Marquette Magazine Spring-Summer 2019

MARQUETTE MAGAZINE

THE DAY THE MUSIC LIVED

A STORY OF

LOSS, LOVE AND

THE HEALING POWER

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Alumnus of the Year James Sartori at the 2019 Alumni National Awards ceremony.

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“Before you today, with a cap and gown and broken heart, I am filled with hope and joy ... .”

Good policing is about listening, says Marquette’s new chief, Edith Hudson.

JACOB ZELINSKI, COMM ’19, 2019 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS WATCH THE VIDEO @ MARQUETTE.EDU/COMMENCEMENT.

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The coalitionbased effort that won Marquette’s President’s Challenge started with Drs. Amy Van Hecke and Dessie Levy.

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Difference makers 16 Three campus change agents are recognized for promoting service, justice and awareness.

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Charlie Hoover’s Chicago Reach connects young Chicagoans with high-impact nonprofits.

The day the music lived 18 Two sisters created a radio show featuring their dad’s music — and wound up healing others’ pain.

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A professor and partners join forces to deliver mental health services to city families.

Neal Lofy is committed to helping the victims of human trafficking rebuild their lives.

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Shelter from the storm 28 Police detective Neal Lofy leads a nationally recognized effort against human trafficking.

INSPIRE: National Alumni Awards 32 Leaders in life and in their communities, these alumni lift those around them to a better place.

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VICTORY LAP Exchanging jerseys with NBA stars (and regular folks) in city after city and seeing his No. 3 raised to Fiserv Forum’s rafters, Dwyane Wade had a farewell season befitting his legend on- and off-court.

A STAGGERING LEGACY Before his passing in April, the generosity of Ray Eckstein, Law ’49, and his late wife Kay, Sp ’49, helped make possible the creation of the Law School’s Eckstein Hall, the O’Brien Jesuit Residence and more. Read tributes at marquette.edu/eckstein.

BLESSED BY HER PRESENCE

A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary nestles into a new Marian Grotto west of St. Joan of Arc Chapel.

Donors made the grotto possible following a study of campus sacred spaces by President Michael R. Lovell as part of the 18-month Ignatian Colleagues Program.

Artists from Demetz Art Studio of Ortisei, Italy, lovingly crafted the 1,200-pound Mary statue from Carrara marble.

Editor: Stephen Filmanowicz Writing: Mary Schmitt Boyer, Jour ’77; Tim Cigelske, Comm ’04, Grad ’18; Kevin Conway; Allison Dikanovic, Arts ’17; Guy Fiorita; Garrett Gundlach, S.J., Arts ’09; Erik Gunn; Claire Nowak, Comm ’16; Kaley Rohlinger, Comm ’19; Lauren Sieben; Dan Simmons; Jennifer Walter, Comm ’19; Carol Winkel, Bus Ad ’90.

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SEEN+HEARD HUNGER CLEAN-UP Carrying on a strong tradition of studentdriven service, nearly 1,300 Hunger Clean-up volunteers celebrated the event’s 30th anniversary by lending a helping hand at 40 different Milwaukee work sites.

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Marquette University recognizes the distinguished service of Joni Moths Mueller, who edited this magazine for 17 years before retiring in March. Under Moths Mueller’s leadership, the magazine won numerous awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, including a Pride of CASE V gold award for the “100 Years of Hoopla” special issue and a silver award for the inspired magazine redesign executed with designer Robin Winge.

“Joni exemplified the mission of the university with every issue,” says Dave Murphy, Marquette’s vice president for marketing and communication. “Her creativity, passion and sense of humor were key to consistently producing a top-notch magazine of the highest quality.”

The magazine’s new editor, Stephen Filmanowicz, has edited Marquette’s research and innovation magazine, Discover, and many of its annual magazines focusing on individual colleges, since joining the university in

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2010. His journalistic work has been recognized with awards of excellence from the Milwaukee Press Club, the City and Regional Magazine Association and the Kay W. Levin Award of the Council for Wisconsin Writers. He is eager and grateful to build on the traditions established by Moths Mueller and is encouraged by her advice to never expect a shortage of stories of Marquette University and its alumni doing remarkable work making a difference in the world.

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CLASS NOTES

President Lovell leads a breakout meeting of SWIM, the collaboration tackling Milwaukee’s epidemic of neurological trauma.

At right, counseling professor Timothy Melchert shares his expertise.

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bout 18 months ago, my wife, Amy, and I helped launch the community collaborative, Scaling Wellness in Milwaukee (SWIM), to address the devastating impacts of generational trauma. At about the same time, I announced the President’s Challenge grant program with the Johnson Controls Foundation — the first winner is showcased in this issue.

Many Marquette faculty and community organizations involved in SWIM joined forces to prepare challenge proposals. In total, eight highly competitive proposals were submitted involving 37 Marquette faculty members and more than 26 community organizations.

After reading the proposals and reflecting on the first 18 months of SWIM, a fact became clear: Successfully addressing the significant disparities existing within Milwaukee will require efforts that are community led, owned and driven. As Amy and I spend time with and listen to community members and organizations involved in both initiatives, the frustrations that exist are palpable. For decades, community members have seen well-intentioned large organizations and efforts come and go without fundamentally addressing the disparities in their neighborhoods. Why? Because

individuals from outside the communities with great needs have tried to implement solutions without genuine input from the community members themselves. True change happens when power and control are shared with those who best understand the problems and potential solutions. As a large institution in Milwaukee, Marquette needs to rebuild relationships and bring equitable resources while empowering neighborhoods to decide how to deliver those resources.

Through SWIM and the President’s Challenge, we have learned about dozens of amazing grassroots organizations that are addressing community disparities. These organizations have trust, passion and the authentic knowledge needed to make transformational change. What they lack is the ability to scale up their efforts. Through collaborative efforts like SWIM and the President’s Challenge, we can provide Milwaukee with expertise, resources and infrastructure to support these organizations so they can increase capacity and move the needle on our greatest challenges. Six small community organizations are receiving funds in the first President’s Challenge project, and I am excited to see how Marquette will play a supporting role in promoting healing in our city.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell PRESIDENT

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175 ALIVE! Celebrating an Archdiocesan milestone, President Lovell greets Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki, arriving by boat as Bishop John Henni — the city’s first bishop and a driving force in Marquette’s founding — did 175 years ago.

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high-performance engine Marquette’s newest facility finds synergy in combining academic research with athletics. B Y K E V I N C O N W A Y

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or Marquette’s student– athletes, the new Athletic and Human Performance Research Center is the place to be, with a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning space featuring rows of gleaming training machines, 18 in all.

There are team locker rooms and office space for the men’s and women’s lacrosse programs. The golf team has those too, plus an indoor simulator space and practice green immune from Wisconsin’s unpredictable weather.

Just as compelling is what’s down the hall: a spacious research lab stocked with impressive equipment, such as a Dexa bone-density machine and exercise physiology testing systems featuring high-tech sensors and software.

Collaboration between athletics and academics is the name of the game here.

It’s advancing science and could well become a wide-ranging competitive advantage for the Golden Eagles. Researchers associated with the center have already been monitoring the movements of members of the men’s

and women’s basketball teams during practices, gathering data to support improved game-day performances and reduce injuries.

That’s a doubly collaborative effort, pulling in faculty members from exercise science, computer sciences, engineering and communication.

“I really think that we can be a showcase for how to do collaborations with athletics effectively,” says Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science and planning director for the new center. Furthering that effort are four grants seeding research on human performance topics, the one mentioned above and others targeting stroke recovery, lowerlimb fatigue in people with Type 2 diabetes and concussion recovery in student–athletes.

Another round of grants will become available in the fall.

“It’s a hugely growing area — how exercise and physical activity can optimize, not just physical performance, but also cognitive performance,” says Hunter. “We are aiming to better understand the best strategies and physiological responses when optimizing human performance across all ages and abilities including people with stroke, diabetes and concussions.” ¤

An anonymous $1 million gift is supporting the creation of a Neuro Recovery Clinic in the College of Health Sciences to treat individuals with chronic disability related to neurologic conditions such as stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury. The first of its kind in Wisconsin, the clinic offers intensive and long-term services not available in the region.

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speak to succeed Just as Marquette’s Writing Center helps students overcome writer’s block and improve their papers, The MIC speakers lab now offers coaching for another potential stumbling block — public speaking. Since the lab’s founding last fall by the Diederich College of Communication, student tutors have met with students 400-plus times, helping with everything from content plans to breathing techniques.

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cyber certified Marquette’s Center for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Defense was designated a Center of Academic Excellence by two authorities on the subject: the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency. The designation means Marquette graduates are among the nation’s best prepared to protect the country’s IT infrastructure.

EMERGING TECH

global intel More than 500 of the world’s leading technologists will arrive at Marquette in July for the IEEE’s annual COMPSAC conference. Experts will press fast-forward on advanced technologies, such as smart devices and virtual assistants, while addressing bigger challenges, such as personal privacy, trust in artificial intelligence and prevention of malicious abuses.

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ARTS & SCIENCES

polar attraction In search of subatomic particles, Dr. Karen Andeen has camped at the South Pole and maintains contact there.

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r. Karen Andeen’s work as a physicist has taken her where few other scientists, let alone ordinary citizens, have gone before: the frigid tundra of the South Pole.

With oppressively cold temperatures, averaging minus 80 Fahrenheit in winter, this pocket of Antarctica contains no native flora or fauna. There are no cities or towns, and no permanent residents. But scientists like Andeen head there to work at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which houses a telescope designed to observe neutrinos — nearly-massless subatomic particles that contain no electrical charge. The South Pole’s dark, clear ice creates ideal conditions for identifying neutrinos during rare occasions when they interact with matter and create a glowing blue light.

Andeen, an assistant professor of physics, began working with IceCube as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-2000s. The project was just getting underway, pursuing knowledge about

a little-understood particle. “If you’ve heard of neutrinos, you’re lucky, because most people don’t talk about them at all in intro physics classes,” Andeen says. It was only in 2001 that research confirmed that neutrinos have mass.

In Madison, Andeen ran tests on IceCube’s digital optical modules, which were kept in massive freezers meant to replicate extreme polar temperatures. In 2008 Andeen embarked on her first trip to the observatory to deploy the modules she had tested in the lab. She returned for a second trip to IceCube in 2009, and today, from Marquette, she maintains contact with the Antarctic facility, pulling readings from its sensors for her research.

The experience at the observatory was as exhilarating as it was unusual: Andeen spent long days in the brutal cold deploying optical modules that weighed up to 30 pounds each.

She worked alongside oil drillers hired to drill deep into the ice so that the modules could be deployed more than a mile below the surface.

It was grueling physical work, and it was also easy to lose track of time, as the sun constantly illuminated the base during the South Pole’s summer months. The crew’s work was

divided between day, swing, and night shifts.

“I think I was mostly on days, but I wouldn’t have known,” Andeen says.

Andeen moved on from the IceCube project after earning her doctorate, then completed postdoctoral work in New Jersey and in Switzerland. But she knew she wanted to return to the Midwest to teach and conduct research.

When an opportunity arose, she eagerly joined Marquette’s physics faculty — and rejoined IceCube, where she’s again a team member, working remotely for now.

Andeen’s research aims to fill in existing gaps in cosmic ray physics — key information regarding their creation, acceleration and propagation that is lacking, even though these rays constantly bombard earth’s atmosphere.

With a new National Science Foundation grant, she will expand her analysis of cosmic rays and develop upgrades to IceCube’s surface detectors, which will generate data supporting new neutrino and cosmic ray insights.

Andeen’s renewed partnership with IceCube has brought with it valuable opportunities for Marquette undergraduates too. In the basement of the Wehr Physics Building, students are building a prototype of a new surface detector for IceCube, complete with an industrial-size freezer used for running tests at arctic temperatures.

“In particle physics, it’s hard for students to get hands-on experience,” says the professor who’s worked alongside oil drillers.

“Particularly women get tracked toward data analysis. I like doing hardware projects in my lab so I can say to women students, ‘Yes, you definitely can get hardware experience here on campus.’” ¤

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out front, again Creating the Institute for Women’s Leadership is an ambitious, and intuitive, move for the university.

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As the world’s first Catholic university to educate men and women together, Marquette has a long history of leading in advancing the interests of women. The Institute for Women’s Leadership, then, is a natural step in extending this legacy of progress, launching this summer with ambitions for positive impacts on campus and influence far beyond it.

In true Ignatian fashion, the key to achieving these goals will be research coupled with action. Students and faculty will collaborate on research projects, exploring female leadership and gender equality in education and the workplace. Then they will implement their findings through community partnerships.

Supported by a $5 million gift from the Thomas J. Rolfs Foundation, the institute will provide seed funding and seek external funding for this research. It will also offer programs on leadership development and networking opportunities to connect women from the Marquette and Milwaukee communities.

“It’s not just women who benefit from all of this work,” says Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp, vice president for research and innovation, whose office has drawn women from across campus for institute planning meetings this spring and will oversee the faculty-led institute when it launches. “Everybody in society benefits when we utilize the talents of people in open and inclusive ways.” ¤

Award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien did more than deliver Marquette’s annual Nieman Lecture this spring. She spent hours with journalism students. And she moderated the President’s Panel on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, leading President Michael R. Lovell; Kali Murray, associate professor of law; students Christian Norfleet and Cambry Getter; and audience members in a frank, constructive discussion of building inclusivity.

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film fellows Marquette has partnered with Oscar-winner John Ridley’s Milwaukee filmmaking hub, No Studios, to launch a fellowship program for two emerging filmmakers, including one whose work will focus on local social issues. Each fellow will produce a short work and, in the process, guide Marquette students through mentorship, classroom discussions and campus screenings.

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BEYOND BOUNDARIES

DIFFERENT TO A DEGREE

Studying in Ho Chi Minh City through a new

partnership with Vietnam National University, Jake Russ describes vivid ways his current setting differs from life back home — 90-degree temperatures, campus buildings with outdoor hallways, shops that open to the street. The civil engineering major and junior-to-be has found cultural differences too, along with deep commonalities shared by people everywhere. “If you can have a good sense of the connectedness of all people, cultural competency comes without trying to ‘find it,’” he says.

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trailblazing by example Marquette’s new police chief is a ceiling-breaker, expert commander and believer in police as relationship builders. B Y G U Y F I O R I T A

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hief Edith Hudson has broken several glass ceilings during her 25-year career — as field supervisor in the Milwaukee Police Department’s Tactical Enforcement Unit, as the department’s assistant chief, and now as chief of the Marquette University Police Department. Even so, she says she’s never felt like a trailblazer.

“I didn’t do things to be the first African American or the first woman. If I thought I was the best person for the job I applied for it. It did leave me with an overwhelming desire to be perfect. There were a few naysayers that I wanted to quiet, but most of the pressure I put on myself.”

As chief, Hudson brings her dedication to community policing to campus. It’s something she learned to value as commander of District 3 on Milwaukee’s Near West Side, which includes Marquette. “As police, we

used to believe that it was our job to tell communities what they needed. Now we know we have to listen. Good policing is about relationship-building. Even though there is a lot of turnover on a campus, the same rule applies. We want the students to know they can talk to us. We’re here for them.”

As the mother of a college sophomore, Hudson also understands her role from a parent’s perspective. “Parents want to be kept in the loop with factual, timely information. They want to know that the people responsible for their child’s safety care and are working diligently to keep the campus safe.”

When not in uniform? “I love to go to church with my family, and I never miss a chance to watch my son compete in track and field. And if you come to a Marquette basketball game, I guarantee you’ll see me in the stands.” ¤

Fresh from a Big East regular-season championship, Marquette’s women’s basketball program has a new coach with tools and experience to build more momentum. Megan Duffy arrives from Miami University (Ohio), where the RedHawks notched the largest seasonover-season improvement in the nation during her first year. While an undergraduate at Notre Dame, Duffy was a finalist for national player of the year and played on the 2005 USA gold medalwinning team at the World University Games. After graduating with a double degree in psychology and computer applications, Duffy played three seasons in the WNBA. She owns 13 postseason appearances as a player and coach — and she’s targeting more.

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peace legacy Dr. Terrence Rynne, Grad ’06, founder of Marquette’s Center for Peacemaking and instructor of theology, was named 2019 Humanitarian of the Year in this year’s James W. Foley Freedom Awards.

As a centerpiece of Rynne’s work, the Marquette center and the hundreds of students it’s educated in peacemaking and conflict resolution were featured extensively in a video shown at the awards gala.

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digital eagles Marquette’s history-making move into esports holds appeal for STEM students. B Y M A R Y S C H M I T T B O Y E R , J O U R

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defining role Marquette guard Markus Howard was named Jesuit Player of the Year and Big East Player of the Year for his junior season. The day of the latter honor, The New York Times hailed him with the headline, “A Top Scorer Changes the Definition of the Complete Player,” for his mental health advocacy, his co-founding of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter and other examples of leadership.

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arquette Director of Athletics Bill Scholl is not a gamer. But you’d never know that hearing him talk about the newest addition to his department — the varsity esports (electronic gaming) team.

“It’s actually a lot of fun to be starting something new like this,’’ Scholl says.

Although Marquette’s club esports team has been competing against other Big East clubs since 2015, the university is the first major NCAA Division I university to move esports into its athletics department.

“At its core, it’s a team,’’ Scholl explains.

“We know what teams are about. We know how to hire coaches. We know how to create playing space. We know how to put schedules together. It makes sense to be in the Athletics Department because it looks and feels so much like everything else we do.’’

Unlike other varsity sports governed by the NCAA, esports is governed by the National

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Association of Collegiate Esports. NACE has 117 schools and 2,800 students participating in what is widely viewed as the fastest growing sport in the world with a global audience expected to reach 580 million by 2020.

Plans call for Marquette’s coed varsity team to begin competing during the 2019– 2020 school year in a new state-of-the-art space, mostly funded by corporate partners and donors. The space will be open to all students when not in use by the varsity team.

In time, the program could offer scholarships and collaborate on an academic curriculum, a potential draw for gaming enthusiasts, especially in the STEM fields of study.

Esports gives students who don’t consider themselves traditional athletes “a path to participate on a team and achieve all the social and leadership benefits that varsity sports provide,” says Dr. Michael Zimmer, who will join Marquette as an associate professor of computer sciences this fall. He adds, “It elevates skills that many STEM-oriented students possess.” ¤

START START TRADING PROCESS WITH A PENCIL

A student turning a pencil into an autographed baseball sounds like something out of a magic class. It’s actually part of an assignment for the Negotiations and New Ventures course taught

by Dr. Kristie Rogers, assistant professor of management. Starting with a pencil and trading up, students learn to initiate requests, face rejection and leverage “how value is subjective and fluid,” says Rogers.

After a chance meeting at a local restaurant with Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Freddy Peralta and a chat in Spanish, international student Oscar Gómez Arias swung into action. He made contact over Instagram, commenced negotiations and made the exchange at Miller Park — a winning trade and a real lesson in business savvy.

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Face your fear of rejection and learn how to leverage value.

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Start negotiations to trade your pencil for a signed baseball

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hip, hip humanities With more than 200 participants and attendees, the first Celebrating the Humanities at Marquette conference generated “unmistakable enthusiasm,” reports Dr. James South, director of the Center for the Advancement of the Humanities. Multidisciplinary panels showcased work by faculty and students. Keynote topics included literature’s relationship to the issues of migration, religion and national identity, and the centrality of humanistic inquiry in Jesuit education, as presented by Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J., of Regis University. Planning is already underway for next year’s conference.

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A REMINDER TO NOTICE

what I nearly missed Fear, jazz and grace too big to see: when a bold prayer leads to a scary-but-valuable place. B Y G A R R E T T G U N D L A C H , S . J .

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nother long sigh started the morning in a city I still didn’t know, a city that still didn’t know me. Even though it’s been nine months. Even though Paris and its people are delightful.

But once again, another tough morning. So, as Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuits, suggested we do, boldly and honestly, I prayed for a grace: “God, I’m really needing some roots, some welcome, some warmth today.”

A normal day turned into an abnormal night with a bike ride across the Seine to the artsier north, to a packed café where a friend organized jazz jams — saxes stacked on tables, cases in the corners, singers and guitarists and drummers taking turns around the ancient piano. I slid safely into a booth with a beer, happy to get out of the way. Just before the last number, my friend took the mic with a huge grin I knew wasn’t good.

Three minutes later I was fumbling for the right harmonica and somehow, someway,

playing my first-ever bars of jazz, still shaking visibly as I retreated back to my booth through applause. “Dude, come play,” the dynamic jazzman Aleš had said earlier to Garrett, the rookie harmonica player. “Yeah, sure, I’ll bring them along,” I said about the pocketable instruments, mostly joking. But I’m glad I did, anyway. I even talked to the band afterward.

The next morning, I started unpacking the night, fear first but grateful. And it wasn’t until a few days later when I just barely saw it for what it was: an answer to my prayer. Bold ask, bold response — I should have known.

But I nearly missed it. Not because it was too subtle, but because it was too big — scary big. But isn’t this prayer’s task and its joy sometimes — hugging a tree that’s too big, how far around this gift can you reach your arms in embrace? ¤ ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Before moving to France for studies, Jesuit Scholastic Garrett Gundlach, S.J., Arts ’09, taught at Red Cloud High School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

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my laptop, myself As students type away on assignments, the backs of their laptops work too — helping students express themselves.

Through stickers, they say: I travel, I decorate, I advocate, I seek adventure, I miss home, I care and much more.

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DIFFERENCE MAKERS Saying “no” to the status quo, they became change agents — arranging legal assistance where it’s needed, opening eyes to racial inequities and helping student-athletes help an impoverished community.

Be The Difference in action, indeed. B Y E R I K G U N N Angela Schultz was helping a Milwaukee Justice Center client with family court paperwork — the final shards of a broken relationship — when the woman asked why she couldn’t get a lawyer, like the public defender who had represented her on a criminal charge.

In civil court, there are very few resources for free representation, explained Schultz, assistant dean for public service at Marquette Law School.

In family law matters, free civil legal aid resources are only available for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking.

No, that doesn’t apply to me, the woman insisted. But not 10 minutes later, she mentioned

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two hospitalizations. Her former partner had hurt her, once breaking her arm. Schultz gently suggested the injuries might, in fact, qualify her for free legal representation.

Moments like this remind Schultz why she left social work 12 years ago to earn a law degree: not to escape clients’ conflicts, but to equip herself for them.

Schultz carries these experiences with her in spearheading Marquette’s partnership with the Milwaukee Bar Association and the Milwaukee County Clerk of Courts in the Milwaukee Justice Center, which gives legal help to people in family court.

At his Presidential Address in January, Marquette President Michael R. Lovell recognized Schultz and the Milwaukee Justice Center as one of three 2019 Difference Makers. He described them as “extraordinary people on our campus whose actions or initiatives have helped an individual, a group of people or a community organization in a large or small way.” In other words, living embodiments of the Be The Difference spirit.

People who go to family court for matters such as child custody, child support and divorce often need an assist. They aren’t guaranteed a lawyer.

“The family courts are where most people are unrepresented,” says Schultz. So the justice center, with more than 150 volunteer lawyers and nearly as many law students, helps them navigate the system.

Many are too poor to hire one. “The family courts are where most people are unrepresented,” says Schultz. So the justice center, with more than 150 volunteer lawyers and nearly as many law students, helps them navigate the system.

The center is one of six clinics in the public service portfolio Schultz oversees, staffed by a cadre of 230 law students and nearly 300 volunteer lawyers who offer brief pro bono legal advice and referrals.

Five are site-based; the sixth is a mobile clinic — a law office on wheels, if you will. These programs introduce students to lawyers in the community and teach them about the complex lives of people caught up in the system. “There is a real opportunity to open students’ eyes,” says Schultz.

Justice, and opening eyes, also underlie Marquette theatre student Malaina Moore’s play, White Privilege. The play grew out of a class assignment, in which Moore — another Difference Maker — drew inspiration from a widely circulated Facebook dialogue between an African American woman and a white man reluctantly grappling with advantages conferred on him by his skin color. It was also informed, she says, by feeling conspicuous in a largely white campus environment in contrast with her

upbringing in Milwaukee elementary and high schools and her family’s Catholic parish, all overwhelmingly multicultural.

Recognizing a work-in-progress ready to transcend a classroom setting, theatre faculty arranged for a workshop with professional actors that Moore used to refine the script. Debuting the play for Marquette Theatre’s fall season — and performing in it — gave Moore an outlet to share frustrations about persistent racial disparities and open up a dialogue around race. It resonated with others, she found, quoting a friend: “There’s a lot of history that we don’t know and a lot of things that go unheard of and unsaid.”

Cue the accolades. The play was featured in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s regional showcase in Madison in January. The same organization’s national selection team handed Moore an even bigger honor, its Citizen Artist Award, recognizing “an artist, teaching artist, social entrepreneur or other individual who embodies community connection, impact and at least one of the ideals attributed to the work and life of John F. Kennedy.” Lovell has said, “The play helped transform the way I see the world and interact with others.”

Schultz and Moore were recognized for difference-making close to home;

Moore and White Privilege earned two awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Katie Simet’s contribution took her and 15 Marquette student–athletes to Costa Rica, where they spent a week making a concrete basketball court in a community so impoverished, kids had only dirt roads on which to dribble. Simet, Arts ’06, assistant director for academic services in the Intercollegiate Athletics Department, organized Marquette’s first-ever service trip specifically for student–athletes, seeking for them the same rewarding experience she had as an undergrad on a service trip to Jamaica.

For student–athletes with academicyear schedules that are often mapped to the minute, giving up precious break time wasn’t easy but often proved a revelation.

Men’s basketball floor leader Markus Howard felt pushed physically beyond what he’s experienced on the hard court, ending days sunburned, sore from head to toe, hands ripped with cuts. “To be able to reach out to kids, who don’t have a lot, to see them so joyful and their spirits really lifted, it really makes me appreciate all that we have,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “I came back looking at the world through their perspective.” For Simet, reactions like that make the Costa Rica project a pilot worth repeating. ¤

Before Simet helped bring 15 Marquette student–athletes to Juanilama, Costa Rica, to build a concrete basketball court, children could only dribble balls on dirt roads.

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AFTER JENNIFER WALTER AND HER SISTER NANG LOST THEIR FATHER SUDDENLY, THEY STARTED PLAYING HIS FAVORITE SONGS ON MARQUETTE RADIO. THE SHOW THEY CREATED, DAD ROCK RADIO, TOOK ON A LIFE – AND A HEALING POWER – OF ITS OWN.

THE DAY THE MUSIC LIVED B Y J E N N I F E R W A LT E R , C O M M ’ 1 9

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Not afraid to make her grief public, Walter says “it was the only way I could properly process what I was going through. I wanted to show my peers that it was okay to not be okay.”

The old radio studio in the basement of Johnston Hall wasn’t meant for more than four guests. There were exactly three microphones and occasionally an extra chair in the corner for someone to watch. But it didn’t stop me from cramming as many of my new college friends as possible in the closet-sized studio on Friday nights to spin tunes and hang out.

And the support didn’t stop there. I seldom did a show without a text or call from one of my most loyal fans — my dad.

“Hi Jenn … Are you doing your radio show tonight?” Dad would text from our home in the suburbs of Detroit. “I’ll be listening.”

I spent four years of high school as an awkward, introverted teenager who spent too much time blogging about her favorite indie bands on Tumblr and

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buying CDs off the Barnes & Noble clearance rack.

So it was no surprise when I took my interests to the airwaves with an alternative rock show on Marquette Radio during my freshman year in 2015. It was fun, but often directionless and awkward.

Regardless of the show’s quality, my parents would use the internet to tune in every Friday.

Dad sometimes wrote to me with song suggestions, many of them seemingly plucked from his own college playlists. Depending on how I was feeling that day, I would either roll my eyes and add the song to the queue or roll my eyes and text back, telling him I wasn’t going to play it.

I wasn’t mad when he sent in requests, even when they ranged outside the modern alternative rock theme I’d carved out for the program. I knew they came from an honest, caring place — he just wanted to be involved in my life. But some songs he suggested were just a bit too … dad.

Ironically, my Friday nights this past school year have been dedicated to playing my dad’s music — just his music — over the air. The new studio on the second floor of Johnston has three more mics and way more space, which I have filled with strangers, friends and family alike.

It is the least I can do to keep the music playing, without the encouragement of one of my biggest fans.

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he last memory I have before I left to study in Germany in spring 2018 is of my parents standing in the Detroit airport, waving goodbye as I left to pass through security. Dad wore his signature white New Balance sneakers, puffy black jacket and beige baseball cap. Mom stood next to him in her purple coat, waving as she watched me walk away.

It was the last time I ever saw my parents together.

Three months later I was staying at a hostel in Hamburg with a few students from my study abroad program. We had just come back from the bar downstairs and were sitting on the floor talking when my phone rang. My sisters Natalie and Claire were trying to reach me over FaceTime, so I answered.

“Jenn, something happened. We need to talk to you.”

“Can I stay in the room? My friends are here, too. Or do you want me to go in the hall?”

“Go in the hall. Something terrible happened.”

It was almost midnight in Hamburg — late afternoon back in the Midwest — when I found myself pacing urgently in the halls of the hostel, desperately trying to reach my dad by phone. I had the basics pieced together now: It was his last day on a business trip to Las Vegas when his arm suddenly went numb in a casino. He had taken an extra day to visit one of his college pals and was due to fly home the next day.

But instead he was rushed via ambulance to the hospital. Mom was boarding a plane to Vegas as I made call after unsuccessful call.

I left a panicked voicemail on his work cell.

“Call me when you get the chance,” I said. There was no response, and I still don’t know if he ever heard the message. But before he went into surgery, I got a single text: “I love you Jennifer.”

That night I slept like a baby, trusting that when I woke everything would be back to normal. The aneurysm hadn’t burst yet, he was now in surgery, he had the best doctors, and my mom was on the way to be with him. The situation was as good as it could’ve been.

It was the last night I slept soundly for almost a year.

DAD ROCK PLAYLIST Loaded on his daughter’s iPod by Steve Walter, these are the songs at the heart of Dad Rock Radio.

KODACHROME Paul Simon

CALLING CAPTAIN AUTUMN Haircut 100

HAPPY HOUR The Housemartins

CYNICAL GIRL Marshall Crenshaw

BIGMOUTH STRIKES AGAIN The Smiths

KISS ME Sixpence None the Richer

BROWN EYED GIRL Van Morrison

BRIMFUL OF ASHA Cornershop

PULLING MUSSELS (FROM THE SHELL)

Squeeze

My healing process started with a playlist. Before the funeral, my sisters and I attempted to compile all the songs we grew up listening to — the tracks we loved and the ones dad played ad nauseam, until we hated them. It was the best way we could think of to keep his memory alive.

Dad listened to a massive spectrum of music, from British alt outfits, like Yaz and The The, to classic New Wave staples, like The Smiths and Elvis Costello. There was a slew of modern groups he enjoyed as well: Barenaked Ladies, Old 97’s and Cake, to name a few.

As someone who grew up in 1970s Detroit, he also had a soft spot for jazz and Motown classics.

He owned a boxed set of Nat King Cole CDs, and we found vinyl albums from The Temptations stashed in the basement after he died.

The plan was to make some decent headway on the playlist by the funeral reception so we could play it at the restaurant. We had mentioned the project to a few relatives who were excited to hear the songs we picked.

But when the reception came around, the speakers at the restaurant didn’t work. So we sat there, half-heartedly eating lasagna and telling stories to try to keep the mood up. I sent the playlist to several relatives and friends and invited them to add to it.

Still, I felt like there was something more that needed to be done. My dad didn’t live 50 years just for his music to stop playing right after the reception.

What they don’t tell you about grief is that it takes and takes and takes. I went back to Germany after the funeral and trudged through a month of what should have been some of the most carefree weeks of my college career. Classes were almost finished, the flowers were in bloom and I was within a train ride of some of the most beautiful cities in Europe.

Instead I found myself just looking for places to sit. I would hike to a hill by some wind turbines a short distance from my dorm and look out over the valley, feeling nothing. For several weeks I avoided mirrors because I was afraid I wouldn’t recognize myself.

When Dad passed away, I anticipated sadness.

I expected emptiness, guilt and the bottomless pit of what-ifs. But I didn’t know how deeply lonely I would feel.

Things didn’t get better when I moved back to Milwaukee to start a summer internship at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It was a position I had worked toward for three years, but somehow I still felt empty. I occasionally talked about my loss with

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EPISODES

MORE DAD ROCK, PLEASE

Get to know the show that invites listeners to “lace up your white sneakers and zip up your cargo shorts” for rockdriven conversation inspired by a lost father and his favorite tunes.

Find episodes at soundcloud.com/ dadrockradio and show news at facebook.com/ wrinklycargoshorts.

The show will be back on the air this fall at the student radio station of DePaul University, where Nang Walter is enrolled. Jenn Walter will serve as call-in co-host, correspondent and producer.

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friends and

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“Grief and Superman” — “One of the

most candid and relatable discussions of grief I’ve had,” says Walter of episode 16.

Fellow student Natalie Sanchez joins her to discuss her father, Paul, who died suddenly in April 2018 and was an avid musician and fan of oldies, like Walter’s father.

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“Kevin’s Playlist”— Walter’s father’s

brother, Kevin, submitted a playlist by mail — “Yes, the U.S. Postal Service,” she says — and then called into episode 8 to explain his song choices. “We got to hear his fun memories of our dad as a teenager and college student,” says Walter.

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“Dragonflies” — “I know how painful it

is to lose a parent suddenly, but it’s hard to imagine what it’s like for a parent to lose a child,” says Walter. Episode 21 with special guest Mark Zoromski, Marquette’s director of student media, “helped me to better understand what grief and healing looks from a parent’s perspective,” she says.

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“Space Frogs from Planet Xeno”

— Featuring recorded clips of her dad’s high school band, Space Frogs from Planet Xeno, episode 11 took first place in the Air Check category at the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association 2019 student awards. Another episode (16), featuring hosts Jenn and Nang Walter and friend John Burke, placed second.

colleagues, but no one seemed to understand. I couldn’t name more than two people my age who had lost a parent.

Two things kept me going during that time — music and my family.

Every time I got in my car, I plugged in the iPod my parents gave me when I was 10 years old. It was full of Dad’s music: songs he put on there just so I would have something to listen to. (In those days, we still had to download purchased songs, which limited the access of my 10-yearold self to her favorite pop songs.)

In my free time, I would scroll through Spotify looking for Dad songs to add to the playlist. It grew until my sisters and I compiled about eight hours of music. And we still had more to go through as we discovered Dad’s CDs, cassettes and vinyl in the basement.

The playlist helped me fill the void. Whenever I listened to Dad’s music, I felt less alone. It brought back memories of hearing him play the same few songs on his guitar over and over. I recalled family road trips and lazy Sunday evenings with Dad blasting his favorite tunes from the computer. I remembered moments of discovery and rediscovery, like when I started listening to Paul Simon in high school and realized I knew a fair amount of his songs already, thanks to my dad.

So when the idea to start a new radio show popped into my head, I embraced it. I started drawing logos and thinking of ways to bring my family into the experience. My sister Natalie, who we call Nang, was about to start her freshman year at DePaul University. She would be just over an hour away, so I thought that would be the perfect opportunity to spend more time with her.

And most of all, it would give me a platform to get to know my dad better. By making weekly playlists and finding stories to fill air time, it would push me to reach out to family and friends to find new music and memories from all parts of my dad’s life.

I wasn’t afraid to make my grief public. After all, it was the only way I could properly process what I was going through. I wanted to show my peers that it was okay to not be okay.

“That was Pulling Mussels From the Shell by Squeeze,” I announced hesitantly at the beginning of our first live broadcast in September 2018.

“Yeah … we’re doing well here … Dad Rock Radio … if you just tuned in, I’m Jenn … .”

“And I’m Nang,” my sister chimed in.

Well, we were off. I felt shy in front of the mic, just like during freshman year. We were essentially winging it, but the energy between my sister and me carried us through the show as we told our story, and evidently our dad’s, to anyone listening.

I didn’t feel pressure to live up to any expectations for the broadcast. In fact, I had no expectations.

I just wanted to play Dad’s music and hang out with my sister.

Yet there was part of me that wanted this show to transcend my own story. I craved a space to talk about my grief and connect with those who had experienced a deep loss and those who hadn’t.

What better way to do that than create my own space through music and storytelling?

Week by week, it felt a bit more like that place.

And more.

At the end of 2018, we even learned that two clips from early episodes were selected as finalists for the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s student awards. In one, my friend John Burke spoke of the lessons his dad passed down through music as they played guitar and drums together at bars in Illinois.

In a second episode selected as a finalist, “Space Frogs From Planet Xeno,” I played recordings from my dad’s high school band. The clips wound up taking second and first place in the “Air Check” category, respectively.

It felt surreal. After a semester of minimal planning, candid storytelling and jam sessions in the studio, people were taking notice of our project. We were starting to see that the show was impacting more than just us and our family. t was the Monday after WISN-12 aired a story about Dad Rock Radio that I got a heartfelt message from a fellow student Natalie Sanchez. We had met before in a small grief support group organized by Campus Ministry, but hadn’t connected outside our bimonthly meetings.

She lost her dad about a month before I did. His name was Paul, a self-taught drummer and guitarist — just like my dad.

And just like me, Natalie made a playlist.

That week, I invited her to come on the show. We played some of her dad’s music, chatted about his favorite bands and the activities her family would do together before he passed away. Then the conversation drifted toward the inevitable — her dad’s sudden death and the healing process that had taken place since.

FAST CAR Tracy Chapman

MIGHTY QUINN Manfred Mann (WHAT’S SO FUNNY ‘BOUT)

PEACE, LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING

“Sometimes Dad Rock Radio is a little more dad than it is rock.

There are episodes where I feel like I am in a therapy session. There are others where we just jam and forget about the hard times.”

Elvis Costello

BAD, BAD LEROY BROWN Jim Croce

WHAT I AM Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

HEY THERE LITTLE INSECT Jonathan Richman

TIMEBOMB Old 97s

SECRET Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

STRAIGHT UP Paula Abdul

MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA Gladys Knight & The Pips

JESSIE’S GIRL Rick Springfield

It was probably the most candid conversation I’ve had about grief with an acquaintance. We didn’t know each other well at the time, but when Natalie spoke, I felt like I was looking in a mirror.

“Grief doesn’t go away,” she said on the show.

“You don’t get over it. You don’t move on, but over time you learn how to accommodate that pain, and you make more room in your life for other things.”

In the following weeks, I saw an outpouring of support from friends and strangers alike. After Natalie, three more guests came on the show to talk about losing their parents and the significant role that music played in their lives.

I think how desperately lonely I felt right after losing my dad. As I grappled with my loss, it felt like none of my friends could truly, deeply understand what I was going through. So I took to the airwaves, whether anyone was listening or not.

And now, I could see that I was not alone.

I never had been, even if I started this show thinking I was the only one my age who had experienced a traumatic loss.

Sometimes Dad Rock Radio is a little more dad than it is rock. There are episodes where I feel like I am in a therapy session. There are others where we just jam and forget about the hard times.

But we are always honest. There are good days and bad days, and the music plays through it all. ¤ A 2 0 1 9 G R A D UAT E of the Diederich College of

Communication and former executive director of the Marquette Wire, Jennifer Walter is an editorial assistant and digital writer for the national science magazine Discover. Like her dad, she is a self-taught guitarist, drummer and singer. When not steeped in ’80s music, she is likely listening to jazz, salsa, indie rock or hip hop.

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“Amy, meet Dessie.”

With those words, a friendship began about a decade ago after their chance meeting.

Dr. Amy Van Hecke, a then-new psychology professor at Marquette had opened an autism clinic on campus, and Dr. Dessie Levy, thendean of the School of Health Sciences at Milwaukee Area Technical College, brought her granddaughter to the clinic for an evaluation.

Neither could imagine where this chance meeting might lead.

Their “hello” grew into a dialogue about each woman’s work. They began exploring barriers preventing some children with autism — children of color from city neighborhoods — from receiving the same high-quality care as suburban counterparts. As Levy led Van Hecke on a journey of discovery into the lives of Milwaukee’s central city residents, the pair did something that happens too rarely in cities like Milwaukee. They stepped outside their own communities and comfort zones. They began bridging distances that weren’t so large geographically — a few blocks or a few miles — but extended much farther in terms of time and tradition. As they recognized autism’s relationships to larger unmet needs, their focus broadened into related

BEFORE THERE WAS THE NEXT STEP CLINIC — POISED TO DELIVER MENTAL HEALTH CARE TO FAMILIES IN DESPERATE NEED — THERE WAS A PROFESSOR AND A COMMUNITY PARTNER CROSSING ALL THE USUAL BOUNDARIES.

BY DAN SIMMONS

issues of mental health and trauma. They added allies. A cascade of problems revealed cascading solutions. They dreamed bigger.

Fortunately, Van Hecke, Levy and their partners weren’t working in a vacuum. Since becoming president of Marquette in 2014, Dr. Michael R. Lovell has encouraged members of the university community to engage the communities around them in deeper ways — to be without boundaries and to renew their focus on servant leadership in partnership with those most in need.

Lovell and his wife, Amy, embarked on a quest of their own as they learned of research on the epidemic of trauma — exposures to violence, homelessness, addicted or incarcerated parents — threatening young lives in Milwaukee.

They helped to form an organization, Scaling Wellness in Milwaukee, promoting traumainformed care and community-wide responses to the epidemic.

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“THEIR APPLICATION WAS NOT ONLY INNOVATIVE IN HOW IT APPROACHED EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAUMA,” SAYS DR. DAN BERGEN, “BUT IT ALSO SOUGHT TO GATHER A BROAD GROUP OF PARTNERS FROM VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS. THAT’S WHAT SET IT APART.”

In the inaugural President’s Challenge competition, Dr. Amy Van Hecke’s team and seven other teams proposing responses to trauma needs in the city vied for a $250,000 award.

In all, 37 Marquette faculty from eight schools across campus were included in the bids, plus 30 community partners representing 26 different community organizations.

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These convictions helped shape Lovell’s early 2018 announcement of the inaugural President’s Challenge grant. Supported by the Johnson Controls Foundation, the award would provide $250,000 over two years to fund a project that would break old paradigms — or establish new ones — reaching across departmental and college lines and incorporating a community organization as a full partner in a project that aims to change the trajectory of lives in Milwaukee.

In January, these stories merged when Van Hecke and a diverse team of Marquette colleagues and community partners, including Levy, were awarded Marquette’s first President’s Challenge grant. The quality of the eight submitted proposals made for “a difficult choice,” says Lovell. Yet the plan from Van Hecke’s team to create a mental health clinic for children and families in a desperately underserved neighborhood of the city best embodied the bold, collaborative principles of the challenge. “The energy and enthusiasm, the innovation and collaboration” of the group “has been nothing less than awe-inspiring,” exclaimed Grady Crosby, vice president for public affairs and chief diversity officer at Johnson Controls, in announcing the award.

“This clinic will be a missing piece where we can really address the mental health needs and developmental needs of our children and their families,” says Tracey Sparrow, president of Next Door Milwaukee, which will help operate the clinic in space adjacent to its facility in Milwaukee’s Metcalfe Park. Currently, those children face waits of up to a year for mental health services — delays the new clinic will slash practically to zero.

“We looked at where we were sending families to be diagnosed and treated, and it was like this ring around the city,” says Van Hecke. “Why aren’t there any diagnosticians in the city? So we thought, ‘That’s our next big problem.’ And that’s really where the President’s Challenge came in.”

To understand how Van Hecke’s autism clinic on campus grew, a decade later, into a broad-based

mental health clinic set to open later this year, start with Levy. She has served as an ambassador, of sorts, to the central city for Van Hecke and a guide across barriers that can exist between care providers and people needing their care. “Marquette has a gem in Amy, in her work and her compassion,” says Levy.

“A lot of people do things because it’s their profession or their job. Amy does it because she has a compassion for people.”

As a first step, Levy invited Van Hecke and Dr. Norah Johnson, Grad ’01, ’09, a Marquette associate nursing professor now part of the Next Step project, to lead a community training on childhood autism, the research focus of both professors.

It was part of a schedule of trainings Levy hosted for an influential group of “First Ladies.” Either pastors or pastors’ wives from a network of about 40 local Baptist churches, these women lead outreach to their congregations on difficult topics such as diabetes and obesity. Levy is a First Lady herself, in addition to being a nurse and professor. Her husband, Rev. Dr. Garry Levy, presides over True Love Missionary Baptist Church.

The training went well and yielded progress on a long-running frustration Van Hecke faced: the reality that, despite a central location and fees that adjust based on incomes, suburbs sent plenty of children her way while few families came from nearby neighborhoods, where the need seemed greatest. “I had to ask myself, ‘Why?’” she recalls. “And the answer was that the families didn’t feel comfortable. They didn’t feel like this was a place for them.”

That epiphany had left the native Mississippian asking stubborn questions: How can Marquette, with all its academic resources, best connect with the neighborhoods in the central city? How can the university bridge an overlooked-but-real divide?

The First Ladies helped change that game.

Equipped with knowledge from the initial training, they explained the ins and outs of autism to their congregations: the behavioral signs, sources of help and importance of early detection and treatment.

To provide continuity after that first touch, a grant to study urban–rural health disparities allowed them to hire two staffers, Troney Small and Ida Winters, as family navigators. The pair took care to the next level, accompanying families to appointments, arranging follow-ups and conducting screenings.

Van Hecke describes the navigators, both of whom are African American, as invaluable.

But their involvement opened up new areas of concern. They found that children with autism, and their families, often bear the scars of trauma and mental illness. “We started digging into it and found

IT TAKES A VILLAGE With its diverse on-campus and off-campus partners, the Next Step Clinic leverages an impressive array of expertise to meet a critical community need.

Dr. Iqbal Ahamed Computer Sciences

Dr. Abir Bekhet Nursing

Dr. Mary Carlson Drs. Dessie Levy and Amy Van Hecke at the Next Door playground

Educational Policy and Leadership

Tim Coughlin

that kids with developmental delays are four times more likely to be victims of trauma,” Van Hecke says.

“And moms who’ve experienced trauma are more likely to have a kid with a developmental delay. This is a bigger picture than autism.” They also found that families have to endure monthslong waits and travel far outside Milwaukee for mental health care.

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he Next Step Clinic represents a melding of all that’s been learned

by Van Hecke and her colleagues, on campus and off campus, over a decade. It’s located centrally, in a neighborhood that’s 87 percent African American, in a space already comfortable and familiar to many residents. Next Door is a broadbased neighborhood center, offering programs for infants through adults.

It happened to have an empty space for the clinic, which will serve as the new home base for navigators Small and Winters. They will continue in their roles thanks to the President’s Challenge.

Finally, an outreach center at True Love will serve as a training hub for ambassadors to provide initial assessments of families, who will be referred to the Next Step Clinic as needed.

“We wanted to bring services that families desperately need in Milwaukee to Milwaukee,”

says Leah Jepson, project director for the Milwaukee Coalition for Children’s Mental Health at Mental Health America of Wisconsin, a co-director and partner in the clinic along with United Way, MATC and others.

Graduate students from Marquette and other area schools will provide care in the clinic, supervised by Marquette faculty, helping to build a pipeline of psychologists and social workers equipped to handle the trauma and systemic racism experienced in the central city.

“We’re very deprived of psychologists in Wisconsin, generally,” Van Hecke says. “If you narrow it to psychologists who know autism or childhood trauma, it’s even worse. So we can solve another problem with this clinic.”

“This grant initiative was unlike anything I’ve seen around the country,” says Dr. Dan Bergen, Grad ’11, executive director of the Office of Community Engagement at Marquette. “It’s not common for universities to put this type of grant money out there.

“Their application was not only innovative in how it approached early childhood mental health and trauma,” says Bergen, “but it also sought to gather a broad group of partners from various backgrounds.

That’s what set it apart.”

Also noted: the existing relationships built over a decade. “It was based on our history of working together,” says Levy. “We were praying for success of this project.” ¤

Milwaukee SUCCEEDS and United Way

Martina Gollin-Graves Mental Health America of Wis.

Leah Jepson Mental Health America of Wis.

Dr. Norah Johnson Nursing

Dr. Lynne Knobloch-Fedders Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology

Wendy Krueger Speech Pathology and Audiology

Rev. Walter Lanier MATC and MIRACLE Network

Dr. Dessie Levy General Baptist State Convention and True Love Outreach Center

Dr. Alexandre Martins Theology and Nursing

Linda Menck Communications

Dr. Steve Saunders Psychology

Troney Small Psychology staff

Dr. Tracey Sparrow Next Door Foundation

Ida Winters Mental Health America of Wis.

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HIS BEAT IS A HOTBED OF A CRIME THAT ROBS ITS VICTIMS OF THEIR FREEDOM, DIGNITY AND FUTURES. THROUGH NEAL LOFY’S CARING POLICE WORK, IT’S ALSO A MODEL SOURCE OF REDEMPTION.

BY ALLISON DIKANOVIC, ARTS ’17

Neal Lofy is used to receiving urgent phone calls and text messages at all hours, any day of the week. When you’re an expert in investigating something as precarious as human trafficking cases, being on call comes with the territory.

But the other day, the detective received a message that was refreshingly different. A woman sent a photo of herself holding up an award from a competition at her college. She is a sex trafficking survivor who has come a long way since Lofy first encountered her, in dire straits and overdosing on heroin. Once a high-school athlete and a 4.0 student, her life had spiraled out of control. Lacking a support system, she was coerced into the sex trade by a pimp and plunged into a lifestyle she had never imagined for herself.

Even after completing the investigation that put this woman’s pimp behind bars, Lofy stayed in touch, offering support and help toward a fresh start. Now, she checks in with updates on her progress. She has stable housing and employment, is enrolled in school and well on her way to becoming a paralegal. As evidenced by this text message, she is also winning awards.

Lofy, Arts ’04, is a detective in the Special Investigations Unit of the Racine Police Department in Southeast Wisconsin. He’s also an anti-trafficking advocate and trainer who has won a few awards of his own. The FBI has recognized him with an Unsung Hero Award.

And last year, he was named one of the Top 40 Under 40 law enforcement officers in the world by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, following a recommendation from his chief in Racine. But forming positive relationships with people like this woman are what matter most to him in his career.

“You know where the award is right now? It’s in a box in my basement,” Lofy says. “It’s cool, but I’d rather have someone say to me, ‘Look at how I’ve transitioned in my life since you first met me until now.’ That’s what I want.”

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POLICE DETECTIVE AND FBI UNSUNG HERO AWARD WINNER, NEAL LOFY.

WITH TRAFFICKING SO WIDESPREAD IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN, LOFY SAYS, “IF YOU GAVE ME 20 INVESTIGATORS, WE WOULD STILL HAVE MORE WORK THAN WE KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, EVEN 40.”

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Lofy’s introduction to human trafficking came in 2012 when several Racine Dominican sisters visited the police department to talk with officers about the issues of sexual and labor exploitation and to see what the department was doing about it. He remembers feeling dismayed yet motivated. “Wow, I’m not sure what we’re doing about this, but we should definitely be doing something,” he recalls thinking.

In Wisconsin, human trafficking is defined statutorily as any kind of labor or sex act that is induced by force, fraud or coercion — or any form of manipulation when the person engaging in such acts is under 18. Often driven underground, it is a widespread issue, particularly in Lofy’s backyard. In recent decades, experts say, Wisconsin’s southeast corner has become a hotbed for trafficking activity. Though trafficking can affect anyone, it is often found where the bonds of community are frayed. It disproportionately affects society’s most vulnerable people — those lacking stable shelter, income, social support networks, political agency or other forms of power.

Because of the innovative work of Lofy and his colleagues, the region is also becoming a national example of how to better address and prevent the problem.

Historically, law enforcement has embraced a more punitive approach to trafficking situations, criminalizing those who engage in sex work, whether they were forced into the situation or not. Under Lofy’s leadership, however, the Racine Police Department has taken a collaborative and traumainformed approach to trafficking cases that prioritizes supporting victims as much as it does prosecuting traffickers. They don’t ticket people, most of them women, found to be trading sex for money — as prostitution and other sex work are often indistinguishable from trafficking. Instead, they pair each potential trafficking victim with an advocate. These volunteers work to build trust with victims — as there is often a heightened level of fear around law enforcement — and try to connect them immediately with needed services such as shelter or substanceabuse treatment.

This isn’t a traditional approach compared to other departments around the country, but Lofy says he’s never been a traditional cop, at least “in the stereotypical sense.”

Police Lieutenant Dawn Jones agrees. She has spearheaded human trafficking investigations for the Milwaukee Police Department for more than 12

LOFY FEELS CALLED TO DO THIS WORK AND TO DO IT IN A WAY THAT HONORS THE years. From her interactions with Lofy over the years, she says he is “setting the standard” for how officers can handle these cases. It is often difficult for officers — especially in what she calls a male-dominated environment — to understand the trauma that survivors of the sex trade have endured, Jones says.

That influences how they deal with the cases and the people involved.

“He utilizes that understanding of trauma along with his police skills to assist the victims and bring the perpetrators to answer to their actions in court,” she says. “He listens, shows empathy and connects victims to other people who can better support them.”

“Everything I’ve done has always been to care for the person I’m interacting with,” Lofy says. “Even on a patrol level, I try to not just be a machine that spits out citations but a person someone can connect with. It really is all about caring about people.”

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hen he started working on human trafficking cases, Lofy realized very quickly that it was a deeply rooted and complex issue that could not be solved with a ticket. He says that everyone has a complicated and often painful story about how they got caught up in the sex trade.

“You have to change your mindset as a cop,” he says.

“If you want to get someone to talk, you’re going to have to listen a lot first, and you’re going to have to ask the right kinds of questions to make someone feel comfortable and cared for.”

There are all sorts of signs to look for in officers’ daily interactions that could reveal trafficking situations, Lofy says. In order to solve these cases and to actually help those who are being victimized, those in law enforcement need to shed their biases and routine ways of interviewing. He trains other officers to check their assumptions and work to dig under the surface. By building trust with victims, officers can simultaneously provide support and gain more insight into the criminal activity of the traffickers, which helps them more aggressively and successfully pursue their investigations. Properly

HUMAN DIGNITY OF EACH PERSON HE ENCOUNTERS. FORMS OF TRAFFICKING

HE SAYS THIS WAY OF THINKING WAS CULTIVATED IN HIS TIME AT MARQUETTE.

Sex trafficking 6,244 Labor trafficking 1,274 Not specified 851 Sex and labor trafficking 390

VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING

Sex trafficking 7,255 Labor trafficking 1,979 Sex and labor trafficking 542 Not specified 838

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investigating trafficking cases requires intensive resources and collaboration among different stakeholders, Lofy says.

Since he started coordinating a more concerted effort to eradicate human trafficking in 2013, Lofy and his team have worked with more than 300 victims in the Racine–Kenosha area — adults and children — on both sex and labor cases. The youngest victim was 13 and the oldest was 62. The sources of trafficking have been local, national and international.

Yet these numbers just scratch the surface of how many cases there could be, Lofy says. “If you gave me 20 investigators, we would still have more work than we know what to do with, even 40. We could recover a victim every day, but our system in this state is not set up to handle that.”

In addition to his work on the police force, Lofy started a nonprofit organization in 2013 called Fight to End Exploitation, with the goal of raising awareness, educating and advocating to prevent trafficking.

Volunteers with the group provide more than 80 free trainings a year to people who could come into contact with human trafficking victims, including health care providers, educators and firefighters.

The U.S. Department of Justice recognized Lofy’s excellent reputation as a trainer last spring when it invited him to go to Malaysia to train judges, attorneys and law enforcement about human trafficking there.

Lofy feels called to do this work and to do it in a way that honors the human dignity of each person he encounters. He says this way of thinking was cultivated in his time at Marquette.

“It sounds corny, but those are things I learned at Marquette. You don’t even know it while you’re there, but looking back, it’s that care for the whole person — that faith, leadership, excellence, service — that’s what life’s all about, isn’t it?” ¤ 2017 statistics are courtesy of the Polaris Project and the National Human Trafficking Hotline.

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OFF&RUNNING As the new health reporter for The Texas Tribune, an innovative online news source, Marissa Evans, Comm ’13, was front and center for the opening speeches of the state legislative session in 2016.

BY STE P HE N FI LMANOWI CZ

Eager for responses to a report showing pregnant women and new mothers in Texas dying in alarming numbers, Evans heard top leaders mention practically every issue but maternal health. She vowed to bring the issue out of the shadows, launching a reporting project that took her to all corners of the state, even Poland, to report on promising strategies there. Her investigation documented how poverty, race, health economics and politics combine to leave many Texas women in peril.

Equally impressive were the extras she created with Tribune partners — a resource guide for families, an online questionnaire to guide pregnant women, a well-attended maternal health discussion in a largely

African American community in East Texas and more. “We didn’t want it to be one of those stories that people read and then there’s that ‘Now what?’ factor,” explains Evans. The effort earned her project an award for best explanatory reporting from the Online News Association.

Thinking back to her Marquette days, Evans credits reporting experiences in Milwaukee with helping her grow and think “in a more nuanced way about poverty, hunger, criminal justice and inequities in general.” As the recently named social issues reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, she’s on track for fresh opportunities to explore the underlying conditions influencing people’s health.

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Joseph O’Callaghan, Grad ’52, wrote Alfonso X, The Justinian of His Age: Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile, published by Cornell University Press.

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♥ Harvey A. Dennenberg, Arts ’63, and Madeleine (Knoll) Dennenberg married in June 2017, in the yard of their home, after being life partners for over 17 years.

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Barbara (Rudolph ) Arnoldussen, Nurs ’68, received her doctorate in business administration from International Technological University.

She did research on eHealth education and self-care confidence of individuals with diabetes and heart disease.

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James Vandenberg, Bus Ad ’69, received the 2018 Waymaker Award from the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance and also retired from Ford Motor Co.

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Melvin Burchman, Arts ’71, was installed as president of the Academy of Laser Dentistry.

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Charles Pierce, Jour ’75, was named guest editor for Best American Sports Writing 2018 by Houghton–Mifflin.

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Anthony Crivello, Comm ’78, played “Santiago,” the aging Cuban fisherman, in the world premiere stage adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea at the Pittsburgh Playhouse on Point Park University’s campus.

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Linda Sliva, Med Tech ’79, received her Illinois emergency medical responder license and her professional development series certificate from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. She is also a member of Hanover Township Emergency Services and Palatine Emergency Management Agency and a community emergency response team trainer.

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David A. Hudec, Nurs ’80, Law ’87, practices Social Security disability law.

Hon. Richard Sankovitz, Arts ’80, is practicing mediation and arbitration full time with Resolute Systems LLC, after 22 years as a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge.

Ellen (Bournique) Van Vechten, Law ’80, practiced law for over 30 years, then obtained a master’s of social work and became a certified alcohol and drug counselor in Illinois. Her book, On the Other Side of Chaos: Understanding the Addiction of a Loved One was released by Central Recovery Press in September of 2018.

SO TELL US ...

GETTING THE ADMISSIONS ESSAY RIGHT Marquette Magazine asked Associate Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Katelynn (Pope) Hennicke, Arts ’10, Grad ’17, for advice.

Choose the topic you like Colleges don’t provide “trick” essay prompts.

Choose the one that helps tell your story and adds to your application.

Write about you Grades, activities, test scores are in; your essay supplements these dataspecific pieces. You have complete control over crafting the story you want to tell. Make it colorful and human.

Pay attention to detail Run spell check and write close to the required length.

Show you care. We love reading admissions essays, especially when we see effort has been made.

Mary (Sullivan) Josephs, Arts ’82, founder and CEO of Verit Advisors, was named to Mergers & Acquisitions’ Most Influential Women in Mid-Market Mergers and Acquisitions for the third year in a row. She recently joined the board of directors for Manson Construction, Hisco and Performance Contracting Inc.

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Shauna Singh (Pasrich) Baldwin, Grad ’83, was awarded the South Asian Literary Association Distinguished Creative Writer prize. A CanadianAmerican writer of Indian heritage, Singh Baldwin is the author of three novels, two collections of short stories and two works of nonfiction.

She is the recipient of the Friends of American Writers Prize, the Canadian Literary Award, the Writers Union of Canada Prize, the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book (Canada–Caribbean) and the Ann Powers Fiction Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Her play, We Are So Different Now, was staged in Toronto in 2016. She lives in Milwaukee.

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Jeffrey Huron, Arts ’85, was named managing partner of Dykema Gossett’s Los Angeles office.

Cynthia (Lockhart) Springfield, Arts ’85, received the 2019 Drum Major Award for her work with NAACP Lake County, Ill., presented by Waukegan Township at the 17th Annual MLK Dreamers’ Breakfast on Jan. 22, 2019.

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William Godfrey, Arts ’87, retired from the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army in 2019 after 27 years of active and reserve service. He served as a company commander,

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TOGETHER AGAIN These pals from college (and high school, in some cases) are spread from Oregon to North Carolina, but each year they get together for a three-day extravaganza known as the “Talk-Together Birthday Fest.” From left: Janet (Puarieau) Gleaves, Sp ’60; Donna (Reichling) Keamy, Bus Ad ’60; Mary (Wetzel) Theisen, Arts ’60; Sandra (Dunn) Wolf; Joanne (Kolasinski) Fulcher, Arts ’60; Maryann (Schneider) Ladwig, Bus Ad ’60; Lois (Schwarzhuber) Schreiter, Arts ’61.

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Chemical Corps in the first Gulf War; a battalion and brigadier nuclear, biological and chemical defense officer in charge; and a joint task force project officer and battle captain. He had prior service as a combat medic in the U.S. Army Reserve and was an ROTC scholarship cadet. He retired from private practice in 2017, after 20 years as an American Board of Physician Specialties boardcertified physician and surgeon of the foot and ankle. He enjoys spending time with family, pursuing studies in music, and increasing skills in cooking and baking. He credits the very rigorous studies at Marquette, as well as the physical challenges of military initial entry training, with preparing him to fully succeed with academic honors in both graduate and professional schools.

John G. Smith, Eng ’87, was elected managing partner at the national law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP. R E U N I O N

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Michael Baxendale, Comm ’89, was featured in a fulllength podcast interview with talk-radio broadcast legend

Michael Harrison. After 24 years as the co-host of the Bax & O’Brien morning show on WAQY in Springfield, Mass., he and Harrison discussed politics and pop culture in today’s radio climate. The interview is available on Podcast One and iTunes. Baxendale was also scheduled to speak at the annual Talkers Convention in New York in June.

James Casey, Grad ’89, was a featured speaker at the inaugural Frank P. Zeidler Legacy Breakfast held in Milwaukee on Nov. 15, 2018.

He spoke about the legacy of the late Milwaukee mayor and the importance of civil discussions between people who often significantly disagree. He is currently working in antitrust law in Washington, D.C., and is an adjunct associate professor at City University of New York.

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Jim Bellew, PT ’90, was awarded the Distinguished Award of Excellence from the Academy of Clinical Electrophysiology and Wound Management of the American Physical Therapy Association. The award recognizes individuals who have made exemplary contributions toward the advancement of the science and practice of clinical electrophysiology and wound management in scholarly endeavors that have promoted the academic, research and clinical aspects of the profession. He is a full professor at the University of Indianapolis.

Sean P. Johnson, Comm ’90, accepted the role of editor/ publisher for NOVO Live, the association media publication of Wisconsin-based NOVO Health.

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Robert J. Lawler, Comm ’93, was elected president of the Passenger Vessel Association.

Lisa (Thompson) Reeves, Eng ’93, became a first officer with American Airlines on Sept. 4, 2018.

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Steve Cain, Arts ’96, Law ’99, was elected to a six-year term as Ozaukee County Circuit Court judge on April 2, 2019. Cain and his wife Heather (Mager), Law ’00, live in Cedarburg, Wis., with their two sons.

Brian Faherty, Comm ’96, appeared in two episodes of Amazon Prime’s The Tick, Season 2, and in the FX show Fosse/Verdon.

Christopher M. Scherer, Eng ’96, co-chair of DeWitt’s Intellectual Property Group, was recognized by Lexology in its 2019 Client Choice Awards.

Christine Wilke, Arts ’96, was ordained into Christian Ministry on Feb. 24, 2019 in the Southeast Wisconsin Association United Church of Christ.

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Kathleen Kraninger, Arts ’97, became director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in December 2018, when her appointment to the position by President Donald Trump was confirmed by the United States Senate. Her previous position was policy associate director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Jodelle (Melander) Schroeder, Nurs ’97, was promoted to colonel in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She is the chief nursing officer for the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center.

CHICAGO REACH

CHARLIE HOOVER

THE GREATER GOOD

BUS AD ’14

While launching a career in private banking in Chicago, Hoover wrestled with how he and his peers could help address urban community challenges.

His answer? He founded Chicago Reach, whose motto is “start as a fan, do what you can, and our impact will expand.”

The group organizes social events, lifestylebased fundraisers and volunteer opportunities to encourage the Reach network to engage in the growth and mission expansion of its nonprofit partners. In two years, it has fostered 100-plus volunteer relationships, raised more than $20,000 for its partners and earned Hoover a spot on the list of Chicago Scholars’ 35 under 35 Young Leaders Making an Impact. ¤

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HONOR ROLE Jim Smith, Arts ’56, Grad ’61, served as head men’s basketball coach at Saint John’s University in Minnesota for a whopping 51 years. To celebrate Smith’s success, Saint John’s J–Club inducted him into its Hall of Honor this spring. A four-year Marquette basketball letter winner, Smith won seven conference titles at Saint John’s and compiled a 786–556 career record, while also coaching golf, cross country and track.

He retired in 2015 with the winningest record in Minnesota collegiate basketball history.

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Carl Hren, Eng ’98, was promoted to senior vice president of development at Concord Hospitality Enterprises.

Amy (Bryniak) Jnah, Nurs ’98, published the text book Fetal and Neonatal Physiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse. She is the director of the neonatal nurse practitioner concentration at East Carolina University and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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. Mary Catherine (Weiford) Kramer, Comm ’99, and Kyle Kramer: daughter Claire Louise, born Dec. 21, 2018.

Jennifer Pennock, Arts ’99, is the senior manager of government affairs for the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses in Denver.

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Rebecca Mitchell, Comm ’00, launched Rebecca Enchanted: A Disney Planning Podcast. Episodes are released weekly and topics include how

to plan Disney vacations for multi-generational families, adults-only and more. She is a travel agent that specializes in Disney Destinations for FTM Travel.

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Kristine (Menas) Daley, Comm ’01, was named a top producer from the Chicago Association of Realtors, a sales award given to the top 10 percent of real estate brokers in the Chicago area.

Hon. Michael Maxwell, Law ’01, Grad ’01, was appointed adjunct faculty lecturer by Caroll University’s School of Business in Waukesha, Wis.

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Nora Lahl, Comm ’02, was made partner of Lightburn, a digital marketing firm in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.

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Michael Dougherty, Grad ’03, had his book Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity: In the Aftermath of Plagiarism published as Volume 6 in the series Research Ethics Forum

by Springer Publishing. He holds the Sister Ruth Caspar Chair in Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University in Columbus, Ohio.

Belton Flournoy, Bus Ad ’03, was named director at Protiviti, a global business risk consulting firm. He currently resides in London.

W Jennifer (LaChance) Michel, Comm ’03, and Robert Michel: daughter Amelia Rose, born July 21, 2018 at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago.

Brian O’Farrell, Comm ’03, was promoted to local sales manager at Today’s TMJ4, the Milwaukee NBC affiliate.

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and Maggi Seybold: daughter, Emilia Grace, born Feb. 16, 2019.

Kerry Tingley, Grad ’03, was named vice president and general manager of the Industrial Controls Division and Electrical Sector of Eaton. She will be in charge of leading Eaton’s strategic growth and product development for industrial control solutions used by machine builders, commercial and industrial customers.

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. Kelly (Chmielewski) Milewski, Eng ’04, Grad ’06, and Christopher Milewski: son James Michael, born Sept.

26, 2018. He joins brothers Anthony, 7, and Daniel, 4.

WCourtney (Kerin) Murray,

H Sci ’04, Grad ’06, and Michael Murray: son Eli Jude, born Jan. 23, 2019. He joins brothers Cameron, Chase and Ryan.

Meredith (Salsbery) Vadis, Arts ’04, was appointed regional administrator of the Metropolitan Council in St. Paul, Minn.

In this position, she is the chief administrative officer for the regional body of government, which has a staff of 4,500 and provides transit, planning and wastewater services to the greater Twin Cities region.

She is the youngest executive, and first woman, to serve in this role.

WJulianna L. Wesolowski, Arts

’04, and Ryan Halpin: daughter Ireland Rose, born Dec. 3, 2017.

She joins brother Roman Wes.

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. Laura (Mraz) Bahr, H Sci ’05, Grad ’07, and Greg Bahr: daughter Oaklie Jeannette, born Jan. 12, 2019.

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WHAT’S SHAKIN’?

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G R E E N B AY Marquette CIRCLES – Northeastern Wisconsin Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019

She joins big sisters Kayla, 17, Sadie, 5, and Macie, 2.

WKathryn (Hadley) Brown,

Comm ’05, and Patrick Brown, Bus Ad ’04, Grad ’12: son Kyle Matthew, born Sept. 29, 2018.

He joins siblings Connor, 6, Katie, 4, and Colin, 2. The family lives in Mequon, Wis.

WCaley (Byrne) Doran, Comm

’05 and Ray Doran: daughter Lucy. She joins siblings Lillian, Raymond and Peter.

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DEEDS NOT WORDS MAKING FUTURES BRIGHT

When deserving students connect with benefactors whose gifts help fund their Marquette education, magic happens. At Marquette’s annual Scholarship Celebration Dinner on May 1, donors and scholarship recipients shared stories, hugs and laughs. In the powerful words of Marquette’s first-ever James Foley Endowed Scholarship recipient, Jake Zelinski, Comm ’19, scholarship support is “not some small aid — it is a massive grace.”

Scholarship benefactors and national campaign

co-chairs, Dr. Scott P. Stanek, Arts ’77, Dent ’82, and Mary Ellen Stanek, Arts ’78, emceed the program that shined a spotlight on inspiring stories like

Michael Granito, Bus Ad ’05, and Darice Granito: son Luke, born on Nov. 9, 2018.

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DENVER Colorado Rockies vs.

Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Outing Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019 M I LWAU KE E Reunion + Homecoming Oct. 3–6, 2019 SAVE THE DATE

Blue & Gold Fund Auction Friday, Dec. 6, 2019 N E W YO R K Marquette CIRCLES – New York Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 N O. C A L I F O R N I A Marquette CIRCLES – Northern California Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 VA R I O U S R E G I O N S Marquette Mixers return this summer!

New graduates, you are invited to socialize and meet established alumni in your new hometown.

Visit alumni.marquette.edu/ marquette-mixers.

Law ’08, and Lisa (Rodriguez) Laabs, Comm ’05: daughter Kathryn Ann, born Jan. 25, 2019.

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Joseph Chapman, Comm ’06, joined Neighborhood House of Milwaukee as the teen program coordinator. He was an NCAA Final Four player with Marquette Men’s Basketball in 2003 and went on to play 11 years of international professional basketball. Following this experience, he opened his own basketball academy that trained and mentored young adults pursuing the sport. ♥ Paola Duran, Arts ’06, and Jake Thompson wed Aug. 31, 2018 at La Concha Resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Many Marquette alumni were in attendance. The couple lives in Dallas.

Michael Sever, Arts ’06, was named partner in the law firm Foran Glennon. Operating out of the firm’s Chicago office, he has been admitted to practice law in both Illinois and Wisconsin.

He concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial and

Jake’s and the more than $42 million collectively contributed to scholarship aid in 2018.

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After getting the word out on Facebook, communications alumna Michele (Smith) Janowski (front row in gray sweatshirt) along with classmate Dan Pisani, Arts ’89, co-hosted the first in what they hope will be many “Marquette Hoops with Friends” parties. At an aptly chosen venue, the Marquette Kitchen and Tap in Lombard, Ill., they cheered the team on to victory over Xavier.

construction litigation, and trademark registration. He also regularly represents the world’s largest classic/collector car auction company in jurisdictions across the United States.

WMegan (Fitzgerald) Witte,

H Sci ’06, Grad ’11, and Russell Witte: daughter Emma Claire, born March 11, 2019. She was 6 pounds, 13 ounces.

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Hannemann, Nurs ’07, and Patrick Hannemann, Eng ’04, Grad ’06: son Oliver Patrick, born July 17, 2017.

W Steven Mathie, Comm ’07, and Thao Thi Thu Doan: daughter Junie Brynn, born March 17, 2018. She was 6 pounds, 3 ounces.

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John Brunner, Bus Ad ’08, lives between Paris and Chicago working in international communications and business development. In Paris, he is a communications manager for International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.

He also supports import–

export activities for food and beverage companies through his company, Rhone Consulting & PR. He was previously a business development manager for France’s international trade agency in Chicago.

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Kail Decker, Law ’08, was recently appointed city attorney of West Allis, Wis.

♥ Lynn (Sheka) Griffith, Comm ’09, Grad ’15, and Brendan Griffith, wed May 25, 2019 at Church of the Gesu, officiated

by Rev. Nicky Santos, S.J.

Comm ’08, and Chris Carlson: son Luke James, born on Nov. 27, 2018. He was 10 pounds, 6 ounces. He joins sister Lucy.

W Jill Kline, Grad ’08, and

Jeff McAvoy, Grad ’11: son Everett James, born Nov. 29, 2018. He was 9 pounds, 4 ounces and 21 inches. ♥ Jennifer Luchs-Nunez, Bus Ad ’08, and Carlos Nunez, wed Sept. 2, 2018 at Saint Anne–Saint Patrick Parish in Sturbridge, Mass. ♥ Amy Ruhig, Law ’08, Grad ’08, and Kip Kussman, Arts ’03, Grad ’11, wed Nov. 10, 2018.

The event was celebrated with friends and family, including many Marquette alumni as well as former and current Marquette faculty and staff.

Capt. Kellan Sams, Comm ’08, was selected to be promoted to the rank of major in the U.S. Army. His promotion ceremony will take place in the fall of 2019 at Marquette University. In his 11 years of service, he has served as an infantry and communications officer in Italy, Germany and multiple locations through the United States. He deployed to Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn 2011. He lives with his wife Amanda and daughter Mabry at Joint Base Lewis– McChord in Washington.

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Steffanie A. (Schaff) Walczak, Arts ’08, Law ’12, was promoted to shareholder at Petit & Dommershausen S.C. and focuses her practice on family law.

. Aaron Brown, Bus Ad ’09, and Stephenie Brown: son Carson Brown, born Feb. 3, 2019.

Jenna Kashou, Grad ’09, wrote the second edition of 100 Things to Do in Milwaukee Before You Die, released May 1, 2019, from Reedy Press. She works as a freelance writer, staying on top of all that’s great about the Cream City. ♥ Candice (Kapala) Shaw, Nurs ’09, and Jonathan Shaw, Eng ’09, wed June 8, 2018 at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

W Emily (Gahn) Verre, Arts ’09, and James Verre, Arts ’09: daughter Thea Helene, born June 23, 2018. She was 7 pounds, 10 ounces and 19.5 inches long. She joins sisters Juliet, 4, and Adeline, 2.

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♥ Liz (Driscoll) Boziel, H Sci ’10, PA ’11, and Chris Boziel, wed Oct. 13, 2018 in Milwaukee. Several alumni were in the wedding party and many others were in attendance. The couple resides in Wauwatosa, Wis. Johnathon Kristan, Arts ’10, became the associate director for legislative affairs at the American College of Cardiology in Washington, D.C.

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face, and I was so excited to start college. That really showed in the video, which is why I think a lot of people viewed it.

VLOGGER VERONICA MANIAK WINS VIEWS AND HEARTS Since her freshman move-in video caught fire and earned 1.7 million views, Maniak has emerged as a made-at-Marquette YouTube star.

Were you ever expecting your channel to catch on the way that it did, now with nearly 90,000 subscribers?

My goal with making college vlogs is to help other students, but I had no anticipation of the amount of views and exposure that one move-in vlog would get. It’s been a launchpad for my channel, and I’m so grateful.

Do you ever get noticed by subscribers on campus?

At the beginning of the school year I got recognized a lot. When anyone does a Google search for “Marquette dorm room,” my video will pop up. A lot of freshmen were doing those searches and then finding me.

Do you ever find it hard to balance YouTube and school?

I’m a biomedical sciences major, which could not be more different from what I do on YouTube. But it’s such a creative outlet.

I always do my best to make time in my schedule.

But I’m a student first, so sometimes it does take a back seat.

Veronica Maniak will be a junior in the fall and will continue sharing her college experiences with her growing fan base. This interview was adapted from marquette. edu/podcasts.

Why do you think that your college move-in vlog blew up the way it did?

My excitement in the video was very transparent. I had the biggest smile on my

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PAT I E N T TO A DV O C AT E

SECOND ACT For Gail Zeamer, Sp ’90, her family and her job as a speechlanguage pathologist were always her top priorities. After an advanced breast cancer diagnosis, she found another calling: saving other women from the same fate.

BY C L AIR E N OWAK , COMM ’16

Although the Neenah, Wis., resident never missed her annual mammograms, none of them detected the 3.9-centimeter tumor in Zeamer’s left breast because it was hidden by dense breast tissue. Such tissue is a normal occurrence in 40 percent of women, but Zeamer didn’t know she was one of them. An ultrasound ultimately revealed the cancer.

Through multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy, Zeamer immersed herself in research on breast density. At the time, 26 states had passed legislation requiring medical providers to inform women every time dense breast tissue is revealed in a mammogram. Wisconsin was not one of them. She explained this to Rep. Mike Rohrkaste, her

representative in the Wisconsin Assembly, who agreed to draft a similar bill.

Zeamer had never been involved with state politics, but soon she was meeting with legislators and speaking at Assembly and Senate committee meetings — all while receiving cancer treatment. “I feel like I was somehow called to bring this message to other women in Wisconsin,” she says. “I just kept going, as sick as I was, as tired as I was.”

Her efforts paid off. The bill was signed into law in April 2018. Now in remission, Zeamer has returned to her work in speech–language pathology, but her advocacy is just beginning.

She plans to organize breast density education events across Wisconsin.

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. Molly Crego, Comm ’11 and Damon Leto: daughter Sloane Kaye, born Feb. 16, 2019. ♥ KristyAnne Thompson, Law ’11, and David Boyd wed Dec. 1, 2018 in Fort Worth, Tex., at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. She is a member of the Marquette University Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

The couple honeymooned in Italy in May 2019.

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Jordan Abudayyeh, Comm ’12, was appointed press secretary for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

schools build and grow sustainable computer science programs through partnerships between teachers and tech industry volunteers. ♥ Gina (Steinhilber) McKay Nurs ’13, and Connor McKay, Bus Ad ’13, wed April 27, 2019 at Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee.

Six Marquette alumni were in the wedding party. The couple resides in Milwaukee.

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’17, and Lizzie (Picciolo) Laing, Bus Ad ’11: daughter Eloise Alexandra, born Dec. 30, 2018.

WHannah (Emanuel) Jahn, Law ’12, and Jason Jahn: daughter Miranda Rose, born Dec. 16, 2018. The family lives in Milwaukee.

♥ Chelsea (Keenan) O’Malley, Nurs ’12, and Patrick O’Malley, wed on Aug. 25, 2018.

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Christine Matheney, Eng ’13, began a new role as a community and partnership program manager at TEALS, which helps high

Arts ’16, and Taylor HeimerdingerBaake: daughter Kamryn Rae, born March 19, 2019.

Derrick Johnson, Prof St ’16, is co-founder and CEO of Encounter AI, an artificial intelligence drive-thru restaurant ordering systems company.

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♥ Kaitlyn (Wong) Budny, H Sci ’14, PT ’16, and Patrick Budny, H Sci ’14, wed Sept. 30, 2017 at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

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♥ Benjamin Basta, Arts ’15 and Trina (Do) Basta, wed in May 2019. ♥ Molly (Link) Kornfeld, Bus Ad ’15, and Max Kornfeld, Arts ’14, wed Oct. 27, 2018 in Chicago. The couple met at Marquette.

James Panther, Law ’14, joined the worker’s compensation defense team of Lindner & Marsack in Milwaukee. He is a member of the Wisconsin Association of Worker’s Compensation Attorneys and the State Bar of Wisconsin. ♥ Janessa (Hedlund) Terry, Nurs ’15, and Frederick Terry, Bus Ad ’13, wed Nov. 10, 2018 in Lake Forest, Ill. She works as a critical care nurse and he is an IT advisor at Deloitte in Las Vegas.

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Dr. Joseph Gordon, Grad ’16, had his book,

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♥ Maria L. Garces, Comm ’12, and Peter Lefaivre, Bus Ad ’12, wed Oct. 13, 2018 in Denver.

W Grace Heimerdinger-Baake,

Brigid O’Keefe, Arts ’13, earned a master’s degree with honors in information systems management from National University of Ireland Galway.

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♥ Rachel (Davis) Dunn, H Sci ’12, and Pat Dunn, Comm ’12, wed July 8, 2017 at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee. More than 25 Marquette alumni were in attendance. The couple met during their freshman year at Marquette and now happily reside in New York City.

Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A Systematic Theology of the Christian Bible, published on March 15, 2019 by the University of Notre Dame Press. The book is a revision of his doctoral dissertation written under the direction of Rev. Robert M. Doran and D. Stephen Long.

Gordon is associate professor of theology at Johnson University in Knoxville, Tenn.

DAILY DIFFERENCE Catholic residents of the Carlton Senior Apartments in Concord, Calif. , don’t have to venture out for their daily worship. That’s because, at 89 years young, Rev. Walter Mayer, Arts ’51, continues to celebrate daily Mass with his fellow residents.

In May, Father Mayer celebrated 60 years in the priesthood.

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Daniel J. Balk, III, Arts ’14, Law ’17, has joined the Milwaukee office of von Briesen & Roper, S.C. He is a member of the Health Law Section focusing on transactional, regulatory, compliance and HIPAA issues for various regulated health care entities.

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Christopher Saugstad, Law ’18, is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the American Bar Association and the Milwaukee Bar, as well as the Young Lawyers Divisions of those organizations. He is focusing his legal practice primarily on employment counseling, litigation and employee benefits. At Marquette, he was a Thomas More Law Scholar, a member of the Marquette Business Law Society, and had the opportunity to intern for the U.S. Law Library of Congress.

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We’ll share as many as possible here on the “Milestones” page.

1 Eli, son of Courtney (Kerin), H Sci ’04, Grad

’06, and Michael Murray, shown with siblings from left: Ryan, Cameron and Chase; 2 Lynn (Sheka), Comm ’09, Grad ’15, and Brendan Griffith; 3 KristyAnne Thompson, Law ’11, and David Boyd; 4 Trina (Do) and Benjamin Basta, Arts ’15; 5 Gina (Steinhilber), Nurs ’13, and Connor McKay, Bus Ad ’13; 6 Jennifer Luchs, Bus Ad ’08, and Carlos Nunez; 7 Thea, daughter of Emily (Gahn), Arts ’09, and John Verre, Arts ’09; 8 Luke, son of Julie (Warner), Comm ’08, and Chris Carlson; 9 Kathryn, daughter of Lisa (Rodriguez), Comm ’05, and Steve Laabs, Bus Ad ’05, Law ’08; 10 Carson, son of Aaron, Bus Ad ’09, and Stephenie Brown; 11 Oaklie, daughter of Laura (Mraz), H Sci ’05, PT ’07, and Greg Bahr; 12 Lucy, daughter of Caley (Byrne), Comm ’05, and Ray Doran, shown with siblings clockwise: Raymond, Lillian and Peter; 13 Kyle, son of Kathryn (Hadley), Comm ’05, and Patrick Brown, Bus Ad ’04, Grad ’12; 14 Kamryn, daughter of Grace, Arts ’17, and Taylor Heimerdinger-Baake; 15 Emma, daughter of Megan (Fitzgerald), H Sci ’06, Grad ’11, and Russell Witte; 16 Maria L. Garces, Comm ’12, and Peter Lefaivre, Bus Ad ’12; 17 Amelia, daughter of Jennifer (LaChance), Comm ’03, and Robert Michel.

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IN MEMORIAM

1930s

Ruth M. (Compton) Anderson, Dent Hy ’39

1940s

Virginia A. (Kornely) Wehse, Dent Hy ’40; Gerald C. Quinn, Eng ’41; Sol Steingart, Arts ’41; Mary Ann (Larson) Meenan, Sp ’42; Mary Agnes Blonien, Jour ’43; Harry J. Koepp, Bus Ad ’43; Ted F. Pancerz, Arts ’43; Jeanne C. (Corrigan) Ladky, Arts ’44; Robert J. Miner, Eng ’45; Mary J. (Piechura) Nadlonek, Dent Hy ’45; Kenneth L. Throckmorton, Eng ’45; Raymond M. Metscher, Eng ’46; Joseph M. Mirando, Dent ’46; Helen P. (Hoffman) Becherer, Bus Ad ’47; Harold H. Fuhrman, Law ’47; Eugene C. Gasiorkiewicz, Arts ’47, Grad ’48; Dorothy C. Krawczyk, Nurs ’47; Kathryn K. (Bentz) Nelligan, Med Tech ’47; John J. Schoenecker, Dent ’47; Aloysius H. Devine, Law ’48; Alan R. Engler, Eng ’48; Stephen W. Kowal, Bus Ad ’48; William H. Leakey, Dent ’48; Aura J. (Kosmoski) Meinert, Jour ’48; Florence H. (Baskfield) Myslajek, Grad ’48; John D. Parrott, Bus Ad ’48; Carl N. Peters, Eng ’48; Patricia L. (McCaffrey) Rieger, Arts ’48; James A. Campbell, Arts ’49; Monica M. (Popp) Houdek, Arts ’49; Elaine V. Lubbers, Bus Ad ’49; Robert M. Mantyh, Eng ’49; Jack D. Moertl, Law ’49; Mary Anne H. (Van Driel) Ripple, Jour ’49; Kenneth R. Unger, Law ’49

1950s

Frederick W. Abendroth, Bus Ad ’50; Laurence E. Carolan, Arts ’50; Charles P. Connor, Eng ’50; John B. Dahl, Arts ’50; Louise C. (Smith) Natrop, Dent Hy ’50; John H. Ohrmund, Bus Ad ’50; Gerald T. Richardson, Grant, son of Gina (Vangelisti) Compton, BA ’09, shows his enthusiasm for Marquette Magazine.

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Arts ’50, Law ’52; Joseph V. Schwarz, Eng ’50; Gilbert J. Spaeth, Eng ’50; Leonard A. Walden, Bus Ad ’50; Patricia A. (Cobeen) Adlam, Arts ’51; James W. Arnold, Jour ’51; Eugene D. Berce, Arts ’51; Royal F. Betz, Arts ’51; Francis A. Brhely, Arts ’51; James H. Liethen, Bus Ad ’51; William M. McCurley, Arts ’51; William H. Mistele, Arts ’51; Dennis F. Peterschmidt, Eng ’51; Robert P. Reik, Med ’51; Louise M. (Lemmermann) Ward, Jour ’51; Grace L. (Schwabe) Barrette, Nurs ’52; Audrey M. (Boucher) Cleary, Nurs ’52; Dianne M. (Chopela) Curtis, Dent Hy ’52; Thomas J. Hoefling, Eng ’52; Joann A. Hungelmann, Nurs ’52; Newton J. Kellackey, Dent ’52; Rita A. (Ottenweller) Mach, Arts ’52; Donald J. Massa, Bus Ad ’52; Arthur W. Niemer, Eng ’52; George L. Rouman, Arts ’52; Colette G. (Andrzejczak) Rybacki, Arts ’52; Diana J. (Leon) Thomson, Nurs ’52; Dolores A. (Kummeth) Uhen, Nurs ’52; Mae A. (Charlton) Welcenbach, Nurs ’52; Paul A. Bialk, Arts ’53; Rudolph G. Cook, Grad ’53; Donald J. Dougherty, Bus Ad ’53; Frank J. Dudenhoefer, Bus Ad ’53; James P. Fiedler, Law ’53; Fred Heinzelmann, Arts ’53; Caroline M. (Baumgartner) Hollenstein, Dent Hy ’53; Cameron R. Reed, Grad ’53; Barbara A. (Weber) Seidl, Nurs ’53; Grant L. Wittberger, Bus Ad ’53; John B. Berno, Eng ’54; Joseph F. Dickrell, Eng ’54; Mary A. (Wallace) Fuerbringer, Dent Hy ’54; John A. Leschke, Arts ’54, Med ’57; Thomas R. Mertz, Bus Ad ’54; Ronald I. Pachefsky, Arts ’54, Law ’57; Joseph F. Preloznik, Arts ’54; Paul M. Revai, Eng ’54; Sr. M. Bernada Sanoski, Nurs ’54; Mary R. Schweisthal, Grad ’54; Richard A. Bielefeld, Eng ’55; Francis C. Brennan, S.J., Grad ’55; Joseph G. Brown, Bus Ad ’55; Frank H. Giesen, Eng ’55; Suzanne (Hutchinson) Hemp, Nurs ’55; Frank J. Herre, Bus Ad ’55; Marilyn R. (Retzer) Johannsen, Jour ’55; Edward F. Keller, Dent ’55; Peter H. Rice, Bus Ad ’55; Sr. Maria F. Rieckelman, Med ’55; Wayne E. Schroeder, Bus Ad ’55; Herbert J. Van Driel, Jour ’55; August F. Wishman, Eng ’55; Gale B. Armstrong, Dent ’56, Grad ’69; Alan B. Becker, Arts ’56, Grad ’58;

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IN MEMORIAM Sr. Dorothy C. Bock, Grad ’56; Mary K. (Kreteck) Carlson, Arts ’56; Terrence R. Heisdorf, Arts ’56; Harry G. Holz, Bus Ad ’56, Law ’58; Robert J. Keefe, Jour ’56; Frank P. Kokalj, Eng ’56; John A. Manke, Eng ’56; Richard J. Pudlo, Dent ’56; Daniel G. Benson, Grad ’57; John D. Bird, Law ’57; Jerome E. Carmody, Bus Ad ’57; Dorothy B. (Biondi) Ezrow, Sp ’57; William R. Huhner, Bus Ad ’57; William C. Kammerait, Bus Ad ’57; Henry G. Krecklow, Arts ’57, Law ’59; Eugene N. Kujawa, Bus Ad ’57; Harold J. Mohlman, Dent ’57; John R. O’Connor, Bus Ad ’57; Robert E. Perusse, Grad ’57; Joann C. (Zalad) Renberg, Arts ’57; William J. Ryan, Grad ’57; JoAnne P. (Meid) Swain, Med Tech ’57; Opal C. (Cox) Taylor, Grad ’57; Adolph L. Utzinger, Dent ’57; Charles P. Ackerman, Bus Ad ’58; Stanley R. Gawlik, Arts ’58, Grad ’63, ’72; James P. Grenisen, Law ’58; Thomas W. Grossman, Med ’58; James C. Gruett, Arts ’58; James R. Mattes, Arts ’58; Nora E. (Murphy) Renner, PT ’58; Leonard F. Rozek, Arts ’58, Grad ’61, ’64; Rudolph V. Schoenecker, Bus Ad ’58; John M. Wright, Arts ’58, Med ’63; Phillip R. Bender, Grad ’59; John P. Coleman, Arts ’59; Robert P. Gannon, Med ’59; Tamotsu Goya, Bus Ad ’59; Gregory A. Kolp, Arts ’59, Grad ’62; Gerald D. O’Marro, Dent ’59; Jerome C. Rosenwald, Eng ’59; Ronald T. Wroblewski, Bus Ad ’59; Joseph J. Zedrosser, Arts ’59; Harry W. Zirgibel, Dent ’59

1960s

Robert H. Eldridge, Bus Ad ’60; Robert G. Flynn, Arts ’60; Russell L. Heder, Dent ’60; Robert A. Leack, Bus Ad ’60; Robert H. Lynch, Bus Ad ’60; Audrey M. (Brockman) McCarthy, Nurs ’60; Adelaide A. (Rascher) Nichols, Sp ’60; Patrick E. Peterson, Arts ’60; T. Michael Bolger, Arts ’61, Hon ’14;

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James P. Burns, Arts ’61, Law ’64; Frank D’Aquila, Dent ’61; Sante E. Diantoni, Sp ’61; Stanley J. Guberud, Grad ’61; Cordell C. Hoffins, Eng ’61, Grad ’64; Kathleen M. Horswill, Nurs ’61; W. James Huelskamp, Bus Ad ’61; James C. Kranz, Eng ’61; Jerome H. Margraff, Dent ’61; Frederick R. May, Dent ’61; Thomas J. McDevitt, Med ’61; Dennis G. Moore, Eng ’61; Michael L. Stepovich, Dent ’61; John M. Teske, Bus Ad ’61; Edward P. Devaney, Arts ’62; Daniel P. Donovan, Bus Ad ’62; Sharon T. (Tobin) Guizzetti, Sp ’62; Rev. Edward F. Kasten, Grad ’62; Keith F. Martin, Grad ’62; Arno J. Muench, Eng ’62; Norman E. Pacyga, Arts ’62; Thomas E. Peterson, Eng ’62, Grad ’70; Elroy J. Schweitzer, Bus Ad ’62; Carol J. (Zimmel) Stankiewicz, Nurs ’62; Damian D. Sung, Grad ’62; Peter E. White, Eng ’62; Joan M. Horak, Arts ’63; Sr. M. Grethen McKean, Grad ’63; Theodore N. Preovolos, Dent ’63; Kathleen M. (Dean) Schaefer, Arts ’63; Kenneth V. Schreiner, Arts ’63; Kathleen R. (Collier) Sranske, Arts ’63; Bernard D. Strittmatter, Bus Ad ’63; Joseph W. Szczypta, Bus Ad ’63; Donald D. Williams, Eng ’63; Gerald S. Feldman, Dent ’64; Richard H. Langrill, Eng ’64; Donald F. Moen, Arts ’64; James F. Parks, Law ’64; Jeannette M. (Payer) Sommerfeld, Nurs ’64; James E. Beaudoin, Arts ’65, Grad ’68; James B. Caldwell, Dent ’65; Frank

C. Cherny, Eng ’65; Delton D. Christensen, Dent ’65; Daniel E. Dittmann, Jour ’65; Arlene C. (Rojan) Gerety, Nurs ’65; Donald R. Ockerlander, Dent ’65; Kathleen M. (Lawrence) Roeber, Arts ’65; Conrad J. Szyszka, Arts ’65; Thomas J. Wiener, Eng ’65, Grad ’71; Barbara J. (Bickett) Cauwels, Arts ’66; Karen F. (Oehler) Devine, Arts ’66; Mary Aileen Huettl, Nurs ’66; Dennis M. Johnson, Eng ’66; Carl F. Moyer, Med ’66; William J. Phillips, Arts ’66; Judith L. (Verbick) Price, Arts ’66; Helen J. (Martell) Sharp, Arts ’66, Grad ’68; Colina M. (Coenen) Sorce, Sp ’66; Jon R. Wagner, Dent ’66; Ann M. (Butler) Ayers, Sp ’67, Grad ’69; Julia J. (Makins) Harris, Dent Hy ’67; Joseph N. Hosteny, Eng ’67; Thomas P. Joswick, Arts ’67; Gary L. Lindemoen, Dent ’67; Francis M. McNally, Bus Ad ’67; Kathryn M. (Moylan) Noonan, Arts ’67; Richard O. Reinhart, Med ’67; Lynn E. (Dunphy) Schindler, Sp ’67; Thomas F. Steiner, Jour ’67; Mary E. (Dollard) Weck, PT ’67; George G. Clark, Dent ’68; Salvatore H. Cuccia, Grad ’68; John J. Finn, Arts ’68; Therese A. (Werwath) Geiger, Jour ’68; John P. Craig, Bus Ad ’69, Grad ’73; Ann E. (Flatley) Ernst, Sp ’69; Candyce M. (Graff) Gilmore, Sp ’69, Grad ’74; Daniel E. Hau, Bus Ad ’69; William G. Hubbard, Eng ’69, Grad ’74; Kathleen M. (Issing) Kiedrowicz, Arts ’69;

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THE GAME OF LIFE

How did your study abroad experience shape your career?

It taught me that I can put my faith into a vocation. Plus, it provided a valuable lens to see the world, how I fit in it and what I wanted to be. After graduation, it was natural to return as a volunteer, and here I am.

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What is Programa Velasco?

Originally it was a way to help with the cost of early education.

Today we also train women entrepreneurs in personal and economic empowerment, offer mentorship programs, and mental health and social services. Our goal is to offer a holistic approach to support family members at various stages of life.

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How did your time at Marquette help shape your career?

Marquette showed me the importance of community and the need to support and be supported by other people. Cura personalis and being men and women for others are not just slogans. We learned them and lived them at Marquette, and they really do help make you successful in life after college.

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Does empowering others empower you?

Definitely. By watching and working with our women entrepreneurs, I’ve learned that you have to make the most of the resources you’re given, no matter how limited they are, and that power comes from working together and supporting one another.

Winning strategies for living with meaning

Annie Boyd-Ramirez, Arts ’07 When she signed up to study abroad during her junior year, Annie Boyd-Ramirez had no idea how it would change her life. After graduating from Marquette, she returned to El Salvador and committed to educating children and empowering women to build stronger families and better economic prospects. Today, as cofounder and executive director of Programa Velasco in San Ramon near San Salvador, she is doing just that.

Know a member of the Marquette community who excels at the game of life? Tell us @ magazine.marquette.edu/share.

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CLASS NOTES Roger J. Lemanczyk, Arts ’69, Grad ’82; Patrick J. McHugh, Eng ’69; Larry L. Reiton, Arts ’69; Barbara C. Voltz, Grad ’69

1970s

Clifford S. Baierlipp, Eng ’70; Stephen J. Dauw, Arts ’70; Stephen C. Farr, Dent ’70; Rosalie Greco, Arts ’70; Michael E. McGinn, Arts ’70, Dent ’74; Ann M. Trierweiler, Arts ’70; Rory A. Houston, Arts ’71; Daniel J. Steffen, Arts ’71; David P. Traut, Arts ’71; James F. Blask, Law ’72; Sr. Audrey Cleary, Grad ’72; Vincent K. Howard, Law ’72; Sr. Maureen Lowry, Grad ’72; John J. Parteka, Arts ’72; Dale C. Ziemer, Eng ’72; Mary V. Aubrey, Arts ’73; Daniel F. Bachhuber, Arts ’73; Peter D. Bordini, Dent ’73; Dennis W. Reeve, Law ’73; Patrice M. (Bowen) Smyczek, Dent Hy ’73; JoAnne M. Cella-Easton, Arts ’74; Alice K. (Bridges) Roska, Grad ’74, Grad ’77; Claude V. Kennedy, Arts ’75; Charles A. Toye, Bus Ad ’75; Donald O. Bohentin, Bus Ad ’76; Robert F. Doren, Eng ’76; David R.

Francis, Bus Ad ’76; Mary A. (Voss) Sylva, Arts ’76; Pansie M. Campbell, Med Tech ’77; Holly S. (Roth) Levine, Nurs ’77; Jean M. (Seubert) Schultz, PT ’78; Lois C. Stout, Bus Ad ’78; Michael J. Estep, Jour ’79; The Very Rev. John R. Kern, Grad ’79; Jerome E. Polasky, Grad ’79; Bruce M. Wamboldt, Arts ’79

1980s

Lynn E. Hackbarth, Arts ’80, Law ’83, Grad ’99; Dorothy J. (Bailey) Johnson, Grad ’80; Charles C. Shevey, Eng ’80; William R. Wilde, Law ’80; Erin L. (Levinson) Bauer, Eng ’81; Timothy J. Garvey, Bus Ad ’81; Michael S. Guzzio, Grad ’81; Alan G. Mast, Grad ’81; John R. Wood, Law ’81; Jeffrey G. Groshek, Med Tech ’82; Maureen A. (Tobin) O’Neill, Jour ’82; Gregory G. Blattner, Bus Ad ’83; Carol A. (des Lauriers) Cieri, Law ’83; Michael R. Shimeta, Dent ’83; Gretchen K. Evenson, Dent ’84; Troy M. Hellenbrand, Bus Ad ’84; Janet L. (Remmers) Watters, Dent Hy ’84; Edward S. Koutnik, Dent ’85; Mark R.

Megna, Bus Ad ’85; Lavinia A. Sorgi, Sp ’85; Kathleen M. (Zink) Halbach, Med Tech ’86; Thomas J. Tillman, Grad ’86; Joseph J. DiGiovanni, Jour ’87; Michael K. Emerson, Eng ’87; Randall S. Bednar, Grad ’88; Delola A. (Scott) Whitfield, Arts ’89

1990s

Connie L. Bair, Bus Ad ’91; Sr. M. Camille Kliebhan, Hon ’91; Scott M. Steinbauer, Bus Ad ’91; John T. Stott, Bus Ad ’92; Donald R. Singleton, Comm ’93; Robb E. Arent, Law ’96

2000s

Darian L. Griffin, Grad ’00; Nathaniel K. Zelazo, Hon ’00; Charlotte A. Price, Grad ’02; Beverly H. Hubbard, Grad ’03; Paul L. Trickle, Arts ’05; Carlie J. (Gagliano) Beaudin, Nurs ’07, Grad ’14; Mary Oliver, Hon ’12; Elena A. Timofeeva, Grad ’12, ’14; Lauren E. (Montoure) Teske, Dent ’13, Grad ’15; Joseph A. Zelinski, H Sci ’17

Marquette’s new Ignatian Promise Scholarship Initiative, championed in part by Wintrust, is raising funds for scholarship so that the experience of a Marquette education remains accessible for generations to come.

Help us keep the promise alive with your support. Learn more at give.marquette.edu/scholarship.

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