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Seton Hall Magazine, Fall 2014 SA home for ETONthe mind, the heart and the spirit HALLFall 2014 LAW SCHOOL ALUMNA TO LEAD AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION HOW ELIZABETH ANN SETON BECAME A CATHOLIC THE 47,000-MILE OCEAN TREK OF ONE RECENT GRAD A Noteworthy Achievement Student’s Startup Wins Top Prize in National Business Competition SETON HALL Fall 2014 Vol. 25 Issue 2 In this issue Seton Hall magazine is published by the Department of Public Relations features and Marketing in the Division of Pirate Kickoff: Students revel University Advancement. in the festivities at Seton Hall’s 20 Becoming a Catholic President annual Blue Day in celebration Alone and grieving in Europe, a recently A. Gabriel Esteban, Ph.D. of Freshman Convocation. widowed Elizabeth Ann Seton finds herself Vice President for drawn to the Catholic faith of her Italian University Advancement hosts. A new biography of the first American David J. Bohan, M.B.A. saint describes her evolution of faith. Associate Vice President for Public Relations and Marketing 24 Adventure on the High Seas Dan Kalmanson, M.A. Meg Reilly ’12 took an unusual turn in her Director of Publications/ post-college life. She left behind a coveted University Editor position in communications to enlist in a Pegeen Hopkins, M.S.J. yearlong, 47,000-mile ocean race. 20 Art Director Elyse M. Carter departments Design and Production Linda Campos Eisenberg 2 From Presidents Hall Photographer 4 HALLmarks Milan Stanic ’11 Copy Editor 12 Possibilities Kim de Bourbon Taseen Peterson’s startup got a boost when it was nationally recognized as Assistant Editor a top college business. William F. Golba 14 Roaming the Hall News & Notes Editors Professor Sergiu Gorun leads a team Dan Nugent ’03/M.P.A. ’10 of researchers seeking to use solar Daniella Gloor ’14 energy to help fight cancer and clean up the environment. 24 Profile Send your comments and suggestions 16 by mail to: Seton Hall magazine, Successful entrepreneur Robert De Simone, Department of Public Relations M.S. ’68/Ph.D. ’70 helps young chemists and Marketing, 519 South Orange pursue research at Seton Hall. Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079; by email to [email protected]; or 18 Profile by phone at 973-378-9834. Paulette Brown, J.D. ’76, president-elect of the American Bar Association, has a On the cover: Photo by Aaron Houston long history as a trailblazer. for NJBiz Facing page: Photo by Michael Paras 28 Sports at the Hall 32 Pirates in Print 34 Alumni News & Notes www.shu.edu 44 Last Word 14 FROM PRESIDENTS HALL | A. GABRIEL ESTEBAN, PH.D. SETON HALL MAGAZINE | FALL 2014 M.B.A. program; students study abroad in London, Our students transport a tireless Rome, Tokyo and other leading cities; and DOVE work ethic to a growing number volunteers serve the needy in Haiti and El Salvador, to cite just a few examples. of countries around the world. Expanding the University’s geographic footprint is To continue our forward momentum, the Office of Admis- Expanding Our Reach essential now more than ever. Studies indicate that, due sions is placing strategic emphasis on outreach to other to demographic shifts, the number of high-school gradu- areas of the United States. Last year more students hailed ates will decline in the coming years — particularly in On a recent trip to the Philippines, Nowhere is that more evident than in this year’s freshman from the West Coast (California, Oregon and Washington) the Northeast and the Midwest — and many colleges class. Not only are they the most academically prepared than from New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont my wife, Jo, and I shared a chance and universities will struggle to maintain both the quality students in University history — whose credentials and Massachusetts). and quantity of their student populations. The most encounter that reminded me of Seton have set new benchmarks for excellence — but they also ominous forecasts portend that institutions that fail to When our students leave South Orange as fully formed Hall’s expanding global influence. represent greater geographic diversity than we have ever adjust to this new reality will likely close their doors. servant leaders, no matter where they choose to live in experienced. While historically 30 percent of our freshmen the U.S. or abroad, the Department of Alumni Relations are from outside New Jersey, this year more than 35 You should know that Seton Hall is bucking this trend. We were at the airport in Tokyo waiting for a flight to finds new ways to keep them informed, involved and percent of our incoming class are from out of state. In For this fall’s class, while we received 19 percent more Manila when she was approached by a man who noticed invested in Seton Hall. fact, on move-in day, Jo and I talked to the parents of a applications for admission than the previous year, we the Seton Hall insignia on her shirt. He asked whether young man from Mexico. This geographic diversity is in admitted only 14 percent more students. In fact, since This past February, alumni gathered in 20 cities across she worked for the University, which led to a conversation line with our strategic goal to be recognized as a national 2011, our admissions rate has decreased by 14 percentage the country to cheer on the men’s basketball team during about our mutual Seton Hall connections. Catholic university of choice. points. As a result, our two-part SAT average has increased Seton Hall’s National Game Watch event. The evening As it turns out, the man’s daughter is a sophomore by 80 points since 2009 while the percentage of freshmen included more University events in more locations on a Because more and more Pirates hail from distant ports, in our nursing program. He was traveling on business ranked in the top 10 percent of their class has increased single day than ever before. And this fall, top University they bring a global outlook to their Seton Hall experience to Manila from his family’s home in Houston. The day from 22 percent to 37 percent during the same period. faculty and alumni experts will join me in eight cities that changes the tenor of campus in remarkable ways. after we arrived in Manila, we had the opportunity to throughout the country as part of a new speaker series, dine with a 2008 double graduate from our master’s A particular point of pride is our striking increase in “Voices from the Hall,” sharing perspectives on current programs in public administration and diplomacy who recipients of international academic honors. In the history issues affecting our world. was assigned to Manila by a U.S.-based company. of the University before 2008, students and alumni had It may surprise you to know that Seton Hall has more been awarded two Fulbright grants. Since then, they have Houston. Tokyo. Manila. All connected through the alumni in Florida (2,878) than in Pennsylvania (2,725) claimed 18 of the prestigious awards, proudly carrying Seton Hall campus in South Orange, N.J. You never know and that more graduates call California home (1,474) Seton Hall’s name to nations as diverse as India, Colombia where you will run into a fellow Pirate or someone who than Connecticut (1,119). This speaks volumes about the and Russia. is otherwise connected to Seton Hall. Perhaps you have University’s growing standing and scope. Our alumni experienced such encounters as well. Not to be outdone, our faculty continues to win interna- have become increasingly involved and have invested in tional research grants, visiting professorships and other our future with the undergraduate alumni giving rate Of course, you need not travel to another country to recognition that is global in scope. In fact, five faculty going up by 25 percent in the last two years and the level realize that Seton Hall is a national and international members received Fulbright awards during the last of gift commitments increasing by more than 50 percent institution in every sense. Students come to us from academic year and, as of this writing, one has already over last year. We are indeed a university on the rise. across the United States and from more than 70 nations. claimed the award this year. After they graduate, they transport a tireless work ethic As we strive to advance the University’s stature, both in and servant leadership skills grounded in Catholic values Academic awards are but one of the many ways that the United States and overseas, may we be ever mindful — to all 50 states and a growing number of countries Seton Hall makes a global impact. Business executives and ever gratified — of the increasingly vital role that around the world. from Shanghai come to campus to complete our executive Milan Stanic ’11 Photo by Seton Hall plays on the national and international stage. ■ 2 3 HALLMARKS SETON HALL MAGAZINE | FALL 2014 BY THE NUMBERS The School of Diplomacy and International Relations will host Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, a winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, as its World Leaders Forum speaker this fall. The Walsh Gallery Gbowee, the true embodiment of servant leadership, at Seton Hall University organized and led the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped end her country’s devastating 14-year civil war in 2003. Under Gbowee’s leadership, thousands of women staged pray-ins and nonviolent protests demanding reconciliation and the resuscita- 20 tion of high-level peace talks, coordinated a “sex Years in operation strike” and introduced other innovative nonviolent measures that gained worldwide recognition for their cause.
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