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The drumbeat of petitions and advocacy for James Foley’s

Living an ordinary life

release goes viral.

can be a hero’s work.

28 Hundreds gather to celebrate the opening of the first phase of Engineering Hall.

The work continues — learn more at marquette.edu/ engineering-hall.

COVER STORY

16 Welcoming Father Pilarz Reflect, imagine, transform. The inauguration of Marquette’s 23rd president is a chance to do all that and more.

F E AT U R ES

22 Captured in Libya James Foley, Arts ’96, knew the risks of being a war correspondent.

27 Phone call home “Don’t you feel our prayers?” Read a letter from James Foley to Marquette.

Worship, poetry, music, art and academic gatherings combine in a Jesuit-style celebration.

28 The hero within On 9/11 the twin towers fell — and so did our belief in superheroes.

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on the Web Online extras this issue Take a look at how Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., spends his first week on campus, and then see how the university community responds to the Call to Service. Plus, join student Emma Scuglik’s virtual pilgrimage, made possible through a series of videos taken during the World Youth Day festivities in Spain, at marquette.edu/magazine.

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wind experience, one that eludes adequate description. It began with watching the speedy metamorphosis of the serenely

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quiet campus into the wonderful chaos that you’d expect

> Finding the words — again > Radical journey

with the arrival of 12,000 students and their parents. After

on campus

rituals and habits of academic life.

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the goodbyes were said, students eagerly plunged into the

First-born and street legal Irresistible courses New digs The woman behind Little Women

10 alumni connect > Pedigree tops partisanship > Fresh ink! > Face to face in Uganda

We celebrated First-year Student Convocation in the Al McGuire Center. The event is the first and last time the

> Fighting malaria > Remember that first “hello”?

Contributing Writers: Magazine intern Jessie Bazan; Tim Cigelske, Comm ’04; James Foley, Arts ’96; Pamela Hill Nettleton; Charles Nevsimal; and David McKay Wilson Design: Winge Design Studio Photography: Kat Berger, Lesley Bryce, Dan Dry, Dan Johnson, Steve Scardina, Ben Smidt, Stephen Voss, University Archives.

Stock Images © Phil Bliss, p. 6; Burazin/Getty Images, p. 5; Kimberlee Hewitt, p. 1; Preston Keres, p. 28; Hussein Malla/AP, p. 22; Eng Rimawl, p. 25; Cheryl Seebach, p. 38; Steven Senne/AP, p. 24; Cheryl Senter/AP, p. 1; Jim Watson, p. 29, 30.

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the profound changes

of the experience as an undergraduate student. And looking

Jesuit education will

out upon our 2,090 freshmen that day, I felt an emotional

have on their lives.

who they become. I told them that change can be a sloppy

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the opportunity to discuss

choices and decisions they make going forward will determine

in every issue

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Assistant Editor: Nicole Sweeney Etter

the opportunity to discuss the profound changes Jesuit

connection to the journey they were beginning, when the

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First-year Student Convocation, and I used

that point, I’ll admit, because I experienced the profundity

Marquette plays a starring role in the new film Waterwalk.

We celebrated

Class of 2015 will be together until graduation, and I used education will have on their lives. I was fairly passionate on

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Editor: Joni Moths Mueller

FROM PRESIDENT SCOTT R. PILARZ, S.J.

Greetings From President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.

32 Class Notes > Weddings PAGE 39 > In Memoriam PAGE 40 > Births PAGE 42 > Capt. Brian Luther, Arts ’84 PAGE 32 > Phyllis Flowers, Nurs ’71 PAGE 35 > Meghan Sheehan, Arts ’99 PAGE 37 43 Letters to the Editor Readers weigh in with their views.

process and rarely occurs in an easily described sequence.

Being open to that process will prepare them in ways they can’t imagine.

Later in the week the entire university community gathered for the Mass of the Holy Spirit. This Mass is an ancient tradition dating back to the great Medieval Catholic universities of Europe. At schools like Bologna and Paris and Oxford and Krakow, professors and students knew to invoke the aid and influence of the Spirit as they embarked year by year upon their academic endeavors. They understood, as do we at Marquette, that the academic work ahead is potentially an encounter with God. We can use what we discover in our

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intellectual efforts to create a more gentle and just world. I wanted students to leave the Mass knowing that they will have a wonderful opportunity to encounter the world’s grittiest realities and work along with God to turn them upside down.

Amid all of this excitement, the university family of students, faculty, staff and alumni welcomed me as Marquette’s new president with a beautiful and meaningful week of inauguration events that included

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an opportunity to participate in a student retreat and to preside over a dedication of a new campus park. The week culminated in the inauguration Mass and ceremony, both infused with the energy and unquenchable spirit of Marquette. Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki joined delegates from colleges and universities around the country and my dearest friends and family in celebrating the moment that I had been waiting and preparing for during the past year. It was a great celebration of Marquette — who we are and who we can be. With your help, I hope that we can focus on two goals for Marquette in the years ahead: educational access and a relentless pursuit of new excellence.

We will also deepen our connection to the Jesuit commitment to be

With your help, I hope

men and women for others in the coming year. In that spirit, we asked

that we can focus on

everyone present at the various inaugural festivities, our alumni world-

two goals for Marquette in the years ahead: educational access and a relentless pursuit of new excellence.

wide, and anyone who is connected to Marquette through friendship to join us in using our gifts to serve our neighborhood and the world by making a personal pledge of service. We set up a website at marquette.edu/call-to-service where people can join the movement and tell us how they are responding to this call to service.

And now several weeks into the fall semester I feel enormous gratitude that my life’s journey connected me to Marquette. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and our neighbors have such great aspirations for the university, and they express a willingness to dig deeper and reach further to have an even greater impact. It’s our mission and calling to marshal the resources of this university to inspire our students’ imaginations for how they will change the world. I don’t think another job could compare to that privileged role. I know there is no better job for me.

we are marquette W E L O V E S E R E N D I P I T Y. It spices up life on campus, whether it’s the nervous first

Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. PRESIDENT

“hello” of roommates, or alums who meet and launch a company named for a revered campus hangout, or the perfect marriage of a film crew with “extras” who feel they own a piece of the story. Read about more chance encounters in this issue. > > >

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“It actually works at a neuroplastic

PILGRIMAGE

level,” Podewils says.

“You make them

Radical journey

Imagine joining 1 million young people from

struggle to find the

170 countries gathered to celebrate faith in

words. That’s how they build the neuro

God with the prelate of the Catholic Church.

pathways.”

For many patients, the program is a lifesaver. Although a handful of speech clinics elsewhere use a similar approach, those programs can cost upward of $20,000, while Marquette’s is only $1,500.

“We’re fortunate because we’re an educational institution, and we have graduate students to help provide therapy,” Podewils says.

Nearly 30 people have gone through the program so far. Because of the intensive one-on-one approach, the program can serve only four patients each semester.

Still, it’s already transforming lives.

That was apparent when Terri went from speaking single words to leaving

Finding the words — again

her husband an unforgettable voice mail message: “Matt and me Walmart shopping,” she said, then started laughing.

Seven years after a stroke stole her words, 37-year-old Terri could utter only a single word at a time.

But then a new intensive program at the Marquette Speech and

She knew he would be shocked

Hearing Clinic helped her get her words back, and within three

by her ability to say that much.

weeks, she was speaking in lengthy sentences.

Her husband saved the message

The research-based program in the College of Health Sciences is for people who suffer from chronic aphasia, a communication disorder that makes speaking difficult after a stroke or other brain injury. Marquette’s program uses a simple but powerful strategy: intense practice over a short period of time to force patients to use words instead of relying on nonverbal communication or a speech pathologist’s cues.

The concepts were adapted from a technique used in the physical rehabilitation of stroke patients that requires patients to use their paralyzed limb instead of the unaffected one. The technique is known as constraint-induced therapy.

“One of the problems for people with chronic aphasia is learned non-use,” says Jackie Podewils, coordinator of clinical services. That can mean pointing, gesturing and writing when you can’t say the words. Marquette’s program ensures aphasia patients talk for three hours a day, five days a week for three

because it was such a turning point in Terri’s recovery.

The clinic has also started using constraint-induced therapy with its regular twice-a-week patients, and it is yielding results.

“It is really a jewel,” Podewils says of the program. “It’s so exciting that we’ve found an approach that’s making such a dramatic difference.”

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If the chatter you’re imagining is deafening and multilingual, you’ve come close to the reality experienced by the 20-plus Marquette students and faculty who joined the pilgrimage to Madrid in August for World Youth Day 2011.

“People were jamming the Metro, running up and down the streets and yelling their joy,” says Samantha Paredes, a nursing junior. “I don’t want to sound cliché, but it was the most amazing experience of my life.”

Before Madrid, students from the American Jesuit universities stopped in Loyola, Spain, to participate in five-day Magis Experiences organized by the Society of Jesus. Students worked with the elderly and homeless at 90 sites in North Africa, Portugal and Spain and concluded with a communal reflection before going to meet the rest of the world in Madrid.

Daryn Peres’ Magis Experience happened in Montserrat, Portugal, where students bridged the language barrier to join residents in sharing feelings and emotions about spirituality.

“You had to be there to feel the impact,” says the business administration junior. “And to move from the intimacy of those moments

to Madrid, with 1 million people interested in growing in faith, was overwhelming.”

Journalism professor Dr. Bill Thorn knew what awaited the Marquette contingent.

“It’s a thrill to see young people celebrating faith with a million friends,” he says. “They realize, ‘I’m not alone.’”

Thorn shouldered the monumental task of making sure nothing was lost in translation for journalists covering the week-long celebration. “I was the English-language press guy,” he quips.

Since fall 2010 Thorn worked with the Pontifical Council and Spanish officials to anticipate the needs of credentialed English-language journalists covering the week.

That meant obtaining translations of every speech, planning news conferences and panels, setting up a password-protected website where the Catholic press could pull background materials and the full text of the papal address, and more.

“It’s our job to make sure credentialed journalists get the information they need, that they get it as easily as possible and on deadline,” he says.

Marquette theology junior Emma Scuglik blogged about WYD for the Wisconsin Province.

She began with a YouTube video sharing what she was loading into one backpack to carry her through the week. Subsequent videos shared Scuglik’s experiences in Loyola and Madrid, including five rules for a successful pilgrimage she compiled with students from Hong Kong. Their No. 1 rule: Don’t complain.

“I loved knowing that the videos were helping connect those at home to the activities of World Youth Day, allowing them to participate in their own virtual pilgrimage,” she says. JMM See Emma Scuglik’s journey at youtube. com/wisprov.

Pictured left: Daryn Peres, Samantha Paredes and Emma Scuglik

“I don’t want to sound cliché, but it was the most amazing experience of my life.”

weeks. Activities range from playing the game “go fish” with noun and verb cards to naming pictures or answering questions.

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New digs

It’s easy to understand why students and faculty in the College of Engineering gaze fondly at one Marquette LIMO van.

It’s a first-born, a prototype, a strike against conspicuous fuel consumption and a terrific example of what’s possible when 40 students and faculty hypothesize “what if” and spend four years achieving it.

Marquette’s first electronic LIMO is “street legal.”

It joined the fleet of LIMOs piloted by Student Safety Programs this fall on SSP’s 25th anniversary.

News of a project committed to building an electronic van inspired innovative thinking. It also was a terrific recruitment tool. “I learned about the project when I transferred to Marquette,” says James Lubow, Eng ’11, a member of the team that finished the project. “I wanted to have my name on it as a finishing team member.”

It began in the multidisciplinary capstone design course in 2007, when students in engineering, information technology and business looked at the poor fuel economy of Marquette’s hugely popular LIMO vans. The stop-and-go driving to deliver

students around campus costs as much as $100 in fuel per van each night, according to Lubow.

Guided by engineering faculty members Drs. Susan Riedel and George Sixteen LIMOS, Corliss, students rebuilt a Ford E350 including the van into a battery-powered vehicle. eLIMO, transport The first team pulled out the engine, students on transmission and fuel tanks and campus. The LIMO mounted an electric motor. Subseprogram will log quent teams handled succeeding its 7 millionth generations of development, including embedding a 7-inch LCD monitor in transport this year. the dashboard with the speedometer, odometer, battery charge gauge and warning lights.

It costs approximately 14 cents per mile to run the eLIMO compared with $1 per mile for an automated LIMO, and the eLIMO emits no local emissions, Lubow says. The eLIMO is operational for three to four hours after a 10-hour charge in the Public Safety garage. JMM

Irresistible courses

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You say you want a revolution. Well, you know.

We all want to change the world.

Or, at least, we all want to take a course on it. From Beatlemania to transforming the world, the lineup of First-year Honors Seminars leaves

First-year Honors Seminars How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of Ideas The Beatles and the British Invasion

“Pure pleasure” is how Dr. Anthony Peressini describes them. “We ask our most exciting and gifted faculty to propose their dream courses, then offer those courses to some of Marquette’s top students,” he says. “That’s an assured formula for amazing.”

Peressini, an associate professor of philosophy and director

Giant Big East Conference decals plaster the bright blue and gold walls surrounding them.

With duffel bags splayed across the floor and pumped-up music setting the mood, the room is a perfect athlete hangout. But for men’s and women’s soccer the space is more than just a cool hangout: It’s also a meeting room, teaching space and new home. This is the Klein Family/ KBS Soccer Pavilion.

The $1.2 million facility is nestled in the heart of the Valley Fields athletics complex. Along with its mint green roof and cherry brick exterior, the pavilion features training rooms and spectator restrooms.

Players are especially excited about the facility, according to men’s sophomore midfielder Charlie Hoover. “It creates a whole new atmosphere within the stadium that will definitely impact our hype when game day arrives,” Hoover says.

Chief donors and avid Golden Eagles fans Dennis Klein, Bus Ad ’73, and his wife, Barbara, Bus Ad ’72, led the drive for the Marquette soccer facility. Says women’s Head Coach Markus Roeders, “Without their commitment and vision, beyond their monetary donation, this building wouldn’t stand today. And I believe it is people like the Kleins who allow Marquette University to continue to strive for excellence in all areas.” JB

Memoirs Written by Young Adults: Race, Violence and Historical Memory: the Civil War Era Rock ’n Roll as a Reflection of the American Psyche Generation Why? Real Fine Art: An In-depth

of the Honors Program, frequently receives requests from enthu-

Look at Milwaukee’s Visual Arts

siastic parents and other faculty hoping to audit a course or two.

Why We Laugh

But these courses are limited to first-year honors students, and

Learning to Love:

they ensure that the first year at Marquette …

Early Childhood Attachment

Is gonna be … all right … all right … all right …

Teen Dating Violence

Visit marquette.edu/honors for seminar descriptions.

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Clustered in the locker room, Marquette soccer players lace up their cleats before practice.

Making Sense of Life

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on campus

First-born and street legal

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Global Health — Implications for

Dennis and Barbara Klein led the drive for the new Marquette soccer facility.

The woman behind Little Women “I had lots of troubles, so I write jolly tales.”

So said Louisa May Alcott, author of the enduring classic Little Women.

A reading, viewing and discussion series on campus this fall examines the lesser-known aspects of Alcott’s life: She was an abolitionist and Civil War nurse, secretly penned lurid pulp fiction and used opium, and palled around with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“Everyone knows Louisa May Alcott, yet at the same time no one completely knows Louisa May Alcott,” says Dr. Sarah Wadsworth, associate professor of English.

“In a sense she was a victim of her success, and the result is that she’s known for one superlative book, Little Women, and an array of other popular novels for young readers.

But she actually wrote in a range of genres and styles. … And, while she made her fortune in popular children’s books, she was extremely adept at working into her mainstream fiction ideas that, in her time, were forward-thinking and, often, unpopular — ideas about racial equality,

women’s rights and education reform, for example.”

But because of biases in the academy, Alcott was largely ignored by scholars until a couple of decades ago, says Dr. Angela Sorby, associate professor of English.

Sorby is glad to see Alcott getting the attention she deserves. “She was a writer whose work reflects some of the fascinating changes that were taking place in 19th-century America,” Sorby says.

Raynor Memorial Libraries and the Milwaukee Public Library are co-sponsoring the programming with support from the American Library Association and National Endowment for the Humanities.

Inspired by a new biography and documentary, 29 other libraries across the nation also will host Alcott events this fall.

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The series of lectures kicked off in September. Visit marquette. edu/alcott for upcoming events.

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News from the nation’s capital often focuses on acrimony between the parties.

But alliances do form across the aisle.

Pedigree tops partisanship And two Marquette alums bridged that divide by discovering common ground in a treasured campus hangout — the Avalanche Bar. Alex Johnson, Arts ’93, and Greg Curtis, Comm ’92, didn’t meet until more than a decade after graduating from Marquette, when they spoke at the same conference to outline their respective national party political conventions.

When they realized they shared an alma mater, they went out for a Pabst Blue Ribbon — reminiscent of cheap

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beer in college — to talk about their Marquette memories.

That was the start of a friendship and business partnership built on the foundation of comparable campus experiences and mutual respect.

“The one thing we instantly had in common was we both spent quite a bit of time at the ’Lanche,” Curtis says, and the bar’s name had a deeper meaning for them.

“As much as our partisanship is important, our Marquette pedigree is as well,” says Curtis, president-elect

of Marquette’s National Alumni Board.

In 2007, Curtis and Johnson combined their experience working for opposing parties in Washington, D.C., to form Avalanche State Consulting, which advises state politicians from both political camps.

Despite their position on opposite sides of the aisle, Curtis, a Democrat, and Johnson, a Republican, say their affiliations let them represent all clients equally.

And their Marquette background helps bind them together.

“I think our experiences were similar to that of many others of our time at Marquette,” Johnson says. “My four years were a whirlwind — so much living and learning from social, personal and education — it is almost hard to quantify. It taught me how to think critically about issues and life and instilled many of the moral and religious values that make me who I am today.”

But the business day isn’t all about business.

“We spend most of our time discussing things that are not political,” Curtis says, and that includes what’s going on at Marquette (especially basketball), and memories of friends, professors and their favorite campus hangout.

“The Avalanche was a place that brought people together of all stripes,” Johnson says. “That is our goal in advocating for our clients.”

Memories of the ’Lanche are prominent in their office, where bricks preserved from the building that was demolished in 1997 are on display with other Marquette memorabilia.

As odd as it sounds, it is those bricks that give them an instant connection to other alumni when they meet — no matter what their political affiliation.

“Marquette is an experience of a lifetime,” Curtis says. “In our case, the Avalanche has been, as well.”

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“Marquette is an experience of a lifetime. In our case, the Avalanche has been as well,” says Greg Curtis (standing at left).

Face to face in Uganda Marquette alums afield and afar

Recently published books by alumni and faculty

Censored on Final Approach

by Phylis Ravel, artistic associate professor in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication Delving into the lives of the oft-forgotten Women Air Service Pilots, Ravel’s play explores the emotions, challenges and suspicions surrounding four female pilots during World War II. Available on Kindle and at originalworksonline.com.

How the Sweet-tooth Immigrant Made the Midwest Great & Other True Tales of Baking

by Jennifer R. Lewis, Arts ’85 Lewis relays the sweet baking history, traditions, companies, ingredients and recipes of Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. Enjoy these true tales about baking as shared through oral history interviews.

Eric Voegelin and the Continental

After 110 miles of biking across the plateaus and banana tree-lined roads of Uganda, Ben Stewart, Arts ’09, and Spencer McCormick were ready to call it a day. The two, who pedaled across 11 African nations during the course of four months, had just finished their longest day of biking yet when they got a little turned around. Pulling over to the side of the dusty, red dirt road, Stewart flagged down a stranger to ask for directions. The generous stranger invited Stewart and McCormick to spend the night at the Uganda Rural Fund volunteer house.

There Stewart and McCormick (son of Marquette political science professor Dr. Barrett McCormick) came face to face with Marquette students and URF volunteers Natalie Campbell, an education senior, and Aaron Owen, a health sciences senior, some 7,700 miles from campus.

“After a few minutes of conversation with the two American volunteers, we were amazed to discover that we had just run into fellow Marquette students,” explains Stewart.

Campbell recalls: “Aaron and I were just coming back from having

dinner at one of our students’ houses, and Ben and Spencer were drinking tea at the kitchen table. I walked right up to them, not used to seeing white people in rural Uganda, to find out how they ended up at the house. Within a few minutes we all realized that we were from Marquette.”

Campbell and Owen lived in Uganda for 10 weeks this summer, preparing a curriculum for leadership training and facilitating a high school leadership after-school program. Meanwhile, Stewart and McCormick biked from Cape Town, South Africa, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to raise money for Doctors Without Borders and World Bicycle Relief.

“It was great to talk to people in Africa about places along Wisconsin Avenue and have them actually know what you’re talking about,” Campbell says. JB ONLINE EXTRA

Biking across the dusty roads of Africa, McCormick and Stewart learned a lot about perseverence and self. To read a piece of their travel journal, visit marquette.edu/magazine.

Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought

by Lee D. Trepanier, Arts ’95, with Steven F. McGuire In an explosive collection of essays written by some of Voegelin’s most revered scholars, Trepanier’s book captures the connection between Voegelin’s political philosophies and those of the modern continental tradition he harshly criticized.

Did you publish this year? Submit your book title at marquette.edu/magazine for consideration for future fresh ink!

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ing Center provided technical assistance.

You’ll spot another campus character in a scene with lead actors Robert Cicchini and Chase Maser: the Père Marquette sculpture on Central Mall. The university is mentioned when one of

Questions race through her mind: “Is she

the lead characters talks about researching the

normal?” “Will she keep me awake all night?”

historic journey using resources from the Père

Generations of alumni experienced the anxi-

Marquette Collection in University Archives.

ety of rooming with a stranger. Today’s freshmen

“One of the reasons we were able to make

use online social networking to reduce the

the shift to Milwaukee is that Marquette and

suspense. Maggie Rudersdorf, Arts ’11, and

others in Wisconsin gave us a tremendous

Stephi Malinski, Arts ’11, talked on Facebook

amount of in-kind help in addition to historical

to get acquainted the summer heading into

resources,” says Roger Rapoport, the film’s

their freshman year and became fast friends.

Shazia Ali, H Sci ’11, took an unusual detour on her way to medical school.

She’s spending the year in Washington, D.C.— after a month of training in London — talking up malaria as an interfaith ambassador for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

Ali is one of 34 young people chosen from more than 700 applicants worldwide for the foundation’s Faiths Act Fellowship. The fellowship aims to advance the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, and this year’s fellows are focusing on malaria, a preventable disease that kills more than 750,000 people a year. Ali works for the D.C. branch of Malaria No More and helps raise awareness and funds to fight the disease. She and other fellows — who are Buddhist, Bahá’í, Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Muslim and Quaker — reach out to faith-based communities, with a special effort on getting youth involved in the cause.

Faith often moves people to action, and yet many don’t discuss it outside of a religious context, she notes. “Our faith isn’t some-

thing we should hide,” says Ali, who is Muslim. “By sharing it and learning from each other, we can use faith as a positive force.”

Ali learned about the fellowship opportunity at Marquette’s Leadership Summit, and she’s eager to test the leadership skills she honed on campus, where she was active in numerous student groups. This past spring, she won Marquette’s top student honor, the Rev. Andrew J. Thon, S.J., Vice President’s Award for Distinguished Leadership, Scholarship and Service.

Ali started thinking about malaria prevention when she traveled to Honduras with Marquette’s Global Medical Brigades and took anti-malaria drugs for weeks. Not everyone can afford the drugs, but other cost-effective measures like treated bed nets can make a real difference, she says.

Although she’s just begun, she’s excited about the year ahead. Says Ali, “If together we can use faith to fight malaria, what else can we use it for?”

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Michigan-based producer. “Marquette has been

“Our bond grew throughout the first weeks

sort of a lynchpin of this project.”

as we realized we had so much in

Blessing took a few days off to tag along with

common,” recalls Rudersdorf.

the film crew, help haul canoes and serve as an

Many incoming fresh-

on-camera expert for a separate documentary

men meet each other on

about the journey.

Marquette’s incoming

“Rapoport’s crew worked a lot faster than

freshman Facebook page and

Scorsese or Spielberg, but the pace of making a

pick roommates from a batch of

movie was much too slow, even for an archivist,”

new, virtual friends, a choice freshman

Blessing says with a laugh. “It was compounded

Alec Grych calls “sort of random, yet not.”

and slowed down because they were filming on

“Social networking is such a powerful connection tool, in terms of meeting people and getting to know them,” says Grych. “There was a discussion post about roommates and we talked several times about sports, what we do for fun, etc.”

In the end, Grych says his decision to bypass Marquette’s roommate lottery came down to two factors: residence hall preference and comfort.

The majority of freshmen participate in the random housing lottery, but more are beginning to list a roommate preference. The Office of Residence Life receives about 400 roommate requests per year. “And that number continues to grow as students use social media to connect with other students before they arrive on campus,” says Sean Berthold, assistant dean for housing services.

and other equipment, and Jon Pray of IMC and Carole Burns of the Wakerly Technology Train-

A nervous freshman compulsively checks email for news of her housing assignment and future roommate.

Fighting malaria

Instructional Media Center loaned cameras

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water so often times just shooting one scene

Lights, camera, action

would take 2.5 or 3 hours.”

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Journalists gathered in the Raynor Library’s conference center for an award ceremony as the cameras rolled.

But those weren’t news cameras.

The fake ceremony — populated by extras from Marquette — was just another scene in the movie Waterwalk, the real-life tale of a father and son retracing 1,000 miles of the historic 1673 journey of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet from St. Ignace, Mich., to St. Louis.

The film, due out in April 2012, features loads of university connections: Matt Blessing, head of Special

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Collections and University Archives, served as a

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historical consultant, and several scenes were shot at his house (his dog even played the family pet); Dr. Lori Bergen, dean of the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication, is an extra in a scene filmed at a

Read Rudersdorf’s tips for a successful

Milwaukee restaurant; and the “journalists” at the award

freshman rooming experience at

ceremony include doctoral student McKayla Sutton;

marquette.edu/magazine.

Ken Wirth, Bus Ad ’84; Laura Janis and Rose Trupiano

At more than 100 locations across the Midwest — including at Marquette’s Varsity Theatre.

For more information, visit waterwalkthemovie.com.

of Raynor Memorial Libraries; and Nicholas La Joie of the Center for Teaching and Learning. Marquette’s

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amazing students

Remember that first “hello”?

Waterwalk is the reallife tale of a father and son retracing 1,000 miles of the historic 1673 journey of Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet.

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Hundreds gather in Church of the Gesu for the inauguration Mass that celebrates Father Pilarz’s call to service as Marquette’s 23rd president.

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Those in attendance and all who celebrated with the university from afar were asked to help enlarge Marquette’s footprint for good in the world. Borrowing inspiration from poet Mary Oliver’s words, “Be ignited, or be gone,” everyone — visiting guest, Marquette student and alumni — was asked to make a renewed pledge of service to their communities.

“God’s grace is surely at work here, giving us the energy and enthusiasm to go and ‘set the world on fire,’” Father Pilarz

told hundreds, including members of the university and Milwaukee communities, church leaders, and 140 delegates representing colleges and universities across the country. Speakers ranging from Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki to poet Carolyn Forché to Rev. Dean Brackley, S.J., whose message was delivered in absentia, asked those gathered to use this moment as a starting point for a renewed commitment to excellence, to becoming voices for the voiceless and to living in solidarity with the poor. “The work ahead may occasionally be arduous,” Father Pilarz said, “but as St. Ignatius reminds us, ‘Nothing is hard to one whose will is set on it, especially if it be a thing done out of love.’” || Excerpt from Father Pilarz’s address

n a year’s worth of visits and a month now on the ground, I have learned how much God has blessed Marquette.

Like the city of Milwaukee, this campus extends itself to newcomers in a warm and wonderful way. The cultures of the city and the campus are marked by an authenticity and utter lack of pretension.

In that sense, it reminds me of my home in the Garden State. People here are comfortable in their own skins.

And like the Garden State, there is a big body of water to the east that helps me orient myself. And seagulls.

Father Pilarz Who knew that Milwaukee celebrates had seagulls? with new and “In my meetings with old friends members of the Marquette at a reception

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following the inauguration Mass.

community, I have learned how every group thinks they own the place. And that is a great thing. Students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni, they all unabashedly love Marquette. There is an incredible sense of gratitude and awe for how far Marquette has come since 1881. And born of that gratitude are high aspirations and hopes. || Access and new excellence

|| Pledge to Service

In a March 2010 speech, Rev. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J., superior general of the Society of Jesus, said, “Depth of thought and imagination in the Ignatian tradition involves a profound engagement with the real.” To build upon the Jesuit legacy of being men and women for and with others and to mark Father Pilarz’s arrival, a Call to Service asks each member of the Marquette community to commit this year to a service experience.

Choose a service project and then make your pledge at marquette. edu/call-to-service.

arquette is also animated in a special way by the spirit of the man for whom it is named, Jacques Marquette. Jacques Marquette was fearless in facing the future and welcoming what was to come. Imagine the risk of leaving family and the comfortable environment of France in the 17th century to come to North America.

Jacques Marquette is an excellent example of St. Ignatius Loyola’s commitment to the magis — a restless desire for God’s greater glory and the well-being of the world.

Jacques Marquette was never afraid of the new, and therein gives us direction as we steer the university’s course in the second decade of the 21st century. Let me hazard a metaphor — after all, I’m an English professor.

Jacques Marquette was obsessed with discovering the Mississippi River. He was convinced that making its map would enhance human experience and open opportunities for the spread of God’s good news. So what is our Mississippi River? What keeps us up at night at Marquette?

“Without meaning to sound presumptuous, let me suggest two goals which I have been hearing about from every corner of this campus for over a year now: access and a new excellence. When Archbishop Henni scraped and saved enough resources together to open Marquette College in 1881, he was creating an engine of opportunity for the people of this diocese, for newly arrived immigrants from Europe. Ever since, Marquette has proudly educated students who were the first in their families to earn a college degree.

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effect on a family. I have experienced this firsthand as the first Pilarz ever to graduate from college. Again and again, I have heard from members of the Marquette community how proud we are that nearly 25 percent of the students we welcomed a few weeks ago are the first in their families to do the same. This Marquette tradition must continue if we are to be true to our mission.

And this will require efforts on our part to provide resources and support. || Authentically Marquette

his commitment to access might seem in tension with the drive to new excellence. If it is, it is a tension we must embrace. For Marquette to remain authentically Marquette, access

s an English professor, Rev. Scott Pilarz, S.J., is passionate about poetry, especially the works of 16th-century poets St. Robert Southwell, S.J., and John Donne. But he also enjoys contemporary masters such as Carolyn Forché, who gave the keynote address at the inauguration ceremony, and his favorite rock-poet, Bruce Springsteen. In a poetic gesture and spirit of welcome, Marquette Magazine asked Dr. Angela Sorby, poet and faculty member in the Department of English, to communicate our hopes for Marquette’s 23rd president.

and excellence cannot be viewed as an either/or proposition, but rather a both/ and situation in order to serve God’s glory and future generations of students.

“New excellence for Marquette will require resources of us. And our work must always be informed by Father General’s final challenge to us as a Jesuit university. We need to ask, he says: How do our students and faculty become ‘voices for the voiceless?’

How do they become ‘sources for human rights for those denied such rights [and] resources for the protection of the environment?’ How do they become ‘persons of solidarity for the poor?’ How can such questions not keep us up at night at Marquette? “… Let us commit together to shape Marquette in a way that at once honors the legacy we inherit, as well as the chapter of Marquette history that we will write together. Standing here today peering into the future is daunting.

It is colored significantly by mystery.

And it requires of us, hope.”

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“What if to you these sparks disordered seeme As if by chaunce they had been scattered there?”

SIR JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626)

There is a pattern in the scattered stars, though light pollution makes it hard to read.

God grant you vision, Father Scott Pilarz.

All night the avenues are bright with cars that hurry, halfway-human in their greed, but there are patterns in the scattered stars.

Read the complete inauguration address and see a video of Father Pilarz’s first week on campus at marquette.edu/inauguration.

Communication sophomore Jessie Bazan felt honored to play a small role in the inauguration Mass, but it was an experience earlier in the week’s festivities that made the biggest impression.

Here, she reflects on moments spent in conversation with Father Pilarz at a student retreat.

Student Jessie Bazan, right, served as sacristan and participated in a memorable student retreat with Father Pilarz.

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s the crowd rose to applaud Marquette’s newest president, my mind flashed back to a moment four days earlier. It occurred immediately following the student retreat Father Pilarz hosted as a kickoff to inauguration week.

As we were heading out of the chapel, my friend leaned over and whispered, ‘This is where I need to be.’

Midwestern kids trap fireflies in jars, then watch them surge and glow as they are freed.

God grant you vision, Father Scott Pilarz.

“The truth of her words affirmed what I had felt all night. In front of an intimate group of 65 students, Father Pilarz recounted stories about his college days that, frankly, didn’t sound much different from my own.

As a community, we discussed; we laughed; we prayed. We didn’t talk about endowments or enrollment or other subjects that typically consume the life of a university president.

Instead, Father Pilarz shared his passion for Ignatian spirituality. He encouraged us as young people to

watch for patterns that stir our hearts and to be open to God’s calling. I was moved by his candor on personal topics like falling in love and how scary it is to leave the familiar.

“I left the retreat feeling rejuvenated. I left confident in the direction Father Pilarz will take the university.

And on Friday, as the Al McGuire Center crowd applauded joyously in celebration, I, too, was reassured that Marquette is where I need to be.”

Our books are dense with battlefields and czars, but also prairies — sprung from sun and seed — that form a pattern under scattered stars.

Can education tell us who we are?

It is not truth, but questioning we need, since vision’s partial, Father Scott Pilarz.

Some seekers see a human face on Mars, but still their feet are tangled in the weeds.

So let us trust the force behind the stars to grant us vision, Father Scott Pilarz.

— Dr. Angela Sorby

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captured in LIBYA Marquette friends are key in campaign to free James Foley.

Apprehended on a Libyan battlefield in early April, freelance journalist James Foley, Arts ’96, found himself in a Tripoli jail, pondering his uncertain future as the civil war raged on across the countryside. Then came a knock on the wall of his jail cell. Foley put his ear near a wall socket and heard the muffled voice of a detained American contractor reading from the Bible and asking him to join in prayer.

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“In a very calm voice, he’d read me Scripture once or twice a day,” recalls Foley. “Then I’d pray to stay strong. I’d pray to soften the hearts of our captors. I’d pray for God to lift the burdens we couldn’t handle.

And I’d pray that our moms would know we were OK.”

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Foley was set free 45 days later, following an international campaign spearheaded by his friends from Marquette, former colleagues at Teach For America, and family and childhood friends in New Hampshire. The campaign included an online petition that garnered almost 35,000 signatures and a deftly orchestrated media plan that brought his captivity and eventual release to the world’s attention.

Foley, who majored in history at Marquette, has a heart for social justice. He volunteered in Milwaukee inner-city schools and then with TFA in Phoenix. He later taught in Chicago, where he worked at the Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp teaching inmates the rudiments of reading and writing.

As he listened to inmates’ stories and taught them to write, Foley realized he wanted to tell stories more than teach them. He earned a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University in 2008, gaining the multimedia tools of the 21st-century journalist.

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oley had his video camera and note pads on hand on March 15 when he arrived in Libya on assignment for GlobalPost, the online international news service headquartered in Boston that had run his dispatches from the

frontlines in Afghanistan in 2009.

In early dispatches, he documented how the disorganized band of

recalls Foley. “I told them our friend and colleague

Libyan rebels raced to the frontlines in pickup trucks and occasionally

was shot and gravely wounded. The soldiers hit us

killed their own by firing their weapons into the air in celebration.

with the butts of their AK-47s, punched us and tied

Foley was well aware of the risks associated with the life of a war correspondent. In Afghanistan, he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 173rd Brigade and 101st Airborne Division. He traveled under the

our hands behind our backs.”

While Hammerl was left dead in the desert, Foley and his two colleagues — journalist Claire Gillis and

protection of the military unit and slept with troops in tents in dug-out shelters. The Army

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Friends Foley made almost 20 years ago at Marquette played a major role in the campaign: Milwaukee attorney Daniel Hanrahan, Eng ’97, Law ’00, Grad ’10, played rugby with Foley at Marquette; corporate communication executive Peter Pedraza, Arts ’97, lived with Foley in Schroeder Hall; and educator Thomas Durkin, Arts ’96, Grad ’07, was a former classmate.

“When your friend is in trouble, you do what you can do,” says

Durkin, a teacher at the Cook County Sheriff’s Boot Camp in Chicago where Foley once worked. “We needed to put together an organization to make sure we were working for the same goal. It was a very delicate situation.”

During Foley’s one phone call home in mid-April, his mother told him about the Marquette effort that included a campus prayer vigil on April 26. “I was just amazed that my Marquette friends were reaching out,” says Foley. “What my mom told me was just the tip of the iceberg. They were calling everyone they knew and pulling every string they had.”

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provided food and logistics. The unit was often under attack, so Foley traveled in full-body armor, which included a vest with steel plates that he got

“The soldiers hit us with the butts of their AK-47s, punched us and tied our hands behind our backs.”

from a contractor in Iraq.

“There were casualties and some guys seriously wounded,” he says. “One day we were out on

photographer Manuel Varela — were whisked away to

foot and, by the time we got back, a huge bomb killed two guys in

jail. Foley was incarcerated with 10 political prisoners,

the unit driving back from the base.”

sharing a 12-foot by 15-foot cell, with a sink, shower

But in Libya, Foley was on his own, with his only support coming

and six bunks.

from other journalists on the scene and the band of rebels whose

Foley, Gillis and Varela were accused of spying and

battles they yearned to chronicle. Like so many Western journalists

interrogated about their entrance into the county with

in Libya to document the growing hostilities between rebels and the

neither a visa nor official permission.

regime of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Foley entered the country on its eastern border with Egypt, which was controlled by the rebels.

In the war’s chaotic early days, Foley made his way to the rebel-

“We knew we had to be absolutely truthful, letting them know who we were reporting for, how many reports we had filed,” says Foley.

controlled city of Benghazi and linked up with other journalists covering the action. Foley spent several days with rebel forces. On April 5,

Free Foley campaign launches

rebels warned the journalists that Gadhafi forces were near. Suddenly,

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the troops appeared over the hill and opened fire. Foley and his col-

behind the scenes to set him free. Many news organi-

leagues dove to the ground, seeking shelter in a sand dune. South

zations have chosen the private route. But Foley was

African journalist Anton Hammerl took a bullet to his abdomen.

freelancing for a small online start-up without the clout

he and three other journalists teamed up to hitch a ride to the front.

Foley wore his steel military helmet, fearing they might come under direct gun fire that day.

“I sensed the danger,” he says.

His premonition proved true. About a mile outside the city of Brega,

“I jumped up and tried to tell them that we were journalists,”

s Foley languished in jail, his family and friends sprang to action. First they had to decide if they would make his capture public and create an international campaign

to free him or keep his captivity private and negotiate

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“It was a polarizing decision,” says Michael

The drumbeat on the local level finally spilled

Foley, James’ brother. “But the reality was that

onto the national scene. U.S. Secretary of State

he didn’t have a huge organization behind him

Hillary Clinton called for Foley’s release, as did U.S.

with an army of attorneys to make daily calls

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire.

to the U.S. State Department. My parents decided to go public and stay public.”

Pedraza, Hanrahan and Durkin became part

One of Gadhafi’s sons became involved, and the journalists were eventually transferred to a villa.

They were brought to a Libyan court, found guilty

of the Free Foley inner circle, along with Foley’s

of entering the country without a visa, given a

family, New Hampshire friends and educators

suspended sentence and fined the equivalent of

from TFA.

$150. Officials from the Hungarian embassy then

The group divided up to work on media outreach, government operations and general

Tunisian border, where they were set free. Waiting

operations, which included the Free Foley

for Foley was his brother, Michael.

Facebook page, the online petition and the campaign’s website.

Pedraza, who’d previously worked as a

“It was surreal,” says Foley. “I was looking at him, and I couldn’t believe he was there. It was like a holographic image of him. It was so amazing to

staffer for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, says the

see him, to hear about the grassroots efforts with

campaign developed an operational rhythm,

Marquette and TFA. It was crazy.”

with daily conference calls and the dedication of Foley’s friends and family.

“We don’t know exactly what seeds grew roots for us, but something worked on our behalf. My family and friends were unstoppable.”

Back home, Foley made the media rounds to talk about his captivity and the dangers correspondents face in wartime. He set up an online fundraising appeal at freefoley.org to support Anton Hammerl’s wife and three children.

Foley is writing an account of his ordeal, using notes he smuggled out in his shoe.

In June, he traveled to the Lakota tribe’s Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to teach a workshop

“No one had all the answers or even knew

on video production for fledgling journalists. He’s

exactly how to tackle such a problem,” says

contemplating a return to the front lines, but his

Pedraza. “But we formed the framework and

trip to the reservation reminded him that injustice

got people working together.”

remains in the United States and courageous jour-

The Marquette network played an important role in the campaign. Elizabeth Nielsen, a friend

nalists are needed to keep it in the public eye.

In mid-July, Foley joined GlobalPost as deputy

of Durkin, saw his Facebook posts about Foley’s

breaking news editor. Until the desire to hit the

plight. She told Durkin she knew the folks at

road grips him again, he will edit dispatches from

Care2, the online petition service. She convinced

correspondents around the world. He’s also con-

them to highlight the petition that called on

templating the Book of Matthew, which rang so

the Libyan government to free the journalists.

true in his Tripoli prison cell. His fellow prisoner

Petitions that garner 10,000 signatures are con-

recited Matthew 11:30, in which Jesus calls on his

sidered successful; their goal was 25,000 signatures.

followers to take on his yoke and learn from him.

Close to 35,000 signed it, and another 8,000 “liked” the Free Foley page on Facebook.

To get the attention of WTMJ4, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Hanrahan reached out to news anchor Steve Chamraz, Comm ’98.

“Everybody had lots of small roles,” says Hanrahan.

The campaign to free James Foley started small, but soon people around the country began to petition for his release.

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took them into custody and brought them to the

No one can say exactly what part of the Free Foley campaign resulted in his release, but the multifaceted effort reminds Foley of Matthew’s parable of the farmer who sows seeds in many places.

“The farmer was putting out his efforts in all directions,” Foley says. “Some of them hit fallow ground. Other seeds fell on good soil. We don’t know exactly what seeds grew roots for us, but something worked on our behalf. My friends and family were unstoppable.”

“Marquette University has always been a friend to me.

The kind who challenges you to do more and be better and ultimately shapes who you become.”

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ith Marquette, I went on some volunteer trips to South Dakota and Mississippi and learned I was a sheltered kid and the world had real problems. I came to know young people who wanted to give their hearts for others. Later I volunteered in a Milwaukee junior high school up the street from the university and was inspired to become an inner-city teacher. But Marquette was perhaps never a bigger friend to me than when I was imprisoned as a journalist.

Myself and two colleagues had been captured and were being held in a military detention center in Tripoli. Each day brought increasing worry that our moms would begin to panic.

My colleague, Clare, was supposed to call her mom on her birthday, which was the day after we were captured. I had still not fully admitted to myself that my mom knew what had happened. But I kept telling Clare my mom had a strong faith.

I prayed she’d know I was OK. I prayed I could communicate through some cosmic reach of the universe to her.

I began to pray the rosary. It was what my mother and grandmother would have prayed.

I said 10 Hail Marys between each Our Father.

It took a long time, almost an hour to count 100 Hail Marys off on my knuckles. And it helped to keep my mind focused.

Clare and I prayed together out loud. It felt energizing to speak our weaknesses and

hopes together, as if in a conversation with God, rather than silently and alone.

Later we were taken to another prison where the regime kept hundreds of political prisoners. I was quickly welcomed by the other prisoners and treated well.

One night, 18 days into our captivity, some guards brought me out of the cell. In the hall

“Are they making you say these things, Jim?” “No, the Libyans are beautiful people,” I told her. “I’ve been praying for you to know that I’m OK,” I said. “Haven’t you felt my prayers?”

“Oh, Jimmy, so many people are praying for you. All your friends, Donnie, Michael Joyce, Dan Hanrahan, Suree, Tom Durkin, Sarah Fang have been calling. Your brother Michael loves you so much.” She started to cry. “The Turkish embassy is trying to see you and also Human Rights Watch. Did you see them?” I said I hadn’t.

“They’re having a prayer vigil for you at Marquette. Don’t you feel our prayers?” she asked.

“I do, Mom, I feel them,” and I thought about this for a second. Maybe it was others’ prayers strengthening me, keeping me afloat.

The official made a motion. I started to say goodbye. Mom started to cry. “Mom, I’m strong. I’m OK. I should be home by Katie’s graduation,” which was a month away.

“We love you, Jim!” she said. Then I hung up.

I replayed that call hundreds of times in my head — my mother’s voice, the names of my friends, her knowledge of our situation, her absolute belief in the power of prayer. She told me my friends had gathered to do anything

“Prayer was the glue that enabled my freedom, an inner freedom first and later the miracle of being released during a war in which the regime had no real incentive to free us.”

I saw Manu, another colleague, for the first time in a week. We were haggard but overjoyed to see each other. Upstairs in the warden’s office, a distinguished man in a suit stood and said, “We felt you might want to call your families.”

I said a final prayer and dialed the number.

My mom answered the phone. “Mom, Mom, it’s me, Jim.” “Jimmy, where are you?”

“I’m still in Libya, Mom. I’m sorry about this.

So sorry.”

“Don’t be sorry, Jim,” she pleaded. “Oh, Daddy just left. Oh … He so wants to talk to you.

How are you, Jim?” I told her I was being fed, that I was getting the best bed and being treated like a guest.

they could to help. I knew I wasn’t alone.

My last night in Tripoli, I had my first Internet connection in 44 days and was able to listen to a speech Tom Durkin gave for me at the Marquette vigil. To a church full of friends, alums, priests, students and faculty, I watched the best speech a brother could give for another.

It felt like a best man speech and a eulogy in one. It showed tremendous heart and was just a glimpse of the efforts and prayers people were pouring forth. If nothing else, prayer was the glue that enabled my freedom, an inner freedom first and later the miracle of being released during a war in which the regime had no real incentive to free us. It didn’t make sense, but faith did.

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The cultural and personal devastation of the events of 9/11 became etched in the minds and hearts of all of us — not just firefighters, not just New Yorkers, not just Americans. The entire world was affected and bore witness. Suddenly one Tuesday morning, the way we thought of ourselves and each other shifted and there was a new order of things.

We struggled then to comprehend the incomprehensible and to make sense of senseless tragedy. We struggle still. The events of 9/11 put into motion thousands of cultural ripples and waves, evolutions and fractures, forces and reactions — all rich resources for understanding ourselves and the world we live in more completely and compassionately. Exploring what happened and how we and others reacted to it may help us decipher who we are as people, what we can expect of ourselves in times of trauma and great stress, and what we might become for ourselves and each other.

One of the ways such events can be examined is through academic research and writing. After spending most of my life writing for and editing magazines, I now study media and explore what it covers, how events are interpreted, and who is included or

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excluded from coverage. I’m particularly interested in how media works to shape our ideas — for better or worse — about gender. Much of my work links media and gender to the events of 9/11.

“LET’S BOIL!” VS. “LET’S ROLL!”

fter the initial shock of 9/11, media scholars began to sift through coverage and note how newspapers, magazines and television depicted the events: Men were represented as heroes, and women were represented as passive observers or were entirely absent. I wondered if photos of women actively involved in heroic labor existed and went in search of other, less public images of 9/11.

Working with graduate student Brittany Husted, I first surveyed images of 9/11 in major national magazines and newspapers. We found images of men digging through rubble, raising the flag, directing rescue efforts. We found images of women mourning at vigils or hugging each other. Then we looked for images of 9/11 that were not in mainstream media. Our sources were an art gallery that collected images taken by survivors and witnesses, as well as two collections of photographs taken by New York police officers. We found that many of these images were quite different from the ones we all

remember seeing. We found images of male and female rescuers working side by side, women helping each other breathe through the dust, women administrators giving orders, and women firefighters digging through the debris with their search and rescue dogs.

Our third step was to look for stories of female heroes. We found them. Three women rescue workers were killed that day. Six women first responders earned the National Liberty Museum Police and Firefighters Award of Valor. And then there was Sandra Bradshaw and the other women of United Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Penn. Much media coverage focused on the group of passengers — repeatedly referred to as “tall, athletic men” — who rushed the cockpit to take back control of the plane. The story of passenger Todd Beamer who said “Let’s roll!” is well-known. But what is less known is the story of Bradshaw, who phoned in identification of three hijackers and boiled water at the back of the plane to use on the captors.

Not seeing the women who were heroes in 9/11 is an important absence for all of us. Such images show us that sometimes men need saving and sometimes women are rescuers. And they give women something men have long had: heroes to look up to.

TELEVISION MASCULINITY SINCE 9/11

ot so many years ago, television heroes — seen on The Rifleman, Dragnet, Ben Casey, Adam-12, Marcus Welby, M.D. — were nearly perfect. They knew right from wrong, caught the bad guys, said wise things to their children and saved the world without a single self-doubt.

But it seemed to me that a distinctive new television hero was to be emerging from the ashes of 9/11. He appears in male-centered television dramas such as The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Boston Legal, Dexter and Mad Men.

Post-9/11 television heroes are not lone drifters on the Western frontier, as were the cowboy heroes in 1950s and 1960s television. They are not surgically altered with bionics to be six million dollar men or dwell in fantasy spaceships, as did the sci-fi heroes of 1970s and 1980s television. Though they save people from fires, solve crimes and make brilliant diagnoses in the nick of time, they are not superheroes. They struggle to pay the rent and buy the groceries.

They have money woes, wives who annoy them and children who misbehave. They are disappointing husbands, straying lovers, fumbling parents and struggling addicts.

Why did this new type of hero appear when it did, and what might this mean?

The events of 9/11 and how America has redrawn its ideas of heroism since then may have something to do with it.

THE LEGACY OF LOSS

lthough many heroic moments no doubt occurred during 9/11 and were likely performed by professional rescuers and office workers alike, in truth, very few people were actually rescued that day. The towers fell too fast, the firefighters died too quickly.

Most survivors rescued themselves by walking out on their own two feet. Faulty radio equipment, bad communication between rescue organizations and the improbable nature of the disaster combined to doom rescue workers to death before they could do their work.

In fact, it was the rescuers themselves who required rescue — and who did not receive it.

The enemy on 9/11 could not be identified or repelled. U.S. soil could not be effectively defended. The uniformed force on the ground standing in for the military — firefighters, police, Port Authority officers — was killed along with civilians. In this environment, the nation made space for flawed and

uncertain heroes, heroes who are imperfect, heroes who do not always succeed, and venerated the attempts at greatness made by mere mortals.

The characters in post-9/11 malecentered television dramas openly acknowledge the instability and uneven terrain of both masculinity and national security. The perfect, infallible hero is gone. In the post-9/11 world, he cannot save anyone. The new, flawed heroes need liberation and salvation as much as they promise to deliver it.

Of course there are many legacies of 9/11. My work is about just one legacy that I see reflected in certain media representations. The images we see on television and the images we do not see in media, such as photographs of female rescuers, have something to tell us. They reveal our assumptions about who and what is heroic. We can challenge those assumptions. Of course women can be feisty and brave. Of course flawed humans can be compassionate and tender and contribute something of value that the rest of us need. The classic Greek hero was an imperfect human who achieved moments — but not a complete lifetime — of greatness. Being a hero may not be as much a fulltime occupation as a full-time awareness of our potential to be, at any given moment, someone’s rescuer, in ways large and small.

Living an ordinary life with grace and insight can be a hero’s work, too.

Pamela Hill Nettleton is an assistant professor of journalism in the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication.

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Shooting for the stars Capt. Brian Luther, Arts ’84, hoped to fly among the stars — instead, he floats beneath them.

Long before Luther became commanding officer of the USS George H.W. Bush, the nation’s newest aircraft carrier, he was a boy with a mind for science fiction and dreams of becoming an astronaut.

“I went to a high school job fair,” says Luther, “and standing in the Air Force line, a Navy recruiter approached me.” Under the impression he needed to be a jet pilot before becoming an astronaut, Luther was set straight: “No,” the recruitor said. “You need to be a naval aviator.”

The first man in space, the first man on the moon, the first two Shuttle pilots: naval aviators, all.

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to Marquette. “Marquette taught me what it meant to sacrifice my time and live a life of service,” he says, reflecting on a career that includes numerous awards and decorations, 3,400-plus flight hours, and 825 carrier landings. “I do this job so others don’t have to.”

Although his window for space travel closed, Luther has no regrets. “Any time I would change command, my dad would say, ‘Shoot for the stars and miss (and) you’ll land in the heavens.’ I started my career shooting to be an astronaut. I ended up an aircraft carrier commanding officer. Instead of sailing amongst an ocean of stars, I sail under an ocean of stars. It’s a miss, but it’s not a bad miss.” — Charles Nevsimal

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Bill Wambach, Eng ’50, tied the USATF Masters Outdoor high jump record for ages 85 – 89, leaping 1.17 meters at the Midwest Regional Masters in Waukesha, Wis. His best high jump came in 1948 when lettering for former Marquette Track and Field Coach Bus Shimek, reaching 1.87 meters.

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1953 Dee (Nelis) Walther, Arts ’53, taught elementary school for 27 years in Michigan before joining her husband to circumnavigate the world in their 38foot sailboat. She summarized their 10-year odyssey in an unpublished book for family.

They live in Leesburg, Fla., and continue to travel to countries they haven’t seen before.

Paul E. Salsini, Jour ’58, Grad ’85, received the Sons of Italy Leonardo da Vinci Award for Excellence in Literature for A Tuscan Trilogy, his series of novels about the horrors of World War II in Italy. The trilogy was highlighted in Marquette Magazine’s “Fresh ink!” column in the winter 2011 issue.

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1963 John Tumpak, Eng ’63, had his oral history interviews with Big Band Era figures and articles he wrote based on those interviews archived in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Also included is his book, When Swing was the Thing: Personality Profiles of the Big Band Era.

education. He has been a member of the association since 1971 and is emeritus professor at Baylor College of Dentistry.

Joy Maguire-Dooley, Jour ’66, received the President’s Lifetime Volunteer Service Award for more than 4,000 hours of community support as the director of youth and family services for Lisle Township in Lisle, Ill.

1967 REUNION YEAR

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1968 John J. Pilch, Ph.D., Grad ’68, ’72, shared his research on healing and altered states of consciousness in the Bible at the monthly Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Religion. He also conducted workshops on Homiletics and the Bible for the Bible Summit sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York and American Bible Society.

He is an adjunct professor of biblical literature at Georgetown University.

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1969 Romeo T. Bachand, Jr., Ph.D., Grad ’69, is board president of Ruth’s Place Clinic, which offers free medical services to families in Granbury, Texas. The former clinical pharmacologist also raises pedigree longhorn cattle.

John M. Hamilton, Jour ’69, is executive vice chancellor and provost at Louisiana State University. Previously he was dean of LSU’s Manship School of Mass Communication. He wrote the award-winning book Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting.

Mathias H. Heck, Jr., Bus Ad ’69, received the National Children’s Advocacy Center Outstanding Service Award in Prosecution for his significant contributions to services that address child abuse and exploitation. He is the prosecuting attorney of Montgomery County, Ohio.

1970 Clarence E. Lawrence, Grad ’70, wrote the article “Just Cause and Due Process in Teacher Dismissals,” published in the May/June 2011 issue of Principal magazine.

I’m so glad my @MarquetteU / @MUCollegeofComm education prepped me to handle my first major international product launch! #worthit M EG HA N A R NO L D, CO M M ’0 2 , O N T W I TT ER

1966 James L. Gutmann, D.D.S., Arts ’66, Dent ’70, received the I.B. Bender Lifetime Educator Award from the American Association of Endodontists for his contributions to endod0ntic

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Charles D. Hasse, Arts ’71, spoke at the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference in Las Vegas on long-term results for the correction of dentofacial deformities. He was also elected vice president of the college.

David B. Kern, Arts ’76; Thomas P. McElligott, Arts ’76, Law ’83; and John A. Rothstein, Arts ’76, Law ’79, were ranked in the 2011 edition of Prestigious Chambers USA. They are attorneys with Quarles & Brady LLP.

Catherine A. Lewandowski, Jour ’79, is executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Educational Services of America.

Previously she was senior vice president of marketing and public relations, responsible for marketing, branding, internal and external communications, and traditional and social media. She serves on the Greater Nashville Chamber of Commerce Education Report Card Committee.

Robert H. Duffy, Arts ’81, Law ’84, was ranked in the 2011 edition of Prestigious Chambers USA. He is an attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP.

Robert L. Winter, Jour ’76, is senior vice president of corporate development at PKWARE in Milwaukee.

1972 REUNION YEAR

Robert X. Browning, Arts ’72, received a 2010 Peabody Award for the creation of the C-SPAN video library. He is the founding director of the C-SPAN archive, established in 1987, and is an associate professor of political science and communication at Purdue University.

1973 Mary Helen (Elleseg) Stefaniak, Arts ’73, received a 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction for her novel The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia. The book was selected by the independent booksellers as an Indie Next Great Read in September 2010. The book was highlighted in Marquette Magazine’s “fresh ink!” column in the winter 2011 issue.

1977 REUNION YEAR

Terrence P. Shannon, Bus Ad ’77, was named on the list of Most Admired CEOs by the Phoenix Business Journal. For eight years he has been CEO of St. Mary’s Food Bank, the world’s first and largest food bank.

1978 Ralph A. Weber, Arts ’78, serves on the board of trustees for Northwestern Mutual. He is an attorney and founding member of Gass Weber Mullins law firm and formerly served on the Columbia Law Review at Columbia University Law School.

On days like this, I miss walking around the @MarquetteU campus with an iced coffee, a book, and nothing to do.

Virginia (Bronesky) Stuesser, Jour ’79, is vice president of media services at Staples Marketing in Milwaukee. She is teaching advertising at Marquette this fall.

Teri A. Strenski, Jour ’79, earned a Ph.D. in public health sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.

She welcomed her son, Alex Moon, to his freshman year at Marquette in August 2011. He is a third-generation Marquetter.

1980 Ann (Kerns) Comer, Arts ’80, received a 2011 Wisconsin Commercial Real Estate Women Leadership Award. She is a partner at Quarles & Brady LLP and was one of two recipients honored for being significant role models and mentors for other women in the real estate industry. She also was ranked in the 2011 edition of Prestigious Chambers USA.

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John Granchay, Arts ’80, is vice president of the Shawano (Wis.) School Board. He was given the Oak Leaf Award by Hillcrest Primary School for outstanding service to children and youth.

He was one of 100 nationwide semifinalists selected for induction into the Energizer Keep Going Hall of Fame.

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1982 REUNION YEAR

Leonard L. LaCara, Jr., Jour ’82, was named one of 10 News MVPs nationwide by Gannett Co. This recognition is reserved for newsroom staffers or supervisors who lead special efforts in readership, innovation, reorganization, multiplatform approaches or other efforts.

He directs online operations and special projects for Gannett’s 10 news operations in central Ohio.

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1984 Marcie Eanes, Jour ’84, participated in the 19th annual Austin (Texas) International Poetry Festival in April. Her poem, Quiet Femininity, was chosen for publication in the festival’s 2011 Di-Verse-City anthology.

Margaret H. Graham, Sp ’81, was named 2011 High School Teacher of the Year for the Mukwonago (Wis.) Area School District.

Ralph J. Tease, Jr., Law ’81, a shareholder and managing partner of Habush Habush & Rottier’s Green Bay and Appleton offices, was named a Wisconsin Super Lawyer and a Top 100 Lawyer by the American Trial Lawyers Association. The American Board of Trial Advocates also named him one of its top 25 plaintiff lawyers.

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Stephani A. Richards-Wilson, Ph.D., Arts ’84, Grad ’86, received her second fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service to present at a Holocaust conference in Paris. Her presentation was “Martyr in the Making: The Spiritual Development and Discernment of Willi Graf of the White Rose.”

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Phyllis Flowers, Nurs ’71, was called to public health nursing. She just didn’t expect to find

John J. Gosling, Arts ’85, serves on the Appleton (Wis.) Area School Board in the district where his children attend school.

her public behind bars.

1986 “When I needed to do a graduate practicum at now Oregon Health Science University, a colleague from one of Portland’s Tri-county jail facilities begged me to come help. I loved it,” says Flowers, R.N., A.N.P., M.S.N. What began as a part-time position evolved into a health care coordinator role, committed to keeping patients safe 24/7 and employing a team of eight R.N.s, physicians, and mental health, security and clerical staff to serve the 440-bed jail. The clinic averages 16,000 patient contacts annually.

Many inmates have an array of neglected medical problems that can be difficult to assess and address, Flowers says, including mental health and drug issues. But skills she learned as a nursing student, including assessment, critical thinking, prioritization and problem-solving are “very portable” and helpful in this environment.

Anne Rader, Arts ’86, is secretary of the board of the D.C. Metro Business Leadership Network.

The organization promotes best practices in hiring, retaining and marketing to people with disabilities in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland.

Oscar Rueda, Arts ’86, launched a Marquette men’s basketball news and information fan site, mufanatic.com.

“What kept me in corrections,” she says, “is that I learned so much from

Joseph E. Puchner, Arts ’83, was ranked in the 2011 edition of Prestigious Chambers USA. He is an attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP.

the inmates about the struggles of life.”

Thomas J. Ragen, Arts ’83, is CEO of Precision Dialogue, an analytics-driven direct marketing provider.

to be sensitive to the needs of others.”

Flowers was raised by a great aunt, her “beloved mama,” in Jackson, Miss.

“She was my first and strongest role model,” Flowers says.

“I was blessed and rescued by my beloved mama, but many people aren’t as fortunate. That rescue and my faith continue to ground me and help me

John R. Thibodeau, Ph.D., Arts ’86, received his doctorate in educational administration with a specialization in higher education leadership from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. His dissertation was on the relationship between appreciative processes for regional accreditation and

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1987 REUNION YEAR

Ernest de la Torre, Bus Ad ’87, was named a top 25 interior designer on Elle Décor magazine’s 2011 A-list. The Manhattan-based designer studied at Sotheby’s in London and specializes in projects centered around art collections.

Mary (Braunschweiger) Hall, Nurs ’87, received her master’s in nursing administration from Madonna University in Livonia, Mich. She is director of quality management and case management at Doctor’s Hospital of Michigan in Pontiac.

Provide for Marquette’s future by acting now Marquette University has greatly benefited from charitable bequests from alumni and friends. These gifts play an important role in the growth and success of the university. As a main source of endowment support, they help ensure that student scholarship aid, talented faculty, innovative programs and modern facilities are available to students for generations to come.

Learn more about making a bequest to Marquette through your will or revocable living trust.

Contact Cathy Steinhafel at (414) 288-6501 or visit marquette.edu/plannedgiving

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1988 Charles J. Alexander, Ph.D., Grad ’88, received a $25,000 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award from the California Wellness Foundation for his work increasing and diversifying the health care workforce by helping underserved students stay on track in health and science. He is director of the academic advancement program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Eric E. Balow, Arts ’88, received the Milwaukee County Boy Scout Council’s Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth and the community, the highest honor the council can give a volunteer leader. He has trained hundreds of adults to provide scouting programs to Milwaukee County youth and also volunteers with many local community charities and youth awareness programs.

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Thomas E. Graebner, Eng ’89, and Diane (Sapita) Graebner, Arts ’90, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary at St. Joan of Arc Chapel. More than 130 Marquette students were present.

Michael A. Jaskolski, Eng ’89, was ranked in the 2011 edition of Prestigious Chambers USA. He is an attorney with Quarles & Brady LLP.

Martin E. Palczynski, Eng ’90, completed certifications for project management, quality engineering and software quality engineering and earned a Six Sigma Green Belt.

1991 Robert J. Ambrose, Bus Ad ’91, joined the Chicago office of Howard & Howard Attorneys and specializes in commercial litigation with specific experience in business torts, contract disputes, intellectual property, employment matters and professional liability.

Game on Meghan Sheehan, Arts ’99, combines a love for sports with a knack for numbers at STATS LLC, the world’s leading sports information provider.

“Though it’s intense to work in the live television environment and there’s a lot of technical know-how in this statistical business, it’s a pretty cool and challenging job,” says Sheehan, who played basketball for the Golden Eagles.

She started at STATS as a computer programmer and is now director of broadcast services for the Los Angeles office.

That means churning out real-time statistics for thousands of professional and collegiate sporting events every year. Sheehan’s team supports TV clients such as FOX Sports, CBS Sports and other networks, as well as the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal.

Her team sends TV crews statistical background and ready-made graphics

Joseph E. Baum, Eng ’91, is a distinguished member of the technical staff at Motorola Solutions, where he is an information security architect for public safety and Department of Defense missioncritical voice and data radio systems. He and his wife, Lisa Heaven-Baum, P.E., Eng ’90, look forward to their daughter, Amanda, starting a graduate fellowship in chemistry at Marquette.

Richard J. Erable, Ph.D., Grad ’91, Grad ’99, received the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award from Franklin College in Indiana. He joined the faculty in 2001 and teaches English, including courses on Shakespeare, the British Renaissance and 18thcentury literature.

Lance R. Lange, Law ’91, is managing director of Baird’s equity capital markets team. He focuses on equity transaction business within the industrial and transportation and logistics sectors. Previously he was head of equity capital markets at Lazard.

Jim E. Peck, Jr., Comm ’89, won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences–Michigan Emmy for work on the documentary Izzo Goes To Broadway.

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perceptions of positive change among participants. He is assistant provost/vice president for institutional effectiveness and student success at Gateway Technical College in Kenosha, Wis.

in advance of games and crunches numbers on the fly. “For example, if Aaron Rodgers begins a game with 10 straight complete passes, the TV production crew, including the announcers, will begin wondering what is Rodgers’ longest completion streak to start a game in his career, what is the Packers franchise record, etc.,” Sheehan says. “So we query our database as fast as possible to extract the accurate information.” It may take as little as 5 seconds.

Although Sheehan is now in a management role, she still supports daily live events. Since 2000, she has helped cover 11 World Series, seven Super Bowls and eight Final Fours. We’re guessing that makes her a trivia whiz. — Nicole Sweeney Etter

Patrick J. Wilson, Arts ’91, launched equityhub.com, an e-commerce website for buyers and sellers of commercial real estate and investment properties.

1992 REUNION YEAR

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1993 Pavel Hajda, Ph.D., Grad ’93, Grad ’97, is a senior process engineer in the municipal group at Symbiont Science, Engineering and Construction Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of water and waste-water treatment, most recently as a senior process engineer with an Illinois consulting engineering firm.

Danica (Vanasse) Olson, Bus Ad ’93, Grad ’00, is presidentelect of the Wisconsin Institute of Certified Public Accountants Board of Directors. She has been a member since 2000. She lives in Milwaukee.

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SHARE THE MOMENT Michelle (Blaschke) Budzien, Bus Ad ’10, and Andrew Budzien, Arts ’09, married last October.

See a Flickr gallery of newlyweds at marquette. edu/magazine, and consider sharing a wedding moment with Marquette Magazine.

Please obtain permission before sending professional photos.

Photo courtesy of Cheryl Seebach.

Brian W. Suerth, Bus Ad ’93, partner at Technology Assurance Group and Voice Smart Networks, accepted advisory board positions for FreedomIQ, a $100 million technology company, and for San Diego State University’s executive M.B.A. program.

1995 Christopher V. Carani, Eng ’95, is chair of the American Bar Association’s Industrial Designs Committee. The committee focuses on intellectual property issues for domestic and foreign protection and enforcement of industrial design.

Andrew R. Zmijewski, Bus Ad ’95, is manager of global cash management for Ingersoll Rand’s climate solutions sector. He leads global efforts to maximize operating cash flow and deploy/leverage world-class finance initiatives.

He, his wife and two sons live in Davidson, N.C.

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Matthew J. Klarner, Eng ’99, is head varsity boy’s basketball coach at Xavier High School in Appleton, Wis., only the ninth varsity coach in the school’s 52-year history. He was a junior varsity and varsity assistant for the past seven years.

Hoh Kim, Grad ’97, co-authored his first book, Cool Apology, with Dr. Jaesung Jeong in Seoul, Korea.

The book received national media attention, including a televised lecture.

1998 Michael R. Gugluizza, Bus Ad ’98, Grad ’08, is director of information technology at Marinette Marine Corp., part of the Fincantieri Marine Group.

Alexander R. Johnson, Arts ’98, is president of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, a bipartisan organization committed to promoting international understanding through political exchanges. He participated as a delegate on a 2006 exchange in Russia, then led the 30th anniversary delegation in 2010 in China. He has served on the board since 2009.

Bradley W. Raaths, Law ’99, is president and managing partner of DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C. He has worked at the law firm for the past 12 years and been on its executive committee since 2009.

2000 Andrew Jaspers, Arts ’00, a second-year master of divinity student at St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, received a Fund for Theological Education Fellowship, including a $10,000 scholarship. He is pursuing a future as a ministerial leader.

V. Matthew Heim, D.D.S., Arts ’00, Dent ’03, received the 2011 Oklahoma Young Dentist of the Year Award from the Oklahoma Dental Association.

He also became a member of the American Board of Orthodontics College of Diplomates after passing the clinical orthodontics board exam.

2001 Stacy (Peterson) Zielinski, Arts ’01, and her husband opened Sachen Contemporary Imports in Milwaukee’s Third Ward, featuring products from paper to toys to cookware. The boutique offers after-hours shopping parties and personal shoppers. The couple co-owns Transfer Pizzeria and VIA Downer in Milwaukee, and she is a business assistance coordinator at the Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp.

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2003 Jeremy J. Geisel, Comm ’03, Law ’07, Grad ’10, was nominated by his peers for inclusion on the 2010 Wisconsin Rising Stars list, which recognizes outstanding young lawyers in the state. The list is published annually by Wisconsin Super Lawyers Magazine. He practices at D’Angelo & Jones LLP.

2004 Timothy M. Fagan, Bus Ad ’04, and Michael A. West, Bus Ad ’04, are managers at the certified public accounting firm Legacy Professionals LLP. The two work with employee benefit plans, labor organizations and other nonprofit organizations and are members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Illinois CPA Society.

John J. Schulze, Law ’04, is secretary of the Landmark Credit Union Board of Directors.

2005 Lt. Adam D. Maurszewski, M.D., Eng ’05, graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as a doctor of medicine and a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He will complete an internship in family practice at Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base near San Diego.

Marty P. Stogsdill, Bus Ad ’05, was named an exemplary contributor by the Storage Networking Industry Association for his on-

going contributions to SNIA education training and certification. He is a senior sales consultant for Oracle, based in Chicago.

2006 Michael P. Sever, Arts ’06, graduated from St. Louis University School of Law and was admitted to the Illinois Bar. He is an associate with Butler Pappas in Chicago.

2007 REUNION YEAR

Snyder Fellow of International Law at Cambridge University.

2009 John A. Guzzardo, Nurs ’09, finished his service with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and is the public health program director for Global Medical Brigades in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Michael K. Schaewe, Grad ’09, is director of service for GE Healthcare in the western half of North Carolina. He lives in Huntersville, N.C.

Benjamin D. Beran, M.D., Arts ’07, graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May and is an obstetrics and gynecology resident at the college.

Emily A. Casey, Arts ’07, is a school counselor at Chicago’s Gordon Tech High School. She received her master’s in school counseling with honors from DePaul University.

Lt. j.g. Kristin P. Stoniecki, Nurs ’07, was recognized as one of the Navy’s top labor and delivery nurses. She also was featured in a story about her work during Operation Tomodachi, helping the Japanese people recover from recent natural disasters.

2008 Robert C. Blankenheim, Eng ’08, is a design mechanical engineer in the piston, ring and liner group at Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria, Ill. The group is part of Caterpillar’s Large Power Systems Development Center of Excellence.

Alec T. Hass, Arts ’08, graduated from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and will represent the school as the

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Verbeten, Arts ’06; Maeghan L. Verhagen, Nurs ’06; and Vincent J. Bergl, Eng ’06.

Rebekkah L. Beil, Nurs ’05, and Joseph T. Sobolewski, Arts ’05, Oct. 23, 2010 at St. Mary Parish in Buffalo Grove, Ill. Nathan L. Griepentrog, Comm ’05, and Abby E. Villars, May 14, 2011 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wis. The reception was at the KI Convention Center.

The couple lives in De Pere, Wis. ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Eric A. Nordskog, Arts ’97, Law ’01; and Brian W. Weber, Comm ’05.

Elizabeth M. Feste, Arts ’06, and Adam M. McCostlin, Bus Ad ’06, Oct. 23, 2010 at St. Alphonsus Church in Chicago. She is director of individual giving for the Joffrey Ballet, and he is an associate vice president for UGL Services.

WEDDINGS

Connie Arkus, Jour ’79, and Dan VanTassel, April 25, 2009. They live in Schaumburg, IL. ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Marianne (Liptak) Guy, Jour ’79; Nancy (Van Swol) Schade, Jour ’79; and James Schade, Jour ’80.

Kevin J. Hayes, Arts ’02, and Brittany J. Mavity, Nurs ’06, Sept. 12, 2008.

Paul A. Bergl, Eng ’04, and Kate (Stolowski) Bergl, Nurs ’06, April 24, 2010 at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Mother of the groom Anna Marie (Albergo) Bergl, Arts ’76; Greg D. Blough, Arts ’01; Jessica A. Blough, Bus Ad ’03; Stacey B. Jensen, Arts ’04, Law ’10; Scott N. Santarromana, Eng ’05; Abby F.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Justin W. Hanson, Arts ’05; Caitlin M. Carroll, H Sci ’06, PT ’09; Andrew G. Durbin, Arts ’06; Jackie (Laschinger) Keenan, Nurs ’06; Katie (Postal) Mantovani, Comm ’06; Samantha J. Novitski, Bus Ad ’06; Ryan L. Roberts, Comm ’06; Angelo P. Saccameno, Arts ’06; Laura (Spella) Wessels, Comm ’06; Catherine M. Smedile, Comm ’07; and Anton D. Timms, Arts ’07.

Several other alumni attended.

Lilly J. Agopian, Comm ’07, and Grant F. Gromowski, Sept. 10, 2011 at Old St. Mary’s Parish in Milwaukee.

Justine N. Siepmann, H Sci ’07, and Peter Haslanger, Aug. 7, 2010 at St. Raphael the Archangel Catholic Church in Oshkosh, Wis. She is a speechlanguage pathologist, and he is a buyer/commodity analyst.

ALUMNA IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Nicole E. Mandli, H Sci ’07, PT ’09.

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The couple lives in Chicago.

Ashley A. Neumann, Arts ’06; and Andrew J. Hajduk, H Sci ’07, PT ’09.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Rachel S. Leman, H Sci ’08, Grad ’09, and Joe Anderson, Bus Ad ’08, Sept. 4, 2010 at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee. The couple lives in Franklin, Wis. She is a physician assistant in internal medicine, and he works as a marketing data analyst for Quad/Graphics.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Dennis D. Anderson, Bus Ad ’61; Patricia A. Anderson, Arts ’61; Linda O. Milson, Med Tech ’66; Janet L. Duffy, Dent Hy ’77; Paul J. Serio, Bus Ad ’81; Jerry K. Anderson, Bus Ad ’84; Mike Boedeker, Bus Ad ’08; Nate D. Boston, Bus Ad ’08; Rachel E. Brown, Arts ’08; Craig A. Cirella, Bus Ad ’09; Tiffany Fontaine, H Sci ’08, ’09; Nick H. Hansen, Arts ’08; Eric R. Hart, Bus Ad ’08, Law ’11; Ryan J. Hornung, Bus Ad ’08; Christine M. Jozwiak, Bus Ad ’08; Kurtis H. Keuter, Bus Ad ’08; Lisa M. Kis, H Sci ’08, ’09; Joey Lehmann, Bus Ad ’08; Lindsay A. Ruch, Comm ’08; Heidi N. Sund, H Sci ’08, ’09; and Laurna A. Jozwiak, Law ’09.

Joshua A. Drueck, Comm ’06; Joseph C. Capacete, Eng ’08, Grad ’10; and Matthew R. Kappelman, D.D.S., H Sci ’06, Dent ’09.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Katie S. Pachniak, H Sci ’07, PT ’09; Jenny L. Piorkowski, Arts ’07; Nick J. Daering, Arts ’10; Kelly M. Murphy, H Sci ’08; Paul J. Pachniak, Eng ’08; Nikita G. Patel, H Sci ’08; Megan Potokar, Arts ’08; Kate Roberts, Arts ’08; Larissa Rudnicki, Arts ’08; and Megan C. McHugh, Arts ’09.

Becky M. Goossen, Arts ’09, and Carlo J. Giombi, Arts ’10, Sept. 23, 2010 at St. Therese Parish in Milwaukee.

Ashley Fahey, Arts ’10, and Christopher M. McFadin, Arts ’10, May 28, 2011 in Iowa City, Iowa.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Matthew P. Beckwith, Bus Ad ’10; Megan L. Berezowitz, H Sci ’10; and Christina A. Burek, Grad ’10.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Kristin N. Notaro, Comm ’08, and Benjamin S. Allen, Bus Ad ’08, Oct. 10, 2010 in Palatine, Ill.

Alison A. Bettonville, Bus Ad ’09; Abraham T. Matthew, Arts ’09; and Kendra A. Samolinski, Arts ’09.

I was in a funk. Read my @MarquetteU magazine. Now inspired. Thanks.

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in memoriam

Donald E. Fries, Eng ’45 Frederick H. Smith, Bus Ad ’45 John D. Zuercher, Eng ’45 Walter J. Cavagnaro, Eng ’46 Marlyn J. Schild Hildebrandt, Bus Ad ’46 Louis B. Kucera, Med ’46 William J. Madden, Med ’46 Robert F. Roedel, Med ’46 Irene J. Oswald Schneider, Dent Hy ’46, Dent Hy ’75

Gilbert H. Nesler, Arts ’31 Lawrence A. Willenson, Law ’36 Frank J. Becker, Jour ’38 Frank L. DeLorenzo, Bus Ad ’38, Law ’39

Jeanne R. Henningfeld Jacobs, Nurs ’38 Jean E. Polewsky Maness, Arts ’38 George K. Petritz, Bus Ad ’38 John J. Borchert, Sp ’39 Samuel G. Boruff, Arts ’39 Ernest G. Johannes, Bus Ad ’39, Law ’42

Norman S. Jaques, Jour ’40 Robina B. Langill Payant, Arts ’40 Julius R. Atkins, Arts ’41, Law ’47 Edward W. Burgess, Arts ’41 Raymond A. Entringer, Eng ’41 Lawrence P. Halperin, Law ’41 Helen K. Kriwitsch Mulcahy, Arts ’41 Richard I. Berlin, Arts ’42 Daniel E. Di Iaconi, Med ’42 John E. Doherty, Arts ’42 A.A. Hindin, Law ’42 Betty B. Pelzer Jones, Nurs ’42 Robert R. Loche, Arts ’42 Ethel M. Minkowski Schaefer, Bus Ad ’42 William K. Watts, Grad ’42 Jerry I. Zussman, Dent ’42 Edward F. Brill, Law ’43 Allen C. Buhler, Arts ’43, Law ’47 Michael J. Del Balso, Dent ’43 Robert S. Dryburgh, Eng ’43 Robert A. Fritsch, Eng ’43 Marvin M. Hansher, Bus Ad ’43 John J. Jacobi, Eng ’43 Marjorie D. Dietz Fenlon, Sp ’44 James F. Fuller, Eng ’44 John H. Syvertsen, Arts ’44 Herman W. Zerlaut, Eng ’44 Kathleen T. Tully Danner, Arts ’45

Raymond M. Berg, Eng ’47 Mary A. Clancy, Nurs ’47 Grace C. Krolikowski Goblirsch, Arts ’47 Carolyn Z. Jacobsen Komisar, Arts ’47 Helen D. Whalen Manning, Arts ’47 Donald S. O’Neil, Law ’47 Mary R. Graykowski Pletta, Dent Hy ’47 Thomas J. Strunk, Med ’47 George T. Terris, Bus Ad ’47 Thomas Thorson, Bus Ad ’47 Aida T. Sereno Berlese, Med ’48 Francis V. Cunningham, Eng ’48 Roman W. Feltes, Arts ’48, Law ’51 Ronald F. Goodspeed, Bus Ad ’48, Grad ’60

William L. Larsen, Eng ’48 Vernon H. Lind, Eng ’48 John J. McGovern, Arts ’48 George F. Miller, Law ’48 Kathleen M. Murphy, Arts ’48 Francis A. Nix, Eng ’48 Joanne C. Murphy Pampel, Arts ’48 Roger J. Bacon, Eng ’49 Patricia S. Susen Campeau, Jour ’49 Francis G. Canty, Eng ’49 Rose M. Hansen Darnieder, Arts ’49 Eleanor M. Havas Gmoser, Bus Ad ’49 George S. Goodell, Law ’49 William J. Kissinger, Arts ’49, Law ’53 Rudolph J. Stefanec, Eng ’49 Ruth E. Mensing Frederickson, Nurs ’50 Robert C. Gohsman, Arts ’50 Daniel G. Hefferan, Eng ’50 Daniel L. Hessel, Eng ’50 Robert H. Jaskulski, Arts ’50, Grad ’52 Eugene R. Kotlarek, Arts ’50 Bernard J. Moore, Arts ’50, Med ’53

Sylvia J. Griffin Strycharske, Arts ’50 Robert H. Thielker, Eng ’50 Peter C. Zimmer, Bus Ad ’50 Thomas P. Bresnahan, Arts ’51 Thomas D. Champion, Arts ’51, Grad ’74

Lawrence D. Hughes, Law ’51, Law ’53 Geraldine J. Kolacke, Bus Ad ’51, Grad ’62

Charlotte A. Eytalis Lower, Dent Hy ’51 John E. Lynott, Eng ’51 Thomas A. Schoultz, Bus Ad ’51 Robert R. Barr, Arts ’52 Mary M. Costello, Grad ’52 Alan F. Homan, Eng ’52 Thomas H. LeMay, Arts ’52

Doris M. Tant, Grad ’55 Catherine E. Boorman Becker, Arts ’56 William C. Desing, Bus Ad ’56 Glenn R. Gulbransen, Bus Ad ’56 William Steil, Dent ’56 Patricia A. Sullivan Behan, Arts ’57 R.L. De Paull, Dent ’57 Betty J. Murray Gaynor, Arts ’57 Nicholas P. Thomas, Dent ’57 Judith A. Collins Walsh, Arts ’57 Frank A. Wood, Grad ’57 Richard H. Ahler, Grad ’58 Edward R. Cameron, Law ’58 John K. Ford, Bus Ad ’58 Charles L. Gambill, Eng ’58 Mary A. Gilles, Grad ’58

Joseph P. Rowson, Jour ’62 Joan A. Strachota, Sp ’62 Camille R. Taglia, Sp ’62 Clayton R. Frounfelker, Eng ’63 Merle G. Knox, Grad ’63 John P. Krick, Arts ’63 Timothy J. Walker, Arts ’63 Thomas P. Kleber, Jour ’64 Carl J. Landgraf, Eng ’64 Gary L. Luedtke, Dent ’64, Grad ’66, Grad ’66

Robert E. Monigal, Eng ’64 Donald W. Mortensen, Dent ’64 Katherine C. Rooney Newman, Arts ’64 Edward J. Aiman, Arts ’65 Joseph Di John, Bus Ad ’65

The Marquette University community joins in prayerful remembrance of those who have died. May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace.

Eternal rest grant unto them, Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

Robert M. Mongrain, Dent ’52 Walter P. Rynkiewicz, Arts ’52, Law ’55 Bruce E. Thompson, Arts ’52 Ralph E. Tomkiewicz, Arts ’52, Med ’59

Paul W. Allaert, Arts ’53 Terry J. Dwyer, Bus Ad ’53 L.M. Kenney, Eng ’53 Howard J. Lynch, Arts ’53 Raymond B. Myers, Dent ’53 Margaret L. Overbeck, Nurs ’53 Mark L. Sanders, Grad ’53 James T. Cronin, Arts ’54 Kenneth L. Kaisler, Arts ’54 H.W. Kranzusch, Bus Ad ’54 Phyllis A. Collins Lambo, Dent Hy ’54 Bradley B. McTavish, Bus Ad ’54, Law ’56

Peter Basarich, Dent ’55 M.B. Benz, Grad ’55 Howard R. Clement, Eng ’55 Rosemary L. Lovas Coffey, Med Tech ’55 Gerald B. Downey, Sp ’55, Law ’57 Peter P. Drewek, Bus Ad ’55 Patricia A. Newcomb Morrell, Nurs ’55 Robert E. Schnorf, Sp ’55

Gloria M. Savin Herro, Nurs ’58 Barbara H. Horschak Reuteman, Arts ’58 Pierre A. Weitkamp, Grad ’58 James C. Allen, Med ’59 Charles E. Lawson, Sp ’59 Jean R. Roepke, Nurs ’59 John C. Topercer, Jour ’59 Thomas F. Walker, Arts ’59, Med ’63 Philip J. Westley, Arts ’59 Sara E. Flanagan Wieber, Med Tech ’59 David R. Bruesewitz, Eng ’60, Grad ’68 Lewis R. Knox, Dent ’60, Grad ’63 Ray E. Peltier, Dent ’60 Anne T. Rothfuchs, Arts ’60 Massis A. Yeterian, Grad ’60 Milan K. Cebasek, Eng ’61 Robert A. Donahue, Eng ’61 James A. Hughes, Dent ’61 Anthony L. Karpfinger, Eng ’61 Thorsten M. Lindgren, Eng ’61 Terrance W. McGarry, Jour ’61 Alice M. Wolohan Sieggreen, Nurs ’61 Thomas F. Kasun, Bus Ad ’62 Rita M. Klinge, Arts ’62 Florence B. Bates Pope, Nurs ’62

Robert R. Jacunski, Arts ’65 William E. Mason, Arts ’65 Virginia B. Biart Bradley, Arts ’66 Sheila S. Fleming Devine, Dent Hy ’66 Mardelle H. Bellinghausen, Grad ’67 Jean M. Seaburg, Eng ’67, Law ’74 Donald L. Berndt, Grad ’68 James M. Meehan, Grad ’68

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ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Marietta T. Barman, Arts ’69 Robert J. Baumer, Med ’69 Vincent J. Gullotta, Bus Ad ’69 Mary J. Fiore Karansky, Nurs ’69 Edward J. Collins, Arts ’70 Barbara L. Baer, Grad ’71, Grad ’76 James A. Cheney, Arts ’71 Otto J. Simon, Grad ’71 Raymond E. Krek, Law ’72 Thomas E. Elbert, Grad ’73 Charles P. McCauley, Arts ’73 Walter J. Meives, Dent ’75 Gary W. Haese, Dent ’76 Julian M. Brown, Bus Ad ’77 David W. Hitchens, Arts ’77 Stuart N. Lott, Eng ’78 Gordon H. Gile, Grad ’80 Ana M. Vidal Boccumini, Arts ’81 Bruce O. Kubes, Arts ’82 Steven W. Dragosz, Eng ’83, Grad ’00 Kathleen L. Rowe Groom, Arts ’83 Martha D. Decker Wolz, Law ’83 John G. O’Shea, Arts ’84 Scott M. Birk, Arts ’85 Anne E. Bressler, Sp ’85 Jon R. Flick, Eng ’85 Paul A. Fleckenstein, Eng ’86 Michael J. Winge, Bus Ad ’89 Bonnie M. Fieber, Comm ’96 Lois J. Boyd, Grad ’99 Samuel R. Taylor, Law ’02 David L. Watton, Grad ’02 Margaret A. Farrell, Arts ’03

REMEMBERING

As a young athlete, Dr. Charles P. Nader learned to value a great coach. In adulthood, he worked hard to be that coach to athletes. Nader enlisted in 1942 and became a physical education instructor in the U.S. Navy, where he coached track, basketball, baseball and boxing. After being honorably discharged in 1946 and earning his doctorate, he came to Marquette as an assistant professor of physical education.

He became a member of the Department of Education in 1968 and coached golf from 1954 – 85 and soccer from 1965 – 75.

Nader was a member of the Quarter Century Club of employees who serve Marquette for 25 or more years. He passed away in May at age 91. He is survived by his wife, Lydia Mae, and a large family.

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Mary Beth (Yurko) Hubik, Comm ’90, and Michael Hubik: son Noah Charles, June 13, 2010. He joins brother John Michael. The family lives in Austin, Texas.

Joshua M. Kasun, Arts ’96, Grad ’01, and Jennifer Kasun: son Henry (Hank) Thomas, March 31, 2011. He joins brothers Gus, 7, and Owen, 5.

Beth (Garvin) Senger, Bus Ad ’96, and Tony Senger: daughter Viviann Naomi, April 30, 2011.

She joins sister Sonia. The family lives in New Berlin, Wis. Annemarie (Spella) Danaher, Arts ’97, and James R. Danaher, Law ’99: daughter Millicent Grace, Sept. 30, 2010. She joins brothers Charlie, 9, Henry, 7, and Teddy, 4.

Jake R. Harreld, Bus Ad ’01, and Courtney (Lamberson) Harreld, Bus Ad ’02: son Andrew Michael, April 3, 2011.

Marie (Beardslee) Lowe, Nurs ’99, and Robert S. Lowe, Eng ’99: son McGuire Jacob, March 13, 2011. Mick joins brother Brayden and sister Tessa.

Lauren (Berkley) Ocenas, Arts ’01, and Matt J. Ocenas, Bus Ad ’01, PT ’03: son Ryan Edwards, April 21, 2011. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 21.25 inches long.

Casey P. Murray, Arts ’99, and Elizabeth (Elliott) Murray, Comm ’99: daughter Bridget Anne, Dec. 1, 2010. She joins sister Ainsley. The family lives in Kansas City, Mo. Jeffrey J. Blahnik, Arts ’00, Law ’03, and Ruth (Rauchenstein) Blahnik, H Sci ’02, Grad ’09: daughter Molly Catherine, Aug. 25, 2010. The family lives in Cedarburg, Wis. Sarah (North) Gundzik, Eng ’00, and Daniel J. Gundzik: son Matthew James, April 21, 2011. He joins sister Sophia Elizabeth.

Sara (Murray) Hegerty, Ph.D., Arts ’00, Grad ’03, ’10, and Scott Hegerty: daughter Eleanor Murray, Nov. 17, 2010. Malisa M. Murray, Arts ’03, Grad ’06, is a proud aunt. The family lives in Buffalo, N.Y.

Of course I had to undergo 3 separate interviews but lo and behold …

I got the job! BEING THE DIFFERENCE really makes a difference!

A N G I E MEL, NURS ’10, ON T W ITTER

Adrienne (Backstrom) Stockhausen, Eng ’01, and Benjamin P. Stockhausen, Bus Ad ’03: daughter Eve Louise, Nov. 23, 2010.

Joseph R. Fenlon, Comm ’02, and Megan (Ireland) Fenlon, H Sci ’02, Grad ’04: daughter Isabella Rose, April 2, 2011. She weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. She joins sister Madeline Grace, 2.

Terrence C. Gillespie, Bus Ad ’02, and Kelly (Gavin) Gillespie, H Sci ’06, Grad ’07: daughter Shea Elizabeth, Sept. 14, 2010. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.

Monica (Chmielewski) Hendricksen, H Sci ’02, PT ’04, and Matthew Hendricksen, Bus Ad ’02: son Ethan Leo, April 27, 2011. He weighed 5 pounds, 14 ounces and was 19 inches long.

James A. Kraker, Comm ’02, and Rachel (White) Kraker, Arts ’03: son August Sommerfield, March 3, 2011. He joins sister Finola, 2.

Brian Verban, Bus Ad ’02, and Jaime (Thom) Verban, Bus Ad ’02: identical twin daughters Olivia Milana and Giuliana Molly, June 21, 2011. Both weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and were 19 inches long. The family lives in Milwaukee.

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Margie (Loga) Wrublik, Arts ’02, and Christopher Wrublik: daughter Isabella Rose, Oct. 29, 2010. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches long.

Katy (Gibson) Gavin, H Sci ’03, PT ’05, and Sean Gavin, Arts ’03: son Camden Michael, April 12, 2011. He joins brother Drew, 2.

Bridget (Shramek) Coghlan, H Sci ’04, PT ’06, and Michael J. Coghlan: son James Edward, July 9, 2010.

letters to the editor “Congratulations from a proud alumnus of both the J-school and the Marquette Tribune. I spent three years at the Trib, and it provided a wealth of experience for my 40 years-plus at its Chicago namesake.”

Catholic Workers inspire

whenever possible. It will keep your spirits up and keep you positive and confident.

What an awesome work and act of faith! How can we help you with your mission? You are in my prayers!

GREGG HARTNETT, JOUR ’80

CAROLYN L. HARRIS, PROF ST ’09

Jorina (Fontelera) Salgado, Arts ’04, and Travis S. Miller: daughter Olivia Ligaya, Jan. 25, 2011. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and was 18.2 inches long. She is the couple’s first child.

Nick J. Schleicher, H Sci ’04, and Lisa (Noone) Schleicher, Arts ’05: daughter Kinley Marie, April 20, 2011.

Cassidy R. McGowan, Arts ’05, and Jamie (Oswald) McGowan, Eng ’06: son Colin, April 12, 2011. He weighed 8 pounds, 12 ounces and was 21 inches long.

Kathryn (Zoulek) Prill, Nurs ’08, and Benjamin Prill: son Austin Tyler, Dec. 16, 2011. He weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces and was 21.5 inches long. The family lives in Great Falls, Mont.

Emily (Gostine) Brann, Bus Ad ’09, and Michael Brann: son Jack Marshall, Aug. 12, 2010.

He weighed 8 pounds. The couple expects their second child in October.

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B I RT H S

William J. Robers, Bus Ad ’97, and Paige Robers: daughter Ainsley Evelyn, March 13, 2011.

She joins sister Hayley, 2.

Thanks so much for the story.

I love Chicago. Especially liked the emphasis on the green: “Are you living with less?”

Practice tooting your own horn in the light of why you are the best pick for the job you are applying for. Prayers and the best of luck to you all.

BEATRICE WOLF

We love this

MIKE A. WEBER, SP ’61

Please pray for the community … if it is God’s will to receive a larger house in the Rogers Park neighborhood for better service.

CHRIS SPICER

I was dismayed, disappointed to see on the cover of the summer 2011 Marquette Magazine a male graduate wearing a baseball cap backward — “gangsta style.”

I know, some folks will say a turned-around baseball cap is “modern style.” I’m trying my best to teach my grandkids the proper way to dress, including the correct way to wear a baseball cap. How do I explain to them that it’s OK for my alma mater to feature such wearing of a cap, but not OK for them to wear a cap that way?

C.P. “DOC” ADAMS, JOUR ’58

Job hunting 101

I finished reading the Marquette Magazine summer issue. I’ve read these for many years.

The issue was your absolute best — wonderful stories and pictures and format. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

RALPH S. GAGE, MED ’48

No slacks, but cigarettes are OK The inside back cover photograph in the summer 2011 issue of a scene from the O’Donnell Hall lounge not too long after it was built brought back memories. In the mid-50s the coeds at O’Donnell, my wife, Kay Frank, included, were not allowed to wear slacks in the lounge or out in public. Stockings required — no bare toes!

But take a look, ash trays and packs of cigarettes everywhere.

Oh, for the good old days.

STEVE VICTOR, ENG ’55

A friend of mine offered these ideas for those out of work.

1) Stay positive. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will either. 2) Expect rejection.

It’s part of the process, so don’t take it personally. 3) Remember you only need one job offer (not 20 offers). If you think in these terms, it will not be as overwhelming. 4) Exercise

Thanks for the summer issue archival photo taken in O’Donnell Hall in 1952. It inspired a lot of catch-up conversations with the women depicted.

The central figure is a much younger me, Margaret “Peg” Finucan Fennig, Dent Hy ’51 and ’53 and Grad ’79. My then roommate, Mary Sherman

MITCHELL DYDO, JOUR ’66

DeSaulniers, Arts ’53, clarified that we were at O’Donnell for a workshop for RAs. Patricia Rueckel Libhart, Arts ’52 and Grad ’55, recalled that she was present (though not in the picture) as a leader of the training.

We believe the knitter was Pat Bordwell Sang, Jour ’52, and the late Pat Foley Pfau, Jour ’53, was reading at the window. If we are not mistaken Dolores “Pete” Rohrer Ohmes, Jour ’54, and Pat Watson are sitting on the bench against the wall.

Thanks for the memories.

MARGARET “PEG” FINUCAN FENNIG, DENT HY ’51 AND ’53, AND GRAD ’79

Marquette pride Our son, Andrew, Arts ’00, will say his first Mass in his home parish, Holy Family Church in the small town of Lake Crystal (2,500 population), next summer.

He graduated in three years, spent a semester studying German philosophy in German because he thought a lot was lost in the translation. He was one of 20 priests in the country who received a $10,000 grant to study theology, in his case, at St. Thomas University. He spent a school year in the AFS program in Cairo, Egypt. We are pretty proud of our son. Our daughter, Christine, Arts ’92, was the second female president of Associated Students of Marquette University and now lives with her husband in LaCrosse, Wis. DR. ANTHONY JASPERS, ARTS ’70

I have oft reminisced of my years as a Marquette Player coached by Father Walsh and Mr. Jones. I played in Misallience, Carousel, Macbeth and in the Christmas pageant. I actually became an equity actress

with the Milwaukee Players for a short time, and I thoroughly enjoyed dating several of our Law School students who had been advised to take a semester of drama so as to buffer them up for their moot court appearances in their senior year. I left Marquette in the middle of my senior year … and spent the next 55 years as a Californian. My husband, Patrick O’Brien, passed away in 2003.

I now live with my dog in Fond du Lac, Wis., where I grew up. Those were the happiest years of my life.

JEANNE BOULAY CONWAY, ALUMNA NON-GRADUATE

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from the archives

During Alumni Reunion Weekend on a steamy July day, a lively

Tilling the Soil

couple who graduated 30 years ago told the poignant story of their lives and the choices they made at various twists and turns: when to marry, where to seek jobs, whether to live in the city or the suburbs, where to send their children to school. They mused that something would always happen when they made the big decisions that gave them a sense they had chosen wisely and prudently. Though everything was never perfect, they eventually came to a sense of peace and a yearning for the newness of life that would blossom from their choices.

In the past months, casual conversations with students, alumni

The wisdom of

and faculty indicated that Marquette family members are excited

St. Ignatius teaches us

university’s 23th Jesuit president. His selection was the result of a

exploring faith together

to pay attention to

about the choice that brought Rev. Scott Pilarz, S.J., to serve as the community-wide discernment that involved people on many levels.

Moving in a new direction with new leadership is one of those

what draws us deeper

life twists and a bold undertaking; one always wonders if a decision

into being the people of

It is perhaps in the nature of believers to wonder: Is this God’s will?

faith, hope and love in which we find God’s peace and direction.

is right. Such changes do not come without at least a little anxiety.

How do we know?

In the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius invites us to “be attentive” to the movements of our spirit as a confirmation of good discernment.

He writes “... it is characteristic of the Good Spirit … to give courage and strength, consolations, tears, inspirations and peace. This He does by making all easy, by removing all obstacles so that the soul goes forward in doing good.” (n. 315) Talking with the alumni couple reminded me that individuals, couples, families and even universities face myriad choices at every stage of life. The wisdom of St. Ignatius teaches us to pay attention to what draws us deeper into being the people of faith, hope and love in which we find God’s peace and direction.

Dr. Susan Mountin, Jour ’71, Grad ’94, director of Manresa for Faculty, helps us till the soil of faith in a quarterly column on Ignatian values.

Students in Marquette’s School of Medicine examine specimens in a microscopic anatomy lab, circa 1923.

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Justin Kuehl, Arts ’97 President, Marquette University Alumni Association

Generations of Marquette students have been transformed by their experiences.

Recognizing the impact a Catholic, Jesuit education had in his life, Justin gives back to help those students who are only able to attend Marquette because of scholarship aid. Please join him in giving back, knowing your contribution supports deserving students. Learn more and donate at GiveMarquette.com.