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HONORS CONVOCATION Building on a History of Success And Courage, University Forges Ahead Despite Challenges (The is the print version of the keynote Our Founder’s Dream address that Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nor- Far more positive impressions were denberg delivered during the University’s held by our University’s founder, Hugh 36th Annual Honors Convocation on Feb. 24.) Henry Brackenridge. Born in Scotland and It is wonderful to be with you today—in &/3,.%!/%!"#$%+/0)!12%'!%!",%'(,%/4%*3,5%",% !"#$%&'()#*+,)!%"'--%').%/)%$0+"%'%!10-2% was educated at Princeton. James Madison auspicious occasion. Our annual Honors was a classmate. Brackenridge and another Convocation gives us the special opportu +-'$$&'!,%'1,%+1,.#!,.%6#!"%61#!#)(%!",%*1$!% nity to recognize excellence in our midst. American novel. Today, we honor students, staff, faculty, and As a young man, Mr. Brackenridge alumni whose records of accomplishment taught, earned a graduate degree, studied and impact stand as a source of pride within divinity, served as a chaplain in George our University. Washington’s army, and founded and edited And this particular Convocation is a monthly magazine. He also “read the law” COURTESY OF STATE SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE special in another way because it marks under Samuel Chase, who signed the Decla Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg (right) testifies before the state Senate Appropriations Committee in Harrisburg on the start of our celebration of the 225th ration of Independence and later served as a Feb. 29. With Chancellor Nordenberg is Arthur S. Levine, vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the School of anniversary of Pitt’s founding. Through the Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Medicine at Pitt. Nordenberg appeared with the presidents of Pennsylvania’s three other state-related universities: Lincoln, Act of February 28, 1787, the Pennsylvania When Mr. Brackenridge moved west Penn State, and Temple. The full text of the Chancellor's statement to the Senate committee and his Feb. 22 statement to legislature provided for the creation of the from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh became a the state House Appropriations Committee are available at www.progress.pitt.edu. log cabin Pittsburgh Academy that would 71#)+#7'-%8,),*+#'129%:)%!#&,5%",%$,13,.% grow to become the University of Pittsburgh. both in the state legislature and as a justice of the state supreme court. Among many Humble Beginnings other achievements, he helped establish 0ITT !LUMNI !SSOCIATIONS "OARD 0ASSES Descriptions of the Pittsburgh of that !",%1,(#/);$%*1$!%),6$7'7,15%#)+/17/1'!,.%'% time, an outpost of fewer than 400 inhabit nonsectarian church, served on the commit ants perched at the edge of the American tee that drafted the bill creating Allegheny 2ESOLUTION ON 0ROPOSED 3TATE &UNDING #UTS wilderness, convey some sense of how far we County and making Pittsburgh its county The Pitt Alumni Association Board of Directors voted unanimously Feb. 25 to pass have come in other ways. In his classic his seat, and was an advocate for improved tory of the city, Stefan Lorant said this: “The a resolution asking Pitt alumni to advocate for no more cuts to the University’s state roadways to the western part of the state. appropriation and to keep Pitt a public research university. That resolution is printed below. buildings were neither elaborate nor were In all that he did, Mr. Brackenridge they beautiful … The streets before them was driven by an extraordinary vision for were unpaved, dirty, littered with refuse, this region. When he viewed the modest with dogs and hogs roaming through the settlement that had become his home, he 2%3/,54)/. /& 4(% 5.)6%23)49 /& 0)443"52'( !,5-.) !33/#)!4)/. mire. On rainy days one waded through the said, “This town must in future time become "/!2$ /& $)2%#4/23 %802%33).' 3500/24 &/2 mud, in dry weather the dust rose in clouds.” a place of great manufactory. Indeed, the 4(% 5.)6%23)49 /& 0)443"52'( A leading citizen described Pittsburgh greatest on the continent or perhaps in the as a place where “there was no morality or world.” He further asserted that “[t]he situ regular order.” Outsiders were even less ation of the town of Pittsburgh is greatly to 7(%2%!3 the Pitt Alumni Association’s mission is to engage impressed. One visitor concluded simply be chosen for a seat of learning.” and enrich alumni and students and to support and advance the that the town was an “excellent [place] to University of Pittsburgh; and do penance in.” Continued on page 3 7(%2%!3 the Pitt Alumni Association’s values are accountability, diversity, excel lence, relationships, and traditions and its vision is to be the gateway for a global network of alumni and students who champion the University of Pittsburgh and each 225 Stories to Celebrate other; and 7(%2%!3 the Pitt Alumni Association recognizes that the recently proposed Com monwealth budget would reduce support to the University of Pittsburgh, if adjusted Frances Hesselbein: 4/1%#)<'!#/)5%!/%!",%-/6,$!%-,3,-%$#)+,%=#!!%8,+'&,%'%$!'!,>1,-'!,.%0)#3,1$#!2?%'). 7(%2%!3 more than $67 million in cuts already have been imposed. When added to Reshaping Leadership recent proposals for further reductions, the total cumulative twoyear cuts in state sup 7HEN &RANCES (ESSELBEIN port would rise to more than $100 million. These cuts would reduce Pitt’s appropriation, in absolute dollars, to levels that Pitt has not seen since 1987, a quartercentury ago WON THE 0RESIDENTIAL -EDAL OF and when the state’s overall budget was only a third of what it is today; now therefore &REEDOM IN 0RESIDENT be it #LINTON PRAISED HER hOPEN ness to innovation, willingness 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the Pitt Alumni Association Board of Directors do TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY AND hereby express their sincere support for the University of Pittsburgh as a public insti RESPECT FOR DIVERSITYv tution of higher education; and be it further (ESSELBEIN BEGAN HER 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the Pitt Alumni Association Board of Directors call CAREER IN LEADERSHIP IN for the involvement of alumni to advocate on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh AS A VOLUNTEER TROOP LEADER to the leadership of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to reinstate funding levels FOR THE 'IRL 3COUTS 3IXTEEN consistent with legislation that was enacted on August 23, 1966, making the Univer sity of Pittsburgh a staterelated university of the Commonwealth System of Higher YEARS LATER SHE WAS TAPPED TO @.0+'!#/)5%-,(#$-'!#/)%!"'!%,)'8-,.%!",%A)#3,1$#!2%!/%$#()#*+')!-2%1,.0+,%!0#!#/)%4/1% BECOME #%/ OF THE 'IRLS 3COUTS Pennsylvania residents, increase enrollment, and expand programs. This legislation OF THE 53! %MPHASIZING A made it possible for the University of Pittsburgh to meet the growing demand from MESSAGE OF INCLUSIVENESS AND Pennsylvanians for reasonably priced, but highquality, university experiences; and EMPOWERMENT 0ITT ALUM (ESSELBEIN TRIPLED MINORITY MEMBERSHIP AND REVITALIZED THE 'IRLS 3COUTS be it further ORGANIZATION 2%3/,6%$ that the members of the Pitt Alumni Association Board of Directors -ANAGEMENT GURU 0ETER $RUCKER LATER SELECTED (ESSELBEIN AS FOUNDING approve this resolution at its Board meeting on February 25, 2012, and see this state PRESIDENT AND #%/ OF HIS NONPROlT LEADERSHIP ORGANIZATION THE ,EADER TO funding as essential to the future of the University of Pittsburgh and ask for alumni ,EADER )NSTITUTE 4HROUGH THE INSTITUTE AND AS EDITOR OF MANY LEADERSHIP to advocate “No More Cuts: Keep Pitt Public”; and be it further BOOKS (ESSELBEIN PROMOTES MANAGEMENT BASED ON CHARACTER AND ETHICS 2%3/,6%$ that this resolution be made a permanent part of the Pitt Alumni Associa RATHER THAN THE BOTTOM LINE tion’s records. )N 0ITT CREATED THE (ESSELBEIN 'LOBAL !CADEMY FOR 3TUDENT ,EAD ERSHIP AND #IVIC %NGAGEMENT AT 0ITT DEDICATED TO PRODUCING ETHICAL LEADERS WHO WILL ADVANCE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INITIATIVES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD Jack D. Smith Jeff Gleim For more stories about Pitt's legacy of achievement or to share your own stories President Executive Director about the University, visit www.225.pitt.edu. Pitt Alumni Association Pitt Alumni Association -ARCH s 5NIVERSITY OF 0ITTSBURGH s 3 Building on a History of Success and Courage, University Forges Ahead Despite Challenges
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Mr. Brackenridge also saw the link affordability was extremely important to jobless recovert. #),3#!'8-2%$'+1#*+,%!",%.1,'&$%/4%!/&/11/69 between education and regional prosperity Speaker Irvis. He regularly argued that And, as a matter of history, such an that would emerge even more clearly over higher education opportunities should be Meeting Challenges and approach can fairly be viewed as undermin time. tied to “ability and not how fortunate a Maintaining Hope ing much of what Brackenridge and Irvis “I do not know that the legislature child happens to have been in the choice of With the record that Pitt has built, and all who embraced their visions built. could do a more acceptable service to the his parents.” from distant years to present days, it is hard Particularly in such challenging times, Commonwealth than by endowing a school But Mr. Irvis and others also saw to imagine that we again find ourselves we are fortunate to be a part of an institution at this place,” he said. “It that broader social facing budget cuts—totaling well in excess with such a noble mission. Everyone con will institute knowledge a n d e c o n o m i c of $100 million and affecting everything nected to this University is contributing to and ability … [and] we advantages would from general support to educational sup the development of human potential, to the well know the strength of a 0ARTICULARLY IN SUCH CHAL flow from provid port to research support to capital projects enhancement of human knowledge, to the state greatly consists in the lenging times, we are ing public support support. Such cuts have the potential for deepening of human understanding, and, in superior mental powers of to our University. particular damage to the greater good as we a broad range of ways, to the advancement the inhabitants.” fortunate to be a part of An editorial in the move deeper into the highly competitive, of the greater good. Twohundredtwenty Pittsburgh Press innovationbased global economy of the 21st We also are fortunate that we have each *3,%2,'1$%/4%"#$!/12%"'3,% AN INSTITUTION WITH SUCH A advanced that view century by slashing investments in the very other. This is a community of exceptional taught us this about our by stating that “the institutions that are a primary source of our people, whether measured by the power of founder: He was right NOBLE MISSION %VERYONE existence here of a most modern innovation. In fact, a report their brains, the strength of their character, about Pittsburgh becoming big, quality univer released by the National Science Founda or the size of their hearts. a center of manufactur CONNECTED TO THIS 5NIVER sity is necessary to tion just last month noted that universities And we can take comfort from the ing might. He was right SITY IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE the welfare of the now perform more than half of the nation’s inspiring successes crafted by our predeces about Pittsburgh becoming area and our hopes basic research. sors, even as they met their own challenges a center of higher learning. DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN for industrial devel Earlier generations of our faculty and over the past 225 years. Those challenges And he was right about opment, no less than alumni made contributions that were both included the Civil War and two World Wars, educational excellence as POTENTIAL TO THE ENHANCE for the educational lifechanging and lifesaving. Here are just a .,3'$!'!#)(%!"')>'#1% In fact, it was during the Great Depres The Brackenridge goal <2#)(%&'+"#),$? sion that the Cathedral of Learning—our was “to see Pennsylvania TO THE DEEPENING OF HUMAN Institutional H%!",%*1$!%!1')$&#$$#/)%/4%3/#+,%82%1'.#/% signature structure and the symbol of our at all times able to produce UNDERSTANDING AND IN A Advancement waves; aspirations—was built. Who possibly could mathematicians, philoso and Impact H%!",%#)3,)!#/)%/4%!",%+'!"/.,>1'2%!,-,3# have foreseen, back in the Brackenridge phers, historians, and states BROAD RANGE OF WAYS TO THE In the 45 years sion systems essential to the launch of that days, that our Cathedral would spring from men equal to any in the that have passed industry; the Pittsburgh muck and mire about which confederacy.” That same ADVANCEMENT OF THE GREATER since the bill spon H%!",%.,3,-/7&,)!%/4%!",%3'++#),%!"'!% his contemporaries complained—or that it goal sits at the heart of our sored by Speaker won this country’s long war against polio, would emerge in the midst of the world’s modern academic mission. GOOD 7E ALSO ARE FORTUNATE Irvis became law, hailed by some as one of the greatest achieve greatest economic calamity? In fact, it is our achieve Pitt has far exceeded ments of the 20th century; Harry W. Scheuch, who attended ment of that goal, through THAT WE HAVE EACH OTHER a ny r e a s o n a ble H%!",%.,3,-/7&,)!%/4% P it t fol low i ng the work of our honorees, 4HIS IS A COMMUNITY OF expectations that CPR and the founding of World Wa r I I, that we have gathered to might have existed the discipline of critical 7E RANK AMONG THE TOP painted scenes of celebrate today. EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE WHETHER in the mid1960s. care medicine; the Cathedral of In education, H% !",% .#$+/3,12% /4% !MERICAN UNIVERSITIES BOTH Learning during A Critical MEASURED BY THE POWER OF our University has quasars; its construction. Transformation awa rde d ne a rly H% !",% $2)!",$#$% /4% IN FUNDING FROM THE .ATIONAL In writing about Just as we honor Hugh their brains, the strength of 290,000 degrees insulin; those paintings, Henry Brackenridge for and has maintained H%!",%.,3,-/7&,)!%/4% )NSTITUTES OF (EALTH AND IN the Smithsonian leading the efforts to estab THEIR CHARACTER OR THE SIZE tuition levels that the science of magnetic OVERALL FEDERAL SCIENCE AND A m e r i c a n A r t lish Pitt, so should we recog OF THEIR HEARTS are a fraction of resonance imaging; Museum noted: nize K. Leroy Irvis for lead those charged by H% !",% .,!,1&#)'!#/)% ENGINEERING RESEARCH AND “Like the Empire ing efforts to transform it. comparable private that breast cancer is a State Building and Like Mr. Brackenridge, Mr. Irvis was a man universities. Pitt students regularly compete systemic, not a local, dis DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT /UR the Golden Gate of wideranging talents—an orator, author, for top national awards with the very best ease—one of the most Bridge, the Cathe painter, poet, and wood sculptor. And like students from the country’s top universi significant advances in FACULTY CONTINUE TO CLAIM THE dral of Learning Mr. Brackenridge, he was a transplant. He ties. And Pitt alumni continue to receive the history of women’s demonstrated that attended high school and college in Upstate the highest honors for their achievements. health; HIGHEST HONORS ACROSS A BROAD the Great Depres New York and began his teaching career in Particularly at an honors convocation, it H%!",%.,3,-/7&,)!%/4% RANGE OF DISCIPLINES !ND SINCE sion could not stop Baltimore. He came here to serve as public seems appropriate to note that just since the science of recombi Americans from relations secretary for the Urban League. the dawn of the new century, Pitt graduates nant DNA, the founda WE BECAME A STATE RELATED a c c o m pl i s h i n g Mr. Irvis graduated from our School have received such awards as the Nobel tion for countless medical great things.” of Law in 1954 and was a longtime Pitt Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize in Medicine, advances and for much of UNIVERSITY WE HAVE IMPORTED Being grouped Trustee. He launched his political career the National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer this country’s biotechnol with the Empire in 1958 as a member of the Pennsylvania Prize for Fiction, the National Book Award ogy industry; and MORE THAN BILLION OF State Building and House of Representatives, representing for Poetry, the Fritz Medal in Engineer H% % !",% .,3,-/7&,)!% the Golden Gate this part of the city. Nineteen years later, ing, and the Albany and Shaw Prizes in of most of the surgical RESEARCH SUPPORT INTO THE LOCAL Bridge puts our he was unanimously elected Speaker of the Medicine. techniques and dr ug ECONOMY AN AMOUNT THAT IS Cathedral in very B/0$,C)/!%/)-2%!",%*1$!%D41#+')%D&,1#+')% Over that same period, Pitt also has therapies that have made good company. Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Rep become an internationally respected center organ transplantation a ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE In that sense, 1,$,)!'!#3,$5%80!%!",%*1$!%E-'+F%$7,'F,1%/4% of pioneering research. We rank among the widely available treat it is much like the any state’s House of Representatives since top American universities both in funding ment option. company in this Reconstruction. from the National Institutes of Health and And, as is a major hall today. We have During more than three decades in the in overall federal science and engineering point of this convoca come together for state capitol, Speaker Irvis sponsored some research and development support. Our tion, we are not done. Instead, current this Founder’s Day Honors Convocation 1,600 pieces of legislation—campaigning faculty continue to claim the highest honors faculty members, as well as current alumni not only to gratefully acknowledge what to improve access to education, equality across a broad range of disciplines. And and alumnitobe, are advancing their own our predecessors left us, but to salute the of opportunity, and integrity in public life. since we became a staterelated university, exciting work and are poised to make future great things currently being accomplished For us, the Speaker’s most critical legisla we have imported more than $10.5 billion of contributions to our shared progress. by those in our midst. We enthusiastically tive contribution was his sponsorship of the research support into the local economy, an The state budget address delivered last applaud today’s honorees. By converting bill, enacted in 1966, that made Pitt a public, amount that is almost unimaginable. week included the following inspirational your own dreams into something good staterelated university. We sit at the heart of the education admonition: “We cannot allow the debts of and real, you have given the highest form The resulting appropriation helped posi and health services “supersector,” which today to crowd out the dreams of tomor of thanks to those who preceded you; you tion us to become one of the country’s top )/6%'++/0)!$%4/1%/),>*4!"%/4%!",%1,(#/);$% row.” But building the best possible future have brought honor to yourselves; and you research universities. It also made it possible employment and has been the most steady depends directly on two of our principal have helped advance the noble and never for us to annually provide tens of thousands ').%$#()#*+')!%$/01+,%/4%1,(#/)'-%G/8%(1/6!"% products—education and innovation. An ending cause of a University that has been of students with access to the highestquality for the past 15 years. In that role, we have approach to budget balancing built on deep building better lives for 225 years. higher education at a reasonable cost. helped shield this region from the harshest and disproportionate cuts to public support Congratulations, Happy 225th Birth Advancing the concepts of access and results of both the Great Recession and the for public research universities, then, does day, and Hail to Pitt! 4 s 0ITT #HRONICLE s -ARCH , 2012 !LUMNI !SSOCIATION (ONORS 0ITT 3CHOLAR !THLETES
SCHOLAR-ATHLETES WITH 4.0 GRADE-POINT AVERAGES PETE MADIA Pitt’s 4.0 scholar-athletes include, sitting, from left, Korinne Piper (track and field), Kellyn Black (dance team), Abbigail Baldys (soccer), Susan Martinez (track and field), and Sarah Zetlmeisl (swimming and diving). Standing, from left, are Pitt Athletic Director Steve Pederson, Pitt Alumni Association President Jack Smith, Kimmy Borza (tennis), Lisa Taylor (gymnastics), Abby Dowd (basketball), Keli Gaynor (softball), Lauren Mills (swimming and diving), Jennifer Larimore (tennis), and Ben Rubino (cheer team).
The Pitt Alumni Association Abbigail Baldys (women’s soccer), Justin The tennis team improved its tha Herman, John Kornaga, Karli Minick, honored 284 studentathletes during Boehm (men’s soccer), Kimmy Borza overall GPA from the 3.32 GPA it held Morgan Mohney, Madisyn Pina, Kajsa the annual University of Pittsburgh (tennis), Abby Dowd (women’s basketball), .01#)(%IJKJ5%!",%*1$!%!#&,%#!%6/)%L/7% Siewczak, Doug Stouch, Katie Sullivan, ScholarAthlete Awards Break Keli Gaynor (softball), Philip Konieczny Women’s Team and the Overall Team. Kristin Weir, and Zara Wroblewski fast, held Feb. 7 in Alumni Hall’s (baseball), Jennifer Larimore (tennis), “On behalf of the women’s tennis Connolly Ballroom. Pitt Alumni Susan Martinez (women’s track), Courtney team, I would like to thank Athletic FOOTBALL Association President McIntyre (women’s swim Director Steve Pederson, the Provost’s Kevin Barthelemy, Joshua Brinson, Jack Smith delivered ming and diving), Kris /4*+,5%').%D+'.,&#+%M077/1!%M,13#+,$% Desmond Brown, Keegan Buck, Malcom opening remarks, while h7E ARE EXTREMELY ten McMullan (women’s for the academic award we earned Crockett, Zenel Demhasaj, Carl Flem Austin Ransom, coor swimming and diving), today,” Pitt women’s tennis head coach ing, Hubie Graham, Drake Greer, Kevin dinator of Pitt’s Cathy PROUD OF OUR PierreAntoine Meunier George Dieffenbach said. “I want to Harper, Chris Jacobson, Jack Lippert, and John Pelusi Family (men’s swimming and congratulate all of the studentathletes Khaynin MosleySmith, Bryan Murphy, Life Skills Program, STUDENT ATHLETES AND diving), Lauren Mills honored today and personally thank Marco Pecora, Tristan Roberts, Matt served as the master of (women’s swimming and them for their discipline and hard work. Rotheram, Artie Rowell, Ryan Schlieper, ceremonies. THEIR EXCEPTIONAL diving), Korinne Piper We also owe thanks to our student Michael Shanahan, Andrew Taglianetti, “We are extremely PERFORMANCE IN THE (women’s track), Lisa athletes’ parents, who did an outstand Joe Trebitz, Ryan Turnley, Ray Vinopal, proud of our student Taylor (gymnastics), Ryan ing job of instilling in their children Kris Wildman, and Steve Williams athletes and their excep CLASSROOM )T TAKES Tomei (wrestling), Leah pride in the achievement of academic Graduates: Pat Bostick, Daniel tional performance in Ulizio (women’s track) excellence.” Hutchins, and Henry Hynoski the classroom,” Pitt AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT and Sarah Zetlmeisl Athletic Director Steve (women’s swimming and GYMNASTICS Pederson said. “It takes OF COMMITMENT diving). Also recognized Kelsey Ainsworth, Brittney Harris, an incredible amount at the breakfast were Maya Ketner, Brittany Marcsisin, Katie of commitment, disci DISCIPLINE AND Kellyn Black, a member BLUE AWARDS (3.0-3.49 GPA) O’Rourke, Laura Rigney, and Amy Varela 7-#),5%').%$'+1#*+,%!/% SACRIlCE TO ACHIEVE of Pitt’s Dance Team, and achieve scholarathlete Ben Rubino, Pitt’s “Roc” BASEBALL MEN’S SOCCER honors at the University SCHOLAR ATHLETE mascot, both of whom Jonathan Danielczyk, Richard Alex Fischetti, Shane Flowers, Robert of Pittsburgh. These held 4.0 GPAs during Devereaux, Michael Douglas, Joseph Iledare, Lee Johnston, Hami Kara, Alex young men and women honors at the 2011. Harvey, Matt Iannazzo, Kevin Johnson, Lowman, Daniel Mark, Dan Prete, and truly embody the very P e d e r s o n a l s o Joseph Leonardi, and Steven Shelinsky Matt Walbert best of Pitt and Pitt Ath University of announced the Academic Jr. Graduates: Alex Betancourt, Chris letics.” Team Awards. Graduates: Kevin Dooley, Lucas Cline, and Andy Kalas Members of Pitt’s 0ITTSBURGH 4HESE The Most Improved Ellex, Kevan Smith, and Cole Taylor Academ ic Suppor t YOUNG MEN AND Team was gymnastics, WOMEN’S SOCCER Services for student which earned a cumula MEN’S BASKETBALL Danielle Benner, Ashley Cuba, Kari athletes handed out blue WOMEN TRULY EMBODY tive 3.10 GPA. Malcolm Gilbert, Durand Johnson, Cunard, Caroline Keefer, Hayley Neal, and and gold awards to stu Ear ning the Top John Johnson, Aron Nwankwo, Nick Lauren Yobbi dents who earned a GPA the very best of Pitt Men’s Academic Award Rivers, and Cameron Wright Graduates: Liz Carroll, Alex Jaffe, and of 3.0 or higher during for the thirdconsecutive Kat Weiler the 2011 calendar year. AND 0ITT !THLETICSv year was the men’s soccer WOMEN’S BASKETBALL There were 163 student —Steve Pederson team. Ashlee Anderson, Leeza Burdgess, SOFTBALL athletes who accumu The women’s tennis and Brittaney Thomas Niki Cognigni, Ciera Damon, Courtney lated a GPA of 3.03.49 team was named both Derus, Amanda Heitmeier, Kelly Hmiel, (blue) and 121 who posted a 3.54.0 the Top Women’s Team and the Overall CHEER AND DANCE TEAM Alicia Keough, Savannah King, Alexa (gold)— including 18 studentathletes Team awardee for the secondconsecutive Brandy Ardolino, Laura Brouse, Larkin, Maggie Sevilla, and Holly Stevens who achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA. year, boasting a collective 3.33 GPA. Seven Katie Casella, Shannon Dugan, Justin The list of 4.0 studentathletes members of the squad earned a 3.5 GPA or Gilbert, Bethany Gottshall, TJ Gresko, MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING included Adela Aprodu (tennis), better, including two with a perfect 4.0 GPA. Katie Hall, Olivia Heidenfelder, Saman Austin Caldwell, Collin Forner, Dawid -ARCH s 5NIVERSITY OF 0ITTSBURGH s 5 2012 Honors Convocation
Goszczycki, Rousseau Kluever, and enga, Michael Theys, Chris Yankoski, Aaron Snyder Matt Yoklic, and Brett Zuck Graduates: Alex Kubicek and Alex Graduates: Jabaal Sheard and Tyler McLaren Tkach
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS Joanna Budzis, Renee Deschenes, Alyssa Adrian, Bri Hogan, Kori Kelsey DiGilio, Brittany DiSanti, Kate Macdonald, Alexa Riech, and Alicia Dunseith, Julie Harrison, Tamara Lelli, Talucci and Alec Shaeffer Graduate: Jennifer Liberato Graduates: Mallory Mullady and Morgan Speece MEN’S SOCCER Terry Akpua, Andy Clifford, Julian WOMEN’S TENNIS Dickenson, and Keegan Gunderson Molly Wickman Graduate: Joe PrinceWright 1 MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD/CROSS WOMEN’S SOCCER COUNTRY Madison Gritsch, Katelyn Lippert, PHOTOS BY JIM BURKE/CIDDE Richard Addison, Kurt Barnhart, Alyssa Meier, Taylor Parisse, Lyndsay Alec Bleacher, Antony Hobwana, Pierson, Kristina Rioux, Katelyn Ruhe, 2 Kevin Hulbert, Jermaine Lowery, and Morgan Sharick Jerome Lowery, Brett Millar, Josh Graduates: Laura Berbert and Morie Mindlin, Bryce Rupp, and Aaron Kephart Turner Graduates: Edward Miller and Maka SOFTBALL Mudekunye Graduates: Alyssa O”Connell and 3 Reba Tutt WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING Kalene Anderson, Shannon Casey, Adam Maczewski, Tyler Matheny, Julia Christensen, Kelsey Coates, Hussein Mohamed, Otto Pagel, John Ashley Corum, Arielle Fonrose, Pidgeon, and Jacob Van Roekel Robin Gilmore, Jordan Hoyt, Caroline Graduates: Andrzej Dubiel and Kirkby, Julia Koloski, Jonnique Law Charles Hauser rence, Casey Meier, Stephanie Powers, Jessica Rocco, Natalie Ryan, Veronica WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING 4 Schacht, Chelsea Scott, Brooke Shas Emily Bolek, Tori Brungo, Kimber teen, Haley Springman, Kristen Stain, lee Cadell, Kimberly Ciotti, Kelsey Valerie Wilson, and Ashley Woodford Herbst, Veronica Lee, Lauren Matev Graduates: Wunmi Fapohunda, ish, Jessica Nederlanden, Alison Swaf Ashley Moore, Shanae Thomas, and ford, Yolandi Van Der Merwe, Yolandi Alexis Wilder Van Rooyen, and Leigh Waltz Graduates: Sarah Looney and Cait 5 WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL lyn Trant Margy Acton, Kiesha Leggs, Monica Wignot, and Lindsey Zitzke WOMEN’S TENNIS Graduates: Melanie Feldman, Tara Melissa Bostwick, Minh Evans, Joc Rohall, and Amy Town elyn Lu, and Karma Parbhu Graduate: Elizabeth Adams 6 WRESTLING Nicholas Bonaccorsi, Karl DeCian MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD/CROSS tis, Zach Grove, Shelton Mack, Jordan COUNTRY Moss, Tyler Nauman, Josh Pascazi, Pat Andrew Cerrito, Luke Gallaher, Tasser, Zachary Thomusseit, Andrew Kevin Hull, Folarin Ijelu, Benjamin Vaughan, and Matt Wilps Kisley, Daniel O’Toole, Bradley Rocco, and Luke Swomley Graduate: Joshua Christopher
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD/CROSS GOLD AWARDS (3.5-4.0 GPA) COUNTRY Anyssa Barbour, Emily Barno, Jes BASEBALL sica Catalano, Megan Hebda, Elizabeth Luke Curtis, Anthony DeFabio, Eric Kline, Amanda Kuhl, and Michelle Hess, and Luke Novosel Magyar Graduates: David Kaye, John Graduates: Sarah Anderson, Brianna Schultz, and Travis Whitmore Broyles, Kaitlyn Flynn, Anita James, Carrie Mavrikis, Victoria Toso, and WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Kelsey Voltz Loliya Briggs and Marquel Davis WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL CHEER AND DANCE TEAM Alexa Campbell, Lauren Hartman, Derek Bradley, Hannah Brady, Juli and Maria Nicholas 1 and 2. Members of the Pitt community gathered for the University’s ana Bursic, Samantha Bursic, Teassa Graduates: Imani Harper, Allyson 36th Annual Honors Convocation on Feb. 24 in Carnegie Music Hall. The Eddy, Dorinda Fella, Marlee Hartens Hodnik, and Rachel Kalberer 7 event launched the observance of Pitt’s 225th Anniversary, a celebration tein, Cat Hoel, Emma Holmes, Mal that will continue through Homecoming Weekend in October. 3, 4, and lory Karavolis, Jessica Litten, Danielle WRESTLING Narlesky, Hilary Nickels, Michael Victor Konno, Donald Tasser, and 5. Pitt’s Alumni Association named three Distinguished Alumni Fellows, Nuzzo, Jill Palski, Brittany Post, Tyler Wilps all of whom were honored during the convocation: John M. Petersen Natalie Runco, Ali Sanders, Danielle Graduate: Christian Fagan (BUS ’51), retired president and CEO of Erie Insurance Group; Patricia Scalise, Adam Slabicki, Jeralyn Smith, D. Horoho (NURS ’92G), U.S. Army lieutenant general and U.S. Army Alyssa Standlick, and Anna Sweeney Surgeon General and commanding general; and David A. Tepper (A&S ’78), president and founder of Appaloosa Management. 6 and 7. Pitt FOOTBALL Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson addressed the audience, Myles Caragein, Devin Cook, Greg Gaskins, Jarred Holley, Adam Laz and Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg delivered the keynote address. The print version of his address is on page 2. 6 s 0ITT #HRONICLE s -ARCH , 2012 Women’sHistoryMonth !"#"$%"&'()*+#)*+%,'-.'/-0"12,'(),%-34'5%'%+"'61)7"3,)%4'-.'8)%%,9:3*+ ;-3"'3"$"1%#4<<< 2003 Suzanne Broadhurst is elected vice chair of Pitt’s Board of Trustees and continues to serve in that position. She has made countless other contributions to Women’s Varsity Basketball team 1924 Pitt, including her service as a member of several board committees as well as the boards sweeps its home game opponents and loses only one of visitors of the School of Nursing and the School of Education. Broadhurst is director of game on the road. corporate giving for Eat’n Park Hospitality Group. 2004 Wangari Muta Maathai, who earned the Master of Science degree in biol- 1942 Eighty-two percent of the students Suzanne Broadhurst in the professional nursing program enlist in ogy at Pitt in 1965, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her 30-year effort to reforest her native Kenya and improve the economic status of women a unit of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps orga- there, while fighting for democracy and against corruption and tribalism. Pitt conferred on nized by the University. Because of a wartime Maathai an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree during an Oct. 26, 2006, ceremony in shortage of nurses, the federal government mandates Alumni Hall. Maathai died Sept. 25, 2011, at age 71. Margaret Stein Stella Stein that nursing schools receiving federal money accept Under the leadership of Irene Frieze, professor of psychology and then- Black students. In 1943, Adena Johnson Davis president of the University Senate, the Senate sponsored a plenary session on 1895 Sisters Margaret and Stella Stein becomes the first African American admitted to the the roles of women at Pitt that led to three Senate ad hoc committees addressing women’s are the first women to enter the Western School of Nursing. She graduates in 1947. concerns: the Committee for the Support and Advancement of Women at Pitt (2004-06); the University of Pennsylvania (now the University Committee for the Promotion of Gender Equity (2007-08), and the Committee for the Wangari Muta Maathai of Pittsburgh) as full-time sophomores. The sisters 1949 Flora Diemert begins her term as Promotion of Gender Equity II (2009-10). graduate in 1898, tied for first place in their class, and the first female president of Pitt’s Student Susan G. Amara, chair of the Department of Neurobiology in Pitt’s School of return to Pitt in 1901 to begin their master’s degrees. Congress (now Student Government Board). Medicine, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2006, she is named the Dr. The 1950 edition of The Owl credited the 1949-50 Thomas Detre Endowed Professor in Pitt’s School of Medicine. 1908 Pi Theta Nu, the first sorority, forms Congress, led by Diemert, for fostering a more inclusive 2005 The director of Pitt’s European Union Center, Alberta Sbragia, is in 1908. Women’s organizations are rare until after Congress by establishing a Foreign Students Committee named Jean Monnet Chair ad personam by the European Commission, which 1910. and a High School Relations also designates Pitt’s center a European Union Center of Excellence. Sbragia, a Pitt professor Committee. of political science, is one of only two academics to be named Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in 2005. In 2006, Sbragia is named the inaugural holder of the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg Susan G. Amara University Chair and, in 2010, a vice provost for graduate studies. Lucille B. Crozier 1957 2006 Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg tells the University’s Board of Trustees (EDUC ’34, A&S ‘46G) becomes the first female Pitt Alumni that Pitt will honor Helen S. Faison—Pitt alumna, emerita trustee, and trailblazing educator—by creating the Dr. Helen S. Faison Chair in Urban Education, Association president. She was also the first fully endowed chair in the 96-year history of Pitt’s School of Education, where an Alumni Trustee from 1971 to Faison earned her BS, MEd, and PhD degrees in 1946, 1955, and 1975, respectively. 1974 and Emeritus Trustee from Pi Theta Nu, 1909 2007 Anna Quider, a Pitt Honors College student majoring in physics and 1977 to 1997. astronomy, the history and philosophy of science, and religious studies, is named a Marshall 1909 Shortly after the University moves to Scholar for 2007. Quider is the ninth Pitt student to win a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most Alberta Sbragia Oakland, Pitt opens the School of Education. 1969 Chancellor Wesley Posvar creates the Advi- competitive and prestigious merit scholarships available to graduating American seniors. Women flock to the new program, with the number sory Committee on Women’s Opportunities Eva Tansky Blum (A&S ’70, LAW ’73) and her brother, Burton Marvin of women students at Pitt jumping from about 40 to to address the agenda of the newly formed University Tansky (A&S ’61), are named cochairs of the University’s $2 billion “Building Our more than 300 in the first year. Committee for Women’s Rights. Future Together” fundraising campaign. Blum is the senior vice president and director of community affairs for PNC Bank and president of The PNC Foundation. 1910 Jean Hamilton Walls receives the 1972 The Pitt Women’s Studies Program The Pitt women’s basketball team earns its first-ever NCAA bachelor’s degree at Pitt, the first Black is founded. Tournament appearance during the 2006-07 season. The Panthers post woman to do so at the University. In 1938, a school-record 24 wins that season. The Pitt team later advances to the NCAA Sweet Helen S. Faison she becomes the first Black woman to receive the 1973 Pitt establishes the Women’s Sixteen in both 2008 and 2009. PhD degree at Pitt. Center to serve as an advising center to campus Angela Gronenborn, the UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair in the Pitt and community women. School of Medicine’s Department of Structural Biology, is elected a member of the National 1914 Women constitute Academy of Sciences. She is a leading structural biologist and expert in nuclear magnetic 25 percent of Pitt’s resonance spectroscopy. student body, with 600 1983 The Provost’s Advi- 2008 The lab of Yuan Chang, a professor of pathology in Pitt’s School of female students attending. sory Committee for Women’s Concerns is created. Medicine, and Patrick Moore, a Pitt professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, 1914-15 Women’s discovers that the Merkel cell polyomavirus causes an aggressive skin cancer. In 2003, she and Yuan Chang basketball organizes, the first 1996 Pitt establishes a Moore discovered a herpes virus as the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, the leading AIDS malignancy. competitive sport for women at Pitt. Faculty Medical and Family 2009 Eleanor Ott, a Pitt Honors College graduate, is named a Rhodes Leave Policy, which, among other Scholarship winner. A former Pitt Chancellor’s Scholar, Ott was a 2008 Truman Scholarship 1918 Pitt hires its first Jean Hamilton Walls benefits, allows pregnant women and new winner. During her time at Pitt, Ott tutored refugees who had come to the United States woman faculty member, Blos- mothers time off. seeking better lives—and spent her summers working at a refugee camp in Zambia. som Henry. 2010 Patricia E. Beeson is elected the first female provost and senior 2000 Katherine Detre, vice chancellor of Pitt by the University’s Board of Trustees. Beeson, with her successful 1919 Virginia Proctor Distinguished Professor of Epidemiol- 27-year career as a Pitt faculty member and administrator, was recommended by Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. Powell Florence is the first ogy in Pitt’s Graduate School of Patricia E. Beeson African American woman Public Health, begins leading a 2011 Roberta Luxbacher is the first woman to be named a Swanson School of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus, an award presented annually since 1964. Luxbacher, who in the United States to national study—involving 2,368 complete a professional edu- also serves on the Swanson School’s Board of Visitors, received her bachelor’s degree in patients at 40 sites across the United chemical engineering in 1978 and is currently the general manager of corporate planning for cation program in librarian- States—to determine the best way to ship. She graduates in 1923 from the ExxonMobil. treat people with both Type 2 diabetes Katherine Wisner, Pitt professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Behavioral Carnegie Library School, which later be- Blossom Henry and early coronary artery disease. The HealthCARE at the Western Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, receives the 2011 Women came part of Pitt’s School of Information study attracts funding for the largest in Science Award from the American Medical Women’s Association. Since 1993, the annual Sciences. (In 2004, a plaque honoring combined grant in Pitt history, $65 award honors a woman physician who has made exceptional contributions to medical science, Florence is installed in the Information million. especially in women’s health. Elodie Ghedin Sciences Building lobby.) Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, (NURS ’92G), the first nurse and first woman appointed The Women’s Athletic 2001 Jeannette South- to the position, becomes the Army’s 43rd Surgeon General in a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. She was nominated to the position by President Barack Obama May 10 and was later approved by the Association forms to manage Paul (MED ’79) is the first female intramural sports. U.S. Senate. chair of a Pitt medical department 2012 Elodie Ghedin, assistant professor in the Pitt School of Medicine’s Department of Pitt’s first Dean of and the first Black female chair in Women, Thyrsa Wealhtheow Computational and Systems Biology, is named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. Ghedin, a parasitologist and the nation of a medical department virologist, said she will use the unrestricted award of $500,000 to expand her parasitology research and Amos, arrives from the psychology at a nonhistorically Black college or explore new avenues in the evolution of RNS viruses, such as HIV and influenza. department at the University of Kansas. Virginia Proctor Powell Florence university. South-Paul is the Andrew Toi Derricotte, an English professor in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, is elected W. Mathieson Professor and chair in to the Academy of American Poets Board of Chancellors, the academy’s advisory board of distinguished 1920 Lantern Night, a candlelight ceremony Pitt’s Department of Family Medicine. poets. A renowned poet, Derricotte is the cofounder of the Cave Canem Foundation, which has been offering for freshman women, begins. workshops and retreats for African American poets since 1996. -ARCH s 5NIVERSITY OF 0ITTSBURGH s 7
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design, includes The Jacobsen American Chair Collection, a compre Happenings hensive private collection of iconic and historic chairs from the mid1800s to pieces from today’s studio movement, through April 8, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg, 7248371500, www.wmu seumaa.org.
The Warhol, About Face, a series of threedimensional largeformat portraits by photographer Anne Svenson; Warhol and Cars: American Icons, examin ing Warhol’s enduring fascination with automobiles as products of American consumer society, both through May 13; I Just Want to Watch: Warhol’s Film, Video, and Television, ongoing, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412237 8300, www.warhol.org.
Hillman Library Ground Floor, Pitt— 225 Years of Building Better Lives—1787- A St. Patrick’s Pops With Natalie MacMaster, 2012, exhibition of vintage photographs, maps, and copies of pages of Pitt’s two Heinz Hall, original state charters, on loan from March 15-19 Pennsylvania’s state archives, through May 18; also on display in the glass Audubon case are the actual front pages ents Series, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Emily Wender, Kenneth P. Dietrich of Pitt’s original state charters, Univer 4124566666, www.trustarts.org, PITT School of Arts and Sciences’ Department sity’s 225th anniversary commemoration, ARTS Cheap Seats, 4126244498, www. of English, “Situating Academic Readers: through May 18, 4129533298, 412 pittarts.pitt.edu. Emotion and Narrative in the Classroom,” 6488199. 10 a.m. March 16, 501 Cathedral of A Streetcar Named Desire, John Neu Learning. The Frick Art & Historical Center, meier’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams Draw Me a Story: A Century of Chil- classic, March 9-11, Benedum Center, Ming Ren, School of Information Sci dren’s Book Illustration, survey of draw 237 7th St., Downtown, Pittsburgh Ballet ences’ Graduate Program in Information ing styles and techniques spanning more Theatre, 4122810360, www.pbt.org, Science and Technology, “Advanced Map than 100 years, including watercolors, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 4126244498, Matching Technologies and Techniques pen drawings, and experimental combi www.pittarts.pitt.edu. for Pedestrian/Wheelchair Navigation nations from artists like Randolph Calde Systems,” 2 p.m. March 16, 502 Infor cott, Chris van Allsburg, Ernest Shepard, La Cage Aux Folles, Tony Awardwin mation Sciences Building. and Maurice Sendak, through May 20, ning musical comedy following the story 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412 of Georges, owner of a glitzy SaintTropez Mary Lou Vercellotti, Kenneth P. 3710600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org. nightclub, and his partner Albin, who Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences’ moonlights as the glamorous chanteuse Department of Linguistics, “Complexity, Hunt Institute for Botanical Docu- Zaza, March 13-18, Benedum Center, Accuracy, and Fluency as Properties of mentation, Native Pennsylvania, A 237 7th St., Downtown, PNC Broadway Language Performance: The Development Wildflower Walk, collaborative Across America, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, of the Multiple Subsystems Over Time exhibition between Hunt Institute and 4124566666, www.trustarts.org, PITT and in Relation to Each Other,” 2 p.m. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, ARTS Cheap Seats, 4126244498, www. March 16, 335 Cathedral of Learning. through June 29, Q!"%
COURTESY OF CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, PITTSBURGH Readings Presents Series, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Blue Lustre Vessel, by Beatrice Wood 4124566666, www.trustarts.org, PITT “Skeletal Tissue Engineering and ARTS Cheap Seats, 4126244498, www. Carnegie Museum of Art, Regeneration: Adult Stem Cells, pittarts.pitt.edu. Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, Nanofibrous Scaffold, and Biological ongoing Regulation,” Rocky S. Tuan, Arthur Freud’s Last Session, an evening of J. Rooney Sr. Chair in Sports Medicine, conversation between C.S. Lewis and Pitt’s School of Medicine, 4 p.m. Sigmund Freud about God, love, sex, Concerts March 8, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall, and the meaning of life, through Exhibitions Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, April 1, O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave., Haydn, Previn, and Mendelssohn’s www.provost.pitt.edu. Downtown, Pittsburgh Public Theater, “Italian,” André Previn conducting Haydn’s Symphony No. 102, Mendels Carnegie Museum of Natural His- 4123161600, www.ppt.org, PITT ARTS tory, Warhol’s Cats and Dogs Series, “The Power to Define: Who Is an Cheap Seats, 4126244498, www.pittarts. sohn’s Symphony No. 4, and the premiere Jack L. of Previn’s own Triple Concerto, featur ends June 30; M is for Museum, African/Black American?” pitt.edu. through Aug. 30, 4400 Forbes Ave., Daniel, Distinguished Service Profes ing soloists George Vosburgh, trumpet; sor of Communication, Pitt’s Kenneth William Caballero, horn; and Craig Oakland, 4126223131, cmnhweb@carn Ruthless! The Musical, featuring crazy egiemnh.org. P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, antics of a homicidal eightyearold aspir Knox, tuba; March 9-11, Heinz Hall, 4 p.m. 2500 Posvar Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown, BNY Mellon March 13, ing actress, through May 6, CLO Caba Carnegie Museum of Art, Teenie Pitt Provost’s Inaugural Lecture Series, ret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh Grand Classic, Pittsburgh Symphony www.provost.pitt.edu. Orchestra, 4123924900, www.pitts Harris, Photographer: An American CLO Cabaret, www.pittsburghclo.org, burghsymphony.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Story, through April 7; Maya Lin, 4123256766, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, Seats, 4126244498, www.pittarts.pitt. imaginative recreations of natural forms “Exploring Racial Residential Seg- 4126244498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu. edu. transformed into objects of contempla regation With a Telescope and a tion, through May 13; Hand Made: Microscope” Maria Krysan, professor of sociology, University of Illinois at world/roots music, with open Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, Pitt PhD Dervish, Chicago, noon March 13, Pitt Center ing act Callan, 7:30 p.m. March 10, and Wood, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 4126223131, www.cmoa.org. on Race and Social Problems (CRSP), Dissertation Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes IJ!"%
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*)- "52+%#)$$% s 0/$)5- 0(/4/3 "%,/7 "9 -!29 *!.% "%.4#)$$% 05",)#!4)/. ./4)#% The next edition of Pitt Chronicle will be published March 19. 1. The University Honors College (UHC) celebrated its 2 3 Items for publication in the newspaper’s 25th anniversary on Feb. 25 during a daylong forum that Happenings calendar (See page 7) should be received at least two weeks prior to included several presentations and musical interludes. the event date. Happenings items should The dinner, held in Alumni Hall’s Connolly Ballroom, and the forum, held in Bellefield Hall, coincided with the include the following information: title weekend launch of Pitt’s 225th anniversary celebration, which began with the Feb. 24 Honors Convocation of the event, name and title of speaker(s), and continues through the 2012 Homecoming festivities in October. Among the day’s speakers were: 2. date, time, location, sponsor(s), and a phone number and Web site for additional Mary Ellen Callahan (A&S, UHC ’90), Pitt trustee and chief privacy officer and chief Freedom of Information information. Items may be emailed to Act officer in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 3. Colin Stewart, managing director of the Bank [email protected], or sent by campus mail to of America in New York and son of the late G. Alec Stewart, founding dean of the UHC 4. Dick Thornburgh 422 Craig Hall. For more information, call (LAW ’57), Pitt emeritus trustee, former governor of Pennsylvania, former U.S. attorney general, and former 4 5 4126241033 or email [email protected]. U.N. undersecretary general, and now of counsel to K&L Gates in its Washington, D.C., office 5. Edward M. Stricker, UHC dean and a Distinguished University Professor of Neuroscience.