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Women’s basketball Head Coach Terri Mitchell goes barefoot for the game against Georgia Tech in support of Soles for Jesus, an organization that collects and donates shoes to people in Africa.

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We gave you a peek at Engineering Hall in the fall issue. Now see it in action in a photo essay.

28 What calls some to a life of the mind?

cover story

20 Philosophy’s place at Marquette If you’ve been on campus in the past four decades, you might have crossed paths with Rev. Walter Stohrer, S.J. The longtime professor reflects on the role of philosophy in a Marquette education. f e at u r es

18 Look deep Graduate student Robert Cooper, Eng ’10, pushes the boundaries of eye research.

24 This building has muscle Peer inside the open glass walls of the newest building on campus to see how Marquette is transforming engineering education.

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28 Academic tracks The path leading to the front of the classroom isn’t always straight or easy.

Few people have glimpsed the human eye the way Robert Cooper has.

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Marquette names new athletics director Sensational Sondheim A fresh start Addressing sexual violence on campus Speaking Swahili City beat

10 arts + culture

> Picture this > Late Night > Bringing the Gold ’n Blues to you

12 being the difference

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You can add to our list of alumni who make their living in sports, learn about our new internationally ranked quidditch team and get a psychology professor’s take on the secret to happiness.

10 Marquette grandparents love to get their hands dirty, especially in an art class with their grandchildren on campus.

Halo Project Emily’s race Foot soldier What do Wisconsin voters think?

14 academic matters

> What if I love history? > Fresh ink! > Real-life lesson

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Editor: Joni Moths Mueller Assistant Editor: Nicole Sweeney Etter Copy Editing Assistance: Becky Dubin Jenkins Contributing Writers: Magazine intern Jessie Bazan, Becky Dubin Jenkins, Brigid O’Brien Miller, Charles Nevsimal, Mary Pat Pfeil and Rev. Walter Stohrer, S.J. Design: Winge Design Studio Photography: Kat Berger, Dan Johnson, Myron Legget, John Neinhuis, Ben Smidt and Allan Zepeda Illustration: Stephanie Dalton Cowan Stock Images © Amana/Getty Images, p. 5; Brand X Pictures/Getty Images, p. 18; Photo Researchers, Omikron/Getty Images, p. 18.

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

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> Weddings page 41 > In Memoriam page 44 > Births page 46 > Ernest de la Torre, Bus Ad ’87 page 32 > Molly O’Neill, Arts ’00 page 35 > Dee (Nelis) Walther, Arts ’53 page 39

Class Notes

47 Letters to the Editor

Readers weigh in with their views.

48 Tilling the soil

Exploring faith together.

greetings

W We wear our urban identity with pride at Marquette.

We are accustomed to having a variety of neighbors and understand that engaging them is part of our Ignatian

mission. After all, St. Ignatius opened the first Jesuit school

FRO M P RES I D E N T SCOTT R . P I L AR Z , S . J .

right in the center of Rome. He saw an advantage in having students learn where resources and human contact were most concentrated. And he believed that the university could be a catalyst for change in the community.

St. Ignatius saw an advantage

in having students learn

So the question of just what it means to be a neighbor

in the Ignatian tradition is a fruitful topic for Marquette’s

Mission Week, the annual examination of the richness of our

where resources and human

Catholic and Jesuit traditions. This year, Mission Week runs

contact were most concen-

Feb. 19 – 24 and will feature speeches, conversations and

trated. And he believed

reflections inspired by the theme, “Who is My Neighbor?”

— the question in the Gospel of Luke that prompts Jesus to

that the university could

share the story of the Good Samaritan. Challenged to provide

be a catalyst for change in

detailed guidance for obeying the Commandment to “love your neighbor as yourself,” Jesus responds with the parable

the community.

that reminds us that recognizing our neighbors may require putting aside prejudices and that the act of being a true neighbor may call us outside comfortable categories of thought.

Father Dean Brackley, S.J. — the longtime faith leader

and theology professor at the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, who received an honorary doctorate from Marquette this fall shortly before losing his life to cancer — recognized that our engagement with our neighbors can be life-altering. “When students arrive (from the United States for study in San Salvador) and deplane, most are apprehensive. They have heard about the past war, poverty and endemic crisis,” he wrote in his essay Higher Standards for Higher Education. “To their surprise, they spend much of their time in El Salvador wondering why these poor people are smiling and why they insist on sharing their tortillas

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with strangers like them. But as the humanity and dignity of the poor crash through their defenses, the people break their hearts.

They feel disoriented, as people do when they fall in love. … Their world shakes and eventually gets reconfigured.”

As Father Brackley revealed so movingly, the love we show our

neighbors in the Ignatian tradition is often transformative. And it is felt from the city blocks surrounding our campus to villages halfway around the globe. It is seen in the meals students serve to the hungry and homeless through the Noon Run program, in the medical and dental services provided to low-income people through our community clinics, and in numerous service trips, including those through which Marquette student engineers work with communities in Honduras and Guatemala to build systems for distributing clean water and electricity. (The keynote address on Tuesday, Feb. 21, by Dr. Bernard Amadei, the founding president of Engineers Without Borders, the organization behind those engineering trips, will be a Mission Week highlight.)

In considering our care for our neighbors — and answering the

question “Who is my neighbor?” — we at Marquette must not overlook

If Marquette is to truly be Marquette, this must be the kind of place where people look out

those physically nearest to us, the fellow members of our campus community. If Marquette is to truly be Marquette, this must be the kind of place where people look out for one another and take care of one another. That’s the heart of who we are. Always.

The issues related to sexual violence that surfaced here in the last

year have been troubling not just because our procedures proved to be

for one another and take

inadequate, but because the reported behavior and the initial campus

care of one another.

response to them compromised the care we owe each other according

That’s the heart of who we are. Always.

to our core Catholic and Jesuit values. Essential to Ignatius’ vision for the education we provide at Marquette is the idea of cura personalis, that we nurture what is unique and special about each member of our community in the same way that Ignatius felt God nurturing him.

It’s a sacred trust between us that we must never allow to be violated.

We have done much in recent months to make sure there is zero

tolerance for the kinds of incidents that happened last year. I urge you to read the update on page 8 about the efforts we have put in place.

And know that important work lies ahead as we continue to build a community characterized by the love, care and spirit of neighborly engagement that Ignatius calls us to.

Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. President

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inside this issue

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on campus : 6 arts + culture : 10 being the difference : 12 academic matters : 14 snapshot : 16

we are marquette MAGIS . We’re grateful for our many gifts but always strive to do more — and do it better.

Sometimes the focus is close to home, whether it’s new research on Milwaukee’s faith communities or addressing sexual violence on campus. Other times our efforts have broader applications, such as launching a landmark poll on voter attitudes or creating therapeutic footwear to help the poor in Ghana. Read on to see how the spirit of magis infuses our work. >>>

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on campus

Marquette names

new athletics director It was still early in December when Larry Williams took the podium, but Marquette’s new athletics director summed up his feelings about his new gig with true joy: “It’s like Christmas Day.” The former NFL lineman and alumnus of — get ready — Notre Dame, where he played football, said he was “off the charts” excited about joining Marquette.

Then he touched on a soft spot that endeared him instantly, describing a memory “seared into my mind” of watching the “crazy coach” and the team with untucked jerseys win the 1977 NCAA championship.

OK, that helped this crowd get over the Notre Dame thing, which President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., said was also a wee bit of a hurdle for certain members of the search committee, specifically Allie McGuire, Arts ’73, son of the crazy coach, and Glenn “Doc” Rivers, Arts ’85, a former Marquette basketball player

and current university trustee. The search committee, which included Nursing Dean Margaret Callahan and Matt Mitten, law professor and director of the Sports Law Clinic, spent months identifying the right candidate to lead intercollegiate athletics at a time that could encompass a realignment of the Big East Conference, among other changes.

Williams came to Marquette from the University of Portland, where he served as athletics director since 2004. Under his leadership, the Portland Pilots won a NCAA championship in women’s soccer in 2005 and earned top 10 finishes in men’s cross country and first-ever national rankings in men’s basketball, baseball and tennis.

While Marquette conducted its due diligence on him, Williams said he also did his homework to gauge whether this is the right place to be. He talked with people who know the university well, he said, and “the way they gushed was compelling and inspiring.”

Williams was attracted by Marquette’s athletics tradition and its values of integrity and excellence. And it didn’t hurt that Marquette student-athletes play to packed houses. “The great following that is the Marquette nation is a true treasure,” he said.

Williams plans to get well-acquainted with all Marquetters. He will sit down with coaches and athletes to hear what they consider to be program strengths and challenges and reach out to the university and alumni communities for their take on perceived opportunities.

“We’ll create plans that take full advantage of every one of our assets,” he said, “and address every one of our challenges.” m JMM

Marquette’s new athletics director begins his tenure following investigations in spring 2011 into two alleged sexual assaults involving student-athletes, and the university’s acknowledgment that policies and procedures for responding to sexual violence needed strengthening. The overhaul of new policies and procedures are outlined in our story on page 8. As part of the changes instituted by newly appointed president Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., the athletics director is now a vice president reporting directly to the president.

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Paul Salsini (right) followed Sondheim’s career and collected all kinds of memorabilia. It’s now all housed in the Raynor Library.

lyricist and composer and gave it to the Department of Special Collections and University Archives. The Stephen Sondheim Research Collection includes hundreds of articles, reviews and features about Sondheim’s two dozen musicals, revues and films.

“I’m delighted that what has been my

hobby, even my passion, for many years will be available for those who want to study the works of a man universally recognized

Sensational Sondheim

as the greatest living Broadway composer and lyricist,” says Salsini, who co-founded The Sondheim Review in 1994 and was its

It all started with the play Follies. The story, song lyrics and costumes

editor for 10 years.

from Stephen Sondheim’s 1971 production enthralled Paul Salsini, Jour ’58,

Grad ’85, an author and lecturer in the J. William and Mary Diederich College

the largest research collection of Sondheim

of Communication. With songs like Broadway Baby and Don’t Look At Me,

material outside his papers that have been

an engaging set design, and gem-encrusted evening gowns and feather-

committed to the Library of Congress, is acces-

festooned headdresses, who wouldn’t be?

sible for study by students, theatre groups

and researchers. m BDJ

Salsini spent 40 years amassing a collection in tribute to the legendary

The collection, which archivists think is

renovations

A fresh start A well-waged campaign for a Marquette child care center included delivering a clean diaper to the office of then-President John P. Raynor, S.J., in a gesture designed to illustrate the need.

A group of students and faculty led by Terri Mahoney Ogden, Arts ’87, wrote a great proposal and the child care center opened in 1989.

It was named the Evelyn Krueger Parent and Child Center in 1991. This fall the children and teachers moved into primo new space for teaching and learning in a renovated facility at 18th and Clybourn that accommodates 140 student in 11 classrooms. m JMM

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on campus

moving forward

In the past year Marquette has: Changed and strengthened its reporting policy so that all sexual assault allegations are reported promptly to the Sensitive Crimes Unit of the Milwaukee Police Department.

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Instituted stronger policies and procedures regarding sexual misconduct that reflect changes as a result of federal guidelines and input from law enforcement and victim advocates.

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Marquette addresses

sexual violence University overhauls procedures

in wake of two high-profile cases

One of every five college women will be the victim of sexual assault, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Sexual violence on college campuses is an issue nationwide, and incidents at Marquette last year made it clear the university must be more proactive in addressing it. While media reports focused on two incidents involving student-athletes, “sexual violence of any kind is unacceptable in a community committed to the care and development of each of its members in the Ignatian tradition of cura personalis,” President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., wrote in a letter to students.

Students, faculty and administrators launched a campus-wide Teal Out campaign during September’s Sexual Violence Awareness Week, calling attention to the issue with posters in offices, classrooms and residence hall rooms across campus that emphasized, “Without consent, it is sexual assault” and “Presume NO, unless you hear YES.” Other activities focused on survivors’ stories, including a presentation by Nancy Donoval, an alumna who was raped as a Marquette freshman 32 years ago. The annual Teeter-totter Marathon sponsored by O’Donnell Hall and other events raised funds for the nearby Sexual Assault Treatment Center.

Former Wis. Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske, distinguished professor of law, convened a community-wide task force of law enforcement officials, victim advocates and university administrators to examine university policies and procedures. The task force initiated extensive changes to Marquette’s response to sexual violence and, at the request of Father Pilarz, will continue to meet at least every semester to monitor progress. In addition, Marquette will also use the findings of several external reviews to make additional changes as needed, including a peer review of the athletics department and review by the Department of Education of Marquette’s compliance with the Clery Act. “These changes are designed to help the university better protect victims while ensuring due process for all involved,” says Geske. “We have more work to do and will continue to meet to both monitor progress and address concerns.” m MP

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Changed reporting structure so the athletics director is now a vice president reporting directly to President Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.

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Added a full-time victim advocate to the Student Health Service staff.

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Provided all first-year students with mandatory sexual misconduct awareness and prevention training.

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Provided more extensive training to 1,500 students — including RAs, Greeks, all student-athletes and other student leaders. This included education about the concept of consent and bystander intervention, aimed at ensuring the safety of people in vulnerable situations.

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Trained nearly 40 faculty and staff to facilitate the student programs.

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Expanded alcohol and drug abuse awareness programming. At Marquette, as elsewhere, most allegations of sexual assault involve individuals the students know — and alcohol. That correlates with findings of a 2006 National Institute of Justice report that 62 percent of sexual assaults are “drug-facilitated.”

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Will launch a comprehensive sexual misconduct website with information about on-campus and off-campus resources and various forms of sexual misconduct.

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on campus

Speaking Swahili “Nitaenda Tanzania,” said senior Colleen

O’Conor in Swahili, days before departing

for her third and latest trek to Africa.

The international affairs major admits

Town is the birthplace of the

to knowing “the basics” in Swahili —

Swahili language, O’Conor says.

including how to say “I’m going to

Tanzania.” Pretty soon she’ll be fluent.

security language, O’Conor says,

O’Conor won a Boren Scholarship

Swahili is considered a critical

but also important to her personal

that supports undergraduate study in

interest in working in interna-

countries that are considered important to

tional relations.

national interests but are not commonly

offered as study abroad opportunities.

security,” she says, “access to

She spent eight weeks last summer get-

education, food and sustainable

ting ready by taking a language-intensive

development.”

class at the University of Florida, Gains-

ville. Then O’Conor and a group of 25

with Africa. She studied abroad in South

students traveled to Washington, D.C.,

Africa her senior year of high school.

graduation she’d love to return to the

for a two-day orientation before flying

Last year, O’Conor spent three months

shelter and go to work. “It’s a phenomenal

to Zanzibar, an island off the coast of

studying in Nairobi, Kenya, and three

organization, and I’d like to do some-

Africa, where she will live in Stone Town

months in Voi, Kenya, where she worked

with a family of three women. Stone

at St. Joseph Shelter of Hope. After

thing in a community-based setting,” she says. m JMM

“I’m more interested in human

O’Conor is getting well-acquainted

City beat: Reporters gather in a newsroom on the fourth floor of Johnston Hall for the weekly staff meeting of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, and there’s plenty to discuss. Domestic violence against Latino women. A new greenery project at a local school. A neighborhood’s new quality of life plan.

The team of roving reporters covers territory that is often low priority for mainstream media: the three centralcity neighborhoods of Lindsay Heights, Clarke Square and Layton Boulevard West. Team members produce stories in multimedia formats and post them at milwaukeenns.org. This news service, which launched last March, is a partnership between the Diederich College of Communication and United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee and is partially funded by grants from the Zilber Family Foundation and Brewers Community Foundation.

The site, which features four to six new stories every week, focuses on education, public safety, development, employment and other issues that residents identified as top priorities.

Community groups can submit stories, photos and calendar events, as well as list their organizations and businesses in the NNS directories.

“Our purpose is to tell a balanced story about successes and challenges in bringing new vitality to these historic neighborhoods,” says Sharon McGowan, a visiting professor and the service’s editor and project director.

The site averages more than 5,000 page views per month and is growing steadily. Eventually, McGowan hopes to expand coverage to other neighborhoods. “The issues are common across all of the central-city neighborhoods,” she says. m NSE

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arts + culture

Late Night What’s up for students this semester?

Picture this

Anthony, Eng ’60, and Phyllis Kolpak are devoted

to their grandkids and Marquette. So they were thrilled to bring the two together at the recent

Illustration 101: Kids’ Art Workshop, which coincided with their grandchildren’s visit from Denver.

“We just thought that this was a great thing for our two little granddaughters,” Anthony says. “It just seemed like the perfect fit.” And maybe the perfect way to engage the next generation of a Legacy family.

Two 90-minute workshops brought together 60 grandparents

and little ones to learn from M. Sarah Klise, Arts ’84, the illustrator who collaborated with her sister, Kate Klise, Arts ’85, in the creation of several children’s books, including Regarding the Fountain. Line by line, Sarah sketched a hot air balloon floating above a town. Participants then replicated the scene — with their own unique twists, of course.

“She taught it very good. She took it one step at a time,” says

9-year-old Michael Clausen, from Wauwatosa, Wis. Meeting Sarah was a special treat for Michael, who owns one of her books. “It was cool, kind of weird,” he says. “I never thought I’d meet an author.”

In addition to their artwork, participants took home bright

gold aprons with the Marquette logo.

“We wanted an event that would appeal to MU grandparents

with young grandchildren,” says Adrienne Roche, an engagement events organizer with University Advancement. She hopes it will be the first of many events for grandparents. m NSE

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Last Comic Standing, MU Game Show and the massively popular “make-your-own” craft night top the list. There may also be a visit by Abed Nadir from the NBC series Community, maybe better known here as alumnus Danny Pudi, Comm ’01, appearing with his comedy group, the Avalancheros.

“It’s never definite,” says David Stockton, coordinator for campus programs. “But as soon as we see the opportunity (to bring Pudi back), we’ll jump on it.”

Impressed? That’s just the start.

Events like these are some of the countless engaging programs put on by Late Night Marquette since its advent 10 years ago. The Late Night “brand” encompasses programs and activities sponsored by Marquette University Student Government, the offices of Residence Life and Student Development, Recreational Sports, and the Union Sports Annex that occur after 9 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays.

Stockton says the most successful kind of Late Night is the one that’s multifaceted.

“It appeals to all different kinds of students, those that are both introverted and extroverted,” he says. “We try to have some performer element to make it memorable, but also something interactive that really draws students in.”

Attracting anywhere from 120–800 students, the typical Late Night takes months of time and energy to plan and stage. With a budget of approximately $5,000 per event, programming assistant Meghan Pirics says the Late Night team solicits a lot of student feedback on programs through iPad surveys and word-of-mouth to make sure they meet students’ needs.

“We hear back firsthand ‘That’s really awesome’ or ‘I liked it but I feel they could have done this,’” says Pirics, an arts and sciences junior. m JB

arts + culture

Night, and the patron saint of logistical nightmares saw to it that what could have become a circumstanced tragedy went about as smoothly as anyone could have wanted.

Members were forced to depart for

the recording studio in Skokie, Ill., in four different vehicles at four different times (because class schedules don’t discriminate). But it all worked out.

After seven hours in the studio, it was up to producer Freddie Feldman to turn the 4-minute audio track into 30- and 60-second TV spots and a 2-minute video.

The video was filmed separately

with segments inside St. Joan of Arc Chapel, at other campus sites and at

Bringing the Gold ’n Blues to you Marquette’s Gold ’n Blues a cappella singing group harmonized to help the university celebrate the holiest of nights this past season with a video

local Boys & Girls Clubs. In addition to O Holy Night, the Gold ’n Blues also recorded Deck the Halls and What Child is This. All of the songs were available for download on iTunes and CD Baby for 99 cents each with all proceeds directed to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Milwaukee. m CN

and television commercial sent far and wide.

It all began in mid-October, when the

staff and students the past four years

19-member a cappella group gathered

— a condensed version of which

in a lecture room on the second floor

becomes a TV commercial that airs

of Marquette Hall and started singing

throughout the Christmas season.

… Christmas carols.

“It felt good to be singing Christmas

says Campbell, “one that would please

songs in October,” says Matt Campbell,

the ear and pair well with Christmas-

president of the Gold ’n Blues and

time images of campus.”

communication senior. The singers

spent fewer than two weeks perfect-

was that.

ing an arrangement that would have

typically taken up to a month to

practice each, the group providen-

learn. The song was O Holy Night,

tially entered Vocomotion Studios on

arranged by Benjamin Graham.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 — All Saints Day, an

actual holy night — to record O Holy

Marquette asked the group to

provide the soundtrack for a special Christmas video the university has sent to alums, faculty,

“We wanted a challenging song,”

Graham’s O Holy Night certainly Having logged a good 20 hours of learn more

Proceeds from downloads of the Gold ’n Blue’s songs were directed to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Milwaukee.

To receive next year’s Christmas video and news of more university events, send your name, college, grad year and email address to muconnect @marquette.edu.

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Halo Project

church with some very real parallels evident in a

Milwaukee is known as a city

religiously diverse city,”

of churches, and new research

focuses on that strength.

An interdisciplinary research initiative

called the Halo Project connects Mar-

as day care centers, youth programs,

responsibility in this project by engaging

quette with the city’s diverse network

meal programs and continuing educa-

students in conducting case studies of

of faith communities to study crime

tion that congregations offer but that

50 congregations in Milwaukee’s poorest

and poverty in Milwaukee.

information was not readily available.

communities. Students are participat-

ing in religious services, interviewing

The project began when economics

They hoped to map social capital such

Lephardt shared her dilemma with

unique pairing of economics and social

professor Dr. Noreen Lephardt and

Dr. Susan Mountin, director of Manresa

members about how their faith traditions

graduate student Brenden Mason

for Faculty, who has devoted much of her

work for social justice and collecting

won a 2010 Forward Thinking grant

scholarship to studying social justice

data on resources.

to begin looking at the spacial relation-

and the Catholic Worker movement.

ship between faith communities and

Mountin became a supporting collabo-

Project a first step toward development

crime using geographic information

rator who saw a way to go out and get

of more interdisciplinary collaboration

system mapping. “We wanted to explore

the information.

on faith-based research, internships and

whether the presence of a faith com-

courses, and a way to direct the resources

munity had an impact on crime in

to match students studying Christian

a neighborhood,” Lephardt says.

discipleship in the forming of the

“This survey offered us an opportunity

Emily’s race This time triathletes Jeff Condits,

Nick Vande Castle and Kyle Kinderman

weren’t focused on doing their personal best.

They focused on doing it all for Emily.

The three Marquette club triathlon team members raced in the Oshkosh (Wis.) Triathlon with MyTeam Triumph, a ride-along program that gives people with disabilities the chance to experience endurance activities firsthand. They were “angels” for their “captain,” Emily, who rode in a special buggy. Condits, Vande Castle and Kinderman took turns bringing her through the swimming, biking and running obstacles.

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Mountin says.

Lephardt and Mountin designed a

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Lephardt and Mountin call the Halo

of the university in meaningful work for Milwaukee. m JMM

All agreed the 16-mile biking segment was the most challenging part of the day. Emily squealed with delight when they hit bumpy patches.

“I just started doing triathlons not long ago, so I’m not a very strong biker as it is,” says Vande Castle, an arts and sciences sophomore, who pulled Emily along that portion of the route.

Throughout the race, Emily’s team received plenty of encouragement. “There was a sign on the back of the buggy with Emily’s name on it,” explains Condit, a health sciences junior. “Every time somebody passed us, even the professional athletes, they took time to say ‘Go, Emily! Nice job!’”

The club plans to make participating in MyTeam Triumph a tradition. Kinderman, who organized this year’s contingent, says his perspective of service changed.

“When I was trying to write up the email to ask anyone if they wanted to do it with me, I was trying to phrase it correctly,” says Kinderman, a health sciences junior.

“It’s not donate or volunteer.

It was really a privilege to be a part of this.” m JB Emily with her team of triathletes, Kyle Kinderman, Jeff Condits and Nick Vande Castle (left to right).

Marquette University Law School is sponsoring the largest independent polling project in state history during

the 2012 election season.

The Marquette Law School Poll will conduct monthly polls throughout the year to measure voter attitudes toward the presidential and U.S. Senate elections; citizen reaction to current state policy debates and possible recall elections; and a wide range of opinions among Wisconsin voters. “The poll seeks to build on our dynamic public policy program,”

Foot soldier

says Dean Joseph D. Kearney. “Particularly through the leadership of Mike Gousha, distinguished fellow in law and public

A woman stands barefoot outside her home in rural Ghana. Because she can’t afford a simple health screen, this woman is unaware she’s afflicted with diabetes.

And because she’s never been diagnosed, she has no way of knowing she also suffers from a sensory neuropathic disorder — common among diabetics — that makes it difficult to detect small cuts, wounds and lacerations. So she doesn’t notice the open wound on the bottom of her foot that acts as an open invitation to filarial parasites to enter, run amok, turn something small into something severe.

This woman doesn’t know it, but she is on a path that will likely lead to amputation. That is, of course, unless someone intercedes.

Although the woman is imaginary, the plight is very real. Enter Marquette senior Melvin McElrath, a biomedical engineering major who spent the past summer working at the University of Pittsburgh as part of the Legs to Stand On research team, an innovative effort focused on improving lower limb care in areas in the world with little health care.

“I feel very honored to have been part of this innovative group,” McElrath says. “And I’m grateful that I was involved in helping to impact their research.”

McElrath’s team developed a prototype for customizable therapeutic footwear in the form of a sandal designed to help people — like the Ghanaian woman — who suffer from neuropathic disorders. A low-cost solution, the sandal offers protective qualities and off-loading construction to help expedite healing of open wounds. The prototype is on its way to Ghana now to be field-tested. McElrath hopes the field tests will validate the design and help guide future progress in the field of lower limb care so people half a world a way will feel the impact of this research.

“I put everything I had into making this product work,” McElrath says.

“I’ve received a lot of opportunities in my life, and I feel it’s my responsibility to use my talents in a way that serves others.” m CN

policy, the Law School has become the place to go in the region for neutral and thoughtful discussion of the issues of the day.”

Charles Franklin is overseeing the

polling project as a visiting law professor in 2012. Franklin is a nationally recognized expert in statistical methods and public opinion. He is a member of the ABC News election-night analysis team and was co-director of the Big Ten Poll, which conducted 18 state and national polls in 2008. He has been a professor of political science at the University of WisconsinMadison for the past 20 years.

“The Marquette Law School poll will

be completely transparent,” Franklin says. “We will publish our questions and results in their entirety for all to see.

Through our analysis we hope to give the general public, the media and the political world an extraordinary level of understanding about the multifaceted views of Wisconsin voters.” m BOM View the Law School Poll findings at law.marquette.edu/poll.

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being the difference

What do Wisconsin voters think?

academic matters

Marquette’s special collection “Christianity and Native America” gives (left to right) Ellen Faletti, Kevin Benninger and Emily Swenson a glimpse into a controversial past.

been presented to the public. Otis Halfmoon, a Nez Pierce who works for the National Park Service, challenged students with his lecture, “Are You Ready for the Truth?” In February, Ojibwe Brenda Child will address Indian boarding schools.

“There can be a tension between

truths,” Krugler says, when people have different perspectives.

“It’s the same way that multiple people

see the same car accident, and everyone tells a different story,” says arts and sciences senior Kevin Benninger. “The more one learns about history, the more one has to question whose history is being talked about.”

“A public historian seems to act as

a mediator between the public interests and actual facts of history,” says arts and sciences junior Ellen Faletti.

What if I love history?

Soon after Dr. John Krugler began advising students he also began anticipating a frequently

During the spring term students will

negotiate that tension when they produce a documentary on the Lakota people and Jesuit missions on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge reservations at the beginning of

asked question: What can I do with a history major

the 20th century. Students also will create

an exhibit tracing Marquette’s previous

if I don’t want to teach it?

The history professor seized the moment and told students about the altogether different work of public historians. “When I could move them from thinking about academic history to public history it changed their perspective dramatically,” he says.

Krugler received four grants from the Helen Way

Klingler College of Arts and Sciences since 2005 that helped establish an interdisciplinary minor in public history and brought a parade of prominent public historians to campus to discuss their work as museum curators, authors, lecturers and more.

“When I saw the course description, it was like

‘bammo!’ — a career where I can be involved in history daily,” says arts and sciences junior Emily Swenson.

Guided by this year’s guest historians, students

are exploring how American Indian culture has

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use of Indian-inspired mascots for sports teams.

“Both issues are potentially controversial,” Krugler says, “but as public historians, students must learn how to present contested issues to the public.” m JMM

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fresh ink!

Recently published books

by alumni and faculty

Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

By John M. Hamilton, Jour ’69 Hamilton’s decorated background as a historian and former foreign correspondent provides keen observations and critical connections throughout this look at American foreign reporting through the ages.

You Complete Me and Other Myths that Destroy Happily Ever After

By Dr. Victoria Fleming, Arts ’90 In this self-help book, Fleming tackles 10 myths that can devastate marriage, such as “marriage will change him” and “children will bring us closer together,” and offers advice for developing lasting, meaningful relationships.

Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Brontë

By Maureen Adams, Arts ’66 They say a dog is a man’s best friend, but in her acclaimed collection of mini biographies, clinical psychologist Adams explores the close bonds between five celebrated female authors and their fourlegged companions.

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

Real-life lesson Marquette students wait in a quiet

hallway of Repairers of the Breach,

the city’s only daytime homeless shelter.

The physician assistant students wear white coats and stethoscopes around their necks. Then the door opens and patients come in.

It’s go time.

The PA students are used to treating “standardized patients” or actors who pretend to suffer from various medical conditions. But a new collaboration with Repairers of the Breach, arranged as part of the Clinical Decision Making course, provides plenty of real-life lessons.

“I’m hurting today,” says 48-year-old Ervia Burrow as she settles into a chair. She just moved to Milwaukee from Illinois, her prescriptions are about to run out and she’s in pain. “I don’t have any income, and I’m homeless — that’s the problem,” she says.

PA students Claudia Dogan-Coles and Sarah Derus examine their patient, taking turns listening to Burrow’s heart and lungs and consulting with their faculty advisers. They refer Burrow to an agency that can set her up with a regular doctor. They also give her a small supply of medications to get her through in the meantime.

“Without this place, I don’t know where I’d be,” Burrow says of the clinic at Repairers of the Breach. And she doesn’t mind being treated by students. “I feel like they are just like the doctors,” she says. “They’re going through school, but I feel like they can tell me what I need to know.”

The experience is invaluable for students, says Joshua Knox, the clinical assistant professor who teaches the course. “The homeless manifest high rates of diabetes, hypertension, skin conditions, substance abuse and mental illness. They have many challenges in addition to just access to care, which we explore with the students,” Knox says. “We take the opportunity to explore the social aspects of medicine and public health.” m NSE

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Little Shop of Horrors featured students Alexander Gernon as Mr. Mushnik, Alexandra Bonesho as Audrey and Tim Braun as Seymour.

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Looking at a scan of my retina, I saw a beautiful constellation of tiny pinpoints of light. Graduate student Robert Cooper, Eng ’10, saw so much more. He pointed out the rods and cones and healthy blood flow, and I heard the outrageous excitement he gets from working in a research lab that can look at something few in the world have seen before.

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diagnose degenerative eye disorders sooner, leading to quicker intervention and more effective treatments.”

Cooper assisted with assembling the ophthalmoscope and installing the software and hardware support systems. He serves as the primary system operator on the instrument.

“I wouldn’t have been able to do the software and electronics unless I had the background from Marquette,” he says.

Images enhanced with color.

Cooper authored his first research paper on how photoreceptors change over time. There can be great variation in how different cells behave and trying to figure out what that means is promising It’s a moment he’ll I visited the Carroll Lab to see the science for determining cell never forget. He was firsthand and wondered what it would take health. Now that he can looking into the ophto coerce the lab to scan my eyes. see them, he also can thalmoscope with his Cooper was a step ahead of me. “Sit down, monitor them. own chin in the chin bar he said, “and put your chin in the chin bar.”

“It turns out that people when Drs. Joseph Carroll It was painless and simple, and then Cooper have looked at cones in the past and Alfredo Dubra said, “Oh, showed me pictures of my retina. and they actually fluctuate. They “The best thing about this is every single my God!” twinkle over hours,” he explains. “But I “At first I was alarmed. I thought they day when you look at an image of a person, wanted to see if the principle held true with saw something wrong with my eyes,” you’re seeing something you’ve never seen rods. And they do, by the way. They actually Cooper says. before,” Cooper said. can change in as short a period as one or Dubra, an engineer, and Carroll, a biolo Then, referring to me, himself and the two hours.” gist, spent years perfecting this instrument radiography tech at his side, Cooper added, If rods start twinkling or fluctuating that can image the smallest photoreceptors “There are only three people in the world in an odd manner, Cooper says, it may be in the retina, focusing down to one micron or that have seen your retina now.” a good indication that the cells are in the diameter of a single rod. Photoreceptors Cooper’s path into eye research was teed distress and something needs to be done comprise the cones and rods. Cones provide up early watching Star Wars and Star Trek, to help them. color vision and rods react to light, providing whose creators came up with a fictional He hopes new research will soon prothe majority of night vision. Never before has concept of a cyborg implant, specifically vide answers for treatment or prevention of such close examination been done in vivo, a mechanical eye capable of vision. serious eye diseases such as adult macular which means in a living eye. Previously, the “I thought to myself that with people degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa and only way to study these microscopic cells was going blind, wouldn’t it be cool to work in more. He expects the ophthalmoscope to through dissection of a donated specimen. some way to figure out how to restore sight, play a large role in moving research forward.

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For 40 years Re v. Walter Stohrer, S.J., guided students in finding answers to perennial questions.

Philosophy’s place at Marquette Gratitude and delight are my companions as I reflect on my 40 years as a Jesuit teacher of philosophy at Marquette. There is a continuing sense of celebration in all that we do at Marquette. Like Ernest Hemingway’s Paris in the 1920s, life at Marquette has been, and continues to be, a “moveable feast.” This vital energy is rooted in the guiding vision and core values that have animated the university since its founding in 1881, and the educational commitments and traditions of the Society of Jesus dating from the 16th century. Today students and faculty alike are well positioned to renew and reimagine our university to meet the emerging needs of a rapidly changing world. b y

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As he approached the end of his life in the autumn of 1997, my Jesuit brother and close friend, Father John Raynor, S.J., asked me for “one last favor.” Would I consider offering some remarks at his coming Mass of Christian Burial? I was humbled by this request and told John that when the time arrived for the Lord to call him home, I would do my best in the Gesu liturgical setting. In my remarks at the funeral only two weeks after this conversation, I identified what I considered some of the substantive components in Father Raynor’s vision of Marquette. I suggested he saw our university as “a place of splendor and wonder, of discovery and creativity, of enchantment and delicate beauty.” These words have continued to frame my own personal perspective of our campus life and work.

Developing courses that are compelling and practical for students is a continuing challenge for teachers of philosophy. As did many of my colleagues before me, I drew energy from the words of Socrates. On the first day of each new semester I would write

I have long been convinced that this attitude of restless inquiry and imaginative engagement are crucial components in the unfolding Marquette experience for our students. on the chalkboard the great Athenian’s deceptively simple claim: “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Apology 38a). As my students began to grasp the deeper implications of these words, they sensed that a life of drift or aimlessness would no longer be acceptable or possible.

Years later I was reminded of this personal realignment of goals and attitudes at a university reunion. There I met my former student Barbara who, with a twinkle in her eye, reminded me what my welcome was in our Philosophy of God course: “If you like to think, you have come to the right place!” A happy blend of curiosity, doubt and wonder has long distinguished Marquette as a true house of intellect, with its manifold commitments to research excellence, scholarly

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publication, quality teaching and community service. On each of these fronts our students have been and continue to be co-contributors.

I happily remember the day when a student in my Philosophy of Human Nature course spontaneously announced: “This philosophy stuff is pretty cool!” I immediately assured all present that I would try my best to keep it that way ... in the finest Marquette tradition.

Plato described this attitude of dedication and disciplined reflection in his Seventh Epistle. He spoke of the spiritual and moral regimen that are necessary for one who wishes to understand how all things “fit together.”

The plan of philosophic study, he insisted, requires devotion and commitment, as well as an unyielding spirit of reverence and dedication. With such preparation, “at last, in a flash, understanding ... blazes up, and the mind, as it exerts all its powers to the limit of human capacity, is flooded with light.”

Careful attention to the root meanings or etymologies of the words and expressions we routinely use gave my students additional hints about what was at stake in the search for true wisdom. Expressions such as “philosophy” (love of wisdom) and “liberal arts” (the pursuit of a broader knowledge of the human condition which frees us from the danger of over-specialization) are prime examples. I liked to remind my students that each of us is first, last and always a co-equal member of the community of truth seekers.

Indeed, this conviction illumines the rationale for the core curriculum which has long distinguished the Catholic and Jesuit Marquette educational environment. It also challenges us who shape and share current university life to be attentive to the dignity, the nobility and the uniqueness of every human person.

As a teacher, I shared the excitement of a student’s joy of discovery. Many of the foundational questions that emerged in my courses were shaped under the challenging leadership of Plato and Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Hume and Kant. These were the groundbreaking thinkers whose insights and questions awaited our examination and critical response. As my students progressed into more advancedlevel courses, many recognized characteristics of their own personal journeys in a remark of St. Thomas, who spoke to us from the

High Middle Ages in 13th-century Paris: “Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is more perfect, more noble, more useful and more full of joy.”

Some particular themes and questions were immediately attractive for many students during my teaching years. Among these were Socrates’ insistence on the pivotal role of “the question” as a method and access point to further learning; Aristotle’s discussion of virtue and friendship; and the explorations of St. Thomas into the nature of human happiness as well as his treatment of natural law. It was a privilege to introduce students to perennial questions such as these. I reminded them that their own personal need to question and make meaningful sense of life would be a summons they would never outgrow.

The business of critical reflection and truth discovery was, indeed, their life assignment and mission as human persons. I have long been convinced that this attitude of restless inquiry and imaginative

the Ignatian educational mission. The continuing quest for meaning, leadership development and service to the community define and orient our work. We are also well positioned to learn from the perspectives of atheism and agnosticism, secularism and relativism that so shape our contemporary popular culture. Many of my students spoke of a growing awareness of the numerous counterfeit destinations so championed by some in the history of culture and ideas. I took great satisfaction in their growing determination to respond critically to these challenges. They had recognized that ideas have consequences that tend to dimensionalize themselves in a variety of value systems and ethical perspectives.

There is a pervasive spiritual quality in our campus life. The Mass of the Holy Spirit which marks the beginning of each academic year renews our solidarity with Jesuit educational efforts going back to the 16th century. We strive to make our own

guish what I was planning to do after graduation from the person I aspire to be after graduation.” His remark reminded me of why St. Ignatius Loyola and the first generation of Jesuits were drawn to the apostolate of education. St. Thomas noted centuries ago that the more universal a work was in terms of its influence, the more it was a reflection of the divine mind and heart. The development of a truly meaningful life is the primary business of our human terrestrial vocation. Life is not merely a series of technical problems demanding immediate solutions. It may be that, but it is also much more. For we are called to a heightened awareness of the transcendent religious dimension of human living, and, indeed, of the universe itself.

The agora of ancient Athens — the meeting place for debate and questioning — has found a new incarnation here at Marquette. Near the conclusion of his beautiful poem, Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot observed:

engagement are crucial components in the unfolding Marquette experience for our students. Our campus culture is vibrant with the energy of questioning, where assumptions and presuppositions, as well as the implications and applications of ideas and emerging insights command our attention.

We are all familiar with the information revolution that was triggered with the arrival of the computer. We now have a more nuanced understanding of how interdependent and community-oriented our various curricula really are. Service learning and interdisciplinary courses are now taken for granted in the Marquette environment. And we have a renewed appreciation of the vision and values of

the Ignatian ideal of “finding God in all things.” Our campus is holy ground. Every student and graduate is Marquette in microcosm, a miniature of the larger whole to which we all contribute. Each graduate continues to mediate the visions and values of this special place to their communities and our larger world culture. Not without reason has it been said: “You can take a graduate out of Marquette, but you can’t take the Marquette out of the graduate.”

Several years ago I met one of my former students in an especially reflective mood.

It was Senior Week, and we were seated in the warm spring sunshine outside St. Joan of Arc Chapel. “This Marquette campus is where it all came together for me, Father,” he said. “Here I learned to distin-

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

As I began these remarks, I noted that for Father John Raynor, Marquette was a place of enchantment and beauty. I conclude with an observation of architect Frank Lloyd Wright: “If you invest in Beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” m In addition to service as a faculty member, Father Stohrer has been chaplain to the College of Nursing since 1987.

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Engineering Hall is a garden of delights for any engineer or engineering student worth his or her weight in baling wire.

The 115,000-square-foot building was designed not only for teaching but also to put the art of engineering for strength, durability, sustainability and innovation on full display.

Each floor supports education in a Marquette engineering specialization: first floor, teaching and learning; second floor, sensor technology; third floor, human performance and biomedical; fourth floor, water engineering and water quality. The fall issue of Marquette Magazine teased readers with a single exterior image. This issue provides the maximum payload.

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Up next: Phase II The parcel of land directly south of Engineering Hall is reserved for construction of more exciting labs, classrooms and faculty offices. The university is now raising funds for the second phase.

Marquette celebrated the opening of Engineering Hall, shown at right, in October 2011.

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ngineering students need only look around to see the internal workings and construction of Engineering Hall. Walls paneled with reclaimed wood and structural steel supports are in full view. Pressure sensors embedded in the footings and walls measure the weight and strains of the building. All of the data, including energy usage, is fed into a continuous graphical display to show students engineering in action. Looking south, students see the grass footprint where Marquette intends to extend Engineering Hall in Phase II.

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Jaskolski Discovery Learning Lab

Otherwise known as the Innovation Lab, this may be the busiest square footage in the building.

Look inside almost any time of day to see up to 36 students and five or six teaching assistants working collaboratively on design projects. Students plug in laptops at individual workstations, and the cameras positioned around the room televise students’ progress on real engineering projects in real-time.

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Green Roof

Think of it as using storm water in a responsible way. Rainwater funnels into a 10,000-gallon holding tank where it is held until it can be used. The rooftop garden keeps the building cool during the summer.

Strategically positioned solar panels power the building’s lights and equipment.

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Structural Mechanics Lab

We chose this one because it’s big — bigger than big — and some of the most ambitious engineering research projects in the state come here to be studied. It features both a strong floor and a strong wall, a universal test machine capable of applying 110,000 pounds of force in tension or compression and a hydraulic system that can apply hundreds of thousands of pounds of force depending on the configuration. Where steel beams join to brace the ceiling, students see examples of an X brace, W brace and bolted gusset connection.

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Tool Crib

The cabinetry and storage were created expressly for Engineering Hall by Mike Greenheck, Eng ’09, and his company, C-TECH. Students have access to thousands of tools ranging from hammers to plasma torches, and advice from machinists with 70 years of combined experience in the business.

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a One Marquette professor was the first in his family to attend college (and then never got around to leaving ). Another traded the corporate ladder for the world of peer-reviewed journals.

A third felt a duty call.

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Dr. Gary Krenz grew up a farm boy living in rural Minnesota. His elementary school was a one-room country school house with outhouses and no running water.

When he graduated into the much larger area junior high and then high school, he reeled from culture shock. And the word “college” was not part of his family’s vocabulary.

“I had no plans. My experience was growing up on the farm,” says the professor of mathematics, statistics and computer science. “I knew nothing about college or even how to find a school.”

When Krenz expressed interest in taking a foreign language, his parents steered him into shop classes instead. But he was good at school — especially math — and he soon found himself at Moorhead State College.

He double-majored in math and computer science, plus took education courses for his teaching certification. “I didn’t have much of a social life,” he says wryly.

He paid tuition by sometimes working four part-time jobs at a time, and working 12-hour overnight shifts at the local canning factory when he was home for the summer.

When an adviser suggested he go to grad school, Krenz took the advice and started a doctoral program at Iowa State.

When he started interviewing for jobs in industry, a friend finally said, “You really love teaching. Why aren’t you doing that?”

A connection landed Krenz a job as a onesemester temporary instructor at Marquette.

Twenty-seven years later, he’s still here and now chairs his department. And he still loves sharing his passion for mathematics.

“It’s like I tell my students: When you go to solve a problem, when you solve it you get sort of goosebumps. … And when you can not only solve it, but clean it up and

make it more elegant ... it’s like

looking at a work of art,” he says.

“Why do you like a work of art?

Or why do you like listening to

some music or going to see a play?

Because you get pleasure from it.

Because there’s a beauty, there’s an elegance, it speaks to your soul.”

Krenz especially enjoys working with freshmen. “They’re so sincere. You look at them and you think ‘Wow, you’re seeing things with new eyes,’” he says. “That’s why I volunteer to do pre-major advising because I know what some of them, the first-generation ones in particular, are going through.”

At the same time, Krenz acknowledges that today’s students have a completely different world view, one shaped by their heavy use of technology and social media.

“I have to work really hard to understand kids today. … I have to be very careful not to superimpose my values,” he says.

“The Jesuit pedagogy is to meet people where they are. The struggle is learning where they are.” But he appreciates that Marquette’s focus on cura personalis allows him to develop a deep and often lasting connection to students. “I think what I’m proudest of is that Marquette has actually worked on me,” he says. “It’s those moments when you can actually make a difference.” m

“I had no plans. My experience was growing up on the farm,” says Professor

the career-changer

Blame the Hawaiian Punch.

Since high school, Dr. Felicia Miller knew she wanted to major in business.

“I really was interested in how companies work,” she says. But it took a marketing course at the University of Pennsylvania — which featured a case study on that fruity red drink — to discover that marketing was her calling. “I love the consumer side of it

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because you really are trying to convince someone that this is the thing for them to buy, and in order to successfully do that, you have to understand 1,000 different factors that influence why they buy things,” says Miller, an assistant professor of marketing.

“Price is an important part, as are product features and attributes, but then there’s a whole bunch of intangible — and in some regards, irrational — reasons why people buy things. And to me that was really interesting. It was like solving a puzzle.”

Miller scaled the corporate ladder at Proctor & Gamble, marketing the Vicks brand, then Pepto-Bismol, then ThermaCare.

She also spent a year at P&G as an advertising consultant, helping different

brands conduct research and hone advertising techniques. “That’s where the first notion of getting a Ph.D. occurred to me,” she says. “I found that I really liked the research side, figuring out best practices, writing white papers.

And then a friend told me about an organization called the Ph.D. Project.”

The Ph.D. Project’s goal is to help people transition from successful corporate careers to business doctoral programs and ultimately faculty positions to get a more diverse faculty.

A weekend conference on what it was like to be a professor sealed the deal.

the activist

After graduating from Marquette with her bachelor’s degree, Dr. Jame Schaefer taught junior high science and civics before devoting herself to full-time motherhood.

Soon, the mother of four was fired up about ecological issues, and activism became a second career.

“I have always had a strong sensitivity for the environment as special to see, walk within, touch, hear and breathe,” explains the associate professor of theology. “Our

family loved being outdoors — hiking, crosscountry skiing and snorkeling.”

She became embroiled in addressing environmental issues in Sheboygan: The then-new Interstate 43 and its swath through prime agricultural land in Wisconsin. A proposed nuclear power plant for which a nuclear waste disposal plan did not exist. High levels of PCBs in the Sheboygan River and harbor that contaminated fish and other wildlife and threatened human health and well-being.

Government officials wanted Schaefer’s help. Among her roles was chairing Wisconsin’s Radioactive Waste Review Board when the Department of Energy was investigating granite for a repository.

When developing a plan for the International Joint Commission on involving the public in resolving Great Lakes problems, Schaefer had an epiphany.

“To bring about changes in the way people think and act, you need to appeal to the depths of their belief systems,” she says. “Thus I knew I needed to become more familiar with the various religions practiced in the region, including Roman Catholicism.”

That led to a theology course at Marquette, then another and another. She was in her late 40s when she officially started the

doctoral program in religious studies.

In every course, Schaefer read texts through an ecological lens and “discovered some impressive sources in the Catholic theological tradition that could be helpful in responding to ecological problems.”

Theology Chair Patrick Carey eventually asked Schaefer to develop and teach a course on environmental ethics — the first to be offered at Marquette.

“After teaching the course, I realized how exciting it was to be working with bright students, and I thought, ‘I can accomplish more by engaging them in environmental issues from a theological perspective,” she says. “Helping them realize that theology and the natural sciences can be complementary — that they do not conflict — became increasingly important to me.”

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Gary Krenz. “I knew nothing about college or even how to find a school.”

“The attraction for me to academia was all about the intellectual freedom,” Miller says. “Within your role as a faculty member, you can do whatever you want to do. You can do research in whatever area interests you. Within the context of certain topics, you can teach however you want. ... And then the lifestyle was appealing as well. You have your teaching requirements, you have your research requirements, but you can fulfill those within a flexible work environment.

This is not a 9-to-5 world.”

Her decade of corporate experience is a boon in the classroom, though she finds it easier to teach graduate students. “To me, that was more akin to my corporate experience, adult-level education and

people who frankly have some career experience to draw upon because so much of the classroom experience is discussion-based,” she says. To bridge the gap with undergraduates who don’t have the same work and life experience, Miller tries to build in applied-learning projects.

“But I still struggle with whether I have realistic expectations for these students or if I’m being too tough,” she says. “My husband accuses me of being a very tough grader. And I say, ‘I don’t know, I think if I push them they can get there.’” m

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Inside man Ernest de la Torre, Bus Ad ’87, is one of the country’s top young interior designers.

Elle Décor magazine gushed about the top 25 interior designers on its 2011 “A List,” calling them the country’s “authentic tastemakers,” and pointing out de la Torre’s gift for designing luxurious and adventurous rooms.

To illustrate the point, the magazine photographed the sitting room he restored in the historic Cooper Mansion in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. De la Torre’s taste travels well. He is comfortable reinterpreting the raw space of a three-story loft in Soho or transforming existing space of an apartment overlooking Central Park, infusing it with the client’s wished-for Asian influences. Further evidence of his range will be apparent with his latest commission — designing an airplane interior.

Not long after graduating from Marquette, de la Torre was drawn from the corporate business world into the world inhabited by interior designers.

He worked for New York-based architect Peter Marino, and the experience confirmed de la Torre’s conversion.

“It was like a fire hose of information coming at me,” he says. “I knew I was learning, and it was affecting me.”

He earned a master’s in fine and decorative arts from Sotheby’s Institute in London and later designed furniture for Ralph Lauren Home Division. He founded his own firm in 2001 and has been on the radar ever since. Elle Décor, House & Garden, New York Spaces and others heap accolades on the de la Torre Design Studio. Fulfilling the “unique needs and desires of clients” and interpreting the “unique desires a space draws out of you” is what de la Torre says interior design is all about. — Joni Moths Mueller learn more

Go to marquette.edu/magazine for four tips de la Torre supplied for the interior designer in each of us.

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Marquette Magazine and the Alumni Association accept submissions of news of personal and professional achievements and celebrations for inclusion in Class Notes. Alumni news may be submitted electronically or by mail. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit for content, accuracy and length. Publication of the achievements of our alumni does not constitute endorsement by Marquette University.

1933 Francis E. Zummach, Arts ’33, Law ’35, celebrated his 100th birthday on Jan. 28, 2011. Known as “Mr. Z,” he was recognized by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics as Marquette’s oldest living basketball player. He is a former fraternity member, class president and prom king. He lives in Sheboygan, Wis., was married for 50 years to Dorothy Cunningham, Jour ’34, and practiced law until age 85.

1950 William T. Wambach, Eng ’50, set a new national record in the high jump for men 85–89 at the Wisconsin Senior Olympics in September, jumping 1.18 meters, .04 meters short of the world record.

1951 Robert J. Joling, Law ’51, published On the Way to the Courthouse, a series of short stories

about court cases that can be read in 30 minutes. The book focuses on the application of forensic sciences before and during trials.

1956 Charles B. Radloff, Bus Ad ’56, and his wife, Ede, in November made their 10th annual trip to Israel on volunteer assignments for the Latin Patriarchate of Bethlehem University. The couple has performed a variety of good works, including importing and distributing 1,120 wheelchairs to Israel and Palestine and developing business plans for expansions of Latin Patriarchate schools and churches. In 2010, the couple helped students on assignment in Israel and Palestine in conjunction with the Marquette Center for Peacemaking.

1959 Judith (Ebert) McMahon, Sp ’59, in September received the Heart of the Arts Award from the Broome County Arts Council in Binghamton, N.Y. The award recognizes her work in the theatrical community and for co-founding Southern Tier Actors Read, a professional reader’s theatre presenting staged readings of contemporary and classic plays.

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1967

Paul H. Wilkes, Jour ’60, released a new book through Workman Publishing. The Art of Confession: Renewing Yourself Through the Practice of Honesty draws on traditions from ancient Greece, psychoanalysis, Judaism, Catholicism, Buddhism and Islam to show readers how to incorporate a confessional practice into their daily lives.

Reunion Year

1961 Dr. Edwin G. Montgomery, Med ’61, received a master of arts degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May.

1962 Reunion Year

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Call: (414) 288-7441 or (800) 344-7544 or visit our website: marquette.edu/alumni.

1966 Ronald L. Wallenfang, Arts ’66, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

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Make sure we know how to contact you. Questions?

Call: (414) 288-7441 or (800) 344-7544 or visit our website: marquette.edu/alumni.

1969 James D. Friedman, Arts ’69, and Michael J. Gonring, Jour ’69, Law ’82, were named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for their work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Dr. Janice A. McLaughlin, Arts ’69, Hon Deg ’10, president of the Maryknoll Sisters, celebrated her golden jubilee with the service organization with a September Mass at the Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y. Michele (Green) Radosevich, Arts ’69, is 2011–12 president-

elect of the Washington State Bar Association. She is a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, where she has worked in the commercial litigation department since 1995.

Know that warm fuzzy feeling you get when

you convinced someone to go to MarquetteU

and they tell you they love it? Got it.

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Dr. Michael J. Hennessy, Grad ’73, ’79, is dean of the College of Lib-

eral Arts at Texas State University.

Previously he directed lowerdivision studies for the English department, chaired the English department and was associate dean for the past six years.

Proud Milwaukee connections

represented at Milwaukee Night

on Capitol Hill. We have some strong organizing power, particularly MarquetteU. Rhea nna M artin ez, Comm ’07, on T w itter

1971 Kevin M. Byrne, Jour ’71, is senior vice president of the Baltimore Ravens. His public relations staff won the 2010– 11 Pete Rozelle Award from the Pro Football Writers of America, given annually to the NFL staff considered the league’s best.

George E. Haas, Eng ’71, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Jamie C. Kowalski, Bus Ad ’71, Grad ’83, received the George R.

Gossett Leadership Award from the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management. The award recognizes his extraordinary level of leadership and professionalism in the field and advancement of the health care supply chain.

1972 Reunion Year

Kathleen A. Gray, Arts ’72, Law ’82, was named in The Best

Lawyers in America 2012 for her work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

David F. Wiemer, Arts ’72, was recognized as a 2011 American Chemical Society Fellow at the

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society’s fall meeting. He was also named an F. Wendell Miller Professor by the University of Iowa, where he has been a professor since 1978. He recently returned to the classroom after an eight-year tenure as chair of the chemistry department. He lives in Iowa City with his wife, Barbara (Olszewski) Wiemer, Arts ’72.

1973 James H. Benson, Arts ’73, is on the board of governors and executive committee of the board of DACOR, an organization of foreign affairs professionals.

He retired in 2009 after serving as a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department for 29 years. He and his wife, Marianne (Anders) Benson, Arts ’73, are the proud innkeepers of the Cambridge House Bed and Breakfast in Cambridge, Md. Lt. Col. Michael Bunting, Arts ’73, retired from military service after more than 30 years of Army service. He was recalled from retirement in 2009 to serve with the 3rd U.S. Army at its forward headquarters in Kuwait and main headquarters in Atlanta during operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

1974 John J. Gilmore, Jour ’74, published his first novel, Cocaineros Duel, an adventure story about a retired American police detective tracking human traffickers and drug dealers in Costa Rica. It is available through amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

Moira J. Kelly, Jour ’74, Grad ’00, ’07, received the Melvin Lurie LaborManagement Cooperation Prize from the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee master’s in human resources and labor relations program for exemplifying the spirit of workplace cooperation.

She has owned a workplace dispute resolution consulting firm since 1998 and, with Jay E. Grenig of Marquette University Law School, co-authored a book, How to Cost Your Labor Contract, for the Bureau of National Affairs Books.

1976 David B. Kern, Arts ’76, Thomas P. McElligott, Arts ’76, Law ’83, and John A. Rothstein, Arts ’76, Law ’79, were named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for their work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

1977 Reunion Year

Brian F. McDermott, Jour ’77, was named supplier of the year by the Minnesota chapter of Meeting Professionals International for leading the board of directors through its annual strategic planning in eight of the past nine years.

1978 Mary (Neese) Fertl, Arts ’78, Law ’81, and Brian G. Lanser, Arts ’78, were named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for their work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Eva Vitale, Arts ’78, is vice president of sales development and practice management at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

She resides in Glencoe, Ill., with her husband.

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1979

David I. Kagan, Grad ’75, published his third book, Sugar Valley Villages, through Arcadia Publishing Co. He and co-author John W. Harbach, Sr., created a collection of captioned photographs and history of eight communities in north central Pennsylvania.

Donald W. Layden, Jr., Arts ’79, Law ’82, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

1980

Hy ’75, Dent ’80, received the 2011

Ann (Kerns) Comer, Arts ’80, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for her work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Academy of General Dentistry Mastership Award. The organization’s highest honor recognizes her completion of 1,100 hours of continuing dental education.

Jeff J. Gerritt, Grad ’80, received the National Editorial Writing Award from the Society of Professional Journalists at the

Dr. Mary (Geary) Keeling, Dent

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2010 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for Excellence in Journalism.

He is a columnist and editorial writer for the Detroit Free Press.

Gary S. Millrood, Arts ’80, is senior vice president of sales at HubCast Cloud Print Services in Wakefield, Mass.

1981 Robert H. Duffy, Arts ’81, Law ’84, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Love a story?

Kay (Nord) Hunt, Law ’81, was named Minneapolis Best Lawyers Appellate Practice Lawyer of the Year for 2012.

She is chair of Lommen Abdo’s appellate practice.

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Molly O’Neill, Arts ’00, believes in the power of stories.

Her own is pretty powerful. The story arc moves from Marquette, where she studied teaching, through discovery of her passion for children’s books, to the mecca for book publishers — New York.

She laughs when remembering visits to Harry W. Schwartz Bookstore

in Milwaukee on the pretext of looking for good adult fiction. “I’d spend about 10 minutes in the adult section like a good English major should and then creep over to the kid’s section,” she says, where picture books and novels for teens and tweens beckoned.

Mentors on campus encouraged her secret passion. Barbara Elleman,

then the distinguished scholar of children’s literature in the College of Education, offered O’Neill an independent study opportunity to learn how art and text tell a story. With Elleman’s guidance, and at the encouragement of her English professors, O’Neill landed an internship with a children’s book editor in Chicago. The experiences opened O’Neill’s eyes to an unconsidered career option.

She broke into publishing in New York by working on the marketing

side. Now an editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, one of the most respected houses in the business, O’Neill loves finding talented storytellers and bringing their imaginings to the printed page. “Whether I’m talking to people in the industry or strangers on the street, I’m part talent scout, part psychologist, part English teacher, part movie director and part advocator, evangelizing for my authors and artists and their books,” she says.

Photographed at Books of Wonder, New York City

— Joni Moths Mueller

1982 Reunion Year

Dr. Terence P. Geary, Dent ’82, received the 2011 fellowship award from the Academy of General Dentistry for his commitment to quality of care, including 500 hours of dental education; the passing of a comprehensive exam; and three years of continuous AGD membership.

Mark A. Kircher, Arts ’82, Law ’85, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Mark J. Konkel, Sp ’82, published his first novel, Disaster Park, with Blue Leaf Publications.

1983 Dean P. Laing, Law ’83, was named the 2012 Milwaukee Personal Injury Litigation Lawyer of the Year. He has been with O’Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing for 28 years and leads the firm’s litigation practice.

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Joseph E. Puchner, Arts ’83, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

1984 Mark M. Schersten, Grad ’84, is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Mich. He taught philosophy at the school for 27 years and was chair of the humanities division for the last 15 years.

Marquette University is asking each member of its community to commit this year to a service experience — helping to ignite renewed hope and peace in our world. The Call to Service builds upon the university’s Jesuit legacy of being men and women for and with others and celebrates the new leadership of Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., Marquette’s 23rd president.

How will you answer the call?

Tell us and your story may appear in the spring issue of Marquette Magazine.

CALL TO SERVICE

Answer the call.

Learn more about Marquette’s Call to Service and make your pledge to volunteer at marquette.edu/call-to-service.

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Julie A. Sly, Grad ’84, is editor of the Catholic Herald Magazine, the bimonthly publication of the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, Calif. She is also a freelance writer for the UC Davis Health System and various publications.

Pam M. Tierney, Sp ’84, released four of seven episodes of her original Web series, Mags N Mel, which she co-wrote and co-produced. She stars as one of two estranged sisters thrown together after tragedy.

The series can be found at magsnmel.com.

Annaliza (Zamora) Warner, Bus Ad ’84, is senior vice president

and chief compliance officer at Associated Banc-Corp. As a CPA and certified financial services auditor, she is responsible for the corporate-wide compliance program.

Michael P. White, Jour ’84, is the first chief marketing officer for Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust. He oversees brand strategy, advertising, and corporate, member and internal communication.

Fieldpoint is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn.

1985 Susan (Dale) Hickey, Arts ’85, is vice president and trust relationship manager at Associated Wealth Management in Milwaukee. She previously worked at M&I Wealth Management.

Patricia A Hintz, Bus Ad ’85, and Walter J. Skipper, Bus Ad ’85, were named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for their work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

Suzanne J. Scott, Bus Ad ’85, celebrated her 15th anniversary as a Maryknoll lay missioner. She is serving in Cambodia, where she is finance manager for the Maryknoll HIV/AIDS Response Program. Previously she served for 11 years in Venezuela.

1986 Donna (Hills) Gagne, Bus Ad ’86; Mary (Jansen) Kubicek, Arts ’86; and Theresa (Campbell) Mahony, Arts ’86; organized a gathering of 10 alumni and their families in honor of their 25th reunion during 2011 Alumni Reunion Weekend. The group of 35 included Mary Ann (Robeck) Kornblum, Arts ’86; James P. Kubicek, Arts ’86; Dale S. Sigwart, Arts ’86; Julie (Pfeiffer) Sigwart, Nurs ’86; Joanne (Dickey) Metzger, PT ’87; Mary Kate (Eck) Ressel, Arts ’87; and Ann (Sitko) Simkins, Arts ’87.

Gail (Hanczar) Polzin, Jour ’87, was named director of internal communications campaigns and strategy for United Airlines.

1987 Reunion Year

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Call: (414) 288-7441 or (800) 344-7544 or visit our website: marquette.edu/alumni.

Katherine (Strachota) Burden, Bus Ad ’89, retired from her position as senior vice president for Northern Trust in Chicago after 22 years of service. She and her husband live in Lake Forest, Ill., with their three children: Thomas, 10, Michael, 6, and Jonathan, 4.

Michael A. Jaskolski, Eng ’89, and Kevin M. Long, Eng ’89, Grad ’92, Law ’92, were named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for their work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

through the power and discipline of the arts. She lives in Chicago with sons Riley and Kayden.

Patrick W. Laws, Arts ’93, is general manager and secretary/ treasurer of the Pella Mutual Insurance Co. in Pella, Wis.

1994 Stars Under 40 list by City Hall, a monthly New York political newspaper. He works for U.S. Congressman Michael Grimm.

Jennifer Lay-Riske, CJPA ’94, was nominated for a national Emmy in the category of Outstanding Regional News Story–Spot News for producing a story about Burr Oak Cemetery for Chicago’s WMAQ-TV. The story won a regional Emmy.

1991

Stephen M. Leahy, Ph.D., Grad ’94, is an associate professor of world history at Shantou University in Shantou, China. He also teaches in Hong Kong.

1992

Julie (Purdum) Ottman, Arts ’94, is magistrate of the juvenile court of Davidson County in Nashville, Tenn.

Reunion Year

Cynthia (Hey) Miller, CJPA ’92, is director of public relations and campus initiatives at Indiana University. Previously she was director of marketing and communication for the university’s School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.

1993 Kristin (Jackson) Hardy, Arts ’93, is director of development at Reading In Motion, a nonprofit agency helping at-risk students read at or above grade level within the first years of school

son Landon in 2007 and son Lincoln in 2009.

Reunion Year

Jason R. DeRusha, Comm ’97, is weekend news anchor at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, where he has been a reporter since 2003. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife, Alyssa (Bannochie) DeRusha, Bus Ad ’98, and two children, Seth and Sam.

Nicholas T. Curran, Arts ’94, Grad ’96, was named to the Rising

Dr. Jennifer (Peelen) Thomas, Arts ’89, received her master of public health degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. She is a pediatrician and breastfeeding medicine specialist at Lakeshore Medical Clinics in Franklin, Wis.

Robert W. Lynch Jr., Comm ’91, received a 2011 Adjunct Faculty Teacher Excellence Award at Lone Star College–North Harris in Houston.

1997

1995 Donna R. Hiers, Eng ’95, Grad ’06, received risk and information systems control certification from ISACA. The program recognizes individuals for their knowledge of enterprise risk and ability to manage risk through the development and implementation of controls.

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Jennifer R. Hackel, Comm ’97, is on a two-month assignment in Singapore as a senior recruiter for Johnson Controls.

She lives in Milwaukee with her dog, Wookie, and is a champion of the Marquette Works program at Johnson Controls.

Mark J. Haushalter, Arts ’97, is a legal commentator on criminal and cyber law for CNN/Headline News, Dr. Drew, Dr. Phil, and Los Angeles’ Fox 11 News, KTLA News and CBS2/KCLA9.

Katherine (Maloney) Perhach, Arts ’97, Law ’00, was named in The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for her work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

1998 Brian P. Cousineau, Comm ’98, and his wife, Gabriela Lopez, celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in 2011. They had

Angela M. Ewald, Comm ’98, won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches in Children’s Daytime Programming for her work on the PBS show SciGirls. She has been a writer/producer for ABC, the Food Network, the Travel Channel, Discovery and DIY and has spent 10 years producing national PBS children’s programs.

Lynn A. Friedrichs, Bus Ad ’98, is a partner at Deloitte & Touche in Tampa, Fla. Kathryn E. Janicek, Comm ’98, won the Illinois Broadcasters Association Silver Dome Award for Best Use of New Media and was recently nominated for two Emmy awards. She is a daypart manager and executive producer at Chicago’s NBC 5.

Bobbi N. Roquemore, Comm ’98, was one of three recipients of the 2011 Baker Donelson Diversity Scholarship, awarded by the firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. The scholarship includes a salaried summer associate position in one of the firm’s offices. She is in her second year of law school at Loyola University New Orleans and is the articles/symposium editor of the Loyola Law Review.

After coming back from the Fr. Pilarz forum, I realize how lucky I am to go here.

Stu dent J im Love o n T w itter

Bernard J. Kearney, III, Arts ’95, Grad ’97, was named in The Best

Lawyers in America 2012 for his work at Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee.

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2001

2003

Ricky Bond, Prof St ’99, led the Great Lakes Acquisition Center construction team to a Veterans Affairs World Championship, working as the team’s contracting officer and supervisor. The team brought almost $2 billion of non-reoccurring maintenance construction contracts to the U.S. economy.

Rebecca G. Hancock, Grad ’01, is senior marketing officer at Rhode Island Hospital. She handles market research, issues management and strategic communications planning.

Collin E. Burton, Comm ’03, was appointed by the Obama administration to serve at the Corporation for National and Community Service in Washington, D.C. He works in the office of government relations as a liaison between the corporation, Congress and state governments.

2000 Leslie (Erickson) Doerr, Law ’00, and Thomas L. Doerr, Jr., Law ’00, will return this summer to the United States with their four children. They live in Lyon, France.

He is an assistant general counsel for the Manitowoc Co., responsible for legal matters in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Donald R. Wadewitz, II, Comm ’00, Prof St ’03, is studio host for University of Wisconsin–Whitewater football with NRG Media in Fort Atkinson, Wis. He does play-by-play for 40–60 high school football, basketball, baseball and softball games.

Amardeep S. Kaleka, Arts ’01, won an Emmy for direction-post production for the film Jacob’s Turn. It’s the first Emmy for his company, Neverending Light Productions.

Melissa (Kovach) McGaughey, Arts ’01, is on the board of directors of the Milwaukee-based Endometriosis Association, which advocates internationally for women with endometriosis.

2002 REUNION YEAR

Matthew R. Crespin, Dent Hy ’02, is associate director of the Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin, an entity of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. He oversees oral health and other children’s health initiatives.

I remember Supper for 12 Strangers

in 1988, still have friends I met that night! Hope my niece Jayne Joyce

RSVPs to attend!

RI CK MCDERMOTT, ENG ’91, LAW ’94, ON T W ITTER

Zachary C. Eubank, Bus Ad ’03, is certified as an accredited valuation analyst with the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. He has been a financial analyst with BCC Advisors in Des Moines, Iowa, since 2010.

Amanda A. Kastern, Arts ’03, is associate vice president for student development at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Md. She is pursing a doctor of education degree at George Washington University.

Oscar Rueda, Arts ’03, launched a Marquette men’s basketball news and information fan site, mufanatic.com.

Carl L. Schneeman, Eng ’03, Grad ’06, completed his second term on the board of the Minnesota Concrete Council and is the nonprofit agency’s treasurer.

2004 John T. Dunn, III, Arts ’04, is a pilot for Continental Connection and United Express. His 50-seat airplane is based in Cleveland and travels to several Midwest and East Coast locations.

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Brian M. Hoffer, Grad ’04, released his first album, Into the Boulevard. The singer/ songwriter’s first collection of Beatlesque pop songs is available worldwide.

2005 Naomi J. Stieber, Arts ’05, Law ’11, is counsel in the law department of Northwestern Mutual Life in Milwaukee.

2006 Amy D. Nejezchleb, Grad ’06, earned a doctorate in English from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in May 2011.

She also published an article in Is It about a Bicycle: Flann O’Brien in the Twenty First Century. Another was due out in the fall in Review of Contemporary Fiction.

2007 REUNION YEAR

Lauren (Jorgensen) Barlow, Eng ’07, received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. She is a resident in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Jacobi/Montefiore Residency Program in New York.

Angela (Schnell) Beckert, Arts ’07, received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. She is an internal medicine resident at the University of Chicago.

Matthew J. Hammer, Arts ’07, received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. He is a resident in anesthesiology at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Allison M. Lane, Comm ’07, is assistant manager of consumer brand marketing for Asics America, an athletics products manufacturer, working on national and global marketing projects. She is president of the Marquette University Alumni Club of Southern California.

Kimberly A. Pollock, H Sci ’07, received a doctor of medicine degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. She is an internal medicine/anesthesiology resident at the University of California, San Diego.

2008

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For 10 years, Dee (Nelis) Walther, Arts ’53, lived at sea.

Walther was in her 60s when she and her husband sailed around the world in a 38-foot boat named, appropriately enough, Free Spirit. The 10-year journey took them to approximately 45 countries and islands.

Now 80, the retired elementary school teacher summarized the odyssey

Kristin R. Burrmann, H Sci ’08, received a master of arts degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in May 2011. She is a life underwriting specialist at Northwestern Mutual Life.

Andrew J. Keating, Arts ’08, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Joseph’s House in Washington, D.C.

in an unpublished book.

“I loved the lifestyle, though it’s a very third-class lifestyle,” she says.

“You’re living in raunchy clothes, and you don’t get to the laundromat very often. You’re living in a confined area, so you don’t have much housework. It’s an adventure.”

A Michigan native, Walther served in the Coast Guard Auxiliary for

years and became a pro at navigation and boating safety. Years later her

2009 Mary M. “Maggie” Berigan, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Farmworker Unit–Legal Aid of North Carolina in Raleigh.

now-husband, Jim Odendahl, proposed they circumnavigate the globe.

The journey included nearly month-long stretches at sea. During

typhoon season or winter, they docked for long periods — nine months in Australia, six months in New Zealand and another six in Israel. “We went some places that today you can’t go to because of pirates,” she says.

Along the way, they befriended other sailors, trading books and some-

times conversation over short-wave radio during lonely nights on watch.

“Certainly this style is not for everybody. But for anyone who craves

seeing the world, it was fulfilling in a way no airplane or cruise ship can meet,” she says. “It was a challenge to one’s courage and endurance and an advanced degree in one’s education. And the fraternity of friends would last long after all boats came home.” — Nicole Sweeney Etter

Jodie L. Cleary, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Sacred Heart Community Services in Santa Clara, Calif.

Paul J. Coogan, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Eviction Defense in Oakland, Calif.

Catherine E. Curley, H Sci ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Fe y Alegria: Don Enrique Alvear in Santiago, Chile.

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Gretchen Geerts, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Gonzaga Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Michael J. O’Sullivan, Comm ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at St. Francis Mission in South Dakota.

Jay M. Hinner, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Xavier High School in Chuuk, Micronesia.

Glenn E. Oviatt, Comm ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Central Arizona Shelter Services and Vista Colina Emergency Family Shelter in Phoenix.

Megan L. Hren, Comm ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at the Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership in Cleveland.

Alejandra M. Salinas, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Centro Altagracia in Harlem, N.Y. Michael J. Tedone, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Xavier High School in Chuuk, Micronesia.

Mary K. Wagner, Arts ’09, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Seton Home in San Antonio, Calif.

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2010 Robert C. Irvine, Arts ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at the Center for Community Alternatives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Jessica G. Landry, Comm ’10, is a Web merchandise presentation specialist for the Kohl’s e-commerce team.

Andrew T. Marshall, Arts ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Majengo High School in Moshi, Tanzania.

Claire J. Niemet, Arts ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Catholic Charities Housing Transitions in Gresham, Ore.

Evan T. Pilak, Bus Ad ’10, and Amanda L. Eggert, Comm ’10, are two members of the threepiece band Peshtigo, which performed for the first time in August at Milwaukee’s Cactus Club. The band is inspired by 1980s pop music and plans to debut an album soon.

Allison L. Schommer, Arts ’10, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at St. Benedict’s in Punta Gorda, Belize.

Andrew C. Tidwell-Neal, Law ’10, started his own criminal defense and employment law practice in Chicago.

2011 Caitlin R. Asma, Nurs ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Native American Health Center in San Francisco.

Edna D. Basutro, Eng ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Neighborhood Family Practice in Cleveland.

John C. Berigan, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Community Food Bank in Tucson, Ariz.

Rose L. D’Angelo, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at the Youth Challenge and United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Cleveland.

Peter E. Hansen, Law ’11, is an associate attorney at Wessels Sherman in Oconomowoc, Wis., where he focuses on employee benefits, workers’ compensation defense and general employment law.

Brian J. Harper, Comm ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Parroquia San Pedro in Andahuaylillas, Peru.

Emily J. Lundquist, Comm ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Catholic Charities of Onondaga CountyBishop Foery Foundation in Syracuse, N.Y. Bradley T. Rentz, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Pohnpei Catholic School in Pohnpei, Micronesia.

Margaret K. Sugrue, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at the Catholic Charities Young Parent Healthy Teen Center in Juneau, Alaska.

Amy M. Wilson, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at 9 to 5 Atlanta Working Women.

Nicholas M. Williams, Arts ’11, is serving with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at House of Charity in Spokane, Wash.

(Haubrich) Brooks, Arts ’02; Marty J. Freil, Arts ’02; Patrick T. Gartland, Arts ’02; and Daniel J. Waters, Bus Ad ’02.

Susan J. Halverson, Arts ’02, and Aric Madayag, Sept. 17, 2011.

He is a Marquette doctoral candidate due to graduate in May.

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Kenneth C. Fuchs, Eng ’87, and Patty Donahue, Aug. 6, 2011.

Kristen A. Liebbe, Arts ’95, and Andrew Buchan, July 17, 2011 in Calistoga, Calif.

Robert T. Crawford, Arts ’97, and Molly A. McHugh, Sept. 10, 2011 in River Forest, Ill. Alumni in the wedding party

Suzie M. Bauernfeind, Arts ’96; Thomas R. Dote, Bus Ad ’96; Patrick R. Van De Walle, Comm ’96; Daniel T. Cary, Comm ’97; J. Michael Daly II, Arts ’97; Michael L. Johnson, Arts ’97; and Daniel P. Tarpey, Bus Ad ’97.

Sandra L. Swincicki, Nurs ’98, and Kelly Pagenkopf, Feb. 21, 2011 in Cozumel, Mexico. She is a labor and delivery nurse at Waukesha (Wis.) Memorial Hospital, and the couple resides in Waukesha.

Matthew R. Crespin, Dent Hy ’02, and Laura Walsh, Aug. 7, 2011 at Villa Terrace in Milwaukee.

Alumni in the wedding party

Nicole (Iverson) Smullen, Arts ’99, Grad ’03; David S. Brooks, Bus Ad ’01; Corinne E. Jameson, Dent Hy, ’02; Matthew L. Puthoff, Comm ’02; and Adam C. Reinke, Arts ’02.

Alumni in attendance

Jason D. Felder, Comm ’00; Todd D. Koehler, Bus Ad ’00; Michael S. McMahon, Arts ’00; Alex J. Boettcher, Bus Ad ’02; Trisha

Trisha Haubrich, Arts ’02, and David Brooks, Arts ’00, Grad ’04, April 9, 2011 at Immaculata Church in San Diego. The couple lives in Santa Monica, Calif. He is a vice president/underwriter for Wells Fargo Capital Finance, and she is a research scientist for Agensys.

Cynthia Bellantuono, Grad ’04, and Salvatore Scali, May 21, 2011 at Regina Pacis Votive Shrine Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her parents were married there 39 years ago, and her sister was married there 12 years ago. Her brother will be married there this year.

Joseph W. Lococo, Bus Ad ’04, and Lindsey Jones, Aug. 13, 2011.

Alumni in attendance

Dennis L. Marach, Bus Ad ’78; Sultan Ghahtani, Eng ’93; Andrew J. Rollings, Bus Ad ’03; Daniel Bielski, Bus Ad ’04; Katharine (Ruelle) Gingrich, Arts ’04; Sean C. Gingrich, Arts ’04; Kyle C. Knauff, Bus Ad ’04, PT ’06; Thomas A. Rosenkranz, Bus Ad ’04; Kyle M. Schreiner, Arts ’04; Loren (Brichler) Schreiner, Comm ’04; Christopher P. Enger, Bus Ad ’05; Mark R. Jacobs, Eng ’05; Megan (Furstenberg) Knauff, Nurs ’05; Brian W. Weber, Comm ’05; Jennifer Enger, Arts ’06; and Danielle L. Lococo, Bus Ad ’07.

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Mary L. Ferwerda, Law ’11, is an associate attorney in the corporate immigration division of Grzeca Law Group in Milwaukee, which employs several Marquette alumni.

Adam T. Thorson, Bus Ad ’04, and Allison M. Hahn, June 25, 2011 at Shrine of St. Anne in Arvada, Colo. He is a director of business development for Catalina Marketing, and the couple lives in St. Petersburg, Fla. Alumni in the wedding party

Jeffrey T. Moniz, Arts ’04; and Elizabeth M. Thorson, H Sci ’07, Grad ’11.

Alexander E. Hermanny, Arts ’06, and Danielle Palker, at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Notre Dame, Ind. Alumni in the wedding party

Timothy P. Lefeber, H Sci ’05; Timothy A. Petrie, Bus Ad ’06, PT ’08; and Andrew D. Hunt, Bus Ad ’08.

Alumni in attendance

Marie J. Derdzinski, Bus Ad ’06, Grad ’10; Thomas J. Dolce, Arts ’06; Theodore F. Elsaesse, Arts ’06; Jenna (Santoianni) Glazier, Comm ’06; Brad A. Held, S.J., Arts ’06; Caroline O. Madormo, Nurs ’06; Elizabeth (Feste) McCostlin, Bus Ad ’06; Efren Cardenas, Bus Ad ’07; Jonathon C. Dooley, Grad ’07; Jane A. Derdzinski, Bus Ad ’08; Kevin J. Konieczka, H Sci ’08, PT ’10; Catherine A. Mueller, H Sci ’08, PA ’09; and Elizabeth A. Mueller, Arts ’09.

Gotta love Milwaukee!

MarquetteU is honestly located in one of the coolest cities in the world!

Stu den t Max imi lian Hess o n T wi tter

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sh a r e t h e moment Christine Jozwiak, and Joey Lehmann, both Bus Ad ’08, were married on Sept. 16, 2011. Seven Marquette alumni were part of the wedding party, and a slew of others helped celebrate.

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

Photo courtesy of Front Room Photography.

Alexander A. Wantoch, H Sci ’06, and Allison Wermeling, Grad ’11, Sept. 25, 2010 at St. Mary’s Church in Hales Corners, Wis. Alumni in the wedding party

Alicia (Wantoch) Dougherty, Eng ’08; and Robert L. Saunders, Eng ’04.

Nicholas G. Alexenko, Bus Ad ’07, and Brittany L. Van Roo, Arts ’07, Law ’10, Oct. 1, 2011.

Alumni in the wedding party

Mary C. Heerey, Sp ’69, Grad ’71; Benedict J. Affetto, Bus Ad ’07; Nicholas J. Andryc, Comm ’06; Sean A. McGovern, Bus Ad ’06, Grad ’07; Adam N. Stillo, H Sci ’06, PA ’09; Kathryn M. Baronti, Bus Ad ’07; and Sarah A. Hochgraver, Arts ’07.

Things I will miss about MarquetteU

... having 3:30 a.m. random dance parties with my roommates. #nevergrowup

St ude nt Tay lo r E lkow on T witter

Katharine L. Borowicz, Bus Ad ’07, and Michael P. McCleary, Eng ’07, Oct. 15, 2011 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Wausau, Wis.

Mark B. Hamilton, Bus Ad ’07, ’08, and Alicia (Fleming) Hamilton, H Sci ’08, June 19, 2010 at Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee.

Alumni in the wedding party

Kristen L. Hamilton, Bus Ad ’04; Angela (Schnell) Beckert, Arts ’07; James P. Conway, Arts ’07; Philip L. Van Ermen, Arts ’07; Joseph F. Fadness, Arts ’07; Amanda N. Ihle, H Sci ’07; Matthew D. Templon, Bus Ad ’07, Grad ’11; Clare M. Beer, Arts ’08; Cassie J. Brownell, Arts ’08; and Julia (Genereux) Van Liew, Arts ’08.

Amy M. Frahm, Arts ’07; Tim A. Novak, Eng ’07; Susan J. Reid, H Sci ’07; Katharine (O’Malley) Zimmerman, Bus Ad ’07, Grad ’08; Kale S. Zimny, Comm ’07; Timothy G. Laice, Eng ’08; and Benjamin M. Borowicz, Eng ’11.

Kelli D. Brooks, Arts ’07, and James Robert D. Rael, Arts ’07, Law ’11, July 30, 2011 in Westlake Village, Calif.

Alumni in the wedding party

Jamaul M. Webster, Comm ’05; Brittney C. Berger, Comm ’07; Trevor M. Darling, Arts ’07; Erin C. Dugan, Arts ’07; James W. Gribble, Arts ’07; Patrick J. Jesse, Bus Ad ’07; Mary K. Springman, H Sci ’07; Virginia S. Wannamaker, Arts ’08; and Michael R. Zuleger, Arts ’08.

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Alumni in the wedding party

Christopher E. McBride, Arts ’07, and Kelly J. O’Neill, a law student, Sept. 10, 2011 at St. Cornelius Church in Chicago.

Alumni in the wedding party

Carina A. Bista, Bus Ad ’07; and Michael P. Dowd, Bus Ad ’07, Grad ’08.

Alumni in attendance

Daniel K. Dwyer, Arts ’92; Matthew L. Puthoff, Comm ’02; Joel Fournier, Arts ’04; Kelly A. McBride,

Ad ’07; Anthony G. Bibbo, Bus Ad ’07; Michael O. Binder, Bus Ad ’07; Gregory H. Booth, Bus Ad ’07; Matthew K. Brown, Bus Ad ’07; Jesse R. Campbell, Eng ’07; Victor Guerrieri, Bus Ad ’07, Grad ’08; Christopher N. Gunn, Eng ’07; William J. Mullenix, Comm ’07; Jonathan J. Rowley, Bus Ad ’07; and Brianne N. Sander, Comm ’07.

Joann M. Pauli, H Sci ’07, PA ’09, and Matthew J. Pitton, H Sci ’07, PT ’09, July 30, 2011 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Hales Corners, Wis. Alumni in the wedding party

Andrew J. Hajduk, H Sci ’07, PT ’09; David J. Kinowski, Arts ’07; Amy A. Langenhahn, H Sci ’07, Grad ’09; Matt J. Mullin, Bus Ad ’07; Laura M. Richter, H Sci ’08, PA ’09; and Amanda C. Becker, H Sci ’10.

Joseph R. Ribbich, Eng ’07, and Lt. j.g. Shannon L. O’Brien, Nurs ’08, Aug. 8, 2010 at the Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee.

Alumni in the wedding party

Armen L. Saryan, Comm ’06; John M. Falk, Bus Ad ’06; Jacob J. Campbell, Bus Ad ’07; Rakesh Reddy, Eng ’07; and Caitlin (Clark) Vogt, Arts ’08.

Dr. Sameh “Sam” E. Azab, H Sci ’08, Dent ’11, and Jenna C. Green, Arts ’08, Dec. 31, 2010 in Milwaukee. He is a dentist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, and she is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin— Milwaukee.

Alumni in the wedding party

Thomas “Nick” Amosson, Eng ’08; Tara B. Cohen, H Sci ’08; Patrick O’Connor, Arts ’08; Samuel K. Corbo, Arts ’08; Elizabeth M. Gallagher, Nurs ’08; Adam J. Meinhardt, Arts ’08; Margaret J. Morrissy, H Sci ’08; Christopher M. Smith, Bus Ad ’08; and Nathaniel R. Fredette, Eng ’09.

Kevin D. Dineen, Eng ’08, and graduate student Lindsey K. Price, July 9, 2011 at St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Whitefish Bay, Wis. The couple lives in Shorewood, Wis., and teach in Catholic schools.

Christine Jozwiak, Bus Ad ’08, and Joey Lehmann, Bus Ad ’08, Sept. 16, 2011.

Alumni in the wedding party

Maid of honor Laurna Jozwiak, Law ’09; Rachel Brown, Arts ’08; Lindsay Ruch, Comm ’08, Law ’12; Joseph Anderson, Bus Ad ’08; Michael Boedeker, Bus Ad ’08; Nick Hansen, Arts ’08; Kurt Keuter, Bus Ad ’09; and Eric Hart, Bus Ad ’08, Law ’11.

Alumni in attendance

Brian Nedd, Bus Ad ’08; Brian Keery, Bus Ad ’07; Tim Janusz, Bus Ad ’08; Teresa (Kaczmarek) Janusz, Bus Ad ’08; Beth Graham, Bus Ad ’08; Monica von Schledorn, Bus Ad ’08; Rachel (Leman) Anderson, H Sci ’08, Grad ’09; David Engel, H Sci ’08; Anna Sawicki, Comm ’10; Ryan Hornung, Bus Ad ’08; Nathaniel Hilliard, Arts ’08; Craig Cirella, Bus Ad ’09; Nate Boston, Bus Ad ’08; Jimmy (James) Lesko, Bus Ad ’05, Grad ’06; Bridget (Healy) Lesko, H Sci ’05, PT ’06; Brigid Moroney, Law ’10; Geoff Misfeldt, Law ’10; Eva (Weber-Sternig) Janssen, Nurs ’08; Kevin Duffey, Arts ’09; Andrea Natvig, Bus Ad ’08; Mark Romie, Comm ’06; Ashley Zoeller, H Sci ’08, Dent ’12; Alex Minten, Dent ’12; Eric Lowenberg, Law ’09; Joel Ott, Comm ’93; Brendan Raught, Bus Ad ’07; Maureen Hultgen, Comm ’07; Marilynn (DalPorto) Jozwiak, Arts ’77; John Cameron Drecoll, Eng ’75, Grad ’81; and Barbara (Harte) Sweeney, Dent Hy ’83.

Samantha E. Twomey, Arts ’08, and Michael T. Cooper, Bus Ad ’08, July 23, 2011 at the Jacob Henry Mansion in Joliet, Ill.

Alumni in attendance

Kevin J. Bourke, Bus Ad ’77; Julianne (Geiser) Hartmann, Arts ’07; Kevin P. Broadwell, Arts ’08; John G. Bustamante, Eng ’08; Tara B. Cohen, H Sci ’08; Rachel Cychosz, Arts ’08; Joseph P. Finn, Jr., Arts ’08; Peter D. “Danny” Hartmann, Eng ’08; Sara E. Milbrath, Bus Ad ’08; Matthew J. Mullarkey, Eng ’08; Steffanie A. Schaff, Arts ’08; John P. “Patrick” Carruthers, Eng ’09; and Michael R. Santana, Eng ’11.

Alicia M. Wantoch, Eng ’08, and TJ Dougherty, May 8, 2010 at St. Mary’s Church in Hales Corners, Wis. Alumni in the wedding party

Alexander A. Wantoch, H Sci ’06; Alyssa J. Paul, Eng ’07; Brittany E. Barry, Eng ’08; and Caitlin (Kowalski) Ball, Eng ’08.

Beth E. Warmuth, Arts ’08, and Stephen J. Ryan, Jr., Arts ’08, July 31, 2010 at St. Pius X Church in Wauwatosa, Wis. The couple met on a Manresa retreat before freshman year.

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Comm ’04; German Aquino, Bus

Sarah E. Biermann, Comm ’09, and Andrew R. McCracken, July 30, 2011 in Elk Grove Village, Ill. She is finishing her law degree and expects to graduate in May. Alumnae in the wedding party

Amanda S. McCracken, Comm ’07; Caleigh M. Gosewehr, Nurs ’09; and Dana L. Temple, Nurs ’09.

Alumni in attendance

Morgan Anderson, Arts ’09; Erica L. Bail, Comm ’09; Marisa M. Beauchaine, Nurs ’09; Tiffany M. Imburgia, Comm ’09; and Brittany L. Roskom, Comm ’09.

Amanda (Lloyd) Burns, Arts ’09, and William P. Burns, Eng ’09, July 24, 2010 in Chicago.

Victoria L. Caswell, Comm ’09, and Mathew Crumbley, May 7, 2011 in Bellingham, Wash.

Alumni in the wedding party

Sophia K. Jurgens, Bus Ad ’10; Monica A. Stout, H Sci ’09, Grad ’10; Adam B. Mallen, Arts ’09; and Adam M. Johnson, Arts ’08.

Alumni in the wedding party

Jamie A. Wu, Comm ’07; Mary E. Hamilton, Arts ’08; Jordan M. Hanson, Arts ’08; Andy Hunt, Bus Ad ’08; Kody C. Lewis, H Sci ’08, ’09; Catherine A. Mueller, H Sci ’08, ’09; Angela R. Walsh, Comm ’08; Anthony D. Gattuso, Arts ’09; Jason R. Rae, Arts ’09; Colleen K. Ryan, Ed ’10; and Samuel W. Warmuth, Eng ’11.

Had to drive by MarquetteU campus

just to see all of the freshies with their lanyards and draw string gym bags

— best 4 years.

Meghan M urphy, Comm ’ 1 1 , o n T witter

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Robert P. Immen, Bus Ad ’09, and Kathleen C. Scannell, Arts ’09, on June 18, 2011 at St. Patrick Church in Chesterton, Ind.

Corrine H. Heine Connell, Jour ’48

Alumni in the wedding party

LaVan M. Knickelbine

Laura A. Dillon, H Sci ’09, PT ’11; Patrick J. Falk, H Sci ’09; Robert J. Mueller, Bus Ad ’09; and Andrew J. Rice, Bus Ad ’09.

Maid of honor Jessica L. Broniarczyk, Arts ’09; Megan L. Berezowitz, H Sci ’10, PT ’12; Christina A. Burek, Grad ’10; and Matthew P. Beckwith, Bus Ad ’10.

Alumni in attendance

Alumni in attendance

Andrew C. Berkhout, Arts ’08; Michael Bolz, Arts ’09; Catherine M. Cable, Arts ’09; Kathleen G. Cullen, Arts ’09; Courtney E. Doherty, Arts ’09; Caitlin M. Duane, Arts ’09; Kevin M. Gandy, Arts ’09; Joseph J. Hancox, Arts ’09; Matthew D. Heger, Bus Ad ’09; Kelly A. Hogan, Arts ’09; Benjamin A. Ingraham, H Sci, ’09; Tracy L. Karnthaler, H Sci ’09, PA ’10; Matthew R. Krimmer, H Sci ’09, PT ’11; Kathleen A. McCarthy, Comm ’09; Michael R. Nothnagel, Comm ’09; Amanda I. Pazik, Nurs ’09; Nicole E. Purcell, H Sci ’09; Raymond A. Redlingshafer, III, Bus Ad ’09; Adam M. Stout, Comm ’09; Mary K. Wagner, Arts ’09; Robert D. Wiedie, Arts ’09; Monica M. Herron, H Sci ’10, PA ’11; Timothy J. Keefe, Eng ’10; Brian F. Manning, Eng ’10; Megan M. Naber, Eng ’10; and Irving A. Ibarra, Arts ’11.

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

Alumni in the wedding party

Laura K. Walczak, Bus Ad ’09, and Christopher Van Buer, June 11, 2011.

Alumnae in the wedding party

Mary “Maggie” Williams, Nurs ’08; and Kristin A. Herdrich, Arts ’09.

Alumni in attendance

Jaqueline (Walczak) Geib, Arts ’97; Kelly (Walczak) Bellin, Arts ’00, Grad ’07; and Peter C. Bellin, Bus Ad ’00.

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

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Robert D. Leimbach, Eng ’10, and Emma Lee C. Riesterer, Eng ’10, Aug. 6, 2011 in Clark Mills, Wis. Alumni in the wedding party

Rachel L. Leimbach, Eng ’03, Grad ’05; Matthew R. Schwartz, Grad ’06; Reinhard Naan, Eng ’09; and Kari D. Watson, Eng ’10.

Alumni in attendance

Jerome J. Talaga, Bus Ad ’66; Thomas E. Kopanski, Eng ’83, Grad ’89, ’94; Brian D. Arnold, Eng ’09; Jessica (Green) Meyer, H Sci ’09, PA ’10; Katrina A. Nguyen, H Sci ’09, PA ’10; Phillip K. Busch, Eng ’10; Meredith L. Claeys, Eng ’10, Grad ’11; Kun Wen “Oscar” Goh, Eng ’10; Matthew D. Kenney, Eng ’10; David R. Kruse, Arts ’10; Katherine E. O’Brien, Eng ’10; and Selene Valdez, Eng ’10.

Eagan, Nurs ’48

Frank E. Meyer, Grad ’48

in memoriam

Howard J. Grenell, Arts ’49 Charles T. Horngren,

Bus Ad ’49, Hon Deg ’76

Walter C. Johnston, Law ’49 Edward A. Koepke, Eng ’49 Harry E. Mickowski, Eng ’49 Albert C. Gehl, Bus Ad ’31

Helen V. Shaker Nuhn, Nurs ’49

Bernice R. Rondeau

Quentin J. Porter, Eng ’49

Allen J. Wood, Eng ’49

McLaughlin, Jour ’34

Rose L. McCann Eiting, Nurs ’38

Joseph B. Auer, Eng ’50

Donald J. Kitzerow, Eng ’38

David H. Hartnett, Bus Ad ’50

Helene P. Schwartz

Lawrence J. Hayes, Bus Ad ’50

George W. Lattin, Eng ’50

Thompson, Arts ’38

Dorothy J. Dernbach

Larry S. MacDonald, Arts ’50

Donald S. Manion, Arts ’50

Arquette, Med Tech ’40

Xavier J. Markowski, Bus Ad ’40

Robert A. Pribek, Arts ’50, Med ’53

Louis A. Brunckhorst, Law ’42

Mary Ann Reichert

Norman P. Eslinger, Arts ’42

Otto E. Minshall, Dent ’42,

John L. Raschbacher, Med ’50

Louis A. Reading, Bus Ad ’50

Grad ’63, ’69

Rainey, Sp ’50

Robert W. Schroeder,

Ross B. Shingledecker, Eng ’50

John E. de Chaud, Eng ’51

Arts ’42, Law ’43

Alfred L. Axtmayer, Med ’43

Kathleen M. Krause

Richard P. Gross, Eng ’43

George N. Groves, Eng ’43

G.R. Hall, Eng ’51

John F. Waroe, Eng ’43

Amalia F. Konz, Nurs ’51, Grad ’54

Margaret M. Connolly

James M. La Chapelle, Bus Ad ’51

William J. Niedermeyer, Eng ’51

Blackwood, Bus Ad ’44

Donnelly, Nurs ’51

James J. Bonifas, Jour ’44, Law ’48

Kenneth A. Payleitner, Arts ’51

John S. Boyle, Dent ’45

John J. Salscheider, Bus Ad ’51

Arthur P. Gabriel, Dent ’45

Roland J. Tarnowski, Eng ’51

Guy F. Risley, Eng ’45

Maridean Y. Yack Vander

Nicholas W. Stathas, Dent ’45

Esther J. Wrasse Gear, Nurs ’46

Robert E. Ward, Bus Ad ’51

Bernard D. Gurney, Eng ’46

Stephen T. Lee, Arts ’52, Med ’55

John F. Jacobs, Eng ’46

Joseph J. Lotharius, Jour ’52

Albert R. Franz, Bus Ad ’47, Law ’49

Leonard S. Misey, Arts ’52

Joseph R. Hilmer, Bus Ad ’47

John G. Powers, Eng ’52

Theresa P. Radermacher

Jerome R. Ptacek, Arts ’52

Jack E. Thompson, Med ’52

McCoy, Arts ’47

Heyden, Dent Hy ’51

Marvin E. Nelson, Dent ’47

Walter C. Vail, Arts ’52

Robert H. Paynter, Arts ’47

Raymond L. Wolski, Arts ’52

James T. McCann, Dent ’56

Charles L. Rasmussen, Bus Ad ’61

Cynthia Klas, Grad ’68

Eugene J. Keating, Arts ’53

Eileen M. O’Brien, Grad ’56

Ronald J. Romenesko, Arts ’61,

Verne C. Beecroft, Dent ’69

Josephine A. Kegel, Grad ’53

Frederick C. Perleberg, Grad ’56

Robin K. Kumferman Klima, Sp ’69

Erwin J. Keup, Bus Ad ’53, Law ’58

Robert A. Schroeder, Med ’56

Donald C. Sauls, Dent ’61

Kevin O’Connell, Bus Ad ’69

Bernard L. Lutz, Dent ’53

John J. Van Beckum, Bus Ad ’56

William O. Schoshinski, Dent ’61

Lauren C. Ahles, Arts ’70

Irmgard Obot, Bus Ad ’53

Patricia J. Klinke Wehner, Sp ’56

Judith R. Schroeder

Dennis J. Karpinski, Eng ’70

Richard M. Rasmussen,

Glenn O. Bratcher, Arts ’57, Med ’61

M.G. Langer, Grad ’70

Joseph J. Bray, Grad ’57

Terence T. Evans, Arts ’62, Law ’67

Nancy E. Laning Sobczak,

Helen M. Schmitz, Nurs ’53

Philip R. Girard, Bus Ad ’57

George F. Hnilicka, Grad ’62

Max F. Sporer, Bus Ad ’53

Carole A. McGovern

Luis R. Pujals, Arts ’62

Robert J. Black, Bus Ad ’71

Robert S. Turzenski, Eng ’53

Ronald R. Raddatz, Arts ’62

Carroll J. Sternberg, Grad ’71

Paul J. Weiss, Med ’53

Jerome J. O’Callaghan, Bus Ad ’57

Garet E. Van De Steeg, Arts ’62

Paul R. Vogel, Arts ’71

Virginia M. Lang

Armin A. Schenk, Arts ’57

Robert J. Zader, Eng ’62, Grad ’79

Jerome R. Weinhold, Bus Ad ’71

Thomas A. Callahan, Arts ’58

George J. Ceolla, Jour ’63

Lee S. Cooper, Arts ’72

Virginia M. Lancaster, Grad ’58

Alice K. Muth Dielen, Arts ’63

Thomas P. Day, Arts ’72, Eng ’74

Bus Ad ’53

Duero, Nurs ’54, Grad ’66

Dale A. Hafeman, Arts ’54

Hurley, Arts ’57

Grad ’64

Dickinson, Arts ’62

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Carlo M. De Rubertis, Eng ’53

Eng ’70, Grad ’72

Thomas R. Dubuque, Dent ’72 Dennis J. Barry, Law ’73

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.

Stephen J. Scannell, Eng ’73,

Grad ’77, ’07

Ronald A. Spakowitz, Dent ’75 Cynthia K. Curtin, Nurs ’76 John T. Whiting, Law ’77 Kevin L. Mattingly, Arts ’78

Michael P. Keeley, Arts ’54

Robert G. Lauson, Bus Ad ’58

Ruth A. Gartland, Arts ’63

Stan L. Jackson, Arts ’79

Diane M. Phillips

David M. Maher, Arts ’58

David E. Klefstad, Dent ’63

Charles J. Lee, Law ’79

Eugene J. Soule, Arts ’58

John R. Maas, Dent ’63

Larry L. Shupe, Law ’79

William P. McCarthy, Bus Ad ’54

Charles M. Turner, Arts ’58

Ann M. Davis Mawhorr, PT ’63

Valerie J. Piotrowski

Chester R. Pajolek, Dent ’54

James C. Wagner, Bus Ad ’58

Edward J. Reilly, Jour ’63

Richard E. Peterson, Dent ’54

Dennis A. Zagorski, Bus Ad ’58

Joseph F. Beresford, Arts ’64

Caren J. Curti Peloso, Sp ’82

Earl L. Peychal, Bus Ad ’54

Donald C. Dugan, Bus Ad ’59

Alice H. Holcomb

Ann R. Reilly Bishop, Law ’86

Leonard L. Stack, Grad ’54

Dennis M. Mongan, Arts ’59,

Sara J. Fuerst Goins, Nurs ’86

Judith A. Klink

Johann G. Rinecker, Arts ’64

Robert W. Silvestri, Law ’87

Patricia A. Krieg Trinkner, Arts ’59

Richard W. Schuetz, Arts ’64

Leslie E. Farkas

David J. Cannon,

Jerome C. Ulrich, Bus Ad ’59

Peter M. Priegel, Arts ’65

Daniel J. Dougherty, Arts ’60

Rose M. Scherman, Nurs ’65

Thomas K. Mullins, Law ’89

James F. Duresky, Bus Ad ’55

Joseph A. Hann, Eng ’60

Rodger E. Welker, Dent ’65

Patrick F. Haney, Arts ’93

Tomas J. Glass, Eng ’55

James F. Hohenwalter, Eng ’60

Joyce M. Kanetzke, Nurs ’66

Maureen E. Wencel-

Stephen J. Kerns, Bus Ad ’55

Gerald N. Nowak, Bus Ad ’60

Anne P. Hofmann Ramsey,

Mary D. Greider O’Keefe, Arts ’55

Donald F. Flynn, Bus Ad ’61

Christine F. Meyer, Law ’97

Eugene W. Thuot, Arts ’55

Gerald J. Kramschuster, Bus Ad ’61

Gary L. Reiton, Arts ’66

Geoffrey Farnsworth, Arts ’02

Thomas E. Wilson, Jour ’55

John W. LeClaire, Eng ’61

Donald J. Barbeau, Grad ’67

Carolyn J. Salyards, Grad ’05

Theodore S. Bistany, Arts ’56

John C. Mayer, Dent ’61

Thomas L. Bowen, Med ’67

Janet M. Vander Heyden

Gerald S. Muehleck, Eng ’61

Horst H. Engel, Eng ’67

Kropp, Med Tech ’54

Thelen, Dent Hy ’54 Bus Ad ’55, Law ’60

Grad ’66

Mikulin, Dent Hy ’64

Grad ’66

Richard E. Mutchler, Dent ’61

Odus J. Lynd, Arts ’67, Grad ’68

Robert J. Girman, Bus Ad ’56

Robert F. Perske, Bus Ad ’61,

John A. Geiger, Eng ’68, Grad ’87

Theodore E. Holevas, Bus Ad ’56

James R. Hamann, Grad ’68

Erdman, Arts ’56

Grad ’67

Broadwell, Arts ’81

Fischer, Law ’88

Winckler, Bus Ad ’96

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Mark D. Donnelly, Bus Ad ’96, and Michelle (Quint) Donnelly, Arts ’96: son Beckett Daniel, July 27, 2011. He weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces and joins brother Finnegan Patrick.

Melissa (Frank) Skiffington, Eng ’02, and Nicholas G. Skiffington, Eng ’02: daughter Hailey Marie, Aug. 19, 2010.

Kristin (Dressler) Weitmann, Nurs ’02, Grad ’10, and Ian P.

births

Thomas J. Kenny, Arts ’84, and Danielle (Amorena) Kenny: daughter Maria Josephine, April 14, 2011.

John M. Cullen, Comm ’91, and Wilma Joas: daughter Veronika Beatrix and son Lars Roman, May 23, 2011. The family lives in Litchfield, Conn.

Joseph P. Gallivan, Arts ’92, and Joy Gallivan: son Liam John, Aug. 18, 2011. He joins sister Charlotte, 1.

Tia (Wille) Kowalewski, Nurs ’94, and James R. Kowalewski, Eng ’95: son Luke James, Aug. 26, 2011. He joins brothers Jacob, 9, and Caleb, 9. The family lives in Mundelein, Ill. John B. Bogdan, Eng ’95, and Christi Bogdan: son Rylan John, June 22, 2011. The family lives in Genoa City, Wis. Kristen (Liebbe) Buchan, Arts ’95, and Andrew Buchan:

daughter Julianne Paige, April 3, 2010. The family lives in Los Angeles.

William D. McCormick, Bus Ad ’95, and Marlo (Stankowski)

McCormick, Bus Ad ’95, Grad ’97: son Will, Oct. 5, 2011. He joins sisters Molly, 6, and Macy, 4.

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Mary (Barder) Leahy, Nurs ’96, and Mike Leahy: daughter Megan Catherine, Aug. 15, 2011. She joins sister Nora.

Trent D. Madison, Eng ’96, and Loriann (Miller) Madison, Arts ’97: son Carson Elijah, Dec. 3, 2010. He joins siblings Austin, 11, Dylan, 7, and Nina, 2.

Weitmann, Arts ’02: son Benjamin James, Aug. 8, 2011.

Rebecca (Walker) Cline, Arts ’03, and Brian J. Cline, Comm ’03: son Henry John, March 29, 2011. He was 9 pounds, 2 ounces and 21.5 inches long.

The family lives in St. Paul, Minn.

Kathlene (Welch) Sheridan, Law ’04, and Adam J. Sheridan, Law ’04: son Isaac John, June 11, 2011. He was 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches long.

The family lives in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michael G. Sara, Comm ’05, and Traci (Powers) Sara, Bus Ad ’05, Grad ’06: daughter Claire Adele, Sept. 29, 2011. She was 8 pounds, 10 ounces and 21 inches, and she joins sister Emaline.

Rebecca (LaBarge) Young, Nurs ’05, and Ryan Young: son

Janet (Lai) Edesess, Arts ’98, and Rob Edesess: daughter Juliette Mei, Sept. 12, 2010.

She joins sister Camille, 2. The family lives in Piedmont, Calif.

John T. McCormack, Eng ’98, and Jacqueline Parra: son Charles Andre, March 21, 2011.

Erin (Cutter) Groth, Comm ’99, and Jonathan P. Groth, Law ’00: son John Elliot, July 1, 2011.

He joins brothers James and Thomas.

Kate (Conner) Drone, Nurs ’00, and Michael Drone: son Conner Hossley, April 5, 2011. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and 19.75 inches long.

Tarah (Beyer) Dickerson, Bus Ad ’02, and Clayton A. Dickerson,

Jessica (Wallace) Herzberg, H Sci ’03, and Eric R. Herzberg, Arts ’03: son Jackson Gary, Nov. 9, 2010. He was 6 pounds, 11 ounces and 20.5 inches long.

He is the couple’s first child.

Carl L. Schneeman, Eng ’03, Schneeman, Arts ’03: son Carl Henry, April 4, 2011. He joins brother Christopher Fritz, 2.

Kimberly (Koch) Wacker, Grad ’03, and David Wacker: daughter Madison Faith, Oct. 19, 2010. She joins sisters Michelle and Samantha.

Jorina M. Fontelera, Arts ’04, and Travis Miller: daughter Olivia Ligaya, Jan. 25, 2011.

She was 6 pounds and 18.2 inches long.

Ann (LaFave) Pierce, Arts ’04, and Ed Pierce: daughter Sally Madeline, April 3, 2011.

Alice (LaFave) Dickherber, Arts ’02, and Ryan Dickherber:

daughter Miller “Milly” Helena, Feb. 7, 2011.

Janna Wrench Pochert, Arts ’02, Grad ’05, and Dan Pochert: twins Edward Michael and Eleanor Cecelia, Sept. 1, 2011.

Anna (Stawski) Kesler, Eng ’06, and Patrick Kesler: son Jakub Joseph, Jan. 19, 2010. He joins sister Olivia Maria.

Grad ’06, and Margaret (Taylor)

Eng ’03: son Lukas Edward, June

22, 2011. The family lives in Chicago.

Cy Daniel, Aug. 4, 2011. He is the couple’s first child. The family lives in West Allis, Wis.

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

David O Madsen, Eng ’07, and Cheryl Madsen: son Nolan, April 3, 2011. He joins big brother Evan and family dog Montana. The family lives in Lakewood, Calif.

Joseph R. Ribbich, Eng ’07, and Shannon (O’Brien) Ribbich, Nurs ’08: son Benjamin Marvin, May 1, 2011. He was 6 pounds, 12 ounces and 20 inches long.

Anne (Talafuse) Rothenbach, H Sci ’08, PT ’10, and Samuel J.

Rothenbach, Eng ’08: son John Samuel, Sept. 6, 2011. He was 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 21 inches long. He is the couple’s first child.

Heather (Becker) Sims, Grad ’09, and Nicholas Sims: daughter Amelia Lynn, July 11, 2011. She was 6 pounds, 13.5 ounces and 20 inches long. She is the couple’s first child.

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letters to the editor “I joined the Marquette circle to pray

for James Foley when news of his capture

was announced on the Marquette website.”

Readers react to “Hero within” Just last night, I said to my husband, “I need a retreat!” ...

English professors like myself, especially those buried in the rough drafts of nervous freshmen, rarely have time for a retreat; we barely have time to read the back of a cereal box, though we would like to be reading Proust or St. Ignatius or the latest New York Times book review section. To my delight, the Lord answered my plea for respite with the fall 2011 edition of this exceptionally written work. Reading from cover to cover, I am once again renewed in spirit. Even those of us who are in Christ, who are surrendered believers, who study the Word, sometimes feel lost. Pamela Hill Nettleton reminded me that, “Living an ordinary life with grace and insight,” is a Christian’s gift.

Today I am, once again, gifted

by Marquette.

Marybeth Vaughan, Grad ’96

I feel like this was edited for space. Your directions seem to have changed nearly randomly, and I struggle to reconcile your concluding paragraph with the rest of the article. Are you downplaying the 343 dead firefighters, emphasizing women’s contribution to the flawed heroics of 9/11 or saying to bloom where you are planted?

Sean Murray, Jour ’88

“The events of 9/11”? How about “The attacks of 9/11”?

The “events,” as you call what happened on that tragic day, did not involve a natural disaster or an act of God. They did involve mass murderers who believed they were acting on behalf of

God, however. Also, you say that “the enemy could not be identified.” ... I will identify the enemy for you: Jihadis intent on destroying America.

Mary Esterhammer-Fic, Arts ’81

A vote for civility

Mary Walsh Neumann, Comm ’90

fall issue was no exception with its articles on bridging the gap of partisanship in D.C. and the Faiths Act Fellowship work to prevent malaria. It’s good to know Marquette is still a place where open-mindedness flourishes.

Carlos A. Rodriguez-Garcia, Eng ’84

I wanted to say that I thought the piece on Greg Curtis and Alex Johnson in the recent Marquette Magazine was incredibly impressive and really brought a smile to my face.

At a time when it seems like Democrats and Republicans can’t even have simple civil conversations, let alone govern our country responsibly, it was refreshing to see two people truly come together from both sides of the “aisle.” If only our elected officials could see the bigger picture as you do.

Secondly, as a Marquette alum, I was quite inspired by what you both accomplished in your earlier careers and now as successful consultants. Congratulations on the success of your business and good luck in the future.

Foley’s story inspires

Beth Day, Arts ’02

Jim Foley is an inspiration.

A wonderful example of the Marquette spirit.

Father Pilarz’s goals praised I applaud Father Pilarz for the two goals he stated for Marquette: educational access and a relentless pursuit of new excellence. As a teacher in innercity Phoenix, I sincerely hope the Dream Act will pass and many deserving students will be able to experience the Marquette education I so cherish.

As for the relentless pursuit of excellence, your magazine always brings the true Jesuit spirit into my home, and the

I joined the Marquette circle to pray for James Foley when news of his capture was announced on the Marquette website. While praying for his safety during our mealtime, my daughter made a connection — Jim is her classmate’s godfather. Our Catholic grade school in Chicago soon joined the prayer circle. We eventually celebrated that our collective prayer of petition was answered.

Mary Walsh Neumann, Comm ’90

This just exemplifies that God is always with us, no matter what. ... [It] also shows us the power of prayer. Praise God.

personal endeavor that is made so much more special knowing that, as is this case, it is common with so many other pilgrims. I encourage Marquette students and alumni to continue their pilgrimages through life as embodiment of “la misión ignaciana” (pardon the Spanish but I find no better way to express it), which we live and share with so many others of different backgrounds and faiths, not only in special occasions but in everyday life as well.

Carlos A. Rodriguez-Garcia, Eng ’84

Looking forward to more on Alcott How delightful to focus on this excellent author whose book, Little Women, I believe, has never been out of print.

I am an alumna who took many literature courses at Marquette. I will watch for the new bio and also for the documentary.

Dorothy Andries, Jour ’58

Melanie Nankivell, Dent Hy ’75

Judy Dincher, Nurs ’59

World Youth Day I am always moved by the stories in Marquette Magazine.

The one on the pilgrimage to World Youth Day in particular prompted me to write because it reminded me of my own pilgrimage to Spain this past September on El Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James).

What a wonderful experience shared by Marquette students and faculty. A pilgrimage is a

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John didn’t expect to be downsized. Losing his job put him into a tailspin of desolation. “I didn’t know what to think about myself

Tilling the Soil

and my worth,” he said. Worry about his family’s security was the worst. Seven months later when he found a position in a somewhat different profession, he began to reflect on his experience. “I started to realize that losing my job was the best thing that ever happened to me. I hadn’t realized how stressed, tense and under pressure I had become and how it was affecting my whole life. My new job is creative and fun, and I love the team I work with. I never would have made this move on my own.”

A key element of Ignatian spirituality is found in the use of

an “Examen of Consciousness,” or prayerful reflection on our day or weeks or months to see the movements within us of desolation and consolation. Not all desolation is found in the “big issues” like

A key element of

Ignatian spirituality

a job loss, not all consolation is found in big issues like a marriage or birth. Sometimes it is the simple, everyday stuff of life that calls forth feelings of joy or sorrow, consolation or pain.

Imagine looking out a window to a snow-covered landscape,

is found in the use

catching a glimpse of a bird hopping around and nibbling tiny

of an “Examen of

Smile and take delight in this. It is a consolation and a sign of

Consciousness,” or

berries knocked down by the wind from the tree branch above. the presence of God.

John discovered through his reflection that he is able to be

“more like himself” in his new position. Doing the daily Examen

exploring faith together

prayerful reflection

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on our day or weeks or months.

helps each of us to become more like ourselves — created and loved by God. Saying a prayer quiets our minds and readies our hearts.

You are the way, the truth, the life Without the way there is no going Without the truth there is no knowing Without the life there is no growing Show us the way, that we may go Teach us the truth, that we may know Grant us the life, that we may grow Eternally.

— Prayer by Rev. Theodore (Ted) J. Tracy, S.J.

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

from the archives

Marquette athletes practice their

hockey skills, circa mid-1920s.

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