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Summer 2016 Architectural rendering looking north at the new complex, with Boys Town National Research Hospital (not part of the sale) silhouetted at left in the foreground and the pedestrian bridge at right. (Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture) A Prescription for the Future A local developer has agreed to purchase the CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center property at 30th and California streets and plans to redevelop it into 650 to 700 apartments with retail space and an 850-foot long pedestrian bridge over the North Freeway to Creighton’s main campus. The news was met with a healthy dose of excitement from Creighton and community leaders. Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., called the announcement “a great day for Creighton and the surrounding community.” Read more here. University Magazine Message from the President Volume •ˆ, Issue ˆ Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. Daniel More than , Creighton S. Hendrickson, S.J., President. 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In my time with students, faculty, at 8ŠŠ.ˆ8ˆ.‰86’ or check online at alumni.creighton.edu. staff, alumni, and friends of the University, I am convinced more than ever that Creighton University is a special place, and I am excited about what the future holds for us. Copyright © ˆŠ‘™ by Creighton University As a university, and through discussions within individual departments and units, creighton.edu we have undertaken an all-campus Area Examen, modeled after the Jesuit process for discernment, to consider institutional initiatives that will continue to propel us forward Creighton University Magazine’s Purpose and enhance Creighton’s mission. Creighton University Magazine, like the One initiative, which I announced during my inauguration ceremony, that I believe University itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its holds particular promise for the University is our new Creighton Global Initiative, or CGI. forms. The magazine will be comprehensive In April, I announced that more than •Š projects were chosen for an initial ¤‘.‰ million in nature. It will support the University’s in seed funding. These include immersion opportunities, research programs, lectures, and mission of education through thoughtful scholarships, just to name a few. and compelling feature articles on a variety of topics. It will feature the brightest, the This global experience will build upon our current international outreach and most stimulating, the most inspirational education. I am excited for the opportunities it will offer our students to experience thinking that Creighton offers. The magazine different customs and cultures and to gain new perspectives that will allow them to bring also will promote Creighton, and its Jesuit, fresh ideas to critical issues both globally and in their own communities. Catholic identity, to a broad public and serve as a vital link between the University and its This spring, I also announced the formation of the President’s Advisory Council on constituents. The magazine will be guided by Sustainability and the Presidential Diversity Commission, to guide and inform our actions the core values of Creighton: the inalienable and planning in these priority areas. I am hopeful for the recommendations they will offer. worth of each individual, respect for all of Finally, our Board of Trustees recently approved the appointments of several new lay God’s creation, a special concern for the poor and the promotion of justice. and Jesuit members to the Board. We welcome the leadership, guidance, and enthusiasm these new members will bring to the Board and Creighton University. Please enjoy this issue of Creighton University Magazine. I pray that you and your families have a wonderful summer. Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J. President

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Race in America ...... 16 One-half of the American population considers racism “a big problem” in our country, according to a Pew Research Center study, a finding consistent with other polls and recent events. Members of the Creighton community offer insight from 16 an Ignatian perspective. Looking Back: The First Year ...... 22 The Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., Ph.D., shares his observations on a range of topics with the readers of Creighton University Magazine, as he looks back at his inaugural year as president. Drug Shortages ...... 28 More than ‘‰Š medications are currently in short supply — including cancer treatments, antibiotics, vaccines, anesthetics and more. Creighton professors explain this serious situation and offer some solutions. 22 Totally RaD ...... 34 With a supercomputer and a lightboard to its credit, Creighton’s research and development laboratory, or RaD Lab, is engaging students and faculty from all corners of the campus, creating innovations that were once unthinkable. Marriage, Family and the Catholic Church ...... 40 Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on marriage and the family, changes the focus from law to virtue, according to theology professor Todd Salzman, Ph.D., and theology professor emeritus Michael Lawler, Ph.D. The papal document will guide the Catholic Church for many decades to come. 28

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Reaching for a Dream By Emily Rust Scholarships When Valerie Bower gave birth to She’d often thought of Creighton when her second son, something was off. considering nursing school. But Omaha was far away, and as a mother of four, she needed to be Allow Mother “I had a really horrible delivery,” she said. close to her family. Worried about pursuing her Her newborn son had underdeveloped lungs nursing career, Bower soon found the answer she of Four to and spent a week in the neonatal intensive-care was looking for. unit at CHI Health St. Elizabeth in Lincoln, Neb. “When I found out that Creighton had a Pursue Nursing Always by her side were caring nurses, people she campus at Mary Lanning, I was over the moon. would remember for years to come. Creighton is THE nursing school; it’s got a great Education At the time, Bower was a customer service reputation,” Bower said. “It was a very happy representative at a call center. Her only exposure accident — further reinforcement that nursing is my calling.” In the fall of ˆŠ‘–, Bower began the traditional four-year nursing program at Creighton University College of Nursing-Mary Lanning Campus. Since ‘—©™, Creighton has operated a nursing program out of Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings. Bower wouldn’t be in nursing school if it hadn’t been for the scholarships she received. With the Les and Phyllis Lawless Annual Scholarship, and the EducationQuest Foundation Annual Scholarship, she’s able to focus on school. Before the scholarships, she discussed with her husband possibly picking up a part-time job, adding another challenge for the mother of four. “I see that as pulling out the bottom piece of the Jenga game,” Bower said. Now, her family has learned to adjust to mom’s college schedule. Her boys, aged ‘‘, ‘Š, © and •, are for the most part supportive — only annoyed

Photo by Chad Greene Photo when it affects their free time. But, they’re kids, she says. Valerie Bower at home in Hastings, to the health care industry was working with “When there are nights where I have to work Neb., with her husband and four supplemental insurance. She had gone to college on homework at the dining room table, they sons. Bower is a student in the to study elementary education, but left to pursue a continue with life around me,” Bower said of her traditional four-year nursing program job, not knowing exactly what she wanted to do. at Creighton University College of family. Nursing-Mary Lanning Campus in Still searching for her dream career, she often As an active member of her church and a caring Hastings. remembered her time at St. Elizabeth’s and the mother, Bower is grateful to have Creighton nurses beside her, and finally, she realized her nearby. calling in life. “It’s really nice to have the option to go to “The care that I got and that he got, that’s school here, get a degree, but stay at home,” what has inspired me to become a nurse,” Bower said. Bower said. After graduation, Bower hopes to start her But her goals would have to wait. Now, eight nursing career at Mary Lanning. She’s leaning months pregnant with her fourth son, Bower toward working in either neonatal or OB-GYN. and her growing family were moving out of her “What excites me is caring for people when hometown of Lincoln to Hastings, Neb., where they’re most vulnerable and being that nurse her husband had been called to serve as a pastor for them, the way they were for me and my kid,” of the First Christian Church of Hastings. Bower said.

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one of the leading independent power Board of Trustees Appoints New Members producers in the U.S. The Creighton University Board of Trustees recently approved the Chris Elias, BS’, MD’­€, HON’ , appointments of three Jesuit and seven lay members to the Board. president of global development for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Their terms will begin at the Board meeting in September. Nizar (Nick) Ghoussaini, BS’‰, “As alumni and friends of the Indian Reservation in South Dakota; former MS’Š, a senior operational partner for University, the new appointees not only general counselor to the Jesuit superior Triton, a private equity firm with o ces share a commitment to our Jesuit and general in Rome; and former president of in London, Frankfurt and Stockholm. Catholic mission, but they represent the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley Susan Nemer Haddix, trustee for GFH an impressive and impassioned range (Calif.). and SAH Foundation Trust, and longtime of professional and civic expertise Rev. Gerald Thomas (Tom) Krettek, S.J., volunteer and board member for and involvement in areas as diverse Ph.D., associate visiting professor, director nonprofit and educational institutions. as philosophy, global engagement, of the Master of Arts in Philosophical Jayme Martin, BSBA’Œ, vice communications, finance and leadership Resources program and director of the president and general manager of global in the Society of Jesus,” said Creighton Jesuit First Studies Program at Fordham categories for Nike, Inc. University President the Rev. Daniel S. University; former provincial superior Gary Witt, consulting director Hendrickson, S.J. for the Wisconsin Province of the Society and former president and managing The new Jesuit trustees are: of Jesus; and former philosophy faculty shareholder of Lutz, an Omaha-based Rev. Casey Beaumier, S.J., Ph.D., member at Creighton (‘—©—¯ˆŠŠŠ). accounting, technology and talent director of the Institute for Advanced The new lay trustees are: service firm. Jesuit Studies at Boston College, Thomas Barry, BSBA’88, senior vice In addition, the Board has approved who taught Church history and New president, controller and chief accounting the appointment of Eric Immel, S.J., to Testament at Creighton from ˆŠŠ‰ to o cer for Sirius XM Holdings, Inc., in New the new role of associate trustee. He is a ˆŠŠ™. York. Jesuit scholastic who will serve at Arrupe Rev. Joseph Daoust, S.J., superior of Jerry Crouse, vice chairman of Tenaska College of Loyola University Chicago this the Jesuit community on the Pine Ridge Energy, Inc., and CEO of Tenaska, Inc., fall as assistant dean for student success.

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2016 commencement 1,700+ total highlights graduates

George F. Haddix, Ph.D., MA’66 • Alumni Achievement Citation Alumnus and Trustee Emeritus • Creighton University The Rev. James Martin, S.J. • Honorary Degree Editor at Large, America Magazine 4 John Wareham, BSPha’64 • Honorary Degree 45 Alumnus and Retired President and CEO • Beckman Instruments states Honorees Kenneth Melilli • Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Teaching Achievement Professor of Law • Creighton University represented

Tara Dammer School of Pharmacy and Health Professions and 2 Heider College of Business 20 Brandon Warrington countries College of Arts and Sciences Spirits of represented Creighton

Beyond Global Boundaries Research initiatives, student immersion experiences and scholarships are among the 30 proposals recently awarded nearly $1.5 million in funding through the Creighton Global Initiative (CGI), a seed-funding program for faculty, staff and students designed to strengthen, enrich and embrace the University’s global perspectives. Additional awards will be given next year from the donor-funded initiative.

To learn more about the 30 great ideas for global thinking, visit creighton.edu/geo To support CGI, visit creighton.edu/cgi “ The Creighton Global Initiative will take more of the University out into the world, and it will bring more of the world to Creighton.”

This is more than —The Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., Ph.D. just an education. President, Creighton University

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Disney movies, I grew up watching nature documentaries.” A Global Experience And Creighton prepared him well for By Rick Davis, BA'88 the experience, he said. Courses in zoology, biology and organismal and population Studying Elephants: Unforgettable ecology gave him the knowledge and Creighton University student Tommy Hayek was looking for a study confidence to apply for the program. He was abroad experience that would be unique, memorable and further the one of –‘ students, from universities across the United States, admitted. education he was receiving as an environmental science major. While overseas, he also had an opportunity “Tanzania fit that criteria,” said Hayek “When you enter the park, it’s very heavily to correspond with Creighton University by phone, more than halfway through forested,” Hayek said. “I saw some blue President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J. a semester abroad program in wildlife monkeys in the trees, so I was all excited. “Since he had been to Tanzania,” Hayek said, management studies this past spring through Then the car in front of us stops, and we hear “it was really interesting to get his perspective The School for Field Studies. these crashing sounds. on what I was doing and hear his stories from The School for Field Studies, according “This massive forest elephant comes out his time in Tanzania.” to its website, offers “transformative study of the trees” right in front of the lead car. The program ran from Feb. ‘ to May ‘Š, abroad experiences through field-based More elephants follow, including a young but Hayek stayed an extra week so he could learning and research” at locations in calf. “It was a huge shock. These massive climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Australia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Bhutan, animals are coming out of nowhere. It was The whole experience, he said, has been Photo courtesy of Tommy Hayek courtesy of Tommy Photo by Isaac Merson Photo Two younger elephants spar at the Manyara Ranch Conservancy in Tanzania. Creighton student Tommy Hayek studied male elephants as part of a study abroad experience this spring.

Peru, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and indescribable, an incredible introduction to somewhat surreal — filled with unforgettable Tanzania. There is a focus on environmental life in Tanzania.” experiences and images: stewardship and working with local partners Hayek’s research focused on studying The great migration on the Serengeti, to find sustainable solutions to complex the sociability and leadership of male where thousands of wildebeests “stretched environmental problems. elephants. He worked as part of a team out to the horizon” … a lion feasting on a That fit with Hayek’s faith, and what he under the direction of John Kioko Masila, zebra carcass … a group of cheetahs walking had experienced at Creighton. Ph.D., a Kenya native and associate professor along … a leopard resting lazily in a tree. “We are called to be stewards of the earth,” of wildlife ecology at The School for Field And rare black rhinos, a species that is Hayek said, “and being here I feel I can put Studies, whose research focuses on elephant critically endangered, off in the distance at my faith into practice. I’m able to apply Jesuit conservation. the Ngorongoro Conservation Area — almost principles to my work here.” “There is plenty of research on female appearing as a mirage in the haze of the He also had an opportunity to study elephants,” Hayek explains. “They’re one of afternoon heat. African elephants — up close. It was an eye- the classic examples of matriarchal groups. “They looked like these giant prehistoric opening, adrenaline-rushing experience for But there hasn’t been much done on male animals that would never be able to survive the St. Louis native. elephants.” on earth,” Hayek said. “But there they were. “The first experience I had with an elephant Hayek had always dreamed of doing this There are still these amazing creatures with was at Lake Manyara,” a national park known type of work. which we share this planet. for its diverse wildlife, Hayek said. “While other kids grew up watching “That was very, very cool.”

— Summer 2016 University News [Q&A] Avoiding Bloviations You’ve had an opportunity to speak Before addressing Creighton graduates, Fr. Martin at commencement exercises for corresponded with Creighton University Magazine Q several universities. What message do you hope to impart as students go forth Nationally and internationally accomplished Jesuit priest, into the world and begin the next chapters of their lives? writer and commentator the Rev. James Martin, S.J., was Fr. Martin: I hope to give them some the featured speaker at Creighton University’s afternoon practical advice, not just some abstract commencement ceremony on May ‘–. bloviations. Essentially, I’ll aim for the kind of talk that I wish I heard when I Creighton University Magazine caught up with Fr. Martin for graduated instead of, well, bloviations. an email interview prior to graduation. The bestselling author, Knowing that I’m speaking to Jesuit- also known for his guest appearances on Comedy Central’s educated students means that I’ll be able to speak their language, as it were. It’s such “The Colbert Report,” shared his thoughts on a range of topics. an honor to be invited to do this, especially at Creighton, which has such an important place in this country as a real center for Ignatian spirituality. (Watch Fr. Martin’s commencement address here.)

You are popularly known as “Chaplain of the Colbert Nation” Q or “Colbert’s Priest,” given your appearances on comedian Stephen Colbert’s talk show. You are also a humorist in your own right. Do you follow in the vein of great American humorist Mark Twain in believing, “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand?” Fr. Martin: I would agree in part with Mark Twain. But just in part. I mean, people laughed at Adolf Hitler for a time, but that didn’t seem to stop him very effectively. But against pomposity in general I think Mr. Twain was right. More basically, humor is an essential element for a healthy spirituality. Catholics tend to downplay that. Just go into a Catholic church and count all the crucifixes and statues of sad-looking saints. Not that the suffering of Jesus wasn’t important. Rather, the Passion narratives represent only part of his life — one week in fact. The majority of his ministry was one of joy. Healing the sick, raising the dead, preaching the Good News to the poor. These are all occasions of great joy. Jesus himself said that people critiqued him for being a “glutton and a drunkard.” That is, he was being critiqued for living it up. After

Photo by Chad Greene Photo all, his first miracle was to make more wine The public was invited to St. John’s Church to hear the Rev. James Martin, S.J., speak on the importance of at a party. So we have to move away from this joy in the lives of Christians on May ‘•, the night before commencement. idea of Jesus, and the saints, and, by extension,

‘Š Summer 2016 University News holy people, as dour and depressive. It’s essential not only for a sense of humility (that is, laughing at yoursel³) but also to maintain a healthy perspective of who you are, and your place in the world. Basically, you’re not God. That’s important for everyone.

As a Catholic priest, how do you appeal to a wider non-Catholic, Q non-Christian audience, and how has your Jesuit calling instilled in you the desire to reach a more universal, diverse group of people? Fr. Martin: I try to write for the person I was before entering the Jesuits — that is, not knowledgeable about the faith, about the Gospels, about Jesus or about anything Photo by Dave Weaver by Dave Photo religious. So that enables me, I think, to Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., left, and the Rev. James Martin, S.J., at Creighton’s reach more people. I try to keep things basic commencement ceremony in May. Fr. Martin received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and at first and then trust that the reader will be delivered the commencement address at the afternoon ceremony. able to follow me. As for my Jesuit calling, well, our goal is too. I knew something about the Gospels how to work e ciently, and how to work to “help souls,” as St. Ignatius Loyola, our and they knew something (a lot) about hard. So I still make it a point to be at my founder, often said. And that’s everyone — acting, directing and so on. desk at — a.m., and I always put in a full day’s not just Catholics! Funny enough, one day I said to one of work, unless I’m traveling. I think every the actors, “So when are you starting your Jesuit should work just as hard as anyone in You once consulted for a play that practices?” And he said, “Um, Father Jim, an o ce does. That’s very important for me: opened o†-Broadway. How did they’re called rehearsals.” I have a real horror of laziness. “S.J.” doesn’t that come about, what was that Q And no, I never, ever, imagined when I stand for “Soft Job.” experience like and did you ever imagine entered the Jesuits that I would do anything Also, funny enough, I learned at GE to, your Jesuit vocation would lead you in that like this. The God of Surprises, you know. as we used to say, “Never let a piece of paper direction? touch your desk more than once.” That is, Fr. Martin: I was invited to work on a play Entering the Jesuits afŠer being when you get a task, or an email, or a phone on Judas with the playwright Stephen Adly educated at the University of call, take care of it. It’s a rule that’s helped Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Guirgis, who went on to win a Pulitzer Q me a lot. Business and a career at General Electric, Prize. The play, “The Last Days of Judas As for our corporate culture: Business what lessons, if any, have you brought Iscariot,” [which debuted in ˆŠŠ‰] was is obviously a key part of our society. And forward from your days in the corporate directed by [the late] Philip Seymour business is a real vocation for millions of world? What things about our current Hoffman, and starred Eric Bogosian and corporate culture would you like to see people. But the corporate world needs to Sam Rockwell, among others. It was a open to change? grasp more fully that the bottom line isn’t delightful experience. I had zero experience the only measure of a corporation’s success with actors or the theater, and so it was a Fr. Martin: That’s a great question. At or its value. And a salary isn’t the only learning experience for me. And for them, General Electric, I learned a great deal about measure of a person’s success or value. This isn’t the time to go into a long discussion about economics or capitalism, About Fr. Martin but, as Pope Francis says in his encyclical Laudato Si’, there are more metrics for The Rev. James Martin, S.J., a native of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., graduated from the success: How well does the company University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business in 1982 and worked in corporate contribute to the common good? How well finance at General Electric for six years before leaving to enter the Society of Jesus in 1988. He was ordained a priest in 1999. does it pay its workers? How happy are Fr. Martin currently serves as editor at large of America magazine and is an award- its employees? And so on. I found in the winning author. His books include Jesus: A Pilgrimage (a New York Times bestseller), The business world a slavish devotion to the Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, Between Heaven and Mirth and his latest, Seven Last bottom line, which, needless to say, is quite Words: An Invitation to a Deeper Friendship with Jesus. limiting. Some of those questions (though I He is a regular commentator in the national and international media, and his wouldn’t have been able to frame them that appearances have ranged from NPR’s “Fresh Air” to Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” PBS’ way at the time) were what led me out of GE “NewsHour” and Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” and into the Jesuits.

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Study to Examine Factors New College of Nursing adults and older adults. Implementing faculty from both the College of Nursing and the Leading to Lower Back Pain in Programs Announced School of Medicine, program content includes Pregnant Women The College of Nursing recently psychiatric-mental health models of care, Jennifer Bagwell, Ph.D., assistant announced a new RN-to-BSN program and therapeutic modalities, pharmacotherapeutics professor of physical therapy, earned a a new Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse and neuroscience. new investigator grant from the American Practitioner specialty track for students Physical Therapy Association Orthopaedic seeking a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree. Breaking Bad News to Parents Section to look at The RN-to-BSN program, which is Focus of Medical Simulation joint and muscle entirely online, provides registered nurses function in pregnant with a pathway to the Bachelor of Science About ˆŠ fourth-year School of Medicine and postpartum in Nursing degree. The program aims to pediatrics students took part in a simulation women. prepare nurses in the areas of outcomes this spring on breaking bad news to the Bagwell will management, care coordination and parents of children who have experienced spend two years transition, cost-quality initiatives, and severe trauma or a di cult diagnosis. While looking at the gait population health management. It also simulated, the exercise of ˆ‰ pregnant and encourages registered nurses, who may was far from fake. The postpartum women already have been practicing for several years, standardized patients Bagwell and the gait of ˆ‰ to think about the leadership roles they — specially trained by women who have never been pregnant. The could assume to best serve their populations. simulation lab staff goal is to look at the factors contributing to Work experience will be considered in — provided visceral lower back and lower extremity pain during determining the breadth and depth of reactions to the worst and after pregnancy, with the ultimate goal required coursework toward the degree. news a parent can get. of finding techniques and interventions to The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Under the lessen or eliminate the pain. Practitioner specialty track is designed mentorship of Terence Bagwell said about half of pregnant to prepare nurse practitioners to meet Zach Zach, BA’, M.D., women report lower back or lower extremity the mental health needs of individuals, neonatologist and professor of pediatrics, pain, a pain that often doesn’t go away families and communities or groups, with a medical students took part in the simulation following delivery. population focus on children, adolescents, to work on their technique.

Physical Therapy EŸective for Four-Legged Athletes, Too How do you get a ‘,ˆŠŠ-pound horse to tell you about the range of motion in his neck? Give him a carrot, of course. Kirk Peck, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Physical Therapy, along with fellow physical therapist Sharon Classen, saw several dozen hoofed patients at The International Omaha horse jumping and dressage competition in May. Classen and Peck, who make up Serenity Physical Therapy, based out of Classen’s farm near Bennington, Neb., are spreading the word about the benefits of physical therapy for athletes — both the four- legged and two-legged varieties. Peck, who already holds certification for practicing physical therapy on dogs, and is the state’s leading advocate for animal physical therapists, is in the final stages of completing his equine certification. When available, Peck will join Classen as she travels the horse Photo by Chris Machian/ Omaha World-Herald Photo show-jumping circuit, providing fresh insights on enhancing Sharon Classen helps to stretch and exercise Mystique, while Kirk performance, helping horses and riders recover faster, preventing Peck, Ph.D., helps to hold the horse steady at Serenity Ridge Farm in Bennington, Neb. injuries and conducting groundbreaking research.

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Creighton Remembers “As a neonatologist, by definition, I do this Former Board Member Mike Harper just about daily,” Zach said. “Some news is worse than other news — sometimes it’s just Charles M. “Mike” Harper, HON’‰, a that the baby has to stay in the NICU for a former chairman and chief executive oŠcer few days, in other cases, the baby died — but of ConAgra Foods, Inc., and RJR-Nabisco, and on a fairly regular basis, this is something we an emeritus member of Creighton’s Board of do. We want students to be able to have the experience before it really happens. It’s the Trustees, died May “” at the age of ””. old saying: ‘Tell me, I forget; show me, I may The philanthropic gifts and civic engagement of Harper and remember; involve me and I understand.’” his late wife, Joan F. “Josie” Bruggema Harper, dramatically Students in the simulation learned to have enriched Creighton, Omaha and the surrounding region. “Mike Harper, his wife, Josie, and the entire Harper family a communications plan before breaking the Harper news, learned how much words matter, how have been generous supporters of Creighton University and much body language matters, how even a our Jesuit, Catholic mission,” said Creighton University President the Rev. Daniel S. brief mental rehearsal can help. Hendrickson, S.J. “The Harper Center, which bears the family name, is a showpiece Typically, Zach said, not many medical and signature facility on our east campus and serves students in multiple capacities schools offer a simulation like this one. But as home to our Heider College of Business, the Schlegel Center for Service and Justice Creighton’s emphasis on treating the whole and the John P. Fahey Career Center, among other uses.” person, combined with educating the whole At the time of the dedication of the Harper Center, Mike Harper said the building person, makes this one of the most poignant stood as a tribute to Josie, a loving mother and ardent supporter of family, education lessons many of the students will take away and health care. from their time in medical school. As ConAgra CEO, Mike Harper provided the initiative to revitalize downtown Omaha and partnered with government o cials to enhance the business climate across Nebraska. Creighton conferred on him an honorary degree in ‘——‰, to Vitamin D Could Lower Cancer recognize his corporate and civic contributions. Risk, Researchers Find “Mike was an astute and successful businessman who cared deeply about this community and Creighton University,” Fr. Hendrickson said. “His impact will be felt A higher level of vitamin D could lead to for generations to come.” a lower risk of cancer, a Creighton professor found in his latest study published online in the April ™ issue of PLOS ONE. Drawing on results from one of Creighton’s past studies, Robert Heaney, BS’—, MD’‰˜, and researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and GrassrootsHealth, looked at vitamin D levels in ˆ,•Š– women. A global expert on vitamin D studies, Heaney looked at women who used a supplemental amount of vitamin D over a four-year period. He found that if a woman’s blood level for vitamin D is above –Š nanograms per milliliter, her risk for cancer is reduced. In ˆŠ‘Š, the Institute of Medicine

recommended a vitamin D dosage of ™ŠŠ Weaver by Dave Photo international units per day. That’s not enough, says Heaney. But what is enough? Students Named Fulbright, Goldwater Scholars For Heaney, he believes people should Three College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program students, Jordan Roth, Samantha Stoupa and first discover how much vitamin D is in Alex Tarter, earned scholarships from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education their blood levels, as the GrassrootsHealth Program. This brings Creighton’s Goldwater Scholars total to ‘— in the last ‘ˆ years, making the participants discovered through a blood test. University one of the nation’s premier producers of Goldwater Scholars. Additionally, Hannah Smith, BA’‘™, was the recipient of a Fulbright Teaching Award. She will spend ‘‘ months teaching English and serving as an American cultural ambassador in Spain, beginning this fall. Pictured above, from left, are Hannah Smith, Jordan Roth, Samantha Stoupa and Alex Tarter.

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Improv for Scientists Hannah Mullally, BSEvs’16, left, and Brisha Howe, a computer science major, work on their improvisational skills. Creighton theater professor Amy Lane, Ph.D., BFA’90, has been hosting workshops to help student and faculty researchers and scientists at Creighton better communicate their work with the general public. Read more here. Photo by Jim Fackler by Jim Photo

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‘– Summer 2016 University News One of Nature’s ‘Most Spectacular Events’ Will a severe March storm or cross-border politics threaten the migration of the monarch butterfly? Spanning four generations the monarch populations were estimated at •• and three nations, the annual million and ‰™ million, respectively, compared migration of the monarch with the billion butterflies that wintered in the area in ‘——™¯‘——’. butterfly endures as one of “You have three federal governmental While the toll taken on the monarchs nature’s most captivating marvels. entities involved in Mexico, the U.S. and was significant, the butterflies still departed “The monarch migration is an incredible Canada, all making policy decisions and their wintering grounds in February with phenomenon,” said Ted Burk, Ph.D., professor when you have a trilateral situation like that, greater numbers than in the past two years. of biology, who has devoted much of his it’s problematic,” said Adam Sundberg, Ph.D., The storm’s weightier aftermath might be professional life to the study of the monarchs an assistant professor in the Department of felt when the great-great-grandchildren of who live and migrate up and down the central History who spent time as a graduate student this year’s winterers return to Mexico in the corridor of North America. “Whether you in the monarch roosting grounds in Mexico, fall. The storm felled several hundred trees, attribute this to a Godly creator or a long examining the socioeconomic and historical a problem compounded by continued illegal evolutionary process, or maybe both, it’s one impact of the migration and potential logging in the forest. More frequent storms of the most spectacular events in nature.” effects of climate change on it. “You have of this magnitude could spell disaster for the But in the –‘ years since the modern scientists trying to weigh the best options species. revelation of the monarch’s winter roosting and find the best models for what the climate Inasmuch as people are anxious about the site on a wrinkle of mountainous forest in change impact will be. And you have the plight of the monarch in its winter quarters central Mexico, roughly the size of Creighton people who are concerned about what the in Mexico, people in Nebraska and more University’s campus east of ˆ–th Street, life economic impact will be. It’s climatological, widely throughout the nation can also help has been unstable at best for the butterflies ecological, political and social.” forge solutions, Burk said. Monarchs are and the people who have carved out a niche The good news is there was a decent widespread throughout the U.S., though not ecotourism economy around the monarchs. rebound in ˆŠ‘‰¯ˆŠ‘™, up to about ‘‰Š all of them migrate to Mexico. West of the Now, with the effects of climate change million butterflies, but a severe winter storm Rockies, the butterflies travel the West Coast being felt all along the monarchs’ migration in March had a dramatic impact on the and a species of monarchs in the southeast route and roosting zones, another threat rears population, killing about one-third of the largely migrates along the Florida peninsula. up to challenge the butterflies. The people, the roosting monarchs. Burk said the weather Planting milkweed for caterpillars and policymakers and the scientists who have a event is one scientists come to expect every other cultivars like tall thistle, goldenrod, vested interest in the butterflies are pondering decade or so and, since the last major storm ironweed, aster, zinnia and wild bergamot for the next moves in light of two rough was in the winter of ˆŠŠŠ¯ˆŠŠ‘, this one was mature monarchs helps provide the insects migrations in ˆŠ‘•¯ˆŠ‘– and ˆŠ‘–¯ˆŠ‘‰, when well overdue. with a food source.

Bernthal Booth, Kean Honored at Women's Athletic Fundraiser Kirsten Bernthal Booth and Melissa Kean, Ph.D., MA’€, were recognized at this year’s Leaders for Life Luncheon, the annual fundraising event that celebrates Creighton’s female student-athletes. Bernthal Booth, head coach of Creighton’s volleyball team, received the Leader for Life Award. Kean, who is the centennial historian at Rice University, received the Believe and Achieve Award.

From left, Kirsten Bernthal Booth, Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., and Melissa Kean, Ph.D., MA’—•.

‘‰ Summer 2016 race in America By Eugene Curtin

Editor’s note: While the United States is home to people of various racial backgrounds, this article focuses on race relations between black Americans and the majority white culture.

The numbers are stark. They are challenging. And they are stubborn. Fifty years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson launched his Great Society program aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the United States, the numbers haunt his legacy.

> The Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the median white household earns $60,256 a year, almost $25,000 more than the median black household, at $35,398. > Seventy-three percent of white families own a home, with a median value of $85,500. Those figures fall to 45 percent and $50,000 for black families. > In the past 10 years, 34 percent of white Americans completed a four-year college degree, compared to 20 percent of black Americans. > The U.S. Department of Justice reports that almost 3 percent of black males were in prison at the end of 2014, compared to 0.5 percent of the much larger white male population. Black men had the highest imprisonment rate in every age group. It’s a bleak picture, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

16 Summer 2016 A Gallup poll published in August showed that Americans increasingly rate the state of race relations more negatively than in the past. White Americans in particular are pessimistic. In ,  percent of them said relations between blacks and whites were either very good or somewhat good, a number that tumbled to  percent in . Black Americans, too, are more pessimistic, with their very good/somewhat good rating falling from ­­ percent in  to percent in . A Pew Research Center study conducted in August found that percent of Americans now consider racism a “big problem” in the United States, compared to just ­ percent who held that view when Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, took oŒce in January ‘. The finding is consistent with explosions of racial anger that have fueled recent news events in the United States, eruptions that have spurred calls for social and racial justice. As a Jesuit, Catholic university sitting adjacent to historically black North Omaha, Creighton has long maintained an active presence among racial minorities, recruiting students from Weaver by Dave Photo racially diverse backgrounds and working with minority communities to provide health, legal and other services. become something of a “ I’m not really an It comes as no surprise, then, that Creighton professors have regular at that church. educated person in pondered the problem. Burke-Sullivan’s Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, M.D., an internationally renowned church story involves the modern world if researcher in minority health; Eileen Burke-Sullivan, STD, the challenge she I don’t understand the MChrSp’œ, Creighton’s vice provost for University Mission and faced as a profoundly varieties of cultures Ministry; and philosophy professor Kevin Graham, Ph.D., author Catholic white woman that are around me and of Beyond Redistribution: White Supremacy and Racial Justice, are — indeed, a Doctor of Sacred Theology — in make up this wonderful laying aside briefly the world. If I’m locked into Creighton has long maintained structured format of a singular culture as the an active presence among the Catholic Mass and only way to be, I’m not accompanying two racial minorities, recruiting African-American friends educated. Nor am I students from racially diverse to a more free-wheeling going to flourish.” Congregationalist Eileen Burke-Sullivan, backgrounds and working with church. STD, MChrSp’84 minority communities to provide “I have to say it was Vice Provost for University health, legal and other services. a very uncomfortable experience,” she said. Mission and Ministry “This is not something I convinced that words and good intentions cannot bridge a racial would set up for myself every week, although perhaps if I were divide more than three centuries in the making. That historic courageous I would.” task, they believe, can be accomplished only by the sometimes The visit clarified the importance of placing oneself in uncomfortable work of engagement. another’s shoes in order to gain understanding of an alternative For Kosoko-Lasaki, a Nigerian-American, and Burke-Sullivan, cultural experience. whose name could hardly be more Irish, those epiphanies came Churches, Burke-Sullivan said, reflecting Martin Luther King’s in church. observation that Sunday morning is the most segregated time For her research into health disparities locally and the in America, are opportunities for people of different races and increased incidence of glaucoma-related blindness in African- traditions to step beyond their boundaries. Americans and Hispanics nationally, Kosoko-Lasaki, professor They are opportunities to hear one another, she said, of surgery (ophthalmology) and associate vice provost of Health opportunities that, taken more often, would build understanding Sciences, was scheduling presentations at neighborhood and help the quest for greater social and racial justice. churches. Eventually, a pastor suggested that if his congregants “They are a good place for people to start engaging because were good enough to be subjects of her research, perhaps they you have a genuine experience of people trying to be there might also be worthy of her ongoing church attendance. for each other,” she said. “That creates a safer place to extend She saw the point, and though a resident of West Omaha, has yourself as you’ve never done before.”

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Jesuit Schools Stand Against, Discuss Racial Injustice Kayman Nixon, president of the Creighton Students Union, joined the student government presidents of the 27 other Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States to “publicly stand in solidarity” against racial injustice within institutions of higher education. Nixon was one of the signers of the statement, released in March, which called for “all institutions of higher education to stand together and take action in advocating for an end to racial inequality in its many manifestations.” In addition, faculty from Jesuit colleges and universities will gather at Creighton University in February to discuss issues of race, ethnicity and diversity as part of the 2017 Heartland-Delta Conference, which has a theme of “difficult conversations.” Photo by Mike Kleveter by Mike Photo

If awkwardness imposes itself on attempts to understand If hope exists, he said, then it exists in the willingness of a different worship tradition, then so does opportunity, said Americans to bury “controlling images,” which he defines as Burke-Sullivan, who holds the Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in “stereotypes with teeth.” Pastoral Liturgical Theology at Creighton. Jettisoning those stereotypes, married to a willingness to allow “You’re really talking about making an effort not only to listen America’s historic racial injustices to inform but not control the — which is a big piece of work in itself — but to hear,” she said, future, would make it easier for Americans of all races to accept “because you start to put yourself in another person’s shoes, and one another, which Graham sees as the key to achieving real you start to experience their world.” racial justice. This emphasis on “hearing one another” as Burke-Sullivan “The hope, I think, from my own experience, comes from puts it, lies at the heart of Graham’s insistence that “distributive trying to engage individuals across boundaries of difference, justice” — the more equal distribution of wealth — is a necessary one on one, trying to understand their stories,” he said. “In my though insuŒcient guarantee of comprehensive social justice. experience, the most powerful hope about the possibility of Even if society’s goods and services were more equally working beyond differences lies in getting to know someone and distributed, he suggests, true justice— true harmony, perhaps their interests and their story, and their trying to get to know me — would await resolution of the cultural assumptions that and my interests and my story, and all of us trying to get past a Americans of various races make about one another — what he lot of this cultural baggage.” calls the “controlling images” that make us wary of one another. Blacks and whites alike, he said, would do well to acknowledge the impossibility of righting the wrongs of slavery, of changing the harsh fact that centuries of white rule imposed crippling disadvantages on black America and conferred often- unrecognized privileges on white America, and that past wrongs, while not being forgotten, should not be allowed to hamper progress.

“In my experience, the most powerful hope about the possibility of working beyond differences lies in getting to know someone and their interests and their story … and all of us trying to get past a lot of this cultural baggage.” Kevin Graham, Ph.D. Photo by Jim Fackler by Jim Photo Associate Professor of Philosophy

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“We need to own up to the fact that we’re not going to overcome  years of bad history. It’s just not within our power Issues of Race to do,” said Graham, whose academic expertise includes the on College Campuses philosophy of race. “So you don’t try to do that. You try to focus on the one thing that’s right in front of you, that you can make While college campuses are not immune to better, in order to reduce the problems for members of nonwhite challenges surrounding race, diversity and races and to overcome a little bit of white privilege. inclusion, they are also good environments for “You try to take baby steps, because those are the only steps serious, open and respectful discussions about you can take when you are learning to walk. You’ve got to learn these issues. that before you can learn to run.” In November, with racial tensions at the University of The road to social and racial justice — if such is defined Missouri making national headlines, Creighton President as equitable access to society’s goods and services, equal the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., sent an email to participation in the electoral system and a harmonious campus and to alumni stating: “Creighton University stands appreciation of differing cultural experiences — has been long, firmly against racism, sexism and hatred in all its forms.” and remains long. He stressed that the University “is a place for dialogue, Along the way, practical diŒculties have been overcome and understanding and acceptance.” new ones have presented themselves. Among these, according Roger Bergman, Ph.D., director of Creighton’s Justice and to Raneta Lawson Mack, Creighton professor of law, has been Peace Studies Program and a professor in the Department something called the digital divide. of Cultural and Social Studies, said in his 22 years of Mack’s concern about minority access to the information teaching social justice at Creighton that race, or more superhighway began early in the digital revolution, and her accurately, white privilege, has been “the most contentious book, The Digital Divide: Standing at the Intersection of Race and issue” for his students. Technology, was an early attempt to voice fears that the advent “At least for some white students of relative affluence, of the internet might accentuate the economic gulf between the mention of historical privilege makes them feel defensive, white, majority culture and black America. as if they stood accused of being personally racist,” Bergman said. “It’s good news that they find such a label offensive, but it’s bad news that they haven’t yet learned to see themselves as beneficiaries of centuries of white supremacy, of what has been called ‘affirmative action for whites.’ “Education for transformation of such attitudes is at least part of the solution. My students have always, after their first defensive reactions, come to see the larger picture, however difficult it may be to acknowledge it. The point is not to feel guilty. The point is to take responsibility.”

Creighton to Form New Presidential Diversity Commission

Photo by Dave Weaver by Dave Photo In May, Creighton University President the Raneta Lawson Mack, professor of law, has studied the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., announced effects of the digital divide and knowledge divide between the formation of a new Presidential Diversity the white, majority culture and black America. Commission, led by Associate Provost Tricia Today, she said, those fears have eased. The gulf has been Brundo Sharrar, BA’93, JD’96. The group will bridged, and access to the internet and all its offerings is near include representation from faculty, staff and universal. But a new problem has arisen in the wake of that students. achievement, and she calls it the knowledge divide. “Among other objectives, it is my hope that the Diversity “The issue has now shifted to what people do once they have Commission will seek to increase awareness of diversity access,” she said. “To the extent there are any limitations now it’s at Creighton, advise on recruitment and retention of a based upon people not knowing what they can do with all of this diverse faculty, staff and student body, and advocate issues information that’s available to them — those who have that kind of diversity for the entire campus community, including of knowledge versus those who don’t.” creating programing that addresses diversity issues,” Fr. It is one thing to use the internet to acquire useful knowledge, Hendrickson wrote in a message to campus announcing or to research job opportunities, she said, but if it becomes just a the commission.

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source of entertainment then a significant opportunity will be lost. them to effectively The key to minority “You can put a computer or a cellphone in front of a minority care for diverse patient advancement is what child and say, ‘Here it is’ — give access — but if that child doesn’t populations. have the same education and knowledge base that a nonminority “There are white it has always been — a child has, then the digital divide still exists,” she said. physicians who care mix of assertiveness, Kosoko-Lasaki, who leads Creighton’s Health Sciences so much about these determination and Multicultural and Community Affairs OŒce, is troubled by how disparities and want initiative. “knowledge divide” affects the health and wellness of minority to contribute to their populations and places obstacles in the path of racial justice. elimination,” she Terri Sanders, BA’78 In , Creighton was awarded a nearly « . million Racial said. “If we give such Site Manager, Fair Deal and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) grant individuals a chance, Village MarketPlace, to study new models in reducing health disparities in the and equip them by Omaha Economic African-American population in Douglas County. Kosoko-Lasaki, teaching them the skills Development Corporation who serves as the grant’s principal investigator, said there is a needed to build trusting lack of consciousness of how bad eating habits and a lack of relationships and exercise lead to higher rates of cancer, cardiovascular disease relating to minorities, we can get a lot done and reduce the and diabetes. Socioeconomic and racial concerns exacerbate the health disparities in our nation.” problem. If, as a black woman, Kosoko-Lasaki is eager to educate the “You can tell someone to exercise and to eat better food,” she majority culture about the sensitivities of black and other said. “But what if they live in an unsafe neighborhood, or lack minority cultures, then Terri Sanders, also a black woman, is just access to a gym or healthy foods or cannot afford them? And if as determined that minority youth understand that pleading that person happens to be a minority, is he or she willing to talk universal mistreatment will get them nothing. about these issues with a white physician?” A ‘œ Creighton journalism graduate, Sanders currently Kosoko-Lasaki notes that an insuŒcient supply of black serves as site manager of the Fair Deal Village MarketPlace, health care professionals means that large numbers of African- an economic development project by the Omaha Economic Americans are treated by white health care workers. To address Development Corporation. The key to minority advancement, this issue, her oŒce offers a variety of “pipeline” programs that she said, is what it has always been — a mix of assertiveness, introduce minority youth to careers in the health professions determination and initiative. and assist minority college students and graduates in pursuing “Don’t be passive about your education,” she said. “It’s about an education in the health sciences. being an active participant, not standing apart. Nobody owes you Her oŒce also provides cultural awareness education for anything. You have to drive your own bus. You have to knock on all health professions students, white and black, equipping the door, and if the door is locked you need to go around and

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find a window that’s open and go through there. “I think young people today don’t do that enough.” Burke-Sullivan does not dispute Sanders’ hard-nosed advice. “I would say that any minority cultural message that states, ‘Don’t study, don’t do well in school because then you’re conforming to white, majority culture,’ is harmful, because education is so important,” she said. But, then again, she said, white culture must understand the resentments and suspicions often voiced by black Americans, suspicions that they are unfairly targeted by law enforcement and subjected to unfavorable and unjustified judgments by society at large. She calls these convictions “categories of experience,” and she said they are vastly different for black and white America. “Black Americans’ perceptions of and interactions with the police, for example, are not the same as the experiences of most Weaver by Dave Photo white people,” she said. Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, M.D., an internationally renowned These differing attitudes toward police are backed up in a researcher in minority health, leads Creighton’s Health review of annual surveys conducted by Gallup from to Sciences Multicultural and Community Affairs Office. She . It found that ‘ percent of white respondents had a great is the recipient of a $1.5 million grant to study new models deal or quite a lot of confidence in the police, compared with  in reducing health disparities in the African-American population in Douglas County (Neb.). percent of blacks. It may take time, Burke-Sullivan said, and a greater degree of distribution of wealth. self-awareness on the part of white America, but the concerns of “There’s lots of room for dialogue about what would count as America’s minority cultures must be addressed. The health of all moving forward and also the means by which we move forward,” cultures, she said, depends on it. he said. “But what I want us to understand is that there’s more “I’m not really an educated person in the modern world if I to moving forward than just redistributing income and wealth. don’t understand the varieties of cultures that are around me If we limit the discussion on moving forward to that, we are and make up this wonderful world,” she said. “If I’m locked into a missing a bigger picture.” singular culture as the only way to be, I’m not educated. Nor am It’s a bigger picture that Burke-Sullivan believes we will miss at I going to flourish.” our peril. And flourishing, after all, is what the quest for social and racial “We are at a time in our culture where we can make a choice. justice is all about. It is the flourishing of Americans of all races Are we satisfied with where we are at, in terms of race relations?” that concerns advocates such as Graham, who said the road she said, “Or are we going to make a serious effort to try and forward must be signposted with dialogue and an understanding discover what it is about other people’s lives that is real and that I that true justice entails far more than a more equitable can contribute to?”’

> A Look Back > Race and Traffic Stops Creighton University Jesuit the Dawn Irlbeck, Ph.D., a Rev. John Markoe, S.J., dedicated professor in Creighton’s his life to fighting racial Department of Cultural injustice and, up until his and Social Studies, death in 1967, advised friends, has studied the issue colleagues and students to of racial and ethnic “never give an inch” in the profiling by law struggle against racism. He enforcement as it relates Irlbeck helped galvanize the De Porres to traffic stops. The state Club of Omaha, which, four years before the Montgomery, of Nebraska, in accordance with a 2001 Ala., bus boycott, launched a similar campaign against the law, keeps detailed records of traffic stops Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company. The late and the races of those stopped. Irlbeck Bob Reilly profiled the life of Fr. Markoe in the Winter 1995- has examined that data. Read about her 1996 issue of Window magazine. Read the article here. findings here.

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Fr. Hendrickson snaps a “selfie” Back during move-in last August. Weaver by Dave Photo The First Year

Summer 2016 he Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, S.J., Ph.D., took office as president one year ago. The year included high points, such as the formation of the new Creighton Global Initiative, as well as lows, Tsuch as the tragic deaths of three students and a former student in a car accident, and the passing of Creighton’s 23rd president, the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Before coming to Creighton in 2015, Fr. Hendrickson had been affiliated with the University formerly as a student, faculty member, and trustee. He holds undergraduate and advanced degrees from Marquette University, Fordham University, the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, and Columbia University. He has placed a special focus on global experiences in his life, having lived in or traveled to some 35 countries. Prior to Creighton, he held a variety of teaching and administrative posts, including most recently at Marquette University. Fr. Hendrickson recently shared his thoughts about the past year and a wide range of topics with Creighton University Magazine.

GOALS FOR THE FIRST YEAR CREIGHTON STUDENTS

ne of my primary goals was to be accessible, nteracting with Creighton students is the best part of being president. I Ovisible, and approachable. I want to be a Ialways enjoy seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones on campus — out president who is well rooted in the work and the on the mall, and at Starbucks, for instance, but also at lectures, service sites, activities in the daily life of our University. I have and sporting events. I have hosted numerous lunches with students this year, enjoyed visiting various offices and departments to and I hope to do so more routinely as I continue settling into my presidency. For connect with faculty and staff, and conversing with those of us in higher education, students are why we’re here. They are the focus students anywhere on campus. of all we do. It is a great joy watching the work of formation evolving in their I also see my role as speaking to Creighton’s vision, lives, and more so prompting it with questions and encouragements. and to the values, ideals, and objectives of Jesuit The students are notably generous and respectful, and they tend to speak higher learning. It is so necessary to continually about two things that they like about the University. The first is a sense of our animate important parts of our mission and identity, community — it takes little effort to be known and connected here at Creighton. such as expressions of faith, actions of service, and On this campus it is easy to make friends and find mentors, and to get involved dimensions of justice, but to also be mindful of what in extracurricular programs. The other is the quality of the faculty. Our and how we study. Core curricular disciplines are professors are friendly, available, and approachable, and also challenging, and fundament of Catholic and Jesuit higher education, they invite the students into their worlds of enquiry. The passion of the faculty and the humanities in particular cultivate ethical in their areas of expertise is contagious. regard, critical thinking, cultural appreciation, empathy, eloquence, and so on. The humanities also trigger existential questions in the lives of students, THE BIGGEST ISSUES FACING HIGHER EDUCATION asking the kinds of questions that demand self- awareness and an awareness of others. Creighton he need for resources, particularly for scholarships and research, is students in any of our nine schools and colleges Tprescient. As tuition costs continue to rise, finding funding to support our cannot not ask questions about the meaning of life. academic mission is essential and urgent. We need to be continually looking for ways to help students come to Creighton — students who can and should be here, but simply can’t afford to be. Resources that support the research passions of our faculty not only sharpen expertise, but translate into the teaching and mentoring of students.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR

major highlight of the year has met three times to discuss good literature students throughout the year, this book A been the process of working with and to relate it to our work on campus. We club afforded me the opportunity to meet the Creighton Global Initiative. For one, read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi more routinely with the same group — Dr. René Padilla (executive director of Coates; Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation hearing about the progression of the year, Creighton’s Global Engagement Office) of the American Elite and the Way to a reviewing struggles, celebrating successes, could not have been a better organizer of Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz; and and such. I like sharing a poem at the end a tremendous University-wide initiative. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by of the dinner conversation, and discussing The faculty, staff, and students who served Robert D. Putnam. Each of the books was its meaning. Their interpretations reflect on the CGI committee were diligent, informative about current issues, but also so much about their lives. collaborative, and thoughtful, and I could instructive and encouraging about the work At our last dinner meeting of the semester, not be more pleased with the awarding we do in Jesuit higher learning. at their own initiative, each of the students of $1.5 million for 30 initial projects. The The student group, which met with me wrote a poem of their own, and they took CGI impels creativity and innovation as it for dinner a few times, was less focused turns sharing them with the group. Some of animates and enriches our global focus. on literature, but we did read essays the poems were evaluative about the year, Another highlight has been two discussion by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including and others parodied what they’re studying groups I participated in, one with faculty and “Circles” and “Self-Reliance.” As I have or how they’re living as college students. It another with students. My faculty book club enjoyed lunches with different groups of was a good mix of solemn and silly.

IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL EXPERIENCES PAST EXPERIENCES WITH CREIGHTON

hy a global focus? The right kind of experience eing a student, faculty member, and trustee certainly allowed for Wcan be so transformative for any of us. It can be Bmeaningful intersections with the University community at different instructive about language, history, art, geography, and parts of my life, and each taught me something special about Creighton. I culture. Going global teaches us a lot about where we well remember artful teaching and genuine mentoring during my time as come from, too. And I believe that global experiences a student in the Jesuit Humanities Program, and that was only the length — particularly those focused on service, immersion, of a single academic year. Teaching philosophy here for three years let me and relationships, more often than not inspire local engage students on some of life’s best questions, and after more than 15 engagement when returning home. When we leave the years, I remain in touch with many of them. Too, being a member of the United States, especially if we go to places with fewer faculty let me work collaboratively with a number of faculty and staff who material resources and less wealth — the gritty realities are still here on campus, and I have enjoyed renewing those relationships. that (former Jesuit Superior General) Peter-Hans As a trustee, I gained a sense of governance of the University, and it also Kolvenbach speaks of — we have a better sense of our allowed me to get to know a group of people who are very generous with priorities. We often rearrange them, and name new ones. their time and talent on behalf of Creighton. From a faraway place, we can gain a perspective of the kinds of things our own culture and society value, some of THE YEAR’S TRAGEDIES which aren’t all that good. Monetary wealth, possessions, professional success, time, and relationships can be put e have had sad moments this academic year, and more than our fair in context, or reframed, by interacting with people who share. On that Sunday night in October, at a late evening service for live more simply. The goal of going global isn’t to leave W the four women who were killed in the car crash (three students and one home, but to better understand where and how we live former student), students, staff, and faculty filled the church. I remember our lives, and how we are part of a worldwide community. them carrying chairs and setting up, ushering people to seats, caring for And as members of a global community, we need to each other. In fact, I was initially surprised at the outpouring of support, but be conversant about global issues, and Creighton can then very quickly remembered that the Creighton community mobilizes and should be ever current. In so many ways, we are, swiftly. I was here during 9/11, and in the face of such tragedy, Creighton and Creighton’s presence on the global stage is already came together. With our young women this year, we were very Creighton. impressive. But I am inviting us to take another step, and Late on a Sunday evening, the young women’s professors were sitting to be particularly intentional about global perspective. there in the church, as were their friends, classmates, and others who didn’t At Creighton, we can do so in academic disciplines and really know them but just wanted to be there. areas of expertise, and more so, with so many schools We said goodbye to a lot of friends this year, and it was important to me to and colleges and programs on campus, we can enjoy just keep showing up and stepping into the pain. I’m not always concerned interdisciplinary exchange. The intersections of business, with trying to say the right thing in difficult moments, but just having law, the health sciences, and the arts and sciences are a something to say and being supportive is important. point of pride at a comprehensive university like ours, and they can let us be more informed more quickly.

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1. Greeting a student after his presidential inauguration Mass; 2. Posing with Billy Bluejay during Welcome Week; 3. Gathering with faculty, staff, and students outside St. John’s Church in prayer and silent reflection for racial justice; 4. Celebrating Homecoming with students; 5. Praying with the Creighton community following the deaths of four young women (three students and one former student) in a car crash; 6. Accepting the presidential medallion from former presidents the Rev. Timothy R. Lannon, S.J., and the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., during his inauguration ceremony.

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1. Visiting with alumni at Homecoming; 2. Concelebrating at his inaugural Mass with the Very Rev. Thomas Lawler, S.J., (middle) provincial of the Wisconsin Province of the Society of Jesus, and his twin brother, the Rev. D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J. (right); 3. Greeting students as they cross the stage at May commencement; 4. Reading Christmas stories at Creighton’s James R. Russell Child Development Center; 5. Enjoying coffee with students at Starbucks on campus.

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In fall 2016, Fr. Hendrickson is launching a President’s Roundtable consisting of eight sophomore students and a student assistant. 5 Fr. Hendrickson has planned a monthly dinner group that will discuss recent literature (such as Between the World and Me), engage local fine and performing arts, and do service work, among other options. The program is being piloted as a potential Presidential Scholars program for new students.

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FAITH AND A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD ROLE OF POETRY IN HIS LIFE

rom Heider Hall where I live in student housing, I have seen can’t really remember how or where I first stumbled into poetry, Fa lot of sunrises this year. I tend to wake early, and if I am too Ibut I vigorously embraced it when working on my first graduate quick to email and other tasks, the sunrise slows me down. And, degree in philosophy. I quite like philosophy, but the intensity of for a year that has been so full and engaging, the Jesuit Examen it, and its headiness, propelled me in a counter direction. It was has been important. It lets me ask where and how God is present refreshing, and grounding, to read words of a very different nature. in my life, and it reminds me to recognize God’s presence in the E.E. Cummings was a favorite in those years, such as, “i am a little lives of others. church(no great cathedral).” Another is “i thank You God for most this At a place like Creighton, where we have so many people engaged amazing.” In fact, I recently shared this one with a junior student who with faith and service, it really is quite easy to find the work of God was reflecting with me about his year. in the world around us. I like adapting the Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Hopkins has always enticed me. Rainer Maria Rilke is a favorite, and poem we used for the inaugural theme, “As Kingfishers Catch during my first trip to India back in 1998, to Calcutta, I fell in love with Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame,” substituting the word Creighton: Rabindranath Tagore’s “Gitanjali.” I just recommended Tagore to a “ … for Christ plays in ten thousand places, lovely in limbs and group of Creighton faculty and students who were preparing for a trip lovely in eyes not his, through the features of Creighton faces.” to Calcutta.

BEST PREPARATION ON RECHARGING HIS BATTERIES CREIGHTON’S FUTURE

have wisdom figures in my iding my bike is a great way to clear my head. I have a o use simple analogies, I Ilife — former professors Rcouple of colleagues I ride with routinely. Also, it has been Tfeel the University is like a and Jesuits and just good great being joined by people on campus. Students will stop me racehorse, ready to break out friends who are always honest, on the mall or contact me in the office to schedule rides. And it in a new sprint, or we’re like insightful, and inspiring in their has been pretty easy, actually, to just send out a message and an engine that’s revved up, own ways. get people on campus together for a ride. ready to be released. The talent Numerous years on different and expertise of our faculty, the dedication of our staff, boards of trustees have been THE TOUGHEST PART OF THE JOB instructive about issues of the potential of our students, governance and decisions our focus on mission — we’re he toughest part is not much different from one of the best related to the mission and poised. My sense is that we’re parts. I have enjoyed meeting so many different people, identity of Jesuit institutions. T ready to hit new strides as we and getting connected with the work and the experience of continue to showcase Creighton Three intensive years at Creighton University; at the same time, the real challenge is as a university that is both Marquette University, maintaining the schedule necessary to be able to make and prestigious and extraordinary; which were a combination maintain those connections. A job like this will always require as a place that is Catholic and of administrative work and good time management and a sense of balance, having enough Jesuit, and comprehensive teaching, were helpful in desk time, and keeping up with regular meetings and those that of nine colleges and schools, two ways: being in the orbit pop up, and getting out of the office and around campus. It’s we are distinctive of other of senior leadership and the important to me to find time to pray and exercise and reflect options in higher learning as decisions being made on a enough in my life — that’s what helps keep me thoughtful and we form women and men who daily basis was great exposure; focused. are attentive, circumspect, and working with students collaborative, leading, and teaching rooted me in the professionally equipped, and educational mission of the THE SPECIAL ROLE OF JESUIT EDUCATION globally engaged. institution. I also co-directed an impressive service-oriented esuit education reminds us that higher learning is not just scholarship program, which Jabout what we do, and the careers we can enjoy, but it is allowed me to work with some also about the kinds of people we are and who we can become. of the brightest students on Careers and professions are important, and at Creighton we campus, as well as let me help create pathways of professional accomplishment and success. them integrate their studies and But we also ask our students how they feel, what they believe, service work. and who they care about. We ask them what’s important in life, and we talk about suffering, joy, and beauty. Other places train professionals, say, a businesswoman, a teacher, or a dentist. But with substance and soul, we form Creighton businesswomen, Creighton teachers, and Creighton dentists.

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shortagesBy Ann Freestone, BA’ Lack of certain medications raises issues related to care, access

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, PharmD’, professor of pharmacy practice and medicine at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Currently, there are more than  medications in short supply, including cancer treatments, antibiotics, heart medications, vaccines, oncology drugs, anesthetics and painkillers. “It’s all across the board,” says Malesker. The shortages can have serious consequences, especially when they include life-sustaining medications. In a  ­ € survey, about ‚€ percent of randomly selected U.S. oncologists reported that they were unable to prescribe the preferred chemotherapy agent because of shortages at least once during the previous six months. In a le†er published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the survey’s authors wrote that more than one-third of respondents said they had to delay treatment “and make di‡cult choices about which patients to exclude.” A drug shortage occurs when demand exceeds supply. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) both track the availability and shortage of drugs, using di’erent methods.

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According to Malesker, the shortages have been traced since “Patients have been frustrated when a medication ordered the early s. for them is not able to be delivered, especially patients waiting “It’s better now. The FDA has recognized shortages affect to receive chemotherapy treatments,” says Malesker. quality of care and has tried to take action,” says Malesker. “The number is not as bad as š years ago, which was well over  [medications in short supply], but there still are shortages Why the Shortages? that affect how care is provided on a daily basis. The bottom Katharine Van Tassel, professor of law and director of Health line is it’s still a problem.” In fact, shortages affect š percent of Law Programs at Creighton, is a nationally recognized scholar prescriptions, according to Malesker. in health care law, including food and drug law. Although the As a practicing pharmacist, Malesker has witnessed firsthand reasons for the shortages are many, Van Tassel says quality how medication shortages in the hospital setting have problems at the manufacturers reign as the major one. impacted patient care. He has had to help decide on alternative “According to statistics maintained by the FDA, the majority patient therapies when standard therapies are in a shortage or [‰‰ percent] of the problem is caused by quality issues in when the manufacturer has discontinued certain products. manufacturing,” says Van Tassel. “The FDA will shut down a drug manufacturing plant that is potentially producing unsafe drugs. The FDA can’t allow manufacturers to put a product on the market that will cause people to get sick.” She says the issues range from aging facilities and equipment to even fungus and bacteria in drugs. Beyond manufacturing problems, other common issues that can lead to shortages include increased demand, unavailable raw materials, natural disasters and consolidation of companies, which results in fewer companies making the same drug. “We see a lot of consolidation of drug companies,” says Drew Roberts, Pharm.D., assistant professor of pharmacy sciences, “and that, in turn, can result in fewer companies making a generic drug after they merge company portfolios. The fewer companies that make a drug, the more di“cult it is to respond to a shortage of that drug.” Peter Silberstein, M.D., chief of hematology and oncology at Creighton and chief of oncology at the Veterans Hospital, has experienced shortages on intravenous generic drugs for chemotherapy. “I think that the major reason for the shortage of drugs is due to the economic incentives of drug manufacturers. There is very little profit margin on generic drugs, so that there Photos by Dave Weaver by Dave Photos are only a few manufacturers making these drugs and these manufacturers have stopped producing these if their expenses The root cause lies in the hands of rise or profits fall,” he says. “There are very few manufacturers manufacturers. Manufacturers should be producing inexpensive, commonly used, generic intravenous “ chemotherapy, which is used in both children and adults.” He investing in upgrading their processes, points out that there is less of a shortage in Europe, where the payment is larger for intravenous generic drugs. equipment and facilities to avoid or prevent future shutdowns, but there’s no legal Looking at the Options When there is a shortage, clinicians and pharmacists look for incentive to do so. To break that chain we alternatives. need legislation that requires best practices “Most of the alternative treatments would be recognized treatments that shouldn’t impact the patient in a negative way,” to prevent future shutdowns. says Malesker. There can, however, be downsides. According to Philip Katharine” Van Tassel Gregory, Pharm.D., an associate professor of pharmacy Professor of Law and practice, “Clinics and hospitals have a core set of drugs they Director of Health Law Programs use. Then they have a change because a drug is on shortage, and the substitute may not be familiar to everyone, which can

lead to the incorrect dose, administration, etc.”

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Mark Malesker, BSPha’86, PharmD’88, professor of pharmacy practice and medicine, has witnessed firsthand how medical shortages in the hospital setting have impacted patient care.

Gregory is also the director of the Center for Drug between products sold legally and illegal products sold on the Information and Evidence-Based Practice in the School of black market). He points out the two-year cancer-free survival Pharmacy and Health Professions. Dedicated to serving health for pediatric patients with Hodgkin’s disease fell from  professionals, the center provides evidence-based, timely and percent to ¡¢ percent when treated with a substitute drug. unbiased information and consultations in an effort to improve Alternative treatments may also have side effects that the patient care. preferred drug did not. Charles Youngblood, M.D., interim Calls come into the center from across the country from chair of anesthesiology at Creighton University School of pharmacists wanting to know how to deal with a shortage. Medicine and associate professor, saw this firsthand while From an anecdotal perspective, he says, calls have increased. working at another institution. When there was a shortage of The center also provides a training environment to prepare propofol, a drug that is used for sedation, the alternative drug Creighton students and post-graduate residents and fellows to had side effects. meet the challenges of their future careers. “This sounds horrible, but those people felt like they were Gregory says another issue is patients may not always be burning right before going to sleep,” he says. “Sometimes you getting the most effective drug with an alternative treatment. have no other choice.” Consider one example. A š article in The New England “What’s happening is people are looking for an alternative,” Journal of Medicine (“The Impact of Drug Shortages on says Gregory. “If there aren’t alternatives, then the provider Children with Cancer”) explained that children with Hodgkin’s says, ‘Who needs the drug the most?’ and has to make tough lymphoma using a substitute drug had higher relapse rates. decisions.” According to Silberstein, “When there is a shortage of a chemotherapy drug, then a workaround solution (often sub- optimal) is done for that drug for a specific type of cancer.” He Tough Decisions says the workarounds can include the following: determine Amy Haddad, Ph.D., director of the Center for Health Policy who needs it the most, change the dose, use a more expensive and Ethics and the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair drug, choose a different regimen or buy from other suppliers in Health Sciences, is the president of the American Society and pay more (often on the “gray market,” that middle ground for Bioethics and Humanities. She has written several books,

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including ones focusing on pharmacy ethics and another on health professional and patient interaction. “When there’s not enough of any good, whether it’s health-related, food or other basic element to fulfill a human need, you have to turn to the principles of justice to fairly allocate what goods you have. Running out of a drug that would be considered a drug of first choice is hard but the decision is less di“cult if there are equally e“cacious alternatives. If you run out of life-sustaining drugs and there aren’t comparable alternatives, that makes the decision harder,” says Haddad. “There doesn’t seem to be a standard process even in large academic medical centers.” Despite the prevalence of scarcities, ‰.‰ percent of U.S. oncologists responding to a š © š survey reported that their cancer centers or practices lacked formal guidance for Tami Kelley, left, pharmacy system buyer coordinator at the CHI Health Creighton University making decisions regarding allocation of Medical Center Inpatient Pharmacy, and Malesker review the current day’s back orders/shortages drugs. of drugs. Hospitals across the country face back orders and shortages on a regular basis and have to Haddad points to the organ plan accordingly based on current drug availability. transplantation system, which uses select principles of justice such as prognosis and need, as a candidates to receive treatment, such as potential years of good example of a system to fairly allocate scarce, life-saving life that might be possible using a certain drug, among other resources, i.e., vital organs. “With drugs, the process is not considerations. clear,” says Haddad. “We’re making decisions to allocate scarce Youngblood points to rationing succinylcholine, a drug that resources that aren’t based on any standard ethical method of temporarily paralyzes the patient. “The biggest priority is to use allocation nor is it transparent to patients.” it in trauma situations only,” says Youngblood. “We ration it When rationing must occur, she says there should be and use it only if we absolutely have to.” guidelines containing criteria on what makes patients better Sharing Information with Patients So should the patient know that the treatment is an there are currently more than alternative one? “Clinicians have to be transparent with patients. Patients have to be told and be involved in the decision,” says Haddad. medications in “I can understand why clinicians don’t want to reveal this to patients, because the subtext seems to be saying, ‘This is short supply, normally what we’d do, the drug we would normally use in your case, but we can’t.’ But the patient needs to be engaged in including the reality. We need to have health professionals share the fact that there is a drug shortage and spell out options to patients in > cancer treatments light of the situation.” > antibiotics According to Gregory, “In an ideal world, they should know, but I can’t say they always do. Cancer patients are at > heart medications the greatest risk because it’s life and death. If the drug goes > vaccines on shortage, they have to change course. It’s unfathomable that would happen without a detailed discussion between the > oncology drugs provider and patient.” > anesthetics Being forthcoming with patients doesn’t always happen. A study published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia found > painkillers that most patients wanted to know about drug shortages that might affect their care during elective surgery, but most didn’t.

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Advocating for Themselves recommends people get involved in legislative solutions. Patients can advocate for themselves by having the “Advocate for change by writing to your legislators in your information on drug shortages at their fingertips. The ASHP state,” she says. website lists drugs that are not available, and the FDA has Van Tassel says the FDA can incentivize manufacturers to use an app that prescribers and patients can use to receive best practices and is considering quality awards, which is more notifications on drug shortages, says Malesker. of a carrot versus a stick approach. “It would be like the Good Patients also need to have a close relationship with their Housekeeping award,” says Van Tassel. pharmacist and prescriber. According to Gregory, “Few people have a handle on a “In the event the medication is on the shortage list, solution to the problem. It’s a multifactorial problem that will the pharmacist could work with the prescriber to find an not be solved soon.” alternative. It’s important in today’s world — especially for In fact, he says, the problem will only be compounded and outpatients — to have a relationship with a single pharmacy,” points to cancer drugs as being especially complex, which often says Malesker. “If something like that would occur, the means more problems in manufacturing leading to the drugs pharmacist could communicate with the prescriber to find an getting on back order. alternative product. They know you, you know them, so they “As drug complexity grows, the problem will continue for will work with you to make things work.” quite some time.”

No Silver Bullet The federal government is tasked with leading the development of policies and regulations to help prevent shortages, says pharmacy professor Roberts. The President’s Executive Order š¢ in šš put drug companies on notice that they need to provide advance notice when they know a potential shortage is looming or possible. “The FDA has opened up lines of communication between the drug industry and federal government to prevent drug shortages, to make sure they have advanced notice of potential shortages that allows the FDA to strategize so it doesn’t affect the public,” says Roberts. Since the president’s executive order, there has been a six-fold increase in notifications to the FDA. “For generic products, it’s easier to address the shortage if we have enough of a heads-up to inform other manufacturers of that drug that we need them to pick up the slack,” says Roberts. But with a brand-name drug that is only being manufactured by one company, the FDA doesn’t have this option so quality and safety issues can have major effects on patients needing a brand-name medication. “If the shortage occurred with a brand-name medication, then it would be di“cult to address the shortage, especially when alternative treatment options are limited,” he says. Clinicians have to be transparent with “From a macro perspective, it falls on the FDA and patients. Patients have to be told and be pharmaceutical industry working together to solve this “ problem,” says Roberts. “At a micro level, we have to train our involved in the decision. We need to have doctors and pharmacists how to effectively strategize treatment of patients affected by drug shortages.” health professionals share the fact that Van Tassel offers another solution. Since quality at the there is a drug shortage and spell out manufacturing level is the main problem causing drug shortages, Van Tassel says there needs to be legal incentives for options to patients in light of the situation. manufacturers to improve. “The root cause lies in the hands of manufacturers,” she Amy Haddad, Ph.D.” says. “Manufacturers should be investing in upgrading their Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics processes, equipment and facilities to avoid or prevent future Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair shutdowns, but there’s no legal incentive to do so. To break in Health Sciences that chain we need legislation that requires best practices to prevent future shutdowns.” To get manufacturers to use best practices, Van Tassel

 Summer 2016 TOTALLYBy Adam Klinker Laboratory tackles technology needs of Creighton faculty and students, while giving students cutting-edge RaD experience Photos by Dave Weaver by Dave Photos

34 Summer 2016 “It all started with an idea,” Ryan Cameron says as he sits at a table in his office under the Reinert-Alumni Memorial Library. In one corner of the room is what appears to be a computer motherboard full of esoteric lights, switches and tubes of coolant like a space- age Rube Goldberg machine. Much of the rest of the space is occupied by scratch paper and pads with figures and schematics sketched out.

In the fall of , an email popped up in some hint of incredulity still Cameron’s spam folder, of all places, with the present in his voice, even now, fait subject line “Build your own supercomputer out of accompli. “Things really took off Raspberry Pi boards.” Raspberry Pi boards, for the from there.” unschooled, resemble something approaching a Took off so much, in fact, that computer’s motherboard, but roughly the size of a the RaD Lab recently expanded playing card. to a state-of-the-art makerspace A nominally skilled computer scientist can plug in the library — , square feet in a keyboard and a monitor and have an operating on two levels, replete with two system running on a gigabyte processor in a ž-inch touchscreen monitors, matter of minutes. The email featured an article custom-made computers, and highlighting an engineering student at Boise State green-screen and audio-visual University who managed to string a couple of capabilities. The new space Raspberry Pi boards together and create exactly integrates, among other things, what he needed. graphic design, sound design, “He was having trouble getting access to a media production, research supercomputer for a research project,” Cameron computing and rapid prototyping, says of the student. Cameron is executive director including -D printing and of Creighton’s Division of Information Technology microelectronics. (DoIT). “We want to be able to solve p “We, too, have lots of research supercomputing the problems and face the challenges that our taking place at Creighton, but it’s not centralized. students and faculty bring to us,” Cameron says. Creighton’s RaD Lab So I looked at this thing, this Raspberry Pi card “This new space gives us that opportunity. We’ve is the brainchild supercomputer, and said, ‘Goodness, I wonder if had such strong commitment from visionary of Ryan Cameron, we could make one?’ No experience, just an idea, leaders in the Creighton community in pulling executive director of the could we do this? So we decided to try.” this together, and we look forward to the next Division of Information A dedicated band of DoIT professionals and generation of the RaD Lab.” Technology. Creighton student interns worked nights and weekends using instructions the Boise State Let There Be Lightboard student had shared online, and by the spring of Not long after the team completed its  and for less than ”,, had built a working supercomputer, a pair of Creighton biology supercomputer. professors, Alistair Cullum, Ph.D., and Mark Moreover, they had also, without knowing it Reedy, Ph.D., became curious about integrating right away, founded something altogether new at more technology into their online classes. They Creighton: the first vestiges of what is now known took their questions to an informal meeting as the RaD Lab. regularly hosted by DoIT, where they witnessed “We built a supercomputer,” Cameron says, a demonstration of a device just taking flight at

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p Duke University: a lightboard. The lightboard also went through several Lightboards, like whiteboards and blackboards iterations in Cullum’s and Reedy’s specifications, RaD Lab before them, allow teachers to write on a surface too, and the RaD Lab’s ability to adapt on the for students to see. But where the other surfaces fly became more and more apparent with each LOCATION: are bound to the traditional classroom, the change. Reinert-Alumni lightboard is a communication device that uses “There’s complete appreciation for new Memorial Library a transparent glass surface with fluorescent ideas,” Reedy says. “Halfway through the build, markers that appear like bright, instantly lit, neon we’d throw a new idea out there and they were SQUARE FEET: lights. Watching the demonstration, Cullum receptive and would go back a few steps and redo 1,200 and Reedy became convinced the lightboard it, bringing out something entirely new and even was something that could greatly enhance the better than we envisioned. It was a partnership. LEVELS: experience for online students and provide added That, in the end, is what’s going to make it work. 2 course content for traditional students looking These things are being developed together and to recapture elements of various lectures and developed in tandem with the end-users.” FEATURES: activities. The lightboard moment set off more lightbulbs. > 84-inch touchscreen The biologists approached Cameron, and Tim Brooks, vice president for Information monitors asked him if his team could replicate what Duke Technology, saw the potential to integrate > custom-made had done. Six months later, Creighton had a innovations from the RaD Lab into other areas computers lightboard. across the University. Brooks formalized the RaD > green screen “It was the dawn of something new, a breath of Lab as a full-time dedicated team, creating an > audio-visual fresh air,” Cullum says. “To walk into a meeting innovation engine, where ideas have a pathway to SPACE like that and walk out with someone saying, become strategic priorities. INTEGRATES: ‘Sure, we can do that,’ and then, a few months It was the kind of thing Cameron had heard > graphic design later, it’s done; it really was a wonderful thing. about at the nation’s biggest tech schools — > sound design To that point, I don’t think the RaD Lab existed, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech. Faculty, staff and students > media production properly, but the lightboard helped provide us studying computer science and coding at the > research computing with the realization that there is a group here at highest levels were collaborating to anticipate > rapid prototyping Creighton dedicating themselves to these kinds instructional needs for faculty and provide (3-D printing and of technological advances and we can go to them students with the capabilities to come up with the microelectronics) with our ideas.” next big thing.

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The RaD Lab, short for research and development laboratory, started taking shape around the notion that Creighton students and faculty needed those same things — access to supercomputing and innovations in instruction. And DoIT was uniquely suited to provide for those needs, not least of all because it has an agile, motivated workforce: the students themselves. “We had proven that we had all the smarts, all the capability to do the same things,” Cameron says. “We built a supercomputer, we started showcasing it at events all around campus, and it started this discussion about innovation and how we can do it and do it better.” At first blush, Cameron thought the RaD Lab could comfortably engage a half-dozen student interns coming from all walks of academe — biology, mathematics, psychology, history, business, music — who could work on maybe two or three projects a semester. “We don’t require anybody to have an extensive computer science or coding background,” he says. “It’s just desire, somebody who just wants to try something, to learn something new. That’s an ideal intern to us.” In a very short span of time — perhaps on word circulating there was a group of people at p Creighton who had built a supercomputer and a Lab can’t envision doing, Howe says, and there’s lightboard and had designs on being the problem- plenty the lab is imparting to those seeking to be a Brisha Howe, a solving wing of the University’s technological part of it. computer science division — the new laboratory had a dedicated “We’re rapidly approaching a time when there major from following. Today, the RaD Lab counts more than won’t be a single place on earth, or any pursuit, Sacramento, Calif.,  interns from Creighton, and other universities where a computer scientist is not needed,” she has been an intern in and local high schools, working on upwards of two says. “You’re going to be learning what you’re the lab since 2015. to three dozen projects at any one time. studying, of course, but you’re going to also be Above, Howe works “There were these whispers about this place learning computer science. Having that kind of to calibrate a software called the RaD Lab,” recalls Brisha Howe, a technological literacy is just a given now. For the computer science major from Sacramento, Calif., students in the RaD Lab, we get to be right out in development kit. who started interning at the lab in the fall of . front of that learning.” She is part of a team “I was just switching over my major from biology developing a program to computer science and I was looking for a job on that links software campus. They were working on a project involving A Heartbeat from the C.A.V.E. commands with bioinformatics and genetics, so I kind of just With a supercomputer and a lightboard to its human gestures and slipped right into it.” credit, with biology and microbiology projects in movement. Howe’s familiarity with the scientific work, the o¨ng, it was only a matter of time before word combined with her growing coding aptitude made started spreading about the nascent power of this her an integral part of the lab. More students from thing called the RaD Lab. At about the same time other academic disciplines also have made their the lab was beginning to come into sharper relief, way to the RaD Lab, seeking to improve their the School of Medicine was also thinking of ways own computer literacy, to foster more ideas into to put technology to good use in its educational model. tangible projects or just to help. , , Already, the RaD Lab has provided platforms Michael White, BS ©¡, MD , associate to study rare books as ¥D images for the English professor of medicine in the Department of Department, provided business classes with a new Cardiology, wanted to put students in front of new way to think about apps and run the gamut of visualizations of anatomical structures. And while data extraction and storage in several of the hard nothing can replace the human connection found sciences at Creighton. There’s nothing the RaD in a medical school anatomy lab, the RaD Lab

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p provided something very close. integral for physicians and other professionals to The Creighton One of the RaD Lab’s earlier innovations was the have.” Advanced Visualization Creighton Advanced Visualization Environment, White says while nothing can ever replace the Environment (C.A.V.E.) or C.A.V.E. Built with substantial gifts and a grant human-to-human contact of medical education, features a 35-by-8- from Procter & Gamble, the C.A.V.E. comprises acclimating students to the functioning of the body via technology that very nearly replicates what’s foot wall, pictured a room in the Reinert-Alumni Memorial Library featuring a curved -by-ž-foot wall onto which seen in human anatomy will prove beneficial. above, where larger can be projected life-sized or bigger-than-life “You can’t learn medicine without that than life images can images, videos, maps or interactive displays, interaction at the human level, of course,” White be projected. Michael , , including a virtual tour of the Vatican. says. “But if we have ways for students to get White, BS 96, MD 01, Another of those displays is a digitized model familiar with these concepts, it’s a good way to associate professor of of the human heart made on a gaming platform leverage knowledge students will need in patient medicine, has used called Unity. The heart interactions. For us, it’s been very inspiring to the space to show a can be manipulated witness what’s happening in the C.A.V.E.” digitized model of the on a -D axis, showing human heart, which function from all RaD Lab Exists to Find a Way can be manipulated angles, and can be Creighton’s RaD Lab has been able to take on on a 3-D axis, showing programmed to show a heavy load of faculty and program requests function from all angles, irregularities and for technological innovation and to boost the murmurs. It was a pilot and can be programmed University’s digital strategy, while serving as project between the an educational tool for students majoring in to show irregularities School of Medicine and computer science, and those from many walks of and murmurs. the RaD Lab, White says, and it has opened a wider the academy who just want to have a better grasp gate for future collaboration. of coding and computing. “We’re seeing more medical students who come To that end, Cynthia Corritore, Ph.D., a to us as Millennial learners,” White says. “They professor of business intelligence and analytics, access information in different ways and are more has been one of the RaD Lab’s most frequent adept with other styles. We in medical education collaborators. Corritore’s classes are shot through have been a little slower to adapt to that style, but with technological advances, and the professor it’s a skill set that students use now and which is herself speaks not so much in business terms as

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in computer science ones, often pointing out how and see who is chiming in and who is taking the the line is steadily blurring between one pursuit conversation to a higher level. Canon and the other. With all the potential, Corritore hopes the RaD She teaches an entire course on application Lab can sustain its innovative edge, while also Partnership development. The crowning moment is a contest catering to the day-to-day work of maintaining in which teams of students compete to build the servers and databases. Canon is partnering best app and put it to use in a business context. “They’re my favorite thing at Creighton with Creighton’s RaD This year, the winners of the competition built an right now,” she says, adding that these are Lab. “The Canon and Creighton partnership app allowing people to input the contents of their “great experiences” for students. “I hope we can symbolizes our shared wardrobe. The app then helps them select what to encourage more of them to be a part of it. passion for integrating wear based on the weather and the day’s activities. “It’s changing everything. It’s not just that technology innovation Cameron is now working with the student team everyone needs to know how to code, we need to into the student on commercializing the app. be turning out the experts in that field, and the experience,” said Valerie Corritore is further testing the RaD Lab’s place where they develop that expertise is in places Belli, vice president of range by wondering how virtual reality might be like the RaD Lab.” the Enterprise Managed implemented in her classrooms. Corritore says Cameron says the support the lab has received Services Division at after five years teaching the app development across the board from Creighton faculty and Canon. Added Tim course, she sees the future in a course on administrators, along with the steady stream Brooks, Creighton’s vice developing virtual reality environments, and the of dedicated interns, has ensured the RaD Lab president for Information Technology: “Industry RaD Lab has helped her find the scripting language continues to not only invent solutions for real partnerships are necessary to create the course. From there, she issues, but to innovate its way into continued essential to a sustainable says, she calls upon the lab for other projects existence. innovation engine. related to education and technology. “We love it when someone comes to us and These partnerships Corritore and other professors are finding ways says, ‘I don’t think this can be done, but can you allow us to integrate for the RaD Lab to help them judge one of the try?’” Cameron says. “The best ideas don’t come emerging technologies more subjective grades in a college classroom: from the RaD Lab staff, the best ideas are the and in-demand digital class participation. The lab is also helping build a ones that walk in the door. We’re constantly competencies into the system to look for key words and topics in online being challenged, and it’s amazing to see how our lab experience and discussions, interpreting what students are saying students, faculty and staff have risen up to tackle academic programs.” and providing output for professors to analyze those challenges together.”

© Summer 2016 Marriage, Family & the Catholic Ch urch Reflections on Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia By Michael G. Lawler, Ph.D., and Todd A. Salzman, Ph.D.

ope Francis has provided plenty of evidence of being a loving, merciful and pastoral leader. Consequently, our expectation for the Apostolic Exhortation that is the final document on the two synods on marriage and the family in † and †‡ was that the document would not change Catholic Church doctrine but would offer both pastoral guidelines for living a Christian married life and principles to deal with exceptional marital situations that are labeled “irregular.”

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Photo by Sipa via AP Images († poetic passageonthenature oftruelove is abeautifulreflection onSt. Paul’s short ofthisinvitation. that God’s mercy isinfinitewhen wefall family, neighborandsociety, realizing like spouse, ofGod, Christintheservice person isinvited tostrivelive outalife ways where ofbeingintheworld, the Laetitia isnotonrules andactsbuton shape thatcharacter. Thefocus inAmoris since theyreflect virtuouscharacterand rather thandoing.Actsare important, rather thanhisorheracts;onbeing, focuses onthecharacterofperson inductive. Avirtue-focused method focused, dynamic, developmental and different; itisvirtue-oriented,relational or developmental considerations. historical, cultural, contextual, relational withoutregardCatholics, everywhere, for in a“one-size-fits-all” approach toall relationship —andapplied thelaw contraception withinamarital for example, nouseofartificial focused, static anddeductive. largely law-oriented, legalistic, act- particularity into consideration. discernment must take dynamism and and spiritualcapacities, andpastoral stages intheirrelational, emotional married couple isdistinctandatunique development andfulfillment.” Each marital life as “a dynamic path to personal between persons.” invaluable for thegenuine growth oflove the entire document. “Chastity proves sexuality, ismentioned only oncein absolute proscriptive laws onhuman to ensure adherence totheChurch’s deductively applied asalegalistic virtue sexuality andmarriagewasoften approach toCatholic moraltheology on chastity, which iscentral tothehistorical rude. It isnoteworthy thatthevirtueof forgiving; love isnotjealous, boastfulor generous, directed toward service, associated withit.Loveispatient, states, the human person “knows, loves states, thehuman person“knows,loves gradualness,” whereby, thedocument John Paul IIreferred toas “the law of are profound. It requires what St. Pope Corinthians A chaptertitled “Love inMarriage” Laetitiaisvery The methodinAmoris It beganwithabsolute laws — The implications for ethical method Laetitia presents Amoris Second, †˜: š› ) and the virtues ) andthevirtues

are called tobesothattheymay do the kindofpeople married Christians marriages, Francis seekstohighlight offering anewset ofrules for lasting gentleness inspeakingtooneanother.” patience, tendernessandJesus’ “own of love, generosity, commitment, fidelity, God.” Amongthosegiftsare thevirtues progressive integration ofthegifts “which advances gradually withthe that marriageisalifelong challenge, approach from law tovirtueandteaches burden.” He changesthefoundational “two limitedpersons[a] tremendous Pope Francis argues,haslaidupon married Catholic couples. Thatapproach, canon law, which istobeobeyed byall foundation ofCatholic marriagehasbeen Council ofTrent inthe in approach tomarriage.Since the family.” analogous toGod’s plan for marriageand to beinany way similarorremotely homosexual unions [same-sex marriage] are absolutely nogrounds for considering consummated isindissoluble, and“there the marriagethatissacramental and is betweenonemanandwoman, approach taken byFrancis. Marriage and much enhancedbythevirtue on marriageandfamily life are rea¡rmed situations, traditional Catholic teachings missed inthemediafrenzy overirregular light ofthosevirtuesandvalues. teachings oftheChurch are applicable in values atstake andtodeterminewhich particular casestodiscernthevirtuesand discernment requires looking at of concrete situations,” pastoral fully inthelight oftheGospel. particularity while strivingtolivemore finding aresponse thatrespects that “irregular” relational situations, and in evaluating ethical issues,especially that exercises prudential discernment particularity emphasizes amoralmethod values inlight ofthatparticularity. Such and thebestpathfor realizing those situation todiscernthevalues atstake beginning withtheparticularities ofa different stagesofgrowth.” and accomplishes themoralgoodby Rather thanreiterating old rules or There is,however, amajorchange Third, importantly andnottobe Since there are an“immense variety It alsorequires aninductiveapproach, †¤ th century, the Summer 2016 † Marriage, Family and the Catholic Church

what is necessary for their marriages to are already comfortable with it — it cannot “provide a new set of rules, be successful and lasting. The Church will gradually become as accepted as canonical in nature and applicable to should be grateful for this transposition Communion in certain circumstances all cases.” The solution to “irregular from law to virtue in this time of crisis for the divorced and remarried without situations,” he writes, is a path of careful for marriages when many are asking how annulment. Insomuch as gays and discernment accompanied by a priest and marriages and families can be saved. lesbians demonstrate that their marriages a final judgment of personal conscience Fourth, though same-sex marriage are as humanly and Christianly fulfilling that commands us to do this or not to is not to be regarded as similar or even as the marriages of heterosexuals, do that. The Church is called, Francis analogous to Christian marriage, the that acceptance takes greater root. teaches, “to form consciences, not to document states that gays, lesbians Francis’ bringing to the fore again the replace them.” Sixth, the bringing to the moral forefront again of the ancient Catholic teaching on the authority and inviolability of personal conscience (see Dignitatis humanae, ) is, in our opinion, one of the most important teachings of Amoris Laetitia. The Second Vatican Council taught that “in the depth of his conscience, man detects a law which he does not impose upon himself … To obey it is the very dignity of man; according to it, he will be judged” (Gaudium et spes, †¤; see also Dignitatis humanae, ). Francis judges, correctly we agree, that “individual conscience needs to be better incorporated into the Church’s praxis in certain situations which do not objectively embody our understanding of marriage.” He quotes Thomas Aquinas frequently throughout the document Photo by Dave Weaver by Dave Photo and especially his teaching that the more Theology professors Michael Lawler, Ph.D., left, and Todd Salzman, Ph.D., outside St. John’s Church we descend into the details of irregular on campus, say that Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia signals the start of a more open, understanding and situations, the more general principles merciful Church. will be found to fail. As the popular and transgender people “ought to be Catholic doctrine on the authority and saying goes, the devil is always in the respected in [their] dignity and treated inviolability of personal conscience, details, and only an informed conscience with consideration, while every sign of applies to any decision of Catholic gays can make a moral judgment about the unjust discrimination is to be carefully and lesbians to marry as much as it details of any situation. avoided.” applies to any other moral decision. Running throughout the document is Fifth, one of the most hotly debated Divorce and Holy Communion: a refrain that God welcomes all into the issues at the synods was that of the A New Perspective Church that is a communion of life, love admission to Communion of the First, when introducing the document, and mercy. Many who support same-sex divorced and remarried without Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, a major marriage as a way for gays and lesbians annulment. Following his recommended voice at the two synods in † and to live in dignity, and who believe that trajectory of love and mercy, Francis †‡, insisted and we agree that, though to deny them the right to marry is decrees that “the logic of pastoral mercy” there is no doctrinal change in Amoris unjust discrimination, will no doubt be and “the logic of integration is the key to Laetitia, there is an “organic development disappointed by this judgment. We say their pastoral care, a care which would of doctrine.” That development is to them that there is still hope in Amoris allow them not only to realize that they specifically in regard to the admission Laetitia for the fulfillment of their vision. belong to the Church as the Body of to Holy Communion of those who are That hope lies, we believe, in the Christ, but also to know that they can civilly divorced and remarried without theme of gradualness that runs through have a joyful and fruitful experience in annulment. the document. As more and more it.” They are not excommunicated and In his Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Catholics become comfortable with are not to be treated as such. Consortio (†©ª†), his response to the same-sex marriage — and world statistics Their situations can be vastly different †©ª Synod on the Family, St. Pope show that a near-majority of Catholics and his document, the Pope confesses, John Paul II decreed that Catholics who

Summer 2016 Marriage, Family and the Catholic Church were divorced and remarried without Law, to repeat, demands obedience to control is a condemnation of a State’s annulment, and who were in an objective the law; virtue demands commitment forced intervention, as a violation of but perhaps not subjective situation to the challenge of conscientiously and the dignity of conscience, “in favour of of sin, could be admitted to these actively living a life like Christ. That contraception, sterilization and even sacraments only on the rigid and tortured active living is a serious challenge for abortion.” condition that they “take on themselves damaged human beings and, perhaps, “The more the couple tries to the duty to live in complete continence, that is why Francis makes such an listen in conscience to God and His that is, by abstinence from the acts effort to present Christian marriage so commandments (Romans :†‡), and is proper to married couples.” positively as a response to the Gospel and accompanied spiritually, the more their A striking and profound development judges that “today, more important than decision will be free of subjective caprice in Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia is the the pastoral care of failures is the pastoral and accommodation to prevailing social inclusion of the “internal forum” for effort to strengthen marriages and thus mores.” That approach is continued, the couple, in dialogue with a priest, to prevent their breakdown.” as we have seen, in the section dealing to “undertake a responsible and Third, we cannot claim that the focus with the admission to Communion of pastoral discernment” of their irregular placed on conscience, it occurs  times the divorced and remarried without situation which could result in a unique in the document, is a new perspective, annulment. application of the rule depending on for it is an ancient Catholic doctrine. The their particular circumstances. The reality is, however, that it is a doctrine Elevating Catholic Teaching internal forum could be used to allow that has been notable more by its absence on Marriage divorced and civilly remarried couples to than by its presence in modern teachings We celebrate the fact that in this participate more fully in the community. Apostolic Exhortation, Pope Francis In terms of canon law, fuller participation In Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis has offered us an irenic response to in the community includes Communion has presented himself as a wise, the often-violent and divisive debates if a couple is not in the state of grave sin. loving and merciful pastor; he of the two synods. He has presented himself as a wise, loving and merciful Francis’ footnote ˜‡†, strangely has elevated and sustained the not placed in the text itself, offers pastor; he has elevated and sustained the the possibility that couples could be Catholic teaching on marriage; Catholic teaching on marriage; and he admitted to the sacraments in certain and he has marked out a has marked out a traditional and careful circumstances. In keeping with his general traditional and careful path of path of discernment for the solution of theme of mercy and charity, he points discernment for the solution of irregular situations. out that the Eucharist “is not a prize for irregular situations. Not everyone will be happy with the the perfect but a powerful medicine and document, but we rejoice with Amoris nourishment for the weak.” He stops of the Magisterium on moral issues in Laetitia for a document that will place short of a blanket permission for the general and on the issue of marriage in the Catholic approach to marriage once admission to Communion of the divorced particular. again in the forefront of any discussion and remarried without annulment, but it Speaking of the encouragement of about marriage. We believe it signals the is clear that he leaves admission open in married couples to procreate, Pope start of a more open, understanding and discerned cases. He does not automatically Francis declares that “decisions involving merciful Church, and we hope that, just open the door to change, but he certainly responsible parenthood presuppose as it forges an organic development of lets us know where the key to the door the formation of conscience, which is a pastoral approach to moral issues, it is, under the mat of the internal forum, ‘the most secret core and sanctuary of will go further in the long term to forge guided pastoral discernment and the a person. There each one is alone with also a development of Catholic moral decision of an informed conscience. God, whose voice echoes in the depths theological doctrine related to debated Second, though there is no doctrinal of the heart’ (Gaudium et spes, †¤).” moral sexual issues in general and change involved, the transposition of the The only clear condemnation of birth marital moral sexual issues in particular. doctrine on marriage from a foundation on law to a foundation on virtue is a major theoretical change. Law is to be About the Authors obeyed, and it is therefore commonly Michael Lawler, Ph.D., is the Amelia and Emil Graff Professor Emeritus of Catholic accompanied in magisterial teaching by Theology at Creighton University. Todd Salzman, Ph.D., is the Amelia and Emil Graff the phrase debitum obsequium meaning Professor of Catholic Theology at Creighton University. Their recent co-authored “due respect” (see, for instance, Code publications include: Catholic Theological Ethics: Ancient Questions, Contemporary of Canon Law, can. †ª, ›‡ , ›‡˜). The Responses ( †¤); The Church in the Modern World: Gaudium et spes Then and Now (co- phrase appears nowhere in Amoris author Eileen Burke-Sullivan, STD) ( † ); “Catholic Theological Method for the †st Laetitia, not even where we would expect Century,” Theological Studies ( †˜); and Sexual Ethics: A Theological Introduction ( † ). to find it.

˜ Summer 2016 Alumni News Giving it His Best Shot By Nichole Jelinek, MA’‰™ But, he says, God had other plans for him. Plans that called him back to the Former Bluejay basketball neighborhood — to live, to serve and to mentor others. standout making a difference Dotzler, BA’, his wife, Jen, and their three children are at home in North Omaha, where he is the executive pastor in his community for Bridge Church and CEO of Abide, an inner-city nonprofit founded by his parents, Ron and Twany Dotzler. or Josh Dotzler, this was his shot. Coming to play Josh was ˆ years old in ‰Š when basketball at Creighton University and getting his his family sold their suburban Omaha home and took up what they thought education was, he thought, the beginning of a new was “temporary” residence in a former F Immanuel Hospital boiler facility in North chapter in his life — an opportunity to leave behind the Omaha while Ron, a chemical engineer, oft-troubled streets of his North Omaha neighborhood and Twany looked into missionary work overseas. and start anew. Josh says his parents found themselves living in a world of violence and brokenness like they had never before known. They also found their calling. “Many people have questioned and wondered why my parents would move our family to an area like North Omaha and work with a forgotten community,” says Dotzler. “The simple explanation is they have lived out what they’ve communicated: The most dangerous place to live is outside the center of God’s will.” Josh says their house — a fixer-upper in dire need of repairs — remained untouched by frequent drive-by shootings. But he was shaken — and forever changed — when he learned of the murders of two young neighbor girls. The murders weighed heavily on Josh, and, over the years, he became more determined to find a way out. The murders had an opposite effect on his father, Ron, who became more committed to saving children and to being a part of the solution. As the Dotzlers worked to fix up their own home, they also brought their neighbors together to beautify the community. Slowly but surely, what once had been identified by police as the worst neighborhood in Omaha was Photos by Dave Weaver by Dave Photos transformed into one of community Dotzler is at peace with his decision to stay in Omaha and serve the community in which he grew up. and of opportunities. Abide has been

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Josh Dotzler, BA’, spends time on the basketball court with youth from Bridge Church in North Omaha, where he serves as executive pastor. He is also CEO of Abide, an inner-city nonprofit founded by his parents. Dotzler’s son Joseph, , is pictured in front with the Creighton sweatshirt. recognized by both Omaha Mayor houses and to beautify common spaces. adopting neighborhoods. Abide works Jean Stothert and Nebraska Gov. Pete Through its focus on community in three community centers and hosts Ricketts. building, family and student support numerous events annually. From ˆ‰ to Josh’s experiences and fears had him programs, housing and partnerships, ˆ‰ , the number of people participating wanting to leave North Omaha, but that Abide has adopted ‰™ neighborhoods in Abide-sponsored events grew from changed in ˆ›, when the murder of a and established ˆˆ “Lighthouses” — fewer than ¡, to more than ‰¡,. An neighborhood friend — another life cut abandoned homes that are fixed up as annual block party is one example of an short by violence — steeled his resolve to family dwellings. Dotzler says that when event that brings the community together be a voice for change. neighbors rally together and learn one to engage and interact. “I started asking myself about how another’s stories, they find that nearly all Abide is in the process of developing I could be part of the solution,” says want the same positive opportunities for another five-year strategic plan that Dotzler. “At the end of the day, we all have their families. includes a larger facility, a headquarters decisions to make. The forces and fears Abide’s Better Together Basketball and room for more program opportunities. that were causing me to want to leave program (established in ˆ‰‰) provides a Dotzler says that his Jesuit education were not founded on the right truths. God positive outlet for more than ‰ inner- taught him the importance of community, gave me a change of heart and led me to city youth, from pre-kindergarten to and being a part of Abide allows him to the community.” eighth grade. Abide also provides academic serve alongside others as agents of change In ˆ›, Abide began partnering with mentoring and other programs. In all, in North Omaha. police to identify and target “sore spots” more than ›, volunteers and a diverse “Abide has changed who I am,” in the community. In ˆ, a strategic staff of more than ¡ individuals make up says Dotzler. “What I have seen and plan was set in place to move forward with the Abide team. experienced has impacted who I am today. every effort to transform each of North Other volunteers and supporters All of my experiences, good and bad, have Omaha’s › neighborhoods. Neighbors provide financial support by purchasing, created a sense of humility and a desire to rallied together to restore the dilapidated rehabbing, and donating homes and give back.”

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participated in the annual Mending Hundred Year Adventure: The Life and Faces Medical Mission to Kalibo, Times of Eugene C. Foote, M.D. The Philippines, with fellow Creighton book is about her great-grandfather AlumniNotes graduates John J. Kirby, DDS’71, who was a doctor in Hastings, Neb., Thomas F. Dowd, BSBA’61, M. Biety, BS’77, DDS’81, and Dr. and Dr. Michelle M. “Mimi” Wong, and a ‰š graduate of the Creighton JD, Omaha, was the Michelle M. “Mimi” Wong, BS’89, and BS’89, and Creighton undergraduate School of Medicine. 63 student Kara Arnold. Mending Faces recipient of the ˆ‰™ Irish American Creighton undergraduate student Todd M. Starr, JD, Pagosa is a nonprofit organization providing Omaha Douglas County Public Kara Arnold. Mending Faces is a Springs, Colo., recently pro bono cleft lip/cleft palate 89 Service Award. Dowd, a retired nonprofit organization providing pro resigned his appointment as surgeries to impoverished children member of the law firm Dowd bono cleft lip/cleft palate surgeries Archuleta County attorney to join burdened by this problem. Timothy Howard & Corrigan, was recognized to impoverished children burdened the national law firm of Rose Walker. S. Bottaro, BA, Sioux City, Iowa, was for his representation of the rights by this problem. Mark F. Murray, MD, Starr is the resident Colorado named to the Iowa Super Lawyers of laboring men and women and Sacramento, Calif., president of Mark partner and the firm is now doing for ˆ‰™ and is the president-elect nearly  years of service on the Murray & Associates, LLC, served on business in Colorado under the name of the Iowa Association for Justice Metropolitan Utilities District board the Institute of Medicine, a division Rose Walker Starr. Dr. Michelle M. (Trial Lawyers) and will assume of directors. of the National Academy of Sciences, “Mimi” Wong, BS, Denver, has again as part of a subgroup on Optimizing the presidency in November ˆ‰™. William A.K. Kuamoo, BA, participated in the annual Mending Scheduling in Health Care, which Bottaro also served on the Iowa Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and Faces Medical Mission to Kalibo, 66 recently released “Transforming Supreme Court Task Force to Revise Scottsdale, Ariz., published his fifth Philippines, with fellow Creighton Health Care Scheduling and Access: the Rules of Civil Procedure to make family-history-genealogy titled The graduates John J. Kirby, DDS’71, and Getting to Now.” This paper was them more streamlined and to create ‘King of Maui, Hawai’i:’ Banker of Christopher M. Biety, BS’77, DDS’81, commissioned in response to the an Expedited Civil Actions (ECA) the Chinese Revolution of . The and Creighton undergraduate student recent access issues uncovered in the process for cases of smaller value. He book is about his paternal great- Kara Arnold. Mending Faces is a Veterans Health Administration’s has presented to more than ˆ, grandfather, Sun Ahmi, one of the nonprofit organization providing pro health care system. He also co- Iowa attorneys and their staff on richest men in the territory of Hawaii bono cleft lip/cleft palate surgeries to authored “Improving Access to Care the new rules and in other states in the ‰Šs-‰s, who was the impoverished children burdened by at Autism Treatment Centers: A as the ECA has become a national older brother of Sun Yat-sen, M.D. this problem. System Analysis Approach,” which model. Hon. Paul G. Crawford, BA, Yat-sen, known as “China’s George appeared in the February ˆ‰™ issue Marshalltown, Iowa, was appointed Frank W. Ierulli, JD, Peoria, Washington,” played an instrumental of the journal Pediatrics. district associate judge in Iowa’s 92 Ill., an attorney at the Peoria role in overthrowing the Qing Second Judicial District in January oªce of Howard & Howard, PLLC, Dynasty — the last dynasty in China Richard L. Gibney, MD, Waco, ˆ‰™. He had been assistant Marshall has been appointed to serve as a after ˆ, years of imperial reign 72 Texas, was the recipient County attorney in Iowa for ˆŠ member of the Standing Committee — in October ‰‰‰. Kuamoo’s five of the ˆ‰™ Medal of Excellence years. Dr. Laure Marshall Marino, on Judicial Advisory Polls within the literary family history works were Award presented by the American BSN, Charleston, W.Va., received her Illinois State Bar Association for the gifted to the University of Hawaii at Association of Kidney Patients, the Doctor of Nursing Practice with a ˆ‰™«ˆ‰› term. Manoa Hamilton Library Hawaiian nation’s leading patient education concentration in executive leadership Collection in Honolulu. Dr. John and advocacy group. The award Rachel L. Foley, BSRTH’86, from George Washington University JD, Independence, Mo., of H. Neu, BACLS’60, JD, Manhattan recognizes visionaries whose insight in May ˆ‰™. Marino is the director 93 Beach, Calif., retired from the and perseverance have led to dramatic Foley Law, P.C., will be a guest speaker of outpatient primary care services at the ˆ th Annual Convention for Department of Political Science at advances that improve patient care. for Highland Behavioral Health Whittier College in Whittier, Calif., Gibney is a nephrologist with Central the National Association of Consumer Systems in Charleston. She was one Bankruptcy Attorneys. in December ˆ‰š, after š years of Texas Nephrology Associates in Waco. of ‰ nurses nationally to receive teaching. John P. Reilly, MD, Grand Dr. Sarah E. Witte, BA, La the prestigious Culture of Health Shurie R. Graeve, JD, Blair, Island, Neb., was the recipient of the Grande, Ore., has been Breakthrough Nurse Leader Award in 94 Neb., has opened Graeve CHI Health St. Francis Physician 79 named provost at Eastern Oregon ˆ‰š presented by the Robert Wood Law & Mediation, LLC, in Omaha. Lifetime Achievement Award. University in La Grande. She is the Johnson Foundation and AARP. The firm provides comprehensive Throughout his š-year career in first woman to serve as provost at the legal services to individuals and obstetrics and gynecology, Reilly Dr. Rebecca Feight Morris, university. businesses, with an emphasis in helped to build and support women’s 82 BS’78, MBA, Hartford, criminal defense, civil litigation and services at St. Francis, mentored Edward M. Wagner, JD, Conn., assistant professor of mediation. medical students and welcomed 80 Champaign, Ill., has retired economics and management more than ‰¡, new babies into after ¡™ years of practice with Heyl, at Westfield State University in Shad E. Sumrow, JD, the world. Royster, Voelker & Allen. Wagner was Westfield, Mass., has been appointed 96 Dallas, was included in the managing partner of the Urbana, Ill., editor-in-chief of The CASE Journal Chambers USA ˆ‰™ legal directory by John J. Kirby, DDS, oªce and was recognized as a Leading (TCJ). Lt. Col. Paul E. Schleier, BA’77, Chambers & Partners in the field of Hillsborough, Calif., has 71 Lawyer and Super Lawyer in the defense DDS, Suffolk, Va., retired in January banking and finance. Sumrow is an again participated in the annual of medical malpractice cases in Illinois. ˆ‰™ from the United States Air attorney at Thompson & Knight LLP Mending Faces Medical Mission Force Dental Corps after ˆŠ years in Dallas. to Kalibo, Philippines, with fellow Christopher M. Biety, BS’77, of military service and has joined Carmen Kwong Gaston, Creighton graduates Christopher 81 DDS, Golden, Colo., has again the private dental practice of Gayle 99 JD, Portland, Ore., was Terwilliger, DDS, in Smithfield, Va. In appointed Archdiocesan director of Do you have alumni news to share? addition, Schleier has been accepted development and stewardship for by the University of Virginia’s Darden the Archdiocese of Portland in April Have a new job? Recently married? Earned a Graduate School of Business in ˆ‰š. Gaston, who served as chief promotion? Had a new baby? Received special Charlottesville, Va., into their executive development and strategy oªcer for MBA program to start in August ˆ‰™. recognition? If so, we want to know about it! Catholic Charities, works closely with Julia A. Foote, ARTS, Grand Archbishop Alexander Sample to Please send to [email protected]. 86 Island, Neb., wrote A direct major gifts and planned giving

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Physical Therapy Graduate Runs, Wins Ultra-marathons By Therese Vaughn Her friends call her “Pixie An ultra-marathon refers to any footrace her running group G.O.A.T.z or with her Ninja” and her coach says she longer than the traditional marathon of ˆ™.ˆ running partner Miguel Ordorica. She “floats” when she runs. At miles. These grueling trail courses challenge also runs with her mom, who has two the high-endurance athlete with treacherous š-milers under her own belt. about  pounds, Kaci Lickteig, ground, bad weather, elevation changes and Demonstrating the same long- DPT’, may very well have the near-cosmic mileage from the shot of distance dedication to patient care, winged lungs and fairy-dust- the starter’s pistol to the finish line. For the Lickteig works full-time as a physical powered feet. Recently featured ultra-marathoner, it’s not about running therapist in a local hospital’s post- in the New York Times as one š or ‰ miles at one time, it’s about operation unit. She helps patients of the nation’s top ultra- embodying each moment of time along the recovering from surgery get back on way — even if many of those moments bring their feet and on the road to health, marathoners, Lickteig runs friction blisters and stress fractures. mobility and function. races of ‡ and ˆ‡‡ miles. Last June, the Creighton graduate and Omaha physical therapist placed second among female competitors in the Western States ‰-Mile Endurance Run, the oldest and most prestigious trail competition in the world. Legendary for her end-of-race kick, Lickteig outpaced all competitors in the field during the run’s second half. Lickteig grew up in the small town of Dannebrog, Neb., and completed her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree before settling in Omaha to work as a physical therapist at an area hospital. She only began running as a junior in high school after her mother, Lori Leonard, quit smoking and began jogging on a treadmill at the local gym. “It killed me to run five minutes,” Lickteig told the blog for the Greater Omaha Area Trail Runners (G.O.A.T.z), an Omaha group she belongs to. However, with a mom like Rosie the Riveter — Leonard worked as a welder for

ˆš years — Lickteig’s determination came by GaryPhoto Wang naturally. Her best friend urged her to Kaci Lickteig competes in the ˆ‰š Western States ‰-mile Endurance Run. Lickteig finished second sign up for cross-country, and while she among female competitors and ˆ th overall out of ˆš competitors. frequently lagged behind her teammates and walked up hills, she never gave up. Lickteig went on to win her first ‰- This winter, Lickteig suffered from A few years ago, Lickteig became mile race — the Black Hills ‰ in Sturgis, a bout of anemia and a subsequent interested in even lengthier long- S.D. Flanked by ponderosa pine and the injury. Unable to run, she herself went distance running. She joined her Centennial Trail, the Olympic Marathon to a physical therapist who helped her G.O.A.T.z friends to run her first šk Trial qualifier made astonishing time. recover. Within five weeks, the ultra- — the Silver Rush race, in the historic In ‰ hours and ‰ˆ seconds, she broke marathoner placed second at the ˆ‰™ mining town of Leadville, Colo. “I’d only the women’s course record not by seven Lake Sonoma š Mile race. run a five-mile trail run before that,” she minutes, but by seven hours. In a recent irunfar.com interview, said, astonishing herself and the entire Although its folklore casts running as Lickteig said: My grandma always tells ultra-marathon community by winning a solitary endeavor, Lickteig seldom runs me, “You’re just driven. You’re going to the race. alone. She trains with two of her three dogs, do whatever until you finish.”

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has been named by M&A Advisor as a ˆ‰™ “Emerging Leader,” which recognizes his significant level of Seeking Equality success before the age of  as a legal advisor in the mergers and By Eugene Curtin acquisitions industry in the U.S. Oxley Women who are victims of domestic is a shareholder at Koley Jessen, PC, LLO, in Omaha. violence have a friend in Kathryn Jean R. Ortiz, BA, Arvada, Greene Jacob, BSW’. And so does 02 Colo., was promoted to Creighton University. editorial director for the Oªce of Marketing and Communications at For almost a year, Jacob has been the Regis University in Denver. president and CEO of SafeHaven of Tarrant Meghan Cook Zuraw, BA, County, Texas, which, with a population of 05 Dallas, has been named a ‰.Š million, ranks as the third largest county Texas Rising Star attorney by Super in the state. Jacob’s SafeHaven is the largest Lawyers for the fourth consecutive year, and has joined the National provider of women’s shelters in Tarrant Center for Missing & Exploited County, providing ‰™ beds at two emergency Children to lead the Dallas oªce. Creighton alumna found love shelters — one in Fort Worth, and the other in Ashanti Weaver Coleman, Arlington. and support at home and at 07 BSBA, Fort Worth, Texas, It is a level of responsibility that has been Creighton. She looks to share received a Master of Science steadily making its way toward the ¡›-year-old that with women who have been in Management from Bellevue Jacob, a ˆ Creighton social work graduate University in January ˆ‰š. She abused. opened Nebraska Furniture Mart in who went on to earn a master’s degree in social The Colony, Texas, in May ˆ‰š, and work from Fordham University in New York. currently is the marketing projects Named one of the top ˆ‰‰ “  under ” But then she and her mother — “on a whim,” coordinator for the store. Brian M. honorees in Dallas, her career since graduating she said — visited the campus in January Norton, BA, Omaha, has joined the Steier Group in Omaha and will serve from Creighton has taken her to New York, of ‰™, during a snowstorm, and a new as the marketing coordinator. New Jersey and to a Peace Corps project in Creighton student was born. The campus, she Keshia M. Bradford, BS, Turkmenistan, a central Asian nation bordering said, felt just right, and St. John’s Church sealed 08 Council Bluffs, Iowa, Iran and Afghanistan. the deal. director of outreach and enrollment She is a mother of two boys, with a third “I wanted to go to a school where there was a and strategic initiatives for the Health child on the way. church like that just steps from my dorm room. Center Association of Nebraska, Through it all, Jacob said, she has I definitely felt the call,” she said. received George Washington University’s Geiger Gibson Emerging remembered Creighton. It’s a call that has led her to help battered and Leader Award. The Geiger Gibson “I just love Creighton,” she said. “In fact, it’s abused women wherever she finds them. Program in Community Health Policy on the list of names for our next baby.” Having been raised as an only child in a at George Washington University in As a native of Chicago, there was nothing stable marriage where equality reigned between Washington, D.C., honors leaders who have undertaken or guided a specific foreseeable about Jacob landing at Creighton the spouses, the fact that other relationships task that has helped their health University. The father of a high school friend were a source of abuse touched her conscience. center or Primary Care Association suggested she research Creighton as a source of “I don’t have the answer, but I know further the mission of providing high- the nursing degree she originally sought. Jacob how to prevent it. My husband and I model quality, culturally competent health services to underserved populations. remembers her response: a relationship of equality to our boys, a Bradford’s work in outreach and “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I relationship full of respect and honesty. enrollment was recognized along with said. “I’m not going to Omaha, Nebraska. None Because of that, they are learning that women her work with Families USA. Dr. Adam of my friends are going there.” and men are equal.” M. Ernest, BS, Rainbow City, Ala., is an associate veterinarian at Central Valley Animal Hospital in Rainbow City. Ernest works with three other programs, as well as the Archbishop’s the Portland Business Journal for career associate professor of English and veterinarians, providing medical and Annual Appeal. She is active in the accomplishments and community American studies at the University surgical care for small animals. community, serving as vice-chair of service contributions. Nora Spencer- of Miami in Coral Gables. His book the board at Volunteers of America Loveall, BA, Atlanta, is a senior press Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Eric V. Ernest, BSEMS’06, Oregon and as a community board oªcer in the Center for Disease Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century 10 MD, Omaha, has been member at the Medical Society of Control’s National Center for HIV/ U.S. Literature also recently appeared named the medical director of the Metropolitan Portland. She also was AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB in print. state of Nebraska. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University Prevention. medical director for the Bellevue Janee’ Nesler Butterfield, of Portland Pamplin School of Fire Department, the Cass County Dr. John R. Funchion, BSBA, Herndon, Va., recently Business. Gaston was honored in ˆ 01 Emergency Management Agency, BA, Coral Gables, Fla., published her first book, Caught In as one of Portland’s “  Under ” by 00 the Elmwood Volunteer Fire received tenure and promotion to Cryptic. Eric B. Oxley, BSBA, Omaha, Department, the Weeping Water Fire

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Department, the Nehawka Rural Fire Philip M. Higa and Lynnette Department and Greenwood Fire and 02 Pascua Higa, BS’00, BSN, Rescue. Additionally, he is assistant Mililani, Hawaii, twins, a son, Cole New National Alumni Board medical director of the Omaha Fire Joseph, Nov. , ˆ‰š, and a daughter, Department and Creighton University Avery Rio, Nov. ‰, ˆ‰š. James EMS Education. Cochran and Jean R. Ortiz, BA, Members Announced Rev. Canon Julia McCray- Arvada, Colo., a son, James Bennett, The National Alumni Board 11 Goldsmith, MA, Emeryville, Feb. ˆ, ˆ‰™. J. Bradley Slagle and (NAB) recently welcomed three new Calif., was installed as the Canon for Julie Freeh Slagle, BA, Centennial, Colo., a daughter, Henrietta Ellen, members. They will represent alumni Discipleship in the Episcopal Diocese for the next three years. The NAB meets of California in January ˆ‰™. Oct. ‰¡, ˆ‰š. twice a year at Creighton to discuss Hannah Connealy Raudsepp, Paul W. Wallace and Emily Smith Wallace, PharmD, various University issues, alumni 13 BS, Boston, started Honest 04 concerns and alumni program plans. Beef Company — a platform that Tacoma, Wash., a son, Grady Patrick, allows people to crowdsource a cow, June ¡, ˆ‰š. New members are: one at a time, allowing them to know James Butler and Elizabeth Danielle Bevier-Yurkovich, what ranch, rancher and animal their 05 McCarty Butler, BA, Omaha, Bevier-Yurkovich D.C., BA’05 — Bevier-Yurkovich is a beef comes from. a son, Westley, Feb. ˆ, ˆ‰š. chiropractor in Newport Beach, Calif. Jamie A. Steemken, BA, Ocala, M. Beau Hamilton, DDS, and She owns LIV Integrative Health, an 14 Fla., is a wealth management 06 Alison Hund Hamilton, BA’02, integrated holistic health service center assistant at Parady Financial in The Southlake, Texas, a daughter, Elise Villages, Fla. Charlotte, March ˆ, ˆ‰™. Dr. Eric that practices both western and eastern Myers and Katherine Ecker Myers, medicine. BA’03, JD, Albuquerque, N.M., a son, Hon. Darryl Lowe, JD’84 — Lowe is Conrad Arthur, Dec. ‰, ˆ‰š. Weddings currently serving as a Douglas County Kimberly J. Reichert, DPT, Larry Coleman and Ashanti Court Judge in the Fourth Judicial and Kris Saunders, Sept. ‰, 02 07 Weaver Coleman, BSBA, District of the state of Nebraska. He ˆ‰š, living in Sacramento, Calif. Fort Worth, Texas, a daughter, Lowe cofounded the Midwest Trailblazer and Eliana Morgan Grace, Dec. ˆ›, ˆ‰š. Meghan E. Cook, BA, Youth Organization, which serves 05 Martin Zuraw, June ˆ›, ˆ‰š, Jonathan J. Twidwell, BSBA’04, living in Dallas. JD, and Jaci Schulte Twidwell, BS, adolescents throughout Omaha. Lenexa, Kan., twin sons, Everett John Ashanti R. Weaver, BSBA, and Patrick Joseph, Nov. ‰Š, ˆ‰š. Dr. Michael Zoellner, BSBA’78, JD’81 07 and Larry Coleman, Feb. ˆ‰, Tedd J. (TJ) Welniak, BS, and Teryn B. — Zoellner is the founding partner and ˆ‰š, living in Fort Worth, Texas. Sedillo, DDS’14, New York, a son, Ivan CEO of RedPeak Properties, a Colorado Alice B. Bartek, JD, and James, Sept. ‰, ˆ‰š. company focused on developing and 11 Armando J. Santiago, Jan. ˆ¡, Steven T. Henneberry, BA, acquiring multifamily use properties ˆ‰™, living in Alexandria, Va. 10 and Kelly Tangen Henneberry, that require repositioning, adding value Anne E. James, BS, and BSBA, Minneapolis, a son, Thomas and holding for the long term. 12 Benjamin Obradovich, April Christopher, Aug. ˆˆ, ˆ‰š. Nathan Zoellner ¡, ˆ‰™, living in Omaha. T. Wurtz, BA, and Catherine Howe Wurtz, BSBA’07, MBA’11, St. Louis, a Elizabeth C. Webb, PharmD, daughter, Viviane Elizabeth, Feb. ˆš, Anthony R. Pantano, BSM’44, John R. “Bob” O’Connor, ARTS, 16 and Steven M. Wilwerding, ˆ‰™. 45 MD, Omaha, March ˆ™, ˆ‰™. Omaha, March ˆŠ, ˆ‰™. Mary Helen BSBA’00, MS’03, MBA’03, April ˆ¡, Vernon VaVerka, BS, Jacksonville, Fla., Liam A. Dawson, BS, and Allison Irene Langpaul Schafer, ˆ‰™, living in Omaha. March ‰‰, ˆ‰™. Doris Rice Vernam, Oelke Dawson, BS, Minneapolis, SJN, Columbia, Mo., Feb. 11 47 BS, Orland Park, Ill., April , ˆ‰™. a son, Quinn Allen, March ‰ , ˆ‰™. ˆ™, ˆ‰™. Mildred Fitzgerald Pinkelman, Births Shirley Ourada Calta, SJN, SJN’47, BSN, Lakewood, Colo., Glenwood, Iowa, March ‰ , 51 Jon A. Orr, BSBA, and Erin 48 Feb. ˆš, ˆ‰™. Rosalie Byrne Shae¡er, Deaths ˆ‰™. Estella Kaup Sambasile, SCN, 92 M. Orr, Naperville, Ill., a son, SJN, Indianapolis, Jan. ˆ¡, ˆ‰™. Christopher James, Feb. ˆ , ˆ‰™. Mathilda Brudney Kramer, Omaha, Oct. ‰ˆ, ˆ‰š. SJN, Omaha, Feb. ‰¡, ˆ‰™. Leonard L. “Les” Schneiderman, BSC, Thomas Workman and 36 Victor J. “Vic” Lechtenberg, Omaha, April ‰, ˆ‰™. Dorothy Dietz, BSC, Omaha, BSC, Omaha, Feb. ˆ™, ˆ‰™. 96 Nancy Scharrer Workman, 49 John F. Condon, MD, March ˆ, ˆ‰™. Eugene W. Peter, BSC, Omaha, Feb. BSN, Denver, a daughter, Theresa 40 Granville, Ohio, Jan. ˆ›, ˆˆ, ˆ‰™. 53 Elizabeth, Feb. ‰, ˆ‰™. Mary Ann O’Neill McGuire, ˆ‰™. William C. Peltzer, BS’51, DDS, Jeffrey B. Baker and Rebecca 41 SJN, Omaha, March ˆ›, ˆ‰™. William E. Bogatz, ARTS, Wichita, Kan., March ˆ‰, ˆ‰™. Adam 98 Stepanek Baker, BS, Des Ralph A. Nice, BS, Salem, Ore., Feb. 50 Omaha, Feb. , ˆ‰™. Sr. E. Zoucha, MD, Omaha, Jan. ˆ‰, ˆ‰™. ‰, ˆ‰™. Anna Maria Coverdell, BS, Omaha, Moines, Iowa, a son, Charles Darrin, John W. Hovorka, ARTS, March ˆŠ, ˆ‰™. Louis J. Halamek, Jan. ‰¡, ˆ‰™. Robert D. Neikes, MD, Oklahoma City, July ‰š, ˆ‰š. ARTS, Omaha, Dec. ˆ, ˆ‰š. 54 Nora Spencer-Loveall, BA, Astoria, Ore., Feb. ˆŠ, ˆ‰™. 43 Madeleine Du¡y McGillan, SCN, Alice M. Condon, BSN, and Lisa Loveall, Atlanta, 99 Lambert W. Holland, BSM’43, Winston Salem, N.C., April ‰, ˆ‰™. Kearney, Neb., Jan. ˆ™, ˆ‰™. twin sons, Archer and Fox, Jan. , 55 44 MD, Chamberlain, S.D., April Joseph L. McGovern, BA, Edgewood, ˆ‰™. ‰‰, ˆ‰™. Rosa Lee Raymond Ky., March ‰ˆ, ˆ‰™. Joseph D. “Don” 56 Byrnes, SJN’53, BSN, Meier, BSC, Omaha, Dec. ‰‰, ˆ‰š. Harlan, Iowa, March ‰ˆ, ˆ‰™.

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1. Twin Cities Presidential Reception – from left, Molly Meyer, BA’15; Ashley Bullock, BSBA’15; Emi Wehrmann, BSBA’15; and Ethan Lampman, BSBA’15; 2. School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Get Blue Baseball Pregame Event in Omaha – Colby Holyoak, PharmD’14, with his wife, Bree, and children Alyssa and Carter; 3. U.S. Air Force Annual Survey of the Law Conference in Chicago – from left, Maj. William Acosta-Trejo, JD’04; Maj. Deborah Klein, JD’04; and Maj. Jim Reed, JD’04; 4. School of Medicine Omaha Mass and Brunch – from left, Susan Cody Recker (in red), BSMT’61; Robert Recker, MD’63; Jim McGill, MD’64; and Ann McDermott McGill, BA’65.

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Robert W. Dunlay, MS’55, MD, Iowa Omaha, Feb. ‰‰, ˆ‰™. Benjamin F. Robert C. Krause, BA’66, Martin G. Cahill, BA’77, JD, Falls, Iowa, April ‰™, ˆ‰™. James L. Ewing Jr., BS’57, DDS, Hot Springs, 69 MBA, Paullina, Iowa, March 81 Omaha, Jan. ˆŠ, ˆ‰™. Flood, BS’52, MD, Omaha, Feb. ‰, Ark., Jan. ˆŠ, ˆ‰™. Lucille M. Fee, ˆ‰, ˆ‰™. Fred A Richeda, DDS, Salt Sr. Anne Baxter, O.P., ˆ‰™. Charlotte Muldoon Hakel, SJN, BA, Omaha, March ‰, ˆ‰™. J. Scott Lake City, Feb. ‰š, ˆ‰™. MChrSp, Beulah, Colo., Feb. Omaha, April , ˆ‰™. Ludden, ARTS, Santa Fe, Tenn., March 82 F. Patrick Matthews III, JD, ™, ˆ‰™. ‰™, ˆ‰™. Dr. Donald G. LeFave, BS’55, Wind Point, Wis., Feb. ˆ‰, 70 Kathleen M. Dungan, BS, MA, Yuba City, Calif., Jan. Arleen Peterson Chatman, ˆ‰™. 57 Nashville, Tenn., Feb. ˆ, ˆˆ, ˆ‰™. David F. McCann, BS’51, JD, BS, Los Angeles, March 83 62 Charles A. “Sonny” Rucker, ˆ‰™. Patricia Petrey Flocken, JD, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. ˆ, ˆ‰™. ˆ¡, ˆ‰™. John F. Debs, DDS, San MSGuid, Omaha, March ‰, Omaha, March ‰, ˆ‰™. Raymond J. O’Dea, MA, Brownsburg, Clemente, Calif., Feb. ‰‰, ˆ‰™. Robert 71 ˆ‰™. Ind., Dec. ‰, ˆ‰ . J. Schenk, DDS, Colorado Springs, Patrick J. Steiner, BFA, Colo., March ¡‰, ˆ‰™. Catherine “Kiki” Alioto Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., Feb. Francis X. McCabe, BA’54, 84 Warren, BA, Brookfield, Wis., ‰, ˆ‰™. MD, Omaha, Jan. ¡‰, ˆ‰™. Thomas C. Walding, MSEdu, 72 58 March ˆ , ˆ‰™. Norfolk, Neb., April , ˆ‰™. Brian K. Dolphin, MBA, Wayne W. Daley, BS, 63 Anthony V. Amoruso Jr., Omaha, Jan. ˆ¡, ˆ‰™. Eric Clearwater, Minn., Feb. Hon. Michael McGill, JD, 88 59 MD, Lake Mary, Fla., March G. Vogel, DDS, Provo, Utah, Nov. ‰š, ‰ˆ, ˆ‰™. Bradford W. Gauss, DDS, Omaha, April ˆ, ˆ‰™. Mary 73 64 ™, ˆ‰™. Aurietha “Mary” Fulghem ˆ‰š. Garden City, Idaho, April ‰, ˆ‰™. Garrigan Woolwine, BA, Bolingbrook, Hoesing, BS, Omaha, March ¡, ˆ‰™. Nicholas T. Lentz Jr., BSPha, Rock Ill., April ‰›, ˆ‰™. Diane L. O’Malley, BA, Island, Ill., March ›, ˆ‰™. Gordon C. Richard A. Cloutier, MA, Chicago, Jan. ‰, ˆ‰™. William J. Robson, BS’58, 90 Vidmar, DDS, Kingsport, Tenn., April Nashua, N.H., March ˆ , MD, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 74 Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Basurto, ‰Š, ˆ‰™. Rev. Anthony P. Wilwerding, 65 ˆ‰™. Mary Hayes Spencer, BSPha, Š, ˆ‰™. BA, El Paso, Texas, March ˆ, Denver, Dec. ‰‰, ˆ‰š. 91 BACLS, Omaha, Jan. ˆš, ˆ‰™. ˆ‰™. Michael A. Breiner, MD, Dr. Henry M. Kawanaga, BS, Betty J. Nelum, MSGuid, Bradshaw, Neb., Feb. , ˆ‰™. Je¡rey R. Logan, JD, Lincolnwood, Ill., Nov. ‰š, 66 Woodbridge, Va., June ¡, 60 David E. Mercer, DDS, Granite Bay, 76 Ottumwa, Iowa, March ‰, ˆ‰š. Lt. Col. Marlene Dostal Marshall, ˆ‰ . Michael T. Sheedy, BA, Grafton, 95 Calif., Feb. , ˆ‰™. Helen C. Muskin, ˆ‰™. SJN, Clarksburg, Calif., March ¡‰, Wis., March ˆ›, ˆ‰™. Sr. Barbara MA, Omaha, Jan. ‰, ˆ‰™. ˆ‰™. Frederick W. Schwertley, MD, Tylkowski, OSF, MSScEd, Colorado Wilma J. Pierson, MA, Fargo, Saratoga, Calif., March ™, ˆ‰™. Joseph V. “Jody” Toohill Jr., Springs, Colo., Feb. ‰, ˆ‰™. 97 N.D., April ‰ , ˆ‰™. JD, Farmington, Ill., Feb. James H. Armstrong, DDS, 67 Joseph E. Halbur, BSBA’77, Merrill F. “Mick” Messbarger, ˆ, ˆ‰™. Brian E. Wahle, DDS, Napa, Payson, Utah, April ‰ , ˆ‰™. JD, Carroll, Iowa, March ˆ™, JD, Omaha, Jan. ˆ¡, ˆ‰™. 61 Calif., Jan. ¡, ˆ‰™. 79 04 William J. Brennan Jr., BS’58, JD, ˆ‰™.

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of his siblings (Teresa Bongers Beaufait, BSBA’›Š; Barry Bongers, DDS’™; Dennis Bongers, BSBA’™) having graduated from ‘It’s About Others’ Creighton. Alumnus Gives Back to School Creighton helped shape Bongers into the person he is today. that Helped Form Him The combination of the guidance his parents gave him, as well as his undergraduate experience, and living the Jesuit mission while James Bongers, DDS’, takes to heart the idea in dental school formed his outlook on life, which is, “It’s not that “to whom much has been given, much is about me; it’s about other people.” expected.” After graduating from the School of Two Creighton programs in particular gave him the Dentistry, he established his practice in Junction opportunity to give back to others while in dental school, yet in giving back he said he received so much more. Bongers City, Kan., and has a track record of giving back. “I set out my shingle to see if I could do it, and it has worked out great,” he said of his ¡š years in dentistry. “The professors “I believe in giving back and making it gave me the ability to be a dentist to patients without having to better for the students, so hopefully they refer out. I was trained to do all of it. Creighton dental was very can go out and help people.” unique.” James Bongers, DDS’80 So unique that Bongers has made a seven-figure cash commitment to the School of Dentistry Capital Initiative. He has also remembered the Creighton School of Dentistry in his participated in the Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) estate. “I believe in giving back and making it better for the in the Dominican Republic. students,” explained Bongers, “so hopefully they can go out and Bongers also participated in Creighton’s after-hours, student- help people. That would be the goal.” run volunteer clinic at the School of Dentistry, assisting His capital and estate gifts are in addition to a sizable gift he patients primarily from the Indian-Chicano Health Center (now added to scholarships his parents had set up for the Creighton called OneWorld Community Health Center) unable to afford business and dental schools through their estate. Creighton traditional care. is a family tradition with his parents, Leo Bongers, BSD’ ™, “I thank God and I thank the dental school for what it did for DDS’ Š, and Margaret Stanosheck Bongers, BSC’ ¡, and three me,” Bongers said. “I became the dentist I wanted to be.”

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‰šš and were happily married for Š years until her death in ˆ¡. John’s Alumnus Lived Modestly commitment to his faith endured and, Love of Catholic Philosophy and Juris Doctor degrees from even into his s, he remained determined Creighton University. to attend Mass daily. Both Fr. Sullivan and Education Leads to Joe Daly says that John valued his Joe recall his resolve, particularly after a $1.87 Million Estate Gift Catholic education and was partial to Christmas Eve snowstorm. Jesuit education. One of John’s most prized “Archbishop George Lucas had told John Daly, PhB’, JD’, was possessions was a group photo of his ‰¡¡ everyone to stay in their homes on devoted to Catholic education, high school graduation class. Christmas day and to watch Christmas to daily Mass and to the welfare “He wrote the names of every one of Mass on television,” says Fr. Sullivan. his classmates, in order, on the back of “Christmas morning, John called his of everyone around him. that photo,” says Joe. “It is still in pristine cousin Joe and he said to him, ‘Joseph, I The Omaha native died on June , condition.” got to Mass this morning. I followed the ˆ‰ , at the age of Š, but his legacy will After graduating from Creighton snowplows to Boys Town.’” live on through the John F. and Anne University, John served in the Army Air In ˆŠ, at the age of ˆ and after Hanighen Daly Scholarships benefiting Corps in World War II and then returned his driver’s license was not approved for School of Law and College of Arts and Sciences students. The ¯‰.Š› million gift John Daly’s gift will live was established through Daly’s estate on through the John F. plan at the request of his closest living relative, his cousin Joe Daly, BA’™›, and Anne Hanighen Daly JD’›. Another ¯š, in unrestricted Scholarships benefiting funds was received from John Daly’s School of Law and College estate. of Arts and Sciences Bridget Keegan, Ph.D., dean of the students. College of Arts and Sciences, says the college is grateful for Daly’s generosity. “Support for student scholarships is renewal, John decided it was time to sell one of our top priorities,” says Keegan. his home and move to assisted living. He “Mr. Daly’s bequest will ensure that moved to New Cassel Retirement Center we can continue to provide access to a in Omaha, where he continued to attend high-quality Jesuit, Catholic liberal arts daily Mass and live frugally. education for more students, regardless In addition to Creighton, the totality of their background, and will help make of John’s generosity benefited many it possible for students to major in what other causes and institutions, including they are passionate about and pursue John Daly, PhB’¡Š, JD’  Creighton Prep, Duchesne Academy of meaningful careers.” the Sacred Heart, Marian High School, The Rev. George Sullivan, S.J., JD’Š‰, to Omaha to work for the law firm Court Appointed Special Advocates a former president of Daly’s high school Spielhagen & Spielhagen. (CASA) and the Omaha Archdiocesan alma mater, Creighton Prep, calls John a John worked at the firm for a few years Educational Foundation (OAEF). gracious and extraordinary friend who before joining his father and uncles at the “Mr. Daly truly was the personification lived a frugal life and saved his resources Yellow Cab Company in Omaha. John’s of the millionaire next door,” says Steve to help young people. father, J.A. (Jack) Daly, had started as a Scholer, JD’›, senior philanthropic “He and his wonderful wife, Anne, bookkeeper at Yellow Cab and worked advisor at Creighton. “He lived a very were not blessed with children and this his way up to president. John joined modest life but was an ardent stock was their way of extending their love the company as vice president, became investor and subscribed wholeheartedly into the next generations through faith- president after his father retired and to reinvesting his dividends.” centered education,” says Fr. Sullivan. continued in that role until the company “Everyone enjoyed and respected his Daly was born on Jan. , ‰‰™, and was sold and he retired. Joe also worked grace, gentlemanly manner, and his attended grade school at Holy Cross at the cab company, beginning part-time example of faith, reverence and prayer,” Catholic School before graduating from at the age of ‰ until graduating from says Fr. Sullivan. “John was a model for Creighton High School (Creighton Prep) Creighton University. all, and it was a tremendous privilege to in ‰¡¡. He then earned Bachelor of John and Anne Hanighen wed in know him.”

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calculation because I don’t begin to have enough information. Final Words Probably no one does. But surely, as a society, we ought to be able By Robert P. Heaney, BS’47, MD’51 to make provisions for this dilemma. More daunting, at least for us in the U.S., what about the uninsured, the poor and the marginalized? Do they get the same Editor’s note: Robert Heaney, BS’’“, MD’”, is a distinguished access to our “miracle” drugs? How will the astronomical, hyper- professor of medicine, a world-renowned researcher in the field of bone inflated cost of their drugs be covered? How many will be refused biology and vitamin D, and the first holder of the John A. Creighton treatment altogether for lack of insurance? How many will be University Professorship. bankrupted and evicted from their homes? I couldn’t help but recall Pope Francis’ statement in his encyclical, Laudato Si’, that In May ’‡ˆ, I was diagnosed with an incurable, every purchase had a moral dimension. Surely purchased illness malignant brain tumor and given an estimated six to care — mine, in this case — was no exception. ˆ“ months to live. My reaction was understandably So, confusion, yes, about technical, worldly things beyond my control — but mostly gratitude — gratitude, of course, first, to mixed — kaleidoscopic, really. God, the source of everything that was mine, including the very There was no denying the bad news; I was confident the life that was soon to be changing. But then, having mused on that diagnosis was correct. No, my first reaction was a mixture of relief thought, I quickly realized that that was not quite right either. and gratitude. Gratitude — elation, actually — because I had I knew that in not too many weeks or months, a priest would been given the rare opportunity to wrap things up. I had a chance stand over my casket as the pall was spread over it and would say to say goodbye to friends and family, “At his baptism, Robert died with Christ particularly my spouse and children. I and rose with him to new life.” At my could tell them how much I loved them; baptism ŠŠ years ago, the Spirit of Jesus what wonderful people I thought they had vivified me and I was called to be were; and how blessed I was to have had Christ for my world. It was at baptism the privilege of being their husband and that I had truly died, as St. Paul tells us father — and to ask their forgiveness (Romans ™). I wondered, how well had for my many spousal and parenting I lived my new baptismal life these last errors. I had even been given a chance ŠŠ years? How was I to live it now, in the to sneak in one more blog post (see next few weeks? blogs.creighton.edu/heaney). Something I hadn’t anticipated, I couldn’t help but think of how though clearly should have, was a very few people had the chance I’d decrease in self-determination. Through been given. I thought of the old prayer, most of my life, in matters large and

“From a sudden and unprovided death, “• small, I had been in the driver’s seat Oh Lord, preserve me.” I had been so — when to go shopping, what bank to preserved before the prayer could be use, whether to volunteer as a lector at even raised. Think of the many victims Mass, what tie to wear and countless of gun violence and drunken drivers, similar decisions. I drove myself to my and the thousands of refugees and appointments or work, when I wanted Photo by Monte Kruse, BA’ by Monte Photo military personnel whose lives are to go. Now I was dependent upon the snuffed out in an instant. Robert Heaney, BS’ ›, MD’š‰ kindness of others for my transport. I thought also, with very mixed How much of my identity was embedded feelings, about the way medicine approaches the problem in that autonomy? I remembered, of course, Jesus’ words to Peter of incurable cancer — the commercialization of the cancer at the end of John’s Gospel, “When you are older … another will “industry” (medicine, really), with the incredibly high cost of carry you off against your will.” (John ˆ‰: ‰Š) I wasn’t facing what drugs and procedures. These are often desperation measures — Peter faced; nevertheless, the decrease in autonomy was of the treatments that too often do little or no good, except prolong same sort. Rather than losing control, what was happening was the dying process, but to which many nevertheless feel obliged to handing it off, and doing so — I hoped — with grace and dignity. submit. Should I follow suit? Was now the time for me to make I loved proclaiming Romans ™ at the Easter Vigil and was told my stand? I couldn’t be sure. Well, the cost of those treatments I did it well. What did I love about doing so? Paul’s message? The is often partially covered by insurance, so why not use them? glorious proclamation that “Jesus, once raised from the dead, dies One reason to hesitate, it seemed to me, was that the insurance now no more!”? Or the sound of my voice saying those words? It pool was limited in size. The resources I use cannot be used by was God speaking, not I. The message belonged to the assembly, someone else. Is my need greater than theirs? If I forgo treatment, not to me. It was time for me to slip into the background, handing would others get more or better? I could not easily handle that off to others.

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Reunite and reminisce with former classmates INTERPROFESSIONAL CE PROGRAM: and friends during a fun-fi lled weekend How Other Industrialized Nations Manage of activities that include: to Provide Health Care at Half Our Cost Presented by T.R. Reid, author, correspondent for • President’s Alumni Dinner The Washington Post and a commentator for NPR • Class of 1966 Golden Jays Luncheon Other industrialized democracies provide quality • Class Reunion Parties: health care for everybody—and yet they spend less 1966, 1976, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2006 on health care than the United States. How do they and other milestone reunions do that? T.R. Reid will present his global reporting, • Getting Blue Block Party which led to the national best-seller The Healing of • Recent Alumni Pub Crawl America and two documentaries for PBS Frontline. • Much more! Complimentary for all attendees; 1 CE credit will be offered. For more information, please visit: healthsciences.creighton.edu/homecoming

Please check our website for more information: creighton.edu/homecoming šš Spring 2016 A Road Once Traveled Former Bluejay baseball player Bob Kennedy, BS’91, (far right) and his sons and nephew imitate the scene captured in the Road to Omaha statue outside TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, home of the College World Series. Kennedy and his brother, Eric, BA’92, were members of the 1991 Creighton baseball team, which finished 51-22 and reached the College World Series. The team was inducted into Creighton University’s Athletic Hall of Fame in April. It marked the first time a team has been selected to the Hall.

Pictured from left are Bob’s son Evan, a current Creighton business student; his son Cam (being held up); Eric Kennedy’s son Cal; and Bob Kennedy, who is currently the head baseball coach and a counselor at Smoky Hill High School in Aurora, Colo. Photo by Dave Weaver by Dave Photo Photos by Jim Fackler by Jim Photos

Hannah Mullally, BSEvs’’“, left, and Brisha Howe, a computer science major, work on their improvisational skills.

Improv for ScientistsBy Nichole Jelinek, MA’16 Theater professor The idea of reading “Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology,” published in Reviews of Modern Physics, wouldn’t appeal to most of the hosts workshops for general public. However, many do find astrophysicist Neil deGrasse student and faculty Tyson’s explanations of the cosmic perspective interesting and engaging. That’s because Tyson uses humor, curiosity and relatability researchers, scientists to connect his audiences with science. at Creighton Mackenzie Taylor, Ph.D., an assistant handful of other faculty and students in professor of biology and the Clare Boothe Improvisation for Scientists, a workshop by Luce Chair for Women in Science at Amy Lane, Ph.D., BFA’ˆ‰, assistant professor Creighton, says that communicating science of theater at Creighton. is fundamental. As a researcher, Taylor is Improvisation for Scientists is a fascinated by her own work and believes it nationwide program developed in is her responsibility to communicate that association with the Alan Alda Center for experience to others. Communicating Science at Stony Brook “Scientists must make their research University. The workshops are not meant to relevant and understandable to the public,” turn researchers and scientists into actors, says Taylor. “Scientists are obligated to but to help them learn techniques and ‘meet’ our audiences. But we’re not all tools for communicating their work to the communicators like Neil deGrasse Tyson, general public. Bill Nye or Carl Sagan.” Gail Jensen, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate That’s why Taylor was eager to join a School, had seen a presentation on the workshops at a national conference in ”‰’• puts a new spin on these theater techniques researchers and scientists to be able to and was amazed at the before-and-after to help focus on developing better convey the information in a way that the results. communication tools for those working and audience can understand, and in a way that “The differences were striking,” studying in the sciences.” gets them interested in it.” says Jensen, “both in terms of the “It actively focuses on creating empathy May graduate Hannah Mullally, a students’ comfort level with their own and sensitivity with an audience. We teach biology major headed to graduate school communication skills, as well as in their spontaneity, connection with and awareness at the University of Tennessee, says her ability to describe their work in a way that of the audience, physical freedom, verbal biggest takeaway from the workshop was the listener could understand and engage conciseness, active listening, speaking at learning that speaking well is really about with.” different levels of complexity, and using storytelling. Jensen then approached Lane and storytelling techniques effectively.” “It makes whatever you are talking about alumnus and local actor Bill Grennan, Humans are hardwired to connect to come alive to your audience,” she says. “It BFA’‰˜, about bringing the workshops to stories, she says, and the most powerful tool also makes you much more invested in what Creighton. available to the storyteller is the power to you are talking about, which in turn makes Lane and Grennan attended the evoke emotion. you feel more confident about what you are workshop at Stony Brook with about “™ In one exercise, participants are asked saying. I think it will help me connect with other participants from across the United to tell about the moment they “fell in love” my audience while presenting research.” States and as far away as Canada, Finland and Australia. Universities represented included Yale, Princeton, University of Wisconsin and Stanford. The Creighton representatives were two of only a small handful of theater professionals; most of the attendees were research scientists or medical professionals. Grennan says that it was interesting to be a part of an experience where individuals from seemingly diverse disciplines worked together. “Professionals from various fields of science and medicine were genuinely interested in our opinions as artists,” he says, “and they valued what our talents could contribute to their areas of expertise.” Both Lane and Grennan thought the Creighton theater professor Amy Lane, Ph.D., BFA’ˆ‰, center, working with Mullaly and Howe during program was innovative and saw potential a workshop. Lane has been hosting workshops to help student and faculty researchers and scientists at for it at Creighton. Creighton better communicate their work with the general public. Since then, Lane has led a series of workshops and discussions across campus. with science. Lane recalls one student who Meaningful, understandable discussions The most recent workshop, held this past shared a descriptive and dramatic story, a about science and discovery are also March, was in collaboration with the turning point in his life when he dedicated important to society. Lane uses the term Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women himself to saving people through medicine. “accessible science.” in Science. Taylor, the Creighton biology “I don’t remember the exact date of this “It means that science should be an professor, says she was surprised by how workshop, or how many total students integral part of a national public dialogue,” much more comfortable she became in participated that day, or certain other facts she explains. “The important research and discussing her research with a general about the many workshops I’ve done since discoveries that happen daily in academic audience. then,” Lane says. “But I will remember his departments and laboratories around the “This isn’t about helping scientists story and its emotional impact forever.” world should not be shrouded in mystery, speak with other scientists, neither is it Scientists and researchers tend to avoid but shared openly with an engaged public.” about making them better actors, but it’s involving emotion in their work, she says, Lane looks forward to contining and about helping current and future scientists but it is important for conveying passion expanding the workshops at Creighton. connect with a public audience,” Lane says. and building connections with an audience. “I love any way that we can combine The workshop’s core activities borrow Jensen says making these connections is arts and sciences,” says Lane. “It has been a techniques from the late Viola Spolin, a important for researchers. wonderful journey of partnership for me, theater academic considered a pioneer in “They may find themselves needing to blending the equally creative fields of arts the area of improvisational theater. make a pitch to a funding agency, politician and sciences. We always find in workshops “Her work has been around for decades,” or news agency about the importance of how many similarities there truly are, and Lane says. “Improvisation for Scientists their work,” Jensen says. “It is critical for we’re always discovering more.” A Prescription for the Future CHI Health Creighton University Medical with the health sciences campus west of the freeway was imagined as early as ’˜“Ž, when Center property pending sale, to be the medical center’s current building was redeveloped as residential and retail space being designed. As for the pond feature, the city of Omaha The CHI Health Creighton relocation to CHI Health Creighton and the Papio-Missouri River Natural University Medical Center University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy and Resources District will aid in its completion. the completion of the University Campus of The pond is intended to be a storm water property is pending sale CHI Health Creighton University Medical retention area helping to manage water to Omaha-based NuStyle Center, an almost ‰Š,‹‹‹-square foot facility capacity flows through downtown to the Development Corp., which at Ž‘th and Cuming streets that is scheduled river. plans to redevelop the existing to open in early Ž‹’“. The hospital will Initial estimates are that the first phase building, adding residential continue to operate and the redevelopment of the redevelopment would occur following apartment housing and retail will not occur until all patient services have the medical center’s relocation and could be transitioned in June of Ž‹’“. completed and ready for residents by August space for the th Street corridor The planned redevelopment of the hospital Ž‹’‰. The sale with Creighton is expected to of Midtown. building includes residential and retail close later this summer. “NuStyle’s successful housing projects development including “‹‹ living units, While several parking lot parcels west of in downtown Omaha have revitalized rooftop swimming pool, a pond with a walking Š‹th Street will be included in the sale to many buildings that might have otherwise trail and an ‰”‹-foot long pedestrian bridge NuStyle Development, Omaha Public Schools remained empty or been replaced, and we over the North Freeway to Creighton’s campus. (OPS) has extended a letter of intent to enter are pleased that NuStyle’s redevelopment “The impact for Creighton University will into an agreement with Creighton University plans for the medical center property will be great, as it will be for the surrounding for the purchase of property located at ŠŽnd create new residential spaces and retail area,” said Todd Heistand, president of and Burt streets for a new elementary school opportunities for Creighton, Gifford Park, NuStyle, a company with a reputation for in the Gifford Park neighborhood. Creighton North Omaha, and Midtown community refurbishing and repurposing buildings has accepted the letter of intent. Once members,” said Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, around the region. “We’re bringing together negotiated, the agreement will be subject to S.J., president of Creighton University. neighbors, creating housing, connecting approval by the OPS Board of Education. “This is a great day for Creighton and Creighton to Midtown and maintaining Finally, Creighton will continue to own the surrounding community, especially the existing connections Creighton has to and maintain the Cardiac Center, Boyne with the wonderful connection to nearby downtown and North Omaha. It’s going to Building, and Bio-Information Center near neighborhoods that will be created with the have a great feel to it. People will want to Š‹th and Burt streets. These buildings planned construction of a pedestrian bridge.” live here.” support several of the University’s health The sale occurs in advance of Creighton The concept of a pedestrian bridge sciences programs and the School of University’s academic medical center connecting the main Creighton campus Dentistry’s patient clinic.

Architectural rendering looking north at the new complex, with Boys Town National Research Hospital (not part of the sale) silhouetted at left in the foreground and the pedestrian bridge at right. (Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture) Race and Traffic Stops When the Nebraska Legislature in 2001 prohibited law enforcement agencies from stopping motorists solely on the basis of race, leaders of the Nebraska State Patrol were left scratching their heads. They were convinced their troopers did no such thing. The new law reflected a growing national concern that Americans from minority racial groups experienced more intense scrutiny than white Americans. The State Patrol, like other Nebraska law enforcement agencies, kept no statistics identifying the race of people stopped, or of how often people of various races or ethnicities were subjected to vehicle searches. LB 593 changed all that, and required the State Patrol as well as police departments and sheriff’s offices to keep detailed records of stops and the race of those stopped. After a year, enough data had accumulated that Dawn Irlbeck, Ph.D., a professor in Creighton’s Department of Cultural and Social Studies, was asked to analyze what was going on. Her report, published in 2005 as “Patterns of Interactions During Traffic Stops: A Study of Possible Racial/Ethnic Profiling” painted a hopeful picture that pointed law enforcement professionals in a useful direction. Dawn Irlbeck, Ph.D., a professor in Creighton’s Department of Her first conclusion, after studying data concerning Cultural and Social Studies, has studied the issue of racial and thousands of traffic stops — including video footage — ethnic profiling by law enforcement as it relates to traffic stops. found that minority motorists were not being stopped at a rate inconsistent with their numbers in the general rate that white cops do. They stop and search them at population. This finding matched the State Patrol’s own the same rate. It’s not so much conscious racial bias, it’s findings. more a stereotype that we may not even be conscious of.” The more difficult question concerned another of the She cites a story told by Henry Louis Gates, an African- State Patrol’s findings. Why were minority motorists, America professor at Harvard University who won after being stopped, being subjected to searches at national attention in 2009 after being arrested while a far greater rate than their presence in the general trying to enter his home. population? Irlbeck’s study confirmed that finding, too. Gates once told a story about hearing footsteps behind The reason, she concluded, was that an unconscious him while walking alone at night, she said. Growing bias, shared by law enforcement officers of all racial and anxious about what he feared might be a pursuer, Gates ethnic backgrounds, led to more intensive post-stop related his relief upon discovering the man was white. It questioning of minority motorists. The longer a motorist was a confession that illustrates the ubiquitous of racial was questioned, she found, the more likely he or she was assumptions, Irlbeck said. to be subjected to a search. “Even though we try to do everything we can to be Application of statistical methodology and equations race appreciative, not necessarily color blind, but to eliminated the presence of direct racial bias. “The bias treat everybody equitably and fairly, to see people as was indirect,” she said, which can be harder to address. individuals and not as members of a group, still we draw “It’s so interesting, and consistent with what we know conclusions based on stereotypes,” she said. “Gates did about shootings and what looks like racial profiling,” the exact same thing because we’re raised with those she said. stereotypes since we’re babies, and it’s just so deeply “Minority officers shoot minority people at the same ingrained.” “It Has Been the Few Who Have Acted, Who Have Saved Us from Unspeakable Scandal”

By Bob Reilly n the 3rd of April, 1965, two years that audience with stories of his experi- didn’t protest loudly enough or often before his death, Fr. John P. ences while disguised as a black man. He enough against discrimination — in our OMarkoe, S.J., sat impassively as mentioned incidents so painful, he neighborhoods, our business communi- the honoree at a testimonial dinner. couldn’t describe them in his book — ty, our churches. The Brandeis Student Center was including his being denied access to a Today we may be losing sight of packed with friends and admirers, Catholic church one Sunday, the same those times. This generation may not including members of the De Porres church to which he had been welcomed appreciate what it was like to be black Club for which Markoe served as moder- a year earlier as a prominent white jour- then, not only in the distant and dispar- ator. John Howard Griffin, author of the nalist. He detailed the racist attitudes aged South, but in Omaha. Jews insist blockbuster Black Like Me, was guest inherent in our society. We were mes- they must explain the Holocaust again speaker, and among those on hand to merized. I remember wanting to reach and again, because the knowledge of salute the Jesuit activist were Roy for a glass of water during that long what happened in those years is slipping Wilkins, executive secretary of the speech, delivered quietly, flatly, without away. They are right. We need to see our- NAACP; Whitney Young, executive histrionics. My hand wouldn’t move. selves as part of a history which is both director of the National Urban League; Turning toward Markoe, Griffin said: proud and ugly. So we’re bound to recall and Frank Morrison, governor of “It has been the few — and I say that Omaha and Creighton as they were 50 Nebraska. Archbishop Gerald T. Bergan word sadly — it has been the few who years ago. apologized publicly for not being more have acted, who have been what we all During the Second World War, some 2 openly supportive of Markoe. profess to be, who have salvaged us 1/2 million African-Americans served in “He was right,” acknowledged from unspeakable scandal — if indeed the Armed Forces, the vast majority of Bergan, “and your Archbishop was we have been salvaged from unspeak- them in non-combat roles — transporta- wrong.” able scandal.” tion, quartermaster corps, as Navy stew- Griffin declared that Fr. Markoe and Griffin was on target. In that post ards. Conventional wisdom questioned his Jesuit brother, William, were “in the World War II era, there were few saints their reactions under fire. Only the cauldron when most of us were in dia- and many sinners. Most of us didn’t do Tuskegee Airmen managed to leap this pers,” alluding to the long careers both enough. We took comfort in our own barrier, chalking up a remarkable record men had spent in combatting prejudice. beliefs and conduct, tallied the names of of enemy planes destroyed. For the For more than two hours, Griffin held black friends. But the truth is that we remaining military, rear echelon duty

Winter Issue 1995-96 3 section of population. During the ten year period South Omaha. from 1947 to 1957, twenty-three major Unemployment housing sub-divisions of one hundred was high in this homes or more were developed, none of small community, them open to non-whites...between 1952 per capita and 1957, there were 13,293 new homes income half that built; only 32, or .002 percent, were avail- of whites, the able to Negro buyers.” chances for Personal humiliations were even advancement more traumatic. slim, and illness Tessie Edwards, one of the city’s most and death far respected educators, recalls being con- higher than that signed to a balcony at the Brandeis in other areas of Theater and remembers seeing her father the city. Eighty- directed to the back door of a restaurant seven percent in order to purchase a meal. In high of African- school, she was barred from student The fighting Markoes: Fr. William Markoe, S.J. (left), and Fr. Americans organizations, occupied a study hall for John Markoe, S.J. (right), flank writer John Howard Griffin. employed held black students only, and ate meals alone unskilled or ser- in protest of the segregated lunchroom. was the norm. Despite the non-discrimi- vice jobs - on the railroad; in the packing While this was a public high school, the nation clause in the Draft Act of 1940 houses; in hotels, restaurants and clubs; Catholic high schools were hardly better. and the Fair Employment Practice Act of as maids or janitors. Only 13 percent had Only one, Notre Dame Academy, openly 1941, blacks in the military found segre- clerical, professional or semi-profession- welcomed black students. gation everywhere - training camps, al jobs. They lived in an area where half “I used to walk up 24th Street,” she troop trains, and even USOs. the homes failed to meet minimum says, “swinging my book bag, and I’d I recall no black members of our housing code standards. pass by Creighton, and I wondered if Creighton R.O.T.C. unit, and, when we In his master’s thesis, Creighton they would let me in. I saw no black finally got to Fort Benning, to Officer graduate Dr. Jeffrey H. Smith, MA’67, faces there, although I believe there were Candidate School, our company was wrote: a couple of black students in the School composed of three platoons, two white “The post-war housing boom almost of Pharmacy.” and one black, each in a separate bar- completely ignored Omaha’s non-white In all of the nation’s Jesuit colleges racks. There was little fraternization. and universities, there were less than 500 When graduation day arrived, perhaps black students. 85 percent of the white candidates But Miss Edwards, as thousands of received their lieutenant’s bars, while Creighton Prep students addressed her less than 3 percent of the black aspirants during her teaching years on the 72nd were commissioned. Again, convention- Street campus, did enter Creighton and al military wisdom averred that white graduated with a major in history in troops wouldn’t serve under black offi- 1949. She appreciated the education she cers and that black troops preferred to be received, and made some lifelong led by white officers. Color lines in the friends, but the experience wasn’t with- armed forces weren’t erased until out problems. President Harry Truman took action in “One Jesuit suggested to me that I not 1948. Even then, change came slowly. attend his class one day because they It wasn’t much different in civilian would be discussing race relations,” she life. said, “and he thought it might be embar- Spurred by the promise of higher rassing for me.” wages and the presumed decline in dis- She ran into Fr. Markoe on her way to crimination, black families had moved the library and told him of the incident. north by the thousands in the second Furious, Markoe dashed off to confront decade of this century. Omaha’s black and berate his colleague. population doubled in those years. By By that time, things were starting 1950, there were more than 16 thousand Markoe, here in uniform, was a to change. black citizens of Omaha - all confined to 1914 graduate of the U.S. Military It would be wrong to leave the the Near North Side, except for a small Academy at West Point. impression that there were no people in

4 Creighton University WINDOW Omaha opposing bigotry and discrimi- assigned to a black regiment charged regards inter-racial matters.” Their nation. Among diocesan priests there with patrolling the Mexican border. A patron, Blessed Martin de Porres, a were the McCaslin brothers and Fr. Jim heavy drinker, the young lieutenant spe- Peruvian of mixed ancestry, was canon- Stewart and a few others who took the cialized in breaking up barrooms and ized 15 years later. heat. Some ministers, teachers and made the mistake of trying to force a “We met every Monday night from 7 businessmen bucked the trend. And senior officer to drink with him. He was to 10,” says Holland. “First, at Creighton, Creighton had its highly visible dismissed from the Army and returned until we became too controversial and dissenters. to Minnesota to work as a lumberjack. were asked to move.” Fr. Austin Miller, S.J., preached social He also joined the state’s National Guard Members headquartered at several justice, ran a labor school, and insisted unit and, when Pancho Villa became a North Omaha locations, including the threat, he was summoned back to the back room of The Omaha Star, where border. Here he served with distinction owner Mildred Brown made them wel- and was promoted to captain. His nick- come. Brown, characterized by elegant On his deathbed, Fr. name remained “Cap” for the rest of his hats and sometimes inflated circulation Markoe advised his friend, life, but the promotion did nothing to figures, was a woman of conviction. She temper his drinking sprees. He contin- had to walk a narrow line, wooing white Fr. Renard, never to give ued to make life miserable for bar own- advertisers while informing black read- ers and ended up one day in an adobe ers. And she paid the price in lost “an inch” in the struggle jail. A strong man, he broke through the revenues and broken windows. wall and wandered out into the desert. A Denny Holland, too, faced some against racism Mexican spotted him, lifted him onto his handicaps. burro, and returned him to his outfit. “Often the mail to the De Porres Club During that ride, so the legend goes, would come in re-sealed,” he says. “And on equality for all workers. Fr. John J. Markoe swore off liquor for life. our phone was tapped, I think. You’d Killoren, S.J., served a primarily Whatever the truth of this conversion, he hear a few clicks every time I picked it black congregation for 22 years at St. did turn his life around and joined the up. If I was out late in the Near North Benedict’s. Other Jesuits and laity on Jesuits in 1917. Along with his brother Side, I might be followed by a couple of the faculty lived out their convictions William, also a Jesuit, he signed an detectives — but I think they were just in a variety of ways. But the activist unusual pledge to “give and trying to be sure I approach was not applauded by every- dedicate our whole lives and made it home safely.” one on the Hilltop. Debates on the all our energies” to “the Holland lived near morality of racism were common. In the- Negroes in the United States.” the De Porres Center, ory, everyone agreed to the dignity and He wound up, eventually, at St. or camped out behind equality of all people. But must a busi- Louis University, where he and The Omaha Star, or ness owner integrate if this meant losing others set about trying to inte- stayed with the family clientele? Was he responsible for the grate the student body. That of Dr. Ed Corbett, a prejudice of others? earned him exile to Omaha — Creighton English pro- Fr. John Markoe, S.J., had no doubts and Creighton. The year was fessor. Corbett, also a on this issue. 1946. Within a year, he had his club member, along “Racism is a God Damned thing,” he perfect tool for carrying out his with colleague Chet would insist. “And that’s two words — life’s mission — the newly- Anderson, recalls the God Damned.” formed De Porres Club. inspiration of Fr. He instructed his adherents never to If one name deserves to be Markoe. give an inch and, on his deathbed, he mentioned above the rest “His utter convic- imparted the same advice to his friend, among that cadre of coura- tion that fighting for Fr. Henri Renard, S.J. Never give an inch. geous students, that name is civil rights was what Fr. Markoe is a book in himself, and Denny Holland, BS’49. He we should all be doing Dr. Jeffrey Smith has written that vol- approached Markoe about kept us going,” ume, From Corps to CORE. It reads doing something to redress the remarks Corbett, now like fiction. injustices witnessed daily in retired from teaching at A West Point alumnus and classmate the city. Markoe encouraged Ohio State University. of Eisenhower and Dewey Spatz, the organization that became “He was appalled that Markoe won honorable mention as an the De Porres Club in 1947. Its anyone — including All-American end, and stood ramrod stated purpose was “to edu- Markoe is shown in this his fellow faculty mem- straight his entire life. Graduating 87th cate people to think along lines picture as a lieutenant bers — didn’t agree. in a class of 107, Markoe found himself of charity and justice as in the U.S. Cavalry. He made a believer out

Winter Issue 1995-96 5 In this historic photograph, the 1913 Army varsity football team (whose members would go on to greatness in World War II) poses for a picture. Fr. Markoe is sixth from the left. At the position 10th from the left stands the man who would become President of the United States after his distinguished military career: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Omar Bradley, who of my wife, too. I can still see her march- ing the cabbies. They called to task Hotels were similarly investigated. ing in one of those picket lines, our baby schools that staged minstrel shows in “This was a real problem,” says Tessie in her arms.” blackface. When member Bertha Edwards. “One reason black people tried The confrontations didn’t come right Calloway, now director of the Great to get a large house is because, when rel- away. Plains Black Museum, was denied atives or friends came to visit, you had “I thought we might be just a prayer to have room for them. They weren’t group,” recalls Holland. “We met, dis- welcome in our hotels. And then there cussed articles on racial justice, had The De Porres Club was always the problem of where you speakers. One night Fr. Markoe suggest- could eat.” ed we adjourn and go en masse, black pioneered techniques of Even touring road companies experi- and white members, to a local restaurant enced discrimination. Black members of that refused to serve blacks. I was ner- fighting segregation the cast of Kiss Me, Kate were refused ser- vous about it, but I went.” vice. Typically, higher prices were quot- That was the beginning of years of that became famous in ed to black people to discourage persistent action. The De Porres Club the South a decade later patronage. De Porres exposed this tactic. pioneered techniques that later became A black Club member would phone a famous in the South. A dozen years certain hotel and be told there was only before a quartet of students refused to one room left, at $18, a high price at the move from a Woolworth’s lunch counter admission to a skating rink, they came time. Shortly thereafter a white member in Greensboro, N.C., resulting in the down hard on the owners. Segregated would call and be offered a $5 room. coining of the term, “sit-in,” Holland swimming pools were targeted, and bar- This two-person attack might also be and others were employing the same bershops in the Creighton area that made in person. Eventually, hotels and strategy in Omaha. Four years before the wouldn’t cut the hair of black students. restaurants were informed by their par- Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, the Club When a black couple moved into a hos- ent associations that they must abide by launched a similar campaign against the tile white neighborhood, De Porres the law. De Porres and their allies, orga- Omaha and Council Bluffs Street members stood watch in front of the nizations like the Urban League, scored Railway Company. home. They staged plays and promoted another victory. Reading the minutes of the organiza- lectures with themes of racial justice. The Club took on companies, large tion, it’s amazing what they accom- As a regular practice, a mixed group and small, that practiced unfair hiring plished and even more amazing what from the Club selected restaurants to vis- policies. they attempted. They followed up on it to test their policies on serving minori- When the Coca Cola plant adjacent to complaints about unjust treatment, initi- ties. Most major eating establishments the Near North Side, refused to hire ated contacts with businesses that opposed seating blacks. “It’s bad for black drivers, claiming it was “not good wouldn’t hire minorities, distributed lit- business to serve colored people,” business to employ Negroes in positions erature, gave talks, wrote letters to the argued many owners. Members wrote to where they could come in frequent con- media, marched in protest, confronted these offenders, reminding them of local tact with the public,” Creighton students authorities. When attempts were made statutes against discriminating, called on and other Club members visited and re- to integrate the closed ranks of taxicab them in person, and sometimes began visited management, wrote myriad let- drivers, they rode cabs all day, persuad- legal proceedings. ters, encouraged ministers in the area to

6 Creighton University WINDOW would become another of WWII’s top generals, stands 14th from right. Other well-known classmates (not on the Army team) were Generals Van Fleet, Stratemeyer, and McNarney. The West Point class was known at the “Class the stars fell on,” for the number of four- and five-star generals it produced. They saw action in two world wars. preach against this restrictive policy, con- asking them not to ride the bus; and ties already had a church to attend, St. tacted Coca Cola customers, and finally asked people who did ride to pay their Benedict’s, at 25th and Grant streets. picketed the firm. Although the soft 18 cents fare in pennies as a form of Started in 1919 at the request of a drink bottlers stated their business was protest. They picketed and they poli- small group of black Catholics, St. not affected, they admitted they couldn’t ticked. Mildred Brown appeared before Benedict’s began as a mission church afford the negative public relations, so the mayor and council, arguing: administered by Jesuits. Fr. John they capitulated and accepted black “If our boys can drive jeeps, tanks Killoren, S.J., became pastor in 1948 and applicants. and jet planes in Korea, in the fight to remained there until 1970. Reed’s Ice Cream Company, also save democracy, make democracy work Dr. Jack Angus, headquartered on 30th Street, had a sim- at home. Make it work in Omaha. I say recently retired ilar record of discriminatory hiring prac- to you, your honor, the mayor, if the from Creighton’s tices. It took a year of picketing, sermons tram company will not hire Negroes as department of from area pulpits, distribution of leaflets drivers, we prevail on you to remove the sociology and cur- and other techniques to reverse the situ- franchise of the bus company.” rently writing a ation. Help came from other organiza- Pressured on all sides and threatened book on St. tions and from many with the loss of their fran- Benedict’s, says sections of Omaha. Black chise, the Street Railway that many veteran customers ceased their vis- System surrendered and John Killoren, S.J. parishioners think its to Reed’s stores. Ice agreed to add black drivers. of Fr. Killoren’s tenure as the high point cream sales plummeted, Club members also visit- in the church’s history. Still, there were and the company scrapped ed school principals and pas- some who decried the notion of a church its policy. tors. It hurts to admit, as for black Catholics and leveled the A tougher assignment Denny Holland claims, that charge of paternalism. They saw St. was the Street Railway much of the criticism against Benedict’s as an excuse by some parishes System. the Club came from to refuse membership to blacks living Says Tessie Edwards, “I Catholics. “Sunday,” said one within their boundaries. heard people say that, if observer, “was the most seg- “But Fr. Killoren clearly had a vision you allowed blacks to regated day of the week.” of his own,” says Angus. “He worked drive buses, any woman Some pastors ordered De quietly but effectively. He may not have riding alone would be in Porres members out of their been a revolutionary, but neither was he danger of rape.” rectories and told them they an evolutionary. He didn’t accept the This was an era, would decide who is a mem- system and worked to reform it.” remember, when white ber of the parish and who Less charismatic than Markoe, passengers rarely rode isn’t. One black Catholic was Killoren focused on developing young north of Cuming Street. told in the confessional not to leadership, providing recreational The campaign took come back. Other pastors opportunities, instituting a job place- years. De Porres staged ral- protested that these minori- ment center, integrating more African- lies; posted cards to citi- Fr. Markoe in his American aspects into the liturgy. zens throughout Omaha, traditional priest’s robes. Joyce Goodwin was a member of the

Winter Issue 1995-96 7 and elsewhere. While Fr. Killoren was working his low profile magic, Fr. Markoe was mak- ing his presence felt in board rooms and council chambers. There is no doubt that he drove the De Porres Club members to achievements they never would have essayed. He reminded listeners that there was only one race, the human race. He encouraged, cajoled and shamed members into action. In his talks at meet- ings, he mixed philosophy and religion with tactics. He seemed to be every- where, berating public officials and embracing young black children, carry- ing placards and ministering to the poor. Fr. Markoe (in straw hat) leads a march in Omaha late in his life in the 1960s. For members of the Club, it wasn’t all picketing and protesting. They staged St. Benedict’s Youth Club. dents from St. Benedict’s were able to events to raise funds, had their own “For the black community of the attend other Catholic high schools, and dances and picnics. They painted houses time,” she says, “this was the focal point he had the ear of the Archbishop on oth- for indigent families and stuffed acres of of our social lives. It was a strong moti- er parochial matters. He built a sports envelopes. They worried about funding, vating force in our lives, with lasting complex at the parish and legislated for with their treasury balance normally effects. Most definitely.” more lighting here and in other parks. below $100, and they pressed others into Mrs. Goodwin, while looking back on “We worked across religious lines,” the struggle. those years with affection for the fun he adds. “A great number of our kids There was progress, but the larger they had and the leadership they were not Catholic. But their parents were issues seem to diminish by millimeters. learned, also reflects soberly on the good. They never complained about any The Club minutes reveal how frustrating negatives. undue influence exerted by us.” this mission must have been, with phone “I think of the many great minds Once when Fr. Robert Hupp, then in calls and letters unanswered, and misdi- spent litigating about civil rights,” she charge of CYO teams, encouraged rection common. Management blamed states, “when they might have been pur- Killoren to field a basketball team, the St. the unions for hiring deficiencies, educa- suing careers in science or the arts. But at Benedict’s pastor explained that a major- tors faulted the qualifications of black least we had some support in develop- ity of his players were not baptized candidates, and service industries trans- ing our self esteem. Youth today doesn’t Catholic. ferred guilt to their intolerant customers. value life as much as we did.” “Jack,” said Fr. Hupp, in accepting Still, the Club persisted, even as its active Fr. Killoren, who ministered to the the team, “haven’t you ever heard of years were numbered. Arapaho and Shoshoni in Wyoming after Baptism of Desire?” Other vignettes surface from that era. his St. Benedict’s pastorate, also worries In 1953, Fr. Killoren managed to Frs. Reinert, Miller and I sponsored about the direction young people are get parish boundaries set, taking St. Dr. Claude Organ, chairman of taking today. Benedict’s out of the mission church cat- Creighton’s surgery department, for “There doesn’t seem to be the same egory and adding white members of the membership in a prestigious Catholic family structure and support we experi- congregation...many of them Creighton society, one that goes nameless only enced,” he says. students living in public housing. because it is unfair to single out one cul- Now chaplain to a senior citizen facil- Claiming that you must combine real- prit among the many offenders. Organ ity in St. Louis, and author of a recent ism with idealism, Killoren was never was rejected, and we three sponsors book of Jesuit missionary Fr. Peter De insensitive to the pain suffered by his resigned in protest. The final irony came Smet, Killoren realizes his approach was constituents. when the white janitor who cleaned Dr. different from that of Fr. Markoe. He “We can never appreciate how much Organ’s office commiserated with the admits that his Jesuit counterpart played hatred and suffering was packed into nationally-prominent physician. “I voted a major role in opening doors and break- what we now refer to as the ‘N’ word,” for you,” he apologized. ing down barriers. he says with sadness. Fr. Miller arrived one morning at “But you must be able to stay inside Today, by any standard of measure- Union Station after an all-night train once the doors are opened,” he says. “We ment, the young people who came out ride. He was tired and just wanted to get can’t count on good will alone.” of Fr. Jack’s multi-faceted program to Creighton and his bed. A cab driver Through Fr. Killoren’s efforts, stu- are the leaders in black society, here who had bypassed a waiting black fami-

8 Creighton University WINDOW ly, one ahead of Miller, opened the door did reform occur. was no bed, just a rocking chair in which of his cab. Miller considered for a By this time the De Porres Club was he slept. His only furniture consisted of moment his own exhausted state and in decline. Members left town or joined that rocker, a desk nearly devoid of reflected that his actions weren’t going to the service and the ranks were thinned. papers, a desk chair and a few cardboard solve the racial problems of the United When Fr. Markoe died, it took the heart cartons stuffed with books and folders. States. Then he stopped and reconsid- out of the movement. “When I go,” he explained, “it won’t ered, realizing this largely invisible deci- Denny Holland was still in the take 10 minutes to clear up my effects.” sion was important. He reminded the trenches, although he had agonized He said he wanted to give me some- driver of the law on discriminating in about his family’s move from Omaha’s fares and insisted he take the others first. ghetto. Fr. Markoe had assured him, Once, on the occasion of my black “Wherever you go, Denny, that neigh- secretary’s birthday, several of us went borhood will be integrated.” With Tessie to lunch at the Omaha Athletic Club. I Edwards, who had also moved “where was naive, not crusading. Except for our the neighbors were very nice,” Holland group, there were no black diners. The currently works on a committee funding waiters, all African-Americans, served scholarships for black students to attend us in what seemed like five minutes. Catholic high schools. Bert Calloway How humiliating this must have been struggles to keep open the doors of the for them. Great Plains Black Museum, seeking to When Tessie Edwards, her sister and preserve a heritage largely hidden. Fr. her mother, moved to a white neighbor- Jack Killoren generates the same enthusi- hood, petitions were circulated to keep asm now for his new apostolate among them out. But Rabbi Sidney Brooks and the elderly. Susie Buffett, wife of the famed investor, It’s a different world now, but far kept vigil with the Edwards, night after from a perfect world. night. Fr. Reinert also lent his support. “I still get some strange looks at the Fr. Markoe, late in life. These were small blips on a dark Handshake of Peace,” comments Tessie screen, while the De Porres Club patient- Edwards. thing of his in return for the things I had ly soldiered on. Now they addressed the Discrimination in housing and unem- done for him. I couldn’t think of any- public school situation. ployment is more subtle, but just as thing I had ever done for this man. All I There were no black teachers in destructive. The gains we’ve made as a ever felt was guilt for not doing more. Omaha’s public high schools and the society have not been allocated evenly. It He insisted that I choose one of his pos- three dozen black teachers at lower took the violence of the mid ‘60s to shake sessions. So I opted for a copy of that us into some sense of responsibility. great black and white photo John And, despite all the obvious improve- Howard Griffin took of him, a portrait It’s a different world now, ment, few of us have learned how to that captures all of the compassion, all of associate with people of another race on the fire, all of the no-surrender determi- but far from perfect. a comfortable, casual basis. nation. He gave it to me. Years ago, Irv Poindexter, a black Then he said something I have puz- “I still get some strange member of the De Porres Club, said to zled over since. me, “Bob, how come every time I talk to “You know, Bob,” he predicted, “the looks at the Handshake a white man, we have to discuss sports black man in America will save the of Peace,” says or civil rights? I watch television, read white man’s soul.” books, see movies. I have problems rais- Did he mean we would learn from Tessie Edwards. ing a family. Some mornings my car the sufferings of our less privileged citi- won’t start. Why can’t we talk about zens and move away from our own these things?” focus on materialism? Did he refer to the levels were confined to five elementary He’s right. We should be able to do tenacity of black Catholics who perse- schools on the Near North Side. Many this. And we must thank God for people vered in their faith when they had every of them served an apprenticeship in like Irv and Denny and Tessie and reason not to do so? clerical or janitorial posts before being others who instruct us. We owe them a Or did he mean that we would one allowed to teach. Club members trying great deal. day realize what we have done as a peo- to change this racist policy met with Not long before he died, Fr. John ple, as a nation, to men and women of a evasive answers or closed doors. Even Markoe asked me to come to his room in different color? And in that realization, picketing Joslyn Castle proved futile. the Jesuit cloister. I was surprised at the we shall redeem ourselves? Not until a change in administration spartan character of his quarters. There I hope he meant that. W

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