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Duquesne Opens New Pharmacy in the Hill District Duquesne Opens New Pharmacy in the Hill District Also in this Issue: Helping Haiti • Learning From the Holocaust • Lives of Purpose DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published three times annually by Duquesne University’s Office of Public Affairs Influencing Fluency Vol. 8, Number 3 Spring 2010 page 5 Editor Bridget Fare Associate Editor Learning from the Megan Tressler Holocaust Editorial Board Ralph L. Pearson, Ph.D. page 18 Dorothy Bassett, Ph.D. Philip Clarke Carrie M. Collins Gregory H. Frazer, Ph.D. Rev. Raymond French, C.S.Sp. Linda Kinnahan, Ph.D. New Community Julie Shepard Pharmacy page 24 Writing Randy Cole Colleen C. Derda Camille Downing Karen Ferrick-Roman Emily Goossen Carolina Pais-Barreto Beyers Also in this issue: Rose Ravasio “The Catholic Church’s Best Kept Secret” ...................................................................2 Kimberly Saunders Richard Tourtellott Snapshots ....................................................................................................................4 Bob Woodside New Mass Spectrometry Center ................................................................................10 Recent Grants ............................................................................................................11 Design Students in Action ......................................................................................................13 Jeremy Neeley Taylor Tobias Catching Up with Paul Stumpf ...................................................................................14 Educating Agents of Change .....................................................................................16 Duquesne University Magazine Pittsburgh Business Times Honors Dougherty with Diamond Award ........................22 Office of Public Affairs On The Road ..............................................................................................................23 406 Koren Building 600 Forbes Ave. Alumni Relations Report .............................................................................................27 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 What’s New at DU ......................................................................................................28 Tel: 412.396.6050 Gormley Named Law Dean ........................................................................................30 Fax: 412.396.5779 E-mail: [email protected] Lives of Purpose .........................................................................................................32 Helping Haiti ...............................................................................................................34 It is the Spirit DU Professor Takes Kids Health Literacy to the Airwaves .........................................36 Who Gives Life Athletics Update .........................................................................................................38 Figures From the Past ................................................................................................40 Our Bluff in Brief .........................................................................................................41 Alumni Updates ..........................................................................................................42 Homecoming Schedule ..............................................................................................47 Living a Legacy ..........................................................................................................48 Alumni Calendar .................................................................................inside back cover A Catholic University in the Spiritan Tradition 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Spring ‘10 thoughts from the president Thoughts from the President Nearly four years ago, I wrote in this magazine about my trip to visit Spiritan missions in Haiti. My travels took me from the scenic but primitive countryside to the dusty slums of Port-au-Prince. No matter where I went, I was struck by the contrasts. In a land overshadowed by political instability and excruciating poverty, the people remained proud of their history, filled with faith and determined to build a better life for themselves and their children. That fortitude was literally shaken to its core by the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12. Our television and computer screens brought us images of despair far beyond the scope of anything I experienced on my visit. Recently, I welcomed the Rev. Paulin Innocent, C.S.Sp., provincial superior of the Spiritans in Haiti, to campus. He confirmed that the damage and suffering were as traumatic as they appeared from a distance—in many cases, even worse. Still, the people remain resolved to emerge from this crisis stronger and better than they were before the earth trembled. Father Paulin’s job was already difficult; it became nearly impossible with Spiritan schools, chapels, and residences crushed to rubble. Yet the Congregation and the nation will rebuild, led by the Holy Spirit and assisted by friends around the world—including the Duquesne family. I was privileged to present Father Paulin with $33,000 contributed by alumni, faculty, staff, and students. He was deeply touched by this outpouring of support, and I join him in thanking all the members of our community who reached out to help in this time of overwhelming need. In this issue, we profile several alumni who have been personally involved in the relief efforts. While sensitive to needs around the world, we also recognize and respond to conditions across the street. Just beyond our campus, for example, the residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District lack a resource most of us take for granted—a community pharmacy. This fall, we will fill that void by opening a facility that will not only dispense prescriptions, but will offer health education and medication management services to a historically underserved community. Our Mylan School of Pharmacy is the first school in the nation to take on such an ambitious initiative; this facility will be the first community- based, university-operated pharmacy in America. Ironically, our new pharmacy is located just a stone’s throw from Duquesne’s birthplace on Wylie Avenue. Much has changed in 132 years, but we remain called by the Spirit to identify needs, develop creative solutions, and work together to create positive change. These pages document many such noble efforts. From Haiti to the Hill, Duquesne is making a difference. Sincerely, Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. Duquesne University President www.duq.edu 1 social justice “The Catholic Church’s Best Kept Secret”: Its Social Justice Teaching The Reverend David L. Smith, I would say that there are four C.S.Sp., professor emeritus and A: “...human beings are bare-bone principles. The concept former director of the Simon of the common good is the most Silverman Phenomenology Center never islands unto basic. It rests upon the reality that at Duquesne, recently shared human beings are never islands unto information about the Spiritan themselves—we are all by nature themselves—we are dedication to social justice in his social beings and share a common article, The Catholic Church’s Best Kept humanity and responsibility for one Secret: A Concise Survey of Papal Social all by nature social another. From our common humanity Justice Teaching. Here, he gives basic flows the principle ofsolidarity. information about social justice, the beings and share a Solidarity anchors the conditions Spiritans’ longtime dedication to it necessary for all citizens to enjoy the and how the Duquesne community means to support a decent human common humanity promotes social justice. lifestyle. The question of how these basic rights are to be respected and What exactly is “social justice” and responsibility for Q: fulfilled in any society brings us to as defined through the lens of the our third principle, subsidiarity—the Catholic Church? one another.” notion that no one can pull themselves up by their own boot straps if they If I steal your wallet, that is an A: don’t have a pair of boots. A fourth injustice inflicted by one individual principle, preferential option for the upon another. Social justice looks life and his fortune to educating poor poor, was already implicit in Pope beyond the single individual to focus young men for the priesthood who Leo’s teaching when he wrote that it on the social nature of all human in turn would lift up the poor by is the obligation of the government to beings and their relation to society their own service of educating them. protect and promote the “welfare and and the State. Since 1891 when Pope It was this same type of empathy comfort of the working people.” This Leo XIII wrote the first social justice for the underdog that motivated preferential option demands that the encyclical letter, On The Condition Francis Libermann, Poullart’s poor and powerless always be taken of Labor, the Catholic Church has successor almost 145 years after his into account when decisions are made repeatedly reminded us that injustice death, to devote his own life and that will affect their lives. is not just an individual sin but ministry to social justice. Long before can be social as well, inscribed in Rome jumped on board the train, The Spiritans were teaching the very structures and systems Q: he supported the new democratic about social justice many years of a society. For instance, tax laws political movements in France (1848) before the Church began to can be so written as to favor the against the monarchical
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