥ Brittany (Bernal) Kopitzke, H Sci ’15, and Mathias Kopitzke, Bus Ad ’15, wed July 22, 2016 at Westowne Square on Marquette’s campus.

Brittany finished her master’s degree in speech-language pathology at Arizona State University. Mathias is an accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. ♥ Julia (Otto) Ostlund, Comm ’15, and Samuel Ostlund, Eng ’15, wed Oct. 8, 2016 in Stillwater, Minn. Samuel is a firmware engineer at Brady Corp. Julia is a public relations associate at Mueller Communications in Milwaukee. ♥ Andrew “AJ” Schoeberle, Arts ’15, and Elisa (Kersten) Schoeberle, H Sci ’14, wed May 27, 2017 at St. Maria Goretti Church in Madison, Wis. AJ is a technical problem solver at Epic Systems Corp. in Madison.

Elisa is a speech pathologist.

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Brianna J. Meyer, Law ’17, joined

Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin and Brown LLP’s civil litigation and criminal law team. She began working as a law clerk in 2016 and was awarded the Outstanding Public Interest Law Student Award by the State Bar of Wisconsin in 2017.

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THE GAME OF LIFE

What’s the biggest mistake people make when selling themselves?

One of the biggest mistakes is to try to sell themselves at all — at least in the traditional sense. A far better approach is to engage in a conversation about what is important to a person or a situation. Then and only then — when you understand the situation — does it make sense to explain how you might be helpful.

Can an employee apply lessons learned from entrepreneurs?

One principle successful entrepreneurs utilize is “create, don’t compete.”

Success stories are about creating a new way of doing things (Airbnb), developing a new business model (Amazon) or creating a product that no one thought they would need (Apple).

This notion of “create” is applicable to all. How do you create a way of doing something that is different and better than the status quo?

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Are you really a fan of a setback?

Over my nearly 40-year career I’ve learned not everything one does in life or business works. Sometimes a decision is the right one, but it ends up badly. Don’t lose faith; consider it just a setback but important for learning what does work.

Winning strategies from our expert

Daniel Weinfurter, Bus Ad ’79, Grad ’85 Entrepreneur, 2017 member of the Marquette President’s Society

He’s a serial entrepreneur, author and salesman who believes that selling done correctly is an act of service. His Chicago-based business, GrowthPlay, helps organizations grow. How? By improving the skills and execution of sales professionals. One of his top tips to anyone who wants to be successful is to remember that setbacks can be helpful.

EXPERTS SHARE HOW THEY PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE.

Tell us about an expert we should interview @ magazine.marquette.edu/share.

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CLASS NOTES James Angermeier, Bus Ad ’49, Law ’51;

Bus Ad ’52; Rosalie Klein, Nurs ’52, Grad ’60;

Anthony Dentici, Arts ’49, Law ’52; Duane

Stephen Kohl, Arts ’52; Howard Kotlowski,

Dunham, Jour ’49; Kathryn (Henderick)

Arts ’52; Mita (Easton) Lenz, Arts ’52;

Eckstein, Sp ’49; Carol Hackenbruch, Jour ’49;

Geraldine (Kuss) Lukowski, Arts ’52; Kathleen

George Kakaska, Arts ’49; Marvin Knuth, Eng

(McGowan) Mabie, Arts ’52; Glenn Port, Eng

’49; Grace (Stieber) Merten, Sp ’49; Frank

’52; Bonita (Bloch) Sell, Dent Hy ’52; Carl

Neuwald, Eng ’49; Carol (Brehm) Niebler, Arts

Shinners, Arts ’52; John Ulschmid, Eng ’52;

’49; Edward Ryan, Eng ’49; Ralph Schoofs,

James Bauer, Dent ’53; James Carroll, Bus

Eng ’49; Robert Schrimpf, Bus Ad ’49;

Ad ’53; Ralph Esposito, Arts ’53; Howard

Margaret (Cepon) Smith, Arts ’49; Samuel

Freed, Law ’53; Edward Hannon, Arts ’53;

Stotlar, Arts ’49; Ralph Szablewski, Arts ’49;

(Markscheffel) Mayr, Nurs ’39; Milton Rindt,

Wayne Holt, Bus Ad ’53; Carl Koch, Arts ’53;

David Tawney, Dent ’49; Richard Teskoski,

Arts ’39; William Schubert, Bus Ad ’39

Donald O’Dwyer, Eng ’53; James Pinter, Dent

Bus Ad ’49, Grad ’56; Roland Thurow, Med

’53; Margaret (Beebe) Reisman, Nurs ’53;

1940s

’49; Colleen (Browne) Trainor, Jour ’49; Mary

Helene (Simons) Tenley, Med Tech ’53; John

(Burke) Versackas, Arts ’49

Walker, Arts ’53, Med ’56; Duane Backhaus,

IN MEMORIAM

1930s

Dorothy (Pokrop) Majchrzak,

Dent Hy ’33: Harold Deutsch, Arts ’39; Lucille

Richard Hay, Eng ’41; Casimir

Janiszewski, Eng ’41; Mildred (Moens) LarsonFlatley, Dent Hy ’42; Walter Nickel, Arts ’42; Clara (Jones) Walker, Nurs ’42; Alice (Schwenke)

1950s

Arts ’54, Dent ’57; Ann (Lozoff) Berkman, William Berg, Arts ’50; William

Bergner, Eng ’50; John Buhl, Med ’50; Thomas

Dent Hy ’54; Walter Bradsky, Arts ’54; Justine (Pohl) Burleson, Grad ’54; Donald Gruber, Arts ’54; Ann (Gilhuly) Littlejohn, Arts ’54;

Wutschel, Arts ’42, Grad ’49; Raymond Birck,

Caragher, Bus Ad ’50, Law ’55; Lawrence

Eng ’43; Alice (Worzalla) Foster, Arts ’43;

Fitch, Eng ’50; Edwin Haker, Arts ’50; Loretta

William Schull, Arts ’43, Grad ’47; John Sinsky,

(Leonard) Mikula, Dent Hy ’50; Kathleen

Arts ’54, Med ’57; Amador Ramirez Silva,

Arts ’43, Med ’46, Grad ’54; Harold Danforth,

(Shanahan) Peters, Jour ’50; Joan (Kraniak)

Med ’54; Eugene Russell, Dent ’54; Paul

Med ’44; Walter Schwitzer, Eng ’44; William

Pierce, Jour ’50; Donald Rosenberg, Grad ’50;

Steffes, Arts ’54; James Verfurth, Bus Ad

Hargarten, Eng ’45; Richard Henszey, Eng

Rudolph Royten, Arts ’50; Richard Schmidt,

’54, Grad ’64; William Bartz, Bus Ad ’55;

’45; Mary Ruth (Ubbink) Molumby, Nurs ’45;

Eng ’50, Eng ’51; Marylou (Lenken) Shanahan,

John Ganchoff, Arts ’55, Grad ’57; Daniel

Carl Richards, Eng ’45; June (Mount) Richter,

Jour ’50; Lenore (Herro) Timken, Arts ’50;

Gannon, Eng ’55; Julie (Pfeifer) Haben, Nurs

Jour ’45; William Frymark, Med ’46; Raymond

Cletus Willihnganz, Bus Ad ’50; Hugo Wilms,

’55; Michael Jaekels, Med ’55; Donald

Gieringer, Eng ’46, Law ’48; Thomas Hartnett,

Eng ’50; Frederick Bauer, Eng ’51; Noel Bethe,

Knoedler, Bus Ad ’55; John Lyons, Arts ’55;

Bus Ad ’46; Mary (Kremer) Johnson, Med

Eng ’51; Bernard Budny, Eng ’51; Mary Ellen

G. Kent Maes, Bus Ad ’55; Edgar Mixan, Bus

Tech ’46; Joan (Kleiber) McKeown, Bus Ad

(Anderson) Buellesbach, Bus Ad ’51; James

Ad ’55; Robert Noonan, Bus Ad ’55; Anton

’46; Ernest Miller, Arts ’46, Med ’48; Dorothy

Cassaro, Med ’51; Helene (Gesell) Cook, Nurs

Perpich, Dent ’55; Jerry Remmel, Bus Ad ’55,

(Rehm) Privatt, Arts ’46; Frank Procopio, Med

’51; Robert Geldermann, Bus Ad ’51; Eugene

Grad ’59; Donald Rogers, Eng ’55; Dona

’46; Raymond Salamone, Med ’46; Mary

Hageman, Bus Ad ’51; William Jelinske, Arts

Sauve, Bus Ad ’55; Joan (Jackson) Schwartz,

(Thomey) Sentiere, Arts ’46; Mary (Makowski)

’51; Charles Mangio, Eng ’51; Jean (Ketter-

Sp ’55, Grad ’61; Paul Sutherland, Med ’55;

Damiani, Med Tech ’47; Jeanette Feirer, Jour

hagen) Jones Saur, Dent Hy ’51; Robert

Joseph Szarzynski, Bus Ad ’55; James Treible,

’47; Robert Gerth, Med ’47; Robert Kelm,

Schneider, Arts ’51; John Smith, Eng ’51;

Eng ’55; Robert Wirth, Bus Ad ’55; Herbert

Eng ’47; Gordon Lindemann, Eng ’47; Miriam

Robert Smith, Bus Ad ’51; Harry Sorenson,

Bertke, Eng ’56; Barbara (Becker) Bugalski,

(Ristau) Moller, Sp ’47, Grad ’49; Eugene

Dent ’51; Gilbert Spencer, Bus Ad ’51; Dennis

Arts ’56; David Doll, Dent ’56; Marilyn (Jones)

Scholler, Bus Ad ’47; Raymond Sullivan, Eng

Struck, Bus Ad ’51; Frank Volm, Eng ’51;

Dudenhoefer, Arts ’56; Charles Duster, Arts

’47; Elizabeth (Collings) Swenson, Jour ’47;

Robert White, Dent ’51; Barbara Bergen, Dent

’56; Jack Giovanoni, Bus Ad ’56; James Hagen,

Bernadette (Clark) Bachman, Dent Hy ’48;

Hy ’52; Anita (Bissen) Brennan, Arts ’52;

Arts ’56; Janet (Voissem) Keller, Bus Ad ’56;

Clara (Kopp) Casey, Nurs ’48; Russell LaBorde,

Anne (Lachowsky) Cusick, Grad ’52; Richard

Joan (Monaghan) Kenney, Arts ’56; Roberta

Eng ’48; Helen (Martin) Welch, Arts ’48;

Doubek, Eng ’52; Joseph Fitzsimmons, Med ’52;

(Hilkert) Kordus, Med Tech ’56; Olaf Larson,

Shirley (Griesbach) Altenbach, Bus Ad ’49;

Max Fritschel, Bus Ad ’52; David Hojnacki,

Dent ’56; Ronald Lehner, Bus Ad ’56;

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Thomas Maney, Bus Ad ’54; Richard Murray,

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Barbara (Schmoll) McCann, Jour ’56; Charles

Monroe, Arts ’59; Patrick Pflieger, Arts ’59;

Richard Molloy, Med ’65; Patricia Prybil,

Nelson, Dent ’56; Harvey Nylund, Bus Ad ’56;

Keith Rodenkirch, Bus Ad ’59; Lloyd Spaeth,

Grad ’65; JoAnn (Clowery) Scott, Arts ’65;

Ann (Grattan) Panlener, Grad ’56; Bernard

Eng ’59; Richard Stablein, Eng ’59; Mary (De

David Shipley, Jour ’65; Margaret (Murphy)

Peschke, Bus Ad ’56; Erich Press, Dent ’56;

Sio) Welch, Nurs ’59

Sorauf, Arts ’65; Maurice Weinhold, Bus Ad

James Reed, Bus Ad ’56; James Rooney, Arts ’56, Law ’58; Donald Sharpe, Bus Ad ’56; Mary (Maloney) Smith, Arts ’56; Paul Stringer, Eng ’56; Ann (Bannon) Touzinsky, Arts ’56; John Beaumier, Med ’57; Marilyn (Stromberg) Bodkin, Arts ’57; Joseph Chisholm, Bus Ad

1960s

’65; George Wilmarth, Arts ’65; Karl Avery, Mary (McGinty) Campbell, Grad

’60; Patricia (Donoghue) Chesen, Nurs ’60; Edward Drogowski, Med ’60; Bernard Duke, Dent ’60; Judith (Hayes) Dwyer, Arts ’60; Sally (Berry) Keenan, Arts ’60; Patricia Manion,

’57; Robert Crowley, Law ’57; Herbert Haessler,

Grad ’60; Vern Manthei, Dent ’60; Kathleen

Med ’57; Walter Kelpien, Bus Ad ’57; John

Orth, Bus Ad ’60; Eugene Oswald, Arts ’60,

Lemieux, Eng ’57; Marilyn (McDermott)

Grad ’62; Paul Pannier, Eng ’60; Murrill

McNulty, Jour ’57; Joseph Moulis, Bus Ad

Szucs, Arts ’60, Med ’65; Joseph Arndt, Eng

’57; Marko Pivac, Eng ’57; Gareth Smeltzer,

’61; Grace Cavanaugh, Arts ’61, Arts ’67,

Arts ’57; Terrence Ward, Bus Ad ’57; Charles

Grad ’75; William Dashek, Arts ’61, Grad ’63,

Bauer, Med ’58; Gary Butterfield, Arts ’58;

Grad ’66; David Gennrich, Bus Ad ’61;

Rudolph Filo, Bus Ad ’58; Keith Franz, Bus

Ronald Grossman, Med ’61; Thomas Hughes,

Ad ’58; Margaret (Smith) Hankewich, Nurs

Grad ’61; Donald Laurent, Bus Ad ’61; A.

’58; Bronislaus Jaskulski, Grad ’58; James

Linton Lundy, Arts ’61; Carolyn (Morawski)

Jozwiakowski, Bus Ad ’58; Francis Lietz, Eng

Makurat, Nurs ’61; Paula (Conlin) Osadjan,

’58; Alfred Lorenz, Arts ’58; Gerald Middleton,

Jour ’61; Patricia (Bemis) Schreiber, Arts ’61;

Dent ’58; Erick Nehls, Arts ’58; Richard

Sybil Winter, Dent Hy ’61; Gerald Wirtz, Eng

Salfer, Bus Ad ’58; William Skemp, Law ’58;

’61; Elizabeth Fox, Arts ’62; Joseph Hegarty,

Patricia (Kampine) Weninger, Nurs ’58;

Bus Ad ’62; Thomas Leonard, Arts ’62;

Robert Augustine, Eng ’59; Barbara (Laubach)

Thomas McNamara, Dent ’62; Thomas Muth,

Baudhuin, PT ’59; Ralph Dorsch, Jour ’59;

Eng ’62; Richard Reinhard, Grad ’62; Paul

Mary (Magnusen) Grill, Nurs ’59; Jerry Hermann,

Selzer, Arts ’62; Gordon Vold, Eng ’62; Philip

Bus Ad ’59; Alan Herro, Bus Ad ’59; John

Wagner, Arts ’62, Med ’67; Daniel Bender,

Howard, Dent ’59; Sheila (Kenney) Hoyle, Sp ’59; Frank Kellner, Dent ’59; Laurie LeBlanc, Eng ’59; Thomas Linck, Law ’59; Eugene

Dent ’63; Catherine Condon, Med ’63; Diane (Cory) Grunwaldt, Arts ’63; Kathleen Kalinowski, Grad ’63; Glenn Kanitz, Grad ’63; Thomas Kissel, Law ’63; Rollo Krueger, Eng ’63; Donna (Lyons) McKeown, Med Tech ’63; Richard Nixon, Bus Ad ’63; Robert Sauls, Dent ’63; Frederick Wiener, Arts ’63; Paul

Bus Ad ’66; Thomas Banker, Bus Ad ’66; Eugene Bowen, Dent ’66; Jeanne (Lobmeyer) Cardenas, Grad ’66; Thomas Dunlavey, Eng ’66; Myron Eisenberg, Arts ’66; John Fobian, Eng ’66; John Girsch, Arts ’66; Mary Kane, Grad ’66; Susan (Corcoran) Liebhardt, Sp ’66; Charles Miller, Grad ’66; Paul Prokupek, Grad ’66; Allyn Sweet, Bus Ad ’66; Glenna (Sheeran) Terrell, Arts ’66; James Binzak, Bus Ad ’67; Mary Cates, Bus Ad ’67; Charles Hodge, Dent ’67; Nicholas Koremenos, Bus Ad ’67; Edmund Melkers, Dent ’67; Kathleen Osborne, Jour ’67; Marsha (Mader) Pennefeather, PT ’67; Albert Pumilia, Dent ’67; John Rietzke, Arts ’67; Virginia (DeFazio) Sandroni, Sp ’67; M. Leonelle Schiferl, Grad ’67; Gareth Stark, Arts ’67; Joan (Hammond) Whipp, Arts ’67; Leota Benzel-Schilling, Grad ’68; Robert Boedecker, Arts ’68; Robert Burnazos, Bus Ad ’68; Richard Declusin, Arts ’68, Grad ’72; Helen (Campbell) Ginman, Arts ’68; Susan Hosking, Arts ’68; Marlena Janis, Grad ’68; Michael Korsmo, Arts ’68; George Prietz, Arts ’68; Norine Ryan, Grad ’68; Ronald Schmid, Eng ’68; C. Judley Wyant, Arts ’68, Law ’75; David Dernbach, Arts ’69; Kathleen (Welsh) Dreyer, Nurs ’69; Thomas Rambert, Arts ’69; Christine (Calta) Sehn, Arts ’69; Richard Tulip, Dent ’69; Robert Weingart, Bus Ad ’69

Burbach, Law ’64; James Burtschi, Bus Ad

1970s

’64, Law ’67; Lawrence Cibula, Arts ’64;

Frazier, Arts ’70; Peter Garland, Grad ’70;

Allen Duhr, Grad ’70; Candida

Michael Feeney, Arts ’64; Patricia Obenauf,

Thomas Gole, Arts ’70; Peter Nutini, Arts ’70;

Grad ’64; David Trump, Grad ’64; Rosemary

James Papez, Grad ’70; Norman Paul, Grad

(Burke) Vogt, Nurs ’64; Marlene (Mathison)

’70; John Peltier, Eng ’70; Mary (Osborne)

Culhane, PT ’65; Michael Dooley, Bus Ad

Schmit, Jour ’70; Peter Stamm, Eng ’70, Eng

’65; Jerome Ellis, Dent ’65; Gerald Larsen,

’70; David Stelter, Dent ’70; Susan Bimba,

Dent ’65; Thomas Mohrfeld, Bus Ad ’65;

Arts ’71; Martin Giff, Grad ’71; Michael

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CLASS NOTES Jeffords, Bus Ad ’71; Gerard Mackin, Arts

McCelland, Arts ’78; Paul Janette, Grad ’79;

’71; Melvin Meyer, Eng ’71; Harold Miller,

Michael Korotka, Eng ’79; Esther (Kennedy)

1990s

Teff, Sp ’79

Redman, Eng ’91, Grad ’98; Jennifer Siegler,

Arts ’71; Patricia (Karrer) Miller, Arts ’71; Dennis Redovich, Grad ’71; LaMont Robbins, Arts ’71; Marvin Lazarski, Grad ’72; Kathleen (Dillon) McGonagle, Arts ’72; Bruce Nelson, Bus Ad ’72; Jerome Grismer, Grad ’73; Eleanor (Benton) Headlee, Grad ’73; Thomas Kenney, Bus Ad ’73; Michael McHugh, Arts ’73; Robert Muren, Law ’73; Robert Roels, Law ’73; Verla (George) Thibou, Med Tech ’73; Regina Valuch, Arts ’73; David Wanner, Grad ’73; James Steele, Grad ’74; Christine (Barber) Sullivan, Nurs ’74; Suzanne (Shoberg) Bosetti, PT ’75; Benet Fonck, Jour ’75; Terry (Smiechowski) Kovanda, Arts ’75; Neil Maguire, Arts ’75, Dent ’78; Neil Mazzocchi, Arts ’75; William Rudin, Eng ’75; James Nikstad, Grad ’76; Joseph Saskowski, Bus Ad ’76; Jane (Gallagher) Schaller, Nurs ’76; John Jude, Law ’77; Gail

1980s

Kevin Ryan, Comm ’90; Stephen

Arts ’91; Margery Woll, Grad ’92; Mary (Welter) Barbara (Santopoala) Gensler,

Grad ’80; William Gex, Sp ’80; Daniel Haugh, Bus Ad ’81; Bette Ann Mammone, Grad ’81; Gerald Bowles, Arts ’82; Michael Snyder, Eng ’83; Charles Wiggs, Bus Ad ’83; Cynthia (Robinson) Hutchinson, Grad ’84; Mutsumi Ishii, Arts ’84, Grad ’87; Anita Lagerman,

Solis, Arts ’93; Daniel Floyd, Arts ’94; Michael Kohler, Bus Ad ’96; Jocelyn Mendez, Dent ’96; Lance Stanwyck, Bus Ad ’03; Steven Platz, Eng ’04; Carolynn (Culler) Hladilek, Bus Ad ’07; Jennie (DeLeon) O’Malley, Law ’07; Danielle Zsenak, Arts ’08; Robert Mennenga, Law ’09

(Kothera) Virgo, Bus Ad ’84; Diana (Wirth)

2000s

Matson, Jour ’85; Andrea Grams-Schwantes,

Alexander Stauder, Grad ’13

Eng ’84; Ernest Reitano, Dent ’84; Krista

Brandon Bruner, Dent ’12;

Nurs ’86; Clare Guse, Grad ’86; Barry Lessard, Eng ’86; Thomas Schunk, Grad ’86; Roger Niemic, Grad ’88; Daniel Reardon, Bus Ad ’88; Ricky Amos, Law ’89; Jennifer (Skarr) Oakes, Bus Ad ’89

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