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Spring 2009 Th e Liberal Arts: A Life Extraordinary Volume 84, Number 1 tableof contents Spring 2009 The Saint Mary’s College Courier (USPS 135-340) is published four times a year by Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001. Periodicals postage a strong global economy paid at the Post Offi ce at Notre Dame, IN 46556 and at additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Alumnae Relations, Saint Mary’s College, 110 Le Mans Hall, imagine Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001. Copyright 2008 Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Clare Heintz ’09 has already helped make it possible Reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. The opinions expressed are those of and she’s just getting started. the authors or their subjects and are not necessarily shared by the College or the editor. Shari Rodriguez Vice President for College Relations [email protected] Page 10 Page 18 Karen Zagrocki McDonald ’76 Acting Assistant Vice President as a Integrated Marketing Communications first-year [email protected] Joined the Agribusiness Development features Courier Staff: Group (ADG), a student group committed Scot Erin Briggs Editor to bringing economic growth to Ghana 4 The Market Value of a 14 Best of Both Worlds [email protected] Liberal Arts Education Dr. Mary Anne Luzar ’72 takes liberal Natalie Davis Miller Staff Writer arts degree to Washington and as a sophomore In an ever-changing economy, beyond. Shannon E. Brewer ’03 Wrote an innovative business plan for liberal arts degrees give alumnae the Staff Writer fl exibility and creativity they need ADG to enter the dried fruit market Joya Helmuth to follow their career paths and their 16 Invite More Creativity Graphic Designer dreams. Into Your Life Matt Cashore as a junior Janet Graham Jason Jones Art Professor Krista Hoefl e offers Developed a Web site for marketing dried 7 Stepping Out Zara Osterman fruit to potential investors and buyers advice on how to bring creativity into Photographers Fiction writing class lets students your life. explore other lives in novella. Letters: Send letters to the editor to: Courier Editor as a senior Saint Mary’s College Led ADG in creating packaging and purchasing 10 In the Stacks with departments 303 Haggar College Center Notre Dame, IN 46556 equipment to support production in Ghana this year Alumnae Authors or e-mail [email protected] Alumnae literati who got their start at 2 Inside Saint Mary’s Class News: Send alumnae class news to: Saint Mary’s. Alumnae News Editor GU]bhAUfmÁgghiXYbhgUfYXmbUa]WkcaYb 15 Belles Athletics 110 Le Mans Hall XYhYfa]bYXhcW\Ub[Yh\Ykcf`X"GU]bhAUfmÁg Saint Mary’s College 12 Something to Write 17 Avenue News Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001 dfcj]XYgh\YUWUXYa]WZcibXUh]cbUbXgd]f]hiU`ZcWig or e-mail [email protected] Home About 20 For the Record Alumnae Association Staff: h\YmbYYXhcVi]`XUVYhhYfhcacffck" Kara O’Leary ’89 Courier interns ask Lisa Maxbauer 22 Club News Director of Alumnae Relations Price for real-world advice. [email protected] @SOR[]`SOP]cb1ZO`SObaOW\b[O`gaSRcQZO`SVSW\bh 24 Class News Jessica Stuifbergen ’99 Assistant Director of Alumnae Relations On the cover: 26 Excelsior [email protected] The Mission Right to left: Jessica Huang ’09, Lisa Maxbauer Price Saint Mary’s College is a Catholic, ’99, Kristen Edelen ’09 residential, women’s college in the MciWUb[]jYh\Yah\YgW\c`Ufg\]dgUbXÉbUbW]U`U]Xh\UhgYhg Photo by Jason Jones liberal arts tradition. A pioneer in the education of women, the College is an academic community where women ]hU``]bach]cb ^igh`]_YmciX]XZcf7`UfY" develop their talents and prepare to Corrections to the Winter 2008 Issue of Courier: make a difference in the world. make education possible for our students. p. 16: In the Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Honor Roll, the Chicago Advisory Council gift was erroneously listed as being Founded by the Sisters of the Holy you made in memory of Karla Schultz Goodyear. It was in memory of Karla Diane Wilson. Cross in 1844, Saint Mary’s promotes a life of intellectual vigor, aesthetic D`YUgYaU_YU[]Zhhch\YAnnual FundZcfgW\c`Ufg\]dgUbXÉbUbW]U`U]X" p. 15: In the picture caption of the Class of 1948, Mary Ellen Danielson DeNucci (holding the sign in the bottom row) was appreciation, religious sensibility, and misidentifi ed as Alice Simons Chermak. social responsibility. All members of the College remain faithful to this p. 12: The feature “Part of a Community After You Leave,” did not mention that Martha Hottenstein served as chair of her 2005 J]g]higcb`]bYUhgU]bhaUfmg"YXi#[]jYcfWU``,$$!GA7!,,+%" The Annual Fund mission and continually assess their Senior Gift Campaign in addition to Ashley Thornburg and Kim Holly Maher. response to the complex needs and challenges of the contemporary world. The Alumnae Association insidesaintmary’s Board of Directors Honorary President Carol Ann Mooney ’72 President MarilynElizabeth Wolter Bermingham Laboe ’61 Lacy ’66 360505 EastWelwyn Hurd Road Road Monroe,Richmond, MI VA48162 23229-8105 (734)(804) 243-3345741-5301 • [email protected]@courts.state.va.us Vice President HollyLisa Maxbauer Rieger Curley Price ’80 ’99 2326363 Sealund Mora Road Glen Drive LosQuincy, Altos MA Hills, 02171 CA 94024 (650)(917) 948-8598518-4345 • [email protected]@yahoo.com Some Musings After One Year at Saint Mary’s... Secretary JudyMary MardoianSue Dunn GavoorCurry ’85 ’76 10305434 SirFlowering William Dogwood Lane Lane LakeCharlotte, Forest, NC IL 28270-3729 60045 By Vice President and Dean of Faculty Patricia Ann Fleming margins to fi nd Saint Mary’s. I would not assume that I could or should ever be able to truly (847)(704) 235-2759814-7967 • [email protected]@carolina.rr.com know Saint Mary’s by searching for its center or its heart; for the signifi cant aspects of Saint Directors A version of this essay was delivered by the Vice Mary’s would be found in the places where maybe nobody is looking. Sheila Conlin Brown ’56 7251 2390 East Street President and Dean of Faculty at the beginning of her Well, by now you know, if you didn’t already, that you have a philosopher for a vice president Princeton, IL 61356 (815) 659-3040 • [email protected] second year at Saint Mary’s College at College Forum. and dean! So, you might be asking yourself—which of these views of substance does Patricia adopt? (Or, of course, you could be reading this thinking philosophy is pretty strange stuff!) Jill Moore Clouse ’99 3202 North Paulina Street, 2S My tenure at Saint Mary’s has been one of Let me tell you this. I tend to think that there is truth in all these ideas, although some are Chicago, IL 60657 (773) 348-2124 • [email protected] substantial challenges. Substance, as a concept, more incomplete or partial than others. My challenge is to hold them in a productive tension MaryNora BarrySue Dunn Fischer Curry ’73 ’85 fascinates philosophers. Plato dismisses substance so that I might be able to understand and experience Saint Mary’s both more totally and more 5434U.S. Post Flowering Offi ce Dogwoodand Courthouse Lane as insignifi cant. Our substantial existence, he tells us, innovatively at the same time. My husband, who is a potter, reminds me of the importance Charlotte,700 Grant NCStreet, 28270-3729 Suite 5260 (704)Pittsburgh, 814-7967 PA 15219 • [email protected] can get in the way of knowing truth. When discussing of substance since he works with clay. One of the fi rst things he does before throwing a pot NoraLinda BarryKawecki Fischer ’79 ’73 substance, Aristotle distinguishes between the is to center the clay. He cannot proceed without this centering process. But as he throws the U.S.6948 Post Lakeshore Offi ce andDrive Courthouse 700Dallas, Grant TX 75214-3550Street, Suite 5260 accidental and the essential and challenges us to be clay, he opens this center, pushing toward boundaries to form a work of art. That work might Pittsburgh,(214) 327-9355 PA 15219 • [email protected] able to identify the difference; John Locke argues exceed what we normally think of as boundaries and move into an unfamiliar shape but the Sara Bateman Koehler ’70 that, while he cannot point to substance, substance pot, whether it is classic or post-modern, retains integrity through the productive tensions kept 944 Spannwood Road Indianapolis, IN 46228 nevertheless exists, for it is that within which qualities intact by artist working with the clay. (317) 253-4494 • [email protected] adhere. Jean Paul Sartre effectively challenges our This is the same for Saint Mary’s. I have seen and experienced Saint Mary’s this last year as ElizabethLeeAnn Franks Bermingham McConnell Lacy ’85 ’66 views of substance, not so much as to say there is no a Platonist, when I have sat in my offi ce working with ideals for what I hope for this college; I 5051006 Welwyn Eastland Road Drive Richmond,Sturgis, MI VA49091 23229-8105 substance as to help us to see that what is essential have tried as well to identify its essence and explain this to parents and persons considering (804)(269) 741-5301651-9955 • [email protected]@yahoo.com about substance comes into being through existence Saint Mary’s and relatives wanting to know what Saint Mary’s is like, knowing full well that LeeAnnKathryn FranksWiedl Mettler, McConnell M.D. ’85 ’63 or living. Essence, so important to Aristotle and then describing the beautiful campus is more like speaking of the accidental rather than its essential 1006715 Registry Eastland Lane Drive NE Sturgis,Atlanta, GAMI 4909130342-2865 Aquinas, he argues, does not precede existence.