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Any field guide to art and sculpture on campus will take adventurers first to the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art. The museum is home to 6,000 works of art — medieval to contemporary — in a variety of mediums. It provides a forum for interdisciplinary learning through exhibitions and educational programming that promote visual literacy and critical thinking to students and the entire Milwaukee community.

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A shining moment of faith for Aaron Ledesma.

The world of ballet knows a master of the art named John Neumeier.

COVER STORY

22 Out of Africa Drills become reality with the arrival of the first U.S. Ebola patients.

F E AT U R ES

16 Reconciled Pope Francis opened a door that Aaron Ledesma thought was closed to him forever.

18 John Neumeier’s moment of truth

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Six words from Rev. John Walsh, S.J., removed all doubt, and a great artist emerged.

26 Art smart: A field guide to art and sculpture on campus

It was the right fit for a young woman interested in stripping away the trappings of a material world.

So much is hidden in plain sight. Art appreciation begins with looking up to see what’s looking you in the eye.

32 Living L’Arche Twenty years ago Trish Glennon’s life veered onto a different path. “Without Marquette I would not have found L’Arche.”

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COMING SOON

This summer the Haggerty Museum of Art will reintroduce gallery space dedicated to the permanent display of highlights from the museum’s collection.

Martel Schwichtenberg, Sitzende mit Blumen (Seated Woman with Flowers), ca. 1920 – 1921 Full cataloging details are available on the permanent collection page of the Haggerty Museum of Art website at marquette.edu/haggerty.

on the Web classnotes.marquette.edu Stay connected and up to date with all the news at Marquette by visiting marquette.edu. Get the calendar of events and guest speakers planned for Mission Week 2016 at marquette.edu/missionweek-2016.

NEWS FROM CAMPUS

we are marquette 6 being the difference

> Playing it forward

7 on campus

> First encounters

> Feel welcome?

> Foley Scholar begins

> Campus Q&A

10 arts + culture

> Pulitzer proud

12 focus on research > Tick tock of the master clock

> Lightning round

14 snap:shot

A test of comfort and inclusivity.

in every issue

> Winter flurry

Editor: Joni Moths Mueller Copy Editor: Becky Dubin Jenkins Contributing Writers: Dan Barrett, student-intern; Brian Dorrington; Aaron Ledesma, Comm ’14; Jesse Lee; Herbert Lowe, Jour ’84, Grad ’14; Clare Peterson, Comm ’10; Jay Sanders; and Christopher Stolarski.

Design: Winge Design Studio, Chicago Photography: Margaret Bean; DFID – UK Department for International Development; Day Donaldson/ Creative Commons; Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo; Jack Mitchell/Getty; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Creative Commons; John Neinhuis; Rosalie O’Connor/Boston Ballet; Cliff Owen/AP Photo; Jeffrey Phelps; Daniel Reinhardt/epa Corbis; Alex Sanz/AP Photo; Orla Schantz; Lynn Shumow; and John Sibilski.

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From Dr. Michael R. Lovell Address correspondence to Marquette Magazine, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wis., 53201-1881 USA Email: mumagazine@marquette.edu Phone: (414) 288-7448 Publications Agreement No. 1496964 Marquette Magazine ( Winter 2016, Issue No. 1), for and about alumni and friends of Marquette, is published three times a year by Marquette University, 1250 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53223.

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Readers weigh in with their views 48 Tilling the soil

Exploring faith together

professional life was a main factor that led me to Marquette

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Being able to incorporate my Catholic faith into my

FROM PRESIDENT DR. MICHAEL R. LOVELL

almost two years ago. I felt blessed to be coming to a place where each day I would have opportunities to progress in my personal faith journey. I have not been disappointed. Whether stopping in the Madonna Della Strada Chapel in Zilber Hall to pray or attending daily Mass at St. Joan of Arc Chapel or

I am surrounded

going to confession at Church of the Gesu or participating in

by people and spaces

Eucharistic Adoration in Schroeder Hall, I am surrounded by

that help keep my life

people and spaces that help keep my life grounded in faith.

From the start I knew one of my biggest challenges would

grounded in faith.

be upholding Marquette’s 134-year tradition of providing exceptional Jesuit education without having had formal training about the Society of Jesus. I had a significant amount to learn about how Ignatian Spirituality is integrated throughout campus. What I did not realize was how much support would be available for my personal Jesuit formation. Nearly everywhere I turn, people within the Marquette community offer books and articles on Jesuit history and philosophies. These documents have been a true gift, and I have greatly enjoyed learning about St. Ignatius and the principles of Jesuit education.

When asked about my first year at Marquette, my wife Amy said she thought I’d read more books since joining Marquette than during the previous 20 years. Reflecting on my readings, I can’t help but feel that God — without my knowledge — had provided me with experiences throughout my life to prepare me for leading this Jesuit institution.

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One of the most powerful Jesuit formation experiences I’ve

had was provided by our Ignatian Colleagues Program, a silent, weeklong retreat under the spiritual guidance of Rev. James Kubicki, S.J., national director of the Apostleship of Prayer. I ate alone, slept alone, and, when I took a break from my readings and contemplation, biked or ran alone. There were no calls to the office, no checking email and no radio or television. Father Kubicki took me through the Spiritual Exercises guided by the book, A Closer Walk with Christ: A Personal Ignatian Retreat, written by Rev. Raymond Thomas Gawronski, S.J. For 30 to 40 minutes each day, Father Kubicki led me through the life of Jesus Christ from Jesus’ point of view, helping me see and feel His life through His eyes. The experience was inspiring and overwhelming and allowed me to further discern God’s plan for me.

I felt blessed to be coming to a place where each day I would have opportunities to progress in my personal faith journey.

During the retreat I read about actor Bruce Marchiano. He

was preparing to portray Jesus in a movie and prayed constantly for insights into Jesus’ life. Marchiano asked to see the world literally through Jesus’ eyes to best inform his acting. When he received the insight — only briefly — it nearly crushed him.

Marchiano’s response was uncontrollable tears because he saw an unhappy society following its will and not God’s plan.

This silent retreat was a multidimensional gift. It exemplifies

why I am blessed to be at Marquette University. The retreat was a gift from my family (especially Amy) to allow me the time away from home. It was a gift from Marquette to have written in its employment policies the opportunity for lay staff to make spiritual retreats. It was a gift from St. Ignatius, conceived centuries ago and still applicable today as we seek to better understand God. And, ultimately, it was a gift from God that this process was created as a way for people like me to continue life’s journey on a path that leads to Him and His grace.

Dr. Michael R. Lovell PRESIDENT

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being the difference : 6 on campus : 7 arts + culture : 10 focus on research : 12 snapshot : 14

MISSION WEEK

EARTH JUSTICE COMMITTING TO OUR SACRED WORLD

JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 4

we are marquette M I S S I O N W E E K 2 0 1 6 will embrace how we care and love our sacred world. Echoes of the

themes of that celebration — sustainability, sacred creation, interdependence, abundance — are also found in this issue in stories about a sports camp for the visually impaired, reading essays from prospective students who hope to begin at Marquette, strengthening diversity initiatives so all feel welcome, and more. Let’s begin.

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“Everyone had a blast.

The kids enjoyed it.

The parents were very happy. Even the coaches I brought in for different sports said it was a life-changing experience.”

PLAYING IT FORWARD We all have limitations.

The question is how much will they define us?

The answer for Ian Kloehn — not at all.

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loehn, a junior studying biomedical sciences in the College of Health Sciences, plans to go to medical school and become a pediatric oncologist. He also has optic nerve atrophy. He’s legally blind. “I can see everything,” Kloehn says. “It’s just blurry.”

His vision for helping others is anything but.

This summer Kloehn partnered with Milwaukee nonprofit Vision Forward to deliver a two-day sports camp for visually impaired youth. Held at Marquette in July, it drew students from fourth grade through high school.

Kloehn networked with Vision Forward and other Wisconsin organizations for the visually impaired to find campers.

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He leaned on friends and sports contacts to recruit coaches and helpers, all unpaid volunteers.

A gifted athlete who played high school select and varsity soccer, Kloehn was one of 11 U.S. students chosen to attend the 2009 Paralympic Games.

He created Vision Forward Sports Camp to share his love of sports with kids who might otherwise feel sidelined.

“I never realized I had a visual impairment when I played sports,” he says. “I felt like I could do everything other people could.”

For Kloehn that was a feeling worth sharing with the nine visually impaired students who attended his camp, including some with total blindness.

They swam; did jiu jitsu, yoga and cardio; and played “goalball,” a rehabilitative game developed for World War II veterans.

What the camp lacked in numbers it made up for in its impact on participants.

In post-camp evaluations, one camper wrote about showing his mother what he could do: “I wanted her to gain confidence in me.” Another wrote that he “learned that I can be independent and don’t need help.”

The mother of a sixth-grader wrote: “It was important for him to see other kids are like him, since he often feels like the only one with vision loss.”

“Everyone had a blast,” Kloehn says.

“The kids enjoyed it. The parents were very happy. Even the coaches I brought in for different sports said it was a life-changing experience.” m JS Kloehn is already planning a summer 2016 session.

on campus FIRST PERSON

FIRST ENCOUNTERS Seeing Pope Francis during his visit to the United States taught Dan Barrett, a junior in the Diederich College of Communication, that building faith requires taking chances.

He wrote about the experience for Marquette Magazine.

BY DA N B A R R E T T

College is busy. Students balance what sometimes seems like crippling amounts of schoolwork, friends, sleep, activities and service. For me it’s easy for faith to lose its place of priority. So when I found out that I would be going to Philadelphia to write about and visually document Pope Francis’ visit at the World Meeting of Families, I was slightly taken aback. What schoolwork would I miss?

Am I a good enough Catholic? Why me?

Aaron Tyler McCoy, a graduate student and one of my fellow travelers, and I were unsure of most things. We didn’t know exactly where we would be staying or what we would be doing. We weren’t even sure we would get a glimpse of the pope. We were supposed to celebrate the beauty of the family with people we had never met in a city we had never been to.

But Pope Francis is special; he has a way of bringing people together.

We were told that when we arrived in Philly we should be prepared for the chaos of millions of visitors. “Everything will shut down,” we were warned.

But what might have created havoc just took people out of their routines. Everything was quiet in anticipation. It was a time to focus. What did we do when we stopped moving? We spent time with others, we reflected and, as Pope Francis invited us to do, we prayed.

It was a special few days because the people we encountered treated us like family. We were more than Marquette students “visiting” Philly; we came together as Jesuit educated, as Catholics and families, and together we made a pilgrimage of faith.

We participated in a small part of the greater journey Pope Francis made in the United States. I realized that growing my faith, especially while I’m in college, requires taking chances, going outside of my comfort zone and asking questions. I found that in our confusion we were able to ask questions, in our discomfort we found family and in our journey we were guided by our faith. m DB See how communication student Dan Barrett documented his experience at marquette.edu/pope.

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WELCOMING POPE FRANCIS In addition to students Dan Barrett and Aaron Tyler McCoy, representatives from campus who witnessed

Pope Francis’ first U.S. visit included President Michael R. Lovell and students and staff from the Marquette Center for Peacemaking and Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C.

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feel welcome? Is Marquette comfortable, inclusive and welcoming to

all students and staff? The question is so important the university surveyed the entire campus.

Here’s what we learned from nearly 4,300 people who responded.

Areas of strength include high levels of comfort with the climate at Marquette and positive attitudes about work-life issues, according to faculty, staff and administrators. Among student respondents, more than 80 percent expressed satisfaction with their

intellectual development and growth at Marquette and 95 percent said they intend to graduate from Marquette.

But areas that should be a focus for improvement were revealed in comments describing exclusionary, intimidating, offensive and/or hostile conduct, particularly experienced by people of color and members of the LGBT community.

The survey received a 31 percent response rate. It was administered by Dr. Susan Rankin of Rankin & Associates Consulting. The outside consultant for the project worked for 18 months with an internal Climate Study Working Group.

The study results were delivered to the university community in mid-September.

“The study is one of many ways the university is committed to maintaining and improving the environment of a campus that respects the dignity and worth of all

Foley Scholar begins Jacob Zelinski, a freshman in the Diederich College of Communication, is the first holder of the James Foley Scholarship.

Receiving the honor, Zelinski says, was the moment he felt called to his future path in life. That moment culminated in October when Zelinski met John and Diane Foley. The Foleys came to campus to honor their son, the Marquette alumnus and journalist who was killed in Syria, in a Mass of Remembrance celebrated at Church of the Gesu. The Mass was one of a number of tributes held on campus on the one-year anniversary of James’ death. Among the memorial events, the university blessed a painting of James that was created during Mission Week 2015 by artist Mary Pimmel-Freeman and installed it in the Alumni Memorial Union.

“John and Diane are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met, and they really encompass what James believed in — compassion, commitment and courage,” Zelinski says. “They say Jim challenges them every day, and you can see it in them. I love how the Marquette community came together and honored him. It was a beautiful and moving tribute.” m BD

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our members,” says Dr. William Welburn, executive director of the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion.

The working group will facilitate forums and open sessions with the Marquette community to develop three or four action items to implement this year.

“As President Lovell has noted, the survey results provide essential baseline data that identify issues that we are now in a position to address,” says Dr. Cheryl Maranto, associate professor of management and co-chair of the Campus Climate Study Working Group. “The university is committed to developing tangible action steps with timelines and measurable outcomes so that when the survey is readministered, we have benchmarks against which we can assess our progress.” m CP

on campus exposure to their chosen career field. Or it can provide details of a personal situation that had an impact on their academic record.

Marquette’s holistic review of a student’s application file allows us to include a student’s written submission in our decision process.

My advice to any student is to take the care and time when writing the essay because it is a reflection of you.

CAMPUS Q&A

How do you prepare to read essays?

Students take the time, effort and thought to submit an application with the hope of joining the Marquette community. That serves as an important reminder for me to make sure I give as much attention to the 50th application as I did to the first application to reach my desk.

Connie Bennett is senior assistant dean in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and reader of many application essays.

What has changed in the admissions process?

The online interaction colleges and universities now have with prospective students — from how students research institutions through their application and enrollment — has had an impact on our outreach with students, parents and school counselors.

The ease of applying to college with an online application has increased the number of colleges to which students apply. Most students now apply to eight to 12 colleges vs. three or four. They are throwing their nets wide. What has not changed is the importance of the relationships we build with families as they move through the search process.

How many applications do you review?

While I review applications for all majors

and programs, the majority of my work focuses on the review of freshman applications for our College of Nursing, direct-entry doctor of physical therapy and Pre-dental Scholars programs. Our application-reading season begins in December and concludes by mid-January.

Though our reading season is intense, it is one of my favorite parts of the job. It is difficult to quantify how many applications I read within that timeframe but perhaps around 2,000.

The dreaded application essay — students write them and you read them. Do they matter?

Yes. The essay provides the student’s unique voice and personality. Beyond the transcript and test scores, the essay offers the opportunity to describe a personal experience that has affected their life or

What will catch your eye?

A student who shares a glimpse into his or her personal story. When I finish reading a student’s full application and say to myself “I want to meet him!” I know he did a great job sharing his story with us.

Could you describe one of the best essays you’ve read and why it stood out?

One of my favorite essays from last year’s incoming freshman class came from a young woman who summarized her life to this point from the perspective of the family’s card table. She provided a great description of how the family card table was there for every birthday party, First Communion, pumpkin carving session, family pot luck supper and Christmas party, and it would soon be holding her graduation cake.

I thought it was an extremely creative way of sharing her personal story.

What three words describe Marquette-ready students?

Ready to engage. m

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Pulitzer Prize winners packed a punch with reporting about the misery of AIDS, the rage of domestic violence, the costs of strip mining and more.

PULITZER PROUD

BY H E R B E R T LOWE, JO UR ’8 4, GRAD ’14

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Professional in residence, journalism and media studies

Margo Huston’s path to winning the Pulitzer Prize began in a Johnston Hall journalism class, where an instructor’s assignments “helped me know that I could ask anybody any question about anything and expect an answer.” That training helped propel Huston, Jour ’65, to earn her profession’s highest honor, as a features and women’s department reporter for The Milwaukee Journal in 1977 for her reports on the elderly and the process of aging.

Huston is one of four Marquette alumni to earn a Pulitzer. American journalism, scholarship and public affairs professionals will celebrate the centennial of the prize throughout 2016.

John Machacek, Jour ’62, was the first alumnus to win a Pulitzer. He and a Rochester Times-Union colleague were cited in 1972 for their coverage of the Attica prison riot in New York. Jacqui Banaszynski, Jour ’74, of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch,

earned her prize in 1988 for a series about the life and death of a man with AIDS in a rural farm community. George Lardner, Jr., Jour ’56, Grad ’62, of The Washington Post, did so in 1993 after examining his daughter’s murder by a man who had slipped through the criminal justice system.

Winning a Pulitzer is a life-changing circumstance, professionally and personally.

Machacek, a former editor-in-chief of The Marquette Tribune, says the prize validated

Margo Huston, Jour ’65 The Milwaukee Journal

Marquette’s Pulitzer Prize winners

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Jacqui Banaszynski, Jour ’74 Margo Huston, Jour ’65 George Lardner, Jr., Jour ’56, Grad ’62 John Machacek, Jour ’62 PULI TZ E R F INAL ISTS

Jacqui Banaszynski, Jour ’74 Joan Biskupic, Jour ’78 AWARD-WINNING STAF F

James T. Areddy, Bus Ad ’85 George Lardner, Jr., Jour ’56, Grad ’62 Terrance McGarry, Jour ’61 Neil Milbert, Jour ’61 AWARD-WINNING E DITORS

Gregory Borowski, Jour ’89 Wallace Carroll, Jour ’28 SPECI AL C ITAT ION

Alumnus John Machacek, Jour ’62, (third from right) celebrates winning a Pulitzer in 1972 with colleagues at the Rochester Times Union.

“we had scooped the world” and that a medium-sized newspaper could compete against The New York Times “on a big breaking story in its own backyard.” Lardner says it enabled him to bring greater attention on the lecture circuit to problems associated with domestic violence. For Banaszynski, the true reward was how her work proved that the best journalism could be compassionate.

Elizabeth Baker, a junior majoring in journalism in the Diederich College of

Joseph P. Ritz, Jour ’54

Communication, interviewed all four winners as part of a research project last semester.

The Pulitzer success, Baker says, “shows that the skills Marquette journalism students learn, they take them and form them to their own interests to work on pieces that are not only important and significant to them personally, but obviously also to the nation and their readers — and make a difference.”

Being named a Pulitzer finalist also is a remarkable achievement. Banaszynski became one in 1986 for her account of African famine victims in Sudan. Joan Biskupic, Jour ’78, who has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for 25 years, did as well when she and two Reuters colleagues were recognized last year for using data analysis to reveal how an elite cadre of lawyers enjoys extraordinary access to the U.S. Supreme Court.

1988 Jacqui Banaszynski, Jour ’74 St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch

George Lardner, Jr., Jour ’56, Grad ’62 The Washington Post

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Often a Pulitzer goes to a news organization’s staff. Two Marquette alumni contributed significantly to such collaborations: Lardner, among six Washington Post reporters who produced a story cited in 2002 as part of overall coverage of the U.S. war on terrorism; and James T. Areddy, Bus Ad ’85, one of several Wall Street Journal journalists cited in 1987 for their reports on the adverse effect of China’s booming capitalism.

Areddy worked at The Marquette Tribune but did not take journalism classes at Marquette. “I feel that not having studied journalism made me a stronger reporter,” he says, adding that his liberal arts grounding at Marquette “helped me a lot and showed me the complexities of the world.”

Two other Marquette alumni contributed to Pulitzer-winning staff efforts: Terrance McGarry, Jour ’61, of the Los Angeles Times, cited in 1998 for its coverage of a botched bank robbery and subsequent police shootout; and Neil Milbert, Jour ’61, a longtime horse racing reporter at the Chicago Tribune, cited in 2001 for its reporting about the chaotic U.S. air traffic system.

The Pulitzer board sometimes awards a special citation. Joseph P. Ritz, Jour ’54, wrote part of a series that in 1964 earned Gannett Newspapers a Pulitzer for its “The Road to Integration” coverage.

Pulitzer-worthy journalism inevitably requires leadership and extra resources from top newsroom leaders. Wallace Carroll, Jour ’28, served as editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel when, in 1971, it was honored for keeping a strip-mining operation from causing irreparable damage in northwest North Carolina.

Every Pulitzer-winning entry has a dayto-day editor guiding the work. Gregory Borowski, Jour ’89, for example, served as main editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s 2011 coverage of efforts to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy from a mysterious disease. Borowski, another past editor-in-chief of The Marquette Tribune, also edited three other series published by the newspaper and later cited as Pulitzer finalists.

As a journalism student, Baker says of Marquette’s connection to the Pulitzer Prize: “It makes me feel that I am part of something important and special.” m

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focus on research

the tick tock of the master clock Each of us has a biological clock — a region in the brain that regulates every bodily process. How does that clock communicate and track those processes, and how does it affect overall health?

That’s what Dr. Jennifer Evans, assistant professor of biomedical sciences in the College of Health Sciences, hopes to answer.

Lightning round Highlighting some faculty research and scholarly honors.

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Dr. Andrew Hanson, associate professor of economics, and Dr. Nicholas Jolly, assistant professor

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Evans received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of biological rhythms on health, specifically as they relate to neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and depression.

“Our master clock is actually made up of about 20,000 neurons that need to coordinate,” Evans says.

“Disruption of this network is linked to a number of diseases, like depression, obesity and cancer.”

Changes and decisions made in our daily lives can disrupt the process and compromise function of our master clock. “Jetlag is one of the most common examples of master clock disruption,” Evans explains. “When you travel across time zones, the time of day is at a mismatch with your internal clock, and that means your clock isn’t programming what it needs to at a certain time.”

Evans says disruptions like jetlag are short-term and usually don’t cause lasting effects; our bodies adjust.

Where major health

Dr. Sandra Hunter, professor of exercise science, and Dr. Robert Fitts, professor of biological sciences — Winners of a $2.8 million National Institutes of Health grant to study muscle loss,

of economics — Studying

increased fatigue and counter measures

effects of an NFL rule

in aging populations.

change to reduce head injuries that has had an unintended consequence of increasing lower-body injuries in some players.

See much more at marquette.edu/research.

Our phones, tablets and computers produce light, and can erroneously shift our clock ... prolonged use can cause major shifts that could lead to health issues.

MENACE MOSQUITOES At times the roles of teacher and student shift. That was the case for Dr. George Corliss after the emeritus professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Opus College of Engineering encouraged Tanzanian student Samson Kiware, Grad ’14, to pursue doctoral studies at Marquette.

problems occur is in long-term, chronic disruptions, like those suffered by shift workers (who represent about 15 percent of American wage earners) or even disruptions through increased use of smartphones and tablets. “Our phones, tablets and computers produce light, and we tend to use these devices at night when our body expects less light input,” Evans says. “This can erroneously shift our clock, and prolonged use can cause major shifts that could lead to health issues.”

Evans hopes that by learning how the master clock communicates, we can start to regulate behaviors that cause disruptions and learn how healthier habits can reset and regulate our biological functions. m JL

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Kiware’s scholarly focus was a little outside the box for this college — and for his

Ph.D. adviser. Kiware

was searching for ways to stop

malaria, a disease that kills 430,000 people annually, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Corliss helped Kiware design a degree program in computational sciences to pursue the research, and, in that process, malaria acquired a new adversary.

Corliss traveled to Tanzania with Kiware in 2013 to learn some of the issues firsthand. He recently returned from his fourth trip. This time he accompanied another Tanzanian student, Masabho (Peter) Milali, who is following a research inquiry to identify a low-cost way to determine the age of mosquitoes. The malaria parasite takes six to seven days to mature, so mosquitoes that are 10 days old or younger can’t transmit the disease. Knowing the age

of mosquitoes in a region would help NGOs identify where to focus eradication efforts.

On each trip Corliss reunites with Kiware and Paul Kaefer, Grad ’15, who work at the Ifakara Health Institute in rural Tanzania, one of the world’s leading NGOs in malaria research.

Corliss conducts workshops in mathematical modeling, statistical analysis and English writing for scientists at work identifying strategies and tools to eliminate malaria.

Research making inroads, Corliss says, includes exploring techniques to have female mosquitoes carry anti-larvae insecticide to breeding habitats, building large outdoor traps with solar-powered zappers to kill the insects and designing “repellent-impregnated” shoes that reduce lower-leg bites by two-thirds.

“A lot of progress has been made on the research front,” Corliss says, “but now the end game is eliminating it on the ground.” m JMM

Malaria kills 430,000 people annually, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Dr. Stefan Schnitzer, professor of biological sciences, with Geertje van der Heijden, a post-doctoral fellow in the

Dr. Lobat Tayebi, associate professor and director of research in the School of Dentistry — Soft- and hard-tissue expansion, vascularization and stem cell seeding using 3D-bioprinting as

Schnitzer Lab at Marquette, and

a means for regenerating critical size and/or

Jennifer Powers, a professor at the

multi-tissue compartmental defects within the

University of Minnesota — Woody

craniomaxillofacial​ region.​​

vines in tropical forests are reducing the capacity of tropical forests to store carbon, which is accelerating climate change.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Dr. Peter Staudenmaier, assistant professor of history — Examining ecological dimensions of Nazism in his project, “The Politics of Blood and Soil: Environmental Ideals in Nazi Germany.”

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Winter Flurry — This frenzy is all about

snapping up something warm and tasty during the knotty noon-time rush.

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RECONCILED Pope Francis’ message of love and hope extends a welcome back to the church.

BY AARON LEDESMA, COMM ’14

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My heart is racing. I hear the trumpets play Hail to the Chief when the president and first lady appear outside the White House. They walk to the circular driveway that is iconic American imagery and stand. The silence is heavy with anticipation — when suddenly the trumpets blare again and a motorcade flying the Vatican flag pulls up. His Holiness Pope Francis has arrived.

I ask myself: “Aaron, how did you get here?” and memories of August 13 come to mind.

I had been blogging about my journey to reconcile my faith and life as an openly gay man. My writing and research led me to discover that Pope Francis was scheduled to visit Washington, D.C.

Spectators on the south lawn of the White House included Aaron Ledesma, Comm ’14, who was featured in this Associated Press photo.

I wrote to the White House seeking an invitation to the welcoming ceremony.

I received the phone call on August 13 that changed everything. At first I thought the caller was one of my friends punking me.

When I realized I was really speaking to a representative from the White House who was inviting me and one guest to attend the arrival ceremony honoring the pope, you can imagine my answer.

In the weeks that followed my story went viral. I received countless messages, tweets, and calls from reporters at ABC, NBC, Fox, the AP, CNN, The Huffington Post and others

requesting interviews.

To this day I’m humbled and shocked by it.

I never thought people would want to learn about me, a gay Catholic, and my ticket to the White House.

Now the day is finally here and I am more excited than I remember being about any other event in my life.

“What a beautiful day the Lord has made,” says President Barak Obama, bringing my attention back to this moment. “Holy Father, on behalf of Michelle and myself, welcome to the White House.”

Standing with me on the south lawn are nearly 15,000 people, the largest gathering in history on this site. President Obama’s words touch on why many of us are here. This gathering, the president says, “ … reflects the way that your message of love and hope has inspired so many people across our nation and around the world.”

It was Pope Francis’ message of love and hope that welcomed me back to the church. As a gay Catholic I had struggled for many years. My faith suffered from fear, doubt and misunderstanding. Misconception that the Catholic Church was unwelcoming and unforgiving clouded my judgment.

In 2013 Pope Francis cleared the air for me. It was then when His Holiness was meeting with reporters and the topic of homosexuality came up in a question. With a more compassionate tone than that of his predecessors, he responded: “If someone is gay and searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?”

That was a defining moment for me.

After nearly 18 years of Catholic education,

His Holiness is the pope of inclusion, and that’s enough for me. it was the first time I heard someone of authority in the Catholic Church truly address homosexuality.

In the two years since then Pope Francis has continued to express love, hope and compassion for all people, including the LGBT community. He has proven, in a multitude of ways, that he is the pope we, the Catholic Church, needed. He is the one we’d been waiting for.

So today from my vantage point on the south lawn, seeing His Holiness and the president who supports the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage means the world to me. They represent the two governing bodies that have supported who I am as a person.

I struggle not to get emotional as Pope Francis speaks to my heart: “Mr. President, together with their fellow citizens, American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. ... The efforts which were recently made to mend broken relationships and to open new doors to cooperation within our human family represent positive steps along the path of reconciliation, justice and freedom.”

I close my eyes and take in the moment.

I hear Pope Francis — not changing the teachings of the Catholic Church, but changing the hearts and minds of those who follow.

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ONE OF THE WORLD’S BALLET MASTERS WAS DISCOVERED AT TEATRO MARIA.

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JOHN NEUMEIER’S MOMENT OF TRUTH

“WHO ARE YOU? YOU’RE A DANCER.”

Six words from Rev. John Walsh, S.J., director of Marquette’s then-renowned Teatro Maria theatre program, removed doubt for John Neumeier.

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NEUMEIER, ARTS ’61, TOOK OFF, AND, IN TIME, BECAME THE ESSENCE OF HIS DREAMS AS A PRINCIPAL DANCER IN THE STUTTGART BALLET AND THEN DANCER, CHOREOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR OF THE FRANKFURT BALLET. Since 1973 he has been creative director and lead choreographer of the Hamburg Ballet, a company of 60 dancers, and he founded the National Youth Ballet and Hamburg School of Ballet.

He has choreographed more than 150 ballets and travels the world as a guest choreographer for the premier ballet companies. He was in Chicago in October to choreograph the Joffrey Ballet staging of Sylvia, a ballet created in 1878 for the Paris Opera and recreated by Neumeier in 1993. Also in October Neumeier was choreographing the Boston Ballet’s performance of the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler: A Ballet by John Neumeier. It is a signature work of the Hamburg Ballet that had never been performed by an American company. The Boston Globe described the effort as “a monumental undertaking” and the result “a landmark performance.”

So, yes, Father Walsh’s first impression of the freshman from Bay View High School was prescient. “It was a moment in my life

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when I wasn’t quite sure what I should do,” Neumeier recalls. “I had studied painting and drawing and dance, and I wasn’t sure where my destiny should be.”

Though he was an English major, the stage and theatre department became his central focus. It was at Teatro Maria that Neumeier choreographed his first ballet, The Hound of Heaven, based on the poem

by Francis Thompson. That first effort was revelatory. “The creative side of it was almost immediately as important to me,” he says, “as performing roles like Peter Pan or whatever. I sensed pretty early that my real role would be as choreographer.”

Father Walsh reached out to Sybil Shearer, a legendary modern dance creator leading a small dance company in Northbrook, Ill., and asked her to work with a “talented Marquette student.” In the article John Neumeier in Amerika, Shearer wrote about receiving that call and then seeing Neumeier dance: “ … I saw a talented, sensitive young man. His body was

As a student, John Neumeier appeared as Peter in the Teatro Maria production of Peter Pan.

unusually limber, and as I look back this flexibility was the harbinger of what was inside him, his wide-ranging thinking and imagination, and a quite selfless giving of himself to dance.”

The first important review Neumeier received came while dancing for Shearer.

Chicago Tribune critic Claudia Cassidy’s review of the show Fables & Proverbs closed with this note: “Amongst the dancers there was a tall dark boy named John Neumeier who made you watch him without trying. I am very much afraid he’s a dancer.”

After he graduated in 1961, Neumeier went to London to study classical ballet at the Royal Ballet School. He intended to return to America — and was accepted to study with George Balanchine, then artistic director of the New York City Ballet. But he had already signed a contract to join the Stuttgart Ballet.

In 1963 he was asked to be the director of the Frankfurt Ballet. It was in that role

Neumeier directed the Boston Ballet’s staging of his play Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler: A Ballet by John Neumeier, the American premiere of the work.

MORE PRAISE

THE 2015 KYOTO PRIZE John Neumeier won the 2015 Kyoto Prize, an international award that recognizes people who make significant contributions “to scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind.” In establishing this award, Kazuo Inamori, founder of Kyocera Corp., wrote that those worthy of this prize will be “people who have sincerely aspired through the fruits of their labors to bring true Neumeier performing St. John’s Passion in 1983.

happiness to humanity.” The Kyoto Prize is awarded in three categories: advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy.

that Neumeier’s reputation for reinterpreting ballets began to grow. “It was a shock,” he admits. “I was quite young to be a director. I had a smaller company — 28 dancers — and from there I sort of established a new style of performing classical ballet, which means I tried to give even the classical works a believable dramaturgical context, and this became very popular in new workings of ballets like Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker.”

When choreographing Neumeier looks for something believable in his characters. “I try to make sense out of the narratives that I work with,” he explains. His special talent, critics say, lies in interpreting and choreographing ballets to connect on an emotional level with modern audiences.

Ballet is an intuitive not rational art, Neumeier says, that communicates feelings, not necessarily information. “Whether ballet is narrative or telling a story or about a particular subject, that ballet is always a vessel projecting true emotion for me.

For me it’s always finding the reality — if it’s a man or woman — that I can say, yes, I believe there could be a person like that and I believe their relationship could work out like that. Dance always has a human being as its subject but also as its instrument. We speak through our own instrument to other instruments — the audience.” m

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Dr. Jay Varkey, Arts ’98, recounts the 72-hour scramble to get Emory University Hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit ready.

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“BE READY IN 72 HOURS.” The phone call from the U.S. State Department told authorities at Emory University Hospital to prepare for the arrival of the first of two U.S. Ebola patients. Dr. Kent Brantly was being rushed by air ambulance from Liberia to Atlanta for treatment on the hospital’s serious communicable diseases unit, where a medical team trained to respond to this level of health crisis assembled. Nancy Writebol would arrive three days later.

Four Ebola patients in all would be treated at Emory Hospital from August to October 2014.

Dr. Jay Varkey, Arts ’98, LEFT, an infectious diseases specialist and assistant professor of medicine, was a member of the team called into action.

“That’s what started the ball rolling,” he says of the phone call.

“It was an incredible 72 hours.”

Dr. Varkey is an infectious diseases specialist and member of the medical team that treated U.S. patients infected with the Ebola virus.

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Varkey came to Marquette in 1994 enrolled in a pre-medical scholars program established in affiliation with the Medical College of Wisconsin. But for a confluence of events the fall of his fourth year of medical school, Varkey might today be working as a pediatrician or internist. When a planned trip abroad was derailed by the 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, he chose instead to use the time to take an elective class on infectious diseases.

“I loved it,” he remembers. “It was absolutely fascinating. It’s one thing to study ‘bugs’ in the lab, but to actually see antibiotics help someone get better — I greatly enjoyed that aspect of infectious diseases.”

Varkey completed a residency and fellowship in infectious diseases at Duke University Medical Center, and, in 2009, joined Emory Hospital’s medical staff, where he began working closely with professor of medicine Dr. Bruce Ribner, who is the director of the serious communicable diseases unit.

Until then Varkey hadn’t heard about this level of isolation unit. That changed quickly. “I was aware of the drills and knew some of the staff personally, but I wasn’t actually part of it until we found ourselves in the midst of things that August,” he says.

PREPARING TO M EET EBOL A

Emory Hospital’s isolation unit was built 10 years ago in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control. It includes two ICU-style patient rooms with contained bathrooms, locker rooms where medical staff can dress in the required protective clothing and take emergency decontamination showers, and dedicated laboratory space. Everything in the unit is selfcontained so no virus particles are disseminated beyond its confines. Negative air pressure keeps air flowing into patient rooms to ensure that no airborne particles escape and enter exterior hallways.

Infectious diseases specialists worldwide were aware the Ebola virus was out of control in West Africa, Varkey says. The staff at Emory Hospital had talked internally about the possibility that the unit could be asked to accept patients. That possibility became real in late July, Varkey remembers, when reports came that two ill Americans were potentially bound for the hospital in Atlanta.

The Ebola patients were carrying a communicable virus that had never before crossed U.S. borders. The hospital had 72 hours to make sure everything was ready to go. Staff members tested and re-tested all of the systems

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built into the biocontainment unit. Pretty quickly, Varkey says, it became apparent that the unit was not large enough to accommodate the laboratory needs of two patients. He credits the hospital’s facilities engineers for their resourceful response. Within that 72-hour window they commandeered an office next door to the unit and retrofitted it with a biosafety cabinet and functioning point-of-care lab.

Meanwhile the medical team practiced the procedures that are critical to caring for patients who have a highly communicable disease like Ebola. Absolutely paramount, Varkey explains, was ensuring the safety of health care workers. One key procedure — donning the gear worn when in contact with highly contagious patients — requires medical personnel to manage what Varkey calls “a tricky shimmy” to pull on and take off the hazmat suit, boots, gloves, hood and mask without contaminating themselves or other people. For a Wisconsin reference, he compares that to getting into and out of a snowmobile suit without touching the outside of it. “The group had been practicing this every six months for 10 years, but at this time it became really intense,” Varkey says. “There were talented doctors and nurses who weren’t able to do it, who were asked not to be direct care providers for these patients. That was tough.

“It was a mad scramble to make sure that when our patients walked through the door we could stop worrying about all the external operations stuff and just deal with caring for the patients. None of us were sleeping particularly well,” Varkey admits. “We would squeeze in sleep as we could until Saturday, Aug. 1, which is the date our first patient arrived.”

point Varkey moved from a communication role to become a direct member of the medical team. “One of the challenges is that at that point two doctors were doing 12-hour shifts.

You’re on for 12, and then you go home and try to sleep. Fatigue was setting in,” he says, “and we were concerned that if we didn’t spread out the work a little more there was a potential for making mistakes.”

Four Ebola patients in all came to Emory Hospital, and the medical team grew from two to six doctors plus Ribner, plus a legion of nurses, lab

A ST UNNING VIRUS

Emory Hospital began receiving real-time updates from the pilot and then from the ambulance transporting Brantly. Of course, Varkey says, the medical team also watched CNN, which was televising updates to the entire world tuned into the unfolding drama. “I remember feeling an eerie sense of calm,” he says, of those minutes before the ambulance arrived with their patient, “because we really felt that we had worked extraordinarily hard to be as ready as we could be.”

Initially the hospital asked Varkey to act as the spokesperson providing media with status updates.

Three days after Brantly entered the unit, Nancy Writebol arrived. At that

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“I wouldn’t say it was frightening but it was certainly tense,” Varkey says, of the experience. “When you walk into a room with someone who has Ebola, it’s sort of like walking out of the tunnel for the Super Bowl.

It’s an intense, highly charged atmosphere, but once you’re in the room the training and science take over.”

Ebola is merciless, highly infectious and the most traumatic virus Varkey has seen. “The thing that’s just so stunning about Ebola is the disease robs the patient of dignity. It is such an aggressive virus and it does such horrible things to the body,” he says. “When you think about patients losing five to 10 liters of fluid just in vomiting and diarrhea, that made me respect the kind of challenges health care providers face in West Africa.”

The medical waste poses a potential danger if not handled correctly. For two patients under their care for 33 days, more than 3,000 pounds of medical waste were generated, including gowns and sheets. “We anticipated 300 pounds,” Varkey says. “That highlights for me that caring for someone with Ebola is really a team effort. Our senior environmental services staff was present 24/7 to make sure we were handling trash properly.”

EBOL A CO N TI N U E S TO S U R P R I S E

Dr. Ian Crozier was the third patient brought from Africa to Emory Hospital — and the most critically ill. He developed respiratory failure and was put on a respirator for two weeks. His kidneys failed,

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and he was placed on dialysis for 24 days.

Despite these dire downward turns, he rallied under medical care and was discharged 40 days later.

But nine weeks after he had cleared all of the virus from his blood, Crozier and Varkey suspected a painful irritation in Crozier’s left eye might actually be the result of remaining Ebola virus squatting inside his iris. Crozier returned to Emory’s Eye Center, where they aspirated a few drops of fluid from inside his eye to “hopefully prove,” in Varkey’s words, that he was negative for Ebola.

“You can imagine my shock a few hours later when I was at my kid’s piano recital and the laboratory technologist called to tell me he tested positive for Ebola,” Varkey says.

The discovery revealed there is more work to be done to ensure the continued health of patients who survive Ebola. Thankfully the health care systems and resources available in the United States — and the ability to marshal them together quickly on behalf of patients — helped all four patients recover.

Any time the world has to deal with a new illness, Varkey says, it is understandable that the initial response is fear. “One of the key jobs we have as health care workers — and, to be honest, I would include the media in this — is to care for those who are ill and to advance knowledge.”

Though the outbreak in Africa has been contained, Varkey cautions that another health crisis will surface, and it’s important to be prepared.

“If you look at Dr. Brantly’s case, he arrived in Atlanta on day 13 of his illness,” Varkey says. “His first basic labs were done in our unit. Getting a CBC or Chem5 for electrolytes is such a basic test that I can order it with a couple clicks of a mouse and have the results delivered to my phone in 45 minutes. The infrastructure for most hospitals in Africa is so different that even those basic tests aren’t possible. That’s ridiculous.”

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Ernest Shaw worked as a psychiatrist before studying art as a vehicle for self-expression.

His body of work explores concepts of balance, composition, gravity, compression and expansion, as evidenced in several sculptures on campus, including Ruins X,

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Rainbow Machine was first installed on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue.

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LIVING L’ARCHE

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Tracy was about the same age as Trish Glennon — young 20s — when Glennon met her. With her brown eyes and huge, expressive smile, Tracy could communicate what she wanted without saying a word.

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Tracy liked all things feminine — dresses and makeup and painted fingernails. After getting dressed, the last step before proceeding with her day was a stop to look in the mirror.

That moment, Glennon says, is when Tracy communicated her, perhaps, strongest message of joy. Tracy’s smile was the most eloquent of speeches. No one could mistake its meaning.

Glennon, Jour ’96, lived with Tracy, who was confined to a wheelchair, in a L’Arche community in Ontario called Daybreak. That was early in Glennon’s career as an assistant with this international network of communities in which individuals with and without intellectual disabilities live together.

“When I came to L’Arche,” Glennon recalls, “I had no experience working with the intellectually disabled. There’s something to be learned from the men and women of L’Arche. ‘Living with difference,’ founder Jean Vanier said. It wasn’t that he created nice homes. The mission is relationship, transformation and what happens to you, what you learn about yourself. It also forces

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you to look at anyone you perceive as different and challenge those perceptions.”

It began when Frenchman Jean Vanier returned to France after teaching in Canada and was horrified by the living conditions of disabled individuals. Vanier opened his house, called it L’Arche after Noah’s Ark, and lived with two developmentally disabled men from his French village.

Vanier’s interest in a shared-living model grew, and he spread the message further by traveling and speaking about what the community meant to him and to a growing number of people with and without disabilities.

Vanier’s achievement in creating these communities earned the notice of the Templeton Foundation, which awarded him the 2015 Templeton Prize. Previous winners include Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Dalai Lama.

Glennon’s experiences with L’Arche have kept her tethered off and mostly on to this organization for close to 20 years. It was simply the right fit for a young woman who was interested in stripping away the trappings of a material world. Glennon’s parents, she

says, are people of deep religious faith who raised her to be “a person of compassion and acceptance.”

When she was a student at Marquette, Glennon didn’t feel pulled to a specific career. She began studies as a student in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences and later moved to the journalism classrooms in Johnston Hall. The centering presence throughout, she says, was Campus Ministry, which filled her need to explore things in the way of service. “Without Marquette,” Glennon says, “I would not have found L’Arche.”

That encounter happened when Glennon attended a staff meeting for McCormick Hall resident assistants and met people involved in a Marquette initiative called Communities That Care. Buddy pairs from L’Arche communities all over North America came to campus to experience and share in a mutual exchange over a weekend.

“There was a rustle at the door,” Glennon remembers the moment clearly. “This woman, Linda, came in. She had this very ‘here I am’ personality, a welcoming, inviting spirit about her, which is kind of what L’Arche is, people being themselves and living out that mission.”

At Mass that same week, when the visitors spoke about their lives and faith, Glennon recalls feeling moved.

Later in the school year, when Glennon

Trish Glennon, Jour ’96, remains rooted to the shared-living community that caught her eye and her heart while she was a student.

was contemplating what service trip to take the week of spring break, somehow L’Arche made her list. A campus minister asked Glennon why she chose it. “I knew she would send me there,” Glennon says, her eyes smiling behind her narrow, face-defining eyeglass frames. “That week changed everything for me.”

Though the ministry experiences she had on campus underscored the “gap” between the needy and the comparatively entitled students, Glennon says that at L’Arche everything came together. “You live ‘with,’ do ‘with’ — everything is ‘with.’ The ‘feeling value in community’ made a difference for me,” she says.

Scrapping her original post-grad plans, Glennon told her parents she was going to live at L’Arche Canada, a decision she has never regretted and a destination from which she has never left beyond small stretches, such as during her graduate studies in pastoral ministry at Boston College.

Glennon met her husband, Steve, in the community. They have three children and live close to Daybreak.

Having a family, she says, has “helped me be a part of L’Arche long-term.

I have been so lucky to have roles that allow me to live outside the community but still be part of it.”

And yet there have been moments of self-doubt, Glennon admits, stemming from the challenges inherent with living in community. Resident assistants do not have the ability to choose who they live with each year.

The long days can be fatiguing.

“The needs can be great and sometimes the resources few,” she explains. “There is a fragility that exists in every L’Arche community.”

This organization that celebrates diversity and the pivotal role of adapting to cultures has 147 communities in 35 countries.

Stephen Blaha, assistant director of Campus Ministry, lived in a L’Arche community in Cork, Ireland, in the late 1990s. “The great challenge that L’Arche offers,” says Blaha, “is coming face to face with all the brokenness, shortcomings and demons in all of us. Core members are not afraid of that. They assist you in becoming more human.”

Glennon still thinks about Tracy and the impact of the woman for whom “it took enormous effort to raise her head or respond to a question.” Tracy loved the “raucous”

water fights that sometimes broke out after dinner. She loved the comforting sips of coffee given to her — a special treat because she could only take nourishment by a feeding tube. Tracy died in 2009 from natural causes. For Glennon, the beauty of Tracy’s life and difficulty of her death correlate to how well, how fully, she lived her life.

Remembering Tracy is to celebrate the things that gave her joy, Glennon says, like the colorful skirts she wore. Glennon saved some of Tracy’s clothes and later used the material to make, for example, pillow covers for Tracy’s friends and a set of stoles for a friend’s ordination into the Anglican priesthood.

There is perhaps no symbol of L’Arche’s message that is more tender than Tracy.

“In the honesty, dignity and courage through which she lived her life,” Glennon says, “she taught us so much about accepting ourselves.”

Living in community with people challenged intellectually and sometimes physically strips away the veneer of human superficiality. “You don’t exist on the surface very long,” Glennon says. “You see the reality of humanity very quickly.”

In early 2015, Glennon took a new position at L’Arche as recruiting coordinator.

L’Arche hires more than 200 assistants yearly for its 29 communities in Canada. Glennon is a natural for the role. “Everything I really want, L’Arche has given me,” she says.

Thinking back to that 22-year-old college graduate who was starting out living in community, Glennon says she was stunned then when she met assistants who’d been with L’Arche for 10 years. It seemed like an eternity. Now it seems like a perfect choice.

Living in a community, Glennon says, “is about finding peace with a way of life that is unexpected. L’Arche has a way of changing hearts and imaginations.” m

Living in community with people challenged intellectually and sometimes physically strips away the veneer of human superficiality. “You don’t exist on the surface very long,” Glennon says. “You see the reality of humanity very quickly.”

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Frank was bold enough to set her path early. She chose internships based on what she could learn, as well as the connections she could make. She interned at Clear Channel and learned radio-integrated marketing. She interned at Ronald McDonald House Charities and learned lessons nonprofits teach best.

“I learned to be aggressive and not back down,” she says. “In life you have to ask for things. All of those experiences really prepared me for this.”

Frank focuses on WBR’s

alternative and rock formats. She helps build relationships between

class notes In the groove

artists and radio stations nationwide to win air time. “We keep track of spins,” she explains. “No artist gets more attention than others. Our day-to-day work can include research, writing liners and planning release parties or concerts to build excitement around an artist.”

The pace is frenzied. “You

fight for your job every day,” Frank

Amanda Frank, Comm ’13, works in the “insanely competitive” music industry.

says. “I’m always on my A-game; I always know people want my job. That’s not stressful because I’m passionate about what I do.”

— Joni Moths Mueller

She’s insanely happy about it. The girl who grew up loving music now lives a life eerily in sync with some of her favorite recordings: the Mamas and the Papas 1965 release California Dreamin’, for example.

She lives in Hollywood and works in promotions at Warner Brothers

Records, the recording home of Jason Derulo, Muse, The Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duran Duran and many, many more. “I always wanted to work for a label,” she says. “I’m passionate about helping new and heritage artists build their careers.”

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1951 REUNION YEAR

Adelore Petrie, Eng ’51, and his wife Jeanette celebrated their 60th anniversary on July 2, 2015 with their four children and five grandchildren. He worked for General Electric, Hammand Organ and Motorola and visited 43 countries, from Antarctica to Alaska and South Africa to China. He teaches AARP Smart Driver classes in the Arlington Heights, Ill., area.

1953 Charles Washbush, Bus Ad ’53, and his wife Jane celebrated their 60th anniversary on Sept.

2, 2013. She graduated from St. Agnes School of Nursing in 1951, and he received his M.B.A. from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas.

They have three children and five grandchildren, and love devoting their time to family and volunteer activities.

1956 REUNION YEAR

William Taylor, Eng ’56, author of A Shooting Star Meets the Well of Death, Why and How Richard Halliburton Conquered the World, the biography of American adventurer and author Richard Halliburton, received a new cover image. The book was released in 2013. He lives in New Berlin, Wis.

1957 Mary (Kujawa) Bayorgeon, Arts ’57, received the E. Burns Apfeld Learning in Retirement Volunteer of the Year Award from the University of Wisconsin– Oshkosh.

1958 William J. Mulligan, Arts ’58, Law ’60, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

1960 Lance Herdegen, Jour ’60, published In the Bloody Railroad Cut at Gettysburg: The 6th Wisconsin of the Iron Brigade and its Famous Charge with Savas Beatie.

Paul Wilkes, Jour ’60, and Chuck Swoboda, Eng ’89, built and provided lighting for the world’s first LEED-certified orphanage.

1961 REUNION YEAR

♥ Bill Fieweger, Arts ’61, and Jean (Woleben) Fieweger, Bus Ad ’60, celebrated their 50th anniversary Feb. 20, 2015 with

their children and granddaughter, renewing their vows at the Fern Grotto on the island of Kauai. They have lived in Southern California since 1969.

Casey, the only pilot to fly around the world landing only on water. The book has been called a “must read” for aviators.

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1966

Larry J. Giantomas, Jour ’62, lives in South Bend, Ind., and delivers lectures on his family history for the local genealogical society, including one for the 150th anniversary of the city.

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Ron LaBrusciano, Arts ’62, an education faculty emeritus at Antioch University New England, teaches graduate courses, supervises student teaching interns and volunteers in local elementary school classrooms.

1964 ♥ Patricia (Winchester) Schermerhorn, Arts ’64, and Richard Schermerhorn, Eng ’64, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on a Disney cruise on Jan. 1, 2015. Their daughters Amy (Schermerhorn) Zahorik, Bus Ad ’90, and Anne (Schermerhorn) Firestone, Comm ’92; son Jim Schermerhorn, Grad ’98; son-in-law Howard Firestone, Eng ’92; and grandchildren Megan and Michael also attended.

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Jack Johannes, Arts ’66, published Thinking About Political Reform: How to Fix, or Not Fix, American Government and Politics (Oxford University Press, 2015) after 15 years as vice president for academic affairs at Villanova University and a member of the political science faculty.

1967 Thomas Krukowski, Bus Ad ’67, Law ’70, and Deborah Krukowski, Law ’96, are part of the Milwaukee office of Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C.

1968 Michael Hupy, Arts ’68, Law ’72, president of Hupy and Abraham S.C., donated $50,000 to the Milwaukee Justice Center, of which he is a founding member.

To date, he has donated $100,000 to the center.

William A. Jennaro, Law ’68, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

1965 William T. Coleman, Arts ’65, published Floatplane Odyssey, available at floatplaneodyssey. com. The book highlights the historic adventures of Tom

Buying tickets for my first basketball game since I was a freshman.

Finally becoming a good MU alum.

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Timothy Erwin, Arts ’69, an English professor at the University of Nevada, published Textual Vision: Augustan Design and the Invention of Eighteenth-Century British Culture (Bucknell/Rowman and Littlefield, 2015).

Larry Rich, Sp ’70, Grad ’77, is a correspondent for SIGNIS Media, the magazine of the World Catholic Association for Communication. He covered the Tribeca Film Festival in New York for the publication.

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Ross A. Anderson, Law ’78, an attorney at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C., was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016. He is a shareholder in and general counsel for the firm’s Milwaukee office.

James D. Friedman, Arts ’69, was elected to the board of directors of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee.

Mary (Johannes) McKeon, Arts ’69, moved from Detroit to Geneva, Ill., and serves on the ministry/spiritual direction team for Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House. Previously she was on staff at Michigan’s Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, where she began a ministry program for women and from which she received Manresa’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

She and her late husband David have a daughter and son-in-law, who blessed her with grandchildren who are the joy of her life.

1971 REUNION YEAR

Adrian T. Utalowski, Bus Ad ’71, Law ’74, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

1972 Jim Beer, Law ’72, was re-elected for a fourth term as circuit court judge for Green County, Wis., the second longest-serving circuit judge in county history.

He also served a nine-month term after then-Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson appointed him a circuit judge in 1996.

1973 Robert W. Muren, Law 73, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

Frank Baldwin, Eng ’76, retired in March 2014 as a professional engineer with the U.S. government, for which he worked the past 25 years as a project manager doing remodeling, design and construction work.

1977 Robert Gegios, Arts ’77, was named a 2016 Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers and included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 in commercial litigation, antitrust litigation and antitrust law. He chairs the litigation department of Milwaukee’s Kohner, Mann & Kailas.

Colleen O’Brien, Nurs ’77, Grad ’90, earned her doctorate of nursing practice from the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University Chicago. She works on quality and safety initiatives for Bellin Health in Green Bay, Wis.

James E. Braza, Bus Ad ’78, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

John Busby, Dent ’78, was named dental director of Molina Healthcare–Wisconsin, one of southeastern Wisconsin’s largest providers of government-funded health care.

Joseph S. Heino, Eng ’78, Law ’82, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

1979 Thomas W. Davis, Bus Ad ’79, Law ’82, an attorney for Howard & Howard Attorneys PLLC, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

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Breunig Manor moment

MILE STONE

John Breunig, Eng ’68, founded Breunig Manor in 1967 on North 21st Street. In time it was home to 16 male students. In more time it became legend.

Though John passed away, Breunig Manor lives on in annual reunions — 40 years of gatherings with former residents and their families keep the tradition alive.

Though Greg, Eng ’68, and Karen (Voytek) Mueller, Sp ’67, couldn’t make it this year, they made up for it by submitting the photo of the 2015 celebration taken by John’s son, Jack.

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Daniel Day, Grad ’79, is assistant vice president for communications at Princeton University.

Melaine Shannon Rothey, Arts ’79, is president-elect of the Allegheny County Bar Association in Pittsburgh.

1981 REUNION YEAR

Passing the baton

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Sherry Daley Jung, Arts ’62, began twirling at age 3.

A babysitter taught the tiny girl how to do a flat spin, which ignited a twirling fire. Jung’s love for the sport reaped a world of fun that has lasted more than 60 years.

“When I started there were mostly men twirlers,” she says. “They had more power to do tosses. You release it and then you pray you can capture it. It takes discipline.”

At age 15, Jung founded the Daley Debutantes Baton and Drum Corps.

Marquetters may remember her performing at football games and the Daley Debutantes performing at basketball games for 25 years. Jung and sister Marcy Daley Blaufuss, Arts ’65, often flipped batons together, including at Marquette’s musical varieties, where they synced batons to perform Me and My Shadow in 1962.

Jung reels off spectacular twirling memories: winning a national championship at age 12, twirling on The Ed Sullivan Show and marching at the head of President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration day parade. The Daley Debutantes marched in two St. Patrick’s Day parades in Dublin.

The group even appeared briefly in the parade scene in the movie The Fugitive with Harrison Ford.

More than 1,000 young people have claimed the title of Daley Debutante through the years and collectively won more than 42 national championships. The debutantes still set the twirling tone for local parades and community events. Jung continues directing twirlers, assisted by a third sister, Patti Daley Wertschnig. Today there are 80 Daley Debutantes flipping their batons sky high. — Joni Moths Mueller

Alex W. Barker, Arts ’81, is president-elect of the American Anthropological Association, a scholarly organization of anthropologists that has more than 13,000 members. In 2017 he will become president. He is director of the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.

1982 Kathy (Jarantowski) Jackson, Nurs ’82, is an assistant professor of nursing at Park University in Parkville, Mo., and a clinical adjunct faculty member in obstetrics at the University of Kansas School of Nursing.

1983 Ellen Donnarumma, Sp ’83, is vice president for justice services at Community Resources for Justice in Boston.

She has been on CRJ’s executive team since she joined in 2006.

Julie (Schriner) Nader, Eng ’83, a civil engineer, was recognized in the North Olmsted, Ohio, local magazine for her service on various committees shaping her hometown’s landscape.

She also coaches Trinity Wildcats Special Hockey, serving those with special needs.

Susan G. (Maass) Schellinger, Law ’83, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

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1984 Charles G. Maris, Law ’84, of Davis & Kuelthau S.C. was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

Lisa Osborne Ross, Jour ’84, is managing director for the Washington, D.C., office of APCO Worldwide.

Ellen (Brennan) Trytek, Jour ’84, is chief marketing officer for Drinkler Biddle and Reath in Chicago. She and her family live in Elm Grove, Wis.

1985 Eugene Killeen, Arts ’85, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

Ted Ruzicka, Sp ’84, is 2015– 16 president of the St. Louis Association of Health Underwriters. He was featured in Small Business Monthly, a St. Louis business publication, about brokers in the health insurance industry.

Kathy L. Nusslock, Law ’85, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

Michael P. Shaw, Bus Ad ’84, is managing director for the greater Washington, D.C., area office of Oyster Consulting.

1986

Ann M. (Roccapalumba) Rieger, Bus Ad ’85, Law ’88, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

chairman of the state of Connecticut judicial branch client security fund committee.

He was appointed to the committee in 2010.

Kirk Tuson, Grad ’86, received the Future 40 Award from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce for Stay-Lite Lighting, of which he is president. He credits the company’s growth with a commitment to increasing technology offerings and physical locations.

1987 Gregg Hilliard, Eng ’87, retired June 1, 2015 from the U.S. Navy Reserve after 28 years of combined active and reserve service. His last assignment was in operations at Headquarters, Commander, Pacific Fleet, Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a Southwest Airlines pilot based in Baltimore who often flies to Milwaukee.

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♥ Patricia Jessup, Bus Ad ’87,

David Sullivan, Sp ’86, is vice

and Dan Jessup, Bus Ad ’85,

celebrated their 25th anniversary in September 2015. She is director of development for Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Milwaukee, which gives lowincome students a Jesuit college-prep education and exposes them to the professional world.

1988 Mike Gosz, Eng ’88, is vice president for enrollment at Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology.

Cary G. Vance, Arts ’88, Grad ’02, is president and CEO of Hansen Medical Inc. The company, a global leader in intravascular robotics, is based in Mountain View, Calif.

1989 James Casey, Grad ’89, was inducted into the Fellows of the Wisconsin Law Foundation. He is director of American University’s Office of Sponsored Programs and state bar co-chair of the

Triangle Fraternity friends meet in London and travel on to France.

L TO R BACK ROW:

Liz Dincher Shelly, Dent Hy ’83; Nick Simons, Eng ’60;

Bob Brehm, Eng ’59; Jim Heider, Eng ’60; Mike Mollerus, Eng ’62;

Ted Hodan, Eng ’60, Law ’63; Charles “Clancy” Schueppert, Eng ’58; Bill Schwartz, Eng ’59;

CELEBRATING ALUMNI

and Bill McGovern, Eng ’59.

L TO R FRONT ROW:

European vacation

Betsy Simons, Nurs ’59; Kay Brehm, Arts ’59; Judy Dincher, Nurs ’59; Margie

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Ann (Beglinger) Kurtz, Comm ’89, works for the University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation in Madison.

Candice Warltier, Comm ’91, graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. She is principal of Communication Strategies Group Inc. and lives in Chicago.

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1990 Donald P. Gallo, Law ’90, is co-leader of the environmental litigation team at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Sheri Lembrich, Bus Ad ’90, is integrated marketing team project manager at Milwaukee’s Zizzo Group. She manages the design and implementation of a project management software system and workflow.

1991 REUNION YEAR

Tim Blair, Arts ’91, is director of corporate communications for Navigant in Chicago. He and his family live in Hinsdale, Ill., and he is part of the Marquette University Alumni Association Mentor Program.

Jason Abraham, Law ’92, was named to M Magazine’s Leading Lawyers list.

Patrick Concannon, Arts ’92, is a partner in the IP and business practices of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston.

Carolyne (Ryan) Osterhues, Arts ’92, was featured in the CBS Chicago online article “Photographer putting faces to Illinois foster kids” in which she discussed how she and her husband Mark adopted four children from foster care. She said: “Of all the children we’ve had in our home, with a little discipline and a lot of love, they just blossom.”

Joseph E. Tierney, IV, Bus Ad ’92, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

1993 Heider, Arts ’60; Judi Mollerus, Jour ’62; Mary

MILE STONE

Hodan, Nurs ’61; Deirdre Schueppert; Pat Schwartz, Arts ’60; Mary Kay McGovern; and Ann Schwartz, PT ’87.

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Coreen Dicus-Johnson, Comm ’93, was named a Woman of Influence in June 2015 by the Milwaukee Business Journal.

1994 Brian Hamling, Eng ’94, who retired from the U.S. Navy at the rank of commander after 20 years of active duty service, is NJROTC senior naval science instructor at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tenn. He is married to Renee (Mathieu) Hamling, CJPA ’94.

design, engineering and monitoring.

1995 Mark Concannon, Comm ’95, is global vice president for pharmaceuticals, home and personal care, and animal health at Corbion, a biochemical company. He’s also vice president of sales. He, his wife and two children live in the Chicago suburbs.

Marjee Chmiel, Arts ’99, Grad ’03, is associate director for curriculum and communications at the Smithsonian Science Education Center in Washington, D.C.

2000 Matt Heim, Arts ’00, Dent ’03, completed his term as president of the Oklahoma County Dental Society and was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Dentists, Oklahoma City.

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2001

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Brad West, Comm ’01, is business development manager for Idegy Inc., a boutique merchandise agency based in Columbus, Ohio, for which he is opening a Chicago office. He and his family live in River Forest, Ill., and he is part of the Marquette University Alumni Association Mentor Program.

1997 Jason DeRusha, Comm ’97, is morning news anchor and food reporter for WCCO–TV in Minneapolis. His segment DeRusha Eats was a finalist for the James Beard Award for Outstanding Television Segment.

The judges wrote: ”The food scene of the Midwest is expanding and evolving at an exciting rate, and, fortunately for viewers, Jason DeRusha is there to cover the latest menu trends and restaurant developments.”

1998 Erin Troia, Comm ’98, is chief development officer for Alpha Chi Omega Foundation, headquartered in Indianapolis.

1999 Karen Brady, Arts ’99, is assistant vice president at State Street Corp. in Boston.

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2016 global Biotech and the Law Conference in Madison, Wis.

2002 Alan Cheslock, Eng ’02, Law ’08, is a partner at Milwaukee’s Michael Best & Friedrich LLP. Matt Crespin, H Sci ’02, was elected and installed as the American Dental Hygienists Association District VII trustee, one of two men who are the first to serve on the board in the association’s nearly 100-year history. District VII includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Matthew R. McClean, Law ’02, was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016.

Sarah Platt, Comm ’02, relocated from Milwaukee to Chicago with

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Joseph Smith, Comm ’94, is chief sales officer for CCI Systems in Iron Mountain, Mich., a nationally recognized leader in network mapping,

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When you don’t even mind “please donate” calls cause you love @MarquetteU so much. Promise to donate after grad school.

MAD ELEINE C HOUA NA RD, A RTS ’14, ON T W ITTER

her company, CB&I. She supports the company’s energy management and sustainability practice, including a variety of communication functions.

Sheena Quinn, Comm ’04, is public relations director for the Chicago White Sox.

2003

Philip Koutnik, Arts ’05, Law ’08, is a shareholder at Milwaukee’s Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. He is a member of the corporate and finance practice group and co-leads the corporate transactions team.

Lydia J. Chartre, Law ’03, is team co-leader of condominium and homeowners association law at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Beth Hennes, Arts ’03, was named 2014 Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of Bilingual Educators and received the 2014 Herb Kohl Foundation Excellence in Education Teacher Fellowship. She is school librarian at Marshall (Wis.) Middle School and Marshall (Wis.) High School.

Andrew Narrai, Grad ’03, is chief marketing officer of Reinhart Boerner Van Duren S.C., which he joined in 2014. Previously, he was marketing director.

2004 John Amman, Bus Ad ’04, is vice president in global CMBS at the DBRS Credit Rating Agency in Chicago. Previously, he worked for GE Capital.

2005

2006 REUNION YEAR

Nicole Gahagan, Grad ’06, is vice president of student services at Waukesha Area Technical College in Pewaukee, Wis. Paul Thompson, Bus Ad ’06, Grad ’07, is controller at Graymont in Otorohanga, New Zealand, working as part of the management team for two acquired lime and limestone companies. He and Laura (Heyrman) Thompson, Nurs ’07, relocated from Wauwatosa, Wis., to Cambridge, New Zealand, in July 2015.

2007 Dr. Brian Brown, Arts ’07, a licensed clinical psychologist, opened Brian Brown Psy.D. in

Words can’t express how amazing it was to see @Pontifex speak at the White House this morning.

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Chicago. He relocated from New York and is part of the Marquette University Alumni Association Mentor Program.

Nicholas Farmer, Bus Ad ’07, is a certified public accountant.

He is a financial analyst for City Water, Light & Power and lives in Springfield, Ill. Marianne Junck, H Sci ’07, completed a residency in dermatology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in June 2015. She received her medical degree from Creighton University School of Medicine in 2011 and works for Affiliated Dermatologists S.C. in Brookfield, Wis. Amy Norgard, Arts ’07, is assistant professor of classics at Truman State University.

She received her doctorate in classical philology from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

2008 Susan Fairley-Holbach, M.S.N., A.C.N.P.-B.C., Grad ’08, received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses in recognition of her commitment and patientcentered approach to care.

Capt. Kellan S. Sams, Comm ’08, is a communications officer in the 173rd IBCT (Airborne) in Italy and deployed to train Ukrainian National Guard troops in Fearless Guardian.

2009 Scott Astrada, Law ’09, Bus Ad ’13, is economic policy adviser for the U.S. Senate Democrat leadership at the Democratic Policy and Communications Center. The DPCC is an advisory board to Democratic leadership and a research, policyformulating and communication arm of Senate Democrats.

2010 Emily Gajewski, H Sci ’10, Grad ’11, is a speech-language pathologist for Play, Acceptance, Language and Social Language Inc. in Elm Grove, Wis. PALS serves children with social and communication needs.

Kevin Jordan, Eng ’10, received a master of science degree in medical physics from Wayne State University in 2015. He is a clinical scientist and software quality assurance engineer for Philips Healthcare Radiation Oncology Systems.

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Gretchen Clark, Comm ’11, is a business analyst at Boeing in Chicago, where she lives.

Jennifer Rusch, Arts ’11, earned a master of science degree in occupational therapy from Mount Mary University in 2014. She is a school-based occupational therapist in Colorado.

2012 Jason Dejna, Bus Ad ’12, Grad ’13, was promoted to senior tax associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, focusing on private equity clients in the company’s greater Chicago asset management practice.

Rachael Wandrey, Arts ’12, published her research on the coming out experiences of bisexual women in the Journal of Bisexuality.

2013 Paul Kaefer, Eng ’13, Grad ’15, is volunteering with the Ifakara Health Institute in Ifakara, Tanzania, where Samson Kiware, Grad ’10, ’14, works.

He is researching malaria

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with scientists, helping with statistics concepts and teaching technical English writing skills.

Mitchell Lindstrom, Arts ’13, joined the business law practice group of Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady.

TJ Mochel, H Sci ’13, Grad ’15, and Lindsey Olsen, H Sci ’13, Grad ’15, got engaged May 17 immediately after Commencement. He is a physical therapist at PT Solutions, and she is a physical therapist at Loyola University Medical Center.

They live in the Chicago suburbs and are planning a September 2016 wedding.

Slingin’ sauce

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Brian Golinvaux, Bus Ad ’96, is the

mastermind of Lillie’s Q Sauces.

He remembers his father, a restaurateur, telling him: “Never go into the restaurant business.” Golinvaux managed to heed that advice right up until a few friends approached him with a business plan for a Carolinastyle barbecue joint in Chicago.

With an award-winning chef already lined up, Golinvaux thought, “Hey, this might be fun.” Today he’s president of Lillie’s Q Sauces & Rubs, the consumer product offshoot of the critically acclaimed Chicago-based restaurants. The Lillie’s lineup is now available in more than 2,500 stores in five countries.

Golinvaux had no food industry experience when he took on this assignment. He majored in marketing and moved into media sales with a few small cable companies following graduation. He worked for CBS and Univision. “I loved what I was doing in media and advertising,” Golinvaux says. “I liked working with brands to help them grow their business. But I always had an itch to do my own thing.”

His entrepreneurial spirit and marketing acumen turned out to be the perfect recipe. For the sauce-peddler-in-chief, Lillie’s Q is a master class in marketing strategy. “This is about more than a restaurant,” he says.

“We’re building a brand — one that’s built around a strong passion point: barbecue. It has this strange emotional connection to people. My job is to figure out how you take that beyond the brick-and-mortar walls of a restaurant.”

For Golinvaux, the secret ingredient is self-awareness. “Don’t be afraid to admit what you don’t know,” he says. “I learned a new industry; I still don’t have everything figured out.” — Chris Stolarski

Ariane C. Strombom, Law ’13, is team co-leader of international transactions at Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek S.C. Roy Tellier, Eng ’13, is executive vice president of sales for Big Dog Clothing Co. in Lincolnton, N.C.

2015 Tom Desmond, Bus Ad ’15, is an analyst at Citi Private Bank in Chicago. He lives in Darien, Ill. Tom Dickinson, Bus Ad ’15, is a credit analyst at Kramer Van Kirk Credit Strategies. He lives in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago.

Natasha Hansen, Arts ’15, of Arlington Heights, Ill., is teaching English with the Volunteer Missionary Movement, a two-year program in Managua, Nicaragua.

Kurt Wittmeyer, Bus Ad ’15, is on the credit track of the rotational development program at Chicago’s Northern Trust.

He lives in Palatine, Ill.

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Katie Weiford, Comm ’99, and Kyle Kramer, Oct. 30, 2015 in Top of the Rock Chapel at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Mo. Laura (Hoffmann) Engelhoff, Arts ’03, and Hugh “Engel” Engelhoff, May 30, 2015 in Seattle, where they live. She is a middle school teacher, and he is a paralegal.

ALUMNAE IN ATTENDANCE

Erin Brethauer, Arts ’05; and Carly (Vande Voren) Johnston, Arts ’05.

Sarah (Wilson) Nothnagel, Bus Ad ’03, Grad ’07, and Michael Nothnagel, May 25, 2015 at Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, Ill.

Andrea (Ives) Collingwood, Comm ’07, and James Collingwood, Aug. 1, 2015 in Iowa City, Iowa. They live in Chicago.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Lauren (Oswald) Daitchman,

Angela (Zunker) Ferri, H Sci ’04; Margaux (Lember) Colburn, H Sci ’04; and Jessica (Irving) Cooper,

Bus Ad ’06.

Comm ’05.

Kristy Robb, Arts ’05, and Patrick McDermott, July 11, 2015 at St. Hedwig in Milwaukee.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Jenny Walter, Arts ’05; Bethany Perkins, Comm ’05; Kristin Sparding, Arts ’05; Jennifer Ratajczak, Bus Ad ’95; Kerry Connor, Arts ’96; Rose Plewa, Comm ’07; Andrew Plewa, Comm ’08; Kim Surfus, H Sci ’14; Craig Pierce, Grad ’89; and Michael Dams, Bus Ad ’70.

Rachel Buck, Comm ’06, and Dan Reisig, July 11, 2015 in Wausau, Wis. They live in the Twin Cities.

ALUMNA IN THE WEDDING PARTY

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Gabriel Morales, Bus Ad ’06; Laura Fialkowski, Bus Ad ’06; Emily Etten, Bus Ad ’06; Marta Jakubowski, Arts ’05; Hayley (Bittman) Barber, Comm ’07, Grad ’11; Megan Murray, Bus Ad ’07; and Daniel Daitchman, Bus Ad ’07.

Gina (Vangelisti) Compton, Arts ’09, and Adam Compton, June 14, 2014 in Naperville, Ill. ALUMNA IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Markie Waymire, Bus Ad ’10.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

John Primiano, Bus Ad ’80; Jim Donahue, Arts ’04; Angela Dean, Arts ’09; Janice (Borowski) Anderson, Arts ’09; and Jessica Ray, Bus Ad ’10.

Madeline (Dudek) Elich, H Sci ’09, and Samuel Elich, Bus Ad ’11, Sept. 19, 2014 at Hinterland in Milwaukee. Many alumni attended. They live in Brookfield, Wis. Robert Ewanio, Grad ’09, and Wesley Walton, May 16, 2014 at Alki Beach Park in Seattle. It was a small ceremony with their mothers and close family in attendance.

Meg (Walsh) Hopps, Arts ’09, and Chris Hopps, Arts ’10, May 9, 2015 in Rockford, Ill. ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Jenna McGrath, Comm ’11; Emily Piekarz, Arts ’15; Michael Frisella, Bus Ad ’10; Zach Rabiego, Arts ’10; and Graham Hill, H Sci ’10.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Karen Karrasch, Nurs ’09; Laura Fischer, H Sci ’09, ’11; Rob Karczewski, H Sci ’11; Mandy Prather, Arts ’10; Sarah Gremonprez, Bus Ad ’10; John Johannes, Eng ’10; Alex Hansen,

SHARE THE MOMENT Tara Myers-Zubke, Nurs ’13, and Davis Zubke, Arts ’13, Dent ’16, were married Dec. 13, 2014 at St. Anne Church in Escanaba, Mich.

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Ad ’10; Kelly Brutto, Arts ’09;

Kevin Weighner, Eng ’10; John Borneman, Comm ’09; Bobby Lima, Arts ’09; Liz Youakim, Arts ’09; Vera Cornell, Eng ’11; Tony Jazdzyk, Eng ’10; Sarah Jazdzyk, Eng ’11; Pete Shutt, Eng ’10; Lindsay Randles, H Sci ’10, PT ’12; Megan Bartoszewski, Arts ’09; Konrad Piotrowski, Arts ’09; Vincent Thorn, Comm ’10; and Sara Hoffmann, Arts ’08.

Lindsey (Mochel) Lynch, H Sci ’09, and Jonathan Lynch, April 18, 2015 in Downers Grove, Ill. Her grandfather, James Russ, Bus Ad ’60, walked her down the aisle.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Bobby Mochel, Arts ’09; Christine Mochel, Comm ’09; Jamie Mochel, Nurs ’11, Grad ’14; TJ Mochel, H Sci ’13; and Lindsey Olsen, H Sci ’13.

Jason Rae, Arts ’09, and Phillip Joseph Bailey, May 30, 2015 at the University Club of Milwaukee.

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Kathleen Blaney, Nurs ’09; and Kristen Krapfl, H Sci ’09.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Jonathan Dooley, Grad ’07; Beth (Warmuth) Ryan, Arts ’08; Steve Ryan, Arts ’08; Mary Alice McCarthy, Arts ’14; Kristen Beat, Arts ’09; Megan Naber, Eng ’10; Grad ’13: Michael Totoraitis, Arts ’08; Catherine (Cable) Heger, Arts ’09, Grad ’12; Matthew Heger, Bus Ad ’09; Mary Kate Wagner, Arts ’09; Lindsay (Fiori) Bullock, Comm ’09; Nickolas Bullock, Comm ’10; Laura Dillon, H Sci ’09; Emily (Wacker) Schultz, Comm ’04; Steven Schultz, Comm ’98, Grad ’07; Mary Lynn Ferwerda, Grad ’11, Law ’11; Andrew Suchorski, Arts ’12; Bill Grady, Law ’00; and Lindsey Grady, Arts ’97, Law ’00.

Heinz Amon, Eng ’10, and Hillary (Stevenson) Amon, Arts ’09, June 20 at Church of the Gesu. He is an estimator at Glenn Reider, and she is

a fourth-grade teacher at Waukesha Catholic. They live in Brookfield, Wis. ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Brea Stevenson, Comm ’03; Anne Rehage, Comm ’09; Caryn Deeken, Comm ’09; Jodie Cleary, Arts ’09; and Nathan Holmer, Eng ’09, Grad ’10.

Adam Richter, H Sci ’10, and Jessica (Rimkus) Richter, H Sci ’10, May 24, 2014 at St. Francis Xavier Church in St. Louis. They live in Kansas City, Mo., where he is a pharmacist and she is a firstyear family medicine resident physician.

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ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Nick Bullock, Comm ’10; Peter Costanza, Comm ’10; and Rosa Barnes, H Sci ’10.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Trent Auguston, Arts ’10; Lindsay (Fiori) Bullock, Comm ’09; and Robert Zelko, Arts ’79, Dent ’83.

Kristina Hunt, Bus Ad ’11, and Scott Miller, Eng ’11, in June at St. Jerome in Oconomowoc, Wis. They live in Milwaukee.

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Megan Riordan, Ed ’10, Grad ’14; Sarah Gremonprez, Bus Ad ’10; Jen (Morris) Ori, Ed ’11; Amy Brogioli, Comm ’10; William Ruben, Comm ’10; and Owen Smith, Eng ’10.

Sarah (Lakowske) Hafner, Ed ’12, and Thomas Hafner, May 9 at Holy Family Catholic Parish in Inverness, Ill. Students Mark Lakowske and Jack Lakowske were in the wedding. She is a sixth-grade teacher at Holy Family, and he is a Web developer in Chicago. They live in the Bucktown neighborhood.

The Haggerty Museum of Art celebrates its 30th anniversary Learn how you can support the Haggerty Museum’s next 30 years of transformative educational programs, exhibitions and acquisitions through a planned gift.

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

ALUMNAE IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Kristen Lofstrom, Ed ’12; and Elizabeth Kriefall, H Sci ’13.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Greg Baur, Eng ’84; and Mary Baur, Bus Ad ’85.

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Ralph Anfang, Arts ’50, Law ’56 Joseph F. Bennett, Bus Ad ’50 Joseph G. Crnkovich, Arts ’50,

in memoriam

June H. Healy Wolf, Arts ’38,

Law ’40

Marion M. Zagzebski Pasternacki, Nurs ’44 James T. Christon, Eng ’45,

Law ’50

John M. Fredrickson, Eng ’45 Grace O. Schaeffler Murray, Arts ’45 Robert G. Wiechel, Eng ’45 Lois A. Bornfleth Baker, Arts ’46 Thomas W. Bursh, Eng ’46 Thomas W. Luther, Arts ’46 Andrew Christopher, Dent ’47 Mary E. Heckman, Arts ’47 Lawrence F. Heise, Med ’47 James A. Means, Med ’47 Juanita R. Lynch Appelboom, Grad ’48 Wayne W. Dierker, Eng ’48 Chester Glowacz, Dent ’48 Bruno W. Kwapis, Dent ’48 Betty I. Waddell Leiser, Dent Hy ’48 Louis H. LeMieux, Arts ’48,

Law ’53

Joan A. Thall White, Arts ’48 Jeanne E. Regan Brossard, Dent Hy ’49 Mary A. Maly Buerger, Arts ’49 James A. Groh, Med ’49 Ellis R. Herbon, Law ’49 Robert E. Kasper, Med ’49 Nathalie G. Wesoloski Ketterer, Sp ’49 Norman G. Lieske, Eng ’49 Donald J. Lodl, Bus Ad ’49 Peter T. Millunzi, Eng ’49 Albert J. Ujcich, Jour ’49, Grad ’51 Frank L. Ziehl, Med ’49

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Henry Korth, Eng ’50 Margaret J. Papin Lampert, Grad ’50 Brannon E. Mayer, Bus Ad ’50 Richard F. Reich, Bus Ad ’50 William F. Savage, Eng ’50 Patricia M. Mader Schmitt, Jour ’50 Dorothy J. Stodola, Arts ’50,

Grad ’52

Henry F. Sulkowski, Eng ’50 Robert K. Burns, Dent ’51 Charles W. Cole, Eng ’51

William E. Reifenrath, Arts ’53,

David L. Ahmann, Arts ’55,

Patricia L. Lynch Evans, PT ’57 Eileen M. Kelliher Ganz, Jour ’57 Daniel P. Hanley, Jour ’57 Sheila T. Murphy Hulseman, Arts ’57 Barbara A. Jobst Tucker, Dent Hy ’57 Donald D. Andries, Jour ’58 William V. Blazek, Med ’58 Carl S. Bykowski, Arts ’58 Lois J. Soronen Castle, Dent Hy ’58 William J. Farrell, Arts ’58, Grad ’76 William T. Gnewuch, Arts ’58 Thomas J. McFadden, Dent ’58 Michael L. McGuire, Bus Ad ’58 William R. Stanczak, Bus Ad ’58,

Med ’56

Nathalie M. Kiedinger Rowe, Nurs ’53 Thomas A. Savignac, Arts ’53,

Law ’55

Elizabeth Weier, Arts ’53 Wayne A. Cook, Dent ’54 Glenn R. Frank, Dent ’54 Milton J. Holzman, Bus Ad ’54 Thomas J. Krizek, Arts ’54, Med ’57 Robert F. Lipo, Arts ’54, Med ’58 Marilyn L. Shore Peltier, Arts ’54 Morton D. Scribner, Bus Ad ’54,

Med ’58 Med ’58

Law ’60

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.

Thomas J. Cox, Arts ’51, Med ’54 Harry M. Cutting, Arts ’51, Med ’53 Joan M. Crowley Doucet, Dent Hy ’51 Eileen M. Lacey Evans, Nurs ’51 Stanley J. Ewanowski, Sp ’51 Joseph B. Frederick, Arts ’51 Richard P. Jahnke, Eng ’51 Charles R. Joseph, Bus Ad ’51 Owen A. Chang, Arts ’52 Betty R. Andrulaitis Harding, Arts ’52 Barbara M. Sherburne Nealon, Nurs ’52 Paul E. Rolfes, Eng ’52 John D. Santi, Eng ’52 George A. Wallinger, Bus Ad ’52 Bruce R. Wills, Bus Ad ’52 Robert C. Zuege, Arts ’52, Med ’55 Richard H. Cleereman, Bus Ad ’53 Roland P. Franceschi, Eng ’53 Edwin C. Gibson, Dent ’53 William B. Lindow, Dent ’53 Margaret A. Marousek Perample, Nurs ’53

Antonia A. Dodich, Dent Hy ’55 Henry J. Fox, Arts ’55 Loretta Hartford, Grad ’55 Richard E. Melka, Arts ’55 Gregory F. Nead, Bus Ad ’55 Claudia M. Polcyn, Nurs ’55 Ronald F. De Rudder, Bus Ad ’56 Stavri G. Joseph, Med Tech ’56 Sheila E. Pfau Lavin, Arts ’56 Herbert H. Madlung, Grad ’56 Donald J. Miller, Arts ’56, Law ’60 Constance J. Belot Prahl, PT ’56 Gordon Rumhoff, Med ’56 Robert G. Seroogy, Eng ’56 Vidal A. Tomasino, Arts ’56 James R. Ward, Jour ’56 Albert E. Wehde, Bus Ad ’56,

Law ’60

Jean Wolbers, Jour ’56 C.R. Anselmino, Arts ’57 Lorraine Biebel, Nurs ’57 Barbara A. Trecker Biever, Nurs ’57 James A. Corroo, Bus Ad ’57 James K. Cullinan, Arts ’57

Howard R. St. Cyr, Eng ’58 John G. Duffy, Eng ’59 Raymond F. Green, Eng ’59 Thomas C. McGehee, Arts ’59 Thomas J. Springob, Arts ’59,

Law ’61

Joseph P. Sus, Arts ’59 Richard W. Blanchard, Arts ’60 Mario A. Carini, Sp ’60, Grad ’61 Patricia M. Breuer Kubiak, Arts ’60 Allan A. Gorski, Bus Ad ’61 Kathleen T. Welsh Koenig, Jour ’61 John M. Korb, Arts ’61 Karen A. Kriofske Pollasky, Bus Ad ’61 Dona J. Klarer Traynor, Arts ’61 Susan F. Dick Turnbull, Arts ’61 LaRita M. Hermes Wright, Nurs ’61 James E. Hickey, Arts ’62 George J. Kaplan, Bus Ad ’62,

Grad ’69

Dominic V. Santacroce, Bus Ad ’62

Med ’68

Richard J. Gatza, Jour ’64 Diane T. Furino Norfray, Arts ’64 Mary D. Peplinski, Grad ’64 Thomas P. Driscoll, Arts ’65,

Med ’69

Karen M. Stelzer LeSage, Jour ’65 David J. Mangan, Arts ’65 Dorothy M. McDermott Schneider, Arts ’65 Grace S. Wolff, Med ’65 David L. Harp, Eng ’66 David W. Leifker, Law ’66 Karl A. Wegerbauer, Grad ’66 Teresa Luetkenhaus, Grad ’67 Edward J. Miller, Eng ’67 L.T. Rozum, Med ’67 James R. Eilman, Law ’68 John F. Farina, Eng ’68, Grad ’73 Charles P. Hemauer, Eng ’68 George J. Kirylo, Sp ’68 Mary B. Kisting, Grad ’68 Robert L. Modjeski, Grad ’68 Lois C. Olsen, Grad ’68 Daniel J. Slak, Arts ’68 Gregory J. Ziegler, Eng ’68 John F. Decker, Grad ’69 Gary S. Edwards, Arts ’69 Mary Jane McDonald Maloney, Arts ’69 Jean E. Monahan McKiernan, Arts ’69 Jeffrey T. Bayorgeon, Eng ’70 Edward B. Bradley, Eng ’70 Patrick C. Johns, Arts ’71 Daniel J. Kelly, Arts ’71 Timothy E. Knier, Grad ’71 Jack Osol, Eng ’72

Robert S. Sosnay, Law ’73 William E. Stoll, Bus Ad ’73,

Grad ’00

Warren F. Czechorski, Arts ’74 Janet L. Hoerl Lenz, Sp ’74 Theresa M. Obremski, Grad ’74 Thomas E. Schmitt, Eng ’74 Joseph F. Slota, Arts ’74 Thomas Joseph Theil, Arts ’74 Barbara M. Browning, Law ’75 Patrick J. Donahoe, Grad ’75 James J. Braden, Arts ’77 Gregg A. Leonardson, Dent ’77 Paul D. Literski, Law ’77 Thomas M. Murphy, Sp ’77 Mary K. Scheving, Arts ’77 William E. Spencer, Arts ’77 Larry J. Johnson, Arts ’78 Thomas R. Audley, Arts ’79 Kifle Y. Wodajo, Grad ’79 Michael O. Sturm, Grad ’80 Jack F. Bieniek, Arts ’81 Carmela A. Sberna Lukomski, Med Tech ’83 Michael F. Platz, Bus Ad ’83 Marcie Eanes, Jour ’84 Daniel H. Kazmierczak, Arts ’86 Mary K. Graf, Comm ’90 Brian J. Hafner, Eng ’91 George L. Raine, Grad ’91 John P. Juedes, Bus Ad ’04 Victoria P. Rentmeester, Arts ’05 Robert C. Blankenheim, Eng ’08 Stephanie J. Rogosienski English, Law ’09 Kevin M. Koenigs, Grad ’11

Drake Kakar, Bus Ad ’12, and Kaitlyn (Smyth) Kakar, H Sci ’12, Grad ’14, May 23, 2015 in St. Louis.

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Frederick J. Taeyaerts, Eng ’62 Thomas J. Barry, Dent ’63 Richard J. Budelman, Jour ’63 Edwin H. Cassem, Arts ’63 Camille J. Compo, Arts ’63 Terrance R. Gill, Arts ’63 John C. Pachi, Bus Ad ’63 Gerald E. Buck, Grad ’64 Lawrence R. Donohue, Med ’64 David K. Dorman, Arts ’64,

Eng ’13, Arts ’15; Michal Gawlik, Eng ’14; Kelsey Koeppel, H Sci ’13, PA ’15; Charlie Busalacchi, Bus Ad ’13; Katie Kuczynski, Arts ’13;

ALUMNI IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Tom Pokorney, Arts ’12; Konrad Siczek, Bus Ad ’12; Brett Forde, Comm ’12; Maggie (Brueggen) Grzesiowski, Bus Ad ’12; Katie Ford, Bus Ad ’12; Katie (Hatke) Bubolz, H Sci ’12; Alyssa Blasco, H Sci ’12, Grad ’14; Casey Vogel, H Sci ’11, Grad ’14; Tony Tholl, Bus Ad ’12; Alice Wycklendt, Bus Ad ’12; Peter Kuhn, H Sci ’12; and Tom Kelly, Bus Ad ’12.

and Giana Zubke, Arts ’15.

Samuel Farmer, Eng ’14, and Heidi Rose (Klancnik) Farmer, Eng ’14, June 7, 2014 at Epikos Church in Milwaukee. They met freshman year in Carpenter Tower and live in Denver, where he is a test engineer at ZimmerBiomet and she is an inside sales engineer at Micro Motion Inc. ALUMNA IN THE WEDDING PARTY

Tara Myers-Zubke, Nurs ’13, and Davis Zubke, Arts ’13, Dent ’16, Dec. 13, 2014 at St. Anne Church in Escanaba, Mich.

ALUMNI IN WEDDING PARTY

Travis Myers, Arts ’12; and TJ Leith, Bus Ad ’13.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Kate Pauly, H Sci ’12, Dent ’16; Danny Cepeda, Dent ’16; Kyle Neuschaefer, Arts ’11, Dent ’16; Daniel Hehn, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Ben Heffter, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Alexius Metten, Eng ’14; Krista Zubke, PT ’94; Emily Lund, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Allison Oeth, Dent ’16; Zach Melcher, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Barbara Van Ermen, Sp ’60; Philip Van Ermen, Arts ’07, Grad ’11; Mike Quinn, Law ’67; William Castedo, Eng ’12; Macaire Thiel, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Amy Zelko, Dent ’16; Kristi Welle, Dent ’16; Joseph Zacharias, Dent ’16; Emily Ruthven, H Sci ’13, Dent ’16; Samantha Paredes, Nurs ’13; Luke Braden, Eng ’15; Natalie Filipski, Eng ’14; Paul Kaefer,

Jodi Fails, Eng ’14.

ALUMNI IN ATTENDANCE

Arthur Grochowski, Eng ’49; Jean Grochowski, Eng ’89; Chantel Newman, Eng ’14; Sarah Walsh, Eng ’14; Brittany McGuire, Eng ’14; John Blonien, Eng ’14; Barney Bergan, Eng ’13; Jack Batzner, Eng ’14; Matt Klein, Eng ’14; Mike Thorn, Eng ’14; Liz Haubenreiser, Arts ’13; Audrey Smolinski, Eng ’14; Jessica Eckert, Arts ’14; Kyle Bero, Eng ’14; Emily (Matthews) Bero, Ed ’14; Dustin Hacker, Arts ’13; Stephanie (Norvid) Runk, Arts ’13; Alyssa Gonzalez, Nurs ’12; Steve Heimiller, Eng ’15; Mike Waller, Eng ’11; Emily Waller, Eng ’11; Eric Decker, Comm ’15; Nate Schulz, Eng ’14; Tsu Sheng Yap, Comm ’14; Jack Lawinger, Eng ’15; Paige Herrman, Ed ’14; Jonathan Kuta, Eng ’15; Kelly Schneider, Bus Ad ’14; and Patrick Zito, Eng ’14. Dr. Erik Janners, the university’s director of music, also attended.

@MU_Wire @MarquetteU thank you Marquette University for remembering Jim and praying for peace ... God bless you!

DIAN E FO LEY, MOTH ER O F J IM FO LE Y, ON T W I TT E R

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Dan Vogt, Comm ’95, and Emily Vogt: daughter Romy Marie, Aug. 2, 2014. She joins brother Scotty, 6.

Sheryl Murphy, Arts ’96, Law ’99, and Matthew Murphy: son Ryan James, Feb. 11, 2015. He was 6 pounds, 13 ounces and 21 inches.

Sandi (Swincicki) Pagenkopf, Nurs ’98, and Kelly Pagenkopf: son Benjamin Michael, June 7, 2015. He was 9 pounds, 10 ounces and 19 inches. He is the second child for the family, which lives in North Lake, Wis. Kurt Schummer, Bus Ad ’00: son Graham Arthur, May 13, 2014.

He joins sister Maeve, 10, and brother Kellan, 9.

Nicole (Senese) Hassel, H Sci ’01, and Corey Hassel: son Nathan, May 7, 2015.

She was 7 pounds, 7 ounces and 18.5 inches. She is the couple’s first child.

Heather (Frank) Austin, Comm ’02, and Ryan Austin, Bus Ad ’01: daughter Cora Rose, July 24, 2015. She was 8 pounds, 15 ounces and 20.75 inches. She joins brother Carter. The family lives in St. Charles, Ill.

Anette Boughner, Arts ’06, and Randy Boughner: daughter Paige Susanne, April 2, 2015 in Stuart, Fla. She was 7 pounds, 12 ounces and 20.5 inches.

Allison Ardolino, Comm ’04, and Kevin Higgins: daughter Sophia Noelle Higgins, March 5, 2015.

James Michel, Arts ’04, and Kira Michel: son Jack Pinter, April 13, 2015. He was 8 pounds, 11 ounces and 21 inches.

Courtney Murray, H Sci ’04, and Michael Murray: son Ryan Kieran, July 3, 2015. He joins brothers Cameron Archer, 4, and Chase Michael, 2.

Julie (Hornbach) Funk, H Sci ’05, and Phillip Funk: son Leo Fitzgerald, July 25, 2015 in Carmel, Ind. He was 8 pounds, 1 ounce and 20.5 inches. He joins brother Max. Julia (Brzostowicz) Nilsen, Arts ’05, and Mark Nilsen: daughter Autumn Mae, May 28, 2015.

Beth (Tomkowiak) Brodzeller, Arts ’06, Grad ’13, and Andy Brodzeller, Arts ’05: daughter Paige Marie, Dec. 4, 2014. She was 6 pounds and 19.5 inches.

Brad Gabrielse, Eng ’07, and Jessie Gabrielse, Arts ’04: daughter Eleanor Beth, Dec. 28, 2014. She joins brother Bennett James, 2. The family lives in Brookfield, Wis. Amanda (Becker) Jorgenson, Comm ’07, and Matt Jorgenson, Comm ’07: daughter Ainsley Grace, May 4, 2015.

daughter Harper Susan, Oct. 27, 2014.

Alicia (Fleming) Hamilton, H Sci ’08, and Mark Hamilton, Bus Ad ’07, Grad ’08: son Charles Stanley, April 25, 2015. He is their first child.

Jenny (Merlo) Schmidt, Eng ’08, and Brian Schmidt, Arts ’08: daughter Wilhemina Theresa, July 28, 2015. She was 7 pounds, 4 ounces and 19 inches. She joins sister Gertie.

Meghan (Farmer) Wilkins, Bus Ad ’08, and Justin Wilkins, Bus Ad ’08: daughter Emilie Jean, June 11, 2015. She was 9 pounds, 9 ounces and 21 inches.

Emily (Essman) LaBadie, H Sci ’09, Dent ’13: daughter Alice

Catherine, July 11, 2015. She joins brothers Eli and Oliver.

James Packee, Bus Ad ’07, and Ashley (Foy) Packee, Comm ’07: daughter Guinevere Jane, April 23, 2015. She was 9 pounds, 11 ounces and 23 inches. She is the couple’s first child.

Karlyn (Rappé) Agnew, Arts ’08, and Ryan Agnew, Eng ’08:

Marquette basketball

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uniforms have long been known for trend-setting style. The university is bringing some of that style

to the court.

The alternate “championship blue” — fans may call

it powder blue — was incorporated into the court designs at the BMO Harris Bradley Center and Al McGuire Center.

The stripes were approved by both of Marquette’s fashionforward coaches — Head Women’s Coach Carolyn Kieger, Comm ’06, and Head Men’s Coach Steve Wojciechowski.

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Archive memory I loved your picture of one of Sheila Reilly’s ballet classes before it moved to the new home at the Helfaer Theatre (archival photo fall 2015 issue).

Sheila was so motivating, with a great sense of humor and a wonderful way of getting through to even the dancer with two left feet. If you take a look to Sheila’s left, you can see the token males in the class: Jerry Russo and Dan LeMonnier behind him. If anyone could stand up to the rigors of a roomful of women in pink tights, nobody could do it with more chutzpah than Dan and Jerry — whether donning ballet slippers or tap shoes. Sadly, we lost both Jerry and Dan in the last few years.

They will be remembered by all who were lucky enough to know them. I am sure that in heaven, Sheila Reilly is tapping the beat for a class, admonishing all — especially Jerry and Dan — for more plie’!

JULIE MALEC, SP ’79

Divided house As a 1961 Law School graduate I was impressed with the fall 2015 article about Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz, executive director of the Becket Fund, the nonprofit supporting religious freedom. Wonderful story, wonderfully written.

Carolyn Duffy Marsan is a concise and insightful writer.

Your whole magazine exhibits that — attractive layout, indepth articles about current issues and excellent writing.

I’m so glad you still mail the magazine. The current trend is to make it all digital, but you don’t read a whole magazine that way or peruse it later.

I picked up my magazine today just to read about Kristina.

KATE MALONE GEDDES, LAW ’61

Is it my imagination or does the magazine just keep getting better and better? This month was especially great. Keep up the good work!

establish this Constitution for the United States,” it would appear that our rights do indeed derive from the state or, which is the same thing, from the consent of the governed. I would also like to remind Ms. Bucholz that the Constitution is a purely secular document. God is not mentioned anywhere in it; and religion is only referenced in a negative sense (Article VI paragraph 3). Consequently, it stands as a bulwark against the theocracy that she seems to desire.

TOM DROLSUM, ARTS ’73

RICHARD D. LANG, JOUR ’86

I used to enjoy the magazine.

Not now for the following highlighted reasons: excessively verbose, including Dr. Lovell; type too small; pages too crowded; a scatter-gun approach that missed the targets; and very costly paper and printing and pictures.

JERRY CARLSTEIN, JOUR ’54

In the fall issue of Marquette Magazine, Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz, in the story “Amen, I Rest My Case,” was quoted as saying that “our Constitution makes it clear that our rights do not come from the state.” If she means “rights” in the sense of legal entitlements, then she is wrong. Because we have (at least nominally) a republican form of government, i.e., a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” (Lincoln), the state is synonymous with the people. And because the Constitution (the law of the land and the source of the legal entitlements) begins with the statement that “We the people of the United States ... do ordain and

Wrap up I have not written to you since I recommended Ruth Hovland, with whom I co-facilitated an Alzheimer caregiver’s support group at Clement Manor Health Care Center, for a profile. The story was brief but very well done.

In reading the fall 2015 edition of Marquette Magazine, I was again impressed with the quality of the magazine. It was good at the time you did the piece about Ruth. It has gotten even better since.

Congratulations and keep up the good work.

GLENDON BOGDON, DENT ’71, GRAD ’73

Your article on Marquette Warrior football player George Andrie brought back such wonderful memories for me.

I began at Marquette in January 1956 after a five-year stint in the U.S. Army, and I chose to reside in Noonan Hall on 13th Street. I got to know George very well. I was also a close friend with quarterback Steve Nolan from Chicago.

Marquette dropped football in

1960. Our last game was with the College of the Pacific.

The students marched down Wisconsin Avenue in protest but to no avail. I lost track of George after he graduated.

He was a great athlete, and Marquette should be proud of him, as I am.

LARRY GIANTOMAS, JOUR ’62

I enjoyed the article written

by Joseph Simmons, S.J., about being Jesuit educated. As a philosophy minor, my liberal arts degree provided me with an invaluable foundation for a fairly successful career in operations management with a Fortune 100 company. It taught me to be open to all potential solutions to problems, to responsibly challenge the status quo as needed and to not only be unafraid of the questions life poses but to embrace them — especially when they concern your core beliefs. I am forever grateful for this gift.

PAM JUNG, ARTS ’64

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Write us at: Editor, Marquette Magazine P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Email us at: mumagazine@marquette.edu

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The beginning of a new year is a good time to re-examine and deepen our faith. Only weeks ago many of us made resolutions to get healthier or exercise

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or lose weight or maybe we resolved to eat out less frequently and save more money (to share with the poor) rather than spend it on what might be deemed frivolous desires. Interestingly resolutions that focus on the spiritual life aren’t played up by the media in the same way as getting in shape. But starting the year with a concerted effort to be more kind and considerate, practice patience, pray more, care and love more deeply, respond to the plight of the poor, and judge others less harshly is not a bad plan for the coming 12 months.

Ignatius urges us

to pay attention to God’s presence in

our personal lives and the created universe.

Perhaps Pope Francis, who so clearly speaks, leads and acts out of the

depths of Ignatian spirituality and his Jesuit formation, will inspire us. His pleas for mercy, forgiveness, compassion and love have been picked up by Twitter, Facebook and a variety of news media outlets. What is it about these ideas that seems so new and newsworthy? And how are these ideas Ignatian and Jesuit?

In a short homily during a reconciliation service at the Jesuit Retreat House

at Oshkosh, Wis., Rev. Jack Treloar, S.J., described God as “Love Loving.”

This concept of the divine presence is no different than the one St. Ignatius repeatedly invites us to reflect and meditate on in the Spiritual Exercises.

Ignatius urges us to pay attention to God’s presence in our personal lives and the created universe. His idea of God is of a God who creates and loves.

exploring faith together

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of us. In the eyes of Ignatius, God is the one who offers forgiveness, mercy, compassion and care: God is “Love Loving.” And human beings are the recipients of that love in the created wonder of the earth, in friends and family, in moments of healing, in times when we feel forgiven or are shown mercy, and when others are compassionate and caring for us.

These ideas are embodied in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. When

Ignatius spent time reflecting and focusing on what Jesus did and said, he came to know a God who has loved us fully and gifted human beings with the ability to do the same. Pope Francis echoed these ideas in his address to the U.S. Congress and at the United Nations and in his address to families in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Pope Francis learned well a way of being in the world in his Jesuit training, and he is calling us to enter this new year with resolutions that have the power to transform our world.

By Dr. Susan Mountin, director of Manresa for Faculty in the Office of Mission and Ministry

from the archives

Daley Debutantes (left to right) Marcy Daley Blaufuss, Arts ’65; Sherry Daley Jung, Arts ’62; and Patti Daley Wertschnig pose before marching in Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1961.

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