GETTING DOWN to BUSINESS Roosevelt's New President, Ali Malekzadeh, Talks About His Career and Plans for the University

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GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS Roosevelt's new president, Ali Malekzadeh, talks about his career and plans for the University. PAGE 22

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22 The School Year Begins During Roosevelt's Convocation on Aug. 21 in the Auditorium Theatre, new students were encouraged to send a tweet to President Ali Malekzadeh.

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17 Signing Off Rick Nieman (BA, '87) reminisces on his career and being one of Holland's most influential television journalists. 26 “We'll Figure It Out Together” Roosevelt honors student Desire Bernard comes from a tradition of giving. This includes regularly helping a homeless man in a Chicago park. 31 Going the Distance Alum Leo Solarte looks to make his mark on Chicago's real estate scene. 40 The Composing Process Roosevelt's Stacy Garrop describes how she composes music for chamber ensembles, choirs and orchestras. 34 DEBUTING CHICAGO'S NFL DRAFT “we were in the limelight like never before.” JUDIE GREEN CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER AUDITORIUM THEATRE OF ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY Rising Above 10 A mentoring program that pairs black male teens from Chicago with successful black men at Roosevelt University is receiving accolades and donor support.

5 Events Calendar 8 President's Perspective 46 University News 58 Athletics 64 Scholarship Spotlight ON THE COVER Ali Malekzadeh, former Alumni News dean of business at 66 Kansas State University, became Roosevelt's 67 In Memoriam sixth president on July 1. Read about his 71 Board of Trustees career and plans for Roosevelt on page 22. 72 Honor Roll of Donors

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Letters to the Editor, Articles in Roosevelt Review Thomas R. Karow, Editor (312) 341-3512 | [email protected] #RURA2015 “Got to meet #reslife President Ali Giving to Roosevelt University Malekzadeh today Jan Parkin, Interim Vice President, at move in! Institutional Advancement So excited for (312) 341-4327 | [email protected] all the new things Alumni Relations he will do for Yvette Garcia, Director, Alumni Relations Roosevelt!” (312) 341-3626 | [email protected] @shellbell94 AUGUST 15, 2015

Admission Follow Roosevelt on Instagram: instagram.com/rooseveltu Christy Hoke, Interim Assistant VP, Admission/Financial Aid (312) 341-4364 | [email protected]

Career Development “To the freshman at @RooseveltU: Jennifer Wonderly study hard & get to know your professors. Director, Career and Professional Development They are great mentors w/connections in (312) 341-3558 | [email protected] all fields.” #RUFIRSTDAY @RepMikeQuigley AUGUST 28, 2015 Musical Events Elizabeth Sustar, Director of Performance Activities, Follow Roosevelt on Twitter @RooseveltU Music Conservatory (312) 341-2238 | [email protected]

Theatrical Events “You r the best! Kendall Kelley, Managing Director, Roosevelt University Theatre Conservatory (312) 341-6355 | [email protected] of Chicago! Great memories.” Intercollegiate Athletics Frisco Saint Adams SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 John Jaramillo, Associate Athletic Director (312) 341-3829 | [email protected] Follow Roosevelt on Facebook: Facebook.com/RooseveltUniversity Renting a Space at Roosevelt Jodi Daily, Director, Conference Services (312) 341-3543 | [email protected]

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Performances Sports Enrollment DEC 5 MARCH 18-21 NOV 2 JAN 30 JazzFest The 39 Steps Women's Basketball Junior and Senior Jazz Showcase, A fast-paced whodunit vs. UIC Visit Day 806 S. Plymouth Ct. O'Malley Theatre UIC Pavilion Chicago Campus JAN 31 MARCH 29 NOV 24 FEB 20 Men's Basketball Scholars Day Symphony Vivid 2016 vs. UIC Chicago Campus Orchestra Concert CCPA Annual Showcase Auditorium Theatre UIC Pavilion Harris Theater for MARCH 12 Music and Dance APRIL 9 DEC 21-22 Admitted Student 205 E. Randolph Dr. Undergraduate CCPA Conservatory Women's Basketball Roosevelt Holiday Preview Day FEB 18-21 Choirs with the Illinois Chicago Campus Philharmonic Orchestra Hoops Tournament Legally Blonde Trinity Christian College Goodman Center the Musical APRIL 2 A hilarious and JAN 27 Admitted Student APRIL 9-10 Undergraduate heart-warming Men's Basketball Graduate Opera Preview Day musical production vs. St. Ambrose O'Malley Theatre Monteverdi's The Chicago Campus Coronation of Poppea Goodman Center “You r the best! Studebaker Theater, Roosevelt University MARCH 2 410 S. Michigan Ave. FEB 13 of Chicago! Symphony Orchestra Men's and Women's and the Professional APRIL 15 Basketball vs. St. Xavier Great memories.” Diploma in Opera Student Composition Goodman Center Young Artists Frisco Saint Adams SEPTEMBER 24, 2015 and Dance Collaboration Studebaker Theater, Ganz Hall MARCH 29 Follow Roosevelt on Facebook: 410 S. Michigan Ave. Softball vs. St. Xavier Facebook.com/RooseveltUniversity APRIL 28-MAY 1 Rosemont, Ill. MARCH 18-19 The Baker's Wife Undergraduate A bittersweet and offbeat APRIL 2 Opera Concert fable of life, love and bread Baseball vs. Ganz Hall O'Malley Theatre Robert Morris Crestwood, Ill.

APRIL 30 Baseball vs. Trinity International Crestwood, Ill.

MAY 5-7 View a full CCAC Softball list of events at Tournament roosevelt.edu/ Rosemont, Ill. calendar CCPA JazzFest

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 5 TAKING THEIR OATH Seventy-three members of the College of Pharmacy’s class of 2018 take the Oath of the Pharmacist during the traditional White Coat Ceremony, which marks the beginning of one’s entry into the pharmacy field.

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Forward Looking BY ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ALI R. MALEKZADEH

MY FIRST WEEKS AND We also know that our first MONTHS as Roosevelt step must be to increase University’s sixth president have undergraduate and graduate flown by in a blur of excitement, enrollment, which is imperative challenges and surprises. for our financial well-being. Every day brings a barrage of We must have the programs in new information and requests place to ensure higher retention for decisions and solutions to and graduation rates. We must problems. I am very humbled turn to our community for help to have been entrusted with in raising the additional dollars this remarkable opportunity to that support scholarships, lead one of America’s distinctive laboratories, faculty universities into the future. development and student life. Last spring Roosevelt University We must carefully examine celebrated its founding in our structure and operations to 1945 when the president and make sure we are effective and faculty of the YMCA College fiscally responsible stewards of our educational mission. And courageously refused to I also hope you will consider comply with the prevailing we owe our community a clear and compelling vision of who working with me on two custom of racial and religious new ideas meant to improve admission quotas. Now – as we are today and why we are a great choice for students. Roosevelt student retention and we enter our 70th academic graduation: an undergraduate year – we look forward to a mentoring program and an new phase of our history. undergraduate professional What should we be? What can development program. I led we be? What will we be? both activities in the business We know what we are. We are As we enter college at Kansas State an urban – and suburban – University, impacting thousands university. We have an unusually our 70th of students, and would like racially and economically to bring these programs to diverse population of students. academic Roosevelt undergraduates to We offer the opportunity to year, we look advance their confidence, skills study in a variety of programs and ability to succeed. But I will in one of the greatest cities forward to a need your help. Please watch in the world. We have a for announcements as we plan first-rate faculty who teach in new phase of the best way to implement beautiful and prizewinning our history. these programs at Roosevelt. buildings. We are the only Eleanor Roosevelt once said, comprehensive nonsectarian “The future belongs to those university in downtown who believe in the beauty of Chicago. Our alumni have great Will you help us achieve these their dreams.” I believe that achievements in all kinds of Roosevelt University can domains – including politics, goals? Will you participate in our future? We would value become a great university for the visual and performing arts, new generations of students, science, health professions, your help in many ways – by your presence at University with a central role to play in business, education and other the city of Chicago and in fields. We have a long tradition celebrations, lectures and workshops and by your higher education nationally. of engaging with the larger That is my dream – and I hope community and wrestling with active involvement in alumni chapters and fundraising. your dream too – and I look social issues and problems. forward to working together We have a national and I hope to visit with many of to make it happen. international reputation as an you this next year at these advocate of democratic values, various occasions, and to Ali Malekzadeh welcomes academic freedom, equal learn how Roosevelt made your comments. Email him at opportunity and social justice. a difference in your life. [email protected].

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 9 BY LAURA JANOTA RISING ABOVE The St. Clair Drake Center’s new Black Male Leadership Academy is encouraging dozens of Chicago Black male teens to have confidence and think big.

It’s an experience — and message — that 16-year-old Isiah Sheppard has taken to heart, following a dream to produce an award-winning documentary about Roosevelt University’s founding that is paving the way for a promising future.

10 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 11 I s iah Sheppard's award-winning Started in the summer of 2014 by Roosevelt’s St. documentary about Roosevelt University’s founding is Clair Drake Center for African and African American as much about leadership as it is about history, which Studies, the BMLA reaches out to promising young isn’t surprising given his participation in the University’s black teens who are entering their sophomore year Black Male Leadership Academy (BMLA). of high school, helping them build up four capitals: In the nine-minute video that was a finalist in this intellectual capability, cultural experience, social grace year’s Chicago and Illinois state history fairs, Sheppard and leadership skills. sounds older and wiser than his 16 years as he ponders So far, 34 black male teens, including Sheppard, have the meaning of leadership, a trait that his BMLA mentors participated in the program that is now in its second – all successful black men at Roosevelt – have modeled year of operation. The program offers a one-week and encouraged. summer session that was held July 21-24 as well as “What does it mean to be a leader?” Sheppard asks as programming on the second Saturday of every month the camera pans Chicago’s skyline for the piece that at the University. includes interviews with retired Roosevelt President “Initially, I wanted the Drake Center to do more outreach Chuck Middleton and University Historian Lynn Weiner. into the community,” said Al Bennett, director of the Center “To have courage?” he continues, hitting on a theme that is named for the late St. Clair Drake, a Roosevelt of the documentary that traces the actions of a leader, professor whose pioneering work in African American Roosevelt’s pioneering first president Edward J. Sparling. studies is legendary. “As I looked for opportunities, I “To put your livelihood on the line for the greater good began to think about black boys and wondered what of others?” he asks, spotlighting Sparling’s principled we as an institution could do to help prepare them to decision to found Roosevelt in 1945 as a place where go out in the world and be successful." blacks, Jews and other minority groups would be From that brainstorm sprang the BMLA, a college- welcomed, even as other colleges, using admission preparatory, life-skills and cultural-awareness program quotas, turned them away. pairing talented but at-risk black males from Chicago “It’s impressive that someone so young would delve high schools with African American male students, into something like this,” said Weiner, who was struck faculty and staff at Roosevelt. during interviews for the documentary by Sheppard’s formal appearance in suit and tie and questions he’d Initially the concept wasn’t a hit, according to Bennett, prepared in advance. “It says a lot about a program who remembers being asked, “But what about girls?” To that’s obviously succeeding in building bridges to which he replied: “We’ve got to start out by helping the African American males, giving them the confidence least advantaged, and at this juncture in our society, it and opportunity to achieve great things.” is black males who are most at risk for failure.”

12 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 LEADING BY EXAMPLe As part of the BMLA experience, teens and their mentors from Roosevelt University take a number of field trips that help them get to know Chicago better.

If we raise the bar on what’s possible, $52K I believe these kids will rise to the challenge.”

MICHAEL FORD, ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY CHIEF OF STAFF

Bennett’s research into specifics bears out the sad real- the achievement gap, BY THE NUMBERS $28K ity. African American males are behind other groups in reading scores, in graduating from high school and in attending and graduating from college. Meanwhile, they $19K are at enormous risk for spending time in prison, living below the poverty line and being unemployed. median Bennett broached his idea for the BMLA about two years annual ago with Roosevelt University Honorary Trustee Robert salary at the peak Johnson, a 1958 alumnus who had studied with and was just over half of of their mentored while at Roosevelt by Drake. african americans career graduate high “I was from a poor neighborhood and I wasn’t a very good school, compared to high school dropout high school student,” said Johnson, who has written a nearly 80% of white high school graduate personal essay (see page 16) that spells out why he decided and asian students. bachelors degree to financially support a three-year pilot of the BMLA. “I knew I could have been one of those who failed,” said 78% 54% Johnson, the first African American vice president of Sears Roebuck and Co. “When I heard about the concept, I thought ‘This program might have a chance to make a difference.’”

Additional financial support for the pilot came from Chicagoan Margery Feitler and Elissa Efroymson, vice chair of the Efroymson Family Fund. “The world we live in is competitive and I believe that kids from a young age need to know what they must do in order to compete,” said Feitler. every student who does not complete “There are many young people who are talented and smart high school costs an but who need an opportunity to meet and be inspired by estimated $260,000 others to let them know paths they may take themselves,” in lost earnings, taxes and productivity. added Efroymson. “That’s why I wanted to help. I believe this project can become a national model.” SOURCES: Alliance for Excellent Education; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, PBS.org, Council of the Great City Schools

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 13 game changers In its very first year, Roosevelt's BMLA wins a Game Changer award from the city of Chicago in 2014.

Winner of the prestigious Game Changer award from “These youth are not stereotypical black males of their the city of Chicago’s One Summer Chicago in 2014, the generation. They are my little brothers. I plan to see BMLA currently is being evaluated by Roosevelt’s Policy them grow and mature into successful black men,” wrote Research Collaborative for data/evidence that could another mentor, Roosevelt journalism major Joshua Hicks. take the program to the next level. One mentor in particular, Michael Ford, chief of staff to Before entering the BMLA in the summer of 2014, Sheppard Roosevelt’s president, has been a positive role model had never walked along Chicago’s Magnificent Mile or for BMLA participants. been inside the Lyric Opera House or Chicago’s Museum “He (Ford) taught me how to compose an email with a of Contemporary Art; he didn’t have a passport; and nice opening, good grammar and a professional closing,” hadn’t been away from home for any length of time, said Sheppard, who then contacted Roosevelt’s historian until spending a week during the last two summers for interviews for his school and history fair project. in a Roosevelt Wabash Building dorm suite with his Ford recalls brainstorming with Sheppard on options BMLA "brothers." for approaching the topic that was listed as a project “I loved being able to stay at the University,” said possibility on the Chicago Metro History Fair website. Sheppard, now a junior at Westinghouse High School He encouraged Sheppard to take it from there. on Chicago’s West Side. “My experiences in the BMLA “My role is to try and help these guys visualize and have me hooked on the idea of living on campus when actualize their ideas,” said Ford, who believes the number- I go to college.” one challenge for BMLA participants is to get beyond During the program, Sheppard met African American society’s low expectations and negative stereotypes men from Roosevelt whose experience as mentors of black men. “If we raise the bar on what’s possible, meant so much that they wrote personal essays for the I believe these kids will rise to the challenge. Here’s a University’s Social Justice Blog. project with no limitations and look at how far it went.” Frank Pettis, a political science major and May 2015 When Sheppard’s high school history teacher, Linda Roosevelt graduate, shared his own struggle in learning Becker, first saw Sheppard’s documentary on Roosevelt’s to read, an experience that bonded him with a teen who founding, she recalls being “absolutely blown away” by stumbled aloud over words in the BMLA syllabus. “He its content, including images and mention of some of seemed nervous, but no one laughed. No one heaped Roosevelt’s famous African American male students scorn,” Pettis wrote of the encounter. “I patted him on his like the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, jazz back. ‘I know the struggle bro, just keep reading,’ I told pianist Ramsey Lewis and composer and instrumentalist him. ‘The more you struggle the more it will go away.’” Anthony Braxton.

14 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 My experiences in the Black Male Leadership Academy have me hooked on the idea of living on campus when i go to college.” ISIAH SHEPPARD RECENT GRADUATE OF ROOSEVELT'S BMLA

“Isiah used to be quiet. With this project, he seems to “The biggest thing I try to get across is getting these guys BMLA participant Isiah have become more comfortable with himself. Besides to understand how important it is to get an education,” Sheppard wants to go to college, and is consider- academic skills, he’s improved his networking skills and said Eason, who, like Sheppard, had family support, but ing Roosevelt University few other African American male mentors while growing become more outgoing and social,” she said. as one of his choices. up in Ann Arbor, Mich. “Without an education, most One of those whom Sheppard has networked with black men in America are likely to face a lot of trials and extensively is fellow Westinghouse High School student tribulations,” Eason said. Kendall Relf, a fellow BMLA participant who helped Sheppard edit his documentary on Roosevelt’s founding. Sheppard’s mother, Aida Roldan, said she hopes her son “Before the BMLA, Isiah and I knew each other a little, will consider Roosevelt University as a college option. but now we’re great friends,” said Relf. “My son has been motivated since he did the documentary,” The two BMLA participants co-founded an after-school she said. “Now, he wants to do more. He wants to be more. club at Westinghouse, Potato Lounge, where they write He wants to succeed more. I give a lot of credit to Roosevelt sketches and produce a TV comedy series about life in and the BMLA for helping him to come such a long way.” high school called “Room 210.”

A musician who plays guitar, piano, bass and drums, View Sheppard’s award-winning documentary on the Sheppard credits another of his black male mentors University's founding: www.roosevelt.edu/sheppard in the BMLA, Roosevelt musical theatre major Jalen Read about BMLA mentors' experiences on Roosevelt's Eason, with helping him brainstorm ideas for the new Social Justice Blog: blogs.roosevelt.edu/socialjustice comedy series.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 15 Addressing the Need for More Black Males to Attend College

BY ROBERT L. JOHNSON, ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY HONORARY TRUSTEE

or many years, I have support a new program at Roosevelt In 1958 I graduated with a BA The program’s goal is to have all been concerned about University called the Black Male degree from Roosevelt University of the young men who participate problems created Leadership Academy (BMLA). and later served as a member of in this effort complete high school when large numbers Roosevelt’s Board of Trustees. and enroll in a college that is a I decided to become involved in this of black youth fail to Last year, I learned that the good fit for them. A major part of effort fully aware of the statistics succeed during their middle and University’s St. Clair Drake Center the program is a required evalua- that have led some to say that black high school years. This concern was developing a new approach tion of outcomes. It is important males are in crisis. Nationally, only is most likely a result of my own to assisting black males in the to know what happens to these 52 percent of black males in the experiences attending school in Chicago Public Schools. After young men both in the short term class of 2012 graduated from high Chicago. I graduated from Du several meetings with Drake Center and long term. If it works, we want school, compared to 78 percent Sable High School in the early director Al Bennett, I decided to to know why and if it doesn’t, we of their white male counterparts. 1950s. I was an average student financially support the program want to know why not. However, In Chicago, the black-white high and didn’t fully appreciate the for three years. whether we succeed in meeting school graduation gap is larger: value of working hard in high our program goals, I believe that only 39 percent of black males in I’m interested in the BMLA because school until my senior year. That those who participate will benefit the class of 2012 graduated from it is a simple and direct innovation was over 60 years ago when the that addresses two important parts in some way. benefits and demands of college a Chicago Public School high of a successful career: who you know Colleges and universities are ideal weren’t as well understood as school, compared to 66 percent and what you know. The program places to develop and implement they are today. of white males. has two components, the Summer innovative programs that address After high school, the black-white However, even then my limited Institute and Second Saturdays. The the needs of black males. I realize educational gap further increases, knowledge came with a rude Summer Institute takes place for that there are no silver bullets to resulting in continued decline of awakening. I enrolled in Crane one week on Roosevelt’s Chicago the complex challenges that our Junior College in 1953. At my young black males at every major Campus. During the week, approxi- young men face, but I encourage initial meeting with the college graduation point. Nationally, white mately 20 male students live in the those who can provide resources advisor, I was informed that my males are two times more likely to dorms, attend classes and go to a to develop innovative programs chances of succeeding at Crane graduate from a public two-year wide range of social and cultural like the Black Male Leadership were slim. If I chose to enroll, I college than black males. The events. The second component is Academy to do so. was encouraged to register for statistics at four-year universities for students who are graduates of remedial classes, quit my job and and colleges are also bleak. the Summer Institute. They come Robert Johnson of Evanston, Ill. take a maximum of three courses. According to the Congressional to Roosevelt for a half-day on the was the first African-American Despite this rather jolting analysis, Black Caucus, black males ages second Saturday of each month Vice President of Sears, Roebuck I believed in myself and embraced 18 and older make up just 5.5% (October to May) to participate in & Company. the goal of attaining a degree. It of all college students and of the a range of intellectual and social is this belief – that success can black males who enroll in college, activities including mentoring, be attained even when the odds only one in six (approximately college preparation and visitations, are against you – that led me to 17%) will receive a college degree. and ACT and SAT test preparation.

16 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 BY TOM KAROW SIGNING OFF Roosevelt alumnus RICK NIEMAN (B A , ’87 ) reminisces about his career and being one of Holland’s most influential television journalists.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 17 Rick Nieman, a Roosevelt alum and well-known journalist in Holland, interviewed President Bill Clinton when he visited Rotterdam in 2007 to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative.

hen Rick Nieman stepped down this spring As those statistics show, news, especially international news, is as anchor of RTL News in Amsterdam after 19 very popular in the Netherlands and Nieman, who is fluent in years in front of the camera, he was surprised Dutch and English and also speaks German, Italian and French, at the tributes he received. regularly interviewed world leaders when they came to Holland. Over the years, he has talked with Madeleine Albright, the Dalai “I got many emails and even old-fashioned post Lama, Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, Bill Clinton and Condoleezza cards from viewers who said they were sad to Rice, among many others. see me go,” he said. “You don’t think about it when doing your job, but apparently you become part of people’s lives. And when they tell you how much of a part, it’s humbling. A Bosnian War refugee, for instance, thanked me LEARNING FROM THE BEST for ‘teaching’ her Dutch. She learned the language, she said, by Nieman’s path to being a “news presenter” began in 1983 when watching our broadcasts.” he came to Roosevelt as an American Cultural Exchange student. Unlike many of his colleagues who wanted to study at a large state Until his retirement, Nieman, 50, was widely recognized as Holland’s university, his objective was to go to a university in a large city most watched and most influential television journalist. His 7:30 where he could learn journalism from practicing professionals. p.m. broadcasts on RTL were seen by 1.5 million viewers every day in a country of 17 million inhabitants. For comparison, NBC Nightly “I had a wonderful experience at Roosevelt,” he said. “The professors News is watched by about 8.5 million people, but the United States were either former or current practicing journalists with a lot of has a population of 318 million. experience. They gave us very practical assignments. I remember

18 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was interviewed a number of times by Rick Nieman. On this occasion in 2003, (left) she was promoting her first bookMadame Secretary. Clifford Sobel (right), the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, met with Nieman in 2005 in Margraten, where more than 8,000 U.S. servicemen who were killed in WWII are buried.

“I am incredibly grateful for my time at Roosevelt.”

one semester my beat was the Cook County Court system and I “It’s a bad anecdote about our society and being a television reporter,” had to write a background story and a feature story about it every Nieman said, “but an instructor at USC once told me: ‘You’re young, week. What I learned there, I have used daily ever since. I am really you’re blond, you speak reasonably well, you’re made for television. incredibly grateful for my time at Roosevelt.” You should be a TV reporter.’ I was insulted at the time, but she was probably right.” One person Nieman particularly respected is Charles-Gene McDaniel, who headed Roosevelt’s journalism program from 1979 until 1995. In 1991 he decided to move back to Holland and accepted a position as A former Associated Press writer, McDaniel was a first-rate writer a reporter with RTL News. The station is part of RTL Group, Europe’s and teacher who, after he retired, visited Nieman in Amsterdam. leading entertainment network with interests in 55 television “Professor McDaniel instilled in us a tremendous feeling of fairness,” channels around the world. After serving as a general assignment he said. “He was very much into the ABCs of journalism – accuracy, reporter, the Roosevelt alumnus was selected as RTL’s anchor in brevity and clarity. We had to get the facts straight. He was not very 1996 and he held that position until May when he decided to leave in kind if you did sloppy work.” order “to write more, travel and work on other journalistic projects.”

During his four years at Roosevelt, Nieman lived in the Herman Crown Center residence hall and was active in school activities. He was editor of Roosevelt’s student newspaper, The Torch and was a POLITICS, AMERICAN STYLE member of Roosevelt’s soccer team that was ranked 16th nation- To glean ideas for his newscasts, Nieman regularly watched American ally in the NAIA and beat the University of Notre Dame. “We had television. “Of all the countries in Europe and the United Kingdom, a Serbian coach and nobody on the team was actually born in the we’re the most Anglo-American focused,” he said. “Germany is U.S.,” he recalled. “We had Iraqis, Iranians, Haitians, Yugoslavians our biggest trading partner, but the Dutch don’t speak German all and just one Dutchman, me. Truth be told, I was substitute and that well. They speak English and they’re very focused on the U.S. didn’t play much, but I loved being on that team.” I read the New York Times every day and already did stories about the 2016 U.S. Presidential election even though the Iowa caucuses After graduating from Roosevelt, Nieman received a scholarship to are still many months away.” earn a master’s degree from the University of Southern California (USC) where he studied international relations and journalism. He However, it was elections in the Netherlands that helped make Nieman then joined a small business news organization that was acquired by so well known. Like George Stephanopoulos or Bob Schieffer in the United CNN shortly after he was hired. All of a sudden at the age of 25, he was States, he moderated debates with all the major candidates and then an on-air reporter for CNN in London specializing in financial news. anchored the election results and provided analysis on what the results

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 19 meant for the parties and country. Every major political leader in the And during a TV interview in 2013 to discuss their upcoming royal Netherlands has been grilled by Nieman on such topics as the future inauguration, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands of the Dutch economy and the effects of budget cuts on Dutch citizens. and his wife Princess Máxima surprised the nation by telling Nie- man that citizens can address them “any way they see fit.” “People When they come to Amsterdam, international leaders frequently in the street call me Máxima. At the end of the day, it’s not that visit RTL news and Nieman was often the reporter who interviewed important to be called princess or queen. The important thing is them. His most memorable interview, however, occurred in a the title we represent,” Máxima said. hotel room in Luxemburg where he was attending the European Union–United States Ministerial Summit in 2005. Nieman describes his interview style as being tough, but fair. “If people don’t want to answer a question, I gently try to say you didn’t He was the first person to talk with Secretary of State Condoleezza answer the question and give it another shot. But after I’ve asked Rice following a major announcement by North Korea. He began the it three times, I say, ‘I understand you don’t want to answer, let’s interview by saying: “Ms. Secretary, North Korea just announced move on to the next one.’” for the first time publicly this morning that it has nuclear weapons. What is your reaction to this?” Rice replied that the North Koreans In addition to anchoring and interviewing, Nieman is an accomplished were “only deepening their isolation in the international community” author, whose book Always Viareggio was published in Spring 2015 to and “there needs to be no nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula favorable reviews. It tells the story of four high school and college in order to maintain stability in the region.” friends who make an annual motorcycle trip to Viareggio, Italy. One critic wrote that Always Viareggio “might move you to think When Nieman opened the hotel door after the interview, there were about your own life and friendships.” 30 journalists from around the world waiting to ask him what she said. “Our timing was very fortunate,” he recalled. “Our interview Nieman is married to Sacha de Boer, a former news anchor on a was picked up by CNN and other stations and there was a front competing network. De Boer is now a professional photographer page article in the New York Times the next morning.” who shoots for National Geographic among other publications.

Nieman also has interviewed President Bill Clinton a number of As to the future, Nieman said he received a number of offers the times as well as former Secretary of State Colin Powell, whom he moment he announced his departure. One of those was hosting a quizzed about the use of Dutch troops in Iraq as part of the military Sunday-morning news show on another network, which he began coalition during the Iraq War. doing this fall. Odds are his legion of news viewers are tuning in.

ALWAYS VIAREGGIO Rick Nieman's first novel, Altijd Viareggio, came out in May and tells the story of a group of friends who every year make a trip to the Italian seaside village of Viareggio by motorcycle. Nieman, a motorcycle enthusiast himself, said the book describes how friendships change as people grow older.

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FROM WRITING FOR DAILY NEWSPAPERS to Lee, who also learned the importance of storytell- “I have my Roosevelt anchoring television news programs, alumni from ing as a journalism undergraduate at Roosevelt, journalism professors to Roosevelt University’s Journalism Program are credits Roosevelt Journalism Professor John thank for preparing me well realizing dreams as successful members of the media. Fountain with inspiring him to tell his story of for this experience,” says battling Crohn’s Disease and coming to terms Giacomo Luca (above), an “Many of our journalism graduates are doing great with his mother’s untimely death. award-winning journalist things,” said Marian Azzaro, chair of the Department who is currently reporting for of Communication at Roosevelt. “One of the keys “I remember having a professor who once CBS/Fox affiliate KFVS-TV to our program is that it positions students to be told me ‘The sky’s the limit on where you can in Cape Girardeau, Mo. prepared for the rapidly changing field of journalism go’ and I feel that way about Aaron,” Fountain by providing instruction in different media, from said recently. newspapers to video to Internet reporting.” Keeping that advice in mind, Lee covered the Started four decades ago, the Roosevelt journalism NFL Draft in Chicago as a freelance sports experience includes opportunities for learning at The reporter and shortly after landed a job with Torch student newspaper, The Blaze student radio ESPN Chicago. “This is going to be a stepping station and most recently The Fire, which is doing stone for me,” said Lee, who began work this video news segments and is the newest student fall on a master’s degree. “I’m getting to meet journalism format. “We’re teaching students to a lot of people at the network and they know I write and report for all kinds of journalistic media; have aspirations to go a lot further.” these are skills that are useful and needed for Giacomo Luca, who was working as an success,” Azzaro said. anchorman for a small TV station in Lima, Jennifer (Berry) Hawes, a 1993 journalism graduate, Ohio, before graduating from Roosevelt in brought positive attention to Roosevelt’s program May 2014, already has moved up as an on-air as a member of a reporting team for The Post and reporter for a larger TV station that broadcasts Courier, a daily newspaper in Charleston, S.C., that out of Cape Girardeau, Mo. won the Pulitzer Prize in April for Public Service for As a reporter for a CBS affiliate station out of a five-part series on domestic violence. Cape Girardeau, which has the 81st largest TV She credits Roosevelt Associate Professor of market in the country, Luca goes live nightly, Journalism Linda Jones with opening her eyes to covering news from approximately 50 rural the storytelling craft of journalism. “She instilled counties in four Midwest states. the importance of storytelling in me,” Hawes said of “I broke into a top 100 market the month after I Jones, “and that’s what I’m really known for today.” graduated from college and I have my Roosevelt Roosevelt journalism alumnus Aaron Lee recently journalism professors to thank for preparing landed a job with ESPN in Chicago, getting a foot me well for this experience,” said Luca. “I’ve in the door toward one day achieving his ultimate been able to do my dream job every day and goal of becoming an ESPN anchorman. I couldn’t be happier.”

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BY TOM KAROW GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS Ali Malekzadeh has the leadership skills, higher education experience, business expertise and personality Roosevelt’s trustees sought in a new president.

“What would you be doing if you weren’t in higher education?” The question seemed to surprise him, and Ali Malekzadeh, Roosevelt University’s new president, paused and looked around his office before answering. “I never thought of that before,” he replied. “Education is my business. I understand it and have loved every minute of it.”

From the time he was a second grader, Malekzadeh, a native of Iran, wanted to be an educator, and true to his dreams, his entire 33-year career to date has been in education as a university professor and administrator. He’s even married to a professor, Dr. Afsaneh Nahavandi, chair of the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego.

Malekzadeh, who asks everyone to call him “Ali,” joined Roosevelt on July 1 as the University’s sixth president, succeeding Chuck Middleton who retired after 12 years as president. “The sky is the limit at Roosevelt,” said the former dean of business at Kansas State University, just a short time into his first presidency. “This is a great University with a noble history and outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni. Our legacy will be to build on those attributes and create an even greater University.”

Colleagues who have worked with him in the past have no doubt that his leadership skills, higher education experience and personality will enable him to be a successful president.

“Very few times in your life do you meet someone with a sense of optimism, fairness, and a forward looking and compelling vision, along with a strategy for achieving that vision. I was fortunate to have met that person – Ali Malekzadeh,” said Anand S. Desai, a former associate dean at Kansas State and now dean of the School of Business at Wichita State University.

“When I’m in a difficult meeting or conversation, I ask myself ‘what would Ali do?’” said Raghu Tadepalli, dean of the School of Business at Elon University in Elon, N.C. “And since it’s been six years since we worked together at Xavier University in Cincinnati, that’s the biggest compliment I can pay someone.” »

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alekzadeh, 60, first Tadepalli said Malekzadeh is able to get along new $55 million College of Business facility started thinking about with everyone, from CEOs to custodians. “He at Kansas State. becoming a university president six months is always upbeat, looks on the positive side, “Ali understands the dynamics of fundrais- before the Roosevelt position opened. “I is unfailingly courteous and is strategic. ing,” said University of Montana Foundation liked being a dean and being a university Working with him was one of the most President and CEO Shane Giese, who worked president was not a lifetime ambition of mine,” professionally satisfying periods of my life.” with Malekzadeh at Kansas State, raising Malekzadeh said. Kansas State President Kirk funds for programs, faculty, students and Schulz, a friend and mentor, helped change facilities. “He personally drove the vision THE MAKINGS OF A PRESIDENT his mind. He encouraged Malekzadeh to of building a new business building at While many people comment on his energy consider becoming a president as his next K-State, from securing internal support, and enthusiasm, Malekzadeh does much career move. to developing the concept, to scoping the of his thinking and planning while jogging project with architects and contractors, to So when Witt/Kieffer, Roosevelt’s search every morning along Chicago’s lakefront, a fundraising for the effort.” firm, contacted him about the presidency, continuation of his life long interest in fitness Malekzadeh’s initial experiences in university he agreed to an initial interview. “The more and sports. A snow skier, he lifts weights administration and faculty leadership were I looked into Roosevelt, the more I liked to stay in shape and is a fourth-level black at Arizona State University West in Phoenix it,” he said. “I was really impressed with belt in Tae Kwon Do. He was captain of his where from 1987 to 1998 he helped develop the University’s social justice mission and high school basketball team and a varsity the brand new campus. He helped hire the thought the job might be a good fit for me.” soccer goalie in college. business faculty and created the Office of It turned out that the feeling was mutual. Fundraising has long been one of Malekza- Graduate Studies. Since he was first appointed Malekzadeh impressed every constituency he deh’s strengths. He secured funds for a new a dean and throughout his career, Malekzadeh met during the interview process. In March, business college location at St. Cloud State has been a strong advocate for faculty and the Presidential Search Committee, chaired University in Minnesota, helped raise $30 staff development, providing professors by trustee and now Board Chair Patricia million for a new business school building and university staff with opportunities to Harris, recommended his appointment to the at Xavier and raised over $40 million for a advance their careers. Board of Trustees and he was unanimously elected president on March 26.

“During his conversations with the committee,” Harris said, “it became clear that Ali’s collegial disposition, strategic insights and natural affinity for the Roosevelt community made him the resounding choice to serve as Roosevelt’s next president.”

“I have worked in administration at four universities, both public and private, and believe the main responsibility of a leader is to provide an environment where everyone can succeed,” Malekzadeh said. “Organiza- tions are about people and everyone comes to work to be successful. If there’s a problem, we will work to try and solve it.”

Ann Marie Tracey, professor of business law and ethics at Xavier University where Malekzadeh was business dean from 2003 to 2011, said he is “an extraordinary leader.” “I remember going to a community event with him after he’d only been in town for a few weeks and thought I would be introducing him to people. But he already knew everybody,” she said.

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“Ali changed my life,” said Desai of Wichita contributions to America were recognized State. “In the four years I was at Kansas on July 4 when the Carnegie Corporation of State with him, he gave me opportunities to The main New York honored him and 37 other “great grow and develop my skills as an academic immigrants” from more than 30 countries leader. He showed me that if you dream it responsibility with a full-page ad in the New York Times. and work hard, you can make it happen.” of a leader is Although Malekzadeh is still forming his Malekzadeh attributes his can-do spirit to agenda for Roosevelt, one area he will his mother and his skills in negotiation to to provide an emphasize is alumni participation. He will be his father, a successful attorney. At one time, reaching out to graduates and encouraging Malekzadeh said his dad was requested environment them to become more involved in the life to be counsel for both parties in a legal of Roosevelt students by being mentors, dispute between a university in Tehran where everyone providing internships and supporting and the city of Tehran. During a break in can succeed. scholarships. “We want alumni to be so the judicial proceedings, he brought both proud of their alma mater that they call us PRESIDENT ALI MALEKZADEH sides together and resolved the issue. Years and say ‘how can we help you?’” later, Malekzadeh had a similar experience. The mentoring program will be based on While at St. Cloud State, both the labor union successful programs he implemented at and the administration named him as their Kansas State and Xavier. At Kansas State investigative officer. more than 560 undergraduate students had

A WARM WELCOME During his first weeks at Roosevelt, President Ali Malekzadeh has been busy participating in University life: trying on Roosevelt gear, meeting parents of students and joining in activities with students.

Malekzadeh’s life in the United States began Then in January of 1979 after the Islamic executive mentors, while at Xavier more than in 1969 when he was invited to spend the Revolution, Malekzadeh and Nahavandi 500 people volunteered to advise students summer in Denver with an American fam- were unable to return to Iran. with their careers. This helped improve the college’s job placement rate to 98 percent. ily. “When we landed at Stapleton Airport Malekzadeh describes the ordeal this way: in Denver, I looked up and it was just like “It’s like you were born and raised in Illinois “Ali is a strong believer in getting students Tehran,” he said. “Fourteen thousand feet and then go to school in Massachusetts. All hands-on experience with internships,” Giese high mountains, four seasons and very of a sudden, somebody says, ‘By the way, said. “He enjoys the process of watching similar weather. I said, ‘Wow, this is it. This Illinois won’t let you in anymore.’ They take students mature in their work and their outlook is where I want to go to college. I can even your passport, punch a hole in your face and on what they want to do with their lives.” continue skiing here.’ So, I spent the summer give the worthless passport back.” For someone whose business has always there and applied to only one university, After the revolution, Malekzadeh and been education, it won’t take Roosevelt’s new the University of Denver.” Nahavandi immediately decided to make the president long to capitalize on the University’s After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees United States their home. They completed opportunities and build on its legacy. “We’re in business administration from Denver, their doctorates and were granted asylum, here to educate people and provide an open Malekzadeh and his wife (Malekzadeh and allowing them to teach at Northeastern environment where absolutely everybody can Nahavandi met in grade school and married University in Boston. Shortly later, they became thrive and succeed and achieve the American in Tehran in 1977) went to the University of U.S. citizens and their two daughters were Dream. I think that’s what Roosevelt has Utah to earn doctoral degrees in business. born and raised in America. Malekzadeh’s been and always will be about,” he said.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 25 26 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 We’ll figure it out together. Desire Bernard first did a project on Chicago homelessness as a Mit- tie, Moselynne and Dempsey Travis scholar. As an honors student, she was paired with a nonprofit professional who taught her more about the homelessness issue and how it can be best addressed. Now the Roosevelt senior is applying all she’s learned to help a homeless man named Larry Roby reclaim his dignity.

BY LAURA JANOTA

gnoring the man who sleeps outside her office window atop a heating grate in Chicago’s Midway Plaisance Park has never been an option for Roosevelt University senior Desire Bernard.

The 35-year-old psychology major, whose motto in life is “We can figure it out,” comes from a tradition of giving. “My mother was always feeding somebody,” said the Belize native who came to the United States at age 11 and was awarded U.S. citizenship last year. “In that regard, I’m following in her footsteps.”

The honors student will be the first in her family to receive a college diploma when she graduates from Roosevelt in the spring of 2016. Her odyssey of learning about and understanding the plight of Chicago’s homeless began as a new Roosevelt student in fall 2013.

“Desire’s philosophy in life is to help others and do justice. She’s the real deal in terms of living those values,” said Laura Evans, a Roosevelt professor of organizational leadership and mentor to Bernard, who enrolled at the University because of its mission.

An office manager at the Urban Education Institute in Chicago’s Hyde Park, Bernard first saw movement under a blanket in Midway Plaisance Park as she looked out her window in early October 2013. She realized a man lived there when she saw him a few days later sitting on a plastic cooler next to the blanket.

After two weeks of watching and with the weather turning colder, Bernard decided to carry down a cup of coffee. The whir of a boiler fan shooting hot air up through the heating grate could be heard as Bernard offered the coffee and the man nodded in thanks.

“When she discovered this man living on a heating grate, it was only natural for her to befriend him,” said Evans, who taught a critical reasoning and skills course that Bernard took as a freshman. “She’s been doing one-on-one social justice with him ever since, though it’s probably been a tougher road than she expected.”

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 27 What I’ve learned is that America has the resources in place to help, but it lacks the community.” - DESIRE BERNARD

Bernard certainly has experienced plenty be a leader capable of making contributions “At that point, I didn’t want to let the project of ups and downs during the past two years to positive change in communities.” go,” said Bernard, who remembers thanking as she has come to know and understand There wasn’t much conversation at first, as Roby in April 2014 for helping make the video Larry Roby, the 60-year-old homeless man Desire didn’t want to be too pushy, but she and her presentation powerful. “I asked if whose life has been full of frustration. thought a lot about the man on the heating he wanted me to help him get off the street. “When people find out you don’t have grate, visiting him twice a week with food, He said ‘yes,’ we shook on it and I told him anything, they have a tendency to turn clothing, drug-store sundries and other ‘We can figure it out together.’” their noses up,” Roby said recently. “They essentials. A Chicago native, Roby is a high school dropout, don’t know the situation, even though they By January 2014, Bernard had learned Roby’s former U.S. marine and steel worker whose think they do.” story, interviewing him for her 2013-14 job at U.S. Steel South Works in Chicago was The experience also has been a career builder Mittie, Moselynne and Dempsey Travis to open the door of a blast furnace. for Bernard, who has done considerable scholarship project at Roosevelt – a video After the plant closed for good in 1996, Roby legwork contacting caseworkers, free medical she titled “The Invisible Ones,” which was lost his townhome to foreclosure and his car clinics and homeless housing advocates, well received at its screening. to repossession. Depressed and discouraged, among others, to assist her in helping Roby. “What was nice about the project is the way he became estranged from his family, living “This is not someone who shrinks from she approached the topic of homelessness,” on the street for 20 years, including the last challenges,” said Megan Bernard (not related said Joan Berg, a Travis family foundation six without any form of identification. to Desire Bernard), associate provost for attorney who attended Bernard’s February “I was literally walking in the dark,” said inclusion/enrichment and a director of 2014 presentation. “The message was about Bernard, who initially sought school and Roosevelt’s new Community Mentoring preserving the dignity of those you’re trying hospital records to try and establish Roby’s Program, which paired the honors student to help get back on their feet,” said Berg, identity so he could get a Social Security with a leader of a Chicago not-for-profit “and that is in line with the mission of the card and be put on a waiting list for housing. homeless-care provider. “The knowledge she’s foundation,” which after the screening, getting in the classroom and the know-how awarded Bernard a second Travis scholarship Chicago Public Schools officials informed she’s gaining in the field are preparing her to for 2014-15. Bernard that Roby’s records were in a

Who are the nation’s homeless?

36% 44% Families Single Men 13% Single Women on a given night...

Unaccompanied7% Minors

have been legally employed in the last 30 days

28 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 SOURCES: National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Coalition for the Homeless warehouse, and that it could take months to find them. Staff at Cook County’s Provident Hospital refused to release Roby’s records unless he had a police report proving he’d been transported to the emergency room.

Complaining of back pain and stomach problems, Roby was seen in summer 2014 at the hospital’s emergency room where he received paperwork that became the basis for establishing his identity. With this report, Franciscan Outreach in Chicago went ahead that fall, at Bernard’s urging, to issue a letter officially affirming Roby’s homeless status.

The letter helped Roby get a Social Security card, birth certificate, Illinois identification card and a place on a waiting list for permanent housing. After the eight-month paper chase was over, Bernard gave Roby a wallet for his state ID. She also held onto his original documents, which she continues to store for safekeeping.

“I never realized the obstacles that our homeless have in getting back on their feet,” said Bernard, who grew up in Belize City where she first saw street people and learned that reaching out is part of belonging to a community. “If anyone was hungry, there was always someone there with a pot of food,” she said. “What I’ve learned is that America has the resources in place to help, but it lacks the community.”

Bernard and her mother, Esther Hudson, have been a safety net for Roby. They bring him supplies, drive him places and show concern when he stays in the cold or misses appointments that could open doors to getting off the street.

“Desire is happiest when she is helping others. You can see it in her face,” said Hudson, who pitches in whenever Bernard asks. “She’s going into a life of service, and even if Mr. Roby ABOVE AND BEYOND When psychology major Desire Bernard first saw a homeless man outside her office window, her inclination was to help in any way possible, including doesn’t get out of homelessness, I believe assisting him in obtaining his long-lost identity. my daughter will be rewarded for trying.”

Roby admits being surprised that Bernard hasn’t given up on him yet. “I’ve come to believe she really cares about me,” he said recently.

Among nearly 140,000 people in Chicagoland without a home, Roby is in line with approximately 26,000 others seeking permanent, subsidized housing.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 29 “Desire has come to understand homelessness on the micro and macro levels.” Sol Flores, Executive Director of La Casa Norte and one of Bernard’s mentors

His case isn’t likely to be a priority, as Roby who hired her over the summer to assess adult learning to read and is on a list to be is adamant against going into a temporary the needs of approximately 100 households a counselor assisting immigrants seeking shelter, a step that can increase one’s chances receiving assistance from the nonprofit. citizenship. for getting a private apartment. Simply put, “I’m excited to see what she will do next,” Well versed about homelessness and its Roby wants the apartment, but not at the added Flores, who hopes to continue the challenges thanks to opportunities she had expense of his privacy and freedom. mentor relationship that officially ended last as a Roosevelt student, Bernard is making a “Most people helping the homeless agree spring with a symposium presentation by difference one person at a time, beginning that the longer one stays outside, the harder six Roosevelt mentees, including Bernard. with Roby. it becomes to make a change,” said Douglas “I see Desire as someone who could lead “If you need me, I’ll be there. I just need you Fraser, executive director of the Chicago initiatives and teams from the non profit to take the reins,” she said recently as the Help Initiative, a homeless-care nonprofit sector in their work on important social two sat on a bench in the park discussing that Bernard has contacted for guidance in issues like homelessness.” next steps for the homeless man in making helping Roby. a transition from the heating grate. Going forward, Bernard continues to build “When you deal with people who have been on service experiences. Every three months, Mentioning a list of benefits he’d like to outside for a very long time, the reality is she sends boxes of shoes, children’s clothing, apply for – food stamps, Medicaid, Social that it can be difficult to figure out how to medical supplies and other necessities to the Security disability – Roby hid tears when help them,” said Fraser, who has warned needy in her old neighborhood in Belize City. Bernard promised to stick with him. Bernard not to expect miracles. “I’ve told Earlier this year, she created a GoFundMe “That kind of kindness and concern – it hits her that ‘None of us always make good page on the Internet, raising $650 to help me in the heart,” said Roby, adding, “If I ever decisions, and that includes the homeless. pay for the funeral of a 29-year-old family get back on my feet, I’ll always be there to It’s a matter of finding that right moment friend who left behind five young children. show my appreciation.” when a person is really ready to make a Through La Casa Norte, she learned of At that, Bernard smiled and said something decision to change.’” volunteer opportunities at Chicago’s Erie she’s repeated before. “We can figure it out Mentored last academic year by Sol Flores, Neighborhood House, where she tutors an Mr. Roby. We’ll figure it out together.” executive director of La Casa Norte, whose mission is to serve youth and families con- fronting homelessness, the Roosevelt student has learned how to talk Roby through his frustration and how to help him troubleshoot his problems. She’s also attended La Casa Watch “The Invisible Ones” Norte events, community meetings and by Desire Bernard: press conferences, even meeting Chicago https://www.youtube.com/ Mayor Rahm Emanuel while learning about watch?v=VGkjq6ylt3Q the city’s plan for addressing homelessness.

“Desire has come to understand homelessness on the micro and macro levels,” said Flores,

30 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 GOING THE DISTANCE AMBITION. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. TENACITY. AS A TWO-TIME ROOSEVELT GRADUATE AND FOUNDING PARTNER OF A FAST- GROWING REAL ESTATE FIRM, LEO SOLARTE HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO ACHIEVE HIS ULTIMATE GOAL: LEAVING A LEGACY.

BY ERICA MASINI

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 31 SOLARTE CLOSE-UP BY THE TIME Leo Solarte (BB, ’09; MSRE,’11) Solarte took the opportunity to stop working finished his master’s in real estate in 2011, he and study at Roosevelt full-time, finishing had racked up 40,000 miles driving to properties two years’ worth of classes in one year. on the potholed streets of Chicago’s South Getting approvals to take nine classes in one Side. Taking nine classes in one semester and semester impressed Roosevelt administrators, managing the retail division of First Western and the business dean encouraged Solarte Properties, a real estate firm, left time for to stay and earn a master’s in real estate. little else. The passenger seat of his 2004 Solarte had been offered a real estate job Cadillac CTS held his essentials: scattered the month he graduated, so he took it as a listing sheets, textbooks, brochures and a sign and dove headfirst into his master’s computer. But it was worth it for Solarte. He while working full-time. had a legacy to leave. “Without the networking opportunities “I bleed Chicago,” he said. “I love this city provided to students in the program, it would and want to leave my stamp on it. It’s my have been very hard to have the sphere of own little way of going down in the history influence I had as I started my career. The books on a local scale.” connections make a big difference,” he said.

As co-founder and managing partner of Solarte’s professors picked up his ambition. boutique real estate firm Greenstone Partners, “Leo has a characteristic we love in real estate—entrepreneurship,” said Jon B. Solarte is driven to give back to his city, a trait DeVries, director of the Marshall Bennett he inherited from a long lineage of Chicago Institute of Real Estate (MBIRE). “To be pioneers. His fifth great-grandfather signed successful in real estate entrepreneurship, the Declaration of Independence, and his you have to move up the value chain from My most treasured family settled in Chicago in the 1860s and managing to leasing to owning to developing. possession: Cuff links most are still in the area. Solarte says earning This takes tenacity, a solid network and my grandfather gave to a reputation as an honest and ambitious risk-taking. Leo has all of these qualities, me when I turned 21. businessman is his way of leaving a legacy and he’s been able to move up the chain his children can be proud of, and he’s off to a How I met my wife: with almost no interruption.” Solarte strong start. He was made an honoree of the She worked at the finance was named one of the program’s earliest National Association of Realtors’ 30 Under 30 corporation that opened scholarship recipients of the Joseph and Class of 2012, a CoStar Retail Power Broker the car dealership I worked Joyce Freed: Tomorrow’s Leaders in Real for 2011, 2012 and 2013, and has been named at. My now sister-in-law Estate Initiative in 2009 and 2010. Top Retail Leasing & Sales Agent annually handed me a blue post-it since 2010 by the Chicago Association of After graduating with his master’s in 2011, note with my wife’s phone Realtors’ Commercial Forum. Solarte continued working at First Western number on it. Properties and watched as it grew from The 30-year old didn’t always have his sights relatively few to 200 listings over the course My favorite set on real estate. After growing up in Portage of five years. He also knew he was paying the vacation location: Park on Chicago’s northwest side, he attended company a percentage of the commissions. Costa Rica Whitney Young High School and worked Three of his colleagues from other companies at a used car dealership while taking night If I was not in real aired similar frustrations at quarterly dinners classes part-time at community college. He estate, I’d be a lawyer. at Corcoran’s bar in Old Town. The four met developed an interest in finance after one initially to talk shop and have a few beers, of his coworkers encouraged him to get a My favorite leisure- but as time went on the conversations is back broker’s license, and enrolled at Roosevelt time activity turned serious, all agreeing they wanted yard BBQs with friends in 2007 to pursue finance. to start their own firm. “Like every other and family. When the stock market crashed in 2008, the business out there, ours started over drinks,” mortgage business suffered dramatically. Solarte laughed.

32 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 I want to put my stamp on this city – something my kids can be proud of.” – Leo Solarte

Now in its second year, Greenstone Part- impression of Solarte was as a hard-nosed, Your reputation is your business. You have ners—formed by Solarte, Peter Weitz, Jason cigarette-smoking South Side salesman, to work hard and know what you’re talking St. John and David Tomlinson—manages remembers a time last year when the four about. There are a lot of smart people in over two million square feet of commercial partners disagreed on a business strategy. this business and you can’t fake your way properties throughout the Midwest and Tomlinson grew frustrated and exhausted. through it.” represents all of 7-Eleven’s new store But he got a call from Solarte the next day Outside of Greenstone Partners and the development in Illinois. Solarte attributes that changed his outlook from then on. the firm’s growth to the partners’ shared advisory board, Solarte keeps busy with “Leo went out of his way to extend an arm vision: establishing strong relationships his wife Lupe and two sons (Vincent, 2, and tell me how appreciative he was of my with clients and providing them with sound and Nicholas, 1) and with amateur boxing. advice even when there’s no commission on role at the company. It really changed the In May, Solarte fought for the first time the table. “We’re very advisory in our roles; whole tide of the conversations we were in the Chicago Real Estate Rumble, which we’re not pressure salesmen at all. We’re having,” Tomlinson said. “He’s selfless, raised money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of aggressive and we go to bat for our clients, he’s tireless, he’s all about the team. I’ll Metropolitan Chicago. Before the fight, he but we chose ‘Greenstone Partners’ instead never forget it.” said he felt good because his trainer was of ‘Greenstone Realty’ to emphasize that In 2015 Solarte decided to give back to another a former WBC lightweight champion who we partner with our clients and are here team: his alma mater. A new member of fought greats like Manny Pacquiao. “I think for the long term,” Solarte said. the MBIRE Advisory Board, Solarte said he that’s a good trainer to have,” he laughed. Managing relationships has proven another hopes to mentor budding real estate profes- Though he didn’t win, he’s already training of Solarte’s skills. Tomlinson, whose first sionals. His advice? “Reputation. That’s it. for next year. “I’m not giving up,” he said.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 33 Roosevelt’s historic Auditorium Theatre beamed during the 2015 NFL Draft.

BY LAURA JANOTA

BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY Opening night of the 2015 NFL Draft drew 4,000 fans inside the Auditorium Theatre and nearly 200,000 more to Chicago’s Grant Park and vicinity, and that was only the tip of the iceberg for the major TV event watched by millions.

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EDWARD WEIL, GREAT-GRANDSON OF ARCHITECT DANKMAR ADLER

A TOUCHDOWN AS THE BRIGHT LIGHTS OF THE 2015 NFL DRAFT FOR ROOSEVELT The event generated bathed Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theatre in swaths of pink, purple spending, jobs and blue and the 4,000 fans in attendance roared approvingly, Edward Weil and a can-do spirit of hospitality beamed with pride and emotion. exhibited nightly by volunteers, many He knew millions of people all over the country were 2014, when the NFL announced that Chicago would who came from the getting a look – many for the first time – inside the be the first city outside of New York to host the Draft Roosevelt University architectural gem that his great-grandfather, Dankmar in half a century. community. Adler, had designed 125 years prior. “I would like to thank Roosevelt University for col- “My heart was pounding,” recalled Judie Green, the laborating with us and allowing the NFL to use its theatre’s chief development officer who accompanied historic space during this unprecedented event,” said the 87-year-old Weil, an Auditorium Theatre board Peter O’Reilly, the NFL’s senior vice president who member and volunteer usher, to see the Draft’s dramatic oversees NFL events. “During the Draft’s three-day opening. “This is a man who has been around for a very span, more than 200,000 fans attended the Draft inside long time. He is prouder of the theatre than almost the Auditorium Theatre and outside at Selection Square anyone I know. To be there with him at that moment and Draft Town. We are appreciative of Roosevelt is something I will always treasure.” University and the City of Chicago for this amazing and memorable experience,” added O’Reilly. “Chicago Soon after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell approached was on the clock and surpassed our expectations.” the podium, announcing the first pick of the April C.J. Dillon, chief operating officer for the Auditorium 30-May 2 seven-round, 256-player draft, Weil turned Theatre, credited Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for to Green and said, “Can you believe all these people leading the charge in bringing the NFL Draft to Chicago. are seeing this building?” He paused for a moment, thinking of the enormity. Then he added: “If only my “It took determination, vision and imagination to great-grandfather knew.” make an event of this magnitude possible,” he said. “We had people from all over the University involved “It choked me up” recalled Green, who has worked at in making sure things ran smoothly,” added Dillon, the theatre for nearly 20 years. “It made me realize we who co-led a Roosevelt team that worked with the were in the limelight like never before.” NFL, Chicago Sports Commission and the Choose The Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University Chicago tourism bureau to make the mayor’s dream began preparing for the Draft in earnest on Oct. 2, a successful reality.

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“Our goal was to be welcoming and accommodating, and we did the University and Theatre which remains in place after the event. it as a community in a national spotlight that showcased our The technology improvements were made courtesy of the NFL and friendliness, dedication and capability,” he said. Choose Chicago. The Auditorium, which opened in 1889 as the first multi-use building with electricity, continues its cutting-edge By all accounts, the Draft, which drew fans from around the tradition as a venue that can host complex, major media events. country to Chicago’s lakefront, was a huge success in both the way it was presented and in the publicity it attracted. The “brick-and-mortar” improvements, however, pale in comparison to Roosevelt’s biggest asset – its community of people who were Dozens of writers, broadcasters, photographers, camera crews, everywhere putting the University’s best foot forward during the bloggers and tweeters reported on the Draft from the Theatre NFL Draft. and the press interview room, located in Roosevelt’s second floor Congress Lounge. Approximately 50 million people tuned in “Our community was volunteering in so many different ways,” said during four days of Draft coverage, including 8.8 million viewers Jodi Daily, Roosevelt’s director of conference services who led the who watched at least three minutes of opening night on ESPN or University’s 40-person volunteer contingent that provided customer the NFL Network. In addition, approximately 4.7 million people service to NFL fans and guests. “You could feel the excitement that tweeted about the event, making it among the top-tweeted sports volunteers had about being involved. It’s not something you always events of all time. see at special events.”

“We put on a show and made people happy, which is what my job Sophomore Maya Maynard, a Roosevelt business major, exuded is about – just not normally on that kind of scale,” added Dillon. that spirit during opening night as she directed guests along One of the many details was a platform erected on the back section of the route they should take through the Auditorium Building’s the theatre’s stage that was used as a Green Room where top players winding second floor. “I’m so glad that Roosevelt got to host this and their families waited until the players were selected. After being and that students got to be part of it. I will put the experience drafted, the future NFLers donned their new team’s hat and crossed on my resume. It shows I’ve done something unique that others the famous Auditorium stage to shake hands with Goodell. can’t say they did.”

“From the onset, we were clear about the historic importance of the Directing people at the second-floor connection between the Audi- theatre,” said Dillon, a 15-year theatre management veteran and torium and Wabash buildings was College of Arts and Sciences Dean Roosevelt alumnus. “The NFL was absolutely mindful of our historic Bonnie Gunzenhauser, who said she couldn’t miss the opportunity, treasure. In many ways, they left the theatre better than they found it.” even though American football and her love for English literature Before the show could be transmitted to the viewing public from rarely intersect. “I like football and I love spectacle. I wanted a ESPN and NFL Network broadcast booths erected inside the theatre, front-row seat to some of the drama,” she said. there was need for a powerful bandwidth capable of uploading Roosevelt volunteers weren’t limited to the Auditorium Building. In data to multiple mobile devices at once. fact, many were selected by Choose Chicago and were stationed at Neeraj Kumar, the University’s chief information officer, began the NFL’s gigantic outside Draft Town festivities, located just east working on the technology piece in January and recalls as many of the Auditorium Building. as 50 walk-throughs with the NFL, ESPN and various cell phone “I’m working longer than they wanted me to because it’s just so providers. The end result was a three-fold increase in bandwidth at exciting,” said Ester Rogers, Roosevelt’s recent assistant provost of

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38 ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 institutional research and assessment who handed out fan bags at Another Roosevelt volunteer had the opportunity to interact with the NFL’s Selection Square, and actually got a few hugs from the fans. fans as they headed inside the theatre. “It was really neat to hear people from out of town say, ‘This is such a beautiful place,’” said “I think we put on a fabulous party,” said Kristina Peterson, as- Elizabeth Gomez De La Casa, who worked side-by-side with many sociate professor of counseling and human services in Roosevelt’s Roosevelt student volunteers handing out fan bags as the crowd College of Education. She spent opening night volunteering in the poured into the theatre. “All of us were saying to one another, NFL’s VIP hospitality tent and a second day with fans in line for ‘This is our theatre. We shouldn’t take it for granted. This is part the Vertical-Jump challenge, an assignment she won’t forget as she of Roosevelt University.’ It was really a proud moment.” got to interact with youngsters from a pee-wee football team and Pride was something that Weil felt as he watched the opening-night a grandmother taking the challenge on a whim. extravaganza that put Chicago, the University and its theatre into Jocelyn Ashford-Yarbrough, administrative secretary for Roosevelt’s the limelight. Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences Department, had a similar “My grandmother told me many stories about my great-grandfather experience talking to fans in line for the Sweetness Simulator. and the theatre, but I can’t remember any involving an athletic event “Everybody from the young to the old wanted to try it. They got of any consequence,” he said. “I do know my great-grandfather in flight suits and were thrilled to be able to just float in the air. It certainly believed the theatre was built for all people and all was an amazing experience – our community coming together on activities. I think the NFL Draft is something that would have behalf of this event. I was so proud to be from Roosevelt.” made him proud.”

HASHTAG INSIDE SCOOP BY LAURA JANOTA As a volunteer at the NFL’s many of the tweets that went Scholars, she managed social media tent in Grant Park, out in response to questions,” and promoted the chapter’s Roosevelt University journalism said the master's-level student Facebook accounts. And while student Ashley Williams did her who will be graduating from working as a communications share of tweeting. Roosevelt in December 2016. associate for the U.S. Postal Williams, 22, worked directly “Ashley is really passionate Service in Arlington, Va., with the Chicago Sports about social media and she’s one of Williams’ jobs was to Commission in the run-up to had a lot of experience with it, update social media accounts the Draft’s opening night on which made her a natural for with announcements from the April 30, writing up dozens the NFL’s social media tent,” U.S. Postal Service’s Office of of 140-character tweets that said Billy Montgomery, Inspector General. Ashley Williams is a Roosevelt addressed questions about assistant professor of University journalism student Currently a freelance writer with who did a stint putting out the Draft that were percolating journalism at Roosevelt and U.S. News and World Report, tweets in the NFL’s social on Twitter. one of Williams’ mentors. Williams had the opportunity to media tent in the run-up to meet representatives from the opening night of the NFL Draft. Hours before the start of the Since 2012, Williams has held three-day event, fans were a variety of internships and Chicago Sports Commission, still seeking answers to the communications positions Choose Chicago and the NFL basics. “When is the Draft?” which required her to use social Network during her stint in “Where is it taking place?” media skills. Draft Town’s social media tent. “How do I get tickets?” “Where As a talk radio and “It was a great learning is Draft Town?” were just a few programming intern for experience for me to be a of the tweets that the Sports Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s part of an event where social Commission intercepted using “Broadminded” program out media was so important,” said a new monitoring software of Washington, D.C., Williams Williams, who enjoyed the that Williams had never worked managed the “Broadminded experience so much that she with before. Broads” Facebook and Twitter has applied to be a social media “I really loved the experience, accounts. As an intern for the intern with the Chicago Sports and the opportunity to compose National Society for Collegiate Commission.

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First Note to Final Score

BY STACY GARROP, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPOSITION

am a composer and a teacher. As a composer, I write music for chamber ensembles, choirs and orchestras. My recent works include Mythology Symphony, which had its world premiere by Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts Orchestra in January 2015 (and will be commercially released by Cedille Records in November 2015) and Terra Nostra, a large-scale oratorio for two choirs, four soloists and a chamber orchestra, which will receive its world premiere in November 2015 in San Francisco. Along with composing, I thoroughly enjoy teaching. Since September of 2000, I have taught composition and orchestration to undergraduate and graduate students in the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

At performances of my music, I am frequently asked how I compose. Do I hear it all in my head? Do I use computers to assist me? Have I ever experienced writer’s block? These are excellent questions, all of which I will address as I de- mystify the composing process. The following steps and strategies are not only what I use when I compose, but also what I teach my composition students.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW FALL 2015 41 WORK IN PROGRESS Handwritten sketch of Terra Nostra by Stacy Garrop, below, and the final version at right.

Part 1: Pre-Composition For me, the first stage of beginning any new piece is research. At some point during the brainstorming stage, I start putting pencil This stage involves studying other composers’ works, as well to paper. This can be a rather daunting moment. What if the notes I as familiarizing myself with the particular instrumentation for write down aren’t interesting? How can I possibly fill up the entire which I’ll be composing. For instance, when I wrote Helios for page with thought-provoking, well-conceived music? Self-doubt brass quintet (an ensemble that consists of two trumpets, horn, and high expectations can make it difficult for a composer to trombone and tuba), I became acquainted with the ensemble by compose. To aid myself through this part of the writing process, studying brass quintet repertoire, listening to recordings and I use a strategy: whenever I begin a new piece, I write one minute attending live concerts. These activities helped me to ascertain of music a day for seven days. It doesn’t have to be a great minute the ensemble’s strengths and weaknesses, as well to as detect of music, or even a good minute, but it has to be one full minute. possible performance issues (the tuba, for instance, needs a lot of The music need not be continuous – I can compose three different air to produce sound and performers tire quickly, so a composer ideas, each 20 seconds long. Giving myself permission to compose must leave ample time between passages for the musician to without judgment is an essential element of the strategy. While the first few days of composing are typically challenging, I eventually breathe). The more I understand how the ensemble works, the produce ideas that have real potential. I also get increasingly focused better I’ll be able to compose for the group. on how to creatively use the instruments. Along with conducting research, I brainstorm about possible Once I have written several minutes of music, the sorting process sources of inspiration. When a work is commissioned, I find out begins. I select the strongest, most intriguing ideas and start to flesh from the commissioners what their interests are and incorporate them out further. To do this, I analyze the musical material from these interests into my brainstorming process. In the case of Noir every angle. What musical pitches comprise the melody? What are Vignettes, my double bass and piano piece, the commissioner told the intervals between each set of pitches? How would it sound if I me of his fondness for movies, and of his particular interest in turned the intervals upside down or reversed their order? Can I extend the director Alfred Hitchcock. I watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo and these ideas into longer phrases? What if I move the pitches higher Rebecca and, while I didn’t care for Hitchcock’s filmmaking style, I or lower? I will often cover entire tabloid size pieces of paper with became very intrigued with film noir, the genre for both of these various configurations of each musical idea and refer to these papers movies. I watched several more movies in this style, including The throughout the entire composing process when I need more material Lady from Shanghai, Double Indemnity, This Gun for Hire and The Maltese from which to draw. As my musical materials become more substantial, Falcon. After watching each movie, I wrote down my thoughts on I create the overall formal structure, or “roadmap,” of the entire piece. various aspects; for instance, a femme fatale could have an exotic, Having a roadmap is critical, for how can a piece have direction if you enchanting sound, whereas a gumshoe detective smoking his last don’t know where it is going? Building from the musical materials cigarette of the day should sound slow and jazzy. Alternately, if that I’ve been developing, I draw a graph for the work with the x-axis the commissioner wants me to choose the work’s topic, I select a representing time and the y-axis representing the level of tension in subject that is of personal interest to me. Recent topics include the the music. The graph can show many other elements as well: how Greek myth of Icarus, the boy who flew too close to the sun, and a many sections or movements the piece will have, what musical depiction of the starkness of Wyoming’s landscape. characteristics each section or movement will contain and so on.

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Part 2: Composition Once I’ve developed enough pre-compositional work, I delve com- my piece Sanctuary for violin, cello and piano, I wanted the piece pletely into composing. This is the most exhilarating stage of the to start at a point of complete relaxation and, over the course of 13 process as I am entirely engaged in sketching and developing my minutes, progressively get more and more tense. This movement musical materials into full sections. For a while, I am conscious of ends at a moment of extreme tension, which nicely sets up a very every decision that I make while composing; however, the further I quiet beginning to the second movement. The first idea I composed get in composing a piece, the more these decisions are being made seemed suitable to open the first movement, but after brainstorming subconsciously. I tend to write faster as this process moves along, additional ideas, I realized that the initial material would work far as well as find it difficult to do anything but compose once I’ve fully better if it occurred around the fourth minute. What had changed? hit my stride. Going to concerts, seeing friends for dinner, running I finally realized that my first idea had too much tension already errands – all of these can break my concentration on the piece and and couldn’t be used at the beginning of the work. This realization make it hard to resume where I left off. As a result, I generally find helped me to compose a slow, mysterious opening that gives the it easier to compose in large blocks of time, usually anywhere from piece ample room to grow. two to four hours. Once I’ve reached a natural resting place, such as a break between sections or the end of the movement, then I Occasionally while composing, I will arrive at a spot where I can’t will stop for the day. seem to progress any further. Some people call this writer’s block. When I reach such an impasse, I back up to a few measures prior to In the initial brainstorming stages, I sketch ideas using pencil and the trouble spot and rewrite the passage at least two additional times, paper. Sometimes I’ll use my piano to tinker with possible ideas, each time leading to a different musical outcome. Within an hour or while other times I’ll sketch directly from my head onto paper. I so, I have developed three or more possible options to consider. Not will work in this manner long enough for the ideas to take shape only does this method usually unearth a new way to proceed, but it on paper; then I transition to a computer. I use a software notation supplies additional musical material that I can use elsewhere in the program that allows me to hear the music that I write, as well as to piece. This strategy also enforces the point that there’s no one exact create a beautifully engraved final score. Computer programs are path that a composition needs to follow; instead, there are several a tremendous help to composers – you don’t have to wait until you potential paths, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. rehearse with musicians to hear how your music will sound – but you need to use these programs carefully. Software programs Once all of the notes are in the computer, I proceed to the final never achieve an accurate, realistic balance between instruments stage of composing: adding all of the details. These details include so composers must account for balancing issues themselves. anything that shapes the music and gives it nuance. While these Nonetheless, I find this playback to be very useful, as I can check details may not seem as important as the choosing of pitches and to ensure that my rhythms, tempi and pitches are to my liking. rhythms, the truth is quite the opposite. Imagine hearing an entire orchestra playing loudly, followed by a moment of silence and then Every now and then, I need to evaluate what I’ve composed thus a single trumpet enters quietly. Now imagine if the orchestra plays far. Is the music on the right track? Do the various musical ideas very quietly and – without a moment of silence – the trumpet enters work together or has something shifted? While these assessments obnoxiously loud. While the notes and rhythms didn’t change are valuable for a piece of any length, I find them to be even more between these scenarios, the details did and with startlingly important when composing a long piece. For example, when I wrote different results.

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Part 3: Post-Composition Now that the composing phase is complete, I move on to proofing the full score and individual parts. I don’t particularly enjoy this phase – it is tedious compared to the excitement of composing – but if I don’t work carefully, then rehearsals could be disastrous as the instrumentalists encounter mistake-laden scores. In addition to a full score that shows all of the instruments that play in the piece, each instrument requires its own individual "part" (for a string quartet, this would result in four separate parts for the ensemble’s two violins, viola and cello). Once I have made all of the instrumental parts, I check these against the full score three times to ensure that I have caught inconsistencies and errors. This phase can easily take just as long as composing the piece, if not longer, depending on the number of instruments involved.

I also need to give the piece a title. Technically, this can happen prior to composing the work, or at any stage along the way, including after composing is done. Sometimes, I’ll think of a title that shapes the

brainstorming phase of pre-composing. This was the case with the Photography Billingham Bill double bass and piano piece; once I figured out that the piece would STACY GARROP'S music is dramatic, reference film noir, I easily came up with the title Noir Vignettes. At lyrical and programmatic, as she enjoys other times, I struggle to find a suitable title even after the piece is telling stories through music. Garrop completed. Recently, I composed a piece in honor of Cedille Records’ received degrees in composition from 25th Anniversary season. James Ginsburg, the label’s president, the University of Michigan at Ann mentioned that he had an interest in street musicians (or “buskers”) Arbor (Bachelor of Music), University of he encountered in the city of Prague. The word “buskers” didn’t appeal Chicago (Master of Music) and Indiana to me as a title, nor did a string of unfortunate titles that followed. University at Bloomington (Doctor of Music). She joined the Chicago I finally decided on Bohemian Café, as it aptly describes the carefree, College of Performing Arts in 2000. freewheeling atmosphere that I invoke with the music. Garrop has received numerous awards No piece is ever complete until I have rehearsed it with performers. and grants including a Fromm Music In this phase, I can make adjustments to various musical elements – Foundation Grant, Detroit Symphony increase a dynamic here or change an articulation there – to bring out Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial more subtleties in the music. This is also the phase in which I finally Award, Sackler Prize and two Barlow Endowment commissions. Theodore discover what passages don’t sit well in a performer’s hands. Performers Presser Company publishes her generally begin rehearsing without the composer present; I will listen works, and her music is commercially to one or two rehearsals as the premiere draws near. This allows the available on 20 CDs. Garrop has been musicians to work out the music for themselves and to create their commissioned by the Minnesota own interpretation of my piece before I give them my thoughts. Orchestra, Albany Symphony, The final phase of any piece is its premiere. This is a thrilling moment! Chanticleer, Chicago a cappella, Capitol My adrenaline is pumping throughout the event, from any pre-concert Saxophone Quartet, Cedille Chicago, Gaudete Brass Quintet, San Francisco discussion I have onstage for the audience, to listening to the musi- Choral Society and WFMT 98.7 FM. cians play the piece, to conversing with audience members afterward. I greatly enjoy this wonderful moment. At the same time, I am assess- ing the music as it is played, ascertaining where adjustments need to be made. I usually make a small round or two of revisions after the premiere, which I test out at the piece’s next performance. By the third performance, I have worked out all of the kinks and can finally consider the work finished. When the composing process is complete and I’m pleased with the final results, then I have successfully navigated the Contact Stacy Garrop at [email protected] composing process from the first note to the final score.

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A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING An heirloom 1914 Steinway piano was recently donated to the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Read the full story on the following page.

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Connecting Through Music

Nancy Hablutzel was moved to action when she of Music degree in Violin Performance, which Chicago attorney Nancy read about violinist Krissy Cooper’s courageous Cooper received in May. Hablutzel (left) was inspired to give her struggle to graduate earlier this year from Roosevelt “I felt that Roosevelt University went beyond Steinway piano to Roo- University in a front-page story in the Chicago what was required to help this young woman get sevelt University after Tribune. A lawyer who has practiced and taught through school, and it made me want to show my reading a story about recent graduate Krissy disability law in Chicago, Hablutzel understood support,” said Hablutzel, who decided to donate Cooper’s difficulty in trying to get her school work Cooper. Both women an heirloom Steinway piano to CCPA. have a rare condition done while dealing with pain and illness related “I want the piano to be played by serious students called Ehlers-Danlos to a rare connective-tissue disorder known as Syndrome. and to be well taken care of,” said Hablutzel who Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). owned the Steinway since 1961, but had not played “When I got to the part in the article about the it herself in 10 years due to the onset of arthritis in syndrome I remember thinking ‘Oh yes, I know her finger joints. “By giving this piano to Roosevelt’s what she is going through,’” said Hablutzel, who, music school, I know I won’t have to worry about like Cooper, has been diagnosed and is dealing its future,” she said. every day with the genetic condition and one of its The piano arrived at the University in July and is jarring symptoms, hyper-extension of joints that used by CCPA students during chamber rehearsals, move past the expected range of motion. vocal coachings and private lessons. “There are a She was impressed by the fact that Cooper and lot of pianos out there that aren’t good for heavy her mother, Rebecca Binkley, had the courage use, but I’m always excited when someone donates to speak publically about the condition that a high-quality piano like this,” said Roosevelt piano few know about or understand. Even more so, technician Wesley Owen of the Steinway, which Hablutzel was moved by the care that Roosevelt’s has been valued at $22,000. “It’s a very generous Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) took to gift and I think that CCPA and its students will get accommodate Cooper in her quest for a Bachelor decades of use out of this instrument,” he said.

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The New $10

Will Eleanor Roosevelt be the first female on U.S. currency? Members of the Roosevelt University community not only support the concept; they’ve also been actively campaigning for Eleanor Roosevelt to receive the nod. In a lobbying effort launched earlier this year, Roosevelt’s Student Government Association began encouraging people to vote to put Roosevelt on the nation’s money.

“We’re really excited about this campaign and the prospect of igniting people to vote for a woman who has meant a lot to our University,” SGA President Phil Crawford Roosevelt community members initially Since then, the U.S. Treasury Department said recently. participated in a voting drive organized by has been seeking input from Americans on Students from Roosevelt’s Women’s and Gender the grassroots not-for-profit, Womenon20s. deserving women for the $10 bill: The only requirement is that she be deceased and that Studies program, the University’s Center for org, which recommended that abolitionist she embody democracy, the theme that is to New Deal Studies and University Historian Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on be featured on a new $10 bill whose redesign Lynn Weiner have been among leading activists the $20 bill. The campaign took a twist over will be unveiled in 2020 in conjunction with supporting the former First Lady. the summer when U.S. Treasury Secretary the 100th anniversary of the right of women Jacob Lew announced a woman would be “In 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated Roosevelt to vote. placed on the nation’s $10 bill, perhaps in University. This is a wonderful way for us To have a say with the Treasury Department to honor her while we celebrate our 70th combination with the man who resides there decision, use #TheNew10 hashtag on Facebook, anniversary,” said Weiner. now, Alexander Hamilton. Twitter and/or Instagram.

Roosevelt officially dedicated 70 years ago Seventy years ago, on Nov. 16, 1945, at dinner before 1,000 people in the Stevens Hotel, now the Hilton Chicago, Roosevelt College was officially dedicated “to the enlightenment of the human spirit” by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

She also proclaimed the new school in the name of her late husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Fourteen years later, Roosevelt University was rededicated in her name as well.

During her speech, Roosevelt said that Roosevelt College “was founded to provide educational opportunities for persons of both sexes and of various races on equal terms” and “to maintain a teaching faculty which is both free and responsible in the discovery and dis- semination of truth.”

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 47 Commencement Speakers Impress and Inspire

hree distinguished Roosevelt University alumni, Congressman Michael Quigley, commercial real estate broker Goldie Wolfe Miller and public relations executive Al Golin, received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees at the University’s Spring 2015 Commencement on May 9. The Com- mencement ceremonies also featured two student speakers, Amelia Enberg and Lucas Coker, and the presentation of a distinguished service medal to George Carter, Roosevelt’s lead campus safety officer.

In addition, at a separate ceremony for the College of Pharmacy on May 21, the speaker was Thomas E. Menighan, CEO of the American Pharmacists Association.

Quigley told students receiving degrees from CONGRESSMAN MIKE QUIGLEY the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education at the 10 a.m. ceremony day was Mother’s Day, Wolfe Miller saluted After starting out in advertising, Wolfe Miller, that they will be recognized for how they all the mothers in the audience and paid a 1967 Roosevelt graduate, class president handle setbacks rather than successes. To tribute to her late mom who encouraged and valedictorian, used her negotiating skills illustrate his point, he described a meeting her to never give up. “My parents came to to become a successful real estate broker. he had with Barack Obama the day after the United States after World War II not During a 40-year career, she completed Obama lost an Illinois Senate election. “I knowing English,” she said, “but they were wisely told him: ‘There will be something approximately $3 billion in transactions, determined to succeed.” else better for you some day.’” making her one of the country’s most successful female real estate brokers. Realizing Quigley graduated from Roosevelt with a that women are an underrepresented group BA in 1981 and briefly served as an adjunct in real estate, in 2007 Wolfe Miller started professor of political science for the University the Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders from 2006-2007, lecturing on politics, the in Real Estate Initiative at Roosevelt’s Heller environment and local government. He College of Business. It prepares women for was elected as a member of the House of leadership roles in all sectors of real estate. Representatives in April 2009, succeeding Rahm Emanuel in Illinois’ 5th district. As a Golin, founder of the Golin public relations member of Congress, his legislative agenda and communications firm, graduated from has focused on government reform and Roosevelt University in 1950 and is still fiscal responsibility. active with the University as a member of its Board of Trustees. In acknowledging his Wolfe Miller delivered the Commencement honorary degree, he told the graduates to address and, along with Golin, received an be curious. “If there is one single trait that honorary degree at the 2 p.m. ceremony for all successful people have, it is curiosity.” graduates of the Walter E. Heller College of Business, the Chicago College of Performing In 1956 Golin founded his public relations firm Arts and the Evelyn T. Stone College of and the following year gained McDonald’s as GOLDIE WOLFE MILLER Professional Studies. Noting that the next a client after he made a cold call to former

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CEO Ray Kroc during the restaurant’s early years. He and his firm have been working for McDonald’s ever since. Headquartered in Chicago with offices across the globe, Golin is head of one of the largest public relations companies in the country with clients such as Toyota, Johnson & Johnson and Nintendo of America.

Enberg, an Integrated Marketing Communica- tions graduate with a minor in International Studies, was the student speaker at the 10 a.m. ceremony. She described how grateful she was for the varied experiences and opportunities she had at Roosevelt. These included being a member of the first class of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms fellows program, a 4A’s Multicultural Advertising GEORGE CARTER intern, Washington Media Scholars fellow and member of Roosevelt’s softball team.

Coker, the student speaker at the 2 p.m. Security officer Carter was honored by thanked the graduates’ parents “for sending ceremony, discussed his battle with stage IV recently retired Roosevelt President Chuck such caring and cooperative students to cancer while earning his degree in Criminal Middleton, who officiated at his last Roosevelt Roosevelt.” Justice. “My mantra is ‘Never Give Up,’ and commencement as president and the 131st At the pharmacy graduation held at the that is the mantra I live with every day of he has participated in during a 50-year Westin Chicago Northwest hotel, Menighan my life,” he said. His goal is to pursue a PhD career in higher education. In presenting the congratulated the new doctors of pharmacy so he can teach. Distinguished Service Medal, he said Carter “is one of the University’s most visible and for completing the three-year program. A popular employees.” Carter joined Roosevelt national leader in the pharmacy industry, 18 years ago and warmly greets students, he is a partner in Pharmacy Associates, a faculty and staff every day when they enter multistate specialty pharmacy company that the University. In his brief remarks, Carter serves patients in much of the United States.

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ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 49 EAL partnership delivers sustainability, Partnership benefits cost savings and scholarships biology teachers and students in At a time when higher education institutions to receive cash scholarships based on their Northwest suburbs across the nation are dealing with fiscal level of participation in the program. challenges, Roosevelt University is becoming a Roosevelt University, Harper College “This partnership has boosted our ability leader in saving money on routine purchases and three Northwest suburban school to do work in house instead of paying while earning scholarship dollars for its districts are working together to contractors,” said Roosevelt University Chief students. enhance educational opportunities in Engineer Gustave Kalady who routinely makes the sciences for high school teachers Thanks to an innovative partnership that purchases through the EAL system, including and students in the Northwest suburbs. began in late 2012 with the not-for-profit tools being used by Roosevelt engineers Educational Assistance Ltd. (EAL) in Wheaton, for building maintenance, such as rodding The innovative arrangement allows Ill., the University has saved more than of drain lines, duct work repairs, welding high school biology teachers from half a million dollars and received a total and electrical maintenance, which would Districts 211, 214 and 220 to take of $55,000 in cash donations from EAL for otherwise have to be done by contractors. courses at Roosevelt’s Schaumburg student scholarships. Campus toward a Master of Science “I really feel great when I go to the site in Biology degree, enabling them to “We are proud to be a part of a cutting-edge and find something that we need because initiative that saves resources that would I know that the purchase is contributing to teach high school biology courses that otherwise go to landfills and purchasing scholarships for our students,” said Kalady. will be accepted for credit at the high dollars that might otherwise have to be made schools and by Harper College. A number of Roosevelt students also are up through tuition,” said Paul Matthews, expressing appreciation for financial “We are preparing the region’s high assistant vice president for campus planning assistance made possible by the initiative. school instructors to teach college-level and operations at Roosevelt University. “This scholarship will help me financially biology and we welcome them to our The program works as follows. Distributors, with tuition as well as book costs,” Roosevelt diverse graduate student body,” said suppliers and manufacturers donate elementary education major Rhiannon Robert Seiser, associate professor of excess facilities maintenance inventory, Beucher wrote recently in a thank-you biology and director of Schaumburg frequently with minor cosmetic flaws, letter to EAL. “I will continue to work as academic partnerships for Roosevelt’s such as air conditioners, heaters, painting hard as I can in my studies to become a College of Arts and Sciences. supplies, tools, toilets, faucets, toilet paper, dedicated elementary teacher. Without cleaners, storage containers, work boots, your generosity this wouldn’t be possible.” The first group of 12 high school teach- work gloves, etc. ers from Districts 211 and 220 began There are 42 U.S. colleges and universities graduate studies at the Schaumburg Colleges and universities in the EAL network in the EAL network, including Roosevelt Campus in June. Those who complete routinely order what they need through an and eight others located in the Chicago 18 credit hours and who already hold online discount ordering system. Using the area. Other higher education institutions system, Roosevelt so far has saved $576,595, in the EAL partnership are located on the a master’s degree in a non-biology which it has earmarked for scholarships to East Coast, Midwest and the states of Florida field of study will be eligible to teach students in need. In addition to this system, and Texas. Roosevelt is the organization’s college biology and can expect to EAL also offers its partners the opportunity top partner. begin teaching dual-credit biology courses in their high schools beginning in fall 2016. For more information on the EAL program, visit The agreement officially signed by inventorydonations.org. Roosevelt and member institutions that are part of the Northwest Educational Council for Student Success (NECSS) is expected to be a win-win for all parties involved. “Thanks to Roosevelt University’s flexibility, our science teachers will be able to conveniently work on their master’s degrees in biology close to home and in the evenings,” said Lisa Small, associate superintendent for instruction at District 211.

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Performing Arts Library receives collection for theatre students

Roosevelt University’s Performing Arts Library has received a large collection of theatre-related books, musical scores, CDs and DVDs from the Ray Lonergan Memorial Library of Actor’s Equity Association. Thirty-seven boxes of materials in all were donated.

“A lot of this new collection is historical in nature, and it contains some gems,” said Richard Schwegel, director of Roosevelt’s Performing Arts Library, which is located on the upper floor of the University’s Murray-Green Library in Chicago.

There are actor’s biographies, texts on Shakespeare plays, DVDs of Broadway musicals and CDs of a number of famous shows including Ziegfeld’s Follies, by the famed impresario whose father, Dr. Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr., founded the Chicago Musical College, which today The historic collection includes books and musical scores from the collection of well-known actor, writer, director and producer Sidney Eden. is part of Roosevelt’s Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA).

Hundreds of books as well as sheet music from Broadway musicals The gift is the result of a conversation at Drury Lane Theatre in and other shows come from the collection of well-known actor, Oak Brook, Ill. where Roosevelt Theatre Professor Christine Adair writer, director and producer Sidney Eden. Approximately 600 CDs was coaching dialects and Iris Lieberman, chairperson of the Ray and DVDs originally donated to the association’s library by the late Lonergan Memorial Library and a volunteer librarian, was in the actor Leonard Weiner are also part of the new collection. cast. Both agreed that Roosevelt’s theatre students could benefit.

Roosevelt announces business fellowship program

A $132,000 gift from the Clearing Corpora- tion Charitable Foundation will enable 20 undergraduate students in finance and related majors each year in Roosevelt’s Heller College of Business to participate in a new training and internship program that will prepare them for careers in the finance industry.

Heller College Dean Joseph Chan said the fellows scholarship program will target first generation college students or students who Dean Joseph Chan (left) said the program will lead to job placements in the finance industry. belong to underrepresented groups, in line with Roosevelt’s social justice mission. “This $200,000 for a new trading room and Bloomberg such as the Options Clearing Corporation, innovative program will ultimately lead to terminals. Part of this year’s gift will also Chicago Board Options Exchange, CME Group, job placements with financial organizations support the terminals and trading room. banks and brokerage houses. for our students,” Chan said. “Because of the Students selected for the competitive program Tanweer Hasan, the Rolf Weil Professor Clearing Corporation’s thoughtful gift, Roosevelt will participate in professional development of Finance in the Heller College, was ap- students, the Heller College and businesses in workshops, attend Finance Professional pointed the founding executive director Chicago and other cities will benefit.” Speakers Series and receive training on of the Clearing Corporation Charitable This is the second major gift the college Bloomberg terminals. After obtaining the Foundation Fellows Program. He said the has received from the Clearing Corporation Bloomberg User Certificate, they will be first cohort of 20 students would be selected Charitable Foundation. Last year, it received placed in internships with organizations in the fall semester.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 51 Alumna Pat Harris elected as new board chair PAT HARRIS, global chief diversity officer Harris said she and Malekzadeh will and vice president of global community work together and collaborate with the engagement of McDonald’s Corpora- Roosevelt community to ensure success tion, was elected as the 12th chair of during the current period of leadership Roosevelt University’s Board of Trustees. transition. “It will be both personally Her three-year term began July 1. She and professionally rewarding because of succeeds James J. Mitchell III, who was what Roosevelt stands for and what we all elected a life trustee, after serving as believe is great for our students,” she said. board chair since 1997.

A 1980 Roosevelt graduate, Harris has the At McDonald’s, Harris is responsible for distinction of being one of a few African- developing and implementing diversity American women currently chairing a strategies and global community engage- university board. She joined Roosevelt’s Board ment throughout the company, including of Trustees in 2010 and previously served its 36,000 restaurants in more than 100 as vice chair and chair of the University’s countries. Under her leadership, McDon- Presidential Search Committee. Malekzadeh, the board, staff and faculty. ald’s has been widely recognized for its “I am very excited about the opportunity As a Roosevelt alumna, I take this role commitment to inclusion and diversity to chair Roosevelt’s Board of Trustees,” very seriously and look forward to doing and she was named one of the “Top 10 Harris said. “I look forward to a great everything possible to help our students Diversity Champions in the Country” by partnership with our new president, Ali today and in the future.” Working Mother magazine.

Professor named to juvenile justice panel HEATHER DALMAGE, sociology seeking special-education services professor and director of Roosevelt’s and resources, as well as providers, Mansfield Institute for Social Justice advocates and schools. and Transformation, has been ap- As a District 428 school board member, pointed to the Illinois Department Dalmage will have a say in education of Juvenile Justice School District 428 for students being held within the Board of Education. state’s Department of Juvenile Justice. An expert on race, education and family and as director of the Mansfield “I know I will have a learning curve Institute, Dalmage has been a leading in front of me in this position, but advocate for providing essential I look forward to doing all I can to services to youth with disabilities continue to challenge structural who are caught up in the Cook County inequalities while addressing the Juvenile Justice system. needs of the most disadvantaged youths so they can have a chance Since 2012, she has run a juvenile to receive the services they need diversion program in conjunction in order to have a future with hope with probation officers at the Cook rather than prison,” she said. County Juvenile Court building. The Mansfield Institute office also has Dalmage was appointed to the District been engaged in ongoing research 428 board by the Illinois State Board about juveniles with disabilities and of Education. Her three-year term a liaison between youth and families began in August.

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Roosevelt graduate is artist in Iceland JOHN FRASER, Roosevelt alumnus and award-winning artist, spent part of the summer in Iceland where he was artist-in- residence at Hafnarborg, a center of culture and fine art, located just south of Reykjavik. During his residency he worked on projects in two of his disciplines, collage and photography. A multifaceted artist, he also works within the disciplines of drawing, painting and sculpture. “I am not an artist who is influenced or inspired by externals,” said Fraser, a 1975 Roosevelt graduate who studied under art faculty members Susan Weininger, Jack Harris and Don Baum. “Rather, I am motivated by the examples set by others.” Fraser's work has been featured in exhibitions around the world and it is held in public and private collections in the United States, Spain, Iceland, Canada, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Scotland. Roosevelt Life Trustee Don Hunt has collected a number of pieces by Fraser and earlier this year donated “Vow of Silence,” at left, to the University where it hangs on the 13th floor of the Wabash Building.

Journalism alumna puts skills to work making Roosevelt videos

MARQUITA ANDERSON, a journalism alumna who graduated the lead broadcaster for Roosevelt’s new RUFire student video from Roosevelt University in May, is a natural for video. As a broadcast, Anderson has had her share of experience already part-time assistant on Chicago’s NBC5 assignment desk and as creating on-camera news packages. The recent graduate never anticipated, however, that she would be using her skills to make informational videos over the summer for Roosevelt University. “I never would have imagined that my love for news and my love for storytelling would become an entrepreneurial opportunity,” said Anderson, whose segment on campus safety tips can be seen this fall on closed-circuit TVs in the Wabash Building cafeteria and on the 14th floor gateway to student housing. Among other projects, Anderson recently completed video packages about Roosevelt’s Counseling Center services and Title IX issues.

“Marquita is incredibly talented and enthusiastic and I know that these experiences as well as all the work she’s done in helping to get RUFire off the ground is paving the way for her future and her career success,” said a Roosevelt journalism professor and student media advisor.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 53 Photo exhibit documents decades of protest in Chicago Early Cold War protests, Chicago’s Freedom Movement marches, the 1968 Vietnam War demonstrations, photographs of Richard J. Daley and the Chicago police, as well as struggles by the Black Power Movement, are part of the show. The unusually organized show is centered on a 12-inch-high strip, comprised of hundreds of Shay’s most telling protest images. The photo strip traverses around Gage Gallery’s spaces. Above and below it are larger break-out shots by Shay of history-making street activism. “We are breaking some rules on what a photo exhibit should look like and how the story should be told in order to capture the complexity of Chicago protest,” said Gellman, who worked closely with Erica DeGlop- per, the curator of Shay’s photographic archive, in order to identify the most relevant photos and unique design for the new Gage Gallery show. “With this exhibit, we hope to get people thinking about who the troublemakers really are when people take to the streets for peace, A GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARY PHOTO EXHIBIT that economic justice and democracy,” said Gellman. sheds new light on protest movements in Chicago between the late A photographer for Life magazine, Time, Sports Illustrated and many other 1940s and early 1970s will be presented through Dec. 19 at Roosevelt national publications, Shay has photographed seven U.S. Presidents University’s Gage Gallery. and also is well-known for his long friendship and collaboration in The exhibit features the work of Art Shay, one of the world’s great living documenting Chicago with the late writer Nelson Algren. photographers. Shay opened his mammoth archive in Deerfield, Ill., to Roosevelt University historian Erik Gellman, whose research focuses on 20th Century protest movements in America. Free and open to the public. “The provocative photos in this exhibit, most of which have never been GAGE GALLERY, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago seen before, are likely to change what we know and how we think about 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday protest movements in Chicago,” said Gellman, the show’s curator. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturdays Gellman spent the last year culling photos from Shay’s archives. 312-341-6458 | roosevelt.edu/gagegallery

Inspirational Roosevelt graduate appointed to Champaign City Council

the Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, Ill., ployment are common, Nickerson Fourman areas. Dropping out of school at age 15, she applied to fill a vacancy on the Champaign spent most of her teenaged and young-adult City Council because she wanted to help

News-Gazette years raising children. It then took the mother people who are struggling in her community. of five more than a decade to catch up and get “Just as Roosevelt University’s story is one of on track with college and a career. courage, so is Clarissa Nickerson Fourman’s,” In June she was appointed to a seat on the said Donnette Noble, assistant professor of Champaign City Council. Nickerson Fourman organizational leadership and one of the has unsurprisingly focused her message and alumna’s mentors. “She exemplifies the image around three words: “We can overcome.” University’s goals that challenge students “I think there is a need for people to see that to exceed expectations and to own their they can overcome anything if they put their own futures.” minds to it,” said Fourman, who works as a Receiving a college degree at Roosevelt has paralegal in Champaign. She is currently CLARISSA NICKERSON FOURMAN overcame been a major turning point for Nickerson, completing an online master’s degree in incredible obstacles to graduate from Roosevelt 29, who, as a new city council member, talks legal studies from West Virginia University University’s online Bachelor in Professional about college as being transformational. and is planning to go to law school. Studies degree program in 2012. A ward of the “Roosevelt gave me hope. I know I wouldn’t state of Illinois for much of her life, she moved A resident of northwest Champaign’s District be able to do all that I’m doing now without from foster home to foster home as a child in One where gun violence, drugs and unem- the degree. It truly changed my life,” she said.

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Ten-year journey leads to diploma

JOEL JACOBSEN can’t walk or talk, but disabilities didn’t stop him from earning a near-perfect 4.0 grade point average and receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in May from Roosevelt University. Jacobsen, who uses a wheelchair and Tobii eyegaze system to communicate, watched Roosevelt’s graduation ceremony with family and friends from his home in Chandler, Ariz. via a streaming-live Internet connection and personal attention from Roosevelt Senior Web Developer Vickie Bertini. “What an honor it was for me to be able to be there for Joel’s graduation,” said Bertini, who took Jacobsen’s photo in his graduation robe and gave Grad takes action with recycling app him his honor’s cord, certificate, congratulatory DUSAN KOLENO wanted to do more than just sit passively letters and framed photo. after he learned about the growing need to conserve As a Roosevelt student, the planet’s limited resources in a Roosevelt University Jacobsen never asked Sustainability Studies Program course called Waste and for any special favors Consumption. Graduating with honors from Roosevelt and always strived to do Joel Jacobsen received a bachelor's in May, the computer science major wanted to actively degree in history from Roosevelt Univer- all of his assignments sity in May. promote environmental justice so he developed a Google on time – much like Play phone app for his honor’s project that encourages students without disabilities in his classes. “I remember him in recycling. my world history class. I had assigned students to do a presentation in front of the class and I asked Joel if he wanted to do it. He “My intention is to get more people to recycle,” said immediately indicated that he wanted to present,” recalled Chris Koleno, who developed the Recycle Tracker, which is Chulos, associate professor of history at Roosevelt. now available for free to the public on Google Play. On the day of his presentation, Jacobsen came in not only with Designed for use at home and at the office, Recycle his project in writing. He also used a computer with a digital voice Tracker enables users to keep informed about what that read his presentation aloud to the class. Then, Jacobsen took and how much they are recycling, with comparisons, students’ questions, which were also answered with computer-voice including pie and bar charts that can be viewed by assistance. weekly, monthly or annual usage. “I’ve taught for many years all over the world and I have to say that “This is an extremely polished project and a practical his presentation was one of the most memorable moments ever,” application that can be used by just about anyone who said Chulos. “Here’s someone who has faced challenges – and yet is interested in recycling,” said Michael Ruth, assistant he didn’t want to be given breaks. He’s a persistent young man who is not going to take no for an answer.” professor of computer science and Koleno’s honor’s project advisor. A quadriplegic who doesn’t have the ability to speak, Jacobsen is a native of Highland Park, Ill., who moved with his family to Chandler, The application calculates energy savings due to recycling, Ariz. in 2012. At the time, he indicated a desire to finish a degree including providing estimates of numbers of trees and from Roosevelt, even though he was moving away. “I have a warm electricity kilowatt hours saved. It also lets users scan spot in my heart for Roosevelt,” he wrote recently. Roosevelt “gave a product’s barcode, searching an online data base for me the opportunity to fulfill my dream of a college education the name and product’s description. when that was almost unheard of for people like me. My Roosevelt professors always gave me the benefit of the doubt and I have to DOWNLOAD IT: admit that encouraged me to work very hard.” Recycle Tracker In Arizona, Jacobsen took several online courses from Roosevelt https://play.google.com/store/apps/ for credit toward his history degree. He also took electives toward details?id=eu.koleno.recycletracker his degree at Arizona State University.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 55 BY LAURA JANOTA FACULTY IN PRINT Roosevelt’s faculty published books on a variety of fronts – in education, philosophy and creative writing. The year also brought attention to the University’s Sustainability Studies Program, which was featured in a new addition MICHAEL BRYSON, director of ALYSON LAVIGNE, assistant professor of Sustainability Studies, provides an curriculum studies, co-authored Improving of a resource book overview of Roosevelt’s growing Teaching Through Observation and that is used widely by undergraduate Sustainability Studies Feedback, a guide for school principals those researching Program in Andrew Morkes’ They who are being called on to design and Teach That in College? A Resource conduct effective evaluations. Lavigne majors and careers. Guide to More Than 100 Interesting and Thomas Good, professor emeritus of College Majors. Now in its third educational psychology at the University edition from College & Career Press, of Arizona, were named authors of the the book prominently features month in March by Routledge Publishing Roosevelt’s Sustainability Studies for the book that provides a foundation Program among unique college for teacher evaluations based on best majors that also offer promising practices for improving the quality of the career opportunities. evaluation process. “In the book, I define the field of “We wrote the book for principals who sustainability studies, provide an are in the trenches and don’t always have overview of Roosevelt’s program, the time they need to spend on teacher describe our students and their evaluations,” said Lavigne, who is an expert varying career aspirations and on teacher evaluation under the U.S. discuss the positive employment Department of Education’s Race to the outlook for those who earn Top initiative, which she believes is “a race degrees,” said Bryson. to nowhere.” “As part of Race to the Top, achievement growth must be a significant Used by high school and college component of teacher evaluations,” said career counselors to help young Lavigne, “but one of the biggest flaws in people plan for careers and also following that approach is that student available at high school and public achievement data doesn’t always correlate libraries across America, the book’s with the scores that teachers receive from section on Roosevelt’s Sustainability administrators who observe them as part Studies program illustrates the of the evaluation process. emergence of sustainability as a multifaceted academic discipline in The book highly recommends that teacher higher education today. interactions with students – and not solely test scores – be an important component Bryson was among 73 college of the evaluation process. Principals are professors who were interviewed for encouraged to identify teacher actions the book, whose latest edition was that have been linked by research to published in March. student achievement and also are taught how to give teacher feedback that is effective and supportive.

56 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 JEANNINE LOVE, assistant professor Roosevelt education language and literacy CHRISTIAN TEBORDO, assistant of public administration, published an professors MARGARET POLICASTRO, professor of English and director of academic book on the major ideas of BECKY MCTAGUE and adjunct professor the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Progressive Era political theorist Mary DIANE MAZESKI are the authors of Writing Program, has written his Parker Follett, who some consider to Formative Assessment in the New Balanced fifth book called Toughlahoma. be a “prophet of management” for Literacy Classroom, which was published Published in May by Rescue Press, today’s global economy and world. in July. A companion to Policastro’s and the 120-page novel has been called Love and Margaret Stout, associate McTague’s The New Balanced Literary a satire and fable of the late days professor of public administration at School: Implementing Common Core, of capitalism, effectively telling West Virginia University, provide new this second-in-a-series book makes an the story of a civilization’s failed perspective to Follett’s writings and argument for using instruction, teaching attempts to become civilized. ideas in the book, Integrative Process: and formative assessment methods, rather Exploring the fictitious world of Follettian Thinking from Ontology to than state multiple-choice tests, a priority Toughlahoma, the book is “post- Administration. in order to best measure achievement in apocalyptic” and in the “Mad Max student literacy. The book is the first ever to analyze world of literature,” according all of the late Harvard University “Formative assessment lets you get to know to award-winning surrealist professor’s published papers, lectures your learners. It allows you to go deeper into writer Amelia Gray. Meanwhile, and books, giving new impetus for an the learning process with each student,” David Ohle, author of the award- understanding of democracy as a way of said Policastro, whose ideas for the book winning novel Motorman, called becoming and living in the world today. stem from Roosevelt’s innovative summer Toughlahoma “a non-stop rush of Reading Clinic, which recently completed its luscious language and ingeniously “Mary Parker Follett was an influential 28th year at the Schaumburg Campus. “The twisted story logic told from theorist who believed in integrating most important piece in the process is being another dimension, perhaps the disciplines as well as people in able to teach students how to maintain their fifth or sixth.” group situations in order to foster a self-learning,” said Policastro of the book’s collaborative approach to organization instruction that is expected to be a guide for and governance in civil society, K-8 teachers and administrators, as well as government and industry,” said Love. graduate education students and college While her ideas fell out of favor after professors. “Formative assessment is the World War II, they had a resurgence in number-one key to student achievement.” the management and administration fields beginning in the 1980s, and have During research for the book, McTague said been gaining increasing attention in the she found clear evidence that students who last 10 years. “We argue that Follett’s are taught to monitor their own progress worldview, which relies on people to be are the ones who become the highest-level active in groups in order to contribute achievers. “If we as teachers can give our and live together successfully in the students the tools to be able to assess their world, is relevant and useful in our own progress, we can, without a doubt, global society.” transform the quality of education in this country, taking it to a higher level.”

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2015-16 Seasons in Full Swing Swinging is a specialty of sophomore Matthew Spahr (above) of the men’s golf team and freshman Emily Zalewski (top right) of the women’s tennis team. All of Roosevelt’s athletic squads will be swinging for the fences and aiming for success in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Sophomore attacker Brooke Lee (right) has stepped up for the Roosevelt volleyball team’s offense. Senior guard Becky Williford (opposite page, top left) is the on-court catalyst for Roosevelt women’s basketball with new head coach Keisha Newell calling the shots from the sideline. The Lakers’ cross country and track and field program is taking big strides forward under new coach and Roosevelt alum Aaron King, while the Roosevelt men’s soccer team notched early road wins over top-25 foes this fall thanks in large part to the wizardry of All-CCAC midfielder Jose Garcia (opposite page, bottom).

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Built and coached by a legend in the sport, Roosevelt’s young softball program is making about these noise with veteran hitters and an emphasis Soft on life beyond the diamond. LaBY JOHN JARAMILLO k e r s

ne of the most accomplished Scott’s ambitious drive to conquer challenges is a three-time All-Chicagoland Collegiate athletic resumes in the land at every turn eventually led her to her cur- Athletic Conference pick and all-region belongs to Roosevelt head rent position at Roosevelt, where she had honoree. “I love playing for Amanda. She’s softball coach Amanda Scott. one of the grandest tests a first-time head the main reason I chose this program. She As a collegian at Fresno State University, coach could face: starting a team completely treats us as equals and never talks down Scott was a four-time All-American and from scratch. to us. She inspires us and makes us want led the Bulldogs to the 1998 NCAA title. In “I remember initially just hoping to be able to be better.” addition to winning the Women’s College to recruit an entire team,” Scott, a California With almost every distinction imaginable World Series MVP that year, she was later native who has called Chicago home for the in the sport to her credit, one might assume named to the NCAA Division I Softball 25th last eight years, recalled of her first days that Scott is all softball, all the time. Not so, Anniversary Team, one of a bevy of awards on the job at Roosevelt in the fall of 2011. as the culture she has espoused revolves achieved during her time as a superior “Once that challenge was met, I looked to around competitiveness on the diamond student-athlete. simply create an environment where each balanced with responsibility to academics To no one’s surprise, Scott also enjoyed a student-athlete could grow and thrive.” and being good, productive people who can successful international and professional Before she could create that culture, Scott communicate and take pride in their work, playing career. She won a National Pro had to find student-athletes who were will- no matter the realm. Fastpitch title and World Series MVP award ing to take a leap and attend Roosevelt, a in 2004, and she represented the United “My main goal in coming to Roosevelt was to University that never had a softball program States in various international tournaments, really grow more as a person and a player,” said prior to their arrival. serving as an alternate on the U.S. squad Amanda Ferguson, a senior second baseman that won gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics. That chance to be a part of startup in from Colorado whose All-CCAC hitting was softball under the tutelage of an all-time eclipsed only by classroom success that led After her playing career concluded, Scott great exhilarated Morgan Vogt, now a senior to her being named Roosevelt’s first-ever pursued a career in coaching. In addition standout as the Lakers’ ace pitcher and one Academic All-American. “Amanda teaches to her role as a player/coach for the New of the team’s top hitters. us how to be the best softball players and York/New Jersey Juggernaut, a professional human beings we can be." team, she was at NCAA Division I schools “I was so excited to be in a new program and Michigan State, Iowa and the University of set goals and standards for the next teams Scott said she emphasizes academics first Illinois at Chicago. to come,” said Vogt, a Plainfield native who and foremost, with additional focus on the

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Built and coached by a legend in the sport, Roosevelt’s young softball program is making noise with veteran hitters and an emphasis on life beyond the diamond.

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Senior Morgan Vogt is Roosevelt's top pitcher and one of the Lakers' most dangerous hitters.

overall concept of team and supporting luck, the Lakers’ prowess at the plate has each other not just on the field but continued the last two years to frighten throughout the student-athletes’ lives. opposing pitchers.

“College is an important time where you “I talk to our hitters from a pitching are constantly evolving as humans,” perspective,” said Scott, a nearly-unhittable said Scott. “We work to connect with hurler during her playing career. “I see 70th Anniversary Gala all student-athletes to make sure they the swing and evaluate how I would Roosevelt celebrated its 70th Anniversary are getting the support they need get them out as a pitcher and then go in style with a special evening in the individually, whether that be socially, from there. We keep things simple and we don’t try to change swings. At the Auditorium Theatre on April 10. An academically or athletically.” Evening with the Roosevelts began with end of the day, it doesn’t matter what a gala dinner for 200 on the stage of “The thing I like about Amanda’s approach it looks like or feels like so long as you the Theatre, and culminated with solo is she connects the game to our own get it done.” personal life,” said Kristy Santora, a senior performances by two Emmy-award- The 2016 season will be the swan song winning actors. from Wheaton who has adapted from for Scott’s first recruiting class, and the playing the outfield to catching behind FDR featured Ed Asner (Lou Grant) Lakers want to send their 11 seniors out the plate and has garnered all-region depicting President Franklin Roosevelt, on a high note with a first-ever CCAC honors for her proficient offensive tear and Eleanor featured Loretta Swit tournament berth. (above) (M*A*S*H) as First-Lady Eleanor. last spring. “The things I have learned “We have a clear understanding of Chicago journalist and radio personality from her about the game are things I Rick Kogan served as the presenter what it is we need to do to win and can carry over into my everyday life.” for the evening, and special guests be successful,” said Katie Neubauer, a Connecting lessons of softball to life’s included Anne Eleanor Roosevelt, her Batavia-bred senior pitcher, infielder and trials and tribulations is important, as nephew Nicholas Roosevelt and former potent weapon at the plate. “For many Roosevelt presidents Chuck Middleton, most athletes on the NAIA level will of us, this is our last season we have to Ted Gross and Rolf Weil. not pursue the post-collegiate playing play the sport we love, so I hope we can The event, sponsored, in part, by opportunities earned by Scott. If the continue to compete and carry out the Mesirow Financial and McDonald’s, Lakers’ on-field performance is any season as long as possible.” and chaired by Al (’50) and June Golin; indication of future life approaches, It may be the last go-around for this Marsha (’67) and Michael Goldstein; this group will be a hit. crop of Lakers, but the lessons they have George and Felecia Lofton; and Al That’s because Roosevelt has been one culled from one of the game’s best will Dinwiddie and Helen Ashford, realized of the top offensive teams in the CCAC help them go after all of life’s challenges more than $88,000 for the University’s since the program’s debut. While some like a fastball that caught too much of General Scholarship Fund. would call their 2013 season beginner’s home plate.

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ALL ALUMNI EVENT SOUTH SIDE ALUMNI CHAPTER CHICAGO WHITE SOX GAME On March 19, Roosevelt University alumni, On April 15, the South Side Alumni chapter On Aug. 28, Roosevelt University alumni, friends and faculty met for a discussion gathered for an evening of pizza and trivia students, faculty and friends enjoyed an of the award-winning television series questions at the Exchequer Restaurant. evening of baseball at U.S. Cellular Field “Breaking Bad.” The discussion was led by Alumni had the opportunity to welcome where the Chicago White Sox took on the Professor Stuart Warner (middle below). new members and their guests. Seattle Mariners. It was a double treat as the game was also Elvis Night. Guests stayed PARALEGAL STUDIES AFFINITY GROUP NATIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING MUSEUM and enjoyed the fireworks after the game. The Paralegal Studies Affinity group held On Saturday, May 2, History Department several successful events. On March 26, the alumni and faculty met for an afternoon group gathered at the Berghoff Restaurant walking tour of the site of the future home for an evening of networking. On April 13 of the National Public Housing Museum lo- and 15, the group gathered for a presenta- cated in Chicago’s Little Italy neighborhood. tion of Roosevelt’s LinkedIn by Cheryl The tour was led by Brad Hunt. After the tour Kettler. Alumni learned how to use social and neighborhood walk, the group gathered media for their job searches. at the Three Aces for further conversation.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 63 SPOTLIGHT ON: Ngozi Agomo Graduation: December 2015

Major: Integrated Marketing Communications

Hometown: Plano, Ill.

High School: Plano High School

Undergrad: Illinois State University (Broadcast Journalism)

Scholarship: Al Golin Scholarship in Communications

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Strategy for Success

NGOZI AGOMO had a change of heart roads and help her fine-tune what she cool.” Before Young’s class, she admittedly when it came time to consider a career was passionate about professionally. Her wasn’t fully aware of all the strategy and in broadcast journalism. After a year passion for serving her community was planning that surrounds brand creation of AmeriCorps service in Houston, she already there, something that is common and development. Now, she simply can’t decided that it was time for graduate in the lives of all Rooseveltians. get enough. school. She wanted a graduate program She was shocked when she learned The area of public relations also garnered that would allow her to use her under- that she had been selected to receive Agomo’s attention. She took Principles of graduate education and advance her Roosevelt’s Al Golin Scholarship in Public Relations over the summer with dream of being an entrepreneur while Communications. She and her family Rashada Whitehead. “I could listen to serving her community. are grateful for this opportunity. With her for hours,” said Agomo. Whitehead’s Integrated Marketing Communications younger siblings now in college, the news ability to connect theory with practi- (IMC) caught her attention. She decided couldn’t have come at a better time. Her cal application in today’s workplace to pursue a graduate degree in this hard work was starting to pay off. This resonated strongly with Agomo. “A lot discipline because it would allow her recognition and support were integral of professors at this university do that,” to use her undergraduate education in in propelling her toward her upcoming she said with a smile. concert with her creativity. Today, she December 2015 graduation. Agomo is currently working as a mar- calls it a “perfect fit” for her future. Her benefactor’s name immediately keting intern at The Joint Commission, Agomo initially thought she wanted to caught her attention. When Agomo which accredits and certifies more than attend another university, but when she told the former news director at Illinois 20,500 health care organizations in the completed her research on graduate IMC State University, she confirmed that United States. Previously, she worked programs in Chicago, she chose Roosevelt. this scholarship was “a big deal.” “If you as an intern for another Roosevelt Having the opportunity to experience know anything about public relations communications graduate, China graduate school in a diverse setting was and marketing, when you hear the name Panion, handling social media and important. According to Agomo, “There Golin (a Roosevelt alumnus and founder event planning in a health and wellness are more people in the program that of the international public relations firm organization dedicated to empowering look like me.” She also determined that Golin), you know what it’s about, here women to improve their health. Roosevelt’s IMC curriculum was “more and globally,” said Agomo proudly. “For me, it’s about encouraging and complete and well-rounded.” For Agomo, the class that opened her empowering people, not just women, The last part was important. Agomo will eyes widest was Brand Planning and to live healthier and happier lifestyles,” tell you that there are many roads you Message Strategy with Stewart Young. Agomo said. Now her ultimate goal is can travel down with a graduate degree “This is what he does in his full-time to own her own business. Stay tuned. in IMC, including advertising, public career. He was able to bring real-life The rest of this remarkable young relations and strategic planning. She examples from work into the classroom. woman’s story is going to be exciting determined that attending Roosevelt He would ask us to give him feedback and productive. would allow her to explore more of those on what he’s doing at work and that’s so

Would you like to help a student like Ngozi Agomo? There are many ways to support Roosevelt students, including establishing a named scholarship. For information, visit www.roosevelt.edu/giving or call the Office of Institutional Advancement at (312) 341-4327.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2015 65 WHERERU? BY PETER PIATKOWSKI

2010s Matthew Foss (MFA, ’05) won the regional president of the released his debut album, an award at the 42nd Annual U.S. Community Publishing Moon and Sand. Jarrett Adams (BPS, ’12) Non-Equity Jeff Awards for Central Group. recently graduated from Roger Dattilo (MB, ’96) has Best New Adaptation, for Loyola University Chicago, been appointed vice president his work on an adaptation of earning his law degree. 1990s of inventory for Advance Auto Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Adams spent 10 years in jail Parts, Inc. Dattilo previously He was also nominated for on a wrongful rape conviction, had a 27-year career in the best director and the play was before he was exonerated office supply industry. nominated for best play. with the help of the Wisconsin Victoria Malawey (BM, ’06) was a Innocence Project. His plan Jesse Cook (BM,’99) has received tenure featured soloist at the Fort is to work with low-income at Macalester College in Atkinson Community Band’s defendants. Adams graduated St. Paul, Minn., in the Music summer concerts. After from Roosevelt University Department. Her research graduating from Roosevelt, with honors. interests include the analysis he earned a master’s in Music Alexis Reiff (BB, ’12) started of songs, popular music, from the University of Texas at her own business with a music theory pedagogy Austin and later earned a DMA product called Heel Swaps. and gender studies. She in Trumpet Performance. She was honored at Ipex received her PhD and MM 2014 with Woman Inventor Kristin Sponcia (MM, ’05), Mark Mahoney (BA, ’99), from Indiana University, of the Year. who is working on her graduate a former adjunct at Roosevelt Jacobs School of Music. studies at the University University, is the chair of the 2000s of Illinois, performed with Computer Science Department her quartet at Jazz Central, at Carthage College. He started a nonprofit organization teaching full time at Carthage located in Minneapolis. She’s in 2002 and became the chair a pianist, vocalist, arranger, of the department in 2006. and composer as well as an Before joining Carthage, he was educator. a senior software engineer at David Chivers (MS, ’01) Motorola. After graduating from became president and Roosevelt, Mahoney attended publisher of the Des Moines Illinois Institute of Technology, Register in Iowa in May. An where he earned an MS and a Iowa native, he received PhD in Computer Science. a master’s in Integrated John Proulx (BM, ’99), a Corinne Ness (MM, ’96) was Marketing Communications Grammy-winning alumnus of promoted to dean of Fine Arts at Roosevelt. With extensive Roosevelt’s Chicago College and Humanities at Carthage experience in digital of Performing Arts, took part College, where she has served innovation, marketing and in a celebration of music in as a member of the music Marguerite Lynn Williams audience and product June to support voice and faculty since 2002. She has (MM, ’03), a Chicago College development, Chivers has dance students at Grand taught internationally, including of Performing Arts alumna worked for some of world’s Valley State University in at the Shanghai Conservatory recently joined the artists top business information and Michigan. Proulx contributed of Music and the Central faculty at Roosevelt. She is media brands including the to jazz legend Nancy Wilson’s Academy of Theatre in Beijing. the principal harp for the Lyric Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Grammy-winning 2006 album Along with her teaching, she is Opera Orchestra of Chicago and MarketWatch and had Turned to Blue, co-writing one a sought-after expert on arts and is a founding member of been chief digital officer at of the songs, These Golden education and arts advocacy the Chicago Harp Quartet. Jostens. He currently is also Years. In 2006, Proulx also and has served on various

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In Memoriam Roosevelt University regrets to report the deaths of the following community members. teams including the Chicago Public Schools Arts Liaison Support Team. 1940s Harry Wing Tong (BB, ’59; MC, ’64) Jorge Perez (BB, ’94) has been Marian Kukral (BA, ’46) of of Foster City, Calif., died on Highland, Ind., died on Jan. 15. April 28. He was an entrepreneur appointed by Illinois Governor and founder of Tong Associates, Bruce Rauner to the Urban She received a bachelor’s in Social Services. Tong Accountancy Corp. and the Weatherization Initiative Board. Up To Date CPA Review Course. The executive director of the Richard P. Curran (BC, ’49; Upon retiring he became an avid MC, ’70) of Mokena, Ill., died on Hispanic American Construction volunteer in the Asian-American May 1. He was an auditor for the community. Industry Association, Perez has Internal Revenue Service. also worked for the CTA and the 1960s Chicago Department of Aviation. 1950s Alice K. Harper (BA, ’60; MA, ’63) 1970s Lester Libo (’52) of Chicago died of Chicago died on March on June 12. He was a founding 9. She was a pioneer in the member and professor emeritus Bobbie Raymond (BGS, ’70; Chicago Public Schools and was of the Department of Psychology deeply involved in the Chicago MA, ’72) published her second and Psychiatry at the University Teacher’s Union and was the book, Three Sea Tales. An avid of New Mexico and a member of recipient of the 1965 Excellence snorkeler, Raymond was inspired the Albuquerque art and cultural in Teaching award from the by her passion for snorkeling and community. Chicago Tribune. undersea creatures. Raymond Donald H. Moss (BA, ’53; Francine E. Grenlie (BSBA , ’61) founded the Oak Park Housing MA, ’54) of Springfield, Ill., died of Chicago died on March 21. Center, a nationally recognized on April 29. He worked in several She received a bachelor’s in human service organizations agency working on long-term Business Administration. and was honored for exemplary (BA, ’62) of racial diversity, which she led for service to persons with Mary E. Edwards Crown Point, Ind., died on May 26 years as its executive director. disabilities by the President’s 18. She was an educator working Committee on Mental for the Crown Point Community Diane Madsen (MA, ’74), author of the Retardation, the Illinois Senate School and the Chicago Public DD McGil Literati Mystery series, and House of Representatives, Schools until 1995. received honorable mention at the the Illinois Attorney General and London Book Fair for the Conan the U.S. Department of Health Donald J. Meyer (BA, ’62) of Doyle Notes. Her newest non- and Human Services. Milwaukee died on Feb. 25. He received a bachelor of science John Buswell (BA, ’54) of fiction book is titled Cracking the in Education. Code of the Cannon: How Sherlock Chicago died on Dec. 15. He received a bachelor’s in Robert Schmit (BS, ’62) of Holmes Made His Decisions. Philosophy. Glenview, Ill., died on April 22. As founder and president of (BC, ’54) Donald Epstein Schmit Laboratories, he led a

of Coral Spring, Fla., died

team of 42 chemists for more on March 31. Dubbed the than 40 years. accidental artist, he sculpted a five-foot-tall grinning gator for Jack A. Adams, PhD (BA, ’63; WHERE ARE YOU? use as a mailbox 16 years ago. It MA, ’65) of Waukegan, Ill., died launched his second career and on April 8. He organized efforts We'd love to hear what you've been up to! made him an in-demand artist. to fund and found the College of Please send us your photo and an update! Lake County in Grayslake, Ill. Email [email protected] or mail: Margit Wirth Johnson-Lacker (BS, ’55) of Elgin, Ill., died on May Robert E. Hall (BA, ’65) of Lake Office of Alumni Relations 28. She majored in laborotory Forest, Ill., died on Oct. 4. Roosevelt University science and was on the Council Matilda A. Wilhelm (MA, ’65) of 430 S. Michigan Avenue, AUD 818 of American Women. Chicago, IL 60605 Joliet, Ill., died on Feb. 25. She James S. Chrysokos (BA, ’56) of was a teacher and principal for Please include your name, address, Elk Grove, Ill., died on Jan. 25. He 35 years in Elgin, Ill. and retired email, major and graduation year. was a retired colonel of the United from Forest Park Culbertson States Air Force and a member of School located in Joliet, Ill. » the Freemasons, ROA.

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Marian Wilson-Comer 1996 USA Centennial Olympic years of service in the participant and contributor (BA, ‘66) of Gary, Ind., died Games for coordinating U.S. Post Office. to many services at the on Jan. 9. Before retiring as communications. He retired University and served on Winne McClerkin (BSBA,’86) after 35 years of service. numerous college and professor emeritus of biology of Chicago died June 7. She university committees. He at Chicago State University, Eric Ellesson (BGS, ’71) of received a bachelor’s in always upheld high academic she served in many positions Mount Prospect, Ill., died on Personnel Administration. standards and cared deeply including dean of student April 22. He worked for the The Rev. Howard Nichols, about the University’s services, assistant dean of the Chicago Housing Authority for Sr. (BA, ’86) of Chicago died academic mission. An College of Arts and Sciences, 38 years. assistant to the provost, chair of on March 22. He received a exemplary teacher, he was the Department of Biological John Cutler (BA, ’72) of bachelor’s in Sociology. He was dedicated to providing the Science and executive Curtis, Ariz., died on Jan. 27. an ordained minister and the best possible experiences to director of the Illinois Louis He served 22 years in the U.S. dedicated pastor of Pleasant students inside and outside Stokes Alliance for Minority Navy where he retired as a Gift MB Church on the south the classroom. master chief petty officer. Participation. side of Chicago. After retirement, he trained Albert Nagy (BA, ’71; Joseph R. Kozenczak (MPA, Eugene A. Ebert (MA, ’66) of as a registered nurse and MA, ’76) of Chicago died ’87) of Des Plaines, Ill., died Duluth, Minn., died on March 19. finished his career as a on April 26. He had a long on May 13. He was police chief He was principal at Libertyville public health nurse. and varied career at of Des Plaines for 27 years High School from 1963 until he Roosevelt University as both Jean Halm McKenney and was recognized by the retired in 1988. a student and employee. (MAT, ’72) of Wood Dale, Ill., International Association of Among positions, he was Dale Duane Nelson (BA, ’67) died on April 27. She was a Chiefs of Police as one of the director of the Educational of Santa Ana, Calif., died on teacher at Glenbard East High top 10 police officers for his Technology Resource Center Feb. 19. He enlisted in the U.S. School until she retired in work on the John Wayne Gacy before retiring in 2008 with Navy and after World War II, 1982 as chair of the Science murder case. emeritus status, one of only re-enlisted and served for an Department. Jerome J. Laz (MA, ’87) of six administrators to earn additional 20 years. After Charles Breckle (MA, ’75) of Mount Prospect, Ill., died on the ranking. serving in the Navy for 23 Chicago died on June 15. He March 1. He received a master’s years, he retired as a master served in the U.S. Army, and in Education. chief petty officer. was an educator for 38 years Norbert F. Wall (BB, ’67) of until he retired in 1995. 1990s Chicago died on March 4. An Enver Omer Avdich (MS, ’76) In response to the Spring entrepreneur, he wore many of Chicago died on April 29. He Janet Jaback (BA, ’97) of 2015 issue, Roosevelt Review hats from real estate to being an was a retired microbiologist. Elmwood Park, Ill., died received the following letter expert witness. on Feb. 11. She received a from alumna Betty Carr. 1980s bachelor’s in Hospitality Management. 1970s Dear Editor, Louise Miller (MA, ’80) of Ann Wilbon McClerkin (BGS, ’70) Arbor, Mich., died on Feb. 7. After Faculty and Staff I enjoy reading the Roosevelt of Chicago died on June 7. earning a master’s of Public Review but the Spring 2015 He was a musician, writer and Administration, she became Milton Greenberg, vice edition has an error on pages public speaker. His music an advocate for social justice, president of Academic Affairs 68-69. Robert and Marcy at Roosevelt University in career spanned more than six education and the elderly. Brown are credited as the first the 1970s, died on Aug. 27. decades starting when he was Olga Redmond (BA, ’80) of After serving at Roosevelt, he married couple to graduate just a child. As a writer he was Cassopolis, Minn., died on Feb. joined American University in from Roosevelt together in a featured columnist for the 17. She retired from Northern Washington, D.C., where he 1950. My husband Anton G. Chicago Courier. Trust Company after 25 years was provost, interim president Carr and I were the first married of service. Donald Toigo (BB, ’70) of and professor of government. couple to graduate together in Chicago Heights, Ill., died on Mary Elizabeth White Gilbert Ghez, a professor January 1947. You can easily June 10. He was the owner of (BA, ’81) of Las Vegas died on of management who served verify this by my article in Toigo Painting and Decorating May 15. She retired from the Roosevelt’s Heller College Roosevelt University: Memories and the vice president of sales U.S. Post Office after 26 years of Business for over three of the First 60 Years, pages and marketing for Vacudyne Inc. of service. decades, died on Sept. 15. 16-17. Page 17 also includes a in Chicago Heights. Evelyn Mayfield Brown Ghez joined Roosevelt in copy of a Roosevelt College William Harvey Cameron (MB, (MA, ’84) of Chicago died 1979 as associate professor of publicity shot of us from the ’71) of Mountain Lakes, N.J., died on March 19. She received management and economics Chicago Tribune. on April 15. He spent his career a master’s in Public and was promoted to professor at AT&T where he and his team Administration and retired in 1982. During his tenure at Betty Carr, received a Gold Medal during the after providing more than 30 Roosevelt, he was an active Alsip, lll.

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“ From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” ARTHUR ASHE

RROOOOSSEEVVEELLTT R REEVIVIEEWW | FALL 2015 69 Dear Alumni and Friends, First and foremost, we would like to tell you how honored we are to be the students currently serving on the Roosevelt University Board of Trustees. The academic year is well underway. Our halls are filled with students, faculty, staff and gratitude. Attending Roosevelt, for many, simply would not be possible if it weren’t for you. We want to use this occasion to sincerely thank everyone who has contributed financially to Roosevelt University. Every member of our learning community is impacted through your gifts. Your generosity fuels change and broadens opportunities for deserving students more than ever before. It empowers and inspires all of us to work hard, gain new experiences and learn not only about our world, but about ourselves. We are fortunate to be reminded Your generosity fuels almost daily of the positive impact our alumni brothers change and broadens and sisters continue to have on our global community. We are Roosevelt, and so is each and every one of you. opportunities for We value how Roosevelt University has fostered a deserving students tradition of student excellence and success throughout more than ever before. the generations, by providing opportunities that create socially conscious leaders in their professions and communities. Like so many of you, being a part of this incredibly diverse community is transforming our lives. We are learning about the challenges of our communities and together we are setting out to make them better. Through your continued kindness and generosity, you enable us to continue this important work, and for that we are deeply appreciative. You ignite our passions. You enlighten our spirits. We are becoming agents of change. Your gifts make this possible. The students you support will never forget it. Our future begins right now — and it starts with you!

Gratefully,

Carlita Kelly Courtney Makowski

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OFFICERS LIFE TRUSTEES

Patricia Harris (BGS, '80) Gerald W. Fogelson Barry S. McInerney Joe F. Hanauer (BS, ’60) Chair President Co-CEO, BMO Global Principal Global Chief Diversity Officer The Fogelson Properties, Inc. Asset Management Combined Investments LLC and Vice President of Global CEO, BMO Asset Management Joshua Freeman, MD Donald S. Hunt Community Engagement U.S. & International Professor and Dept. Chair, Retired President and COO McDonald's Corporation Family Medicine Steven A. Meyers Harris Trust & Savings Bank Susan T. Bart University of Kansas Hospital Faculty Trustee Louis S. Kahnweiler Vice Chair Professor and Associate Chair Charles R. Gardner Founder Partner Dept. of Psychology Manager Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler Sidley Austin LLP Roosevelt University CDCT Land Company LLC Renee Logan Bruce A. Crown Frantz Osse Robert Dunn Glick Retired Chair Secretary to the Board CEO Of Counsel Seymour N. Logan Associates Chairman Thane Kenscoff Group Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered BevBar, Inc. Robert Y. Paddock James J. Mitchell III Marsha Feder Goldstein (BA, '67) Chairman Emeritus Melvin L. Katten Executive Vice President Founder Senior Vice Chair and Vice Chairman Anthony R. Pasquinelli The Board Genie Senior Counsel Paddock Publications, Inc. Executive Vice President Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Alvin I. Golin (BS, ’50) Joseph A. Pasquinelli and Vice Chairman Chairman Pasquinelli Construction Ali Malekzadeh Founding Principal Golin President ArchIdeas Anna Eleanor Roosevelt John R. Hall, III, EdD CEO Robert Mednick (BS, ’62) Terry Peterson (MPA, '95) CEO and Founder Goodwill Industries Northern Senior Vice Chair Vice President Greenwood and Hall New England Retired Managing Partner Government Affairs Andersen Worldwide Larissa Herczeg Rush University Medical Center Manfred Steinfeld (BS, ’48) Managing Director, CIO Retired Kenneth L. Tucker (BS, ’54) Margaret M. Policastro Oak Street Real Estate Capital The Steinfeld Consultancy LLC Senior Vice Chair Faculty Trustee Principal Meme Hopmayer Professor Kenneth L. Tucker Company Dept. of Specialized Studies HONORARY TRUSTEES Tony Hu Roosevelt University Owner and Chef Frederick S. Addy, PUBLIC MEMBERS Tony Gourmet Group Howard M. Rossman, PhD Founder and President Chairman Emeritus Kathleen Iverson Steve H. Abbey Civic Leadership Foundation Barbara T. Bowman Faculty Trustee Senior Vice President Associate Professor of Alan G. Schwartz Robert L. Johnson (BA, ’58) First Merit Bank Chairman Training and Development Tennis Corp. of America Thomas J. Klutznick Moji Christianah Adeyeye Roosevelt University Faculty Trustee Robert van Brugge (BA, '90) George W. Lofton III Carlita Kelly Professor of Pharmaceutics/ Chairman and CEO Student Trustee Charles R. Middleton, Mfg. Science Sanford C. Bernstein Chicago Campus President Emeritus College of Pharmacy Mark J. Van Grinsven William J. Kirby John F. Sandner Roosevelt University Retired Executive Vice President Retired Northern Trust Corporation John J. Viera Bruce R. Bachmann FMC Corporation President Marek A. Wierzba Rolf A. Weil, President Emeritus Bachmann Associates, Ltd. Juan Lopez, Jr. Partner David Wooldridge (BS, ’61) Managing Director Assurance & Advisory Tom Balanoff Watermark Alternative Business Services President Investment Management Ernst & Young SEIU Local1 Courtney Makowski Robert L. Wieseneck (BS, ’58) James Bedford Student Trustee Retired Director, Life Science Partners Schaumburg Campus SPS Payment Systems, Inc. West Monroe Partners Roosevelt University Stephen Cerrone Michael T. Maly Maureen A. Ehrenberg Faculty Trustee Jones Lang LaSalle Associate Professor & Dept. Chair Department of Sociology Donald M. Field Roosevelt University Retired The Honorable Blanche People’s Energy Corporation M. Manning (MA, ’72) Dwight Floyd Retired Judge Retired BMO Harris Bank United States District Court

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$250,000 AND ABOVE Mr. Jay D. Steger Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld Many thanks to the individuals and organizations listed in this The Estate of Marjorie Bredehorn Mr. Robert P. Van Brugge Honor Roll for their generous commitment to Roosevelt students, The Estate of faculty and staff this academic year. Through their gifts, they make Estate of Mrs. Dorothy Eugene W. Rueckoldt** it possible for the University to continue its founding mission of M. Wright** making higher education available to all students who qualify Mr. Bruce J. Young $100,000 TO $249,999 academically. We are determined to help our students succeed. Roosevelt's Mr. and Mrs. James Grusecki $10,000 TO $24,999 Division of Student Success enriches the student experience Mr. David D. Hiller by cultivating an environment that supports learning, develops Mr. Steven H. Abbey and individuals and promotes social action. The Honors Program The Estate of Paul B. Johnson** Ms. Pamela J. Brick The Estate of Sarah M. Solomon** offers highly motivated, academically successful students the Mr. Bruce R. Bachmann opportunity to carry out their own independent projects while taking Mr. Richard Wills Mrs. Susan Therese Bart challenging courses. The Mansfield Institute's transformational Mr. Ralph B. Block service learning program connects classroom learning and real-life service experience with community partners across Chicagoland. $50,000 TO $99,999 John and Jacolyn Bucksbaum Anonymous Mr. James B. Connor There are many ongoing triumphs here at Roosevelt, due, in no small part, to our loyal alumni and friends. We are privileged to Mrs. Arlene R. Crandall Mr. Bruce A. and acknowledge them. Mrs. Deborah Crown Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Drew Jan Parkin The Estate of Clifton O.** The Estate of Jan H. Finder** and Lois M. Dummett Interim Vice President, Institutional Advancement Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fogel* Mr. Arthur M. Gutterman Mr. Robert D. Glick $5,000 TO $9,999 Mr. Robert L. and The Estate of Max Mrs. Rose Johnson Goldbenberg** Mr. Gerald W. and Mr. Bruce J. Adreani Mrs. Georgia Fogelson Arthur E. and Jacqueline Mr. Frank J. Amabile $25,000 TO $49,999 Goldberg Mr. Thomas E. and Mrs. Lynda Gilliam Mrs. Marsha F. and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Mr. Willard E. Bransky Mr. Michael Goldstein Amatangelo Mr. and Mrs. Ross Glickman The Estate of Mr. Alvin I. Golin Mr. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Golub Mr. John S. Brown** Mrs. Hetty K. Balanoff Mr. Alvin L. Gorman Mr. Christopher Groesbeck The Estate of Mr. Samuel V. Banks Mrs. Diane Asseo Griliches Betty Taylor Clarke** Mr. Alton B. Harris Ms. Nancy Hablutzel Mr. Marshall and Mr. Thomas P. Dengler Mrs. Arlene Bennett Ms. Larissa Herczeg Mr. Joe F. and Mr. and Mrs. James Ferrar Mrs. Jane B. Hanauer Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Borta Mr. Joseph Hernandez and Ms. Bernadette Ross Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Mrs. Patricia S. Harris Mr. Samuel and Dr. Joyce Busch Mr. Harrison O. Huzenis Mr. Charles Gardner and Mr. Barry S. McInerney Mr. Kevin Connelly Ms. Patti S. Eylar Mr. Louis and Mr. Thomas J. Meier Mr. Louis D. D'Angelo Mrs. Ruth Kahnweiler Mr. Donald S. and Mr. Jack Miller The Estate of Leon M. Mrs. Jane C. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Morris A. Kaplan Mr. Jack and Mrs. Goldie Despres** Mr. Ronald M. Jericho Wolfe Miller Ms. Marjorie Kirk Mr. Christos and Mr. Joseph G. Loundy Mr. John R. Newman Mrs. Robin Dogas Ms. Andrea S. Kramer Dr. Charles R. Middleton* Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Panovich Mr. Charles E. Donegan and Mrs. Renee Logan Mrs. Patty Lou Harris and Dr. John S. Geary Mr. Anthony R. and Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Lubin Mrs. Mary Ann Pasquinelli Mr. James J. and Mr. and Mrs. R. William Mr. Stephen L. Madden Mrs. Linda Mitchell, III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pasquinelli Edmundson Mr. Milton S. Maltz Ms. Kathy R. Pick Ms. Deborah Pavelka* Mr. Patrick J. Fitzgerald Mr. John H. Mays Mr. Alan and Mr. Ellis Schuman Mr. Dwight and Mrs. Rosalyn Schwartz Ms. Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks Mrs. Karen Floyd Mr. Daniel T. McCaffery

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mednick Mr. Bradley D. Crown Mr. Thomas E. and Ms. Lois M. Kahan Mrs. Lynda Gilliam Mr. Juan G. Moreno Mr. Ronald E. Daley Dr. Lemon and Dr. Kallal Ms. Eunice Goldberg Mr. Joseph Neverauskas Ms. Ramona E. Davis Mr. Jeffrey A. Karp Mr. and Mrs. William A. Goldstein Mr. Fred S. Novy Mr. Jonathan Dedmon and Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Katten Ms. Idalia Aguila Mr. and Mrs. Anton Golobic Mr. Gregory J. O'Leary and Dr. Patricia Kelly and Ms. Patricia Kenney Mr. Alfred W. Dinwiddie Dr. Rifat Gorener* Dr. Joshua Freeman Mr. Terry Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dr. Theodore and Dr. Douglas G. Knerr Mrs. Jody Gross Mr. Hipolito Roldan DiTommaso Mr. Robert B. Kretshmer Ms. Jessica R. Guazzini Ms. Dawn R. Romei Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Dobroski Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Dr. Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser* Kunzweiler Howard M. Rossman Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll Drew Mr. Thomas J. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Tom Latourette Ms. Susan A. Stone and Mr. Craig J. Duchossois Mr. Jonathon Kahn Mr. Leonard Dubin Mr. Richard Hardy Mrs. Flora L. Leach The Estate of Gladys Turner** Ms. Patricia M. Pates Eaton Mr. John A. Hegber Mrs. Stacy L. Lerner Mr. Greg Warsek Ms. Katie A. Edwards Mr. Herbert Herman Mr. Gregory M. and Ms. Susan J. Levy Mr. Marek Wierzba Mr. Frederick W. Engimann Mr. and Mrs. David Holloway Mr. Phil and Mrs. Marilyn Liss Mr. Robert L. and Mr. Burt Fainman Mrs. Meme and Mrs. Suzanne Wieseneck Mr. Gary Hopmayer Mr. Melvin R. Loeb Mr. Robert Feitler Mr. Joseph L. Wisniewski Mr. Steve A. Hoselton* Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lofton Mr. Donald M. Field Mr. Maurice and Dr. Lisa Lu* Mr. Steven D. Fifield Mrs. Jean R. Jacobs $1,000 TO $4,999 Ms. Priscilla R. MacDougall Mr. Raymond A. Frick, Jr. Mr. Joel H. Jastromb Mr. Donald S. MacLaren Mr. and Mrs. Steve Adelman Ms. Linda D. Jones* Ms. Ellen E. Furnari Mr. Charles M. Madigan* Mr. John and Mrs. Julianne Dr. Cheryl Ganz Mr. Richard H. Jones Allerson Mr. Ken Mailender Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Annes The Honorable Blanche M. Manning Ms. Melanie Archer Ms. Martha W. Marberry Ms. Edwardine M. Baker WAYS TO GIVE Dr. Rudy T. Marcozzi* and Mr. Brett A.* and Mr. James Paul Topolski Mrs. Veronica R. Batterson Mr. Robert C. Marks Dr. Bud Beatty* Annual Fund Mr. Terry Markus Mr. James W. Bedford Unrestricted donations to the annual fund Mr. Michael and Ms. Bija Bennett are an important part of Roosevelt’s budget Mrs. Anne Marie McGee Dr. Jan E. Bickel because they enable the University to allocate Mr. Jerome H. Meyer Ms. Nancy E. Bourbon funds to a wide range of vital programs and Mr. Joel D. Meyer Mr. Roy Boyd activities. When you make a gift to Roosevelt’s Dr. Steven A. Meyers* annual fund, you are supporting everything Ms. Marie L. Brandt Dr. Stuart M. Meyer from the Sustainably Studies Program to Mr. Gokula Mishra Mr. Walter D. and our award-winning Black Male Leadership Mrs. Gertrude Braud Ms. Martha V. Moore Academy. Mr. Ed Burton Mr. John and Mrs. Grace Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Kim Byas, Sr. Mr. Michael W. Muryn, Jr. Mr. John Caruso Mr. Kenneth V. Nelson Mrs. Sheila H. Coffin* roosevelt.edu/giving Mr. Karl and Mrs. Erika Neumann Mrs. K. Ruth Corcoran Ms. Victoria Noonan Mrs. Helen B. Crosier Mr. Jose Ochoa

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Dr. Paul* and Mrs. Nancy Van Grinsven Mr. James S. Berkowicz Ms. Renee T. Enna and Mrs. Deborah Ornstein Mr. Richard Coha Mr. Raymond Waite Mr. and Mrs. Victor M. Bernhard The Rev. Dr. Jason and Ms. Vernita Cole Mr. John Washburn and Dr. Alice M. Bernstein Mrs. Janice Parkin* Ms. Katharine Hannaford Ms. Arta A. Beverly Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mrs. Louise L. Parkin Dr. Rolf A. and Mrs. Leni Weil Colliopoulos Ms. Patricia Bidwill Mr. Ludwig L. Pecht Dr. Lynn Weiner* and Mr. Kevin Colgan Ms. Argie Bingham Mr. Raymond E. Perry Mr. Tom Moher Mr. Morris L. Conner Ms. Jeri Bingham Mr. Sherwin I. Pogrund Mr. George Wiehold Ms. Lorrene Conino Mr. Herman Birch Dr. Antonia D.* and Mr. Damon S. Williams Mrs. Nina M. and Mr. Robert Potenza Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Timuel D. Black, Jr. Mr. John Cook, Jr. Ms. Mary A. Poulos Dr. LaPearl Winfrey Mr. Edward A. Blahnik Mr. Neil R. Cowan Dr. Henry J. Przybylo, Jr. Mr. Lance Wolfe Ms. Beverly E. Bland Mr. John E. Craig Dr. John N. Quiring Dr. Harold D. Woodman Ms. Leslie R. Bloom Mr. John C. Dakes Mr. and Mrs. William Ms. Jane I. Boline Dr. William S. Dancey Thomas Read III Mrs. Ethel Rae and Mrs. Eva M. Daniel-Bruce Mr. John W. Rogers, Jr. $250 TO $999 Mr. Grover Boone Mr. Eugene E. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Anonymous Trust Mr. and Mrs. James Boyle Rosenberg Mr. Joseph D. Davis* Dr. Billie W. Adams Mr. John H. Bracey, Jr. Mrs. Carmel Roth Ms. Kimberly Davis Mr. Edward Adler Mr. Donald J. Bregman Mr. and Mrs. David Rotholz Ms. Shelly A. Davis-Jones Mrs. Susan B. Ain Mr. Thomas and Ms. Jill R. Brindel Mr. Carl E. Dawson and Mr. Robert W. Alexander Mrs. Julianne Rowen* Mr. Bruce I. Briscoe Dr. Grace G. Dawson Mr. Edgar Allen Dr.** and Mrs. Myron E. Rubnitz Ms. Susan M. Bronder Ms. Diane Day Mrs. Evelyn Allen Mr. Norman S. Salenger Ms. Joan K. Brooks Mr. Alan S. DeMar Mr. Carl Allenspach Dr. D. Milton and Ms. Emily L. Brown Ms. Donna L. DeMille* Mrs. Susan Salzer Ms. Leslie K. Amann Dr. Nancy E. Bryan Mr. Eugene and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schindler Ms. Leslie Andrews Ms. Patricia Deramus Ms. Judith F. Burry Mr. Stuart B. Scudder Dr. and Mrs. Peri Arnold Mr. Jon DeVries* and Mr. Marion L. Byrd The Estate of Marian Shaw** Mr. Joseph J. Ashley Ms. Christine Williams Ms. Gina G. A. Cabay Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Atella Dr. Guy J. and Simpson Mr. Andrew P. Caccavari Mrs. Gisela Di Spigno* Ms. Alyssa I. Auge Mr. Bobby N. Calderon Mr. Dante Di Virgilio Dr. Martha R. Sklar Dr. Henri L. and Dr. John L. and Mrs. Carolyn Bailey, III Ms. Cheryl L. Campbell Ms. Lorraine Diaz Mrs. Consuelo Skosey Ms. Dolores T. Baker Mrs. Darlene M. Carmin Ms. Sandra Dixon Mrs. Suzanne L. Strickland Mr. Jon W. Balke Dr. Frances Carroll and family Mr. Patrick D. Donohue Mr. Frank P. and Mr. Rayford E. Barner Mr. Charles E. Dooley Mrs. Joan K. Stuart Ms. Judith A. Carter Mr. Ruairi Barnwell Ms. Ginger Downs Dr. Raymond Tanter Mr. Glenn Catlett Ms. Anne T. Barrett Ms. Nora M. Duffy Dr. Ronald J. and Mr. Albert G. Ceren, Jr. Mrs. Juanita Temple, Sr. Mr. Garry J. Bartecki Mr. Vincent Chapa Mrs. Marie G. Ebie Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Topel Mr. Menzo Battle Ms. Haiqi Chen Mr. Bailey Edward Ms. Rosemarie C. Egan Ms. Karen S. Troxel Mr. David G. Beeson Ms. Lauren Chill* and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Tucker Mr. John E. Bell Mr. Bill Wozney Mrs. Lana Eisenberg Mr. James A. Unander Mr. Jeffery K. Benham Mr. Shevlin Ciral Ms. Clara C. Elam Mr. Mark J. and Mr. Ira Berkow Mr. John G. Clifford Mr. Jay N. Elder

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Mr. Antoine J. and Mr. Thomas* and Mrs. Sarah D. Elias Mrs. Teresa Karow Mrs. Collete English-Dixon WAYS TO GIVE Dr. Irwin and Mrs. Sharon D. Kasser Ms. Lois E. Evans Mr. Stuart C. Katz Mr. and Mrs. William J. Evans Mrs. Judith Kaufman Mr. Andre Fair Endowment Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kelly Mrs. Thelma L. Faulkner Mr. James S. Kennedy Each year, money from Roosevelt’s endowment Mr. Allan R. Feldman is used for named professorships like the Arthur Mr. Wayne Tilton Kennedy and Mrs. Lorelei Maison Rockwell Mr. Leo Feldman Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies, currently Dr. Thomas A. Kersten Ms. Jessena L. Finn held by Paul Green, Roosevelt’s popular Captain Daniel and expert on local, state and national politics. Mr. Habib C. Khorshid Mrs. Laurie Flynn Over the years, generous donors, like Rubloff, Mr. David R. Lane Ms. Nora B. Flint have endowed faculty chairs, entire colleges, Mr. Eric Kieft* Mrs. Nancy Flowers academic initiatives and scholarships. Any gift Ms. Aileen J. Kittock Mr. George H. Foelschow of $25,000 or more may be designated as an Dr. Yonah and Mr. Russell Klem The Honorable Raymond endowment gift and it is possible to complete Dr. Ruth L. Knight Funderburk the gift over a three-year period. Ms. Elyse Koren-Camarra* Mr. James A. Galloway Mr. James R. Krotzer Dr. Jeffrey S. Garfield Mr. Ronald M. Kubit Mr. Mike Gattone roosevelt.edu/giving Mr. Daniel R. Kulik Ms. Mae A. Gay Mr. Neeraj Kumar* Dr. Wayne R. General Mrs. Kathleen and Mr. David R. Gerber, Sr. Mr. Daniel Kuntzman Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Harder Ms. Gwendolyn A. Hilary Ms. Kelly Gilliard Mr. Stephen Kurpinsky Mr. Clarence and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Gillis Dr. and Mrs. Leroy J. Hirsch Dr. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Mrs. Queen C. Harris, III Mr. and Mrs. Loren D. Gilmore Mrs. Anne and Mr. Lee Hollek Mrs. Dorothea D. Lattyak Mrs. Helen Harris Mr. James Ginsburg and Mr. William Host* Mr. Robert M. Lau Ms. Patrice Michaels Mr. Robert L. Harris, Jr. Mr. Richard Howell Mr. Ivan F. Lawson Dr. Edward W. Glab, Jr. Mr. Thomas L. Harris Mr. Joseph and Dr. Ludmila K. Lazar* Mr. Harold Glaser Mr. Gary S. Hart Mrs. Mary Ellen Hrutka Mr. Eugene and Mrs. Betty Lazo Mr. Edward T. Havermann Dr. Juliet S. Goldsher Mr. Donald Hudson Mr. Duwayne M. and Dr. David A. Gomberg Ms. Jillian V. Haynes Ms. India Y. Hugghis Mrs. Mary Leblanc Mr. Ira D. Gouge Ms. Gail W. Heneghan Ms. Delores M. Ivery Mr. Preston V. Lee Ms. Billie J. Gray Ms. Beverly J. Henrich Ms. Judith A. Izewski-Castillo Mr. Glenn P. Lefkovitz Ms. Joan S. Green Mr. Patrick Henry Mr. Henry E. and Mr. Jasiel M. Legon Mr. Paul E. Greenwalt Mrs. Betty M. Henson Mrs. Shirley Jaworski Mr. Norman G. Levin Mr. Mike L. Griffin Dr. Thomas Hering and Mr. Roy E. Jilburg Mr. Martin and Mrs. Sandra Levy Dr. Maurice S. and Dr. Clare Rimnac Mr. Joseph Jimenez Mr. Andre Lewis Ms. Charlotte Haber Mr. Paul M. Hernandez Dr. Howard N. Johnson Mr. Martin Liebman Mr. Phillip C. Hamilton Mr. Stephen E. Herzog Mr. Kenneth R. Jones Ms. Patricia Lindholm Mr. John W. and Mr. Jay and Mrs. Judy Heyman Mr. Warren and Ms. Cathleen Hammerschlag Mr. Merwyn B. and Mr. Michael J. and Mrs. Renee Kaplan Mrs. Dawn Lindquist* Mrs. April J. Hanes-Dowd Mrs. Iris Ruth Heyman Mr. Burton H. Litwin Mr. Frank S. and Mrs. Dianne L. Hankins* Mr. Emil Hicks Mrs. Nancy Karger, Jr. Mr. Vincent J. Lloyd

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Mr. Glenn K. Lubin Mr. Leroy Oshield Mr. Howard A. Sass* Mr. Fred Vogt, Jr. Mrs. Charlotte K. Lindon Mr. Robert and Ms. Marilyn Schimpf Mr. Joseph D. Wallach Mrs. Marcella Paddock, Jr Mr. George E.* and Mr. Steven M. Scheiberg Mr. James M. Walsh Karen MacKinnon Mr. John L. Paprocki Mr. and Ms. John C. Schneider Dr. and Mrs. Roosevelt Mr. Chirayu Parikh Mr. John E. Maloney Mr. Daniel Schuette Washington Mr. Mihir D. Patel Mr. Michael T. Maly* Ms. Debbra W. Schwartz Mr. Codozar Watson Mr. James E. Patrick Mr. Michael C. and Mr. Robert C. Sejnost Mr. Wendell P. Weaver Mrs. Laura Neal Marek Ms. Julie Peterson Ms. Anastasie M. Senat Mr. Arthur J. Weil Mr. Mark Markowicz Ms. Kathleen M. Pink Mr. Richard E. Weinberg Mr. Sherwin Shenfeld Mr. William A. Martello Ms. Margie E. Justice Pitoniak Mr. Leon C. Wexler Mrs. Judith S. and Dr. Philip A. Maskall Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Pizer Mr. Bertram Shlensky Ms. Lynn White Mr. Joseph E. Masterson Dr. Mary O. Pleas Mr. Leonard H. Siegal Ms. Maybeth L. White Mrs. Shirley Mathai* Mr. Steven and Mrs. Veronica Siegel Mrs. Avery W. Williams Mrs. Iris Podolsky Mr. Paul Matthews* Mr. Burton E. Silver Mrs. Linda R. Williams Mrs. Sara Lee Powell* Mr. Donald P. Mattz Mr. Elmer E. Smith Ms. Gertrude A. Wimmer Ms. Trish Preheim Mr. Larry and Mrs. Kay E. Mayer Mr. Walter and Mrs. Syndelle Sowa Ms. Paula D. Wise Mr. Cecil V. Purnell Mr. Richard Woodfork, Jr.* Mr. Michael N. Mayo Mr. Jorge Solivan Dr. Dennis Randall Dr. Raymond E. Wright, Jr.* Ms. Elizabeth J. Merena Dr. and Mrs. Marshall Sparberg Ms. Peggy S. Ratcheson Dr. Barbara Wright-Pryor Dr. David and Mrs. Joan Miller Mr. Elliot G. Spiegel Mr. Troy C. Ratliff Mr. Russell B. Wydeen Ms. Louise Miller** Ms. Carol A. St. Amant Mr. William Reed Ms. Debbie K. Wright Mr. Michael P. Miller Mr. William S. Staadt Mr. Michael S. Reeves Mr. Frederick E. Wrobleski Ms. Gina Montalbano- Mr. Paul H. Stewart Goodrich* Mr. Roy S. Rettig Mr. William J. Wyre Mr. William Strong Mrs. Mary L. Montgomery Ms. Eva-Maria J. Riebe Dr. Barry R. Zeitlin Mr. Sherwin A. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Morris Dr. Howard M. Rieger Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zimbler Mr. John R. Swift Mr. William E. Morrison Ms. Susan B. Riffer Mr. Robert L. Zimmerman Mr. Howard A. Symon Dr. Richard J. Moser Ms. Gail and Mr. James Rigelhaupt Mr. Rex M. Takahashi The Estate of Marvin A Moss** ORGANIZATIONS Mrs. Gladys Tamayo Mr. Robert D. and Ms. Creola Rigsby Mrs. Marilyn Murphy Mr. August Rivera, Jr. Ms. Viretha W. Teague $100,000 TO $249,999 Mr. Paul and Ms. Michelle Myer Ms. Sandra Rivera Dr. Lester G. Telser Mr. Russell and Mrs. Gail Nansen Mrs. Barbara Robbins** Ms. Phoebe Telser Clearing Corporation Charitable Fdn. Mr. Leonard Miller Mr. Walter Roberts, Jr. Mr. Jay W. Terry Robert R. McCormick Dr. Steven B. Nasatir Mrs. Margaret R. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Thelin Foundation Mr. Mark T. Neil Mrs. Rachel S. Robinson Mr. David Thomas Mr. and Mrs. John W. Nichols Ms. Zenoble Thompson Mr. Steve Robinson $50,000 TO $99,999 Mr. Robert Noonan Mrs. Jill and Mr. Ron Rohde Mr. Nicholas C. Tillman Crown Charitable Trust Mr. George Nowik Mr. Robert F. Romeo Mr. Jerry B. Todd Mr. James F. O'Bert Mr. Howard I. Rosenberg Mr. Theodore L. Totman and Ms. Helene Deramond $25,000 TO $49,999 Dr. Evelyn Ogiela Dr. Arnold Rowe Mr. Kenneth Towers Mr. Charles K. and Mrs. Inae H. Oh Ms. Charliemae M. Ross Albert and Anne/Mansfield Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tuchman Foundation Mrs. Dianne O'Neal Mr. Robert W. Ryan Mr. Bernard Ury Cardinal Health Foundation Mr. Russell Oren Mr. J. Patrick and Dr. Debra Orr* Mrs. Barbara Sanders Mr. James K. Vaclavik Educational Assistance Ltd.

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Franke Family Charitable Esther Faber Trust International Union Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois Foundation First Bank of Highland Park Shamrock Electric Co. Inc. Chicago Association of Realtors Harris Bank Corporation Fitzgerald Associates Architects The Jack Miller Center Chicago High School for the Arts Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Golin Ungaretti and Harris Christy Webber Landscapes Kaplan, Mayer and Morris Gould and Ratner LLP VOA Associates Incorporated City Club of Chicago Family Foundation Graycor Construction Wintrust Financial Corporation City Lights Ltd. Kathy and Grant Pick Fund Company Inc. Colgate-Palmolive Company Mesirow Financial Inc. Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation $1,000 TO $4,999 Combined Roofing Services, LLC The J. Willard and Alice S. Hispanic Housing Development Complete Landscaping LLC Marriott Fdn. Illinois Labor History Society ABM Janitorial Services- North Central CONLON Commercial JGMA Advance Mechanical Systems Inc. Conor Commercial Real $10,000 TO $24,999 JRG Capital Partners LLC Estate LLC Airtite Contractors mb financial bank CVS Pharmacy Inc. Albertsons All-Tech Decorating McCaffery Interests, Inc. Deloitte Services LP Bucksbaum Retail Properties Assurance Agency Ltd. Metropolitan Properties of DL3 Realty, L.P. Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Chicago Inc. Barnes and Noble Ed and Ana Williams Chicago Title Insurance Company Millbrook Properties LLC Bear Construction Company Charitable Gift Fund Cushman and Wakefield Inc. NAIOP Chicago Inc. BLT Architects Edwards Engineering Duke Realty Corporation Northern Builders Inc. BMO Capital Markets Eli Lilly and Company Durandal, Inc. Foundation Inc. OKW Architects Inc. BOMA/Chicago Foundation Earth Friendly Products RMK Management Corp Environmental Systems Bourbon Tile and Marble, Inc. Design Inc. Efroymson Family Fund Sagent Pharmaceuticals Inc. CA Development Exelon Corporation McDonald's Corporation Sarah Siddons Society Inc. Management LLC F. E. Moran, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Franklin Service Employees Case Foundation Hanauer Fifth Third Bank First American Title Insurance NACDS Foundation Company Pasquinelli Family Foundation Flood Bros Disposal Co. Polk Bros. Foundation FSI Food Services WAYS TO GIVE Power Construction Company LLC Geary Electric Inc. Charles and M.R. Shapiro W.W. Grainger, Inc. Foundation Greenstone Partners Structured Development LLC Capital Gifts Hamilton Partners The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Roosevelt students gather on the third floor Hard Service Finishers Inc. The Siragusa Foundation of the Wabash Building every day to attend Henricksen and Company Inc. Walgreens organizational meetings, plan events, play Henry Bros. Co. games and just hang out. Supported by capital Hill Mechanical Group $5,000 TO $9,999 gifts from Roosevelt alumni Kenneth Tucker Hokahey Fund Associated Bank and Al Golin, the student leadership floor is an J. F. McKinney and Associates Capri Capital Partners LLC example of how capital gifts are an investment Jameson Sotheby's in Roosevelt’s facilities and students. International Realty CBRE JDM LLC Connelly Electric Co. Jerome H. Meyer and Co. Cub Terminal LLC Jones and Cleary Roofing/ CVS Caremark Charitable Trust roosevelt.edu/giving Sheet Metal Elston Window and Wall Jones Lang LaSalle Equus Capital Partners Kirkland and Ellis Foundation

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Kleen Air Service Corp. Walmart Foundation Loop Capital Markets Mr. Charles C. and Mrs. Dorothy M. Brosius KONE Elevators and Escalators West Monroe Partners Marc Realty LLC Mr. Edward K. Brown Lake View Musical Society William Rainey Harper College Markel Corporation Mrs. Ivy R. Brown Langehaumer Construction Inc. Winston and Strawn Metropolitan Fire Protection Inc. Ms. Marissa G. Browne Mark Vend Company Wm. Thybony Co. Midwest Fence Corporation Mr. Samuel and Dr. Joyce M. Busch Maverick Commercial Zeller Realty Corporation Mobile Auto Restoration Service Mr. William F. Caldwell Mortgage Inc. Northrop Grumman Foundation Mrs. Rosalind G. Campbell Mecor ONYX Architectural Services Inc. $250 TO $999 Ms. Vilma Esperanza Castro Meltzer, Purtill and Stelle LLP Peerless Rug Company Advance Electrical Supply Co. Mrs. Arlene R. Crandall MERCOR Planned Realty Group, Inc. Alexander and Associates Mrs. Elnoris Crummie Mid-America Asset Management Salon Lorrene Architects Mr. Mahmoud T. Dajani Mutual of America Scott Laboratory Solutions LLC Anonymous Chicago Neal, Gerber and Eisenberg Mrs. Marion Elizabeth Davis Community Trust Siegal Steel Company Newmark and Company Real Ann H. Davis Appearances Salon and Retreat Sprint Foundation Estate Inc. Ms. Ramona E. Davis Applied Controls and The Missner Group Noland Sales Corp. Mr. Theodore E. and Contracting Services Inc. The Mylan Institute of Pharmacy North American Corporation Mrs. Joanne Despotes ARA Thyssen Krupp Elevator Ozark Steel Fabricators Inc. Mr. Ronald J. Dluger Arthur Hill and Co. LLC TNA Sealants, Inc. Peoples Gas Light and Mrs. Lois R. Doll Ascher Brothers Co. Inc. Coke Company Turner Construction Company Mr. John K. and Marilyn J. Drake Bank of America N.A. Pircher, Nichols and Meeks VanBruggen SIGNS Ms. Robin Dudeck-Rose Baxter International RICS Americas Inc. Vasilko Architects and Ms. Felice Dworkin Foundation Associates S P Murphy Inc. Mr. William R. Ehrlich Bedrock Earthscapes LLC Vornado Realty L.P. Schenk Annes Tepper Mr. Antoine J. and Brinshore Development Campbell Ltd. Mrs. Sarah D. Elias Colliers International SEC Schindler Elevator FIRESIDE CIRCLE Ms. Karen A. Ellwanger-Snyder Corporation Environmental Consulting Mr. Richard L. and Group Sentinel Technologies Inc. Mr. Raymond J. Allen and Mrs. Marjorie N. Ettlinger Flanigan Communications Inc. Seoul National University Mrs. Sally Allen Mr. Burt and Mrs. Marion Fainman Alumni Assoc. Fox, Hefter, Swibel, Levin and Mrs. Barbara J. Balaban Carroll LLP Mrs. Suzette Feher Siemens Industry Inc. Mrs. Joan C. Barch G and L Associates Inc. Mr. Victor J. Ferrar SP + Corp. Ms. Susan Therese Bart Global Water Technology Spancrete Mr. Henry* and Hamilton Thies and Lorch LLP Mr. Gerald I. Bauman Mrs. Frances Fogel The Chicago Bar Association Happy Old Guys Mr. Ronald H. Becker Mr. Gerald W. and The Northern Trust Company Mrs. Georgia Fogelson HSBC Philanthropic Programs Mr. Marshall and The Presser Foundation Mrs. Arlene Bennett Ms. Barbara L. Fox The Private Bank and Trust IBM Corporation Dr. Alice M. Bernstein Mrs. Shila Frankel Company IBT Group Development LLC Mr. Jeannine Cohn Best Mr. Ellis Myron and Tishman Speyer Properties Inc. Illinois Committee Mrs. Jennifer Gans Titan Electric Contracting LLC Illinois Council- FIABCI USA Mr. James F. Blinder and Ms. Mary Wilson Mr. Charles R. Gardner and Transwestern K Giles LLC Ms. Patti S. Eylar Mr. Charles Bloom Tremco Incorporated Kiser Group Mr. David R. Gerber, Sr. Ms. Katherine Boho Urban Land Institute Larry Mayer and Company Lyle E. Gillman USA Fire Protection Lawrence Pucci Wedgwood Lt. Col. Isaiah Brewington and Ms. Renee E. Girardi Mrs. Frances Brewington Vanguard Charitable Society Dr. Juliet S. Goldsher Mrs. Gloria C. Brock Endowment Legal Architects Mrs. Marsha F. and Veronica Sue Regan Trust List Industries Inc. Mrs. Judith Brody Mr. Michael Goldstein

* Roosevelt employee ** Deceased

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Mr. and Mrs. Al I. Golin Ms. Marilyn Siegel Dr. David A. Gomberg Mrs. Veronica Siegel Mr. Irwin H. Goodman WAYS TO GIVE Dr. Martha R. Sklar Mr. Irwin Goodwin Mr. John Sliwa Mr. Charles M. Gould Mrs. Masha Spiegel Mr. Kenneth E. Grenier Planned Gifts Ms. Carol A. St. Amant Mrs. Diane A. Griliches Business students using the enterprise classroom Ms. Diane N. Stacy Dr. Theodore L. and on the 12th floor of the Walter E. Heller College Mr. Jay D. Steger Mrs. Jody Gross of Business are benefitting from the thoughtful- Mr. Manfred and Dr. Charles V. and ness of 1964 MBA graduate Harold Alexander, Mrs. Fern F. Steinfeld Dr. Dona L. Hamilton** a longtime Federal Aviation Administration Mr. Laurence M. Stern Mr. Thomas J. Hamilton employee, who included Roosevelt in his Mrs. Marion Stone Mr. Leonard G. Hampton, Jr. estate plan. Planned gifts are an important way Mrs. Betty J. Strand Mr. Joe Franklin Hanauer to help future students, while recognizing an Ms. Barbara Susin Mr. Jack W. Hansen academic program or memorializing a loved Mr. Sherwin A. Swartz Ms. Rebecca J. Harris one or favorite professor, without impacting Dr. Ronald J. and Mrs. Juanita Temple Mr. Howard B. Hecht your current financial situation. Ms. Cheryl R. Hepp Ms. Janus A. Thomas Ms. Kay Thompson Mr. Herbert Herman roosevelt.edu/giving Mrs. Marian O. and Mr. Jay and Mrs. Judy Heyman Mr. Robert A. Thompson Mr. David D. Hiller Mr. Eugene Tkalitch Mrs. Anne R. Hollek Mr. Howard Treshansky Mr. Melvin R. Loeb The Rev. Dr. Jason L. and Mr. Donald S. and Dr. Verdun P. Trione Mrs. Jane C. Hunt Mr. John W. and Mrs. Janice L. Parkin* Ms. Gretchen Van Natta Dr. Leonard Jellema, Jr. Mrs. Lynn B. Long Ms. Maria T. Paulette Mr. Albert Robert Walavich Mr. Richard E. Jenner and Mrs. Muriel Lund-Michel Ms. Rosalie J. Piazza Mr. John A. Washburn Mrs. Connie Warren Mrs. Roberta Mack Ms. Mary L. Pierce Mrs. Elaine Wayne Dr. Courtney P. and Mrs. Eileen Maddis Mr. Lance K. and Mrs. Ora Jones Dr. Elizabeth A. Weber Mr. Robert C. Marks Mrs. Barbara Poulsen Mr. Morris A. and Mr. Richard A. Price Ms. Mary C. Wehrle Mrs. Carolyn Kaplan Ms. Patricia L. Marshall Mrs. Elaine Randolph Mr. Arthur J. Weil Mr. Thomas R. Karow* Dr. Philip A. Maskall Dr. Rolf A. and Mrs. Leni Weil Ms. Charlene Rio Mr. Donald S. Keare Dr. Madlan McKernan Mr. Richard E. Weinberg Mr. Sherman Rosenberg Mr. Richard M. Killian Mr. Richard P. McManus Mrs. Bernice L. Weinstein Mr. Jordan L. Rosengard Mr. Thomas J. and Ms. Marjorie McNeil Dr. Lawrence A. Weiser Mr. Fred H. Rothschild Mrs. Tina Klutznick Mr. Bill and Mrs. Leoni Z. McVey Mr. Howard A. Weiss Mr. Sidney Rubin Mr. Robert B. Kretshmer Mr. Robert and Mr. Stephen A. Weiss Mr. James R. Krotzer Susan Lee Mednick Mr. Wayne A. Sanders Mrs. Bonita M. Wild Mr. Daniel R. Kulik Mr. Dennis J. and Ms. Doris J. Sanders Ms. C.F. Williams Mrs. Janelle Rose Mitzner Mr. Daniel and Mr. Martin Schaffner Mr. Richard Wills Ms. Kathleen S. Kuntzman Mr. Eugene Morris Ms. Marilyn Schimpf Bernice T. Wineberg Mrs. Virginia B. LaRock Dr. Arno Motulsky Mr. Irving and Ms. Willa J. Winston Dr. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Mr. Russell F. and Mrs. Muriel A. Schnayer Mr. Patrick M. Woods and Mr. Norman G. Levin Mrs. Gail Nansen Mr. Ellis Schuman Ms. Kathleen E. Clark Mr. Jack Erwin Levitt Mr. Fred S. Novy Mr. William I. and Mr. Wayne A. Young Mr. Roger M. Levy Mr. Rex D. Nyquist Mrs. Rose Shapera Mrs. Marlene Zellermayer Mrs. Dawn Lindquist Mrs. Gloria K. Orwin Mr. Charles R. Sherrell, II Mr. Michael Zuntz

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Mr. Richard Abelson The Estate of Florence Frueh The Estate of Melvin E. The Estate of Mrs. Mary Specthrie Mr. Ralph Adler Mrs. Helen M. Fruh Mendelsohn Ms. Jeanne Strauss The Estate of Robert J. Ahrens Mrs. Faye Gaberman The Estate of LaVerne A. Meyer The Estate of Marjorie Stenerson The Estate of Harold S. Alexander The Estate of William M. Gaugler Elisabeth I. Meyer Living Trust The Estate of Louise D. Sterling The Estate of Ruth B. Anderson Mr. Boyd L. Gillian The Estate of Jeanette D. Mier The Estate of George W. Storm The Estate of Ronald N. Anderson The Estate of Max Goldenberg The Theresa Miller Estate Mrs. Beatrice W. Swartchild Foundation The Estate of Harvey J. Angell The Estate of Richard L. Mitchell The Estate of Dempsey J. Travis The Estate of Henry A. Goldstein The Estate of Alan B. Anixter The Estate of Leroy A. Mock Ms. Rosalie Trinz The Estate of Leonard I. Mrs. Muriel Auberbach The Estate of Marvin A Moss Goodman The Estate of Frank Untermyer The Estate of Madi Bacon The Estate of Gretel Motulsky Mr. Neal S. Goodman Mr. William Wainberg The Estate of Ruth O. Bacon Mrs. Lucile Wachtel Napp The Estate of Bernard Gordon The Estate of James M. Warzecha The Estate of Boris J. Barmack The Estate of LaVerne O'Donnell Mr. Burton M. Gould Samuel Wendorf Trust The Estate of Ruth B. Barth Dr. Karl H. Hallwass The Estate of Patrick L. O'Malley Mr. Louis Werner The Estate of Mabel Bergquist The Estate of Norma Harris The Estate of Julia Olsansky Louis Wexler Charitable Foundation The Estate of Marvin Bogdanoff Mr. Philip B. Heller The Estate of Morris L. Parker The Estate of Sammiea Williams The Estate of Ladislaus L. and The Estate of Lawrence J. Mrs. Rose L. Pashkow The Estate of Otto Wirth Katherine R. Braun Helstern The Estate of Helen Paynter Mrs. Dorothy M. Wright The Estate of Marjorie Bredehorn Dr. Talmadge C. Henderson Mrs. Albert Pick, Jr. The Estate of Janette H. Wright Mr. Eva Brodar Professor Arthur Hillman Charlotte R. Piltch Trust Mr. Steven Zellmer Mr. John S. Brown The Estate of Bernice K. Hintz The Estate of Joseph L. Pisciotta The Estate of Clara Fordyce The Estate of Benjamin Burack Zepernick The Estate of Winifred E. Mr. George J. Povich Leo R. Burlow Trust Holland The Estate of Hannah Ziegler The Estate of Dr. Evsay Prilla Estate of David Bush The Estate of Edward Israel Ms. Ethel M. Rish Mr. Frank J. Castleberry The Estate of Solomon Jesmer The Estate of Samuel A. CURRENT BEQUESTS The Estate of Paul B. Johnson The Estate of Betty Taylor Clarke Roberman The Estate of Rosaline S. Cohn Mr. Louis C. Karbiner The Estate of Albert A. Robin The Estate of Marjorie Bredehorn Ms. Eva Cooper Mr. Harry Karr Mr. Norman A. Ross Mr. John S. Brown The Estate of Estelle De Lacy Mrs. Marjorie Keenleyside The Estate of Arthur Rubloff The Estate of Betty Taylor Clarke The Estate of Leon M. Despres The Estate of Olga M. Kordin The Estate of Burton Rubloff The Estate of Leon M. Despres The Estate of Rhoda L. Diamond Mr. Casimir J. Labno Mrs. Gertrude Salzenstein The Estate of Clifton O. and The Estate of Elizabeth A. Dibble The Estate of Renee B. Lameka Lois M. Dummett The Estate of Leonard H. Scane The Estate of Elizabeth M. Dowell Louise H. Landau Foundation The Estate of Jan H. Finder The Estate of Robert C. Schaffner The Estate of Clifton O. and The Estate of Seymour LaRock The Estate of Paul B. Johnson Mr. Max Robert Schrayer Lois M. Dummett The Estate of Rosalind A. The Estate of Marvin A. Moss The Estate of William M. The Estate of Barbara H. Eckholt Lepawsky The Estate of Marian Shaw Scott-McCoy The Estate of Joseph Elesh Dr. Arthur Lerner The Estate of Sarah M. Solomon The Estate of Herman Shapiro The Estate of Paul Fabricant Mr. Harry J. Lowenbach Mrs. Dorothy M. Wright The Estate of Marian Shaw The Estate of Walter Fainman Mr. Charles W. Lubin The Jerome and Natalie Share The Estate of Ruth Falkenau Mr. Charles M. Luminais Scholarship Fund Mr. Louis G. Feldman Mrs. Genevieve R. MacDougall Mrs. Betty L. Shires The Estate of Jan H. Finder The Estate of Anne Mansfield Mrs. Bernice R. Simon The Estate of Irwin C. Fink Mr. F. Arnold Markowitz The Estate of Sarah M. Solomon Mrs. Alexis Fornaciari Mr. Marvin W. Marshall The Estate of Mrs. Marion B. The Estate of Melvin S. Freedman The Estate of Robert Maust Sparling

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Naomi Serotoff (BA, ’67)

PAYING IT FORWARD Naomi Serotoff has named Roosevelt University as a beneficiary in her IRA Retirement Plan. Her gift will assure her legacy and support the next generation of students.

Serotoff graduated in 1967 in the first class whose Commence- ment was held in the partially restored Auditorium Theatre. She remembers making a point to attend Commencement and was moved to see her diverse classmates walk across the stage and hear their family members applauding. What will your legacy be? During World War II, Serotoff worked in a war plant while Roosevelt's Fireside Circle recognizes alumni and her husband was in Italy flying 50 missions. She moved to friends who have made provisions for Roosevelt Chicago after one year at Queens College in New York City University through a planned gift. For more and enrolled at Roosevelt. She said that while she attended information on the Fireside Circle and how you can Roosevelt, she was awarded scholarships, which is why she plan for your retirement and the future of your heirs would like her bequest to be used for scholarships. as well as reduce taxes and make a difference at Roosevelt University, please contact our office. Serotoff remembers the personal attention she received from Roosevelt faculty members who encouraged her to Janice Parkin (’79) stretch her mind and take a variety of subjects from voice Interim Vice President to literature to science. When she cut some biology classes, Institutional Advancement Roosevelt University her professor sought her out and sat down with her. “You’ve 430 S. Michigan Ave., Room 818 been cutting class, what’s going on,” he asked her and Chicago, IL 60605 encouraged her to attend every class. “What a nurturing Telephone: (312) 341-4327 place Roosevelt was for me,” Serotoff said. [email protected]

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WALKING THE WALK More than 840 Roosevelt students crossed the Auditorium Theatre stage to receive their diplomas in May. Congratulations to the newest members of our alumni community. Page 48.