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61st Annual Caritas Ball Nets More Than $300,000 In January, the University of St. Francis and President Arvid Johnson Ph.D. and his wife, Anne, hosted the 61st Annual Caritas Scholarship Ball at the Bolingbrook Golf Club. The event was chaired by Tyler and Stephanie (M.Ed. ’05) Qualio, and for the fourth year in a row, the event raised more than $300,000 for student scholarships.
The night was extra special due to the addition of a student master of
ceremonies, Macy Smock, a senior nursing major and a first-generation college student. Smock received a Leach Nursing Scholarship and was the recipient of the Virginia J. Saxon Presidential Academic Scholarship. She is an Arthur J. Schmidt Foundation Scholar, a Lincoln Laureate nominee, and member of both the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society and Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society.
“My family and I could not be more grateful for all of you. It is because
of your generosity and kindness that I was able to become a student at USF,” Smock said. “It is absolutely why I am able to stand here tonight.
USF President Arvid Johnson and his wife, Anne, pose with members of the 2018 Caritas Committee.
Receiving scholarships at USF has meant more to me than I can even express.”
PE T RA JA IM E H O N O RE D W I T H S I S T E R C L ARE AWARD USF’s 2018 Sister Clare Award recipient was
Alex Dee, (below) professor
Petra Jaime. Jaime is founder of the parent
and chair of the Department of
professor of music and director of
program at Metro Achievement Center for Girls,
Music & Performing Arts, also
choral activities, Paul Laprade, was
part of the Midtown Educational Foundation in
works as a cover conductor for
appointed to the Illinois American
Chicago. Jaime created the program in 1985,
The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago.
Choral Directors’ Association
and ever since, has remained dedicated to
She was asked to conduct one of
(IL-ACDA) as the repertoire and
teaching the parents of the girls enrolled in the
their February performances
research chair for colleges and
Metro Program about the importance of family.
at the Auditorium Theater. The
universities. In this position,
Chicago Philharmonic, the
Laprade will serve as a resource for
professional orchestra that serves
research and will define repertoire
as the resident orchestra for
quality for college and university
Joffrey, played two ballet scores
music and choral professors within
that were directed by Dee.
the state of Illinois.
USF W ELCO M E S AU T HO R JO HN D E A R The University of St. Francis welcomed author John Dear to campus in April to discuss his new book, “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change,” as part of the university’s annual Green Month celebration. In his presentation, the author, activist and Nobel peace prize nominee connected the way active nonviolence leads to oneness with Creation, and demonstrated how our global epidemic of violence and war only leads to catastrophic climate change. Dear also reflected on Jesus’ own practice of nonviolence and how we can seek to do the same.
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