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NOVEMBER2016
News for Notre Dame faculty and staff and their families
From Katrina Cottages to the right-sized home Page 4
MARIANNE CUSATO, Architect
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has been named is the McGrath- funding to provide and promote Cavadini Director of the institute. college preparation resources for local NEWS Through its resources, projects and students. affiliate centers, the institute reaches Notre Dame Talent Search will BRIEFS BARBARA JOHNSTON BARBARA JOHNSTON out to the whole spectrum of Church receive $430,875 annually for a total leaders — its bishops, clergy, religious grant award of $2.15 million over the and laity — to provide training next five years — the largest in Notre and service as well as opportunities Dame Talent Search history. WHAT’S GOING ON for spiritual rejuvenation and Currently, the program serves personal growth. approximately 900 intermediate and Burgess Temple high school students, providing aca- VIRTUAL RUN AND WALK HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP demic tutoring and advisement, ca- SUPPORTS NOTRE DAME FUND RECEIVES $2.77 MILLION NSF reer exploration, cultural enrichment, GRANT community service and college tours. The Proud to be ND Virtual Youth Institute, which promotes the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Since its inception, Notre Dame Run and Walk takes place Tuesday, the healthy development of Indiana Lead Trust. The high energy physics group Talent Search has served more than Nov. 29. Come together with the children and youth by serving the The Manzano Prize recognizes the at Notre Dame recently received a 25,000 students. Notre Dame family wherever you people, institutions and communities work of architects who defend and 3-year award from the National Sci- Talent Search, one of eight are to have fun while supporting that impact their wellbeing. The preserve vernacular architecture and ence Foundation (NSF) to support programs collectively known as Notre Dame students. Make a RCLC program allows young people reinforce Spain’s unique architectural their research with the Compact the Federal TRiO Programs, provides gift on the registration page and to learn about Shakespeare, acting, heritage. The award is named after Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector disadvantaged youth with connec- pledge to swim, walk or run a 5k, text analysis and how to work as an Rafael Manzano Martos, who was at CERN, the European Organiza- tions to high-quality tutoring services 10k, half-marathon or marathon, ensemble. awarded the 2010 Richard H. Drie- tion for Nuclear Research. The award and counseling services for students whether on a treadmill or a trail. For haus Prize at the University. Manzano will total $2.77 million over three and families to improve financial aid more information or to register, visit NOTRE DAME MAGAZINE is an architect who has devoted his years, and represents a 15 percent literacy and financial planning for supporting.nd.edu/annual-giving/ ESSAYS HONORED professional life to the preservation of increase over the group’s previous postsecondary education. This year’s virtual-run. Gifts to the Notre the architectural and urban heritage three-year award of $2.4 million. grant competition marked the first Dame Fund support financial aid, Two essays published in Notre of Spain through both the restoration The group’s work includes phys- Dame Magazine last year have been year of encouraging evidence-based residence halls, student activities and the design of new architecture ics analysis central to the Higgs strategies for both secondary comple- and clubs, and campus operations. honored by inclusion in the 2016 based on this heritage. boson discovery. The five principal edition of Robert Atwan’s “The Best tion and postsecondary enrollment. investigators for the grant are Mike TRiO director Ethan Zagore said, WOMEN’S ADVENT DAY American Essays.” Hildreth, Colin Jessop, Kevin “The Sun in Our Midst,” written “Programs like Talent Search are OF REFLECTION CAMPUS NEWS Lannon, Randy Ruchti and Mitch necessary for the community. It by editor Kerry Temple and pub- Wayne. This NSF grant provides the Karla J. Bellinger, Department motivates, inspires and supports the lished in its Spring 2015 issue, and $15 MILLION GIFT FOR base funding for the Notre Dame of Theology and the John Marten dreams of future educators, lawyers, “How Do We Love?” written by Mel INSTITUTE FOR CHURCH LIFE high energy physics group and it sup- Preaching Institute, will lead a doctors and other change agents. Livatino and published in the Winter ports research faculty, postdoctoral Women’s Advent Day of Reflection Alumnus Robert P. McGrath and Our students need this. Our com- 2015 issue, were both listed among fellows, graduate students, and much with a theme of “Beauty Unfolding” his wife, Joan, have made a $15 mil- munity needs this.” the collection’s “Notable Essays of of the travel required to participate in from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, lion gift to his alma mater to endow TRiO is a set of federally funded 2015.” an experiment located several thou- Dec. 1, at the Stayer Center. The the University’s Institute for Church college opportunity programs that Temple joined the staff of Notre sand miles away. event is free.To participate in this Dame Magazine in 1981 and has Life. Bob McGrath, a 1955 graduate motivate and support students from opportunity to grow spiritually been the editor since 1995. He has of Notre Dame with a bachelor’s de- disadvantaged backgrounds in their through prayer, story and song, written dozens of articles and essays gree in electrical engineering, found- $2.15M FOR ND TALENT SEARCH pursuit of a college degree. Since the RSVP to Staff Chaplain Rev. for Notre Dame Magazine and others ed McGrath RentCorp in 1979, a The University’s Talent Search pro- 1960s, Notre Dame’s TRIO pro- James A. Bracke, C.S.C., at on a wide range of topics and is the diversified business-to-business rental gram was one of nearly 900 colleges grams have served first generation [email protected] by Monday, author of “Back to Earth: A Back- company. The newly christened Mc- and organizations to receive a por- and low-income students from the Nov. 28. packer’s Journey into Self and Soul.” Grath Institute for Church Life will tion of nearly $135 million in grant South Bend Community School be directed by John Cavadini, who Corp.
PEOPLE HISTORIAN RECEIVES NEH LAVERNE JOINS U.S. PUBLIC SCHOLAR GRANT TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY EXAMINE ‘BIBLE WARS’ “DREAM TEAM” Historian Linda Przybyszewski has been selected as one of the first win- ND Energy-affiliated faculty ners of the National Endowment for member, Jay LaVerne, professional
the Humanities new Public Scholar PETER RINGENBERG specialist at the Radiation Laborato- Grant Program, which aims to bring ry and concurrent professor of the humanities to larger audiences physics, has joined a “dream team” and make scholarship relevant to of experts to study the chemical contemporary life. reactions that cause nuclear waste One of 36 academic nonfiction to change over time, with the goal projects to receive funding in 2015, of identifying safe, permanent her forthcoming book will tell the storage for the radioactive material. story of the Cincinnati Board of Edu- The nuclear waste is left over from cation’s decision to stop Bible reading the Manhattan Project, a research in public schools and the ensuing and development project that court battles that riveted the nation produced the first nuclear weap- in the late 1860s and early 1870s. ons during World War II. LaVerne Przybyszewski will tell the story received a grant of $448,000 for his through the eyes and experiences of role in the project, in which he will many of the participants — compli- study radiolytic decomposition, cated people grappling with complex or how radioactivity dissolves issues as they faced their own aluminum oxides, in the watery, questions of faith. highly alkaline environment of the waste tanks. NUERE AWARDED MANZANO BLUE MASS RCLC’S BURGESS RECOGNIZED ARCHITECTURE PRIZE In recognition of his research and The University’s 16th annual Blue Mass was held Thursday, Christy Burgess, program direc- leadership in the recovery of tradi- Oct. 6, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, President Rev. John tor for the Shakespeare Outreach tional Spanish carpentry methods, Initiative, part of the Robinson I. Jenkins, C.S.C., presiding. The Blue Mass was first celebrated architect Enrique Nuere will receive Shakespeare Company at the Rob- at Notre Dame for the victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the 2016 Rafael Manzano Prize for inson Community Learning Center 2001, and for the police officers, firefighters and rescue workers New Traditional Architecture, pre- (RCLC), has been awarded the who died while serving and protecting others. sented by the Notre Dame School D. Susan Wisely Youth Worker of Architecture in partnership with of the Year Award by the Indiana
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NOTRE DAME TRAIL TO RETRACE FATHER SORIN’S STEPS In November of 1842, Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., and seven Congregation of Holy PHOTOS: CAROL C. BRADLEY Cross broth- ers traveled nearly 300 miles on foot from Vin- cennes, Indiana, to South Bend to establish the University of Notre Dame. The Congregation of Holy Cross had received a gift of land in Indiana for the purpose of founding a school near the banks of the St. Joseph Riv- er. Father Sorin and his companions set out on their journey, determined to establish a school dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus, which would, in Father Sorin’s prophetic words, “become a powerful means for good.” In August 2017, to commemorate the University’s 175th anniversary, the University will recreate Father Sorin’s journey on the Notre Dame Trail. This physically challenging excursion, during which participants will walk a similar path as the one Father Sorin and his companions traversed, will also be an opportunity for reflection, prayer and pilgrimage. Throughout the excursion from Aug. 13 to 26, participants will walk as a community, building in mo- mentum and number as the travelers draw closer to campus. The Notre Dame Trail will conclude on Aug. 26 with a celebratory Mass on South Quad. For those who are not DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS able to make the journey in person, The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture hosts a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) exhibition, featuring altars created by community members in there will be a number of ways to participate virtually. memory of the deceased — including, at bottom right, David Bowie. Join the celebration Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m., featuring performances by “Recalling Father Sorin’s zeal, Ballet Folklorico and others, face painting and paper flower making. For information, call 631-5224. determination and faith, we em- brace this opportunity to retrace our founder’s footsteps from Vincennes to Notre Dame,” said University President Rev. John I. Jenkins, Family Connections C.S.C. “Through this pilgrimage dedicated to Our Lady, we will have the opportunity to give thanks for blessings received and reflect on how we might more fully live out our call- Julia and Andrew Sama ing today.” Julia Sama’s dad was a 1970 his senior year of college — visiting CAROL C. BRADLEY Registration for the Notre Dame Notre Dame graduate, “So I grew friends during the 1999 Notre Dame Trail is now open. More information up in a family of Notre Dame vs. Boston College game. After grad- is available at trail.nd.edu. fans in California in a neighbor- uating from Marist College, Andrew hood of USC cardinal and gold,” served in the United States Air Force, she says. A 2003 Notre Dame then came to Notre Dame to earn an LICENSING DISCUSSION NOV. 15 graduate, she assumed she would MBA in 2006. He became a consul- eventually move back to Califor- tant for BearingPoint, based in the The Worker Participation Com- nia. “But I’m still here!” she says. Baltimore/Annapolis area. mittee (WPC) will sponsor a talk by A month after graduation, she be- “Brian Lohr and I lured Andrew Faust Capobianco, former president gan working in the Office of Un- back to Notre Dame for employment of Majestic Athletic, at 4 p.m. Tues- dergraduate Admissions. “Since in 2008,” says Julia. “Andrew worked day, Nov. 15, in 136 DeBartolo Hall. then, I’ve worked in the Develop- in the MBA Admissions Office for A 1994 Notre Dame graduate, ment Department’s Annual Giv- five years, then participated in the Capobianco will offer insight on the ing Programs, participated in the University’s Leadership Rotation licensing process, including the grant- University’s Leadership Rotation Program. He’s now the Director Andrew was studying in the MBA daughter Devon (3 ½) and son Jami- ing and acquisition of trademarked Program, worked in the Office of for University Facilities Information program. “Andrew proposed in the son, who celebrated his first birthday licenses, manufacturing, distribution, Continuous Improvement, and in the Office of Facilities, Design, north end zone of Notre Dame Stadi- on Oct. 20. Both children were bap- sales, marketing and other facets. am back in the Development De- and Operations. um in 2007,” Julia says, “and we were tized in the Log Chapel, Devon by The University recently began a partment’s Campaign office.” The couple also also co-teaches a married in the Basilica in 2009, with Rev. Bill Lies, C.S.C., and Jamison pilot program to manufacture Notre Andrew Sama’s first visit to the Moreau First Year Experience course. Rev. Paul Doyle, C.S.C., officiating. by Rev. Pete McCormick, C.S.C. Dame licensed products in China Notre Dame campus was during The two met in 2005 while The couple has two children, and the WPC invited Capobianco to provide an insider’s perspective and expertise on licensing. Founded 40 years ago by Capobi- anco’s father, Majestic produces the on-field uniforms for Major League Arts and Letters faculty awarded fellowships Baseball and has other licensing Two faculty members from the College of Arts and Letters have won 2016 fellowships from the agreements with the NFL, NBA, American Council of Learned Societies. NHL and other sports organizations. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, the Notre Dame Professor of English, will pursue a book project that The family sold the company to VF explores the notes that medieval readers made in the margins of historic texts and books in order to Corp. in 2007. rediscover sophisticated early reading practices for understanding the self. PHOTOS: MATT CASHORE PHOTOS: MATT Christopher Ball, an assistant professor of anthropology, will spend time with an indigenous tribe in Brazil studying local history and culture through connections between language and nearby rivers. The ACLS, the pre-eminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, conferred just 69 fellowships from a pool of more than 1,100 applicants. Kerby-Fulton Ball 4 | NDWorks | November 2016
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The Katrina Cottage Marianne Cusato: A place to call home It’s not just about tiny houses “We were behind the National Guard barricades,” she says. BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS Cusato’s vision was of a small and the growing interest in tiny cottage that could be built quickly houses, strike such a chord with Designer Marianne Cusato didn’t and affordably and could withstand people? start the tiny house movement in a hurricane, as well as be a beautiful “The interest in tiny houses par- America, but she does take credit for home people would be proud to alleled the explosion in the size of all awareness that we didn’t need so being somewhat of an influence. live in. regular houses,” she says. In 1973, much space.” Cusato, a 1997 graduate of the Duany sent Cusato’s quick the average size of a home in the Then in 2008, the mortgage mar- School of Architecture and asso- watercolor sketch (above right) of U.S. was 1,660 square feet. In 2006, ket collapsed. ciate professor of the practice at the cottage to the Biloxi newspa- that number had grown to 2,469 In Las Vegas — formerly a symbol you want to spend commuting to the University since 2014, is the per in November. Then came one square feet. of affluence and over-the-top homes your job before you buy a house.” internationally-known designer of of those synchronous events that “McMansions,” generic big luxury — unemployment increased to more Ultimately, it’s not about tiny Katrina Cottages, 308-square-foot change everything. homes with no particular architec- than 14 percent and the housing houses, but houses that feel like homes designed as an alternative to In 2006 the International Build- tural style, mass-produced in the market slid into a steep decline. home. Today, she notes, Americans the FEMA (Federal Emergency Man- ers’ Show took place in Orlando, late 1980s and 1990s (and derided In 2010, a Business Insider feature are aging. “People want to stay in agement Agency) trailers supplied Florida. “Outside the convention as “Garage Mahals”) typically had noted that in Nevada, more than 65 their homes, but they can’t take care as emergency housing for victims of center, they had houses built in the square footage of 3,000 square feet percent of homeowners were under- of a home. They’re isolated in the 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. parking lot,” Cusato says. or more. The homes featured mul- water on their mortgages — they suburbs. Small is the new big. No Cusato was invited to participate Duany got a call from his public tiple bathrooms, four or five bed- owed more than their homes were more McMansions, unaffordable in the rebuilding after Katrina by a relations agent, whom he shared rooms and lavish interior features. worth. Entire housing developments huge houses that are hard to heat in mentor, Andres Duany, American with Sarah Susanka, architect and “The real estate reporter had stood abandoned. the winter and cool in the summer, architect, urban planner and founder bestselling author of “The Not So noted that perhaps it was time for It’s not hard to see why people in communities that make cars a of the Congress for the New Urban- Big House,” whose philosophy is Americans to question how we suddenly were longing for smaller, necessity. You want to love where you ism, a design movement that pro- “build better, not bigger.” live and build,” she says. “In 2005 more affordable homes. live. Choose a place to live, rather motes the creation of environmentally Susanka’s group had reserved and and 2006, there was a feeling that The extremeness of tiny houses than just a house to live in.” friendly and walkable mixed-use paid for a space, but were pulling things in the housing market were (with some as small as 80 square feet) neighborhoods. out. Did Duany have anything from not right. It was the height of the and the concomitant popularity of Cusato was singularly well placed the Mississippi project he’d like to mortgage mess, ARMs, the building tiny house TV shows she likens to * * * to participate in the project. “I’ve display? He said, “Yes. We’ll build boom. People were being choked by the popularity of the History Chan- always loved travel trailers,” she says. Marianne’s house.” Then he called their mortgages. There was an over- nel’s “Ice Road Truckers.” Cusato is the author of two “My grandma had an Airstream, and Cusato. “There’s pure books: The Just Right Home: Buying, I have fond memories. My family “I stayed up all weekend preparing entertainment in Renting, Moving...or Just Dream- commercial fished in the summer — the construction drawings” she says, tiny house shows. ing—Find Your Perfect Match! with living in a travel trailer paid for my and the cottage was built in record But gosh, I’d love to Daniel DiClerico (April 2013, undergraduate degree.” Architects time. “And that’s why you know escape to Alaska.” Workman Publishing) and Get Your In terms of our receive remuneration and fame in about Katrina Cottages.” BARBARA JOHNSTON House Right, Architectural Elements to designing spectacular houses and The Washington Post picked up homes, what we Use and Avoid, with Ben Pentreath, monumental buildings, she notes. the story and featured the cottage on should be doing is Richard Sammons and Leon Krier, “I thought it would be amazing to the front of the real estate section, considering what foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of design travel trailers.” with an article titled, “Katrina Cot- works for us, she Wales (January 2008, Sterling Pub- Duany and his wife, architect and tages vs. the New American Home.” says. lishing), as well as a blogger for the University of Miami architecture “We could never have planned it,” “Buyers accept Huffington Post and contributor to professor Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Cusato says. things for retail Fortune Magazine. had been invited by Mississippi The 308-square-foot Katrina value (too many She has been ranked the No. 4 Governor Haley Barbour to lead a Cottage design went on to win the bathrooms and ex- most influential person in the home project to study 11 devastated Gulf Smithsonian Institution’s pensive amenities) building industry by Builder Maga- Coast towns. Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s and end up living zine, voted one of the 30 Most Influ- Duany invited Cusato to join a 2006 “People’s Design Award.” in homes that don’t ential Women in the Housing Econ- group of 200 architects, including 80 Eventually, Mississippi delivered meet their needs. A omy by HousingWire Magazine and local practitioners, to envision 2,800 houses inspired by the Ka- home’s live-in value selected by Fortune Magazine as one “Katrina Cottages,” alternative hous- trina Cottage to those who lost their is greater than its re- of the Top Women in Real Estate. ing that could both replace FEMA homes in the storm. Louisiana has sale value. Instead of For more information and to see trailers and be built as permanent completed construction of 500 units resale, think about more houses and house plans, visit homes. featuring designs from the Katrina whether you want to mariannecusato.com. They arrived six weeks after the Cottage series. take care of a lawn, storm, in the middle of October. Why did the Katrina Cottages, and how much time Cusato November 2016 | NDWorks | 5
University’s annual Change is possible when United Way campaign launches we work together A new focus, and a new goal: Forty percent of households in St. • Working together, agencies Help 14,000 people in St. Over the past three years, the Make your tax-deductible University has raised the most funds Joseph County struggle to meet life’s will share resources, establish contribution to the University Joseph County among all United Way workplace most basic needs best practices and develop of Notre Dame United Way campaigns in St. Joseph County! service models, while avoiding campaign and help everyone in our Last year, Notre Dame’s faculty This year’s United Way campaign • United Way has redefined its role duplication of efforts. community live their best possible and staff supported the United Way’s launched Oct. 10 and runs through in the community to focus on life. For more information, visit commitment to reduce poverty in Wednesday, Nov. 23. Note: Payroll breaking the cycle of generational • All United Way-funded unitedway.nd.edu. our community with donations deduction pledges must be submitted poverty and helping stabilize programs are thoroughly vetted Have you lost the pledge card totaling more than $300,000. by Friday, Dec. 9. families. by volunteers who spend 300- you received in the mail? A copy is plus hours determining how to included on page 11 of this issue. • In order to accomplish this goal, responsibly invest community Just clip, fill out and mail to United everything the United Way does dollars. Way, 405 Main Building. One-time and supports must align under donations are also welcome — the three areas of impact: Early • All recipients of United Way amount will be deducted from your Learning, Youth Success and funding are held to three standards first paycheck of 2017. Pledge or Stable Families. of outcome: Quantity, quality and donate online at unitedway.nd.edu. results. Why the focus on poverty? • This new, more efficient approach The statistics are startling: urges nonprofits to work together, • The result we hope to see: Our since no one organization kids succeeding, our families can solve such complex social strengthened and our community problems. thriving. out of More than 1every 3 14,000 Double Your Impact!
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Keeping family stories alive PHOTO PROVIDED
CAROL C. BRADLEY
Above, Ramiro Rodriguez in the Segura Arts Studio, operated by the University’s Auxiliary Operations division, at the Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture. Above left, Rodriguez works on a linoleum block relief print; at left, the finished print telling the story of his mother’s journey to America across the Rio Grande.
in painting from the University of 2016, creating a print that tells the ‘The One That Drinks Does Not with another family, taking care of Creating a visual record Cincinnati but soon after graduation, story of his mother’s journey to the Return.’ Her sister didn’t, but my the children of a widower, whom he says, printmaking became his pri- United States from Mexico in the mother drank from the river. Neither she eventually married. The print is CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS mary focus. 1940s. returned to Mexico — they both met me trying to portray the disappoint- Rodriguez lives in South Bend “My parents came to the U.S. sep- young men, got married and stayed ment my father felt when he realized with wife, artist and teacher Laurie arately, before they were married,” in the States.” his plans weren’t going to go as he Printmaker Ramiro Rodriguez’ Rousseau, and sons Lucas (15) and Rodriguez says. “Mom came as a Currently he’s working on another thought. The name of the print is Se print La Que Bebe no Vuelve – “The Mateo (12). He and Rousseau are teenager with six other family mem- print in the series, a lithograph that Me Cayeron Las Alas, which translates One That Drinks Does Not Return,” part of a group of artists who oper- bers — her older sister, older brother will tell the story of his father’s jour- to, ‘my wings fell off.’” is the first in a series of prints he ate a collective art space, the Taylor and his wife, my grandmother and ney into Texas from Mexico. “His The telling of family stories is im- describes as “A visual record of my Street Art Studio, 120 S. Taylor two younger brothers. They crossed story is a little more complicated,” portant to all of us, Rodriguez says. family’s journey from Mexico to the Street in South Bend. the Rio Grande in a boat. And as he says. “My father came with the “The telling of these stories adds to U.S.” Rodriguez served as an invited art- they were crossing, my mother told intent of finding his mother, who had the collective memory of a family, Rodriguez has been exhibition ist-in-residence at Segura Arts Studio her sister that she’d heard that if you come earlier to work in the States, and keeps alive, in minds and hearts, coordinator for the Snite Museum of in the Notre Dame Center for Arts drank from the river, you wouldn’t and reuniting his family. But by the those who have left us.” Art for 18 years. He holds an MFA and Culture through the summer of return to Mexico — hence the titles, time he found her, she was living
At right, Rodriguez’s series, “Caritas: The Immigrant in the Word,” is a suite of six prints that juxtapose Fine art print sale immigrant/alien/stranger references in the Bible with Nov. 4 and 5 depictions of the treatment of immigrants in the U.S. today. “I want to remind people of the humanity of Segura Arts Studio the people trying to get into this country, and our responsibility in keeping with our Judeo-Christian Works from Segura Arts archive will be offered for traditions,” he says. To view the series, visit the website, sale at discounts of 30 to 75 percent during a ramirorodriguez.com; meet the artist and see his two-day sale, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5, work at the Taylor Street Art Studio Fall from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Parking is available at the Open House, 120 S. Taylor St. in South Bend, rear of the building and across the street. Saturday, Nov. 5 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 631-3082. November 2016 | NDWorks | 7
Keeping family stories alive
Because of you and the United Way’s Kindergarten Readiness Camp, I’m ready for kindergarten! Thank you Addressing poverty in St. Joseph County
BY RACHEL BROWN, UNITED WAY efforts in three areas: Early Learning, An example of collaborative efforts of United Way, the partnership has Harris-Madison. Using Pearson’s OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY Youth Success and Stable Families. between two organizations which in furthered Five Star Life’s efforts to Get Ready to Read pre- and post- “Part of what United Way aims previous years had applied for United reach 10,000 students, up from assessments, all four school systems United Way of St. Joseph County to do is to encourage organizations Way’s grant investment awards 3,000 students last year. saw an average literacy increase of 14 (UWSJC) has focused its efforts to work together,” says Jessica separately is the Building TRUST “Now we have a platform and percent in just three to four weeks as on addressing poverty within our Brookshire, Notre Dame’s associate project led by Hope Ministries an infrastructure,” says Seth Maust, a result of attending these camps. community and encouraging director for public affairs, who has and the Center for the Homeless, president and executive director of United Way also partners with agencies to collaborate on solutions. been the University’s United Way in collaboration with direct-care Five Star Life “We are laser-focused all local school systems on other In the past, much of United Way’s campaign manager for more than providers, the Center for Social on a target, and we are getting it initiatives. School City of Mishawaka work was focused on the distribution 17 years. Brookshire, United Way’s Innovations, Oaklawn, Memorial done.” receives support from United Way of funds and resources among the 2015 Volunteer of the Year, is one of Hospital, Family Connections and United Way takes the lead where through Mishawaka FIRST Robotics, work of many local agencies. Moving 40 community residents who review Community Connections. gaps exist in filling critical needs Project Lead The Way, Boys and Girls forward, the role is to identify, applications for grant funding. TRUST is an acronym for Trauma in the community. One example is Club, Five Star Life and the Youth collaborate and support work aimed “We have over 300 non-profit Recovery and Understanding System United Way’s Kindergarten Readiness Service Bureau. “It’s not the United at reducing poverty in St. Joseph agencies in our community,” Transformation. Research shows that Camps. Only 1,000 out of 4,000 St. Way of your grandparents,” says Barb County. Brookshire says “Encouraging trauma is one of the root causes of Joseph County children in need of Michalos, director of the School City “UWSJC’s new approach is much people to work together, exchange poverty and homelessness, but also high-quality preschool experiences of Mishawaka’s Exceptional Learners, more strategic. I think the primary information, and share best one of the biggest barriers people receive them. “it’s very specific how they roll their theme is to shift our focus and practices and resources to deliver face in utilizing services intended This was the first year UWSJC sleeves up in the community.” energies into community impact the best possible service model and to help them. This project seeks to hosted free kindergarten readiness “We want United Way to be a and address the most pressing needs experiences for those we serve has build a trauma-informed system of camps for 80 children within complete resource,” says Sheri within our community,” says Matt been a critical difference in this year’s care in St. Joseph County, which in four local school corporations: Niekamp, UWSJC’s director of Harrington, UWSJC’s president and investment process.” turn will serve as a national model to South Bend Community School community impact. Niekamp was CEO. “In doing so, we can invest The goal is to reduce duplication help create other trauma-informed Corporation, School City of responsible for developing the new the community’s donations more of effort and repetitive fundraising communities. Mishawaka, John Glenn Community process and communication plan for efficiently and responsibly than ever by nonprofits. As a result 40 percent Five Star Life, which runs School Corporation, and Penn- this year’s investment cycle, as well before.” of the grant awards were invested in programs and a video classroom as recruiting experts and committed Now, all work and initiatives are initiatives involving three or more curriculum for middle school community members to sit on grounded in breaking the cycle of partners, including schools, health students to help reduce dropout volunteer panels to determine how generational poverty and helping systems and government as well as rates, received its first award this year. the community’s dollars would be stabilize families by concentrating non-profits. Now, as a community impact partner invested. “We’re going to continue seeking out funding opportunities in our community, but we’ve changed what we bring to the table. We want to connect agencies. Poverty is a very complex social issue. That’s why Will you lend a hand to those in need? collaboration is so important.”
Contribute just $1 per paycheck to support programs for those in poverty in St. Joseph County — If we increase employee participation by 5 percent over last year, the University’s United Way campaign will receive an addi- tional $15,000. For those paid twice a month, that’s just $24 per year!
New gifts of $100 or more, or an increase in last year’s pledge of Watch the kindergarten $100 or more (less than $5 per paycheck!) will be matched at camps 2016 video at 100 percent by the Indiana Association of United Ways. unitedway.nd.edu. Pledge or donate online at unitedway.nd.edu or use the pledge card on page 11 of this issue. 8 | NDWorks | November 2016 2016 TEAM IRISH AWARDS FaithND Team
FaithND, the Alumni Association’s online spirituality community, gathers Notre Dame’s family of faith and shares the University’s spiritual heritage with alumni, parents and friends. The faith.nd.edu website has offered spiritual resources to the Notre Dame family since 2012. PHOTOS: PETER RINGENBERG There, viewers can personalize and share a digital prayer card from campus; read a moving story about faith in daily life or submit a prayer request to the Alumni Association. Prayer requests receive a personal response and a promise to offer that prayer in person at the Grotto. The most popular feature of FaithND is the Daily Gospel Reflection email, which allows people to reflect on the Gospel. The daily email includes the Gospel reading for the day, a short reflection written by someone in the Notre Dame family (student, staff, faculty or alumni), a prayer composed by a Holy Cross priest, and information about the saint of the day. The email arrives at 5 a.m. ET, Monday through Friday; it is free, comes with no solicitations and is available to everyone. Delivering a reliable email publication that nourishes the faith of thousands requires a network of Alumni Association staff members, from designers to editors to technical support experts. Four years ago, the email reached 7,000 readers every day. Through improvement in quality, service and design, now more than 50,000 readers receive this email every weekday. It has become a touchstone for the Notre Dame family of faith, helping many begin their day rooted in God’s word. These teams collaborate to collect and deliver quality written reflections, and support our readers when they need their Notre Dame family the most.
Employee-led groups assist NDSP to accept food University in recruitment, retention donations as payment New groups offer The Black Faculty and Staff As- is passionate about the issues im- mentoring, networking sociation, which began meeting in pacting the target audience of the for parking fines 2002, recently assisted the Center group,” says Love. BY CIDNI SANDERS, STRATEGIC for Stem Research in its recruitment “I hope to see membership COMMUNICATIONS efforts. Prior to bringing in an Afri- increase in our existing employee can-American postdoctoral candidate resource groups and for interest for an interview, the center reached to grow in starting new groups to Eric Love is encouraging the cam- out to Love for assistance in high- address any unmet needs on cam- pus community to take advantage lighting local and culturally relevant pus,” he says. of some new resources to aid in the religious institutions, community The Office of Human Resources recruitment and retention of diverse organizations and businesses. Love provides seed funding for the em- employees. promptly contacted the Black Faculty ployee resource groups, which can Employee resource groups (ERGs) and Staff Association, which provid- use the money to bring in speakers, are voluntary, employee-led groups ed valuable information to help the cater meetings or host other events. created by a shared characteristic, candidate learn more about what it And an HR liaison is provided for interest or life experience. would be like to live in the region. each ERG to assist the group with Three groups currently exist at Membership in the employee its charter, policies, budget or other Notre Dame: the Black Faculty and resource groups is primarily targeted need. Staff Association, THRIVE! Women’s to staff, but faculty members are For more information about BY CIDNI SANDERS, STRATEGIC Gotta Eat, a partnership of 14 pan- Leadership and Young Leaders of welcomed to join as well. In addition, the Black Faculty and Staff As- COMMUNICATIONS tries in St. Joseph County that works Notre Dame. A fourth group focus- there are no requirements that one sociation, contact Brenda Hunt, though the United Way of St. Joseph ing on the Hispanic community just must be female to join THRIVE! president, at [email protected]; Nobody likes to receive a parking County to share resources, raise funds completed its charter and will soon Women’s Leadership, a millennial or THRIVE! Women’s Leadership, citation, but they do happen. Notre and promote awareness. begin accepting members. And work Gen-Xer to join Young Leaders of contact [email protected]; for Young Dame Security Police’s Parking Ser- Area food pantry needs include is under way to establish an interna- Notre Dame, or of African descent Leaders of Notre Dame, contact vices is offering a payment option soup, chili, stew, macaroni and tional group as well as an LGBTQ to join the Black Faculty and Staff [email protected]. To inquire that allows you to help the commu- cheese, Hamburger Helper, oatmeal, (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender Association. about starting an employee re- nity, while also going easier on your nutritional drinks, boxed potatoes, and queer/questioning) group. “The great thing about these source group, contact Eric Love at wallet. cereal, pasta, spaghetti sauce, bread, Love, director of staff diversity in groups is that they are inclusive. Each [email protected]. The department is launching Food canned fruits and canned vegetables. the Office of Human Resources, says will open its doors for anyone who for Fines, a program that will accept According to United Way of Notre Dame’s employee resource non-perishable food donations as St. Joseph County’s 2016 monthly groups are a valuable tool not only payment for parking tickets and fines. reports from People Gotta Eat par- for traditionally underrepresented The program runs from Nov. 14 to ticipating pantries, so far this year populations, but also for the Univer- Dec. 9. Each donated canned good nearly 26,000 families have utilized sity as a whole.
CAROL C. BRADLEY or food item will be worth $2 in fine PGE to feed their families. 4,000 of “Many people think of ERGs only payments. Up to 30 food items can those families were new clients to the in terms of the social networking and be donated per person, for a maxi- pantries. community building they provide for mum fine value of $60. Beginning Monday, Nov. 14, do- their members,” Love says. “In fact, Food for Fines is open to faculty, nations can be turned in at Parking many organizations across the coun- staff and students as well as visitors Services, located at 119 Hammes try are also realizing benefits from the to campus who may have received a Mowbray Hall, Monday through groups’ contributions to professional citation. Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. development and volunteerism ef- “The inspiration for the Food for Parking Services asks that faculty, forts, applicant sourcing, employee Fines program came from our staff in staff and students bring their Univer- satisfaction and customer insights.” Parking Services. They recognized an sity ID card with them when drop- Part of the mission of Young opportunity to help the Notre Dame ping off food along with their paper Leaders of Notre Dame, launched community and our local community citation or license plate number so in 2015, is to provide educational at the same time,” said Kyle John- that citation totals can be amended initiatives that ensure the continued son, NDSP director of finance and to reflect the food donation. growth and strength of the University administration. While the Food for Fines program community. The group’s events and NDSP Chief Keri Kei Shibata is primarily targeted to those who opportunities — such as facilitat- said, “I’m very proud of our staff for have received parking or traffic tick- ing mentoring relationships and its their persistence to see this program ets, anyone who wishes to donate Learning from Leaders initiative — become a reality and I’m excited to items during the collection period are focused on meeting the needs of THRIVE! officers, from left to right, Sandra Garcia, Nina Holdread, Diana see the program’s impact.” may do so. those employees younger than 45. Placzkowski, Cindy Sachire and Ann Hastings Donated food will go to People November 2016 | NDWorks | 9
Your United Way contributions also help co-workers in need
The Employee Compassion Fund is a University emergency assistance program funded completely by Notre Dame faculty and staff as part of the annual United Way of St. Joseph County workplace campaign. A campus committee reviews the applications; funds are administered by the Family and Children’s Center. The Compassion Fund is designed to assist individuals who find themselves in a temporary financial hardship. The granting of funds is designed to either permanently resolve the financial hardship or bridge the individual to a permanent solution to the hardship. Eligibility for the Compassion Fund is restricted to temporary financial emergencies that involve immediate or pressing needs, for example illness or disability, a house fire, natural disaster or other unavoidable financial emergency. Applicants complete a Compassion Fund request and must contact the United Way’s 211 phone line (or visit myuw211.org). The employee will be contacted by a Notre Dame representative to ask further questions if necessary and share the final funding decision. Financial assistance may be awarded in any amount up to $1,000 per application. Financial assistance to employees from the fund are considered charitable conations and the gifts need not be reported as income. For more information, visit unitedway.nd.edu.
todayDonate United Way of St. Joseph County’s initiative, People Gotta Eat, is an effort to help those in our community without the means to secure adequate food for themselves or their families. United Way of St. Joseph County works with 14 area food pantries to raise money to keep the pantries stocked and to develop a plan to effectively address food distribution in our community. For more information on how you can help feed your family, friends and neighbors in need, contact: Sheri Niekamp, director of community impact at 574-232-8201, ext. 232; or [email protected].
People Gotta Eat food pantries
AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist of North Indiana La Casa de Amistad Food Pantry Broadway Christian Parish Pantry/United Methodist MAC Albright Pantry/United Methodist Church Church Mishawaka Food Pantry Catholic Charities Diocese Fort Wayne-South Bend Needs for Neighbors Food Pantry Clay Church Pantry Share Your Blessings/Calvary Baptist Church The Fighting Irish Fighting Hunger initiative collects food and raises Downtown Soup Kitchen St. Vincent De Paul Kingdom Business Food Pantry Southgate Food Pantry money for the Food Bank of Northern Indiana and People Gotta The Storehouse Food Pantry Eat every September, this year totaling more than $30,000. Donate throughout the year by dropping your spare change in canisters located at various campus retail dining outlets. 10 | NDWorks | November 2016
SERVICE ANNIVERSARIES Procurement Services: The University congratulates those employees celebrating significant service anniversaries s in November: Supporting sustainability BY PAUL KIM, PROCUREMENT SERVICES 35 Years 25 Years Jaime L. Mburu, Security Procurement Services offers competitive pricing, customer service and Jody Ruszkowski, Center for easy ordering processes. You can support the University’s sustainability James M. Desits, Rebecca L. Kruzel, Security Civil and Human Rights efforts through our relationships with leading suppliers: TRiO Programs Mary L. Lymburner, Marci L. Ullery, Gender Jayne E. Schlutt, Custodial Services Relations Center Canon is the University’s preferred supplier of multifunction copiers. Hesburgh Libraries Alan J. Pecze, University Catering Notre Dame prints 67 percent double-sided copies compared with Gregory A. Scott, 45 percent for Canon’s other higher education customers.* South Dining Hall 10 Years 30 Years Patricia A. Willkom, University Norbert J. Brenner, Office of • Offers a full-service lease program, including supplies and repairs Norma L. Aguilar, Health Services Custodial Services Director, Maintenance • 2016 Energy Star Partner of the Year Pamela K. Batalis, Lisa M. Butt, Office of • Impact: Overall, by printing double-sided, the University has saved Campus Work Control Center 20 Years General Counsel 924 trees during fiscal year 2016** Kristina Davis, Michele S. Grayson, Brian J. Egendoerfer and Center for Research Computing University Catering Rex E. Rectenwal, Office Depot is the University’s preferred supplier of office supplies, James J. Funk and Paula L. Dorita A. Jennings, Customer IT Solutions providing next-day delivery through Office Depot’s GreenerOffice Hopkins, Custodial Services Center for Culinary Excellence Beverly L. Esters, service, and reducing wood use and greenhouse gases.** Michelle J. Johnson, Colleen M. Jones, Bookstore Custodial Services IT Service Delivery Carol L. Schaal, Daniel T. Patterson, Reckers • Notre Dame ranks 12th among Office Depot’s more than 2,000 Notre Dame Magazine Martha Kempf, higher education customers in percentage of spending on green Ann M. Tharp, Alliance for Catholic Education products* Alexander M. Scheidler, Landscape Services 15 Years Rosa T. Escalante, Morris Inn Performing Arts Administration • Featured green product: Boise Aspen 30 percent recycled copy paper Natalia Lyandres, Anna K. Van Overberghe, with Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)-certified sourcing is more Hesburgh Libraries Kroc Institute for International affordable than private label equivalent brands Peace Studies Sonya J. Woods Watkins, *According to most recent reporting period TRiO Programs **Based upon calculations derived from Environmental Paper Network and/or Conservatree
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IN MEMORY
The University extends sympathy to the families and friends of these recently deceased employees and retirees:
Janet Houseman (Retiree, Mathematics) July 6 Nellie Connell (Retiree, Food Services) Sept. 14 Maryann A. Vanek (Retiree) Sept. 15 Ronald McCaster (Food Services) Sept. 21 Br. Louis F. Hurcik, C.S.C. (Retiree) Sept. 23 Lucille Knox (Retiree) Sept. 25 James Harrington (Temp, football usher) Sept. 25 Beverly Brooks (Retiree, Snite Museum) Oct. 1 Gertrude Shull (Term-vested) Oct. 2 Jadwiga Warchol (Retiree) Oct. 7
Thomas Podnar (left) and Stefan Dedecek from McKay Lodge Conservation Laboratory, Inc., were on campus in late summer to do routine preservation work on the statue of Rev. William Corby, C.S.C. November 2016 | NDWorks | 11
THANK YOU! HERE’S WHAT WE ACCOMPLISHED TOGETHER IN THE LAST YEAR... 1.5 MILLION MEALS SERVED LAST YEAR through United Way’s People Gotta Eat partnership with 11 local food pantries $5.6 MILLION 62,889 returned to the Michiana 101,802 community through 4,070 PEOPLE SERVED PEOPLE RECEIVED tax returns processed by through Agency-funded programs last year EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE United Way’s VITA initiative through the Emergency Food & Shelter Program
1 out of every 16 St. Joseph County residents connected to community resources through 2-1-1
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Language, poetry, history and culture: The Department of Irish Language and Literature I place my hope on the water, in this little boat of language…
Ní Dhomhnaill was born in Lan- and there’s a vast amount of medieval cashire, England, to Irish physicians material available. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill will speak on who worked in an Irish mining set- “Notre Dame has the only Irish tlement in Lancashire. At the age of her Mermaid Poems from 4 to 5 p.m. language degree program in the
BARBARA JOHNSTON five, she was sent to live with relatives Friday, Nov. 11, at the Eck Visitors States. It’s way ahead of anyone else. in the Irish-speaking areas of West Many of my students are math or Center. A reception will follow. Kerry. Her parents returned to biology majors. A good liberal arts The event is open to the public. Ireland a few years later, in 1957. background is very important for In a 2006 interview, she recalled life. It’s part of education. It draws leaving Ireland in the early 1970s, the best out of you. Some of my best when she met a man — a Turkish students are not humanities majors. lesser of two evils”) and Exodus and man — fell in love and married. Her My husband was a scientist. He was the annals of Jewish history tell the husband Dogan Leflef was a geologist logical and rational. We brought rest of the story, and are the direct (“and a mathematician at heart”). out different sides of each other. results of an action that even as I He completed his Ph.D. in Hol- Two sides, making each a more well write is still working out its inexo- land, “Thought the nearest sedimen- rounded person.” rable destiny. I know it is wrong to tary rock, old red sandstone, was in The Irish language is ineffable, compare small things with great, yet Munster, Ireland. That’s where we Ní Dhomhnaill adds, something my final answer to why I write in met. There was pandemonium at that’s too powerful to express in mere Irish is this: home about it. So I left home when words. “The language is spoken now, I was 21 and swore I would never set and has 1,500 years of written liter- The Language Issue foot on that benighted island again.” ature, a heroic culture, behind it. It’s I place my hope on the water They lived in Holland, then for not like anything else.” in this little boat five years Turkey. “In those days our In her own poetry, Ní Dhomhnaill of the language, the way a body only contact with the rest of the says, poems come in images and might put world was by express letters. Four phrases, “Sort of insistent, musical an infant days there, and four days back. Tur- phrases. As a musician would put in a basket of intertwined key had cut itself off. But that five down notes, I, as a poet, put down iris leaves, years made me. I learned more there words. If it doesn’t come that way, it than I’ve learned in my whole life. Ní Dhomhnaill its underside proofed feels forced. with bitumen and pitch, Now I have two countries that are “It’s growing, mulling. I write my home.” One of the questions she’s invari- the poem out, longhand. Then I Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, then set the whole thing Her first volume of poetry was ably asked is “Why?” Why does she type it up and see what it looks like. Irish poet down amidst published in 1981, after their return write exclusively in Irish? Sometimes I’m walking and wham! the sedge to Ireland. “The language drew me An eight-line stanza, or two six-line and the bulrushes by the edge back,” she wrote in the New York BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS Read the poem, she replies. stanzas will come to me, but I have of a river Times essay. “A loneliness for the to wait for it to mature. It’s a kind of language, and the music … Even in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is Patrick only to have it borne hither and gestation. And,” she adds, “it’s the In an essay she wrote for the New Dublin I’m quite lonely, because I B. O’Donnell Distinguished Visitor thither, only thing I have a knack for.” York Times (Jan 8, 1995) she said: can’t go out and speak Irish on the at the Keough-Naughton Institute for not knowing where it might street or just ring somebody and Irish Studies. Widely regarded as the end up; *** “And yet, and yet . . . I know this have a conversation in Irish for fun. greatest living poet in the Irish lan- in the lap, perhaps, will sound ridiculously romantic Radio na Gaeltachta is my lifeline. If guage, this fall — as she does every of some Pharaoh’s daughter. Ní Dhomhnaill published her first and sentimental. Yet not by bread it weren’t for that, I’d be as exiled in third year — she’s teaching a course collection of poetry in Irish, An Dealg alone . . . We raise our eyes to the From “The Pharaoh’s Daughter,” Dublin as I was in Ankhara.” on 20th-century Irish-language poet- Droighin (1981). Her works include hills . . . We throw our bread upon 1994, translated by Paul Muldoon Ní Dhomhnaill hears poetry in ry at Notre Dame. poetry collections, children’s plays, the waters. There are mythical Irish, a language, she says, “of beauty, She teaches the old-fashioned way, screenplays, anthologies, articles, precedents. Take for instance Moses’ Her mother, a native Irish speaker, historical significance, ancient roots she notes, “Chalk and talk. No Pow- reviews and essays, including Selected mother, consider her predicament. didn’t hold much with the notion, Ní and an immense propensity for po- erPoint. But the students at Notre Poems/Rogha Dánta (1986); She had the choice of giving up her Dhomhnaill adds. When her mother etic expression through its everyday Dame listen. They’re very patient. Pharaoh’s Daughter (1990), The son to the Egyptian soldiery, to have called and — making conversation use.” We’re all involved in something called Astrakhan Cloak (1992), The Water him cleft in two before her very eyes, — asked what she’d been writing And the students who learn it have learning, which is bigger than both Horse (1999), and The Fifty Minute or to send him down the Nile in a lately, Ní Dhomhnaill said, “Oh, an a wealth of written material to work of us. I’ve taught at five different Mermaid (2007). Selected Essays basket, a tasty dinner for crocodiles. essay for the New York Times about with, since Irish is the oldest vernac- universities in the States, and I much appeared in 2005. Ní Dhomhnaill She took what under the circum- what it’s like to write in Irish.” After ular language in Northwest Europe prefer Notre Dame to anywhere else. was awarded the Ireland Chair of stances must have seemed very much a few seconds pause, her mother — the earliest writings in Irish date It’s marvelous.” Poetry from 2001 to 2004. like “rogha an dá dhiogha” (“the replied, “Well, I hope you’ll tell them to the third and fourth centuries, it’s mad!”
1916: The Irish Rebellion awarded Irish ‘Emmy’ 1916: The Irish Rebellion was Broadcast of the three-part series Institute has worked to assemble su- awarded “Best Documentary Series” occurred in Ireland (RTÉ), the Unit- perior faculty and library collections, at the 2016 Irish Film and Television ed Kingdom (BBC), France (TF1 bring outstanding educators to cam-
Award ceremony, held on Friday, Histoire), the United States (PBS af- pus, and foster enriching exchanges PHOTO PROVIDED Oct. 7, in Dublin. filiates), and many other countries, as between Notre Dame and Ireland. An initiative of the Keough- well as in the air through Aer Lingus. The Keough-Naughton Institute’s Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Also distributed in an 86-minute faculty is comprised of faculty fellows Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, the Thomas feature-film version, the documenta- based in several departments with J. and Kathleen M. O’Donnell Pro- ry has been screened and broadcast Notre Dame’s College of Arts and fessor of Irish Studies, and professor worldwide to viewers in more than Letters, including the Department of of Irish language and literature, was 60 countries on five continents. Irish Language and Literature, his- the originator and writer of the tory, English, anthropology, political documentary. She and Christopher The Keough-Naughton Institute: science and others. This interdisci- Fox, director of the Keough-Naugh- Dedicated to Irish culture plinary expertise permits an unparal- ton Institute, served as co-executive leled examination of Irish Studies. producers. The Keough-Naughton Institute In addition, the institute fosters Narrated by Liam Neeson, the for Irish Studies is a teaching and re- exchange between Notre Dame and three-part series tells the dramatic search institute dedicated to the study Ireland to make direct experiences story of the events that took place in and understanding of Irish culture in available to students. Dublin during Easter Week 1916, all of its manifestations — both in when a small group of Irish rebels took Ireland and around the world. on the might of the British Empire. Since its inception in 1993, the November 2016 | NDWorks | 13
Language, poetry, history and culture: The Department of Irish Language and Literature We could say ‘Go Irish,’ but it really doesn’t translate
Sarah McKibben, interim department chair and associate professor of Irish language and literature, who specializes in early modern Irish poetry, notes that Notre Dame has the only dedicated Irish language department in North America. “Other universities teach Irish — but without degree programs. Other programs teach Celtic studies — PHOTOS: BARBARA JOHNSTON but without our unique focus on Irish and broad course offerings. We’re the first of our kind outside Ireland.”
The Department of Irish Language and Literature offers a major, supple- mentary major and minor; each summer students are offered fully funded, monthlong language immersion programs. In 2017 the department inaugurates a fully paid internship (covering airfare, lodging and a sti- pend) for an IRLL major to work in an Irish language organization. “Our students have won Fulbrights, gone on to graduate study in history, Irish literature, gender studies and other fields — and even taught Irish themselves. It’s remarkable,” McKibben says.
Diarmuid Ó Giolláin, professor of Irish language and literature, and concurrent professor of anthropology, is “In short, a folk- lorist,” he says. “To elaborate, a cultural historian.” Ó Giolláin is the author of Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity (2000), winner of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Prize 2000, and An Dúchas agus an Domhan (2005).
“To understand Ireland’s history, its culture and Ireland as an ideal, Gaelic is very important,” he says. “The language is one of Ireland’s riches. It’s the oldest vernacular language in Western Europe. It’s the embodiment of literary traditions that go back 1,500 years. It’s a skill that can unlock many aspects of the Irish experience.”
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Siobhán Ní Mhuimhneacháin, a native Irish speaker with an M.A. in Modern Irish from University College Cork, is teaching Irish at Notre Dame during 2016-17. “The status given to the Irish language here is heart-warming,” says Siobhán. “Many of my students have no direct connections to Ireland, but wish to study this language – my language! And they approach learning Irish with enthusiasm, curiosity and a determination that is refreshing.”
Mary O’Callaghan, assistant teaching professor of Irish language and literature, teaches all levels of Irish and serves as language program coordinator. She has a particular interest in bilingualism and second language acquisition. A native of County Cork, O’Callaghan holds a bachelor of arts degree from the National University of Ireland and a graduate diploma in primary education from the University of Limerick. She joined the department in fall 2010, having previously served at Notre Dame in 2008-2009 as the Government of Ireland Teaching Assistant in the program. “I love teaching Irish at Notre Dame because it resonates here like nowhere else outside of Ireland,” she says.
For more information on the Department of Irish Language and Literature, including faculty, courses, news and events, visit irishlanguage.nd.edu. 14 | NDWorks | November 2016
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Tricia and Taylor THEATER America. They pummeled out policy MUSIC Department of Music and personal insult — their explosive The Dying of the Light (2016) 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12; $5 exchanges devolving into vitriolic New at the Browning Bach’s Lunch Frankenstein name-calling and a new era in public 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10 Department of Music Leighton Concert Hall Department of Film, Television, and discourse was born. Co-presented by “The Dying of the Light” explores the 12:10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28; free but Notre Dame violin and viola professor Theatre the Department of Film, Television and history and craft of motion picture ticketed Tricia Park and guest violinist/fiddler 7:30 p.m., Wednesday–Friday, Nov. Theatre. presentation through the lives and 12:10 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4 (Sold out) Taylor Morris return to perform another 9-11; $12 stories of the last generation of career 12:10 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11 (Sold out) exciting, genre-bending program of 2:30 and 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12 Hand Held (2010) projectionists. By turns humorous and 12:10 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18 music for two violins. 2:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 13 Nanovic Institute Film Series melancholic, their candid reflections 12:10 p.m., Friday, Dec. 2 Patricia George Decio Theatre 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 3 on life in the booth reveal a world that Penote Performer’s Hall Jonathan Moyer Written by Tim Kelly. Adapted from the Photojournalist Mike Carroll ‘68 and has largely gone unnoticed and is now Enjoy a free noontime concert with Presenting Series novel by Mary Shelley. Marking 200 filmmaker Don Hahn scheduled to at an end. The result is a loving tribute performances from the Department of 2:30 and 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 13: $5 years since the summer of 1816, when appear in person. to the art and romance of the movies Music performance majors. Reyes Organ and Choral Hall Mary Shelley conceived the idea for her Jonathan William Moyer maintains classic novel. Featuring the stunning work of — and to the unseen people who a dynamic career as an organist, photojournalist Mike Carroll, Hand brought the light to our screens. Spon- Glee Club Fall Concert Held is the new documentary directed sored by the Hagerty Family Endow- Department of Music pianist, singer and conductor. He Judgment at Nuremberg by Academy Award-nominated ment for Excellence. 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28; $8 specializes in a vast repertoire from Presenting Series filmmaker Don Hahn. Hahn is best Leighton Concert Hall the renaissance to the 21st century, 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10; $27 known for his films Beauty and the Gravity (2013) The concert will include works by and he has performed throughout the Leighton Concert Hall Beast and The Lion King. Carroll’s New at the Browning Victoria, Lassus, Schubert, Conte and United States, Europe and Japan. One of the great courtroom dramas of stories on the plight of Romanian 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 13 Schickele, as well as folk songs and the last century, Judgment at Nurem- children after the collapse of Nicolae Sandra Bullock and George Clooney spiritual arrangements. Los San Patricios: The story of berg became an Academy Award-win- the St. Patrick’s Battalion ning film and a stage play that is both Ceausescu’s regime in 1989, which star in this heart-pounding thriller Presenting Series were written and photographed for The that pulls you into the infinite and Baltimore Consort surprising and unsettling. L.A. Theatre Boston Globe and The New York unforgiving realm of deep space. Bull- Presenting Series Hagerty Irish Performer Series Works applies its signature style to Times, led directly to the formation ock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30; $20 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18; $12 this famous work by Abby Mann. Made of the Romanian Children’s Relief engineer on her first shuttle mission, Leighton Concert Hall Patricia George Decio Theatre possible by Rick and Peg McFeeley organization. Since 1990, Romanian with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky A premier ensemble of early music, Los San Patricios: The story of the St. Golden. Co-presented by the Center for Children’s Relief/Fundatia Inocenti has (Clooney) in command of his last flight Baltimore Consort performs on period Patrick’s Battalion is a performance Civil and Human Rights. contributed more than $2 million in before retiring. But on a seemingly instruments and sings in the Renais- that connects Mexican and Irish music staff support, training, medical, and routine spacewalk, disaster strikes sance style. traditions to recount a significant and largely forgotten period of cultural CINEMA education supplies to its Romanian and the shuttle is destroyed, leaving conflict, religious faith, war and partner hospitals and social services Stone and Kowalsky completely alone Notre Dame Chorale: sweeping social transformation that How to Live in the German agencies. Co-presented by the Nanovic — tethered to nothing but each other Lux Aeterna Federal Republic (1990) Institute for European Studies. and spiraling out into the blackness. Department of Music shaped the United States. Postwar German Cinema Co-presented by the Department of 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 4; $6 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 1 Campaign Manager (1964) Romance Languages and Literatures. Leighton Concert Hall NDSO Fall Concert Introduced by Jill Godmilow, ND profes- The War Room (1993) Choral music from the Renaissance Department of Music sor emerita. The Presidential Election on Screen Run Lola Run (1998) to the present, including the world 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18; $6 Before the collapse of the Berlin Wall 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5 Postwar German Cinema premiere of Stefan Girardet’s ma- Leighton Concert Hall unified Germany, most westerners Two fascinating documentary portraits 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15 ny-voiced “Lux Aeterna” for a cappella The concert will include Elgar, Enigma demonized East Germany for its com- from inside the campaign trail: “Run Lola Run” is the internationally choir. Also, music by Richafort, Weel- Variations; Barber, Adagio for Strings; munist ideology. In How to Live in the “Campaign Manager” follows young acclaimed sensation about two star- kes, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Elgar and Bernstein, Symphonic Danc- German Federal Republic, avant-garde Republican campaign manager, crossed lovers who have only minutes and Stravinsky. es from “West Side Story.” filmmaker Harun Farocki sharply dis- John Grenier as he plots the 1964 to change the course of their lives. sected life in West Germany with his presidential primaries for candidate Time is running out for Lola (Franka Jerusalem Quartet Symphonic Winds and Band camera and his rapier wit. Composed Barry Goldwater. “The War Room,” Potente) who has just received a Presenting Series Concert entirely of 32 short scenes taken from (recently parodied on IFC’S Documen- frantic phone call from her boyfriend, 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6; $32 Department of Music instructional and training classes, tary Now), follows a young George Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). He’s lost a Known for their passion and rich, full 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 20 Farocki’s film revealed West Germany Stephanopoulos and James Carville small fortune belonging to his mobster sound, the Jerusalem Quartet has Leighton Concert Hall as a country where nothing hap- as they navigate the upstart 1992 boss, and if Lola doesn’t replace the been well received worldwide with an The concert will include compositions pened without rehearsal, training or presidential campaign of then- money in 20 minutes, Manni will suffer especially enthusiastic following in by Arnold, Whitacre and Holst, as well preparation. At times funny, at times Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. severe consequences. Europe. as several Notre Dame favorites. The concert will conclude with a joint per- alarming, “How to Live in the German Co-presented by the Department of formance of both ensembles, featuring Federal Republic” shows us that mod- Film, Television and Theatre. The Edge of Heaven (2007) more than 150 musicians from all ern life itself is an enactment. Postwar German Cinema fields of study. …So Goes the Nation (2006) 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 29 Best of Enemies (2015) The Presidential Election on Screen Director Fatih Akin weaves overlapping The Presidential Election on Screen Eileen Ivers 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6 tales of friendship and sexuality into Presenting Series 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 2 “...So Goes the Nation” examines a powerful narrative of universal love. Tickets for Browning Cinema Hagerty Irish Performer Series In the summer of 1968, ABC News America›s tumultuous electoral pro- Six characters are drawn together: an movies are $6 for faculty/staff, 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 27; $23 hired two towering public intellectu- cess through the eyes of diverse poli- old man and a prostitute forging a $5 for those 65 and up, free for Leighton Concert Hall als to debate each other during the ticians, activists and voters. The 2004 partnership, a young scholar recon- Notre Dame students, unless Recalling the roaring hearths and Democratic and Republican national presidential election between George ciling his past, two young women otherwise noted on the website. roars of laughter that are part and conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was W. Bush and John Kerry provides the falling in love, and a mother putting Visit performingarts.nd.edu for parcel of Christmas in Irish families, a leading light of the new conservative stage, showing how the voting public the shattered pieces of her life back more information or to purchase dazzling fiddler Eileen Ivers inter- movement. A Democrat and cousin to is manipulated by party leaders and together. Akin’s piercing sense of tickets, or call the Ticket Office weaves age-old Wren Day songs, Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist their political marketing machines in the human condition and contem- at 631-2800. beloved American carols and even a novelist and polemicist. Armed with the ruthless fight to win the battle- porary world events charge these jigging Bach in An Nollaig: An Irish deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal ground state of Ohio. Co-presented by hyperlinked stories into a multicultural Christmas. and Buckley believed each other’s the Department of Film, Television and powder keg. political ideologies were dangerous for Theatre. November 2016 | NDWorks | 15 Spotlight ∫ ∫ Eileeen Ivers
Highlighting PHOTO PROVIDED PHOTO Irish history and tradition in music
BY CAROL C. BRADLEY, NDWORKS
The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Hagerty Irish Performer Series presents two special fall performances: Los San Patricios: The story of the St. Patrick’s ∫ Los San Patricios Battalion, and fiddle sensation Eileen Ivers’ An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas.
In Los San Patricios (8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, Patricia PHOTO PROVIDED George Decio Theatre; $12), the Sones de México Ensemble and the Irish Music School of Chicago tell the story of St. Patrick’s Battalion (Mexico’s “Fighting Irish”) and its role in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.
In 1846, thousands of immigrants, mostly Irish, joined the U.S. Army and under Gen. Zachary Taylor were sent to invade Mexico. For a number of reasons — mistreatment of immigrants, brutal army discipline and the inability to practice their Catholic religion —several hundred soldiers deserted Taylor’s army and joined forces with Mexico, led by Capt. John Patrick Riley, a native of Clifden, County Galway. They called themselves the St. Patrick’s Battalion, the Los San Patricios. The performance is co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish fiddle at age 8. Her recording credits include more than 80 Studies. contemporary and traditional albums and numerous movie scores. The child of Irish immigrants, she grew up in the Dazzling fiddler Eileen Ivers tells the story of Christmas Bronx, New York. In addition to her musical achievements, in song and dance in An Nollaig: An Irish Christmas (2 p.m., she graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from Sunday, Nov. 27, Leighton Concert Hall; $23). Ivers, who’s Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, and has done post- been called “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin,” took up the graduate work in mathematics.
From Us to Me (2016) Phoenix (2014) ALSO AT THE BROWNING National Theatre Live: on an extraordinary journey from the Nanovic Institute Film Series Postwar German Cinema Hamlet (2015) fields of rural Devon to the trenches 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 1 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 6 National Theatre Live: 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 20; $18 of First World War France. Filled with Probably the longest surviving film A riveting mystery of identity unfolds Frankenstein (Version 2) Academy Award nominee Benedict stirring music and songs, this power- collective in the United Kingdom, against the turmoil of post-World War 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30; $18 Cumberbatch takes on the title role fully moving and imaginative drama is Amber Films was the first film group II Germany in the stunning film from Directed by Danny Boyle of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. As a a show of phenomenal inventiveness. from the West to be invited into director Christian Petzold (Barbara). Cast: With Benedict Cumberbatch, country arms itself for war, a family At its heart are astonishing life-sized Communist East Germany in 1987. Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish Jonny Lee Miller tears itself apart. Forced to avenge puppets by South Africa’s Handspring The resulting film, “From Marx and nightclub singer, has survived a Not Rated, 134 minutes (Version 1), his father’s death but paralyzed by Puppet Company, who bring breathing, Engels to Marks and Spenser,” was a concentration camp, but with her 129 minutes (Version 2), DCP the task ahead, Hamlet rages against galloping, charging horses to thrilling portrait of Rostock — a shipyard and face disfigured by a bullet wound. Childlike in his innocence but the impossibility of his predicament, life on stage. fishing city on the Baltic Sea. Within After reconstructive surgery, Nelly grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s threatening both his sanity and the six months of the film’s release in emerges with a new face, one similar bewildered creature is cast out into a security of the state. 1989, the Berlin Wall had fallen and but different enough that her former hostile universe by his horror-struck the German Democratic Republic was husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever National Theatre Live gone. In 2013, Amber Films returned doesn’t recognize her. Rather than he goes, the friendless Creature, War Horse (2014) to Rostock and contacted all the key reveal herself, Nelly walks into a increasingly desperate and vengeful, 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, $18 characters from the earlier film to dangerous game of duplicity and determines to track down his creator Since its first performance at the Na- find out how they, and the city, had disguise as she tries to figure out and strike a terrifying deal. tional Theatre in 2007, War Horse has fared under capitalism. “From Us to if the man she loves may have become an international smash hit. Me” brings together interviews from betrayed her to the Nazis. Based on Michael Morpurgo’s novel 1987 and 2013 to shed light on one of and adapted for the stage by Nick the key historical events of the 20th Stafford, War Horse takes audiences century. 16 | NDWorks | November 2016
Town Hall topics include internationalization, diversity and inclusion BY CIDNI SANDERS, diversity discussion series where staff INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS can share experiences and learn from each other. An upcoming session in More than 1,600 employees November will focus on minimizing microagressions, and in December attended the University’s fall Town CASHORE PHOTOS: MATT Hall meetings in early October. the series will explore the historical Notre Dame President Rev. John significance of Hanukkah and I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and Executive Kwanzaa. Visit hr.nd.edu for more Vice President John Affleck-Graves information. provided updates on a number of Town Hall attendees were University initiatives and programs, reminded that ensuring a safe including internationalization, and secure campus is everyone’s diversity and inclusion, campus safety responsibility. Safety hazards, and benefits. suspicious or dangerous activities “If I look back on the last and crimes in progress should be decade, one of the most significant immediately reported to the Notre developments at the University Dame Security Police by calling has been the internationalization 911 from a campus phone or 574- of the University, our network of 631-5555 from mobile phones. connections around the world. As Safety concerns can also be shared at you can see, we really are global,” [email protected]. Father Jenkins said, referencing a Work environment concerns can map of 16 non-U.S. locations that be shared with Human Resources at included global gateways, centers and 574-631-5900 and [email protected]; offices. the Office of Institutional Equity at Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., discusses Notre Dame Trail, an August 2017 event that will retrace the steps of the founder “Our gateways are our most 574-631-0444 and [email protected]; of the University, Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., and seven Holy Cross brothers from Vincennes, Ind., to South Bend. extensive presence in an area. They or the Integrity Line at usually involve a physical presence 800-688-9918 and www. — a building, classroom space and compliance-helpline.com/ library space. It’s a place where we NotreDame.jsp. send students and where we have Executive Vice President Affleck- conferences,” said Father Jenkins. Graves highlighted recent changes “Centers are focused on a particular the federal government made to the area, usually a historic connection. overtime exemption regulations of Offices are places where we’re just the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). starting; we have people on the As of Dec. 1, approximately 500 ground and we’re working toward Notre Dame employees, including building a greater presence.” faculty, staff and postdocs who are Michael Pippenger, Notre Dame’s currently exempt will become non- new vice president and associate exempt and eligible for overtime pay. provost for internationalization, “I want to emphasize that this will work to further the University’s is a good thing. This is all about global culture, programs, reach protecting employees across the and reputation through expanded country, and we wanted to make international research, collaborative this change as fair as we could to our projects and strategic relationships employees,” said Affleck-Graves. He with global partners. noted that the University will protect Father Jenkins also spoke of the a number of benefits for affected University’s ongoing efforts regarding employees, including 403(b) Plan diversity and inclusion, such as participation, vacation accrual and new employee resource groups and long-term disability. training opportunities for senior Those with questions about leaders, managers and employees. the FLSA changes should speak In addition, the Office of Human with their business manager, HR Resources, the director of staff consultant or the Office of Human diversity and inclusion, and Campus Resources. Dining are partnering to hold a For more content from the fall Staff attend a Town Hall meeting at Washington Hall’s Mainstage Auditorium. More than 1,600 employees took part in Town Hall meetings, view the video the meetings held Oct. 5 and 6. at evp.nd.edu/town-hall/.
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