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THETHE MMOUNTOUNT Mount St. Mary’s College Magazine • Los Angeles • Spring 2003 The Mount’s ‘E-Diva’ Rockefeller Legacy Grows Une Soirée Fantastique THE MOUNT Alumna and Spring 2003 Her Husband Create Vol. 20, No. 2 EDITOR Don Davidson Endowed Scholarship for MANAGING EDITOR Joy Jacobs Nursing Students ASSOCIATE EDITOR Joanna Banks CLASS NOTES EDITOR Bebette Gualano Coleman ’52 and her Barbara Dummel Brunner ’63 husband, Thomas J. Coleman, have DESIGN San Luis Design established a $100,000 scholarship for PHOTOGRAPHY nursing students to help alleviate a David Balfour, Joanna Banks, shortage in the profession. Don Davidson, Joy Jacobs, Glenn Marzano, Rick Mendoza “We chose to direct our gift to the PRINTING Nursing Department because we are Pace Lithographers well aware of the critical shortage of EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD qualified nurses and we know that the Sister Annette Bower ’59 Sister Joseph Adele Edwards ’58 Mount’s program is the best,” Bebette Claire Matranga Noland ’87 says of the College, which started the Reverend George O’Brien first baccalaureate nursing program in Catherine Pugel ’78 Southern California in 1950. “Both my Jeanne Redell Ruiz ’63 husband and I feel deeply indebted to our educational institutions Mission Statement and are grateful to be able to give some assistance to future students. Mount St. Mary’s College offers a dynamic learning experience in the liberal arts and “Nurses are under so much stress, and there are errors being made sciences to a diverse student body. As a Catholic because they have to take care of too many patients,” She adds. “It’s college primarily for women, we are dedicated to providing a superior education enhanced by an not fair to the nurses who have to work so hard to try to keep up with emphasis on building leadership skills and the volume of patients.” fostering a spirit to serve others. Our measure of success is graduates who are committed to using their knowledge and skills to better The gift came last November from The Thomas and Bebette Coleman themselves, their environments, and the world. Foundation. Bebette, an economics major at the Mount, became an attorney and is now retired. Her husband is a retired orthopaedic The Mount is published by surgeon. Mount St. Mary’s College. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Endowed scholarships may be established with a minimum gift of The Mount, 10 Chester Place, $30,000, although larger gifts are always welcome. An endowed Los Angeles, CA 90007 scholarship continues in perpetuity, enabling one or more students to To contact the editor or submit a story idea, write benefit annually from a donor’s generosity. to Don Davidson, director of communications and marketing, Mount St. Mary’s College, 10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA, 90007. Send your idea by e-mail to [email protected], or call (213) 477-2505. Class Notes news should be mailed to Alumnae Relations at the same address or e-mailed to [email protected]. For Information Admissions (310) 954-4250 Alumnae Relations (213) 477-2767 Business Office (310) 954-4040 Chalon Campus (310) 954-4000 For more information, contact Doheny Campus (213) 477-2500 Stephanie Cubba, executive director of Institutional Advancement, Financial Aid (310) 954-4190 at (213) 477-2766 Institutional Advancement (213) 477-2764 Weekend College (310) 954-4050 MSMC Web site: www.msmc.la.edu 60759 Mount 6/10/03 5:11 PM Page 1 ron Jobs on ycs490-234 G drive:• ANDY'S DOWNLOADS DO NOT TRASH:LOW REZ PDF'S:60759 mount THETHE MMOUNTOUNT Mount St. Mary’s College Magazine • Los Angeles • Spring 2003 CONTENTS Monica Luechtefeld ’71, ‘E-Diva’ Alumna’s rise from biology major to business whiz showcases the versatility of a Mount education. PAGE 12 Mount Counts Three More Rockefeller Scholars Juniors expand Mount legacy. PAGE 15 Regents Council Energizes for Une Soirée Fantastique Black tie event at Doheny Mansion and gardens features Cirque du Monde. PAGE 16 ON THE COVER: Monica Luechtefeld ’71 heads electronic commerce at Office Depot. PHOTO BY RICK MENDOZA The Good News. 2 In the Classroom. 10 My Turn . 3 Alumnae News . 17 Mount Scenes . 4 Class Notes . 17 Applause . 5 Bridges . 6 The Mount in the Media . 7 A Look Back . 21 60759 Mount 6/10/03 5:11 PM Page 2 ron Jobs on ycs490-234 G drive:• ANDY'S DOWNLOADS DO NOT TRASH:LOW REZ PDF'S:60759 mount THE GOOD NEWS Spring at the Mount s I write to you, the trees are greener, sending them such can enjoy meals in an enhanced setting the days are longer, and spring has well-prepared and and mix freely. A truly blossomed, bringing with it motivated students. I am pleased to report that Provost Sister joyous thoughts of commencement and During the Mary Williams created a task force to examine new beginnings for our graduates. There academic year, ways to further goal three of our strategic is always much to be proud of at Mount our students plan, which is to “become a culture of St. Mary’s College. participated in remarkable service.” This task force, with It is with great pride that I report some regional Model volunteer representatives from across the wonderful news from our Education United Nations College, has been meeting since the fall Department. Three of our students planning conferences, and semester and is bubbling over with enthusiasm to be teachers were selected as 2003 several of them as they create a series of programs and Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellows. This is received awards for events to ensure we are best serving our both an honor and a monetary award. their presentations. In April, 20 of our students students, our community, and each other in Please read the details of this remarkable traveled to New York City to be part of the the true tradition of the Mount and the charism achievement on page 15. National Model United Nations Conference of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. During spring break in March, our students where they served as delegates representing On another positive note, we can all be had opportunities to be involved in several Vietnam. Not only were they history and very proud of Mount St. Mary’s College prestigious programs. As participants in the political science majors, as you might expect, because in this challenging economic environ- Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), but several were biology, sociology, and ment, we have already raised more money our Women’s Leadership Program partnered psychology majors who became experts on than last year. I extend thanks to everyone for with the Junior League of Los Angeles to offer global issues and honed their speaking skills helping us advance the mission of the College. scholarships to seven deserving Mount as well. The chart below indicates where we are in our students to attend the Women and Congress We received two extraordinary grants, fundraising efforts this fiscal year. seminar held in Washington, D.C. A national one for $300,000 from the Ahmanson We are all looking forward to our upcoming consortium of women’s colleges working Foundation and the other for $250,000 from gala, “Une Soirée Fantastique,” sponsored by together to educate women for public the Bill Hannon Foundation, which will provide the Regents Council on June 28 (see page 16), leadership, PLEN believes that women’s funds to renovate Ahmanson Commons on the and I hope to see many of you there. participation is critical in shaping public policy Doheny Campus. The remodeling will be done in communities, the nation, and the world. this summer to improve and beautify the dining Sincerely, We are very pleased to have students who facility. When our academic year begins this will contribute to this mission. fall, we will have a new and thriving dining The College’s Career Planning Center, also facility where the entire academic Jacqueline Powers Doud, in conjunction with the Junior League of Los community—students, faculty, and staff— President Angeles, sponsored the Women in Networking (WIN) program during spring break. WIN Development Summary Report AS OF MAY 16, 2003 matches students with professional women Sources of Funding Total Goal Total Achieved Total % Achieved for a week of mentoring. This year, we Alumnae $ 450,000 $ 528,195 117 % provided an experiential learning opportunity Parents 25,000 8,420 34 % for 24 students who shadowed women Trustees/Regents 400,000 257,349 64 % leaders at Childrens Hospital, the Los Angeles Faculty 15,000 27,423 183% Staff 7,000 19,558 279 % Police Department, the Los Angeles District Other Friends 473,000 377,826 80 % Attorney’s office, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Organizations 250,000 195,447 78 % Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, and the Corporations 375,000 180,357 48 % Magic Johnson Foundation, to name a few. We Foundations 3,005,000 2,655,506 88 % were delighted to receive calls from several of Total $ 5,000,000 $ 4,250,081 85 % the mentoring women thanking the College for Deferred Gifts $ 2,500,000 $ 3,567,286 143% 2 The Mount Spring 2003 60759 Mount 6/10/03 5:11 PM Page 3 ron Jobs on ycs490-234 G drive:• ANDY'S DOWNLOADS DO NOT TRASH:LOW REZ PDF'S:60759 mount MY TURN My Emerging Understanding of Latina Culture By Karen Perkins, assistant professor of biology had the pleasure last spring of taking the to learn more the United States to make money to send online class “Expanding Possibilities: Moving about Latin culture. home. She was forced to live with her grand- IToward a Deeper Understanding of the Latina One additional mother who had children the same age as she Culture” with 10 other faculty members and requirement for the was and who didn’t really want the extra burden administrators at the Mount.