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Spring 2005 Even After You Graduate, You Are Still Connected Here enedictine St. Benedict’s Rule for Monks begins with B a powerful imperative: Listen. And at Benedictine University, we believe in the importance of listening to one another. The News From Benedictine University We therefore have named our magazine Benedictine Voices. We pledge that within Spring 2005 | Volume 33 | Number 3 these pages, members of the Benedictine community will speak with candor about Director of Public Relations issues facing our University and our world. Mercy Robb, M.B.A. ’02 We cordially invite you to enter into Editor dialogue with us. Linda A. Hale Writers Brian Bartoz, C05 Linda A. Hale Phil Brozynski Tony Hamilton Contents William J. Carroll Fr. David Turner, O.S.B. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move Rita A. Dougherty Vision the hearts of men.” — GOETHE Contributors 1 • William J. Carroll, President 4 - 10 • Many Ways To Stay Connected Pina Arnone Joan Henehan Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants • A Look At Alumni Relations Brad Carlson Julie Nelligan 2 • Monastic Perspective • Opportunities To Serve Julie Cosimo Debbie Smith Where Was God During The • Why ‘Giving Back’ Is Important To Everyone Nadia Darwish Christine Van Dyk Tsunami Disaster? • Career Development Services Charles Gahala Therese Yaeger, Ph.D. • Focus On job Search: Alumni Talk About Alan Gorr, Ph.D. Their Experiences • Focus On Job Search: Employers Explain Photographers Themselves H. Rick Bamman Julie Nelligan Brian Bartoz, C05 Debbie Smith “Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another Nadia Darwish Values above yourselves.” — ROMANS 12:10 philanthropy alumni news Art Director Mary Kay Wolf, Wolf Design 11 • Alumni Phonathon Night 13 • Alma Matters: Maryellen Lissak Giger • Students Celebrate A Chance To 14 • Alumni Briefs Say Thank You 16 • The Haddad Alumni Lifetime Address Corrections: For address corrections, please • Sonntags Bring Print Studio To Life Achievement Award contact Advancement Services at (630) 829-6099. 12 • Alumni Board Donates Funds To Finish • Alumni Profiles: Carrie Johnson and Krasa Conference Room Kimberly Skarr Benedictine Voices is published three times a year by • Endowment Scholarship Ensures 17 • Giving Back: Partrick Blaney, D.D.S. the Office of Public Relations. Reproduction in whole Daughter’s Memory Lives On 19 • Sweetheart Club Celebrates or in part without written permission is prohibited. First Reception Distributed free to alumni, students and friends of the University. “The best educated human being is the one who understands Vitality most about the life in which he is placed.” — HELEN KELLER Opinions expressed in Benedictine Voices are not university news 25-26 • Fast Facts necessarily those of Benedictine University, its 20 • Pope John Paul II 27 • King Annual Breakfast Brings administrators, faculty or students. People Together To Celebrate Diversity • Catholic Perspective On Ecology Letters to the Editor must be signed, and letters And The Environment 28 • The Mission May Have Changed, not intended for publication should be so indicated. • Student Newspaper Wins Big But Abbot Hugh Continues At ICPA Convention To Charge Ahead Please address all mail to: 21 • Benedictine Offers Graduate Programs • Many Still Choose To Reject The Benedictine Voices In China World’s Chaotic Pace To Pursue Benedictine University Monastic Life 22 • Benedictine Library Garners Award 5700 College Road class/faculty notes For Innovative Use Of Technology Lisle, IL 60532 • Benedictine Hosts Workshop 30 • Class Notes Presenting Research 32 • Faculty/Staff Notes Conducted At Poles • Benedictine Celebrates First National • Benedictine Helps To Deliver Sign Of Philanthropy Day, Creates Employee Growth And Development In Bellwood Legacy Garden 23 • Students Earn M.B.A.s Online 33 • David Swanson, 2005 Recipient • Professionals Benefit From Certificate Of The Benedictine Life Award In Executive Coaching eaglescenter 24 • New Concentration In Sports 35 • End-of-Season Winter Honors Communication For The Eagles • New Program Introduces Students To 35-36 • Time Out: Sports Highlights Rapidly Growing Field Of Sports Management “Dream no small dreams for they have no power Vision to move the hearts of men.” — GOETHE Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants PART ONE IN A SERIES hroughout its history, the transitions at Benedictine BENEDICTINE courageous, farsighted University have been FR. DANIEL KUCERA, and timely. When I became academic dean, became president in 1959, we had one impressive. It benefits president and started moving building, Benedictine Hall. usT occasionally to take a good look St. Procopius College into the Everything — the abbey, mainstream of the academic residence areas, seminary, at who we were and who we have world. Right before his college, academy, classrooms appointment in April 1959, a and offices were in the one become. As the 19th Century faded Lay Advisory Board became building. The college and and the 20th Century dawned, the the first College Board of academy were really ‘monastic Trustees. Harold Moser, now schools’ staffed almost entirely school moved from Chicago to Lisle deceased, an early trustee and by monks of the Abbey.” patron of the University, because the monks sought space in William J. Carroll, would later spearhead the Benedictine University President which to grow. As each rector took decision to create a Master could not have become of Business Administration the institution it is today if over at St. Procopius College, they (M.B.A.) program. Ted tough growth and expansion Lownik, after whom Lownik decisions had not been made. built on the work of predecessors. The monastic chapter Hall is named, was an early construction of a new library approved the merger of chair of the Board and in 1962 and the first Board of St. Procopius Academy with In this issue and the next two issues provided excellent leadership. Trustees dinner to raise funds Sacred Heart Academy and Other Trustees lent expertise for the College was held on of Voices, you will hear about the last Benet Academy was born. in checking plans and May 10, 1963. In 1964, The monks built an Abbey three living presidents, who continued monitoring construction as Fr. Daniel was elected the fifth across College Road, allowing the institution expanded. A abbot of St. Procopius Abbey, moving this University forward. The the college to expand its second residence, Kohlbeck while remaining president of curriculum and enrollment as Hall, was constructed in St. Procopius College for first of the three living presidents is it moved into the three-floor 1960. That same year one year. The abbot is wing where some teaching Archbishop Daniel Kucera, O.S.B., who enrollment reached the 500 automatically the chancellor monks had lived since 1916. mark and 85 percent of the of the University and Benet was president of St. Procopius College North Central Accreditation students were from within a Academy, so these two was made possible when the from 1959 to 1965, and then again 30-mile radius of the campus. positions kept him quite busy. college and academy were no from 1971 to 1976. Fr. Roman “I was involved in the longer on the same campus. Fr. Daniel returned to University’s critical period St. Procopius College as Galiardi, O.S.B., was president from As the school expanded, it after World War II,” said president when Fr. Thomas became clear that the monks Archbishop Daniel, “as the Havlik, O.S.B., became the 1965 to 1971, and he will be featured could no longer fully staff Chicago suburbs began a sixth abbot of St. Procopius both the university and the in the fall issue. In the winter issue, westward expansion. The Abbey in 1971. The College high school. Talented, peaceful countryside of Lisle enrollment hit a milestone we will focus on Richard Becker, Ph.D., dedicated lay teachers were was falling prey to suburban of 1,022 students in hired and welcomed into a who was president from 1976 until sprawl, and eventually a series September of that year. close-knit college family. of major decisions had to There were 303 female Summer sessions were 1994. Each of these men deserves be made by the monks — and 719 male students — decisions that were introduced in June 1961, our grateful appreciation. 900 of them were full-time. Spring 2005 1 continued from page 1 A grant from the Scholl Foundation equipped a microbiology laboratory, dedicated and named in memory of William Scholl, M.D., in 1974. That same year a capital campaign with a goal of $5.6 million was initiated to provide a physical perspective education learning center, administrative offices in Benedictine Hall and scholarship funds. In 1976, Fr. Daniel stepped aside as president and became chairman of the Where Was God During Board of Trustees to devote full-time to the The Tsunami Disaster? capital campaign. He was later appointed auxiliary bishop of Joliet, then ome 47 years ago, He describes, among others, Bishop of Salina, Kansas, when I was a junior the resident policeman, the and finally, Archbishop of Sat St. Procopius grand old man, managing Des Moines, Iowa, from College, our director and perennial which he is now retired. philosophy curriculum grievance. The second part of included a course in his book attempts to give the “Perhaps all of this seems “theodicy,” a course that like ancient history to picture of “an adequate God,” could well be described a picture that is the result of present students and as “the philosophy of alumni,” he said. “But listening to what God has God.” I recall so well how said of God’s own self. one has to wonder what Monsignor Elias Denissoff would have happened to stressed that the “God of Relative to the title of this Benedictine University in monastic THE the philosopher was not article, we see that a great its several reincarnations the God of revelation.” I deal of ink has been spilled from St.