Dominican University Magazine, Spring 2011

Spring 2011

The Magazine of Dominican University

Global Calling Dominican’s Presence in the World DUPAC Behind the Scenes Interfaith Dialogue and Discovery Faculty Big Ideas Post-Baccalaureate Program Offers the Right Medicine

From the President Dear Alumnae/i and Friends: Once upon a time, the Ivory Tower epitomized the best of higher learning. It was an insular, exclusive, classical image – study without the distractions of the real world. Today, higher education has left the tower and engaged the world. Of course, a Dominican education always has been about “the creation of a more just and humane world,” and so we delight in that effort – and see potential for leadership.

This magazine is all about dialogue, discovery and making a difference in the real world, Dominican style. The dual focus on civic engagement and international study is distinguished by articles about mission integration and interfaith cooperation – because our intellectual worldview is anchored by a religious tradition. The articles focus on faculty scholarship, because engaged teaching is the catalyst for engaged citizenship.

I encourage you to take a peek at the new Dominican University strategic plan (dom.edu/plan) as further background for all that follows. Pathways to Distinction is a program-driven plan with four academic priorities: interdisciplinary study, global citizenship, scholarship, and research and civic engagement. You can see how the threads weave together.

As I think about the academy in the world, about how this worldview is changing not only curricula but also course delivery, I am reminded of an idea that Jon Meacham of Random House raised at a recent meeting of university presidents. He challenged his audience (me!) to articulate the democratic case for the liberal arts – or risk irrelevance. As a product of the Ivory Tower, I was alternately affronted and intrigued by his statement. Then again, at Dominican University we always have viewed a liberal arts education as the foundation for making a difference in the world. Our curricula, especially at the graduate professional level, make a compelling case for civic engagement. That is, after all, the essence of Caritas et Veritas.

In sum, this magazine takes you inside Dominican today, out into our community and around the world in 36 pages. It is an incredible trip. Enjoy.

Sincerely,

Donna M. Carroll President

Above: Last spring, President Carroll traveled to Torun, Poland to mark the 10th anniversary of Dominican’s partnership with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. left: In 2006, in recognition of Dominican’s partnership with Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, President Carroll traveled to China for Capital University’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Spring 2011

The Magazine of Dominican University

DU NEWS

DEPARTMENTS

2 D U Names U.S. Bank Center

21 Faculty Briefs

for Economic Education

24 Class News

Caritas Veritas Symposium – An Exploration of the Dominican University Motto

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to Study in Cuba

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Goedert Center’s Mark of Excellence

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24 35 In Sympathy 36 Calendar of Events Back Cover Passing Glances

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Global Calling

6 4 DU’s Fulbright Scholar in Residence/Lund-Gill Chair Catholic Charities Honors GSSW Net Impact Team Welcomes McDonald’s Executive

Faculty Bring University Core Values to Students and the World

A Peek Behind the Scenes

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In Pursuit of Religious Pluralism

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Dominican Partners with Interfaith Youth Core to Promote Interfaith Dialogue

5 DU Stars Are Rising

Alumnae/i Spotlight:

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Miriam Cecilia Carlson, Fashion Designer

P R ES I D E N T

Donna M. Carroll VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT

Grace Cichomska

CHIEF MARKETING AND CO M M U N I C AT I O N S O F F I CE R

Jeff Kraft E D I TO R

Tina Weinheimer A RT D I R EC TO R

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DU Faculty Share Their Visionary Work 20 Post-Baccalaureate

Program Offers the Right Medicine

dom.edu/magazine on the cover: GSSW students Rachel Dahlgren and Gisela Gomez are completing their field placement in Ecuador working in a safe house for young victims of human trafficking.

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DU NEWS

DU Names U.S. Bank Center for Economic Education

Caritas Veritas Symposium – An Exploration of the Dominican University Motto

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ith more than 1,000 in attendance, Dominican’s first-ever Caritas Veritas Symposium, a campus-wide event exploring the university’s motto, Caritas et Veritas, was a success by any measure.

Through formal papers, panel presentations, roundtable discussions and performances, the day-long symposium engaged the entire Dominican community, including trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumnae/i and friends, in exploring the meaning of Caritas et Veritas, love and truth, and how the motto can continue to lead the university in the 21st century. Three questions guided the presentations and panel discussions:

In recognition of a $3 million commitment from U.S. Bank, the university’s Center for Economic Education has been renamed the U.S. Bank Center for Economic Education.

U.S. Bank’s support will allow the center to broaden its focus beyond educating kindergarten through high school students about basic economic principles to improving the financial literacy of adults. The center will continue working with Chicago-area schools to provide professional development programs for teachers and workshops for children, but will expand its reach to adults as well.

“This is a real win/win/win situation for the university, the bank and our community,” President Donna Carroll says.

“U.S. Bank has a substantial curriculum in adult financial literacy, and their commitment to the center will provide the university with expanded capacity to serve our community in the important area of consumer economics.”

The U.S. Bank Center for Economic Education at Dominican University is the first U.S. Bank-sponsored center in the country and one of eight university-based centers in Illinois affiliated with Econ Illinois at the state level and the Council for Economic Education at the national level.

Above: Richard Hartnack, vice chairman, U.S. Bancorp, presents a $3 million check to President Donna Carroll.

Right: Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, greets students following the annual Caritas et Veritas Lecture.

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How does our motto Caritas et Veritas affect our lives as educators, students and lifelong learners?

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What’s love got to do with it?

The capstone of the symposium was the Siena Center’s annual Caritas et Veritas Lecture presented by Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, OP, former master of the Order of Preachers. As master of the Order of Preachers, Radcliffe directed the entire Dominican Order throughout the world. Radcliffe spoke on the relationship of love and truth, and their meaning for the 21st century. He currently lives at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, England, and lectures internationally. His most recent books are What is the Point of Being a Christian? and Why Go To Church?

DU NEWS

Faculty and Students To Study in Cuba also fits in with the university’s emphasis on global citizenship, one of the academic priorities outlined in the strategic plan. “Dominican truly values global citizenship and intercultural learning,” Perez says.

“One way that we can create a more just and peaceful world is by having dialogue with people outside our borders.”

Carlson credits Perez’s existing relationship with the University of Havana as allowing Dominican an early advantage in organizing this trip. Perez had been planning the three-week trip since 2009 but found herself and school officials waiting to see if the travel ban would be lifted.

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or more than 50 years, Cuba has largely been a mystery to Americans, but that will soon change.

In January 2011, President Barack Obama lifted long-standing travel restrictions, granting cultural, religious and academic groups access to Cuba. And, in May 2011, Christina Perez, PhD, associate professor in sociology, will lead a group of Dominican students and faculty to Havana, Cuba’s capital city – making Dominican one of the first universities to travel to the country.

The Cuba trip is a real coup for Dominican University, says Jeffrey Carlson, PhD, dean of Rosary College of Arts and Sciences. “To have students be among the first to return to Cuba is very exciting. It is an area that is rich and fascinating culturally and will open a wonderful new terrain of experiential learning for our students.” This program

Perez worked previously at the University of Havana coordinating a study abroad program for U.S. students coming to Cuba. While in Cuba, she accepted the position at Dominican and started developing a program for university students to travel to Havana.

Twenty students along with Perez; Ric Calabrese, PhD, professor, corporate communications; and Janice Monti, PhD, department chair, sociology and criminology; will travel to Cuba where they will study history, politics and culture at the University of Havana. “I want Dominican students to really learn about the country from the inside out – to be able to see things a tourist wouldn’t see,” Perez says.

The Cuba trip will be offered every other year in the spring. Since the travel ban was lifted, more than 700 schools have applied to work with the University of Havana. “We are ahead of the game, which is quite significant,” Perez says.

Goedert Center’s Mark of Excellence

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ose K. Goedert Center for Early Childhood Education has earned accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals. Only 8 percent of all preschools and early childhood programs in the country are accredited by the NAEYC. Under the direction of Dominican’s School of Education, the center provides quality early childhood education to children 2 to 6 years of age. Certified early childhood educators staff the center, which is located on the Priory campus.

“We’re proud to have earned the mark of quality from NAEYC, and to be recognized for our commitment to reaching the highest professional standards,” said Amanda Cardin, director.

“NAEYC accreditation lets families in our community know that children in our program are getting the best care and early learning experiences possible.”

To earn NAEYC accreditation, the Goedert Center went through an extensive self-study process, measuring the program and its services against NAEYC early childhood program standards and more than 400 related accreditation criteria. The program received NAEYC accreditation after an on-site

visit by NAEYC assessors to ensure that the program meets each of the 10 program standards.

In the 25 years since NAEYC accreditation was established, it has become a widely recognized sign of high-quality early childhood education. More than 7,000 programs are currently accredited

by NAEYC. “The NAEYC accreditation system raises the bar for child care centers and other early childhood programs,” says Jerlean E. Daniel, executive director of NAEYC. “Having earned NAEYC accreditation is a sign that the Rose K. Goedert Center is a leader in a national effort to invest in high-quality early childhood education.”

Editor’s Note: The Dominican University community lost a true friend with the passing of John P. (“Jack”) Goedert on March 4, 2011. Husband of the late Rose K. Goedert ’36, Jack’s support of Rosary/Dominican included the Rose K. Goedert Center for Early Childhood Education, to honor their shared dedication to quality education for children.

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DU’s Fulbright Scholar in Residence/Lund-Gill Chair

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hia-Feng Chang, PhD, from National Taiwan University, serves as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and the Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University for the 2010-11 academic year. An expert in the history and philosophy of Chinese science and medicine, Chang received her doctorate from the department of history at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, U.K. and her master’s degree at the Institute of History from the National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. Previously, she was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute; the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, U.K.; and at the University of Chicago’s Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine and The Center for East Asian Studies.

Chang currently serves as the committee of editor for The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology and previously served as executive editor of Historical Inquiry and the Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine, in Taiwan. In addition to public lectures on the history and philosophy of Chinese medicine, Chang teaches honors courses on the subject.

Catholic Charities Honors GSSW The Graduate School of Social Work is one of 13 Catholic schools of social work in the country to be honored with the Catholic Charities USA Centennial Medal for its effort to reduce poverty in the United States.

Mark Rodgers, PhD, dean, GSSW, accepted the award on behalf of the university last September at an award reception held in Washington, D.C., in connection with Catholic Charities’ 100th anniversary.

Founded in 1910 to bring a sense of solidarity among institutions and individuals involved in charitable ministries, Catholic Charities USA has encouraged professional social work practice, provided opportunities for training and networking, and served as a national voice and expert on poverty issues.

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Net Impact Team Welcomes McDonald’s Executive

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ob Langert, vice president for corporate social responsibility at McDonald’s Corporation, recently discussed the company’s global social responsibility initiatives with members of the DU chapter of Net Impact, a global network

of leaders who are changing the world through business.

The Net Impact team includes students, faculty and staff who are committed to using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental and economic impact.

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DU Stars Are Rising

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or the second year in a row, the Dominican University Stars fall sports teams finished their winning seasons with trips to the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Championship tournaments for men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball. The men’s soccer team finished the season with a 19-1-2 overall record. In the process, they captured their fifth straight NAC regular season and tournament championship as well as securing the program’s ninth consecutive bid to the NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Championship. Lio Tovar from Cicero, IL, and Mike Kapusta, Bartlett, IL, were named by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America to the NSCAA/Performance Subaru Men’s NCAA Division III Men’s All-America Team, an elite team recognizing the top 40 players in the country.

The women’s soccer team concluded the program’s most successful season in program history with a 15-5-1 overall record, falling to the Aurora University Spartans in the 2010 NAC Tournament Championship match. Dominican co-captains Liz Phipps, Bloomington, IL, and Adrienne Ryba, Roselle, IL, were named by the NSCAA to the 2010 NSCAA/Performance Subaru NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer All-Region Teams, with spots on the Second Team and Third Team, respectively.

On the volleyball court, the Stars, 25-9 overall, earned their spot in the NAC Tournament title match with back-to-back, three-set victories over Rockford College and Edgewood College in the quarterfinals and semifinals.

The team headed to the NCAA Division III Women’s Volleyball Championship for the first time in school history. Dominican’s Jessica Guerrieri, Plainfield, IL, Darcy Kammeier, Kirkwood, MO, and Kasey Kiepura, Vernon Hills, IL, were all named to the 2010 Volleyball All-NAC First Team by the NAC conference coaches.

In addition, Claire Dezelski, Northwoods, MI, was named the 2010 NAC Women’s Volleyball Freshman of the Year, and coach Christine Paciero was named NAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive time.

The winning spirit continued with the Stars’ women’s basketball team blossoming into a championship-caliber team, claiming the program’s first NAC South Division title.

Capturing the division championship is historic for the Stars and the conference, as the team became the first worst-to-first turnaround in NAC women’s basketball history. Just last season, the Stars finished in last place of the NAC South, ending the season 9-16 overall and just 4-14 in the NAC.

Top: With their NAC South Division championship title, the 2010 women’s basketball team made history becoming the first worst-to-first turnaround in NAC women’s basketball history.

Volleyball: Claire

Dezelski, Class of 2014

Women’s Soccer: Michelle Reynoso, Class of 2011 Men’s Soccer: Andy

Lynch, Class of 2013

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Global Calling Faculty Bring University Core Values to Students and the World From their first days on campus, Dominican students hear the university’s message of global citizenship and the importance of being an active participant in the world, working for the greater good. Indeed, global citizenship is one of four integrating academic values that inform every activity at Dominican as the university prepares graduates for lives of service, no matter where they find themselves.

Jessica Schwartz MSW ’08 completed her 10-week field placement in Santinekitan, India. dom.edu / magazine

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ritical to our mission is recruiting faculty members whose scholarship takes them into the broader world – leading by example and setting the stage for students to follow in their footsteps.

Before she even arrived on campus, Sarah Migas MSW ’07 was inspired

by Dominican’s international outlook. “I was always interested in social justice work so I chose Dominican specifically because of the Graduate School of Social Work’s global emphasis,” she says. Migas’ fieldwork in Ecuador as a student and her current work as an Internet safety specialist in the Office of the Illinois Attorney General stem from her desire to engage broadly in the fight against exploitation.

As a graduate student in social work, Migas was inspired by many faculty members, including Mark Rodgers, PhD, dean and professor at the Graduate School of Social Work, and an international expert in human trafficking. The scope of human trafficking – defined as compelled service, including involuntary servitude, slavery, debt bondage and forced labor among people of any age – is staggering.

According to UNICEF, as many as two million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade each year. And the Central Intelligence Agency pegs human trafficking profits at $13 billion annually. “Though the international drug trade is currently ahead of trafficking in profits, the CIA predicts that within five years, trafficking will surpass the drug trade worldwide,” says Rodgers.

“The State Department estimates that 500,000 kids are traded across national lines every year.”

Jessica Schwartz MSW ’08 has seen the grim realities of human trafficking firsthand, both domestically and abroad. “Many people think that human trafficking is an extreme occurrence that doesn’t happen in their world,” she says. “However, the exploitation of poverty in other countries has brought human trafficking to Western countries.”

Schwartz completed a 10-week field placement in Santinekitan, India, as part of her Dominican study. “We were exposed to the reality of human trafficking as it exists there,” she says. “This means young women with little or no work opportunities being lured by some kind of gainful and appealing work opportunity in another area of the country or another country and then finding themselves forced into the sex trade. Once there, they are trapped and shunned by a society that does not recognize their pain.”

Schwartz’s field placement and those of more than 30 other Dominican students grew out of Rodgers’ decades-long passion for global social work. In 2004, the U.S. State Department funded a grant charging Rodgers with raising international awareness of human trafficking in Latvia.

“Latvia was identified as a source, destination and transit country, placing the women and children of Latvia at risk because these conditions make it easier for traffickers to flourish,” he says. “The State Department provided seed money to develop an academic curriculum and multidisciplinary training model for front-line personnel in social services and law enforcement.”

The Latvian program succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations. A key lesson Rodgers has applied to subsequent programs in the United States and other countries is that social service and law enforcement must work together. “Law enforcement does not naturally talk to social

services and vice versa, but they are both crucial in human trafficking cases in helping the victims and getting longer sentences for traffickers,” he says.

“In Latvia our biggest successes came with prosecutors and judges, who became committed to sentencing traffickers appropriately, instead of the 30-90 days in jail they were giving them.”

Similar stints in Ecuador, Estonia, Romania, China and elsewhere have followed. “This work has propelled us internationally,” Rodgers notes. But it’s also brought him close to home, serving on the Illinois governor’s task force to combat human trafficking and partnering with many local organizations, including the Salvation Army’s PROMISE (Partnership to Rescue Our Minors from Sexual Exploitation) Task Force and others. “There are many human trafficking working groups in Chicago and Illinois and Dominican is at the table,” he says. “It’s entirely possible for our students to build careers in global social work without leaving Chicago.

Every language, every race, every ethnicity, every religion is here – Chicago is a treasure trove for us.”

Top: Dominican’s expertise in international social work, international child welfare and field placement, led GSSW faculty members Jesse Munoz, Myrna McNitt, Jan Rodgers and Charlie Stoops, and (not pictured) GSSW student Janiene Garcia, Class of 2011, to Ecuador where they are working to bring local, regional and national service agencies and government representatives together to rescue a failing orphanage.

Bottom: During her field placement in Cape Town, South Africa, Cynthia Hernandez MSW ’08, worked with a program that provides food to impoverished children and families.

Christina Perez, PhD, associate professor of sociology, is another faculty member whose scholarship allows her to further the idea of global citizenship. From monitoring elections to studying human health issues, she strives to give students a firsthand glimpse into what global citizenship means.

She offers this glimpse on two different tracks. The first is an experiential learning course she started in 2003. Students learn about health and human rights in El Salvador before traveling to the country. The second is a service-learning trip where students study public policy and then monitor elections on the ground in El Salvador.

In the experiential learning course, students are introduced to the themes of public health and policy. During the trip to El Salvador, the students put their classroom learning into action while focusing on a chosen topic.

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“We stay in the homes of poor people, listen to marginalized voices, see their living conditions and then try to understand the policy issues,” Perez says. Upon returning to Dominican, students prepare academic papers and present their work at either the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Investigations (URSCI) Expo or the Women and Gender Studies conference.

“It’s entirely possible for our students to build careers in global social work without leaving Chicago. Every language, every race, every ethnicity, every religion is here – Chicago is a treasure trove for us.”

On the service-learning trip, students monitor elections in El Salvador, which gives them the opportunity to learn about public policy and social change. “The students learn more about the El Salvador election system than the U.S. system, and they become aware of what democracy really means,” Perez explains.

By studying El Salvadoran media, the students also see the role that the United States plays in other countries’ elections. “For students interested in public policy, this is a great opportunity to make firsthand observations,” Perez says.

Next up in Perez’s quest to bring Dominican to the world: a three-week program in Cuba in May 2011, developed in cooperation with the University of Havana (See page 3). Students will spend a week in Havana, studying culture, history and policies and another week touring academic sites. For instance, if the students are studying health care, then they will visit a health-care facility, Perez says. All these programs are designed to give students opportunities to understand different cultures. “The reality is that we live in a global world. You have to be able to relate and interact with people who have other experiences,” she says.

That’s one lesson Migas learned well at Dominican. “When I was in Ecuador, I did a large presentation on human trafficking, looking at exploitation through that lens,” she says. “My job in the attorney general’s office is similar in that I look at how technology can facilitate crimes against children. It’s great to have an opportunity to be on the prevention side now.” dom.edu / magazine

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Mexico Cuba Jamaica

Undergraduate Programs Study Abroad

El Salvador Colombia

• Austria

Salzburg • China • Cuba • El Salvador • France Fanjeaux (Mission Integration only) Nantes Paris • Ghana • Great Britain London Blackfriars Oxford • Ireland Limerick • Italy Florence Milan Rome • South Africa • Spain Salamanca

Ecuador Brazil

Argentina

Service Learning • El Salvador • Mexico

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Alternative Spring Break Chicago, IL Montgomery, AL Kansas City, MO Altlanta, GA Salem, WV Pence Springs, WV

Dominican’s MSW Students Go Global

Mark Rodgers, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, wrote the book on sending graduate social work students abroad – literally. Co-author of the 2010 Guidebook for International Field Placements and Student Exchanges: Planning, Implementation and Sustainability, Rodgers is proud of Dominican’s emphasis. “We’re one of only a handful of programs in the United States that maintain a global focus,” he says. “It’s very rare for graduate students to be able to go and practice – not study – abroad for 10 weeks as part of their training.”

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United Kingdom

Ireland

Lithuania

Poland Czech Rep. Slovakia Austria

France

Ukraine

Kazakhstan

Romania Bulgaria

Italy

Spain

Greece

Morocco

North Korea

Rep. of Georgia

Turkey

Israel

Tajikistan

South Korea

China

Iraq

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia

Nepal India

Taiwan Thailand Philippines

Vietnam

Senegal Nigeria Ghana

Ethiopia

Benin

Malaysia

Kenya

Rwanda

Indonesia

Tanzania

Madagascar

South Africa

Graduate Programs Field Placements • Ecuador • Ethiopia • India

Kerala West Bengal • Ireland • Kenya Nairobi • Latvia • Mexico • Philippines • Romania

International Students at DU • France

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Strasbourg • South Africa Johannesburg • United Kingdom London

Cape Town Johannesburg • Tanzania • United States Jacksonville, FL New York City Washington, D.C.

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Toruń

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Buenos Aires • China Beijing Shanghai

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take Rodgers’ international social work seminar, complete a physical and demonstrate adequate financial support during the field placement.

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1. Prior faculty experience in that locale – “There is never a place we send a student where we haven’t had boots on the ground first,” says Rodgers.

2. A ppropriate academic and personal preparation beforehand – Students must

Faculty Development Program

Executive MBA Programs

Study Abroad

Rodgers cites a few key ingredients for successful international field placements:

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4. A rigorous interview process – “I require five monthly meetings to cover safety protocols, cultural issues, health care, passport and visas,” says international field placement advisor Jan Rodgers, MSW, LCSW.

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3. Language proficiency – “Students need to speak the language to do direct client work,” says Rodgers. “Otherwise they can work with a government agency at the macro level.”

5. A cademic contract to file assignments electronically – To reinforce the idea that this is not a vacation, students sign a contract that they will

• Israel • Jamaica • Japan • Kazakhstan • Kenya • Korea • Lithuania • Madagascar • Malaysia • Mexico • Morocco • Nepal • Nigeria • Pakistan

• Poland • Rep. of Georgia • Rwanda • Saudi Arabia • Senegal • Slovakia • Spain • Tajikistan • Taiwan • Thailand • Turkey • Ukraine • Vietnam

complete their coursework on time and participate in classes using Skype videoconferencing equipment.

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6. Return about a month before the semester ends – This helps ease re-entry into American society well before graduation.

Students must also deliver a public presentation about their fieldwork.

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Bill Jenkins, technical director, and Krista Hansen, artistic director, manage the entrance of the flying monkeys at a rehearsal for The Wiz.

A Peek Behind the Scenes It’s

intermission at the opening of the Performing Arts Center’s production of The Wiz, and the Cowardly Lion’s mic isn’t working properly. The Tin Man’s silver makeup needs refreshing.

And the flying monkeys…well, they require all hands on deck.

While the audience of school children from throughout the Chicago metropolitan area is captivated by the story unfolding on stage, behind the scenes a dozen or more individuals are focused on making sure that the audience’s attention never wavers from the stage. They are the mighty force of students, faculty, staff and theater professionals working the lighting and sound, moving scenery on and off stage, fixing costumes and makeup, positioning the props, cuing the music, and yes, making sure that flying monkeys can swoop on stage without landing on their faces.

Several months before the curtain rises on a Dominican University Performing Arts Center (DUPAC) production, Krista Hansen,

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artistic director and assistant professor of theatre arts, is busy creating what she aptly calls a “collective human experience.”

That experience requires the talents of a production staff that, depending on the production may include a director, technical director, choreographer, set designer, lighting designer, music director, sound engineer, costume designer, stage manager, properties manager, dialect coach, acting coach and dramaturge. And, while faculty and professionals are often slated for specific roles, much of this essential work is in the hands of DU’s theatre arts students.

“We are an academic training program, so our primary purpose is to prepare students for a career in theater. Second, we’re here to serve the community,” Hansen says. “My job is to train, to spot potential and to know where students need to be pushed and stretched. There are jobs that the students love or hate, but it is important that they be trained in all areas so that they are well rounded and well

prepared when they go out into the professional world.” About 40 students are currently pursuing a major or minor in theatre arts.

In as short a time as five weeks from casting to performance, Hansen and Bill Jenkins, technical director for DUPAC, guide the team through the entire production process.

Concurrent with rehearsals, sets are designed and built; costumes are made; sound and lighting equipment are installed; music is designed and rehearsed; and the range of “front of house” activities including marketing, box office and ticket sales are in full swing.

“Theater is a very collaborative art,” Jenkins says, “and everyone gets to add their two cents. In the end we have something that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

“We work very hard to eliminate any division between the onstage and backstage students,” he continues. “Each year we assess what each student needs to know and we approach each production

looking at what role will serve the student best, not who is the best actor for a role. At the end of each year, we have individual meetings to talk about where they need to go from here.”

Backstage at the opening performance, the crew is on their toes monitoring every element and ensuring that everything is in place. The production requires several complex set and scene changes.

Light and sound are employed to create captivating transitions, transporting the audience from a farm in Kansas to a magical world filled with color and imagination.

“Set designers must be able to observe the natural world and use lighting to recreate a day at the beach, the living room of an English manor, or in this case, the imaginary world of Oz,” Jenkins explains. “In theater we have to pick up the audience and move them to different locations, and we have to do it with the available space and resources.”

Life After DUPAC

By Jim Kozyra ’06

This essay is late. Very late.

When writing this for the magazine, I was pretty sure the issue had already gone to print.

In fact, it had probably already been mailed. I suspect that if you’re reading this, you’re either in the back half of the alphabet or you have recently moved. To me, “return to sender” is a fancy way of saying “send out the updated copy.” Nevertheless, it’s finally here, and the delay is a funny story.

I graduated in 2006 with a BA in English and a minor in theatre arts. Since then, I’ve been working as an actor in Chicago, studying and performing primarily at the Second City and iO (formerly Improv Olympic). Ironically, no matter how far I may get in the industry, after four years I still owe everything I have to my time spent at DU. Like a stripper at the beauty shop, there’s simply no way of hiding my roots.

For DU’s production of The Wiz, students Vicki Whooper (above) and Kat Konowitz (below) served as stage manager and properties manager, respectively.

“It is fun seeing it all come together,” says Courtney Bates, Class of 2011, and backstage assistant for The Wiz. A math and computer science major, Bates loves working backstage with the productions because she gets to use her hands and there is a tangible result. “Because we work in the dark, we really learn to appreciate the importance of why props, scenery, everything must stay in the same place,” she continues. “It’s our responsibility as running crew to make sure that whatever goes out comes back to the exact same place.”

With more than 400 shows to their credit collectively, Hansen and Jenkins have worked together for the past seven years at Dominican designing and producing shows that cross the entire spectrum from classic to contemporary, musicals to experimental.

“We are in the hotbed of the theater community here in Chicago, which is one of the best in the nation,” Hansen says. “Our students learn a lot from the professionals, and mentoring and making connections to the theater community is an important part of our responsibility to students in preparing them to graduate.”

“I can honestly say that Krista and I are doing the best work of our lives here,” Jenkins concludes.

“We are standing on the shoulders of giants – Sr. Gregory and Sr. Candida – who were instrumental in creating the experience we have today. Though we never met them, we hope they would be proud of what we’ve built on the foundation they laid.”

My college years were spent learning how to juggle English, education and theater classes with a part-time job, rehearsals for a show and a social life. I didn’t realize that this juggling act was just the beginning – the warm-up act using scarves and beanbags.

In the real world, the juggling act features knives and chainsaws. The phrase “working actor” is a bit of a misnomer. All actors work, and many work incredibly hard. In reality, a “working actor” is more of a hypothetical state of being. It refers to the tipping point where an actor has become so successful that he or she no longer needs a day job. He can pay his rent, insurance and grocery bills, all thanks to his monthly acting check. To get there, actors have to scrape together project after project over thousands of hours, sacrificing personal relationships and every remnant of free time, before finally, after years of hard work, a guy moves in next door who once dated a girl who produced six episodes of The Jersey Shore. Once that guy agrees to pass on your headshot, you are on easy street.

By this definition, most actors in Chicago are not “working actors.” They are receptionists, restaurant servers, substitute teachers and/or plasma donors, doing whatever it takes to spend their nights playing pretend. A Chicago actor takes classes, rehearses for multiple shows at once, writes his own plays, and auditions like it’s his job – because in fact, it is.

When juggling all of these knives, it’s impossible NOT to remember the college years.

Actors are college students who have simply lost their meal plans. Even the gigs booked after college can be directly traced back to DU. Having just filmed a series of Internet shorts on board a cruise ship, I realized I owed the entire gig to DU’s “theatre goddess” Krista Hansen, who invited the casting director of Metropolis Performing Arts Centre to guest-direct a show at Dominican in 2006. That guest director later connected me with a resident director at Metropolis, who hooked me up with his advertising friend in St. Louis, who got me an audition for the Bud Light Port Paradise Cruise. Four years later, my biggest break still came indirectly from Dominican University.

The theatre professors at DU give all students the tools needed to succeed in the working community. Everyone gets lucky and everyone is given opportunities. However, being able to cash in on these opportunities and become a “working actor” is the direct result of how prepared we are. Thanks to four, well-rounded years at DU, I know I am prepared for anything.

I guess this still doesn’t explain why my essay was late, though.

Well, I was on a boat. Then I forgot.

Jim Kozyra lives in Chicago with his wife, Paige. He can be seen performing at iO, Second City and at www.lackingdirection.com.

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In Pursuit of

Religious Pluralism Dominican Partners with Interfaith Youth Core to Promote Interfaith Dialogue

Some may call it a leap of faith.

“Imagine a world where people from different religious backgrounds come together to create understanding and respect by serving their communities.

This is the world we are building.” (IFYC website) Dominican University is taking the leap. In an effort to improve religious understanding, Dominican has partnered with the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) to serve as a model campus for initiating and supporting interfaith dialogue. One of only a handful of schools in the nation to participate in this intensive partnership with IFYC, the initiative will engage the entire university community over a three-year period.

“The timing of this initiative is pertinent and powerful,” says President Donna M. Carroll. “Looking forward, interfaith dialogue and cooperation are vitally important to the creation of healthy communities, and a university like Dominican, with its own strong Catholic tradition, can be a catalyst for encouraging such conversation.”

Eboo Patel, co-founder of IFYC and Dominican’s May 2009 Commencement speaker, believes that Catholic universities in particular can serve as places of robust interfaith cooperation.

“Catholic universities take faith, service, diversity and leadership very, very seriously,” Patel said in an interview with the national Catholic weekly publication America magazine. “I think that the Catholic colleges and universities in America can take the lead in showing the country and the world what a model of interfaith cooperation looks like.”

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The partnership began in the fall with a self-assessment of the current culture at Dominican, including surveys of students, focus group meetings and asset mapping. Four task groups of faculty, staff and students met to explore how religious identity, diversity and interfaith cooperation relate to the university’s mission, campus programs, policies and curriculum. The task force groups made suggestions for improvements, and the next phase of the relationship will involve the implementation of new programming, training and events that support interfaith work. Finally, the new initiatives will be analyzed to see how Dominican can continue to support interfaith development into the future.

The partnership has already influenced programs on campus.

Throughout the year, Dominican hosted a series of talks from representatives of the major world religions. In the fall, Dominican and Concordia University Chicago students teamed up with a local interfaith coalition to organize a hunger banquet that educated the community about world hunger.

Religious diversity is a significant part of a liberal arts education, according to Jeffrey Carlson, PhD, dean of the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, who is charged with leading the IFYC initiative along with university minister Matt Palkert. “There are at least two good reasons to take religious diversity seriously at Dominican,” Carlson says. “First, as a Catholic university, we need to realize that the Catholic tradition encourages Catholics to enter into dialogue and collaboration with members of other religions. And second, since religion has been and is such an enormously influential aspect of human life and culture, it is a phenomenon well worth studying in any good university, but surely in one that has a religious heritage of its own.”

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DU’s 2011-12 Lund-Gill Chair Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), will serve as the Lund-Gill Chair at Dominican University for the 2011-12 academic year. Patel will teach an honors seminar course in the fall on the history and theology of interfaith movements. In the course,

students will participate in service learning and will complete an interfaith project.

Patel is the author of the awardwinning book Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, and a regular contributor to the Washington Post, National Public Radio, USA Today and CNN. He served on President Obama’s Advisory Council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship.

Recently, Vanessa Delgado and Hannah Minks, both Class of 2012, were selected to represent Dominican at the national level. They attended an IFYC training session for college students from across the country, held in Washington, D.C. More than 100 students from all different religious, spiritual and humanistic backgrounds gathered to learn about ways to work together.

Even though the conference was about interfaith cooperation, Minks said that faith and religious beliefs didn’t come up a lot in her conversations with the other students. “It was all about cooperation and mobilization,” she says. “We discussed how to get people involved. What’s the best action for the best outcome? It was very much about energizing and empowering individual students.”

Instead of focusing on religious practices and convictions, Minks explains that IFYC’s approach is to engage people in working together on specific projects. Through this work, you form relationships and understand the universal convictions that compel all people to serve others. Without realizing it, the participants become more understanding. “It’s almost like they trick you into being tolerant,” Minks says with a laugh.

Delgado hopes that Dominican’s partnership with IFYC will redirect attention away from the negative, divisive stories about religion and focus on the positive relationships. “We want the greater community to see that there is something very positive going on here at Dominican,” she explains. “If we can create a situation where our community is united and where religion and cultural backgrounds are respected and celebrated, we will be a model for our society.”

Patel also serves on the religious advisory committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the national committee of the Aga Khan Foundation USA. He has spoken at the TED Conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum and universities around the world. He was named by Islamica Magazine as one of 10 young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America.

The Rosary College of Arts and Sciences has an endowed Lund-Gill Chair, named for former president of Rosary College, Sr. Candida Lund, OP,

and a revered professor of English literature, Sr. Cyrille Gill, OP. Each year the Lund-Gill Chair brings to campus an individual of the highest moral and intellectual reputation who can address themes and issues at the heart of the liberal arts and sciences.

Previous chairs have included Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman, Shakespeare scholar David Bevington from the University of Chicago, New York Times journalist and author Stephen Kinzer, Dominican professor of theology Fr. Richard Woods, OP; and the current chair, Fulbright Scholar Chia-Feng Chang from National Taiwan University.

As student leaders, Minks and Delgado will host several events on campus as part of IFYC’s national “Better Together” campaign.

Students will come together for a “speak-in” where they will decide on a specific social concern to address through interfaith cooperation. Depending on the social issue that is chosen, students will plan a response to effect change. At the end of the spring semester, Dominican will host a group fast, followed by a Better Together banquet. In addition, the interfaith reflection series will continue through the spring.

The student leaders anticipate that this work will create change not only at Dominican but also in the world. “It’s unfortunate that we need an organization like Interfaith Youth Core to teach people how to work together for the common good,” Minks said. “It’s seems so obvious that that’s the best way to improve our world.”

Hannah Minks and Vanessa Delgado, both Class of 2012, represented Dominican University at the national Interfaith Youth Core training session for college students, held in Washington, D.C.

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runway bound:

cecilia carlson fashion designer, owner of ‘miriam cecilia’

By Genevieve P. Charet ’07 Genevieve received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dominican University in 2007. She is a professional freelance writer, food blogger and copy consultant.

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iriam Cecilia Carlson ’09 didn’t take long to make her mark in the world of fashion. In addition to being chosen for the highly selective Chicago Fashion Incubator program, Carlson also launched her own clothing line – miriam cecilia – which is now available in several Chicago-area stores.

In fact, in addition to the prestigious one-year residency with the fashion incubator program – an initiative sponsored by Macy’s that offers participants studio space and other essential resources for launching their fashion careers – Carlson’s clear artistic vision and talent have earned her significant recognition in the fashion industry, including several awards.

As an undergraduate, among an expansive field of emerging talents representing five Chicago-area art schools and colleges, she earned an Award of Excellence at the 2008 Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence, third place in the 2009 Driehaus Awards for Fashion Excellence, and Best Senior Collection award at Dominican’s Spring Fashion Show. Following graduation, she received the Cook County Treasurer Creativity in Fashion Award; as well as a coveted spot at the World Fashion Chicago 2009, where she represented Chicago’s sister city, Gothenburg, Sweden. This year, Carlson was also chosen as one of nine finalists for the Oscars 2011 Designer Challenge Competition.

Her evening gown is pictured, left.

Named “Most Likely to Rule the Runway” in the article “The Next Big Thing” that appeared in the September 2010 issue of Michigan Avenue Magazine, Carlson finds inspiration for her designs in nature – twisting tree trunks, mist-covered fields and coiled forest ferns.

“From the runway to the real world, my garments tell a story – the story of both the chaos and the order found in life,” she says.

“My work is ever-evolving, however the ideas that I developed

while in school have carried me through the process of creating miriam cecilia.” She cites the use of her signature item – the mineral mica – and the branding of her portfolio and of her company, by way of example.

“At Dominican, I was involved in a community that truly supported me,” she says. “Professors went out of their way to help me, whether or not I was enrolled in their classes that semester, and I was encouraged to achieve my highest goals.” She credits Tracy Jennings, PhD, chair, Apparel Design and Merchandising, for guidance and encouragement in starting her own line.

Remembering Carlson’s drive, perspective and initiative, Jennings says “Miriam had a passion for her field that I knew could sustain her in a design career. If a design assignment called for a three-piece collection, Miriam made a collection with four pieces! Her designs are creative but grounded, making them wearable and relatable to her customers.”

As she completes her residency with the Chicago Fashion Incubator Program, Carlson is turning her thoughts to finding studio space and selling her 2011 Autumn/Winter collection.

“This has been an incredible learning experience,” Carlson says.

“After fully committing myself to creating my line, I realize how much I didn’t know.”

Thanks to guidance from other professionals including lawyers, buyers, accountants and store owners, Carlson is focused on the future with both feet firmly planted on the ground. And, she advises other fledgling designers to check any notions of glamour at the door.

“The business side is so vital to having a successful line – the clothes are the cherry on top. Without a strong marketing and sales plan to get the clothes to your customers, it doesn’t matter what the clothes look like,” she says.

In the next few years, she hopes to begin selling her collections beyond the Midwest and on both coasts, with fashion shows to introduce each new season. This spring her fashions are available locally at Cerato boutique and at the Chicago Fashion Incubator Pop Up Shop at the 900 North Shops on Michigan Avenue.

She is also collaborating with Farasha Boutique in Park City, Utah, on opportunities with various “pop up shops” in locations around the country. She also aspires to operating a healthy studio business where she works with clients on custom garments. And, of course, being featured in a Vogue editorial spread wouldn’t hurt either. Yet, Carlson has no illusions about what it will take to get her there. “During the week I get up at 6 a.m., work at the Chicago Fashion Incubator from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., go home and make dinner, then continue to work on various projects until bed.”

Though not the easiest lifestyle option, she trusts that it is the best.

“If a design assignment called for a three-piece collection, Miriam made a collection with four pieces!”

“I have a drive inside that my professors and family saw long before I myself noticed,” she reflects. “And, I’m thrilled I get to do what I love every single day.”

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bigideas: DU Faculty Share Their Visionary Work

The job of every teacher is to inspire learning and ignite students’ imagination – not simply for the sake of acquiring knowledge, but to advance current thinking, solve problems and ultimately, make an impact in the world. At all levels of study, Dominican faculty are exploring, researching, challenging and advancing the frontiers of knowledge.

Their work is groundbreaking and provocative, and their vision is inspiring the imagination and passion of their students. Following are five of their big ideas that resonate far beyond the university campus.

Judy Beto, phd Healthy Food = Healthy Start for Low-Income Children “Our department has a passion for community nutrition and we strongly believe that the Head Start program is an effective way to combat child obesity,” says Judy Beto, PhD, nutrition sciences professor and department chair. “We have the most success when we can start early with children, teaching them to make good choices while they’re still very impressionable and able to influence their families’ food choices as well.”

In 2010, Dominican’s nutrition sciences department received a grant to provide oversight and support services to 20 Head Start program facilities in the City of Chicago via the Department of Children and Family Services. Head Start, the federal program that provides free extended-day preschool to low-income children ages 3-5, is known for offering all pupils at least two healthy meals per day plus snacks. This bedrock principle means that, no matter what happens at home, children eat significant quantities of appropriate food throughout the day, combating both hunger and obesity.

Dominican faculty and graduate students’ work takes place in many stages and involves conducting assessments of each facility; reviewing each child’s chart and calculating his/her body mass index (BMI); evaluating menus and kitchen facilities; and consulting with staff and vendors. They develop an action plan for each child based on individual need as indicated on the medical charts, and assist staff in meeting with parents regarding the nutritional assessments. The Dominican teams also set up fresh food displays that include complimentary fresh fruit and recipes to encourage staff, parents and children to broaden their culinary horizons.

The work also provides an invaluable experience for Dominican graduate students who as they spend time in a community nutrition setting experience firsthand the important role of dieticians in the community and the impact they can have. “This community work fits perfectly with Dominican’s motto of Caritas et Veritas,” Beto says. “We tell our students they need to be part of the solution and not just the band-aid, to really understand all the emotion that goes into people’s food choices, and to tailor their suggestions in a way that makes sense to people in all different circumstances. Because of this grant, they are learning these skills.”

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Thomas Barthelmess, MLS Engaging Children to Read “Books are one of the best ways that children can build abstract skills like empathy and extrapolation,” says Thomas Barthelmess, MLS, curator, Butler Children’s Literature Center – a joint program of Dominican’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, School of Education and Rebecca Crown Library. “In an increasingly complex and complicated world, young people rely on stories to make sense of what they see around them. Books play a critical role in children’s curiosity and imagination, and we want to help children become avid readers.”

The Butler Children’s Literature Center – one of Dominican’s Centers of Distinction – seeks to help teachers and librarians choose the books they share with young people by featuring a carefully selected collection of books written for children and young adults. Librarians and educators can research, study and examine these books.

Since it opened in November 2009, the center has compiled a collection of the newest and best books published for young readers. Public and school librarians and teachers can review the books to see if they should be added to their collections, Barthelmess says, and Dominican faculty can use the books for curriculum development.

The center’s planning council, comprising librarians, educators, media and other professionals, will soon release “Reading 101: The 101 Books for Young People that all Practitioners Should Know.” This list includes important books from a historic perspective as well as newer ones. “We will have the entire collection housed in the center, and it will be subject to continual review,” Barthelmess adds.

“This center creates a bridge between Dominican and professionals, parents, caregivers, and even children from the surrounding community,” Barthelmess says. “It is an invaluable resource because it can serve these various groups in different ways.”

Mohamed Askar, phd Creating Meaningful Change Through Green Business While the typical advice for confronting a problem on the scale of polluting manufacturing practices or wasteful management policies is to think small, Mohamed Askar, PhD, associate professor of management, Brennan School of Business, believes in thinking big. “We need large solutions so business can take a role in solving environmental problems,” he says.

“We need a new way of thinking about what green really is.”

For Askar, that translates into the need for a new business paradigm. “Companies can grow and become profitable based on the added value of being green – that is, green becomes inherently linked with strategy and business practices rather than an adjunct,” he says. “My goal is to define green management in a managerially useful way.”

Applying principles like sustainability to business’ ongoing need for growth and profitability, Askar formulated a new definition: “Green management is the sustainable management of organizationwide resources across the entire value chain that achieves profitability and growth while proactively improving environmental well-being.”

In addition to helping frame the issues facing businesses today, Askar believes the next step is to create specific management tools. “We have a very structured paradigm for quality in Total Quality Management,” he says. “I think we can adapt these tools to cover green issues, too.” For instance, how companies deal with defects is a critical component of their quality programs. If they expand their view of what a defect is to include excess waste generation, then waste-prevention costs can be treated the same way as the cost of defects.

“This will lead to a philosophy of elimination of pollution at the source rather than after-the-fact cleanup,” Askar explains. “This in turn will lead to a holistic product and process design approach that responds to environmental issues.”

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Josephine Sarvis, phd Striving for Gender Equity in the Classroom Do boys and girls really learn differently, or are they just taught differently? Over the past decade, numerous popular books by scientists, therapists and philosophers have attempted to resolve the nature vs. nurture debate once and for all.

“By 2030, the number of job opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields will be off the charts compared to the number of people who can do those jobs,” says Josephine Sarvis, PhD, assistant professor, School of Education. “If women can be encouraged to persist with science and math in school, their job opportunities will be much greater and society as a whole will benefit.”

Current research shows girls are more likely to choose careers in math and science if their interest in these fields is cultivated throughout their school years. But what if that interest is not nurtured? “Girls tend to lose interest at the middle-school level,” Sarvis explains. “We want to learn what causes this shift in attitude.”

Armed with a grant from the Illinois Board of Education, Sarvis is leading a team at Dominican – one of six institutions involved in a science and math learning collaborative through the Associated Colleges of Illinois – engaged in a multiyear study of different aspects of the same basic problem: How can we keep middle-school girls motivated to excel in math and science?

Dominican’s team partnered with four schools where at least 75 percent of the schools’ students qualify for free lunches. After an extensive literature review, numerous classroom observations, a pilot project, and detailed questionnaires for the students and teachers, three key findings emerged:

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Both boys and girls are encouraged by teacher praise. But boys tend to enjoy public praise, while girls often prefer praise given in private.

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Girls tend to engage better in single-sex work groups, while boys prefer mixed-gender groups.

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Boys often have a more active learning style in math and science classroom activities compared to girls.

Sarvis and the team applied these results by creating a professional development seminar, along with a teaching module and workbook, to give teachers the tools they need to use the findings in an effective way.

The team reports that the overall results have been positive. One particularly successful goal has been to open a dialogue about gender equity. “The reason gender-equitable pedagogy works is because it really is effective teaching for all,” Sarvis says. “Our teachers see that both boys and girls benefit from it.”

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J. Brent Friesen, phd Identifying the Medicinal Properties of Plants Throughout history, plants have been nature’s pharmacopeia. Without an understanding of each plant’s components, though, trial and error has been the only way to know whether a particular remedy will be effective, ineffective or – worst of all – deadly.

Using a specialized process called countercurrent chromatography, J. Brent Friesen, PhD, associate professor of chemistry, is helping shed light on the medicinal properties of plants and other natural products by separating specific compounds from a sample of plant extract or other materials. “Plants have hundreds or thousands of compounds in them. Many are biologically active and could be beneficial to people,” he says. “But to look at these compounds we must have a way of separating them – that’s the first real step in the drug-discovery process.”

In 2003, Friesen began a partnership with Guido Pauli of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) College of Pharmacy. Because UIC is a leading pharmacy school, the partnership is mutually beneficial. Friesen is able to share his expertise with the UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research and the Institute for Tuberculosis Research.

He and Pauli have collaborated on projects investigating various components of ginkgo and the anti-tuberculosis properties of ginger, to name just two.

Many of their joint projects have received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

“Not a lot is known about supplements’ individual components. And when plants do have beneficial properties, we’re often not sure which compound is responsible for that effect,” Friesen says. “We also don’t know what toxic compounds may be in that same plant, so the NIH is eager to fund projects to answer these questions.”

With the opening of Parmer Hall in 2007, Friesen’s research capabilities expanded exponentially when the university acquired a countercurrent chromatograph, one of only a few in the United States. “Having the chromatograph at Dominican has been enormously beneficial,” he says. “It allows me to integrate my research and teaching more easily. And I’ve already had studies published in which the research was performed entirely at Dominican.”

Friesen also collaborates with other faculty and colleagues at other universities using the chromatograph to dovetail with their work. For his part, Pauli values his ongoing partnership with Friesen. “We’ve built a specialized expertise together in less than 10 years,” Pauli says.

“Now, Brent is at the forefront of both the methodology and application of countercurrent chromatography. He knows more about it than anyone in the world.”

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Dr. Louis Scannicchio leads Dominican University’s Post-Baccalaureate Program.

Post-Baccalaureate Program Offers

The Right Medicine

Around campus it’s commonly known by a shortened name – the “post-bac” program – but Dominican’s “post-bac” students know firsthand there are no shortcuts when it comes to a career in medicine.

And, whether the students are career changers returning to school or recent graduates seeking to improve their grades in science prerequisites before applying to a professional program, the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program is all about second chances for students committed to making their dreams of a career in the health-care field a reality.

“We’re giving students a second shot at a career in health care,” explains Louis Scannicchio, DDS, FAAMP, clinical professor of biology and director of the program. “Our students come from all walks of life and it is our mission that makes us stand out from other postbaccalaureate programs. The medical field requires more training than other fields and we’re about taking raw talent and polishing it into something very genuine and caring for our future.” Dominican is one of five postbaccalaureate programs in Illinois.

The specialized training is tailored to individual needs with most of the 100+ students completing their required courses within one to two years. In addition to being one of only three programs in the country to incorporate clinical behavioral medicine and psychology into the curriculum, coursework ranges from introductory science courses to high-level, postbaccalaureate-only science and medical courses that go beyond professional school prerequisites. Other opportunities include internships at Rush Oak Park Hospital and a Topics in Medicine series which brings faculty and admissions officers from area medical schools to campus to discuss current research and clinical practice.

Approximately one-third of the students are career changers – former attorneys, engineers, teachers, etc. – and more than 90 percent come from other colleges throughout the country including Notre Dame, University of Michigan, Dartmouth, Princeton and University of Illinois. According to Scannicchio, while most students ultimately apply to medical or dental school, the program

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introduces them to the many health career paths including nursing, veterinary medicine, physician assistants, osteopathy and psychology.

“Often students entering the program aren’t familiar with the many different career paths and we help them discover what they really want,” says Carsi Hughes, PhD, associate clinical professor of psychology, and a member of the program faculty. “It is common for a student to say ‘I want to help people,’ so we work with them to help define what this really means and then help them move on.”

Guiding students on the path to the many health care career options is both a reward and a challenge for Scannicchio and Hughes. “Students have typically been envisioning their career path for awhile, so when it doesn’t materialize as they expect, it can be difficult,” Hughes says.

A unique component of the program in helping students better understand their career choice are the simulated role-playing exercises where professional actors are brought in to play patients and students are the physicians.

“Some students aren’t confident, comfortable or even familiar with the role of the doctor and this helps boost their confidence,” Hughes explains. The actors then provide feedback to the students on what went well and areas for improvement.

Central to the students’ training is mentorship. Each student has a faculty mentor who advises and works with him or her individually.

“The postbaccalaureate years are naturally wrought with anxiety,” Hughes says. “This is a rigorous program and the students are nervous. Many see it as their last chance to go to medical school.”

“We have a personal connection with each student,” Scannicchio says. “Our one-to-one contact sets us apart from all other programs.”

Clearly on a growth trajectory, the program has grown from two students 11 years ago to it being named as one of university’s 10 transforming initiatives in the Pathways to Distinction strategic plan.

With graduates going on to such noted medical schools as Tufts, Loyola, Rush University and Creighton, the program is well on its way to becoming the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program of choice in Illinois.

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Rosary College of Arts and Sciences Daniel Anderson, visiting assistant professor of English, published the essay “‘Minds of Fleetful Thoughts:’ Rube Foster, Dave Malarcher, and the Intellectual Project of Negro League Baseball,” in Baseball/Literature/Culture.

He also presented a paper, “The ‘Lost Art’ of Baseball: James Weldon Johnson, Class Consciousness, and the Negro Leagues,” at the annual Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference in March 2010 in Murfreesboro, TN. Daniela Andrei, assistant professor of chemistry, wrote “Dual Mechanisms of HNO Generation by a Nitroxyl Prodrug of the Diazeniumdiolate (NONOate) Class” which appeared in the Journal of American Chemical Society.

Robert Babcock, assistant dean of students, director of residence life, and LAS instructor, taught a “Defense Against Armed Rapists” class in April 2010 and a “Defense Against Multiple Assailants” class in December 2010.

Thomas Barthelmess, curator for the Butler Children’s Literature Center, served on the Committee of Advisors for the Children’s Core Collection (20th edition), published

by H.W. Wilson (2010).

Judith Beto, professor of nutrition sciences, was the keynote speaker at the Mega Nutrition conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2010, where she presented “The Nutrition Care Process Using Standardized Language,” and discussed leadership opportunities in the nutrition profession.

Alisa Beyer, assistant professor of psychology, presented “Student Powerpoint Presentations: Pecha Kucha Them Back to Life,” at the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area Scholarship of Pedagogy Symposium in October 2010. She also presented a poster titled “Gender Differences in the Relation between Parent Discipline and Child Behavior” at the Conference on Human Development in New York in April 2010.

Robert Calin-Jageman, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored a paper on the development of NeuronBank, an online catalogue of neural circuitry. He was also co-awarded, with Irina Calin-Jageman, assistant professor of biology, a $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health at the National Institutes of Health to study the mechanisms of long-term memory in Aplysia californica (sea slugs).

Veena Carlson, professor of Italian, had her review of Elaine Maclachlan’s book Chiara Matraini, Selected Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition published in the journal Annali d’Italianistica.

Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin, OP, professor emerita of English, contributed the “Piers Plowman” segments to The English Parish Church through the Centuries, a published CD-ROM. Margaret Heller, web services librarian, presented the poster “Research on the Go: Reference in 140 Characters” at the American Library Association’s annual conference, and presented the poster “Chicago Underground Library’s Community-Based Cataloging System” at the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science in November 2010.

Bill Jenkins, assistant professor of theatre arts and technical director for the Performing Arts Center, presented workshops on crime victim issues to several professional groups including the Pennsylvania District

Attorneys Institute for Victim Advocates in November 2010, the National Crime Victims Compensation Board’s annual conference in October 2010, and the National Organization of Victim Assistance’s annual conference in August 2010. He was also a featured speaker in September 2010 for Equal Justice USA’s Beyond Repair: True Stories of Illinois’ Broken Death Penalty tour in Joliet.

Tracy Jennings, professor and chair of apparel design and merchandising, had her peer-reviewed textbook Creativity in Fashion Design (Fairchild Books) published in January 2011.

Bill Kerr, associate professor of graphic design, spoke at the annual meeting of the Naperville Community Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago in September 2010. He co-authored the book Quilts Made Modern, published in December 2010 (C&T Publishing). His quilts were featured in the June 2010 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting magazine, the print 2010 issue of Quilts and More magazine, and in the October 2010 issue of dwell magazine. His Many Hands Blankies project was featured on the WTTW Channel 11 program Jay’s Chicago in November 2010.

Claire Noonan, director of the Siena Center and LAS instructor, presented a paper titled “Communion and Fragmentation Among Youth and Young Adults” at a conference sponsored by the Catholic Theological Union and DePaul University in November 2010.

Chavella T. Pittman, assistant professor of sociology, wrote the article “Race and Gender Oppression in the Classroom: The Experiences of Women Faculty of Color with White Male Students,” published in Teaching Sociology, and the article “Exploring How African American Faculty Cope with Classroom Racial Stressors” published in The Journal of Negro Education. She presented “How to Teach Effectively with Less Preparation Time” at the Historically Black College and University Faculty Development Conference and “Teaching in Color: Building a Case for Teaching Effectiveness for Tenure for Women of Color Faculty” at the Center for the Education of Women at the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan.

Jeanne Popowits, adjunct professor of English, spoke at the 36th annual convention of the Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages - Bilingual Education (Ilinois TESOL-BE), in February 2010, on “Guiding Students to Write Well and Give Effective Presentations.”

She also received a CCCC Professional Equity Project grant to take part in the 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication. In February 2011, at the 37th Illinois TESOL-BE convention, Popowits co-presented with Shyla Rankin, instructor of English, “Guiding Students Toward Critical Thinking and Effective Writing.”

Jeannine Potter, adjunct professor in dance, had her choreography incorporated in concerts at the College of Lake County, the Chicago Harvest Contemporary Dance Festival, and Dance Chicago.

Julia Nephew, adjunct professor of French, presented a paper titled “Christine de Pizan’s Portrayal in 21st Century Art and on the Internet” at the University of Bologna for the Seventh International Christine de Pizan Conference.

Valerie Rangel, adjunct professor in apparel design and merchandising, delivered a paper titled “Fashionably Ever After” at the Mid-Atlantic Costume Society of America conference on “Fashion in Fiction: The Dark Side.” The conference was hosted by Drexel University in Philadelphia in October 2010.

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Bret Rappaport, adjunct professor of English, had “Using the Elements of Rhythm, Flow, and Tone to Create a More Effective and Persuasive Acoustic Experience in Legal Writing” published in volume 16 of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

Chad Rohman, professor and chair of the English department, was a panel chair for “‘En Route:’ Mark Twain’s Travel Books,” a symposium held at the Elmira (NY) College Center for Mark Twain Studies in October 2010. His essay review of Michael Shelden’s recent Twain biography, Mark Twain: Man in White, appears in the fall 2010 Mark Twain Annual.

Susan M. Strawn, associate professor of apparel design and merchandising, presented her paper “American Women and Wartime Knitting” for a textile symposium in Lerwick, Scotland, co-sponsored by the University of Northampton and the Shetland Museum. She also presented “Dressing the Students of St. Clara Academy and College” at the annual meeting of the Costume Society of America Midwest in Ottawa, Canada, and “Needlework as Economic and Career Indicator for Women 1900-1950” at the annual meeting of the International Textile and Apparel Association in Montreal, Canada. Strawn also published an article on the history of the Corticelli silk industry in PieceWork, a periodical of textiles and history.

Mickey Sweeney, professor of English, co-authored the book, Christianity and Romance in Medieval England (Boydell and Brewer).

Marion Weedermann, associate professor of mathematics, presented “Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion in the Chemostat” at the November 2010 Mathematical Biology Seminar at McMaster University in Canada, and presented “Impact of Toxins on Anaerobic Digestion” at the Eighth AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems in May 2010.

Clodagh Weldon, associate professor and chair of theology, published “Before and After: A Kierkegaardian Analysis” in Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies and “Tolle Lege: Using Student Confessions to Encourage Student Reading” in Teaching Theology and Religion in October 2010.

Fr. Richard Woods, OP, professor of theology, published a new book in December 2010 for Continuum Books titled Meister Eckhart: Master of Mystics. In November 2010, he presented a workshop “Religious Life: Origin, Development, Key Moments,” for the Intercommunity Novitiate Program in Techny, IL. In July 2010, he recorded “Spirituality, Health and Healing,” 15 lectures on compact discs for Now You Know Media, Inc. Ning Zou, instruction coordinator, presented a poster “Transfer Students and Their Information Literacy Education” at the 30th Annual Lilly International Conference on College and University Teaching in November 2010.

Brennan School of Business Peter Alonzi, professor of economics, presented a paper titled “Credit Bubble Incentives? The Effect of the Confluence of Manager vs. Owner Time Horizons, Capital Requirements, Securitization, and Executive Compensation in Bank Lending,” at the Southern Finance Association Meetings in November 2010.

He also co-authored the article “Centering the Business Capstone Course on the Banking Crisis: Concrete Integrated Pedagogy” with Robert Irons, assistant professor of finance, Wayne Koprowski, assistant professor of management, and Khalid Razaki, professor dom.edu / magazine

of accounting, published in Research in Higher Education Journal in August 2010. Alonzi also presented the seminar “Futures Markets Explained” to the IV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Toruniu, in Torun, Poland, in June 2010 and published the paper “The Making of a Fine Financial Stew” in the journal Financial Decisions (summer 2010).

Lisa Amoroso, associate professor of management, had the second edition of Constructing Social Research published

by Pine Forge Press. She presented “Ethics in an Infoglut World” at a meeting of the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association in January 2010. She co-authored the chapter “Money Laundering: Strategic Initiatives for Preventing a Growing Menace,” published in Organizational Immunity to Corruption: Building Theoretical and Research Foundations.

David Aron, associate professor of marketing, was named Exelon Research Fellow at Dominican University. Aron and Wayne Koprowski co-presented “Caging the Guerrilla Consumer: The Report from Illinois,” at the 2010 Conference on Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, and Complaining Behavior at Dominican in June 2010. Aron also co-presented “Their Client is Waiting: Teaching Opportunities through Client-Based Service Learning” at the 2010 Lilly International Conference on College and University Teaching in Oxford, OH, in November 2010.

Mohamed Askar, associate professor of management, and Arvid Johnson, dean and professor of management, co-presented the paper “Decision Support Systems for Healthcare Risk Management in Developing Countries: Case Study of a Cardiac Patient in Egypt” the Decision Sciences Institute’s annual meeting in San Diego, CA.

Elizabeth Collier, assistant professor of business ethics, delivered the Catholic Keynote Address “For You Too Were Once Aliens: Religious and Ethical Perspectives on Global Migration” at Lewis University’s symposium on interfaith action and immigration reform in September 2010. In August 2010, she joined the editorial board of the Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, and in January 2011, she became the book review editor of the same journal.

Dan Condon, professor of economics and quantitative methods, wrote the article “Religious Contributions: A Normal Good?” for the fall 2010 issue of The Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics.

Robert Irons, assistant professor of finance, co-authored the paper “Creating a Capital Budget Analysis in Excel,” for the winter 2010 issue of the Journal of Instructional Techniques in Finance.

Robert Miller, professor of business law and management, wrote “The Ethics Narrative and the Role of the Business School in Moral Development,” in the Journal of Business Ethics. He also co-authored with Elizabeth Collier, an article “Redefining Entrepreneurship: a Virtues and Values Perspective,” in the Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics. Miller also wrote and presented three papers: “The 10-Minute Business Law Professor” at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business; “The Business Law Narrative: Developing a Common Context for Cases Covered in a Business Law Course” at the Rocky Mountain Academy of Legal Studies in Business; and “Entrepreneurship, Law and Business Ethics” at the 17th Annual Vincentian International Conference Promoting Business Ethics.

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Kathleen Odell, assistant professor of economics, presented the paper “Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Taking Another Look,” at JP Morgan Chase (New York and Chicago), the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, the Midwest Chapter of Women Advancing Microfinance, and via webinar for the Grameen Foundation. Odell also presented her paper, “Are the World’s Poor Getting Rich Quick?

Evidence of Convergence in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Economic Association in Evanston, IL, in March 2010.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science Bill Crowley, professor, presented “Solving Problems and Building Coalitions: Survival Strategies for the Teacher Librarian, School Library Media Specialist, and School Librarian” in October 2010 at the Illinois School Library Media Association 2010 Conference in St. Charles, IL. Christine Hagar, assistant professor, was appointed as an affiliate of the Disaster and Development Centre at the Northumbria University in the United Kingdom. She also presented “Crisis Information Management” at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science Corporate Roundtable in November 2010. Hagar’s article, “What Can We Learn From Farmers’ Information Needs and Seeking During the UK Foot-andMouth Disease Crisis?” appeared in the Australian Journal of Emergency Management.

Alexis H. Sarkisian, coordinator of clinical practice for the School Library Media Program and adjunct professor, is serving as a marketing communication consultant for the Texas Workskills Development in Libraries (TWDL).

In addition, she produced a videotape highlighting the services of the program which can be found at www.twdl.org.

Michael Stephens, assistant professor, began writing in October 2010 the monthly column “Office Hours” in Library Journal, exploring issues, ideas and emerging trends in library and information science education. He co-authored an article titled “The Impact and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Australian Academic Libraries” for the New Review of Academic Librarianship. He co-authored the chapter “What’s Next?: Tracking Tech Trends” for Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship, and also co-authored the chapter “Friended, Tweeted, Posted: Social Sharing for Project and Knowledge Management” in Managing Knowledge in Projects. In fall 2010, he presented closing keynote addresses at both the Michigan Association of Media Educators conference and the Michigan Library Association conference. He also presented “The Hyperlinked Library” for the New York Library Association.

Christopher Stewart, assistant professor, had his study “The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Construction, Planning, and Design of New Library Space” published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. His article “Half Empty or Half Full?

Staffing Trends in Academic Libraries at U.S. Research Universities, 2000-2008,” was published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. He was also appointed editor of the Metrics column for the Journal of Academic Librarianship for 2010.

School of Education C. Ben Freville, assistant professor and division chair of the master of arts in teaching program, co-presented “DESCRIBE It! Enhancing Student Understanding of Text-Based Primary Sources” at the Illinois Council for the Social Studies fall conference with Colleen Reardon, dean, in Lisle, IL. He also presented “Universal Design for Learning: Supporting the Learning of All Students Using Technology” at Queen of Peace High School in October 2010.

William Gregory Harman, associate professor, presented the paper “Turn with Students: Making Conversation a Priority in Teacher Education” at the Critical Questions in Education Conference in Chicago in November 2010.

Anita Miller, assistant professor and coordinator for online learning, and Doug Lia, assistant professor, co-wrote the article “Enhancing Online Learning Through Feedback” for the winter 2010 issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly.

Penny Silvers, associate professor and chair of the master of arts in education and reading programs, gave several presentations about her research in early and emergent multiliteracies and critical literacy in primary grades including: “Developing Early Multiliteracies” at the International Reading Association World Congress in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2010; “The Multimodal Language of Critical Literacy in Primary Classrooms” at the National Council of Teachers of English national conference in Orlando, FL, in November 2010; and “Early Multiliteracies: Becoming Critically Literate From the Start” at the 34th Annual Statewide Conference for Teachers of Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students in December 2010. Silvers also wrote an article about her research for the December 2010 issue of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Graduate School of Social Work Adrian Kok, associate professor, was a panel member of a presentation titled “Context-Driven Gero-Infusion: Lessons Learned From a CDI Cohort” at the annual program meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in October 2010. He presented “The Social Work Profession and the Digital Divide” at the Graduate School of Library Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in November 2010. He presented the paper “Older Adults, Instructors, and Social Workers’ Perspectives of Computer Training for Older Adults” at the Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science Technology: Information Sharing in U-Era Conference in Beijing, China, in November 2010. The Geriatric Social Work Initiative recently highlighted Kok’s work as a national mentor helping schools of social work infuse gerontology competencies into the curriculum.

Charles Stoops, associate professor, co-authored “Underclass Men in Batterer Intervention Programs: Disorders and Disparities,” in the October-December 2010 issue of Families in Society.

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You always belong to the Dominican University community.

Class News provides all alumnae/i of Dominican University with an opportunity to share news and celebrate important life events. Class News is prepared through the Office of Alumnae/i Relations in cooperation with class agents. If you would like to be a class agent, have news to report or have questions, please contact our office by email at alumni@dom.edu, by phone at (708) 524-6286, by fax at (708) 366-4197 or by mail at Office of Alumnae/i Relations, Dominican University, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305. For privacy reasons we do not publish the contact information for your class agent(s). For questions or contact information, please contact our office. Please note: the magazine cannot publish pregnancy and engagement announcements.

Class News items are submitted by alumnae/i and do not represent positions, policies or opinions of the Office of Alumnae/i Relations, or Dominican University.

The class news published in this edition was collected before November 15, 2010.

News submitted after November 15, 2010, will appear in the next edition of the magazine, Fall 2011. Thanks for sharing your news!

Save the Date for Reunion 2011!

Classes ending in 1 and 6, please be sure to save June 3-5, 2011, for a weekend of reconnecting with your classmates. To view the schedule of events, register online and see which of your classmates will be attending, go to dom.edu/ reunion.

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1943 Dear Classmates of ’43, Hoping you had a wonderful autumn and holiday season!

The fall class agent meeting was very informative.

Dominican University continues to advance in so many areas. The enrollment continues to increase with each incoming freshman class.

I attended the Rosarian Luncheon last summer with Adrienne Allen in the Parmer Hall Atrium and sat with the Class of 1940. It was lovely and we enjoyed being together with the other alums—what a delight!

Adrienne and I attended the first fall Recipe Box Café dinner held by the nutrition sciences department. We always have a relaxed, pleasant time and enjoy seeing and visiting with faculty, fellow alums and community visitors.

This time of year the campus looks beautiful.

I visit the Grotto often. The soccer team is busy practicing on the lovely soccer field—the men’s and women’s teams have great players. The men’s team won its fifth straight Northern Athletics Conference tournament this past fall, and qualified again for the NCAA Division III national tournament.

The Priory is busy with expanding programs and classes. The Dominican shuttle is constantly busy taking students there from the main campus.

Lectures and other programs are given during the year at the Siena Center on the Priory Campus.

Recently, Timothy Radcliffe, OP, addressed the relationship of love and truth. He lectures internationally.

The Dominican University Performing Arts Center has a special selection of programs. They are very enjoyable. The 31st Annual Trustee Benefit will feature the Camerata Ireland this year, a chamber orchestra of Irish musicians from around the world.

I hope to see you there!

Please keep in your prayers our departed classmates, especially the recently deceased: Rosemary Griffin Dunne and June Howard Hilton.

I am anxious to hear from you soon. Blessings and peace, — Penny Maggos Harvalis, class agent

1945 Dear Classmates of ’45, It’s time for my annual fall letter to you and as I look over my folder with very few (!) messages from you, I see that I’ve written once to you (June 15, 2010) since my message in the Dominican Magazine that reached us last fall (which I wrote April 16, 2010). So on this fall day with the campus filled with beautiful colored autumn leaves, I will share with you the most recent news of our class.

I did hear from a few of you after our 65th Reunion. Mary Margaret O’Connor Dailey wrote from Naperville, IL. A year ago she developed rheumatoid arthritis so her movements about are limited. She has been widowed now for 30 years, has five children, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Of the 27, 21 are boys! They keep her busy and she adores them all. They are “all healthy, lively and loving. God has been very good to me.”

Camille Pascal Berley wrote from Jacksonville, FL, that she thought of us constantly during that special reunion weekend and longed to be with us. In her opinion, the academics with excellent professors and the profound Catholic environment were unsurpassed anywhere and were a tremendous influence on her life, for which she is most grateful. She and her husband, Fred, have both been blessed with good health. They had a lovely family reunion for the 4th of July. One son lives in Jacksonville and the other four are all over the country, but all get together once or twice a year. Such fun!

We lost another classmate on September 30— Lorraine Silarski Songer died at the Holy Family Nursing Center in Des Plaines, IL, where she had been for eight years. We were well represented

by Mary Rose Lescher Mayer and Sally Broderick Busse, who were able to attend the funeral service there on October 8. Sally asks our prayers for she is having some medical problems. I was not able to go with them since I was visiting my brother, Langdon, in Bethesda, MD. He passed away in December. I am grateful for your prayers.

So that’s all the news I have! PLEASE take pen in hand or email me and tell me your news. I would love to be swamped with your letters! I send you all my love and prayers.

— Sr. Mary Woods, OP, class agent

1946 65th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 You will remember that in the past I have referred to Betty Gloudeman Scharfenberger as our Energizer Bunny, but now I would like to add another title, that of Betty’s being the living example of the word “enthusiasm.” Betty resides in a Catholic retirement community in Milwaukee that offers exceptional opportunities to its residents. Betty’s lifelong love of music welcomes the easy accessibility of taking piano lessons given by teachers who come weekly to the community from the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Betty also sings in a conservatory choral group and, with her friends, attends many of the conservatory’s band and choral concerts. Betty’s enthusiasm is definitely contagious. Ask her about all of this when you see her at our 65th class reunion in June.

Genevieve Hanley Lennon from St. Louis and Camilla Ingrassia McGuire from New York City also are planning to attend the reunion. After the reunion, Camilla will travel to Rockford to attend her annual family reunion, several generations deep. The highlight of Genevieve’s summer was a visit in St. Louis from her daughter, Theresa Lennon Conroy ’73 and her husband, Bill, whose three busy children remained in Washington, D.C. Anne, a 2009 Fordham graduate, is now an editorial assistant at a medical website in Virginia. Margaret Genevieve (Meg) is a junior at Fordham, James is a junior in high school.

Rosemary Murphy Highland’s daughter is a biomedical researcher at St. Anthony Hospital in Rockford and is teaching a course in microbiology at the University of Illinois in Rockford.

Caitlin, the oldest of Corinne Cohan Travis’ three granddaughters, is a gainfully employed college graduate and the younger two, Kara and Allie, are

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college students. Corinne and her husband, John, enjoyed their annual autumn trip to Chincoteague Island to celebrate Corinne’s birthday.

Our daughter, Anne, has purchased a house that brings her much nearer to us but somewhat farther from her work in the IT Department of DSW. Our son George’s older son, Justin, is a happy and busy sophomore at Syracuse University and his younger son, Alex, is an equally happy and busy sophomore at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee.

Please continue sharing with me news of our classmates. We hope many members of our class will be able to attend the June reunion. We have so many reasons to be proud of our alma mater. For us, returning to that beloved campus will be different, yes, but, as always, you will find everything welcoming and enriching. Take care, all of you, and be well and happy and safe. Caritas et Veritas.

— Elizabeth “Betty” Campbell Meyer, class agent

1950 Agnes Tierney Prindiville called in October 2010 with the very exciting news that she was invited to meet with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in her chambers, while visiting her grandson at Georgetown. The invitation also included Agnes attending the morning session of the court. Justice Ginsberg is tiny, about five feet tall and very gracious. Agnes said they met in her chambers which consisted of six rooms decorated with interesting artwork, mainly modern and Chinese. One of the things that struck Agnes about the court session was the formality: “The clerks wear tails in chocolate brown.”

Gertrude Pinion Greey attended our reunion last June along with her daughter, Mary Greey Hickman ’75, who was attending her 35th reunion. But she also had a reunion with her sister, Sr. Genevieve Pinion, OP, who came to Rosary from the Mound for the occasion.

Gertrude Pinion Greey with her sister, Sr. Genevieve Pinion, OP, at Reunion 2010.

Therese Buckley Mulvihill also went east last fall to visit a grandson and watch him play football for Harvard in the Yale-Harvard game. While in Massachusetts she and her husband celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary.

No exotic overseas trips for Virginia Kott this year but she managed a unique experience nevertheless. When the tall ships visited Chicago she was able to cruise on Lake Michigan for an hour on one of them.

Anne Nicholson Sandman, who has seven grandchildren, is still welcoming new members to the family. The latest grand is only a little over

a year old. Anne does Meals on Wheels, is a Eucharistic minister and belongs to a book club.

I had a lovely letter from Alex Beresniewicz, the husband of Irene Corcoran Beresniewicz. He said she is in a nursing home in Willmington, DE, due to severe dementia. He cared for her at home for several years before she entered the home and now visits her daily. He also reported that after graduating from Rosary, Irene earned advanced degrees from Marquette University and the University of Illinois, majoring in history.

Together they raised five sons.

After having spent a lovely afternoon with Jean Charters Van Hoomissen at our reunion last summer, I was saddened to receive word from her of the death of her twin brother, Bob, on August 14, 2010. At Reunion, Jean and I reminisced about how Bob, who was a student at Notre Dame while we were at Rosary, used to come over for dances and bring dates along for her friends.

Jean Charters Van Hoomissen celebrated Reunion 2010 with daughter, Ann Van Hoomissen Bixby ’79.

Please remember Jean and Alex Beresniewicz in your prayers.

— Virginia Lyons Mullery, class agent

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Eileen McGreevy Côté and Marilyn Lawley catch up at Winberie’s in Oak Park.

Dear Class of ’53, It’s that time again, and I don’t have much news, but no news is sometimes good news.

Eileen McGreevy Côté of Quebec City, Canada, came into town for her brother’s 50th wedding anniversary. She found time to have lunch with me at Winberie’s in Oak Park. We had a very nice time discussing fun times at Trinity and Rosary. She is doing just fine and her family is all well and happy.

Hope to hear from you in the near future, — Marilyn Lawley, class agent

1956 55th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Happy spring! Yea! And who has sprung up but Margaret “Midge” Dumke Ward whose six children mostly live near Midge in Springfield, IL. We need more news, Midge, so keep it coming. Paul and Carol Anderson Kraus have had a busy few months: their 50th wedding anniversary in May 2010 was celebrated with the whole crew in attendance. Last September they took a seven-day river cruise on the Danube, travelling from Passau to Budapest and through Bavaria, including Oberammergau for the Passion Play, a “profound experience.” On the final day a fax arrived, announcing the birth of twin grandsons, their 28th and 29th grandchildren.

Finally settled in the new condo with a lovely view of the golf course practice tee is Regina Dimond Myers. The only drawback so far: a broken window delivered by a would-be Tiger Woods with a wicked slice but a powerful swing. Regina has recovered fairly well from knee replacement surgery and is back to playing bridge. Nancy Cunningham Toomey enjoyed a trek to beautiful, vast Alaska last summer, utilizing planes, trains, ferries and rental cars. She said sunset in Sitka over the sea and mountains was the most amazing, as was info about the long-ago Russian settling of the area.

Nancy, Mary Kay Shanahan Kennedy and Nancy Anglund ’57 lunched in Florida in April. A longtime volunteer with Catholic Charities’ OASIS (Older Adult Assistance) program, Sally Love Gardiner slowed down after her 99-year-old client died, but she stays busy with classes and friends. Most of Sally’s “antics” involve her nine grandchildren: oldest is 25; youngest, 2. The oldest graduated from college in Massachusetts last spring. The 2-year-old lives nearby, perfect for Grandma who’ll play with him anytime, though “getting down on the floor isn’t as easy as it used to be.” Downsizing, Terry Muraine Bashus and husband, Paul, have moved into an apartment complex. Her problem is where to put “stuff.” At their annual get-together Barbara Cassidy Flood (ex. ’56), Helen Conahan Pfister, Nancy Hinton Keegan and her sister, Dorothy, and Peggy Hines Maher thoroughly discussed, among other topics, the “state of the world.” Barbara Meiers Sullivan missed the chitchat due to back surgery. Helen is recuperating from bypass surgery but retains her beautiful outlook on life, according to the others. Barb Cassidy has 13 children and 64 grandchildren! The group as a whole boasts 116 grandchildren! Quite a crowd, eh?

Joan Drexler O’Neill and family are VERY proud of husband and father, Jim O’Neill, who received the 2010 Rev. Louis J. Putz C.S.C. Award from the Notre Dame Alumni Association in recognition of his leadership in implementing programs that have improved the lives of people in inner-city Dallas, TX. Barbara “Parse” Parsons emails that “China was an EXPERIENCE! Loved the food, climbed the Great Wall, enjoyed the people and found attitudes toward traffic laws a bit scary.” She received UWPlatteville’s Excellence in Teamwork Award in spring 2010. Marti Svete Springer’s husband, Mike, had a book published this year, The Bootlegger’s Secrets.

The sequel, Mark Penn Goes to War, is almost ready for publication. They spent September in Chicago and Minnesota—they miss their home area, even

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with the snow, and miss Northern food! Marti also shares a serendipitous chance meeting with Virginia Mullery ’50. They checked out next to each other in a grocery store in Gulf Shores, AL, where Marti lives.

In talking, they discovered that Virginia lived across from the home where Marti lived as a toddler, so when Marti and her husband were home to Chicago last spring, they spent time with Virginia. Marti got to visit her childhood home, as Virginia knows the people who live there now.

Marti also enjoyed time together with Marion “Suzanne” Teeuws Laundry MALS ’61 at the beautiful and historic Deerpath Inn at Lake Forest, IL. Suzanne spends her time as a board member on Catholic Charities and the Art Institute, was elected precinct committeeman, Lake Forest Symphony and is club historian for the Lake Forest Woman’s Club.

She is writing a book on the history of Lake Forest with the Lake Forest Historical Society and is active on the 2010-2011 Steering Committee of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Lake Forest. Suzanne and husband, Melburn, are planning another trip to Lucaya, Grand Bahamas, where they have a villa.

Marion “Suzanne” Teeuws Laundry MALS ’61 at her villa in Lucaya, Grand Bahamas.

Prayers and maybe a note would be lovely for Joan “Scotty” Scott. She has had several health issues and is now in a senior retirement/care home.

Margaret “Peg” Healy went to France last May with a group of 10, to follow the footsteps of Joan of Arc, from her birth in Doremy to her death on the stake in Rouen. Other excitement includes the “usual”— music at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, and Opera at Glimmerglass in Cooperstown, NY. Peg says she will feed her “addiction” to the Metropolitan Opera’s simulcasts in live HD by attending 12 of them this year. Barbara Coffey Houda is heading to Boulder City, NV, for the winter, looking forward to spending time with friends there.

Carmela Vitullo Albachiara writes, “We had a busy year with three grandkids graduating. Nick and I flew to Dallas to see my granddaughter graduate from high school. Then, back to North Riverside for my grandson’s graduation from Riverside-Brookfield High. Then my granddaughter, Madeline, graduated from junior high. In addition, Nick and I are both members of the RiversideTownship Lions Club. Still getting together monthly with Rosarians Marjorie “Marge” Licar Novak, Rosemary Rio Moran, Marie Pecora Martino and Penny Maduros Egerten. Friends Forever!”

Betty Blum Carr had cervical spinal stenosis surgery on October 15 and is recovering very well. Betty thanks all of you for your prayers.

Though retired from teaching since 2002, Anne Bermier has been teaching the Illinois Constitution and the U.S. Constitution to seventh

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and eighth graders at St. John of the Cross School in Western Springs. Recently Anne accompanied more than 60 eighth graders to Washington, D.C. As for me, Pat Bach Steele, my family is doing well.

Oldest grandchild, Cassie, is now in a master’s program in anthropology/archaeology with a teaching assistantship, small scholarship and a job assisting the curator of the anthropology/ archaeology museum on campus. Grandson Dan, the son of my deceased son Dan, has earned his EMT. He is working three different jobs, including one with a local ambulance, and working on his paramedic credentials. Nine-year-old grandson Arthur continues to “channel” his Grandpa Bob, according to my daughter. My Aussie girls are doing great—the fund begun in memory of their brother, Preston James Steele-Alston, who died in 2003, has grown and helped many other children. God has blessed our family with many good things for others coming out of our personal sadness, such as the Veterans’ Memorial Park here in Freeport, based on my son Dan’s design and built in his memory.

Last Memorial Day, the pastor of one of our Catholic churches—himself a veteran—celebrated Mass at the Memorial Park. Four more walls were dedicated this past fall.

We offer a huge thank you to Margaret “Peg” Healy for undertaking the job of encouraging classmates in the gift-giving project for our 55th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011. Let’s get behind Peg and make this a really BIG surprise for our favorite school and its teachers. Reach deeply. Add some of your “mad” money. Contribute. Show appreciation for all that Rosary contributed to our lives. Blessings on the class. Prayers for the needs and thanks for His goodness. See you at Reunion!!!

— Kay Penn Hawken and Pat Bach Steele, class agents

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It is me again with news from Dominican. Thank you so much for the news for the last issue.

Our beloved alma mater continues to grow. The 2010 incoming freshman class numbers 428 students; at some point during their college years, more than one-half of the student body lives on campus. There are students from 12 states, including California, Arizona and Washington. The diversity of the university continues to grow also.

Jean Horrigan Delhey of Florida was in Chicago this summer for two months. She had a luncheon for Mary Whalen, Joan Keegan and me (Ellen Bendry); Jean and Joan talked about their great trips planned, China and Eastern Europe, respectively. The week prior to the luncheon Rita Seaman Pinkowski was in Chicago for a visit with Jean Horrigan (thanks, Jean, for keeping us all together and connected).

Debby Noonan Hennelly, Sr. Ann McCullough, OP, and Rita Cleary Smith met over Memorial Day weekend at Debby’s home in Wheaton. Debby has four children and seven grandchildren. This year, Sr. Ann is celebrating her 50th jubilee as a Sinsinawa Dominican. Rita has seven children and 22 grandchildren. All three share a love of books and spent time swapping titles of their recent favorite reading.

Debby Noonan Hennelly, Sr. Ann McCullough, OP and Rita Cleary Smith met over Memorial Day weekend 2010.

Dominican University is exploring the acquisition of the Ernest Hemingway family home in Oak Park. After extensive renovations, it will serve as a cultural center featuring innovative educational programming in the arts and sciences, both for Dominican students and faculty and for residents of Oak Park, River Forest and the surrounding communities of the greater Chicago area. On September 12, alumna Anne Skroko Keenan ’69 and her husband, Lee, opened their beautiful Lincoln Park home to alumnae/i and friends to hear Associate Provost David Krause talk about Dominican’s plans for the beautiful Hemingway family home. It was a lovely afternoon. If you would like more information on Dominican’s partnership with the Hemingway Foundation, please contact Melanie Dykstra, senior advancement officer, at mdykstra@dom.edu.

I am wishing you all blessed and peaceful times with families and friends. Hopefully, this letter finds you healthy. We all love hearing about one another so don’t forget to contact me or the alumnae/i office at any time.

Peace and Love, — Ellen Bendry, class agent P.S. Our next reunion is in 2012! If at any time you have an idea for the next reunion, please contact me. We start planning in 2011.

Dear Classmates,

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It is almost a year since many of you gathered at Dominican. Hopefully you are well and doing things that you enjoy. From the Memory Book that was circulated at the Reunion luncheon, I learned that Barbara Schroeder had retired from teaching special education in the Chicago schools and that Sr. Nancy McCarthy, BVM, also retired from teaching the deaf, is now associate coordinator for the BVM order.

Adrienne Motykie Dahl’s home was struck by lightning in 2009, and she and her husband, Tom, had to vacate the home for quite a while. They were finally able to move into the home after extensive work and remodeling. Betty Banas Cella and her husband, Lou, enjoyed a Notre Dame-sponsored trip to Tuscany last September hosted by Betty’s brother, Leonard, a Holy Cross priest. They found the trip very educational.

Karen Loan Haggerty sent me a note after the loss of her mother, aged 101 years. Karen wrote, “Mother had a great life and peaceful death for which we are truly grateful.” Our condolences to her and her family and also to Denise Heintz McAllister, who lost her spouse and sister-in-law.

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Many of you wished me well after my injury in March 2010. Thank you for your warm wishes.

My leg is much improved and I have begun to drive and get out on my own. I enjoyed attending the Memorial Mass on October 31 at Dominican and the concert in December featuring the group Sweet Honey in the Rock. Please send in your news to Dominican.

— Jo Scaccia Maday, class agent

1961 50th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Class of 1961, get ready for your 50th Reunion! Go to dom.edu/reunion for a schedule of events and see who will be attending and to register online. We hope to see you there!

— Mary Melocik Hambleton, class agent

1962 Prayers go out to Nancy Fiedler Eckerson, whose husband, Raymond, died July 15, 2010.

— Elizabeth (Eliz) A. Freidheim, class agent

1963 Kathy Markley Scruggs writes that she was in Chicago for a Markley family reunion over July 4, 2010, and “loved the fireworks, the free concerts at the Pritzker, and improvements at the zoo. We rented a five-bedroom house in the Rogers Park neighborhood so several households could stay together.” Kathy, like so many of our classmates, has a full life with family, reading and social activism. In her words “helping to take care of our grandson, the AAUW book club (Woman Behind the New Deal was one of the best books I’ve read recently) and advocating for affordable housing fill my days.” Kathy was a volunteer in the Peace Corps and has participated in several celebrations of the 50th anniversary of that organization. One such event was at a Nationals baseball game that began with a parade of flags of all the countries that have welcomed volunteers. The Nationals beat the Phillies for those of you keeping score!

A new grandson (her third) is brightening the days of Pat Lane Giese. The charmer is the son of Pat’s son, Greg, and his wife, Kathy. Baby Terrence Steven Giese arrived July 30, 2010. Pat enthuses that this charming baby is “absolutely adorable, and holding him in my arms assures me that life is good and any clouds on the horizon are only temporary.” A good reminder, Pat. Travel is also a favorite activity of many classmates and Pam Balow shares the adventure she and husband, Hugh, had in sailing around Cape Horn in January of 2010. They flew to Santiago, Chile, and spent three days learning the city. Pam writes “Santiago doesn’t have as much charm as other South American cities, nor as much Spanish history because it was only founded in the mid-1800s, but it has one of the best pre-Colombian museums we have seen, and the city is clean and well-organized, and quite modern.” They boarded the ship at the port of Valparaiso, which was once the home of the great Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, and Pam found his eclectic and uniquely designed hilltop home to be very interesting. Bad weather plagued the

voyage until they had gotten around the Horn and reached the mid-Atlantic Argentine port of Puerto Madryn. They were able to visit some of the ports of call—Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas in Chile, Ushuaia in Argentina. The voyage ended in Buenos Aires, which Pam and Hugh loved: a large, noisy, loud and fascinating city with tons of history and great music! Back on the home front their family continues to grow with a new grandson—Hugh’s son, Michael, and his wife, Sarah, had their first baby on July 4 and his name is Bernardo Hugh.

My own travels were much more local this year. In September, I drove to the Mission Inn in Riverside, CA, for the wedding of Anne Montone, daughter of Pat Klapperich Montone and husband, Ken. Beautiful bride, handsome groom, great reception.

On the way home I drove to the Grand Canyon. Truly an amazing sight and site. In October, Susan Sobey Druffel visited and one of our adventures was another drive to the Grand Canyon, which we saw in wind and rain but it was still spectacular. We drove to Sedona through that amazingly rugged red rock canyon and its great beauty. We did not notice any mystical vibes but that may be because we were ogling (not Googling) the sights.

Marianne Brabec Powers has been visiting family in California including her sixth grandson. She also has two granddaughters.

Judy Jedlicka Koubek and husband, Luke, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with family in Maryland. They also traveled to the West Coast and renewed bonds with friends who also adopted a daughter from China 15 years ago.

More travel and local news from Beth Linskey. She went to Italy as one of the NY state representatives of local food for the Terra Madre annual conference on sustainable foods. Beth is creating a cookbook featuring her jams and chutneys all made from NY state produce. And she has returned to the market at the World Trade Center. Check this all out at her website and order her cookbook from www. bethsfarmkitchen.com.

Helen Foley McNaney visited New Zealand and Australia in September. No details yet, but just think of all the great pictures and travelogues we will have at the 50th reunion in 2013. Remember there are about 40 of us emailing and there is a Facebook page for the class of 1963—call or email the alumnae/i office for the contact information so you can join in the fun. Send me an email and I will get you on the group email list. Caritas et Veritas.

— Susan M. Flynn, class agent

1964 Dear Classmates, For those who had not heard, it is with a heavy heart that I report the death of Kathy Quinn Lynch early last summer. To me, Kathy was the personification of the best of Rosary—a study in grace. I had the privilege of visiting her at Annapolis and treasure the memory. Her loss diminishes us all. It is unfortunate we are of an age these losses will be more frequent. Our sympathy is extended to Judy Colohan Blatherwick on the loss of her husband, Rodney. Please keep our class and our families in your prayers. Jeanette Fischer’s husband, Tom, is also seriously ill.

I was delighted to hear from Katie Kammerer Morvay who, despite her transfer to Illinois, still considers Rosary her alma mater and is in touch with several classmates including Joanne Hayford Paulus who lives in Pewaukee, WI. Katie and husband, Jim, are now in the Canaan Valley in WV after 31 years in Rockville, MD. Their daughter and two granddaughters are farm girls in PA on a dairy farm. Contact me if you’d like to get in touch with Katie.

Katie Welsh Terrien and husband, Bob, were our guests this past summer on their post-retirement swing through the Midwest. Bob and I compared CPAPs and we all relived some great times. Katie and Bob had journeyed to Fairbanks, AK, to see their son-in-law, perform the role of Don Ottavio in the opera Don Giovanni and enjoy their new granddaughter. Katie now has four grandchildren, so they are on the move a lot. Also one with news of new grandchildren, Mary Ellen Thornhill Dick was thrilled to report the birth of her second grandson, Charles.

I had a fantastic journey through the West shepherding 24 fellow 5W members from 11 countries on a three- week tour of San Francisco, Yosemite, Death Valley, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, with a week visiting New Mexico and the Native American sites. It is wonderful to see the USA through their eyes. My invite to see Chicago in 2012 has 46 signed up so far.

I had the pleasure of representing our class at the scholarship luncheon and remain amazed and energized at the spirit expressed there—it gets more successful each year! DU is especially proud of the fact it has the highest graduation rate among both its peer institutions and competitor schools (those chosen by DU applicants). Our class can be proud of the recipients of our endowed scholarship. Only nine classes have endowed scholarships! What was wonderful to see is that there are now 88 endowed scholarships, especially needed as college costs spiral. Our Barbara has a partial scholarship at Kellogg but will still have substantial student loans. Say a prayer the 529s do OK for all of our grandkids.

Bob celebrates his 50th next year and ours isn’t that far off. Please plan to come—our numbers are dwindling and it is such a joy to see old friends.

If you haven’t seen campus lately, do not miss an opportunity—it will rock your socks!! Please send any news to classof1964@dom.edu.

Hugs to all, — Mary McGough Schultze MALS ’70, class agent

1965 The spring 2011 news went to DU earlier than our usual deadline this fall as Steve and I should be in Tunisia at deadline time. We both picked up health issues this summer. He’s still waiting final diagnosis and I’m on a year’s monitoring for bladder cancer recurrence. Seems all those late nights in the typing room, puffing away, may have contributed to the problem. So we’ll see if 27 years post smoking help me get past this. More on that and Tunisia next time.

Big news of the year was, of course, Reunion. Six of us signed up early for one of the new dorm suites, complete with kitchen and full-size fridge.

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fridge. Later arrivals included Dianne Hanau-Strain and Sheila Durkin Dierks. Peggy Duggan von Briesen came way late and left early. She blamed press of work in a position that she loves at a veterans’ facility. It took her a long time to get her doctorate and she’s using it. Also leaving before dawn on Sunday was Ellen Rooney Kelly, who stopped at Peg’s new place for lunch on her way west to see her mom in Minneapolis. Cutting short the Saturday night party in our dorm suite, Richard and Maureen McMahon Hibbot flew even farther west to a McMahon family reunion.

Chon Schwope Wilson presented a slide show on art in public places in Sheridan, WY. She’s on the committee that chooses the art for temporary display and helps raise funds for pieces that the public can’t bear to let go. She and Roger have donated a few pieces to the city themselves.

Kash Creadon Sullivan didn’t sign up for Reunion, but stopped by after lunch for a visit. She’s on leave from her well-loved job at ABA while docs are figuring out the cause of her double vision.

Monica Vogel Getzendanner didn’t make it out from downtown, so three of us caught up with her for brunch in her new digs on our ways back home.

Diane Farr Knittle wrote: “Reunion was such a great adventure! Loved being together again.

Our class has produced so many interesting and accomplished women.” She and Bill spent 10 days in Italy with their daughter, son and his wife; planned a road trip to Pennsylvania and Long Island in September and a week in Florida in October. They’re still volunteering at hospice and tutoring at Nativity School in the city. The moms’ book that she wrote with eight friends who met through their children’s Catholic high schools was rejected by the first publisher. They plan to “forge ahead!”

Nancy Kuhn Malling wrote: “It was wonderful fun to see all of our fellow Rosary ‘buds’ at Reunion. For me it was very nourishing to see the women who have been a part of my life for so many years. I look forward to Reunion #50, God willing. Next time I will stay in the dorm. I wish I could have spent more quality time with everyone.”

Planning for No. 50, Barb Tucker Philipps wrote: “I’m really looking forward to getting more of our classmates out for our 50th! And getting working on our ‘show.’” (Drama major Barb is looking for a few good folks to put together a show for the 50th. It’s not too soon to start. Volunteers, drop her a line.)

I was glad to reconnect with Nancy Kuhn Malling— who has gotten me excited about my genealogy project—but first I have to make curtains for Leigh Ann’s baby room! I was blown away by Kathy Gardner Connors’s bravery in her battle against cancer—so many of our classmates have met the challenges of life head on. For our next reunion, I think we should think up some interesting questions for the bios. Like Sheila Durkin Dierks’s question about tattoos—she has me thinking…

Cathy Winston Melchert was at Reunion, and sent news via Kim Regan. She sent a photo of herself with Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In January 2009, Cathy spoke with the archbishop in Washington.

“The thing that will always stick with me is that when he asked my name, I pointed to my ‘Mayor badge’ and said that I was just here for a meeting.

His response was, ‘That is what you do. I would like to know your name, because that is who you are.’ Perhaps, if the world full of self-important dom.edu / magazine

people would think about that comment, we might be in a different place. It was so good to see you at Reunion. I am still mulling over all of the conversations.”

Cathy Winston Melchert met with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Washington in January 2009.

Offering up her own news, Kim wrote twice, once to say she and Dan were in Hawaii with the kids, enjoying lovely weather, nice family and good vibes. Then to say Marge Melun ’64 and her husband, Ky Thompson, came through San Francisco. Marge is in touch with Eileen Keane Binns who is also now retired. She lives in a house she renovated in Bethesda, MD. Carol Andrews Burger was in Chicagoland at Reunion time but otherwise occupied with a family wedding celebration. “The Burger family had quite an eventful summer. After job changes, all three children and spouses are gainfully employed; six grandchildren had some fun times at our farm chasing chickens and swimming in the pond and all are doing well in school in grades 10, 9, 8, 7 and 6 and preschool for the almost 3 year old. Jim and I both retired as of September 2010, and, after five years away, we enjoyed a six-week trip to Australia and New Zealand. The September 4 earthquake capped our trip—the day we were supposed to leave for home. Luckily, no one perished or was seriously injured, but a 7.1 magnitude shake plus strong aftershocks made us a bit jittery. By the way, is everyone on Facebook now?”

Other folks with news to share but who didn’t even get to Chicago for Reunion offered these thoughts: Alanna Dore asks that we go back to using her college-era name. Since her husband’s death two years ago, Bev Jung Frazier “met a very significant other, so tell all our classmates, it’s never too late.”

Bev and significant other cruised the Mediterranean in September. She’s still hoping to find a way to connect with Barb Foley. Any suggestions?

Chris Camacho Santoyo continues working as a counselor and mental health therapist. She says the work is good therapy for her because her husband, Raul, is quite ill. She wrote: “We’ve been married for 44 years and my dream is to celebrate 50 years of our oh-so-blessed relationship. His health is in God’s hands and Raul’s faith in Him is astounding—a true example for me and our children. Please keep him in your prayers. He is writing on the history of the Benedictine monastery in Mexico that we are associated with as Oblates of the order. He’s become a GREAT house-husband.

Both he and I firmly believe in the graces of the sacrament of marriage. Christ has certainly showered them upon us!”

Upon hearing our plans to visit Tunisia, Mary Lea Hogan Heroux considered adding it to her bucket list, which she says gets longer every year. In September, Lea was back in politics, “working like

a crazed person to get Roy Barnes elected governor of Georgia. Other than political volunteering, church volunteering, attending fun classes (this term it’s Mahjong, Early Christianity and British Mysteries (so PBSish)), volunteering for Must Ministries/St. Vincent de Paul, and —most important—spending time with my granddaughters, my life is boring ... NOT!” Like most folks who are retired, Judy Wenzel Andersen manages to fill those new-found hours: “We had the most wonderful visit with Nancy Vuscko Sladek, her dear husband, Tom, their daughter, Kristen, and husband, Zach, as well as darling granddaughter, Stella. Nancy is still the warm, caring friend I remembered and the years apart melted. Kristen is a palliative care doctor— bright, compassionate and so much like her mom.

Olaf and I sold our boat and embarked on new adventures in an Airstream RV. I am starting to write about it all; there are so many stories. Will do some writing re: medicine but highly recommend a book

by Dora Wang, a psychiatrist, called The Kitchen Shrink. In a very personal way, she describes medicine as it is in this country better than any medical economist.”

Marifred Broucek Cilella is looking for a new way to do Reunion. She has some thoughts on a new direction for the 50th Reunion and hopes to explore them with classmates. (Barb P. and Marifred, time to talk.) Sal and she got away in July to celebrate their 40th anniversary. They hiked in the Cotswolds and enjoyed London’s museums and theater. “I am still head of The Howard School, a K-12 independent school for students of average to above-average ability with languagelearning disabilities and learning differences.

Sal is president and CEO of the Atlanta Historical Society, the parent organization for the Atlanta History Center and the Margaret Mitchell House.

Our children are both married. Peter, an actor and writer, lives in Los Angeles, and Sal, a designer for Gravity Tank (consultants in creativity) lives in Chicago. Sal and his wife, Magda, have three children; Peter and Kelly are newly married so do not yet have a family.”

OK, classmates. It’s great to see your name in print, no? Hoping to encourage more folks to send news, I’m listing classmates who signed up for Reunion but didn’t otherwise make this edition of class news: Antoinette Brazouski, PhD; Kathryn Schumacher Connell; Paulette Serritella Davies; Dottie Macina Grimm; Mary T. Nash Kelly; Mary Klodnycky-Procyk; Marian Matulis Rohde, Kathy Royston, Maria Tsinonis Stavrakos, Nancie Edwards Stewart, and Katie Vicars Willie. Drop me a line for the fall DU news.

— Mar Poelking Sclawy, class agent

1966 45th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Hello everyone!

Judy Purvin Scully wrote that it was fun getting together with Linda Miller Drennan, Mitzi Battista Witchger and Maureen O’Rourke Cannon and their spouses for dinner last summer. Unfortunately they aren’t able to get together as often as they would like with Mitzi living in Indiana and Donna in Pennsylvania. One day last spring, Judy and Maureen spent a day at the Mound visiting Sr. Jean Brennan and other sisters they had known at

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Rosary. Judy made a return visit in late August with Roberta Engstrom Brown ’59 (formerly Sr. Sarita).

Judy still does some consulting work with the school district from which she retired; serves on the Board of Trustees at Dominican; and she and John cherish the time spent with their grandchildren: Grace, 11; Emma, 7; Johnny, 8; and Shae, 20 months. They have traveled extensively to Croatia, Montenegro, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, China and Hawaii and visited Egypt in January. After spending a week in NYC, culminating in the Notre Dame vs. Army game in Yankee Stadium, Judy and husband, John, drove to Barto, PA, to visit with Donna Freehill Land and husband, Ed. Donna and Ed are justifiably proud of Landhaven, the general store they lovingly converted to a B and B. The concerts they sponsor twice a month have added to the social scene in the community.

Last year Joan Monego earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Northeastern Illinois University. Joan played her senior recital in their beautiful recital hall and then took a month off for a trip to South Africa, Victoria Falls and Botswana.

Last spring, Joan was working on her third master’s degree, also in piano at NEIU, but managed to travel to Egypt. In December, she traveled to Syria and Jordan.

Joan Monego, MLIS ’98 in NEIU’s recital hall following her senior recital.

In June, Janice Ciastko Lane retired from 35 years of teaching chemistry, although she continues to tutor in her former school. Janice is studying French at Alliance Française, reading all the books she had always wanted to read and spending time with her 2-year-old grandson.

Speaking of grandchildren, Marcia Diaz Schultz was eagerly awaiting the birth of her first grandson in November. Marcia travels a lot, is involved with church activities and Literacy Volunteers.

Mariann Haberle Leahy and her husband, Jim, have lived in Sedona, AZ, for the past 13 years.

Mariann is a practicing artist with several gallery representations. Her website is MariannLeahyFineArt.com where you may view her work.

Willa Bickham’s family and the Catholic Worker Family are the center of her life. She and Brendan Walsh have lived at Viva House, the Baltimore Catholic Worker, for the past 42 years. There they are doing the works of mercy and resisting the works of war. They have a daughter, Kate, who along with her husband, David, and three grandchildren, Maya, Grace and Julia, live nearby and also are very involved with the work of Viva House. The HBO series “The Wire” is the story of their neighborhood, SOWEBO, southwest Baltimore. There is a smidgen of Viva House in the fifth series of “The Wire.” Willa has retired as

a pediatric nurse practitioner but continues her work as an artist. She paints with women friends known as “The Monday Night Masters,” and they have had quite a few exhibits of their art.

Our 45th Reunion is planned for June 3-5 of this year. You can expect a call from one of your Reunion Planning Committee members: Christine Heidtke Clark, Maddie McGrath Gallagher, Ann Wright Hambrook, Kathy Kahler Matthews or Judy Purvin Scully. Friday night we will gather for cocktails and a class dinner. On Saturday, there will be presentations by President Carroll, faculty, staff and students in the morning, with time to visit with classmates after class pictures and lunch. Mass in the evening will be followed by an all-class dinner.

Sunday morning we will remember deceased classmates with a Mass followed by a brunch. Many of us plan on staying in Centennial Hall on campus for the weekend. We hope you’re planning to join us as we reconnect with old friends and get to know others who were in our class that we might not have crossed paths with while we were at Rosary. The more classmates I’ve had a chance to get to know, the more amazing I think our group was and is.

— Chris Heidtke Clark, class agent

1968 Kristin Arneson served as curator of the “Bibles of Carver County” exhibit at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Chaska, MN, in September 2010. Kris collected 45 Bibles in 11 languages, including Bibles from Bangladesh, Germany and Ethiopia. At the heart of the exhibit was a reproduction of the Saint John’s Bible, the first of its kind in more than 500 years. Commissioned in 1998 by Saint John’s Abbey and University, this large-scale, handwritten, hand-illuminated Saint John’s Bible will be bound in seven volumes and will feature handground inks on vellum. Learn more about the project at www.saintjohnsbible.org.

— Mary Duncan Gemkow, class agent

1970 Marie Stein serves as a chaplain at Brennan Critical Care Center in Akron, OH. Patricia Bobeck is a geologist and translator.

Soon after graduating from Rosary, she returned to the Midwest to complete a master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Michigan. That led to a 10-year language-teaching career in South America, Hawaii and the U.S. mainland. Travel to the Andes and the Hawaiian volcanoes (plus the Alps during her year at Fribourg) sparked an interest in geology. Patricia went on to earn a master’s degree in geology at the University of Texas, then worked for the State of Texas cleaning up soil and groundwater at hazardous waste sites until early retirement in 2007. She now uses her expertise to translate geologic literature from French and Spanish to English. Her major work to date is the translation of Henry Darcy’s Public Fountains of the City of Dijon, an account of the planning and construction of Dijon’s first water supply system in 1840. For more info, see her website: www.pbobeck.com.

1975 Following this academic year, Anne Zimmermann Jaenicke is retiring from high school teaching after 34 years in District 155, a Crystal Lake, Cary and Fox River Grove High School district. She has taught French to students, been a department chair, and has taught learning styles and brainbased learning strategies for the classroom for teachers in district staff development courses and masters cohort programs.

Kate Coulihan Ficke MBA ’83 was one of 150 professional U.S.-based travel consultants selected to participate in a Hawaii symposium held in Oahu in October 2010. Kate participated in seminars, site inspections and other activities, which will assist her in providing clients with the best consultation for their Hawaii vacations. Kate is already a certified Hawaii specialist, in addition to her Caribbean specialist designation. In December, she and her husband planned a vacation in St. Lucia where she will also spend personal time participating in educational activities in order to further her expertise.

Diane DiVita was sorry to have missed Reunion 2010, but work prevailed. Diane worked with Jude Law on Broadway and completed another successful semester teaching at the Yale School of Drama. She writes, “I am fortunate enough to work as a production stage manager on Broadway, off-Broadway and regionally. I have also taught third-year stage manager students for more than 10 years. I am a survivor in the entertainment industry through hard work and perseverance.”

Gera-Lind Kolarik has been appointed to a second year on the Board of Trustees of Queen of Peace High School in Burbank. She is currently the CEO of her own business, Evidence Video, which for 21 years has been involved in many of the multimillion dollar verdicts and settlements in many major personal injury cases in Chicago. Her company produces “Day in the Life” videos and settlement documentaries. A former television journalist with CBS and ABC in Chicago, Gera-Lind was recently a special guest at the 50th anniversary of the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter, where four of her clients were honored on the largest verdicts/ settlements in the last 10 years; her company did videos on their cases.

— Mary Alice Griesinger MBA ’94, class agent

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Elizabeth Claire DiGiorgio, daughter of Ashley Mililli DiGiorgio ’06 and husband, Alex; granddaughter of Joseph “J.P.” Mililli.

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Elizabeth Claire DiGiorgio, granddaughter of Joseph “J.P.” Mililli and daughter of Ashley Mililli DiGiorgio ’06, was born June 8, 2010. J.P. writes, “In my fair and unbiased opinion I would say ‘EClaire’ is the most beautiful baby ever born in the state of Alabama as evidenced by photo. Shortly after arriving, EClaire informed me she will be attending Dominican University like her mom and granddad, in 2028, followed by Dartmouth medical school and perhaps a run for U.S. President in 2051. Stay tuned for so much more to follow.”

Lynn Geraci O’Mara co-authored Senate Bill 229 passed by the Nevada Legislature during the 2009 session. As the State Health Information Technology Coordinator for Nevada, Lynn is responsible for ensuring coordination of statewide activities related to the ARRA HITECH Act, managing the state Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement and working with the Nevada Health Information Technology Blue Ribbon Task Force.

Lynn writes, “The combination of my BA from Rosary College and my MBA from Pepperdine University provided the foundation for the successful career experiences and successes I have enjoyed to date.”

1979 Ann Van Hoomissen Bixby escorted her mom, Jean Charters Van Hoomissen ’50, to her 60th class reunion. “Jean hasn’t been to Dominican since I graduated in 1979 and she was amazed at all of the new buildings but very pleased to see the beauty and character of Power and Lewis Halls still intact.

I missed our 30-year reunion in 2009, but had a mini-reunion of my own with a number of 1979 graduates including Nora Ryan Kilmer MBA ’01; Peggy Ryan, OP; Jim Bednarcyk and more. We had a blast with the class of 1980 and it was fun for my mom because she hadn’t seen some of her classmates since 1950!” By press time, Ann will have brought her daughter to Chicago again not only for more Irish dancing but also to get an official tour of Dominican. “Who knows, she might be the third generation to come to Chicago from the Pacific Northwest!”

Bernadette Stepnowski Freeman writes, “This year I have changed my marital status to ‘single’ and I have relocated to Santa Fe, NM, to enjoy freedom, blue skies and the pursuit of my vocation as an artist! I have a little adobe house and I am using one of the bedrooms as my studio. I am still settling in but I am working on new pieces that explore the colors and vistas of this wonderful locale. And, as of December 2009, I have a piece of artwork hanging in the White House—it is a collage portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Look for my website www. deco_collage.com.”

Jeanne Sullivan Goss reports that her daughter entered middle school this year “and immediately joined the Drama Club... so appropriate for that age, since they are all drama queens!” She is also celebrating the publication of her brother Floyd’s memoir, Waiting for the Cubs.

Anne Schurmann Klytta and her husband, Dallas, bought a condo in Palm Harbor, FL. Both music teachers, they are planning ahead for retirement and squeezing in as many trips as possible to enjoy golfing and swimming. They can make a hammer sing, too, and have brought harmony to some real challenges. The condo was “owned by a 92-year-old woman who had it painted lavender-pink! Needless to say, we spent part of each week remodeling and updating the entire house.” Earlier work on their current house and on a house they bought and flipped in Barrington prepared them.

Margi Sirovatka traveled to Tunisia as part of Bankers without Borders. She went to help Enda Inter-Arabe, a microfinance institution that improves living conditions for low-income Tunisians. After performing a five-month analysis, she had a two-week site visit, “to provide one-onone consulting, see operations firsthand and interview some of Enda’s clients. . . We were impressed with what a difference these small loans can make in someone’s life.”

Congratulations to Marie Dirr Von Ebers, who became Dominican’s director of financial aid in September and will celebrate 20 years of working at our alma mater in February 2010.

Rick Wilk started a softball team that competed in numerous Senior Softball of America tournaments this summer and fall. Energetic and talented 50+s can call him to join. He also toured Poland for two weeks this summer. While sorry to miss “the best Dominican reunion ever,” he found Krakow charming and highly recommends this central European city to everyone passing nearby. “Walking Gdansk in the steps of some of the 21st century’s heroes such as Lech Walesa was especially inspirational.”

— Hilary Ward Schnadt, class agent

Peggy Ryan, OP; Sharon Ryan ’82; Nora Ryan Kilmer MBA ’01; and Ann Van Hoomissen Bixby reunited at Reunion 2010 in June.

Joy (Karen Allegra) Davy has a new career as a bilingual second grade teacher and has gained lots of happiness by housing four rescued dogs and two rescued cats. She adds, “The best book I’ve read recently is One Thousand Sisters, by Lisa Shannon.

As for our children, they have grown up, most of them, and are now starting to get older than I am.”

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1980 Happy Spring! Hope this finds you all happy and healthy!

I attended my first Recipe Box Café this fall—if you’re not on the mailing list for this, you probably should be. The dinners are student-planned, prepared and served for a reasonable cost.

The food was great and with multigenerational guests who have some connection to RoCo, so was the conversation.

The 1976 and 1981 Reunion is this June 3-5. I’m sure a group of us will attend. Check online at dom.edu/reunion and see who’ll be around.

I need a little help. We’ve definitely lost touch with the following people. If you know where they are, please have them contact me (or have them give you permission to pass along their contact info): Elena Golliday, Joanne Kanter, Cynthia Mayer, Marcia Miller-Palencia, Anna Napolitano and Juanita Nesbitt.

Dave Martin’s family added two new granddaughters, Elizabeth and Ambrielle, who join grandson, David III. And if any of you reading this have not gotten an email from me or heard my voice on the phone, it’s because we don’t have that info.

As this is the easiest way for your classmates to get back in touch, you might be missing a chance to reconnect.

As always, I’m interested in any class news to pass along: businesses to advertise, charities you’re involved with, new grandchildren, anything you want to share. You can email me at classof1980@dom.edu. I know I picked up info along the way this year, but I don’t share unless you tell me to. I like my privacy and try to respect that of others.

Hope to hear from you, and maybe see some of you in June.

— Lyn Rohde, class agent

1981 30th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Russina Rusev Grady is still living in Addison, IL, with her husband of 26 years, Bill, and their son, Bill, who is 22 and looking for a job in the field of manufacturing. Her husband took an early retirement from being director of the Bensenville Park District several years ago, and works part time at the Home Depot in Carol Stream. Russina made a career change in mid-2010, left her job as a virtual emergency travel counselor for BCD Travel and joined Carlson Wagonlit Travel as a lead on several accounts supervising a team of 26 domestic, international and VIP agents. Her daughter is a sophomore at NIU majoring in pre-physical therapy, minoring in dance performance, and loves living in her Delta Zeta sorority house. Russina is on the Reunion 2011 planning committee, and looks forward to seeing as many of our classmates as possible in June.

Mark Siwek was elected to the board of directors of the Insurance Data Management Association.

An avid golfer, he also made his fourth career hole-in-one.

— Russina Rusev Grady, class agent

1983 Finishing Line Press recently published a chapbook of poetry by Cynthia Blaha Hahn entitled OutsideIn-Sideout. Cynthia writes, “Many of the poems were inspired by nature, and served as healing for the grieving process, as I lost both my brothers in 2002 and 2003, and my parents to Alzheimer’s in 2007. Some of the poems attest to the difficulties

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of being a caregiver for one’s parents, as well as the humorous or rewarding moments of connection.” The book can be ordered from www.finishinglinepress.com.

— R. Kevin Hogan, class agent

1985 Greetings Class of 1985! Our 25th Reunion has come and gone. It was great to reconnect with those of you who could make it. Lots of laughs about the way things were “back in our day” but even with the changes the campus was as comfortable as ever.

All of us have had interesting things going on in our lives that would be great to share. Please take a moment to let us know what is going on in your life.

1989 Kimberly Long-Cullen is general counsel for Valtera Corporation, a multinational human resource management consulting firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, IL. — Laura Brown Schmuck, class agent

1992 Hello Class of 1992!

I hope you survived the winter and are looking forward to spring! I was able to fly back to Chicago last year and visit the campus, which has grown quite a bit since my last visit. If you are in the area and have a moment, stop by and look around!

With all the law changes from health care reform and the stimulus packages, my work as controller for Staffing Plus has become even more of challenge, and one that I do enjoy. In my free time I’ve been able to get together with classmates including Mary Toczydlowski Cronin, Marybeth Maday Kristie and Karen Kaufmann Migaldi.

Jessica Roble Cinelli chaired ArtRageous, a villagewide arts celebration in Oak Park in the fall for the second year. It involved a variety of arts in multiple formats, and all the hard work paid off as it was quite a success.

Gil Ruiz retired as assistant director of human resources at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Ann Arbor, MI. He has relocated back home to Texas and is currently owner of a small lawn and landscaping business near Converse, TX, just east of San Antonio. He enjoys spending his free time with his children and grandchildren, who live nearby, and riding his Harley Davidson Road King in the South Texas countryside.

Looking forward to hearing from the rest of you soon!

— Lisa Chmela Grzywa, class agent

1986 25th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Hi Class of 1986!! Read a good book? Traveled to an interesting city? Attended a Dominican University event? Let us know! Please send your news to this email address: classof1986@dom.edu.

Looking forward to hearing from you. Please save the date for our 25th Reunion, June 3-5. Hope to see you there!

Sr. Glenna Czachor, OSF, earned her master’s in pastoral studies from the Catholic Theological Union.

— Gigi Benitez and Chris Phills, class agents

2001 10th Reunion, June 3-5, 2011 Matt and Emma Dibbern, children of Debbie Brown Dibbern.

I hope to bring my family back this spring for another visit. It’s always so much fun catching up with everyone!

In her quest to read 1,000 books in three years, Tammy Wronski was up to book number 220 at the end of September.

Dear Class of 2001, Can you believe it? We’ll be celebrating our 10-year reunion this summer! I hope that you’ll be able to join me for Reunion Weekend June 3-5, 2011. In the meantime, here’s what’s going on with some of our classmates.

Please join our Facebook group—Rosary College/ Dominican University Class of 1992. It’s a great way to keep in touch with your friends and see what everyone is up to. It’s also the best place for me to get the word out regarding updates and the Dominican University Magazine, so please join us!

— Melissa Mascari SantoPietro, class agent

1997 Calvin Jackson and Vanessa Lopez Jackson ’03 with their daughter, Maricin Rosalind, born July 2010.

Calvin Jackson and Vanessa Lopez Jackson ’03 welcomed their daughter, Maricin Rosalind, on July 22, 2010.

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— Lona Prexler Luchinski, class agent

Tammy Brandonisio Tsonis MBA ’06 and husband, Navy LT Commander Michael Tsonis, at their April 2010 wedding.

Tammy Brandonisio MBA ’06 married Navy LT Commander Michael Tsonis on April 11, 2010.

— Mary Ann Liebner Tanquary, class agent

Krista Kammer Benhart earned her master’s degree in education from North Park University in 2008.

She is now working on her master’s in educational technology at Concordia University. Krista teaches eighth grade math at Geneva Middle School South.

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Dominic Wesley Freeman, son of Rosemarie Scrivo Freeman and husband, Matthew, was born July 2010.

Rosemarie Scrivo Freeman and her husband, Matthew, welcomed the birth of their son, Dominic Wesley Freeman, born July 25, 2010. He weighed 8 lb, 9 oz and was 21” long.

— Katie Dinelli and Matthew Toles, class agents

Ramiro Martinez and Jessica Rice de Martinez and family are doing well. Ramiro loves working with the SLPD. MacKenzie (6) just started kindergarten and is loving school. She is doing great with trampoline, tumbling and gymnastics... and her little sassy sister, Sofia (2.5), is following in her footsteps. RJ turned 1 in July and is just the sweetest little boy. He loves calling for the dog, Zane. Jessica is working for the VA in the education department. She says it is a humbling honor to give the veterans and active duty members of the Armed Forces their educational benefits.

Ramiro and Jessica bought their first house in May (which has a bedroom for everyone) and are just loving life.

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2004 Fallon DePetro has enjoyed working at Nordstrom since 2009. Fallon works in jewelry sales at the Schaumburg store.

— Joe Bruno and Brandy Foster, class agents

2005 MacKenzie, RJ and Sofia Martinez, children of Jessica Rice de Martinez and husband, Ramiro.

Traci Gunnells and Joseph Kerzich were married in September. Traci, who received her MSW from the University of Michigan, is an LCSW, and works as a therapist with Oak Brook Behavioral Health in Oak Brook, IL. Joseph graduated from the Chicago Fire Academy earlier this year and is a firefighter/EMT for the City of Chicago.

Merritt DeBartolo graduated from Chicago Medical School in June 2010 and started urology residency training at SUNY-Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, NY. — Victoria Kathrein, class agent

2006 Fifth Reunion, June 3-5, 2011

Christine Gloriosa married Mark Nogal in July 2010.

Christine Gloriosa married Mark Nogal at Queen of All Saints Basilica in Chicago on July 17, 2010. Christine is still at the American Massage Therapy Association working as the marketing program manager. They live in Evanston with their puppy, Tucker.

Joseph Bertucci MBA ’09 and wife, Joanna Cecchini Bertucci MLIS ’09, bought their first home in April 2010. They also have a new puppy.

Jenn Purcell and Kevin Deenihan ’05 were married on July 24, 2010, at St. Kieran Church in Chicago Heights, IL. Members of the bridal party included Julia Barr Bray and Francesca Mazzei ’07.

Jackie Riccio Ciancio and Vincent Ciancio ’05 at their June 2010 wedding. The couple married in Rosary Chapel.

Jenn Purcell and Kevin Deenihan ’07 celebrate with friends at their July 2010 wedding.

Greg Ignoffo and his wife, Heather, welcomed their son, Thomas Joseph, on December 16, 2009.

Amber Crnovich Atkins has been working on her MBA in project management. Amber is the test publisher for an IT certification organization. She is also the management representative for her company’s ISO 17024 accreditation. Amber is also involved in Toastmasters, volunteers for Habitat for Humanity and has raised a brilliant, funny and sweet little girl.

Jackie Riccio Ciancio married Vincent Ciancio ’05 in Rosary Chapel at Dominican University on June 18, 2010.

Ali Hecimovich MSPED ’05 and Crystal Bell in July 2010.

As for me, my partner, Crystal Bell, and I celebrated our union this past July at Promontory Point in Chicago. Several alums were in attendance to help celebrate this wonderful day. I continue to work as a learning specialist in the Old Town neighborhood, as well as sing with and serve as the chorus manager of Aria: Windy City Performing Arts’ Women’s Ensemble.

Hope to see you soon!

— Ali Hecimovich MSPEd ’05, class agent

Marzenka Szczepanski Styrczula married her college sweetheart David Chris Styrczula on September 12, 2009. They live in their new home in Palos Hills. Marzenka is a senior marketing consultant at the Tribune Company. Diane Jaskierny had her thesis exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, titled “Entry into the Sacred: Russian and Ukrainian Religious Icons” in November 2009. She graduated in December from UWM with a master’s in art history and museum studies. Denise Norris gave birth to her second son, Kole, on October 20, 2009. He was 8 lbs, 8 oz and 20” long. Jim Kozyra married on June 12, 2010 in Bloomington, IL. He also made a house team at iO called Phoenix Lights, and started a new job writing for an advertising agency called Blueglass.

Jenn and Kevin live in Dyer, IN. Jenn is a kindergarten teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School in Chicago Heights, IL, and Kevin is a staff accountant at the Ultra Diamonds home office in Chicago.

— Annie Hughes and Diane Schultz, class agents

2007 Jamie Blair-Walker works for the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration as an international trade compliance analyst.

— Mark Carbonara, Adam Heusinkveld and Stephanie Lieberman, class agents

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2003 Congratulations to Joanna Talbert Stenson, who received the WisItalia Italian Teacher of the Year Award.

Arturo Thompson joined the national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP as an associate in the Commercial Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights Group.

— Mary Sobczak and Vyette Vazquez, class agents Jim Kozyra wed Paige Lewis in June 2010 in Bloomington, IL. dom.edu / magazine

Alessandra Natalino married Javed Malik in June 2010.

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Alessandra Natalino married Javed Malik in June 2010, with fellow alumnae/i Rosanna Aghajan, Catia Giannini, and Paul Natalino ’10 in the wedding party.

Barb Van Loon, after graduating with a BA in criminal psychology, received her MS in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. She recently moved to Texas and is currently a juvenile correction officer at the Giddings State School, a maximum security facility for juvenile male offenders. Barb adds, “Thanks DU and Dr. VanNatta and Dr. Beach.”

Jill Bergman Woodman once again attended the Children’s Oncology Group conference in Dallas, TX. This time, she presented a poster about the challenges of remaining audit ready while transitioning to electronic medical records. Jill was promoted to clinical research coordinator in the oncology department at Children’s Memorial in Chicago.

Ashley Anzalone works as a CNA for BrightStar, a home care agency. The very first client she worked for had many pictures hanging in her home and Ashley noticed one of a young girl standing in front of a building that looked very much like Dominican University. Ashley writes, “...it turns out she actually went to DU back when it was Rosary College and it was she who was photographed in the picture. Her name is Ann Sisco and she is 90 years old! She graduated in 1941 and her major was history. I thought it was such a coincidence because I also graduated from Dominican.”

After graduating from DU in 2008, Joe Rolnicki moved to Northern Illinois University for graduate school and received his master’s of science in adult and higher education in May 2010. He is now working as a full-time hall director and academic adviser for first-year students at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI. Thank you for your submissions. If you need to update your contact information, email ClassOf2008@dom.edu, or join the Facebook group, Dominican University, Class of 2008.

— Catherine Joy Calixto, class agent

2010 Roslyn Anderson is a third grade teacher at St. Bernardine School in Forest Park. She writes, “The kids can get crazy sometimes, but it is a very rewarding job! I am currently also a church accompanist for the Christian Church of Villa Park.”

Val Antunes will be completing a program over the next two years called LEAPS, a service through teaching program. As a part of the program, she takes graduate-level education courses while teaching full time. When she is done in May 2012, she will earn a master’s in education. Val is currently teaching art and social studies at Luther North.

Brigitte Bell works as a reference assistant in the Adult Services Department at the West Chicago Public Library. She finds the job challenging yet rewarding and a great learning experience. Brigitte recently started volunteering with Literacy DuPage, a nonprofit organization offering free tutoring in the English language, grammar and writing. Brigitte is back at Dominican, working on her master’s in library and information science.

Ebony Benson is currently completing a graduate assistantship as assistant coordinator of departmental initiatives in housing and dining at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS. Ebony works closely with students through four initiatives: academics, leadership, diversity and enrollment management. She is also enrolled in the apparel and textile program with an emphasis in marketing to receive her master’s in spring 2012.

At press time, Tracy Beswick was waiting to find out if she was chosen for any of the three scholarships for which she applied—one to earn a master’s in international studies at the University of Limerick in Ireland; one to earn a master’s in international relations and comparative business economics in London; and the third to teach English in Thailand.

In the meantime, she is working as an assistant manager at Ann Taylor Loft.

promote social and economic justice through fair trade.

Suzy Herman is working on her master’s in college student affairs leadership from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. She is also working as the assistant living center director for a first-year residence hall.

Louis Michael Hernandez moved to Rochester, NY, where he is working toward his MFA in photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is working diligently on a body of work that deals with virtual identity (personal ads) in the age of websites like Craigslist and OkCupid, while actively getting his name and work out into the world by pursuing gallery shows and working on his first solo show.

Angel Betts has a new job at Central DuPage Hospital in orthopedics, where she helps patients recover from surgery. She completed her second semester of nursing school at Chamberlain College of Nursing and started her clinical in October.

Melanie Bonifacio writes, “I got a full-time job with Avon, working in their lab testing their products and the ingredients that go into the products. I’m nearing my four months with them and it’s been going well. I have been playing basketball with the Filipino league, and we just won first place in a big international Filipino tournament.”

Ashley Boyd is a full-time student at The Adler School of Professional Psychology to earn her master’s in art therapy and counseling. She will be graduating in the fall of 2012 and anticipates working with children and adolescents suffering from eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorders.

Ashley also teaches art part time to elementary-age children.

Allysha Emerson moved to Cape Cod, MA, and works as a manager at Old Navy.

Lizzie Fahling is working on her master’s in human rights and international politics from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

Rosana Godinez writes, “I’m currently getting my master’s of science in college student personnel at Western Illinois University. They only accept 20 students each year, so it’s a huge honor!”

Ryan Halbig is working in downtown Chicago as a financial analyst II for Level 3 Communications. He plans on moving back to the Oak Park area for an easier commute and will be going for his master’s in computer science in the next few years.

ElleJay Volpe Hamilton married Joel Hamilton June 5 at Notre Dame de Chicago Church, and honeymooned in Tokyo, Japan. She plans on going to graduate school in the spring for library and information science.

Shelley Hintmann moved back home to St. Louis and is currently a full-time student in the one-year MBA program at Saint Louis University. She plans on graduating in May 2011 with a master of business administration and a concentration in either marketing or entrepreneurship. Shelley is also an intern at Partners for Just Trade, a non-profit fair trade retail and wholesale organization that works with artisans and farmers in Peru, Nicaragua and Cameroon to bring their products to the U.S. and

Members of the Class of 2010 celebrated the wedding of Melissa Fleming ’07 and Mark Higgins ’07.

Front row (left to right): Jane Killmar, Lisa Julkowski, Annie Hussey; back row: Megan Moriarity, Drew Bednarczyk.

Annie Hussey started the Dominican Volunteer program in August, and lives in community with three Dominican Sisters and another volunteer.

Annie is working as a program assistant at WomanCraft, which provides artisan positions and transitional jobs to women facing barriers to employment so that they can build a work history and increase economic self-sufficiency.

WomanCraft uses recycled office paper and reclaimed flowers to create handmade paper products—check out their website at www.womancraft.net.

Jennifer Langer is an activities assistant at a nursing home.

Jim McQuillan is now working as a graphic/web designer for a small company called Lights America in Arlington Heights. He’s also taken on a few freelance projects to build up his portfolio of design work.

Megan Russell spent the summer directing a day camp for youth with special needs. In August, she moved to Portland, OR, spending a year in service through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest.

Megan serves at a Roman Catholic parish called the Downtown Chapel, spending time in the daily hospitality center and coordinating the food pantry, focusing on issues of poverty, hunger, homelessness, addiction, mental illness and many others through a ministry of hospitality and service.

Ceal Tobias currently volunteers as an American Model United Nations (AMUN) staff member and served as vice president and president of security council sessions during the annual AMUN conference in November. Ceal has a temporary position that has given her work with organizations

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Jessica Van Kempen is currently in nursing school at Resurrection University, formerly known as West Suburban College of Nursing. She lives in Oak Park now, but will be moving into the city in June.

Monika Vidmar is teaching Algebra 1 and geometry at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep on the west side of Chicago. As a DU student, Monika volunteered at the school and was asked to come back by the students whom she helped. The school, which has been open for three years, provides a college prep education for students on the West Side of Chicago who normally wouldn’t be able to afford a private school education.

Robert Schretzman is among the 80 new Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows—the “Rhodes Scholars” of teaching—as announced by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation of Princeton, NJ. Teaching fellows receive a $30,000 stipend and enroll in a master’s degree program that provides intensive clinical preparation for teaching math and science in the urban and rural high school schools that most need strong teachers. In return, as Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows, they commit to teach for three years in high-need Indiana schools. Robert will do his master’s degree work in education at Ball State University.

— Annie Hussey and Michelle Schultz, class agents

Brennan School of Business Mike Kelly MBA ’93 is global brand director for Nike Golf in Beaverton, OR. Emma Ortiz MSOM ’01 was recently appointed to executive director-business operations at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago.

Wouter Walraed MBA ’07 and his wife welcomed daughter, Kornelia Walraed, on May 29, 2010.

Wouter graduated from the executive MBA program in Brno, Czech Republic.

Roberto Sepulveda MBA ’10 was named the Thought Leader of Chicago by Latino Leaders Magazine at the Maestro Awards and 10-year anniversary celebration at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Chicago this past July.

program across the country to highlight the careers of Latinos contributing to their local communities.

Will Cheng MBA ’10 and wife, Audrey, are the proud parents of Albert and Arthur, born July 19.

Ely Sheinfeld MLIS ’07 is school records and archives coordinator at ECS, an independent, nondenominational girls’ day school in Quebec, Canada.

Albert and Arthur Cheng were born July 2010.

Graduate School of Library and Information Science Sybilla A. Cook MALS ’68 writes, “Berta and Elmer Hader were outstanding, consistently published 20th century picture book authors. Their book The Big Snow won the 1949 Caldecott Medal and they were Caldecott runners-up for other works. I have been working on their biography for the last two years, since I have unlimited access to most of their papers, books and original illustrations. They were fascinating people and I’m enjoying finding out about their lives. If anyone has any information I would be delighted to hear from you. I will also be moving to Portland, OR, around the end of this year.

Any alums out there?”

John Haas MALS ’73 was awarded the degree of doctor of divinity (honoris causa) by St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a seminary of The United Church of Canada, on May 7, 2010. John is also a graduate of the University of Minnesota (BA, 1967) and McCormick Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1973). He is a member of The United Church of Canada and serves the Wesley United Church in Regina, Saskatchewan. Wife, Carolyn J. McBean, is a minister of the United Church of Canada. John retired last June.

Miles Fletcher MALIS ’82 is assistant manager of the regional library for the City of Houston Public Library.

John R. Stieper III MLIS ’95 is the director of education at The Cove School in Northbrook, IL, a private, not-for profit institution that offers an exceptional educational experience for children with unique requirements. The Cove School’s specialized approach provides a comprehensive curriculum that allows students to grow in their strengths while supporting the learning challenges they hone in new ways.

Rachel Singer Gordon MLIS ’96 published a new book: Point, Click, and Save: Mashup Mom’s Guide to Saving and Making Money Online.

For more information, visit Rachel’s website at www.mashupmom.com/.

Roberto Sepulveda MBA ’10, center, receives the Yum! Brands Thought Leader Award from Latino Leaders Magazine Publisher Jorge Ferraez, left, and Richard Abraham Rugano of Yum! Brands.

The Thought Leader Award is given to young, dynamic Latino leaders who demonstrate both poise and promise in their careers. Since 2005, Latino Leaders Magazine has taken its national awards dom.edu / magazine

Kenneth Green MLIS ’02 is director of reference services at the Gary Public Library and writes, “I went to ALA 2010, back in June 2010 which was held in Washington, D.C. It was fun, educational and enjoyable. I took plenty of pictures. I am a supervisor of a department of nine employees.

My department is the biggest one in the system.”

Brian Andrusyk MLIS ’98 and Kelly Vaupell married at Wilder Park in Elmhurst on May 28, 2010. Brian is the school librarian for Immaculate Conception High School in Elmhurst.

Melissa Aho MLIS ’01 started the PhD program in international development at the University of Southern Mississippi in fall 2010.

Breanne Geery MLIS ’09 and Jonathan Kirsch MLIS ’09 were married in July 2010.

Breanne Geery MLIS ’09 and Jonathan Kirsch MLIS ’09 were married on July 24, 2010, at Northwestern University’s Alice Millar Chapel and had a reception at the Katherine Legge Memorial Lodge in Hinsdale. Other Dominican alumni in attendance were Steve Bozich ’75, MLIS ’09 and Samantha Woodson MLIS ’09.

Rebecca Bosy Johnston MLIS ’09 works as the library media specialist at C.E. Miller Elementary School in Westmont, IL. Kyle Jones MLIS ’09 and Elizabeth Lauer Jones were married on June 25th, 2010, at the Ley Chapel at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, WI. Elizabeth is a third grade teacher in the Verona, WI, school district. Kyle is a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying library and information studies and instructional technology.

Kyle Craig MLIS ’10 is a reference librarian at the Chicago Heights Public Library.

School of Education Mary Galligan MAEd ’06 teaches for the Chicago Public Schools at O.A. Thorp Academy.

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The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

A lumnae / i Catherine Kraemer Hagan ’38 Marie O’Keefe Schiewe ’38 Mary Alice Quinn Ryan ’40 Marguerite Stewart Woodson ’42 Marijane Anderson Conley ’43 Marcese Walsh Downey ’43 Rosemary Dunne Griffin ’43 Grace Ellis Olson ’43 Jeannette Selz Paulson ’43 Helen McKenzie Fieweger ’44 Elaine Hill Petrolli ’44 Mary Elizabeth O’Connor ’45 Lorraine Silarski Songer ’45 Marcella Terrien Grady ’46 Rita Petrick Reichardt ’46 Patricia Nix Costello ’47 Marguerite Thompson Studney ’47 Sr. M. Grace Feldhaus, PBVM ’49 Alice Foley Pawlowski ’49 Patricia Craig Feigh ’51 Jane Rosenheimer Kasten ’51 Sharon McTernan ’51 Joanna Hall Young ’51 Mary Topping Blossfeld ’52 Margaret Gladstone Dwyer ’53 Gloria M. Cantieri ’54 Maureen Smith Siewert ’54 Mary Barry Wallensack ’57 Kay Knoth Kennedy ’58 Cecilia Chu Cheng ’59 Barbara Clute Janek ’60 Virginia Tennyson ’61 Sally Annas Feely ’63 Margery Cohee Petty MALS ’63 Kathleen Quinn Lynch ’64 JoAnne Markey MALS ’64 Joyce Miley McDonald ’64 Marjorie Folz Carr MALS ’67 Kathleen Forrest McBrien ’70 Sr. Madeleine LaMarre, C.N.D. MALS ’71 Jeannette Bradford Stafford MALS ’72 Patricia Robinson McParland ’73 Phyllis Simonton Myers MALS ’74 Helen Loughran MALS ’75 Judith Zmuda Reiss ’75 Shirley Nokes ’77 Frances Levin MALS ’78 Linda Gallas Glover MALS ’79 Sr. Jeanine Luger MALIS ’85 Ruth Brauch Welsh ’87 Megan Herdegen ’00 Kathleen Sladek Millard MAT ’05 Mary Wahl Burke Virginia Benson Coman Dorothy Reeder Heckard Ricardo Martinez Mary Chambers Mulcahy Margaret Schumacher Sherwood Sr. Mary Julie Siggelkov, PBVM D ominican S ister Sr. Rita McCloskey, OP* Sr. Margaret McHale, OP

D ominican B rot h er Rev. Vincent Zarlenge, OP

Andrew T. Bartell ’05 Kristen Jeans MAEd ’11

U ni v ersit y F riend Robert Rusnak, Sr.* Robert E. Thompson*

D au g h ter of Rita Walsh Cavanagh ’52, MALS ’75 Charlotte Gayton Sladek ’85, MBA ’89

F at h er of Nadia Berezecky Horb ’67 Doris Dowdle Keating ’73 Rosalie Woods Bliss ’79 Ann Marie Pearson Reiser ’80 Paula McKay Angelini ’81 Susan Gullo Evon ’81 Mary Sweeney MBA ’81 Anthony Powers ’82, MALIS ’85 John McKay ’84 Margaret Dowd Behrens MALIS ’85 Rosemary Pearson Lukas ’90, MALIS ’92 Terrence Sweeney MBA ’92 Sr. Glenna M. Czachor, OSF ’00 Erica Drzonek ’03 Nicole D’Alessandro ’05 John L. D’Alessandro ’10 Christine Hamman** Sue Ponremy*

Husband of Dorothy Tatter Newton ’43 Catherine Salerno Smith ’44 Rita Munch Tesar ’48 Jean Cinelli Harmon ’51 Muriel Kelley Brennan ’52 Therese Perona Brolley ’52 Jeanne O’Reilly-Jersey ’53 Carmel Casciato Ryan ’59 Nancy Fiedler Eckerson ’62 Judy Colohan Blatherwick ’64 Margaret More Hunt ’67 Regina Prosniewski Serio ’67 Frances Pruyn Corcoran MALS ’70 Ann Brescia Quinn ’70 Jeri Dykyj Waterloo ’76 Anne McCarthy Ring MALIS ’83 Theresa Gargano-Adamski MBA ’84 Saraliz Jimenez ’96 Karen Schnorr MSEd ’10*

M ot h er of Germaine Goetz-Sota ’59* Karen Loan Haggerty ’60 Gail Snorek Sweeney ’62 Frances Griffin ’70 Kathleen Kober Breeding ’72 Doris Dowdle Keating ’73 Virginia Schiewe Beacom ’77 Jeffrey Goldone ’80 Kathleen Paris Guevara ’84, MSEd ’92 John Paris II ’87 W. Lamont McGee ’92, MBA ’94 Maureen Conley Eichinger ’04 Kelly Reiss MLIS ’07 Barbara Jankowski ’08 Victoria Jackson-Lockhart ’01, MAEd ’08 Greg Baker* Toni Owens* Cleamon Moorer, Jr. Louis Scannicchio* Peter Taylor* F at h er - in - law of Rose Mary Olszewski Powers ’77, MALS ’78 Julie Lunkenheimer Jette ’79 Anita Miller* Vicki Tedeschi* S tepfat h er of Jean Seitter Cummins ’67 Eleanor Seitter ’69 S on of Mary Joan Weitzel Hennessy ’47 Ann Lee Flynn Horowitz ’62 Carey O’Connor Bartell ’04

S ister - in - law of Ruth McGrath O’Keefe ’35 Kate Welsh Terrien ’64 Sr. Janet Welsh, OP U ncle of Ann Van Hoomissen Bixby ’79 A unt of Sandra Hermanek Stulik ’64 Mary Eileen O’Keefe Bateman ’68 Karen Hausing Brown ’70 Cheryl Hausing Feldman ’75 Mary Lee Kennedy Baker MBA ’84 Che’Carra Jackson ’10 Janice Monti* Judy Paulus* Ashley Sinclair* C ousin of Loretta O’Dowd ’44 Sr. Clemente Davlin, OP ’50 Catherine Erhardt ’85 Minerva Bonadonna* Grandfat h er of Jill Albin-Hill MBA ’06* Angela Solis ’08* Andrew Adduci** Ann Hillman* Hannah Minks**

W ife of Richard Jasculca+ B rot h er of Sr. Mary Woods, OP ’45 Mary Kay Dowd ’47 Jean Charters Van Hoomissen ’50 Jane Kelley Sheeran ’52 Ann Kelley ’54 Margaret Kelley Balducci ’59 Patricia Pung Thomas ’67 Patricia Diedrich ’68 Mary Pat Hennessy Resch ’74, MBA ’81 Norman Carroll MSA ’83* Peggy Sullivan* Rebecca Vaughn* Mary Frances Zambreno* S ister of Anita Dunne Schelp ’44 Jeanne Craig Henderson ’46 Frances Dunne ’48 Virginia Dunne Peterson ’49 Blanche Foley Antonello ’51 Margaret Doherty O’Keefe ’57 Dorothy Tennyson Maier ’58 Dr. Thomas James* Sr. Elwyn McHale, OP Allison Wilhelm**

Psalm 34:18

Grandmot h er of Garett Auriemma ’89 Terry Casey ’97 John Schoeph ’00 Andrea Casey Lotus ’05 Dan Casey ’06 Catherine Calixto ’08 Christine Chorostecki MLIS ’10* Lisanne Scannicchio ’10 Mercedes Santiago**

Note: This list reflects all the deaths received between June 2, 2010 and December 1, 2010. Please call the Office of Alumnae/i Relations at (708) 524-6286 regarding omissions or discrepancies. *Staff/Faculty **Student ^Friend +Former Trustee

B rot h er - in - law of Jean Dougherty Quigley ’50 Paul Spindler MBA ’86 Mary Ellen Grimes Dutcher ’96

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Come be a part of the many events Dominican University has to offer.

April

May

June

St. Catherine of Siena Lecture Young Adult Catholics Today: Finding Power, Passion and Voice Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.

Priory Auditorium

Honors Convocation Sunday, May 1, 1:30 p.m.

Lund Auditorium

Blues and the Spirit II: A Symposium on Chicago Blues and Gospel Music Wednesday, June 9, and Thursday, June 10

An Evening with Garrison Keillor Sunday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.

Lund Auditorium

Reunion Weekend Friday, June 3, through Sunday, June 5

Student Fashion Show Saturday, April 9 Lund Auditorium Senior Thesis Art Exhibition Opens Wednesday, April 13 O’Connor Art Gallery She Stoops to Conquer Friday, April 15 to Sunday, April 17 Martin Recital Hall

Baccalaureate Mass Friday, May 6, 5:30 p.m.

Rosary Chapel Candle and Rose Friday, May 6, Dusk Quad Commencement Saturday, May 7 11 a.m. Undergraduates 3 p.m. Graduates Lund Auditorium

Graduate Information Session Tuesday, June 9, 6:00 p.m.

Parmer Hall

July Community Event: Hooray for Harry Potter Saturday, July 9

August Welcome Weekend: Friday, August 26 – Sunday, August 28 First Day of Classes Monday, August 29

September Caritas Veritas Symposium Tuesday, September 27

Get The Scoop!

The Alumnae/i Association in partnership with Career Development invites students to “Get the Scoop!” where alumnae/i from various professions answer student questions and network over ice cream. Alumnae/i and students at recent sessions discussed careers in fashion and higher education. If you have an idea for a topic or would like to participate in a future session, please contact the Office of Alumnae/i Relations at (708) 524-6286 or alumni@dom.edu.

Left: Alumnae/i (back row, from left) Abby Zupancic ’08, Erika Neumayer ’09; (front row, from left) Brianne Wulfekuhle ’07, Rose Turner ’08 and Liz Golko ’09 spoke to students about careers in fashion.

Right: Get the Scoop’s higher education alumnae/i panel included: (back row, from left) Sara Pump ’02, Mark Carbonara ’07, Tory Kathrein ’05, Joseph Rolnicki ’08; (front row, from left) Brandy Foster ’04, Evy Koutzas ’06 and Hilary Ward Schnadt ’79.

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Heritage John E. Scully and Judy Purvin Scully ’66 are pictured with their scholarship student, Courtney Bates.

Preserving Our

In June 2011, Judy Purvin Scully

will celebrate her 45th class reunion. The 1966 Rosary graduate appreciates her education and remains grateful to the Dominican Sisters who serve, even today, as her role models. Judy is now in her seventh year as a member of Dominican’s Board of Trustees and serves on the Academic Affairs and University Life board committees.

Judy and her husband, John, established an endowed scholarship, The Scully Family Scholarship, at Dominican during the Amazing Possibilities Campaign.

Recognizing the importance of educating the next generation of leaders, the Scullys’ scholarship will continue to be funded through estate planning. A provision in their will states that The Scully Family Scholarship at Dominican University is a beneficiary of Judy’s IRA (Individual Retirement Account). This generous planned gift ensures a Dominican education for generations to come as well as a lasting legacy for the Scully Family.

Providing qualified students with the opportunity to receive a quality, faith-based education means a great deal to both Judy and John—especially because of their special relationship with Dominican. Their scholarship awards will allow future students the opportunity to take advantage of all that Dominican has to offer and the time to build friendships, with faculty and classmates, that will last a lifetime.

“I received an education grounded in Caritas et Veritas, charity and truth. Throughout my career, I’ve been involved in various aspects of education, from teaching graduate students to evaluating 3- and 4-yearold children. What I learned from my Dominican mentors guided me throughout my life.”

Judy Purvin Scully ’66

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PA S S I N G G L A N C E S

Five-Star Hall of Fame It’s been 30 years since Dominican’s first intercollegiate varsity team – the 1981-82 men’s basketball team – launched the university into the realm of intercollegiate athletics. Now with 12 varsity teams – several of which saw exciting post-season tournament action this year (see page 5) – the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame hosted its inaugural induction ceremony, honoring five individuals for their remarkable efforts and contributions to the growth and success of athletics at the university over the years.

At a dinner and ceremony held in February, the inductees were recognized for their achievements.

Congratulations to Erick Baumann ’93, men’s soccer team from 1989 to 1993, men’s soccer coach from 1995 to present, and the current director of athletics; Marilyn Gerken Benakis, former university registrar who helped develop policy to ensure that the university maintained compliance as members of both the NAIA and NCAA; Marty Blazek ’87, men’s basketball team from 1983 to 1987, who holds the Dominican record as the all-time leading scorer with 2,955 points and the program’s all-time leading rebounder; Bill Brucks, athletic director and head men’s basketball coach from 1982-1994, who led the team to its only conference championship in 1992; and Mary Spielman Haggerty ’94, a four-year All-Chicago Collegiate Athletic Conference selection, the all-time leading scorer for the program, and named two times to the NAIA Academic All America Team.

Mary Spielman Haggerty ’94 and Marty Blazek ’87 are the only athletes to have their jersey numbers retired. Their banners hang inside the Igini Sports Forum.