A Landmark Celebration SLU’s bicentennial begins pg. 10

PARTNERSHIP IN BELIZE pg. 16

ADVANCED COLLEGE CREDIT pg. 20

A PLAN FOR THE FUTURE pg. 24

SLU’S FIRST FIRST LADY pg. 26 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

VOLUME 44, ISSUE 1

EDITOR Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92)

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Amy Garland (A&S ’97)

ART DIRECTOR Matt Krob

CONTRIBUTORS Carrie Bebermeyer Clayton Berry Molly Daily

PHOTO BY FRAM JAY Marie Dilg (Grad SW ’94) PHOTO BY SARAH CARMODY Amelia Flood The congregation at the bicentennial Mass at the Gateway Arch on Sept. 23

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS As Communion began to draw to a close, I started to ON CAMPUS NEWS STORIES University Public Relations make my way to the stage to share remarks at the closing Billiken Media Relations 10 2 On Campus of the bicentennial Mass. I walked up the ramps behind A Landmark Celebration New residence hall /// SSM Health ON THE COVER SLU Hospital groundbreaking Top the stage, feeling the presence of the Spirit in the spirit SLU’s bicentennial began with a bang under the /// The Gateway Arch frames SLU’s Gateway Arch. — By Carrie Bebermeyer rankings /// Second-largest freshman bicentennial fireworks on Sept. 23. of the moment, running my comments though my head class /// Fulbright awardees /// Madrid’s Photo by Steve Dolan half-century and scribbling last minute edits. I wanted my words 16

to be just right for such an auspicious occasion. After Universitas is published by Saint Louis 2020 Vision 29 Class Notes all, the bicentennial is a once-in-a-lifetime event. University. Opinions expressed in A collaboration between SLU and Ignatian Universitas are those of the individual partners aims to change lives in Belize. 30 Alumni Spotlight s I reached the top and looked out at the congregation, We are a university that throughout the course of its existence, authors and not necessarily those of the — By Molly Daily University administration. Unsolicited Gail Miller Bisher (Grad A&S ’01) I witnessed 6,000 people from all creeds gathered has witnessed, and created, some of the biggest flashpoints in the manuscripts and photographs are welcome together underneath the spectacular curve of the narrative of the United States and the planet. We witnessed the but will be returned only if accompanied 20 33 How I Got Here Gateway Arch. Right there on the banks of the tran- end of polio, and at SLU, the discovery of Vitamin K and the first by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. G.J. Meyer (A&S ’62) quil Mississippi River — the very birthplace of our successful open-heart surgery. We saw the beginning and end of Letters to the editor must be signed, and Higher Learning letters not intended for publication should University, we prayed together with 47 members of the clergy from two world wars and the building of barracks on the quad to accom- SLU’s 1818 Advanced College Credit program A indicate that fact. The editor reserves In Memoriam 38 here and abroad. modate the influx of veterans coming home from war, enrolling the right to edit all items. Address all mail helps high schoolers get ahead. — By Marie Dilg It is truly a privilege to be given the opportunity to serve Saint in school and creating prosperity at a level of which the world had to Universitas, DuBourg Hall 39, One N. Louis University during this time in our history. It is a history that never dreamed. We witnessed the end of chattel slavery and partic- Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103. We 40 Feedback accept email at [email protected]. 24 is sometimes hazy, full of the unexpected, and entirely based on ipated in the integration of universities. We are an institution that faith and hope. This is also a fitting analogy for me as the first lay observed history, made history, researched history and documented Transforming SLU 41 The Last Look president of SLU. Learning from those who have come before me, history. While the future remains unclear, I can say with certainty Postmaster: Send address changes to The University sets a course to become a world- especially the founders of our University, has provided immeasur- that SLU will play a part in it. We will continue to make a differ- Universitas, Saint Louis University, class research university. — By Clayton Berry able wisdom and guidance. One N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103. ence because our faculty, our clinicians, our staff, our students, our While today’s challenges are certainly different from those of 200 alumni, and our partners and collaborators are engaged in the world, Website: slu.edu/universitas 26 years ago, the lessons that our past teaches us still hold true. The contributing to its successes and grappling with its problems and The Original Dr. Pestello most prominent of which is that our students and our patients must Universitas is printed by Henry Wurst Inc. challenges. Dr. Frances Pestello embraces her role as SLU’s continue to be at the forefront of all that we do. I look forward to this, our bicentennial year, knowing, that first first lady. — By Amy Garland Could our founders have known what Saint Louis University because of each of you, our best years are yet to come. Worldwide circulation: 112,500 would one day become? Could they have imagined five campus sites in two countries? Could they have imagined having alumni doing May God bless you. © 2017, Saint Louis University good throughout the world? Could they have imagined the critical All rights reserved. role we would play in St. Louis? Could they have imagined a Billiken as our mascot!? Doubtful. But they had hope. And they had faith. And they worked hard with the dream of a substantial Catholic and Reproduction in whole or in part Jesuit university engaged with the region and the world. Dr. Fred P. Pestello without permission is prohibited.

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Grand Hall Debuts

Grand Hall — a residence hall at Saint Louis University — opened its doors in August.

Located at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Laclede Avenue, the new building joined Spring Hall as SLU’s second new student living space in two years.

The $71 million Grand Hall houses 528 first- and second-year students on six floors in single and double suite-style rooms. The hall features classrooms, a conference room, meeting rooms, study rooms, floor lounges, and kitchens and laundry areas on alternating floors. Grand Hall is also home to a 740-seat dining hall that includes restaurant- style seating, a fireplace, food stations and an outdoor courtyard.

Alberici served as general contractor on the building, which was designed by Hastings+Chivetta. The hall meets LEED Silver standards as part of the

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Bicentennial Lecture Series Kicks Off Greg Boyle, S.J., signs a book for a fan after calling for those BY THE NUMBERS gathered at SLU’s Center for Global Citizenship to “go to the Bicentennial Mass margins” and create kinship with others during his lecture, “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,” in November. Boyle’s talk was the first in SLU’s bicentennial 6,000 speaker series. attendees

5,000 New Academic Deans SLU Is Ranked a souvenir seat cushions on the Top-100 University, Grand Staircase under the Arch Dr. Thomas Burroughs Named Top-50 Best

INTERIM DEAN OF THE COLLEGE FOR PUBLIC PHOTO BY BILL BARRETT HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Value by U.S. News 45 Burroughs came to SLU in 1999 as ccording to U.S. News & World concelebrants, plus 2 deacons an adjunct professor. He joined the AReport’s “Best Colleges 2018” University full time as executive director guidebook, SLU ranked No. 94 55 15 12 of the Center for Health Outcomes among the country’s top 311 national singers musicians food trucks Research in 2003. Burroughs also holds appointments universities. in the College for Public Health and Social Justice as a SLU also was named a top-50 professor of health management and policy, as well as in “Best Value School.” U.S. News calcu- 2 the School of Medicine as a professor of internal medicine. lates value by comparing a school's participants from the Osage Nation, He is serving a three-year term as interim dean. academic quality vs. the net cost of who signified the history between the Osage and the Jesuits PHOTOS BY STEVEN LONG attendance for a student who received Dr. Tracy A. Chapman the average level of need-based finan- DEAN OF THE SCHOOL FOR PROFESSIONAL cial aid. Academic Tech Commons Welcomes Innovators STUDIES Senior Lauren Tondl of the women’s soccer team 1 A new, 14,000-square-foot creator space in Pius XII Memorial Library has a 3.973 grade point average and double Chapman previously was associate altar used originally by Pope John Paul II provides students access to the latest technologies, innovative spaces and TOP BUSINESS PROGRAMS majors in health sciences and psychology. She dean for adult and e-learning for has made multiple appearances on the Atlantic when he visited St. Louis in 1999 support. The Academic Tech Commons includes 3-D printers, 360-degree Creighton University’s College of SLU’s undergraduate business 10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. cameras and hologram technology, as well as SLU’s own Genius Bar. Professional Studies, as well as programs were ranked No. 91 among For more on the Mass, see page 10. Studios and lab spaces foster collaboration and creativity. executive director of Creighton’s Center for Academic nearly 500 business schools in the A-10 HONOR ROLL Innovation. She also served as Creighton’s lead country. The entrepreneurship, FEATURES 143 administrator and central point of coordination for the international business and accounting BILLIKENS programs ranked at 9, 12 and 33, First SLU Giving Day a Success university’s summer sessions. aint Louis University stu- respectively. n just 24 hours, Saint Louis University’s first SLU Donations were encouraged with special fundraising S dent-athletes continue to be Dr. Gary Ritter Giving Day raised $116,141 through 887 gifts from challenges that unlocked additional funds when certain recognized for their work in the I DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION BEST COLLEGES FOR VETERANS classroom, as 143 Billikens were hon- alumni, staff, faculty, students, SLU families and NOV. 16 dollar amounts or donor participation goals were met. 217 Ritter is the 21st Century Endowed friends of the University. The Office of Alumni and Many challenges were school-specific, and individuals SLU also made the magazine’s list of ored on the Atlantic 10 Conference’s Chair in Education Policy at the Donor Engagement spearheaded the fundraising effort, pledged to provide their own donations once a cer- top schools offering benefits that can Commissioner’s Honor Roll, which University of Arkansas. There, he also which was on Nov. 16 from midnight to midnight. tain number of gifts had been reached. For example, make pursuing a college education more was released in August. Members GIVING DAY is the founder and director of the Office Held on the University’s Founders Day, the event Dr. Mardell Wilson, dean of Doisy College of Health affordable for military veterans and of the Commissioner's Honor Roll for Education Policy, a resource for state was designed to benefit a variety of needs across the Sciences, pledged $1,929 in honor of the school’s found- active-duty service members. posted a GPA of 3.5 or better in the legislators, school board members and other policymakers University, including scholarships, book funds and priorities desig- ing year once 40 gifts were made to the school. spring 2017 semester. in matters of K-12 education in Arkansas. His SLU nated by individual college and school deans. appointment is effective Aug. 1, 2018, until which time Dr. Molly Schaller will serve as interim dean of the School of Education.

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Awards and Honors Two Grants Will Help Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds

Thomas Campbell, who is pursuing a doctorate in MCNAIR SCHOLARS PROGRAM GRANT HRSA NURSING WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GRANT chemistry, won a NASA Earth and Space Science SLU has received a $1.2 million Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate SLU’s School of Nursing will receive $1.5 million in federal funds over the Fellowship for 2017-18. Achievement Program (McNair Scholars Program) grant from the U.S. next four years to support disadvantaged students by providing them student Department of Education to prepare eligible, high-achieving undergraduate mentors, faculty mentors and pre-entry work experiences. Dr. Ethel Frese (Grad Doisy ’06), professor of physical students for doctoral studies. therapy, was named a 2017 Catherine Worthingham The HRSA Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant will help the nursing school Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, the The grant, which will provide $240,000 per year for five years, will serve increase the recruitment, enrollment, retention and graduation of students highest honor the organization awards. 25 students each year. The McNair Scholars Program is funded through from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially for students who are African TRiO, a collection of federal programs that provide services to students American or Hispanic/Latino. Both groups are underrepresented in nursing Dr. Michael Graham (A&S ’73, Med ’77), professor of from disadvantaged backgrounds. The scholars receive ongoing academic education. The grant funding will aid 40 students (10 each year). pathology, was honored with the College of American counseling, faculty mentoring and research experience, and participate in Pathologists Lifetime Achievement Award. many educational and professional development activities.

Jen Tennison , a doctoral student in aerospace and PHOTO BY MICHELLE PELTIER mechanical engineering, won one of 10 CADRE Fellowships awarded by the National Science Foundation Freshmen at convocation at Chaifetz Arena in August for 2017-18. SLU Enrolls Second-Largest Freshman Class in Dr. Gina Yosten (Med ’10), assistant professor of University History

pharmacology and physiology, received the 2017 New LU started the first day of the 2017 academic year with 1,640 first-time fresh- PHOTO BY NANCY SOLOMON PHOTO BY STEPHANIE MUELLER Investigator Award from the American Physiological S men, a more than 4 percent increase over last year. Hailing from 43 U.S. states Society. and 40 countries, the new class is the second-largest in University history. The freshman class has an average high school GPA of 3.9 and an average ACT More than 170 SLUCare physicians from a variety of composite score of 28.1 — an all-time high for SLU — placing these new Billikens specialties were recognized by St. Louis Magazine as among the top 10 percent of all students tested in the United States. best doctors of 2017. The list is based on the annual “Best Doctors in America” database. MORE ENROLLMENT MILESTONES First-day undergraduate enrollment increased over last year. Jay Goff, SLU’s vice SLU’s Department of Public Safety received a president for enrollment and retention management, said the boost was aided by the Department of Defense Employer Support of the Guard University’s retaining students at record levels and new growth among international and Reserve “Above and Beyond” award for its support of students. staff who are also active in National Guard or Reserves service. This summer, four DPS officers —Chief Jim For three consecutive years, SLU’s retention rate (the percentage of first-year students Moran, Capt. Darryl Walker, and Sgts. Dan Lalor and who return for a second year) has been 90 percent or higher. Nationally, the average first- Edward Agnew — received DOD Patriot Awards for their to-second-year retention rate for private doctoral universities is about 82 percent. support of Mark Breckenridge, a DPS officer and Army More than 260 new international students started classes on the St. Louis campus, reservist. compared to 165 in 2016. At Dr. Bruce Kraemer's outpatient clinic, Andrew Oberle (left) talks with patient Benjamin Sliva. Thousands of Billikens Oberle Institute Supports Trauma Patients SLU, SSM Health Break Ground on New Hospital ‘Make a Difference’ University President Dr. Fred P. Pestello (third from left) As SLU anticipated the kickoff of he St. Louis man who was nearly killed by chimpanzees in 2012 is putting his and representatives from SLU, SSM, government and T name and energy behind a new initiative to support trauma patients. its 200-Years-In-One Challenge, Andrew Oberle is a peer patient advocate and development officer for the Oberle PHOTO BY AMELIA FLOOD private partners turn over the project’s first dirt. The new nearly 2,500 Billikens volunteered Institute at Saint Louis University, which treats patients who have suffered severe SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital will occupy 15 trauma. acres adjacent to the current facility off Grand Boulevard on Oct. 28 to give back to the St. Oberle recently saw his first patient at the Oberle Institute, which was named by between Rutger and Lasalle streets. The new hospital is Louis community at 100 different generous benefactors. Now in its pilot phase, the institute provides wrap-around, set to welcome its first patient on Sept. 1, 2020. supportive care to help trauma patients recover. sites as part of SLU’s annual Make A Dr. Bruce Kraemer, a SLUCare plastic surgeon who has become one of Oberle’s Difference Day. Here, students help best friends since treating him, is on the Oberle Institute’s team. The team also includes a trauma nursing coordinator, counselor, occupational therapists, chaplain, with landscaping at the St. Louis music therapist, dog therapist and trauma social worker. Science Center.

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UNIVERSITY THEATRE A new agreement with the PHOTO BY ANNIE NEIDEL Kranzberg Arts Foundation means SLU’s University Theatre are performing in two Grand Center venues this year. At the end of the three-year lease agreement in 2020, all four of SLU’s main stage productions will take place on Grand Center’s stages. FROM LEFT: Sciarratta, Shreve, Rios-Gutierrez, Annie Neidel (Honors The two remaining productions Program coordinator), Beth Petitjean (alternate for the Italy research of the 2017-18 season are: grant), Provost Dr. Nancy Brickhouse, Hessel, Hart and University President Dr. Fred P. Pestello. PHOTOS BY DEPARTMENT OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS – SLU-MADRID PHOTO BY ELLEN HUTTI

RHINOCEROS Dorsa Derakhshani (left) is a freshman at SLU and part of the seven-member chess team. She While kicking off the University’s is playing a match against teammate Nozima Aripova while a few other team members practice Record Number of SLU Applicants By Eugene Ionesco /// March 1-4 SLU-Madrid Marks Half-Century in the background. University Theatre, bicentennial in St. Louis, SLU also is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Earn Fulbright Awards 3733 West Pine Mall Madrid Campus, which was founded in 1967. Alumni, faculty and staff honored the even applicants from Saint Louis University The sublime and the ridiculous milestone at the 50th Anniversary and Distinguished Alumni Celebration in Madrid World-Class Iranian Chess Player Finds a Team received prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student propel this story of one man’s and a Home at SLU S effort to maintain his identity with dinner, cake and cava. Program awards for the 2017-18 academic year from in a world of conformists. n 2016, Dorsa Derakhshani earned the titles of Woman Grandmaster and the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Directed by Tom Martin. I International Grandmaster from the World Chess Federation. Now, she is a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. New Book freshman at Saint Louis University and part of SLU’s seven-member chess team. It’s a record number of Fulbright awards for SLU. Derakhshani moved from Tehran, Iran, to Barcelona, Spain, in 2016 to pursue Since the program’s inception in 1946, 78 SLU appli- BLOODY, BLOODY Celebrates 200 ANDREW JACKSON Years of SLU opportunities in chess. She learned earlier this year that she was officially barred from cants — including this year’s awardees — have been playing for Iran, allegedly because she didn’t wear a headscarf during a tournament. offered awards. By Alex Timbers PHOTO BY JUSTIN BARR Music and Lyrics by ommissioned in Iran has required women to wear the hijab in public spaces and when represent- Michael Friedman C honor of SLU’s ing the country internationally since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Christopher Hart (Grad A&S ’17) is investigating April 26-29 bicentennial, Always at “It seemed like it came from out of the blue,” she said. “I wasn’t even really playing China’s propaganda films from the 1960s to study how The Grandel, the Frontier: Saint Louis on the national team. They weren’t sponsoring my tournaments — my parents were.” black power and the rhetoric of armed self-defense 3610 Grandel Square University 1818-2018 is Derakhshani will now compete as an official U.S. player. She found out while influenced China’s self-introduction to the world as a A rock score anchors this fictionalized, irreverent look an immersive look at at an Icelandic tournament in April that her visa was approved and she could start nuclear power. at the rise of Jackson and the the two centuries that school this fall. She moved to St. Louis in July. beginning of the Democratic shaped SLU and the city of St. Louis. Scott Hessel (A&S ’13, Grad A&S ’17) is using an party. Directed by Nancy Bell. Written by Dr. Dolores Byrnes, with John English Teaching Assistant grant in South Africa to Padberg, S.J. (A&S ’49, Grad A&S ’54) and John continue developing as a teacher and to experience the All performances begin at 8 p.m. personal enrichment of cross-cultural interactions and except Sunday matinees, Waide (A&S ’73), the book breaks down the which start at 2 p.m. University’s history — from its beginning on relationships. For tickets, contact Metrotix at what became the Gateway Arch grounds to the Renee Richter (PH ’15) is in South Africa on an English 314-531-1111 or metrotix.com. present-day community — into six eras that are explored in depth with archival photographs, PHOTO BY LAURA GEISER Teaching Assistant grant. illustrations and historical documents. A historical exhibition of the same title Alejandra Rios Gutierrez (Cook ’17) is interning in MOCRA Mexico City. The program includes an internship with a Museum of will be showcased at Saint Louis University Contemporary Religious Art Business School Receives Museum of Art March 2 through Dec. 30. For Mexican-based company along with courses taken at a $1 Million Gift for Named Deanship local university. TRANSFORMATIONS: more information, visit sluma.slu.edu. The hardcover book is available for purchase Highlights from the he business school received a $1 million Courtney Sciarratta (PH ’15, Grad PH ’17) is MOCRA Collection gift from brokerage and investment firm online at www.slu.edu/bicentennial/book.php. T attempting to disrupt the spread of mosquito-borne From Jan. 15 Edward Jones. The gift, which will establish the Look for more on the book and the exhibi- diseases in Argentina through targeted public outreach Explore the range of artists Edward Jones Deanship and is the first named tion in the next issue of Universitas. to urban areas she identifies as at-risk. and works at MOCRA. Plus, deanship in the business school’s 107-year his- learn about the art and science tory, will be given over five years. It also marks SLU Honored at Thanksgiving Parade Samuel Shreve of conservation as MOCRA In honor of its bicentennial, Saint Louis University was co-grand (A&S, PH ’17) is in Italy on an English the first time in Edward Jones’ 95-year history Teaching Assistant grant. prepares to display a major marshal of this year’s 33rd annual Ameren Thanksgiving Day recent acquisition, “Cruz to that the firm has attached its name to a business Bishop Oscar Romero, Martyr of school dean’s title. Parade. SLU marchers took part in the downtown St. Louis event on Dzuliya Vasileva (Parks ’17) is teaching university- El Salvador” by Michael Tracy. Nov. 23, a first in University history. level students in science and engineering in Poland.

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Fireworks erupt over the Gateway Arch at the conclusion of the bicentennial kickoff event.

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU The altar and coordinating furniture used at the Ronald Mercier, S.J., provincial of the Jesuits’ Central and Southern Province, was the homilist, and princi- bicentennial Mass were originally used during the Mass pal concelebrants were Lawrence Biondi, S.J., president celebrated by Pope John Paul II when he visited St. Louis emeritus of Saint Louis University; Christopher Collins, S.J. (Grad A&S ’01), SLU’s assistant to the president for in 1999. mission and identity; Michael Garanzini, S.J. (A&S ’71), secretary of higher education for the Society of Jesus; and Douglas Marcouiller, S.J., regional assistant for Canada and the USA for the Society of Jesus. “With gratitude and awe we celebrate this liturgy of thanksgiving to God for what began with Bishop DuBourg and has been continued by women and men who have helped that not only take root but flourish,” Mercier said. “What a vision. Not simply being caught up by one’s limits but being aware of a vision to which one lay hold and of a future one wished to create with God.” Mercier reflected on the ways in which SLU has achieved the vision that Bishop DuBourg laid out for close up of stage it: directly in students, alumni, faculty and staff and indirectly through those they have served. “What extraordinary achievements SLU has seen,” Mercier said. “From those first seeds planted by DuBourg in health care, in engineering, in basic sci- ences, in humanities, in social sciences. From a school founded on the frontier of the United States, it has become one that blazes new frontiers in the intellectual, the social, the faith, the common life of this commu- nity, and this world. And those endeavors, that harvest, continues unabated. We need to remember how the alumni of SLU and SLU High have enriched this city, this country and this world.”

n Sept. 23, Saint Louis University began its bicen- tennial celebration back where it all began — on the banks of the Mississippi River. SLU invited the entire community to Mass, entertainment and fireworks near the site of its first classes in 1818, which were held in a small rented home on what are now the grounds of the Gateway Arch. Approximately 6,000 SLU students, faculty, staff, alumni and people from throughout the St. Louis region attended the event. It is believed to be the first Mass ever held beneath the Arch. Originally known as Saint Louis Academy, the school that Bishop Louis William DuBourg founded in 1818 laid the groundwork for both Saint Louis University and St. Louis University High School, whose students and alumni were invited to partic- ipate in the bicentennial Mass. St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson presided. ABOVE: Ronald Mercier, “Saint Louis University has been a great institution S.J., delivers the for 200 years since its foundation as the first institu- homily during Mass. tion of higher learning west of the Mississippi River,” RIGHT: A crowd of nearly 6,000 people sit on the Carlson said. “As we gather for this historic Mass under steps of the Gateway the Gateway Arch, we are reminded of those early Arch during Mass. missionaries who brought Christ with them as they FAR RIGHT: Osage Princess ventured into the West. Their courage then should Jasmine Phetsacksith Members of the Osage Nation processes in before strengthen our faith now, and embolden us to share Mass begins. Behind took part in the bicentennial Mass anew the joy of the Gospel with the modern world.” her is Geoffrey Standing in recognition of the shared history Bear, principal chief of the Osage Nation. between the Osage and the Jesuits.

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU The bicentennial Mass featured new music More than 100 Catholic and religious leaders joined composed specifically for the celebration, but Saint Louis University for the Mass, including the even the more traditional pieces had some presider, the Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson, Archbishop SLU history. Much of the Mass’ music was of St. Louis, and Deacon J. John Heithaus, the composed in the 1970s and ’80s by a group of grand-nephew of SLU’s Claude Heithaus, S.J. SLU scholastics known as the St. Louis Jesuits.

MAKING TIME FOR SERVICE SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY IS CELEBRATING ITS BICENTENNIAL NOT BY LOOKING BACK, BUT BY GIVING BACK.

On Nov. 14, the University launched the 200-Years-In-One Challenge. It is an effort to give back to the community and society by inviting everyone in St. Louis, the nation and around the world — whether they are SLU-affiliated or not — to download a special app that will help track their volunteer and service hours.

Once submitted, these service/volunteer hours are added to the running total on a large illuminated clock that has been installed at the southeast corner of Grand and Lindell boulevards, across from St. Francis Xavier College Church.

“In addition to reflecting upon our past, we are going to celebrate our bicentennial by giving back in a mission-centered way,” said SLU President Dr. Fred P. Pestello. “This is an effort that speaks to who we are as an institution and what this community means to us.” 2 3 To reach 200 years of service, students, faculty, staff, alumni and 1 4 others will need to submit 1,753,176 hours (the number of hours in In closing remarks, SLU President Dr. Fred P. 200 years) between Nov. 14, 2017, and Nov. 14, 2018. The clock Pestello told the crowd he wished each person could be updates in real time as hours are submitted. standing in his location, looking out at the sea of peo- Dr. Bobby Wassel (Grad Ed ’09, ’17), assistant director of SLU’s ple gathered there. He noted that it is fitting to begin Center for Service and Community Engagement, is confident the SLU’s bicentennial year by coming together to celebrate SLU community will achieve this goal. Mass. Pestello shared with the crowd the ways in which he “Saint Louis University has a long history of volunteerism and experiences SLU each day, beginning with his drive in service,” Wassel said. “If in addition to our campus community we from the west each morning. get alumni, parents and others from the area serving to help us “I see the shimmering Arch in the sunlight,” Pestello celebrate, I have no doubt we will succeed.” said. “I’m reminded that St. Louis is the Gateway to the West, and Saint Louis University and St. Louis The free app is available through the Apple App Store and Google 7 University High are gateways to education. To upward Play Store. In addition, those who wish to participate can also submit volunteer hours online at slu.edu/200years. mobility. To forming the citizens of the future.” 6 5 FROM ABOVE, CLOCKWISE: Pestello reminded the audience that each person University President Dr. Fred Pestello 1 helps shape the trajectory of SLU, noting that it was delivers closing remarks at the Mass. once said that it would require a miracle to come to A. Thomé leads the student choir and orchestra during Mass. 2 fruition. Trustee Kevin Cullen, S.J. (A&S ’80) distributes 3 communion to Mass attendees. “I may need to follow up with Pope Francis on this one, but if that is the case, it seems that we are a living The LustreLights perform for the crowd following Mass. 4 miracle every day in all we do,” Pestello said. “To be Students Maggie Quinn (left) and Mary Nink 5 enjoy the post-Mass festivities. here in this place, at this time and for this reason is a Guests line up for food truck fare after Mass. 6 miracle. I’m so grateful we could all be here to share Children dance amid bubbles from the 7 and celebrate Saint Louis University and St. Louis Bubble Bus following Mass. University High together.” UTAS

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TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT: Volunteer Jessica Buck (Grad PH ’16) talks with a young St. Martin de Porres student; a large cross marks the entrance to the parish church; more than 700 students attend St. Martin grade school.

BELOW: In the parish center, children wait to have their height and weight taken for a nutritional assessment.

AN INNOVATIVE IGNATIAN PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO IMPROVE LIVES IN BELIZE BY THE NEXT DECADE. By Molly Daily

Matt Ruhl, S.J., describes Out of the symposium came Belize 2020: An Ignatian Partnership, aimed at improving the lives Belize as if it were paradise. of Belizean children and families by the year 2020. “On the Caribbean shores, on the Yucatan peninsula, Together, the partners focus on health, continuing edu- lies a country so lovely that the locals refer to it as the cation and development in Belize. Jewel,” he said. But he knows as well as any that not all of the facets of this jewel are beautiful. START AT THE BEGINNING: PROJECT HEAL Since 2011, Ruhl (Grad A&S ’86) has been pastor of To improve the lives of Belizeans for generations St. Martin de Porres Parish, a 50-year-old Jesuit apos- to come, Belize 2020 began by focusing on the city’s tolate in Belize City. He contends that the area suffers youngest residents. the same social problems any major city might face: Tina Cuellar-Augustus (A&S ’03), a Belizean native unemployment, poverty and family instability, drugs who finished her degree at SLU after attending St. and gang violence. John’s Jesuit Junior College in Belize City, witnessed “I worked all over St. Louis, and I’ll tell you that firsthand the toll that gang violence, domestic abuse Belize City is a mirror image, except it’s in Central and poverty took on her students at St. Martin de America,” he said. Porres. The only counselor for a grade school of more Surrounded by crime and overwhelming poverty, than 700 students, Cuellar-Augustus knew these chil- Ruhl eventually turned to the Saint Louis University dren needed help — but she also knew she couldn’t put community for help. He reached out to friends and a plan in motion without a full understanding of the colleagues, including philanthropist and education situation. advocate Tom Nolan (A&S ’69, Grad ’70) and Chris Cuellar-Augustus met Beth Embry (Doisy ’09, Grad Collins, S.J. (Grad A&S ’01), SLU’s assistant to the pres- Cook ’13), a former public health administrator and ident for mission and identity. researcher at SLU, through Belize 2020. Embry and her Collins — recognizing that “there is some activity team provided nutritional and trauma assessments on in Belize from almost every school or college we have nearly half of the grade school’s students. at SLU” — brought together Saint Louis University, Embry, now pursuing her doctorate at the University members of the business community and Belizeans for of Colorado Boulder, considered herself a background a symposium. worker of Belize 2020’s trauma initiative; she worked

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 SUBMITTED PHOTOS WWW.SLU.EDU < > Swift Hall, a fully funded multipurpose Matt Ruhl, S.J. (above) center shown here under construction, was Outdoor artwork at St. Martin de Porres School dedicated and opened to the public this fall.

behind the scenes to equip Cuellar-Augustus with the Spearheaded by Cuellar-Augustus, Project HEAL treats the “worst of the worst” cases According to Dr. Sue Tebb, professor and former dean of SLU’s School of Social “The people who go on the retreat, they come best tools to help her students, their parents and teach- of PTSD. Cuellar-Augustus and her team provide play-based cognitive behavioral Work, many of those students ended up returning to Belize to give back to the com- back here and talk to their neighbors,” he said. ers. Embry provided quantitative, research-based data therapy for students and teachers to help them cope and learn to process emotion. munity. One such student was Cuellar-Augustus, whose degree in psychology from “We have board meetings where people come and resources to back up what Cuellar-Augustus sees While in Belize, Embry trained teachers to implement a trauma-informed classroom, SLU came thanks to Belizean scholarship funding. up to us and say, ‘Let me know when the next every day. the first of its kind outside the United States; she gave them tools to de-escalate and When the Sisters of Mercy, who are heavily involved in Belize’s education system, retreat is, because I want to go down there.’ And “Intuitively, Tina has always known how bad the sit- identify trauma-influenced acting-out in children, rather than simply resorting to approached Tebb about bringing SLU’s social work resources directly to Belize in we reply, ‘Yes, you do want to go down there.’ uation is,” Embry said. “But to engage donors, engage punishment. 2006, she jumped at the opportunity. Because it is life-changing.” the community and track progress, what she needed Other aspects of Project HEAL include HEAL Academy, a program that allows for “I’ve found if you go outside our borders, you realize what we have to offer,” Tebb Collins sees the role of alumni and donors as was the data to support what she was seeing.” longer school days and extended school years, giving students who have experienced said. “But we also learn so much from other countries.” providing support and capacity for Belize so it To get that data, Embry acquired the UCLA Post- trauma the extra attention and nutrition they need to thrive. A literacy coach helps In Belize, that meant creating practicum positions for SLU social work students, as well can begin to flourish — from continual educa- Traumatic Stress Disorder instrument and modified students gain confidence and knowledge in reading. And a school greenhouse pro- as providing training for all of Belize’s social workers — essential for a country whose tion to on-the-ground infrastructural projects. it to be culturally and age appropriate for the students vides nutritious food for school lunches. social workers do not tend to hold bachelor’s degrees. Recently, St. Louis-based board members have at St. Martin de Porres. Embry and two SLU gradu- While Project HEAL has existed for only a few years, the students have already Belize 2020 also works to foster excellence in teaching by offering scholarships focused on a capital campaign to build Swift ate students, Jessica Buck (Grad PH ’16) and Monica shown major improvements. The work has been far from easy, and progress is slow for graduate work. In exchange, the recipient promises to return to Belize and serve Hall, a multipurpose recreational center for par- Kavanaugh (PH ’15, Grad PH ’16), assessed more than at best, but Embry and Cuellar-Augustus are proud of the progress they have made. its children for at least five years. The hope is that these educational endeavors will ish and community members. Named after Karl 300 students. Embry recalled a group of teachers who attended trauma management training in instill an attitude of paying it forward, propelling real and lasting change for gener- Swift, S.J., a Belizean brother who spent more The researchers expected strong results, but no one the middle of a country-wide strike. Cuellar-Augustus took pride in a young boy who ations to come. than 15 years at St. Martin de Porres, the space was prepared for the severity of the heartbreaking just a few years ago was in the principal’s office for acting out nearly every week, but This year, the first two recipients of the Saint Louis University-Belize 2020 School was christened this September in celebration of responses. who this year only visited the principal three times. The women have stayed in touch of Education scholarships received their post-graduate degrees. After their programs, St. Martin’s 51st anniversary. Seventy-eight percent of students experienced at with their first cohort of students, who are now in high school and are succeeding Melissa Mendez Valladares (Grad Ed ’17) and Rosita Rose Mes (Grad Ed ’17) returned While specific campaigns will develop least one traumatic event in their lives, and nearly half academically. to Belize to make a difference. and change as the needs of Belize change, the received at least a partial diagnosis of post-traumatic Misty Michael, director of Belize 2020, said Project HEAL is changing lives. mission of Belize 2020 will remain the same. stress disorder. More than half of the children inter- “A lot of these kids think they’ll be dead by the time they’re 30,” Michael said. “So a AN IGNATIAN PARTNERSHIP Everything that the partnership does filters viewed had witnessed gang violence firsthand, and 43 lot of our job is to give them hope — that your life has more meaning than you think At its roots, Belize 2020 is “a Jesuit enterprise,” Ruhl said. The Jesuits stand as con- through its Ignatian roots. percent had lost a loved one in a violent manner. The it does right now.” nectors and mission bearers in Belize and in St. Louis — and they are often the reason Ruhl credits the 1973 speech by Jesuit researchers were disheartened by the responses. St. Louisans find their way to Belize 2020. Superior General Pedro Arrupe, S.J. — in which “You look at this 7-year-old and think, you’re not sup- A CYCLE OF GROWTH: EDUCATING THE EDUCATORS That was the case for Nolan and his wife, Maureen, philanthropists who jumped in he called on Jesuit alumni to be men and women posed to have witnessed your uncle die in front of you Hope permeates everything Belize 2020 does — and it has inspired a trajectory of when approached by Collins. The couple became partners in Project HEAL and have for others — for inspiring Belize 2020’s volun- from gang violence,” Embry said. education that goes from St. Martin de Porres to St. John’s College to Saint Louis dedicated themselves to the educational aspects of Belize 2020. teers and a full generation of people to enter into Kavanaugh felt the same way, recalling the experi- University. Mark LaBarge, an old friend of Ruhl’s and the president of SFP Landscaping Inc., a life of service, bringing hope and joy to others. ence of a young boy who told her that every time he Saint Louis University educators and researchers provide teaching resources, brought his entrepreneurial skills and network to the project because of the Jesuit That hope and joy, at the end of the day, is hears gunshots, he runs outside to be sure his father education and training for students at St. John’s College, Belize City’s Jesuit junior connection. what the Jesuits are trying to spread in Belize — hasn’t just been killed. college. There, future teachers and social workers receive a trauma-informed educa- “If the Jesuits are there, there’s a reason,” LaBarge said. “More importantly, you and it’s how Ruhl measures success. He says that “This research really painted the picture of the per- tion with the most up-to-date teaching practices provided by Saint Louis University’s know there’s hope.” the smiles of the young children in Belize are son behind the problem,” Kavanaugh said. “I realized schools of education and social work. For others, the process begins with prayer. Community members and SLU alumni what he cares most about. it wasn’t one faceless person — but very acute and indi- After St. John’s College, some students head to Saint Louis University to finish embark each year on a retreat to Belize City, where they live and pray with the people “After a while, those smiles start to fade, and vidual needs.” bachelor’s degrees and even pursue graduate work. Belize 2020 provides scholarships of St. Martin de Porres for three to four days. They visit the school and parish, see reality hits them hard,” he said. “Every time I Those needs were addressed through a series of for education and social work students to continue their studies. Since the early SLU’s work in the community and pray together at the vibrant Sunday evening Mass. see those kids smiling and enjoying the campus, intensive, child-focused programs, under the umbrella 2000s, SLU’s School of Social Work has offered scholarships to a handful of Belizean LaBarge credits these retreats as the catalyst for donors to get involved and spread that’s a victory. Our job is to keep those smiles of Project HEAL (Hope and Education Altering Lives). students each year. the word. on their faces.” UTAS

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU SLU’s advanced college credit program gives high school students a head start. By MARIE DILG

hen Abby Unverferth (A&S ’12) enrolled at SLU in 2008, she was assigned to live on the freshman floor of Marguerite Hall, though she hardly was a first-year student. The then-18-year-old from Red Bud, Illinois, had 31 college credits under her belt, vaulting her to sophomore status. By taking several core and general education courses at Gibault Catholic High School through SLU’s 1818 Advanced College Credit WProgram, Unverferth had a leg up on her peers. “Because I’d done so much of the basic coursework ahead of time, I had the luxury of taking things a little slower than other students,” said Unverferth, who entered SLU as a still-deciding/undeclared student. “Even though I didn’t know anything about the subject, I took a course in art history my freshman year. It turned out I loved it and chose it as one of my majors.” Bretton DeLaria (Ed ’12) is director of the 1818 Advanced College Credit Program. “Having dual credit opens pathways for students,” he said. “Many students today are taking up to five years to earn bachelor’s degrees because they don’t have the room to discover who they are. Students with dual credit typically graduate in four years because they have that room.” DeLaria enrolled at SLU with dual credits, and even though he changed his major three times, he still managed to graduate in four years. During her four years at SLU, Unverferth triple-majored — art history, history and French — spent a semester in France and earned two bachelor’s degrees. She is now a French teacher and a teaching assistant at St. Margaret of Scotland School in St. Louis.

20 21 ILLUSTRATION BY TRACI DABERKO UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU PHOTO BY KEVIN LOWDER 6,312 Students who took 1818 dual credit courses in 2016 45,000 Dual credits earned in 2016 MAKING THE GRADE PREP SCHOOL Established in 1959, SLU’s 1818 Advanced College DeLaria said dual credit not only helps students get a Credit Program is one of the oldest dual college credit head start in college and save money, it exposes them to MORE programs in the country. It was the first west of the the rigors of college learning. THAN Mississippi. “There are no makeup exams, no credit for late 500 The program allows high school students to get both assignments,” he said. “If it doesn’t happen in a col- 1818 adjunct instructors high school and college credit by taking college-level lege course, it doesn’t happen in our dual credit course. courses taught by specially qualified high school Students learn to do research using the University’s teachers. The tuition rate for dual credit courses is sig- database and submit papers that are college-level nificantly reduced — $65 a credit hour for high school work. We’ve created a culture around excellence and students versus $1,100 for SLU students. are indoctrinating students with the SLU approach to SLU started the 1818 program by partnering with learning.” 6 two local Catholic high schools — St. Louis University More than 100 col- States with 1818 partner High School and the now-closed Xavier High School — leges and universities in schools to promote academic excellence, improve college access 50 states accept 1818 dual and encourage students to matriculate at SLU. The pro- college credits. gram grew in the 1970s to include other metro-area HAVING DUAL “The number of col- high schools, both public and private. leges and universities MORE “We saw the program as an opportunity not only to CREDIT OPENS that accept 1818 credits THAN connect with Catholic high schools but to help change speaks to how widely 100 the culture of education in St. Louis by creating access PATHWAYS FOR respected SLU is as an 1818 partner schools in six for all,” DeLaria said. academic institution,” states In the 1980s, SLU became one of the first universi- DeLaria said. “Educators ties in the country and the only Jesuit university at the STUDENTS recognize we’re offering time to offer dual credit courses in high schools nation- — BRETTON DELARIA students an authentic wide. The 1818 program now has partnerships with and legitimate college more than 100 schools in six states (Missouri, Kansas, education.” Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Hawaii). A majority of SLU’s DeLaria said pro- 50 1818 partners remain Catholic high schools. fessors at colleges and New 1818 adjunct SLU’s dual credit course selections have quadrupled universities report that 1818 students are their top per- instructors in 2017 in the last decade. SLU offers nearly 70 different dual formers, with GPAs of 3.5 or higher. 1818 students also credit courses in 35 disciplines including history, sci- tend to be more involved in campus activities, includ- ence, math, foreign languages, women’s studies and ing student government and service work. political science. High school juniors and seniors can In addition, a growing number of studies show HIGH STANDARDS liaisons offer guidance, answer questions and give Associate professor of take up to 18 dual credit hours per semester. that dual credit students are more likely to enroll in feedback for teaching SLU courses. Liaisons also make chemistry Paul Jelliss Dual credit students are invited to luncheons with four-year colleges, earn higher grades than peers who 10 Patiño and other 1818 adjunct instructors are required (fifth from right) facilitates annual visits to the high school classrooms and share department deans, have access to SLU’s network of haven’t taken dual credit classes and are more likely to New 1818 partner schools to meet the same criteria SLU uses to hire the a conversation among their observations with the adjunct instructors. teachers receiving 1818 libraries, are eligible for 1818 scholarships and get earn a degree. in 2017 University’s on-campus adjunct instructors. Patiño said what he has learned from SLU profes- training on SLU’s campus. preferential enrollment status over other incoming Mario Patiño, a high school biology teacher at a 1818 instructors participate in SLU workshops and sors and his colleagues has given him the confidence to freshmen. As part of a pilot program, dual credit high charter school on the island of Hawaii, can attest to professional development courses to maintain their cre- teach community college courses. school students have been invited to campus for a for- this. He became an 1818 adjunct instructor four years dentials, and they are offered stipends to pursue advanced “What we’re doing for high school students and their eign language immersion day. ago while teaching at a private school. Patiño said 100 degrees at SLU. High schools are awarded grants to teachers is phenomenal,” DeLaria said. “If you’re look- “We do everything we can to make 1818 students feel percent of his 1818 students enrolled in four-year col- encourage their teachers to train as 1818 instructors. ing for an example of how SLU is living its mission and connected to SLU,” DeLaria said. “Even if they don’t leges and universities. 95 Every summer, SLU hosts a symposium for its more being a part of the community, the 1818 program is it.” choose to attend SLU, I tell students they’ll always be “Even though the 1818 courses are tough and stu- Percentage of alumni who than 500 adjunct instructors to discuss academic The community went global this fall. The 1818 Billikens.” dents struggle at times, their confidence grows,” he said. report their 1818 course trends and program protocols. Patiño wakes at 4 a.m. Advanced College Credit Program has established its Of the more than 6,000 high school students who “Students learn to become independent, self-directed was as challenging, if not in Hawaii to participate in the dialogue online. first international partnership with a high school in participate in the 1818 program each year, approxi- thinkers. They’re ready for college and are motivated more challenging, than their Each high school instructor has access to an China. UTAS mately 350 enroll at SLU. to achieve.” university studies appointed SLU faculty member as a resource. These

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU occupancy, student advising, faculty research and corporate partnerships, among CONVERSATIONS FOR THE DECADE AHEAD other priorities. For all initiatives, the University is using a team-based approach to No discussion about SLU’s tomorrow can begin with- help cultivate leadership, enhance cross-training and reduce bureaucracy. out a clear understanding of what’s happening in “At its core, Operational Excellence is about supporting a shift in our culture and higher education today. Through a new speaker series, changing the way — and speed — we develop and implement solutions,” said Dr. Eric “Conversations for the Decade Ahead,” the University is S. Armbrecht (Grad PH ’07), associate professor in the Center for Health Outcomes bringing national experts to campus for presentations Research and School of Medicine and co-leader of the Operational Excellence open to the entire SLU community. Some speakers also Program Coordination Team. are participating in small-group workshops with fac- ulty, staff and administrators. CAMPUS MASTER PLAN During this academic year, thought leaders and As University operations become more effective and SLU positions itself for the best-selling authors will explore a number of critical future, it’s important that its buildings and physical plant are ready for the future, too. topics, including trends currently impacting higher With this in mind, the University has developed its first campus master plan since education and the challenges that colleges and univer- 1989 — looking at where SLU is today and how its strategic priorities will impact sities can expect to face in the near term. Participants facilities during the next 10 to 20 years. will also learn about innovations taking place in the The plan identifies a number of needs. Among them are new academic buildings, industry and the steps SLU may take to become the including a new interdisciplinary facility for science, technology, engineering and leading innovator among Catholic universities. math (STEM) programs; renovation of Macelwane Hall, which was damaged in a “Successful transformation of an institution as com- fire last May; street enhancements on Grand Boulevard to address pedestrian safety; plex as SLU can only come through an engaged and and investment in the University’s utility informed conversation across our community,” said infrastructure. Doug Williams, professor, co-leader of Operational SLU also plans to partner with Great When the Excellence and organizer of the speakers series. “Our Rivers Greenway on a trail project to con- speakers and workshop series will kick-start that nect Forest Park to the St. Louis Gateway skies clear, process.” Arch. The project also will connect the University’s north and south campuses. colleges and GROWTH While the master plan doesn’t call for Some industry experts have called the current state anything specific on the site of the for- universities of higher education a “perfect storm.” When the skies mer Pevely Dairy at Grand and Chouteau clear, colleges and universities that were able to adapt Avenue, it does note that the prominent that were able and innovate will emerge ready to grow and thrive in corner should be home to a significant to adapt and the years ahead. To help Saint Louis University grow, structure one day. SLU appointed Justin Daffron, S.J. (Grad Ed ’00) special “In the process of building the master innovate will assistant to the president for growth in February 2017. plan, we engaged many different stake- In this newly created role, Daffron is leading a group holders and identified a number of desires emerge ready of deans and vice presidents charged with developing within our campus community,” said recommendations for programs and opportunities that Michael Lucido (A&S ’98), vice president to grow and have the potential to generate new net revenues, raise for facilities. “This plan gives us direction SLU’s national prominence and extend the University’s and will help us prioritize the strategic use thrive in the educational mission to new markets. of our capital dollars in the most mean- “The strong commitment of our faculty and admin- ingful way.” years ahead. istration to innovate, coupled with a diverse array With the campus master plan now com- of strong academic programs, positions SLU well to Saint Louis University’s strategic plan SLU is not immune to these pressures. pleted, feasibility work for identified needs has begun. — developed by the SLU community and advance within the competitive landscape of higher To realize change, to become the institution boldly education,” Daffron said. approved by the board of trustees in envisioned in the University’s strategic plan, there are CORE CURRICULUM The Growth Initiatives Committee has analyzed September 2015 — sets the University’s five key initiatives underway that comprise an effort For educational institutions, curriculum is the backbone of teaching and learning. more than 400 ideas generated by faculty, staff and known as Transforming SLU. These initiatives are course for the future, answering the question: While academic units at Saint Louis University have had their own core curricula students — categorizing areas with the greatest poten- charting the course for everything from an enhanced for varying years, there isn’t one University-wide core curriculum for every student tial for growth. To refine the list further, there will “What must we become?” undergraduate experience to future building needs. pursuing a baccalaureate degree at SLU. be conversations with deans, faculty, staff, students, The answer: A world-class research university. To direct the development of a University Core Curriculum, the Office of the clinicians, industry partners and trustees. Ultimately, One that delivers excellence in education and medical OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Provost has collaborated with deans and faculty to develop a new core of learning the committee will put forward three to five efforts care. One that serves as a catalyst for groundbreaking The most established of the Transforming SLU initiatives is the Operational outcomes for all undergraduate students, regardless of major or degree. In essence, that will help SLU grow and give the University the change in the region. One that is innovative and entre- Excellence Program. Launched in February 2016, the program seeks to foster an these outcomes are what all SLU students are expected to know or be able to do by resources it needs to pursue a path to even greater preneurial in all that it does, while always staying true institution-wide culture of excellence, effectiveness and efficiency that is deeply the time they graduate. excellence. to its mission and values. rooted in the University’s institutional mission and Catholic, Jesuit values — a goal “The new outcomes demonstrate SLU’s expectation that our graduates will signifi- It’s a lofty destination, to be sure. directly described in the strategic plan. cantly advance their understanding of themselves, others and the world we share,” For more information and updates about To get there, the University must navigate current Guided by an internal steering committee, the program began with a comprehensive said University Provost Dr. Nancy Brickhouse. Transforming SLU initiatives, visit trends in higher education that include rising costs and review of SLU’s operations and extensive stakeholder engagement. The result was a The core learning outcomes are expected to be finalized by the end of the calendar slu.edu/transforming-slu. declining revenues, student debt and greater compe- diagnostic report that detailed opportunities for cost savings, revenue growth and year. Upon their adoption, a faculty-led committee will use them to design a new, tition for fewer high school graduates. In response to other improvements across 25 focus areas. University-wide core curriculum, starting with a general framework expected to be these and other factors, institutions all across the coun- After reducing expenses and flattening organizational layers last spring, attention completed by fall 2018. try are being challenged to change like never before. has turned to growth and process improvements with a focus on enrollment, housing

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Fran in academic attire in 1985, ready to attend graduation at the University of Dayton

The Original Dr. Pestello DR. FRANCES PESTELLO FINDS HER WAY AS SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY’S FIRST FIRST LADY.

— By Amy Garland

r. Frances Pestello describes herself as “a sociologist of law and deviance,” and she has the curriculum vitae to prove it. Her research has examined the effect of punishment on behavior, the impact of psychiatric medi- cations on the sense of self, and the relationship between attitudes and behavior with her spouse, Fred. She’s taught abroad in Italy and England. She’s been a professor for more than three decades. Her husband, University President Dr. Fred P. Pestello, has referred to her as “the original Dr. Pestello,” hinting affectionately at the fact that she earned an advanced degree before he did. He might also call her original for another reason, though: Fran is the very first first lady of Saint Louis University.

The Origins of a Life in Higher Ed Fran grew up in suburban Philadelphia, in a town called Berwyn, “the next stop over from the very last stop on the Main Line,” she said. One of six children in the Geyer family and the oldest daughter, Fran took care of her siblings. And although she always knew she wanted eventually to be a mother, she also knew she was destined to get a degree. “My father had a Ph.D. in chemistry, and my mother entered Vassar College at 16 and got a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. “They were huge advocates of education, particularly at small, liberal arts colleges,” she said. “All of my siblings ended up at similar kinds of schools, and all went on to get professional or advanced degrees.” Fran chose the College of Wooster in Ohio and fell in love with higher learning. “I hadn’t been a great high school student, in part due to a spinal fusion for scoliosis at 16, which took me out of most of my junior year,” she said. “I got to college and thought, if this is what education can be, I love it. Everything I took my first year, I thought, I could major in this.” She graduated in 1973 with a degree in sociology. But instead of continuing to graduate studies, she got a place in Kent, Ohio, with two college friends and spent a year working full time at a fast-food restaurant while figuring out her next step. Dr. Frances Pestello in the library at Samuel Cupples House, “It was a great sociological experiment,” she joked. “I quickly decided: This is not one of her favorite places on campus what I want to do with the rest of my life.”

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Leap of Faith After her wedding Marianist affiliation in a bigger city A year later, while taking a graduate course about social reception, in 1981 — a place that suited both of them. stratification at the University of Akron, she met Fred Dayton created a shared position for Pestello, who was just beginning graduate school. them, the second one in the department. “He remembers being in the class together, but I don’t “It was pretty innovative on Dayton’s part,” she said. remember that detail,” she admitted. “I do remember “The deal was that we had half-time teaching, but we 1950 1956 Sr. Thelma Mitchell (NURS) lives in St. John Dorenkamper (COOK) retired being in the same graduate student cohort, and after a were not defined as part-time faculty; we were both Louis. She is retired and volunteers at after 46 years as an investment real few years as friends we began dating.” treated as full-time faculty, each with one full vote on Richard Ampleman (A&S ’50, GRAD COOK Dr. Joseph Lawrence (DENT) received SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital and estate professional. He lives in northern ’57) is happy living at Leisure Care in St. a Volunteer of the Year award for his They married in 1981. First Lady all matters.” SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Colorado where he enjoys skiing and Charles, Missouri, after spending 60 hospice work. He lives in Orlando, Hospital. hiking in the Rocky Mountains. “Fred thought it wasn’t a good idea at that point Firsts In due course, they earned their own faculty posi- years in two homes in Florissant. Florida. because neither of us had a job, but we took a leap tions. He eventually took the administrative route, Doris Wild Helmering (A&S ’64, GRAD First Name: Dr. Wilbur Manchette (DENT) of faith,” she said. “Marriage is always a leap of faith, ultimately becoming Dayton’s provost and senior vice continues 1962 SW ’68) wrote The Boy Whose Idea Could Harriet. Frances is to work three days a week at All in The 1957 right? And you know what? It all worked out.” president for educational affairs. She ended up as the John R. “Bob” Long Jr. (IT ’62, GRAD Feed the World. She lives in St. Louis. actually her middle Family Dental, a practice he founded in Hon. Gerald J. Mossinghoff (IT), former COOK ’69) owns a business in Cape Coral, It all worked out. If Fran Pestello has a mantra, that chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology Evansville, Indiana. He has practiced head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark name. and Social Work, a position Fred held a few years ear- Florida. He and his wife, Karen Hennelly 1965 might be it. dentistry for 65 years. Office, has testified in more than 140 Long, met at SLU and have six children lier. And in the meantime, they started their family, patent lawsuits as an expert witness. He First Course and 12 grandchildren. Dr. George M. Bohigian (MED) received Taught at SLU: having a daughter, Vitina, and son, Freddie. 1951 is an adjunct professor of patent law at the Presidential Award from the St. Eventually, Fred left Dayton to become president of the George Washington University. He John Mellen (PARKS) retired from a second Louis Ophthalmological Society. He is “Intro to Sociology.” A. Joseph Yungman (PARKS) is retired and Jeanne, his wife of 58 years, live in Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse, New career in executive education with Loyola a professor of clinical ophthalmology She also teaches in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He has Arlington, Virginia. Marymount University. His first career at Washington University School of York. This time, they lived separately for two years traveled to many parts of the world and “Deviant Behavior.” was in aerospace with the U.S. Air Force, Medicine in St. Louis. while he settled into his position and she finished up spends his time volunteering. 1958 Hughes Aircraft Co. (now Boeing) and her term as department chair. TRW Inc. (now Northrop Grumman). He Dr. Terry L. Heyns (A&S) is professor First Trip as Dr. Robert L. Duncan (A&S) is a clinical SLU’s First Lady: She arrived at Le Moyne as a full-time, tenured fac- 1952 lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. emeritus at Lake Superior State child psychologist in private practice. He University. After retiring from the U.S. Air Madrid, Spain. She ulty member, but a third of her time was dedicated to William Compas (A&S) and his wife, lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary O’Hara Wyman (A&S ’62, GRAD Force as a career officer, he served in recently visited again the president’s office. Patricia, celebrated their 65th wedding ED ’68) made the 500-mile Camino de Lake State’s fire science and emergency “It was a good transition,” she said. It seemed to lay anniversary in August in Carlsbad, Rita (Witte) Moran (GRAD ED) is a drama Santiago pilgrimage alone at age 70. medical services department for 26 to celebrate the 50th California, surrounded by family. and classical music critic for the Ventura anniversary of SLU- the groundwork for the next role she’d take. Her journey is chronicled in her book, years. He is a training and hazardous County Star, and a restaurant critic. She Grandma’s on the Camino. She lives in material adviser with the Sault Ste. Marie Madrid. 1953 lives in Ventura, California. San Francisco. (Michigan) Fire Department and with the All-In Chippewa County, Michigan, Office of Sr. Dorothy Helbling (A&S ’53, GRAD ED First Date with In March 2014, Fred Pestello was appointed the 33rd Bonnie (Boehler) Owens (A&S) is a Emergency Services. ’56) celebrated 70 years as an Ursuline 1959 the President: president of Saint Louis University. Fran found herself volunteer for a hospice company and a sister. She taught in Illinois and her Elizabeth (Noone) Aragona (A&S) is “Our first ‘official’ facing yet another decision about career and place. certified spiritual director. She and her Bob McAndrew (PARKS) retired in native North Dakota for 22 years before a retired teacher in Michigan who has husband, Tom, downsized from their home 2015 after 50 years in aviation. Initially date was an evening “I did think about staying at Le Moyne briefly, serving as provincial superior and traveled the world. She has five children The Pestellos of 45 years. They live in Tigard, Oregon. with Boeing, he spent 25 years with general superior for the Ursuline Sisters and nine grandchildren. East Coast Girl, in Pella, Iowa, walk in one of the because my department didn’t want to lose me and I Lockheed in international sales. In 1994 where Fran parks in Akron. He liked my students and colleagues, but quickly I decided of Belleville, Illinois. She lives in Maple he established an aviation management Cleveland Boy Dr. J. Daniel Kelley (A&S) coauthored 1963 had her first Mount, Kentucky, where she is active in consulting company. He lives in Edmond, The couple was about to embark on arrived at my door to go unscripted and jump all-in and see what presented Problems in Classical and Quantum teaching job the Powerhouse of Prayer. Richard Ashley (A&S) retired in 1997 Oklahoma. a series of leaps of faith, as they hop- with a bouquet of pink itself in St. Louis,” she said. “And that’s worked out.” Mechanics with Jacob J. Leventhal. He after 33 years with a sales career at scotched around for academic positions. sweetheart roses. To What worked out this time is an arrangement that Albert Hrubetz (IT), president of Hrubetz lives in St. Louis. Champion Products. He volunteers as a James Thole (COOK) retired from In 1983, both Pestellos entered the job market. this day, he surprises allows for all kinds of work she loves. She teaches Oil Co., published a book about his 64 sixth-grade religion education teacher at U.S. Bank and serves on the board of Mary Stuart Lanahan Laflamme (A&S) years of international oil exploration, A his local parish. He lives in Myrtle Beach, directors of the Route 66 Association While he finished his graduate work, she interviewed me with fresh flowers.” part time in SLU’s Department of Sociology and and her husband, Tom Fleming, moved to Geophysicist’s Memoir: Searching for Oil South Carolina. of Missouri. He lives in Manchester, at Central College in Pella, Iowa. Anthropology. She’s on the board of the Library on Six Continents. He lives in Dallas. Douglas, Arizona, to continue their work First Child: Missouri. “I came back and said to him, ‘I think they liked me. Associates of Saint Louis University and of her neigh- with the border ministry of the School Hon. James Hartenbach (A&S ’63, LAW I think they’re going to make me an offer. And I don’t Vitina. She also has a borhood association in the nearby Central West End. Sisters of Norte Dame. She teaches a ’66) belongs to the National Academy of Cristine Vennari-Caton (A&S) wrote and 1955 quilting class at a women’s cooperative think you’re going to like it there,’” she said with a son, Freddie. She recently joined the board of the International Distinguished Neutrals, a professional published a series of children’s picture Evelyn Knight (A&S ’55, GRAD SW ’60) in Agua Prieta, Mexico, across the association of mediators and arbitrators. books called The Adventures of Cefa the smile. Institute, another venerable institution in St. Louis. lives in Long Beach, California, and border from Douglas. First Place to He is a mediator at U.S. Arbitration and Cat. She is in the process of animating “I was an East Coast girl, and Fred was a Cleveland And of course, she supports the president’s office. works as a justice commissioner for the Look for Her at Mediation. He lives in St. Louis. them for Android and Apple devices. She boy. We were both out of our element in small-town SLU: “I’m happy to extend Fred’s reach, while adding my South Coast Air Quality Management 1960 lives in Ocala, Florida. Iowa,” she said. “Let’s put it this way: If you wanted own touch and perspective,” she said. “I think the most District. She has spent her life as an Samuel Cupples activist fighting for justice. Mary Helen (Klinge) Drucker (A&S) is 1964 Italian food, you had to go all the way to Des Moines.” value I can add is being at things he can’t be at, on the House, her favorite a writer and editor who lives in Freeport, Mary (Meyer) Dill (A&S ’64, GRAD SW ’66) has 1966 But the couple had made a deal that whoever got the academic side especially. I’ve been an academic and a Dr. Gerald Luebbe (DENT) retired in Illinois. campus building. lived in Atlanta since 1970. She has two Dr. Anthony V. Cervone (GRAD A&S) first job offer would take it. Central College wanted her faculty member since 1983. I know the academic world.” 1995 after 40 years of dentistry. He’s sons and four grandchildren. She retired published Indelible Roots: An Italian’s She also loves James Owens (A&S) is a member of the — and within weeks, the University of Dayton made And what does the husband of “the original Dr. been married to his wife, Sarah, for from serving at an adult day care center. Journey in America. He retired after 52 Chaifetz Arena during 61 years, and they have four children, Ignatian Volunteer Corps and spends his him an offer. They made the difficult decision to start Pestello” think? men’s and women’s 12 grandchildren and three great- time finding jobs for marginalized people their careers apart. “I learned a long time ago that little of significance is in the St. Louis area. basketball games. granddaughters. He lives in Evansville, “We thought it would be for one semester,” she said. accomplished alone,” he said. “My time at Saint Louis Indiana. “It ended up being a year and a half.” First Time She University has absolutely been made possible by Fran’s 1961 John Rumford (PARKS) is serving his “For many who work in the academy, working in the Felt Like a support, guidance and presence. I appreciate the sacri- John P. “Nick” Carter (IT ’61, GRAD ’64) St. Louisan: second four-year term as mayor of Fort same city, let alone the same institution, is rare,” Fred fices she has made in her career and the investments she Lawn, South Carolina. He served in the retired from Boeing after working as said. “Fran and I worked in separate cities twice. It was When she used the has made in SLU and St. Louis. I feel blessed to be here Office of the Governor of South Carolina an aerospace engineer for 40 years. BASKETBALL GAMES He lives with his wife, Jacquelyn, in tough. But during those times, we operated as a team — landmark Amoco sign together, continuing to share our life now in St. Louis.” for nine years and was a faculty member Cheer on the Billikens this season at pregame receptions before at Winthrop University for seven years. Chesterfield, Missouri. we always have.” at Highway 40 and “We’ve had intertwined lives wherever we’ve been,” men’s basketball games in St. Louis and across the country. For more Eventually, Fran joined Fred at Dayton, which Skinker Boulevard to she said. information and to register, visit alumni.slu.edu/mensbasketball. offered not just more opportunity but also a Catholic, navigate. And you know what? It always works out. UTAS

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UNIVERSITAS WINTER 2018 WWW.SLU.EDU CLASS NOTES PHOTO BY J. GRASSA FOR WKC FOR GRASSA J. BY PHOTO years of teaching Italian, Spanish and Mildred (Lucas) Patterson (GRAD ED) is ALUMNI 1968 Latin in the university system of Florida SPOTLIGHT happily retired in North Carolina. She is (Tampa and Orlando). He directed a David Barbeau (COOK ’68, GRAD COOK ’72) enjoying the sunshine, the beach and the summer study program for 50 years retired from TI Automotive in December mountains. in Urbino, Italy. He misses the years 2016. He has been active with his at SLU, where he met his wife, Nancy GAIL company, Barbeau Consulting, with Edward W. Rataj (COOK ’69, LAW ’72) (Newstreet) Cervone (A&S ’62, GRAD A&S projects primarily in China. He lives in coaches four grade school/middle school ’64), and many friends. He lives in Winter MILLER Sugar Land, Texas. chess teams, including the Immacolata Park, Florida. School third and fourth grade Catholic BISHER Bridget (Lawler) Brennan (A&S ’68, Youth Council St. Louis City/County Dr. Peter J. Dempsey (MED) was GRAD A&S ’94) and her husband, Dr. champions. He also coordinates the Jerome Shen (A&S ’62), published honored in April with the Gold Medal he doesn’t mind chess programs at homeless shelters at Award from the Society of Breast their second book on the spirituality of Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church S the barking. In fact, marriage, Falling In Love ... Finding God:

Imaging. He lives in Houston. WKC FOR DUKES S. BY PHOTO and Biddle House. it’s followed her most Marriage and the Spiritual Exercises of Dr. Thomas J. Farrell (A&S ’66, GRAD of her career. For Gail St. Ignatius. They live in St. Louis. Larry Zetterlind (PARKS) retired in June ED ’68, ’74), professor emeritus at Miller Bisher (Grad after 21 years as chief pilot for Hartzell Mary (Sestric) Heyde (A&S) retired from the University of Minnesota Duluth, A&S ’01), a lifelong love Propeller. He looks forward to more published a series of essays about Parkway School District in the St. Louis flying, bicycling and hiking adventures, Walter J. Ong, S.J., that are available of dogs led her down a path that includes look- area. She is trying to play golf and enjoys and time with his wife, Maureen, kids and online through the University ing out for the health and happiness of man’s best time with her four grandchildren. grandkids. He lives in Piqua, Ohio. of Minnesota Libraries’ Digital friend and to the “Super Bowl” of the show dog Dr. Robert J. Muller (A&S) published Conservancy, including his essay “Rudolf world, the Westminster Kennel Club. a textbook, Hospital Emergency 1970 Easter Egg Hunt Voderholzer’s Book on Henri de Lubac Beginning with her parents’ bearded collies Management: A Bible for Hospital Hop over to campus for the annual and Walter J. Ong’s Thought.” Barbara (Braveman) Paster (GRAD ED) when she was a kid, Bisher was never far from Emergency Managers. He is in private has spent more than two decades as Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 24. William Stone (PARKS) retired from a dog show. Her parents introduced her to the practice and is the sector chief of the a historic role-player at the Strawbery Trans World Airlines as an engineering InfraGard section of FBI New Orleans. Banke Museum in Portsmouth, alumni.slu.edu/easter18 sport. He is also president of Emergency manager at the beginning of 2001. Since She went on to become the first junior han- New Hampshire. She has seven then, he has enjoyed volunteering for Management, a hospital consulting firm. grandchildren. Habitat For Humanity, the Airline History dler to qualify for the Westminster Kennel His two previous books were published Bisher (second from left) 1972 1975 Museum and his local church food pantry. Club’s prestigious Junior Showmanship compe- a St. Louis-based adver- for internal use in the federal government. Dr. Mary C. Brucker (NURS ’70, GRAD appears on Good Morning Jessie Knight (A&S) is managing director Gerard Carmody (LAW), director of His six children and their families keep tition with a bearded collie, and the first to place tising firm when she He lives in Slidell, Louisiana. NURS ’71) co-edited Pharmacology for America with (from left) Women’s Health, which received the of Knight Angels Consulting. He lives in the Missouri Coalition for the Right to him busy. He lives in Leawood, Kansas. in that competition. By age 12, she had handled GMA’s Michael Strahan, was drawn to SLU’s Paul Rothermich (COOK) is a “shoe American Journal of Nursing Book of the San Diego. Counsel, was honored by the National handlers Liz Oster and Kent graduate program in her first dog to a championship title. guy” at Helping Hands of St. Louis, a Year Award in Maternal Child Nursing. Multiple Sclerosis Society for being a Boyles with their children, Patricia Preckel (A&S) and Robert 1967 While other college undergraduates were communication. free clothing store that operates out of She lives in Arlington, Texas. longtime board member. He lives in St. GMA’s T.J. Holmes, and Killoren (A&S) celebrated their 45th Dr. Daniel Durbin (PARKS) retired after “I was looking for a a former parish church in Toledo, Ohio. Louis. waiting tables, Bisher became a professional Rumor, the 2017 Best in wedding anniversary in August. They live 45 years as a professor at the University graduate program that While attending SLU night classes in the Michael Lobstein (PARKS) retired from handler of show dogs. She took clients’ dogs as Show winner. in Gahanna, Ohio, and have four children Robert Sontag (A&S ’75, GRAD SW ’77) of Cincinnati, where he served as chair early 1960s, he worked in the downtown Luhr Bros. as chief pilot after 38 years. well as her own to numerous awards, including was close by, and I liked and three grandchildren. was selected as “Social Worker of the of the architectural engineering program. office of Edison Brothers, the women’s He and his wife, Cathy, live in Belleville, After Best in Show is that it was in the city,” Year” by Social Work Leaders in Health He lives in Spain and teaches at the National Specialty Best of Breed and All-Breed awarded at Madison Square shoe retailer. Illinois. Dr. Dennis Maher (A&S) celebrated his Care of Metro St. Louis. Polytechnic University of Valencia. Best in Show wins. Garden, Bisher leaves the Bisher said. “It felt more urban and in the middle 52nd year as an actor by appearing in Bisher went on to become a dog show judge, telecast booth to conduct 1969 1971 a one-man show, Einstein: A Theatrical Mary Beth (Hoemeke) Gagnepain (ED) a press conference on the certified canine fitness trainer and, most of everything.” Portrait, at Theatre Arlington in Texas. 1976 and her husband, Gary, celebrated their floor. Here, she’s joined by Dr. Lawrence Gettleman (DENT) Elvera (Goering) Johnson (SW) retired Today, when not Maher has taught at the University of Lawrence Altman (LAW) wrote a book, 50th wedding anniversary in July. They recently, the first female analyst to call the handler Kent Boyles and received the Distinguished Alumnus after 19 years as a social worker at Plaza Texas-Arlington since 1982. From Bullying to Sexual Violence, which live in St. Charles, Missouri. Westminster Kennel Club show in 30 years. As Rumor. explaining the dif- Medal from the Harvard School of Dental West Care Center in Topeka, Kansas. was published in December 2016. He the club’s director of communications, she fol- ference between an Medicine for innovative research in She worked as a social worker for 45 biomaterials and prosthodontics. He lives in Overland Park, Kansas. William R. Haine (A&S ’67, LAW ’73) took lows the “Road to Westminster,” conducting Afghan hound and a beagle, Bisher is busy years, with a focus on long-term care. 1973 his oath of office for the fifth time as a lives in Louisville, Kentucky. She is involved in various volunteer raising her daughter and working on another Frank Dunne (LAW) retired from his law Donna (Robinson) Barnes (SW) is a member of the Illinois Senate. He was interviews, shooting video and running the projects. practice and spends his time traveling part-time education assistant at St. Louis named assistant majority leader of the club’s communications strategy. The videos, she dog-related passion project: a book about how to and exercising. He lives in Chesterfield, Community College. Democratic caucus. Haine and his wife, said, give viewers a sneak-peak not only of the keep dogs healthy and in shape. Terry Love (PARKS) has been retired from Northwest Airlines/Delta Airlines Missouri. Anna (Schickel) Haine (A&S ’70), have sport but also of the “players” before they set paw “Growing up in the sport of dogs, I’ve always Kenneth M. Chackes (LAW), with for 12 years. One of his hobbies is seven children and 31 grandchildren. physically conditioned, trained and cared for a Chackes Carlson, has joined the on the green carpet of Madison Square Garden. writing aviation books, and he recently lot of canines,” she explained. “When I looked 1974 mediation panel of U.S. Arbitration and Dr. Neil H. Katz (A&S ’67, GRAD A&S ’69) “The Road to Westminster allows me to meet published his 20th, U.S. Army Twin Dr. Mervyn D’Souza (GRAD A&S) retired Mediation. He lives in St. Louis. received the William Kreidler Award from outside the dog-sports world and saw that the Beeches. He lives in Shawnee, Kansas. top dogs from across the U.S. and to learn more after nearly 40 years as a professor at the Association of Conflict Resolution. about what makes them unique,” she said. “I get pet population is falling into the same patterns Cynthia Clisham (NURS) is an assistant BASEBALL Marianne Muellerleile (A&S) appeared Kean University. He served as chairman He has been a faculty member at as humans regarding obesity, it occurred to me nurse manager and clinical educator in to talk with breeders and owners about their in two episodes of Elementary this spring of the Department of Philosophy and Syracuse University and Nova Join alumni, parents and friends the operating room at St. Luke’s Hospital passion, purebred dogs. The more breeds I meet that I could help. If I can use my knowledge and in several recent commercials for Religion, as well as chairman of the Southeastern University for 45 years. of the University in your city for in Chesterfield, Missouri. and spend time with, the more dogs I want to based on 30-plus years of experience to help a McDonald’s. She lives in Los Angeles. faculty senate. He lives in Edison, New a pregame party before a Major Jersey. Alan Steinberg (LAW) is a partner at own!” pet lose weight and live a longer life, I will.” Carole S. Dabbs (GRAD NURS ’76, GRAD Steinberg and Steinberg, which received League Baseball game next Raymond Schlanser (PARKS) retired Bisher’s role blends her love of showing — By Amelia Flood Richard Humphrey (PARKS), who retired ED ’92) received the distinguished the Gerald R. Ortballs Outstanding Law from flying for American Airlines and is summer. For more information from Boeing, is a railroad engineer at alumnus award from Perryville High Practice Award from Legal Services of dogs, stints in advertising and the education driving an RV across the country with his and event dates, visit the St. Louis Zoo and bus driver for School in Perryville, Missouri, in 2015. Eastern Missouri in August. Steinberg she received at Saint Louis University. The wife, Carolyn. alumni.slu.edu/baseball18. McKendree University. She lives in Tuscumbia, Alabama. lives in St. Louis. Arnold, Missouri, native had been working at

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G.J. Meyer, A&S ’62 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, JOURNALIST By Marie Dilg Dr. J. Collins Corder (MED) is the 2017 Dr. Sheila (Adams) Leander (GRAD 1985 Lisa (Schorb) Meyer (DOISY) joined Life president of the St. Louis Metropolitan NURS) is an associate professor at Care Centers of America as regional Medical Society, which represents Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Jeanne (Menke) Carey (NURS) is the rehab director for Missouri. physicians in the St. Louis area. He School of Nursing. She lost her husband simulation lab manager at Baylor Meyer is born in north St. Louis He spends a year at Harvard on a practices internal medicine with BJC of 39 years in September. University School of Nursing. She Suzanne (Arena) Passarelli (A&S) is 1940 to a postal-worker father and a 1971 Nieman Fellowship. He returns to St. received her master’s degree in higher serving in an assignment in Australia Medical Group. He is married to homemaker mother. Louis and joins FleishmanHillard, a public relations radiologist Dr. Patricia (Guithues) Sr. (Charles) Maureen O’Neill (GRAD ED) education in August 2016 and her with the United States and Australian firm. His biggest client is McDonnell Douglas, where Corder (A&S ’76, GRAD A&S ’77, MED ’82), is celebrating 50 years as an Ursuline certification as a health care simulation governments to support national security “My parents assumed and they have two grown children. sister. Since 2006 she has served as a educator in October 2016. She lives in and their intelligence communities. that any degree was he later becomes vice president of communications. caseworker at the Sister Visitor Center in Dallas. a ticket to the middle Reunion 2018 Jeffrey Frankel (LAW) is chief legal Louisville, Kentucky. Paul Steger (A&S) is the director of the Peter DiMarco (PARKS) lives in Virginia Tech School of Performing class, so they didn’t UNDERGRAD CLASSES officer and an equity partner of StarCycle His second book, Executive Blues: Dr. Gary Pontrelli (MED) received the Philadelphia. He is the director of Arts. He is also an arts administrator, OF 1968, 1993, 2003, Franchise, an indoor cycling fitness class fret when I majored in 1988 Down and Out in Corporate America, business based in Portland, Oregon. 2017 Catholic Doctor of the Year award strategy and planning for Comcast/NBC. an actor, a theater director and a fight English rather than something ‘practical.’ I was free 2008 AND 2013 from Mission Doctors Association. He choreographer with Broadway credits. receives critical praise. Dr. Susan M. (Hickey) Donovan (GRAD to go my own way.” Help plan the perfect Stephanie (Clabby) Madan (ED) is a lives in Ventura, California. ED) is president of Bellarmine University “I do a lot of my writing in longhand and am a reunion weekend paralegal for the Department of the 1987 Attorney General in Rhode Island. She Dr. Charles B. Puskas (GRAD A&S) is a in Louisville, Kentucky. compulsive rewriter. I set first drafts aside to cool, for your class. has two daughters, Nitasha and Smriti. lecturer in the Department of Classical Dr. Don Kikkawa (MED) is a professor He lies about his age to work as a until I can look at them objectively. Doing a second Dennis Gehrt (ED) and Near Eastern Studies at the , city administrator for of clinical ophthalmology. He is chief 1954 soda jerk. draft, I’ll often change almost every line. Writing is a Visit slu.edu/reunion Platte City, Missouri, received the 2017 University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. of the Division of Ophthalmic Plastic hard, hard process for me.” or email [email protected] 1979 His book, Hebrews, the General Letters, Jay T. Bell Professional Management and Reconstructive Surgery, and Award from the Missouri City/County for more information. Joyce Aboussie (A&S) was named to the and Revelation, was published in 2016. vice chairman at the University of He receives a St. Louis Magazine “Power List” in 2016. Management Association. California at San Diego Department of 1958 Ophthalmology and UCSD Shiley Eye National Merit He moves to Manhattan to join 1981 Hon. Andrew Gleeson (LAW), a chief 1996 James Kubicki, S.J. (A&S ’76, GRAD A&S Dr. Jeffrey Dean (A&S) received a Institute in La Jolla. Scholarship and goes to SLU. an investor relations agency. He judge with the State of Illinois 20th ’77) is director of the St. Francis Mission doctorate in computer science with a Dr. Brian Willoughby (MED) practices eventually gets a publisher’s contract to complete Judicial Circuit, was selected as a 2017 “I joined The University News, on the Rosebud Reservation in South specialty in cyber security in September internal medicine in Hettinger, North Tom McConnell (DOISY), a physical McCormick Foundation executive fellow. where I found fun, bright, A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914- Dakota. at the Naval Postgraduate School in Dakota. therapist and certified athletic trainer for Monterey, California. He is a retired Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, intellectually lively people. That 1918. Sr. Suzanne Sims (GRAD ED), director of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. 1982 1986 won championships with women’s transformed college for me.” “Travel in Europe made me aware that we Americans faith formation at St. Pius X Church in He and his wife, Marla S. (Hendricks) basketball in 2016 and 2017. He is the Paul Gore (A&S) is dean of the College of have little sense of how terrible a tragedy WWI was Owensboro, Kentucky, is celebrating 50 Dean (A&S ’78), live in San Antonio, Texas. Kevin Cavanaugh (LAW) practices family owner of Greater Pittsburgh Physical He becomes a copy boy at Professional Sciences and a professor because it was a relatively easy war for us. It was the years as an Ursuline sister. She is a retired Latin teacher. The Deans law, real estate and estate planning with Therapy and Sports Medicine, with four the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of psychology at Xavier University in have five children and six grandchildren. the Law Firm of Kevin Stuart Cavanaugh clinics throughout the area. and then a reporter for the St. destruction of a generation, a world-changing horror.” in Overland Park, Kansas. Cincinnati. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1977 Richard Joliet (COOK) is beginning Wayne Mehrhoff (GRAD A&S) is the Mike Isaacson (A&S ’86, GRAD COOK ’96), a Don Nutting (PARKS) is the general his fifth year providing new and small Rev. Dr. Susan Imbs (A&S ’82, GRAD academic coordinator for the Museum of Tony Award-winning producer and artistic He summers in Alaska de- He writes full manager of BearCat Mfg. in Wickenburg, businesses financial guidance in A&S ’85) celebrated her 10th anniversary Art and Archaeology at the University of director and executive producer of the Muny, blubbering seal skins. 2005 time, teaches at Arizona. Prescott, Arizona. as an ordained minister in May. She Missouri in Columbia. serves on the executive committee of received the Commercial Theater Institute’s colleges part time. He moves Dr. Raphael Pollock (MED) is the Dr. Richard Schwend (MED) has a new the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of Robert Whitehead Award for outstanding Susan (Kennedy) Stranquist (A&S) to England. He goes on to Kathleen Wellenreiter Klotz Chair in granddaughter, Ada. He is a professor Mid-America in the Ecumenical Catholic achievement in commercial theatre enjoys managing a global team at He is “saved from law school” by write: Cancer Research and a professor and of orthopedics and pediatrics, and Communion. She lives in Oshkosh, producing. Isaacson lives in St. Louis. Wells Fargo as technology relationship 1962 a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for director in the Division of Surgical president of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Wisconsin. manager and vice president responsible graduate work at the University of Minnesota. The Tudors: The Complete Oncology for The Ohio State University Society of North America. He lives in for technology offshoring governance. Story of England’s Most He completes a Health System. He lives in Columbus, Kansas City, Missouri. 1983 She lives in St. Louis. Notorious Dynasty (2011) Ohio. master’s degree, joins Christi (Stubblefield) Griffin(LAW) the Navy and serves as The Borgias: The Hidden Cornelia Tolbert (ED) received an Albert 1980 is celebrating 10 years as the founder A 1988 a lieutenant aboard a History (2014) Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Karen Glines and president of the Ethics Project. BILLIKEN’S Wendy Wiedemann Hudson (LAW) is Award for outstanding service in music (PS), a writer, The nonprofit works to raise the bar on chief counsel-torts for the U.S. Postal destroyer in the South The World Remade: America and education. She lives in St. Louis. collaborated ethics among attorneys, judges and TABLE Service National Tort Center. She China Sea during the in World War I (2017) with artist Billyo law enforcement to reduce wrongful SHARE YOUR worked in private practice for 11 years Vietnam War. Patrick Ward (DOISY) produced an O’Donnell to create Painting Missouri: convictions and mass incarceration. KNOWLEDGE, before joining the U.S. Postal Service award-winning short video, “I Am The Counties en Plein Air. The book Griffin has served on several boards law department. She lives in St. Louis. He collaborates Not Your Friend,” about the Miami VA PASSION AND A is in its fourth printing; it received the and has received numerous awards, Bored by his job with an Iowa 2017 on a Healthcare System that saved his life Governor’s Award in 2009 in the literary including the President’s Award for MEAL Dale Lauderback (PARKS) and his wife, 1968 and the physical therapist who turned it category from the Missouri Humanities Service and the Dr. Martin Luther King Gloria Guzman, had twins, Michelle and magazine publisher, he appeals to documentary about the papacy while beginning around. Ward lives in Fort Lauderdale, Council. Glines lives in St. Louis. Drum Major Award. She lives in St. Louis. Health sciences alumni are invited Alexander, in November 2016. They live the Des Moines Register and is hired as a police work on a first novel. Florida. to host a meal for current SLU in Long Beach, California. reporter. He later gets an offer at the St. Louis Post- “I feel I’ve established myself in nonfiction. Fiction, I Dr. Donald P. Hallmark (GRAD A&S) and students. Sign up to host a dinner Dispatch by “applying persistently.” 1984 Dr. Sharon Paltin (MED) practices family think, is a new, possibly higher challenge for me. It’s 1978 his wife, Linda, celebrated their 50th in St. Louis for students in your anniversary in June. He is a museum Julie (Steinman) King (A&S) has lived medicine in rural Northern Mendocino The wife of a serial killer sees Meyer’s byline and my Mount Everest.” area of study. The next round of Dr. Patricia Conley (NURS ’78, GRAD administrator, having retired in 2009 in Rhode Island since 1992. Her oldest County, California. asks him to tell her story. This becomes his first NURS ’89) was promoted to charge nurse meals will be held in April. from his position as director of the State daughter is a SLU sophomore studying book, The Memphis Murders, which wins an Edgar on the progressive care unit at Research of Illinois’ Dana-Thomas House Historic nutrition and dietetics, and the third To learn more, visit: 1989 Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Site. He lives in Petersburg, Illinois. generation attending SLU. Award from the Mystery Writers of America. alumni.slu.edu/ Margaret Flavan-Brown (A&S ’89, ED “The deal was that the wife would get a percentage of ABillikensTableHost ’93) is in the organizational leadership my royalties. Suffice it to say that neither of us got rich.”

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2017 Alumni Merit Awards Pioneer Award Saint Louis University’s annual Alumni Merit Awards recognize J. Breezer Rickey This year, SLU’s Office of Alumni Engagement introduced exceptional alumni and acknowledge their success. Below are (GRAD SW ’92) the Pioneer Award as an annual recognition of an alum the 2017 honorees, who were recognized during Homecoming Rickey’s drive to help others led who is committed to Jesuit ideals, is a trailblazer in his or her from Chicago to Calcutta, India, her field and whose actions have helped pave the way for and Family Weekend in September. where she worked with Mother others. Any living or deceased alum is eligible. The first Dr. Miguel Paniagua (A&S) reported that Dr. Birdean (Hudson) Williams (GRAD Teresa. She has dealt with isolated Pioneer Award was presented in September. he ran into several SLU alumni at the A&S) is a retired psychologist. She lives in Thomas Downey (A&S ’86) Thomas Hillmeyer (COOK ’64) populations: children with HIV/AIDS, women National Board of Medical Examiners: Dr. Chesterfield, Missouri. Downey is senior vice president Hillmeyer worked for his family’s struggling with homelessness and mental illness, Dr. Stanley L. Anderson (A&S ’91, GRAD A&S ’96, MED ’01) Anna Chang (MED ’00), Dr. Joe Flaherty (MED ’90) and Dr. Gail Furman (NURS ’85, of communications for the Boeing wholesale meat business during and neighborhoods overrun by gang violence. She The Kansas City region’s only African-American male 1998 has been a dean of student affairs in China and a GRAD NURS ’88, GRAD ED ’92). Paniagua Co. He began his career as a writer college. After graduation, he OB-GYN physician, Anderson was one of his area’s first lives in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Malik Ahmed (MED) is a psychiatrist at McDonnell Douglas, eventually became a managing partner and faculty member at Loyola University-Chicago. da Vinci robotic surgeons. In 2014, he simultaneously at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. leading communications during the owner-operator for two St. Louis chaired the OB-GYN department at HCA Research Medical Mary Ellen Ruff (A&S) is an art therapist Michael Riley Sr. (DOISY ’75) in the Washington, D.C., area. She William Corley (GRAD PH) retired as company’s merger with Boeing. He also served McDonald’s restaurants. He advanced with the Center and served patients in two other offices. Anderson also was an investigator for the Food and Drug Riley is founder and president of has a private practice, runs programs as president of the Boeing Employees Community company and retired in 2015. He also helped open a preceptor instructor of future doctors for Kansas City University of for court-involved youth in Alexandria Administration in December 2012 after Fund, which raised money for local communities the first St. Louis Ronald McDonald House Charity Professional Therapy Services, Medicine and Biosciences. He died in August after battling cancer. and is an adjunct faculty member in the years of federal service in the U.S. through charitable giving. and served on the Ronald McDonald-St. Louis which provides care to hospitals, graduate art therapy program at George Marine Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Farm and board for nine years. skilled nursing facilities, home Washington University. Although her Home Administration, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He lives in St. Louis. Frank Friedlein Jr. (PS ’76) health agencies and freestanding five years, his teams have won a state Tim Curtin (A&S) and his family made work life is busy, she makes time for as championship and three local league the move from Abuja, Nigeria, to San much travel as possible and time with Patrick Lee (PARKS ’59) outpatient clinics. He is also the president of Steven R. Morrison (A&S) Friedlein, chief financial officer championships, and have achieved three Salvador, El Salvador, in late 2016. family and friends. , an associate and treasurer at O.J. Laughlin Lee’s engineering skills enabled him the Illinois Physical Therapy Association and Top-10 finishes at nationals. He continues his work as a foreign professor of criminal law and procedure Plumbing Co., has been in senior to create his own company, Enidine a member of the advisory board for SLU’s service officer for the U.S. Agency for James Weiss (A&S) was promoted by at the University of North Dakota School of Law, is on the board of directors of the financial management for nearly Inc., a manufacturer of shock- Department of Physical Therapy. Dr. Richard Shaw (MED) is a family International Development, managing Fifth Third Bank to Tampa Bay city physician with Regal Medical Group, education programs focused on poor and president and senior commercial banking National Association of Criminal Defense half a century. While at SLU, he absorption and vibration-isolation a primary care group in Simi Valley, executive for North Florida. Lawyers. He also maintains the Morrison Dr. William Sly (MED ’57) vulnerable communities. was vice president and controller at Brooks products. A holding company, California. Law Practice, a private criminal defense Erection and Construction Co. Friedlein later International Motion Control, formed in 1996, grew An internationally known physician Marie (Waller) Higgins (COOK) 1995 practice. formed Construction Accounting Services. He is into a worldwide conglomerate. After its sale, Lee and scientist, Sly was the inaugural 1992 published a book, Sprouting Spiritual holder of SLU’s James B. and Growth: A Memoir and Guide to Spiritual Hon. Michael C. Blanton (LAW), a 1999 a founding member of the nonprofit Friends of the established the Patrick P. Lee Foundation, which Dr. Terry Jo Vetters Bichell (NURS) federal administrative law judge for Joan C. Peters Endowed Chair Journaling. In 2009 she left corporate Dominican Sisters Sparkill-STL. supports scholarships at Parks College, among earned a doctorate in neuroscience America after more than 15 years in the Social Security Administration, Carolyn Griesemer (LAW) is the founder other endeavors. in Biochemistry and Molecular from Vanderbilt University in 2016. She human resources management and transferred from the Tacoma, and CEO of Children’s Legal Services of Dr. Linda Heitman Microbiology. An emeritus professor since 2014, Sly completed a Master of Public Health became a massage therapist. Higgins is Washington, Office of Disability San Diego. (NURS ’87, GRAD NURS ’01) and midwifery certification at Boston also a speaker on topics concerning the Adjudication and Review to the Seattle J. Barry McCormick is credited with significant research contributions, Anthony Holdener III (A&S) married Julie University in 2007, working as a nurse- body, mind and spirit connection. She office in July. Heitman’s experience as a clinical (IT ’62, GRAD IT ’67) including leading the first group to describe a patient Knoll in June. They live in Ballwin, Missouri. midwife until her youngest child was lives in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. nurse specialist and coordinator McCormick joined the McDonnell with MPS VII, also known now as “Sly syndrome.” diagnosed with Angelman syndrome. Julie (Connors) Taylor (LAW) practices Katey (Marcinkowski) Howes (DOISY ’99, She now serves as the director and Verna (Pfister) Nelson (DOISY) is a law with her husband, Charles W. Taylor. at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Aircraft Corp. as an instrumental GRAD DOISY ’01) celebrated the release Dr. Margaret Vandeven scientific officer of the Angelman senior clinical specialist with Terumo They opened a second office in September Cape Girardeau, Missouri, led to engineer. His work landed him of her debut picture book, Grandmother (GRAD ED ’14) Biomarkers and Outcome Measure Medical. She has been happily married 2016 in University City, Missouri. a faculty position in the Department of Nursing at Edwards Air Force Base in Thorn. A second book, Magnolia Mudd Alliance. She lives in Brentwood, for 32 years to her husband, Tom, and Vandeven most recently was and the Super Jumptastic Launcher at Southeast Missouri State University. She California, where he oversaw flight testing for the Tennessee. has a son, Michael. She lives in Cape 1996 Deluxe, is specializes in cardiovascular nursing and has F-15 fighter aircraft. By the 1990s, he was manager Missouri’s commissioner of Girardeau, Missouri. scheduled education. She began her education Alice Kelly (A&S ’92, LAW ’96) joined Pedro Sañudo Martínez (A&S) moved presented nationally and internationally on clinical of advanced planning on the National Aerospace for a January career as a communication arts the Chicago office of Ice Miller in the Keith Stilwell (PARKS) recently from Logroño, Spain, where he nursing topics. Plane Program. He has been a professor at was working as project manager for 2018 release. teacher. She taught English and was a school litigation and intellectual property group. completed an overseas tour in a Fontbonne University and an active volunteer. She “married a Cubs fan but makes it Department of the Army civilian position Arsys, to work as computer engineer She lives in administrator in Maryland and Missouri, and work.” serving as the U.S. Army’s aviation and developer in Fundación Centro Chesterfield, Do you know of an outstanding Saint Louis University alumna or alumnus later earned tenure at the Missouri Department liaison officer to the U.S. Forces Central Tecnológico in Miranda de Ebro, Spain. New Jersey. whom you would like to nominate for the 2018 Alumni Merit Award? of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is Jennie (Del Cecato) MacGoy (A&S) opened Command, supporting Army aviation Kathryn Miles (A&S) wrote Quakeland: On Jennifer Parker (A&S ’99, LAW ’02), a passionate about ensuring all Missouri students a yoga studio, Breathe with Jennie, where operations throughout the Middle East. Visit alumni.slu.edu/nominationform for more information. she teaches vinyasa and yin yoga. She lives the Road to America’s Next Devastating lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine are prepared for post-secondary success. in Northern Virginia with her husband, Jon, Earthquake. She lives in Portland, Maine. Corps, serves as the staff judge and four children — all yoga practitioners. 1994 advocate for the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona. Lisa (Ives) Brunette (A&S) writes books 1997 Michael Miglioranzi (GRAD A&S) retired and games. All three books in her from the Air Force in 2006 and has been Matt Blevins (DOISY ’97, GRAD, LAW ’03) is doctoral program at the University of Patrick G. McCarthy (A&S) owns and Lynn Schulte (DOISY) founded the Dreamslippers Series won indieBRAG 1990 an Air Force Junior ROTC high school the CEO of Barstow Community Hospital Oklahoma. She married Michael G. operates Woodline Design, a woodcraft, Institute for Birth Healing and is treating medallions, and the second book was instructor in Daytona Beach for 11 years. in Southern California. Brown in 2012. Their son, David, was furniture design and antiques restoration Shari (Widder) LeKane-Yentumi (A&S mothers and teaching courses to also named a finalist for the Nancy Pearl ’90, GRAD A&S ’94) writes articles, literary He has two sons, and he and his wife of Book Award and nominated for a RONE born in 2015, and their daughter, Aine, company he established in 2003. He lives professionals to help women give birth Kenneth Danzinger (LAW) is a critiques, poetry and prose. She wrote 33 years, Julie, enjoy life in Florida and Award. Brunette’s game-writing credits TRUE BLUE in 2017. Flavan-Brown and her husband in St. Louis city where he participates in more easily and recover more completely. shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy, a novel in verse, Poem to Follow, and a cruise travel. include hundreds of titles for Big Fish teach on an Army base overseas, though various urban renewal projects. She is a single mom to two teenage boys. one of the nation’s largest mass torts FAN FEST book of poetry, Fall Tenderly. She is a and other publishers. She also has a long their home of record is in Oklahoma. She lives in Longmont, Colorado. firms. He lives in Hinsdale, Illinois. SATURDAY, FEB. 3 consultant for not-for-profit, business, Erin O’Loughlin (NURS) is a utilization 1993 list of bylines as a journalist, short-story 5 p.m. party; 7 p.m. tip-off Dr. Mahalakshmi “Lakshmi” K. review manager at BJC Healthcare. She community development, education, writer and poet. She lives in Chehalis, Dr. Angela Dietz (A&S ’97, GRAD A&S ’00, ’08), Dr. Tracey (Handal) Clark (A&S) earned Halasyamani (A&S) holds the Davis lives in Ballwin, Missouri. leadership development, disability and 1991 Washington. Join alumni for the biggest a doctorate in education from Maryville director of digital initiatives for the Missouri Family Chair in the NorthShore elderly advocacy, and she teaches Paul Nager (PARKS) is a logistics engineer pregame party of the year University. She is the reading specialist Historical Society in St. Louis, received the University HealthSystem. She is Dr. Richard Steinberg (MED) is a creative writing to special needs at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, which Monica Lynch (SW) opened a private at Kirkwood High School and lives in Missouri Author Award for nonfiction for before the Billikens play also NorthShore’s chief quality and diagnostic radiologist at Marine Park students and through the St. Louis builds the aluminum littoral combat ship therapy practice, Counseling Center of Webster Groves, Missouri, with her Capturing the City, which she co-authored the Fordham Rams. transformation officer. She lives in Radiology and NYP Community Hospital County Department of Corrections. for the U.S. Navy. He also coaches chess Southwestern Illinois, in Freeburg. husband, Chris Clark, and three children, with Dr. Joseph Heathcott. Chicago. in Brooklyn, New York. at an area high school. During the past alumni.slu.edu/fanfest18 Jack, Kathryn and Cillian.

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MED REUNION Joel Blazquez Sargatal (PARKS) moved to Dr. Tommy Smith (LAW) is the dean of 2007 Dr. Jason Burke Murphy (GRAD P&L) was Lauren (Lobosky) Sullivan (PARKS) Kathleen (Rohleder) Sneed (NURS) Dustin Upchurch (NURS) lives in the 2018 San Diego in April after more than 10 years pharmacy, natural and health sciences awarded tenure and promoted to associate married Sean Sullivan (PARKS ’09) in July married Michael Sneed (COOK) in May. Rocky Mountain foot hills of Colorado living in several locations across Europe. at Manchester University in Fort Wayne, Elizabeth (Procknow) Gabriel (A&S ’07, professor of philosophy at Elms College in 2015. They live in Mooresville, North They would never have guessed that a and works for Banner Health as an Med Reunion is now part Indiana. He has been associate dean GRAD DOISY ’13) married Jeremy Gabriel Chicopee, Massachusetts. He published Carolina, and continue their interest in fun Greek event at SLU would lead them operating room nurse. of Homecoming and Family of assessment and administration, and in June 2016 in Eagle River, Wisconsin. “Plato, Habermas, and the Demonic Cobb” auto racing along with some alumni in to Texas and eventually marriage. She 2003 She is a hospitalist physician assistant Weekend. Mark your calendars has taught pharmacy law courses since in The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan. the area, Steven Sander (PARKS) and is finishing a Master of Nursing degree Amanda (Addison) Pelletier (COOK) works in Milwaukee. 2016 for Sept. 28-30, and join your joining Manchester University in May He also has had photographs published James Dieckhaus (PARKS ’12). at Duke University, and he works for at BMC Software and lives in Tampa, Florida. 2015. in THAT Literary Review, Meat for Tea, Protiviti Consulting. Dan Greco (COOK) is the director of the classmates back on campus She married Paul A. Pelletier II in July 2016 Freeze Ray and Blinders Literary Journal, new St. Louis office of Thomas McGee, a 2011 to reconnect, meet the School on the beach in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Burton St. John III (GRAD A&S) is a and had poetry published in the Dead Mule Andrew P. Stevens (A&S) joined the Midwest risk management company. of Medicine dean and visit professor at Old Dominion University Literary Review. Brittany Beggs (GRAD A&S) joined the Chicago law firm of Corboy and Demetrio Leland Roider (COOK) is a senior vice in Norfolk, Virginia, and the interim WRCB weather team in Tennessee as an associate attorney. He practices with current students. Joyce Stewart (SW) moved to Southern president at Stifel Financial. He and his chairman of the communication and David Shirley (PARKS) is assistant general in June. She previously was a personal injury law. California and started Holistic Healing slu.edu/medreunion wife recently built their dream home theatre arts department. This year he manager of the MN Wind Chill, Minnesota’s meteorologist in Columbia, Missouri, Consulting, where she provides counseling and welcomed their first child, Sampson published two books — one on crisis pro ultimate Frisbee team. He has played for nearly four years. Beggs started her services. She has written two books: 2013 Harland. They live in Waterloo, Illinois. communications and the other on public on the team for four years and “would love career in Hagerstown, Maryland, as the Interconnected by God: Healing for your Amy Rubin (LAW) joined Stock Legal. relations and the corporate persona. He to give free tickets to any SLU alumni in chief meteorologist; during her time there, Caitlin Byler (PH) lives in Houston and Jennifer Davis (A&S), Miss Missouri Kristena (Galeski) Rudloff (A&S) Spirit, Soul and Body, and God is Love: A She lives in St. Louis. and has a third book slated for release that the area.” He also works at Medtronic as a she covered Superstorm Sandy on the works at MD Anderson Cancer Center. 2017, was crowned runner-up in the Miss Peter (A&S ’01) Spiritual Journey from Fear to Love. her husband, , welcomed features the previously unpublished senior risk and reliability engineer. eastern seaboard. In 2015 she received America Pageant in September. She Diana (Byrne) Hughes (PARKS) their first child, Raymond James, in June. writings of PR pioneer Ivy Lee. the CBM Seal from the American and is also the author of a children’s book, 2000 They live in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Dr. Rick Wilson (GRAD COOK) was Ryan Hughes (PARKS) were married granted tenure and promoted to 2009 Meteorological Society. In her free time, Diversity Matters. Marlene Hammerman (SW) was honored David Sweeney (LAW) is a member in the she enjoys hot yoga, hiking and exploring in August at St. Francis Xavier College Sarah Wilde-Jockel (A&S ’03, LAW ’08) is an associate professor of marketing at as a 2017 Woman of Achievement for St. Louis office of Lewis Rice. Emily Farinacci (A&S, COOK) is a corporate Church. The wedding party included Brinda Gupta (PH) is a project Texas State University in San Marcos. the Tennessee Valley with her husband, her social justice efforts by Women associate attorney at Page Law in Kirkwood, lawyer at Thompson Hine in Cleveland. Jeremy Payne (PARKS) and Dr. Lauren coordinator in the Brown School Envolve Missouri, practicing domestic law. Kevin. of Achievement in St. Louis. She also 2006 Redlinger (DOISY ’13, MED ’17). Center for Health Behavior Change at was named to the University City High 2008 Sufia (Alikhan) Orbe (A&S ’09, LAW ’12) Amelia Blanton Hibner (A&S) married Washington University in St. Louis. School Hall of Fame. For more than 35 Kevin Antes (COOK) is senior vice and Jeff Orbe (PARKS ’10, PARKS ’11) were Briana Wright (A&S) fell in love with 2004 Carly (Caminiti) Barner (A&S) married Nathaniel Hibner in October 2016 at St. years, she has been a social justice and president of merger and acquisition married at St. Francis Xavier College Margaret of Scotland Church in St. Louis. higher education after working as a Louis Harris (A&S) is a line cook at Thomas Crocco (LAW) was named David Barner in August. The couple lives women’s rights activist as a volunteer for financing at Enterprise Bank and Trust. Church in July. By her side were her SLU roommates, student ambassador and intern in the bopNgrill in Chicago. Defender of Distinction by the Missouri in Boston and is active in the young adult Office of Admission at SLU. She started the National Council of Jewish Women. He and his wife, Christine (Prusak) Kathleen Graham (NURS) and Sarah State Public Defender System. He is group at St. Cecilia Parish. her professional career as an admissions Dr. Thomas Harrison (GRAD ED) Antes (COOK ’07), and daughters live in O’Connor (ED). The Blanton Hibners live Troy Walton (LAW) is president of the the district defender for the 45th Judicial 2010 counselor at SLU, then relocated to presented “Crisis Communication for Overland Park, Kansas. David Deterding (LAW) is a partner at the in St. Louis, where both pursue doctoral Madison County Bar Association. He District covering Lincoln and Pike counties. Jessica Bauer (A&S) is president of Washington, D.C., for a position in Non-Profit Organizations and Churches” litigation firm HeplerBroom. He lives in degrees. lives in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Dr. Brien Ashdown (GRAD A&S ’06, ’09) Aurora Sinai Medical Center and Aurora law school admissions at American in October 2016 for the Green County Dr. Brian Hartley (A&S) is vice president Columbia, Illinois. received tenure and was promoted St. Luke’s South Shore in Milwaukee. James J. Hannigan (DOISY ’11, GRAD University Washington College of Law. In Chapter of the Church Network. Harrison for academic affairs, dean of the faculty to associate professor of cultural Dr. Sarah Kuehnle (A&S ’08, MED ’13) DOISY ’12) successfully defended his May, she became an assistant director in operates Media Embassy, a marketing 2001 and professor of theology at Greenville Dr. Amanda “Mandi” (Kimber) Chu psychology and Latin American studies and Jared Walsh (A&S ’08, LAW ’11) were dissertation and graduated with a admissions at Howard University School and communications consultancy in Dr. David B. LeMay (A&S ’01, GRAD ED ’16), University in Illinois. (MED) is in a private practice radiology at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. married in September at St. Francis doctorate in human physiology from the of Law. Tulsa, Oklahoma. principal of Lift for Life Academy High group in St. Charles, Missouri. She and Danielle (DeLassus) Nicolosi (A&S Xavier College Church. She works as University of Oregon. School in St. Louis, earned his Ph.D. in Katherine Biagi-Rickert (COOK, SW) is her husband have a son. Nathan Thibon (A&S) traveled to ’04, GRAD COOK ’08) and Elio Nicolosi an ER doctor at St. Anthony’s Medical 2014 educational leadership from Saint Louis director of stewardship at the Community Grace Schuessler (A&S) did a book Des Moines, Iowa, following his SLU (GRAD COOK ’08) welcomed their second Center, and he clerks for a federal judge Lucy (Duethman) French (NURS) Tim University. Foundation of Louisville in Kentucky. and signing of her debut novel, West of Hell, Laura (Sowisdral) Schmidt (NURS) is graduation to work for AARP’s Take daughter, Jade Alexandria, in June. Their in southern Illinois. They live in Sunset French (COOK) were married in September at Subterranean Books in St. Louis in serving a one-year term as a director to A Stand campaign. He spoke to first daughter, Clelia, was born in 2014. Hector Bird (PARKS) Hills, Missouri. Matthew Morrissey (A&S) lives in completed graduate 2016 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a October. She writes under the pen name the Organization of Associate Degree presidential candidates to urge them to Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife and two They live in the Boston area. school at the University of Florida in pediatric ICU nurse at Stanford, and Tim Peter J. LeBlanc Jr. (LAW) is an Whiskey Emerson. Nursing Board of Directors. She lives in protect Social Security. children. 2015 to become a physician assistant. is a field marketing manager at Equinix. Kewadin, Michigan. Dr. Joy Packard-Higgins (GRAD) associate at the law firm of Shands, He practices emergency medicine in They live in San Francisco. Many SLU Dr. Gabrielle Schwemmer (GRAD ED) became principal of Sacred Heart School Elbert, Gianoulakis and Giljum. He lives Northwest Florida. alumni were in the wedding and attended. Margaret Speck-Kern (A&S) is an 2017 2002 in Lombard, Illinois, in 2012. She has in St. Louis. is the superintendent of Sparta School District in Sparta, Illinois. She also is the assistant curator of collections for the Katherine Hubbard (A&S) started law Sam Conedera, S.J. (A&S) entered been principal in both public and private Lauren (Bloomfield) Clancy (A&S) is a Dr. Tyler Gibb (LAW ’10, GRAD ’15) is Katie Lewis (A&S) wrote a book of short resolutions chair for the Southwestern Historic Arkansas Museum. She lives in school at Saint Louis University this fall. the Society of Jesus in 2006. In 2014, schools in the Chicago area, and has development coordinator for Saint Louis the co-founding chief of the program stories called Cheers, Somebody. In July, Division of the Illinois Association of Little Rock. he began studies at the Pontifical taught graduate and undergraduate Effort for AIDS. She and her husband, in medical ethics, humanities and law she and her husband, Brian Laczko School Boards. Gregorian University in Rome, receiving classes at Benedictine University. Sean, have a son, Liam. at Western Michigan University Homer (A&S) welcomed Aviva Rose. They live in a bachelor’s degree in sacred theology Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. 2015 Tamara Vaughn-Walker (A&S) is working Nashville, Tennessee. CONTACT in 2017. Ordained a deacon last spring, Michael Hodge (LAW) and his wife, 2012 Amy L. Fleming (DOISY) works in internal to impact positive youth outcomes Leanne, have three children, Preston, Nico Gibson (A&S) is a senior designer at Conedera’s training has taken him to Erin Luke (LAW) was one of the “Five Katie Castree (GRAD PH) is an operations medicine at the VA St. Louis Health Care INFORMATION through policy reform and collaboration Dylan and Emily. Hodge has been Digital Kitchen working on everything from Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, France and to Watch in Law” in Crain’s Cleveland excellence manager for Accumen. She is System. as the juvenile justice council coordinator general counsel for the Special School branding and environmental design to title UPDATE Germany. His first assignment is at St. Business in April. After law school, she based in St. Louis. for the St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s District of St. Louis County for six years. sequences for HBO and Netflix. He worked Sarah (Welsh) Gordon (A&S) and Kevin Do you get SLU alumni emails Francis Xavier Parish in Phoenix. practiced in St. Louis as a construction Office in Belleville, Illinois. She and her He recently was named a board member previously at MNML, a product design and Gordon (PARKS ’16) welcomed a daughter, about events in your area, lawyer until 2014, then moved to Cleveland Dr. Vanessa (Coe) Cochran (GRAD ED) is James “J.R.” England (COOK) is a husband have two young daughters. at the World Pediatric Project, a nonprofit brand incubator in Chicago. He recently Anneliese, in April. They live in Dothan, to join Thompson Hine’s construction group. an assistant principal with Ladue Middle homecoming and reunion? If partner at Hunton and Williams. He lives that brings lifesaving medical care to married Montse Lusarreta in Mexico City. Alabama. She is married to Jonathan Todd (LAW), School in Missouri. not, take a moment to update in Dallas. children in Central America and the 2005 who is of counsel in the transportation your contact information so Caribbean. This fall, he was an adjunct Melinda Krum (A&S) is an investment Bridget Doerr (NURS) graduated in May Amanda Pagels (NURS) is a family nurse Bobby Metzinger (A&S) group at Benesch law firm. Luke is also on Dr. Andrea Lynch (A&S ’02, GRAD A&S ’08) is a product professor in the SLU School of Education representative at American Century with a Master of Science in Nursing from practitioner working with Walgreens we can let you know about the leadership committee of the Cleveland earned a doctorate in education from the support sales representative with teaching a school law course to students Investment in Kansas City, Missouri. Maryville University. She recently joined Take Care Clinics. activities and opportunities Yancey Power Systems, the Caterpillar SLU Alumni Club. National University of Ireland Galway. pursuing master’s degrees in school BJC Medical Group at Progress West in exclusive to SLU alumni. Update She lectures and supervises research dealership in Atlanta. He lives in the Sean Long (COOK) married Caley M. Creech Paige Swanson (A&S) lives and works in administration. Madeline (Brophy) Murack (A&S) married O’Fallon, Missouri, as a certified family your information online at at NUIG. Buckhead neighborhood and is excited to in June in St. Louis. He graduated from nurse practitioner. Los Angeles. She is in charge of talent connect with Billikens in Georgia. Brett Murack at St. Monica’s Catholic Washington University with an MBA in May. acquisition at Steelhouse. alumni.slu.edu/stayconnected. Church in Dallas. She works as a realtor.

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This list of deceased alumni was compiled by SLU’s office of research and development services. If you have a question or Dr. Maurice Green, a would like more information about an “In Memoriam” listing, please send an email message to [email protected]. SLU researcher for more than six decades and Mrs. Rosaura (Guerra) McDonald Mr. Leo Tevlin (IT ’49) Mrs. Marjorie (Moore) Byrne (NURS ’54) Mr. Leonard Howard (PARKS ’58) Mr. James Elswick (COOK ’62) Dr. Francis Baldino (DENT ’70) Mrs. Sarah (Hunter) Applebaum (SW ’80) among the first scientists (NURS ’38) to use viruses to shed Mr. Jason Beardslee (A&S ’50) Mr. George Gaffney (A&S ’54) Mr. John Hume Jr. (COOK ’58) Mr. Allan Gallup (LAW ’62) Mr. David Barton (LAW ’70) Ms. Barbara Blaine (SW ’80) Mr. Robert Bisbee Sr. (PARKS ’40) light on what goes on Mr. Frederick Betz (COOK ’50) Ms. Mary Giovanni (COOK ’54) Mrs. Jessica (Witker) Leen (NURS ’58) Mr. William Gorman (NURS ’62) Father Jaime Castaneda, S.J. (A&S ’70) Dr. Gerald Harrington Jr. (MED ’80) inside cells, died Dec. 5. Mr. Joseph Shatas Sr. (PARKS ’40) Mr. John Bollinger (COOK ’50) Mrs. Emily (Rund) Hinck (A&S ’54) Dr. Samuel Lugo (MED ’58) Ms. Ruth Haley (SW ’62) Sr. Darlene Fulgenzi, O.S.U. (ED ’70) Dr. James Smith (ED ’80) He was 91. Dr. Green was a professor Mr. Paul Finney (COOK ’42) Mr. James Evans (LAW ’50) Mr. Richard Hunt (PARKS ’54) Mr. Thomas Messner (COOK ’58) Mr. Matthew Hutmacher (A&S ’62) Mr. Andrew Kasprzyk (IT ’70) Mrs. Marie (Lewandowski) Davis (A&S ’81) of microbiology and founding chair of Dr. John Reilly (DENT ’42) Mr. Walter Gabriel (IT ’50) Mr. Francis Immer (IT ’54) Dr. George Monda (MED ’58) Rev. Leonard Krzywda (A&S ’62) Sr. Mary Meyer, F.S.M. (DOISY ’70) Mr. John Delaney Jr. (LAW ’81) SLU’s Institute for Molecular Virology. Mrs. Mary (Cull) Anzalone (SW ’43) He coined the term “molecular virology,” Mrs. Katherine (Boggiano) McDonald Mr. Edward Jenkins (LAW ’54) Sr. Elizabeth Parham, D.C. (NURS ’58) Mrs. Barbara (Sebasky) Macy (NURS ’62) Mr. John Schoemehl (COOK ’70) Capt. Patricia (Bante) Millard (A&S ’81) Mr. Harold Biebel (COOK ’43) (NURS ’50) and the techniques developed in his lab Dr. Thaddeus Kolski (A&S ’54) Mr. William Reeves (IT ’58) Mr. Donald McCracken (IT ’62) Dr. Joseph Stanko (A&S ’70) Mrs. Patricia (Moulton) Siemer (DOISY ’82) contributed to the evolution of the field Sr. Evangelista Humenik (NURS ’43) Mr. Walter Offner Jr. (A&S ’50) Dr. Mary Martin (NURS ’54) Mr. Philip Saliga (A&S ’58) Mr. Thomas McSweeny (A&S ’62) Mr. James Vaughan (A&S ’70) Ms. Elizabeth Brown (LAW ’83) into an integral part of medical education. Mr. Francis Mueller (COOK ’43) Mr. Donald Schrimpf (COOK ’50) Sr. Margaret Quinn, D.C. (SW ’54) Mrs. Mary (Babeaux) Tenbusch (NURS ’58) Mr. Lawrence Roth (IT ’62) Mrs. Sharon (Rich) Baker (A&S ’71) Ms. Mary (Smith) Fagan (PH ’83) Mrs. Marianne (Esgro) Cole (DOISY ’44) Mr. Francis Solinski (PARKS ’50) Dr. William Atkinson Jr. (MED ’55) Mr. Marvin Vens (A&S ’58) Dr. Robert Virtue (DENT ’62) Mrs. Cathy Flasar (NURS ’71) Mr. C. Sheehan (LAW ’83) Mr. Paul Lorenzini, a Mr. John Dempster (PARKS ’44) Mr. Eugene Vaught (COOK ’50) Dr. Willard Avery (MED ’55) Mr. George Wirth (IT ’58) Mrs. Mary (Murrin) Byrne (A&S ’63) Mr. Robert Hamilton (A&S ’71) Dr. Theresa (McDonough) Brehove member of SLU’s board of Ms. Alice O’Leary (NURS A44) Mrs. Leona (Ritchick) Connaughton (MED ’84) (ED ’58) (ED ’71) trustees since 1996, died (NURS ’51) Mr. Robert Baine Jr. (LAW ’55) Rev. John Wright Dr. Thomas Garside (MED ’63) Dr. James Hilke Dr. Donald Burst (MED ’45) Mr. Michael Burnworth (LAW ’84) Nov. 30 at age 78. He (DENT ’59) Mr. Phillip Geno (COOK ’51) Dr. Thomas Byrne (DENT ’55) Dr. Lloyd Austin Mr. Gerald Geppert (A&S ’63) Dr. William Hanley (MED ’45) Dr. Kara Ryan, S.S.N.D. (A&S ’84) was CEO and chairman (PARKS ’59) Mr. Robert W. May (A&S Dr. Sheldon Kessler (MED ’51) Mr. Eugene Carroll (PARKS ’55) Col. Juan Benjamin Dr. Wayne Kassel (MED ’63) of Bunzl North America Dr. James Shillito (ED ’84) (IT ’59) ’71, LAW ’85), a member of Dr. Edward Medler (A&S ’51) Father John Cuddigan, S.J. (A&S ’55) Maj. Leo Bielinski Sr. Mary Antonine Maca, R.S.M. (ED ’63) until his retirement in Father W. Charles SLU’s board of trustees, Mr. James Haffner (LAW ’85) (NURS ’59) 2004, at which time Bunzl honored his Mr. Daniel Myers (PARKS ’51) Mr. Arthur Davis Jr. (PARKS ’55) Miss Jo Gately Mrs. Mary Ann (Doherty) Moscoso Heiser, S.J. (A&S ’45, GRAD (NURS ’63) died May 29 at age 69. Ms. Bonnie (Hilt) Kelley (LAW ’85) (IT ’59) years of service by endowing a SLU A&S ’47), longtime SLU Mr. Stuart Patterson Sr. (IT ’51) Mrs. Helen (Zikouich) Deruntz (NURS ’55) Dr. Francis Hilbing An attorney for more than Mr. Curtis Orsborn Jr. (PARKS ’63) Mr. John Russo (COOK ’85) professorship in international business (COOK ’59) librarian, died Sept. 15. Dr. George Schopper (DENT ’51) Mr. James Gray (A&S ’55) Mr. John Hughes 30 years, Mr. May was Mr. Joseph Sullivan (IT ’63) Dr. Dolores Smiley (ED ’85) in his name. The dining club in Chaifetz He was 95, a Jesuit for (MED ’59) the retired vice chairman, Mr. Edward Warner Sr. (LAW ’51) Mr. Fred Hoffarth (PARKS ’55) Dr. Peter Irwin Arena, Lorenzini’s, also is named for Mr. (IT ’64) Dr. Therese Dent (ED ’86) 77 years and a priest (MED ’59) Mr. Richard Low secretary and general counsel of TLC Dr. John Wolford (MED ’51) Mr. Wayne Kennedy (ED ’55) Dr. Richard Pfeiffer Lorenzini and his wife, LaVerne. for 64 years. Father (A&S ’64) Vision Corp. In addition to a decade on Dr. Donna Freter (ED ’86) (PARKS ’59) Dr. Robert Masat Mr. Richard Zander Jr. (PARKS ’51) Mrs. Barbara (Millman) Malchow Mr. Thomas Tierney Heiser’s knowledge of languages helped (COOK ’55) Sr. Nora Molyneux, C.S.J.P. (PH ’64) SLU’s board of trustees, he also served Mrs. Alice O’Keefe (LAW ’86) (DENT ’59) Mr. E. Allan Tomey, him build a research-level theology Mr. William Beck Jr. (IT ’52) Dr. Lloyd Yeager on the School of Law Dean’s Council for (MED ’55) (PH ’64) Ms. Phyllis Proffer (A&S ’86) Dr. Joseph Mardesich (PH ’60) Sr. Christina Rau, C.I.J. retired instructor of urban collection in French, German, Italian and Mrs. Mary (Wheeler) Brewer (NURS ’52) Sr. M. Albers, O.S.F. more than 15 years. (PH ’64) Mr. James Brakemeyer (COOK ’87) programs in graduate Spanish, in addition to English-language Mr. Paul Power (LAW ’55) (NURS ’60) Sr. Mary Samko, C.S.F.N. Mrs. Rosemary (Baes) Brozka (A&S ’52) Lt. Col. Mary Beil (A&S ’55) Mr. Daniel Toohey (LAW ’64) Dr. Dimitrios Pyrros (MED ’87) education and former texts. He retired in 2011. Mr. John Rothermich Mr. Alfred Beletz (A&S ’60) Mr. Gerald Stieren II (COOK ’71) Dr. Donald Durbin (DENT ’52) director of the SLU Dr. William Baugh (MED ’65) Ms. Jill Howard (COOK ’88) Mrs. Jo Ann (Coughlin) Alexander Mr. Walter Hick (LAW ’60) Mr. George Bowling (COOK ’72) Mr. Kenneth Finch (A&S ’52) (NURS ’56) master’s degree program Dr. Richard Miller (MED ’45) Mrs. Mary (Long) Cooney (NURS ’65) Ms. Gay Witte-Johnson (DOISY ’88) Dr. Herbert Hoover (ED ’60) Mr. Robert Companick (ED ’72) in urban affairs, died May Mr. Allen Ingelse (PARKS ’52) Dr. Richard Beaven (MED ’56) Dr. John Ricci (MED ’45) (A&S ’65) Mr. John Alden (PS ’90) Sr. Marie Hungerman, I.H.M. (A&S ’60) Miss Kathleen Devine Mr. Donald Fischer (A&S ’72) 24 at age 76. Mr. Tomey was on the SLU Mr. Neil Perkins (PARKS ’52) Mrs. Genevieve (O’Hara) Bruggemann Mrs. Martha (Vickers) Gatz (DOISY ’46) (COOK ’65) Rev. Theodore Bracco (A&S ’90) faculty for more than four decades. (SW ’60) Mr. Lawrence Fikes Mr. Howard Sprague (SW ’52) (A&S '56, GRAD A&S '65, GRAD SW '74) Mr. Emil Lenz Mrs. Margherita (Baker) Grundhauser Dr. Harold Haley (MED ’46) Mr. John Garrison Jr. (A&S ’65) (ED ’72) Ms. Edith (Silies) Brayer (ED ’91) Dr. Vincent Chiu (MED ’56) Dr. Lyle McGinnis (IT ’60) Col. Henry Zak (DENT ’46) Mrs. Delores (Bahr) Jones (NURS ’65) Miss Lorraine Rickelman (NURS ’72) Mr. Robert Bry (LAW ’91) Dr. Robert “Bob” Wiens, Dr. William “Bill” Lt. Comdr. John Harty (PARKS ’56) Dr. H. Penning (MED ’60) Dr. James Corbett (MED ’47) Dr. Joseph Scoma (MED ’65) Dr. Henry Udouj Jr. (DENT ’72) Mr. Kurt Luebben (NURS ’91) professor emeritus in the Stoneman III (MED ’52), Dr. Jerome L’Ecuyer (MED ’56) Hon. John Schneider (LAW ’60) Department of Internal Dr. Denvil Crowe (MED ’47) Mr. Robert Sturm (COOK ’65) Dr. Patrick Murray (MED ’73) Ms. Marie Flowers (SW ’94) former dean of the School Mr. James Meade (PH ’56) Dr. Gerald Schupanitz (DENT ’60) Medicine, died May 10. Dr. Joseph Harlow (MED ’47) of Medicine, died July Mr. Joseph Barnes (A&S ’66) Dr. Steven Olchowski (MED ’73) Dr. James Muskopf (ED ’95) Dr. Louise (Mead) Riscalla (A&S ’56) Mr. James Velloff (A&S ’60) He was 73. Dr. Wiens Dr. Francis Healy Sr. (MED ’47) 28. He was 89. In 1957, (DENT ’66) Dr. Louis Schroder Jr. (MED ’73) Ms. Lynn Cousins (A&S ’96) Bro. William Biernatzki, S.J. (A&S ’61) Dr. Barbara (Daigle) Fontenot came to SLU in 1971 Dr. Stoneman was the Dr. Thales Theodore (DENT ’56) Mr. Lawrence Hoff (A&S ’47) Dr. Bruce Golden (MED ’66) Mr. Allan Sonduck (PH ’73) Mr. Kenneth Ferguson (LAW ’96) as a cardiology fellow first resident in plastic Mr. John Thraum (IT ’56) Mr. Glen Borman Jr. (IT ’61) Mr. Vernon Kenny (COOK ’47) Dr. Juanita (Retterer) Theile (NURS ’73) Ms. Colleen (Scannell) Naughton and stayed until he retired in 2001. He Mr. Robert Cochran Jr. (COOK ’61) Mr. Jim Shoemake (LAW ’66) surgery at SLU. Later, he opened a Mr. Paul Von Tress (PARKS ’56) (A&S ’96) was on a list of doctors listed as the Mr. Joseph Novajovsky (PARKS ’47) Dr. Robert Wiens (MED ’73) private practice focusing on cleft palate (A&S ’61) Sr. Ann Bell, O.P. (ED ’67) Sr. Loretta Wesolowski, C.S.F. (DOISY ’56) Dr. David Filiatreau Sr. Doris Deane (GRAD ’97) “physician on call” for visiting presidents. Mr. Richard Scheffel (COOK ’47) Mrs. M. Eileen (Carey) Kane (A&S ’74) reconstruction in children. He founded the (COOK ’61) Sr. Mary Boeving, P.H.J.C. (PH ’67) Sr. Xavier Balance, D.C. (NURS ’57) Mr. James Hemmersmeier Dr. Carolyn Eakin (ED ’97) Mr. William Tierney (COOK ’47) clinical practice of the School of Medicine. Dr. Peter Mauch (MED ’74) (A&S ’61) Dr. Thomas Oates (A&S ’67) Dr. Norman White Miss Frances Bergjans (A&S ’57) Mrs. Marilyn (Murphy) Keating Miss Sabra Merrill (SW ’98) , an Dr. David Bensinger (DENT ’48) Ms. Kathleen Ribaudo (LAW ’67) Mr. Carl Wemhoener (A&S ’74) Mr. Robert Biermann (PH ’57) Dr. Joseph Kersting Jr. (ED ’61) associate professor of Dr. John Blanton (A&S ’53) Mr. E. Tomey (GRAD ’98) Miss Mary Beyer (SW ’48) (A&S ’75) criminology and criminal (IT ’61) Hon. Dorothy (Staudt) Robinson (LAW ’67) Dr. Gilbert Cruz Mrs. Janet (Kennedy) Birdnow (A&S ’57) Mrs. Mary (Mahoney) Miles Miss Barbara Dugger (DOISY ’00) Dr. Theodore Katsanis (PARKS ’48) Dr. Robert Clawson (A&S ’53) Sr. Mary Desmond C.C.V.I. (PH ’75) justice, died Dec. 6. He was Mr. Leonard Verrelli (PARKS ’61) Mrs. Dorothy (Holmes) Thomure (ED ’67) Mrs. Marian (Boos) Blanchfield(SW ’57) Mr. Daniel Nichols (LAW ’00) 64. Dr. White, who was an Mr. James Kissick Jr. (PARKS ’48) Dr. Michael Dee (LAW ’53) (DOISY ’75) (ED ’61) Dr. Anthony Weisenberger (A&S ’67) Mrs. Toni (Franklin) Henry Dr. Paul Chretien (MED ’57) Sr. Marietta Welsh, D.C. Dr. Stanley Anderson (MED ’01) activist as well as a scholar, Dr. Irene (Roth) Miller (A&S ’48) Miss Kathryn Gardner (NURS ’53) (SW ’75) (A&S ’62) Mr. Frederick Dana (LAW ’68) Mr. James Russell Mr. Charles Denzel (IT ’57) Rev. Melchior Chladek Ms. Deborah Lorsbach (NURS ’02) was the leader behind Mrs. Geraldine (Gillespie) Roe (SW ’48) Mr. John Goebel (LAW ’53) (ED ’76) (LAW ’62) Dr. Delwin Edwards (A&S ’68) Dr. James Bushey programs that included SLU’s Overground Mrs. Eugenia (Carver) Espinosa (A&S ’57) Mr. Harris Cooper Mr. John Mejaski (PS ’04) Ms. Jerrilyn Bensman (ED ’69) Mrs. Marie Gonsalves (NURS ’76) Railroad to Literacy Project and Shut It Mr. Dale Fick (A&S ’57) Mr. Nathaniel Pentland (A&S ’05) Down: Closing the School to Prison Pipeline. Sr. Mary Antona Ebo, Dr. William Binzer (DENT ’69) Mr. Christopher Krol (PARKS ’76) Dr. Peter G. Sotiropoulos (DENT ’48, GRAD DENT ’50), a professor and Dr. John Graham (A&S ’57) Ms. Vivian Hawkins (SW ’06) Dr. White joined the faculty in 2004 and F.S.M. (DOISY ’62; GRAD Father Daniel Gannon, S.J. (A&S ’69) Mr. Mariano Vitale (PS ’76) instructor at the Center for Advanced Dental Education for more than 60 Mr. George Kern (IT ’57) was an affiliated faculty member in SLU’s PH ’70), a civil rights Ms. Yolanda Rousseau (COOK ’07) years, died July 7. He was 92. “Dr. Pete” was one of the first graduates Mr. Joel Germeroth (IT ’69) Mr. James Wagner (COOK ’76) African American Studies Program. Lt. Col. Richard Klingelsmith (COOK ’57) pioneer, died Nov. 11 Dr. Zuihong Zou (A&S ’08) of SLU’s orthodontic program. He served in the U.S. Air Force from Mr. Michael Haracz (A&S ’69) Dr. Terry Zanin (ED ’76) 1951-53. He was also in private practice with his brother for 40 years. Dr. Anthony Lupica (MED ’57) at age 93. In 1946, she Mrs. Melanie Adams-Swearengen Mrs. Lois Holscher (ED ’69) Dr. Harold Matthews (ED ’77) Sr. Adrian O’Connor (DOISY ’57) became one of the first (LAW ’09) Mr. Mark Wilson, an Dr. Joseph Kroger (A&S ’69) Dr. Thomas McAuliffe (A&S ’77) associate professor in the Dr. Robert Saxer Jr. (MED ’57) three African-American Mrs. Ilene Chambers-Fortner (DOISY ’10) Dr. John Benton (MED ’49) Dr. Richard Jotte (MED ’53) women to enter the Sisters of St. Mary. Mrs. Ann (Celli) Pacourek-Kiley (A&S ’69) Sr. Rose Morand, S.C. (SW ’77) Department of Fine and Mr. Donald Stanton (A&S ’57) Mr. John Bannister (COOK ’12) After years of breaking barriers as an Performing Arts, died May Mr. Ben Bowdon (COOK ’49) Father Hamlin Mathy, S.J. (ED ’53) Rev. David Paul, S.M. (A&S ’69) Dr. Douglas Parashak (MED ’77) Mr. Ronald Briggs (ED ’12) Dr. John Winter (MED ’57) African-American woman religious, 28 at age 58. He joined the Mrs. Louise (Boyle) Connolly (NURS ’49) Mr. Vincent Morris (PARKS ’53) Mrs. Ann (Fehlig) Prebil (NURS ’69) Dr. Francis Huss (ED ’78) Mr. William Chais (A&S ’58) Sister Ebo began her career as a civil Ms. Stacey Goodwin (LAW ’13) theater program at SLU Miss Carolyn Gioia (DOISY ’49) Dr. Vernon O’Berry (DENT ’53) Mrs. Nancy (Rourke) Rauh (COOK ’69) Mr. Thomas Imboden Sr. (NURS ’78) Mr. Joseph Dierker (PARKS ’58) rights advocate at the second march in Mr. Steven Suess (ED ’13) in 2003. He also worked Mr. Richard Guthridge (PARKS ’49) Dr. James Ball (MED ’54) Mr. Donald Szydlowski Sr. (PARKS ’69) Sr. Patricia Keating, O.P. (ED ’78) Mrs. Nancy (Broadhurst) Hennelly Selma, Alabama, in 1965. She received in professional theater and as a lighting Mr. Thomas Jordan (A&S ’49) Mr. William Barry (IT ’54) (A&S ’58) an honorary doctorate from SLU in 2010. 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Julie (Lind) Northrip (A&S ’80) Ballwin, Missouri JUST DON’T LET IT GO TO YOUR HEAD ery much enjoyed seeing the back of my head on the inside back cover photo of V President Johnson (“The Last Look” spring 2017). The Secret Service asked the CHANGING THE COURSE OF A LIFE senior ROTC cadets to help with security and crowd control by forming a cordon LU changed my life because of one extraordinary around the podium. The photo shows me wearing my uniform and service cap. I S course, “Ozarks: The Uncommon Classroom” really enjoy your magazine. (“Changing the Subject” spring 2017). Taught by two Col. Joseph F. Teiber Jr. (A&S ’64) professors, the six-hour summer course was a com- Austin, Texas bination biology and literature class. We traveled all over Missouri, sleeping in tents most nights and catching the animals we studied by day. Books and RELIGIOUS WOMEN, Pilgrim at Tinker stories were geared to the locality ( ROLE MODELS Creek, Life on the Mississippi), and we kept a notebook hank you for the article of plants and animals that we saw along the way. I about Mary Bruemmer learned to handle snakes without fear and, most T (“Extraordinary Mary” spring importantly, decided my career after the completion 2016). It was so refreshing to of this course. I became a science teacher and recently read about someone with the completed my 33rd year. It would be great to see what dedication of Miss Bruemmer! happened to folks from that course. I still remember HISTORY THE GRAND ONE DAY, BIG FEED THE RECORD, KEEP MAKING Also, I enjoyed the article about the Jesuits-in-training who study and serve on the tall grass prairies and pies from Golden City. OF HELPING SWEEP DIFFERENCE HUNGRY RANKING HISTORY campus (“In Formation” spring 2016). Are there religious women on campus serv- The country’s first ing and studying? I still write to one of the religious women that taught in the According to On Oct. 11, 1980, SLU’s Make A SLU has made In honor of the Ruth Ann (Patty) Baldwin (Ed ’83) University archives, more than 200 SLU Difference Day is Campus Kitchen the President’s University’s 200th Kirkwood, Missouri School of Nursing, Sister Jeanne Meurer, who retired long ago and was chair of started in SLU’s the midwifery department. She is in her 80s and lives in a religious retirement the first record of students joined recognized as the Higher Education anniversary, SLU SLU students doing representatives largest day of service DeMattias Hall in Community Service is challenging community that is very active. There were so many wonderful religious women at 2001. The Campus the School of Nursing that played a significant role in shaping the ethics and caring service is a short from the Scottish in Missouri and one Honor Roll for everyone to continue article in the May Rite Cathedral, of the largest in Kitchens Project, a record nine to improve their spirit at SLU. I was speaking to a former classmate and remarked about how the which prepares and classes never told us to “care,” but somehow that came through. 13, 1927, student Powell Symphony the nation. For the consecutive years. local and global KEEP US UPDATED. newspaper about Hall and other local 20th annual event serves nutritious Eighty percent communities by Send us your class notes, address The nursing students at SLU did clinicals at St. Mary’s Hospital on Clayton Road. medical students institutions to scour in October, nearly meals to those who of SLU students giving back 200 changes and letters. 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