SEATTLE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
AN N IVE RSARY
SU TODAY
FROM A SMALL CATHOLIC COLLEGE ON THE HILL TO A THRIVING UNIVERSITY OF DISTINCTION
1 2 5 T H M E S S AG E
CELEBRATING OUR HISTORY
This year as we mark the 125th anniversary of Seattle University, we celebrate the empowering Jesuit education we provide, the thriving university of distinction we have built and the growing impact our alumni are having across the region and world.
PAYING HOMAGE TO THE PAST WHILE LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FUTURE A LU M N I A R E A N I M P O R TA N T PA R T O F 1 2 5 T H A N N I V E R S A RY
We’ve come a long way since those earliest days in 1891 when two Jesuits, Fathers Victor Garrand and Adrian Sweere, founded the school. Even the 25 years since we celebrated our centennial has been a period of extraordinary dynamism and growth for our university. Since 1991, our academic programs have expanded and increasingly been recognized for their excellence; our shared sense of mission and purpose has deepened; our physical campus has been transformed; and our student body has grown not only in numbers but also in quality and diversity. As we celebrate all that Seattle University has accomplished and achieved over the past 25—and yes, 125—years, we can’t help but look ahead to what the next quarter century will bring. On the horizon we see a Seattle University that is invested more fully in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and the health sciences. We see a university that is connected as never before with its immediate neighbors, Seattle and the global community. And we see a Seattle U that lives out in newly imagined ways its Jesuit, Catholic ethos and identity. Our alumni, friends and partners are indispensable to the future we envision for Seattle U. The 125th is a perfect time to deepen your engagement with the institution you have helped us build. There will be numerous opportunities ahead this year. Please check this issue’s calendar of events and the 125th website (seattleu.edu/125th) for ways to be involved. I especially invite alumni to reconnect with their alma mater and Seattle U friends through regional chapters, professional programming and Grand Reunion Weekend, May 5-7, 2017, when we celebrate alumni from all classes and affinity groups. If the past 125 years are any indication, Seattle University has a bright future. We invite all to be a part of our journey as we dream and dare forth together for the greater good. Thank you for your continued commitment and support of our institution.
Stephen Sundborg, S.J. President
Susan Vosper, ’90, ’10 Assistant VP/Alumni Association
VOLUME 40, ISSUE NUMBER 3, FALL 2016
MAGAZINE EDITOR Tina Potterf
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04 PERSPECTIVES
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38 BOOKMARKS
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39 IN MEMORIAM
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LEAD DESIGNER Kimberly Witchey Kimberly led the new creative direction of the Seattle University Magazine introduced in this issue.
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Gordon Inouye, ’16, Chris Joseph Kalinko, John Lok DESIGN TEAM Terry Lundmark, Anne Reinisch CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Annie Beckmann, Chelan David, Tracy DeCroce, Mollie Hanke, Caitlin King, ’10, Laura Paskin, Mike Thee
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DIRECTOR | ADVANCEMENT COMMUNICATIONS Kristen Kirst 125TH ANNIVERSARY MANAGER Kaily Serralta, ’12, ’17 ASST. VICE PRESIDENT | OFFICE OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT Susan Vosper, ’90, ’10 PRESIDENT | SEATTLE UNIVERSITY Stephen Sundborg, S.J. VICE PRESIDENT | UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS Scott McClellan VICE PRESIDENT | UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Michael Podlin
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EVENTS
CALENDAR
2016-2017 Come join us throughout our 125th year. For more information on the 125th anniversary signature events, visit SEATTLEU.EDU/SU125
SEPTEMBER 0 8 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White) Note: Tickets available through Town Hall Seattle 7:30 p.m., Connolly Center
1 0 School of Law Academic Resource Center Reception 6:00 p.m., Arctic Club, DoubleTree Hotel
2 6 Gubernatorial Debate Time TBD, Pigott Auditorium
29 M ass of the Holy Spirit
Campus Kick Off for 125th Anniversary 10:30 a.m., Immaculate Conception; kick off to follow at the Union Green
3 0 * Men’s Soccer Program 50th Anniversary Celebration OCTOBE R 1 2 Catholic Heritage Lecture Series, featuring Stephanie Russell, AJCU VP for Mission Integration 5 p.m., Campion Ballroom
1 8 Albers Executive Speaker Series, featuring Kurt Beecher Dammeier, * Events marked with an asterisk are invitation only.
Partial listing at time of printing.
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founder, Sugar Mountain 5:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium
2 1 Legacy Family Pinning Ceremony 6 p.m., Campion Ballroom
OCTOBE R, CONT’D
F E B R UA RY, C O N T ’ D
2 5 Seattle University at 125 lecture, Tom Lucas, S.J.,
2 8 Albers Executive Speaker Series, featuring Doyle
SU rector 3:30 p.m., Wyckoff Auditorium
Simons, CEO, Weyerhaeuser 5:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium
2 8 *Fostering Scholars 10th Anniversary MARCH N OV E M B E R 02 A lbers Executive Speaker Series, featuring Elena Donio, president, Concur 5:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium
0 5 * 125th Anniversary Gala
6 p.m., The Westin Seattle
1 7 SU Advantage Networking Series 6 p.m., The Sorrento Hotel
1 1 Albers Crab Feed 5:30 p.m., Reception, Campion Ballroom 6:30 p.m., Dinner 8 p.m., After-dinner jazz, Student Center
APRIL 2 0 Scholarship Luncheon 11:30 a.m., Campion Ballroom
DECEMBER
M AY
0 1 Tree Lighting
05 - 07 G rand Reunion Weekend and Alumni Awards
6 p.m., Reception, Student Center 7:30 p.m., Lighting, Library Patio
JA N UA RY
Seattle University campus
08 C atholic Heritage Lecture Series, featuring Mark Ravizza, S.J., associate professor of philosophy, Santa Clara University 5:30 p.m., Student Center 160
1 9 Albers Executive Speaker Series, featuring Jerry
23 A lbers Executive Speaker Series, featuring Jeff
F E B R UA RY
JUNE
0 2 - 0 5 Homecoming Weekend
0 3 * Red Tie
Stritzke, president & CEO, REI 5:30 p.m., Pigott Auditorium
Seattle University campus
21 C atholic Heritage Lecture Series and Colleagues in Jesuit education 5 p.m., Campion Ballroom
2 3 S U Advantage Networking Series 6 p.m., The Sorrento Hotel
2 5 S earch for Meaning Book Festival 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Seattle University campus
Musser, president & CEO, Expeditors International 5:30 p.m., Student Center 160
5:30 p.m., Fairmont Seattle
1 1 Undergraduate Commencement 9 a.m., KeyArena at Seattle Center Graduate Commencement 3 p.m., KeyArena at Seattle Center
PERSPECTIVES
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
SEATTLE U STAFFER AND ALUMNA MOONLIGHTS AS ESL INSTRUCTOR By Annie Beckmann Margaret (Sexton) Moore, ’77, met quite a few priests when she started her job as senior administrative assistant at Arrupe Jesuit Residence 10 years ago. Among them was James “Viet” Tran, S.J., who extended his hand to introduce himself to the newcomer. “You look familiar,” he said to her. “I think I know you.” “Really?” she replied with uncertainty. “What’s your name?” “Margaret,” she said, “Margaret Moore.” Hearing her name was all it took. “I was in your ESL class at North Seattle Community College in 1984,” he told her. This Vietnamese refugee hadn’t forgotten his teacher of English as a Second Language, even though he took several ESL classes over the years. Father Tran was 22 back then, not yet a Jesuit, and among the boat people who fled after the Vietnam War. A short while later, he found his way to Moore’s community college writing and grammar class. It would be 22 years before the paths of Moore and Fr. Tran intersected again, this time in the lobby of Arrupe House. “It’s not coincidence,” Fr. Tran insists. “It’s providence.” “It’s gratifying to run into my students later, but it doesn’t happen very often and never like this,” adds Moore. This surprising reunion is only one chapter of a rewarding tale that includes study abroad adventures, love and marriage, the way world events and immigration cycles impact ESL classes and, perhaps most of all, Magis—living the mission and values of a Jesuit education. 0 4 S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E | FA L L 2 01 6
When Moore was a sophomore at Seattle U, a poster on campus of a picturesque castle was enough to convince her she wanted to learn German in Austria. She’ll tell you this is where her fondness for languages and cultures began. She got to know her husband-to-be while studying German with James Stark (now a Professor Emeritus) in Austria. Tom Moore, ’76, was drawn to study abroad by a completely different poster on campus that read: “Ski in Austria. Drink beer. Learn German.” She laughs when she describes that poster and how they found one another during their studies in Austria. She enjoyed Austria so much she decided to spend her senior year in France. Moore started to think more about her future. After Margaret (Sexton) Moore and former student—and a Jesuit at she graduated Arrupe House—James “Viet” Tran, S.J. with a major in German and minor in French, an invitation from her German professor’s wife only a year to earn a MAT degree with Marilyn to help out as a teacher’s aide at a emphasis on teaching English to speakers community college ESL class was another of other languages. bit of providence. After that experience, the Good Shepherd Movement recruited When she returned to the Seattle area, her in 1979-80 to teach English in Kyoto and she became what’s called a “freeway Niigata, Japan. flyer,” dashing between ESL teaching gigs at community colleges in South Seattle, “I knew I wanted to be in a classroom,” Edmonds and North Seattle. says Moore, who acted on this epiphany and found her way to the School for In her first few years, many of her students International Training in Brattleboro, were Vietnamese refugees. Later they Vermont, the very next month. It took her were Cambodian refugees who survived
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“ This is my Magis. It really fits that part of the Jesuit mission.” — Margaret (Sexton) Moore, ’77
the killing fields and genocide of Pol Pot, the Cambodian leader of the Khmer Rouge movement in the late 1970s. By fall 1987, she taught exclusively at North Seattle College. “The beauty of it was that it was part-time on the night shift so I could be with my kids during the day,” she says. (Margaret and Tom married in 1984 and have three children.) Of 32 students in a pronunciation class or reading, writing and grammar class, there might be 20 nationalities. Moore has a vivid memory of one of her students, an Ethiopian lawyer, in tears when he told her his family was homeless. “And I had to march off and teach present perfect tense,” she says. Those difficult moments
are offset by the ones where students are giddy with excitement over photos of homes they’ve just purchased. There are students who arrive after winning Green Card lotteries, like the woman from Albania, one of 50,000 immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration who are randomly selected each year to receive visas by the U.S. Department of State. “I’ve worked with amazing people,” says Moore. Engineers, doctors, dentists, teachers—in all, she figures more than 2,500 have come through her ESL classes. Quite a few students repeat courses to beef up their skills. About a third of her students hope to develop their language abilities so they can move into an English 101 class, a
prerequisite for an associate’s degree. What amazes Moore most about her rich life is this: “All roads lead back to Seattle University.” She and her husband, two of their children, her parents and her husband’s parents are all Seattle U grads. Then there’s Fr. Tran and James and Marilyn Stark. Fr. Tran might call it providence. After she took a full-time job at Seattle U, she was somewhat guarded about moonlighting as an ESL instructor a few nights each week. Then one day she had another epiphany. “This is my Magis. It really fits that part of the Jesuit mission.”
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DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS
NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE ROLE OF GENDER IN DECISION-MAKING By Annie Beckmann Therese Huston followed a smart hunch with her latest book, How Women Decide: What’s True, What’s Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices. “Decision-making advice typically isn’t geared to women,” says Huston.
behaviors in men and women. “If you’re a woman and your body floods with cortisol, you become more risk-alert. But if you’re a man and your body surges with cortisol, you become more riskseeking,” she writes in her book.
The more she researched, the more obvious it became that this was largely uncharted territory. Trained as a neuroscientist who explores how the brain works and how people solve problems, she was intrigued, even though she had deliberately avoided gender issues for most of her intellectual life. This was a topic that kept nagging at her, though.
Huston says women approach decisions differently, but not particularly in ways we might think.
A consultant for Seattle University’s Center for Faculty Development, Huston is a cognitive psychologist who founded and directed the center from 2004 to 2010. She met one-on-one with more than 70 faculty members each year in that role.
“ Conventional wisdom about decision-making is blind to gender, but the world isn’t.”
Today—as well as in the past—much of her work involves helping people make better decisions around teaching, scholarship, research and productivity. As she began to develop the book, Huston wrote an opinion article for the New York Times about the strengths women bring to decision-making. She knew she had found a glaring omission in popular leadership books worth pursuing. “Conventional wisdom about decisionmaking is blind to gender, but the world isn’t. People aren’t sensitive to this and they’re not noticing. Fighter pilots, quarterbacks, stockbrokers—I kept seeing books about successful decision-making for and about men, with no examples of women,” she says. Both men and women develop decisionmaking skills, but she discovered a few of them come more easily to women. For instance, she found studies that pointed to how levels of the stress hormone cortisol play a role in decision-making. It turns out that cortisol leads to very different
“We often have better judgment than we realize, than we remember, and we just need a little reminder from ourselves of how wise—and sometimes brave—we are,” she writes.
—Therese Huston, Center for Faculty Development
Sometimes big decisions make people anxious, Huston suggested to her audience at Town Hall in Seattle when her book debuted. “That’s when you have to tell yourself you’re excited, but not anxious,” she says. “It’s empowering to think the answer is inside you and you just have to go looking for it.” She offered another tip for better decisionmaking. “People make better decisions with three options or more,” Huston told her Town Hall listeners. “There’s a big improvement when you go beyond just one or two options.” Since its release, the book has been well received. Harvard Business Review took an interest in sharing her views about decisions made by women in leadership roles. The Los Angeles Times asked her to write an opinion piece and the Sunday New York Times included a review of Huston’s book last spring.
FA C U LT Y
HOW MEN AND WOMEN DECIDE: MYTH VS. REALITY Therese Huston agreed to tackle a few of the prevailing beliefs about how women and men make decisions.
1 PREVAILING BELIEF Women have a harder time making up their minds, while men are more decisive. WHAT THE DATA SHOWS Among healthy adults, men are just as likely to struggle with a decision as women. Women tend to be more collaborative, which can be seen as indecisive.
2 PREVAILING BELIEF Women tend to make decisions intuitively, relying on inexplicable feelings (i.e. women’s intuition) while men tend to be more analytical. WHAT THE DATA SHOWS Women use analytical approaches and rely on data just as often (sometimes more) than men.
NEWS & NOTES ALBERS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS An article by Professor David Arnesen and Associate Professor Terry Foster, “Planning for the Known, Unknown and Impossible—Responsible Risk Management to Maximize Organizational Performance,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences. Assistant Professor Dean Diavatopoulos’ article, “Does Corporate Governance Matter for Equity Returns?,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting and Finance. Assistant Professor Matt Isaac’s article, “When (Firsthand) Experience Matters Less Than You Expect: The Influence of Advertising on Repurchase Decisions,” co-authored with Morgan Poor (University of San Diego), will be published in the Rutgers Business Review.
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Associate Professor Matt Hickman published “Untested Sexual Assault Kits: Searching for an Empirical Foundation to Guide Forensic Case Processing Decisions” with Kevin J. Strom in Criminology and Public Policy. The research contributes critically important information for criminal justice policy makers tackling questions about prioritization and analysis decisions for untested sexual assault kits. English Professor Nalini Iyer, who is also director of the Office of Research, published Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture and Politics, which explores the long-term impacts of the Partition on South Asia and includes perspectives from the often neglected voices of women, ethno-religious minorities and other marginalized populations. Assistant Professor Allison Machlis Meyer delivered the opening reception address of the Teaching with Primary Sources Symposium last March. Meyer’s talk, “Pedagogy and Primary Sources: Reflections on Teaching Shakespeare in Context,” explores how using primary sources in classes on early modern literature can increase students’ autonomy and intrinsic motivation to learn.
3 PREVAILING BELIEF Women need to match men’s confidence at work if they want to match men’s success. WHAT THE DATA SHOWS Overconfidence, which tends to run higher among men, impedes good judgment. Women’s more appropriate confidence can be an asset to bring to tough decisions.
SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY Christie Eppler, associate professor and director of the Relationship and Pastoral Therapy Program, along with Karen Quek and Martha Morgan (who have also taught in the program) recently had a manuscript accepted for publication by a prominent journal in the field of family therapy. The article, “Teaching gender in family therapy education: Reflection of cis-female students’ learning,” will be published in the Journal of Family Therapy.
SCHOOL OF LAW Respected intellectual property scholar Professor Margaret Chon has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law.
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CLASS OF 2016
LIFE LESSONS FROM LEADERS By Seattle University Magazine staff
At this year’s commencement ceremonies, undergraduates and graduates were treated to words of wisdom and life lessons from Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, who spoke to undergrads, and John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University, the guest at the graduate ceremony. JOHN J. DEGIOIA
For nearly four decades, John J. DeGioia has worked to define and strengthen Georgetown University as a premier institution for education and research. An alumnus of the school, DeGioia served as a senior administrator and as a faculty member in the philosophy department before becoming Georgetown’s 48th president in 2001. As president, DeGioia is dedicated to deepening Georgetown’s tradition of academic excellence, its commitment to its Catholic and Jesuit identity, its engagement with the Washington, D.C. community and its global mission. One of Georgetown’s highest priorities under his leadership has been ensuring access and affordability for the nation’s most talented young women and men through its commitment to need-blind admissions and meeting full need.
GEOFFREY CANADA
In his 30 years with the Harlem Children’s Zone, Geoffrey Canada has become nationally recognized for his pioneering work helping children and families in Harlem and as a passionate advocate for education reform. Joining the organization in 1983, he became the president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone in 1990. In 1997, the agency launched the Harlem Children’s Zone Project, which targets a specific geographic area in Central Harlem with a comprehensive network of education, social services and community-building programs. The Zone Project today covers 100 blocks and is serving more than 10,000 children from birth through college. The work of Canada and Harlem Children’s Zone has become a national model, including for Seattle University’s Youth Initiative. Canada has received honorary degrees from Harvard University, Bowdoin College, the University of Pennsylvania, Williams College, John Jay College and Bank Street College. In 2006, he was selected by then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as co-chair of the Commission on Economic Opportunity, which was asked to formulate a plan to significantly reduce poverty. In 2012, he was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the New York Education Reform Commission.
Currently he serves as the chair of the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education and of the Forum for the Future of Higher Education. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Association of Independent Schools. In 2010, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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F E AT U R E
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
FOUNDATION OF SUCCESS
As we celebrate 125 years as a higher education institution, we look at the innovations and advancements of the recent past (say, about 25 years or so) within four of our schools and colleges. ALBERS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
C R E AT I O N O F C E N T E R S
TO P AC H I E V E M E N T S T H AT H E L P D E F I N E T H E C O L L E G E TO D AY:
The Center for Business Ethics (2011) prepares students to identify, understand, address and resolve unethical or illegal behavior in the workplace. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (1990; Innovation added in 2014) is dedicated to developing excellence in enterprise. Center for Leadership Formation (2006)/Executive Leadership Program (1998)/Leadership Executive MBA (2006): The Center for Leadership Formation (CLF) is home to the Executive Education programs.
Creating one of the strongest engineering senior Project 1 Centers in the country. Recognized by the NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) an extraordinary number of 2 times for the high quality of senior engineering projects + top awards. 3 Transformation of faculty into teacher-scholars.
Building a strong culture of undergraduate student research. 4 ENDOWED CHAIRS Frank Shrontz Chair of Professional Ethics (1997) enhances the prestige and visibility of Albers as a leader in value and ethically based business leadership education. Lawrence K. Johnson Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship (2000) prepares entrepreneurs to better contribute to their own and others’ business success.
SCHOOL OF LAW Seattle University’s acquisition of the law school in 1994 strengthened its dual mission of academic excellence and education for justice. In 1999, the law school moved into its new home on the Seattle University campus, William J. Sullivan Hall.
Dr. Khalil Dibee Endowed Chair of Finance (2007) is awarded to a finance faculty member for excellence in teaching and scholarship.
law school is consistently recognized by U.S. News and ´ The World Report for having the top legal writing program in
COLLEGE OF NURSING
Northwest’s most diverse law school student body ´ The and nationally recognized for effectively fostering diversity
June 2002 | Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion program launches. This innovative program is designed for college graduates who are new to nursing. The Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion (APNI) program was the first of its kind in the Seattle area. July 2005 | State-of-the-art Clinical Performance Lab opens. Fall 2012 | Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. In response to national trends in Advanced Practice Nursing education, the college launched the post-master’s Health Systems Leader Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. June 2017 | Doctor of Nursing Practice will expand, encompassing current graduate study options and opening a pathway for all graduate nursing students to pursue doctoral study. The DNP program will provide opportunities for experienced nurses and non-nurses holding a baccalaureate who enter through the APNI (Advanced Practice Nursing Immersion) program.
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the country.
in the legal profession.
the School of Law won approval from the American ´ InBar2014, Association for its Anchorage satellite campus allowing law students to spend their entire third year of law school in Alaska.
U.S. News ranks the Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic in the ´ top 15 in the country for law clinics. more than 40 years of bestowing juris doctor degrees, ´ After the law school will offer a Master of Laws (LLM) in two
fields—tribal law and technology—as well as a Master of Legal Studies (MLS).
Learn more about Seattle University’s nine colleges and schools at www.seattleu.edu.
F E AT U R E
NEW DEGREE OFFERINGS
N E W (ACAD EM I C) YE AR ,
NEW PROGRAMS Seattle University’s Board of Trustees and President Stephen Sundborg, S.J., approved new academic programs at the university. Here’s a look:
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING College of Science and Engineering The Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) program is a 45-credit graduate program launching next fall. The MSME is designed to provide engineers with technical and professional skills to advance their careers in the mechanical engineering profession, through eight courses that span the breadth of mechanical engineering disciplines and four courses in project management, microeconomics, leadership and ethical, legal and regulatory environments. The MSME program was developed by the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Board and will leverage the existing expertise within the department. The program is neither a purely technical degree, nor an exclusively managementfocused degree, but is rather a blend of the two. This will be attractive to many practicing engineers in the Puget Sound region and beyond who are looking to move into technical management positions and need advanced training to achieve their career goals. The program will also appeal to current SU mechanical engineering undergraduate students who can extend their undergraduate studies by one year to obtain two degrees—a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and the MSME.
New Specialization in Existing Degree BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HUMANITIES FOR TEACHING WITH SPECIALIZATION IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (K-8)
Graduate Certificate CERTIFICATE IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
College of Education/Matteo Ricci College
The graduate Certificate in Public Administration, launching this fall, is a four-course, 12-credit program that is open to students with a bachelor’s degree. Courses are already taught in the Masters of Public Administration (MPA) program and include Foundations of Public Administration, the Policy Process, Budget and Financial Management and Human Resource Management. The certificate provides a new credential for working professionals primarily employed in the public and non-profit sectors. It also provides for ease of access as all the courses will be offered through the hybrid format: roughly half time in the classroom and the other half online learning.
This new Specialization in Elementary Education (K-8), launching this fall, will enable undergraduate students to apply for certification to teach K-8 in the state and earn an endorsement in English Language Learning (ELL) within a four-year program. The specialization combines curricula from two existing programs: the current Matteo Ricci College bachelor’s degree in Humanities for Teaching (BAHT) and College of Education courses developed earlier this year as part of a new program for a similar undergraduate teaching degree within the College of Arts and Sciences.
College of Arts and Sciences
OTH ER COU RSE / PROG R AM N EWS College of Arts & Sciences In response to growing demand, the Department of Modern Cultures and Languages has added a three-course sequence in Arabic starting this fall. In addition to learning the core structural elements of the language, students will broaden their awareness of the history, geography, fine arts, literature and daily lives of Arabic-speaking peoples. Adjunct faculty member Amina Moujtahid, a native speaker of both Arabic and French who currently teaches French, will teach all three courses.
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RESEARCH SURGE By Annie Beckmann
RESEARCH GRANTS FOR PROJECTS LED BY SEATTLE UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND THEIR STUDENTS HAVE NEARLY DOUBLED IN JUST THE LAST FIVE YEARS. ACCORDING TO PROFESSOR NALINI IYER, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, 57 GRANT PROPOSALS WERE SUBMITTED IN 2011, WHICH RESULTED IN $7.5 MILLION IN ACTIVE GRANTS. BY SPRING 2016, THE UNIVERSITY’S ACTIVE GRANT AWARDS PORTFOLIO ALREADY HAD REACHED $14 MILLION.
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200,000
The Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) at the Albers School of Business and Economics received two grants from JPMorgan Chase & Co., says IEC Executive Director Sue Oliver. In 2014-15, a $100,000 grant was for small business training and technical assistance and building on the existing Albers/IEC peer advisory board program. A planning grant of $100,000 in 2015-16 explored and piloted a Seattle U resource center to connect local small businesses in underserved communities with resources within the university and beyond, so they can grow and thrive.
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The School of Law’s Defender Initiative, directed by Professor Bob Boruchowitz, received renewal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice for the project “Answering Gideon’s Call,” to provide two more years of technical assistance to improve public defense. The initiative works with its partner The Sixth Amendment Center to provide technical assistance and educational presentations around the country. They issued a report for the Utah Judicial Council this past fall that helped to establish a Commission on Public Defense there. The team is working in Mississippi this year, doing site visits in a number of counties to provide a report to the state Task Force on Public Defense. They also are consulting with the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, and Boruchowitz recently spoke to the Michigan Supreme Court in support of the Commission’s recommended standards for public defense. The current grant of $500,000 will support the project through September 2017.
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General Electric/Alstom Foundation funded four energy kiosks—one in Kenya and three in Zambia—for a total of about $167,000 in 2016-17, according to Henry Louie, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in the College of Science and Engineering. Energy kiosks provide electricity to rural communities that are not connected to the electrical grid. Seattle University faculty, staff, students and alumni are working with volunteers from KiloWatts for Humanity to implement the projects with local non-governmental organizations. Louie collaborates with Mechanical Engineering lecturer Matt Shields on the project.
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RESEARCH GRANTS
ONE OF THE PROGRAMS TO RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION IS AROUND FAMILY HOMELESSNESS. “THE AWARDS TOTAL ABOUT $1.8 MILLION AND HAVE HAD HUGE SOCIAL IMPACT,” IYER SAYS. ONE OF THOSE GRANTS, LED BY THE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY’S DEAN MARK MARKULY, ASSISTANT DEAN MICHAEL TRICE AND PROGRAM MANAGER LISA GUSTAVESON, ’00 MNPL, FOCUSES ON FAITH AND FAMILY HOMELESSNESS AND HAS BEEN FUNDED ANNUALLY SINCE 2011. MANY OTHER UNIVERSITY PROJECTS ARE SUPPORTED BY GRANTS. HERE IS A SAMPLING:
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In the College of Arts and Sciences, Environmental Studies Associate Professor Tanya Hayes, who also directs the Public Affairs program, and Felipe Murtinho, assistant professor with the Institute of Public Service, were principal investigators from 2012 to December 2015 studying how an Ecuadorian governmental program that paid communities to conserve their ecologically valuable communal lands influenced household land-use behavior and communities’ collective management of their lands. This look at the influence of economics on common property forestry management received $449,997 in funding from the National Science Foundation, a first for the college.
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The College of Education’s Center for Change in Transition Services, directed by Associate Professor Cinda Johnson and Assistant Research Scholar Sue Ann Bube, has been funded annually by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to improve post-school outcomes for students with disabilities. This year, because of a change in federal regulations, the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR) must allocate 15 percent of its budget to assist students with disabilities in obtaining pre-employment transition services (i.e., job readiness skills). Because the Center for Change in Transition Services has a long-standing relationship with school districts along with the required research capabilities, Johnson says it was a natural fit for a DVR partnership resulting in a new two-year contract for an additional $3 million.
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The College of Nursing has been awarded $150,000 over the next three years from the Hearst Foundation to further develop a standardized patient program for graduate students, according to Carrie Miller, assistant professor and director of the Clinical Performance Lab. The overarching goal of the grant is to create innovative ways for nursing students to assess and care for older patients within a simulated outpatient setting.
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THE SHOW GOES ON
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LEE CENTER FOR THE A R T S C E L E B R AT E S I T S 10TH ANNIVERSARY By Annie Beckmann Rhythmic beats from the Seattle University African Drumming Ensemble and love songs from the SU Choirs set the tone for the grand opening of the Jeanne Marie and Rhoady Lee, Jr., Center for the Arts on Valentine’s Day 2006. “Let’s do it on Valentine’s Day,” Theater Professor Carol Wolfe Clay recalls saying, “Because this to me was like my heart.” There was plenty more hoopla at the launch of the Lee Center. Actor and TV personality John Procaccino, an adjunct faculty member then, was emcee. Seattle U drama students and alumni sang songs from “Mirabelle, a Breeze,” musical theater written by Drama Professor Ki Gottberg with composer Casey James. Clarence Acox, adjunct faculty at the time, led the university’s jazz band as they played songs like “You Stepped Out of a Dream,” popularized by Nat King Cole, and “Here, There and Everywhere” by the Beatles. President Stephen Sundborg, S.J., offered acknowledgements, and Wallace Loh, thendean of the College of Arts and Sciences, shared remarks.
“ Let’s do it on Valentine’s Day. Because this to me was like my heart.” — Carol Wolfe Clay, theater professor, PHOTO BY CHRIS JOSEPH KALINKO
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The performing arts center was made possible by the generosity of many, most notably Rhoady Lee, Jr., ’50, and his wife Jeanne Marie (McAteer) Lee, ’51, who met at Seattle University and were longtime supporters of the university. In what became a true extension of their legacy, the Lees’ children honored their parents with gifts to complete and name the Lee Center for the Arts. The space that was transformed into a state-of-the-art theater and gallery began as a 1930s-era car showroom at the corner of 12th Avenue and East Marion Street.
Hedreen Gallery, supporting the work of emerging and established artists. “Other buildings on campus faced into the campus,” says Clay. “We wanted this to be the first to face the community on 12th Avenue. We wanted to attract other theater professionals to our shows so they might invite our students to work for them, too.”
LMN Architects, the architectural firm behind the evolution of the space, also designed Benaroya Hall, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, to name a few. The design of the Lee Center won the 2006 American Institute of Architects (AIA), Seattle Chapter, Award of Merit and the 2008 AIA Northwest and Pacific Region Award of Merit. Clay, whose scenic design is a regular feature of many on- and off-campus productions, says the Lee Center was designed to create a flexible space called a black box, movable for actors and audiences. While a flexible space is not an uncommon request from theaters, LMN Architects told Clay the Lee Center is one of the few that routinely makes use of it. “With every show, we do something different with the configuration,” she says. Actors accustomed to costume changes in a breezeway for productions formerly staged at Pigott Auditorium were delighted to have men’s and women’s dressing rooms complete with showers at the new space. “Yet we wanted to keep some of the quirkiness of the space,” Clay says. “It was also really important it not be cold. We painted it purple because when there are no lights, it looks black, but when the lights are up, it’s quite purple.” In April 2006, the first show ever to be staged at the Lee Center was “Tartuffe,” a comedy from the 1600s by Molière. Interesting and cutting-edge visual arts also occupy space in the Lee Center. The lobby, which faces 12th Avenue, soon became the
Collaboration and partnerships are a hallmark of university productions at the Lee Center for the Arts. Associate Theater Professor Rosa Joshi, Gottberg, who chairs Performing Arts and Arts Leadership, and Clay collaborate regularly on productions such as Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus,” which featured an all-female cast in September 2012. Guest directors from major theater companies also partner with faculty and students in productions at the Lee Center, including Braden Abraham, artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theatre; Scott Kaiser, director of company development for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; John Langs, artistic director of ACT Theatre; and Andrew Russell, artistic director at Intiman Theatre, who will direct the play “Re-Entry” at the Lee Center in February. Puppets also found their way to the performance space. Puppetry was all over campus in July 2010 with the Pacific Northwest Puppet Festival. Seattle U drama faculty and students also took part in “little world,” a collaboration between Gottberg and Clay that won the 2011 CityArtist Project Award from the City of Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs in October that year. A weekend of puppetry honoring the memory of Seattle Children’s Theatre puppet master Doug Paasch was co-produced by Seattle U and Strawberry Theatre Workshop in October 2013. Empty Space Theatre had its offices on campus for awhile and did a pair of shows at the Lee Center, including “Bust,” a high-energy, one-woman show by comedic performer Lauren Weedman in June 2006. And these are only a few of the highlights of the first decade. Here’s to the next decade and beyond at the Lee Center for the Arts.
MASINH OSWTAS GE FALL 2016 TH E TEM PEST Directed by Ki Gottberg Shakespeare’s play will feature choreography by guest artist Dayna Hanson. Nov. 10-13, 16-20 (preview Nov. 9) Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
WINTER 2017 R E- ENTRY Directed by Andrew Russell Written by Emily Ackerman and KJ Sanchez Andrew Russell, artistic director of Intiman Theatre Festival, directs this documentary theater work about the challenges faced by Marines returning to civilian life. Feb. 16-19, 22-26 (preview Feb. 15) Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
SPRING 2017 TH E B IG AM B ITION Directed by Rosa Joshi This new contemporary musical, written by Ki Gottberg with SU students, looks at an old fairy tale anew and explores the need to fit and/or defy cultural ideas of selfhood and success. May 11-14, 17-21 (preview May 10) Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
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$6 students $10 faculty, staff and alumni $12 general public Box office: (206) 296-2244
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FORMER FORD, BOEING CEO
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Alan Mulally, retired president and CEO of Ford Motor Company and former CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has joined Seattle University’s Albers School of Business and Economics as a senior fellow in the Center for Leadership Formation. This is the first formal role Mulally has taken at an academic institution since his retirement. In this role, Mulally will work with faculty, students and alumni in the Executive Leadership and Leadership MBA programs. Both programs will be introducing into the curriculum key aspects of Mulally’s signature leadership strategies, including “Working Together” and “Business Process Review,” according to Albers Dean Joe Phillips. “These concepts are right out of our textbook for the Executive Leadership 1 6 S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E | FA L L 2 01 6
Program,” says Marilyn Gist, PhD, executive director of the Center for Leadership Formation. “Alan reviewed our curricula and found many commonalities from content and values standpoints, with what we teach.” “I am excited to work with the Albers Center for Leadership Formation because its executive programs align so closely with my values. They focus not just on strategy and business tools, but on self-awareness and values of serving others,” says Mulally. “Those are so important in building the genuine culture of working together to accomplish important goals. It’s an honor to work with the center’s leadership and to serve Seattle University.” Gist, Phillips and Seattle U Executive Leadership Program alum Peter Morton, ’00, a former Boeing vice president,
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“ I’m excited to work with the Albers Center for Leadership Formation because its executive programs align so closely with my values.” —Alan Mulally
nurtured a relationship with Mulally over the past several months, beginning with an invitation to Mulally to participate in the Albers Executive Speakers Series. Mulally spoke on the SU campus last October, followed two days later with a daylong workshop for alumni, faculty and senior university leadership. The Center for Leadership Formation is home to the business school’s Executive Education programs. It’s known as a center of innovation where top educators, alumni and business leaders join forces to help accomplished professionals become influential leaders in a changing world. The Executive MBA program is ranked as one of U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 Top 25 EMBA programs (#12 in the nation and #1 in the Northwest).
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“ Extraordinarily prolific as a scholar, wholly committed to his students and generous as a mentor to colleagues, Professor Dombrowski is the embodiment of a Jesuit education at its finest.”
Philosophy Professor Dan Dombrowski, PhD, is the 2016-17 recipient of the McGoldrick Fellowship. Named for James B. McGoldrick, S.J., a legendary Seattle University Jesuit, the fellowship recognizes faculty members who exemplify the mission and ideals of the university. The McGoldrick Fellowship is the most prestigious award conferred by the university upon a member of the faculty and includes a quarter-long sabbatical.
Dombrowski, who joined the philosophy faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1988, has published 18 books, including the recently released A History of the Concept of God: A Process Approach, and more than 170 articles for scholarly journals in philosophy, theology, classics and literature. Internationally renowned and frequently sought out for his expertise on a variety of subjects, last fall he addressed the European Union Parliament on the roles of religion and politics in our modern world.
“Extraordinarily prolific as a scholar, wholly committed to his students and generous as a mentor to colleagues, Professor Dombrowski is the embodiment of a Jesuit education at its finest,” says President Stephen Sundborg, S.J.
Dombrowski serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals and the boards of professional associations and societies throughout the country and internationally. His excellence in teaching and research has been recognized many times over, both at
—President Stephen Sundborg, S.J.
the university and far beyond campus. In addition to his extensive research endeavors and teaching responsibilities, Dombrowski has served the university in many other important ways. He cochaired both the Undergraduate Strategic Enrollment Plan and Graduate Strategic Enrollment Plan, chaired the Department of Political Science and served on the President’s Leadership Summit. Always making himself available to students and colleagues alike, Dombrowski brings a wisdom and warmth to all facets of his work.
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FULBRIGHT SPOTLIGHT
A MISSION TO HELP OTHERS
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A S A F U L B R I G H T, J E N N I F E R C R UZ , ’ 1 6 , WILL FOCUS ON CANCER-PREVENTION EFFORTS IN INDIA By Laura Paskin
Jennifer Cruz, ’16, is headed to India on a Fulbright to work on a cancer-prevention project. The psychology major and studentathlete has focused her academic learning and service on helping people cope with the life-altering diagnosis that comes with cancer. Cruz brings firsthand knowledge of the impact of cancer not only on the patients but also their families. When she was 13 Cruz lost her mother to the disease. Growing up in Wapato, Wash., the youngest of four children, she came to Seattle University to major in psychology. Her goal has always been to help people work through trauma. A first-generation college student, Cruz immediately took advantage of campus of life. She joined the rowing team in her first year and became captain during her senior year. Under the auspices of the student-led Calcutta Club, she participated in a service abroad program in India where she assisted Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in the care of destitute and dying adults in hospice. 1 8 S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E | FA L L 2 01 6
When she returned to campus, Cruz chose to pursue a bachelor’s in psychology degree, which brings a research component into the curriculum with its focus on biopsychology, statistics and experimental design. Cruz was an intern at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, working with cancer patients and their families. The Hutch, one of the leading cancer research centers in the world, was analyzing quantitative and qualitative data from health providers in the Yakima Valley to determine the best ways to improve outcomes and reduce stress for cancer patients. “Minorities and low-income populations tend to have more relapses of cancer,” Cruz says. “Getting to an appointment can be difficult if work, child care and transportation create barriers. Sometimes there is a language barrier between the medical staff and the patients and their families. We wanted to see if increased access to resources and support groups would be helpful.”
During her 10-month internship, Cruz conducted research and compiled data from surveys and interviews with health care professionals and patients. The final report is due out later this year. In India, Cruz will conduct research with the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology (ICPO), an autonomous institution within the Ministry of Family and Health Welfare as well as RTI International, an independent, nonprofit institute that provides research, development and technical services to governments and commercial clients. “Cancer rates are skyrocketing in India,” she says. “ICPO and RTI have developed a phone app and website to help rural doctors access critical information about cancer and cancer prevention. The research will determine its effectiveness.” A Costco and Naef Scholar, Cruz graduated from Seattle University with the strong support of faculty and her coaches. “They have all inspired me and I am so thankful.”
‘ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE’ T H E AT E R G R A D U AT E W I L L S T U D Y C R A F T — A N D SHAKESPEARE—AS FULBRIGHT RECIPIENT By Tina Potterf
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Amelia “Meme” Garcia-Cosgrove got the call from mom—who is SU Assistant Professor Serena Cosgrove—at 7 in the morning, with an urgent message to “check your email.” What happened next, after opening of said email, was screaming, some spontaneous dancing and then back to sleep for a few hours. This was no ordinary email—it was word that Garcia-Cosgrove, ’15, received a coveted Fulbright award that will take her to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art this fall. There the theater graduate with the extensive acting resume will live out another dream as she studies drama. She is one of six Seattle U students and alumni to receive Fulbrights this year—a record number for the university.
“ Theater for me is not a hobby or a job but a way of life. It makes me a better —Amelia “Meme” Garcia-Cosgrove, ’15 person.” But back to the big news. After she processed what it means to be a Fulbright her reaction, she says, was “utter disbelief.” “The audition and interview process was really intense and, to be honest, I had written it off,” she says. “I just kept thinking, ’what are the chances this will work out? That this dream will come true?’ And as an actor, I’m pretty use to disappointment and rejection, I mean it’s just part of the job. But not this time!” On stage, Garcia-Cosgrove first cut her theatrical teeth at age 12 when she made her acting debut in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” In the years since, she has performed The Bard’s great works for audiences locally and nationally, including community theaters and the Lee Center for the Arts.
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“I had done 15 plays by the time I got to college,” she says. “Theater for me is not a hobby or a job but a way of life. It makes me a better person.” As a Fulbright, she’ll have the opportunity to train in one of the most esteemed programs in the world “in the city where Shakespeare wrote all his shows.” “Getting the Fulbright will and has changed my life. It will allow me to see classical theater in a global perspective; it will open up a global network of artists,” says Garcia-Cosgrove, who wants to open and operate her own classical theater company one day. “It means I can really dive in and be challenged in all departments of classical theater. They will demand the most of me, and in turn, I will come out the other side a true master of the craft.”
Six students and alumni of Seattle University were awarded Fulbrights for 2016-17, a record number for the university. Here is the full list of recipients and where their Fulbright will take them: Stuart Haruyama, History; Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA), Turkey Lara Gooding, International Studies; Fulbright ETA, Rwanda Helen Packer, Humanities/English; Fulbright ETA, South Korea Jennifer Cruz, Psychology; Fulbright Research Grant, India amelia Garcia-Cosgrove, Theater; Fulbright Study Grant, United Kingdom Hannah Nia, Environmental Studies; Fulbright ETA, Colombia
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY (C. 1960S) My how you’ve changed. In its 125-year history, Seattle University has experienced dramatic growth and expansion of the physical campus. Spread over some 50 acres, the university of today features state-of-theart facilities that enrich the campus experience and learning environment while offering spaces for students to nurture mind, body and spirit.
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SUYI 5TH ANNIVERSARY
PARTNERSHIPS, AGENTS OF CHANGE DRIVE YOUTH INITIATIVE By Annie Beckmann
Today, 1,000 youth and their families participate in Seattle University Youth Initiative partnerships that connect local youth, Seattle U and dozens of community organizations and schools. At Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, a few blocks south of campus, 330 children participate in Youth Initiative partnerships. And as many as 300 neighborhood youth are now provided with summer learning. When the idea to improve the odds and build opportunities for success for children in public schools was first put in motion in 2007, the hope was that this would heighten campus engagement in the neighborhood. That it did. More than 1,500 SU students now participate in the Youth Initiative each year. Plenty of incoming students say it is a top reason they chose to come to SU. Admissions and orientation staff connect new students with Youth Initiative opportunities, too. It’s little wonder that last year Washington Monthly ranked SU third in the nation for its community engagement. Yet the Youth Initiative purposefully had a slow start between 2008 and 2010 to build a shared vision with stakeholders and plan its objectives with care. 2 2 S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E | FA L L 2 01 6
Since the Youth Initiative’s official launch in early 2011, the alliance between Gatzert Elementary and Seattle U has grown steadily. Just a year after the launch, Gatzert had the highest academic growth of any school in Seattle, a testament to the impact of the initiative. Kent Koth, who leads both the Youth Initiative and the Center for Community Engagement, says Washington Middle School and Garfield High School have started to garner more attention as well. In addition, Seattle U is also developing stronger partnerships supporting families in attaining stable housing, economic opportunities and high quality health. Koth reflects on the years leading up to the Youth Initiative’s launch and the five years since then. “Some of the lessons are hard lessons,” he says. “We have to be modest and be bold. By that I mean we have to present a bold vision, but also remain grounded and humble and real. “Seattle U, neighborhood families and our partners have a shared vision for our campus and our community. Collectively we are building our capacity to pursue positive social change. And we are really just getting started.”
BUILDING A NATIONAL MODEL OF ENGAGEMENT S U Y O U T H I N I T I AT I V E ’ T O O L K I T ’ S E R V E S A S G U I D E FO R OTH ER SCH OO L S By Annie Beckmann The Seattle University Youth Initiative has quickly become a national model of campuscommunity engagement that now attracts the interest of leaders from universities nationwide.
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That’s why sharing practices and lessons learned is one of the Youth Initiative’s goals.
“ Seattle U, neighborhood families and our partners have a shared vision for our campus and our community. Collectively we are building our capacity to pursue positive social change.” — Kent Koth, director, Seattle University Youth Initiative/ Center for Community Engagement
“This is a growing role that the Youth Initiative pursues today,” says Director Kent Koth. “Disseminating what we’ve done wasn’t what we expected when the Youth Initiative launched in 2011.” Unexpected, perhaps, yet an exciting development as universities started to take notice and consider the Youth Initiative a successful prototype. That’s when Erica Yamamura, associate professor in the College of Education’s Student Development Administration program—with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation—began to research how the Youth Initiative could impact the next generation of community engagement initiatives at other schools. Yamamura believes in the power and potential of integrating teaching, research and service to advance diversity and social justice. What Yamamura started as a White Paper quickly became the foundation for what is known as the Youth Initiative Tool Kit. This guide highlights emerging practices, key challenges—including how they were overcome—and questions for universities and their community partners to consider when engaging in this type of work. Already 45 colleges and universities—the majority of them faith-based—want to learn more and about 25 have participated in institutes on the subject, says Koth. Through her research, Yamamura discovered
that data, the role of the university and funding were three main areas to highlight. “For mission-based institutions, community engagement work often has roots in social justice and service, which presents both opportunities and challenges,” says Yamamura. One challenge is that work across different cultures calls for considerable training and support that few faculty and community engagement offices are prepared to lead. “There’s an opportunity here because college students who engage in the Youth Initiative enhance their cross-cultural skillset working with non-native English speakers, lowincome students and communities of color,” Yamamura says. “We saw a need to enhance undergraduate students’ multicultural competence.” Yamamura points out that a strong, supportive and consistent senior leadership on Seattle U’s campus allowed the initiative to develop and grow. An extended planning period of three years was another key to the Youth Initiative’s success for not only securing funders but also developing strong affiliations with community partners. “Cultivating relationships for resource development is critical,” she says, adding that this is an ongoing need. Yamamura and Koth also suggest that better engagement for all stakeholders involves an equal balance between student learning and community impact rather than a traditional model that focuses more on college student learning. Erica Yamamura and Kent Koth are in the early stages of working on a book that will highlight neighborhood-based community engagement and what they are learning with the Youth Initiative.
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STU D ENT CO N N ECTS WITH OTH ERS TH ROUG H S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y Y O U T H I N I T I AT I V E
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By Annie Beckmann Well before he started thinking about college, sophomore Naod Sebhat knew quite a bit about the Seattle University Youth Initiative, the largest-ever community engagement project in the university’s history, now in its fifth year. His father Asfaha Lemlem, coordinator of the Yesler Terrace Computer Lab and Learning Center, partners with Seattle U and the Youth Initiative to locate any number of resources to assist those he serves. While his father may have given him a nudge toward Seattle U, Sebhat found his own way. It began with JustServe, an organization that connects volunteers with opportunities and a Center for Community Engagement event that brought together students from SU and various Seattle high schools.
“We met at the Seattle U Student Center to discuss social justice issues and the environment. After the meeting, we did a service-related activity. I went to a church in Fremont where a group of us prepared disaster relief kits for the homeless. Then we picked up trash,” Sebhat explains. “It wasn’t a huge impact, but it has a huge impact on you, yourself.” Before his junior year in high school, Sebhat took part in a summer project that developed photography and video pieces related to Yesler Terrace, its rich history and redevelopment. Last year, the Seattle Housing Authority received a three-year grant to support this project and others at Yesler Terrace. Associate Professor Claire Garoutte, who heads SU’s photography program, engages new teens each summer as she oversees the multimedia project.
“I gained a lot of basic skills about photography and video editing and I also learned a lot about community, one where my father spends much of his time,” says Sebhat, an environmental science major. A growing sense of community also convinced Sebhat to join other SU students who work for the Center for Community Engagement and the Youth Initiative at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School 12 hours a week. On Mondays and Wednesdays, he serves as one of several leads in an after-school program. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, he provides teacher support in a fourth grade math class, giving attention to students who might appear lost when they’re grappling with concepts like fractions.
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MEET THE NEW STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT By Tina Potterf As the new Student Body President of Seattle University, Carlos Rodriguez, ’17, wants to get students engaged on campus and in the community. “My vision is to get student government involved in citywide issues,” says Rodriguez, a public affairs major who got his start in student government as a class representative his junior year. During his first years at SU he’s gained firsthand experience of working with and assisting students as an RA in Campion Hall. He’s also been active in the neighboring community through his involvement in issues important to him: housing and homelessness. Rodriguez wants to do more advocacy work around the rising cost of housing—impacting students who live off campus—and helping Seattle’s homeless crisis. Seattle University’s mission aligns with the causes important to Rodriguez and many of his peers. “A lot of students are guided by the mission and it leads them into social justice and empowerment through service learning. The students who come here are seeking a great experience and I want to help them achieve that as Student Body President.” The path into public affairs and politics was not a direct one for Rodriguez, who spent the first two years at Seattle U as a molecular biology major. An interest in a career that would take him away from a lab setting and into a more public facing role had Rodriguez change his major. “I wanted to be more involved with the public, helping people and being their advocate,” he says. Rodriguez is doing just that as an intern with the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where he assists in the juvenile detention division. As for his plans after graduation, Rodriguez says he’d like to work in city or county government and might continue his education in grad school.
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Student vote in favor of adding varsity soccer at Seattle University. Athletic Board approves funding $1,500 for first year of men’s varsity program. Students Joe Zavaglia and Jim Lynch appointed officers.
Athletic Director Eddie O’Brien names Liverpool native and teacher Hugh McArdle first head coach and training begins at Broadway Playfield.
Joe Zavaglia scores goal as the team wins first match vs. collegiate opposition, 1-0 over Shoreline Community College.
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The program marks its return to Division I; renovated Championship Field stands open with 650 covered seats.
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A HALF-CENTURY OF MEN’S SOCCER
A H I G H L I G H T R E E L O F M I L E S TO N E S OV E R T H E PA S T 5 0 Y E A R S By Caitlin King, ’10 Hot off the heels of their first Sweet 16 appearance in Division I NCAA history, the men’s soccer program has more to celebrate than the remarkable success of the Redhawks (18-4-1) 2015 season. This fall marks the 50th Anniversary for the men’s soccer program at Seattle University. Visit the grandeur of SU’s Championship Field for a match today, with its wellgroomed green grass, bright stadium lights and 650 covered seats and it’s hard to imagine a time when the program didn’t regularly inspire a second look. However rich in history and talent, men’s soccer has come a long way from its humble beginnings. In 1967, a student-led vote (368-225) ended victoriously in favor of adding varsity soccer. They were only granted $1,500 in funding, but student athletes like Joe Zavaglia and Jim Lynch got the program off the ground. The first tryout, led by newly appointed head coach Hugh McArdle, seemed like a good turnout with more than 70 players present at Broadway Playfield. Twenty players were selected and issued softball uniforms in lieu of decent soccer
uniforms. At that time, home games were played at Lower Woodland Park, next to the Woodland Park Zoo.
“The quality of people that have played on this field and stood on the sidelines, I have the utmost respect for,” Fewing says.
A lot has changed over the years, but for Coach Pete Fewing, who first joined the program as head coach in 1988, one thing still remains the same. “The brotherhood of the guys and the commitment to the program, whether they played 10 years ago or 20 years ago, is very strong,” he says, adding that “the loyalty and the drive to make Seattle U proud is even stronger.”
In 2012, Fewing returned to coach the Redhawks and in fall 2013, a 2-1 victory against powerhouse Creighton for its first Division I NCAA tournament win put the Redhawks back on the map. From there, they went on to dominate national soccer powerhouses such as Northwestern, UCLA, Harvard and home-town rival Washington. And this past season, the program reached a new milestone and level of excellence as they advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in Seattle University history before falling to Syracuse University 3-1.
Standout players like Tom Hardy, who helped the Redhawks take the NAIA national championship in 1997, and First Team All-American Bobby McAlister, who helped guide the Redhawks to their first Division II national title in 2004, brought recognition to the program. Brad Agoos, who took the reigns as head coach from 2006 to 2011, achieved backto-back GNAC titles and two straight NCAA Division II tournament appearances before seeing the Redhawks through their transition into full Division I status. In 2007, midfielder John Fishbaugher was named First Team All-America.
What lies ahead for this ambitious program? This season presents a demanding schedule, but it doesn’t faze the coach. “We have an experienced team returning and we’re very motivated,” says Fewing. “With great demand comes great opportunity. It will prepare us better than any other way for the NCAA tournament, one game at a time.”
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Tom Goff named coach. Home games initially played at Fort Dent in Tukwila. Team later moves to Memorial Stadium for most home games.
Home games moved to campus intramural field, 11th Avenue E. and Cherry.
Pete Fewing named head coach.
Seattle U wins Cascade Division of NCSC with 2-0 win at Central Washington.
Seattle U wins NAIA Championship, defeating Rockhurst 2-1 on goals by Brad Swanson and George Czarnowski.
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Wins WAC regular season and tournament championships, earns automatic berth in NCAA and wins tournament opener at Creighton.
Team advances to Sweet 16 for the first time in school history.
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Stroll Pike Place Market, ride the Space Needle to the observation deck, check out the visual arts scene at an arts walk or catch a ferry to explore the Sound. You can rock out to live music at one of the many venues neighboring campus and indulge your culinary interests at the diverse restaurants within walking distance.
Seattle U is located a short distance from the mountains, hiking trails and top ski resorts. Students discover Seattle by exploring outside the classroom—and beyond city limits.
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PHILLIP THOMPSON
ENVIRONMENTAL CRUSADER PROFESSOR PHILLIP THOMPSON URGES G R E AT E R S O C I A L R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y By Annie Beckmann With nearly 20 years experience as a Seattle University civil and environmental engineering professor, Phillip Thompson has a measured sensibility that complements his unending desire to tackle humanitarian engineering efforts. Today, Thompson crusades for better strategies and solutions to a host of environmental problems as director of Seattle U’s Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability, which launched two years ago. We’re way past due in addressing topics like “feminized fish,” including Puget Sound’s Chinook salmon, says Thompson. Who would think that decades after the women’s movement coined the aphorism, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle,” we’d be concerned about the feminization of fish? Yet synthetic estrogen in birth control pills—when ingested by humans or tossed in toilets— makes its way into wastewater where it impacts fish. And all that ibuprofen we swallow for our aches and pains? It’s surfacing in wastewater used on crops in Eastern Washington.
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“Got a headache? Have yourself an ear of corn. We’re getting to that point,” Thompson quips. What’s needed, he urges, is greater social responsibility. “We’re not socially sustainable until we care for one another. The social responsibility component is a big part of sustainability,” he says. Thompson continues to gain worldwide attention for his efforts to find new solutions to problems of water treatment and sanitation in developing nations such as Haiti and Thailand and engaging students in service learning on three continents. Recently he introduced aquaponics, a system that matches aquaculture (raising fish) with hydroponics (growing plants without soil) in Peru, where there is less than an inch of rain annually. Tilapia, spinach, lettuce and tomatoes all live in one tank. He worked with a Catholic vocational school in Peru to build interest. Closer to home, Thompson says he’d like to see an end to hauling 35 truckloads of treated human waste from the Seattle area to Eastern Washington each day. Keep it here, he urges. Burn it to make
charcoal and turn it into a water filter— like a humungous Brita—to tame the wastewater that’s feminizing fish and turning crops into headache relievers. In August, Thompson’s center hosted “Just Sustainability: Hope for the Commons,” a conference for practitioners and academics who seek solutions to shared sustainability challenges. Thompson points to Seattle U’s success among colleges and universities that participate in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. The university achieved a gold rating from the rigorous benchmarking program, Thompson says, and should now strive to become STARS platinum. He firmly believes future students will choose Seattle U for its sustainability. New students have started to take a sustainability literacy survey that will probe what role the topic plays in their choice to attend the university. “Students will come here because of sustainability, how we embody it through our operations and our mindset. It does matter,” says Thompson.
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SUSTAINABLE LIVING
SERENA COSGROVE, ’85
C O L L A B O R AT I O N B E T W E E N S U A N D S I S T E R S C H O O L S U P P O R T S YO U T H A N D M A R G I N A LI Z E D C O M M U N I T I E S I N C O A S TA L N I C A R A G U A By Serena Cosgrove, ’85
Garoutte and UCA Professor Marissa Olivares are carrying out research about the effects of Nicaraguan emigration with a research team comprised of students from both schools.
“When I’m at the farm with my animals and medicinal plants, I feel that the spirits of my mother, my father, my grandmother and my grandfather are protecting me here,” Simón Cenón explained to José (Chepe) Idiáquez, S.J., and me as he showed us plants to cure ailments of snakebite, cough, allergies and rashes. Simón is a lay leader in the Catholic Church and healer or curandero for the small isolated town of Orinoco on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Orinoco is home to about 2,000 Garifunas, an afroindigenous, English-Creole speaking group. Father Chepe is an anthropologist whose master’s thesis focused on the syncretism of Garifuna religious thought. Since 2014, Fr. Chepe has been serving as the rector of the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua, Seattle University’s sister university in Central America. Together the two Jesuit universities are collaborating on research projects with professors and students from each institution as well as many other exchanges of students, faculty and staff. In addition to teaching at Seattle University, I serve as the Nicaragua Faculty Coordinator. With colleagues from both universities, I work as the liaison between our universities promoting collaboration. Currently, Associate Professor Claire
When I first met Fr. Chepe, he talked to me about the challenges facing the indigenous communities on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Nicaragua itself is the second poorest country in the hemisphere, second only to Haiti, but interestingly, the poorest part of Nicaragua is the Caribbean coast where most of the country’s natural resources can be found. Isolated by jungles and mountainous terrain, the Caribbean coast is populated by the descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the Caribbean hundreds of years ago, multiple indigenous and afro-indigenous groups—like the Garifuna—and people from the Pacific side of the country. Fr. Chepe and I decided to start a research project about Garifuna culture. This research conducted with Fr. Chepe will be the foundation of a book we’re writing about the Garifuna and the postcolonial challenges confronting indigenous groups today. We’ve been working with the Bluefields Indian Caribbean University (BICU), based in the coastal city of Bluefields, and together the three universities have been carrying out research about cultural change and youth inclusion. Many young people have been able to get an education yet upon graduation, there are no jobs in their communities of origin, like Orinoco. So, the young people either ship out on cruise ships or take jobs in Managua at Englishspeaking call centers. This is one of the motivations for the UCA, the BICU and SU to carry out research about sustainable livelihoods so that communities like the Garifuna in Orinoco have more choices and aren’t forced to abandon their ancestors,
ways of life and life on the coast. Fr. Chepe and I, along with Professor Leo Joseph Sambola, a Garifuna sociologist from the BICU, have been visiting the Garifuna community of Orinoco, interviewing community members about how the community has changed over the past 20 years. We’ll be presenting initial findings in November at the annual National Women’s Studies Association conference in Montreal.
José (Chepe) Idiáquez, S.J., talks with Stephen Sundborg, S.J., during a recent visit to campus.
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BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Meet the Board The Seattle University Board of Governors aims to serve the needs of all alumni and to cultivate alumni engagement through volunteerism, philanthropy, events and advocacy. Your Board of Governors are (top row, l-r): John Vincent, ’09, John Bianchi, ’02, ’04, Mikel Carlson, ’07, ’12, John Ruffo, ’65, ’71, Ann Yoo, ’98, Susan Vosper, ’90, ’10, Katy Greve, ’10, and Jim Dykeman, ’61. (bottom row, l-r): Anne-Marie LaPorte, ’96, Nicole Hardie, ’98, Richard T. Moore, ’09, Olivia Raese, ’02, Stacy Bennett, ’89, Marilyn Richards, ’79, Toyia Taylor, ’11, Jarrett Payne, ’05, and Karen Lynn Maher, ’00. Not pictured: Derek Harris, ’11, Matt Iseri, ’05, Sheely Mauck, ’09, DJ Weidner, ’07, and Ken Schow, ’09. Learn more at www.seattleu.edu/alumni/.
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THE HONORABLE
ANITA CRAWFORD-WILLIS, ’82, ’86 JD As Anita began her undergraduate college career and then her studies at Seattle University’s School of Law, a number of people helped her find her path and offered encouragement. This is something she strives to reciprocate as a mentor and one of SU’s most active alumni volunteers.
“ Seattle University is where I believed I could accomplish my dream of being a lawyer.”
BOARDMEMBER • The Agape House Inc. • CRISTA Ministries
• Boys and Girls Club • Legal Voice
CHAIRPERSON Smilow Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club
CURRENT ROLE Administrative Law Judge for the Office of Administrative Hearings
ON MAKING A DIFFERENCE AT SEATTLE U:
“ My parents instilled in me the idea that to whom much is given, much is required.”
WOMAN OF THE YEAR School of Law
LEADERSHIP AWARD Black Law Student Association
SU LEADERSHIP • Board of Governors – Emeriti • Board of Regents – Chair-Elect
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QUADSTOCK It was another rocking year for SEAC’s Quadstock, the annual springtime concert and carnivallike arts festival on the Quad and Union Green. To celebrate its 27th year, presenters brought in main stage performers including Saint Motel, Dev, DJ Santa Maria and Michael Jordan & The Bill of Funk.
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CLASS NOTES 1969 LEON F. MAHONEY fully retired in March after 31 years in uniform and 15 years as a defense contractor training forwarddeploying Maritime forces. Fun fact from Leon: “I came to SU in September 1965 as the first class to live in the brand new Campion Tower.”
1972 JUDGE RICHARD JONES received two prestigious awards: the Charles E. Odegaard Award from the University of Washington and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor from the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations. Past recipients of the Ellis Medal include six U.S. presidents.
1984 SUSAN S. GIBSON, JD, has been nominated by President Obama for the position of Inspector General within the Office of National Reconnaissance.
2002 CAROLYN LANIER, MPA, has been named Northeast Ohio Medical University’s new Chief of Staff and Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. In her role Lanier will provide leadership and management of presidential initiatives, special projects and strategic planning. She also will advise and represent the president and managing partnerships. As Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Lanier will implement the University Diversity Strategic Plan and lead and support diversity-building programs across campus.
2007 DANICA CRITTENDEN, JD, received the Rising Star Award at the 67th Annual Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) Installation and Awards ceremony. The award recognizes an outstanding CAALA member who 3 6 S E AT T L E U N I V E R S I T Y M AG A Z I N E | FA L L 2 01 6
has practiced law for less than 10 years. Crittenden is an attorney in the office of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley, LLP and her litigation experience includes insurance bad faith and personal injury cases. MERICA WHITEHALL, MNPL, executive director of the nonprofit Nature Consortium, was featured in the West Seattle Herald.
2009 KRISTINA NELSON-GROSS, JD, is city attorney for Sequim, Wash. Previously, Nelson-Gross served as a deputy prosecuting attorney with the Clallam County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “I am very excited about this opportunity to work with the city of Sequim,” Nelson-Gross said in a news release. “The city is involved in some innovative projects and I’m looking forward to being a part of the team.”
2011 CLAUDE DACORSI, MPA, was appointed to the Washington State Affordable Housing Advisory Board. DaCorsi has been a member of the Auburn City Council since January 2014. He has more than 20 years of experience in public works procurement and contract administration. In 2015 he retired as the director of Capital Construction for the King County Housing Authority. ETHAN MORENO, MPA, after more than a dozen years staffing the Local Government Committee of the Washington State House of Representatives, in 2015 Moreno accepted a new position with the House as the nonpartisan Senior Research Analyst for the House Education Committee, the committee with jurisdiction over K-12 education issues. And this past April Ethan and his wife MEGAN (RIDOUT) MORENO, ’06 MPA, welcomed their fourth child, Laszlo Soren Moreno.
2012 ANDY RAFAEL AGUILERA accepted the Rackham Merit Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Beginning this fall he will pursue a doctorate in history. CERVANTÉ BURRELL and co-founder P.J. Smith created The Unforeseen, a nonprofit organization that highlights student achievements and integrity through adversity. SARAH ELERSON, JD, has joined Helsell Fetterman as an associate in the firm’s family law practice group. In this role Elerson will concentrate on divorce and legal separation, matters involving children, pre- and post-nuptial agreements and other issues arising from dissolution. Prior to joining Helsell Fetterman, she spent three years as an associate at Stokes Lawrence, representing clients in a variety of family law matters. KATIE WIELICZKIEWICZ is director of campus life at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Wash.
2014 KEVIN LYNCH, men’s tennis alumnus, earned Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) status as a ranked tennis professional player after playing in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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ON SU NIGHT AT THE MARINERS GAME, JUNE 25: I’ll be there, maybe wearing my Chieftain letter jacket in honor of Johnnie and Eddie O!
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DAVE COX A TRIBUTE TO BARRY MITZMAN: Barry was an excellent teacher, but more importantly, he is a kind man. I am proud to have been one of the original students who worked on the Family Homelessness Project six years ago. Blessings on Barry in his next journey.
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BOOKMARKS
SWIM, RIDE, RUN, BREATHE:
HOW I LOST A TRIATHALON AND CAUGHT MY BREATH Written by Jennifer Garrison Brownell, ’04 MDiv Reviewed by Chelan David Jennifer Garrison Brownell, ’04 MDiv, does not fit the profile one would expect of a triathlon participant. A self-described “mid-life pastor, wife of a seriously disabled man and dedicated non-athlete,” Brownell one day decides—on a whim—to run a sprint triathlon. And the experience and journey along the way is chronicled in Swim, Ride, Run, Breathe: How I Lost a Triathlon and Caught My Breath. Brownell’s prose do not flow like that of a sportswriter. The daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of ministers and missionaries, Brownell writes about the process of stretching both spiritually and physically.
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Swim, Ride, Run, Breathe follows the three-part structure of a triathlon. Expertly weaving past and present narratives into each section, Brownell reflects on marriage, motherhood and spirituality through the lens of training and preparing for the triathlon. Each sport reflects the interconnectivity between strength and limitations. As she writes in the introduction, “Athletic endeavor is not merely like life. Athletic endeavor is life. This is a cliché, I have discovered much to my surprise halfway through my life, that is actually true.” The Swim section relates a story of how Brownell had been terrified of public speaking prior to starting seminary. Asked to read a poem she was “thrashing and splashing a little at the start,” but eventually was able to pull out into “longer, smoother strokes.” And so the swimming portion of the triathlon goes. Not always pretty— sometimes using a “one-armed thrash”—
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Brownell ultimately completes the first leg of the triathlon, last but triumphantly. “I’m the last one out of the pool,” Brownell writes, “and all I can think is, ’I’m doing this! I can’t believe I’m really doing this!’” The Ride section explores what it means to keep pedaling and when to coast sometimes. This thinking comes in handy as a mother of a young son and as the wife who cares for Jeff, her disabled husband. Brownell describes caregiving as a “complicated dance of intimacy, resentment, mental resiliency and physical exertion.” When she was a little girl she attended a wedding that her father performed. The bride and groom were presented with tandem bicycles covered with daisies. “I guess I imagined that weddings were like marriages,” she recalls. “I imagined happily pedaling off into the sunset on the back of a bike someone else was steering. But I brought myself to marriage—laughing sometimes, sure, but also crying and cringing sometimes. And instead of riding on the back of someone else’s bike, I was steering my own. What I had to remember to do was look over and see that someone was wheeling right next to me.” The last leg, Run, focuses on endurance and the joy of crossing the finishing line. As Brownell writes, “My knee is throbbing, but I feel ecstatic. Sometimes things will just hurt, but that doesn’t have to stop me and it doesn’t this time . . . I can just keep moving, because the more I move my body, the more God’s invisible grace is made visible.” Ultimately, Swim, Ride, Run, Breathe is about love and family, and physical and emotional toughness, in sport and in life.
IN MEMORIAM
Seattle University remembers those in our alumni family and university community we’ve lost. Dorothy Mary Bauer D’Orazio, ’37 (April 19, 2016)
Leo Bernard James Costello, ’58 (March 31, 2016)
Maurice (Moe) Caldwell, ’66 (February 25, 2016)
William “Bill” J. Powers, ’43 (April 7, 2016)
P. Lynne Federspiel, ’58 (April 16, 2016)
Thomas Joseph Traeger, MED, ’69 (March 4, 2016
Dorothy Alice (Dumont) Riverman, ’46 (April 5, 2016)
Cmdr. John Thomas Larsen (Ret.), ’59 (February 21, 2016)
Dr. Peter Douglas Grimm, ’74 (February 20, 2016)
Clarice May Bocek, ’48 (April 26, 2016)
Renee Rossi, ’59 (March 11, 2016)
Ann Teresa Cockrill, ’75 (April 3, 2016)
Jeanne Marie Davis, ’48 (February 12, 2016)
Juli Dumas Lydum, ’60 (April 16, 2016)
Lucy Nile, MAPS, ’88 (April 3, 2016)
Noreen Elizabeth Pearse Riley, ’48 (March 13, 2016)
William C. Brockway, ’61 (February 25, 2016)
Elizabeth “Betty” L. Kost, MAPS, ’89 (February 10, 2016)
John (Jack) Allen Burrell, MD, ’50 (March 6, 2016)
Donald E. Piasecki, ’61 (April 14, 2016)
Winifred (Winnie) Tyler (Koruga) Carman, ’50 (April 17, 2016)
David Edward Michlitsch, ’62 (April 19, 2016)
Virginia Irene (Harvey) Lodwig, ’50 (March 28, 2016) Roy Clinton McClure, ’50 (April 23, 2016) John H. McGivern, ’50 (February 4, 2016) Robert Logan McIver, ’51 (February 19, 2016) Victor (Tony) Manca, ’52 (September 3, 2015)
Raymond Odell Butler, ’63 (April 10, 2016) Glen Mattison, ’64 (August 5, 2015) Paul Louis Merlino, ’64 (February 9, 2016) Carol Anne Cesnalis, ’65 (April 20, 2016) William Harrison Scates, Jr., ’65 (March 20, 2016)
Dale Frederick Lingenbrook, ’54 (March 13, 2016)
FACULTY/STAFF Sandra Barker (April 7, 2016) Former faculty member/professor, College of Education Frank Costello, S.J. (May 23, 2016) Administrator, 1959-1970 Academic and Executive VP Dave Irwin, ’64 (April 15, 2016) Staff member/former director of Alumni Relations Fr. Dr. Casimir E. Zielinski (March 4, 2016) Faculty, 1988-1993
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Hungry for a Good Book F O O D A N D P O P U L A R S E AT T L E H A U N T S TA K E C E N T E R S TA G E I N WORK OF AUTHOR LESLIE BU DEWITZ , ’81 By Annie Beckmann Mysteries that make you hunger for more are the specialty of whodunit author Leslie Budewitz, ’81, whose food-themed fiction has such spicy titles as Assault and Pepper and Guilty as Cinnamon. These are the first two books in her Spice Shop series set in the Pike Place Market, a locale she first fell in love with as a Seattle U student in 1977. In fact, the university pops up in the first sentence of her opening acknowledgments for Guilty as Cinnamon. For Budewitz, success as an award-winning mystery writer involved its own surprising plot twists. She was one of 70 students in her class at Billings (Mont.) Central Catholic High School when she was recruited for the Seattle University Honors program. “It was actually the perfect way for a kid from a small high school in a small city to explore the bigger world,” she says. “In many ways, the focus on analytical thinking, on working for justice and on service to others formed the foundation of my life and both my careers.”
MEET THE AUTHOR Leslie Budewitz will do a book signing at noon Oct. 13 at Seattle Mystery Book Shop (117 Cherry Street). At 7 p.m. that evening she will be speaking at Third Place Books in Lake City/Bothell.
Budewitz says her love of mystery followed her to college, where she completed a lit degree, then continued as she went on to the University of Notre Dame Law School. It was the vibrancy and rain of the Northwest that lured her back to start her legal career, first as a law clerk on the Washington State Court of Appeals for the late Judge Harold Petrie and after that for the now retired Judge Gerry Alexander. Later she worked for law firms in Tacoma and Seattle. A half dozen of her short stories were published in magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazines, but publishers weren’t biting on the mystery novels she wrote. With her legal background, however, writers she met kept asking questions about law in their fiction, such as how fictional cops get search warrants.
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Soon she recognized the need to write Books, Crooks & Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure, which won the 2011 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction. From her Montana home in a town appropriately named Bigfork, she penned Death Al Dente, the first in her Food Lovers’ Village series. When she won the Agatha Best First Novel Award, she says it validated that the long road she took was the right one. Playful mysteries, including those with a culinary twist, are sometimes called “cozy mysteries.” “But it’s more than that,” says Budewitz as she describes the basic plot line. “Murder disrupts the social order of the community. In any amateur sleuth mystery, there are two parallel investigations. The official investigation by law enforcement restores external order by bringing the killer into the judicial system. The amateur sleuth has access to information and insights that the police lack because of her role within the community. She can identify the killer and turn him or her over to law enforcement, but in doing so, she can restore the ruptured social order. Ultimately these books are about community. So far, Budewitz has crafted three cozy culinary mysteries set in Montana and two others set in Seattle, with a third—Killing Thyme—to be released in October. Assault and Pepper is set at the Pike Place Market. Amateur sleuth Pepper Reece owns a spice shop at the market and her former husband, Officer Tag Buhner, is a bicycle cop there. “In my Seattle series, baseball fans will recognize many names drawn from the Mariners and other teams,” she says. “And of course, everyone thinks Pepper Reece is named for her job, but the name came first.”
THE SPICE SHOP RECOMMENDS ...
PEPPER’S GINGERSNAPS THE CLASSIC, WITH A BITE OF A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA. CALL IT PEPPER ’ S “ PERSO NAL TO U CH .” 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1/2 teaspoon finely ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup packed brown sugar 3/4 cup vegetable oil, such as corn or canola 1/4 cup molasses 1 egg 1/4 to 1/2 cup white sugar for topping (optional) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, black pepper and salt. In a small mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, oil, molasses and the egg. Beat well. (No need to dirty your mixer and clean the beaters—the oil makes this dough easy to mix by hand.) Add flour mixture and stir until well blended. Shape the dough into one-inch balls. If you’d like to top the cookies with sugar, pour the white sugar into a small soup or pasta bowl or on a small plate. Roll cookie balls in the sugar. Place two inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet or a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicon sheet. Bake about 10 minutes until bottoms have darkened slightly and tops begin to crack. Makes about four dozen. These cookies will be soft at first, but crisp up nicely. They also freeze well.
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