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2015 nursing graduates Margaret Brumley and Katarina Uebelhor grab an afternoon in the sun.

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Event planner David Caruso, Jr., Comm ’02, believes in telling stories.

Bob Buckett (left) and Matt Weil, both Law ’11, go from kindergarten buddies to law partners.

COVER STORY

18 Mentor me Programs build across campus and give alumni a way to repay.

F E AT U R ES

22 Oval Office aspiration Marquette’s first alum to explore a run for president talks about his early departure from Marquette and the political decision of a lifetime.

24 Revelation “I am not dying.

I am new life-ing.”

Alumna’s gift is finally revealed.

Her gift to science came to light 35 years later, making her family nod and say, “Of course, she would do that.”

28 Law Office of Me, LLC.

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When setting out instead of joining in is the right choice.

30 Vows with wows Event planner delivers nothing but drama.

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we are marquette 6 academic matters

> “This is a great job” — Hossenlopp on the go

> Partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks

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> AMU reunion and aptitude test

> Campus Q&A with the new provost

> Bullish on athletics, plus a year in review

12 arts + culture

> Campus Replay — Tuck-in service

> Raise the curtain on Helfaer’s year of women

> App takes center stage

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14 focus on research

> Evidence at trial > Rooftop harvest

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in every issue

3 Greetings

From Dr. Michael R. Lovell

> School of Dentistry Sim Lab expands

Editor: Joni Moths Mueller Copy Editor: Becky Dubin Jenkins Contributing Writers: Tim Cigelske, Comm ’04; Becky Dubin Jenkins; Chris Jenkins; Sarah Koziol, Arts ’92; and student-interns Marlo Marisie, Comm ’15, and Wyatt Massey.

Design: Winge Design Studio, Chicago Photography: Front Room Photography; Shawn Harper; Chris Kirzeder; John Nienhuis; Jeffrey Phelps; Kat Schleicher; Jose Jimenez Tirado Photography; and Aaron Zeller Illustrations: Copyrighted © James Yang, pgs. 37, 39, 45 Stock photography: Copyrighted © Daniel Acker/ Bloomberg/Getty Images, p. 22

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When milk and cookies ensured sweet dreams.

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Class Notes Ali Clark, Arts ’11 PAGE 32 Brian Godish, Bus Ad ’00 Weddings PAGE 40 In Memoriam PAGE 42 Births PAGE 44

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46 Letters to the Editor

Readers weigh in with their views 48 Tilling the soil

Exploring faith together

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You learn a great deal about a university through alumni. That certainly has been the case during my first year as president.

I’ve experienced how much alumni love their alma mater. They

FROM PRESIDENT

have openly and gladly accepted my family and me into the

DR. MICHAEL R. LOVELL

Marquette family.

My experiences throughout the country — meeting more

than 3,000 alumni and friends during the Journey Continues initiative with visits in 12 cities — showed how alumni continue to embrace their education though it may be decades since they

You learn a great

last attended a class on campus. Even years later, they bring to

deal about a university

life the university’s core values of excellence, faith, leadership

through alumni. That

and service through their words and actions.

certainly has been the

This was particularly evident during Alumni National Awards

Weekend, when I heard individual after individual express great

case during my first year.

love for Marquette. Alumnus of the Year Don Herdrich especially amazed me. Like me, he earned an engineering degree yet found a satisfying career path in a different direction (for Don, investment management). As is the case for so many alumni, Don wants to make a better future possible and he does something about it through the Donald J. and Frances I. Herdrich Scholarship. For decades the scholarship fund has supported students who seek to be the first in their families to attend college — an objective that is part of the university’s founding mission.

I was also grateful during that weekend when family and

friends of Rick Majerus, our late alumnus and one-time men’s basketball coach, through the Majerus Family Foundation, stepped forward to commit $1 million to scholarships for incoming first-generation students in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. It is the largest scholarship gift in the college’s history.

See how Dr. Lovell’s first year adds up

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These are humbling commitments to Marquette. Perhaps

most striking, though, are instances in which the university experiences a great loss and rises up to better understand and move forward after the loss.

When we experienced the tragic death of alumnus James

Foley, Arts ’96, last August, our university gathered in Church of the Gesu with more than 100 of Jim’s friends, including rugby teammates wearing their jerseys from 20 years earlier, to pay homage to Jim, to what he stood for and how he represented Marquette in his effort to serve others. Ignatian themes of social justice, the search for truth and a desire for peace were all brightly illuminated by Jim in life.

After the death this spring of alumnus Marc Marotta, Arts ’84,

Church of the Gesu filled again with people who came to celebrate his life. Their words and memories were remarkable.

Just weeks later a plain white envelope from Cleveland arrived

on my desk. Inside was a letter from alumna Kathy Povinelli Presley, Bus Ad ’84, and a women’s basketball player when Marc was a member of the men’s team. Though she and Marc rarely saw each other after their years at Marquette, Marc stepped forward to lend a hand when she called to ask him for help with

I’ve experienced how much alumni love their alma mater. They have openly and gladly accepted my family and me into the Marquette family.

a family medical crisis. When Marc passed, Kathy wrote, she felt an obligation to honor him by attending his funeral. Once there, she learned Marc’s willingness to help her was the norm of his life. Those gathered shared story after story about Marc living his life for others.

Kathy’s message was so touching and her words so striking that,

with her approval, I’m pleased to share some of her message to me:

“I can only rely on my faith to make sense of it all, that same

faith that began as a child and then was nurtured by Marquette University. In that huge developmental part of your life when you’re questioning everything, the people that I have met through Marquette have become those friends that are with me throughout life’s challenges. I think that the ‘Marquette family’ that is often referred to is very real in that we all feel so close to each other even though many miles and many years have since come between us. There is a tie that binds us together through faith. Marquette is a very special place and I wish you the best in continuing to lead and guide it in the Jesuit tradition.”

Thank you, Kathy, for those wonderful words, and thank you,

Marquette, for a remarkable first year.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell PRESIDENT

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academic matters : 6 on campus : 8 arts + culture : 12 focus on research : 14 snapshot : 16

we are marquette M U S C L E B O U N D From the Strategic Innovation Fund sparking ideas for research to a

partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks in an athletic performance research center for elite and intercollegiate athletes to planting rice on the roof to help community farmers, we’re building on our strengths. Read more ways Marquette is flexing muscle in this issue.

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academic matters

Defining and building Marquette’s presence at the Global Water Center is just one exciting challenge Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp is leading.

“This is a great job.”

Chaos, excitement, a lot of dreaming — that’s how

Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp describes what’s happened on campus since the university established the Strategic Innovation Fund.

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nd, yes, some skepticism, too, because we do have to live within budgets,” admits Hossenlopp, vice president for research and innovation. “Now we have to identify where we have capacity and potential to nurture these ideas.”

President Michael R. Lovell announced the fund during his inaugural address in September. It comprises $2 million from the university’s capital and operating budgets and, this year, an additional nearly $4 million in funds raised from donors. He invited faculty, staff and students to propose

projects they’d develop with these funds to build a better Marquette, address a technology gap or improve the world or community.

The university hosted workshops to help the teams think through potential proposals.

At a session in January, more than 150 people shared ideas, looked for collaborators and then broke into groups to think about how what they were considering would fit Marquette’s strategic plan.

“With some pre-proposals, we suggested they look at the pre-proposal submitted by another group because they have the same objectives or because we thought they might have similar capacity,” Hossenlopp explains.

“People took the feedback very seriously.”

President Lovell and Hossenlopp expected to receive 200–250 pre-proposals describing projects in broad strokes by the Feb. 5 deadline. But reality outpaced expectations with more than 275 submitted, with funding requests totaling $48 million.

They came from every college and reflected a high level of collaboration among disciplines and diverse teams. They ranged from a School of Dentistry-based project for 3D Printing of Customized Implants for Cleft Lip, Palate and Orofacial Deformities and Defects to a student-led proposal to build an Assisted Living Virtual Environment for Seniors to a project conceived in the College of Nursing titled Changing Teens’ Responses to Precursors of Dating Violence: A Theatre Intervention. Summaries of all pre-proposals can be viewed at marquette.edu/innovation.

Reality outpaced expectations with more than 275 project pre-proposals submitted. They came from every college and reflected a high level of collaboration among disciplines and diverse teams.

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Teams next had to write full proposals by the second deadline of March 21. From there, the Innovation Council identified those considered most promising to receive funding and forwarded that list to the University Leadership Council. With the ULC’s input, President Lovell awarded funding to 38 projects set to begin this fall.

“There are many great ideas, but we have to decide which ones will catalyze change for the university and help really important things happen here,” says Hossenlopp.

For Hossenlopp, who has spent more than 26 years on campus in faculty and leadership roles, the uptick in tenor was fun to witness. She had a front seat on the swirl.

The pre-proposals came into her email box before being posted on the website where everyone could keep track of ideas ignited by the process. She couldn’t resist reading the daily flow and saw bits and pieces of ideas that surfaced before but had gained substance and traction.

Simultaneous to leading this process, Hossenlopp is also charged with building the university’s research infrastructure, including externally funded research, while maintaining the model that supports faculty as both teachers and scholars. She says the institution’s commitment to the teacher-scholar model attracts top faculty and talented students.

As a longtime faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and recipient of the university’s top teaching recognition, the Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003, Hossenlopp knows faculty value the opportunity to teach while continuing to follow their lines of research inquiry.

“All of that gives me an appreciation for what faculty go through,” she says. “The central part of my charge here is to facilitate growth and development of faculty research and help the campus innovate and be more entrepreneurial.

“This is a great job,” she adds, her enthusiasm evident, “to be able to work with people who are excited about what they are doing, to be able to help them get it done.

We will run the process again next year. It is a challenge because it is so broad, but it lets people dream. That’s part of the excitement of changing the culture on campus.” m JMM

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RENDERING IS CONCEPTUAL.

GAME ON Marquette as a destination for elite-level and intercollegiate athletes to up their game — that’s the vision churning chatter.

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ince the university announced its intention to build the Athletic Performance Research Center in a strategic partnership with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks, eyes nationally have turned to see what Marquette has in mind.

The Board of Trustees approved a plan to transform a parcel of land at the eastern corner of campus bounded by Michigan Avenue on the north and Clybourn Avenue on the south and build a nationally recognized athletic center with research initiatives addressing sports performance, medicine, nutrition and psychology.

Research will be faculty-directed and provide important opportunities for graduate and undergraduate research students, according to Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science and member of the APRC planning committee. “The open-design research space will optimize exciting collaborations between various human performance disciplines, such as biomechanics, bioanalytics, exercise physiology, nutrition and biochemistry, motor control, sport psychology, and muscle fatigue to address barriers to optimal human performance,” Hunter says.

“This unique center will put Marquette on the map in terms of elite research and facilitate the training and performance of student-athletes, taking them to the next level,” says Dr. Paula Papanek, associate professor of physical therapy and member of the planning committee.

The APRC will be open to all members of the campus community, reducing pressure on existing facilities, such as Valley Fields, which is used for rec and club sports as well as intercollegiate athletics. It will provide a new home to Marquette’s Division I men’s and women’s lacrosse, soccer, cross-country/track and field, and tennis teams, as well as men’s golf. Additionally, there will be incubator space for ideation of products and materials that contribute to athletic performance.

The strategic partnership came about after Bucks owner Wes Edens mentioned he was looking for a competitive edge in player performance. The idea synced with President Lovell’s desire to build a competitive edge in athletics research at Marquette.

“This facility is truly unique in terms of the collaboration with the Milwaukee Bucks and the opportunities to bring in other partners to develop cutting-edge research related to athletic performance,” says Lora Strigens, associate vice president for finance and university architect.

One such partnership is the addition of Milwaukee Bucks director of player performance Troy Flanagan as an adjunct faculty member in the College of Health Sciences. Before joining the Bucks organization in April, Flanagan was director of high performance for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. m JMM

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AMU reunion

It is the center of the Marquette solar system, hosts thousands of visitors and hundreds of events each year, is the best-loved go-to spot for coffee, and is turning 25. What is it?

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he Alumni Memorial Union will mark its anniversary with a reunion of AMU employees at a celebration Oct. 9–10.

“The AMU turning 25 was a great opportunity to not only celebrate the building but also to celebrate the thousands of people who have worked at the AMU,” says Dan Abler, Bus Ad ’96, Grad ’08, assistant director in the union and leader of the planning committee.

The union opened Abler’s freshman year, and he worked there as a student.

The weekend’s main event is the dinner gala Saturday night. Guests will include Mark Panlener, Arts ’93, Grad ’99, who held his wedding reception in the third-floor Monaghan Ballroom. Panlener worked at Brooks Memorial Union before it closed and at the Alumni Memorial Union as an undergraduate. He returned to work for the AMU as the audiovisual technology director while in graduate school. Now he is a member of the nine-person celebration planning committee of current and former student-employees.

Ruben Rivas, Arts ’09, who worked in the AMU post office called Union Station as a student, is also on the committee.

He is excited that the event offers a way to recognize the dedication of AMU employees. “We often take for granted the sacrifices that go into providing world-class facilities,” Rivas says. “This weekend serves to draw attention to the AMU, the people who make it what it is, and give thanks and give back to a university and building that mean so much to us.” m WM LEARN MORE

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at mu.edu/amu/25years.shtml.

take the AMU aptitude test The AMU replaced what building?

BROOKS MEMORIAL UNION BUILT IN 1953

What did it cost to build the AMU?

$15 MILLION How much came from donors?

74.6% What class gave the most, at $1.5 million?

CLASS OF 1929

How many cups of coffee are sold weekly in the Brew Bayou?

1,277 How many events occur in the union each week?

140 Can you name a new student culinary favorite served in the cafe?

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on campus get it. The provost is in charge of everything academic in nature. It differs some across universities, but at Marquette this means that all of the deans as well as the Office of Student Affairs and IT Services report to me.

I’m responsible for managing, budgeting, and developing/guiding the strategic direction of all these units with input from faculty, staff and students.

CAMPUS Q&A

You earned degrees in political science, higher education and sociology. How did that lead to your research?

Provost Daniel Myers began official duties on July 1. Previously, he was vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he founded the Center for the Study of Social Movements. His research focuses are rioting and protest, particularly in the United States in the 1960s, and mathematical models of social diffusion processes. For fun, he runs — boasts he hasn’t missed a day of running at least 5K in more than three years.

Where is your hometown?

My parents were more or less nomadic when I was growing up, so I usually say I’m from parts unknown. But the truth is we lived in Ohio, Indiana, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

the commitment everyone has to Marquette. That was further amplified when I met President Lovell. When I came for my campus visit, the excitement was ubiquitous among faculty, staff and students.

Do you have a large family?

What has surprised you most about Marquette?

Three sisters and a brother and two parents who are both Baptist ministers. I have two kids, Micah and Michaela, who will both be in college next year.

I love being in the middle of the city.

The location strikes me as being an incredible resource in service of Marquette’s Jesuit mission.

What attracted you to Marquette?

What does a provost do?

The people. From the moment I met the search committee, I was impressed with

Most people don’t know what the heck a provost is. Even my parents don’t really

To be completely honest, my research focus developed almost by accident. I was taking an advanced statistics seminar as a graduate student and needed a specific kind of data to write my seminar paper. After some false starts I discovered a real treasure in a data set about rioting in the 1960s. The more I worked with it the more interested I became. I realized that understanding the spread of rioting as a social diffusion process was an opportunity to make a big contribution to the literature, that understanding how those riots spread would help understand a lot of other kinds of diffusion processes. That seminar paper was my first major publication, and I was off and running into a very interesting area. m SCHOLARLY PATH

>> Holds bachelor of political science and master of higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University. >> Completed master’s and doctorate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. >> Published several books and scholarly articles on protest, rioting and mathematical models of the diffusion of social behaviors. >> Current project launched with a grant from the National Science Foundation to re-examine racial unrest in the United States from 1960–75.

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on campus It was an eventful year under Bill Scholl, vice president and director for athletics, who took over last fall.

• Basketball hit the reset button under dynamic new leaders.

• Women’s volleyball made its fourth straight NCAA tournament appearance.

• Men’s golf won the Big East Championship, and men’s lacrosse surged to the top 10 in national rankings.

Bullish on athletics

• A student-athlete in track and field hit new heights.

YEAR IN REVIEW

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WOMEN’S SOCCER finished

10-8-3 overall, 5-3-1 in the Big East, with a loss to DePaul on penalty kicks in the Big East semifinal.

Leading scorer Darian Powell scored a teamhigh 7 goals.

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MEN’S SOCCER

finished 8-6-4 overall, 2-3-4 in the Big East, losing to Georgetown in the Big East quarterfinal.

C. Nortey led the team with 7 goals.

Goalkeeper Charlie Lyon was named to the Capital One Academic All-

America First Team, set program records with 8 straight shutouts, a stretch of 804:58 minutes played without conceding a goal, and was one of 10 finalists for the 2014 Senior CLASS Award.

Defender Axel Sjoberg and Lyon were taken

in the Major League Soccer draft.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

finished 13-19 overall, 4-14 in the Big East, with leading scorer Matt Carlino averaging 15 points per game, and signed a new class of freshmen

that many analysts ranked in the top 10 nationally. It includes forward Henry Ellenson, a McDonald’s AllAmerican from Rice Lake, Wis., and the younger brother of current studentathlete Wally Ellenson.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

finished 9-22 overall, 4-14 in the Big East, with leading scorer Arlesia Morse averaging 15 points per game.

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MEN’S TENNIS

finished 14-10, losing to St. John’s

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12-11, losing to DePaul in the Big East Conference Championship semifinals.

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highlights, including Wally Ellenson being named All-American indoor and outdoor in the high jump. Both men’s and women’s teams finished second in the conference in indoor and outdoor seasons.

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won the Big East Championship in Okatie, S.C., in April, qualifying for the NCAA tournament.

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started 7-0 and was ranked as high as No. 9 in a national poll, before falling just short

One of the biggest wins, Scholl says, came off the field when President Lovell announced Marquette will collaborate with the Milwaukee Bucks to build a state-of-the art indoor practice and sports performance research facility on campus.

(See story page 7) “I’m amazed at what some of our teams have accomplished, given the infrastructure they have,” he says. “And that’s why the new building that Dr. Lovell announced is so important for us. I am so bullish on how good our teams can be if we can provide the support for them.

“I truly believe there’s not a team here that can’t compete for the Big East title and national honors.

I’ll point to the fact that they’re so successful already, and they don’t have all the things that we can provide for them. I think as we get there, it will really give our teams a tremendous opportunity to compete at the highest level and help us take the Marquette brand and move it further.” m CJ

of landing its first NCAA tournament bid in only its third season.

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choll, who came to Marquette from previous positions at Ball State and Notre Dame, says, “The Marquette community is unbelievably warm and friendly. The community is passionate about Marquette and loyal to our basketball program and many of our other athletic teams, as well. In my first year on campus, I’ve learned that the environment is really neat.”

Scholl sees reasons for optimism throughout Marquette’s Division I programs, including in the way Men’s Basketball Head Coach Steve Wojciechowski and Women’s Basketball Head Coach Carolyn Kieger approached their first seasons. “I think people might be surprised how quickly and how deeply Steve has embraced Marquette and what it stands for and how much he cares about Marquette,” Scholl says of Wojciechowski. “He has such a sense of responsibility for the giants who have gone before him, and he wants so badly to live up to that level of responsibility. And, of course, Carolyn’s roots are completely embedded in her Marquette background as a student-athlete so you can certainly say all the same things about her.”

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

finished 5-12 overall, 1-6 in the Big East.

Leading scorers Claire Costanza and Nicole Gleason had 21 goals each.

Marquette student-athletes earned a total of 88 selections on All-Big East postseason teams in 2014 –15, representing 14 different programs.

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women’s team finished 12th at the 2014 NCAA Great Lakes Region Championships, while the men’s team finished 18th. Both teams were named to national allacademic lists.

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WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

finished 24-9 overall, 14-4 in the Big East, and made the NCAA tournament for the fourth straight season — the first time under new Head Coach Ryan Theis.

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campus replay In the early 1980s Marquette residence halls tried beating the bedtime blues with a tuck-in service. Before the advent of Netflix binges and ambient Spotify playlists began lulling students to sleep, Marquette’s residence hall staff realized something as simple as a friendly visit from another resident and a chocolate chip cookie could lighten nighttime worries.

raise the curtain The Helfaer Theatre’s 2015–16 season is an homage to strong women, with a slate that ranges from celebrations of the gals of the Greatest Generation to Shakespeare’s Rosalind.

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n 1981, Tower Hall (now Carpenter Tower) started a service for residents who paid a few quarters to be tucked into bed by fellow students. They believed the tuck-in service could make the average college student feel like a child again or simply make being away from home a little more comfortable and secure. Pairs of pajama-clad tuck-in staff members visited dorm rooms. Students were offered milk and cookies and bedtime stories before being tucked in for the night.

Coordinators hoped the service would boost morale by creating a family-like atmosphere within the residence halls, according to Dave Hernandez, Bus Ad ’84, as reported in the Nov. 20, 1981, edition of The Marquette Tribune. Hernandez was a sophomore tuck-in service coordinator at Tower.

At the same time The Stanford Daily student newspaper reported that many schools, including Penn State, Catholic University, the University of Maryland and Marshall University initiated tuck-in services. Not only was the service a fun way to meet other new students, but, also, according to an ad in The Marquette Tribune, it would “make all your dreams pleasant.” m MM

Loose Lips Sink Ships SEPT. 24 – 27 & SEPT. 30 – OCT. 4

To Kill A Mockingbird NOV. 12 – 15 & NOV. 18 – 22

Ivy + Bean The Musical ANNUAL CHILDREN’S SHOW PUBLIC PERFORMANCES JAN. 16, 17, 23 & 24

As You Like It FEB. 25 – 27 & MARCH 2 – 5

Censored on Final Approach APRIL 1 – 24

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This special show, produced in collaboration with Renaissance Theaterworks at the Broadway Theatre Center, will feature original work by Phylis Ravel, former artistic director at Marquette, who died in 2012.

GET INFORMATION ABOUT TICKET PRICES,

including student, employee, alumni and senior citizen discounts, and season ticket packages from the Helfaer Theatre Box Office at (414) 288-7504.

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PRESENTATIONS ARE GETTING A TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE WITH A NEW APP DEVELOPED BY MARQUETTE ALUMNI.

APP TAKES CENTER STAGE CHARLIE BECKWITH AND DEVIN TURNER

Devin Turner and Charlie Beckwith, both Eng ’14, are working together to grow FocalCast, an app they created as students. Their app allows users to control PowerPoint presentations directly from a phone or tablet and project them onto a television or other display — no cumbersome cords, connectors or adapters needed.

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heir business is gaining attention quickly as consumers adapt to controlling the digital world around them with their personal phones, tablets and watches. After winning Marquette’s ImpactNext competition, FocalCast took top awards at the Rice Business Plan competition and then won a $50,000 financial boost and a spot at a business accelerator in St. Louis.

“We’re doing really well,” says Turner, who serves as the startup’s CEO. “But we’re not getting a lot of sleep.”

FocalCast developed an Android app, and the company is beta testing an iOS version that will hit the iTunes store this

“The amount of progress we’ve made in a month and a half is incredible,” Turner says. “We went from zero to 60 really fast.”

“Fifteen-hour workdays are standard, 16–18 depending on how late you go,” says Beckwith, who serves as CTO. “It’s been pretty ridiculously fast paced.”

They credit classes, faculty and extracurricular opportunities like the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette for setting their foundation — and those roots are still helping today.

“Since graduating from Marquette we have met several times with the Golden Angels network of alumni investors,” Turner says. “I’m sure our Marquette connection will continue to shape the course of our company.” m TC

summer. More than 7,000 people have downloaded the existing app. Next up, FocalCast’s founders say, the Apple Watch is on their roadmap.

In the three-month accelerator program, the duo is working with a technical team in India, and practicing their investor pitch and honing their business skills with an advisory board of mentors that includes the former CTO of Panera.

H OW I T W O R K S FocalCast app users project their PowerPoint presentations directly from a phone or tablet without cords.

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focus on research

evidence at trial Drs. Heather Hlavka and Sameena Mulla in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences share a research interest in sexual violence against women. A $100,000 National Science Foundation grant provided an opportunity for Hlavka, with a criminology perspective, and Mulla, with an anthropology one, to combine the tools of their disciplines to study how evidence is used in sexual assault trials.

>> Because 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted.

Lightning round Highlighting some faculty research and scholarly honors.

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The data collection for their research, which was launched in 2013, concluded last spring. They plan to write a book on what they learned. “We’re hoping to shed light on how our institutions are responding to sexual assault, but we ultimately want to find ways we and these institutions can stop sexual assaults,” says Mulla.

Hlavka, Mulla and three undergraduate research assistants spent hours in Milwaukee courtrooms observing trials and proceedings. They documented courtroom elements not recorded by the stenographer, including facial expressions, gestures, emotions, family interactions and off-record dialogues, and analyzed court transcripts, media coverage, and their own interviews with attorneys, judges, forensic nurses and victimwitness advocates.

They studied how forensic evidence is used and the role voices play in the courtroom. How are victim and defendant testimonies used? How are expert witnesses presented to judge and jury, and how is their expertise proved or disproved?

One research discovery they weren’t expecting relates to how social media is used. Text messages, Facebook posts and cell phone tracking data are introduced by both sides to prove or disprove timelines, state of mind, intent,

Dr. Marilyn Frenn, professor of nursing, one of 168 nurse leaders inducted as members of the Class of 2015 into the American Academy of Nursing. Members are selected for “leadership in education, management, and policy and work to improve the health of the nation.”

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Dr. Joseph Schimmels, associate dean for research in engineering, professor of mechanical engineering and holder of five patents with a sixth patent pending, inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Inventors.

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knowledge and character. Mulla says social media has become an accepted form of evidence in the court system; however, the standards of evidence for it have been unevenly adopted by civil and criminal courts.

Hlavka and Mulla implemented curriculum for undergraduate students to observe courtroom proceedings to learn qualitative and quantitative research methods, immerse them in the justice system, and instill a sense of civic responsibility.

They also partnered with community advocacy groups and hope their research will help move the discourse of sexual assault trial research forward. “It’s very important to us to work with the service providers, who work so hard for victims but don’t have the means we do, to share our data and results with these community partners and continue our dialogue on sexual assault with them,” Hlavka says. m SK

Could 12 rice paddies on the roof of Todd Wehr Life Sciences point the way to a new cash crop for Wisconsin farmers? Dr. Michael Schläppi, associate professor of biological sciences, began growing rice on the roof four years ago with a goal of identifying a coldtolerant variety suitable for growth in Wisconsin.

SEEDS OF CHANGE

Wisconsin’s wide-ranging weather offers Schläppi, a geneticist, an interesting mashup. Grain production for rice is highly regulated by day length and temperature. Cold affects growth early in the cycle, and heat alters pollen growth at the end of the cycle.

Though there are 40,000 strains of rice in the world, there are few strains that do well below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and rice won’t make seeds in too much heat.

In his quest to identify a species hearty enough to withstand Wisconsin’s cold springs and hot summers, Schläppi began working with 217 varieties provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

To map cold tolerance genes, he crossed lines of rice, marrying matches to build increasing cold tolerance.

Amid the rooftop plants taking root in rows of 4x4square-foot gardens, the star strain, the one Schläppi says shows the most promise, emerged. It comes from the Black Sea area of Russia. But even there, the climate isn’t quite as harsh as in Wisconsin.

So he and his research students continued growing this strong strain this spring to select progeny with a high potential for survival in Wisconsin. The answer is near.

“Artificial human selection for a genetically improved strain is occurring,” Schläppi says, “and it gets even better over time.”

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Rice is an important U.S. crop. Schläppi says 80 percent of rice grown domestically is used in this country and wants to promote rice in Wisconsin. “Now the top crops are corn, soybeans and wheat, but rice could be a new cash crop,” he says.

Schläppi is also working with the Fondy Farmers Market and Alice’s Garden, both community gardens serving residents in the city of Milwaukee. He planted rice on an acre of Fondy Farm to help small-scale farmers see how they could bring this produce to market. Students are working on feasibility studies to see what plants can be grown without a paddy and how much rice can be harvested from small gardens. m JMM

Dr. Andrew Williams, principal investigator on a $500,000 NSF grant awarded to the Opus College of Engineering to create a curriculum to teach high

Dr. Nabeel Demerdash,

school girls to program

professor of electrical and computer

humanoid robots.

engineering, received the Lawrence

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Raynor, S.J., Chair and

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professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Dr. Kristen Foster, associate professor of history

See much more at marquette.edu/research.

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The School of Dentistry’s 40,000-square-foot expansion added 24 stations to the Sim Lab.

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PROGRAMS BUILD ACROSS CAMPUS AND GIVE ALUMNI A WAY TO REPAY

Ryan Daulton, right, and Armen Hadjinian, Bus Ad ’81, Grad ’05, connect through the College of Business Administration Mentor Program.

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Jessica Willard participates in the Opus College of Engineering E-Lead program, a threeyear curricular leadership program.

When College of Business Administration junior Ryan Daulton linked up with alumni mentor Armen Hadjinian to learn more about entrepreneurship, he wasn’t looking for theoretical knowledge. Through his meetings with Hadjinian, who directs the entrepreneurship program at Milwaukee Area Technical College, Daulton ended up writing and submitting a grant proposal to Marquette’s Strategic Innovation Fund — and made it past the first round.

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Tony Everard is taking time to plan for the future, thanks to advice from his mentor in the College of Business Administration Mentor Program.

“As a mentor, it gives us a chance to not only give back but also to immerse ourselves for a year in the life of a student.”

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students in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. Philosophy professor Dr. James South, an early advocate of the program, credits University Advancement Engagement Director Dan DeWeerdt with getting the program off the ground.

“This wouldn’t work if he didn’t put heart and soul and the kind of energy he puts into it,” South says. “The faculty buy-in has been excellent, the student experience has been good and the mentors are incredibly gracious with their time — which, too, speaks to a Marquette education.”

LIFE OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

“He helped me do the business canvass and introduced me to a couple of people to refine the idea,” Daulton says. “There was actually one point when we were down at his office and he had three or four people there, all kind of just talking about the innovation fund idea.

I had some great feedback.”

Hadjinian, Bus Ad ’81, Grad ’05, was thrilled to help: “It was more or less giving him the tools to build his business ideas — as an equal. I didn’t treat him as a student.”

For nearly 20 years, the College of Business Administration’s Mentor Program has paired students with alumni for yearlong, one-to-one opportunities to work on career development.

This year, the college and its alumni association facilitated 165 mentor-protégé pairs.

The business school program is just one of several alumni mentorship and job shadowing programs available to students across campus.

Additional programs are sponsored in the Opus College of Engineering, Diederich College of

Communication, Law School, College of Nursing and more.

The business program served as a model for another, broader alumni mentorship program that is gaining momentum.

When actor Rondell Sheridan, Sp ’80, was a member of the Marquette University Alumni Association Board of Directors, he was one of several key leaders who pushed for a more comprehensive alumni mentorship program to replicate the business school’s success. The MUAA National Mentor Program grew out of those discussions.

“I knew about the business school’s mentoring program and I thought it was such a great program,” Sheridan says. “I really wanted it to be something that was happening elsewhere at Marquette.”

Now nationwide in its second year, the program has grown from about 30 mentorprotégé pairings in its pilot year to more than 70 this year, including many formed with

“I DIDN’T GET TO WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW BY MYSELF,”

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ngineering student Jessica Willard loves just about everything about writing computer code, with one exception: She sometimes gets caught in arguments with fellow students about minor details, such as what to name a particular variable.

“I’m always sitting there like: ‘Let’s move on. This is such a dumb discussion,’” Willard says.

Through a connection with alumna Dr. Katie Weiss, Eng ’01, Willard visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Imagine her surprise when she heard similar arguments come up in a staff meeting. “I’m sitting at NASA, around a table in a meeting, and they are discussing a variable name within their code,” Willard says. “It was really cool to see that what I’m doing at Marquette is entirely applicable to the real world.”

Willard participates in the Opus College of Engineering’s E-Lead program, a three-year opportunity for students to develop leadership skills. Students who complete the program earn a concentration in engineering leadership, which is noted on their transcript. As part of the program, each student does a pair

Connelly says. “It takes a lot of support. To now be in position to be someone who can give back is very rewarding and really an honor. Sometimes I’m still like, ‘Gosh, what could I possibly teach this kid?’ He’s so smart, he’s so energetic.”

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interested in becoming a mentor? here are a few programs: MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MENTOR PROGRAM Establish a relationship with a current student in this mentoring opportunity. > CON TAC T Dan DeWeerdt at daniel. deweerdt@marquette.edu or (414) 288-4740.

CIRCLES eMENTOR NETWORK Students and young alumni connect with mentors via a CIRCLES eMentor LinkedIn group.

It doesn’t matter where you live or how much time you can give. > VISIT

muconnect.marquette.edu/mentor.

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MENTOR PROGRAM Junior-level students learn about business from experienced professionals. Also appreciated: alumni to host office visits for students. > V I S I T business.marquette.edu/careercenter/mentor-program-alumni.

OPUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING E-LEAD E-Lead is a three-year curricular leadership program. Students shadow two engineering professionals in C-suite leadership positions. > CON TAC T Kate Trevey at kate.trevey@ marquette.edu.

DIEDERICH COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION MENTORING PROGRAM Students gain valuable insight into career choices, helpful tips on the career search process and practice networking skills with mentors. > V I S I T diederich.marquette.edu/COC/ mentoring-program.aspx.

LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI MENTORING PROGRAM This program partners alumni with students based on practice area. Alumni can be resources for students on questions related to practice, legal markets, law school and job searches. > V I S I T law.marquette.edu/marquettelawyers/alumni-mentoring-program.

COLLEGE OF NURSING PROJECT: BEYOND Here’s an opportunity to serve as a role model, share knowledge, provide direction and promote development within the nursing profession. > V I S I T marquette.edu/nursing/projectbeyond/mentors.shtml.

MENTOR ME of one-day job-shadowing experiences with engineering alumni in senior leadership positions. Willard was thrilled to connect with Weiss, a senior flight software engineer who was part of the team of NASA scientists that landed the unmanned Curiosity rover on Mars.

“You can be inspired by somebody like Katie,” Willard says. “She’s the first woman to lead a team to put a robot in space. It’s really cool to get the opportunity to be around such incredible professionals.”

Weiss’ main message to Willard, and other students, is to figure out where they want to go before they decide to go to graduate school or accept a job offer.

“One of the things that I try to do when I talk to students is to say: ‘What is your plan? What do you want to do? And, then,” Weiss says, “I tell them to put a logical plan in place to get from where you are now to where you want to be. Nobody really did that for me.”

Inspired by Weiss’ advice, Willard is spending part of this summer planning where she wants to end up — and then she’ll figure out what it takes to get there.

That’s the real value of a mentor. They have life experiences to help fill in what can’t be taught in a classroom.

As a faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin, alumna Dr. Jennifer Schilling Connelly, Eng ’99, was the ideal person to help engineering major Martin Rodriguez Romero plan a medical career.

“A lot of it is just kind of hanging out for an hour or so and talking about challenges with college, challenges with life, basing it on my experiences,” Connelly says. “I never tell him what to do. I give him different ideas and then ask him, I think, thoughtprovoking questions to get him to do what is the best thing.”

Business mentor Chris Setter, Grad ’11, helped senior Tony Everard polish his resume and advised him to consider waiting to get his M.B.A. until he had a few years’ worth of real-world work experience.

Setter, who works in sales at United Health Care, says it’s important for students to hear from alumni who are at different points in their careers, and not just from senior leaders. “I feel like I have a different perspective than what a senior leader in an organization might bring to a mentoring

program, and I feel like that perspective is a very real-world one or nuts-and-bolts one that can help people who will be graduating soon,” Setter says.

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everal alumni mentors wish they’d had a similar guiding experience when they were students.

“It’s very hard for young people to have access to professionals, especially in a forum where they can freely ask questions,” Setter says.

Weiss was especially happy to work with two women engineering students.

“Being a role model for young women who are going into engineering and going into technical fields that are still very maledominant, I think that’s really, really important to me,” Weiss says. “I didn’t have that when I was an undergrad, someone in industry, a female who is doing the type of thing that I wanted to do.”

For Connelly, taking an hour out of a busy schedule to focus on Rodriguez Romero’s career development was a chance to reflect on her own path. “I didn’t get to where I am right now by myself,” Connelly says. “It takes a lot of support. To now be in position to be someone who can give back is very rewarding and really an honor. Sometimes I’m still like, ‘Gosh, what could I possibly teach this kid?’ He’s so smart, he’s so energetic.”

Hadjinian enjoys having a connection with a student. “It gives me the ability to see what Marquette students are like now,” he says. “As a mentor, it gives us a chance to not only give back but also to immerse ourselves for a year in the life of a student. You see, compare and contrast what you went through and what they’re going through, and you want to make that transition worthwhile as well as say, ‘Hey, I made a difference.’”

For Sheridan, the ultimate goal is to create a cycle of giving back: “Twenty years from now, I want that mentee to know his obligation and go, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ve got to pay back.’” m

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OVAL OFFICE ASPIRATION He is Marquette’s first alum to explore a run for president of the United States. Wisconsin Governor SCOTT WALKER talks about why he feels the call to lead.

> MOST MEMORABLE MENTORS? TOMMY THOMPSON AND MITCH DANIELS > TOUCHSTONE THAT KEEPS YOU GOING? PRAYER — PRAYER > FAVORITE HISTORICAL FIGURES? RONALD REAGAN, OUR FOUNDERS AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN > FOR FUN AND RELAXATION?

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“My time at Marquette is a big part of who I am.

It gave me a hunger for knowledge, inspired my commitment to serve, and strengthened my appreciation of great friendships.”

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Do you have any regrets about your time at Marquette?

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How did your understanding of the contributions you could make change after you assumed elected office?

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After knocking on something like 14,000 doors to win my first election, someone asked me what that had to do with actually serving in office. Once in office it was clear that it takes that kind of determination to reach out to your colleagues and persuade them on any given issue. If I worked hard and had a solid argument, I could do great things for my constituents.

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How did it evolve even further as you rose from state representative to county executive to governor?

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In the legislative branch, it often takes years to get things done. As a chief executive, I can do things that bring a positive impact on the lives of people immediately. It is all the more reason I feel called to lead — to get good things done.

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What is the most-essential lesson you’ve learned?

To make decisions based on what’s best for the next generation, not the next election.

What similarities do you and your

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How did your Marquette experience influence who you have become?

My time at Marquette is a big part of who I am.

It gave me a hunger for knowledge, inspired my commitment to serve and strengthened my appreciation of great friendships.

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What is your most important Marquette memory?

I have great memories of new student orientation and Senior Week. I was on the board for both and really enjoyed working with all of the volunteers.

G O V. S C O T T W A L K E R

Sure, I left during my senior year to work for the American Red Cross. After a few years, I met Tonette, we got married, then had Matt and then Alex. Back then, I figured I would finish up my degree over the years. I wish I had the time to go back over the years.

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experiences as college students?

Matt and Alex are both involved in politics — from College Republicans to national conferences to helping out on my campaigns. Both our sons love to be involved in a big way. Each of them is a great speaker, and they often fill in for me at events. They are both great at technology. This keeps me up to speed on the latest and greatest in electronic media and digital campaigning. Matt and Alex also love sports, so I often check in with them on the latest scores and games. Both of them have been with me to the Rose Bowl to the Super Bowl and to Brewers playoff games.

was a student at Marquette from fall 1986 through spring 1990 and was a senior in good standing when he voluntarily withdrew from the university. Marquette considers alumni to have earned 24 credits.

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Would you encourage Matt and Alex to pursue elected office?

First, Tonette and I will support them regardless of career path. Both are interested in politics, even though they have seen firsthand how difficult it can be on a person and his or her family. More than anything, we pray that they pursue God’s calling in their lives. If that is in politics and in government, they would each be great.

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What exploration, for you and your family, has gone into discussing this decision?

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Tonette and I spent a great deal of time thinking about it, talking about it and praying about it. Both boys said that if we run, they are all in.

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You’ve moved from representing constituents in an assembly district to constituents in a county to a state, but all have been Midwesterners like yourself with Midwestern values. How will you broaden your scope to include constituents with different priorities and needs depending on where they live and how they live?

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In America, there is a core set of beliefs.

If you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to do and be anything you want. The opportunity should be as equal as possible, but the outcome is up to each of us. These are values that people share all across this great country, and these values make up the American Dream.

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You are traveling often and for longer distances. What have you seen that excites you?

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Despite the challenges of the past six or seven years, people are not giving up. People are hungry for bold new leadership. m

TIME BY MYSELF, AS WELL AS THE PRAYERS OF OTHERS FOR ME AND OUR FAMILY. FOR RESPITE, I LIKE TO RIDE MY 2003 HARLEY-DAVIDSON ROAD KING. TOGETHER, TONETTE AND I ENJOY WATCHING MOVIES.

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Sagittal Segment 98: Axilla Trapezius muscle Scapula Pectoralis minor muscle Pectoralis major muscle

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Maredithe “Katie” (Meyer) McDevitt, Sp ’63, felt a lump in her breast in June 1979 and was gone 12 months later, leaving a legacy everyone could see in her six children, ages 14 to 3.

Her other legacy wouldn’t come to light for 35 years, when the McDevitt family finally learned how Katie’s wish to donate her body to science was realized.

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KATIE’S BODY became part of a landmark anatomy textbook used to train tens of thousands of medical practitioners worldwide.

“It was an incredible revelation,” says daughter Kate (McDevitt) Meyer.

Those who knew Katie, speak of her with unmistakable awe.

They remember her beautiful smile. They remember her as a killer tennis player who smiled at opposing players, even in the midst of a hotly contested match. They remember her powerful Catholic faith and her devotion to family.

And they remember the year Katie taught them about what she called “after life-ing.”

Kate (McDevitt) Meyer, yes, the similar names can make anyone look twice, is Katie’s oldest child. Kate was just 13 years old when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. “The last thing she did was attend my eighth-grade graduation,” remembers Kate. “She went into hospice the next day.”

Katie prepared for her final days in sundry ways. She hired a caregiver to help her husband, Marty McDevitt, and their children adapt to life in her absence. She extracted a promise from family friends and fellow alumni Charles, Law ’62, and Judy Mulcahy, Sp ’61, to teach her daughters to play the sport she loved, competitive tennis. She planned

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her funeral Mass, including the selection of hymns. And she spoke openly about dying and about what she was going through, particularly with her two oldest children, daughters Kate and Maureen “Mo” (McDevitt) Buettner.

“We visited her every day at St. Joe’s,” says Mo, who was 11 then. “She explained there wouldn’t be a typical funeral because she was leaving her body to science. She told us: ‘I am not dying. I am going to be new life-ing.’

Because of that I have never looked at death negatively.

That was another gift she gave.”

The family came to appreciate what Katie meant a little more fully last year after daughter Kate attended an event sponsored by the We Care Fund outreach arm of the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Surgery.

Kate listened while a mother in the audience talked about her teenage daughter’s sudden death and the family’s decision to donate her organs through the Wisconsin Donor Network to a young woman in New York.

“That got me thinking,” Kate says. “My mother designated the Medical College of Wisconsin to be the recipient of her body and that’s all we knew — end of story. I wondered if there was any trace of someone who benefited from my mother’s donation. Obviously, her body was older and very sick, but I was curious so I asked the question.”

A few weeks after that event, Meg Bilicki, associate director of development in the department of surgery at MCW, telephoned.

Kate remembers Bilicki saying, “We have an amazing story to tell you.”

Kate wasted no time sharing this story with her brothers and sisters.

K K ATIE (MEYER) MCDEVITT noticed a small lump in her breast the week she and Marty were due to take a weekend trip to New York.

A couple of weeks later one lump became three lumps. “The doctor said we were dealing with a very aggressive tumor,” remembers Marty. “I don’t know how we got through the winter.”

In the spring Katie’s condition worsened.

“We went to Kopp’s for coffee,” Marty says, “and she grabbed my hand. She knew her days were numbered.”

Katie, who was well known for careful preparation whether that meant setting a beautiful table with freshly cut flowers for dinner guests or spreading a picnic lunch courtside and corralling her six children between tennis games, began planning for her death and the future.

During the final week of Katie’s life, her brother-in-law, Dr. Bill McDevitt, visited Katie in the cancer ward at St. Joseph’s Hospital every morning before doing rounds with his patients. It was then that Katie raised

one topic repeatedly — donating her body to science. “I had talked to families about autopsies but never about donating a body to science,” Bill says, recounting those conversations. “But as we talked, we began to see it would be a wonderful thing.”

Because of Bill’s strong connections to the medical community, Katie asked him to write a letter to encourage MCW to accept her body for medical study. Maybe the youth of her body would outweigh its ravages from cancer. In the text of his letter, Bill says he suggested that Katie’s body would provide a “beneficial demonstration of the pathology” of cancer. “The medical school decided it would take Katie’s body,” he says.

The night Katie died, July 2, 1980, Dr. Marvin Wagner, Arts ’42, Med ’44, Grad ’51, a clinical professor of surgery and anatomy at MCW, registered her body for donation.

He and colleague Dr. Thomas Lawson, a professor of radiology and chief of computed body tomography and ultrasonography, were collaborating on an anatomy textbook that would include photographs of segmental axial, coronal and sagittal sections from human donors. When published in 1983, their book was one of the first to use photographs instead of illustrations.

Katie’s gift and the gifts from 29 other donors were featured in the textbook that has been used to teach anatomy to thousands of medical students. The 440 chapters depict human anatomy in three planes. The authors wrote: “This landmark reference has been designed to provide medical students, residents, and practitioners of surgery, radiology and medicine with a detailed knowledge of cross-sectional anatomy, both normal and pathologic.”

Wagner, who is 96 years old today, was a vascular surgeon at the time who also taught anatomy to medical students at MCW. His son-in-law, Dr. Jay Goodman, who was one of Wagner’s medical students and later his partner in medical practice, says Wagner took great pride in being a clinician, surgeon and anatomist and also writing a textbook. “It took years to do. He correlated it with the cadavers he had access to,” Goodman says, “and it became a reference for anatomists, radiologists and surgeons.”

What’s remarkable about the book, Kate was told, is that it was circulated throughout the world and is still used today.

EACH ACADEMIC YEAR MCW holds a memorial service honoring donors who leave their bodies to science and their families. All of this was shared with Kate and siblings Mo, Patrick and Paul when they took a guided tour of the anatomy lab late last year. Brothers Brian and Peter live too far away and couldn’t make it back to Milwaukee for the tour. Their guide was Todd Hoagland, Ph.D., director of the anatomical gift registry at MCW. “Even in our sorrow, we have always felt her spiritual presence. It was truly a gift to see the new life-ing in that lab,” says Mo. “It was a wonderful reminder that even such a long time since she passed, her spirit and grace continue to impart gifts to us,” says Peter, Comm ’98, who was 5 when Katie died.

Marty acknowledges that Katie’s decision to donate her body to science ran counter to typical Catholic religious practices at the time. But the decision was in complete harmony with the way Katie lived her faith. She always sought ways to help others — even in death, he says.

Of learning how her mother’s body was used, Kate says: “I was elated. My father said it wasn’t surprising because of our mother’s generous heart. My mother was that loving, spiritual, faithful, wonderful person who served others, who was always concerned with the needs of others. She was 39 years old and bent on making a difference, and that’s why it made sense that she wanted to give her body to medicine.”

Paul, who was 8 when Katie died, says losing his mother at that early age caused him to sometimes question God, question his faith. “And then many, many years later there is this big reveal,” Paul says. “The story couldn’t end any better. It’s a fascinating story of faith in that you may not get your prayers answered right away, but, boy, are they answered.”

And Katie’s story continues because there is yet another strand. Her first grandchild will be a junior in the Diederich College of Communication this fall. She is the first grandchild but the second Maredithe Katherine Meyer to call Marquette home. m

An endowed scholarship established in 1967 in Katie’s memory, the Harold W. Meyer and Maredithe K. Meyer McDevitt Scholarship, provides financial support to Marquette students.

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MATT WEIL AND BOB BUCKETT

LAW OFFICE OF ME, LLC. GO IT ON NEW LAW GRADS

THEIR OWN

When they were in kindergarten, Matt Weil helped his buddy, Bob Buckett, open his milk and reach his lunchbox on a particularly high shelf. How many law firms can claim an origins story like that?

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The childhood friends stayed in touch in college, then reunited as classmates at Marquette Law School. During their final year, they began having serious discussions about forming a law firm. The 2011 law graduates went to the Brookfield Public Library (Wis.) on June 1, 2011, to complete articles of incorporation — and, four years later, Buckett & Weil, LLC., remains open in the Milwaukee suburbs.

With their successful launch, Buckett and Weil became part of a small but significant group of recent Marquette Law School graduates who build law firms from scratch. Some do so out of necessity, given the effect the economic downturn has had on the job market for lawyers. For others, it’s a fast-track way to pursue their passion.

“We really just encourage people, if this is something they’re interested in, to seek it out as a first choice, not as a last resort,” Buckett says.

Shannon Wynn, Law ’10, formed her law firm after graduation. She lives in Lake Geneva, Wis., where joining a large established law firm wasn’t an option — mostly because there weren’t any.

“I already started planning my business my last year of law school,” she says.

“I don’t think that people should always feel like just because a new lawyer is starting a business that it’s by necessity.

Sometimes, it’s by choice. This is what they’ve always wanted to do, own a business, and they do have that entrepreneurial spirit and the drive.”

PURSUING A PASSION

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ynn is in her second year teaching the Law School’s course Starting and Managing a Law Practice, a course she took as a law student. While law students spend most of their time learning the law, this course encourages them to think like small business owners. The final project is to write a five-year business plan with startup costs, income and expense projections, and a well-developed idea of what kind of law they will practice.

For a few students, that project is the first step toward actually doing it.

“It takes somebody who is willing to take on a challenge,” Wynn says, “who is willing to put in the hours and the effort because it’s not a 9-to-5 proposition. And it takes somebody who is multifaceted when it comes to personality because you have to be your own bookkeeper, your own secretary.

You have to have the people skills and the work ethic to be doing this all at the same time.”

A reward for that hard work is the flexibility to pursue a passion. For three recent law school graduates, that passion was immigration law.

Kime Abduli and Melissa Soberalski founded the Marquette Immigration Law Association — a topic that was personally meaningful for these children of immigrants.

Abduli, Law ’12, came to the United States from Macedonia with her mother when she was 16 months old, joining her father, who already lived here. She was the oldest child in her immediate family and the first in her family to speak English fluently. By age 10, she was translating immigration forms for friends and family. As she got older, she began thinking this was something to pursue.

She founded Abduli Immigration Law, LLC., in West Allis, Wis. Soberalski, Law ’12, partnered with Maria Lopez, Law ’13. The two law students met while working on a pro bono project involving an asylum case.

Today, Lopez & Soberalski Immigration Law, LLC., is based in Milwaukee.

“There’s something really powerful about

getting to know an individual’s story, how and why they decided to leave their home country and forge a completely new life in a foreign one,” Soberalski says.

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o get off the ground, a new law firm must meet its most fundamental need: clients to serve.

“We got an office after a couple of weeks,” Buckett says of the early days after founding Buckett & Weil. “And you plug the phone in, and it doesn’t just ring.”

That’s where the nerves kick in: Am I going to make it? At one point early on, Abduli considered taking a part-time job at the grocery store to make ends meet — an example, she says, that you have to do what it takes to keep going.

“Be prepared,” she says. “You’re going to have those freak-out moments.”

For Abduli, Lopez and Soberalski, a breakthrough came in the form of the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Weil and Buckett began to get criminal defense assignments from public defender offices. Today that work represents the bulk of their business.

Done correctly, and with a plan, a law firm can be a relatively low-budget path to small business ownership, say these law grads. Most of the business plans Wynn sees have start-up costs of $5,000 to $20,000. m

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Luckily KaMyia Leflore practiced her bridal catwalk yesterday because her stomach is in knots today.

All she has to do is stand steady and stay upright. But all she can think about is the weight of her bouquet, the gown tangling her feet and the stairs she has to descend — gracefully — to reach groom Damone Turner.

Leflore sought the Beyonce-esque entrance devised by Milwaukee events planner David Caruso, Jr., Comm ’02. When he whispers “strike a pose with attitude,” she juts her hips, points to the stars and holds on for dear life.

It’s the type of high-tension wire Caruso likes to string. He built Dynamic Events by David Caruso on delivering drama. Elevating a bridal entrance to a bridal launch, with a hydraulic lift raising Leflore 25 feet through an opening from the parking garage to the first-floor Windhover Hall in the Santiago Calatrava addition of the Milwaukee Art Museum, is perfect theatre.

“Ever since the addition was built, I thought about raising a bride through the floor,” Caruso says. He needed a diva to pull it off and met her last summer. The bride and groom still relish their guests’ gasps.

Ask Caruso and he’ll call gasps the only satisfactory outcome of well-conceived events. Brides and grooms, corporations, service organizations, and private clients deserve climactic statements punctuating their fundraisers, parties and meetings.

Caruso and his staff of two seek nothing but exclamation points. Their business is now built 100 percent on referrals.

Caruso began formalizing his education in events in his penny loafers. He was a Marquette student when he auditioned for a job at the Ed Debevic’s retro diner that was opening in downtown Milwaukee. He was hired for the hospitality team that opened the ’50s-style restaurant catering to people who dine on burgers and shakes served by wait staff wearing poodle skirts and saddle shoes. “I loved it,” he says.

His enthusiasm and skill earned a promotion to marketing assistant, then marketing director for parent company Bravo Restaurants. He moved to Chicago and for five years managed branding, community exposure and store programs for the corporation’s three restaurants: Ed Debevic’s, the Original Gino’s East and Edwardo’s Natural Pizza.

One day while riding the “L” train home from work, Caruso decided the time was ripe to break out on his own. Coincidentally, his breakout business concept already had a name. In fact, much of the business plan for Dynamic Events was written for his capstone project in a class at Marquette.

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VOWS WITH WOWS

Want to engage your guests? Event planner David Caruso, Jr., Comm ’02, provides his top tips for brides.

ONE

Set a budget.

TWO

Hire an A-team of qualified vendors.

THREE

Select a location that represents your style.

Caruso’s favorite is a tent at the bride’s home.

FOUR

Write the guest list based on budget. Choose the right number of guests to make sure their experience is delicious, warm and inviting.

FIVE

Set your top three priorities — food, dress, location, entertainment — and allocate resources accordingly.

SIX

Look everywhere for ideas, not just in wedding magazines. (The artwork on a Barney’s New York bag inspired Caruso and will find its way into one of his events.)

When he relayed the idea, his mom said it was “interesting.” His dad’s reaction was a little more about logistics: “How many parties do you have to plan to pay the rent?” Caruso wanted to find out.

He began building relationships with vendors who handle everything from invitations to signage to parking to venue to music to food and more.

Word of Caruso’s touch began gaining notice, he says, after he produced the grand opening of the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. His team created a series of rehearsal halls for the 800 guests to move from venues reminiscent of Broadway, Carnegie Hall and the streets of New York. He remembers a newspaper column reporting that “everyone was smiling ear to ear” at the décor. “I think it was an eye-opener for a lot of people who saw something different, innovative,” he says.

Dynamic Events typically tackles projects with budgets starting at $75,000. “It is a significant investment to create the types of events we do,” Caruso admits.

With his team of two associates, sister Kim Caruso and Monica Orr, Arts ’88, his company stages parties that top out at the margins for elegance, creativity and engagement with guests.

Caruso is a regular guest on local television show The Morning Blend and always delivers tips for building dramatic parties ranging from a Halloween spooktacle for kids to New Year’s Eve for adults. He was featured as the “stylish face of Milwaukee events” in the October 2014 issue of Milwaukee Magazine. Industry recognition has included Caruso’s win as Event Planner of the Year and Best Wedding of the Year — Budget $100,000 from the National Association for Catering and Events in 2014, as well as being named in Special Events Magazine’s 2013 “30 under 40” feature.

Caruso says event planning is storytelling. “I realize that what makes my presence in this industry so different from others is that everything I loved to do in my life from theatre to working on the school newspaper to studying broadcast journalism was about telling stories in a very creative and visual way,” he says. “Our events are truly experiences, stimulating and delicious from start to finish. The components are so strikingly different from what you expect, and that gets people extremely engaged.” m

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thinking about moving to Omaha,” she wrote in emails. “Will you share some resources with me?”

Before long, she was living in a

house with like-minded local advocates. Those first few relationships helped pave the way for a network that in 2011 became the Big Muddy Farm. The five-person team grows hearty root vegetables, onions, sweet potatoes, herbs and more on six plots, and has a chicken coop, with plans for more farm animals.

“They’re a gateway animal,” Clark jokes of the hens.

Big Muddy’s wares are part of

a 50-share CSA program, with harvests sold to restaurants and at farmers’ markets in the Omaha area. The team also hosts workshops on urban farming in an area that was rife with crime in the 1980s.

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“Fifteen years ago a different

community garden helped the neighborhood become a leader in changing its landscape. How neat is it for our community to see what’s growing here?” she asks.

“We’re proudly carrying on that tradition.”

Speaking of tradition, Clark

is carrying on a family one, too: gooey homemade caramels. Her grandfather taught her his “sacred

Ali Clark, Arts ’11, aims to

make eating healthy and gooey.

As general partner of the Big Muddy Urban Farm collective and owner of the Snowshoe Candy Co., both based in Omaha, she is a food producer and local foods advocate.

Her passion for local was planted at Marquette, where she was heavily involved with Students for an Environmentally Active Campus, the Urban Eden Community Garden and Growing Power.

When she was ready to graduate, she began a crowd-

“finding” campaign. “Hi! I’m this excited young person

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recipe,” which she extended to other treats. — BDJ TEMPTED? HUNGRY?

Follow Clark’s adventures at bigmuddyurbanfarm.com and snowshoecandyco.com.

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1939 Lester F. Berns, Sr., Arts ’39, is a pianist at Trattoria Dal Santo restaurant in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., on Friday and Saturday nights.

1949 Arthur Grochowski, Eng ’49, and his wife Martha recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.

1950 REUNION YEAR

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1963 ♥ Dr. Eugene Selk, Arts ’63, Grad ’67, ’71, and Jane (Hazlett) Selk, Arts ’62, celebrated their 50th

wedding anniversary in September 2014. They were married at Church of the Gesu the same weekend that the Beatles were in Milwaukee for their first U.S. tour. He is professor emeritus at Creighton University, where he teaches philosophy.

♥ Michael J. Tatalovich, Arts ’63, and Mary (Wojciechowski)

Tatalovich, Arts ’64, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at Three Holy Women Parish in Milwaukee.

1964 Thomas T. Bellino, Ph.D., Arts ’64, brings his experience as a pediatric neuropsychologist and U.S. Navy psychologist during the Vietnam War to his debut novel, Bac Si: A Novel. The story takes place in Vietnam and on Marquette’s campus.

Dennis Herrick, Jour ’64, wrote a mystery novel, A Brother’s Cold Case, which is based in and around Albuquerque, N.M. Dan Kain, Arts ’64, was inducted into the Boston/New England chapter of the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for his contribution to the community and television industry.

♥ David Szucs, Arts ’64, and Charlotte (Toma) Szucs, Sp ’64, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Dec. 26, 2014 with a dinner with family and friends. They met at their freshman mixer and dated throughout college.

1965

1966 Sheila Sullivan, Arts ’66, Nurs ’90, retired after 24 years as a nurse at the former Downey (Calif.)

Regional Medical Center. She is excited to spend time with her grandchildren and greatgrandson.

1968 Larry M. Tobin, Arts ’68, was inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame for his more than 40 years of service to the state’s newspaper industry. He and his wife Kathy have published the Tomahawk Leader weekly newspaper for the past 33 years.

1969 Michael Felt, Sp ’69, Grad ’71, is chairman of the Roanoke Rapids, N.C., branch of the State Employees’ Credit Union Advisory Board and was re-elected as vice chair of Halifax Community College in Weldon, N.C. Joel Kriofske, Jour ’69, published And Good Night to All the Beautiful Young Women … A Tale of “Episodic Dementia” — The Parent Becomes the Child for Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. It focuses on his father, Joseph W. Kriofske, Law ’35, and Joseph’s 19-month hospice experience during which he was a principal caregiver.

Constance O’Neil, Arts ’69, and John Serafin, Bus Ad ’70, are the proud grandparents of Adilyn Serafin, born Nov. 25, 2014 to

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son James and daughter-in-law Kristin. All live in Westchester County, N.Y. Dennis Sinar, Arts ’69, published Not Born Here — Stories of Marsden, N.C., which highlights the uniqueness of Southern characters through humorous stories in the fictional town of Marsden, N.C. He lives in Southport, N.C., and is working on a follow-up novel.

1970 REUNION YEAR

Therese Burkhart, Arts ’70, was named Alumna of the Year by the Danihy Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit national honor society.

Michael Kelly, Arts ’70, directed an episode for the Disney series Girl Meets World. He conducts television and film workshops and seminars at colleges, universities and entertainment companies.

1971 Michael Grimaldi, Jour ’71, is press secretary for Kansas City Mayor Sly James. Previously he was a senior communication consultant for Trozzolo Communications Group. He also was named 2014 Public Relations Professional of the Year by the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. Since 1978 he has worked with the Marquette University Alumni Association, including serving two terms on the Alumni National Board.

REUNION YEAR

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So so cool that a fellow @MarquetteU/

@MUCollegeofComm grad won

@TheAcademy award for set design for #GrandBudapestHotel!

MEG H AN ARN O LD, CO MM ’ 02, O N T WITTER

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Matthew M. Stano, Arts ’71, president of Stano Landscaping Inc., received the Gold Award for best clay paver commercial application under $25,000 from the Wisconsin Masonry Alliance for the Aurora St. Luke’s South Shore Healing Garden.

Robert Sullivan, Arts ’68, is senior partner at New Yorkbased Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. He also was one of 13 firm lawyers included in the 2015 issue of Best Lawyers.

Russell Ware, Law ’71, retired as partner from the Milwaukee office of SmithAmundsen LLC after practicing as a trial lawyer and mediator for more than 43 years. He is an awardwinning legal writer and has authored more than 35 articles on trial practice, civil litigation and dispute resolution for national and state publications.

He and his wife Connie live in Greendale, Wis.

1974

1976 Anita Fountain, Dent ’76, teaches at Midwestern University’s College of Dental Medicine–Arizona.

Stephen Randall, Arts ’76, retired in November 2014 from the Irvine (Calif.) Police Department at the rank of sergeant after completing assignment patrol, investigations and traffic. He also was a member of a federal task force and served for 28 years in the Marine Corps, retiring as lieutenant colonel. He and wife Mary (Greulich) Randall, Dent Hy ’76, live in Lake Forest, Calif.

1977 Jim Ahern, Arts ’77, was named a 2014 Chicago Leading Lawyer.

♥ Raymond Mack, PT ’77, and Jane H. Mack, PT ’77, celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary on Sept. 8, 2014 in Maui, Hawaii.

1978

Malcolm MacKinnon, Sp ’74, is editor-in-chief of High Times Magazine, writing and taking photographs under the name Dan Skye.

1975 REUNION YEAR

Lisa Clay Foley, J.D., Med Tech ’75, received the Dan Tuscherer Award for Outstanding Public Interest Lawyer from the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Anthony V. Crivello, Sp ’78, was cast as Louis Prima for the musical Louis and Keely Live at The Sahara, a biographical concert performance about the jazz duo.

Steve Olson, Sp ’78, is mayor of Franklin, Wis., and helped begin development of two business parks, re-development of a large retail section of the city and implementation of new financial controls. He works for Canon USA and is a trustee for a family fund that has contributed

more than $1 million to Marquette for scholarships and faculty training.

and heartfelt feelings follows the author’s life, traveling through the past to the present.

Kevin Weber, Arts ’78, Dent ’84, retired from the U.S. Navy after 30 years of active duty. He is the only member of the School of Dentistry’s Class of 1984 to have served honorably for 30 years in the U.S. Navy Dental Corps.

Kerry Walters, Grad ’80, is William Bittinger Chair of Philosophy at Gettysburg (Pa.) College. In 2014 he received a National Catholic Press Association Award for Giving Up god … to Find God.

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1981

William Banholzer, Arts ’79, retired as executive vice president and chief technology officer of Dow Chemical Co. He joined the University of Wisconsin– Madison Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Wisconsin Energy Institute.

John Brennan, Bus Ad ’81, and his wife Julie (Grossman) Brennan, Arts ’84, rode 75 miles in the Columbus (Ohio) Pelotonia Bike Ride to End Cancer and raised more than $13,000 for James Cancer Hospital. Their children Katie, Jack and Kelly and several family and friends joined them to celebrate Julie being cancer free for five years.

This is the fifth year they have done the ride.

The Hon. David M. Murkowski, Sp ’79, was re-elected to a sixyear term on the Kent County (Mich.) Probate Court, for which he is chief judge. He also was elected vice president of the Michigan Probate Judges Association and a member of the Judicial Council of the Judicial Conference of the State Bar of Michigan. In 2014, the nonprofit Elder Law of Michigan awarded him the Judicial Contributions in Law and Aging Award for his work to protect vulnerable adults.

Susan Nelson, Arts ’79, is director of transitions care at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital and director of social work at the Western Connecticut Health Network, which includes the Norwalk, Danbury and New Milford hospitals. She lives in Norwalk with daughter Sydney.

1980 National Marquette Day! I love celebrating @MarquetteU and @muathletics with alumni and the community #proud #BIGEAST STUDENT S HA LESE M ILLER ON T W ITTER

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Donn Hoffmann, Grad ’80, published his first book of poetry, Passages: Secrets of the Heart. The poetry of experiences

Timothy Cooney, Arts ’81, is manager of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 453 in Waukesha, Wis., and treasurer of the Eagles Club.

Albert Correa, Arts ’81, retired after 30 years with Milwaukee Public Schools and works for New Resources Consulting, a Milwaukee technology and business consulting company.

Craig Heiting, Jour ’81, senior vice president of Deluxe Entertainment, was elected to the Cable Pioneers Hall of Fame.

He and his wife Jane live in Los Angeles.

Thomas Walsh, Bus Ad ’81, and Mary Beth Walsh, Sp ’82, Grad ’83, hosted a Marquette group at the JDRF Illinois Gala: Dr. Chris Reger, Arts ’81; Margaret (Collins) Horvath, Arts ’02; Mary Kay (Platen) Palmer, Nurs ’82; Mary (Keane) Meyering, Bus Ad ’82; and their spouses.

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Brian Godish, Bus Ad ’00, found healing in hoops.

Brian and his 5-year-old twins, Bradley and Charlotte, met men’s basketball recruit Henry Ellenson this spring. It was just one example of the support the family received from the Marquette community during a difficult time.

Bradley was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia last November and

recently received a stem cell transplant, with stem cells from his sister. The Godishes live in the Chicago suburbs but stayed in the Ronald McDonald House downtown to be close to the hospital during Bradley’s treatments.

When the annual McDonald’s All-American game brought the top high school players to Chicago this spring, Brian addressed both teams, encouraging players to continue serving their communities in the future.

“In a way, it was an awesome, once-in-a-lifetime experience,” he says.

“In the other regard, it was obviously something you hope to never come across because you don’t want your son to have cancer.”

Ellenson painted a picture of a Marquette basketball jersey for Charlotte,

and he signed it. “It was such a cool moment. He was just being Henry — he wasn’t being ‘Henry Ellenson, All-American, Wisconsin Player of the Year,” Brian says.

The Godish family received more support from Marquette. Men’s basket-

ball Head Coach Steve Wojciechowski called. And after their story was posted in online Marquette fan forums, offers of financial support began to stream in. “People just reached out by the hundreds,” Brian says. “It was insane.

My wife and I both agree that we couldn’t be where we are mentally and emotionally without the Marquette family. It’s just incredible.” — CJ

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ALUMNI PROFILE

1982 Daniel Johnson, H Sci ’82, and Patricia (Sherburne) Johnson, Dent Hy ’82, attended the Profession of First Vows for daughter Sister Maria Virgen Oyente (Laura Johnson, Arts ’10) at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word/Institute Servants of the Lord and Virgin of Matará.

Timothy Sherburne, Eng ’85; Fran Hurtado, Arts ’10, Grad ’14; Sara (Lamb) Furtado, Arts ’10; and Fedrick Burgos, Eng ’10; also attended.

Karen Smith-Ables, Nurs ’82, received her master of science degree in developmental disabilities with a concentration in early childhood from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. She is a national certified school nurse with the Chicago Public Schools Citywide Early Childhood Assessment Team.

1983 Tom Baylerian, Comm ’83, is vice president of advertising and sales for Gannett Wisconsin Media.

Brian Hodgson, Arts ’83, Dent ’87, commands the Navy Reserve Operational Health Unit in Portsmouth, Va.

1984 Marcie Eanes, Jour ’84, was published in Silver Birch Press I Am Waiting poetry series in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 96th birthday. Her poem Reality’s Showcase is based on Ferlinghetti’s epic work.

Steve Voyak, Jour ’84, in his 12th year as volleyball coach and English teacher at Southwest High School in Washburn,

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Mo., was voted Ozark 7 Conference Coach of the Year.

The Lady Trojans finished the season with a 22–9 record and won a third consecutive conference championship.

1985 REUNION YEAR

Steve Bertrand, Jour ’85, hosts The Saturday Business Lunch on WGN Radio. A WGN news anchor for nearly 30 years, he offers market analysis and features Chicago’s business innovators.

Thomas Bode, Bus Ad ’85, Grad ’92, is founder and president of the Bode Financial Group Ltd. He received a 2015 Milwaukee Five Star Wealth Manager Award.

John Cracraft, Bus Ad ’85, rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014.

John Gosling, Arts ’85, is an educator and youth counselor at CAP Services in Waupaca, Wis., which serves at-risk youth as they work to earn a GED. He has helped develop an ecopark and build a home.

1987 Sheila Bloomquist, Arts ’87, attended the Marquette in Madrid 50th anniversary celebration in Madrid, where she continued her work on a documentary about ex-pats in Spain from the 1950s to the present.

John Pudner, Jour ’87, launched the campaign finance reform organization Take Back Our Republic.

1988 Michel Ruppel DeLisle, Sp ’88, was featured in an international blog for humanitarian work.

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1989 Holly Bevsek, Arts ’89, is head of the chemistry department at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina in Charleston.

James Casey, Grad ’89, contributed a commissioned biographical essay for the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee project. He lives in Pittsburgh and is president-elect of the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Kim (Parrott) Hoffman, Arts ’89, and Jennifer Parins, Arts ’92, part of the learning team at CESA 7 Alternative High School in Green Bay, Wis., received 2015 Golden Apple Awards.

Cheryl Pawelski, Jour ’89, won a Grammy Award for best historical album for the Hank Williams collection The Garden Spot Programs, 1950. For 25 years, she has produced or supervised recordings, reissues and boxed sets for artists and has worked on soundtracks for popular films, including Juno. This was her fourth nomination.

1990 REUNION YEAR

Frank Gumina, Law ’91, is executive vice president of legal services for Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Mark Karau, Arts ’91, Grad ’93, earned tenure in the history department at the University of Wisconsin–Sheboygan. His second book, Germany’s Defeat in the First World War: The Lost Battles and Reckless Gambles That Brought Down the Second Reich, was published in May 2014. His first book on the German Marines in Flanders in World War I will be reissued in paperback.

Rick McDermott, Eng ’91, was named Charlottean of the Year

by Charlotte (N.C.) Magazine for his volunteer work with the MS Society, for which he has raised $125,000 in 20 years.

1992 Maura (Farrell) Devine, Arts ’92, is managing director at Chicago’s ASGK Public Strategies and considered one of Chicago’s top media relations professionals.

She has more than 20 years of public relations and broadcast media experience. She and her family live in Evanston, Ill.

Meghan Kennedy, Arts ’90, is 2015 co-chair of the Inland Empire Disabilities Collaborative, located in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Tim Jacobson, Law ’92, won an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Achievement for Documentary Programs — Topical category for the documentary Mysteries of the Driftless.

Dr. Paul Stanton, Bus Ad ’90, is superintendent of the Washington Elementary School District, Arizona’s largest elementary district.

John E. Zummo, Arts ’92, of the Chicago office of Howard & Howard was named among Illinois’ 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

1991

1993

John Fitzgerald, Arts ’91, and his wife Mickey launched sendacarepackage.com, a company specializing in care packages for college students.

Mike Martin, Arts ’93, is psychologist executive for the Atlanta VA Medical Center, which employs more than 100 psychologists.

Brad Olm, Arts ’93, vice president of human resources for Gordon Flesch Co., was named chairman of the board of directors for the Alliance, a regional health care network headquartered in Madison, Wis. Craig Simpson, Arts ’93, ’96, is a Lilly Library manuscripts archivist and was curator of the spring 2015 exhibition 100 Years of Orson Welles: Master of Stage, Sound and Screen, which commemorates Welles’ theatre, radio and film achievements. He also co-directed the Orson Welles Symposium, held during the spring at Indiana University.

1994 Brian Kissel, Comm ’94, founded Altagii Marcom Career Network Inc., a Jupiter, Fla.-based recruiting firm that places marketing and advertising executives nationally.

James Pingel, Grad ’94, published Confidence and Character: The Religious Life of George Washington.

1995 REUNION YEAR

Thomas J. Canale, Bus Ad ’95, was recognized as an outstanding employee at Northwestern Mutual and honored with membership in its 2014 forum group.

Donna Hiers, Eng ’95, Grad ’06, is a risk management consultant at Milwaukee’s Northwestern Mutual, for which she helps ensure compliance with the multiple privacy and security rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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Shakespeare from a trunk Thanks in part to a crowd-funding campaign that passed its goal in just 26 hours, the Summit Players will hit the highway and bring their pared-down put-on of Shakespeare’s A Mid-summer Night’s Dream to Wisconsin state parks this summer. With Maureen Kilmurry directing, the traveling troupe of Kelly Dillon, Ed ’15; Hannah Klapperich-Mueller, Comm ’15; student A.J. Magoon; Joe Picchetti, Comm ’11; Kaitlyn Martin, Comm ’15; Armando Ronconi, Comm ’15; and Ava Thomann, Comm ’15, will operate out of a trunk. “It’s all about the actors and the story rather than the production value,” says Klapperich-Mueller. Audiences should be prepared to have a good time. The players will lead workshops before each performance to help audiences understand the wonderful classical text and their beloved Bard. All offerings are free.

Learn more at summitplayerstheatre.blogspot.com.

Send us your two-minute story! Go to marquette.edu/twominute and share your story.

1996 Amy Cattapan, Arts ’96, published her debut youngadult novel, Angelhood, with Vinspire Publishing. It follows 17-year-old guardian angel Nanette, who must protect high school freshman Vera from taking her own life.

Scott Niederjohn, Ph.D., Eng ’96, Grad ’98, is an economics professor and director of the Lakeland College Center for Economic Education in Plymouth, Wis. The center works with Wisconsin K–12 teachers to improve students’ economic and financial literacy.

He was named Money Magazine Money Hero of the Month in December 2014.

Christopher Scherer, Eng ’96, an attorney at Andrus Intellectual Property Law in Milwaukee, is serving a two-year term on the

steering committee of the AIPPI–U.S. Division of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

1997 Julie (Flauaus) Arend, Nurs ’97, is coordinator of the Hospital Elder Life Program at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, working closely with Marquette nursing students to improve the hospital experience for older adults.

Cmdr. Michael Daigle, Arts ’97, was relieved as commanding officer aboard the U.S.S. Louisiana (BLUE) (SSBN-743), a TRIDENT ballistic missile submarine based out of Bangor, Wash.

Bill Robers, Bus Ad ’97, is a shareholder at Sparks Willson Borges Brandt & Johnson P.C. in Colorado Springs, Colo.

1998 Krystyna Sarrazin, Comm ’98, was elected to her second term on the city council as alderman of the second district of Racine, Wis. Brian Viezbicke, Eng ’98, received his doctorate in material science and engineering with a solar materials concentration from Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J.

Fredrick Long, Ph.D., Grad ’99, published, with Baylor University, 2 Corinthians: A Handbook on the Greek Text.

Rachel Monaco-Wilcox, Arts ’99, Law ’04, received the 2014 Wisconsin Association of Mediators President Award for significant contributions to the field.

2000 REUNION YEAR

1999 Marjee Chmiel, Arts ’99, Grad ’03, is associate director for curriculum and communication at the Smithsonian Science Education Center in Washington, D.C. Mark Dittami, Bus Ad ’99, was promoted to director of Under Armour North America Wholesale Planning.

Marissa Martin, Comm ’00, is vice president of executive search at Chicago’s Koya Leadership Partners, which works to recruit and retain diverse professionals to high-impact nonprofit organizations nationwide.

2001 Jacqueline Limberg, Ph.D., H Sci ’01, won the Michael J. Brody Young Investigator award for

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her work on the control of blood pressure during hypoglycemia. She is a research fellow in the human integrative physiology field at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Sciences, graduated from the National Hispana Leadership Institute’s Executive Leadership Program. She hopes to complete studies for her law degree from Marquette in 2016.

Carolyn O’Laughlin, Comm ’01, and her family relocated back to her hometown of St. Louis after living in New York for 12 years. She is manager of campus life at St. Louis Community College.

Johnny Beehner, Bus Ad ’02, made his network television debut performing stand-up comedy on the Late Show with David Letterman on Jan. 16, 2015.

Danny Pudi, Comm ’01, recipient of the 2013 Young Alumnus of the Year Award from the Diederich College of Communication, is starring in the horror comedy pilot Strange Calls on NBC. He lives in Pasadena, Calif.

2002 Griselda Aldrete, Arts ’02, recipient of the 2015 Young Alumna of the Year Award from the Klingler College of Arts and

Sara M. Davis, Arts ’02, Law ’06, is a partner at Chicago’s Whiting Law Group.

Emily Plagman, Arts ’02, is a public library association project manager for the American Library Association’s performance measurement initiative in Chicago, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She and her husband live in Chicago.

Mark Ryerson, Arts ’02, of the Chicago office of Howard & Howard was named on the

Illinois list of 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

2003 Joseph Camilli, Arts ’03, Grad ’07, is the ERISA compliance consultant for Milwaukee’s Infinity Benefit Solutions Inc., for which he provides guidance about the ACA, HIPAA, ERISA and COBRA. He and his wife Amanda live in Wauwatosa, Wis., with their daughter Giada Mabel.

Aleisha Jaeger, Eng ’03, is associate vice president and construction operations manager at Epstein, an international design, engineering and construction services firm headquartered in Chicago.

Lt. Cmdr. Michael Keppen, Arts ’03, received the Human Resources Community Junior Officer of the Year Award for his contributions to the personal readiness of the Navy.

Jessica Thunberg, Comm ’03, is vice president of business strategies at Chicago’s Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications. Previously, she was director of community engagement and outreach for suburban Chicago’s High School District 214. She has been an active volunteer with the Marquette Club of Chicago, including as president.

2004 Rebeca López, Arts ’04, Law ’12, received the Young Alumna of the Year Award from the Danihy Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit national honor society.

2005 REUNION YEAR

Michael Gantz, Bus Ad ’05, was appointed to the American Trust Dubuque (Iowa) Advisory Board. He is co-owner of Dubuque’s Verena Street Coffee Co., a fast-growing regional coffee brand.

CELEBRATING ALUMNI

MILE STONE

Golden celebration Dennis Doyle, Arts ’62, and Donna (Cerminaro) Doyle, Arts ’63, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family on Lake Sunapee, N.H. Back row (from left): son Darren and his wife, Karen; Jon Piper and daughter Kristin; Dennis and Donna; son Brian and his wife, Marianne; daughter Shannon Doyle Merrin, Arts ’97, and her husband, Jason. Front row: Seth, Ethan and Jake Doyle; Lindsey, Teagan and Courtney Piper; Lucy, Courtland and Zander Doyle; and Lauren and Bryce Merrin.

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Caffrey cleanup Andrew J. Santucci, Bus Ad, was just about finished clearing a table at Caffrey’s of popcorn, bottles and messy beer glasses so he and his friends could sit down. While he was running the last bottles to the bar, Alyssa (Russo) Santucci, Ed ’12, and a girlfriend slid into two chairs at the table. Before blowing his cool entirely — Andrew admits he was halfway into a rant — Alyssa looked up, and the tables were turned. Andrew remembers thinking, “She … is … beautiful” and concluding “It will be fine if they want to share the table.” Now they share more than that.

On May 30, 2015, they were married in Evanston, Ill. Send us your two-minute story!

Go to marquette.edu/twominute and share your story.

Jenny Vonckx, Bus Ad ’05, is controller at the food manufacturer Wixon Inc., manufacturer of seasonings, flavors and technologies for the food and beverage industry.

2006

2007 Christina Flowers, Comm ’07, received the MidSouth Regional Emmy Award for the 2014 Best Weekend Newscast.

She is a producer at WSMV– Channel 4 News in Nashville.

mentally challenged students in Tanzania; created bee keeping, church vestment making, tent rental and piggery projects for women in Palisa, Uganda; and renovated an orphanage for children in Amukura, Kenya.

Dan Cherwin, Bus Ad ’06, is assurance resident in the global real estate, hospitality and construction center at Chicago’s Ernst & Young, for which he is a senior manager in the real estate assurance practice.

Ryan Hoffman, Arts ’07, is government products manager at Beyond Vision, which was recently featured in the news for its work with Milwaukee’s blind community.

2009

Keren Rosner, H Sci ’06, is a family medicine physician at Aurora Advanced Healthcare in Brookfield, Wis.

Christine Raggi, Nurs ’07, received her master of science in nursing from Loyola University Chicago and is pursuing a career as a family nurse practitioner on the city’s north shore.

Maria Novotny, Arts ’09, received the Gloria Anzaldua Rhetorician Award at the Conference on College Composition and

Michael Sever, Arts ’06, is an associate at Chicago’s Nielsen, Sehe and Antas P.C., focusing his practice on insurance property subrogation and worker’s compensation subrogation. Previously, he spent four years at a Chicago insurance law firm.

Rebecca Mitich, Law ’09, was named to the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2015 Class of 40 Under 40.

Communication. It recognizes her research on “Failing Fertility: (Re) Conceiving RESOLVE’s Advocacy Day Efforts” and highlights her dissertation work, which examines the medical rhetoric of infertility and its intersections with feminism.

Lynn Sheka, Comm ’09, Grad ’15, re-joined Reputation Partners, a national communication consulting firm, to help start its Milwaukee office. She is an account director.

Mary St. Marie, Arts ’09, is an associate at Faegre Baker Daniels. She lives in Minneapolis.

2008 Evalyne Nanyama, Grad ’08, built St. Bonaventure school in Nakuru, Kenya, which has more than 200 students; helped build the Mama Kevina Hope Center for physically and

Thought the golfers I saw @ ATL airport may have been traveling to the Masters but nope, they are on the @MarquetteU golf team.

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Shannon Dooley, Arts ’10, received her master’s degree in social work from Loyola University Chicago. She is an emergency room social worker at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Megan Wholey, Comm ’10, is an account supervisor at the Chicago office of Edelman, the world’s largest public relations firm.

2011 Molly Henry, H Sci ’11, is a physical therapist in the spinal cord injury unit at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

Erica Reib, Law ’11, works at O’Neill, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing S.C.

2012 Joe Ryan, Arts ’12, is a clinical case manager in a supportive housing program at Lawson House YMCA for Renaissance Social Services in Chicago. The nonprofit aims to help prevent homelessness.

practice at Finn Partners, a Chicago public relations agency. Previously, she worked in Edelman’s corporate affairs practice for more than two years. She is co-president of the Marquette Club of Chicago.

Mike Van Someren, Law ’12, works in Davis & Kuelthau’s corporate and real estate practice.

Christina Wright, Arts ’12, Grad ’13, is director of public relations and social media at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

2013 Amanda Frank, Comm ’13, works in the promotion department of Warner Brothers Records in Los Angeles.

Max Hess, Comm ’13, previously a reporter at NBC15 in Madison, Wis., is a public relations account manager at EPIC Creative in West Bend, Wis. Alex Thornburg, Arts ’13, is CEO of AlleyCats Engineering and Auto Detail.

2014

Katie Simoncic, Comm ’12, is alumni associate and general gifts coordinator at Husson University in Bangor, Maine.

John T. (Jack) Murphy, Law ’14, is an associate in Reinhart Boerner Van Dueren’s business law practice.

Taylor Trovillion, Comm ’12, is a senior account executive in the corporate communications

Katherine O’Malley, Law ’14, is an associate in Reinhart Boerner Van Dueren’s business reorganization practice.

Met a @MarquetteU student on my flight from MKE to Orlando. She was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.

MU is the best! #WeAreMarquette.

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WEDDINGS

Anette Boughner, Arts ’06, and Randall Boughner, Oct. 5, 2013 at the Willoughby Golf Club in Stuart, Fla. They live in Jensen Beach, Fla., where he is an IT analyst for Martin Hospital and she is an attorney for the Martin County Public Defender’s Office.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Anthony Divjak, Med Tech ’94.

Jason Hille, Bus Ad ’02, Grad ’03, and Megan (Kelley) Hille, Comm ’03, Oct. 11, 2014 in Milwaukee.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Dan Breen, Eng ’02; Brad Boman, Bus Ad ’05; Lisamarie (Hille) Collins, H Sci ’05, Law ’13; Amy (Hirt) Fisco, H Sci ’02; Steven Fisco, Eng ’04; Kate Miller, Bus Ad ’09; Kelly Miller, Eng ’03; Robert Mueller, Eng ’74; Ashley Parkinson, Comm ’06; Amy (Bowman) Rajca, Eng ’03; Justin Smith, Eng ’03; Paul Snyder, Arts ’05; John Wilson, Arts ’92; Lisa Wilson, Comm ’93, Law ’97; Matt Marotz, Bus Ad ’02; Roseann (Gilles) Marotz, Comm ’02; Pat Quick, Bus Ad ’91; John Witt, Arts ’06; Kristin (Klima) Witt, Comm ’06; Michael Zimmerman, Eng ’03, Grad ’04; Maggie (Fehrman) Zimmerman, Comm ’03; and Haley (Vogl) Zodrow, Comm ’03.

Tanya (Batti) Laskowski, Comm ’02, and Marty Laskowski, July 19, 2014 at St. Catherine Laboure Catholic Church in Glenview, Ill. The couple lives in Chicago.

Sean Reti, Arts ’02, and Brianna (Dahm) Reti, Arts ’05, Oct. 18, 2014 in Savannah, Ga. They live in Atlanta. She graduated in May with a master’s degree in social work, and he is a building solutions consultant at ABM.

Michelle (Kirschbaum) Martin, H Sci ’06, PA ’07, and Matthew Martin, May 17, 2014 at Beaver Creek Chapel in Avon, Colo.

They live in Denver.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Nicole (Kirschbaum) Youngers, H Sci ’03; and Sarah Goff, H Sci ’05, Grad ’07.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Caitlin Carroll, H Sci ’06, PT ’09; Rachel (Newby) Holmes, Arts ’06; Keeley McKinney, Arts ’06; Elizabeth (Feste) McCostlin, Arts ’06; and Adam McCostlin, Bus Ad ’06.

Lisa McInally, Comm ’06, and Daniel Brunelli, May 17, 2014 at St. James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights, Ill. She is a corporate relations manager for Allstate, and he works in IT at RR Donnelley. They live in Mount Prospect, Ill. ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Amy Massarsky, Comm ’06; and Colleen Trant, Arts ’06, PT ’08.

Emili (Ballweg) Miller, Eng ’06, and Brian Miller, Bus Ad ’06, Oct. 17, 2014 at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in St. Paul, Minn.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Morgan (Sullivan) Afton, Arts ’06; Brent Baumann, Bus Ad ’06; Brad Gabrielse, Eng ’07; Renee Jacobs, Arts ’06; and Katria (Kangas) Strauch, Bus Ad ’06.

Megan (Fitzgerald) Witte, H Sci ’06, Grad ’10, ’11, and Russell A.

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More than 75 alumni helped the couple celebrate.

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

Photo by Artistgroup Photo & Video.

Please obtain permission before sending professional photos.

Witte, March 1, 2014 at St. Francis Xavier Church in LaGrange, Ill.

Anne (Abramovich) Martin, Comm ’07; and Katherine (Shanahan) Wagner, Arts ’07.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Christina Leinartas, Bus Ad ’08; and Jennifer Malechek, Arts ’09.

Robert Brennan, Comm ’07; Ashley (Lupo) Cajthaml, Comm ’07; Michael “Cy” Cajthaml, Comm ’07; Christopher Carpenter, Eng ’08; Thomas Collins, Bus Ad ’07; Emily Condon, Ed ’07; Ann Marie (Perez) Crean, H Sci ’07, PT ’09; John Crean, Arts ’07; John Cunningham, Bus Ad ’07; Jason Curtis, Ed ’07; Pamela (Hutmacher) Curtis, Comm ’07; Kyle Gisbrecht, Comm ’07; Megan Hauser, Bus Ad ’14; Matthew Hill, Comm ’08; Christy Hodapp, Ed ’06; Ryan Hunter, Comm ’07; Matthew Martin, Bus Ad ’06; Kevin Nolan, Eng ’08; Rebecca Reese, Comm ’07; Erin (McQuinn) Seeberg, Ed ’07; Thomas Seeberg, Arts ’09; Jennifer (Anderson) Stone, H Sci ’07, PT ’09; and Matthew Wagner, Bus Ad ’07.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Yasmin Chaudhury, Comm ’06; Megan Farley, Arts ’06; Walter Farrell, Eng ’65; Martin GrahamMcHugh, Arts ’07; David Madonia, Arts ’07; Daniel Malik, Bus Ad ’08; Sean McGovern, Bus Ad ’06, Grad ’07; Paul Nadolski, Comm ’10; Kathryn (Roberts) Thunstedt, Comm ’08; and Mark Thunstedt, Arts ’10.

Kathryn Costello, Comm ’07, and Charles “Chaz” Provenzano, III, Arts ’07, Nov. 8, 2014 at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Maureen Athern, Nurs ’07; Colleen Costello, Bus Ad ’14; Sean Costello, Bus Ad ’06; Diana (Ogurek) MacGillis, Comm ’07;

Molly Lappe, Nurs ’07, and Jason Moran, Eng ’07, March 7, 2015 at Old St. Patrick’s Church in Chicago. She is a registered nurse in pediatric intensive care at the Rush University Medical Center, and he is a mechanical engineer and production supervisor at Elgin Sweepers.

Robert Davis, Eng ’08, and Laura Hague, Arts ’09, Aug. 16, 2014 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Chicago. The reception was held at Revolution Brewery’s Tap Room in Chicago.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Allison Bresnahan, H Sci ’09, PT ’11; Katherine Grasse, H Sci ’09, PT ’11; and Margaret Connolly, Bus Ad ’09.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Marie Coffey, H Sci ’09, PT ’11; Javier Castro, Arts ’09; Marissa Naslund, Eng ’09; Alexandra Henneman, Nurs ’10; Christopher Cebula, Bus Ad ’09;

Christine (Donahue) Wilson, Comm, ’09; Kristin Rzeczkowski, Arts ’09; Jennifer (Heiser) Delfeld, Arts ’09; Andrew Keegan, Eng ’10; Zachary Janiszewski, Comm ’07; Daniel Shudlick, Arts ’08; and Aaron Brown, Bus Ad ’09.

Adam Mescher, Arts ’08, and Brittany (Henshue) Mescher, Eng ’08, Oct. 18, 2014 at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Madison, Wis. More than 20 alumni attended. They live in Wauwatosa, Wis., where he works as a hospice chaplain and she at a nonprofit educational publishing company.

Amy (Wrobel) Dean, Comm ’09, and Collin Dean, Feb. 7, 2015 at the Milwaukee Hilton City Center.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Alexis (Stoxen) Trivisonno, Comm ’09; and Amy (Hammer) Milner, Nurs ’09.

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in memoriam

Helen Adams Knauer, Dent Hy ’32 Frank A. Koren, Arts ’34 Willard H. Grotenhuis, Dent ’37 Helen Fliss Schilz, Nurs ’37 Anne K. Hoerburger, Arts ’38,

Grad ’49

Barbara Hagemann Beilke, Dent Hy ’39 Betty Gibson Freres, Jour ’40 Frank M. Slatinshek, Bus Ad ’40,

Law ’57

William R. Utecht, Bus Ad ’40 Patricia Hein Collentine, Sp ’41 Colette Wabiszewski Kornacki, Bus Ad ’41 Bernard S. Marsho, Arts ’41, Med ’43 J.R. Detry, Bus Ad ’42 Peggy Billion McIlroy, Jour ’42 Louis F. Migliaccio, Bus Ad ’42 Donald E. Soltero, Arts ’42, Med ’44 Mildred Schmitz Beattie, Nurs ’43 Ruth Wettengel Schmidt Murphy, Arts ’43 Mary L. Roemer, Arts ’43 Fred J. Sapio, Med ’43 Francis A. Doherty, Eng ’44 Elizabeth L. Greig, Arts ’44 Clarence S. Johnsen, Eng ’44 Robert D. Perlick, Eng ’44 Jerome V. Detjen, Eng ’45 Glen E. Ethier, Bus Ad ’45 Stanley P. Chandler, Arts ’46 Marvin K. Dubbs, Eng ’46 Charles A. Frederickson, Eng ’46 Ardythe Mueller Griffin, Nurs ’46 John A. Peterson, Dent ’46 Pasquale J. Renna, Dent ’46 Ruth Porth Seidenstricker, Arts ’46 Robert H. Stuckert, Arts ’46 Eugene G. Babler, Bus Ad ’47, Law ’48 Floyd G. Evans, Dent ’47 Patricia Dalton Foley, Arts ’47

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Roberta Krzysko Jerstad, Arts ’47 Robert H. Linn, Dent ’47 Warren C. Manske, Eng ’47 Mary McCarty McInnis, Nurs ’47 Charles M. Noll, Bus Ad ’47 Howard H. Nuernberg, Eng ’47 Sally Stoke O’Connor, Arts ’47 Dolores Kohl Prince, Dent Hy ’47 Melvin C. Seibel, Bus Ad ’47 Shirley G. Sherwood, Arts ’47,

Grad ’49

George E. Sonntag, Eng ’47 Ione Adelsberger Backus, Arts ’48, Grad ’51 Warren H. Bohlinger, Arts ’48 Sara Roberts Collins, Arts ’48 Geraldine Sommer Felton, Arts ’48 Rita LaVerdiere Marshall, Nurs ’48

Francis W. Van Opens, Bus Ad ’49 Cletus A. Weinfurter, Bus Ad ’49 Daniel A. Wycklendt, Eng ’49,

Grad ’51

Leo J. Bolles, Med ’50 James H. Duffy, Arts ’50 Howard A. Farrell, Arts ’50 Charles L. Felker, Eng ’50 Arthur H. Franke, Bus Ad ’50 Richard A. Froncek, Arts ’50 Patricia Estes Geske, Nurs ’50 Mary Powers Harris, Arts ’50 Kenneth E. Long, Eng ’50 George F. Lucas, Med ’50 Kenneth P. Maier, Bus Ad ’50 Mary Attridge Maier, Arts ’50 George E. Metten, Bus Ad ’50 G.D. Miller, Arts ’50, Med ’54

John J. Stock, Bus Ad ’51 Edward F. Cusick, Arts ’52 Philip J. Delahunt, Eng ’52 Donald W. Gruettner, Arts ’52 Richard W. Hoy, Law ’52 James R. Hutchinson, Dent ’52 Robert W. Jarka, Med ’52 Henry J. Kozlowski, Bus Ad ’52 Robert F. Kraus, Arts ’52, Med ’55 Lucille T. Kunz, Dent Hy ’52 Francis L. Messa, Arts ’52 Joan Rappert Schatz, Jour ’52 Francis G. Scherman, Arts ’52,

Med ’55

John R. Spangler, Bus Ad ’52 Francis A. Ziegelbauer, Dent ’52 Jane Page Anhalt, Nurs ’53 George A. Biecker, Eng ’53

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.

Faith Senglaub Middendorf, Arts ’48 Joyce Jaekels Rosenkranz, Arts ’48 Charles J. Seifert, Dent ’48 Louis J. Svoren, Eng ’48 Mary Schmelter Anderson, Arts ’49 John E. Bliss, Bus Ad ’49, Law ’57 Margaret Schmitt Clifford, Arts ’49 F.A. Constable, Bus Ad ’49 Joyce Brooks Deblaey, Arts ’49 Rita Fronczek Geske, Bus Ad ’49 Lois Landolt Juranek, Sp ’49 Erwin W. Kalt, Eng ’49 Robert E. Koutnik, Law ’49 Albert Manna, Eng ’49 Robert P. McCord, Eng ’49 John P. Nelson, Bus Ad ’49 James L. O’Brien, Bus Ad ’49 Kathleen Kenney Rickert, Arts ’49 James H. Roth, Bus Ad ’49 Ellen Bowe Schuster, Arts ’49 Edwin J. Sienkiewicz, Bus Ad ’49 Paul J. St. Arnauld, Eng ’49 Patricia Kuenstler Tretter, Med ’49 Daniel R. Tuchscherer, Jour ’49 Robert H. Vandenberg, Bus Ad ’49

William V. Murawsky, Arts ’50,

Med ’54

Heinz M. Prey, Jour ’50 Dorothy Swietlik Puchner, Med Tech ’50 Donath A. Roettgers, Bus Ad ’50 Joseph F. Schoendorf, Arts ’50,

Law ’51

Regis A. Seidenstricker, Eng ’50 Clement R. Szalkowski, Bus Ad ’50 Patrick L. Bailey, Law ’51 Robert E. Bruflat, Bus Ad ’51 Lee C. De Decker, Arts ’51, Bus Ad ’56 Timothy J. Delanty, Arts ’51 Malcolm G. Dodds, Arts ’51 Vernon N. Dodson, Med ’51 Frank A. Filo, Eng ’51 Dolores C. Fischer, Dent Hy ’51 George W. Fox, Arts ’51 Merle C. Hansen, Sp ’51 Paul L. Henkels, Arts ’51 George Karras, Eng ’51 John B. Kolodzik, Bus Ad ’51 Donald J. McCutcheon, Arts ’51 John A. Payant, Bus Ad ’51 Joseph C. Serletti, Med ’51

Marguerite Schubert Campion, Arts ’53 William H. Conway, Eng ’53 Gilbert H. Durkee, Eng ’53 Robert A. Gruesen, Arts ’53, Med ’57 Mary L. McCarthy, Arts ’53 Richard L. Rech, Dent ’53 Ramon A. Salcines, Arts ’53 John C. Teich, Arts ’53, Med ’57 Lawrence J. Baravetti, Bus Ad ’54, ’59 Beverly M. Curtis, Arts ’54 Jean Krueger Flatter, Nurs ’54,

Grad ’80

Robert J. Herzberg, Eng ’54 Gerald A. Kropp, Dent ’54 Frank R. Marciniak, Eng ’54 Donald E. Martin, Arts ’54 Kathleen Stuart Martinovich, Arts ’54 Doria Haasl Mayer, Dent Hy ’54 Milton J. Schulz, Arts ’54 Bernard J. Schumacher, Med ’54 Thaddeus Zimowicz, Arts ’54 Charles W. Devine, Arts ’55 Patrick J. Dulin, Arts ’55 Elroy T. Hansman, Dent ’55

Grad ’74

Robert J. James, Bus Ad ’58 Lucille A. Krauska, Sp ’58, Grad ’64 Donald W. Kyle, Eng ’58 Nancy Lavin Lawton, Arts ’58 Mary Wade Moore, Arts ’58 Peter J. Murphy, Jour ’58 Carol Timmers Pflieger, Nurs ’58 Miriam Bowar Strebel, Nurs ’58 John P. Wirig, Eng ’58, Grad ’67 Edward W. Zwicker, Dent ’58 Joseph P. Antario, Dent ’59 Mary Sexton Becker, Arts ’59 Thomas P. Fredricks, Bus Ad ’59 Lois Eschenbach French, Bus Ad ’59 Raymond J. Prossen, Bus Ad ’59 Kenneth A. Schmidt, Bus Ad ’59 J.M. Schuette, Bus Ad ’59

Rosemary Kiley Talsky, Sp ’59 Robert L. Thomson, Bus Ad ’59 Hugh F. Biller, Med ’60 Frank T. Crivello, Bus Ad ’60, Law ’63 Mary A. Doherty, Grad ’60 John E. Feldner, Eng ’60 Harold M. Jankowski, Grad ’60 William L. Kelley, Arts ’60 Leonard G. Koerber, Grad ’60 Eugene J. Lamacchia, Bus Ad ’60 Daniel B. Lenoue, Dent ’60 Thomas F. McCarthy, Sp ’60 Patrick M. Nowak, Bus Ad ’60 Allan R. Olson, Bus Ad ’60 Marie Schwan, Grad ’60 Barbara Jun Tidball, Nurs ’60 John R. Wagner, Arts ’60, Med ’64 Michael A. Weinzierl, Dent ’60 James M. Allen, Arts ’61 John J. Blyth, Arts ’61 John A. Campbell, Bus Ad ’61 Franklin M. Gauer, Eng ’61 Clifford E. Howard, Grad ’61 Michael D. Koehler, Arts ’61 Robert L. Melan, Eng ’61 Stephen R. O’Neil, Arts ’61 Robert J. Blonski, Bus Ad ’62 Ruth Mayer Boyce, Arts ’62 Dianne Steward Chodaczek, Arts ’62 Richard A. Collins, Med ’62 Ann Bahr Czaskos, Arts ’62 Mary Whalen Iacovoni, Nurs ’62 Caroline C. Imhoff, Arts ’62 Thomas J. McNaughton, Med ’62 Mary B. Messenger, Grad ’62 Louis J. Schroeder, Bus Ad ’62 Kathleen Mika Thompson, Sp ’62, Grad ’83 Nancy Manion Zillig, Arts ’62 Peter P. Chiodo, Dent ’63 William M. Degentesh, Eng ’63 June E. Dilling, Nurs ’63 James R. Ehrle, Bus Ad ’63, Law ’65 Mary M. Naber, Nurs ’63, Grad ’65 Richard J. Paulus, Med ’63 David L. Theisen, Arts ’63 Jerry M. Gasser, Dent ’64 Gerald B. Hauser, Grad ’64 Dorothy Moroney Herro, Nurs ’64 Clarence P. Hilbrick, Eng ’64

George J. Kitzman, Eng ’64 John R. Lang, Eng ’64, Grad ’68 Rosemary Johnson Lawrence, Nurs ’64 William J. Malooly, Arts ’64, Grad ’68 Donald D. Paoletti, Grad ’64 Roger J. Banks, Eng ’65 Elizabeth Heideman Birchler, Dent Hy ’65 Paul S. Cheng, Grad ’65 Martin J. Jones, Jour ’65 Andrew T. Karp, Arts ’65 Ireane Goke Landis, Nurs ’65 Jean R. McBride, Grad ’65 David A. Schultz, Arts ’65 Mary O’Sullivan Selinger, Arts ’65 Paul M. Esser, Grad ’66 Phyllis Jones Hartman, Nurs ’66 James M. Menzel, Bus Ad ’66 Mary Comeford Carlson, Arts ’67 John M. Dickens, Dent ’67 William N. Ehlinger, Dent ’67 Donovan C. Glocke, Grad ’67 Michael T. Kern, Bus Ad ’67 James M. LaPointe, Law ’67 George P. Lorio, Dent ’67 Harry J. Robinson, Bus Ad ’67 Jacqueline Nowak Smucker, Arts ’67 Robert A. Squillace, Arts ’67 Phillip J. Taylor, Dent ’67 Robert G. Tilley, Arts ’67 Susan Griswold Anthony, Jour ’68 Thomas A. Jaspersen, Arts ’68 William E. May, Grad ’68 Charles J. Meitz, Bus Ad ’68 Carlotta Ullmer, Grad ’68 Robert J. Barnett, Arts ’69 David R. Baus, Bus Ad ’69 Mary E. Comerford, Grad ’69 Howard H. Hegler, Eng ’69 Walter G. Nesbit, Grad ’69 Patricia Prietz Bedi, Arts ’70 Virginia Rice Echo, Grad ’70 Dennis M. Freuen, Dent ’70 Vincent J. White, Arts ’70 M.C. Kennedy, Grad ’71 Richard J. Powers, Bus Ad ’71 James E. Schmidtkunz, Arts ’71 James R. Stark, Grad ’71 William J. Heffernan, Grad ’72

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Francis J. Lofy, Eng ’55, Grad ’66 Janet Leisen Marini, Arts ’55 Ronald J. Multerer, Arts ’55 Robert E. New, Bus Ad ’55 Audrey N. Toman, Jour ’55 Primo A. DeToro, Bus Ad ’56 Diane Freimuth Graff, Arts ’56 David S. Harris, Bus Ad ’56 Violet L. Hawkinson, Grad ’56 Carlo D. Mazza, Bus Ad ’56 Karl L. Myers, Arts ’56 Roger A. Nelson, Eng ’56 Thomas J. O’Brien, Dent ’56 Thomas M. Ryder, Jour ’56 John A. Woodard, Bus Ad ’56 Lois Petik Derrickson, Nurs ’57 Thomas R. Ditter, Bus Ad ’57 Dennis E. Donohoe, Eng ’57 Ronald N. Essmann, Bus Ad ’57 Frederick H. Fintelman, Eng ’57 Elizabeth Coady Gariti, Sp ’57 Ronald H. Kuhlman, Eng ’57 Luella R. Ludwig, Nurs ’57 Pamela Lynch McDonald, Jour ’57 Michael J. Mullin, Arts ’57 Sevastos E. Pavlakis, Dent ’57 Carl M. Regenfelder, Dent ’57 Helena Kaminski Weber, Med Tech ’57 James J. Benka, Arts ’58 Don M. Crawford, Jour ’58 Joseph W. DiTorrice, Bus Ad ’58 Richard A. Herrmann, Eng ’58,

John J. Kelly, Eng ’72 William J. Klemme, Bus Ad ’72 Martine LeBrun LaVasser, Arts ’72 Richard J. Stangl, Arts ’72 Mary A. Tierney, Grad ’72 Barry W. Baumann, Dent ’73 John K. Kim, Grad ’73 James R. Koller, Arts ’73 Jacques E. Staelen, Bus Ad ’73 Donald K. Miller, Dent ’74 Leclare Beres, Grad ’76 Stephen M. Lillis, Bus Ad ’77 Betty Roeder Ruck, Nurs ’77 Jerome A. Russo, Sp ’77 Harry S. Marshall, Bus Ad ’78 John M. Ordini, Bus Ad ’78 Barbara Sutton Leinonen, PT ’79 Peter J. Ninneman, Law ’79 Robert J. Beaudry, Sp ’80 Andrew L. Nelson, Grad ’81 Michael J. Radziewicz, Eng ’81 Michael W. Stan, Arts ’81 John M. Filachek, Law ’82 Peter V. Flanagan, Arts ’82 Linda S. Drake, Law ’83 James O. Norris, Arts ’83 Charles A. Schweitzer, Grad ’83 Lynn A. Connell, Med Tech ’85 Virginia Nelson Emmons, Med Tech ’85 Joni Bush Barrows, Dent ’87 Tracy Smith Neal, Nurs ’88 Michael W. Steinhafel, Law ’89 Jon R. Schneider, Arts ’90 Patrick M. Grogan, Bus Ad ’92 Brian J. Pietrowicz, Arts ’93 Nancy Brady-Freitag, Grad ’94 Karen Krsticevic DeGrace, Grad ’94 Todd P. Karlen, Bus Ad ’99 Michael R. Neufeldt, Comm ’00 John E. Bailey, Grad ’04 Joseph R. Coppersmith, Nurs ’05 Elizabeth D. Hathcock, Dent ’07 Amy Jauron Cearns, Comm ’10 Andrew O. Holtan, Grad ’10 David A. Shepard, Law ’10

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John Mazurek, Bus Ad ’09, and Laura (Finley) Mazurek, Bus Ad ’10, July 12, 2014 at Church of the Gesu. More than 30 alumni attended.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Mackenzie Stilp, H Sci ’10, Grad ’12; Jenna Kuchinka, Comm ’10; Christina (Gleichman) Mulcahy, Arts ’10; Kyle Borsheim, Bus Ad ’10; Matt Peters, Eng ’10; Joe Donofrio, Comm ’09; Adam Prom, Arts ’09; Connor Chapin, Bus Ad ’10; and Hunter Dowd, Bus Ad ’09.

Tiffany (Roberts) Kowieski, Bus Ad ’10, and Matthew Kowieski, Bus Ad ’10, Oct. 18, 2014 at Church of the Gesu. Father of the bride is Scott Roberts, Bus Ad ’85; and mother of the bride is Elizabeth Roberts, Bus Ad ’87.

More than 75 alumni helped the couple celebrate.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Student Dane Roberts; Joanne Ceman, Comm ’09; Amy Klemme, Bus Ad ’10; Jack Mehan, Bus Ad ’10; and Joseph Mikuls, Bus Ad ’10.

Connor O’Brien, Arts ’10, and Anna (Grum) O’Brien, H Sci ’10, Aug. 30, 2014 at Church of the Gesu. Rev. Douglas Leonhardt, S.J., former associate vice president in the Office of Mission and Ministry, presided.

The couple lives in Chicago.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Elise Grum, Bus Ad ’12; Ryan Doyel, H Sci ’10; Jeffrey Hatke, Bus Ad ’10; Stephen Janksy, Bus Ad ’10; and Jack Kelly, Bus Ad ’11.

Nicholas Franzen, Arts ’11, and Samantha (Zahares) Franzen, H Sci ’10, Oct. 3, 2014 in Milwaukee. More than 40 alumni attended.

Adam Krach, Eng ’11, and Dani (Videka) Krach, H Sci ’12, at Holy Family Church in Inverness, Ill. The couple lives in Canton, Mich.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Brittany Albro, H Sci ’10, PT ’14; Tony Gawel, Eng ’11; and Michael O’Brien, Eng ’10.

Nicholas Williams, Arts ’11, and Molly (Van Abel) Williams, Nurs ’11, Nov. 15, 2014 at St. Bernadette Parish in Appleton, Wis. Many alumni attended.

The couple lives in Cleveland.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Christopher Williams, Bus Ad ’08; Matthew Williams, Bus Ad ’14; Robert Kennedy, III, Bus Ad ’11; Derek Hoevel, Bus Ad ’11; Laura Beske, Bus Ad ’11; and student Michael Van Abel.

John “Johnny” M. Wright, III, Bus Ad ’11, and Maria (Rose) Wright, Nurs ’11, Aug. 10, 2013 at St. Patrick’s Church in St. Charles, Ill. She is a nurse at Aurora St. Luke’s Hospital in Milwaukee, and he is a supply chain analyst at Kohler Co. in Kohler, Wis. The couple is the third generation of alumni who met and became Wrights.

Before them came John M. Wright, I, Arts ’57, who married Joan (Pawer) Wright, Nurs ’56; and John M. Wright, II, Sp ’82, who married Mary Beth (Armato) Wright, Arts ’82.

No better view than the Milwaukee skyline at sunrise #varsitywomen @MarquetteU. MARQ UETT E C R EW ON T W ITTER

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Matt Campbell, Comm ’12, and Becca (Pierre) Campbell, Arts ’13, at Nativity of Our Lord Church in Rhinelander, Wis. Rev. D. Edward Mathie, S.J., instructor of theology, presided, and more than 50 alumni attended. The couple lives in Milwaukee. She finished her doctorate in physical therapy at Marquette in May, and he is a university admissions counselor.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Jeff Campbell, H Sci ’10, PA ’13; Isaac Pierre, H Sci ’15; Katy (Ketter) St. Peter, Nurs ’13; Madeline Hehemann, Nurs ’13; and Laura Mark, Arts ’13.

Molly Mullane, Comm ’13, and John Modrzynski, Eng ’10, Jan. 3, 2015 at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Madison, Wis. Rev. Grant Gariner, S.J., artistic assistant professor of digital media and performing arts in the Diederich College of Communication, presided. She is director of programs at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee’s Camp Whitcomb/ Mason, and he is a product manager at WAGO. They live in Hartland, Wis. ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Kimberly Surfus, H Sci ’14; Chantel Newman, Eng ’14; Breahan Kolton, Arts ’13; Jonathan Bucki, H Sci ’10, PT ’12; Tyler Bowlus, Eng ’11; and Bob Conrath, Arts ’10, Grad ’11.

Andrew J. Santucci, Bus Ad, and Alyssa K. Russo, Ed ’12, May 30, 2015 at the Alice Millar Chapel in Evanston, Ill. ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Carlo J. Santucci, Comm ’05; Matthew Poupitch, Bus Ad ’11; Kristina Halley, Sci ’12; Stephanie Phillips, Nurs ’05; Maria A. Santucci, Arts ’80; and Joseph C. Santucci, Eng ’80.

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Andrew Arneth, Bus Ad ’97, and Katherine: daughter Evelyn Grace, Oct. 26, 2015 in Chicago.

She joins brother Max, 2.

Jennifer (Elling) Bigelow, Arts ’98, H Sci ’00, and Ryan Bigelow: son Blake Thomas, Oct. 25, 2015. He joins sister Kirra, 9, and brother Cole, 7.

Katherine (Gardner) LaMantia, Bus Ad ’98, and Michael LaMantia, Arts ’97: son Peter John, Oct. 17, 2014. He joins sister Ally and brother Michael.

Neal Johnson, Eng ’99, and Daphane Chang: son Warren Lewis, Dec. 20, 2014. He was 7 pounds and 19.7 inches. The family lives in Singapore.

Stacy Bolger, Bus Ad ’00, and Michael Bolger, Bus Ad ’00: daughter Ainsley Mary, Nov. 23, 2014. She joins brothers Quinn, 8, and Eamon, 6.

Kelly (Roethe) Hodges, Arts ’00, and Matthew Hodges: daughter Nora Elizabeth, March 2, 2015.

She joins siblings Grave, 7, Madeline, 7, Andrew, 5, and Alex, 4.

Lisa Hammond, Dent Hy ’01, and Gregory Hammond: son Peyton Robert, Dec. 1, 2014. He joins sister Hailey.

Sarah (Nettesheim) Arendt, Arts ’02, and Brody Arendt: son Beckett Gregory, June 8, 2014. He is their first child.

Jocilyn (Dellava) Bergin, H Sci ’02, Grad ’04, and Patrick Bergin: son Jason Cooper, Dec. 31, 2014. He joins brother Conner Anthony, 17 months.

Erik Miller, Arts ’02, and Tara Miller: son Vance Stanley Miller, Nov. 6, 2014. He is their first child.

Anna M. Mieszaniec, Bus Ad ’03, and Krystian Trybus: son Sebastion Jan Trybus, Oct. 8, 2014. He joins brother Oliver, 4.

Kelly (Carlson) Calero, H Sci ’04, Grad ’05, and Christopher Calero, Arts ’02: daughter McKenna Jeanne, Aug. 27, 2014. The family lives in Eagle River, Alaska.

Kerry (Hughes) Cerniglia, Bus Ad ’04, H Sci ’07, and Ryan Cerniglia, Eng ’04: daughter Ava Grace, Feb. 4, 2015. She is lead physical therapist at Mount Sinai

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Hospital in Chicago, and he is a civil engineer at Knight E/A. Dr. Sabrina Indyk, H Sci ’04, and Stephen Foy, Comm ’03: son Harrison Andrew, May 23, 2014. He is their first child.

Terry Sanders, Comm ’04, and Angela: daughter Sydney, March 7, 2014. He is an account executive at Clear Channel Outdoor in Chicago.

Adam Thorson, Bus Ad ’04, and Allison: daughter Adelaide Marie, July 31, 2014. She joins brother Gabriel Thomas, 2.

He is a director of business development for Catalina Marketing, and the family lives in Cincinnati.

Cassi Dermody, Comm ’05, and Nick Dermody, Eng ’05: daughter June Rosemary, Oct. 13, 2014. She was 5 pounds, 9 ounces and 18.25 inches.

Nathan Griepentrog, Comm ’05, and Abby: son Lucas Andrew, Nov. 5, 2014 in Green Bay, Wis.

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Andy Auffant, Bus Ad ’02, and Jamie Auffant, Bus Ad ’02: son Gabriel Andrew, Nov. 10, 2014.

He joins sister Nora Lorraine.

Justin Hanson, Arts ’05, and Lindsay Hanson: daughter Lillian Catherine, Dec. 11, 2014. She is their first child.

Traci (Powers) Sara, Bus Ad ’05, Grad ’06, and Mike Sara, Comm ’05: son Leo Michael. He joins sisters Emaline, 5, and Claire, 3.

Elizabeth (Higgins) Bromley, Nurs ’06, and Martin Bromley: son Parker Adams, Aug. 21, 2014.

Kristen (Hanson) Grieg, Nurs ’06, and Chris Grieg, Bus Ad ’06: daughter Brianna Amber, Nov. 9, 2014. She joins brother Elijah, 2.

Matthew Notarianni, Bus Ad ’06, and Jennifer (Gardon) Notarianni, H Sci ’05: son Nicholas Joseph, Jan. 21, 2015.

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Elizabeth (Kasper) Goins, Arts ’08, and Sean Goins, Bus Ad ’07: son Braden, Jan. 2, 2015. He joins sister Caitlin, 2.

Kyle Craine, Bus Ad ’09, and Sarah (Padula) Craine, Comm ’06: son Emmett Thomas, May 7, 2014. He was 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 20 inches.

Nikki Paradiso, Eng ’06, and Rennie Santilli: daughter Estella Paradiso Santilli, May 10, 2014.

Lisa (Lauterbach) O’Connell, H Sci ’09, Grad ’10, and Andrew O’Connell, Bus Ad ’08: son William Arthur, Jan. 30, 2015 in Milwaukee. He joins sister Ella, 3.

Samuel Weaver, Arts ’06, and Krystle (Meyer) Weaver, Comm ’07: daughter Finley Sophia, Oct. 20, 2104 in Chicago.

Tara-Rae (Blohm) Widor, Prof St ’13, and Ryan Widor, Grad ’15: son Cameron Ryan, April 11, 2014.

He joins brother Grant, 3.

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A truly sweet bracket It took Clare (Bieker) Liston, Bus Ad ’08, and Tim Liston, Comm ’08, a Sweet Sixteen to close the deal. Though both were members of the Class of 2008, they didn’t meet until a gathering in a Chicago bar where alumni joined to watch the Golden Eagles play Florida in the 2012 Sweet Sixteen matchup.

The conversation Clare and Tim launched outlasted Marquette’s loss that night. “When the game started going south, Tim and I started talking and talked for the rest of the night,” Clare says. “If they’d won, we may have been too busy celebrating to really hit it off like we did. Their loss was truly our win.” Bieker and Liston became Liston and Liston when they were wed on May 23, 2015, in Omaha.

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Inspired by issue Thank you for always being an inspiration to me. Page after page of the spring 2015 issue spoke of students, staff and alumni being the difference in Milwaukee and the world. The collaboration between the Spanish and journalism students at the Haggerty Museum to show the bilingual sides of community was so creative, I immediately sent the article to my sister, who works at the Phoenix Art Museum. The work Dr. Mallory O’Brien is doing to track the trend of tavern-related homicides is a great example of Marquette’s dedication to the well-being of the city. Lastly, the invitation to pre-1969 alumni to take classes credit-free is just awesome. The wealth of primary source material these wise adults can contribute and the stimulation they receive from lifelong learning is a brilliant innovation. No wonder I’m so proud to be a Marquette alumna.

CHRISTINE (KUBICKI) RODRIGUEZ, SP ’81

Drumming up memories EDITOR’S NOTE

A number of alumni corresponded to identify the Marquette basketball players featured in the archival photo

The photo was taken in 1944.

The smiling fellow wearing No. 22 on his uniform is Pedro Ismael Prado, who was born in the small town of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, in 1920.

Prado was a member of the Puerto Rico Olympic basketball team and at the time of the photo was a star playmaker with the Hilltoppers. He received his D.D.S. degree from Marquette in 1945 and served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He practiced dentistry in San Juan until his death in 1991. The young lady is Gloria Prado, Pedro’s kid sister who became the unofficial Marquette team mascot. Gloria was 17 years old at the time and attending her fourth year of high school at Holy Angels Academy in Milwaukee. This photo of Gloria sitting on the shoulders of two young men appeared in a Puerto Rico newspaper and provoked a minor gossip upheaval in the staid hometown community of Vega Baja.

Later Gloria married Dr. Robert W. Axtmayer, who graduated from Marquette Medical School in 1946. They had several lovely children. Robert practiced obstetrics in San Juan for many years and passed away in 2009. Gloria remembers the names of the other players in the picture from left to right: Bill Chandler, Bob Mayer, Joe Evans and Gene Burce. Gloria lives in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

ELI A. RAMIREZ, MED ’42, GRAD ’50

No. 4 of the basketball players pictured in the latest Marquette Magazine is Gene Berce. He

went on to play for Cornell, the New York Knicks and the Tri-City Blackhawks. He was the first Marquette player to score 1,000 career points and is in the Marquette Hall of Fame. He presently lives with his wife, Mary, in an assisted living facility in Wisconsin.

MICHAEL NEVILLE, JOUR ’70

The person in the back is my deceased husband, William (Bill) W. Chandler, M.D. He was elected captain twice and graduated in 1946. He played for his father, the longtime basketball coach. Thank you for publishing this picture from early in his career at Marquette.

MRS. WM. W. CHANDLER (PAULA CHANDLER)

I try to visit No. 4 twice a month. He’s been an outstanding father-in-law for 30 years.

MARK SCHONENBERG, ARTS ’84

The man on the far right of the archival photo in the spring 2015 issue (wearing a No. 4 jersey) is my grandfather, Eugene Berce. He attended Marquette in the 1940s and is a member of the Marquette University Hall of Fame for his time on the basketball team.

He is currently 88 years old and continues to cheer on the Golden Eagles.

Avalanche. Then the team became the Warriors and later the Golden Eagles.

PETER SCHMITT, SP ’59

Campus Replay sparks recall There were very competitive touch football games between the fraternities at that time.

Many of the Marquette football players were members of the frats. I was a member of Sigma Phi Delta and enjoyed the competition.

TOM STUMP, ENG ’60

It’s great that you wanted to acknowledge Marquette’s once proud football program, but you should’ve pointed out its major accomplishments (aside from playing in the first Cotton Bowl): Marquette’s coach from the 1930s, Frank Murray, is in the College Football Hall of Fame; the captain of Marquette’s Cotton Bowl team from 1936, Ray Buivid, was a finalist for the Heisman Trophy; four of Marquette’s former players are in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. … Marquette’s football program always featured players who went on to the

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BRIANNA SCHONENBERG, LAW ’14

Enjoyed your spring issue. ...

Great job. No. 4 is Gene Berce, who is alive and well, living in Waukesha County. He was the first player to score 1,000 points in a career. It would make a great story. You did a story on the football team in the 1950s. By then the Marquette teams were the Hilltoppers — not the

Five basketball players pose with a female student, 1943–1944.

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NFL, from the 1920s through its demise in 1960. In fact, George Andrie played for Marquette its final year, and he went on to be a marquee member of the Dallas Cowboy’s famed Doomsday Defense. He played on two Cowboys Super Bowl teams, was a five-time Pro Bowl selection and was even named Pro Bowl MVP in 1969.

COLIN OAKES, GRAD ’04

Kim Motley makes us all proud What a remarkable donation to the world. Kimberley Motley has willingly given her talents to helping people in dire situations. She has not allowed “can’ts” to hinder her drive to provide people with the legal representation they all deserve.

Godspeed, Kimberley, and may others be motivated by your devotion to law and your willingness to sacrifice for your passion.

donation and to be a part of the Marquette community.

LESLIE CHATWOOD, ARTS ’99

I was personally touched when reading about this family that was able to overcome the tragedy of their son’s mental illness to provide hope to others facing this silent disease.

I am proud that my alma mater will be providing information and hope to families that face the grief, shame and alienation associated with mental illness. Be The Difference.

GINA MAIER RYAN, ARTS ’63

Kubly gift applauded Amazingly generous and such an incredibly important mission to fund and research mental health issues. This is wonderful for Marquette and all the lives this gift will touch.

PAM MILLER

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TRACIE (HUME) GLASSCOCK, SP ’74

Two-Minute tribute Thank you for publicizing this Two-Minute Story. All six of Nick Nigro’s children (and one granddaughter, thus far) graduated proudly from Marquette and look forward to carrying on the scholarship fund in our father’s memory.

REGINA NIGRO HEROUX, NURS ’87

SHENA MEDLEY, ARTS ’95

The Marquette University Alumni Association board proudly gave Kimberley Motley the Spirit of Marquette Award in 2012. It was well-deserved.

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At the beginning of the spring term I was asked to do a presentation in Dr. Anne Pasero’s honors course on the Spanish mystics. Pasero was concentrating on three of the more famous mystics in Spanish history: John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Ignatius Loyola.

My initial reaction was to question why Ignatius would be placed

in the same company as these contemplative mystics. John and Teresa were members of the Carmelite Order and spearheaded the reformation of the men and women’s branches to make them more strict. Their

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reforms led to a renewal of prayer in rigorously cloistered convents and monasteries. Their writings for the nuns and monks as well as for others were aimed at giving people an understanding of prayer as mystical union with God.

Even though he was later considered a mystic, Ignatius Loyola did

not start off with that reputation. During his teen years and through his 20s, he was immersed in a culture of brawling, drinking and drawing attention to himself. He turned to God when he had to spend months recovering from a cannon ball injury. When he opened himself to God,

Ignatius saw that the grace of prayer

he received, that called him to be a “contemplative in action,” was to be shared

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with others.

he wrote that God taught him as a teacher would instruct a small child. Gradually, he grew into a person of prayer.

His growth reached a significant moment when he began his

pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Stopping at Manresa in Spain, he often prayed by the Cardoner River. One afternoon his mind was opened to a mystical awareness that God is not confined to churches or monasteries, but God is alive and active in everything. God is dynamic and not static, therefore there is no distinction between secular and sacred. That awareness changed his life.

From then on Ignatius was able to find the presence of God in other

persons, in his studies, desk work and planning, in the stars at night, in the countryside and the city, and in everything he encountered. It was a mystical grace that allowed him to be in union with God in the midst of ordinary activity in the same way that John and Teresa experienced union with God in their times of prayer and contemplation. This mystical grace of Ignatius — to find God in the midst of daily life — does place him beside John and Teresa.

Ignatius, like John and Teresa, saw that the grace of prayer he received,

that called him to be a “contemplative in action,” was to be shared with others. Ignatius’ primary way of sharing his gift was through the small book he wrote, the Spiritual Exercises. This book has been used as a model for Jesuits and lay people in preaching and directing retreats for more than four and a half centuries.

A retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises has formed many men and

woman to experience God in daily life. Is making a retreat an invitation that attracts you?

Rev. Doug Leonhardt, S.J., formerly associate vice president for mission and ministry and associate director of the Faber Center, is now Jesuit rector at San Camillo in Milwaukee.

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The Marquette Band entertaining, circa 1974.

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Soon, the Class of 2019 will arrive and begin their Marquette experience.

Before they truly understand what it means to Be The Difference, they will make lifelong friendships, be challenged in ways they never imagined and know they are part of something bigger.

As alumni, you know best what that experience can be. We invite your advice on what they should do and what they shouldn’t miss. Share your thoughts on the Marquette University Alumni Association Facebook page, facebook.com/marquettealumni.