Notre Dame of Maryland University winter 2014

Fearless and faithful The Spirit of Notre Dame

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ear friend, Board of Trustees President’s Advisory Council I am pleased to present the inaugural issue of Universitas, the magazine of Notre Dame Trustees Carroll A. Bodie, retired vice President of Maryland University. Patricia J. Mitchell ’69, Chair president and general counsel, Joan Develin Coley, Ph.D. Brenda Jews, Vice Chair Proctor & Gamble Cosmetics Universitas is a Latin word with several meanings—the whole, the total, the sum of all Vice President for Kathryn B. Freeland, Secretary Ava E. Lias-Booker, managing things, the community, the world, the universe—all of which have obvious significance to Institutional Advancement Stanton G. Ades partner, McGuireWoods Patricia A. Bosse ’81 us. The name reflects our transformation from college to university as well as our reach outward to our Mary Noel Albers, SSND Cynthia Egan, president, T. Rowe Dcommunity and the world. Director of Marc P. Blum Price Retirement Plan Services It also fits nicely with a meme that’s captured everybody’s imagination on campus: We, the people of University Communications Patricia M.C. Brown John Rivera Notre Dame, are fearless and faithful. We hold dear our cherished traditions while confidently moving Edward S. Civera John C. Erickson, founder, Office of Alumni Relations Kathleen D. Cornell, SSND ’69 Erickson Living; chairman and forward to embrace challenges and opportunities the future presents us. This is especially true as we Emilia Poiter The Honorable J. Joseph Curran, Jr. CEO of Retirement Living TV look forward to the imminent announcement of the 14th president of the University. Jessica Angell Joan Davidson ’91 Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick, retired Sina Cook Donna C. Easton ’70 It has been my privilege this past year to accompany Notre Dame of Maryland University on this superintendent of schools, State Mary-Agnes Evans-Moreland ’84 journey. I hope you’ll enjoy reading about it in these pages. Editor of Maryland John Rivera Patricia Flynn, SSND ’64 Taylor L. Foss Patrick Hughes, president, Sincerely, Writers Patricia Hillman ’69 Hughes and Associates LLC Joan Develin Coley, Ph. D. John Rivera The Honorable Irene M. Keeley ’65 Marianne Amoss ‘04 Denise Koch, news anchor, President Marion I. Knott Susie Breaux McShea ‘87 WJZ-TV Channel 13 Carol Vellucci Robert R. Manfredi Patricia M. McCarron, SSND ’84 Richard E. Levine, partner, DLA Designers Nancy E. McColgan ’92 Piper US LLP SDYM M. Marc Munafo Neil M. Meltzer, president and Photographers Patricia Murphy, SSND ’69 CEO, Sinai Hospital; senior vice Howard Korn Anthony N. O’Brien president, LifeBridge Health Bill Denison Frank R. Palmer Fearless and Faithful: The Spirit of Notre Dame Dear reader, Larry Canner Helen M. Passano ’69 2 The spirit that led the School Sisters of Notre Dame 180 years ago Ronald R. Peterson, president, Christine Langr Deborah S. Phelps animates Notre Dame of Maryland University today. The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Welcome to our first issue ofUniversitas ! This new publication of Notre Dame of Maryland University John Rivera will highlight the exciting scholarship, service and campus life that every day make Notre Dame a warm Judith Schaum, SSND ’65 Health System Brian Schneider John C. Smyth The Beacon: Gibbons Hall Readied for Renovation Josh Kuckens 7 Jennifer W. Reynolds, partner and community that educates, enlightens and inspires. Mary Ian Stewart, SSND ’54 The Gibbons Project will enhance our signature building’s historic director, Ward Properties The name Universitas connotes wholeness. We are one University with many elements: colleges, Universitas is published by John K. Tolmie beauty while equipping it to serve students of the digital age. Notre Dame of Maryland University, J. Scott Wilfong Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr., chairman schools and programs, students, faculty, staff and alumnae and alumni. Through our Catholic, liberal Continuing a Literary Tradition Office of Institutional Advancement. Barbara Wolf ’69 of the board, Rosemore Inc. arts tradition, we offer a global and comprehensive Notre Dame education that strives to develop the Publications by Notre Dame English faculty continue the literary 4701 North Charles Street Angela R. Sherman (Faculty 8 legacy of poet and teacher Maura Eichner SSND ‘41. * Patricia J. Mitchell, chair of the whole person. Baltimore, Maryland 21210 Representative) Notre Dame Board of Trustees, The agesp of Universitas will reflect that reality. As we commemorate the 180th anniversary of the 410.532.5546 James W. Constable, Esq. (Ex officio) [email protected] Malaria: Reasearch from the Ground Up serves as an ex officio member of Joan Develin Coley (Ex officio) 12 founding of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, we reflect on the fearless and faithful spirit that has been Notre Dame students and faculty are making an important the Council. The diverse views presented in this Lynette Hodge (Student contribution to the fight against one of the world’s most crippling our legacy from the beginning. We highlight some cutting-edge research that, thanks to collaboration magazine do not necessarily reflect Representative) diseases. among our biology and pharmacy faculty and students, will help millions of people in the developing the opinion of the editor or the Trustee Associates world who suffer from malaria. And we celebrate Notre Dame’s continuing literary tradition with news official policies of the University. University Mission Carroll A. Bodie Reunion 2013 16 Alumnae and alumni returned to campus for a weekend to rekindle Notre Dame of Maryland University of some major recent and upcoming faculty publications. On the cover: Baltimore artist Betty Contino ’89 friendships and celebrate community. educates women as leaders to Finally, each issue will feature a guest columnist in a section called “The Last Word.” This month Robert McClintock’s vibrant portrait of Kathleen O’Ferrall Friedman ’62 Gibbons Hall was commissioned in transform the world. Embracing Kristine K. Howanski includes a reflection by Joshua Parker, a Baltimore County teacher and NDMU alum who was named honor of President Emerita Mary Pat The Year in Review the vision of the founders, the Michael D. Lippy Maryland’s Teacher of the Year in 2012. He writes from a first-person perspective, as a teacher and a Seurkamp. Copies of the print may be 18 Project Homeless Connect, the dedications of the University School Sisters of Notre Dame, the Melissa McGuire ’91 ordered through his Fell’s Point gallery Academic Building and the Otenasek House of the Morrissy Honors University provides a liberal arts father, on how we might improve outcomes for black males in our education system. Vicky Munafo or at robertmcclintock.com. Program and a visit by author Julia Alvarez are some of the education in the Catholic tradition. Mary Anne O’Donnell It is possible you may be surprised by Notre Dame’s many accomplishments. But there is no doubt highlights of an already eventful year. Distinctive undergraduate and Joshua Parker M’10 you will be proud of them. graduate programs challenge Joseph E. Peters Honor Roll of Donors women and men to strive for Mary Louise Preis 22 Sincerely, Recognizing the remarkable leadership of Notre Dame of Maryland intelluctual and professional Robert Sabelhaus John Rivera University’s most generous and faithful contributors. excellence, to build inclusive Christine G. Snyder ’77 communities, to engage in service Director of University Communications Find us online Kathleen D. Solomon The Last Word: Transforming the Education of Black Males to others, and to promote social ndm.edu Diana M. Trout ’97 32 Joshua Parker M’10, Maryland’s 2012 Teacher of the Year, draws on his responsibility. Facebook: www.facebook.com/ experience from the classroom and as a father in urging educators to NotreDameofMaryland make a concerted effort to reach out to young black men. Twitter: @NotreDameofMD Hashtag: #ndmu

Universitas 1 fearless and faithful The Spirit of Notre Dame By John Rivera and Susie Breaux McShea ‘87

In June 1847, five women led by Mother Theresa Gerhardinger set out from their motherhouse in Munich, Germany, for the port city of Bremen, where they boarded the SS Washington, bound for the United States. These women, vested in the habit of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, faced an uncertain future on a path that would eventually lead to a hilltop campus in Baltimore. They had been invited to start a school in southwestern Pennsylvania. The Benziger and Eschbach Company of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, had purchased the land with the intention of selling plots to emigrating German Catholics and developing a town called St. Mary’s. A certain Baron von Schroeder, sent by the company as an emissary to accompany the Sisters, assured them they would be welcomed upon their arrival by the bishop of Pittsburgh. What could be more auspicious than to begin a new venture in a place named after Notre Dame, Our Lady, the mother of Jesus? But troubles began soon after Mother Theresa and her companions disembarked in New York. The Redemptorist Fathers they visited warned them not to commit to St. Mary’s: it was sparsely populated, and, most importantly, it was not located on a trade route. The town faced a bleak future. Then, on the journey overland, one of their band, a novice named Mary Emmanuel, fell ill in Harrisburg, Pa., and died. The grieving Sisters buried her and continued by coach on the rugged road. According to a diary entry by one of the Sisters, “The muddy water from the puddles through which we drove splashed over our heads and fell upon our clothing. Hanging boughs struck us in the faces; we were sorry-looking objects.”

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President Ulysses S. Grant First baccalaureate attends commencement. degrees awarded.

Notre Dame of Maryland College of Notre Dame of Collegiate Institute opens. Maryland is established.

Universitas 3 the spirit of notre dame Fearless and Faithful By John Rivera and Susie Breaux McShea ‘87 In June 1847, five women led by Mother Theresa Gerhardinger set out from their motherhouse in Munich, Germany, for the port city of Bremen, where they boarded the SS Washington, bound for the United States. These women, vested in the habit of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, faced an uncertain future on a path that would eventually lead to a hilltop campus in Baltimore. They had been invited to start a school in southwestern Pennsylvania. The Benziger and Eschbach Company of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, had purchased the land with the intention of selling plots to emigrating German Catholics and developing a town called St. Mary’s. A certain Baron von Schroeder, sent by the company as an emissary to accompany the Sisters, assured them they would be welcomed upon their arrival by the bishop of Pittsburgh. What could be more auspicious than to begin a new venture in a place named after Notre Dame, Our Lady, the mother of Jesus? But troubles began soon after Mother Theresa and her companions disembarked in New York. The Redemptorist Fathers they visited warned them not to commit to St. Mary’s: it was sparsely populated, and, most importantly, it was not located on a trade route. The town faced a bleak future. Then, on the journey overland, one of their band, a novice named Mary Emmanuel, fell ill in Harrisburg, Pa., and died. The grieving Sisters buried her and continued by coach on the rugged road. According to a diary entry by one of the Sisters, “The muddy water from the puddles through which we drove splashed over our heads and fell upon our clothing. Hanging boughs struck us in the faces; we were sorry-looking objects.”

1873 1876 1895 1899

President Ulysses S. Grant First baccalaureate attends commencement. degrees awarded.

Notre Dame of Maryland College of Notre Dame of Collegiate Institute opens. Maryland is established.

Universitas 3 The Spirit of Notre Dame fearless and faithful

By John Rivera and Susie Breaux McShea ‘87 In June 1847, five women led by Mother Theresa Gerhardinger set out from their motherhouse in Munich, Germany, for the port city of Bremen, where they boarded the SS Washington, bound for the United States. These women, vested in the habit of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, faced an uncertain future on a path that would eventually lead to a hilltop campus in Baltimore. They had been invited to start a school in southwestern Pennsylvania. The Benziger and Eschbach Company of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, had purchased the land with the intention of selling plots to emigrating German Catholics and developing a town called St. Mary’s. A certain Baron von Schroeder, sent by the company as an emissary to accompany the Sisters, assured them they would be welcomed upon their arrival by the bishop of Pittsburgh. What could be more auspicious than to begin a new venture in a place named after Notre Dame, Our Lady, the mother of Jesus? But troubles began soon after Mother Theresa and her companions disembarked in New York. The Redemptorist Fathers they visited warned them not to commit to St. Mary’s: it was sparsely populated, and, most importantly, it was not located on a trade route. The town faced a bleak future. Then, on the journey overland, one of their band, a novice named Mary Emmanuel, fell ill in Harrisburg, Pa., and died. The grieving Sisters buried her and continued by coach on the rugged road. According to a diary entry by one of the Sisters, “The muddy water from the puddles through which we drove splashed over our heads and fell upon our clothing. Hanging boughs struck us in the faces; we were sorry-looking objects.”

1873 1876 1895 1899

President Ulysses S. Grant First baccalaureate attends commencement. degrees awarded.

Notre Dame of Maryland College of Notre Dame of Collegiate Institute opens. Maryland is established.

Winter 2014 3 he Sisters began wondering if SSND ‘69, provincial leader of the ties with our classmates during Reunion ing the needs of underserved popula- founding of the College in 1895. Under the past six years, 14 of our graduates they would ever reach their School Sisters’ Atlantic-Midwest Prov- Weekend. The images of Gibbons and tions, which are continually changing. the leadership of Debra Franklin, Ph.D., have been named Teacher of the Year in destination, according to an ince. “The call of our foundress Blessed Theresa halls stir fond memories. And Adaptability is certainly one key to dean, longtime professor of communi- Maryland. In 2012, the most recent account written by Sister Mary Theresa Gerhardinger to follow the the call to service beckons each new Notre Dame’s continued success. Notre cation arts and Notre Dame alumna, data available, 100% of M.A. in Teach- David Cameron, SSND: “On Gospel mandate has taken us to the class, as it did this fall when hundreds of Dame is a well-respected academic lead- class of 1976, the School’s curriculum ing graduates received job offers, and the evening after the third day poverty-plagued streets of America’s Notre Dame students, faculty and staff er with an increasingly multi-faceted ensures a solid liberal arts foundation 95% of graduates of initial certification out of Harrisburg, they looked cities and has inspired our work with volunteered to help their impoverished commitment to expand its educational for all students. The instructional pro- programs work in their field. around them at the log huts scattered women and children in Nepal, South brothers and sisters as part of Project reach to diverse populations. During the gram of the School includes courses in The School of Nursing focuses on sparsely over a clearing in the forest and Sudan, East Timor and dozens of other Homeless Connect. year-long assessment that ultimately led the arts and humanities, the natural the discipline of nursing to prepare and asked the baron how soon they would nations in need. This stance, grounded in tradition to Notre Dame’s transition to university sciences, the social sciences, and profes- further the careers of professional reach St. Mary’s. ‘Why,’ he said, ‘you are That same fearless and faithful spirit while reaching to the future, was elo- status, the leadership team articulated a sional areas of study such as pre- nurses as the nation faces significant Talready in the heart of the city!’” led the SSNDs to dream big when they quently expressed recently by Christine vision for the University that confirms law, communication arts, business and workforce shortages. Katharine Cook, To top it off, the bishop of Pittsburgh established the first Catholic college in De Vinne, OSU, Ph. D., vice president an allegiance to its core mission as a radiological sciences. The School of Ph.D., R.N., serves as Dean of the had never heard the Sisters were the United States to award four-year for academic affairs. Catholic liberal arts college for women Arts and Sciences touches every School. The nursing program offers coming and wasn’t particularly welcom- baccalaureate degrees to women. “As a university, Notre Dame of as well as a commitment to meet the student on campus, delivering a full entry level B.S.N., R.N. to B.S.N. ing. Mother Theresa later recalled his As the SSNDs celebrate the 180th Maryland has a strong foundation and changing needs of society by educating 50% of the University’s student credit and M.S.N. degrees; all programs are greeting: “I am very much surprised at year of their founding, there is a sense of is reaching for the sky,” she said at the both women and men in graduate and hours and partnering closely with the based on caring science curricula that your arrival.” excitement and momentum on the fall dedication of the University part-time undergraduate programs. In professional schools. Master’s degrees transform learning by focusing on inter- The istersS had every reason to campus of Notre Dame. The changes in Academic Building. “The tradition and fact, such duality is seen by many as a in English, Leadership in Management, actions among students and faculty. The retrace their steps onto the decks of the the past five years have been dizzying. solid liberal arts values are symbolized distinctive strength of Notre Dame, Non Profit Management, Contempo- new University Academic Building that first boat back to Bremen. But they The G. Avery Bunting Hall and the by the front of campus and the time- expressed succinctly in the title of the rary Communication, and Analytics in houses the School of Nursing incorpo- didn’t. They moved into a small frame University Academic Building have honored buildings that are beloved by collected words of Blessed Theresa Knowledge Management provide ad- rates state-of-the-art facilities as a result convent, got to work and soon had the transformed the eastern part of campus. current students and alums alike.” Gerhardinger: “Trust and Dare.” vanced studies for today’s workplace. of funding from the Knott Foundation, school up and running. But Mother The graduation of the first class from The eastern part of campus, she said, This duality is also reflected in how TheS chool of Education, formerly a the Middendorf Foundation, Hearst Theresa was soon convinced that St. the School of Pharmacy and expanding “a bit more contemporary in architec- the University has restructured itself in department, was officially named a Foundations and the State of Maryland. Mary’s was no place for a motherhouse, programs in the School of Nursing have ture, represents the current growth, recent years. Sister Christine, as vice School in 2009. Sharon Slear, SSND, The Center for Caring with Technology and she traveled to Baltimore to kept Notre Dame on the cutting edge the dedication to meeting the current president of academic affairs, oversees Ph.D., is the founding dean of the provides a technology-rich environment consult with Father John Neumann, the of health care delivery. An innovative needs of our students and all of society.” the four Schools that are the foundation School of Education, which continues to prepare bedside nurses. New labs fea- future saint who was then provincial program in Analytics in Knowledge Together, the two areas of the cam- of the University structure. In discuss- to be the largest private provider of new ture realistic patient simulators where leader of the Redemptorists. With his Management has helped the University pus represent two trajectories with a ing the Schools, Sister Christine’s choice teachers in Maryland. The School students can practice clinical scenarios encouragement, she accepted an offer keep pace with the move toward common root. “The strength of the past of words implies grounding and explo- boasts 18 certification programs and 12 for labor and delivery, pediatrics and from the Redemptorists to start schools harvesting Big Data. And we anticipate and the courage to build for the future ration—a duality that resonates with master’s degree programs, several of adult medical surgical practice in a safe in their parishes, and by the autumn of the appointment of the next president, meet here at Notre Dame,” she said. students, past and present. Sister Chris- which are unique among Maryland’s environment. Nursing transitioned to a 1847 the Sisters began teaching in three who will provide the vision for the next Jon Fuller, senior fellow with the tine describes each School as a “home” colleges and universities, including school in July 2011. parishes in Baltimore. phase of Notre Dame’s rich history. National Association of Independent or “anchor.” The Colleges are the “path- those in gifted and talented education The School of Pharmacy launched These School Sisters of Notre Dame At the same time, we hold fast to our Colleges and Universities, notes that ways” through which students enter and and mathematics instructional leader- its innovative professional doctorate in were not easily discouraged. They were traditions and our liberal arts core. Notre Dame’s emphasis on its tradition progress on their educational journey. ship. In addition, the School graduates pharmacy (Pharm.D.) in 2009. The fearless. And they were faithful. That Honors Convocation and the recitation and its evolution into new educational more K-8 STEM (science, technology, School of Pharmacy’s labs, classrooms spirit continues today. of the Honor Pledge never fail to move ventures is consistent with its Catholic Schools: The Anchors engineering and mathematics) teachers and offices are centralized in a $13 mil- “Today, School Sisters of Notre us, whether attending as a brand-new identity. Catholic institutions, he says, than any other institution in the state. lion, 25,000-square-foot building made Dame remain dedicated to educating student, a graduating senior, an alumna “are particularly adaptive places.” They The School of Arts and Sciences Flexible and accelerated program possible in part by a generous donation women globally, as we have for almost or alumnus, or a member of our distin- are inventive and driven by their mis- remains the historical anchor of the options provide multiple pathways for from Mary Catherine Bunting, the 180 years,” said Kathleen D. Cornell, guished faculty or staff. We maintain sions, which typically relate to address- University and traces its roots to the initial certification through Ph.D. In grand daughter of George Avery Bunting,

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SSND gift establishes Athletic teams enter Dedication of the Loyola/Notre Dame endowment fund. intercollegiate competition. Knott Science Center. Library opens.

Cardinal Gibbons blesses the cornerstone Honor Code is adopted. Opening of Doyle Hall Quest ’70 affirms identity as of College Hall (now Meletia Hall). residence for students. a Catholic women’s college.

4 Universitas Winter 2014 5 a pharmacist and founder of the Noxze- undergraduate classes for women and in Brazilian favelas, Guatemalan schools ma Chemical Company. The addition is men are offered in flexible schedules and a women’s cooperative in Swaziland. named in his honor: G. Avery Bunting including accelerated, weekend, evening “We went there to try and teach a Hall. Founding Dean Anne Lin, and online options to fit busy work and group of women a skill that might Pharm.D., leads the School, which em- life schedules. Fast-track programs en- help them,” says Andreina Mijares- phasizes women’s health across the lifes- able working adults to earn degrees Cisneros, Class of 2016, one of three pan, care of diverse populations, leader- more quickly by taking courses through- Notre Dame students who traveled to The Beacon: Gibbons Hall Readied for Renovation ship, teamwork and communication, all out the year. Swaziland on a Davis Projects for of which are vital to quality patient The College of Graduate Studies Peace grant during the summer of 2013 By Joan Wisner-Carlson care. Pharmacy students provide services provides all post-baccalaureate offerings. to teach crocheting to a women’s sewing to Baltimore’s medically underserved Advanced study options include 10 cooperative. “And they ended up teach- ne hundred forty years survey to begin this spring to from room to room make it populations through the AdvoCaring master’s degrees, a Ph.D. in instruction- ing us more than we ever imagined.” ago, a five-story red-brick document and prioritize the challenging to incorporate Program. The School celebrated its first al leadership for changing populations We are fearless and faithful women, Obuilding crowned with a bell work required to preserve the videos or other multimedia graduating class last May. in our School of Education and the men, alumnae, alumni, faculty, staff, tower and a simple gold cross building’s exterior, says Patricia sources into instruction. doctorate in pharmacy, as well as a num- friends and School Sisters of Notre opened its doors on a hilltop in A. Bosse ’81, vice president for Some School Sisters take a

ber of professional certificate programs. Dame. The spirit that led the five north Baltimore to educate institutional advancement. A characteristically pragmatic Colleges: The Pathways Although the hilltop campus of SSNDs in 1847 to take a leap of faith, those whose education was $10,000 gift from a friend of approach to the Gibbons The Women’s College serves traditional Notre Dame is a sanctuary of study, we leave their homes and travel to an uncer- neglected by society—girls and the University will partially Project. Kathleen Marie Engers, college-age women, offering an education are not a cloister. Our fearless and faith- tain future is very much present today in young women. Completed in fund the planning survey by SSND ’47, recalls that one rooted in the Catholic traditions of ful students continue to work and vol- the people of Notre Dame of Maryland 1873, the building now known an architectural engineering prominent feature of the liberal arts and service to others. Research unteer in our community, as exemplified University. In the words of Pope Francis, as Gibbons Hall would 22 firm, she says. building, a grand wooden has shown that women’s colleges provide by our School of Pharmacy’s AdvoCar- we are not afraid to leave our areas of years later house the adminis- The oalg of the planning staircase leading to the second an exceptionally supportive learning envi- ing program, which pairs each student comfort and “go out to the margins of trative offices, classrooms and effort will be to survey the floor known as “the pope stairs,” ronment, with great potential to foster with a community organization for all existence,” to face challenges, embrace dormitory of the first Catholic exterior envelope of the was later removed when the collaboration, academic achievement and four academic years of that degree. adversity and seize opportunities. That college for women in the building, including the open expanse was deemed a fire leadership. Graduates of women’s colleg- “As a first-year pharmacy student I spirit is captured in a quote from United States to award the structural integrity of the hazard. “We would like to es are more likely to pursue advanced de- was able to go out and interact with the Mother Caroline Friess, one of those four-year baccalaureate degree. monumental tower and the retain as best as we can certain grees, earn higher salaries and achieve community and apply skills we were original five missionaries who would Today, University leaders condition of its 278 windows, historic elements of Gibbons’ leadership positions in their careers. As taught in the classroom from my very be appointed by Mother Theresa to be are embarking on a major the slate of its mansard roof, interior, but we need to look at Maryland’s women’s college, Notre Dame first semester,” says Adda Massah, Class the first leader of the congregation in renovation of Gibbons Hall, red bricks and paint. the broad picture of how we can offers a vibrant learning community where of 2016. “I was able to play with chil- North America: with plans under way to Faculty who teach in sustain the building well into women can excel in many fields. Gradu- dren in my AdvoCaring group and meet identify the steps necessary to Gibbons welcome the the future for the benefit of our ates of Notre Dame are trailblazers— the wonderful teachers completely dedi- restore its historic beauty as technology updates. English students,” says Sister Kathleen. whether becoming a four-star general, a cated to them. The look in those chil- “Look not forward in anxious care but well as to equip it to meet the professor Ray Bossert “We are called here to educate federal judge, a renowned surgeon, a dren’s eyes when we had a health fair upward in a spirit of faith and hope.” instructional needs of 21st appreciates the tin ceiling and students above all.” research scientist, a poet or a successful geared towards them is something I will century students. historic charm of his class-

entrepreneur. never forget. They felt important, and The first phase of the room on the fifth floor. But he —Joan Wisner-Carlson is Notre Dame’s The College of Adult Undergraduate they were eager to participate because so-called Gibbons Project will notes that the technology carts director of corporate, foundation and —John Rivera is the director of university Studies encompasses the innovative we were not talking to their parents. We be a comprehensive planning that instructors must wheel government relations. communications at Notre Dame. programs that were launched in the early were talking to them.” Susie Breaux McShea ’87 is a contributing 1970s with the introduction of Weekend During summers or Winterim, writer to Universitas. College and has been continually refined Notre Dame students can be found to meet contemporary needs. Today, learning through service far from home

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Students choose the Gator as Graduate Studies Program opens Mary Pat Seurkamp named School of Pharmacy graduates the official athletic mascot. with first master’s in management. first permanent lay president. first class of students.

Weekend College opens to serve English Language Institute Renaissance Institute opens College becomes Notre Dame employed women and men. is established. for students over 50. of Maryland University.

6 Universitas Winter 2014 7 literary Jeana DelRosso (co-editor) such issues as homosexuality. For speak to a lot of women and to their Unruly Catholic Writers: Creative some Catholic women, this leads to a experiences,” said Dr. DelRosso, “and Responses to Catholicism (2013) conflict, between, as Dr. DelRosso puts maybe help them also to start to find it, religion and spirituality. “I think ways to live within that tension that The image on the front cover ofUnruly [Unruly Catholic Women Writers] the Church creates for us.” The poetry of Maura Eichner, SSND Catholic Women Writers: Creative speaks to a lot of the issues that those ’41, brought national recognition to Responses to Catholicism is of a woman’s of us who were raised Catholic and Shelley Puhak Notre Dame of Maryland and put it hands pressed together in prayer, a who have also come to some sort of Guinevere in Baltimore (2013) on the literary map. Sister Maura rosary wound through her fingers; her feminism in our lives struggle with.” inculcated a love of writing in many right arm sports a colorful tattoo, while In essays, plays, short stories and Guinevere in Baltimore, the second students over her 50-year career her left hand bear a simple silver wed- poetry, the contributors explore this collection of poetry by Notre Dame’s teaching creative writing and literature ding band. For Dr. DelRosso, a co-edi- intersection of the Church and the Shelley Puhak, recasts the Arthurian at Notre Dame. More than 350 of tor of the book, the image perfectly world. The pieces are organized legend in the modern day: Arthur her own poems appeared in literary captures the experience of the unruly thematically in three sections called is CEO of Camelot Transatlantic magazines and journals, newspapers women writers it features—women The Joyful Mysteries, The Sorrowful Shipping, Lancelot his Most Trusted and collections, including After Silence, who, as Dr. DelRosso puts it, can often Mysteries, and The Glorious Salesperson. Ms. Puhak places these a collection of poems chosen by her be found “mixing things up a little, cre- Mysteries—terms that Catholics will beloved historical characters squarely friends and colleagues that was pub- ating some difficulties in a good way.” recognize from praying the rosary, an in Baltimore, with poem titles like lished after her death in 2009. It’s exciting news, to be sure, but it The ollectionc centers on unruly activity linked closely to women and to student who walked away from her “Guinevere, Meeting Lancelot at the The raditiont Sister Maura estab- comes as no surprise to department Catholic women’s responses to the the Blessed Virgin Mary. (In fact, as classes ready to take on the world.” Walters Art Gallery” and mentions of lished continues with the publication chair Margaret Ellen Mahoney, many mysteries that the faithful the co-editors write, “Many women The ollectionc closes with The such well-known features of our city of three new works this academic year SSND. “One of the great strengths of accept. Cited by the co-editors in the continue to envision Mary as an unruly Glorious Mysteries section, which as the Bromo Seltzer Tower, Fort by members of the English depart- the English department has always introduction are the doctrines of papal woman, choosing to become the charts a new possible course for McHenry and the old streetcar tracks ment: Jeana DelRosso, professor of been the scholarship of the faculty, infallibility, the Holy Trinity and the mother of God, embracing her fate, Catholic women and explores the ways still visible around town. English and Women’s Studies and particularly in publishing books,” she Catholic Mass itself, which centers on and standing strong as she watches that “Catholic sacrament and ritual, Guinevere in Baltimore provides an director of the Morrissy Honors says. “The recent publications of critical the transformation of bread and wine the murder of her only son.”) Each combined with female unruliness, offer insider’s perspective on the doomed Program; Shelley Puhak, assistant analysis, fiction, and the collection of into Jesus’ body and blood—as well as section both reflects the traditional new visions for a Catholic future for love affair that causes the downfall of professor of English and holder of the poetry indicate the diversity of our Church teaching that limits women’s understanding of these mysteries and women.” Altogether, it’s an emotional Arthur’s kingdom and the end of the Sister Maura Eichner Endowed Chair professors and our continuation of achievement of leadership positions refracts them in a more modern prism: and gripping read; the contributors glorious age of Camelot. It’s a story we in English; and Gene Farrington, the tradition of department faculty within the institution and regulates for Catholics the Joyful Mysteries are clearly grappling with their compli- know well, both from history and the professor of English and drama. publications.” some of their personal decisions about include the visitation of Mary by the cated relationships with the Church. present day. As Baynard Woods wrote Angel Gabriel, the birth of Jesus and This is the second collection about in his glowing review in Baltimore’s Mary and Joseph finding the lost, unruly Catholic women that Dr. City Paper, “Guinevere is also a decid- young Jesus teaching in the temple; the DelRosso has co-edited with two col- edly post-financial-collapse collection, Joyful Mysteries section of Unruly leagues: Leigh Eicke, an independent which perfectly sets the corporation’s Catholic Women Writers explores the scholar, and Ana Kothe, a comparative financial difficulties in line with the contributors’ perspectives on mother- literature professor at the University of marital troubles between Arthur and hood, childhood and growing up. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. In 2007 Guinevere and the end of an era of Appearing in that section is “My Soul Palgrave Macmillan published their legends and myths and heroes. We Sisters—or, How the Nuns of my first book,The Catholic Church and can understand the demise of the Continuing a Childhood Inspired a Feisty Feminist,” Unruly Women Writers: Critical Essays, Round Table more clearly having seen by Renée Bondy. She writes with great for a mostly academic audience. The Lehman’s once-gallant knights fall and warmth about the religious sisters she more-accessible writing in this new bring down a entire economic order knew as a young woman—notably collection, published in November with them.” Ms. Puhak said more Sister Bernadette, her tenth-grade by State University of New York reviews of the collection are forthcom- religion teacher, who sounds a lot like Press, will likely appeal to a broader ing this year; she was also profiled in many of Notre Dame’s own SSNDs. readership. Readings and other events Baltimore magazine’s February issue. “She had just returned from 10 years’ to mark the book’s release will take Ms. Puhak has also put a contempo- missionary work in Lesotho, Africa, place later this year, including a session rary feminist spin on her retelling. “In Literary and had countless stories to tell about at the National Association of all of the Romantic poems about her adventures. I didn’t, even for a sec- Women in Catholic Higher Educa- [Guinevere] there is one where she gets ond, want to be a missionary, but Sister tion’s conference in Seattle this coming to speak for a little bit, but generally it’s By Marianne Amoss ’04 Bernie’s compassion and zeal were con- June led by Dr. DelRosso and several men deciding the fate of these women,” Tradition tagious, and I know I wasn’t the only contributors. “I really hope that it will she said. “It was fun to give her the

8 Universitas Winter 2014 9 literary facilities novel, David Sharpe, have the same I f you haven’t set foot on the Counselman Atrium, an open The President’s Residence name as Molly’s deceased father, who campus of Notre Dame recently, space rising from the first floor, Notre Dame of Maryland was descended from those original your next visit could be a was dedicated in honor of University has acquired our Jamestown settlers? revelation. The past several longtime NDMU friend and first-ever President’s Residence As the novel progresses, more months have seen a slew of benefactor Catherine Roloson at 100 St. Albans Way, a block opportunity to talk back to the questions are raised, and more details openings and dedications. Counselman ’41. away from campus. Trustee the University’s Fitness Center Romantic and Modernist poets who about the characters are revealed. Chair Patricia J. Mitchell ’69 into what is now Gator Lair on have used her as a launching pad for Slowly, a web is knit that connects them The University The Otenasek House of the directed the renovation and the second floor of the MBK their own ideas—to give her a chance all, characters and events both fictional Academic Building Morrissy Honors Program furnishing of the house. Sports and Activities Complex to speak for herself.” and historical. In this way, The Blue Her- The newest addition to the The Otenasek House of the During seven months of and the acquisition of new Ms. Puhak graduated in 1997 from on evokes themes of identity, history and campus landscape is also one Morrissy Honors Program was renovations, the house has exercise equipment, including Notre Dame and returned to the truth—made even more pointed by of the most dramatic. The dedicated during Family been complemented by treadmills, bicycles and English department in 2008 as a writer the book’s postmodern novel-within- University Academic Building, Weekend in October. The generous donations of elegant elliptical machines. The current in residence and 2012 as full-time a-novel construct, in which d’Ersby is located on the hillside ceremony included a tribute furnishing from close friends, Fitness Center, on the first faculty. She holds the Sister Maura constructing the narrative of the fiction- overlooking Alumnae Field, to the house’s namesake, alumnae and alumni of Notre floor of the complex adjacent Eichner Endowed Chair in English. al David while in real life his family and features three floors of brick Mildred B. Otenasek ’36, Ph.D., Dame—notably through to the gymnasium floor, will be She also runs the Sister Maura Gene Farrington their estate are crumbling around him. and glass with classrooms, who passed away in 2012. those who are members of the converted to a weight room. Eichner Award for Young Poets The Blue Heron (Forthcoming in 2014) It all leads d’Ersby to wonder, “Was he, competition, which recognizes promis- himself, only a construct of words or a ing high-school-age female poets, and Dr. Gene Farrington’s new novel, The deconstruct?” organizes 4 Under 40, an annual fall Blue Heron, opens with an online chat “The book, thematically, is about the The Evolving Landscape of Notre Dame reading series featuring young women between “dsharpe”—aka David d’Ersby, way we were developed by language,” Dr. writers. Ms. Puhak continues Senior a novelist—and “themoll”—aka Molly Farrington says. “[It asks] the question, meeting rooms and The Grotto of the Maura’s tradition of writing economic, Sharpe, a historian. The two live on is it possible to exist without language?” offices that house the Sacred Heart striking verse. In “Arthur, Pantoum for opposite sides of the world and have The lueB Heron is to be published this School of Nursing and The Grotto of the an Empty Table” (perhaps the Round met only online. Their conversation has spring by Water Street Press. This year feature the latest in Sacred Heart has been Table?), she writes, “We were two but just turned to Jamestown, North Amer- will see several other publications by communications and a place of refuge for it seemed there was a third / walking ica’s first successful English colony, when Dr. Farrington, who has taught litera- instructional technology. many generations of the white road home, the city wavering an unexpected third person joins in, ture and creating writing (playwriting, Construction was students. A gift from / before us. At the table bare, its with the screen name “opech.” He claims screenwriting and fiction) at Notre funded in part with a Sheila Kirchenbauer varnish chipping, / we waited for to be Opecancanough, a Powhatan chief Dame for twenty years. [In early 2014, grant from the State of Zimmer ’63 will fund servants who had already fled.” who led a Native American uprising Doubleday reissued his 1984 historical Maryland. Grants from a renovation of the Former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles against the Jamestown settlers. David novel, Breath of Kings, set just before the the Hearst Foundations, Grotto, including the Simic selected the collection as the assumes that this intruder is simply a Norman Conquest of England in the the Marion I. and repair of the statue of winner of the eighth annual presti- nuisance, someone pretending to be the 11th century.] Six of his plays have been Henry J. Knott the Sacred Heart of gious Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, controversial historical figure just for a collected into a book (appropriately Foundation and the Jesus, repointing and which included publication and release lark, but something isn’t quite right. titled Six Plays) that is slated for March Middendorf Foundation refacing the stone wall of the book by The Waywiser Press, This Opecancanough knows a lot about publication. And several of his other funded simulation and replacing the slate both here and in the UK. He and Ms. David’s novel-in-progress, which exists works—a coming-of-age novel set in laboratories in the stone walkway. The Puhak gave a reading at the Folger only on his computer, and about what 1940s rural Iowa called Aperture and a School of Nursing’s Grotto will be beautified Shakespeare Library in mid-Novem- happened at the Jamestown colony, series of detective novels featuring Center for Caring with with enhanced lighting ber to celebrate her award. In the which Molly happens to be researching. Michael Roland-James, an openly gay Technology. This included and landscaping as well as new book’s foreword, Simic praised Ms. Is it possible that “opech” could indeed criminology professor living in Wash- the purchase of SimMan™ The tenasekO House 100 St. Albans Society— seating that will encourage Puhak’s craft. be the fabled chief who led the James- ington, D.C.—are also awaiting publi- computer-operated human provides welcoming study areas, which ensures that Notre individuals and groups to sit “What makes Guinevere in Baltimore town massacre of 1622, in which one- cation. As Dr. Farrington writes on his patient simulators for use in a seminar room for classes as Dame’s President’s Residence and meditate awhile. work as a whole is the sheer brilliance quarter of the English settlers were website, genefarrington.com, “Prospects the classroom. well as individual and group will be elegantly appointed, —John Rivera of the individual poems,” he wrote. killed in the Native Americans’ attempt for 2014 are excellent. It should be a Two additional gifts have activities and a comfortable serve as a point of pride and “The finest poetry, the kind one wants to force them to leave Virginia? really good year.” helped to beautify the building. lounge where Morrissy Honors become the premier gathering to keep re-reading, mostly comes down This is just the first of many questions —Marianne Amoss ’04 is a communications The Civera Family Gallery, Program students can interact space for our campus commu- to memorable turns of phrase and vivid that crop up in the beginning chapters officer for Notre Dame of Maryland University. made possible through the with other Honors students and nity and guests. Clockwise from upper left: The detail, and that is what one finds here. of The Blue Heron. There are others: generosity of Ed and Judy faculty. The house has been University Academic Building; the view from the UAB’s Counselman … Guinevere in Baltimore is master- How does Opecancanough know that NDMU will host an Evening with Civera, is on the second floor of furnished with many generous The Civera Fitness Center * Atrium; the President’s Residence; fully crafted, a veritable feast for any Molly’s last name is Sharpe? And why Faculty Authors at 5:30 p.m. on April 2. the atrium and features work by gifts of furniture appropriate to A gift from Ed and Judy Civera the Otenasek House of the lover of words.” does the main character in d’Ersby’s Information: ndm.edu/facultyauthors NMDU students. And the the Craftsman-style home. has enabled the expansion of Morrissy Honors Program.

10 Universitas Winter 2014 11 Fever. Headache. Muscle pain. For most Americans, these familiar symptoms announce the onset of the annual flu season. But for millions of others who live in tropical and subtropical countries, these initial symptoms are followed by more invasive and serious affronts to the body—fatigue, nausea, anemia and jaundice. And for more than 700,000 people each year, most of them children, the end result is death.

The diagnosis:

MalariaBy Carol Vellucci Research from the ground up

In the global fight to eradicate malaria, artemisinin even better—more water tify each component and to quantify a laboratory in the Knott Science soluble and therefore more available to each component. Center is the setting for research that is be administered and better absorbed The esultsr so far have been playing a role in this quest. by the body.” very positive, says Dr. Carvalho. The DMUN research team—Dr. Dr. Carvalho works in tandem with “We are looking for the conversion Peter Hoffman, Dr. Paulo Carvalho Dr. Hoffman, a professor of biology, of artemisinin into its 7-hydroxy and two students, Beckey Unfried, who starts the experimental ball rolling metabolite, which can be used to Class of 2015, and Saba Shahzad, in his lab by showing Beckey, a dual further semi-synthetic work (on new Class of 2015—is investigating how a major in biology and nursing, and drug compounds). We have observed a fungus extracted from soil impacts the Saba, a major in biology, how to cul- 94% conversion rate as a result of the malarial drug artemisinin, a medicine ture mycelial fungus in a rich nutrient fungus enzymatic activity,” he says. derived from chemical compounds broth. The students are attempting As exciting as the results may be, extracted from the leaves of the sweet to find the optimal growth conditions scientific research can be tedious. Dr. wormwood plant Artemisia annua. for the fungus; they try varying Hoffman and Dr. Carvalho acknowl- Katlyn Gourley ’13 also worked in the the contents of the solution or the edge that long waits are part and parcel project until her graduation last year. temperature of the culture. of research. They take care to point Her enthusiasm for chemistry is The tudentss add artemisinin to out that there often isn’t a specific leading her toward an eventual Ph.D. the fungal culture and, after a few timeline attached to scientific research. in medical research. weeks, the culture medium is filtered Reactions happen when they happen, “Artemisinin is an effective drug and the metabolites that are the result and the wait itself can be a significant against malaria,” says Dr. Carvalho, a are extracted and analyzed by high- aspect of the research. professor of medicinal chemistry in the performance liquid chromatography Dr. Carvalho readily admits that School of Pharmacy. “We are replicat- (HPLC), a technique used to separate many students find scientific research ing an experiment that tries to make the components in a mixture, to iden- boring. Students who take a laboratory

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course see results much more quickly. She had the opportunity to present “We need to scale up our project Since much of the prep work has her research at an honors conference in now and go beyond the original already been done by the professor, Maryland, where Morrissy scholars published research. We replicated the students can report to their laboratory and students from other universities research on a small scale, and now we stations, complete and discuss an had the chance to learn from her need to produce larger amounts of experiment within the parameters of experience. the metabolite for semi-synthesis,” says class time. The procedures and results What’s next for the experiment and Dr. Carvalho. in an experimental course are also the professors who guide and mentor Scaling up the project can be expen- already established, so there are no these students? sive, with a $4,000 price tag for 40 surprises. grams of artemisinin. So the team “In research, a student may come decided to grow its own Artemisia Road Scholar and ask: ‘What happened?’ and the annua plants in a campus garden. The professor might answer: ‘I don’t know. plants were used as part of a special Let’s find out!’” says Dr. Carvalho. topics course in organic chemistry of Commuting From New York to “Research is exciting even when we get natural products, where three senior unexpected or ‘bad’ results, because we Chemistry students learned how to Study Knowledge Management are always learning.” “Research is work on the extraction, purification But Beckey, Saba and Katlyn are and characterization of artemisinin. problem-solvers and appreciate that a exciting even Notre Dame’s small-scale project It’s not uncommon from New York to Baltimore for class. data, especially with the rollout of little bit of boredom is a small price may not make large-scale headlines, to hear students in But why? the Affordable Care Act. to pay for a potentially significant when we get but these Notre Dame students, Gator Alley snack “I looked at some other schools and “I think this program will give me outcome. among others, are learning to shop complain about didn’t find in their curriculum the the educational competence to help “I can see the applications that this unexpected appreciate the structure, rigors and monster commutes to depth of what I was looking at in terms design some of the databases for research has,” says Beckey, a Morrissy implications of carefully documented school. But it’s doubt- of knowledge management,” he says. managing knowledge in health care,” Honors Program student. “Malaria or ‘bad’ results, experiments. They are learning to ful anyone can top Kerry McDonald, “Notre Dame did a good job of putting he said. “It’s definitely going to be an has a global impact, and our research become the critical thinkers and who travels nearly 200 miles each way together a competitive program.” expanding field in the next number can promote learning and help those because we careful, patient observers that make to class at Notre Dame. The henomenonp that is attracting of years.” —John Rivera around the world. In addition, some good scientists. Luckily, he only has to do it once students like Kerry to Notre Dame’s preliminary studies indicate that are always a week. Analytics in Knowledge Management artemisinin may have anti-cancer —Carol Vellucci is a contributing Kerry, a health care consultant who program is the trend toward mining writer to Universitas. properties, so building a platform for started the M.S. in Analytics in Big Data. In Kerry’s case, he wants For more information on Analytics in that would be exciting.” learning.” Knowledge Management in August, to design systems to manage the * Knowledge Management: rides the train every Wednesday increasing amounts of health care ndm.edu/knowledgemenagement

14 Universitas Winter 2014 15 Reunion 2013! In late September, hundreds of Notre poignant experience. After their Friday the Montrose Pinning Ceremony Dame graduates and their families luncheon on campus, each member that officially welcomed new members and friends returned to campus for of the class stood and shared her life of Notre Dame’s legacy giving Reunion 2013. Many drove onto story over the last 50 years, relating society. Afterward, all gathered for campus via the new North Charles professional and personal triumphs the Farewell Jazz Brunch in Murphy Street entrance and were warmly and challenges. “I found it remarkable Gathering Space and said their good- greeted by the enormous “Welcome that we ‘pre-Women’s Liberation’ byes. “I have never felt so warmly Alums!” banner mounted on Gibbons women had achieved so much, both welcomed and embraced, beyond “Notre Dame Hall. It set the tone for a festive and personally (family) and career[-wise],” family and close friends,” wrote Judy will always be nostalgic weekend, where alums said Carole Michalski Beyer ’63. The Flannery ’63 after the weekend. “Notre in my heart.” rekindled friendships and celebrated next morning, each member of the Dame will always be in my heart.” community at a variety of events and class received a gold pin from President —Marianne Amoss ’04 activities—from the Maryland Crab Joan Develin Coley, engraved with Feast and the Faculty Happy Hour “College of Notre Dame” on the front to the Alumnae vs. Students Soccer and her initials on the back—a special Save the Date: Reunion 2014 Game and Classes without Quizzes. honor reserved for the 50-year class. * is September 19-21. For more The Class of 1963 celebrated their The eekendw wrapped up with the information: ndm.edu/reunion 50th Reunion, and it was a joyful and Remembrance Mass, which included

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18 Universitas Winter 2014 19 Lori Pollack ’08 coaches M.A. in Leadership and Management A Season of new student Ginny Seeley. sta y i n to u c h Successes athletics programs Notre Dame has celebrated One of the coaches, Lori This spring Notre Dame of Maryland University will announce the a number of athletic Pollack ’08, says her mentors launch of MyNDM, an online destination for our alumnae, alumni, achievements so far this during her years at Notre and friends to get acquainted and to stay connected with fellow Notre academic year, as the Gator Dame were professors like Dr. Dame graduates and classmates—at no charge. It will be a secure volleyball team advanced to Leadership Charles Yoe and Dr. Patricia website, accessible only by registered members of the Notre Dame the playoffs and the field In another honor, NDMU’s Brelsford, and she still calls on community. When you register on MyNDM you will be able to: hockey team was honored by field hockey team was named a in Action them for advice from time to • Get in touch with classmates. its peers for its sportsmanship. recipient of the CSAC’s 3-D time. Ms. Pollack, who has a • Update your contact information—and select the information Award, which honors the When the Department of background in business and you want shared with Notre Dame alums and friends. teams from each sport that Business and Economics was economics and will soon • Use Class Notes to share your accomplishments, family best exemplify the NCAA seeking seasoned professionals embark on a Ph.D. in biostatis- updates and other news. Division-III principles of to coach its students in the art volunteer coaches. While the but to encourage, assist, ask tics, relishes the opportunity • Register for Notre Dame programs and events—quickly. “Discover, Develop, Dedicate.” of leadership, it had to look no projects are expected to have questions about, ‘Well, you share her experience. Please contact the Office of Alumnae and Alumni Relations at Following each conference further than the roster of a positive impact on their have this problem, what are “It just seemed like such a 410-532-5201 or [email protected] for more information. contest, participating teams alumnae and alumni. targeted groups, students will you going to do about it, great way to give back to the Cleaya Antes were asked to evaluate their The esultr is a new program receive the “learning by doing” what options are you school—a way to be there for The ampusc followed along opponents based on the three that pairs graduate students practical benefit that is considering?’” somebody, to be someone they First Impressions is the Dress for Success as the volleyball squad won Division-III principles, giving a in the Leadership and expected to greatly enhance The nine coaches trained can bounce ideas off of,” she fashion show at Macy’s, where their first five games. They rating of 1 to 10 in each “D” Management and Nonprofit their leadership development. so far come from diverse says. “It helps you step up your Victoria Azera, Class of 2015, students learn do’s and don’ts were an especially formidable category. Based on those Management programs with “The oachesc bring their backgrounds—economics, game a bit when you have an knows that these days, a college of dressing for the office. Those team at home, where they ratings, NDMU’s field hockey professionals in the business experience to bear for the government, the financial accountability partner. The ball degree doesn’t guarantee a job. who successfully complete the finished with an 8-3 record. By squad received 3-D accolades community who volunteer to students as they encounter sector, health care, public is in their court to come to us, So the business major jumped program earn a $150 Macy’s the end of the season, the team from their peers. act as leadership coaches. obstacles and problems in the relations, publishing and so we don’t have a new job at the chance to apply for First gift card, which they use to improved its 2012 win total by “I want to thank and During the Leadership in execution of their leadership nonprofit management—and ourselves. But we’re there for Impressions, a program that purchase professional clothes six games and reached the congratulate Ashley Demski Action: Coached Leadership project,” says John Pollard, a are paired with students by them if they need it.” helps juniors and seniors in the under the guidance of a Macy’s Colonial States Athletic and Mike Harnden, our field Practicum, the students will long-time associate faculty Mr. Pollard and Deborah —John Rivera Women’s College successfully personal shopper. Conference Playoffs for the hockey coaching staff, for their lead a project in their work- member who directs the Calhoun, Department Chair of make the transition from the Graduates are involved in a first time since the 2010 leadership of the NDMU places or communities while program. “It’s not their job Business and Economics, based More information: classroom to the workforce. variety of ways: They plan each season. In addition, freshman Field Hockey program,” says being supported by trained to tell students what to do, on shared interests. *ndm.edu/leadership-in-action Through the academic year’s programming as Cleaya Antes and senior Erin Foley, NDMU Athletics year-long program, these young members of the First Impres- Cortney Silvis earned CSAC Director. “This award is women learn resumé-writing, sions Committee, conduct postseason honors: Antes especially meaningful because interviewing, dining etiquette, mock job interviews with the earned the league’s Rookie of it is voted upon by the and dress and grooming— students, and serve as men- the Year award and was also student-athletes of the CSAC.” found that although graduates working in business, law, successful. “And where else skills that are essential to tors—sometimes even taking named Honorable Mention —John Rivera n e tw r k i n g were routinely invited to events education, grant writing, event better to start than your professional success but not the young women to profes- All-CSAC Team, while Silvis on campus, no formal network- planning and other fields; it college?” —Marianne Amoss ’04 often taught in the classroom. sional networking events or was named to the All-CSAC Follow NDMU athletics at ing events were held that would meets several times a year to The rogramp was launched hiring them as interns. For Second Team. * notredamegators.com As an undergraduate, Kristi connect NotreDame graduates plan Power Hour Plus, a series in 2011 as a joint venture of Victoria, this opportunity to Fogle Halford ’01 discovered and allow them to leverage of networking events, just-for- For details on upcoming Deborah Calhoun, chair of build relationships with Notre the power of the Notre Dame the professional knowledge, fun activities, and professional Power Hour Plus events, the Business and Economics Dame graduates is what makes alumnae and alumni network. experience and connections of and personal development turn to the calendar on Department; Emilia Poiter, the program special. “First “I had the experience when I their fellow graduates. In 2011, workshops. Events are the back inside cover of director of the Office of Impressions also gives you the was a student at Notre Dame she joined forces with Emilia generally held on evenings and this issue. For more Alumnae and Alumni opportunity to network and with alumnae who were Poiter, director of Alumnae weekends throughout the information on the Relations; and Diane meet women who have been extremely supportive,” says the and Alumni Relations, to do academic year and are open to Networking Initiative MacKenzie, director of the through what you’re about to senior account executive at just that. Notre Dame graduates as well Committee, contact the Career and Student Success experience and can teach you Nevins & Associates, a public Ms. Halford now chairs as the general public. “The job Office of Alumnae and Center. The program has things you would never learn relations firm based in Towson. the Networking Initiative market is really competitive Alumni Relations at kicked off every year in until you made the mistakes “I started my career through the Committee of the Alumnae today,” Ms. Halford says, and 410-532-5201 or October with a personal they made,” she says. “I feel as support of alums.” and Alumni Association. The professionals need a strong [email protected]. brand-building workshop though in today’s society there After graduating, Ms. Halford group is made up of graduates support network to be conducted by WBAL is not much room for error if sportscaster Gerry Sandusky. you want to succeed in the Another popular workshop workplace.” —Marianne Amoss ’04 Tessa Schwartz

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Weatherstein ’08 The Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Up to $10,000 and Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP Raymond Gansereit Patricia J. Mitchell ’69 Thomas L. and Carolyn Civish Wheeler ’54 Scholarship Fund, Inc. Bank of America, N.A. M. Gale Costa ’71 Marguerite Getty Greenman ’06 M’08 and Rosemary E. Zuna ’68, M.D. Up to $25,000 Polly E. Behrens ’98 and Bruce Behrens Winifred Lynch Coughlin ’46 † Joseph Mullen Co. Up to $200,000 Stanton G. Ades, Renee Ades and Leonor and Marc P. Blum Cynthia Egan Mary Adele Griesacker ’51 $501–$1,000 France-Merrick Foundation Ades Family Foundation Deborah Manger Carski ’72 Estate of K. Bernadine Dorsey Kozlowski ’48 Frances Flannery Gunshol ’88 M’94 and Kathleen Schoenover Alexander ’69 and Willard Hackerman Betty Contino ’89, Francis Contino and Judith and Edward S. Civera and Lillian P. Freudenberger ’87 Lou Gunshol Leigh Alexander Knott Irrevocable Trust Contino Family Foundation Diane Civera ’11 M’12 Benita M. Furman ’70 Mary Ellen Steiner Gunther ’54 and L. William Alter Jr. Marion Burk Knott Scholarship Fund Jane Tankersley Copeland ’64 and Catherine Roloson Counselman ’41, Celia Read Gilmore ’54 and Frank A. Gunther Jr. Anonymous Maryland State Department Estate of Catherine E. Copeland ’92 Charles C. Counselman Jr. and William G. Gilmore Rosemary Garrett Hartley ’48 and Genny Armilei ’56 of Education Susanna Peters Coy ’60, Ph.D. The CM&DR Foundation Margaret Delaney Holland ’47 and James P. Hartley, M.D. Carole Artigiani ’62 and Robert A. Scott School Sisters of Notre Dame Marianne and James Demsky Loretta Curley ’91 and John F. Curley Jr. Capt. John P. Holland Sheila Fahey Haskell ’59 and Barbara and Daniel Ashby Atlantic-Midwest Province Estate of Patricia Maguire Donaho ’51 CVS Caremark Corporation Johns Hopkins Hospital Donald F. Haskell Cliff and Jane Balkam, Ph.D. Whiting-Turner Contracting Company Estate of Thomas W. Pangborn Joan Beach Davidson ’93 and Julia A. Marcin Trust Amanda A.M. Idstein ’97 and Betty Bryan Ball ’49 Up to $100,000 Taylor and Gary Foss Thomas Davidson Nancy Kiehne Kevin Idstein Rebecca Quinn Beck ’69 Estate of E. Catherine Dunn ’38 Patricia Mosellen Hillman ’69 and Donna Ringger Easton ’70 and Kristin Mitchell Foundation Brenda Jews, Ed.D. and William L. Jews Emily MacSherry Belt ’55 Estate of Mildred Otenasek ’36 Donald Hillman John J. Easton Jr. Susan Gardiner Larkin ’65, Ph.D. George Justice Jr. Kathleen A. Beres ’70 and Miller D. Einsel Independent College Fund of Maryland Harvey C. and Jeanne Morris Jones ’50 Ernst & Young Foundation and James T. Larkin Randolph S. Kiefer and Kiefer Carole Mikaklski Beyer ’63, Ed.D. The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott The Honorable Irene Keeley ’65 and Missy Evans-Moreland ’84 and M&T Charitable Foundation Foundation, Inc. BGE, A Member of The Constellation Foundation Mr. John P. Keeley III Richard T. Moreland Rite Aid Foundation Betty Wintz Klare ’43 Energy Group National Science Foundation

22 Universitas Winter 2014 23 giving continued Nancy Grasmick, Ph.D. and Northrop Grumman Corporation Louis J. Grasmick Geraldine A. O’Brien ’59 Peggy and Donald Greenman and Mary O’Connor, Ph.D. The osephJ Mullan Company Jane Griffin O’Neill ’59 NAMED IN HONOR OF SISTER MARY MELETIA FOLEY, Barbara A. Hamilton ’57 Jane Mulqueen Orfgen ’67 FIRST DEAN OF NOTRE DAME, THE MELETIA SOCIETY RECOGNIZES Georgiana Miranda Bjornlund ’57 Anne Sincock Hanson ’56 Sharon K. Park THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO GENEROUSLY SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY THROUGH Sharon Bogdan Diane Spedden Harrison ’81 Dan and Laura Plunkett ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF $1,000 OR MORE. MEMBERS OF THE Helen Manley Brown ’43 Janet Wagner Hauser ’62 Emilia A. Poiter MARY MELETIA SOCIETY ARE PHILANTHROPIC LEADERS IN THE DRAMATIC Debra A. Brown-DeLone ’75 Susan Morris Hoag ’61 The Honorable Mary Louise Preis GROWTH AND DYNAMIC INNOVATION TAKING PLACE AT Anne F. Burke ’85 M’92 and Valerie Hogue, Pharm.D. and Dr. Frederick G. Preis NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY. James P. Burke Jr. Verna D. Horstman ’80 Suzy Price ’90 and Robert F. Price Deborah and Donald Calhoun Rita Cooper Hubbard ’50, Ph.D. The Prudential Foundation Carol Knoeppel Callahan ’54 Lynn Holloway Hunter ’69 ’88 Rose M. Puleo ’58 Joan Bennett Carey ’52 and Jane Roycroft James ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Randall Maj. Gen. Gerald Carey Deborah D. Johnson and Susan Marie Repko Elizabeth Ann Gessler Carpenter ’44 Ernest Johnson Jennifer and George Reynolds III M. Kathleen Clucas ’68 Ruth E. Johnson ’83 Michael Robertazzi Meletia Society Jane M. Conlon ’79 Susan Todd Johnson ’68 Mary C. Robertson ’55 Drs. James and Becky Conneely Susan Vosseller Jordan ’62 Robert E. Roby Jr. Stanton G. Ades and Renee Ades Rosalie Jones Connor ’51 M’92 Joan Murphy Flaherty ’57 Rosalie Jones Connor ’51 M’92 Ann Gillespie Kelly ’46 Colby Fossett Rodowsky ’53 L. William Alter Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Constable, Esq. Taylor and Gary Foss Mary E. Crow M’91 Rev. Robert T. Kennedy Margaret Kelsh Rogers ’92 Mary Lou Donnelly Armstrong-Peters ’60 Francis and Betty Contino ’89 Debra M. Franklin ’76, Ph.D. Nicole Culhane, Pharm.D. and Jane Henzi Kiefer ’67 Marianna Merrill Russell ’94 M’99 and and Joseph E. Peters Katharine Cook, Ph.D. R. Gregory and Kathryn B. Freeland James Culhane, Ph.D. Janise A. Kilar ’03 John J. Russell Ladonna Weisser Baginski ’66 and Mary J. Corey ’85 † Lillian P. Freudenberger ’87 The Honorable Joseph Curran Jr. Maureen Merkert Lalley ’74 Raphael J. Santini, Esq. Raymond J. Baginski M. Gale Costa ’71 The Honorable Kathleen O’Ferrall Janice M. Davis ’92 Katherine R. Lears ’81 Joan Sattler, Ph.D. and Ryan J. Sattler Sharon M. Barnard M’03 Winifred Lynch Coughlin ’46 † Friedman ’62 and Richard W. Friedman Jane McIvor Deal ’69 Insong James Lee, Ph.D. Patricia Chaney Savage ’62 M’93 Polly E. Behrens ’98 and Bruce Behrens Catherine Roloson Counselman ’41 and Pat Fuchsluger ’00 and John Fuchsluger Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Dei Mary Beth Lennon ’89 Rebecca A. Sawyer, Ph.D. and Victoria Genco Bell ’69 Charles C. Counselman Jr. Benita M. Furman ’70 Janice Fraser DiGrazia ’79 Heather Barnes Lentz ’97 Jonathan Sawyer Julie Courtney Ben-Susan ’69 and Susanna Peters Coy ’60, Ph.D. Kathleen Herron Gansereit ’62 and Judith Geilfuss Dobson ’62 and Karen McGrath Lewarn ’63 Kathleen Pierce Schaumberg ’66 Paul Ben-Susan Mary E. Crow M’91 Raymond Gansereit James W. Dobson III Aaron and Anne Lin, Pharm.D. Lynn F. Schneemeyer ’73 and Kathleen A. Beres ’70 and Miller D. Einsel Cathryn Archibald Curia ’69 Gino J. and Margaret Gemignani Marie Corasaniti Dombrowski ’49 and Ann Shaeffer MacKenzie ’85 William Hagmann Leonor and Marc P. Blum Joan Beach Davidson ’93 and Patricia Gibbons ’52 and William F. Dombrowski, D.D.S. Christina O. Marsalek ’69 M’00 and Elaine Diserio Schroeder ’52 Patricia A. Bosse ’81 and Thomas Davidson Edwin C. Gibbons Jr. Josephine Schwarz Donnelly ’59 and Stephen F. Marsalek Margaret Kane Shaffer ’09 Frank A. Gunther III Janice M. Davis ’92 Celia Read Gilmore ’54 and Robert L. Donnelly George and Dorothy Martin Kathie Donnelly Solomon Andrea R. Bowden ’69, Ph.D. Jane McIvor Deal ’69 William G. Gilmore Jean D’Onofrio Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Mason Sr. Karla and Brent Swinton Dorothy M. Brown ’54 Janice Fraser DiGrazia ’79 Marguerite Getty Greenman ’06 M’08 Carolyn Troy Donohue ’86 M’89 Melissa Menkel McGuire ’91, Esq. and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Taylor Helen Manley Brown ’43 Judith Geilfuss Dobson ’62 and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Greenman Anna-Lisa Dopirak ’63 Christopher McGuire Patricia A. Teller ’95 Patricia M. C. Brown and Joseph P. Gill James W. Dobson III Mary Adele Griesacker ’51 Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation, Inc. Paul R. McHugh, M.D. and Maureen Cusick Thomas ’83 M. Kathleen Buetow ’50, M.D. Marie Corasaniti Dombrowski ’49 and Frances Flannery Gunshol ’88 M’94 and Kathleen Densmore Dubia ’71 Jean B. McHugh Lynn and John K. Tolmie Mary Catherine Bunting William F. Dombrowski, D.D.S. Lou Gunshol Elizabeth M. Dugan, M.D. and Joan K. McLoughlin ’00 Ruth Luddy Toro ’60, M.D. and Anne Furlong Burke ’85 M’92 and Carolyn Troy Donohue ’86 M’89 Mary Ellen Steiner Gunther ’54 and The Lloyd E. Mitchell Foundation Mary Lu Schroeder McNeal ’50 and Rodrigo Toro, M.D. James P. Burke Jr. Edith McParland Donohue ’60, Ph.D. Frank A. Gunther Jr. Susan Power Eavenson ’73 Edward J. McNeal † Jennifer M. Trego ’01 Mary Lou Caldwell ’58 Anna-Lisa Dopirak ’63 Veronica Walker Hackett ’67 and Joanne B. Falkowski ’68 Vivian Moresco Merz ’59 Verizon Foundation Carol Knoeppel Callahan ’54 Kathleen Densmore Dubia ’71 John J. Egan Margaret Haskell Farnham ’92 Eugene L. Miles III Paul Vitale, Pharm.D. Patricia Kempton Caputo ’63 Elizabeth M. Dugan, M.D. Rosemary Garrett Hartley ’48 and R. Gene Farrington, Ph.D. Jo Vitrano Miller ’53 Alice Knott Voelkel ’54 Elizabeth Ann Gessler Carpenter ’44 Donna Ringger Easton ’70 and James P. Hartley, M.D. Eileen Atkins Fick ’39 Linda June Miller ’81 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Deborah Manger Carski ’72 John J. Easton Jr. Sheila Fahey Haskell ’59 and Grace Vullo Finn ’52 Daniel and Donna Miscavige Christine Ward ’81 Dr. Theodore R. Carski Cynthia Egan Donald F. Haskell Debra M. Franklin ’76, Ph.D. Beth and Bart Mitchell † Mary Erskine Weglian ’65 † Paulo Carvalho Elizabeth Williams Elder ’82, and Janet Wagner Hauser ’62 R. Gregory and Kathryn B. Freeland James Mitchell and John J. Weglian Kathleen Marsh Casey ’70 and Paul Casey Charles B. Elder Rose Marie Meadow-Croft Hellmann ’52 Sarel P. Fuchs ’64, Ph.D. Madeline Morgan Moore ’64 and Simone C. Weiner Valerie Choudhury ’58 Ellen Florence Emery ’65 Charles E. Herget Jr. Gino J. and Margaret Gemignani Ronald W. Moore Wells Fargo Foundation Judith and Edward S. Civera and Missy Evans-Moreland ’84 and Patricia Mosellen Hillman ’69 and Patricia Wohrna Gibbons ’52 and Sarah A. Mullen ’68 Lt. Col. Tania M. Wilkes ’84 Diana Civera ’11 M’12 Richard T. Moreland Donald Hillman Edwin C. Gibbons Jr. Ellen M. Murphy ’71 Rebecca M. Willett-Jussila ’90 and Mary Kathleen Clucas ’68 Joanne Power Falkowski ’68 Susan Morris Hoag ’61 Sally Gold and Elliot Zulver Pamela McCloskey Murphy ’64 Thomas V. Jussila Caroline Abell Coleman ’91 R. Gene Farrington, Ph.D. Margaret Delaney Holland ’47 and Graduate Nursing Leadership Patricia Winter Natale ’57 Mary Judith Simms Williams ’63 Jane M. Conlon ’79 Eileen Atkins Fick ’39 Capt. John P. Holland Sr. Education Class Lauren Marie Nehra ’03 Kimberly Mitchell Wolff Sally Heitzman Conlon ’48 † Grace Vullo Finn ’52 Rita Cooper Hubbard ’50, Ph.D. Mary Clare Brannan Noonan ’58 Drs. James and Becky Conneely Dr. and Mrs. Domenico G. Firmani

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society Dorothy Forestell Streb ’55 Thomas L. and Lt. Col. Tania Ricks Wilkes ’84 continued Karla and Brent Swinton Carolyn Civish Wheeler ’54 Mary Judith Simms Williams ’63 The Mary Meletia Society Executive Board. “It Penelope Johnson Taylor ’85 M’99 Connie A. Wheeler ’00 Barbara Lanza Wolf ’69 comprises Notre Dame’s most generous reminded me that, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Taylor Scott and Susan Wilfong Lucy Babb Wright ’66 benefactors, and it is the University’s ‘Oh, it’s the season Barbara A. Tipton ’66 Joan M. Wilhelm ’03 Rosemary E. Zuna ’68, M.D. Amanda A.M. Idstein ’97 and hope that our graduates will one day of giving!’” she says. Lynn and John K. Tolmie Kevin Idstein aspire to join its ranks. “And I knew I Ruth Luddy Toro ’60, M.D. and Jane Roycroft James ’52 For Theresa M. “Tess” Maseda ’13, it wanted to give back Rodrigo Toro, M.D. Brenda and William L. Jews took about six months. to Notre Dame in as Diana M. Trout ’97 and New Meletia Members in 2013 Ruth E. Johnson ’83 Ms. Maseda, who graduated in May many ways as possible.” Kenneth H. Trout Susan Todd Johnson ’68 with a degree in biology and a minor Ms. Maseda made her gift Josephine Trueschler ’49 Laura R. Brooks Tess Maseda ’13 Harvey C. and Jeanne Morris Jones ’50 in music, recently became the youngest to honor a professor who she says Frances Smith Vitrano ’53 and Joan Develin Coley, Ph.D. and Jo Vitrano Miller ’53 Susan Vosseller Jordan ’62 member of the Meletia Society, which had a profound influence during her Justin A. Vitrano M. Lee Rice M. Marc and Victoria Munafo George Justice Jr. is made up of donors who contribute education at Notre Dame: Christy Alice Knott Voelkel ’54 Jane Cafone Dietche ’63 Geraldine A. O’Brien ’59 The Honorable Irene Keeley ’65 and $1,000 or more to the Notre Dame Izdebski, D.M.A., an associate professor Helen Knott Vogel ’88 and Susan Power Eavenson ’73 Eileen P. O’Neill ’88 Mr. John P. Keeley III Fund in a single fiscal year. She is now in the music department. Stuart L. Vogel Susan Morris Hoag ’61 Jeredith Worthley Stifter ’68 Ann Gillespie Kelly ’46 working as a lab technician at the Johns “I really had a wonderful experience in Deborah Kus Wagner ’58 and Jean Marie Diesenberg Hofstetter ’76 Denise Flynn Weglicki ’73 and Rev. Robert T. Kennedy Hopkins School of Medicine before the music department as a science major, Walter H. Wagner Maureen Casserly LaPorta ’10 Timothy T. Weglicki Randolph S. Kiefer entering medical school in 2016. and that’s what made me decide to make Joseph B. Weatherstein ’08 Sally A. Lawrence ’71 Linda Wickstrom Nancy Kiehne It was during the busy time before a donation,” says Ms. Maseda, who is Mary Erskin Weglian ’65 † Patricia Murphy Lewis ’69 Janise A. Kilar ’03 Christmas when Ms. Maseda opened proficient on trumpet and piano. “They and John J. Weglian Betty Wintz Klare ’43 her mail and found an ornament from even let me have my own senior recital. Marion I. Knott Notre Dame depicting the Grotto of the “The usicm department has had Susan Gardiner Larkin ’65, Ph.D. and Sacred Heart of Jesus, which she such an influence on me,” she says. “I James T. Larkin received because of her membership on wanted to support that department as Stephanie Poche Lawrence ’66 the Alumnae and Alumni Association much as I could.” NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY IS BLESSED WITH Katherine R. Lears ’81 MANY “PARTNERS IN MISSION” WHO DEMONSTRATE EXTRAORDINARY FAITHFULNESS, Aaron and Anne Lin INCLUDING GRADUATES AND FRIENDS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED NOTRE DAME WITH AT LEAST Dianne E. Francesconi Lyon ’60 ONE GIFT EACH YEAR YEAR FOR DECADES. IT IS WITH THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT Jean Schramm Monier Lyons ’53 THAT NOTRE DAME RETAINS THE VALUES AND THE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE THAT HAVE Ann Shaeffer MacKenzie ’85 ALWAYS BEEN OUR HALLMARK, WHILE EXPANDING THE MISSION TO INCLUDE Carol A. Manfredi ’93 and Ellen M. Murphy ’71 Kathleen J. Renz ’63 new dEGREE PROGRAMS AND FACILITIES RESPONSIVE TO CONTEMPORARY NEEDS. Robert R. Manfredi Pamela McCloskey Murphy ’64 Jennifer and George Reynolds III Christina O. Marsalek ’69 M’00 and Patricia Winter Natale ’57 Robert E. Roby Jr. THE FOLLOWING EXTRAORDINARY DONORS HAVE FEARLESSLY AND FAITHFULLY Stephen F. Marsalek Lauren Marie Nehra ’03 K. Patricia Slaughter Roe ’52 SUPPORTED THIS INSTITUTION FOR AT LEAST 25 CONSECUTIVE YEARS. Nancy Byrnes Martel ’58 and Joan Dobbins Nolan ’48 and John Nolan Heidi Lippmeier Roller Thomas C. Martel Mary Clare Brannon Noonan ’58 Robert Sabelhaus and George and Dorothy Martin Judith Murphy Norton ’65 Melanie R. Sabelhaus Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Mason Sr. Regina Hladky Novotny ’66 Raphael J. Santini, Esq. Nancy E. McColgan ’92 and Anthony O’Brien and Renee Jakubiak Sass ’87 Francis L. Wiegmann Dr. Eva Simmons O’Brien Rebecca A. Sawyer, Ph.D. and Melissa Menkel McGuire ’91, Esq. and Mary O’Connor, Ph.D. Jonathan Sawyer Consecutive Donors Christopher McGuire Sylvia Milanese Oliver ’68 Gisela Ruebenacker Schwab ’49, Ph.D. Kass Smith Ahlers ’50 Roberta Dilworth Bleinberger ’40 Mary Lou Henritze Carter ’48 † Paul R. McHugh, M.D. and Jane Griffin O’Neill ’59 Patricia Welter Servis ’59 Carole Artigiani ’62 and Robert A. Scott Maynard and Dee Blomquist Mary Ann Chappie Jean B. McHugh Kathleen Kresslein O’Neill ’45 Mary Pat and Bob Seurkamp Ladonna Weisser Baginski ’66 and Leonor and Marc P. Blum Mary Louise Chesley-Cora ’64 Mary Regis McLoughlin ’60 Margaret Bagli Otenasek ’85 Margaret Kane Shaffer ’09 Raymond J. Baginski Mary Manley Boyce ’63 Cynthia A. Child ’52 Mary Lu Schroeder McNeal ’50 and Mildred Buzek Otenasek ’36, Ph.D. † The Honorable Carol E. Smith ’68 Mary Claire Appleby Bavis ’47 Natalie Ziemski Boyd ’73 Joan Stanley Cipriano ’64 Edward J. McNeal † Frank R. Palmer IV Erin E. Smyth ’09 Geraldine Wojnowski Beach ’67 Helen Manley Brown ’43 M. Kathleen Clucas ’68 Daniel and Donna Miscavige Helen Marikle Passano ’69 John C. and Geralynn D. Smyth Emily MacSherry Belt ’55 Dorothy M. Brown ’54 Catherine Roloson Counselman ’41 James Mitchell and E. Magruder Passano Patricia Knott Smyth ’51 Julie Courtney Ben-Susan ’69 and M. Kathleen Buetow ’50, M.D. and Charles C. Counselman Jr. M. Marie Mitchell ’52 Sue Ford Patrick ’67 Christine Hill Snyder ’77 and Paul Ben-Susan Mary Lou Caldwell ’58 Agnes Dickhoff Cross ’59 and Patricia J. Mitchell ’69 Drs. Carl and Sheila Pirkle ’65 Larry Snyder Kathleen Bitzel Bennett ’67 and Monica Deubel Cameron ’66 Robert C. Cross Elizabeth B. Monroe ’46 and The Honorable Mary Louise Preis Kathie Donnelly Solomon C. William Bennett Mary Jo Blakely Campo ’54 Betti Ann Doyle Curlander ’50 John H. Monroe and Dr. Frederick G. Preis Eileen Mueller Spellman ’57 Kathleen Murphy Berger ’74 Joan Bennett Carey ’52 and Peggy Wilson Davis ’67 Madeline Morgan Moore ’64 and Joseph L. Prosser Margaret J. Steinhagen ’54, Ph.D. Carole M. Beyer ’63, Ed.D. Maj. Gen. Gerald Carey Ida Dee Davison ’55 Ronald W. Moore Aesha Tanzymore Ray ’03 Eleanor Duke Storck ’48 Georgiana Miranda Bjornlund ’57 Elizabeth Ann Gessler Carpenter ’44 M. Katherine DeGrange ’69 Patricia Lynn Blair ’73 Karen Carroll-Marshall ’75

26 Universitas Winter 2014 27 consecutive donors Dorothy C. Holzworth ’44, M.D. Mildred Buzek Otenasek ’36, Ph.D. † continued Ann M. Hughes ’72 Helen Marikle Passano ’69 and Anne Baxter Humes ’66 E. Magruder Passano Maureen O’Halloran Humiston ’56 Mary Lou Donnelly Armstrong-Peters ’60 Jane Roycroft James ’52 and Joseph E. Peters MONTROSE IS THE NAME OF THE ORIGINAL ESTATE ON WHICH Barbara K. Dent M’88 Harvey C. and Jeanne Morris Jones ’50 Lucille Cannamucio Pierpont ’64 PART OF THE CAMPUS OF NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY SITS, Judith Ives DePauw ’67 Lenore Bruno Kantorski ’83 Barbara Collins Poniatowski ’84 AND WAS THE NAME OF THE VERY FIRST CAMPUS BUILDING, L. Sandra Despeaux ’78, Esq. and Dorothy Rosendale Keczmerski ’62 M. Andrea Brown Portocarrero ’65 NOW KNOWN AS NOYES ALUMNAE HOUSE. William J. Despeaux Catherine Nolan Keenan ’60 Mary Lisa Dean Price ’85 THE MONTROSE SOCIETY RECOGNIZES AND CELEBRATES Margaret Rowan Diaz-Cruz ’68 Ann Gillespie Kelly ’46 Mary Lou Randall ’59 THE COMMITMENT OF GRADUATES AD FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY— Mary Crook Dilworth ’48 Carolyn Gessler Kornick ’49 Jeanne Leitz Reid ’75 AND THEIR FAMILIES—WHO HAVE CONFIRMED THEIR INTENTION Marie Corasaniti Dombrowski ’49 and Claire A. Krabbe ’81 Joan K. Rinaldi ’52 TO REMEMBER NOTRE DAME IN THEIR ESTATE PLANS. William F. Dombrowski, D.D.S. Rosemary Older Kratz ’62 and Linda Segatto Ritter ’86 Edith McParland Donohue ’60, Ph.D. Gary Kratz Margaret Trentler Ritzel ’70 M’01 THE INVESTMENT OF THESE FORWARD-THINKING Ann Zeiler Kujawa ’69 Colby Fossett Rodowsky ’53 Charlotte Naulty Dubeau ’45 SUPPORTERS WILL STRENGTHEN AND SUSTAIN Donna Ringger Easton ’70 and Susan Gardiner Larkin ’65, Ph.D. and Dorothy Palango Rubin ’72 NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND LONG INTO THE FUTURE. John J. Easton Jr. James T. Larkin Francine Gehrmann Russell ’66 Joanne B. Falkowski ’68 Sue Lasbury ’78 Mary Fountain Schaller ’70 Maryanna Fiorentini ’84 M’95 Mary Beth Lennon ’89 Lynn F. Schneemeyer ’73 and Patricia Farinacci Fisher ’62 Eileen Culhane Lowe ’59 William Hagmann Frances Hanna Flanigan ’65 Eunice M. Lynch ’62 Gisela Ruebenacker Schwab ’49, Ph.D. Martha Didinger Franklin ’68 Jean Schramm Monier Lyons ’53 Margaret M. Sellmayer ’52 Lillian P. Freudenberger ’87 Susan Sacchet Maasberg ’69 Margaret Witzleben Short ’52 The Honorable Kathleen O’Ferrall Pat Mullan Marchant ’68 Eleanor Naddeo Silverio ’49 Montrose Society Friedman ’62 and Richard W. Friedman Nancy Byrnes Martel ’58 and Kathleen O’Beirne Slotman ’70 Margaret Walden Froehlich ’51 Thomas C. Martel Sylvia Smardo Sorkin ’65 Vira Castoro Froehlinger ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Mason Sr. Eleanore M. Sterling ’59 Victoria Genco Bell ’69 Cynthia A. Child ’52 Sarel P. Fuchs ’64, Ph.D. Joan Tanner Matejka ’57 Eleanor Duke Storck ’48 C. William Bennett III Valerie Choudhury ’58 Claire Flavin Funkhouser ’71 and Margaret Ann Levinson McCabe ’72 Mary Fran Besche Stromyer ’88 Kathleen Bitzel Bennett ’67 M. Kathleen Clucas ’68 Gary D. Funkhouser Duffy Minnegan McDermott ’49 Ann Hense Stucker ’68 Julie Courtney Ben-Susan ’69 Joan Develin Coley, Ph.D. Carole Ann Gauthier ’84 Elizabeth Nalley McDonald ’49 Margaret Sullivan, Ph.D. Paul F. Ben-Susan Becky Conneely, Ph.D. Gino J. and Margaret Gemignani Carol Baumiller McEvoy ’61 Mary Ann Tamberrino ’86 Kathleen Anne Beres ’70 James F. Conneely, Ph.D. Celia Read Gilmore ’54 and Diane Roberts McGlinchey ’59 and Ann Riedel Tanner ’70 Colleen Elizabeth Bergin ’94 M’04 Joan Decker Cooper ’69 William G. Gilmore Joseph J. McGlinchey Jane Hinkleman Teslik ’69 Shirley McNulty Bishop ’61 Susanna Peters Coy ’60, Ph.D. Marcia Maith-Cloud Glover ’88 Barbara A. McLean ’59, M.D. Carroll South Thomas ’63 Caroline McSherry Black ’77 Cathryn Archibald Curia ’69 Margaret Hughes Golembiewski ’56 Mary Lu Schroeder McNeal ’50 and Barbara A. Tipton ’66 Loretta Blaney ’78 Barbara T. Denny ’85 Virginia Elly Grant ’47 Edward J. McNeal † Josephine M. Trueschler ’49 Cheryl Reckner Blenko ’96 Barbara Elizabeth Dentz ’98 Joanne Bizub Green ’56 Mary McNaney Mealy ’41 Phyllis Lang Valenziano ’44 John W. Blenko, M.D. Mary Crook Dilworth ’48 Carol Nevin Abromaitis ’60 Marcia Lewis Grimes ’61 Jane Marie McAuliffe Meisner ’63 Lucille Bognanni Valle ’49 Robert O. Bonnell Jr. Carolyn Troy Donohue ’86 M’89 Michael J. Abromaitis Mary Ellen Steiner Gunther ’54 and Jeanne P. Merritt ’48 Kathleen McNally Vivian ’73 Patricia A. Bosse ’81 Edith McParland Donohue ’60, Ph.D. Francesca Cassilly Adams ’51 Frank A. Gunther Jr. Jo Vitrano Miller ’53 Alice Knott Voelkel ’54 Andrea R. Bowden ’69, Ph.D. Margaret E. Dougherty ’41 Mary Celeste Caldwell Alexander ’63 Anita Aidt Guy ’78 Elaine M. Minnick Deborah Kus Wagner ’58 and Antonia Speranza Bower ’82 Noreen G. Dowling-Moini ’53 Clyde C. Anderson Marie de Chantal Haigley, SSND ’51 M. Marie Mitchell ’52 Walter H. Wagner Sandra J. Braychak-Metcalfe ’64 Freda H. Dunn ’86 Mary Lou Donnelly Armstrong-Peters ’60 Barbara A. Hamilton ’57 Patricia J. Mitchell ’69 Elizabeth Cecil Wagner ’89 Carol Ann Strobel Breyer ’55 Ann Spilman Dunnock ’53 Teresa M. Arnold ’47 Mary Jo Curran Harant ’52 Mary K. Glunz Muir ’73 Mary Erskine Weglian ’65 † Helen Anthony Bridges, OSF Constance Louise Duval ’73 Christine Williams Aumiller ’65 Jean R. Harmon ’44 Kathleen O’Grady Mulhall ’77 Thomas L. and Carolyn Mary Mace Brocato ’53 Donna Ringger Easton ’70 Ladonna Weisser Baginski ’66 Rosemary Garrett Hartley ’48 and Theresa Bents Myers ’81 Civish Wheeler ’54 Diana Lynn Brocato-Showacre ’90 John J. Easton Jr. Raymond J. Baginski James P. Hartley, M.D. Patricia Winter Natale ’57 Mary Louise Wilbur ’65 Eileen M. Broderick ’66 Charles B. Elder Sr. Lynn DeLalio Bagli ’60 Franklin E. Hartman Mary Peters Navarre ’53 Dolores Lancelotta Wilkie ’70 Dorothy Marie Brown ’54 Elizabeth Williams Elder ’82 Donna Dee Barnette ’00 Sheila Fahey Haskell ’59 and Mr. and Mrs. Hiram C. Neilson Jr. Barbara Corey Willey ’66 Jane Brown ’58 Ellen Florence Emery ’65 Mary Patricia Durkin Baxter ’72, Esq. Donald F. Haskell Patricia Carolan Nishball ’61 Bonita Kreimer Williams ’68 Patricia M. C. Brown Christine Lanz English ’70 Pamela J. Becker ’81 Dorothy Nesline Hasson ’82 Joan Dobbins Nolan ’48 and John Nolan Wayne T. Wilson ’88 Mary Ellen Mathias Carosella ’67 Jacquelyn Wills Esco ’61 Kathleen Bracken Bedard ’46 Charlotte Smith Hennessy ’52 Mimi Schultes Nostro ’74 Susan Linz Wood ’64 Kathleen Marsh Casey ’70 Priscilla Taylor Farrall ’68 Jean Marie Diesenberg Hofstetter ’76 Anne Neville Oates ’67 Patricia Brooks Younkins ’68 Beth Chernichowski Jane Stimola Fick ’74 Eileen Donegan Hogan ’59 Mary Elaine Hershfeld Opitz ’64 Lois Schisler Zelina ’54 Eleanor Nolan Holcomb ’50 Margaret Bagli Otenasek ’85 Janet Plunkett Zinzeleta ’51

28 Universitas Winter 2014 29 montrose i n society Betty Wintz Klare ’43 Natalie E. Rock ’83 Dr. Otenasek’s love for Notre Dame memorium continued Marion I. Knott Heidi Lippmeier Roller is legendary. As a professor of econom- Gary Lee Kratz Bernadette Rome ’44 † ics and political science at Notre Dame Rosemary Older Kratz ’62 Ilma Rosskopf ’63 for 23 years, she mentored and inspired Linelle La Bonte Rebecca Rothey ’07 countless women with her wisdom and Grace Vullo Finn ’52 Lillian Liberti Laird ’48 Dorothy Palango Rubin ’72 wit. She was a political trailblazer, the Legacy of Leadership and Answering Mary Jo Fox Fitchett ’48 Sue Wall Lasbury ’78 Laurie Russell ’86 first woman member of the Democratic the Challenge capital campaigns and Kathleen O’Ferrall Friedman ’62 Joan B. Lawler ’52 Imelda L. Sansone ’58 National Committee for Maryland, and was a member of the Montrose Claire Flavin Funkhouser ’71 John I. Leahy Sr. Barbara Panetta Sauer ’65 shared her passion for politics with her Society. In gratitude for Dr. Otenas- Gary D. Funkhouser Marilyn Yingling Leidecker ’66 Suzanne O’Connell Schisler ’80 students. In Dr. Otenasek’s honor, the ek’s service to the University and to Cecily Caravati Gallasch ’61 Mary Beth Lennon ’89 Sandra Kilroy Schlosser ’58 Mildred Buzek Otenasek ’36, Ph.D. University established the Mildred the community, Notre Dame Patricia Wohrna Gibbons ’52 Kathryn Byrne Lucas ’76 Jeanne Thompson Schmidt ’71 Otenasek Award for leadership and presented her in 1993 with the Joseph P. Gill Jean Schramm Monier Lyons ’53 Gisela Ruebenacker Schwab ’49 The Notre Dame community lost one civic engagement. Elizabeth P. Hoisington ’40 Distin- Marcia Maith-Cloud Glover ’88 Carl Anthony Maio Margaret Mary Sellmayer ’52 of our greatest champions with the Dr. Otenasek remained devoted to Mary Adele Griesacker ’51 Christina O’Keefe Marsalek ’69 M’00 Mary Pat Seurkamp guished Alumna Award and the Frances Flannery Gunshol ’88 M’98 Stephen F. Marsalek Bob Seurkamp passing of Mildred B. Otenasek ’36, Notre Dame throughout her life. She President’s Medal. The new Otenasek Louis F. Gunshol Marita Barnes Mattei ’60 Katherine A. Shamer ’82 M’07 Ph.D. in November 2012 at the age served on our Board of Trustees from House of the Morrissy Honors Frank A. Gunther III Philip Maynard, Esq. Mary Kay Shartle-Galotto ’64 of 98. For more than 80 years, 1973 to 1974 and was a Trustee Program is a tribute to Dr. Otenasek Mary Ellen Steiner Gunther ’54 Patricia Mullen McCann ’69 Suzanne Shipley, Ph.D. Dr. Otenasek was a leader, teacher, Associate from 1985 until her passing. and her life of service, generosity and Regina France Harmon ’44 Nancy E. McColgan ’92 Patricia Knott Smyth ’51 benefactor and friend to us all. She served on the University’s historic love to her alma mater. Diane Spedden Harrison ’81 Mary Regis McLoughlin ’60 Christina Marsalek Sommerville ’95 Mary Midgett Harrison ’67 Lisa Ann McMurtrie ’93 Margaret J. Steinhagen ’54, Ph.D. James P. Hartley, MD Susan Breaux McShea ’87 Caroline B. Stellmann ’75 From 1971 until 1977, Dr. Gibney the presidential search committee. Rosemary Garrett Hartley ’48 Terri L. Meekins Francia Faust Stevens ’82 M’91 served as Notre Dame’s dean of During a time of transition three years Cecilia Ann Eichelman Hatch ’48 Vivian Moresco Merz ’59 Janine DiPaula Stevens ’98 admissions and director of financial later, President Mary Pat Seurkamp Charles E. Herget Jr. Roxanne Gladden Miller ’99 William Stevens aid. Her warmth, her sense of humor appointed Dr. Gibney to a year-long Susan Morris Hoag ’61 Fran Gunther Minges ’81 Eleanor Duke Storck ’48 Captain John P. Holland Sr. M. Marie Mitchell ’52 Carroll South Thomas ’63 and her wonderful joie de vivre made term as interim vice president for Margaret Delaney Holland ’47 Patricia J. Mitchell ’69 Lindsay J. Thompson ’91, Ph.D. Dr. Gibney a most beloved member academic affairs. Her term concluded, Dorothy Holzworth ’44, M.D. Susan Marie Mitchell ’80 Ellan Stockwell Thorson ’66 of the campus community. Dr. Gibney continued her involve- Catherine Gallagher Honerkamp ’74 Rose Di Cesare Moran ’47 Ruth Luddy Toro ’60 In 1977, Dr. Gibney left Notre ment, serving on the Legacy Giving Karen Stakem Hornig ’80 Susan Lynn Morris ’92 Doris A. Trauner ’66 Dame to become the assistant vice Committee and as regent of the Amanda A.M. Idstein’ 97 Sarah A. Mullen ’68 Doris Janicki Uhoda ’54 president for academic affairs at SSND Family Chapter, which Kevin Idstein Cindy M. Necaise ’95 Chloe Bolgiano Ulshafer ’41 Marie-Helene Gibney ’65, Ph.D. Georgetown University, and from connected School Sisters and former Junko Iida-Tsunekawa ’89 Carolyn Davis Nelka ’77 Sarah Elizabeth Fallon Usher ’91 1988 until her retirement in 1994 Dr. School Sisters more closely to their Barbara LaPorte Ipsaro ’78 Kathleen McCann Norton ’83 † Lucy Vash Vecera ’52 In April 2013, the Notre Dame Gibney served as Georgetown’s alma mater. She was a member of the Jean Jackley Robert H. Oldershaw Diana Matuszak Vodicka ’74 community lost a devoted, spirited and associate provost. Alumnae and Alumni Association Mary Theresa Jarosz ’72 Joan P. Partridge ’91 Anita Marie Volk ’80 capable alumnae leader with the passing In 1995, Dr. Gibney was named Executive Board as well as the Meletia Harvey C. Jones II E. Magruder Passano Jr. Deborah Kus Wagner ’58 of Marie-Helene Gibney ’65, Ph.D. to Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees, Society, Notre Dame’s premier circle Jeanne Morris Jones ’50 Helen Marikle Passano ’69 Elizabeth Cecil Wagner ’89 and from 1996 to 1997 she served on of donors. Patricia E. Jordan ’88 Donna Babb Patnode ’84 Estelle Goldstein Wagner ’48 George Justice Jr. Ellen McDonald Perry ’83 Walter Hermann Wagner Mary Pat Justice ’62 Lucille Cannamucio Pierpont ’64 “Netta” Handy Wallace ’93 Mary Louise Kane ’51 Mary Dolores Plum ’91 Joan Mastracci Wampler ’89 Notre Dame of Maryland University has generously supported Notre Barbara Guerin Kantz ’65 Dr. Joseph A. Polizzi Carolyn Civish Wheeler ’54 received word on February 10 that our Dame through the years. Mary Frances Caravati Kastelberg ’46 The Honorable Mary Louise Preis Margaret M. Wintz ’45 benefactor and friend, Mr. Willard A Baltimore native and graduate of Ella S. Kauffman ’83 Leona Unkle Puglia ’79 Barbara Lanza Wolf ’69 Hackerman, president of Whiting- Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Frederick C. Kauffman, Ph.D. Kathleen Sullivan Rainville M’96 Edith Rothman Wolpoff-Davis ’72 Turner Construction Co., had died. Hackerman was appointed to the M.L. Lee Kelly ’69 Mary Lou Taylor Randall ’59 Deborah Falduto Xenakis ’75 He was 95. Whiting-Turner board in 1946. In Maureen McKewen Kelly ’85 Lorraine Loll Rardin ’83 Grace Solimando Zaczek ’70 Mr. Hackerman’s company, 1955, he became the firm’s president. Ann Supple Kessler ’65, Ph.D. Kris Reichart-Anderson ’85 Sheila Kirchenbauer Zimmer ’63 Whiting-Turner, has been a wonderful Under his leadership, Whiting-Turner Nancy Kiehne Marie Giaramita Richmond ’60 Rosemary E. Zuna ’68 partner to Notre Dame for more than has grown to become the fourth- two decades, helping fulfill much of largest domestic general builder in the the work of the master facilities plan U.S. Its headquarters is located in Willard Hackerman † Deceased during FY 13 that has transformed the face of the Towson and it has 33 regional offices campus. In addition, Mr. Hackerman across the country.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, a lu m n a e a n d a rt at h l e t i c s m u s i c a lu m n i r e l at i o n s until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. —Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird e v e nts 2nd International SPE Root the Gators on to victory! For Jose Miguel Cueto, violin, Nancy Combined Caucus a schedule of athletic events, go to Roldán, piano The 2nd International Society for notredamegators.com The Cueto-Roldán collaborative Power Hour Plus: Photographic Education Combined performances have been praised by Breakfast with the Baltimore Ravens’ Caucus Juried Show is organized in major critics throughout the world. Gabrielle Dow conjunction with the 2014 SPE Their recordings have introduced Guest speaker: Gabrielle Dow, Vice National Conference, Collaborative commencement new works to the repertoire as well President of Marketing for the Exchanges: Photography in Dialogue. as a fresh approach to classical ursting into my room, before my even aggression that many black boys Baltimore Ravens Catherine Lord, Emerita Professor of Baccalaureate Mass standards. B Thursday, March 13 Art at UC Irvine, and Leslie Friday, May 23 Saturday, March 8 at 7 p.m. eyes are even open, comes my son, all display. Culturally responsive instruc- 8 to 9:30 a.m. King-Hammond, Graduate Dean LeClerc Auditorium LeClerc Auditorium 44 inches of him. He climbs on me and tion depends upon a foundation of Center Club, Downtown Baltimore Emeritus and Founding Director of Admission is free. begins an elaborate set of gestures and understanding. $30 the Center for Race and Culture at More information: 410-532-5386 sounds to engage me. As I wake, these One late night not too long ago, Registration: Maryland Institute College of Art, Commencement ndm.edu/powerhourplus sounds and gestures morph into a tor- will serve as co-jurors. Saturday, May 24 while in a grocery store checkout line, I February 3 through March 9 Hilton Baltimore Ernest Ragogini, piano rent of words, phrases, hops and jumps. encountered a young man I had taught Gallery talk with Acclaimed for his musicianship and This is him, all the time: a bright and in high school. I was so happy to see An Evening with Faculty Authors Leslie King-Hammond: pianistic gifts, Ernest Ragogini has energetic boy who is eager to engage, to him. We shook hands and exchanged Hosted by the Continuing Education Monday, March 3 at noon toured the United States, Canada, Chapter of the Alumnae and Alumni Reception: Saturday, March 8 e d u c at i o n Europe, Central America and South play and to please. He is not unlike pleasantries, and as we parted, I wished Association at 8 p.m. America in important venues such as many black boys who enter our schools, him the best, hoping to myself that he Guest Faculty: Dr. Gene Farrington, Gormley Gallery Author Richard Louv Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; eager to learn and with dreams of who had been able to overcome the strug- Shelley Puhak and Dr. Jeana DelRosso Admission is free. The New Nature Movement: Tully Hall, New York; and the they might become. gles he’d faced as a teenager. As I load- Wednesday, April 2 ndm.edu/gormleygallery Reconnecting with Life in a Teatro Olimpia, Rome. Sadly, those dreams often start to 5:30 to 8 p.m. Virtual Age Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m. transforming ed my car in the parking lot, I found LeClerc Auditorium For details: ndm.edu/facultyauthors Richard Louv, author of the dissipate with each advancing year. myself transfixed on him as he drifted 25th National Drawing and Print bestselling book Last Child in the Admission is free. A recent report by the National towards the sidewalk, seemingly with- Competitive Exhibition Woods, spawned an international More information: 410-532-5386 Assessment of Educational Progress the education of out a destination, into the night. 2014 Busta Lecture in Business A national exhibit of works on paper movement to reconnect kids and found a significant gap in the achieve- Featuring a panel of Baltimore juried by Ann Shafer, nature. He coined the term “nature- I flashed back to my own son’s women leaders in the arts: Associate Curator of Prints, deficit disorder” to describe Arabesque Duo: Kathrin Murray ment of African-American males black males energetic morning wake-up calls. My Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Drawings & Photographs, problems that result from spending and Troy King compared to their White and Latino former student was once that same Orchestra; Doreen Bolger, Baltimore Baltimore Museum of Art so little time outdoors. Wife and husband Kathrin Murray March 24 – April 25 and Troy King have performed as a counterparts in reading, math and By Joshua Parker M’10 boy. He once flashed that same smile. Museum of Art; Rebecca Hoffberger, Tuesday, March 18 vocabulary. Educational achievement American Visionary Art Museum; Reception and gallery talk: 7 to 8:30 p.m. duo to critical acclaim at prestigious He once ran through bedroom and Julia Marciari-Alexander, Walters Art Saturday, March 29 from 4 to 6 p.m. LeClerc Auditorium concert venues in New York, Boston, gaps contribute to significant life gaps. schoolroom seeking warmth, knowl- Museum Gormley Gallery Admission is free. Philadelphia, San Francisco, A young black man fresh out of high What are the costs to individuals and edge and approval. At that moment, Tuesday, April 22 Admission is free. ndm.edu/louv Baltimore, Honolulu and ndm.edu/gormleygallery Cheltenham, England. school is more likely to go to prison, society as our brothers and sons it was difficult for me to decide what Lecture at 7 p.m. more likely to have a low-paying job continue to underachieve? Above all, LeClerc Auditorium Friday, April 4 at 7 p.m. was worse: watching that young man LeClerc Auditorium one question stands out for me as an Free and open to the public and more likely to die a victim of homi- walk away alone in the dark or envi- Registration: ndm.edu/busta Senior Thesis Exhibition Admission is free. cide than a man of any other ethnicity. educator: What can we do? Here are a sioning what he had to look forward May 5 through May 24 More information: 410-532-5386 few suggestions: Reception Tuesday, May 6 from 4:30 Since I received my Master of Arts to in his life. in Leadership in Teaching at Notre • Colleges and universities need to Power Hour Plus: to 6:30 p.m. Let’s not let any more of our young Gormley Gallery Commodores Jazz Ensemble renew their focus on scholarship relat- Wine Tasting at the President’s Dame in 2010, the school’s motto has boys turn into victims. Let’s accept the Residence Admission is free. The Commodores, the United States ed to effective strategies and programs stuck with me: Veritatem Prosequimur. challenge to change how we educate Guest speaker: Zach Armiger, ndm.edu/gormleygallery Navy’s premier jazz ensemble, has that result in high achievement, holisti- Armiger Imports been a United States Navy Band unit Pursue Truth. This phrase always pulls black males and refuse to give up on me toward the plight of black boys in cally, for black boys. Wednesday, May 14 since 1969. Deemed a national them. Let’s educate them as leaders treasure, this stellar ensemble is on • Active, early recruitment of more Afri- 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. American classrooms. We have known and transform lives. President’s Residence, Homeland the cutting edge of today’s big band the truth. For decades. (I recently can-American males to the teaching $20; includes tasting and hors jazz scene. uncovered an article about this topic profession must be a top priority. d’oeuvres Saturday, April 26 at 7 p.m. Joshua Parker M’10 was a teacher at Baltimore written in the 1960s.) It has not gotten • E ducators should work to develop Registration: LeClerc Auditorium County’s Windsor Mill Middle School when he was ndm.edu/powerhourplus Admission is free. appreciably better. empathy for black male students, named Maryland’s 2012 Teacher of the Year. He is More information: 410-532-5386 What are the consequences if this endeavoring to understand the root now a Title I compliance specialist for Baltimore trend continues for another 50 years? causes of the energy, enthusiasm and County Public Schools.

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The Charles J. Busta III Lecture in Business theArts transforming communities

Rebecca Hoffberger, Director, Marin Alsop, Music Director, American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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T uesday, April 22, 2014 7 p.m., LeClerc Auditorium

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The annual Charles J. Busta III Lecture Series showcases business leaders, especially women leaders.Go to ndm.edu to learn more about Notre Dame’s undergraduate and graduate business programs for adults, including nonprofit management, leadership in management, corporate communication and more.