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Also in this issue: Old Main Anniversary The Third Alternative Journey to Tanzania DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published three times annually by Duquesne University’s Office of Public Affairs Vol. 9, Number 1 Asthma Camps Fall 2010 page 4 Editor Bridget Fare Associate Editor Megan Tressler A Decade in Rome Editorial Board Ralph L. Pearson, Ph.D. page 16 John Plante Dorothy Bassett, Ph.D. Philip Clarke Carrie M. Collins Gregory H. Frazer, Ph.D. Rev. Raymond French, C.S.Sp. Linda Kinnahan, Ph.D. Julie Shepard Old Main Turns 125 page 28 Writing Randy Cole Colleen C. Derda Karen Ferrick-Roman Emily Goossen Carolina Pais-Barreto Beyers Rose Ravasio Also in this issue: Kimberly Saunders Richard Tourtellott Journey to Tanzania .....................................................................................................2 Bob Woodside Recent Grants ..............................................................................................................6 Students in Action ........................................................................................................7 Design Jeremy Neeley Alumni Look Back on “The Third Alternative” ..............................................................8 Taylor Tobias Summer Projects ........................................................................................................10 Numerous National Rankings Applaud Duquesne .....................................................12 Duquesne University Magazine On the Road ...............................................................................................................13 Office of Public Affairs 406 Koren Building Care & Compassion: DU Students in Africa ...............................................................14 600 Forbes Ave. Catching Up with Lucille Stewart ...............................................................................22 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 What’s New at DU ......................................................................................................24 Tel: 412.396.6050 Rare Vatican Exhibit Coming to Pittsburgh ................................................................26 Fax: 412.396.5779 E-mail: [email protected] Environmental Program Brings Ghanaians to Campus ..............................................30 Law School Plans Centennial Celebrations ...............................................................31 Athletics Update .........................................................................................................32 It is the Spirit Figures From the Past ................................................................................................34 Who Gives Life Our Bluff in Brief .........................................................................................................35 Alumni Updates ..........................................................................................................36 The Gift of Inspiration .................................................................................................42 Snapshots ..................................................................................................................44 Alumni Calendar .................................................................................inside back cover Bicentennials on the Bluff ............................................................................. back cover A Catholic University in the Spiritan Tradition 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘10 thoughts from the president Thoughts from the President Dear Alumni and Friends, In recent years, the Duquesne campus footprint has expanded to cover more of our Bluff and reach deeper into the Uptown community. Our most far-reaching campus “expansion,” however, takes us to another continent and another nation: Italy. Ten years ago, Duquesne established a formal European presence with our Italian Campus in Rome. A handful of students, faculty, and administrators were the first to carry the Duquesne spirit to Rome, where the program—and the campus itself—has grown beyond our expectations. Today, as we prepare to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the program boasts more than 1,000 alumni and a staff committed to offering students life-changing academic and cultural experiences. We are proud of our Rome campus and know many more students will continue to enjoy this unique opportunity. Another part of the world—Africa—is a central focus of the University’s strategic plan. Recently, a delegation from Duquesne visited Tanzania to explore possible partnerships between the University and established Spiritan ministries. Additionally, a group of physician assistant students traveled to Liberia to deliver maternity care to a part of the world that rarely sees it. These students were in awe of the primitive conditions in which they worked and literally gave the scrubs off their backs to their Liberian colleagues. This issue chronicles their experiences. Closer to home, two members of our pharmacy faculty uncovered a troubling situation in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood. Disturbing numbers of children who live there have undiagnosed or undertreated asthma. This research resulted in asthma camps being offered locally throughout the spring and summer to help children who suffer from asthma. The camps were so successful that more are being planned for next year. This issue of Duquesne University Magazine shows how our Spiritan mission is being lived throughout the world and in our own backyard. We hope you are proud of the work we do every day to serve God by serving students. We thank you for your support. Sincerely, Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. Duquesne University President www.duq.edu 1 mission matters mission matters Journey to Tanzania Sheds Light on Spiritan Mission, Possible African Partnerships – By the Rev. James mccloskey, c.s.sp., At the end of spring vice pResident foR mission and identity – semester, Vice President for Mission and Identity Reverend James Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the McCloskey, C.S.Sp., traveled to East highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai “Ngake Ngai,” Africa with a delegation of Duquesne the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass administrators and faculty to explore possible partnerships between the of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. University and the established Spiritan (Hemingway, 1936, p. 52). ministries. The group included: So begins The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway’s tragic saga of • Christopher Duncan, McAnulty expatriate life in East Africa. In the shadow of that same mountain, I, along College & Graduate School of with nine other members of the Duquesne University community, traveled to Liberal Arts Arusha, Tanzania, visiting health care facilities, schools, parishes and social • Dean Alan Miciak, Palumbo•Donahue service agencies sponsored by the Spiritan Congregation there. What we were School of Business “seeking at that altitude” was something more intangible and indefinable than mere cultural exchange or even service. It was the meaning of Spiritan • Dean David Seybert, Bayer School life in relationship to its history in Africa—and the meaning of that same of Natural & Environmental Sciences Spiritan mission today at Duquesne. • Dean Olga Welch, School of Our visit, from May 18 to May 26, was hosted by the members of the Education Spiritans in Tanzania. It was designed to acquaint us with projects such as the DREAM program, an AIDS clinic jointly sponsored by the Spiritans • Dean Greg Frazer, Rangos School and the San Egidio Community of Italy, Tengeru Secondary School, Njiro of Health Sciences Hill Seminary, the Okokola School for Handicapped Children, Mount Meru • Dean Eileen Zungolo, School of Hospital, and Saint Augustine University, among other social ministries. Nursing Meetings with the leadership team of the Spiritans in Tanzania began and ended the experience. • Sister Rosemary Donley, Jacques On the visit to a class in the Secondary School for Boys in Moshi, students Laval Endowed Chair in Justice shared their career aspirations with Deans Miciak, Duncan, Seybert and for Vulnerable Populations Welch. It was clear that the career paths they sought were varied and centered • James Swindal, chairperson, on a number of professions. Philosophy Department “They all had high career aspirations—to be scientists, • Anne Marie Hansen, assistant lawyers, entrepreneurs. I told professor, Rangos School The journey, organized by Hansen, a lay Spiritan, in cooperation with the Office of Mission and Identity, also enabled the group to actively learn about Spiritan life and mission in the context of Africa. Following is Fr. McCloskey’s reflection 2 on this experience. 1 1. Sr. Rosemary Donley and Dean Eileen Zungolo meet with a staff member at the USA River Health Clinic. 2. Deans Miciak and Seybert are surrounded by Maasai children following Pentecost Mass at Endulen. 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘10 mission matters Members of the Duquesne delegation celebrated the Pentecost liturgy with Rev. Ned Marchessault, C.S.Sp., at the Endulen mission. Pictured are (standing left to right) Rev. James McCloskey, C.S.Sp., Olga Welch, Christopher Duncan, David Seybert, Marchessault, Eileen Zungolo and Sister Rosemary Donley. Kneeling (from left to right): Anne Marie Hansen, Alan Miciak. them that the profession of teaching years ago on an abandoned former by Father