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Spring 2012
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The Magazine of Dominican University
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From Motto
to Mission:
Love and Truth in the 21st Century
Out of the Desert: Students Sow Seeds of Good
GSLIS and Hubbard Street Dance Partner
to Preserve Cultural History
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Meet the Class of 2015
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President’s Annual
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Spring 2012
From the President
The Magazine of Dominican University
Dear Alumnae/i and Friends:
Once upon a time the vice president for Mission and Ministry convened a group of Dominican
faculty and staff to discuss their continuing experience of mission. The gathering also had
a larger purpose — to explore strategies for making mission more relevant and transparent
in the life of the university, and so the Caritas Veritas Symposium was born. This magazine
is witness to that event, now in its second year and already a university tradition.
DU NEWS
DEPARTMENTS
2 D
ominican to Offer Bachelor
17 Faculty Briefs
Recently I was on a plane and a young flight attendant passed me a napkin. On it he had written
simply, Caritas et Veritas and his class year. For most Dominican students, faculty and staff that
motto says it all — in fact, more than they easily can express. That is the purpose of the
symposium, to give discipline to that expression.
Christopher Chair Lecture
It was a Tina Turner song that actually helped shape the 2010 symposium, which asked What
does the pursuit of truth mean in your discipline or professional life? And, what’s love got to do
with it? The 2011 Annual Report, enclosed, picks up on that theme and identifies accomplishments
inspired by the essence of mission: heart and mind. Report highlights, like symposium
presentations, expose the wisdom and talent within the Dominican community.
Siena Center Director, Claire Noonan was our rock star for 2011. Her stunningly mission-centered
opening talk framed the theme for the day, From Motto to Mission. You can read excerpts in this
magazine. The focus on the social justice mission of the university invited faculty, staff and
students to discuss the many ways that the Dominican curriculum engages the world.
What is so compelling about Caritas et Veritas as a motto is its resilience and generosity.
Whether you are an undergraduate making your first adult choices or a graduate student
reassessing priorities or an alum asking those inevitable mid-life questions, it is equally
meaningful and grounding.
So, as you read this magazine and the President’s Annual Report that is included within, I invite
you to imagine the first two Caritas Veritas Symposia as metaphorical bookends — arms that
gather and hold the best recent thinking of the university about mission, and in doing so, make
that thinking available to you as stakeholders. Enjoy.
By the way, the third Caritas Veritas Symposium is already scheduled for Tuesday,
September 25, 2012. Join us.
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of Medical Science Degree
20 Class News
University Librarian Named
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3 Student-Athlete GPAs
at an All-Time High
Presidential Briefings
Go Coast to Coast
Charlie Stoops Named GSSW Acting Dean
ominican’s Sustainability
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Initiatives Added to NWF
Best Practices
SPCS Introduces Chicago’s First Online Bachelor’s
in Legal Studies
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From Motto to Mission:
Love and Truth in the 21st Century
Out of the Desert
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Students Sow Seeds of Good
GSLIS and Hubbard Street Dance
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Partner to Preserve Cultural History
Faculty Spotlight: Dan Beach
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PRESIDENT
Donna M. Carroll
VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT
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Just the Facts
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Meet the Dominican Class of 2015
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Tina Weinheimer
ART DIRECTOR
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DU NEWS
DU NEWS
Dominican to Offer Bachelor
of Medical Science Degree
Christopher Chair Lecture
T
he Department of Athletics posted a record-high 3.1650 cumulative grade point average for the fall 2011 semester,
marking the 11th consecutive semester the Stars have posted
a 3.0 or better cumulative grade point average. The Stars have
posted anywhere from a 3.06 to a 3.09 in recent semesters but
broke the 3.10 barrier for the first time since joining the NCAA
Division III ranks in 2000.
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eginning this spring, students enrolling in Dominican’s Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Studies Program will be
eligible to receive a Bachelor of Medical Science (BMS) degree.
This BMS degree offers preparatory coursework for students who
already have earned a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science
degree from a regionally accredited university, and consists
of a minimum of 34 credit hours from coursework required for
admission to a graduate program in any medical field (e.g.,
medical school, nursing school, physician’s assistant school,
dental school), as well as a variety of master’s-level programs
(e.g., global health, biomedical engineering, perfusion
technology). Students will have the opportunity to learn both
theory and practical application of skills needed to acquire,
evaluate and apply medical evidence with a goal of clinical
health care and research integration. Areas of study include:
anatomy
• biochemistry
• biology
• genetics
• histology
• immunology
• microbiology
•
molecular biology
• neuroscience
• physiology
• psychology
• clinical internship
• independent research
•
It is anticipated that students will earn their BMS degree in three
or four semesters, or one and one-half to two years. There will
be no transfer credits and all classes are taken on the Dominican
University campus. Current post-baccalaureate pre-medical
students are eligible for this degree, with the first degrees to
be awarded in May 2012.
The BMS degree replaces the certificate program previously offered
as part of Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Studies Program, which
has been offered for the past 12 years. Currently, more than 100
students are enrolled in the program.
Student-Athlete GPAs at an All-Time High
M
ore than 100 students, faculty, staff and members of the community gathered in early February to hear Fr. Oliver
Williams, CSC, PhD – Dominican’s Christopher Chair in Business
Ethics – present the lecture “Advancing Human Rights in
Developing Countries: A Voluntary Opportunity or a Moral
Obligation for Business?” Director of the Center for Ethics and
Religious Values in the Mendoza College of Business at the
University of Notre Dame, and a board member of the United
Nations Global Compact Foundation, Fr. Williams shared that
he is encouraged by the number of companies involved in projects
to advance human rights around the world, and in his lecture
addressed whether such projects should be considered a moral
obligation, or should be viewed as simply examples of corporate
philanthropy. He offered several studies and principles for
guidance in addressing the issue and engaged the audience
in a lively discussion following his lecture.
The Christopher Chair in Business Ethics was established in 2003
by Doris K. and Jay W. Christopher to focus on ethical business
practices through lectures, workshops, and faculty and student
initiatives. Pictured at a reception prior to the lecture are Arvid
Johnson, dean, Brennan School of Business; Doris K. Christopher;
Fr. Oliver Williams; President Donna Carroll; Cheryl King; and Rick
King, chairman, Board of Trustees.
“We are an institution of higher learning,” says Erick Baumann,
director of athletics, “and it’s rewarding to see that success in the
classroom can go hand-in-hand with the success we are having on
the courts and fields. That’s the true definition of a student-athlete.”
In addition to the academic success in recent semesters, the Stars
have slowly been climbing the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC)
all-sports standings and posted one of the most successful fall
seasons in university history this past fall with the men’s soccer and
volleyball squads claiming NAC regular season championships and
the Stars’ team sports posting a combined 61-19-1 overall record.
Presidential Briefings
Go Coast to Coast
Charlie Stoops Named
GSSW Acting Dean
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n the ongoing quest to keep our alumnae/i apprised of the university’s many exciting accomplishments as well as to
acquaint alums with the comprehensive strategic plan –
Pathways to Distinction – President Donna Carroll has been busy
traveling the country engaging alums in “Presidential Briefings.”
Hosted by alumnae/i in selected cities, these intimate gatherings
provide an opportunity to gather, reminisce and network, as well as
ask questions and engage in discussions with President Carroll and
University Advancement staff about future plans for the university.
To date, briefings have been held in Chicago, Minneapolis, New York,
Naples, FL, and on campus for the alumnae/i class agents.
Briefings are scheduled for Phoenix in the spring, and are anticipated
in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Cleveland,
California, Rockford, IL, and the Lincoln Park area and north and
west suburbs of Chicago.
University Librarian Named
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elice E. Maciejewski has joined Dominican as university librarian, leading the Rebecca Crown
Library. Maciejewski previously served as a library
consultant in the Office of Learning and Information
Technology for the University of Wisconsin System
Administration, and as director of the library at St.
Norbert College. At St. Norbert, an institution with
a mission and culture similar to Dominican’s,
Maciejewski provided creative, collaborative and
transformational leadership during the building of
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a new state-of-the-art library; she also served for an
extended period as interim associate vice president
for information services. During a 14-year tenure at
Tulane University, Maciejewski served first as head
of circulation and then as head of access services at
Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. She holds a BA in
Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
and a master’s degree in library and information
studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Of the 169 student-athletes on the Stars’ 12 varsity rosters, 103 posted
a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better for the semester while all but 20
student-athletes finished the fall semester with a 2.5 GPA or higher.
On average, Dominican’s student-athletes earned 14.8 credits for the
semester with only six student-athletes earning fewer than 12 credits
for the semester.
President Donna Carroll shared the details of the university’s strategic plan with
a small group of alumnae/i and friends who gathered at the New York City home
of Lily Li, a member of Dominican’s Board of Trustees.
harlie Stoops, PhD, LCSW, has been named acting dean
of the Graduate School of Social
Work following the departure
of Dean Mark Rodgers, PhD.
Dr. Stoops joined the school in
2003 and was serving as associate
dean before his appointment.
He continues as an associate
professor in the school.
Stoops has been an innovator
in the classroom, developing
partnerships with the Chicago
Coalition for the Homeless,
Heartland Alliance, Sarah’s Inn
and the States Attorney’s Office
to provide students with practical
experience in real-world program
development and political
advocacy. He has chaired the
GSSW’s social welfare policy
curriculum and developed a
course on violence across the
lifespan in the human behavior
and social environment sequence.
Stoops’ research focuses on
domestic violence, particularly
men who batter. He is a founding
member of the Center for
Advancing Domestic Peace, Inc.
(formerly the West Side Domestic
Abuse Project, Inc.). Organized
in 2004 as a community-based,
nonprofit social service agency,
the center provides intervention
services for men and women
who use violence in domestic
or intimate relationships. The
center serves more than 400
participants each year at three
locations on Chicago’s west side,
and southeast and southwest
neighborhoods.
In 2010, Stoops received the
Community Advocate of the
Year Award from the Chicago
Metropolitan Battered Women’s
Network. He received his
doctorate in social work
from Jane Addams College
of Social Work at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
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Dominican’s Sustainability Initiatives Added to NWF Best Practices
T
hree environmental sustainability initiatives
at Dominican University have
been accepted into the National
Wildlife Federation’s campus
ecology sustainability case
study database, a best practices
resource containing more than
600 case studies from colleges
and universities across the
country. Dominican’s were
among more than 100 case
studies added to the database
in 2011. The initiatives receiving
recognition were the planting
of a community garden, the
establishment of a bike-sharing
program and the awareness
outreach campaign.
“American colleges and
universities lead the way on
sustainability, as in numerous
other areas,” says Kristy Jones,
Dominican’s
community
garden was
one of the
campus
initiatives
that received
recognition
by the National
Wildlife
Federation.
senior manager of campus
ecology at National Wildlife
Federation and the director of
the case study initiative. “It is
encouraging to see so many of
their most inspired ideas in one
place, where we hope a great
cross-pollination of ideas and
action will occur among schools
throughout the United States
and beyond.” Published each
year since 1989, NWF’s campus
ecology sustainability case
study database has become
an indispensable resource for
students, faculty, administrators,
community leaders and others
interested in the role of colleges
and universities in protecting
the public health and welfare
by reducing waste, pollution and
congestion in their communities.
The database may be accessed
at nwf.org/campuscasestudies.
SPCS Introduces Chicago’s First Online Bachelor’s in Legal Studies
D
ominican University has introduced the Chicago area’s first fully online undergraduate program in legal studies. Offered by
Dominican’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies (SPCS),
the first classes began in February 2012.
The bachelor of arts in legal studies (BLS) is an interdisciplinary
program exploring the American legal system from a wide range of
perspectives, including economics, philosophy, theology and history.
Consistent with the university’s 110-year commitment to social justice,
students are required to complete a course in legal ethics in addition
to at least one ethics unit in each class.
Graduates of the program will be qualified to work as paralegals, law
enforcement officers, public officials and nonprofit leaders. Those
looking to work as paralegals will have the opportunity to take courses
in specific areas like civil litigation or real estate law and gain
preparation for paralegal certification examinations. As a rigorous
social science program, the BLS will also prepare students for law or
graduate school.
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“The State of Illinois and the federal government are both projecting
significant increases in demand for workers in law-related careers
in the coming years,” says Matt Hlinak, JD, assistant provost for
continuing studies and special initiatives. “We’re hoping to meet
that demand by offering a practical, convenient and values-driven
education to working adults.”
The BLS program is open to students with at least 30 hours of college
credit and who have been out of high school for at least seven years.
The program begins with an adult learning seminar that will acclimate
students to the online learning environment, which means that students
with all levels of computer proficiency will be able to succeed.
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caritas
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From Motto to Mission
Love and Truth in the 21 st Century
since
1926
Since 1926,
Dominican University has described itself in two words: Caritas
and Veritas – love and truth. For generations of alumnae/i, the university’s
beloved motto has served not only as a guide and, as one faculty member states,
“a compass to carry us forward,” but more importantly, as the “distinctively
Dominican” difference.
From the first days of orientation, to the classroom and beyond, the Caritas
et Veritas motto dwells at the heart of the university and in the hearts of
students, faculty and staff, and it is celebrated each spring with the Candle
and Rose ceremony – a cherished tradition that unites alumnae/i of all ages.
Dominican University’s School of Professional and Continuing Studies
provides career-focused education for adult learners. In addition to
the BLS, the school offers a master of arts in family ministry and faith
development and an Excellence in Coaching certificate. For information
about the BLS or other SPCS programs, visit dom.edu/spcs.
a compass to carry us forward
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Hoping to reveal the layers of meaning of the
motto, in 2006 Sr. Diane Kennedy, OP, vice
president of Mission and Ministry, invited a
committee of faculty members into conversation
about the Caritas et Veritas motto and its
connection to Dominican mission and our
Catholic intellectual tradition.
From these conversations the seeds of the
university’s first campuswide Caritas Veritas
Symposium were sown. At a day-long event in
September 2010, more than 1,000 individuals –
trustees, faculty, staff and students – joined in a
multidisciplinary exploration of the Dominican
motto and its relationship to mission.
Following the framework of three guiding
questions, presenters and panelists offered insights
and perspectives about the Caritas et Veritas motto
from their disciplines and roles and how ultimately
our motto informs the Dominican mission. In the
2010 symposium, more than 75 presenters
including trustees, faculty and staff, in 30
presentations explored the questions:
• How does our motto Caritas et Veritas affect our
lives as educators, students and lifelong learners?
• What does the pursuit of truth mean in your
discipline or professional life?
• And, what’s love got to do with it?
Both graduate and undergraduate faculty and staff
explored the meaning of love and truth from a
variety of disciplines and perspectives including
literature, history, world languages, social work,
art, science and mathematics, social justice,
teacher education, philosophy and theology.
Staff presented insights and experiences related to
student development, academic advising, human
resources and ministry to students. Thanks to
external funding, a volume of selected
presentations was prepared and published.
“The presenters were invited to make explicit the
link between their own scholarship and teaching
and the identity and mission of the university,”
explains Claire Noonan, DMin, who served as
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co-chair of both symposia with Sr. Diane, and is
the director of Dominican’s Siena Center. “And, it
provided the opportunity to experience a common,
shared mission and identity.”
“The symposium engaged participants where they
live and got them to reflect on what they do and
why they do it, in light of Caritas and Veritas. It
was an idea whose time had come,” Sr. Diane adds.
The success of the first symposium provided
significant momentum for the second symposium
this past fall, when a new dimension was added to
the experience. Students were among the presenters,
allowing them the opportunity to present as scholars
in their own right. Some 30 students took advantage
of the opportunity.
At the second symposium, the discussion moved
from motto to mission and presenters framed their
work around the third part of the Dominican
mission statement – “to participate in the creation
of a more just and humane world”:
• As the Dominican community seeking a more
just world, What do we do? What can we do? What
must we do?
• What do the concepts “just” and “humane” mean
from the perspective of your life, work and studies?
• How can we collaborate with others “to participate
in the creation of a more just and humane world?”
The result was an overwhelming success with an
incredible turnout of nearly 1,300 participants and
more than 40 presentations – eight by students.
Hannah Minks, a senior majoring in theology
and art history wrote in her blog post “Yesterday,
was the symposium! It is my favorite day on the
Dominican calendar. It’s like Dominican Christmas,
only instead of stockings chockfull of tchotchkes,
we receive stockings chockfull of academic discourse!
Unfortunately, I was not able to go to any sessions
as a listener. I participated in panel discussions for
two of the sessions—one on interfaith, the other on
a service trip I went on to Montana for the class
Native American Culture and Spirituality.”
In his blog post following the symposium, Rene
Howard-Paez, a junior majoring in journalism,
reflected both on his experiences as attendee at the
first symposium and as a presenter at the second
symposium. “Last year’s symposium was a great
experience for me. As a volunteer I got to see
first-hand how a symposium worked. For this year’s
symposium, students were allowed to present and
have their own panel discussions. I asked my friends
to assist me in this panel and help me brainstorm
a little more,” Howard-Paez wrote. “We came up
with the idea that we could each speak about how
the Dominican University mission has affected our
academics and extracurricular activities. We decided
to create a short video depicting what students
around campus thought about the mission and
how it has affected their lives. We worked on this
all through the summer and at the beginning of
the school year.”
Sophomore Anne Glaza observed, “This year the
second annual Caritas Veritas Symposium turned
an event into a tradition…The symposium creates
students and teachers of us all. I left the symposium
feeling tired from a busy day, yet inspired by all
of the deep thinking and story-sharing. The 2011
symposium was a whole day of inspiration,
contemplation, education, and application of love
and truth. How cool is that?”
(Read more of Hannah, Rene and Anne’s blogs, along
with all of our student blogs, at dom.edu/blogs).
In a survey following the 2011 symposium, faculty
were asked to respond to the question, “What does
Caritas and Veritas mean to you?” One person
responded, “The truth is that we belong to each
other, and the way we are meant to relate is through
relationships of charity and justice.” Another
summed it up: “We are here to rigorously pursue
truth — in and outside the classroom. We do this
in an atmosphere of love — of our subjects, our
students, our colleagues. That love and that truth
will overflow into our world to make it a better
place — more just, more humane, more holy.”
“The questions we pose about justice, love and
truth are fundamental, eternal questions that can
always go deeper,” Noonan says. “As a university
and a community, we recognize that if we don’t
take time to specifically reflect on and celebrate these
concepts and questions, motto and mission can get
lost. It is something we must practice and nurture.”
Much of that nurturing takes place in the classroom.
The questions we pose
In the months following the symposium, several
creative and innovative examples of motto and
mission have emerged. During Founder’s Week,
students wrote, acted and filmed a humorous and
engaging video profiling the life of Fr. Samuel
Mazzuchelli, in a style resembling the popular
“Most Interesting Man in the World” commercials.
Following the annual Lund Gill Lecture by chair
Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core,
students in an interfaith leadership class held a
“Speedfaithing” event, where participants had
about five minutes to explain to one another the
core of their faith beliefs without getting bogged
down in differences or dogma. Several Dominican
students are active advocates for the DREAM
Act in both Illinois and at the federal level, and
several currently are engaged in planning and
leading a citywide DREAM Act advocacy day.
about justice, love and
truth are fundamental,
eternal questions that
can always go deeper.
The presentations from both the
2010 and 2011 Caritas Veritas
Symposium can be found
at dom.edu/cvsymposium.
To obtain a copy of the 2010
Caritas Veritas Symposium
proceedings book, email
your request to Fran Nolan
at [email protected].
“Our mission, identity and character are expressions
of what makes Dominican University such a
special place and the sense of having a shared
mission and identity is an asset to all of us,”
Noonan concludes. “It is a recognition that comes
from our Catholic identity. It is not just our
history but also our present and our future. It is the
foundation of who and why we are as a community
and a university. This foundation is ours to take
care of and we must give ourselves to it.”
“Dominican inherits its specific disposition from
its founding sisters whose commitments to study,
prayer, community and service are ingrained in
most every aspect of the university,” says Donna
M. Carroll, president. “Quality education within
this Catholic Dominican context is what leaves
such a lasting impression on graduates.”
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often merged in nationalistic language. In a Dominican context,
the foundational experience of family opens our eyes to see justice
as the expression of kinship.
Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest, the founder of Homeboy Industries,
a tremendous work of justice and solidarity with gang members
in east LA, wrote in his memoir, Tattoos on the Heart:
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O pening P lenary S ession: R eflection
Claire Noonan, DMin, Director, St. Catherine of Siena Center
A few weeks ago at the opening dinner of the academic year given for
the faculty and staff by President Donna Carroll, I had the pleasure
of being seated next to Bill Jenkins. For those of you who haven’t
had the grace of meeting Bill yet, he’s a teacher in the theatre arts
department and the technical director of the performing arts center.
Bill and I were chatting about Dominican and about our experience
working here.
Our documents note that the university was founded in 1901, but we
should recall that our heritage is much older that – it stretches back
to St. Dominic’s assembly of a new community at Toulouse in the
13th century, through Catherine of Siena’s powerful insistence on
our interdependence in the 14th, Bartolomé de las Casas’ defense of
the native peoples in the 16th, and Fr. Samuel’s ministry among the
immigrant miners in the 19th.
As we talked, Bill began to speak about the Dominican sisters, and
their support of the arts. He recounted to me his appreciation for
the way they attend every student production, and so many of the
concerts and performances that DUPAC puts on for the surrounding
community. He spoke of the way the sisters encourage him personally,
with kindness and care. And then, Bill made an extremely insightful
observation about the culture the sisters have created here at
Dominican. He spoke about the quality of our shared life at this
university – contrasting it a bit with other institutions in which
he’s worked. He said, “there is something special about a group
of people who choose to make the whole world their family.”
And truly, it goes back to the life and preaching of Jesus, who said,
“Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of
my family, you did it to me.” And before Jesus to the prophets like
Isaiah calling out to the people: “Bring the homeless poor into your
house, let the oppressed go free.” And before the prophets to the
very dawn of creation, to the gratuitous love of God bringing out of
nothing this amazing world of which the human family is but one
marvelous part.
“There is something special about a group of people who choose to make
the whole world their family.” Yes, I thought, yes, there certainly is.
I hope you have had a similar experience in your time at Dominican
– the feeling of being included as family.
We often claim, proudly, that at Dominican University we are a
relationship-centered community. And this element of our character
has sprung naturally from the Dominican Order upon which we are
founded, for which we are named and under whose sponsorship we
continue. As the Dominican theologian Fr. Don Goergen has written,
“The spirit of St. Dominic was a relational spirit, a spirit of friendship,
of brotherhood and sisterhood. Perhaps that is why it is not so
strange today to speak of a Dominican family as often as we do of
a Dominican Order. The word ‘family’ gives emphasis to the spirit
of kinship or relationship.”
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This history – together with the stories of creation, the heroes and
the heroines of the past, the cultures, religions and traditions that
each of us individually brings to this place – this history and
experience of kinship – sets the stage for our conversation today.
As we move, in this second symposium, from motto to mission,
from caritas et veritas to “participation in the creation of a more just
and humane world,” we consider an understanding of justice quite
different from the one invoked in much of the public discourse that
surrounds us. Beginning with the experience of family that we have
shared and the understanding of kinship that we have inherited
allows us to see more easily and more clearly why and how our
conversation about “caritas et veritas” can move with such fluidity
into a conversation about justice in the world. Because justice,
within this framework of interpretation, loses the merely contractual
connotations so often implicit in our civic language, and it most
certainly shakes off the baggage of revenge with which “justice” is
“Mother Teresa diagnosed the world’s ills in this way: we’ve ‘forgotten
that we belong to each other.’ Kinship is what happens to us when
we refuse to let that happen. With kinship as the goal, other essential
things fall into place, without it: no justice, no peace. I suspect that
were kinship our goal, we would no longer be promoting justice –
we would be celebrating it. Jesus was not a ‘man for others ’; he was
one with them. There is a world of difference in that.”
Justice is the path we pursue when the truth we have found is that
we are brothers and sisters to one another, that we are family, not just
to those who dwell under the same roof as we do, but to those who
dwell in the same city – whether east or west of Austin Avenue; to
those who dwell on the same land we do – whether north or south
of the border; to those who dwell on the same Earth – whether across
the hall or across the ocean.
Justice, as understood in the tradition of
Catholic social thought, “is the primary
way of caritas, the minimum measure of
There is something
it, an integral part of love in deed and
special about a
in truth.” Justice is caritas – not coddling
university that chose as Arvid Johnson and K.R. Vishwanath
reminded us last year – but love
concerned “with the real needs of our
to make the whole
neighbors.” To quote the great Peruvian
world its family.
Dominican, father of liberation theology
and champion of the poor, Gustavo
Gutierrez, justice is the concrete
expression of that kind of love “that makes no attempt to gloss over
the social oppositions that obtain in the concrete history of people,
but strides straight through the middle of them.” Justice is how
we love when the one we love is trapped in a failing school or
an oppressive stereotype; has lost his job or is trying to shield his
children from desperate hunger; is abused by her spouse or the target
of military violence. “Justice,” as Gutierrez wrote, “is love in context.”
This kind of love is no easy thing. The social oppositions that plague
the human family are complex, deeply rooted, not easily jettisoned
in favor of fresh beginnings or social unity. Indeed, often they are
not even easily recognized. The history of peoples is not only full
of grace, but full also of ugliness, pain, suffering and oppression. It is
a complicated web of motivations, machinations, circumstances and
choices, not easily unraveled or untangled, and impossible to undo.
And so, in order to be a people of just love – a people responsive
to the real circumstances in which we find ourselves, we need all
of the disciplines. We need rigorous study, and an uncompromising
pursuit of truth. We need economics and philosophy; psychology
and literature; sociology and chemistry. We need each discipline
and every scholar – including student scholars – at the university
working diligently in his or her field to teach us how we might
love, really love, in context. We need study, lest we be blinded
by self-righteous ideology or handicapped by good but
bumbling intentions.
And we need the spiritual disciplines as well. We need time for
contemplation, meditation, self-examination, prayer – time for
the inner pursuit of truth, time to cultivate within our hearts the
desire to love, and the courage to live justly. We need to practice
the spiritual, as well as the academic disciplines, lest our virtues
fall victim to our self-deceptions, or our hopes be obstructed by
a smallness of heart. Remember Jesus’ friend who answered his
call to “love your neighbor as yourself ” by mustering up a question
teeming with self-serving obfuscation: “But who is my neighbor?”
Or recall the nations who came to the seat of glory, shocked at their
fate, asking, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty
or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care
of you?” We need spiritual discipline to see, to see our neighbors –
and ourselves – truly. And we need the spiritual disciplines in order
to strengthen within us the courage to commit to the justice love
requires. For it does require courage. Courage and community.
This is why we gather over 1,200 strong this day, to listen to our
friends and colleagues, 150 of them, speak about their own vision
and efforts in the public work of caritas et veritas.
This is why we ask of ourselves today, “What do we do? What can
we do? What must we do to participate in the creation of a more
just and humane world?” We ask with the hope that from the asking,
an answer – a calling – might follow. And that encouraged by the
witness of one another, and of our ancestors before us, we might
have the courage to do that thing from which, as the prophet tells
us, “your light shall rise in the darkness…you shall be like the
watered garden…you shall be called repairers of the breach.” That
we might do those works of justice that flow naturally from the
recognition that “we belong to each other.” That future generations
might say of us, “There is something special about a university that
chose to make the whole world its family.”
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Judy Beto ’73, PhD
O u t of t h e D e s e r t
Students Sow Seeds of Good
Judy Beto ’73, PhD
“The main thing we want students to take away from the class is
cultural competency,” White says. “Historically, dietitians have been
ineffective at combating obesity, and it’s mostly due to a lack of
awareness of the cultural factors that lead to it.”
Dominican has taken the lead nationally on integrating diversity into
both the nutrition curriculum and the dietetics profession. Angela
Dougé, coordinator of dietetics supervised practice, recently was
named one of four national Diversity Leaders by the American
Dietetic Association tasked with increasing representation of minority
groups in the profession. The department also recently received a
$229,000 grant from the USDA to create a coordinated
undergraduate program that will help Hispanic students break
through barriers to become registered dietitians.
W
hen First Lady Michelle Obama visited Chicago last fall to
herald the city’s efforts to eliminate food deserts – areas
where affordable, healthy food is difficult to obtain – Dominican
students and faculty members were already hard at work combating
obesity and sowing the seeds for healthy community nutrition.
Through partnerships with institutions like the Maywood
Multicultural Farmer’s Market and Chicago Head Start centers,
students in the Nutrition Sciences Department are leading education
and advocacy efforts to combat nutrition inequality.
Dominican students and faculty have been instrumental in leading
the educational efforts of the Maywood Multicultural Farmer’s
Market, an outdoor market that offers local produce on Saturdays
during the summer and fall. Maywood, the struggling community
that abuts River Forest’s southwest corner, has been long been
considered a food desert due to its lacking a grocery store or other
easily accessible venues for residents to get fresh produce.
This disparity often correlates with high rates of obesity and other
health problems, because residents in food deserts are forced to rely
on available unhealthy, processed or fast food, says Judy Beto ’73,
PhD, department chair and professor of nutrition science.
“Being able to access the local supermarket to pick up fresh fruit and
vegetables for dinner or a snack is something that a lot of us take for
“There’s a lot of inequality regarding access to good food, education
and health care. We call it the hunger-obesity paradox,” White says.
“Many people only have access to poorer quality foods. As the
Western diet, fast food and mass food production spread across the
world so do higher rates of obesity and diabetes.”
granted,” Beto says. “But the reality is that there are hundreds of
thousands of people in the Chicago area who don’t have easy access
to fresh produce.”
At the market, students provided nutrition education, handed out
cookbooks, and assembled and distributed healthy, ready-to-prepare
meals in an effort to help residents utilize the nutritional resources
available to them.
But access to nutritious options alone does not translate into
adoption of healthy habits. In fact, area nutrition advocates lauded as
an oasis the Maywood Market, a full-service grocery store that
opened in the town’s center in 2010, only to see the store close its
doors just over a year later due to lack of business.
In class, students learn approaches to help people adopt healthy
nutrition in the context of socioeconomic situations, as well as
completing outside projects, working with organizations such as
Head Start centers, high schools and community clinics. A recent
unit on nutrition advocacy yielded a bill introduced by Congressman
Danny Davis to require all schools to have a dietitian available for
consultation, just as all are required to employ a nurse.
“The real-world experience helps us understand how difficult it is to
really feed a family today or even feed yourself without relying on
the least-healthy options,” says Danielle Miller ’11, a nutrition and
dietetics major who plans on attending graduate school for social work.
“Unfortunately, habits are hard to break. People have shopping
habits that have been around for a long time, and despite all of our
hopes, we haven’t seen the amazing leaps we’d hoped to in the
number of people using all of the resources in their community,”
Beto says.
“It is very important for medical professionals in the nutrition field
to be culturally knowledgeable and generally sensitive to the varying
needs and values of those they work with,” says dietetics student
Maya Chatburn. “My experience at Dominican has pushed me to
think twice about the impact of financial and social inequality on
basic nutritional needs of those around me.”
In Assistant Professor Jill White’s Community Nutrition class,
students learn not just about the scientific principles of healthy
nutrition, but also about the cultural, economic and political factors
that impact community health issues such as obesity and food access.
Thanks to the efforts of national figures such as the First Lady
and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the issues are gaining attention.
Positive efforts such as planting community gardens and remodeling
neighborhood drug stores to offer fresh produce are underway.
Getting that food onto family dinner tables will require much more
grassroots education, but White is confident that the passion growing
in students will sustain the movement.
“People are interested in nutrition from different perspectives –
health, environmental, economic. The undergraduate programs are
swelling,” White said. “It’s really an issue of justice and humanity,
and our students are responding to that.”
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When Judy Beto, PhD ’73, department chair and
professor of nutrition science, compares her time
as a student at Rosary College in the 1970s with the
experiences of students in Dominican’s nutrition
science programs today, some similarities are clear.
The 53-year tradition of the Recipe Box Café is still
filling the stomachs and minds of the Dominican
community. The curriculum emphasizes teamwork
and skill, and professors still stress nutrition as
a medium for compassion and service.
Since Beto joined the Dominican faculty in 1990,
she’s also seen many positive changes, including
increasing academic recognition, expanding the
department’s program offerings, encouraging
diversity in the dietetics field and transitioning
the department to its new five-star kitchen facilities
in the Christopher Nutrition Science Center.
Beto, the founder and first editor of the Journal of
Renal Nutrition, received the Joel D. Kopple Award,
the highest award given to dietitians by the National
Kidney Foundation. She also was the driving force
behind efforts to increase representation of minority
populations and men in the field of dietetics, for
which the university was presented with the 2003
American Dietetic Association Diversity Action Award.
“One of our goals has to become more culturally
and community-oriented,” Beto says.
Among her efforts have been hosting citywide
conferences with workshops on nutrition-related
concerns in communities of color and pioneering
a program for Chicago public high school students
that gives them the opportunity to work alongside
nutrition students and professors in the Recipe Box
Café. Students from local high schools, many of
whom have had little or no exposure to a college
campus, are invited to visit Dominican each year.
She also led outreach to area culinary schools and
community colleges to help minority students transfer
seamlessly into bachelor’s degree programs at
Dominican. The university is the only in the state
and one of just a handful in the country to offer
a bachelor’s degree in Culinology®, which merges
culinary training and food science to prepare
graduates for work as chefs, researchers and
test-kitchen professionals. The department has
also added a dual MBA/RD (registered dietitian)
program in conjunction with the Brennan School
of Business – the country’s only such dual degree.
When Beto retires after the 2011-2012 school year,
she will leave behind an impressive legacy, but she
is confident that the department will continue to grow.
“What’s really exciting,” Beto says, “is that whoever
takes over will inherit both a wonderful foundation
to work from and a wonderful tradition to take in
new directions.”
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W
hen Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
celebrates its 35th anniversary this
year, many people will be browsing
the company’s extensive video archive
of performances, rehearsals and special events.
It’s something that wouldn’t have been possible,
says Kristen Brogdon, general manager,
Hubbard Street, without the help of students
from Dominican University’s Graduate School
of Library and Information Science, who are
helping the company sort through hundreds
of hours of footage and organize the archives
in a user-friendly system.
“They called me and I immediately thought,
what a great opportunity for the students in
my cultural heritage fieldwork class,” says Cecilia
Salvatore, PhD, associate professor, GSLIS.
“Having recently introduced our new certificate
in archival and cultural heritage resources, this
is an area of strength for us.”
The archival certificate is one of several offered
by the GSLIS for students who already hold an
MLIS. Offerings include certificates in informatics,
knowledge management, school library media and
youth services.
Hubbard Street began recording its performances
when the technology became available in the late
1980s. But as the years progressed, the company
expanded its video archives to include rehearsals of
its dance companies. It became an important tool
for teaching dance because of its relative simplicity
compared to expensive and complicated dance
notation systems.
Video is an
immensely
valuable
tool for the
dance world.
Directors record rehearsals to help dancers refine
precise technique. It’s also invaluable to technical
directors setting the stage for shows, and the
marketing department loves to tease potential
audiences with a taste of what will be presented
in live shows.
Partner to Preserve Cultural History
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The class also will produce a manual for the company
to outline the process for maintaining the archive
into the future. It’s the kind of work that is expected
of professional archivists in the field.
In the archival certificate program, students
work closely with a faculty mentor to develop
an individualized specialty tailored to personal
goals. The certificate was introduced to help prepare
students for a job field expected to experience
large growth.
“Video is an immensely valuable tool for the dance
world,” Brogdon says. “We use video for all the
work that we do, both in the process of studying
the work and in teaching the work.”
GSLIS&
Hubbard
Street Dance
“Our goal is to improve the database so that it’s
usable, give them a finding aid so it’s easier to find
things and provide more detailed information for
each item in the collection,” Salvatore says. “It’s
a project that the students will be able to say they
completed from start to finish.”
The video archive includes hundreds of recordings
captured in many different forms of media,
including VHS tapes, Mini-DV® tapes and DVDs.
All found their way onto shelves in room 211 at
the company’s headquarters at 1147 West Jackson
Street – but not necessarily in any order. Without
a full-time video specialist, the task of organizing
the footage became overwhelming for the company.
“I said, we need to call in some experts who really
know what they’re doing so that we can figure out
the way to do it right,” Brogdon says.
After getting in touch with Salvatore, Hubbard
Street had four eager DU graduate students on
the job within two weeks.
The project has required hundreds of hours of
watching footage, careful construction of cataloging
notes and detailed data entry. During those hours
of searching through unknown footage each week,
the archivists unearthed some interesting pieces
of cultural history.
One unlabeled tape revealed a rare early-90s Hubbard
Street performance at a Chicago Bulls game.
“While you might not expect to see such a highly
trained dance company performing at a sporting
event, it does make sense,” says James Sherman,
a student in the master’s degree in library and
information science program at Dominican.
“It was a young dance company at that point,
and they would have wanted to get in front
of as many audiences as possible.”
Depending on what else the archivists turn up,
perhaps the Bulls game performance will become
one of the prized performances in the annals of
a world-renowned dance company. The students
continue to work archiving projects for Hubbard’s
costume, prop and records departments – a process
that is sure to turn up interesting artifacts.
“This is what I want to be doing, working in the
field,” says Sherman, who is also an accomplished
playwright and writing teacher. “It’s great that we
have this opportunity to actually work on a ‘real’
project. We’re putting what we learn in the
classroom into practice.”
Dance photos by Todd Rosenberg, courtesy of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
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a
ccording to Webster’s New World Dictionary, a Renaissance man
is a highly cultivated person who is skilled and well versed
in many fields of knowledge or work, such as the arts and sciences.
According to the Dominican University “definition” of Renaissance
man, it is Dan Beach, PhD.
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became a go-to source for several Chicago media outlets as well as the
BBC, commenting on the psychological effects and concerns that the
men would confront. His experience over the 69 days until their rescue
led to additional media interviews in the months that followed,
addressing a range of popular psychological issues including flash
mobs and post-traumatic stress.
Beach is a man of many worlds. A professor of psychology at
Dominican since 1975 and the department chair for the past 15 years, “Psychology is the largest of the liberal arts majors here and students
often come to it with a preconceived notion of what it is all about,”
he is as equally renowned for his many personal pursuits and passions
Beach says. And, because so much learning and understanding are
as he is for his significant professional accomplishments and
acquired through research, Beach and his wife, Cynthia Jared – an
achievements. Depending on whom you talk to, Beach is known for
attorney and partner in the law firm of Reed Smith LLP – established
his world travels, which have taken him to every continent on the
the Jared-Beach Summer Research Scholarship at Dominican. The
globe; as a “media personality” for his expert insight and reflections
shared on television, radio and print both in the U.S. and internationally grant is awarded to support the summer research efforts of a student
in the psychology program.
via the BBC; as a philanthropist and sponsor of the Jared-Beach
Summer Research Scholarship awarded each year to a Dominican
“We are committed to giving students opportunities for higher
undergraduate; as an experienced clinical psychologist
education, and because many students need to
whose numerous professional accomplishments
work during the summer months, they aren’t able
include serving as president of the Illinois
to devote the time required to conduct research,”
Psychological Association and as a fellow of
“So much of
he says. The grant enables students to further their
the American Council on Education; as a skilled
education by devoting the time and energy to
woodworker, the artist who created the more
the learning
research without the competing financial pressures.
than 40 crosses found in classrooms and meeting
is emotional
“We both were the first in our families to go to
rooms around campus; and as a person of musical
college and benefited greatly from the generosity
talents, who sang a leading role in the Dominican
learning, and
of others, so we see this both as a way to give back
University production of the opera Amahl and the
and also to serve as role models for other donors,”
study abroad
Night Visitors, and who has performed original piano
he says.
pieces in university talent shows. Plus, he speaks
offers
a
fluent Italian.
On campus – and in life – Beach is a standout role
tremendous
model. When he began his career with Dominican,
Beach’s passion for travel is on display when
was the university’s first director of special
you enter his office in Parmer Hall, with photos,
opportunity...” he
education in the years preceding the opening of
artifacts and memorabilia adorning the walls and
the School of Education (SOE). His daughters,
shelf space. “I would love to have more overseas
Caroline (a current student in Dominican’s
experiences and I encourage all my students to
Post-Baccalaureate
Pre-Medical Studies Program) and Cathleen, an
take advantage of any opportunity they have to study and
undergraduate at Dominican, “grew up on campus” watching and
travel in other countries. You learn things you could never
learning from their father, as he worked toward getting the program
get in a classroom,” he says.
certified by the State of Illinois and transitioned into SOE. As chair
“They get a fuller sense of the world and their place in it,” he
of the psychology department, Beach is intent on creating a premier
continues. “So much of the learning is emotional learning, and
undergraduate psychology program with a cadre of accomplished faculty.
study abroad offers a tremendous opportunity to be reflective
As a member of the Board of Trustees during the construction of
about what you are doing.
Parmer Hall, Beach and his fellow members addressed many of issues
“I also believe it creates an emotional attachment to the university,
related to sustainability and sought opportunities to incorporate
so it helps make our students better alumnae/i of the institution.
green elements and recycled content. An accomplished woodworker,
I would love to have it built into our curriculum.”
Beach constructed more than 40 crosses from the trees that were
removed during the construction. Those crosses now hang in
While many of Beach’s travels are for enjoyment, he also has led
classrooms and meeting spaces throughout campus.
a number of study abroad and service learning trips for both high
school and college students. In recent years, he has traveled to El
“One of the things I love about woodworking is that it provides
Salvador, Africa, Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands, Tasmania, Europe
immediate results – I know right away if I’ve done it right or wrong,”
and the Caribbean. In May 2012, he will co-direct a two-week study
Beach says. “It’s a nice balance because when you teach, you don’t
abroad trip to China.
get immediate results. Teaching is like parenting that way.”
Beach’s expertise as a clinical psychologist has earned him renown
Now in his 37th year teaching, Beach can take pride in the legacy
within his profession, as well as with the general public. In 2010 when
of students he has “parented.”
33 miners were trapped in an underground mine in Chile, Beach
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Meet the Dominican Class of
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38 Psychology
17
27 Business
103
26 Nursing
19
22 Pre-Med
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gpa
average
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3.47
19 Criminology
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For schools reporting class rank:
34 students were in the top 10 of graduating
students • 22% of students ranked in the top
10% of their graduating class • 50% were in
top quartile.
17 Education
14 Accounting
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27
14 Biology
38
10 Engineering
>80%
of students
cook
county
69%
43%
live on campus
10%
are in the honors program
17% are student-athletes
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Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
Daniela Andrei, assistant professor of chemistry,
presented “Novel Nitroxyl (HNO) Donors” at the 242nd
ACS National Meeting & Exposition held in Denver, CO.
Laura Burch, assistant professor of French, presented
the paper “Matters of Conversation: Redefining Cultural
Space in the Frontispieces of Madeleine de Scudéry’s
Conversations” at the Joint Society for 17th-Century
French Studies/North American Society for 17th-Century
French Literature conference at Queen Mary, University of
London, in July 2011. In October, she presented the paper
“Platonic Possibilities: Madeleine de Scudéry’s Histoire
et conversation d’amitié” at the Friendship in Pre-Modern
Europe colloquium hosted by the Center for Reformation
and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College of the
University of Toronto.
Peter K. Fallon, adjunct professor in the LAS Seminar
program, was invited to present a paper titled “The
Inevitability of the Occupy Movement in a Global Context”
at Occupy Wall Street: The Meaning, the Movement, the
Controversy, a forum sponsored by Molloy College in
Rockville Centre, NY, in November. He also serves as editor
of EME: Explorations in Media Ecology, the international
quarterly journal of the Media Ecology Association.
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freshman
Jodi Cressman, founding director of the Borra Center
for Teaching and Learning Excellence and associate
professor of English, and Josephine Sarvis, assistant
professor, SOE, co-presented “Moving the e-Portfolio
from Locker to Learning: Assignments that Develop
and Assess Integration and Self-Authorship” at the
31st Annual International Lilly Conference on College
Teaching held at Miami University of Ohio in November.
Jennifer Dunn, assistant professor of communication,
presented “Conquering the Narco Underworld: Gender,
Drugs and Globalization in La Reina del Sur” with
Rogelia Lily Ibarra, assistant professor of Spanish, at the
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language,
and Gender annual conference in October 2011. She
currently serves as chair of the Media Studies Interest
Group for the Central States Communication Association
and planned the program for the spring 2012 conference.
Dunn is also vice-chair of the Women’s Caucus for the
National Communication Association.
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Angela Dougé, coordinator of dietetic supervised practice
and adjunct professor of nutrition science, was appointed
an American Dietetic Association Diversity Leader, denoting
leadership in the skill development of underrepresented
groups within the ADA and the dietetics profession.
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arizona
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iowa
idaho
indiana
michigan
minnesota
missouri
pennsylvania
texas
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J. Brent Friesen, professor of chemistry, co-authored
a recent patent, “Selection and Rational Development
of Solvent Systems in Counter-Current Chromatography.”
He also presented “Dehydration of Methylcyclohexanols:
Kinetics and Product Distribution” at the American
Chemical Society Great Lakes regional meeting in St.
Louis, MO, in October.
William George, professor of theology and director of
the core curriculum, contributed chapters for two recent
books: “Learning to Love the Law of the Sea” in In Search
of the Whole: Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life
(Georgetown University Press), and “Catholic Theology,
International Law, and the Global Climate Crisis” in
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Catholic Theological
Perspectives (Marquette University Press).
Margaret Heller, web services librarian, presented
“Social Networking the Catalog” at the Library Information
Technology Association National Forum in September,
and “Model for Building Community Collections” at the
Internet Librarian conference in October.
Sr. Marcella Hermesdorf, OP, assistant professor of
English, presented a paper, “The Religious Selves of
Hannah More,” at the Writ from the Heart? Conference
held at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester,
England, in January 2011.
Carsi Hughes, associate clinical professor of psychology
and co-director of the Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical
Studies Program, received a grant from the Central
Association of Advisors for Health Professions for
a research project, “Fostering Physician Trust.”
Bill Jenkins, assistant professor of theatre arts and
technical director of the performing arts center, presented
workshops on working with homicide victims’ families at
the National Organization of Victim Assistance conference
in Philadelphia, PA, in August and the Parents of Murdered
Children national conference in Milwaukee, WI, also in
August, as well as several regional training conferences
in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Illinois for victim
advocates and prosecutors.
Bill Kerr, associate professor of graphic design, had
two pieces in Fibermen, an international exhibition of
contemporary textile art created by male artists, held in
Kherson, Ukraine. In addition, he co-authored the book
Transparency Quilts and was a contributor to another
book, Modern Blocks. Both were published by C&T
Publishing this fall.
Hugh McElwain, professor and chair of theology and
pastoral ministry, gave the Advent lecture, “The Role
of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in the History of Salvation,”
in the Adult Education Program at River Forest Grace
Lutheran Church in December.
Claire Noonan, director of the Siena Center and adjunct
professor in the LAS Seminars, wrote the article “The Unity
of Truth: How a Dominican Center of Distinction Fosters
Integration and Transformation,” published in the summer
2011 issue of the Journal of Catholic Higher Education.
She also presented an Advent morning of recollection
at Immaculate Conception Parish in Highland Park, IL,
in December.
Jeanette Olli, assistant professor of mathematics,
published an article titled “Division Point Measures
Resulting from Triangle Subdivisions” in the journal
Geometriae Dedicata.
Ken Orenic, instruction and reference librarian, was
elected co-chair of the Consortium of Academic and
Research Libraries in Illinois’ I-Share Instruction Team
for the 2011-2012 academic year.
David M. Perry, assistant professor of history and director
of the Catholic studies minor, delivered a lecture titled
“St. George and Venice: The Rise of Imperial Culture,” at
the Matter of Faith conference held by the British Museum
in conjunction with its exhibit Treasures of Heaven: Saints,
Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. His essay, “1308
and 1177: Venice and The Papacy in Real and Imaginary
Crusades,” was included in the book The Papacy and the
Crusades (Ashgate Press) in December.
Jeannine Potter, adjunct instructor of dance, performed
this past summer with visual artist Rodney Veal as part of
his exhibit “5 Zones of Beauty” at the Springfield Museum
of Art in Springfield, OH.
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Tina Taylor-Ritzler, assistant professor of psychology,
presented two papers: “Using the Evaluation Capacity
Assessment Instrument (ECAI) to Conceptualize, Measure
and Build Evaluation Capacity” and “Assessing student
engagement at the course level” in November 2011 at
the American Evaluation Association’s Annual Conference
in Anaheim, CA.
Chad Rohman, professor and chair of the English department,
published two book reviews in Western American Literature:
“Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 1” and “Heretical
Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain.”
Susan Strawn, associate professor in apparel design and
merchandising, presented a paper titled “Women and
Traditional Garments in the Amana Church Society” at the
Communal Studies Association annual conference in the
Shaker Village at South Union, KY.
Louis Tenzis, associate professor of philosophy, wrote
an entry on Mary Moody Emerson, aunt and mentor of
Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as an influential theologian
and abolitionist, for the Dictionary of Early American
Philosophers (Continuum).
Tonia Bernardi Triggiano, associate professor of Italian,
presented the paper “Learning to Read Dante’s Paradiso
in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia at Ravenna” at the
2011 Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference
at Villanova University in October.
Marion Weedermann, associate professor and chair of
the mathematics department, gave a presentation titled
“Anaerobic Digestion: A Path From Waste to Energy” at the
5th Butler Memorial Conference on Differential Equations
and Population Biology at the University of Alberta in
Edmonton, Canada, in July. She also participated in the
workshop “Mathematical Modeling of Metabolism and
Body-Weight Control” organized by NIMBioS in Knoxville,
TN, in July. In October, she was awarded an AWM-NSF
travel grant to participate and present her recent work at
the Ninth Americas Conference on Differential Equations
in Trujillo, Peru, in January.
Clodagh Weldon, professor of theology, co-edited
the book Teaching Jung (Oxford University Press).
Richard Woods, OP, professor of theology, contributed the
article “Mystical Union in Christian and Muslim Traditions:
Meister Eckhart and Ibn ‘Arabi” in the November-December
issue of Spirituality. In November, he gave an all-day
workshop titled “Religious Life: Origin and Development
of Men’s Communities” for the Intercommunity Novitiate
Program at Techny Retreat and Conference Center in
Techny, IL. He also wrote the article “Early Dominicans and
the Inquisition,” published in Doctrine and Life.
Ning Zou, instruction coordinator, Rebecca Crown Library,
represented Dominican during the first year of the Institute
of Museum and Library Services-funded National Rubric
Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) at the
Syracuse University School of Information Studies in
February. She also presented on “Transfer Students and
Their Information Literacy Education” at the Chinese
American Librarians Association Midwest Chapter annual
conference in May.
Brennan School of Business
Peter Alonzi, professor of economics and finance,
co-authored the paper “Universal Life Insurance Duration
Measures,” which was presented at the Academy of
Financial Services Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, in
October and published in the peer-reviewed conference
proceedings. He co-authored with Robert Irons, associate
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professor of finance, the paper “Gresham’s Law Revamped:
Lending for Short-Term Profits Drives Out Prudent Long-Term
Lending,” which was accepted for publication by Financial
Decisions. He also co-presented with Dan Condon, professor
of economics and quantitative methods, two panel
discussions: “Of Federal Deficits & The National Debt:
Solutions” and “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,”
for the Brennan School of Business’ U.S. Bank Center
for Economic Education.
Khalid A. Razaki, professor of accounting, and
Wayne Koprowski, assistant professor of management,
co-authored the article “A Dismal Failure in Regulating
Predatory Lending Practices” in the Journal of Legal
Issues and Cases in Business
Lisa Amoroso, associate professor of management, was
awarded the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award for the
best article published in the Journal of Management
Education for 2010. The award comes with a monetary
prize as well as chair position for the 2011 selection
committee. She was interviewed about the article in
a podcast available through Sage Publications
(jme.sagepub.com). She also co-authored the article
“A Pedagogical Case for Diversity-Related Activities”
in the winter 2011 edition of Western Journal of Human
Resource Management.
Graduate School of Library
and Information Science
David Aron, associate professor of marketing, co-authored
with Wayne Koprowski, assistant professor of management,
the article “Caging the Guerrilla Consumer: The Report
from Illinois,” published in the July 2011 issue of Journal
of Academic and Business Ethics. Aron also made
a presentation on marketing to participants of the
Community Leadership Program co-sponsored by
the Oak Park River Forest Community Foundation and
the Brennan School of Business.
Mohamed O. Askar, associate professor of management,
and Arvid C. Johnson, dean and professor of management,
co-authored the article “Managing Across the Spectrum:
The Implications of Spectral Analysis for Business
Strategy” in the International Management Review Journal.
Askar and Johnson also presented a paper titled “Defining
Green: The Next Paradigm in Management” at the 2011
meeting of the International Academy of Business and
Public Administration Disciplines. The paper was
recognized with a Research Award and was published in
the conference’s peer-reviewed proceedings. Askar and
Johnson also presented a paper titled “Knowledge
Discovery for Geriatric Diseases – Case Study: Dementia in
Egypt” at the 2011 meeting of the Academic and Business
Research Institute. The paper was published in the
conference’s peer-reviewed proceedings.
Dan Condon, professor of economics and quantitative
methods, published a paper titled “Religious Contributions:
A Historical Perspective” in the fall 2011 edition of the
Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics.
Arvid C. Johnson, dean and professor of management,
wrote the article “Introducing Simulation via the
Theory of Records” in the Decision Sciences Journal
of Innovative Education.
Robert A. Miller, professor of business law and
management, published a paper, “Entrepreneurship,
Law and the Art Of Business Ethics,” in the Journal of
Leadership, Accountability and Ethics. He also presented
a paper, “Innovation, Sustainable Ethics and the Future
of American Economic Power,” at the 18th Annual
International Vincentian Conference Promoting Business
Ethics. The paper was published in the conference’s
peer-reviewed proceedings.
Cleamon Moorer, assistant professor of management,
was recognized by the Kettering University Alumni
Association as the 2011 Distinguished Alumnus-Civic
Achievement. He and Al Rosenbloom, associate professor
of marketing and international business, co-wrote the
article “Global Poverty Reduction and the Challenge of
Developing Global Citizens: A Small University Case
Example” in The International Journal of Case Method
Research and Application.
Karen Brown, associate professor, wrote the article
“From Travel to Tourism: The Social and Cultural Impact
of Photography as a New Medium of Communication
in Nineteenth-Century America,” published in
EME: Explorations in Media Ecology 10.1-2 (2011).
She also presented a paper with Mary Pat Fallon,
assistant professor, titled “Library As Place: New
Media and New Designs for Creating Community,”
at the 2011 Media Ecology Association Convention
held in Edmonton, Canada, in June.
Christine Hagar, associate professor, edited the volume
Crisis Information Management: Communication and
Technologies (Chandos Publishing). She also was
appointed to the American Library Association
International Relations Roundtable Committee.
Kate Marek, professor, wrote the article “Using Web
Analytics in the Library,” which was published in the
American Library Association’s July 2011 Library
Technology Reports. In October, Marek delivered a lecture
titled “Organizational Storytelling” at the annual Illinois
Library Association conference.
Mary Minow, Follett Chair, participated in the delegation
of the International Federation of Library Associations
at the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright
session on library and archive exceptions, held in Geneva,
Switzerland, in November 2011. She also spoke on policy
issues at Creating a Blueprint for Building a National
Digital Public Library, a conference held at the Los Angeles
Public Library, and was a panelist at the Maryland eBooks
Summit in Columbia, MD.
Christopher Stewart, assistant professor, completed
his appointment as editor of the Metrics column for The
Journal of Academic Librarianship with the publication of
his column, “Building Measurements: Assessing Success
of the Library’s Changing Physical Space,” in the journal’s
November 2011 issue. He also served on the Archival
Allies panel at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium’s
Full Exposure: Archives and Community Collaboration
conference in October. In September, Stewart chaired the
panel, “For Paying Customers Only? Community Access at
Urban Academic Libraries” for the eChicago@Dominican
Annual Community Informatics Symposium.
Ed Valauskas, lecturer, was the featured speaker at
the opening of the Center for Scholarly Communication
& Digital Curation at Northwestern University in Evanston
in October. His lecture was titled “Fifteen Years of First
Mondays: Scholars, Readers and Openly Accessible
Research.” Valauskas was also the featured speaker
at the opening of Open Access Week at the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library in October.
In November, he was a guest speaker in Introduction to
Internet Studies, a first-year seminar class at Elmhurst (IL)
College. Students in Valauskas’ fall semester Scholarly
Communications in the Sciences class were special guest
participants in the Life and Literature Conference at the
Field Museum in November. The international conference
was sponsored by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a
consortium of natural history museum libraries and
research institutions.
Graduate School of Social Work
Adrian Kok, associate professor, was an invited speaker
at the Council of Social Work Education’s Annual Program
Meeting in Atlanta, GA, in November and was a member of
CSWE’s Gero-Ed Center panel on “Gerontology Curriculum
Strategies: Outcomes of Infusion and Specialization,”
where he presented “3S Approach to Setting Up a Successful
Gerontology Certificate Program: Strategies, Successes
and Sustainability.” He also presented “Seniors Skyping:
An Academic-Professional Community Collaboration”
at the eChicago Conference at Dominican University.
Leticia Villarreal Sosa, assistant professor, presented
“The Accompaniment Model: Conceptualization and
Identification of Biopsychosocial Outcomes” at the Illinois
Area Health Education Centers Network: 2011 Small Grants
Presentations, held in Chicago in November. She also
presented “In the Borderlands: Creating, Transforming,
and Sustaining Academic Identities among Mexican
Origin Adolescents” for the School Social Work Association
of America in Myrtle Beach, SC, and “Chicana Feminisms
and Social Work: Crossing Borders, Building Bridges”
at the Unsettling Feminism(s) Unconference in Chicago.
At the American Council for School Social Work National
Research Summit, she presented the paper “School Social
Work Role: A National Agenda” and also presented
“School Social Work and Role Ambiguity” at the Society
for Social Work Research Conference in Washington, D.C.,
in January 2012. She and Myrna McNitt, lecturer, are
working this year with Hilfswerk Austria International
and the International Foster Care Organization to train
child welfare workers in Azerbaijan.
School of Education
Kimberly A. Garrett, assistant professor, presented on
a panel sponsored by Teach for America titled “Living
Out Wynton’s Words of Wisdom: Ensuring our Students
Develop Pride in the Identities, Aspiration, Resilience
and Persistence in the Face of Real-World Challenges,”
in November.
Greg Harman, assistant professor, discussed the effects
of digital media on students for a panel at the Critical
Questions in Education Conference in October.
Josephine Sarvis, see entry for Jodi Cressman,
Office of the Provost.
Penny Silvers, associate professor and division
chair of the masters of arts in education and reading
specialist programs, presented “Today’s Multiliterate
Students: Exploring the Communication and Assessment
Possibilities in a Critical Multiliteracies Primary
Classroom” at the National Council of Teachers of
English (NCTE) national conference in Chicago in
November. Silvers also presented “Critical Inquiry
in a Primary Multiliteracies Classroom” at the annual
statewide conference for Teachers of Linguistically and
Culturally Diverse Students in Oak Brook, IL, in December.
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CLASS NEWS
You always belong to the
Dominican University community.
Class News provides all alumnae/i of
Dominican University with an opportunity
to share news and celebrate important life
events. Class News is prepared through the
Office of Alumnae/i Relations in cooperation
with class agents. If you would like to be
a class agent, have news to report or have
questions, please contact our office by
email at [email protected], by phone at
(708) 524-6286, by fax at (708) 366-4197
or by mail at Office of Alumnae/i Relations,
Dominican University, 7900 West Division
Street, River Forest, IL 60305. Due to privacy
reasons we do not publish mailing addresses
for your class agent(s). For questions or
contact information, please contact our office.
Please note: the magazine cannot publish
pregnancy and engagement announcements.
Class News items are submitted by alumnae/i
and do not represent positions, policies or
opinions of the Office of Alumnae/i Relations,
or Dominican University.
The class news published in this edition was
collected before November 15, 2011. News
submitted after November 15, 2011, will
appear in the next edition of the magazine,
Fall 2012. Thanks for sharing your news!
CLASS NEWS
1943
Dear Classmates,
As I write this, Dominican University continues
to bustle with activities. The soccer field has
been redone and the men’s soccer team recently
made it to the first round of the NCAA Division
III championships. This was their 10th
consecutive year in the championships.
My daughter and I attended Dominican’s President’s
Circle Dinner in Parmer Hall in October. The program
allowed attendees a choice of three sessions
focused on global citizenship experiences. We
attended a thought-provoking session on global
and local trafficking. I also participated in the
annual Memorial Mass on November 6; I carried
an icon of St. Martin de Porres in the procession.
More than 300 people attended this beautiful
service, which was followed by brunch in the
Dining and Social Halls. It was a lovely celebration.
I keep in touch with Adrienne Allen, as she lives
close by. Adrienne is an active member of the 19th
Century Club in Oak Park. Every Monday, the club
holds a special program followed by a luncheon.
She recently ran into June Chiaramonte Powers
while lunching at Winberie’s in Oak Park. I also
had the pleasure of talking to Virginia Roman
Thomas recently; she is doing well, as is Doris
Boughton Hullihan, who has moved to the
Bethlehem Senior Home in LaGrange Park. She
lives close to her daughter and son, and often
enjoys walking to their homes for visits.
I’m looking forward to hearing more from you.
My prayers and blessings to you always.
–Penny Maggos Harvalis, class agent
1949
Dear friends of our “salad days,”
Save the Date for
Alumnae/i Weekend!
Formerly known as Reunion, this
annual event will bring together
alumnae/i of many generations,
including special celebrations
for classes ending in 2 and 7 and
all alumnae/i who attended the
Fribourg Program. Be sure to save
June 8-10, 2012, for a weekend of
reconnecting with your classmates.
To view the schedule of events,
register online and see which of
your classmates will be attending,
go to dom.edu/aw2012.
Are you receiving our
monthly e-newsletter?
Send your email address to us at
[email protected] so you can stay
in the loop on upcoming events
and university news.
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Now I know how the editors of the Rosarian
(and, even the Ragarian…the underground
publication, remember?) felt as the deadline
for news approached. This Dominican class
agent has been pressing her nose against the
windowpane looking for the mail carrier to arrive
with news of your doings. Now come on, ’49ers,
let’s hear from each other while we can still string
some verbs and nouns together.
beloved Jim and her own cardiac problems.
Grandchildren and good helpers are there to assist
her and she is thankful for her wonderful memories
of Rosary. Amen to that!
Rose Brady Sullivan, another faithful alum pen pal,
writes to us from California. She continues to rave
about her ever-so-helpful neighbors whom she
depends upon rather than “Life Alert.” She
mentioned her family in our last issue. Rose, how
about taking a detour enroute to see those three
sons in Reno, San Diego and Atlanta and come see
River Forest once again? Let’s revive some special
memories of our theatre and speech major days
together! “Break a leg!”
Another ever-so-faithful alum, our own Anna
Marie Garippo Sciaraffa, remains close to alma
mater Rosary and is busy as usual enjoying a
book discussion group at St. Giles. She also
enjoys visiting a granddaughter, a Dominican
University student who lives at the Priory Campus,
and attending programs at the Siena Center. She
sees other alums at Jewel and Dominick’s plus the
yearly ’49er luncheon gatherings (did you know that
our old faithful class has met for lunch every year
since graduation?!). Anna Marie also has traveled
to Florida, where she met Pat O’Donnell Wadden,
Marilyn Donne Myers, Phyllis Calabrese Heckman
’47, Nancy MacDonald Pressney ’48 and Lois
MacDonald Simms ’51. Family, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren keep her going. I would die
for her metabolism and energy level. Keep going,
Anna Marie!
Barb Curley reports, “Sr. Jean Murray, OP, and
Dot Cormack came for lunch in our new Milwaukee
high-rise senior residence. We went on and on with
happy and funny memories of past days till we were
breathless.”
Marguerite Kuhn Kowaleski writes of volunteering
in the welfare rights office in Pontiac, MI, trying
to help poor people navigate the system to get
some financial help. “With Michigan having one
of the highest unemployment rates in the country
and our new governor approving the harshest
changes in the country for people trying to get help
with utility shutoffs, their rent, etc., it’s a kind of
nightmare. But I keep going. All that indoctrination
at Rosary about using your talents, helping others,
etc., wasn’t for naught! Greetings to all my fellow
classmates.”
I’m fine and enjoying a busy retirement at the
Mound, having left teaching and counseling
seven years ago. We all have so much to be
thankful for and to realize that we have more
years behind us than ahead. I’m so grateful to
Rosary for a wonderful education, great memories
and that legacy of Caritas Veritas to carry with us.
OK folks, you have your homework due for the
next issue or the “curse of that wild Englishman
Cromwell” will befall you!
Blessings and a wonderful surprise to hear from
Virginia Nausedas, who left us in 1947 to join the
U.S. Navy Hospital Corps for four years. She
continued on to a foods and nutrition program at
the University of Illinois, then a dietetic internship
in Milwaukee. Now retired, she lives in Aurora at
the Supportive Living Institution. She remains ever
so grateful for all those good years. Surprise us
again, Virginia.
In response to my news about my move, Jean
Holmberg Brokamp called to say she has put her
250-year-old home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of
Virginia on the market. Although she knows it will
take a certain buyer for such an historic house, she
is hopeful and has signed up for an apartment in an
assisted living building in the area. She listed all
the amenities offered including memory care.
“And you know what that’s all about,” she
added, laughing. Her family is “all over the
place—Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Virginia.”
Char O’Connor Berens wonders how many ’49ers
are still with us. We’ll have to do a head count and
send that info on. She reminded us that she is “60
years old with 23 years of experience.” How’s that
for dancing around our age?! She remains grateful
to God and feels so blessed, despite the loss of her
–Sr. Cleo “Mark” O’Loughlin, OP, class agent
1950
Joan Skogg Kaster, who lives in Savannah, GA,
has been on the wedding circuit this year with a
grandson marrying in Charleston, SC, and another
in Chatham, MA. The young men, both 29, are
cousins. The South Carolina wedding united two
Marine Corps officers: Ray Kaster, a captain who
has served two tours in Iraq, and his bride, a
second lieutenant, who is currently on her second
tour in Afghanistan. Joan has 15 grandchildren,
ranging in age from 6 years to 29. She and her
husband also spent two weeks in Spain this year in
a villa north of Barcelona.
Sue Parr Happel, at most recent count, has 41
grandchildren. She had a nasty bout of inner ear
benign vertigo, which left things upside down and
dancing. Thankfully, she is almost back to normal
except for “listing to the left” when she walks. She
corresponds with a man on death row in Alabama,
who is hoping for a new trial. He prays for Sue and
her family.
Ellen Sleeter Engelke called from San Antonio
and confirmed the news about the devastating
drought and fires last year in Texas. Peggy Welch
Meek called to say “hello” to classmates and told
me when someone asks how her husband is
these days, he says, “medium,” which is much
more accurate many days at our age than the
customary “fine.”
Sr. Catherine Meyering, OP, celebrated her 65th
anniversary of graduation with classmates from
Trinity High School. “How different our world was
in 1946,” she says. I wonder how many of you had
similar gatherings. I had lunch with six former
classmates from a class of 28 from Holy Child High
School in Waukegan. Catherine sends blessings to
Rosary classmates.
Also saying hello are Sr. Clemente (Marge) Davlin, OP,
Katie Flood Lane, Florence Heid Badger and
Virginia Kott.
I have joined a book review/lunch club and was
interested to see the next reviewer will be Denise
Riley Philpot.
–Virginia Lyons Mullery, class agent
1951
Word from the celebrating class of ’51 at the June
3-5, 2011, reunion has it that, though fewer in
number than in previous years, the warmth of
memories and joy at reconnecting with old
classmates was palpable. Four of the celebrants
arrived on Friday and spent the weekend together
in the dorm. Jean Cinelli Harmon, Blanche Foley
Antonello, Jacquelyn Kane Lamberty (accompanied
by a daughter-in-law), and Lois MacDonald Simms
came for the presentations and Friday evening
gathering and supper. They were joined by Sr. Jean
McSweeney, OP, who stayed overnight in the
convent. On Saturday, the rest of the celebrants
arrived, some earlier to hear President Donna
Carroll’s talk, and others later to attend the
Rosarian luncheon in the Silveri Atrium of Parmer
Hall for classes 1936-1956, followed by class
photos. Joyfully, we welcomed Therese Dunne
Pawlowski, Dorothy Haley Ogdon, Catherine
Karmazin Nebel, Barbara Kelly, Joan Lawley Dunne,
Winifred Maher Strueber, Barbara Mullenbach
Trinka, Irene Pawlowski Park, and Catherine Smith
Malec. Some stayed for the always-moving
Eucharistic liturgy in the reconfigured Rosary
Chapel. Before the end of the Mass, the 25th and
50th year classes received their silver or gold class
pins along with the prayer of blessing from the
congregants. Later, Florence Phelan Higgins and
her husband arrived for the cocktail reception and
reunion dinner. Sunday morning found the four of
us at the memorial prayer service on the cloister
walk, where the names of all the deceased
members of the reunion classes were read aloud.
The weekend concluded with a scrumptious
brunch. All of you were remembered and missed.
Ginny Stuart Goldkamp sent a lovely note
extending warm regards to all from her home in
Seattle, WA. She happily has seven of her eight
children living nearby, though one son lives in
Michigan. Peggy Stoeckinger Tieman sent an email
saying she would love to come but logistics getting
from Dayton, OH, were too difficult at this stage.
Margaret Carteaux Yuska remarked in her email
that her children came week by week to visit all
summer and all planned to come back in July for
their annual reunion. Margaret had double knee
replacement surgery earlier in the year and had a
difficult rehab but felt well enough to travel to
Oregon and Washington for two weeks at the end
of August to visit her children and their families.
Margaret McGivern Joynt wrote to say that her
husband, Bob, had health problems most of last
year but now was well enough to resume working
three days a week. She expressed her pride in our
alma mater and in all that President Carroll has
been able to accomplish. (From my recent trips to
Rosary, I gather there are still bigger and better
plans to come for Dominican!) Conversations with
Patricia Sweeney Trausch confirmed that she is still
traveling to Arizona and California to visit children
and grandchildren. She was unable to attend
Reunion because of conflicts with her
grandchildren’s schedules. However, Pat did spend
part of the summer at her cottage at Legend Lake,
WI. She brought us up-to-date on Anita Webster
Williams and Joanne Hipelius Raschke. Anita is
now a widow living in the Bronx, NY, and has one
son, who is married with two young sons, working
in the information technology business. Joanne’s
husband, Ken, is a retired plant manager from
Western Electric. They have four daughters, still
reside in Winston-Salem, NC, and travel extensively.
Blanche Foley Antonello had surgery over the
summer and elected to stay in the Chicago area
for follow-up medical care until after Christmas.
Having lost both her sister and then her husband
last year, being with family here must be
extremely comforting. Jackie Kane Lamberty
had hip replacement surgery last year, followed
by a whole host of subsequent infections and
illnesses, but she was doing well by the time of
reunion. Mary Conrad Berling has her problems,
too, among which are weakening eyesight, which
prohibits driving and keeps her homebound.
I have been able to keep to my regularly scheduled
sojourn in Florida during the winter months and
frequently see Marilyn Donne Myers ’49 and
sometimes play duplicate bridge with Pat O’Donnell
Wadden ’49. When Anna Marie Garippo Sciaraffa
’49 came to West Palm Beach in January 2010 and
2011 for a two-week visit, she came with Phyllis
Calabrese Heckman ‘47 and Nancy MacDonald
Pressney ’48, and Pat and I met them for dinner.
When I was a freshman at Rosary, Nancy was a
senior, and I always had it in mind that I wanted
to meet my fellow clansman. It only took 62 years
to accomplish! I traveled to Reston, VA, in July
to play duplicate bridge in the Northern Virginia
tournament and while there spent a couple of
days with my cousin, Margo, in Gainesville. In
September, I went to Milwaukee to attend the Clan
MacDonald annual general meeting. Irish Fest was
being celebrated there at the same time and I was
able to attend my first rock concert—played by the
Red Hot Chilli PIPERS. I have not experienced any
foreign travel since my cruise from Buenos Aires,
Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, in 2009, but one is
in the offing! Stay tuned and in the meantime, let
me know how you are, where you have gone or
what you are doing. Send your news to
[email protected].
–Lois MacDonald Simms, class agent
1956
Small but mighty was the contingent at Reunion
2011. Six of us, Cathleen “Terry” Muraine Bashus,
Barbara Parsons, Elizabeth “Betty” Harkins Kiltz,
Karen O’Shaughnessy Shanahan, Carol Honikel
Bohman, and Kay Penn Hawken spent the weekend
laughing, remembering and sharing events from
times past. Joining the group for lunch on Saturday
were Mary Kay Shanahan Kennedy, Suzanne
Teeuws Laundry MALS ’61, Carmella Vitullo
Albachiara, Rosalia Condon Ahern, Rosemary
Rio Moran, Ann Sweeney Sullivan, Betty Blum
Carr, Pat Sprafka Condon, Mary Therese O’Brien
McMahon, and Barbara Coffey Houda.
Terry Muraine remarked...“what a blessing it
was to gather with the few to share the joys and
challenges that have come our way” though we
missed the presence of so many friends who were
not able to attend. She marveled that the spirit
of Rosary College has continued through the
addition of so many great new programs and the
beautiful buildings of Dominican University. Back
in Omaha, Terry continues to stay active in parish
programs and ministries, along with volunteer
work with Friends of the Public Library. She
contends that if this keeps up, she may have
to retire from retirement.
Nancy Cunningham Toomey and her husband
vacationed on a trip home from a niece’s wedding
in Oregon, driving down the coast through the
redwoods, the California wine country and into
San Francisco before returning to Florida. Margaret
“Peg” Healy visited Venice, fulfilling a “bucket list”
desire. Since Peg was last there in 1957, she wanted
to see the city again before it slips into the sea.
Sally Love Gardiner has added another grandchild
to the family mix, making 10 for her, and two new
“grand-in-laws.” Joyce Riordan, Carol Anderson
Kraus, Ann O’Brien Gonski and Gayle Leonard
Sayles met again in September at Dominican
University to catch up on two years of news and to
reminisce about their time together at Fribourg
57 years ago. Last fall, Carol and two daughters
visited a granddaughter who is now studying in
Switzerland at the University of Fribourg. How’s
that for history repeating itself! Ann Fitzgibbon
Smith visited the Chicago area in June for a
family graduation and had lunch with Karen
O’Shaughnessy Shanahan and Virginia “Ginny”
Long Hagerty. Anne heard that Kay Penn Hawken
had moved to California and sent a thoughtful
“Welcome-to-California” email. Kay met with Anne
and Rose Margaret Gervaise for lunch in October.
Rose Margaret and Kay had not seen each other
since graduation, and Kay says, “...yes, I DID
recognize both of them at once!”
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CLASS NEWS
Prayers need to go out to Sr. Mary Woods, OP,
class agent for the class of 1945 (and former
Rosary/Dominican professor), who suffered a
stroke in September; to the family of Barbara
Flood Cassidy, who died recently, for Joan Adele
Scott whose health is deteriorating and for her
niece, Kathleen, who recently had surgery for a
faulty artery which caused two strokes. Sr. Patty
Caraher, OP, shares her pride in the order’s
International Community School in Decatur, GA,
which serves children from all over the world. She
says, “Never did I dream that in my later years I
would learn so much about the world, cultures,
religions and about other traditions as I have in the
past 10 years. In some way Rosary College paved
the way with students and sisters who opened
my eyes and heart to a wider world than River
Forest.” Nancy Hinton Keegan shared that her
son, Michael, his wife, Lise, and their four teenage
children (and three dogs) spent six weeks in two
motel rooms while a cleaning crew, painters and
insurance adjusters made their home habitable
again following the Texas wildfires. Pat Bach Steele
keeps busy with the Perpetual Adoration choir,
frequent daily Mass, acting as Eucharist minister,
her RCIA friend and her family. She enjoyed having
her daughter, Mary, and her girls (Noelle and Maia)
from Australia stay for six weeks over the summer.
She also gets to see grandsons, Arthur and Dan.
Pat continues to raise funds for the Veterans’
Memorial Park.
Love you all and we keep you in our prayers and
thoughts.
–Kay Penn Hawken and Pat Bach Steele, class agents
1958
BELIEVE IT. We are truly living in another century,
judging by the top five majors of the Class of 2011:
business administration, psychology, apparel
merchandising, nutrition and dietetics, accounting.
Now think back about the top five majors we
chose in 1958: English, history, sociology, home
economics, American studies/speech (tie). And,
following up on the broadened view the present
demands and a university must take, global
citizenship joins the other three academic priorities
of interdisciplinary studies, civic engagement, and
research and scholarship at Dominican. Each issue
of this magazine gives concrete examples of those
four pillars of Dominican’s strength and scope as a
community and world changer. Pull up the website:
among other categories of information it makes
us aware of all campus activities and invites us to
participate as if we had never left. Another reality
check: Donna Carroll, president for 18 years, has
had a front row seat in overseeing the development
of our alma mater as a university well positioned for
meeting the challenges of these times.
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We may have been nurtured in the 20th century
and are currently retired, but we are busy. Nancy
Baumgart Deters gets the prize for expressing
her views in 87 letters published, so far, to the
newspaper in Effingham, IL. Mostly that’s due to
her social worker conscience speaking out against
injustices. Over the past two years, Evy Jegen, rc,
provincial of the North American Province of the
Sisters of the Cenacle has been on the go fulfilling
her responsibility to meet every one of the 117
sisters and decide where each will live and serve.
Then she was off to the general chapter in Rome,
consulting with representatives from six countries
and Africa. Evy is based at the Cenacle House in
the Lincoln Park area of Chicago. Angela Pierri
Thennisch shared news about her recent trip to
the Holy Land. Judy Bruss Weaver, as usual, sent
lots of news about her trip to Ecuador, the Amazon
jungle and a boat cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
She is looking forward to our 2018 reunion,
admonishing us, “don’t forget!” Mary Jeanne
Weigel Platt was remembered by her family,
including daughters Jeanne Platt ’92 and Mary
Anne Platt Omelka ’88, at a special gathering
during Dominican University’s annual Memorial
Mass on November 6. Mary Pat Hennigan Cizmar,
Nancy Smallwood Doran and I attended the annual
Rosarian Luncheon during the traditional Reunion
weekend last June. You do know, don’t you, that
all post 50-year reunion alums are welcome, so do
consider a most enjoyable opportunity to get back
on campus and catch up with other classmates.
Keep your news coming in. This space is for you.
–Donna Smietana Joy, class agent
1960
Hi everyone,
A good way to know what’s happening at
Dominican is to the website: dom.edu. Just
recently, we were informed that Reunion weekend
is now Alumnae/i Weekend and all graduates are
welcome. This might be a wonderful opportunity
for us to gather our classmates and attend some of
the events the weekend of June 8-10, 2012.
I spoke with Mary Markley Moriarty and she and
her husband, Frank, were anticipating their 50th
wedding anniversary on November 11, 2011. The
family had an early celebration in October when
all of them could attend.
Judy Cannon Bedore had spoken to me about
her mom who had broken a hip and was now
recuperating. Judy was concerned because the
healing was progressing slowly.
Our class representative for Alvernia High School
in Chicago arranged for a dinner to celebrate our
55th year since graduation. Betty Banas Cella and I
attended and were happy to see so many of our
classmates active and well.
In the last letter to you, I had written that we visited
our son and family in Joplin, MO. We returned in July
2011, and saw the devastation that the May 22
tornado had caused. My parish in LaGrange, IL,
responded to that disaster and collected $10,000 to
help the Joplin community recover. The weather in
2011 has certainly been volatile, and I hope all of
you have been safe and well.
Jeanne Platt ’92, Mary Jeanne Weigel Platt, Mary
Anne Platt Omelka ’88 and Mildred “Perky”
Hamilton Loversky at Reunion 2008.
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–Jo Scaccia Maday, class agent
1962
50th Reunion, June 8-10, 2012
Your class agent has clearly fallen off the job.
But, as many of you know, Mary Beth Vender
Vennett Tallon has been phoning, updating
contact information and learning the news. We
hope to confer shortly and send out a letter with
the news we have permission to print.
Please keep Nancy Bondi James and her family
in your prayers. We learned that her husband,
Phillip, died in November.
This year we will also encourage one and all to
join us at the 50th reunion. A few classmates
have already written suggestions or expressed a
willingness to help. We will call you. The whole
exercise should be fun even for those who have not
been near Dominican University since graduation
from Rosary College. In my experience most of us
have gotten more open, mellower and generally
more relaxed about life since 1962. The benefits
of age.
Meanwhile, help Mary Beth finish our email list.
If you are not in her data bank already, send your
information to [email protected].
Otherwise, you can send news and questions to
the office at DU ([email protected]), to Mary Beth
or to me at [email protected].
–Elizabeth “Eliz” Freidheim, class agent
1963
This is, of course, the year we turned 70 and we
are still going strong! Beth Linskey published a
cookbook this past spring and in addition to her
business schedule, she has been doing book
signings and cooking demos around New York
City. She appeared at the New York Public Library,
the YWCA, the New York Horticultural Society,
and the Princeton Club. Beth also reports she
appeared on the “Faith Middleton Show” on
WNPR in Connecticut. All of these appearances
have reduced her fear of public speaking, she says.
Order her cookbook or her jams and goodies at
www.BethsFarmKitchen.com.
Helen McCauslin just had one of her photographs
accepted into a juried art show at the Midwest
Museum of American Art in Elkhart, IN.
Judy Jedlicka Koubek is busy in a different way:
her daughter is a high school junior and Judy is
busy with college plans and tours. Judy writes that
things are so different now but in many ways many
of the questions are familiar ones: small college
or large? Near home or far away? Let’s hope she is
considering Dominican! Worth a trip for sure. Judy
and her husband are retired but husband, Luke,
is doing substitute teaching in the Princeton, NJ,
schools and loves it. Judy will be celebrating the
“big 70 with a trip to the Bahamas.” She lived in
the Bahamas for many years and is returning to
celebrate with old friends there.
Seventy seems to be a good time to celebrate
with old friends. Susan Sobey Druffel came to
Albuquerque for her 70th celebration with her
sister, Carol. We saw stunningly beautiful scenery,
lots of great art work and ate many fabulous meals.
Judy, you may want to contact Pat Brinck Parr whose
granddaughter is a junior at Dominican. Elizabeth
Mackel will graduate in 2013, the year of our 50th
Reunion. Pat is the supervisor of teacher education
for the Graduate School of Education, University
of California, Riverside. Pat and her husband,
James, a distinguished professor of Hispanic
studies, have directed the UCR summer session
program in Madrid for six years. Pat initiated the
world languages program at UCR and now has
credentialed candidates in Spanish and all of her
language graduates have jobs. Pat notes that she
and Jim stay busy with work, their daughters and
six grandchildren.
Another busy Spanish major is Debbie Hegberg
Heer, who writes that when she retired in 2005,
she decided to spend her time with the things she
has passion for: foreign languages and culture,
and jazz. Debbie has visited Greece, Italy, Hawaii,
Mexico, Chile and Argentina. In 2011, she again
served as an interpreter for the directors at the
two-week Chicago Latino Film Festival. In May
2011, she hosted friends from France. Debbie
says it was all delightful “but my brain was ‘fried’
after speaking French for three weeks.” In August
2011, Debbie served as the flight chaperone for
21 American students going to Argentina for a
year’s exchange through AFS. She was able to
spend 10 days in Argentina, visiting Iguazu Falls
in the East, Mendoza wine country in the West
and Buenos Aires for five days. She stayed three
days with city residents through the program
called Servas. Debbie writes she hosts a weekly
Spanish conversation group at her home in Oak
Park, and every month she writes an newsletter
for the Illiana Jazz Club, which holds a monthly
concert with outstanding jazz musicians. She also
does their website: www.illianajazz.com. On a sad
note, Debbie writes that her first grandchild, Isabel
Arianna, born in June 2011, was diagnosed with
spinal muscular atrophy type I, which means this
child will most likely not live beyond three years
and might die long before. Debbie’s daughter
and her husband now must feed the baby with a
feeding tube and monitor her oxygen levels. Debbie
writes that this illness does not affect the brain; her
granddaughter is very intelligent, very “chatty” and
smiles all the time.
Good works are, of course, a hallmark of a
Dominican education and our classmates continue
to practice the corporal works of mercy. Martha
Amen Daly volunteers as a “torchlighter” during
the United Way campaign, representing the St.
Louis, MO, chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Her best friend, Marie, was diagnosed 11 years ago
at age 55, and Martha is telling “Marie’s story.”
Martha writes that Marie has been in a nursing
home for five years, but was an amazing inspiration
via media interviews while she was still able.
Like so many of our classmates, Martha has been
traveling. She just returned from two weeks in Italy,
having a great time in Rome, Florence, Tuscany and
Sorrento. Martha also plays as much golf as she
can, and volunteers in the campaign of a friend who
is running for re-election as a state representative.
And, like so many of you, she is a grandmother. She
loves spending time with her daughter, son-in-law
and three grandchildren.
Also volunteering, teaching and grandparenting
is Kathy Markley Scruggs. In commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, she
volunteered with HasNa, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group and spent three weeks in Diyarbakir,
Turkey, teaching English to nongovernmental
organization workers. Diyarbakir, with third-century
walls encircling the old city, is on the Tigris River
in southeastern Turkey. The students were Kurdish
Turks. Kathy and a Peace Corps buddy stayed in the
homes of their adult students. The students quickly
adapted to the interactive teaching styles and
progressed in fluency even in the short time period.
Kathy writes she enjoyed sightseeing with them on
the weekends, especially their visit to Sanliurfa,
believed to be the birthplace of the prophet
Abraham, on the Euphrates River. Kathy learned
much about the high rate of poverty in Diyarbakir
due mostly to forced in-migration, and the limited
minority rights of her students. Kathy is ready to go
again, but not this year, since she and husband,
Max, are the daily babysitters for their beloved
2-year-old grandson.
Marianne Brabec Powers continues her volunteer
work at two California lighthouses. Marianne
also spends time with her growing family—two
granddaughters and six grandsons in a row with
a seventh on the way. She writes of an interesting
visit with Norinne Barrett Shively ’50 and Joan
Janda Belza ’49. Joan was in the first Fribourg class
after WWII. Wouldn’t you love to hear her stories of
Fribourg?
Pat Lane sends news of the volunteer efforts of
her daughter, Laura, to raise money to fight MS.
Since Laura’s diagnosis 15 years ago, she has
made it her personal goal to do all she can to
raise money to fight MS. She decided “to take the
fundraising up a notch” by combining her passion
for scrapbooking with her fundraising efforts. Laura
envisioned a day-long event which would bring
people together to scrapbook while raising money
for a worthy cause at the same time. “Crop for a
Cause, Making MS Just a Memory” was born. More
than 200 people attended the initial event, which
also included a silent auction, a buffet dinner and
sweets table, and door prizes. “Bargain Babes”
manned the bargain area, which sold donated
scrapbooking and craft supplies. The event has
sold out every year. Congratulations, Laura and Pat.
So much hard work and so much good work.
Another busy classmate is Mary Ann McAllister
deTrana who writes from Richmond, VA, where
she has lived for 37 years. She recently added a
studio to her home “so that I may teach classes in
the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education
and Bones For Life®.” Mary Ann also added a
guesthouse, and welcomes guests who wish to
come for a rest which she calls “Healing Sabbath.”
Her business has a wonderfully wise name: “Go
Gently.” Mary Ann has three sons. The youngest
lives in Tennessee and has two daughters, so
Mary Ann, too, is a grandmother. Another son will
graduate as a registered nurse in Phoenix in 2011,
and the third son lives in St. Petersburg, Russia,
where he studies Russian.
Each of you wrote that you feel blessed and
grateful, and your stories are inspiring. If you want
to share your news, write to me. Remember there
are about 40 of us emailing and there is a Facebook
page for the class of 1963—call or email the
alumnae/i office for the contact information. Send
me an email and I will get you on the group email
list. And start making plans to attend our 50th in
June 2013. Caritas et Veritas.
–Susan M. Flynn, class agent
Dear friends,
1964
By the time you read this it will be spring 2012—
barely two years until our 50th! As we lose some
good friends, it becomes even more important to
celebrate with those special people who shared
those life-changing years at Rosary. Our numbers
will decrease and, with each loss, another voice is
gone. We now have only memories of Annabelle
“Nippy” Lisic.
Joann Casciato Hillebrand also had sad news—
“My husband, John, passed away on August 10.
He received a kidney from our daughter, Angela,
everything was going well until he contacted the
blood infection, sepsis, and he died in 24 hours.
Quite a shock! We had planned a New Year’s cruise
for the entire family (thinking positively) and we are
going ahead with our plans, John would want that.”
Joanne is still treasurer general of the World Union
of Catholic Women’s Organizations, “We meet
annually, usually in Rome, Italy. It has been
a wonderful experience meeting, working and
praying with women from all over the world.”
Ann Elliot-Holmes reported another loss, Judy
Schenk Fierke’s husband, Bill. Ann also sees Silvia
Hajek Jorgensen, who was excited about the birth
of her first grandbaby—Samantha. Silvia spends
most of her time now in Altus, OK, taking care of
Samantha while daughter, Lisa, is at work training
pilots at the Air Force base (son-in-law, Colt, is on
another assignment in Alabama). Every few weeks
Silvia drives up to Oklahoma City to stay with her
older daughter, Kari, who is a nurse in the hospital
there. Ann also reports, “Coincidental to the OK
City connection, Nancy Burke Grivel’s daughter,
Micheline, husband, Olivier, and son, Noé, spent a
few days with us in Cambridge during the summer.
I talked with Nancy in August. She sounds terrific,
teaching English in her home, mountain biking
and traveling to France and Lake Como. Peter and
I are fine, busy with house projects and activities
on the home front, singing in the community
chorus, tutoring at the local high school,
teaching conversational French, going to our
goddaughter’s soccer matches. We’re grateful
for healthy, if a bit creaky, lives and enjoy
connecting with friends and classmates.”
Joan Canale Szuberla is looking forward to our
2014 reunion!! She was honored in Best Lawyers in
America for 2011. That inclusion has been repeated
for 2012 and she is going to be included in the
Ohio publication Ohio Super Lawyers 2012 (areas
are civil rights/first amendment; employment
and labor law; and civil litigation defense). Only
5 percent of Ohio lawyers are included. Kudos
to Joan! On the family front: “my younger son,
Nicholas, married a lovely French woman in the
summer of 2010. Members of Celine’s family and
friends were with us at the Canale family reunion in
Memphis last July. It was great fun. We look forward
to visits to France. Nick is a media artist and works
nationally, mostly with nonprofits. Our older son,
Michael, is director of Toledo Grows, an outreach
program that sponsors neighborhood parks that
grow vegetables, gives programs on nutrition,
gardening and related things for young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds. Toledo Grows has
been very successful, and Michael has received
national recognition for some of his innovative
programs. Guy and I are grateful for our kids and
how life in general has treated us...in the midst of
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such difficult times for so many in our country
and around the world.”
Apologies to Jeanette Nelson Fisher—husband,
Greg, is fine!
Through my 5W group I have 30 Aussie and EU
members coming to see Chicago in early June
2012. If you would like to meet some fascinating
women drop me a line at [email protected].
In the meantime, drop in at the lake anytime.
Hugs to all,
–Mary McGough Schultze MALS ’70, class agent
1965
As I write this we’re coming up on the first
anniversary of Steve’s stroke in Tunisia and the
date when he has his driving test to prove that he
can drive left footed. After chemo for bladder
cancer in January 2011, I’ve had three clear
quarterly checkups. Tootsie, the bossy terrier,
seems to have recovered completely from her
collision with the fire truck in April; Roxie met up
with a skunk more than a month ago and still
smells funny when it rains. We still managed to get
to the Outer Banks in June with my sister, Ann, and
her family. After losing her teaching job, she has
undertaken to study for the priesthood.
I put her in touch with Sheila Durkin Dierks, who
writes that second son, Brian, has joined Doctors
Without Borders, and is on a four-month project in
China, working with problems of hypertension and
diabetes among the people of the towns around
Donglan. Sheila was embarking on “a new
adventure in grandmothering; I am taking our
oldest grandchild, Lucy, 7, to Africa in the winter to
see big animals!”
Chris Camacho Santoyo sent along these thoughts
to share: “We seem to be strong in will and in our
personal ambitions and goals—albeit getting a bit
weaker in our bodies as we age. I seem to be doing
okay physically even though I have an inflammatory
arthropathy (as the doctor calls it). I call it
rheumatism (as my grandmother called it). Another
modern term is fibromyalgia, all due to a lot of
stress and long hours of work.”
Her husband, Raul, is not doing well at all. His
pulmonary fibrosis has worsened. Chris fears that
she will have to leave her day job as a counselor in
a private school to take care of him. She hopes to
continue her private counseling as her office is
three minutes from her home. That way, she says, “I
can keep up the job I love most—counseling
married couples and families.” If she does retire,
she’s thinking of entering a contemplative order of
Benedictines where she’d spend the rest of her life
in prayer and cooking for the convent. “I already
have an open invitation in the monastery where we
are Benedictine Oblates outside of Mexico City. Not
a bad offer.”
Kash Creadon Sullivan continues to have her health
problems too. She’s working on strengthening
back and knee muscles and asks for prayers for
continuity and perseverance with those exercises.
Still not one to sit home, she bought a walker with
a seat (red) and rented a snazzy (as much as that
is possible) wheel chair (red) so she can join her
sisters and friend on fun outings. When she wrote,
she was taking her Mustang convertible (red) out
of storage for a glorious summer. “I had the most
wonderful day last July. The incoming president of
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The Law Council of Australia (the mandatory bar
for Aussie lawyers) came to Chicago and presented
me with a beautiful and, I was told, rarely given
plaque, plus the most heartwarming letter thanking
me for the work I have done in fostering relations
between the members of the U.S. and Aussie legal
profession. I had tears in my eyes throughout the
reading as did others. I have to believe I am in
God’s hands and on a path He has chosen for me.
So, again, please keep those prayers coming!”
Maria Tsinonis Stavrakos is retired at last as
husband, Harry’s, office manager and is thrilled
with all her playtime. Favorite trip of the year was
a week in Paris in early August. She spent it in a
friend’s apartment with her daughter and sister.
Lots of visits to old haunts, including “a return to a
favorite restaurant where we had celebrated our
daughter’s 16th birthday. The maitre d’ was so
delighted we came back that he bought us
champagne.” Next up? Back to school, this time
at the local community college.
Maureen McMahon Hibbott and Richard enjoyed a
two-month USA road trip in June and July, which
included Maureen’s 50th high school reunion, a
visit with Roger and Chon Schwope Wilson in
Sheridan, WY, and lunch in Virginia with Carol
Andrews Burger, who (Maureen avows) looks just
the same now. “In August, we had our two NYC
grandchildren for half the month, went to northern
France early in September, and I spent a week in
London with our two UK-based daughters and their
three boys whilst Richard drove the ‘tour vehicle’
for our three sons-in-law as they cycled over five of
the highest Tour de France Alps. The one sadness
about the cycling trip is that two days after he got
back to NYC, Gareth and family moved to Singapore
with his job.” So Maureen sees more trips going
east, recalling that “Richard and I met in Australia
in 1968 so we may well find this the excuse to go
back and see it again after an absence of 43 years.”
Diane Farr Knittle: “We added another grandchild,
born in June, Shea William Knittle. Our youngest
and last to be married, Mary Clare, was wed in
August to T.J. Cochran. Trips to Florida, the Cape,
Phoenix and Sedona in the next few months. I
continue volunteering at hospice and tutoring at
Nativity School, a private inner-city prep school. I
fondly think of the nice visit I had with Nancy Kuhn
Malling at our reunion and often wonder how life is
moving on for her.”
Judy Wenzel Andersen: “We were in Syria at the
beginning of the revolution in March. It was a
life-changing experience and left us with great
love for the Syrian people and great worry for their
well-being. Olaf and I spent the summer with our
new RV exploring a bit—Martha’s Vineyard, Vermont
and Cape Breton. We have five grandchildren and
spent a lot of time taking them out individually on
mystery trips—great fun! I continue to write a bit
and love it as much as gardening.”
Bev Jung Frazier: “Still living life in the paradise of
Naples, FL. God has given me good health, but
unfortunately a lousy golf swing. Cheers to all.”
Kim Regan continues her travels: Alaska, Hawaii,
50th high school reunion and Mom visit “when I
also got to spend two fabulous days with gracious
Monica Vogel Getzendanner in beautiful Chicago in
mid-September. Next up: Portland to celebrate my
baby’s 40th birthday and babysit the grandkids so
Sheila and Steve can escape to a resort, then off to
Morocco for two and one-half weeks, which will
include a few nights in Paris. Recently I finished
the king-sized quilt for Sheila’s birthday. Each of
my three got one to mark their 40th. That’s the
real fun besides travel. I may now begin on one
for Dan and me.”
Barb White Wols can’t get enough of her 10 grandkids,
who now range in age from the twins at 22 months
to 13 years. The whole family is consumed with
cheerleading, sports, dance competitions and
recitals. Besides, they like to get together just for
fun. When she wrote, they were babysitting for two
grandsons while a daughter and son-in-law were
abroad for 10 days. Barb is still woodworking and
trying to make something special for each
grandchild. She and her husband still found time
for two weeks in Maui in February and were
planning a trip to the Holy Land in November with
a group from their former parish in Plainfield, IL.
Carol Andrews Burger reported on a very busy 2010
spring and summer. “Jim and I enjoyed a wonderful
17-day trip to Spain in May. We spent seven days in
Santiago de Compostela and even walked part of el
Camino de Santiago. We visited Madrid and Barcelona,
but the best part was our stay at a parador in the
Pyrenees.” Among several weddings, there was the
garden, overflowing with vegetables, which led to
canning and freezing and making jam from their
blackberries and pears. Generations were meeting
to celebrate her mother’s 90th birthday and their
newest addition, Helen’s, first birthday in mid-October.
Fachon Schwope Wilson recalled her “Rosary”
highlight of the summer—a visit from the peripatetic
Hibbotts in early July. Two grandsons spent 10
weeks of summer in Sheridan. “They are great kids,
and we really enjoyed them, but I think by the end
of summer they were just as glad as we were to get
back to normal.” While Chon “grandma’ed,” Roger
made several long-range canoe trips and camped
with son, Chris’s, boys in the Sierras. Chon adds
that she’s working on a photo album project of old
family photos for her sisters and brother. “My mom
(94) is in a nursing home and her lovely home and
family photos have been scattered. I guess a lot of
us are facing this with our parents.” (Since this
letter, Chon sent a note that her mom had died in
their native Wyoming, closing a full life of major
accomplishments.)
1967
45th reunion June 8-10, 2012
Margaret Hunt graciously opened her New York
City abode to Elizabeth McGrath and her husband,
Nick Bizony, last October. Elizabeth’s cousins from
Northern Ireland were visiting the Big Apple and
Margaret’s generosity allowed them to be squired
around town by Elizabeth and Nick.
I hope you are all making plans to attend our
45th reunion June 8-10, 2012!
–Elizabeth McGrath, class agent
1970
Karen Hausing Brown earned her doctorate in
education at Argosy University-Schaumburg. She
has worked for 41 years in Catholic high school
education as an English teacher and administrator.
Karen was the speaker for the Argosy’s graduation
ceremony at Hemmens Symphony Hall in October.
Karen writes, “I followed in the footsteps of Sr.
Jeanne Crapo, OP, who was my first-year college
composition instructor at Rosary. In my doctoral
research, I studied the differences in the
expectations of high school English teachers and
college composition instructors on college
readiness for writing.”
–Karen Ripley Stein, class agent
1975
In June 2011, Kate Coulihan Ficke MBA ’83 was
elected as recording secretary of Kappa Gamma
Pi, the national Catholic college graduate honor
society.
–Mary Alice Griesinger MBA ’94, class agent
1976
Karl Sirotzky entered Wartburg Theological
Seminary in Dubuque, IA, in September. Last
February, Karl was cast in a short film called
The Mourning Hour, which was released in the
fall of 2011.
Fran Haut Towle was watching snow gather on their
Montana mountains and packing for South Beach
when she wrote. During the summer she and Tom
took a wine distributor guided tour of Walla Walla,
WA, region wineries and a road trip to Lake Louise
and Jasper, Alberta, Canada. “Our children visited
in August. Grandsons Alex, 6, and Felix, 3, are such
fun. I enjoy gardening with our Montana natives as
well the other zone 4 plants. So different from my
three patio pots at the Florida condo.”
Patrice Cavallo-Stark performed again this season
as a supernumerary (translation: an extra) with
the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s highly acclaimed
production of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos.
She has supered seasonally at the Lyric since
1984. Brava!
Since they settled into their new home, Thom and
Mary Kay Horan Cooper have not sent along a lot of
news, but Mary Kay emails inspirational thoughts,
prayers and websites to help with healing.
Remembering all the health problems she and
Thom have contended with, it’s clear that they have
found a path to the brighter side of life.
Jean Ortega-Piron was recently appointed acting
director of the Illinois Department of Children
and Family Services (DCFS). Since 1996, Jean has
served as deputy director, guardian and advocacy,
acting as guardian for all children committed to
DCFS by Illinois’ juvenile courts. In that role, she
was instrumental in establishing the first-in-thenation memorandum of understanding between a
state child welfare agency and Mexico, and also
established a system for monitoring psychotropic
medications for state wards, described by the
Chicago Tribune as the “gold standard” in
the country.
So for all the classmates who think their lives are
too boring or not filled with enough good news,
know that we do wonder about you. I know some of
you are on Facebook. When posting, shoot a line to
me as well. Do we need a Facebook page for the
class? Volunteers?
–Mar Poelking Sclawy, class agent
–Mary Gallagher Banaszak, class agent
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Eva Klaus Bellinger continues her work as an ESL
tutor and sends news about her husband, James,
and their five children: “James is working on the
Ice Cube neutrino experiment. Charles is looking
for work in printing. He has overcome his Asperger’s
syndrome far enough to be employable full time,
if the economy will give him a chance. Nancy is
taking graphic design, Karen has overcome her
Asperger’s syndrome far enough to start culinary
arts at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Luke is
looking at colleges. Sandra is using her French at a
multinational company and has filed yet another
document in hopes of getting her Senegalese
husband to the U.S.” Eva herself is still recovering
from a bad fall that has limited her mobility.
James Bednarczyk’s son, Andrew, graduated from
Dominican University in December 2010. Daddy’s
very proud!
Sybil Leak Davis sends regards from Reston, VA,
and is working with the DU Alumnae/i Office to
track down her freshman roommate, Maxine Scott.
Marie Dirr von Ebers wrote in August, “So happy to
get a big hug today from Annie Van, I mean Ann
Van Hoomissen Bixby, in the midst of moving in
daughter, Jean, incoming freshman, DU Class of
2015. Third generation RoCo/DU—grandmother ,
daughter and now granddaughter!” Anne adds that
she had a “wonderful four days in Chicago moving
our daughter into her room in Coughlin, going to a
Cubs game and catching up with Chicago friends,
and enjoying the Parents Weekend activities at DU.
…The traditional elements that make (campus) so
gorgeous are still there and the improvements are
very impressive.”
I was glad to share hugs with Margaret Foy Shields,
up from St. Louis, this summer and to correspond
with her eldest daughter, Annie, who is an intern
and blogger for Ms. Magazine.
Nancy Greco proudly reports a Jeff Award
nomination for the Circle Theatre production of
The Women, in which she played the countess.
Anne Schurmann Klytta has been on the move.
“We put up our house in Palatine for sale, in
anticipation of my husband’s possible retirement
in June 2012, thinking it would take six months to a
year to sell—it sold in six weeks! So we are now
the proud owners of a house in Gurnee. Needless
to say, it has been a whirlwind of a summer and
start to the new school year, but thankfully, we are
pretty much settled now.”
Sr. Margaret “Peggy” Ryan, OP, wrote a piece in
November 2010 for the Sinsinawa Spectrum that
announced she had concluded seven years of
ministry in Bolivia and was now a bilingual social
worker at Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay,
WI. In addition, she is studying theology part time
at Marquette and participating in the vocation
ministry of the Milwaukee area.
Jeanne Sullivan Goss MALIS ’82 emails that
“several Rosary/Dominican alums connected on
Facebook for a chat with Helen Simonson on her
book Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. Martha Evans
Boyle ’78 organized it.”
Jim Twist used Facebook to organize a mini-reunion
at his house in Brookfield that included Lynn
Higgins (in from Florida), Bill Dicker and his wife,
SueEllen, up from Champaign, Rick Wilk, Gus
Simpson, plus classmates from 1980, Mike Hattie
and Linda Rohde.
Former Bead Rick Wilk reports, “I finished my
second season playing senior softball travelling
around the Midwest participating in softball
tournaments. Interspersed were some vigorous
backyard volleyball matches attended by a small
number of daring alums. Following the summer
season, I visited my 49th state when I travelled to
Alaska. There were bear, moose, seal and bald
eagle sightings and enough land to explore to last
a lifetime.”
The Washington State Bar Association (WSBA)
presented King County Superior Court Judge
Mary I. Yu with the 2011 Outstanding Judge of
the Year Award. She and a co-recipient were
recognized for their work in creating a Race and
Criminal Justice Task Force, which “presented
compelling data on disparate treatment effects
of criminal justice system practices on communities
of color, resulting in disproportionality of arrests,
severity of penalties imposed, and rates of
incarceration and recommendations for action
by the Supreme Court.” Mary adds that she will be
traveling to Cuba as part of a state bar delegation
and hopes to see (former Rosary housing director)
Kathie Shea in Miami on the way. Keep up the good
work, Mary!
Thanks to all who shared their news. Hope this
primes the pump for others (hint, hint).
–Hilary Ward Schnadt, class agent
1980
For those that I couldn’t reach by email (because I
don’t have it), 1980 classmate Zenza Brown Laws
MAEA ’99 passed away in September 2011. I
understand that her services were well attended by
those who loved and respected her. Zenza would
have felt honored. Sr. Clemente Davlin, OP ’50,
attended the funeral and reported that it was
stunningly beautiful. Sr. Clemente says there must
have been about 600 people there—relatives,
church members and a large number of her
students and colleagues. Zenza had deep faith, was
a marvelous teacher who believed in her students
and mentored new teachers.
On the more fun side of life: Mike Hattie completed
his annual trek to Alaska to see his son. He spent
his time hunting, dancing (it’s amazing what a
granddaughter can get you to do!) and proving that
he hasn’t lost his touch at changing diapers. Linda
Rosen Jacobs managed to miss the worst of the
spring/summer storms in Missouri, though her
neighbors weren’t as lucky. Carole Lambdin
Robertson MBA ’91 and her husband won a 10-day
trip to Scotland. They had a great time researching
her husband’s roots (he’s distantly related to Cliff
Robertson, the actor). Teri Brown Sadovsky’s son
just passed the Illinois bar exam. She’s not only
proud, but looking forward to his gainful
employment so that he can move out of her
basement! Mary Sue Denson Wysocki’s son got
married in October and Jane Cameron Allen
reconnected on Facebook with Kate Sullivan
Trongale and Martha Evans Boyle ’78. Kate’s out
in California, while Martha’s in Wisconsin. Does
anyone else remember Jane and Kate riding
shopping carts down the dorm hallways?
Don’t forget Reunion Weekend, June 8-10, 2012.
’77 and ’82 will be celebrating their 35th and 30th
reunions, respectively. It’s also been renamed
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“Alumnae/i Weekend,” as a way to encourage
us all to attend.
Don’t forget to send me your news!
–Linda Rohde, class agent
1981
The Class of 1981 has not had a class agent for
quite some time, so while assisting with the
planning of our 30th Reunion, I decided to have
another go at it. You may remember I had the same
role in the 1980s after our graduation. Send news
to our class email at [email protected]! You
can also find me on Facebook under Russina Rusev
Grady. Hopefully by the next edition of the
Dominican University Magazine our class will once
again be well represented with news.
I would like to start with a big THANK YOU to those
who attended Reunion Weekend. We had
classmates present each day of the weekend with
the largest number attending Mass and dinner on
Saturday night. Mark Siwek, who helped with the
planning, attended Friday. I had the pleasure of
sharing Saturday evening with Sandy Ambriz-Sava
and husband, Mark, Ray and Dolores Cruz Negrete,
Sue McLain Christensen and husband, John, Jean
Christensen and Mary Larkin, who flew in from
California to attend. Jeff Goldone ’80 and Larry
Regan ’80 were also there to celebrate with us. At
2 a.m. we realized we were the only class left, so we
called it a night! I’m sure I’ve missed a few names,
and that would give all of you a reason to write in
and share your thoughts.
Once again, please send in news to share: What
are you doing? Where have you been, and what
are your plans? I’m not going to do this alone, so
I’ll answer those questions next time when my
news can be included among yours.
–Russina Rusev Grady, class agent
1985
Greetings Class of 1985! All of us have had
interesting things going on in our lives that would
be great to share. Please take a moment to let us
know what is going on with your life.
I am still enjoying working in accounting, as a
consultant for Abacus Rex and the accountant for
the Autism Society of Illinois, among other projects.
As our sons are reaching adulthood, we are now
faced with the challenges in the area of adult
services for individuals with special needs. But
some recreation is squeezed in between all this.
We visited the Gulf Coast this summer and have
gone to a number of events at Dominican.
Marian Henley Liautaud published a book review
in Christianity Today magazine on Unnatural
Selection: Choosing Boys over Girls and the
Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara
Hvistendahl. From that, she is working on a
feature-length piece for Christianity Today
magazine expanding on the topic of “gendercide”
—the aborting and killing of girls in favor of boys,
and what Christians are doing to help turn the tide.
Karen Kaufmann Migaldi is finding her position as
assistant director of the Crystal Lake Library even
more challenging in these times of funding cuts and
new forms of technology.
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Mary Toczydlowski Cronin is a member of the
Harper College Steel Drum Band. One of their recent
performances included music from the 1980s!
Looking forward to hearing from the rest of
you soon!
–Lisa Chmela Grzywa, class agent
1989
Dear fellow classmates,
I hope 2011 has been a good year for all of you.
It certainly brought about changes for me. I left
Fenwick High School after teaching there for five
years and I am now the French teacher at Carl
Sandburg High School in Orland Park. It is quite a
hike for me to get there, but it is a good district and
I really like it there. I was also fortunate enough to
have won a summer scholar opportunity through
the National Endowment for the Humanities and
studied modern French theater for four weeks in
July in Avignon, France, with 15 other high school
teachers. It was during the Avignon Theater
Festival, and it was an experience of a lifetime.
As for my family, my daughter is now a sophomore,
and my son a senior in high school. Now all of
the college craziness has begun. My husband’s
daughter and her husband had a wonderful little
boy in March of 2010, so now we are grandparents
as well! It is a lot of fun, I just wish they lived a lot
closer. Here is what some of our other classmates
have been up to over the last year or so:
Ramiro J. Atristaín-Carrión spent a couple of weeks
in Southern France with his 8-year-old son. He says
he enjoyed the time there and the bread as well! He
is very proud that this is the fifth year anniversary
of the CLESF Foundation, which he co-founded
(www.clesf.org). In the last five years he has been
working hard to take an annual Medical Mission to
Mexico—a team of doctors to perform surgeries on
children with hemimelia, so they can save their
lower extremities from amputation. Ramiro received
Dominican University’s Hispanic Heritage Award at
the Eighth Annual Hispanic Heritage Reception on
October 14. He continues at BMO Harris Bank as
vice president of risk management and as adjunct
professor at DePaul University.
Elizabeth Braucher Parker has worked for the
last five years as a part-time member of the
administrative staff in a small high school in
Costa Rica. In May, she became a counselor there
and was also named the head of the department.
In addition to her own two children she says she
now has several semi-adopted children that she
looks out for and 266 adolescents to keep track of.
Her children are doing well; her son is in 4th grade
and participates in track and soccer, and is a
drummer in the school band. Her daughter is in
sixth grade and very active with art and swimming.
Elizabeth says she is enjoying putting her
psychology degree to good use now!
Matt Mikell MBA ’90 has been living in Cary, NC,
for seven years and started a new job in September
2011 with Dell to lead their global messaging for
cloud computing.
Dianna DeLaurentis Andrade MBA ’93 works for
Opportunity International, a nonprofit organization
based in Oak Brook, IL. They provide financial
services to the poor in third-world countries. She
has been there for three and a half years and is
1991
currently a risk associate in risk management. As
a result of her work, she has had the opportunity
to visit India (twice), Malawi (twice), Uganda,
Colombia, the Philippines and the Dominican
Republic in order to see their programs in action.
She has also traveled to Canada, London, San
Francisco and Washington, D.C. She has been
married to Javier for 22 years and has three
boys—Adrian (17 and heading off to college next
year), Julian (15) and Christian (7 1/2).
Bill Schmidt and his wife, Shauna Keilman
Schmidt ’91, were very excited to send their
oldest daughter Kathleen to Dominican as a
freshman in fall 2011.
Korin Heinz Mihevc replaced me at Fenwick
High School teaching French, levels 1-5, and I
was thrilled to leave my former students in such
capable hands. She and her husband, Jon, live in
Hanover Park with daughters Zoe, 9, and Phoebe, 6.
Betsy Birmingham is an associate professor of
English at North Dakota State University in Fargo.
Her husband, Kevin Brooks, is also an English
professor, and oldest daughter, Caity, is living in
Los Angeles where she is a production designer
(working on movies). They have four younger
children at home, Griffin, 12; Makeer, 7; Deng, 5;
and Agot, 4.
Natalie Perri Zawrazky MBA ’00 recently started
working for an exciting new company called
mom.com which is a daily deals site that will
connect local moms to local merchants to help
build the local economy.
Lynn Pellettiere Waldman is working as director
of research and development at Little Lady Foods
in Elk Grove Village, IL. She is married to Jim
Waldman, DDS. They have a 10-year-old daughter,
Andrea, and live in Inverness, IL.
Stephanie Mason played a munchkin in the
Disney movie, “Oz the Great and Powerful” filmed
in Michigan in September 2011. James Franco is
Oz and the movie will be released in March 2013.
When the movie wrapped, she was a substitute
teacher for the city and county, and hopes to get
a teaching job again. She earned a master’s in
education in ’03 and taught special education
until her mother became ill. Her mom is better
now, but a full-time teaching position has been
elusive. She continues taking classes to add to
her teaching degree and completed Moderate
to Intensive Special Ed and is currently
completing Gifted and Talented Students.
After nearly a decade with the Epilepsy Foundation
of Greater Chicago, Garett (VG) Auriemma moved
this past summer to the American Brain Tumor
Association, in the position of director of marketing
and communications. In this new role, he is (among
other things) overseeing a complete rebranding
and web strategies overhaul for the Chicago-based
national organization. Brenda Groeper MAT ’01 is
currently in her 13th year in the Social Sciences
department at Morton West High School, where
she is teaching AP psychology. Garett and Brenda
recently celebrated their 17th anniversary, while
their son, Evan, (8 ½) and daughter, Rowan, (5 ½)
are respectively enjoying third grade and kindergarten.
According to VG, their dog, Murphy, (16 ½) is just
happy that the children are getting closer to moving
out and returning complete control of the house to her.
floor in the Social Hall on blankets (oops—maybe I
wasn’t supposed to admit that?). I hope many of
you will be able to make it to the reunion—if not for
the entire weekend, then just for a day. The campus
has changed so much, but still holds the same
beauty it had the day we graduated in 1992. For
more information on the reunion, please call or
email the Alumnae/i Office at (708) 524-6286 or
[email protected]. Hope to see you there!
–Melissa Mascari SantoPietro, class agent
1994
Sherrie Izban and Team USA at the 2011
Special Olympics World Games in Greece.
Sherrie Izban coached Team USA in Special
Olympics World Games in Athens, Greece, in June
2011. Sherrie has been involved with Special
Olympics since 1998. She is a Special Olympics
certified coach in track and field, and has been
coaching for 11 years. This was her second time
to be involved in the World Games, the first being
in July 2007. She was thrilled to participate and
meet athletes from all over the world at the
competition.
Frank Storino MBA ’91 recently finished a six-month
probation in the City of Chicago’s Department of
Transportation to become a career service titled
foreman.
Thank you to all classmates who have shared their
news. I hope everyone has a safe and peaceful year.
–Laura Brown Schmuck MAT ’07, class agent
1990
Hello, Class of 1990. I hope you are all doing
well. I am writing today to introduce myself. I
am Juan Rodriguez, your new class agent…again!
I previously served as class agent from 1990-1995.
After being nominated by a few of our fellow
classmates at our 20th reunion last year, I
decided why not serve again!
I am connected with many of you on Facebook
and/or LinkedIn. I would encourage you to send
me your news as to what’s going on in your lives.
Did you start a new job? Did you buy a new home?
Did you recently get married or have kids, take an
exciting vacation somewhere? I would like answers
to all these questions so I can add them to the
next issue of the Dominican University Magazine.
If you have pictures you would like me to include,
please send them to me as well.
As for me, I started a new job in January of 2010.
I am a benefits administrator with JPMorgan
Chase & Co. My wife, Sherry, and I live in
Elmwood Park with our dog, Daisy.
I wish you all well and I hope to hear from you
so I can add your stories to the next issue
(deadline is March 15, 2012). You can reach me
at [email protected] or via Facebook.
–Juan Rodriguez, class agent
“like” the Alumnae/i
Association on Facebook:
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Connect with fellow graduates in the Dominican
University alumnae/i Network on Linkedin.
Rosanna Grimm Bateman and family in their new
home state, Colorado.
Hello, Class of 1991. Sorry it’s been so long.
Since I wrote last, my family and I have moved
from Bloomington, IN, to Fort Collins, CO. It was a
big change and a little hard on all of us, but we’ve
been here two years now and love it. We moved
because my husband, Ron, accepted the position
of fire chief in Milliken, CO, and is now also the fire
chief in neighboring Johnstown. He’s a busy man!
I work for Colorado State University right here in
Fort Collins. I work with art and theatre students,
which is a bit of a change from working with
business students as I did at Indiana University.
Our children are doing great and growing up too
fast. Miranda is now 13, and Garrick is 10.
After years of running on a big law firm’s billablehour hamster wheel, Mark Bojan threw in the
towel and found a better way to practice law—as
an army judge advocate. JAG jokes aside, after
spending a year at Ft. Campbell with the 101st
Airborne Division (air assault!), the Army made
Capt. Bojan the proverbial offer he couldn’t
refuse. He will be going on active duty this fall
and moving to Ft. Meade, MD, with Kelly Moran
Bojan ’94, where they’ll celebrate their 15th
wedding anniversary. I’d love to hear from more
of you. Email me at [email protected]
and let me know what’s going on with you.
In May 2011, Aracely Barragan Lawrence was
honored with the inaugural Village of Mundelein
Diversity Award, for demonstrating leadership and
embodying excellence in creating programs to
celebrate diversity, promote tolerance and build
cultural understanding. Aracely is a guidance
counselor at Mundelein High School and was
instrumental in forming the Temas Latinos
organization at MHS, an after-school club focusing
on Latin American issues and culture.
1995
Ben Wappler MLIS ’06 serves in various positions
at St. Francis of Assisi Anglican Church, which
include acolyte, lay reader, vestry member and
Sunday school teacher. The church is located in
Jonesboro, GA, and is part of the Traditional
Anglican Communion.
1996
–Rosanna Grimm Bateman, class agent
1992
20th Reunion, June 8-10, 2012
Hello Class of 1992!
I hope everyone is doing well! Our last Facebook
group was archived, so I am planning on creating
a new one for our class. If you are interested in
joining, please email me at [email protected].
It will be through this group that I’ll ask for updates
and let everyone know when the next magazine is
due to come out, etc. Plus it’s a great way to keep
in touch with other classmates! What would we do
without Facebook?
At press time, Tammy Wronski had read 370
books in her quest to read 1,000 books in two
years. Tammy estimates that she will be finished
with 450 books by the end of this year, which
will mark her half-way point.
Jeanne Platt recently moved to beautiful
Northern Colorado.
Our 20th reunion is fast approaching! It will be
held the weekend of June 8-10, 2012. Can you
believe it’s been 20 years?? It seems like only
yesterday that we were getting up several times a
night for false fire alarms, and sliding across the
Audra Lillibet, daughter of Diane Diaz Gerdes.
Diane Diaz Gerdes and husband welcomed their
second daughter, Audra Lillabet, on February 18,
2011. Diane is a proposal administrator for
Catalyst Rx in Arizona.
Marilyn Anderson Rhames began a new venture as
an education blogger for Education Week Teacher
magazine. Her blog is called “Charting My Own
Course” and can be found at blogs.edweek.org/
teachers/charting_my_own_course/. Marilyn’s
first blog post was re-printed in 35,000 copies of
Teachers of Color magazine, which is given to
education students at universities around the
country. Find it online at www.teachersofcolor.
com/current-fall-2011-issue/. Marilyn also teaches
middle school science at a charter school in
Chicago.
–Jennifer Utterback Davis and Saraliz Jimenez,
class agents
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the University of Chicago Consortium on School
Research as their communications and research
manager.
15th Reunion, June 8-10, 2012
Hector Villagrana was recently named chief of
legislative and intergovernmental affairs for the
Illinois Department of Human Rights. He received
his MBA from National Louis University in August
2011.
–Ali Hecimovich MSpEd ’05 and Chrissie Lukuch,
class agents
2002
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Katie Dinelli Horan is now controller for Outagamie
County in Appleton, WI.
–Matthew Toles and Katie Dinelli Horan,
class agents
1998
Amber Crnovich Atkins married Grant Bales.
Amber Crnovich Atkins graduated from the Keller
Graduate School of Management in February with
her MBA. On September 10, 2011, she married
Grant Bales. Amber’s daughter, Shae Atkins,
was a junior bridesmaid.
Debbie Stewart is now living in Denver, CO. She
is currently working as a caregiver for elderly and
hospice patients.
Please share any news with Debbie that you wish
to be submitted for publication here in the class
news section. You can find her on Facebook or
email her at [email protected].
–Maria Salerno Conforti and Debbie Stewart,
class agents
2003
Nicole Donatello and Scott Trefilek ’03 married last
May in Rosary Chapel. Professor Janice Monti sends
an update on her son Hedi Belkaoui MAEA ’09, who
heads the Jay Pritzker School in Cambodia: “The
U.S. media has not given much coverage to the
flooding (in Cambodia) but it has been severe,
the worst in a decade. Thankfully, the water is
finally receding and the school will reopen in two
weeks as soon as the cleanup is finished. In the
meantime, the staff has been distributing sacks
of rice to the students’ families who were barely
getting by even before this disaster. These photos
show the flooding at the school and how the rice
distribution was managed with boats to and from
the poorest villages.” Hedi’s wife, Heidy Moran
Belkaoui ’06, MAT ’11, and her younger sister
Yecenia Moran ’10, also teach at the school.
–Joe Bruno and Brandy Foster, class agents
2005
Arturo Thompson joined the KU School of Law as
its assistant dean of career services in November
2011 after five years in private practice.
Joy Sophia, daughter of Susan Eannarino Tipre.
Susan Eannarino Tipre and husband, Jacob,
welcomed to the world their first child, Joy
Sophia, on August 22, 2011. Please keep Susan’s
family in your prayers; her mother passed away
February 5, 2011.
Carrie Simpson Wallace, husband, Ronald, and son.
Carrie Simpson Wallace and her husband, Ronald,
celebrated their second wedding anniversary on
September 11, 2011.
–Scott Hanak, class agent
Michelle Milewski and Jason Mangawan wed in
Rosary Chapel.
1999
We have a new class email! Send us your news
at [email protected]. Also, join us on
Facebook at “Dominican University Class of 1999.”
Hope to hear from you soon!
–Christy Miklautsch Gumbach and Kara Green
Hanak, class agents
2001
Joseph Kerzich is a firefighter/EMT for the city
of Chicago. Kathleen Buettner Petcov became
a Tastefully Simple consultant in April 2011.
Chrissie Lukuch was recently promoted to
researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute in
Columbus, OH, working in the advanced
materials and applications. She writes, “Here,
I work with new and innovative ways to better
the world with one nano at time, issuing my first
invention report, and presenting a poster in the
new generation of coagulation meters for those,
like myself, on blood thinners. It has been a
blessing to work at Battelle for 10 years now.”
Karl Sokol and Ann Galuska Sokol MAEd ’05 are
starting a new United Methodist Church in
Brookfield. They were appointed under the
bishop’s new strategy to send pastors to a
community rather than a building. Compassion
UMC has a monthly worship service and weekly
small groups and plans on launching weekly
worship in Advent of 2012.
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Phoenix Rayne, son of Kamilah Gilliam
Johnson MBA ’11.
Christina Giovannelli MLIS ’09 married
Nicholas Caputo.
Christina Giovannelli MLIS ’09 married Nicholas
Caputo on February 12, 2011. Jennifer Goldbach
and Rosa Caputo ’02 were bridesmaids. Christina
is currently an elementary district librarian.
Congratulations to alumni couple Jason Mangawan
and Michelle Milewski, who were married on
October 22, 2011. Yvette Vazquez Pratt married
Christopher Pratt this past summer in the Rosary
Chapel. She is finishing up her Type 73 for school
counseling and looks forward to referring future
generations of students to Dominican.
–Yvette Vazquez Pratt and Mary Sobczak, class agents
2004
After graduating last May with an MBA from
Dominican University’s Brennan School of
Business, Kamilah Gilliam Johnson and husband,
Rodney, had a healthy baby boy named Phoenix
Rayne Johnson, born September 1. Kamilah
accepted a position as child care nutritionist for the
Maricopa County Health Department, working with
Head Start Nutrition Services in Phoenix, AZ.
–Tory Kathrein, class agent
2006
John Hannes is now coordinator of club and district
support for the Americas for Rotary International.
–Annie Hughes and Diane Schultz, class agents
2007
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Nicole Donatello married Scott Trefilek ’03 in
Rosary Chapel.
Reese Amelia, daughter of Michelle Biondo Lyon.
Michelle Biondo Lyon and her husband, Richard
Lyon, welcomed their first child, Reese Amelia,
on July 15, 2011. Bronwyn Clark McDaniel joined
Rice distribution in Cambodia to families of the Jay
Pritzker School, led by Hedi Belkaoui MAEA ’09
Katie Rosebrock recently started a job as
communications coordinator for a nonprofit
organization called SitStayRead, which runs
literacy programs for inner-city school children.
She also is finishing up her master’s degree in
public relations/advertising at DePaul. Stephanie
Adams Taylor is still doing massage therapy.
She and her husband just finished another
Barnstormer tour with Daytrotter.com. She is
also directing/coaching Geneseo High School’s
group interpretation team/cast. Rebecca Biermann
is a detective with Franklin County Sheriff’s Office,
specializing in Internet crimes against children.
Brian Herman is now married to his high school
sweetheart, Kelley, and has been working as a
Chicago police officer for a year and a half. Dorothy
Paape got married on January 23, 2010, at the
Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet. In September
2010, she started a new job at SPINS LLC in
Schaumburg. Most recently, she and her husband
bought their first house in Algonquin, IL.
Hayden Michael, son of Katie Carlin Arbogast.
Katie Carlin Arbogast and her husband, Tony
Arbogast, had their first child, Hayden Michael, on
September 12, 2011, at 11:08 a.m. He weighed 8
pounds, 13 ounces and was 21" long. Marcella
Scaduto recently moved to the Washington, D.C.,
area. Erica Weaver is working as a human resources
information system analyst at NorthShore
University Healthsystem in Evanston; she has
worked at NorthShore since October 2007. Monica
Prus Sykora got married to Sean Sykora at
Dominican’s Priory Chapel on August 6, 2011. Dessi
Martinovski had another baby boy who is 2 years
old now! So far she has three handsome boys; she
has a new baby, new house and the same husband.
She is now committed to starting her career. Tina
Gustafson is still an instructional assistant in Forest
Park. In July 2011, she received a master’s degree in
psychology from National Louis University. She is
currently enrolled in the Ed.S. program at The
Chicago School of Professional Psychology and is
working toward becoming a certified school
psychologist. Kim Van Tuyl recently relocated to
Pennsylvania to continue her career in arts
management after serving as managing director for
Chicago’s BackStage Theatre Company and box
office manager for The Theatre School Conservatory
at DePaul University. While she misses Chicago
deeply, her new endeavors took her to Baylin
Artists Management firm in Doylestown, PA,
where she manages the services for U.S. and
international artists in the fields of music,
theatre, dance and young audiences. This fall,
Kim also began pursuit of her MBA in general
business from Delaware Valley College and
hopes to finish in spring 2013. Christina Grande
is teaching first grade at Our Lady of the Snows
school in Chicago; she is in her fifth year teaching.
Katie Lischwe Williamsen and Chad Williamsen’06
moved to North Carolina in July. Katie is in Elon
University’s master’s in interactive media program,
hopefully graduating in May. Stefanie Piatkiewicz
currently works with Mindful Practices (MP), an
organization dedicated to bringing wellness to
communities from all walks of life. Along with
leading professional development workshops for
MP, she teaches hip-hop yoga to children in the
CPS schools. She also teaches children’s ballet and
hip-hop classes at Life Time Fitness. Stefanie is on
work-study at the Lou Conte Dance Studio, where
she continues her dance training. She has recently
completed her 200 hour RYT yoga certification
through YogaFit this past September. Stefanie
dances with the classical modern dance company
Duncan Dance Chicago (DDC). Logan Casanova MBA
’09 and Roberta Garippo recently married! Logan
has passed all four parts of the CPA exam and is
now a certified CPA. Roberta and her sister, Carla
Garippo ’06, opened a dance studio in Highland
Park called Center Stage Academy of Dance in
September 2010.
Megan Reidy married Kevin Champion.
Megan Reidy-Champion married her boyfriend of
almost 10 years, Kevin Champion, on September
10, 2011. Jen Miller ’06 was one of her bridesmaids.
Megan is also in her fifth year of teaching
second grade at St. William School.
Christine Barry graduated from Lewis University
in May 2011 with a master’s of education in
curriculum and instruction with a specialization
in instructional technology.
Several DU alums and current students attended
the wedding of Melissa Fleming and Mark Higgins.
See you at Alumnae/i Weekend!
–Mark Carbonara and Stephanie Lieberman,
class agents
2008
Nanette Rivera and her husband of four years, Catarino,
proudly celebrated the birthday of their daughter,
Isabella Garza, who turned 2 years old this autumn.
For the past three years now, Nanette has continued
to work as a licensing representative for the specialized
foster care agency Seguin Services, Inc. In May, she
also started attending The Chicago School of Professional
Psychology to obtain her master’s degree in psychology
with a concentration in children and adolescents.
James Troken was published in The FASEB Journal,
a leading biology journal, on July 29, 2011, for his
article “Vimentin is Sufficient and Required for
Wound Repair and Remodeling in Alveolar Epithelial
Cells” (PMID: 21803859). He also gave a talk,
“Vimentin-Null Mice are Protected from Hyperoxia
Induced Acute Lung Injury by Way of Failing to
Recruit Components of the Inflammasome,” at the
second annual Northwestern Lung Symposium.
Sr. Regina Gallo professed perpetual vows in June 2011.
Sr. Regina Gallo professed perpetual vows as a
member of the Sisters of Providence. She
professed her vows during Eucharistic liturgy,
Sunday, June 26, in the Church of the Immaculate
Conception at the congregation’s motherhouse
at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, IN.
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CLASS NEWS
I N S Y M PAT H Y
paperback and Amazon in both trade paperback
and Kindle versions. She currently resides in
Wheaton, IL, with her husband and two daughters,
and thinks fondly back to her days and evenings
spent in the Rebecca Crown Library.
Thank you for your submissions. Please be sure to
keep us updated! Email your class agents at
[email protected], or join the Facebook
group at facebook.com/groups/DU.ClassOf2008.
–Catherine Joy Calixto and Eileen Terrien, class agents
Theresa Lepine MLIS ’09 is currently serving a two-year
term as library director at Broadview Missionary
Baptist Church. Theresa also serves as an instructor
and reference librarian at the Malcolm X College
Library in Chicago.
2009
In May 2011, Taylor Eshleman graduated from the
University of Rochester School of Nursing. Taylor
also passed the NCLEX-RN and is now a registered nurse.
Lindsay Buoniconti is in her third year of teaching
at Saint Ferdinand School. She is currently
teaching first grade and coaching cheerleading.
Kirsten Fisk wed Bryan Banzhaf.
Kirsten Fisk Banzhaf delivered a 7 lb., 7 oz. little
girl, Aviana Juliet Banzhaf, on June 11, 2011. On
September 10, 2011, she became Mrs. Bryan
Banzhaf. Kirsten taught preschool at Circles of
Learning in Rockford, IL, but decided to take a
leave of absence to care for her daughter. She
hopes to return to teaching next school year.
Jordan French is currently in grad school
studying sports science and management at
Cardinal Stritch University, while working full
time at the university.
Megan Wasz is studying medicine at Lake Erie College
of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in Erie, PA.
Melissa Bond married Rob Draniczarek in
the Priory Chapel.
Melissa Bond and Robert Draniczarek were married
on August 5, 2011, at Dominican’s Priory Chapel. In
addition to being a newlywed, Melissa is in her
second year of teaching at St. Pascal School in
Chicago, where she teaches second grade.
Valerie Pinkston is a legal benefit authorizer for the
Social Security Administration. She is a member of
the LGBQT Awareness Committee and the Federal
Women’s program.
–Lindsay Buoniconti, Melissa Bond Draniczarek
and Shannon Sromek, class agents
2010
Upon graduation, Jacqueline Comforte was
offered a position with a start-up entertainment
company doing marketing, PR and sales.
After a year with this company, she worked at
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
in their Pain Management Patient Relations
department. She recently accepted a position
with Baum Realty to be their head PR and event
planning/fundraising director. Besides work,
she has continued to give back to the community
by volunteering at St. Leonard’s Ministries in
Chicago, PAWS Chicago, the Crohn’s and Colitis
Foundation of America and Northwestern.
–Annie Hussey and Michelle Schultz, class agents
2011
Patrick Magner is a recruitment coordinator for City
Year Chicago, an education-focused, nonprofit
organization that unites young people of all
backgrounds for a year of full-time service to keep
students in school and on track to graduation.
Michelle Nowak Schimick is student services advisor
for the School of Healthcare at Anthem College
Online in Phoenix.
Merle Branner MLIS ’10 is coordinator of instructional
technology at Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest,
IL. Merle was honored for her work on the Highland
Park Community Emergency Response Team by the
city of Highland Park.
Melanie Wilson MLIS ’11 recently became the new
managing editor of Dominican University’s World
Libraries open access journal. Melanie also volunteers
in the library at the Polish Museum of America.
Regina Townsend MLIS ’11 was hired as the
youth services outreach librarian at Forest Park
Public Library.
GSSW
Mayda Zamarripa MSW ’11 is a social worker for
Cicero School District 99.
Brennan School of Business
Patricia Padjen-McNulty MBA ’84, RN, BSN, MS,
PhD, was honored by Alverno College in October
with their Professional Achievement Award for her
long and distinguished career as a nurse, educator
and administrator.
Michael Robles MSA ’95 is now a financial analyst
for Océ North America.
–Barbara Lagrotteria, Fanny Lopez Martinez and
Jaron Salazar, class agents
Graduate School of Library
and Information Science
Martha Farley Berninger MALS ’79 has been promoted
to director of the Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction (DPI), Resources for Libraries and
Lifelong Learning. Ms. Berninger is the former
librarian supervisor for Resource Sharing and
Reference for DPI. She was formerly the associate
director of the University of Chicago Booth School of
Business Career Resource Center. Ms. Berninger has
acted as a corporate information professional in a
variety of firms including LexisNexis, The Signature
Group, Montgomery Ward, FranCorp and Navigant
Consulting. Ms. Berninger began her career in
academic libraries and also served in several Illinois
public libraries.
Gianluca Cristiano, son of Louie Adamo MBA ’06.
Louie Adamo MBA ’06 and his wife, Maria, announced
the birth of their son, Gianluca Cristiano, on August 1.
Big brother, Antonio, was excited to welcome him home.
I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. Psalm 34:4
ALUMNAE/I
Alice Field Bolger ’34
Mary “Marilu” Mogus Fines ’37
Rita Crews Buckley ’39
Mary Alice Schowalter O’Connell ’39
Lorraine Alexander Carpenter ’42
Jeanette Mueller Brackmann ’43
Maxine Murphy Gallagher ’43
Virginia Kelly Prendergast ’44
Veronica Coyne ’45
Genevieve Heinz Fredell ’45
Mildred Segan Gruenenfelder ’45
Marjorie Quinn Kozak ’45
Mary Jane Walsh Sweeney ’45
Kathleen Fitzgerald Terrien ’46
Jean Manix Bratek ’47
Rita Kortendick Brinkman ’47
Maureen Niemeyer McGarr ’48
Joyce Shields Doyle ’49
Frances Dineen Quetsch ’49
Mildred Ledl Melcher ’50
Ann Ledl Bajorek ’52
Margaret Daleiden Quinn ’53
Joan Schowalter Kemper ’54
Patricia Brocken Urban ’54
Mary Miller Miller ’57
Mary Jeanne Weigel Platt ’58
Catherine Ender Messina ’62
Barbara Lieberman Moss MALS ’67
Diana Coffey Halda MALS ’68
Judith Martin ’70
Joanne Wojcik MALS ’72
Krystyna Richter Sullivan MALS ’73
Gertrude Gayner MALS ’74
Joanne Cavanaugh Herff ’74
Elizabeth Monkus Cibulskis MALS ’75
Jeannine DeRose-Ihrig MSPED ’81
Joan Burgess DuSold MALIS ’91
Mary Ellen Grimes Dutcher ’96
Zenza Brown Laws ’80 MAEA ’99
Donald Smeeton MALIS ’03
Sunny Therese Wazorick ’07
N O N - G R A D U AT I N G
ALUMNAE/I
Mary Jean Fitzsimmons Brazda
Marie Petrillo DeRosa
Barbara Cassidy Flood
Georgene Werner Kreinber
Mary Jane Miller
Marilyn McGinn Pifer
DOMINICAN SISTERS
Sr. Nona Mary Allard, OP*
Sr. Elwyn McHale, OP*
UNIVERSITY FRIEND
Elouise Cobell^
Robert Galvin^
James Maddock^
Herbert Slutsky*
Vicky Strei*
MOTHER OF
Fachon Schwope Wilson ’65
Mary Bolger Anderson ’68
Catherine Zachar Sweitzer ’73*
Mary Anne Platt Omelka ’88
Jeanne Platt ’92
Susan Eannarino Tipre ’98
Jill Mallek MLIS ’09
Ellen Liebner MLIS ’01*
Andrew Lipka**
Arthur Lipka**
Reverend Richard J. Prendergast^
Elsie Radtke^
Maja Ramirez**
JoAnne Giuffre Sonneveld
Kelli Wynn*
F AT H E R O F
Vincent Zaprzal ’06, MAFM ’10
Chad Polak ’11
Trudi Goggin*
Dana Nolan**
Elizabeth Perry**
Angel Sancen**
Noelle Swanson**
Danielle Yasak**
F AT H E R - I N - L A W O F
Sarah Soszko Zaprzal ’08
Kevin Austin ’90 MBA ’92
MOTHER-IN-LAW OF
Jane Vanderheiden Bolger ’58
Bridget Burns*
SON OF
Ann O’Leary-Kerley ’47
Maureen O’Connell Anderson ’62
Kathleen Gilson MSED ’93
HUSBAND OF
Mary Suzanne Watson Babb ’46
Helen McSweeney Goggin ’46
Rita Najdowski Zimny ’48
Mary Jean McMahon Rigali ’51
Patricia Brennock Casey ’53
Rosemary Kelley Heiberger ’54
Mary Landrigan Brault ’55
Nancy Bondi James ’62
Carol Jachec Klose ’67
MFA/Schifanoia Degree ’69
Donna Nelson Stride ’75
Cheryl Veverka Zawislak ’88
Dorothy Mulroy King^
Martha Maddock^
Frances Nolan*
WIFE OF
Leo Newcombe^
DAUGHTER OF
James W. Wazorick MBA ’09
BROTHER OF
Catherine Travaglini ’56
Barbara Brault, MD ’62
Eleanor Rigali Arnold ’63
Katrice Pates**
SISTER OF
Catharine Heinz ’41
Mary Louise Truxaw ’48
Sheila Fitzgerald ’53
Yaquala Brown Gant ’88, MSEd ’97
James S. Wazorick ’03, MBA ’09
Janelle Wazorick**
Robert Miller*
AUNT OF
Anne Hennessey Bodach ’65
Erin Green Groden ’66
Maureen Fitzgerald ’74
Mary Joan Hennessey Ocasek ’75, MALS
’79
Megan Fitzgerald Bitterman ’82
Julia Doloszycki*
NEPHEW OF
Sr. Kaye Ashe, OP ’52 +
G R A N D F AT H E R O F
Victoria Nogle**
GRANDMOTHER OF
Alison Hecimovich MSPED ’05
Eileen Terrien ’08
Note: This list reflects all the deaths
received between July 2, 2011, and
December 1, 2011. Please call the
Office of Alumnae/i Relations at
(708) 524-6286 regarding omissions
or discrepancies.
To make a gift in memory of a loved
one, please call the Office of Annual
Giving at (708) 524-6298, or visit
dom.edu/give.
*Staff/Faculty
**Student
^Friend
+Former Trustee
(T)Trustee
BROTHER-IN-LAW OF
Roberta Ivins Rigali ’57
SISTER-IN-LAW OF
Dan Condon*
Lois Lyon Brennan ’55 +
UNCLE OF
Christina Galvin ’07
On March 17, 2011, Mary Anne Hartnett MALS
’86 was inducted into the Joliet Catholic Academy
Hall of Fame. Mary Anne retired from Joliet
Catholic Academy in June 2011 after 28 years
as librarian/media specialist.
Corey Bard MLIS ’08 became director of the
Ruidoso(NM) Public Library in September 2011.
Corey is also founder of Bike the Rogue:
www.goldbeachbiketherogue.org.
Aviana Juliet, daughter of Kirsten Fisk Banzhaf.
dom.edu / magazine
Joanne Zienty MLIS ’08 is a library director in
Lombard School District 44. Joanne recently
published her debut novel, The Things We
Save, available from Barnes and Noble in trade
Dominican Trustee Greg Cappelli MBA ’92,
(pictured in the back row to the right of Oprah
Winfrey) attended the first graduation ceremony
for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for
Girls in South Africa. Cappelli is the director,
co-chief executive officer, of the Apollo Group, Inc.
and chairman of Apollo Global, Inc.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Come be a part of the many events
Dominican University has to offer.
March
April
May
Ragamala Dance
Saturday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Lund Auditorium
2012 Exposition of Undergraduate Research,
Scholarship and Creative Investigations
Wednesday, April 4, 9 a.m.
Parmer Hall
Baccalaureate Mass
Friday, May 4, 5:30 p.m.
Rosary Chapel
Senior Thesis Art Exhibition – Part One
March 28 – April 7
O’Connor Art Gallery
Siena Center Lecture:
Bren Ortega Murphy, PhD
A Question of Habit
Thursday, March 29, 6 p.m.
Bluhm Lecture Hall, Parmer Hall
Fifth Annual African American & Latino
Social Work Symposium
Thursday, March 29, 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Priory Auditorium
2012 Student Fashion Show
March 30 – April 1
Lund Auditorium
Global Learning Symposium
Wednesday, April 4, 4 p.m.
Parmer Hall
Senior Thesis Art Exhibition – Part Two
April 11 - 21
O’Connor Art Gallery
The Night of the Iguana
Friday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15
Martin Recital Hall
School of Education: Honoring the Profession
Monday, April 16, 6 p.m.
Social Hall
Commencement
Saturday, May 5
11 a.m. Undergraduates
3 p.m. Graduate students
Lund Auditorium
Blues and the Spirit III: A Symposium
on Race, Gender and the Blues
Friday, May 18
Saturday, May 19
Parmer Hall
Albertus Magnus Society Lecture
Daniel Dinello, MFA
Dr. Frankenstein’s Footsteps:
A Critical Look at Some Key Films
Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Bluhm Lecture Hall, Parmer Hall
June
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Lund Auditorium
Welcome Weekend
Friday, August 24, through Sunday, August 26
St. Catherine of Siena Lecture
Susan Ross, PhD
From Spotless Bride to Working Partners:
Images of the Laity in the 21st Century
Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Priory Auditorium
2012 DU Dance Team Show
Sunday, April 22, 3:00 p.m.
Monday, April 23, 7:00 p.m.
Lund Auditorium
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Candle and Rose
Friday, May 4, Dusk
Quad
Alumnae/i Weekend
Friday, June 8, through Sunday, June 10
August
First Day of Classes
Monday, August 27
September
Caritas Veritas Symposium
Tuesday, September 25
Legacy
A LASTING
Rose K. and John P. Goedert left a lasting footprint on
Dominican University’s campus—the Rose K. Goedert Center for
Early Childhood Education, dedicated in the spring of 2006. John,
known as “Jack”, now deceased, long wished to honor his wife’s
memory and her commitment to the education of all children. He
began funding the center during his lifetime through a gift to the
Amazing Possibilities Campaign and at that same time, added a
provision in his estate plan to further fund this memorial project after
his death. Through Jack’s thoughtful philanthropic planning and
vision, quality early childhood education flourishes at Dominican,
providing a lasting legacy for the Goedert Family.
Rose Kelliher Goedert graduated from Rosary College in 1936,
following her sisters Agnes Kelliher ’29 and Anne Kelliher Lynch
’32. The year she graduated, she met Jack Goedert at a Rosary
Sunday tea dance. Jack, a graduate of a Catholic high school,
university and law school, was an attorney and certified public
accountant. The two were married in 1940. Later, as Rose continued
her education toward a master’s degree in social work, the Goederts
learned that their infant son was deaf. This significant event focused
the Goederts’ interests on education for children. Rose and John
became lifelong advocates for early childhood education and
inspired many others along the way.
The Rose K. Goedert Center earned
accreditation from the National Association for
the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the
nation’s leading organization of early childhood
professionals. Only 8 percent of all preschools
and early childhood programs in the country are
accredited by the NAEYC.
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P ASSING GLANCES
Blues and the Spirit III
The Blues and the Spirit Symposium was destined
for success when, on the first night of the first
symposium in the spring of 2008, a welcome
reception with live music by Chicago bluesman
Larry Taylor spontaneously erupted into an all-out
jam session. Two years later, a sold-out crowd of
music and history scholars and fans commemorated
the centennial of Howlin’ Wolf ’s birth and the
40th anniversary of Living Blues magazine at the
second symposium in 2010.
At this spring’s Blues and the Spirit III:
A Symposium on Race, Gender and the Blues,
participants will hear from an eclectic group
of young scholars, prominent musicologists,
writers, musicians and industry leaders, as well
be treated to two nights of first-class Chicago
blues at popular area blues clubs. The hours of
4 p.m. on Friday, May 18, into the wee hours
of Sunday, May 20, will be jam-packed with
keynote addresses, panel presentations, awards
and of course, spectacular blues music.
To register and learn more, go to dom.edu/blues.