Changing the World Alumni Make an Impact Through the Peace Corps

Also in this Issue: From the Bench to Our Bluff • The Magic of Art • Making it Easier to be Good DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE is published three times annually by Duquesne University’s From the Bench Office of Public Affairs to Our Bluff Vol. 8, Number 1 Fall 2009 page 8

Editor Bridget Fare

Associate Editor The Magic of Art Megan Tressler page 12 Editorial Board Ralph L. Pearson, Ph.D. Dorothy Bassett, Ph.D. Philip Clarke Carrie M. Collins Gregory H. Frazer, Ph.D. Changing the World Rev. Raymond French, C.S.Sp. Linda Kinnahan, Ph.D. page 24 Julie Shepard

Writing Randy Cole Also in this issue: Colleen C. Derda Karen Ferrick-Roman Going the Distance...... page 2 Emily Goossen DU Students Produce First Documentary on Carolina Pais-Barreto Beyers Negro League Superstar Josh Gibson...... page 4 Rose Ravasio Duquesne Carries Top-Tier National Ranking into 2010...... page 5 Kimberly Saunders Athletic Training Chair Receives National Honor...... page 5 Kelsey Sobiecki Photographing the World...... page 6 Richard Tourtellott Bob Woodside An African Commitment...... page 10 Students Break Ground with Community Resources Map...... page 14 Design On the Road with the DU Magazine...... page 15 Jeremy Neeley Making it Easier to be Good...... page 16 Taylor Tobias Musician, Business Executive and Physician Honored by Duquesne...... page 18 Sustainability: A Critical Issue Across Continents...... page 20 Duquesne University Magazine What’s New at DU...... page 22 Office of Public Affairs DU Researchers Discover Lead Sensor Compound...... page 23 216 Fisher Hall Spiritan Congregation Unites American Provinces...... page 29 600 Forbes Ave. Artwork Recalls Spiritan Devotion to Blessed Mother...... page 31 Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Prayers From the Blessing Exhibit at DU Delivered to Western Wall...... page 31 Tel: 412.396.6050 Fax: 412.396.5779 Law Alumna Named Duquesne’s First Woman Board Chair...... page 32 E-mail: [email protected] Against the Odds...... page 34 Drug-resistant Bacteria Targeted by DU Professor...... page 37 It is the Spirit CTE Awards Recognize Outstanding Professors...... page 37 Who Gives Life Italian Campus Program to Celebrate 10th Anniversary...... page 38 Snapshots...... page 39 Athletics Update...... page 40 DU Students Score on the Field, On the Ice...... page 41 Our Bluff in Brief...... page 42 Figures from the Past...... page 44 Alumni Updates...... page 45 Alumni Travel Program Promotes Recreation and Enlightenment...... page 51 Sports Executive to Keynote 2010 Downtown Luncheon...... page 51 Leave Your House and Keep It, Too!...... page 52 A Catholic University Alumni Calendar...... inside back cover in the Spiritan Tradition 2 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 thoughts from the president

Thoughts from the President

Our mission calls for service to the Church, the community, the nation, and the world. Our students, faculty, and alumni respond to that call every day through their work locally and across the globe. In 1961, under President John F. Kennedy, Americans were asked to promote peace and understanding to the peoples of developing countries through the Peace Corps. Not surprisingly, our alumni have stepped up to champion the Peace Corps’ cause over the last five decades. They know―as did President Kennedy and our founding Spiritans―that true peace is not merely the absence of hostility, but also the presence of care and concern for others. Our cover story in this issue introduces you to alumni who have given years of their lives to the Peace Corps. Stationed in the far corners of the world, they work face-to-face and hand-in-hand with local residents to provide education and basic services, improving the quality of life. Some take up the mantle of service upon completing their studies on our Bluff; others make their way here after their international service, pursuing degrees and strengthening our region’s organizations through the Peace Corps Fellows program. Elsewhere in these pages, students in our MBA Sustainability program travel to India and Japan, building an understanding of the environmental and ethical issues facing both Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. Duquesne University President developed and developing nations. On campus, an African-American philosopher with experience straddling two cultures provokes frank and fruitful dialogue among black and white, while a new dean discusses his unlikely path to academia and his mission to “help create a world in which it’s easier to be good.” Students use technology to change Our Mission perceptions of a nearby neighborhood, while an alumna helps troubled youth find inner Duquesne University peace and purpose through artistic expression. of the Holy Spirit is a These are just a few examples of how our community works for peace. I’m sure Catholic University, that you know of many more—from your own experience as students and from founded by members of your daily lives as alumni. For as Pope John Paul II explained, “When the Holy the Congregation of the Spirit reigns in hearts, he stirs up the desire to use every effort to establish peace in Holy Spirit, the Spiritans, and sustained through relationships with others on every level: family, civic, social, political, ethnic, national, a partnership of laity and international.” May you and yours be filled with the Spirit who gives life. and religious. Duquesne serves God by serving students – through commitment to excellence Sincerely, in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical Charles J. Dougherty, Ph.D. atmosphere open to Duquesne University President diversity, and through service to the Church, the community, the nation, and the world.

www.duq.edu 1 going the distance Going the Distance: Scholarship Efforts Focus on Students in Extended Professional Programs

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You are two-thirds of the way condition for high achievement,” through a long, arduous journey. Somers says. The end is in sight, yet the most Others, most unfortunately, are challenging terrain remains ahead. forced to abandon their studies With the help of others, you have been entirely. On average, Somers reports, assured of receiving the necessary one student each year leaves the provisions along the way. But professional DPT program for suddenly, your supplies of food and financial reasons. fuel are sharply curtailed. Can you Somers’ concern for these students proceed? If so, at what cost? Or will hearkens back to Duquesne’s Spiritan you be forced to abandon your quest? founders. “They established the This scenario is more than a University because they wanted to “what if?” exercise for some students provide education for those who pursuing professional degrees. could not afford college,” he says. The vast majority of Duquesne “Their mission of service—and students—88 percent—receives some ours—remains the highest priority.” form of financial aid. The University One of the department’s budgets more than $40 million each graduates, Arnie Burchianti, year for scholarships, and total GHS’94, is leading the effort to aid from all sources (institutional, meet this growing need. Burchianti Arnie Burchianti, GHS’94 state, federal and private) exceeds is the founder and CEO of Celtic $99 million annually. Healthcare, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based “My experience as For most students, carefully provider of full-continuum home crafted packages of grants, loans and health care services with operations a Duquesne student work-study are sufficient to meet in several states. Celtic Healthcare their needs in pursuing a traditional recently committed $62,500 to four-year bachelor’s degree. But at establish an endowed scholarship deeply influenced Duquesne and other institutions, most fund reserved to provide need-based forms of financial aid (along with financial aid for fifth- and sixth-year my professional many types of loans) are restricted Duquesne DPT students. to students in traditional four-year “My experience as a Duquesne philosophy...” undergraduate programs. Specialized student deeply influenced my programs in some of Duquesne’s professional philosophy and was, in schools—such as the Mylan School of fact, the inspiration for the founding Pharmacy and most offerings in the of Celtic Healthcare,” Burchianti This summer, another generous John G. Rangos, Sr. School of Health recounts. “As I began my practice, corporate donor added its support Sciences—require five or six years I recognized stark disconnects and to this effort, as UPMC Centers for of study. The amount of financial communications breakdowns among Rehab Services committed $17,500 assistance available falls considerably the various disciplines of providers toward DPT professional phase once students reach the fifth and that were caring for patients. scholarships. sixth year, commonly known as the Duquesne taught me that integration Meanwhile, the department is “professional phase” of their studies. was the key to quality care, and working with the Office of Annual The Rangos School’s six-year I set out to build an organization Giving to launch a targeted drive Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) that practiced this concept. Our offering all physical therapy alumni a program is a prime example. “The support of this scholarship reflects chance to support professional phase funding options for these students are Celtic Healthcare’s values and will scholarships. limited,” explains David L. Somers, help ensure that Duquesne physical “We are not asking to build new Ph.D., chair of the Physical Therapy therapy students can continue buildings, fill laboratories or improve Department and holder of the Anna their studies in a unique and our facilities,” Somers explains. Rangos Rizakus Endowed Chair in transformational program.” “We are blessed to have these in Health Sciences and Ethics. Celtic Healthcare’s gift will provide place. Our goal is to reduce the cost Independent loan agencies may that support both now and forever. of attending school here so that we be available, but their loans often While the principal of an endowed can serve any qualified student who come with high interest rates and fund builds, a portion of each payment pursues Duquesne’s distinctive DPT unfavorable repayment terms. Many the company makes will provide education.” students turn to outside employment, financial aid to a needy current Similar needs and opportunities holding down multiple jobs in student. This “hybrid” approach is exist within Duquesne’s other attempts to offset their tuition. increasingly popular among many extended professional degree “Given the academic and donors, allowing their generosity to programs. For more information, clinical intensity of the professional have both immediate and perpetual please contact the Development curriculum, this is a less-than-optimal impacts on students’ lives. Office at 412.396.5690.

www.duq.edu 3 Josh Gibson

DU Students Produce First Documentary on Negro League Superstar Josh Gibson

– By Ka r e n Fe r r i c k -Ro m a n –

The story of Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson, who has been called the greatest baseball player of his day, has been captured in a new documentary by Duquesne students. Undergraduates in a journalism and multimedia arts class taught by Dr. Dennis Woytek, assistant professor, and Mike Clark, adjunct professor, shared a preview at the annual Jerry Malloy Negro Baseball League Conference in Pittsburgh in July. The two expect to unveil the full documentary, The Legend Behind the Plate: The Josh Gibson Story, at a campus premiere this fall (details are available at www.duq.edu).

Gibson, who led the Negro National League in home Photo courtesy of Rivers Steel Josh Gibson Archives runs for 10 consecutive years, played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays from 1927 to 1946.

“It’s also a story of survival, of using a God-given talent he didn’t learn. We try to teach at Duquesne that everybody has gifts that they’re able to give freely, and this passes along our mission.”

Previous documentaries have focused on the Negro Leagues, but none specifically on Gibson, who died three DVD, so proceeds will benefit the organization. “I am so months before Jackie Robinson broke Major League proud of the work performed by our students, shining a Baseball’s color barrier. light on the life of Josh Gibson, a true American hero, a To produce the documentary, several of the 11 students Pittsburgh hero whose life story needed to be told,” says involved traveled to Buena Vista, Ga., Gibson’s hometown, Clark. “The fieldwork led by Dr. Woytek is something our and others visited the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum students will never forget. The people impacted by Josh’s in Kansas City, Mo., and Cooperstown’s National Baseball life are many, and our students got an opportunity to meet Hall of Fame & Museum. At the unveiling of Gibson’s some of them walking in Josh’s path to tell his story.” statue this spring at the Washington Nationals Park, Separating fact from larger-than-life legend produced a students interviewed Nationals’ owner Ted Lerner and story even larger than Josh Gibson. players who shared the field with Josh Gibson. “It’s a story of one person during his lifetime, when he In Pittsburgh, students worked closely with Gibson’s was not allowed to play with white team members,” says grandson, Sean Gibson, and the Josh Gibson Foundation, Woytek. “It’s also a story of survival, of using a God-given which rehabilitates ball fields and operates educational talent he didn’t learn. We try to teach at Duquesne that programs about the Negro Leagues and desegregation. everybody has gifts that they’re able to give freely, and this The foundation will be given rights to the 50-minute passes along our mission.”

4 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 national honor Duquesne Carries Top-Tier National Ranking into 2010

Duquesne University continues to be ranked among Under Dougherty’s leadership, the University has the nation’s best colleges, according to the U.S. News & achieved record-breaking enrollment and has attracted World Report’s annual list, which was released in August. the most academically talented students in its history. This ranking places Duquesne among only 98 private Duquesne is developing a second strategic plan, following schools nationwide to make the Best National Universities successful completion of its first-ever, Board-approved List—and among only 12 Catholic universities from a total plan initiated by Dougherty. Additionally, the University of 1,400 schools surveyed. has gained increasing external research funding and has “This ranking mirrors the commitment of the entire received several academic and operational awards for its University community to academic excellence and sustainability initiatives. would not be possible without the dedication and focus Other notable Catholic universities in the top tier include demonstrated by our faculty, staff and administrators,” Notre Dame, Georgetown, Fordham, Chicago’s Loyola, says Dr. Charles J. Dougherty, Duquesne president. Catholic University and Boston College, among others. “This serves as independent verification of the high The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings standards set at Duquesne. Our campus community evaluate universities on the basis of 15 different qualities, is rightfully proud of its accomplishments and will including peer assessment, graduation and retention, class continue its commitment to our mission of serving God size, student/faculty ratio, selectivity, SAT/ACT scores, by serving students.” freshman retention, alumni giving and financial resources.

Athletic Training Chair Receives National Honor Athletic trainers in New will provide financial support for accrediting agency York, New Jersey, Delaware and athletic training graduate students that accredits Pennsylvania recently honored Dr. who exhibit academic excellence approximately 360 Paula Sammarone Turocy with a and leadership. Juniors and seniors athletic training $75,000 endowed National Athletic enrolled in the 360 accredited athletic educational Trainers Association (NATA) training programs across the nation programs nationally. Research and Education Foundation are eligible for the scholarship. A member of scholarship in her name. “This is a tremendous testament the Pennsylvania “I was so honored and surprised to Dr. Turocy by her peers and an Athletic Training Hall of Fame, by this wonderful recognition. It is honor for the Rangos School of Health Turocy is a past recipient of the NATA even more exciting, because not only Sciences and Duquesne University,” Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished am I just the second woman to have a says University President Dr. Charles Educator Award, the NATA Most scholarship endowed in my name, but J. Dougherty. Distinguished Athletic Trainer, NATA also because my senior-level students Turocy is an accomplished Service Award and the Pennsylvania are eligible for this scholarship that researcher and scholar with a national Athletic Trainers’ Society’s can help to subsidize their continuing reputation in the field of athletic Distinguished Merit Award. education,” says Turocy, associate training. She recently completed Turocy is the founding chair of professor and chair of athletic training her term as the inaugural chair of Duquesne’s athletic training program in the John G. Rangos Sr. School of the Commission on Accreditation and she held the inaugural Anna L. Health Sciences at Duquesne. of Athletic Training Education, a Rangos Rizakus Endowed Chair for The $2,000 Paula Sammarone national specialized professional Health Sciences and Ethics. Turocy Post Graduate Scholarship

www.duq.edu 5 catching up with Photographing the World Catching Up with Jennifer Fox Freeman

– By Co l l e e n C. De r d a , A’83 –

During Jennifer Fox Freeman’s memorable trip to Costa Rica in 2007, “I loved attending Duquesne. a huge boa constrictor lounged on the road in front of her vehicle. An active volcano was the star attraction The school made me feel at from the window of her hotel room. And a zip line through the treetops home in a new city.” invited adventure. All the sights came with the territory in a country known for its ecotourism. But Freeman, A’98, wasn’t a tourist. She was in the country overseeing a photo shoot on ecotourism for her employer. Freeman is an art director for Corbis, a company that owns one of the world’s largest collections of photography. She has traveled to South Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Canada and throughout the United States for her job planning photo shoots, composing images and directing photographers and models on-site.

Jennifer Fox Freeman on top of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa, during a photo shoot there.

Jennifer Fox Freeman on the peak of Whistler Mountain in British Columbia.

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“The liberal arts courses opened my thinking and made me realize that I could pursue my first love, art, and make a career of it.”

Jennifer Fox Freeman in action, art directing on the street in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Freeman is part of the company’s shots provided by local scouts, for a small advertising agency. And, team of art directors overseeing discussed types of models, selected she eventually worked her way up to new photography for Corbis based photographers and created shoot the position of art director. on the company’s global research lists. When she is on location she Today her work mainly keeps into cultural and visual trends. The composes shots, ensures that the her in New York with occasional company plans new images each photographer gets necessary images travel to other parts of the United year for its business, lifestyle, travel, and keeps the day moving along States. Lately she has been part education, medical and numerous efficiently. of a creative production team other collections. Freeman has worked for Corbis working with photographers on Corbis currently has more in its New York City offices since new “royalty bearing images,” than 100 million contemporary 2006, when she was recruited from a images that are not wholly owned and historical images, the largest New York agency that used medical by Corbis. The photographers tap grouping of rights-managed and imagery in its pharmaceutical into the company’s research into royalty-free images in the world. advertising. visual trends and what images will Corporations, advertising agencies, Freeman always had an interest sell in the marketplace as well as the publishers and media outlets look in pharmacy, entering Duquesne expertise of Corbis’ art directors. to the company to license distinctive University to study Pharm.D. In her free time, Freeman creates images, illustrations and video. after receiving a scholarship for fine art pieces. Her recent cityscape It is the owner of some of the swimming. She continued swimming collages, composed of matchbooks century’s most recognizable photos, all four years (serving as co-captain from New York restaurants and including photojournalism from of the team during her junior and nightclubs, provide a “vibe of the the Bettmann collection and media senior years), but switched majors at city,” she says. Freeman sells the partners including Reuters. Corbis the start of her junior year when her works at craft shows and a boutique owns images from Ansel Adams, passion for art overtook her interest in Long Island City. She is working the Smithsonian, the Andy Warhol in health care. In 1998, she graduated on a series on other cities including Foundation and other institutions. with a B.A. in communications with San Francisco, San Diego and Freeman says working for Corbis a minor in fine arts. Alexandria, Va. for the past three years has been “I loved attending Duquesne. Freeman lives in New York City’s interesting, particularly the world The school made me feel at home in Upper East Side with her husband, travel. a new city,” says Freeman, a native Brian, B’98, and their daughter, “We were in Costa Rica about of Allentown, Pa. “The liberal arts Addison, who turns a year old in a week, with two teams taking courses opened my thinking and November. about 300 images,” says Freeman, made me realize that I could pursue who managed one of the two my first love, art, and make a career photographers on the job. of it.” Before leaving the United States, Freeman (then Jennifer Fox) Freeman and other members of the moved to New York City the summer art direction team viewed location after graduation and began working

www.duq.edu 7 bench to our bluff From the Bench to our Bluff – By Me g a n Tr e s s l e r – Judge Sandra Dougherty is Happy to be in Pittsburgh Full Time

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Over the summer, Judge Sandra at the University of Notre Dame—she She soon began a schedule of Dougherty and her husband, received a master’s degree in commuting to Pittsburgh every other Duquesne President Charles American history and he received a weekend, specifically planning her Dougherty, welcomed a friend Ph.D. in philosophy. They married in trips around Duquesne functions so from Omaha, Neb., to Pittsburgh. A 1972 and moved to Omaha in 1975, that she could be on campus as much Duquesne alumnus, their friend had after Charles Dougherty was offered as possible for University events. not visited campus in many years. He a teaching position at Creighton While Charles Dougherty enjoyed seeing familiar landmarks University. set an ambitious strategy for across our Bluff, but he also marveled When their two children—son, the University’s growth and at the beautiful campus growth and Justin, and daughter, Connie—were development, Sandra Dougherty development. in school, Sandra Dougherty decided was presiding over a variety of In some ways, Sandra Dougherty to go to law school. cases, including custody disputes, is also rediscovering Duquesne. After “I always had certain goals,” civil matters and several first-degree spending eight years commuting to she says. “I’m a product of Catholic murder cases. Pittsburgh from Omaha, Dougherty education—starting with grade She was retained in office by school—and I wanted to serve the voters in 2002 and 2008. community for the greater good.” “I loved it,” she says. “I learned She graduated first in her class. something new every day.” “It was the right fit for me,” On April 1, the day after she says Sandra Dougherty. “I was retired, she flew to Pittsburgh with intellectually challenged by the work. her mother, who is living with the I still love the law.” couple. Since then, she has traveled She began clerking for two federal with her husband, meeting alumni judges, both of whom influenced around the country. her choice to pursue a career in the “They have positive stories about courtroom. Up until that point, she the impact Duquesne has had on envisioned simply practicing law, not their lives and careers,” says Sandra being a part of the judiciary. After Dougherty. “Those experiences working in private practice and even are pretty important to folks and “The Duquesne starting her own firm with a group rightfully so.” of seven other lawyers, she started She’s still passionate about the law the long journey of becoming a and may do some type of legal work community has judge, which included an application on a limited basis, however she says, process, approval from an eight- “I’m not rushing into anything.” been very warm member board, a public hearing, For now, she’s enjoying her interview with the governor, and, hobbies—including reading mysteries and welcoming.” finally, approval of the governor. In (she’s been in a book club for 10 1998, she received a phone call from years) and cooking. The couple is Governor Nelson, telling her that she enjoying time with their children and has retired as a district court judge for had been picked to be a district judge. grandson, Joseph, who is almost 3. Nebraska’s Douglas County and is “I was thrilled, honored and Sandra Dougherty is excited about now a full-time Pittsburgher. humbled,” she recalls. an expanded role with Duquesne. “I’m thrilled to be here,” she says. At the same time, Charles “I look forward to meeting more “The Duquesne community has been Dougherty was considering an people in Pittsburgh and contributing very warm and welcoming.” executive position in academics, in some fashion to the betterment of Dougherty’s life took an specifically a university presidency. the University,” she says. unexpected turn in 1998, when Because the president of their local then-Nebraska governor Ben Nelson university, Creighton, had to be a appointed her to the bench. Up until Jesuit, the Doughertys knew they may then, she was a lawyer in private eventually pursue their dream jobs in practice. She had spent the previous different cities. two decades raising two children, In 2001, Charles Dougherty was attending law school at Creighton appointed president of Duquesne. University, clerking for federal judges The couple put their plan in action: and practicing civil employment law. she would remain in Omaha and he Dougherty, like her husband, was would live in Pittsburgh, but they always drawn to pursuits that would would commute back and forth as provide an intellectual challenge. The much as possible. couple met in a freshman English “We had conversations over class at St. Bonaventure University. the years and knew this was a They both attended graduate school possibility,” says Sandra Dougherty.

www.duq.edu 9 african commitment An African Commitment frica—and the Spiritan involvement there—is a big part of Duquesne’s new Afive-year strategic plan. The plan calls for a new emphasis on Africa and the African diaspora, specifically an interdisciplinary Students Study Healthcare program on Africa and the African diaspora and the call for African Spiritans to consider Disparities in Africa Duquesne University their own. While Students from the Rangos School of Health Sciences, led by Dean Gregory Frazer, traveled across the African continent last May to learn how healthcare practices differ around the world.

The dean, students and occupational therapy instructor Anne Marie Witchger-Hansen visited hospitals, ambulatory clinics and public health facilities in Tanzania and Tunisia to study the disparities in disease control and healthcare delivery systems. Highlights of their three-week trip are pictured here.

The study abroad group prepares for a camel ride to dinner at a restaurant in the Sahara Desert, Douz, Tunisia. The traditional dress served a dual purpose: to comply with the cultural/religious customs of the country and to protect the group’s eyes, ears, mouth and clothes from the gusty Sahara wind.

The signage points visitors to an HIV AIDS project collaboration between the Spiritans and the Saint Egidio Italian Catholic Lay Community in Usa River, Tanzania, that delivers drugs and healthcare services to patients in their villages.

The study abroad group posed at the Roman coliseum ruins in El Jem, Tunisia, the third largest Roman amphitheater in the world.

Members of the Rangos group visited with occupational therapy faculty and students at Tumaini University, which is located on the grounds of Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania.

10 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 african commitment An African Commitment Duquesne has long had connections with African Spiritan initiatives, and has spearheaded educational and humanitarian endeavors in Africa, this renewed focus will showcase special programs and partnerships taking place between Duquesne and many African nations as the University continues to DU Partnerships in Nigeria a Success emphasize its Spiritan identity and mission. more African Spiritans take an active role in Duquesne and bring Spiritan Mission and Ministry their wonderful gifts and talents. When they come to Duquesne, all Thriving in Tanzania members of our community will be enriched and challenged. These “My heart is with the Africans.” African Spiritans will deepen and broaden our Spiritan identity and This declaration is attributed to the mission.” Venerable Francis Libermann, co-founder Nigeria is extremely important of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and to the Spiritan Congregation, Dr. Worgul confers graduate degrees. a pioneer of missionary outreach to Africa according to Worgul: it is one of in the 19th century. Libermann’s legacy the largest Spiritan Provinces in the continues today as Spiritans carry on his In May, Theology Professor Dr. world, providing almost 45 percent mission of evangelization throughout the George Worgul traveled to Nigeria to of all Spiritans ordained around the African continent. visit two institutions affiliated with globe; and it is the main place that Duquesne: Dominican University and Spiritans in West Africa are trained. Currently, the Tanzania Province, under the Spiritan International School of Worgul is very excited about SIST the direction of Provincial Superior Theology (SIST). and Dominican students and faculty. Rev. Joseph Schio, C.S.Sp., includes There, he presided over a “I’m proud we’re affiliated with more than 100 members who advocate graduation ceremony, evaluated them and are making some kind of a holistic approach to evangelization, programs, and held meetings with connection with them,” he says. integrating spiritual ministry with liberation faculty and staff about current Worgul travels to Nigeria every through education and health initiatives. programs and future plans. The two years to assess Duquesne’s Nigerian schools presently grant a partnerships there. The affiliations The Tanzania ministries include:

First Evangelization: Spreading the Gospel message to people of many African countries, with a special focus on the Maasai in north central Tanzania.

Refuge Ministry: Caring for the poor and disadvantaged in western Tanzania, Kigoma diocese.

Interreligious Dialogue: Reaching out to those of different faiths, including Muslims and African traditional religions, in Zanzibar, Pemba, Bagamoyo and Dar SIST theology faculty es Salaam. master’s degree in theology through Health Care: Delivering services and their affiliation with Duquesne. sharing knowledge about wellness, “You listen, that’s the most prevention and disease management in important thing,” says Worgul. “And the Arusha region. you ask how you can help them SIST administration, Spiritan Provincial and Nigerian education officials Education: Educating African youth at to achieve their own dreams and Spiritan-owned and Spiritan-managed aspirations.” primary, secondary and vocational The three institutions are have been in place for 17 years. schools in Bagamoyo, Mbezi, Arusha, exploring the idea of partnering to Similar affiliations may be made in Tengeru, Magamba, Kipawa and Kasumo. create a doctoral program in mission other parts of Africa, as that continent theology and contextual theology, and continues to play a large role in Pastoral Ministry: Serving the faithful in also hoping to facilitate more faculty shaping the Spiritan Congregation. 13 parishes, including Mbeya, Moshi, Dar exchanges between them. Worgul “Spiritans know that Africa will be es Salaam, Morogoro and Arusha regions. says, “It is my dream that more and the future,” says Worgul.

www.duq.edu 11 the magic of art

The Magic of

Alumna Embraces Troubled Students Through Art Education Ar– By Co l l e e n C. tDe r d a , A’83 – Adrienne Hunter, GE’91, effortlessly reaches across boundaries to create community support for her students. A pioneer in teaching art “There is never to at-risk, in-crisis and incarcerated youth, Hunter is always thinking about ways to show her special a dull moment students that other people will value their work, too. She convinced a retailer to with Adrienne. display students’ shoe designs in a store window where they generated She creates interest from customers and the local media. She taught students how to inside and outside the classroom,” quilt and then donated the finished magic inside says Athena Petrolias, director products to grateful AIDS patients. of alternative education at the She arranged for students to paint Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) murals at community centers, schools and outside the in Pittsburgh. Hunter has worked and detention centers. She partnered as an art teacher for the AIU since her students with senior citizens and 1974, designing programs for and young adults from local colleges. classroom.” instructing students in crisis shelters, Hunter’s inventive community alternative secondary schools and connections go on and on. security institutions. She created “There is never a dull moment AIU’s art curriculum at a shelter for with Adrienne. She creates magic delinquent youths, a county jail and

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alternative education high schools. worry about doing something wrong. Over the years she has worked with “The challenge is getting students students from age 6 to 21. to see that with art, there are many “With this challenging population, ways to accomplish things. They Adrienne shines,” says Petrolias, in don’t need to fear failure in the art nominating Hunter for a statewide room.” She must instead teach them award. “She creates a positive to take emotional risks necessary to environment. The students can’t wait be creative, she says. until she arrives. It’s so refreshing to Students learn problem solving see students previously ‘turned off’ and other lessons that apply to their by school excited to go to class.” lives outside the classroom. “They Most recently Hunter worked in recognize that when something shelter education centers teaching doesn’t work, try something else.” young people ages 13 to 21 who had For more than 35 years, Hunter she co-authored about using art to been removed from their homes for has forged new ground in reaching reach students who have emotional a variety of reasons. She served as a special population students through and behavior disorders. The book stabilizing factor in the lives of many art. She is retiring from the AIU outlines how teachers can use in the of the children she instructed. this year, but she won’t completely classroom information about issues “Life can be so difficult for them,” leave the profession she loves. She students face and how teachers can says Hunter, noting that many are intends to teach a few classes and create partnerships to help students reluctant to show creativity and continue her work as a fiber artist. establish a sense of community, She is leaving full-time teaching only among other topics. Reaching and because of health concerns related to Teaching Students with Special Needs is lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease now in its third printing. she’s battled since 1986. “One of Adrienne’s many “My health problems probably strengths is that she has always been have made me accomplish more a student in addition to being an in my life,” says Hunter, ever the educator,” says Petrolias. “It’s a good optimist. lesson for people starting out in the She decided to attend graduate field. Adrienne is always willing school despite her condition, and to ask questions and break new Duquesne University welcomed her ground. And she asks the same of her with open arms, she says. students.” “It was a huge investment for Hunter agrees that she asks a lot me to do the graduate program [in of her students but says they always Alumna: Adrienne Hunter special education], but Duquesne told rise to the challenge. “If you tell the me ‘we will do whatever it takes to students you want to see museum Residence: Pittsburgh, Pa. help you succeed.’ Everyone was so quality work, and if you have high expectations for them,” she says in Family: Husband, John; supportive.” the textbook, “they will meet your daughter, Oriana, 30; son, She credits Sister Julia Hartzog, expectations.” Matthew, 25 the former head of Duquesne’s special education department, with Hunter also sets high expectations Duquesne Education: being a major influence on her career. for her own artwork, which has Master of Science in Special Now Hunter is helping to form a new been exhibited at juried shows in the Education, 1991 generation of students in the field United States and Australia. through a textbook published by the “I have always felt that it was Select Honors & Awards: National Art Education Association. important to maintain my standing Special Needs Art Educator “An art program built on trust as an artist,” says Hunter, always the of the Year, National Art and sensitivity to students’ needs teacher. “It provides a strong example Education Assoc., VSA Arts can reach even the most difficult for the students, and this shows in the and Council for Exceptional student,” Hunter says in a chapter classroom.” Children, 2008

Fulbright Teacher Memorial Fund Scholarship, 2001

Pennsylvania Secondary Art Educator of the Year, 1996

www.duq.edu 13 community map Students Break Ground with Community Resources Map – By Ka r e n Fe r r i c k -Ro m a n – The first Web-based, interactive The students discussed some of In completing the project, students map pinpointing a spectrum of the Hill District’s 60-plus resources— felt the biggest learning curve came in community resources of Pittsburgh’s including scenic overlook paths—at gaining entrance to a community that Hill District neighborhood has been campus and community presentations they had previously been discouraged unveiled by Duquesne University in May. The Hill, they say, shows from visiting. honors students—and may be a “ample amounts of opportunity.” “Having their preconceptions groundbreaking use of Google maps. “This changed our perception of bump up against reality was their McAnulty College Associate Dean the Hill,” says student Jordan Buzza biggest surprise,” agrees Baltimore. Dr. Evan Stoddard, who taught the at the first of the two presentations. “They came to this neighborhood not spring Community and University “Nonresidents of the Hill can really expecting to find hills and valleys Honors Seminar class, believes this benefit from its assets.” and hills on top of hills. The students is the first time Google maps have While the local media have didn’t expect to find a place where been used to show a community’s publicized new developments, residents would stop, talk and engage assets. His students submitted an the resource map also includes them. They didn’t expect to find folks entry to Google’s blog to explain the organizations such as the Landslide willing to share their stories of the highly specialized application of their Community Farm, the scenic Find- Hill District. But they got all of those technology. the-Rivers Project, Association for things. This experience teaches them The map was created to help the Deaf, local churches, historical how to enter in a neighborhood with combat negative stereotypes of landmarks, schools, housing areas, respect. That lesson is important, and the Hill District and to provide an businesses, green spaces and parks, not only for this project.” interactive, Web-based resource for NAACP headquarters, the YMCA, As a service-learning initiative, others, says Stoddard. Black Political Empowerment Project, the seminar included both academic “This project focused on a the Hill House Association and the and hands-on research, helping to neighborhood near the University new Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh create an online, searchable annotated that is in the midst of new Hill District Branch, among others. bibliography. developments,” he says. “Because Because the seminar aims to of its cultural history and varied address a community need, the first resources, the Hill District has much “This changed step is for students to learn about the to offer the wider community.” community. “They don’t start with The Hill is poised for new our perception a project; they ask, ‘What would be development, including the Consol helpful?’” explains Stoddard. Energy Center, which will be the new A critical part of service-learning is home of the Pittsburgh Penguins, a of the Hill.” reflecting on what was learned. supermarket and a state-of-the-art “Many of the students say this YMCA. Interest is increasing in green “Individuals may use this is different from anything they’ve technology and community-based information for their own activities, done before,” says Stoddard. “Our green groups. All of this activity and organizations may choose to use mission says we serve God by serving makes the Hill an important and the information to build partnerships students and we help students in attractive draw for Pittsburghers and and seek collaborations,” says terms of serving God and others. I’m out-of-town visitors alike, says Terri Stoddard. trying to help prepare students for Baltimore, A’82, vice president of Brief descriptions of each resource, a lifetime of service, both by giving neighborhood development for the pictures and contact information them a set of skills that will help them Hill House Association. on the map allow these resources to and outlining the ethics of service. Baltimore already has directed be easily located. The online map is “It’s not to look down on people planning consultants interested in formatted so that more information or reach down to people, but to work working in the neighborhood to the is available with a simple click. The in partnership with people so that Web site. “It gives people a chance format also allows future additions Duquesne is a good neighbor, but also to see the community institutions, and changes to be made, and students so my students can be community churches, schools and green spaces are hopeful that another organization leaders themselves in the future, as well,” says Baltimore. “The map will step forward to maintain the Web that they will want to be leaders gives people an insider’s view. site and update information. and will have the confidence to step Visitors to the site will be surprised “This map can continue to grow to into communities and try to make a at the cultural history and beautiful include new things,” says Baltimore. difference there.” green areas on the Hill. There are very “A few months from now, a year from Visit http://sites.google.com/site/ cool places here, like a farm and a now, the map can change to show the hilldistrictassets/ to access the map geothermal pump.” positive opportunities the Hill has.” and photos.

14 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 on the road On the Road with the DU Magazine

In May, Capt. Lynsay Whelan, GHS’06, and Col. George Holzer, whose son Michael is currently a senior in the School of Business, showed their While on spring break from teaching first Duquesne pride while serving near Baghdad, Iraq, grade, Kathy Hawthorne-Bolner, E’05, with the 115th Combat Support Hospital. In March, Dave Dellana, B’76, and Rich took her Duquesne University Magazine Esposito, B’77, traveled to Whistler/ to Colorado for a skiing vacation. She is Blackcomb near Vancouver, Canada, pictured here at the Continental Divide, for an annual ski trip. Dave resides in high atop the Rocky Mountains. Phoenix, Ariz., and is the vice president of commercial real estate for National Bank of Arizona. Rich resides in Pittsburgh and is the director of financial aid at Duquesne.

Two DU alumni—Efthymios Efthymiou, B’89, MBA’90, and Fabian Vaz, B’88—recently visited Petra Tou Romiou in Greece, the mythical birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite. Fabian also met up with Danae Nicolaou, B’92, MBA’93, and spent four days touring various ruins and historical churches.

More “On the Road” photos are available on Duquesne’s newly upgraded Tom Fallon, A’62, and his wife, Bev alumni Web site. To view photos, Fallon, A’95, recently returned from visit: http://www.myduquesne.duq. an Alaskan cruise. This picture was edu/s/831/index.aspx?sid=831 taken on the White Pass Railway, built during the Klondike Gold Rush New visitors to this site need to create Patrick M. Joyce, A’71, and his in 1898, in Skagway, Alaska. wife, Rita Ferko Joyce, A’71, an account using information from the L’75, shared a family reunion with mailing label of your Duquesne University son Jesse F. Joyce, A’00, and Magazine. After logging in, click “Event Haley Joy Kozlowski, A’00. They Photos” on the left menu. Then, click on are shown at Shelburne Harbour, the folder that says “On the Road with Nova Scotia. The celebration was in honor of the safe return of Capt. the Duquesne Magazine.” Matt Joyce after 15 months in Iraq. His fiancée, Nakita Moore, accompanied them.

www.duq.edu 15 new dean Making it Easier to be Good – By Ri c h a r d To u r t e l l o tt –

Christopher Duncan, the new dean of the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, is a scholar whose work focuses on making it easier for people to do the right thing.

Just one week into his college career, Christopher transform him other than to help him secure a livelihood. Duncan, the newly appointed dean of the McAnulty He chose to attend the University of Michigan’s Dearborn College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, made an campus, a selection made solely for the location. The school important decision: “I started college as a hotel and was just minutes from home, and until he answered roll call restaurant management major,” recalls Duncan, “and in his first class, Duncan never had paid the campus a visit. after the first week of my first philosophy class I was a Having worked in restaurants throughout high school, philosophy major.” he settled on a bachelor’s program in hotel and restaurant A scholar whose credentials include two books on management. Ideas about alternate career choices would political thought and two decades of award-winning come later, but Duncan’s perspective on the value of a teaching, Duncan still possesses the undergraduate higher education changed almost immediately. philosophy major’s eagerness to immerse himself in In his introductory philosophy class, secure complex issues. His writings deal with the vexing assumptions were transformed into open questions. “Easy perennial problems of American civic life, such as the opinions were not so easy anymore,” he says, describing infusion of religious ideas into political discourse or the the experience that steered him toward his vocation. For difficulty of achieving community goals in a culture of Duncan and a clique of like-minded students, questions exalted individualism. such as “Does God exist?” or “How can one discern Throughout his work, achieving fundamental social good from evil?” not only sparked classroom debate, change and an ideal he terms “human flourishing” are the discussions spilled over into after-class time. That core concepts and constant themes. intellectual workout, marshaling arguments and clarifying For Duncan, human flourishing, if it is to be and defending viewpoints, immediately and profoundly achieved, demands that each of us confront a difficult energized Duncan’s thinking. question: “What does it mean to be a human being His father was supportive but concerned when Duncan fully—body, mind and spirit?” Higher education, announced that he would be switching his major to Duncan has found, can help us answer that question. philosophy. Duncan remembers his father offering the Over the years his scholarly investigations have observation that he had “‘never seen an ad in a newspaper revealed that the intellectual tradition of the Catholic for a philosopher.’” “Most of the people in my world Church also offers a wellspring of ideas about human worked with their hands,” says Duncan. flourishing. But the path was chosen. By day, Duncan took the “There is a better and stronger anthropology in classes that interested him and at night worked, sometimes Catholicism,” explains Duncan, pointing out that 40 hours a week. For a time he managed the Soup Kitchen Catholics have worked for social justice and the Church Saloon, a Detroit nightspot where legendary blues artists has been pointing out the way for people to become like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Big Mama fully alive for more than 2,000 years. That realization Thornton performed. Duncan remembers thinking then was far more than an intellectual acknowledgement for that he was on his way to becoming “the best educated Duncan, and he converted to the Roman Catholic faith bartender in Detroit.” 12 years ago. Goaded into graduating by the realization that he Notwithstanding his scholarly credentials, Duncan had taken practically all the undergraduate courses that uses simple words to express a lofty aim. “I want to interested him during his six-year matriculation, Duncan, help create a world in which it’s easier for people to be who says that he was “not ready to stop thinking and good,” he says, discussing the impulse that led him to reading and writing,” headed for graduate studies in embrace the scholar’s life and the Catholic faith. political science at Wayne State University. “I wanted to Few could predict Duncan would have such a goal learn how to change the world,” he says about his mindset at the outset of his college career. “I had a very limited during graduate school. sense of what was possible,” says Duncan, referring to After earning a doctorate he joined the political science his upbringing and education. “We just didn’t talk a faculty at Mississippi State University in 1992, and then in whole lot about college.” 2001 that of the University of Dayton, where he served as The oldest son, and the first in his family to attend chair of political science and was instrumental in creating college, Duncan grew up in Detroit. Duncan was a good the nation’s first interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree in student, but without any sense of how education might human rights.

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Easier to be Good

“I want to help create a world in which it’s easier for people to be good.”

Christopher Duncan

At both Mississippi State and therefore unto Caesar the things that service to others will offer unique Dayton, Duncan taught a wide are Caesar’s; and unto God the things opportunities to the dean of liberal variety of political science course that are God’s.” (Matthew 22:21) arts. He is particularly eager to work work and accumulated a lengthy list American Christians, Duncan with faculty members in each of the of honors and accomplishments. Over believes, can sometimes make the McAnulty College’s 12 departments time he has also refined his personal mistake of being Americans first and to advance the University’s tradition political philosophy. Christians second—Christians whose of scholarship and service. Duncan today applies a Christian theological beliefs are difficult to Duncan’s view of the academic ethic to social change. Early on he distinguish from their opinions about disciplines is holistic, and he sees had read the works of Karl Marx political power, the social order and great potential in the coming and other political theorists who America’s role in world affairs. years to create more—and more advocated the use of state power or Calling himself a “Christian effective—collaborations among violence to achieve their ends, but communitarian,” Duncan sees academic departments and University one by one he examined and rejected individual rights as being schools. “All of the problems facing those arguments. “I was looking for circumscribed by the needs of the us today are multidisciplinary or something that I was comfortable community, a viewpoint shared by interdisciplinary in nature,” says defending,” says Duncan, explaining Catholic thinkers such as Pope John Duncan, of the challenge and the intellectual journey that took him Paul II and Dorothy Day, the founder opportunity that social problems to the teachings of Martin Luther of the Catholic Worker movement. provide. King, Mahatma Gandhi and the Duncan, whose first day as “We need all of the disciplines on Gospels. dean was July 1, is certain that some level to answer the questions In his writings and personal Duquesne, with its undergraduate that face us.” life Duncan pays close attention core curriculum built on the to Christ’s injunction to “Render humanities and a mission based on

www.duq.edu 17 honorary degrees

Musician, Business Executive and Physician Honored by Duquesne

Earlier this year, Duquesne bestowed honorary degrees to an esteemed alumnus and friends of the University, including composer John Adams, physician Dr. Martin Charles Mihm, Jr. and business executive John P. Surma. “These three men serve as distinguished examples to our recent graduates and also to the University community,” says Duquesne President Charles Dougherty. “They have used their talents and skills to hone their craft and create inspirational careers.”

John Adams

Adams is one of today’s leading composers and one of very few whose works are appreciated in both the opera house and concert hall. Major American and European companies present his operas—Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic—to enthusiastic audiences. The world’s preeminent orchestras perform Naive and Sentimental Music, Violin Concerto, Shaker Loops, Harmonielehre and other works, including Short Ride in a Fast Machine, one of the most frequently performed works by a living American composer. His composition, On the Transmigration of Souls, a deeply felt commemoration of lives lost in the 2001 World Trade Center attack, earned a Pulitzer Prize in Music, and a recent recording of it garnered Grammy Awards in three categories: Best Classical Recording, Best Orchestral Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition. Professional musicians the world over recognize his mastery. He has been the composer-in-residence at the San Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra named him its Composer of the Year. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic as well as with the Professional Pittsburgh Symphony and orchestras in Atlanta, Stockholm, San Francisco and Detroit. musicians the He not only has the respect and admiration of critics and peers, audiences love his work. A music critic writing recently in The New Yorker put it best, “John Adams has won his eminence fair and square: he has aimed high, he world over has addressed life as it is lived now and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience.” recognize his mastery.

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Martin Charles Mihm, Jr., M.D.

Mihm, A’55, was recognized both for his humanitarian work and for his career as a renowned physician. One of the most respected cancer specialists in the world, he is recognized as a pioneer in the treatment of malignant melanoma. As an undergraduate student at Duquesne, he earned the Gold Medal for Excellence and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in political science. Then, after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, he broke new ground by uniting the sciences of dermatology and pathology. In doing so, he took on a challenge to develop a largely uncharted area of medicine, and the new discipline he helped to create—dermatopathology—has made possible the microscopic diagnosis of skin lesions. Because of his work in this area, Massachusetts General Hospital chose him as their chief resident in dermatology, and there with colleagues he established a clinic for diagnosing and treating melanoma. Eventually he was appointed senior dermatopathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and later, clinical professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School. More important, he is a physician whose faith is revealed in humanitarian works. In 1985, he volunteered at a Calcutta leprosarium, a leper colony, One of the most operated by Mother Teresa’s religious order. The next year, he joined the World Health Organization where he became co-director of the Melanoma Pathology respected cancer Program and the international coordinator for the World Health Organization Rare Tumor Institute. Recently, he established a badly needed free clinic in Ho Chi Minh City for children who suffer from rare skin diseases. specialists in At the start of his medical career, the survival rate for malignant melanoma was 20 percent. Today, it is 80 percent, and much of the credit for making that the world... success possible is due to his efforts as a scientist, a physician and an educator.

John P. Surma

Surma is a visionary businessman and community leader. A native of Pittsburgh, he attended Penn State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in accounting. After joining the prestigious accounting firm of Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, he quickly became a manager, and shortly thereafter was appointed to serve in its Manchester, England, office where he gained valuable international business experience. Later, he participated in the President’s Executive Exchange Program in Washington, D.C., and served as executive staff assistant to the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He continued to excel, and because of his accomplishments was named a partner at Price Waterhouse in 1987. He joined Marathon Oil Company in 1997, then a part of USX Corporation, and served as one of the primary architects of the largest petroleum refining and marketing joint ventures between Marathon and Ashland Oil. Now, he is an innovator and an admired executive in the steel industry. In September 2001, he joined United States Steel Corporation, and became vice chairman and CFO just one year later, and chairman and CEO just a few years after that. He has proven his commitment to the steel industry and the Pittsburgh ...he is an region, and that commitment has been widely recognized. Pittsburgh Technology Council named him CEO of the Year in 2007, the first time a major innovator and manufacturer’s chief executive received the organization’s top honor. In addition to those impressive professional achievements, he is an active community leader. He serves as the chairman of the board of directors of the an admired Allegheny Conference on Community Development, and just two years ago served as the campaign chair of the United Way of Allegheny County when the organization had a record fundraising year. executive...

www.duq.edu 19 sustainability Sustainability: A Critical Issue Across Continents MBA Students Visit India & Japan

– By Ka r e n Fe r r i c k -Ro m a n –

Sustainability means something having to do sustainability out of movement.” different in the United States, India necessity and having to do it out of Practicality evolves in different and Japan. Yet, in each culture, strategic choice,” he says. “If we don’t ways in these densely populated with different resources and needs, make better decisions, it’ll no longer countries. Waste—or lack of it—was sustainability was the thread pulling be a choice.” noticeable on Japan’s streets. “Instead together 23 graduate students In Japan, Duquesne’s third of recycling their trash,” says SMBA and seven faculty members from consecutive group of MBA students student Andrew Sunday, “they just Duquesne University with their to visit this country witnessed do not create it. It is seen as rude to counterparts abroad in May. sustainability as part of many be moving from place to place while “This trip was put together because processes. Diane Ramos, assistant drinking on the run.” the challenges of sustainability are director of the SMBA program, Although the Japanese don’t eat often very U.S.-centric,” says Dr. observes a “significant shift” from her on the go, Duquesne travelers were Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, former visit two years ago. surprised to find so many vending director of the MBA Sustainability “I think there was less discussion machines stocked with food, water, (SMBA) program, a native of India of social and environmental soda, alcoholic beverages, toiletries and organizer of the first India study responsibility as strategic issues in and small packaged goods along the planned by the Palumbo-Donahue 2007. Instead, there was an implicit streets. Another paradox observed School of Business. “When you go to recognition that a country with by student Kris Clements is that all India, you see how very far ahead they over 3,000 islands, limited natural “department store purchases are are. My goal was to take the students resources and virtually no landfill carefully wrapped with decorated so they see the challenges firsthand.” space, had to learn to live with paper,” causing one to wonder what “From a sustainability constraints,” says Ramos. “This time, happens to all the extra wrapping and perspective, India illustrates the Japanese companies and government packaging materials when shoppers challenges the world faces regarding were presented as leaders and get home. resource constraints, infrastructure innovators in the global sustainability Meanwhile, trash is everywhere development, availability of clean water and the inherent stresses of a large and growing population,” says Duquesne students take a bike tour through the village of Mizusawa in Japan. Dr. William E. Spangler, associate dean for academic affairs in the business school, and one of the faculty members on the trip. In a land that is one-third the size of the United States but four times its population, sustainability presents itself through a different prism, says SMBA student Aaron Meyers, a former Peace Corps member in Honduras. “If they don’t do things a sustainable way in India, things will fall down and the pieces will no longer fit.” The interconnected systems play against the backdrop of extremes in wealth, providing Meyers a takeaway lesson. “There is a fine line between

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in India, yet it is reused, according to Dr. Robert Sroufe, holder of the Murrin Chair on Global Competitiveness. “Indians definitely are more resourceful because they have so little to work with. We’re in a throwaway society. Many of them are in a subsistence society, at the poverty level.” Yet, India is poised for growth. “Within five years, it will be the world’s fourth-largest economy,” says Sroufe. “So, from a business perspective, it’s a huge market potential. They’re definitely a player on the world stage.” Japan, on the other hand, is an established powerhouse in manufacturing and technology that Faculty member Dr. Ron Surmacz stayed in an Indian houseboat, which reflects a lifted restrictions on import trade in sustainable lifestyle, in Kerala. The houseboats, constructed from indigenous materials recent decades and reduced barriers by local craftsmen, took advantage of tourism opportunities in traditional backwaters. to entry from foreign investors, businesses and retail chains. In preparation for the roughly businesses, the culture, and how they successful exchanges abroad, two-week trips, which were operate at the bottom of the pyramid,” continuing and perhaps expanding built into the SMBA curriculum says Sroufe. “A lot of people are living partnerships with Saintgits and the and taken by all students in the on less than $4 a day.” International Management Institute, program, Duquesne faculty and At Saintgits Institute of says Spangler. students communicated through Management in Kerala, Duquesne “India is a special destination e-mail and Skype with Asian and Indian students and faculty for study abroad, because unlike and Indian professors, industry forged an academic and joint training traditional destinations such leaders and students. While in the program, discussing findings of as Europe, it presents students countries, they met with scholars, cooperatively studied projects. In with a cultural experience that is business leaders and government Delhi, news reports told of the joint significantly different than what officials; experienced the culture; seminar on sustainable development they are accustomed to here at studied sustainability tactics; and “in the Indian context,” which home,” he notes. “While visiting observed practices in cities and the was hosted by the International India is challenging and, in many countryside. Management Institute, India’s regards, sobering for students, it is Collaboration with Rikkyo first corporate-sponsored business also a fascinating blend of religions, University allowed students to school, and Duquesne’s School of languages, customs, cuisine and learn the Japanese perspective on Business. Speakers included the history.” corporate social responsibility, resident director of the Tata Group, Sroufe talks of a feasibility study international financing, retail a corporate giant producing tiny that could initiate micro financing marketing and other topics, with cars for a $2,000 price tag. Duquesne opportunities in Kerala, targeting sessions from academic leaders and students also toured an animation partnerships with small, women- corporate executives from the likes of studio and a coconut husk, or coir, owned businesses. Panasonic, Toshiba and Mazda. manufacturer of welcome mats. “We hope to maintain that contact “Our students and faculty Widespread practices included with them over the years,” adds marveled at the on-time efficiency use of commodities such as Surmacz. “We want both countries to and cleanliness of mass rail compact fluorescent bulbs as be successful. Our futures depend on transportation throughout Japan well as incorporating incredible it.” as they traveled throughout resourcefulness. “Many of our metropolitan Tokyo and visited the industries don’t waste anything, For more information on the SMBA farmlands of northern Japan and the but in India, they take it to the next program, visit http://mba.sustainability. historic sites of Kyoto and Hiroshima level,” says Dr. Ron Surmacz, one of duq.edu. in the west,” notes Ramos. the four faculty members on the India In India, SMBA students saw trip. “They have determined that eight lanes of roaring traffic in Delhi effectively using the environment is a and roads barely two lanes wide in better way for the economy.” the southern, rural Kerala state. Back in Pittsburgh, the business “We could actually see smaller school is working to continue

www.duq.edu 21 what’s new at DU What’s New at

DU Ranked in Top 10 director of the department and a DUWhile the school’s Ph.D. program Military Friendly Colleges founding director of the graduate is research-based, the DNP is and Universities program in rehabilitation science at grounded in the practice or specialty Duquesne. to which the student is already committed. Among the current The School of Leadership and The chair was established in 2004 Professional Advancement (SLPA) DNP cohort are professionals who in memory of the mother of John G. specifically work with Iraq veterans at Duquesne has been selected by Rangos Sr., the school’s benefactor. Allmilitary.com as one of the 2009 with closed-head injuries as well as As holder of the chair, Somers will nurses with forensic backgrounds Top Ten Military Friendly Colleges be at the forefront of teaching, and Universities. dealing with incarcerated scholarship and service in health adolescents. Among the criteria considered by All sciences and ethics, concentrating Military was the financial aid available on the ethical aspects of policies for For more information on the DNP, call to service members, the proximity individuals with disabilities, leading 412.396.4945 or visit www.nursing. to a military base and/or availability University initiatives in rehabilitation duq.edu. of distance learning, and positive and ethics, and collaborating with policies for military service members. departments within the Rangos School as well as the University. Legal Research & Writing “The School of Leadership and Additionally, the chair holder provides Program Nationally Ranked Professional Advancement is very guidance for interdisciplinary proud to serve more than 350 service rehabilitation research at Duquesne Duquesne’s Legal Research and members and veterans,” says Dr. and builds strong relationships Writing Program has been ranked Dorothy Bassett, dean of the SLPA. between academic and industry 17th in the nation by U.S. News & partners working to enhance western World Report. This is the law school’s The SLPA offers master’s degrees Pennsylvania’s role in rehabilitation second consecutive category listing. and accelerated bachelor’s degrees and ethical policy. in formats convenient for adult students. Classes are offered on WDUQ Wins Statewide Saturdays on campus and entirely DNP Program Offers online. Special military tuition rates Awards are available for service members Alternative to Ph.D. WDUQ (90.5 FM) won seven awards and eligible veterans. Duquesne University’s School of at the recent 2008 Pennsylvania Nursing has found success with Associated Press News Awards its new online Doctor of Nursing PT Researcher Selected for ceremony, including: the Sandy Practice (DNP) program, which is Starobin Award for Outstanding Endowed Chair designed to advance the practice Reporting for its first place entry in expertise and range of nurses with the Enterprise/Individual Reporting Dr. David L. master’s degrees in nursing in a category; first place in the Public Somers has been clinical specialty or a specific role. Affairs category for its series “DUQ’s selected as the Pittsburgh 250 Initiative”; first place second holder The DNP program, an alternative in the Sports Feature category for of the Anna to the school’s Ph.D. program, has “Steel City Derby Demons”; third Rangos Rizakus doubled its fall 2009 cohort from place in the Feature category for Endowed Chair in last year and the school is planning “Muslim Women in Pittsburgh”; third Health Sciences on admitting 25 additional students. place in the Radio Sound category and Ethics at Duquesne’s DNP program is totally for “Art Olympic Theater”; third Duquesne. online. Students are required to place in the Enterprise/Individual come to campus only for their initial Reporting category for “Reducing Somers, chairman of the Physical orientation and subsequently when Gun Violence: One Goal, Many Therapy Department in the Rangos they complete the program after five Paths.” School of Health Sciences since semesters. July 2008, was previously assistant

22 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 lead in water

DU Researchers Discover Lead Sensor Compound Patented Substance Detects Levels Lower than EPA Limits

– By Ka r e n Fe r r i c k -Ro m a n –

Dr. Partha Basu, associate Basu, typically requires sending a maximize complementary services professor of chemistry and sample to a lab with sophisticated that can be provided internally by biochemistry at Duquesne, along spectroscopy. This new, yellowish faculty, staff and students,” says with a post-doctoral associate compound, which looks like dried Alan Seadler, who holds the Edward and undergraduate student, has onion flakes, does not require V. Fritzky Chair in Biotechnology developed an extremely selective sophisticated instruments and can Leadership at Duquesne and serves as compound that detects leads in water. make the testing process portable. associate academic vice president for The compound can identify as “We weren’t actually trying to research. little as 10 parts per billion of lead make a lead sensor in the beginning,” Four students in Seadler’s chloride, acids and metals—thus, is says Basu, who was seeking a biotechnology class prepared a more sensitive than the limits set by component to an enzyme. But marketing plan for the lead detector. the U.S. Environmental Protection when this selective, lead-sensitive The plan, developed by students Agency (EPA). Very importantly, this compound was discovered, Basu and Aaron Gilkey, Jaime Wetzel, Kristen compound can detect and quantify his team, including post-doctoral Agnew and Michael Gorski, lead in the presence of other metal associate Dr. Barbara Serli-Mitasev took first place in a business idea ions. and undergraduate Lauren competition at Duquesne sponsored The compound could be useful to Marbella, were open to its potential. by the Pittsburgh Central Keystone consumers as well as to industrial and “Sometimes we may not be able to Innovation Zone (PCKIZ), a public- municipal water system monitors. see immediately the application of private consortium designed to Lead can present a health problem, the science,” says Basu, noting that develop young businesses through especially to the brains and nervous a paper on the compound has been tapping resources of educational systems of children, and the EPA published in the prestigious German institutions. The Leadglow wants to eliminate all elevated blood Chemical Society journal Angewandte Technologies plan also won second- levels in children by 2010. Chemie. place in a citywide contest open to Not only does this new compound Besides being a scientific finding students from four participating sense lead, it can measure the with commercial potential, the colleges. amount of lead present while other discovery has become a learning “All of the other teams that commercial lead sensors indicate only experience in the biotechnology submitted ideas for the competition whether lead is present, says Basu. classroom and stands to benefit were composed of business majors,” The substance, which selectively from marketing expertise on says Bill Generett, executive director detects lead, provides results within campus. Duquesne’s Small Business of the PCKIZ. “All four judges were an hour and is easily read by a Development Center is developing not only impressed with the idea fluorescent violet glow that shows a marketing feasibility study for the but with the business savvy of the lead has been detected. Additionally, project through grant funding, thanks Leadglow team, especially since the compound, called Leadglow, to a grant from Innovation Works. they were all scientists. All of the works with a small amount of water, “The discovery of this compound judges feel that with some hard as little as a jelly bean-sized sample. with commercial potential provides work, Leadglow can be turned into a Monitoring lead in water, says Duquesne with an opportunity to successful business.”

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Changing the world Alumni Make an Impact Through the Peace Corps

– By Co l l e e n C. De r d a , A’83 –

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any newlyweds might A’63, L’66, GA’74, served the corps object to living in a mud from 1967 to 1969. Within months Peace Corps hut with no electricity. of his law school graduation and Fellows at a But, David Penna, A’82, admittance to the Pennsylvania Mand Vickie D’Andrea, courts, Barker arrived in Puerto Glance GE’83, felt just fine about their Rico for three months of training. primitive lifestyle. He knew he would be assigned a • Duquesne University partnership Only two years after marrying, community development role in with Peace Corps started in 1998 the couple joined the Peace Corps, Panama, but he didn’t know where serving in Botswana from 1985 to exactly he would be serving and • Supports former Peace Corps 1987. Together they taught students under what conditions until after his volunteers studying at in a junior secondary school in a plane landed in Panama City. - Graduate Center for Social small village called Sefhare, with and Public Policy Penna handling math, science and social studies, and D’Andrea teaching “You could walk - Donahue Graduate School of English and history. Business “You could walk from one end of the village to the other in 15 minutes. from one end - Bayer School of Natural and It was a full Peace Corps experience,” Environmental Sciences says Penna. “It was wonderful.” • Provides stipends for service in a Penna and D’Andrea are part of of the village to community organization a group of more than 200 Duquesne alumni who have made a difference • 22 fellows in program’s first 10 across the globe through their service the other in 15 years to the Peace Corps since its start in 1961. Many attribute the decision • Fellows have served in 31 public to join to Duquesne’s educational minutes. It was and nonprofit organizations atmosphere where professors routinely encourage students to use wonderful.” talents and knowledge to support positive change. “Duquesne University alumni Barker spent two years working continue to contribute to the Peace on a new urban community program Corps mission,” says Vinny Wickes, to assist residents of squatter the regional manager of the Peace settlements in the capital. His job was Corps’ New York Recruiting Office, to help residents of “barriadas de which covers New York, New Jersey, emergencia” to organize themselves Connecticut and Pennsylvania. “The and create plans for community University plays an integral role in improvement. It eventually became educating and recruiting its students clear to Barker and others that the to become Peace Corps volunteers program, though sponsored by the and works to further educate others government, could not truly succeed after Peace Corps service through the while the barriadas remained illegal Peace Corps Fellows program.” (see settlements. Thus a program of legal Changing sidebars) services by Panamanian lawyers was In many ways, the Peace Corps established. mirrors the University’s mission and Barker spent the majority of his commitment to service to the Church, Peace Corps assignment assisting the community, the nation and the the effort and promoting the model world. in provinces throughout Panama. Peace Corps volunteers accept Within months of his planned return assignments in countries around to the United States, the country’s the world to support local leaders National Guard overthrew the Joan Marshall with teachers, health care workers in initiatives focusing on education, elected government, and the program and children during a guinea worm education health and HIV/AIDS, business changed. It continues to exist today, class in Togo in 2006. Marshall is currently a Peace development, environment, youth sponsored by the University of Corps Fellow studying at Duquesne’s Graduate and agriculture. Most volunteers have Panama Law School. Center for Social and Public Policy. completed undergraduate education, Since 1989, Barker’s papers about and a number have graduate degrees. the creation of Panama’s legal services Duquesne University Distinguished have been part of the Peace Corps Professor of Law Robert Barker, Collection at the John F. Kennedy

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Peace Corps Volunteer Robert Barker (right) with his Panamanian colleagues, attorneys Oscar Ceville (seated), and Raúl López (standing), 1968. (Ceville is now the solicitor general of Panama.)

Presidential Library in Boston. He learn that whatever he may have area. Or that one type of service suits recently edited and donated to contributed to the people of the his or her personality and interests the Kennedy library an additional country where he served, he has better than another. collection of papers dealing with the received far more in return. Duquesne alumni who joined the role of Peace Corps Volunteers in the “I certainly hope I contributed Peace Corps all say they knew the late 1960s establishment of Panama’s something to the people of Panama. importance of being adaptable. pioneer program of legal assistance I know Panama contributed much Paul Gigliotti, P’83, thought about to that country’s low-income to me as a result of my experiences joining the Peace Corps for several communities. This latter group of living there.” years, first visiting with a recruiter documents, edited by Barker to show The Peace Corps continues to during his sophomore year. While the role of Peace Corps Volunteers, change as the world changes. Today, a fifth-year pharmacy student, will be integrated into Barker’s 1989 volunteers complete the majority of he signed on, ready for whatever submission as part of the Kennedy their training in the country where challenges lay ahead. Gigliotti Library’s permanent Peace Corps they will be serving and participate boarded a plane for Kenya a month Collection. in assignment selection, ensuring a after passing the pharmacy boards. Reflecting on his service, Barker strong fit between volunteer and post. Set on an eventual career in his says he received as much as he gave Still, flexibility continues to be key. A chosen field in the United States, during his Peace Corps experience. volunteer may know that he or she he first wanted to experience life “Every volunteer comes to wants an urban, rather than rural in another part of the world and

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Duquesne alumni at work in the Peace Corps. 1-3: Dan Anson, 4: Paul Gigliotti and two other volunteers with Kenyan friends, 5: The sign post in front of Ol-Ngarua Secondary School, where Paul Gigliotti worked, 6: David Penna and Vickie D’Andrea

serve others, a feeling that had taken in-country before traveling to his root during his years of Catholic assigned school in Kenya’s northern education. Duquesne alumni central province. “I went to Catholic grade school, The new teacher had 40 to 50 kids high school and then Duquesne who joined the in the classroom, all between the ages University,” says the Greensburg, of 13 and 18 years old. His school, Pa., native. “Service was a recurring built only four years earlier, had dirt theme because of the world view of Peace Corps all floors, no electricity and no running the Spiritans at Duquesne and other water. He taught science without educational leaders in my life.” lab equipment, drawing pictures of Gigliotti felt teaching was a critical say they knew flasks and everything else to explain need that he could help address, if concepts and measurements. Despite only in a small way. But there are the primitive setting, Gigliotti says no small contributions in the Peace the importance of his students were dedicated to their Corps. Gigliotti received weeks studies and therefore a pleasure to of teacher training stateside from teach. Secondary school is not free in volunteers who had returned recently being adaptable. Kenya, and he knew his students and from Kenya, then eight weeks of their families made many sacrifices to Swahili classes and cultural training receive an education.

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The lessons learned by both Dominican Republic’s north central As a result, the boy now can see teacher and students over those two region. and has full range of motion in his years have remained with Gigliotti, as In early 2008, Anson met a woman face. His mother is finishing school with all Peace Corps volunteers. and her five-year-old son, who as and planning to look for a job. Dan Anson, GHS’00, served in the a baby had suffered serious burns Duquesne alumni who have served Dominican Republic from 2005 to when a mosquito net surrounding his in the Peace Corps have been part of 2008. Graduating from Duquesne bed caught fire. The pair came to the both large and small accomplishments. with a major in occupational clinic for plastic surgery by a visiting They have also changed lives forever therapy and a minor in biology, doctor. and for the better. Anson worked at a rehabilitation With fully half of the child’s face hospital then obtained a master’s in affected, Anson wondered if the boy Duquesne University alumni who public health in New Mexico before could be brought to the United States have served in the Peace Corps can embarking on his Peace Corps service. for further treatment. He wrote up contact Kay Jennings of the Pittsburgh The health education specialist the case, and Shriners Hospitals for Returned Peace Corps (RPCV) Group taught HIV/AIDS awareness, teen Children agreed to sponsor the child at [email protected]. For more pregnancy issues, nutrition and life and bring him to Boston for more information on the Peace Corps, visit skills in a small community in the plastic surgery. www.peacecorps.gov.

Peace Corps Fellows Program in its Eleventh Year

- By Co l l e e n C. De r d a , A’83 a n d Ri c h a r d To u r t e l l o tt -

Joan Marshall joined the work of the Brother’s Brother Fellows typically work 20 hours a week while studying. Foundation, a Pittsburgh nonprofit that arranges shipments They draw upon skills acquired during their Peace Corps of medical and educational supplies around the world, service around the world to enrich Pittsburgh’s community when she started studying at Duquesne’s Graduate Center organizations. for Social and Public Policy. Marshall served with the Peace Corps in Togo in western The Center’s Peace Corps Fellows program made Africa from 2004 to 2006, then taught English in South Korea. Marshall’s role at the nonprofit possible. Former Peace She returned to Togo briefly before coming home to the United Corps volunteers studying at the Policy Center and two States and starting graduate studies at Duquesne. She hopes other graduate programs in the University select an to serve at least one more Pittsburgh-based nonprofit during organization in the region with which they will work or her time as a Peace Corps Fellow. conduct research. The organizations pay Fellows’ stipends and in return gain dedicated and knowledgeable workers. Kira Cha views the choice she made to enter Duquesne’s The Fellows acquire valuable experience and contacts. MBA Sustainability program as a natural extension of her undergraduate major and her time as a Peace Corps volunteer. Duquesne University launched the Fellows program in 1998 in partnership with the U.S. Peace Corps. It is the longest After graduating from the University of North Texas with an running Peace Corps Fellows program in Pittsburgh. To undergraduate business degree with a focus on logistics and date, 32 Duquesne graduate students have served as supply chain management, she entered the Peace Corps Peace Corps Fellows. and spent the next 27 months working with small businesses in Narajo, Costa Rica, on community organization and Dr. Evan Stoddard, associate dean of the McAnulty College development projects. and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, helped to found the program and serves as the Policy Center’s associate Nearing the end of her term in the Peace Corps and still in director for community outreach and as the University’s Costa Rica, she was eager to get on with her career and Peace Corps Fellows coordinator. the MBA Sustainability program’s accelerated one-year curriculum, which she learned about through the Peace Corps “We have three Policy Center students serving as Peace Web site, appealed to her. Corps Fellows and three in the Business School’s MBA program in Sustainable Business Enterprise,” says Once enrolled she found more than the pace consonant with Stoddard. “When the students enter their graduate her goals and philosophy. programs, we work for immediate placement in positions “What I love about this program is that sustainability is where they can apply their skills as program and research incorporated into everything that we do—it’s not just a assistants.” class that we take. It’s totally integrated, and that’s what sustainability is all about,” she says.

28 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 spiritan merger Spiritan Congregation Unites American Provinces – By Ki m b e r l y Sa u n d e r s –

“The challenge The Congregation of the Holy Spirit has had a long-standing presence in the United States. The first Spiritan missionaries arrived in Baltimore, Md., in 1794. that remains is Over the next 150 years, they would go on to establish Duquesne University and grow their Congregation in America. By 1964, the Spiritans had divided the U.S. territory geographically, for us to discern into East and West Provinces, to manage their resources more effectively and strengthen their ministry in far-flung missions around the country. what God is In 2006, in the face of challenges, such as limited resources, a growing international membership and broader commitments calling us to do, nationwide, the Congregation agreed to move toward a single community in the United States once again. A merger of the U.S. West and East Provinces was finalized on June 16, 2009. right here, The Reverend John Fogarty, C.S.Sp., was appointed to a three-year term as the Provincial Superior of this newly-formed Province of the United States. Prior to this appointment, Fogarty directed the Center right now.” for Spiritan Studies and served as interim director of the Office of

Nearly 100 members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit gathered at Duquesne the week of June 15 for the first chapter meeting of the newly formed Province of the United States. The new entity was created from merging the East and West American Spiritan provinces.

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New Vice President Mission and Identity at Duquesne. “The challenge that remains is for He will remain a member of the us to discern what God is calling us to of Mission and University’s Board of Directors and do, right here, right now,” he says. Identity Appointed will chair the Duquesne University These possibilities were discussed Corporation, which he has served as a during the inaugural Chapter meeting member. of the United States Province that was “Fr. Fogarty will continue to hosted at Duquesne last summer. The play key roles in the operations Chapter is responsible for articulating and successes of Duquesne,” says the policy, goals and objectives of University President Charles the Province. Nearly 100 Spiritans Dougherty. attended this weeklong assembly to “Eliminating the geographic chart the course for the future of the boundaries encourages greater unity American Province. and collaboration among all members “Directional statements at the first and enables them to be placed Chapter meeting of the new Province strategically wherever the need is focused on promoting vocations, both greatest. A centralized administration lay and professed, to the Spiritan also permits us to integrate and way of life; strengthening solidarity centralize many administrative with worldwide Spiritan mission; functions such as retirement living, furthering collaboration with laity; recruitment, formation structure and and exploring new commitments fundraising,” explains Fogarty. with immigrants and refugees in the United States,“ says Fogarty. As the only Spiritan University “It’s important in the United States, Duquesne will James P. McCloskey, C.S.Sp. continue to be one of the primary commitments of the Congregation, in a religious acknowledges Fogarty, particularly The Reverend James P. McCloskey, in light of the focus on the African C.S.Sp., returned to Duquesne diaspora called for by the University in August as vice president of community with Strategic Plan 2010-15. Today, 44 Mission and Identity and will focus percent of worldwide Spiritan on enhancing the University’s Congregation is African and nearly connection between mission and an international 90 percent of its total vocations ministry. today are from Africa. The United States Province also has members McCloskey, who has been serving dimension to from Canada, Trinidad, Vietnam, in the worldwide Spiritan general Ireland, Scotland, and several administration in Rome since 2004, is African countries living and working intimately familiar with the operations create a sense together. of Duquesne. A 1974 alumnus who “It’s important in a religious served in the University’s Spiritan of belonging for community with an international Campus Ministry from 1983 to 1984, dimension to create a sense of he was a member of the University belonging for all members and to Cabinet and vice president of all members and bear witness to people living together University Relations from 2003 to in unity. Duquesne embraces this 2004 before his appointment to principle and continues to focus on Rome. Additionally, he served as to bear witness issues that are very much part of Provincial Superior of the U.S. East the Spiritan charism today: poverty, Province of the Spiritans. sustainability, peace and social justice, to people living and the value of diversity. Duquesne’s “Fr. McCloskey’s vast experience continuing emphasis on the primary and deep knowledge of Duquesne commitments of the Congregation University makes him a great together in offers many possibilities to further the addition to our leadership team worldwide mission of the Spiritans. I as we strive to consolidate our have no doubt of that,” says Fogarty. position as one of the top Catholic unity.” universities in the country,” says Duquesne President Charles Dougherty.

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Artwork Recalls Spiritan Devotion to Blessed Mother

In France on Pentecost Sunday 1703, Claude Poullart des Places and a small group of fellow seminarians formed a community dedicated to the Holy Spirit, under the special patronage of the Virgin Mary. The group consecrated themselves at the feet of the Notre Dame de la Bonne Délivrance—the Black Madonna pictured here—and the Holy Spirit Congregation was born. The original stone statue of the Black Madonna still resides in the Chapelle des Srs. de St Thomas de Villeneuve, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A portrait of the shrine now hangs in the foyer of the Duquesne Chapel, a gift to the Spiritan Congregation from the University presented by President Charles J. Dougherty at their recent meeting on campus. The Spiritan Congregation today continues to be placed under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who was filled “with the fullness of holiness and apostolic zeal” (Spiritan Rule of Life, No. 6). “This gift is especially meaningful as the veneration of Mary, mother of Jesus and the model for all missionary activity, is the very beginning of our foundation, together with the consecration to the Holy Spirit,” says the Reverend John Fogarty, C.S.Sp., provincial superior of the Province of the United States.

Prayers From Blessing Exhibit at DU Delivered to Western Wall

More than 31,000 prayers from Buchanan and former Xavier premiering in May 2005 at Xavier, the thousands of Americans, including Theology Department Chair Bill exhibit has touched more than 100,000 those who visited the exhibit A Madges. lives during tours of museums and Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul Xavier reported that 3,953 prayers universities across the country. II and the Jewish People at Duquesne were placed into the Western Wall by It will be featured in the near University, were delivered to the hand. The rest of the prayers were future at the Holocaust Museum Western Wall in Jerusalem the week placed in the Western Wall tunnels of Houston, Canisius College in of July 27. at a spot close to the Temple of Buffalo and the Maltz Museum in Nearly 7,000 visitors saw the Jerusalem by arrangement with the Beechwood, Ohio. It has already exhibit at Duquesne, where it was rabbi of the wall. been displayed at the Pope John Paul displayed from May 15 to Aug. 11, This is the second time Blessing II Cultural Center in Washington, 2006. Their prayers were inserted prayers have been placed at the D.C., Loyola University in Chicago, into a replica of the Western Wall, wall. In February 2006, more than Museum of Jewish Heritage in New as visitors are encouraged to do, 8,600 prayers from the exhibit were York City, the Skirball Cultural Center and in turn, were delivered to the delivered to the Western Wall. in Los Angeles and St. Joseph’s actual wall by Xavier University The Blessing exhibit chronicled University, among others. Rabbi Abie Ingber, Xavier University the late pontiff’s lifelong relationship Brueggeman Center Director James with the Jewish people. Since

www.duq.edu 31 board chair Law Alumna Named Duquesne’s First Woman Board Chair

– By Ka r e n Fe r r i c k -Ro m a n –

Duquesne University has the willingness of each to share announced the appointment of outstanding talents with Duquesne prominent Pittsburgh attorney and impresses Jones. “Every one of the alumna Marie Milie Jones as the first board members has some personal woman to serve as chairman of the stake here; Duquesne University is Board of Directors. in each of their hearts. Their personal For Jones, a partner with Meyer, dedication to Duquesne comes Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek and Eck through in the way they focus their PLLC who specializes in civil rights energies on board matters.” and employment areas, this marks the Over the years of her involvement, second time that she has broken new Jones has witnessed encouraging ground as a female pioneer. Jones change at Duquesne and plans for made history in Pittsburgh in 1998, the University to continue moving when she was the youngest woman forward. ever named managing attorney of a “For Duquesne to remain a major law firm in the city. top Catholic, American university Her ties with Duquesne reach should be our focus,” she says. “I back more than 25 years, as an love the fact that the University is so undergraduate who flirted with connected with its mission, which thoughts of a medical career before will be an even greater focus of the pursuing a career in law. Her father, new strategic plan. Continuing the Robert J. Milie, has been an attorney increased academic standards for for 52 years, practicing municipal, incoming students will also be on our estate and small business law in Marie Milie Jones radar.” Greensburg, Pa., so Jones grew up Since her undergraduate days, with an understanding of the field. To now, its board to embrace the reality Jones has seen the University’s fast-track her studies, she completed a and the importance of diversity, and ability to attract even higher levels major in French and a minor in math the importance of including people of students and a growing number cum laude in three years (1985) and that they feel have the true spirit of of them. Others have taken notice, earned her Duquesne law degree in Duquesne as their motive.” too, as rankings have improved. “It’s 1987. Jones has been involved with rewarding to see that and to know I “I spent time in high school in the many professional and civic can be part of seeing that grow,” she courtroom of Donetta Ambrose, who organizations in Allegheny County says. is also a Duquesne graduate, and and beyond, but always has “Marie has played an integral role she served as a role model to me,” earmarked a share of her time and on the board in moving the University Jones says of the judge who served on talents for Duquesne. President of forward,” says Charles J. Dougherty, the Westmoreland County Court of the University’s Alumni Board of Duquesne University president. Common Pleas before becoming chief Governors for six years, she joined “She is dedicated to her alma mater judge of the U.S. District Court in the the University’s Board of Directors and has served Duquesne in many Western District of Pennsylvania. for four years, starting in 1997. She important capacities. I look forward In her new capacity, Jones, too, has returned as vice chairman from 2003 to Marie’s leadership of the board and become a role model. “It’s personally until the present, and was named to working with her to build an even rewarding,” says Jones of her chairman effective July 1. greater Duquesne University.” chairmanship. “It’s an excellent sign The devotion of each board for the University, its founders and member to the University and

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Duquesne recently welcomed three new members to its Board of Directors: Esther L. Bush, Thomas B. Grealish, B’83, and Terrence S. Jacobs, B’65.

“We are grateful that these talented professionals will share their time and skills with Duquesne, helping us reach our goals and continue our mission,” says Charles J. Dougherty, University president.

Esther L. Bush Thomas B. Grealish Terrence S. Jacobs Bush is president and CEO Grealish is co-owner and Jacobs is president and CEO of of the Urban League of Greater president of Henderson Brothers, Penneco Oil Company, a mid-sized Pittsburgh, which provides a range Inc., one of the leading independent independent oil and gas producer of social services to more than insurance agencies in Pittsburgh headquartered in Delmont, Pa. He is 28,000 local residents each year. and surrounding regions. His late currently a director of LinnEnergy, During her tenure, she has initiated father, Thomas E. Grealish, was a LLC (NASDAQ-LINE) and CMS programs for home ownership, Duquesne alumnus, graduating Mid-Atlantic, Inc. He was a two-term youth development and adult with a business degree in 1947. His president of the Independent Oil professional development. She is late mother, Margaret Grealish, and Gas Association (IOGA) of PA nationally recognized as a strong received an honorary degree from from 1999 to 2001 and from 2003 to and vocal advocate for economic Duquesne in 1986. Grealish and his 2005, and is an incumbent director and social equality initiatives that family began the Thomas E. and of IOGA of PA. He is currently an benefit African-Americans. She is a Margaret A. Grealish Crew/Rowing Independent Petroleum Association member of the International Women’s Fund at Duquesne, which helped of America (IPAA) director-at-large Forum Board of Directors, a member to establish the school’s rowing and is chairman of the IPAA tax of the Pennsylvania State Board team and boathouse facility, and the committee. He was director of the of Education and a member of the Thomas E. Grealish Memorial Golf IPAA for the states of Delaware, Board of Directors of A+ Schools—an Outing, which continues to provide Maryland, Pennsylvania and New independent community alliance funding for the team. He is a member York-West from 2000 to 2008. He focused on improving student of the Duquesne Society and Fr. is active in many charitable and achievement in the Pittsburgh Public McAnulty Bequest Society, and he philanthropic activities and is a Schools. Bush serves on the Youth was inducted into the Century Club member of Oakmont Country Club Futures Commission, a newly formed of Distinguished Alumni in 1990. He and Laurel Valley Golf Club. He has commission whose mission is to is executive director and president of been married for 21 years to his wife, obtain a mentor for every 6th grade the Mario Lemieux Foundation and Sandra, and has two children, Brent, student in the Pittsburgh Public also chairman of the Mellon Mario 20, and Tyler, 18. Jacobs is a certified Schools system. Bush also serves as Lemieux Celebrity Golf Invitational, public accountant in the state of chairperson of the Board of Directors an event that has raised millions Pennsylvania. of the Urban League of Greater of dollars for cancer and neo-natal Pittsburgh Charter School, and she research. He is a member of the Board is an Honorary Advisory Council of Directors of the University of member for the Nonprofit Leadership Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and the Institute at Duquesne. Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.

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“Wearing his trademark ballcap, Yancy challenges students to re- examine racism and look at their own biases...”

34 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 against the odds Against the Odds DU Professor—One of a Handful of African-American Philosophers in his Field—Brings Unique Perspective, Background to the Classroom

– By Ro s e Ra v a s i o –

As one of the few African- of times,” says Yancy, who also uses how they thought it was,” he says. American philosophers in the field, another example of stepping into an Graduate philosophy students of Dr. George Yancy not only writes elevator with a white woman inside. Dr. Naomi Zack at the University of about racism, he lives with it. In Repeatedly, she will hold her purse Oregon had similar reactions to Black his newest book, Black Bodies, White closer or will look at him suspiciously Bodies, White Gazes, which served Gazes: The Continuing Significance in some way. “We want to talk about as a text for a seminar on race. “My of Race, Yancy reflects on personal racism in grander terms but in its students found it very interesting experiences that depict what it means everyday way of living, we experience because it really raised issues that to experience racism. that kind of thing.” they hadn’t even considered,” says An associate professor of When dealing with delicate and Zack, citing the elevator example. “I philosophy at Duquesne, Yancy sometimes uncomfortable topics think what George manages to do is specializes in critical race theory, with his students, Yancy often meets shift the discussion from people who African-American philosophy and “resistance.” think they are just going about their critical whiteness studies. Sitting in his “I think it’s unusual for them lives and protecting themselves to the office, he is surrounded by black-and- when they see a black professor effect of what they do on others.” white photos of noted black leaders, teaching this traditionally white As a black philosopher, Yancy including pictures of Martin Luther field, and particularly, a black is among a demographic that King, Jr. and Malcolm X. professor who is dealing with these only counts for 1 percent of the “Having their pictures, side by very sensitive issues around race and philosophers in North America. He side, reminds me of the power of racism,” he says. admits that he is an anomaly and has the possibility of unity, even in the Wearing his trademark ballcap, often been received as such since first face of great division,” says Yancy. Yancy challenges students to becoming interested in philosophy. “The pictures of these black historical re-examine racism and look at “I never would have guessed—in figures in my office is my way of their own biases using the teaching fact no one would have ever creating a space of familiarity.” method of “parrhesia,” which guessed—that I would have gone The importance of the familiar means fearless speech, to encourage into philosophy, let alone academia,” is surprising for a man who has students to explore what can be laughs Yancy, who was raised by his crossed uncharted racial lines, uncomfortable topics. mother, a seamstress, in the Richard moving from the projects of north “I have a way of engaging my Allen housing projects during the Philadelphia to the ivy-covered walls students without really sugarcoating 1960s and ‘70s. of Yale University. In the academic anything, and they particularly like He wanted to be like his father, an world, Yancy is a groundbreaking, this,” he says. “I am honest with auto mechanic who Yancy describes insightful voice. On the street, he is them about issues, whether it’s about as a dashing guy with a motorcycle, another black man. In his Duquesne sexism, racism, classism, you name it.” living free. But by his early teens, he classrooms and his latest book, Yancy’s classroom creates a safe wanted to be a pilot. He went so far Yancy draws from both space for students to begin exploring as joining the Air Force Junior ROTC. experiences. their own racism. “It opens them up Then one day, he literally opened the A personal example from in ways that they wouldn’t ordinarily book to a new page. Black Bodies, White Gazes and allows them to dig deep inside “When I was about 17, I remember discusses what happens themselves,” he says. “By the time looking for the ‘pilot’ entry in the ‘P’ when he walks near a car they finish my course, they are saying, encyclopedia, and I just happened to with white people in ‘I have to rethink this.’” stumble across the word philosophy,” it. “I’ll hear that door Initially, many students says Yancy. “The term philosophy lock, and it’s not just mistakenly view racism as an act, comes from two Greek words, ‘philo’ one or two times, then grow to see it differently. and ‘sophia,’ which together mean it’s a whole lot “They discover that racism is not love of wisdom. It made me reflect

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But after a few years at Yale, Yancy as long as we continue to undergo new began to feel out of his element amid and challenging experiences.” the wealth and elitism and left before Three years later, Wisnesck still completing his Ph.D. He returned ponders that thought. “This concept to Philadelphia, where he worked is absolutely timeless, and can be briefly as a therapist and also for applied to all people regardless of the Philadelphia Tribune, the nation’s age, sex, race, religious background oldest African-American newspaper, or class,” she says. “I will never forget writing about religion, philosophy the impact his class had on my life.” and existentialism. He continued Outside the classroom, Yancy his other writings, publishing the works to help and encourage blacks award-winning African-American already in the field of philosophy. Philosophers: 17 Conversations in 1998. Other books he’s published include An unprecedented text, the book Philosophy in Multiple Voices, White features 17 black philosophers, and on White/Black on Black and What information on what brought them White Looks Like: African-American into the field. Philosophers on the Whiteness Question. Yancy arrived at Duquesne in Yancy is an ex officio member 1999, after his wife, Susan, convinced of the American Philosophical back into my past and begin to look at him to finish his Ph.D. He took time Association’s Committee on Blacks in the kinds of questions that I often was off from Duquesne to earn a master’s Philosophy, which monitors the status asking.” in Africana studies from New York of black philosophers. In addition, As a child, he often peppered his University in 2004. After being told Yancy is co-editor of the committee’s mom with questions like, “How do we by NYU that it couldn’t be done, biannual newsletter, The American know if God exists?” and “How do we Yancy earned his master’s in just one Philosophical Association Newsletter on prove that God exists?” Yancy says he academic year, commuting to New Philosophy and the Black Experience, inherited his mother’s passion, but his York from Pittsburgh twice a week on which features works by young curiosity and proclivity for intellectual a red-eye bus. African-American philosophers. engagement comes from his father. After earning his Ph.D. in “Dr. Yancy has the uncanny Statistically, Yancy knew the odds 2005, Yancy was hired as a faculty ability to create a conversation—via of him entering the field were stacked member by Duquesne’s philosophy his several published collections against him. When reading the entry department. “Now that I teach, I of interviews and articles—among on philosophy, Yancy noticed that it know I’ve found my calling,” he says. scholars about issues of race, and showed photos of only white men. “What I really like now is when my then in his own work to continue the “Only later did I come to think about students show initiative and boldness discussion in creative and challenging this critically,” he recalls. “So when of thinking, and where they have directions,” says Dr. James Swindal, I discovered philosophy, I assumed internalized that notion of parrhesia chair of philosophy at Duquesne. I was the only black interested in and give it back to me, where they “He has proved to be a very popular philosophy.” speak with this kind of fearlessness. teacher. Moreover, his influence Yancy’s math teacher helped him They don’t feel intimidated because I clearly extends beyond his writings connect with a philosophy professor let them know, ‘Hey, I’m like you,’ and and his classroom to a world in which at Philadelphia’s La Salle University. I remind them that I too was once an his ideas can take root in individual Yancy sat in on an introductory undergraduate.” actions and social practices.” philosophy course and continued These methods and his gift for Years after first reading that in the field at the University of relating to his students make Yancy a encyclopedia entry on philosophy, Pittsburgh’s Honors Philosophy favorite in the classroom. Yancy no longer questions whether Program. Following his ambition, “Dr. Yancy has this incredible there is a place for him in the field. Yancy accepted a full scholarship passion for philosophy, and his evident “I see myself as part of this to Yale, where he would earn his enthusiasm about what we covered tradition of really creating this rupture master’s in philosophy and work in class grabbed my attention,” says in traditional European or Anglo- on his Ph.D. “At Yale, for the first Michele Wisnesck, a 2009 graduate American philosophy and saying, time, I was in the company of two of the Palumbo•Donahue School of ‘Look, there is this whole area that you other black philosophers, so things Business. have missed,’” he says. “And it’s very had begun to shift for me in terms of Wisnesck, who took Yancy’s important to intellectual history, to being physically in the presence of course as a freshman, still posts the American history, to know what these other blacks at the Ph.D. level and following quote from one of his books black philosophers were doing, to learning about the early blacks who on her Facebook wall: “This makes it know what they were thinking about.” had received Ph.D.s in philosophy,” incredibly clear to me that the meaning he says. of our past is never closed or complete

36 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 drug-resistant bacteria Drug-resistant Bacteria Targeted by DU Professor The fight against drug-resistant the discovery of novel antibacterial University. Other bacteria is being waged in a agents highly critical.” members of the super-computing lab at Duquesne Evanseck’s work focuses on a team will use his University. detailed computational investigation information to Dr. Jeffrey Evanseck, Lauritis of one of the enzymes found in understand how Chair of Teaching and Technology microbial purine biosynthesis—a the enzymes work and a professor of chemistry at promising but unexplored area of and how to design Duquesne, in collaboration with Dr. antimicrobial drug design. compounds that Steven Firestine, a former Duquesne Purines are critical components of thwart the enzymes’ pharmacy faculty member now at many biological systems, including functions. Wayne State University in Detroit, RNA, DNA and cellular energy, “Since the 1960s, deaths from is working on a $1.3 million project Evanseck explains. Cells die if they infectious diseases have increased, funded by the National Institutes fail to synthesize purines. Fortunately, to the point where more people are of Health (NIH) to disarm these microorganisms have two enzymes dying each year in the United States microorganisms and help to spare needed to synthesize purines that are from antibiotic-resistant infections the 19,000 lives lost each year to not found in humans, creating a weak than from complications from antibiotic-resistant infections. link for researchers to attack. the AIDS virus,” says Dr. David “Unfortunately, in the last 40 “If scientists can discover Seybert, dean of the Bayer School of years, only two new classes of compounds that inhibit these Natural and Environmental Sciences. antibiotics have been introduced to enzymes, the agents would selectively “Infectious diseases, along with the the public, and resistance to these kill microorganisms but have little risk of bioterrorist attacks, remain a agents is already known,” says effect on humans,” says Evanseck. huge threat. Through this research, Evanseck, who also is director of the Over the next four years, Evanseck Duquesne is helping to meet the Center for Computational Sciences, or will use computer models to interpret, growing need for new, effective super-computing center, at Duquesne. predict and test experimental drug antimicrobial agents.” “This makes research exploring designs produced by Wayne State

CTE Awards Recognize Outstanding Professors

– By Ke l s e y So b i e c k i –

The Duquesne University Center different special education programs. with unique mock codes depending for Teaching Excellence (CTE) She created a multistep, case-based on the actions/treatment decisions recognized outstanding teachers at approach to the courses that made by the students. The code its annual Celebration of Teaching emphasizes serving K–12 special was videotaped and replayed to Excellence earlier this year. The education students with emotional participants in a debriefing session. awards honor faculty members who and behavioral disorders. Direct Overall, scores were significantly have developed an innovative way of and indirect evidence is used to greater on the post-test than on the teaching and assessed its impact on demonstrate the impact on Duquesne pre-test. student learning. student learning, including select In addition to the Creative This year’s Creative Teaching components of a Positive Behavior Teaching Awards, the Graduate Award winners are: Dr. Lisa Jo Support Plan, sample field reports Student Awards for Excellence in Vernon-Dotson, assistant professor to classroom teachers, faculty peer Teaching were given at the event. in the School of Education and evaluation and select comments from These awards promote and reward Department of Counseling, students. teaching effectiveness by graduate Psychology and Special Education; Simko has instituted a “mock students. This year’s recipients are and Dr. Lynn Simko, clinical associate code” simulation experience for Allen Kotun, biological sciences; professor in the School of Nursing. undergraduate nursing students. The Claire Barbetti, English; Christina Vernon-Dotson’s Supportive students were given a pre-test and McDowell, communication and Environments for Social and then attended lectures on advanced rhetorical studies; and Nakpangi Emotional Learning and Behavior cardiac life support guidelines. Johnson, pharmacy. Disorder courses are offered to Then, each student was assigned master’s level students in two a role involved in a code situation,

www.duq.edu 37 italian campus Italian Campus Program to Celebrate 10th Anniversary

– By Ra n d y Co l e –

The Office of International Programs is planning a celebration next year to mark the 10th anniversary of the Italian Campus program and to recognize the more than 1,000 students who have studied there. Open to all alumni of the program and all Duquesne alumni, as well as University faculty, staff and friends, special events are being planned for October 2010 that include a campus celebration; a private tour of the Sistine Chapel and other special Rome venues not open to the public; as well as an optional four-day extension to Pompeii, Vesuvius, the Amalfi Coast, Paestum and Capri. “The weekend will be filled with events that current and former students can enjoy with faculty, staff and friends of Duquesne,” says Dr. Roberta Aronson, director of the Office of International Programs. “The program has come a long way in 10 years, and the campus is beautiful.” When the Italian Campus opened in January 2001 in a hotel in Rome’s Vitinia neighborhood, there was little indication as to how the fledgling program would fare. By 2004, however, the campus had outgrown its Vitinia home, and the program moved to share quarters with the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, a convent in Rome’s Boccea neighborhood. The permanent location was dedicated on Oct. 9, 2004. Duquesne President Charles J. Dougherty, along with members of the University’s Board of Directors, faculty, staff and guests were on hand to celebrate the inaugural gala. The Italian Campus program, which offers undergraduates a chance to spend a semester immersed in one of the world’s most culturally rich cities while fulfilling their Duquesne core requirements, is a great growing experience for students. “The students experience an intellectual waking up,” says Aronson. Michael Wright, director for the Italian Campus program, agrees. “The language, the culture—all of these things are big growth experiences for the students. It’s great to see the confidence and maturity they gain by the time they leave. It will be great to see so many of them come back together for this anniversary.” A stateside celebration is also being planned. For more information on the Italian Campus program and for updates about the 10th anniversary celebration, visit http://www.duq.edu/italiancampus.

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1. On May 27, former Pittsburgh Steeler player and sportscaster Jerome Bettis visited Duquesne to congratulate middle school students who completed a program sponsored by The Jerome Bettis Bus Stops Here Foundation, Duquesne University and Pittsburgh Public Schools. Bettis acknowledged the accomplishments of 38 middle school students who completed the program, awarding them certificates and overseeing distribution of a free computer to each.

2. More than 1,500 students participated in Duquesne’s 2009 Commencement ceremony in May.

3. At this year’s Summertime Jazz Concert, which took place July 29 in the Power Center Ballroom, Chris Martin (center), chairman and CEO of Martin Guitar Company, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from 2 the Guitar Department of the Mary Pappert School of Music. With Martin are faculty members Bill Purse (left), chair of the guitar program, and Mark Koch, assistant chair.

4. Joe Negri, a member of the guitar faculty of the Mary Pappert School of Music and one of Pittsburgh’s most popular entertainers, was one of the featured performers at this year’s Summertime Jazz Concert.

5. The recent “Stepping Into Spring” fashion show sponsored by The Women’s Guild of Duquesne 3 University raised approximately $17,000, which was distributed to Spiritan Campus Ministry, used to help students in emergency situations and also used to host 4 a September event for mothers of freshman students. Shown modeling is Brittnea Turner, who works in the University’s Office of Management and Business.

6. Duquesne University music professor and jazz trumpeter Sean Jones (fourth from left), jazz great Wynton Marsalis and others provided the first in the ongoing cultural series at the White House, at the invitation of First Lady Michelle Obama. About 150 middle and high school instrumental students were brought into the White House for educational sessions in a jazz studio workshop. A concert topped the June 15 event. 5

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victories, the Dukes participated in Update the postseason for the first time when they accepted a bid to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. The Dukes lose only one player Athletics from last season’s 20-12 team—two- time A-10 Defensive Player of the excelled in the postseason, averaging Basketball Year and First-Team All-Conference 14.8 ppg. in five games. guard Kristi Little (15.3 ppg.). With The men’s and women’s Jason Duty, DU’s lone senior and the graduation of Little, sophomores basketball teams have generated a lot fourth returning starter, finished Jaclyn Babe and Vanessa Abel are of excitement following spectacular fourth in the A-10 in 3-point shooting expected to battle for the point guard seasons earlier this year. What can percentage (.414). Duty, who leads spot. Babe played in all 32 games as a we expect for the upcoming seasons? all returnees with 79 games played, true freshman, while Abel, who is in Following are brief outlooks: was rewarded this offseason with her first season with the Dukes, was a a scholarship after playing his first prolific scorer in high school. three seasons as a walk-on. The Dukes will return four of Sophomore point guard Eric their top five scorers in seniors Rachel Evans, a four-time A-10 Rookie of Frederick (7.9 ppg.) and Keri Pryor the Week in ’09, will fill the shoes of (10.3 ppg.), junior Samantha Pollino Jackson. Multitalented sophomore (10.8 ppg.) and sophomore Alex swingman B.J. Monteiro is also Gensler (8.6 ppg.). expected to provide depth at both Adding experience and depth off guard and forward. the bench will be seniors Eve Pyle, Incoming freshmen Andre Samantha Thompson and Amanda Marhold (6-6, F) and Sean Johnson Peck, as well as junior Kelly Britcher. (6-2, G) will bolster the front and New to the squad are freshman Men backcourt respectively. In addition, guards Jocelyn Floyd (20.8 ppg.) 6-8 Rodrigo Peggau, who played in and Ahjah Hall (9.0 ppg.), freshman Last season, the Duquesne men’s five games last season as a freshman forward Carly Vendemia (24.5 ppg.) basketball team was the surprise of before undergoing season-ending and junior center Diana Voynova (6.0 the Atlantic 10 in advancing to the knee surgery, is expected to be back. ppg.), a transfer from Jefferson (Mo.) NIT for the first time since 1994. Added size will come in the form Junior College. Eleven players, including eight of of sophomore Morakinyo Williams, the top nine scorers, return from that a 7-0, 265-pound transfer from National Invitation Tournament team. Kentucky, who will be eligible in Fourth-year head coach Ron Everhart 2009-10. is hoping the experience gained will help ease the loss of leading scorer and 2009 team leader Aaron Jackson (19.3 ppg.), who is currently playing professionally in Turkey. Junior forward Damian Saunders leads a group of four returning starters. The 6-7 Connecticut native averaged 13.1 points per game in leading DU in rebounding and blocks DU Coach Part of Lacrosse while setting a school single-season World Cup record with 71 steals in ’09. Junior Bill Clark showed marked Duquesne lacrosse assistant coach improvement in leading the team Women Gina Oliver was one of 18 women’s with 66 3-pointers made. Clark was players selected to compete for the at his best in conference play where The 2009-10 Duquesne women’s United States in the 2009 Federation he averaged 15.4 ppg. and shot a basketball team is coming off of International Lacrosse World Cup, team-best .542. arguably the greatest season in the which was held June 17-27 in Prague, Sophomore Melquan Bolding, a history of the program. In addition Czech Republic. The Americans member of the A-10 All-Rookie Team, to setting a program record with 20 had to hold off defending champion Australia, 8-7, in the finals to win their sixth overall gold medal and Basketball season tickets— including a special $75 men’s basketball first since 2001. Oliver, who finished season offer—are available by calling the Duquesne Ticket Office at the World Cup with 13 ground balls 412.232.DUKE(3853). and 11 caused turnovers, was named to the All-World Team.

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DU Students Score on the Field, On the Ice Athletic Training Students Work with Pittsburgh’s Champion Teams

– By Ki m b e r l y Sa u n d e r s –

Pittsburgh sports fans enjoyed a very good year, witnessing both the Steelers’ Super Bowl victory and the “Working with Penguins’ Stanley Cup triumph. But even the most loyal fans world-class athletes couldn’t get as close to the action as two of Duquesne’s athletic training (AT) students. As part of their athletic provided me with training clinical rotations in their senior year, Peter Malamet and Kyle a unique look into Leister, both 2009 graduates, were part of the health care staff for these championship teams. how athletes at the athletic training rotation with the Malamet was placed with the Pittsburgh Penguins. He worked with Steelers beginning with training camp highest possible the team from Aug. 26, 2008, through in May 2008 through the victory Jan. 1, 2009, and was invited back for parade in February 2009. Although the Pens’ postseason play from May 6 the Duquesne Athletic Training level deal with through June 12. program has had a relationship with “Working with world-class the Pittsburgh Steelers since 1994, injuries, stresses, athletes provided me with a unique these clinical rotations are extremely look into how athletes at the highest competitive. possible level deal with injuries, rehabilitation and stresses, rehabilitation and injury prevention,” says Leister, a native injury prevention.” Pittsburgher. Both Leister and Malamet, who traveled with the teams, agreed that the most memorable part of their medical supplies, taped and stretched rotations were the championship the athletes before practice, and games. But they also acknowledged monitored them for injuries that may the challenge of striking the right occur on the field. balance between school work and In addition, Malamet gained their rotations. hands-on experience with highly “The professors at Duquesne had specialized modalities and faith that I could handle this huge “Only students with excellent rehabilitation equipment, such as an responsibility, and I thank them for academic and clinical evaluations are underwater treadmill for rehabbing their trust,” says Leister. encouraged to apply for the clinical lower body injuries and bone growth Graduating from Duquesne’s experiences with the professional stimulators for fractures. Athletic Training program in May teams. They must interview with the “Athletic trainers for pro teams 2009 was just the beginning of a athletic training and coaching staffs basically have much more medical health care career for both of these of the organizations, and often, they technology and resources at their new alums. Malamet, who works are asked to demonstrate their clinical disposal. Not only do the athletes as an EMT and personal trainer, has skills during those interviews,” get the best care possible, they get it set his sights on medical school for explains Paula Turocy, EdD, ATC, immediately. They can immediately the future. Leister is working as a chair of the AT Department. have diagnostic tests and see a physical therapist aide and hopes to Working under the direct physician or other medical specialist enter a physical therapy program in supervision of the team’s head within hours of suffering an injury,” 2010. athletic trainer and medical he says. professionals, Malamet assisted Leister was one of the first two with rehabilitation, set up water and Duquesne students to complete an

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DU is State’s First Academic that relies on ice storage, the and cooling, Duquesne also has a Institution to Earn EPA first of its kind in a Pittsburgh proactive green cleaning program, Energy Star Award academic institution. Additionally, a goal to observe LEED principles the University supplements its in new construction and major Duquesne’s cogeneration plant has own power with renewable energy renovation projects, and growing received the Energy Star Combined credits, so the campus relies 100 recycling and green purchasing Heat and Power (CHP) Award from percent on clean energy. initiatives. In the academic sphere, Duquesne has an award-winning the U.S. Environmental Protection Earlier this year, the EPA recognized Agency (EPA). MBA Sustainability program, as well Duquesne for the second as a community-minded Center The cogeneration plant is the first consecutive year as the 2008-2009 for Environmental Research and and only approved onsite distribution Individual Conference Champion for Education. system for creating alternative purchasing more green power than energy credits in Pennsylvania and any other school in the Atlantic 10 has led to an operating efficiency Conference. Duquesne Projects Receive of 65 to 70 percent. This, in effect, Duquesne beat its conference rivals Telly Awards reduces greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing nearly 13 million comparable to the yearly emissions kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, Duquesne from nearly 1,700 cars. representing 28 percent of the projects focusing on a The Energy Star CHP Award school’s annual electricity usage. cross-country recognizes organizations that install Duquesne is buying renewable trip and Pope exceptionally efficient CHP systems energy certificates from Direct Energy Benedict XVI’s reducing energy use, air pollution and Community Energy, which visit to the and greenhouse gas emissions. helps to reduce the environmental impacts associated with the campus’ United States Duquesne uses a 5 megawatt purchased electricity use. have won three hour, natural gas turbine to power, Telly Awards, cool and heat the bulk of campus. Besides purchasing renewable which honor Integrated into the system is a energy and generating much of its the very best local, regional and cable highly efficient cooling process own electricity for power, heating television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions.

James Vota, instructor in Duquesne’s Department of Journalism and Multimedia Arts (JMA), has received two Bronze Telly Awards for his documentation of a cross-country trip.

Vota served as a producer and director for ALT Project, a film named for the alternate routes the crew of Duquesne students used while traveling across the United States. The documentary captures the lives of small-town America, with topics ranging from green technology to Native American reservations sites.

A news-documentary about Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United

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States in 2008, produced by 13 sustainability business services of Music at Duquesne University. Duquesne JMA students, has received practice. The day’s events will also Each performance is preceded by a a Bronze Telly Award as an outstanding feature a CEO forum and a panel pre-concert event at 2:15 p.m. For documentary. discussion. more information, call 412.396.6083 or visit www.music.duq.edu/ Under the direction of Dr. Dennis For reservations and more frenchseasons. Woytek, assistant professor, and information, visit www.duq.edu/ instructor/WTAE-TV newscaster sustainabilitysymposium, or call Mike Clark, students created Christ Courtney Cox, 412.396.5831. Entrepreneur’s Growth Our Hope: The Pilgrimage of the Pope, a 52-minute DVD about Pope Conference Takes on the Benedict’s trips to Washington, D.C., School of Pharmacy Places Challenges of the New and New York City. These DU students Second in State Competition Economy comprised the only college TV crew among 600 credentialed reporters. Earlier this year, the Mylan School Revised business strategies and the of Pharmacy placed second in the latest tools, resources and ideas for Woytek also received a Telly in state of Pennsylvania against six dealing with the new economy was the 2007 for a documentary about a other schools in the third annual focus of the 11th annual Entrepreneur’s nine-day pilgrimage of Pittsburghers OTC (Over-The-Counter) Product Growth Conference held on June 4 at to Medjugorje, where visions of Jeopardy competition. The team Duquesne. the Blessed Virgin Mary have been consisted of Aaron Bagnola, reported. Keynote speaker Jim Rudolph, chief Bryan Kudlawiec and J.J. Leffler. executive officer of Rita’s Franchise DVD copies of Christ Our Hope are The competition, which was held Company and previous owner of 47 available by contacting the Department in Harrisburg, Pa., at the annual Pittsburgh-area Wendy’s, addressed of Journalism and Multimedia Arts at Pennsylvania Pharmacist Association innovation and offered insight on 412.396.1311. Cost is $20. meeting, consisted of two rounds surviving and thriving in the face of of questions pertaining to over- tough economic times. the-counter medications, dietary Beard Symposium on supplements and various treatments. Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi, founder and Sustainability Set for president of Compunetics Inc., shared his entrepreneurial insights, discussed November Second/Final Season of his path to success and offered tips about what he learned along the way The third annual Beard Symposium Musique on the Bluff: The during his lunchtime keynote address on Sustainability, organized by French Seasons Slated at the conference. Compunetics is a the Palumbo-Donahue School of leader in the design and manufacture Business, is titled Sustainability: The Mary Pappert School of Music of printed circuit boards for the Your Bridge to the Future, and will will present the second and final commercial and defense markets. take place on Nov. 10 at the Westin season of Musique on the Bluff: Convention Center in Pittsburgh. The French Seasons during the This year’s conference, which was 2009–2010 academic year. David sponsored by Duquesne’s Small This year’s symposium, which will Allen Wehr, holder of the Jack W. Business Development Center, featured focus on using sustainability for Geltz Distinguished Piano Chair, will new strategies on the economy, value creation and risk reduction perform in each of the concerts in including seizing opportunity, new in business, will have two keynote the schedule: marketing tactics and tips about raising speakers. The morning address will Chausson Showcase money. be by Andrew Winston, co-author of Sunday, Oct. 18 Green to Gold and author of Green Principally Poulenc Recovery. The luncheon speaker Sunday, Jan. 24 will be Andrew Savitz, author of The Debussy Diversely Triple Bottom Line—How Today’s Sunday, Feb. 14 Best-Run Companies are Achieving Ravel Revue Economic, Social and Environmental Sunday, March 14 Success. Each concert of Musique on the Winston is a widely quoted Bluff: The French Seasons has a expert on green business, and $10 suggested donation and will Savitz is the former head of take place on Sunday at 3 p.m. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global in PNC Recital Hall in the School

www.duq.edu 43 figures from the past Figures From the Past Dr. Hugh C. Muldoon

Dr. Hugh C. Muldoon was the Muldoon dedicated his life to the first dean of the Mylan School of building of the School of Pharmacy. Pharmacy and served from 1925 to He said that as a student he never 1955. He came to Duquesne from saw the dean of the pharmacy a position as dean of the School of school where he studied until Pharmacy at Valparaiso University. commencement and vowed that The School of Pharmacy had been would never be the case at Duquesne. on the planning list since 1910. It He wanted to know “what each opened in September 1925, and it student is doing each day.” With won the approval of the Pennsylvania apparent boundless energy, he State Board of Pharmacy that same appeared to come close to doing that. year. In addition, the school met all Plus, he authored a 648-page text, the requirements of the American Organic Chemistry, in 1948. Muldoon’s Association of Colleges of Pharmacy national reputation was such that he and set what were viewed as high was chosen as one of five American individual standards from the start. experts by the Headquarters of the presenting teaching methods and Muldoon was not only a prolific Supreme Commander of the Allied scientific information for Catholic scholar and author, he also was editor Powers for a summer pharmaceutical high school teachers. The publication of Science Counselor and advisory mission to occupied Japan. was so popular that by 1942 other editor of the American Pharmacy Muldoon did much to advance Catholic colleges, including St. textbook series. He was an able the pharmacy school’s reputation Bonaventure, Villanova and Loyola administrator and an innovative through his radio broadcasts. His first of Los Angeles, had begun similar teacher as well. His Pharmaceutical program, How Medicine Began, was publications. Association, instituted to keep broadcast over station KDKA in 1935 In 1953, he was awarded the students current on new developments in celebration of National Pharmacy Remington Honor Medal in Pharmacy in the field and to give them Week. From this initial broadcast for outstanding service as an educator, experience in addressing large groups, followed a weekly presentation author and scientist. Suffering from later became a student branch of the entitled Your Good Health. Muldoon terminal cancer, Muldoon resigned the American Pharmaceutical Association. was also very active in science deanship in 1955 and died less than He also started the annual Pharmacy education at the high school as well one year later. Night Program to demonstrate to the as the college level. In 1935, he began public and non-pharmacy students the publication of The Science Counselor, – Ex c e r p t e d f r o m Th e Spirit t h a t importance of the field. a nationwide quarterly publication Gi v e s Li f e , b y Dr. Jo s e p h F. Ri s h e l , Pr o f e s s o r o f Hi s t o r y –

Peeking INTO THE PAST

By November 1961, St. Martin’s Hall was under construction on Bluff Street. It was named after one of DU’s early presidents, the Reverend Martin Hehir, C.S.Sp. The dorm housed 557 students and featured three elevators, individual mail lockers, a commons room on each floor, a main recreation room, laundry facilities and telephones. In this photo, the new building and Assumption Hall (shown to the right) are separated from campus by a row of homes that were still privately owned.

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1950s Alumni Spotlight Robert A. Warwick, B’56, and his wife, Gretchen, recently welcomed their 18th Fred Young, A’65, was recently honored with grandchild, Catherine Grace. Another the Golden Quill’s lifetime achievement award in granddaughter, Abigail, was accepted at recognition of his longtime television news career. St. Agnes High School in Houston, which He moved up through the ranks at Pittsburgh’s brings the total to 33 Catholic schools WTAE-TV, starting in the newsroom and ending attended by the family. up serving as the senior vice president of news for WTAE’s parent company, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc. Thomas J. Ward, B’58, was named the Under his direction, his news organization has won many of television’s 2009 recipient of the Nora Barry Fischer Award, an internal award established by the highest awards for excellence in journalism. Young has captured many firm of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & journalism awards, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Raspanti, LLP, to annually “recognize an Duquesne Department of Journalism at its 60th anniversary celebration attorney within the firm who has given back and the Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors to the legal profession and the community Association (he is only the second local broadcaster to receive the award at large.” Thomas is a special counsel in the 53 years the award has been given). He was also inducted into the in the firm’s business practice group. Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in May. He serves on the board of the Allegheny David J. Barrett, president and CEO of Hearst-Argyle, described Young’s County Bar Foundation’s Pittsburgh contributions to the millions of viewers the company’s stations serve: Pro Bono Partnership and has handled “His imprint on our company is indelible thanks to the high standards approximately 45 cases for indigent citizens he has set for our local journalism, his passionate commitment to integrity over the past four years. He is president of the board of Pittsburgh Catholic Publishing and quality, and his mentoring of some of the very best news people in Associates (the publisher of The Pittsburgh television, both within our company and throughout the industry. He is Catholic), past board president of the unquestionably the most well respected executive in local television news, Catholic Charities of Pittsburgh and a and his contributions over the years have helped to define success for our member of Duquesne University’s Century company.” Club of Distinguished Alumni.

1960s “his professionalism when dealing with have exemplified excellence in leadership TEI members in his capacity as a past as a result of caring more than others think Silvano Correa, A’62, has published, IRS appeals team chief, and for his many is practical and expecting more than others in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Minhas Cartas: years of coordinating and conducting think is possible.” Expressoes de um idealista 1958-2008, continuing education for CPAs in western Merrie (Spor) Aiken, E’68, and her a collection of letters that he wrote and Pennsylvania.” husband, Edward Aiken, own and operate were published in newspapers, magazines Victory Equine Centre International, Inc., and journals in the United States and Lucas J. Amato, SFO, GE’65, a member and Cedar Ridge Farm Egyptian Arabians, Brazil—including Time Magazine, The of the Third Order of St. Francis, has LLC, in Frederick, Md. At Victory Equine Pittsburgh Press and others—that detail written Scriptural Meditations. The booklet Centre, they offer riding lessons, birthday his social and political concerns during the gives instructions in how to use passages and corporate parties, writers’ workshops last 50 years. from Scripture to meditate while saying the Divine Mercy Chaplet, the Franciscan and stress management using horses. At Carol (Mamula) Morgan, A’63, Crown, the Seven Sorrows of Mary or the Cedar Ridge Farm, they have bred top completed a watercolor workshop taught Rosary, including the Mysteries of Light. bloodlines in Egyptian Arabian horses since by nationally recognized watercolorist He lives in Sun City Center, Fla., where he 1984. (www.VictoryEquineCentre.com or John Salminen. He has won numerous regularly practices all four devotions. www.crfegypt.com ) awards for his urban scenes, which Carol has begun to paint this year. She regularly Clare E. Wherley, CPA, CFP, A’66, is exhibits her work in galleries and stores in chief executive officer of Lassus Wherley, 1970s the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. a wealth management firm with offices in New Providence, N.J., and Bonita Springs, David J. Brightbill, JD’70, along with Robert Sladack, B’63, was the recipient Fla. She was recently honored as one Thomas A. Bowen, talked about state of the 2009 Tax Executives Institute of the 2009 Women of Achievement by and local tax reform issues as guest (TEI) - Pittsburgh Distinguished Service Business & Professional Women of New presenters at a conference sponsored by Award. The award was in recognition of Jersey. The awards “celebrate women who the Reading chapter of the Pennsylvania

www.duq.edu 45 Patrice Plesh DeMartino, E’74, received Alumni Spotlight a doctorate in education (Education, Leadership, Management & Policy) from JoAnn K. Adams, GE’79, has been named senior Seton Hall University. vice president of global human resources for outdoor products provider The Coleman Company, Inc. Joan Ellenbogen, CPA, B’76, JD’81, She joined Coleman from Global Turnkey Solutions, managing partner of CrawfordEllenbogen LLC, has been named Distinguished a global supply chain outsourcing business, where Accounting Alumnus for 2008 by the she led a team located throughout North America, accounting faculty of Duquesne’s Asia-Pacific and Europe. Her focus was on change A.J. Palumbo School of Business management, operational excellence, human capital management and Administration. She was also inducted as global talent assessment. an honorary member of the Beta Alpha Adams has an array of experience and successes in Fortune 500 Psi accounting honors society, Duquesne companies, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Rockwell University chapter. International. The overall scope of her experience includes a track record Joseph A. Napoli, A’77, JD’82, senior of building effective organizations with focus on strategic issues. She general attorney – corporate, United States is experienced in the areas of organizational development and design, Steel Corporation, was elected president compensation and benefits, employee relations and diversity initiatives. of the Western Pennsylvania chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) for 2009. ACC serves the professional needs of attorneys who practice in the legal Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Robert J. Marino, A’73, JD’79, departments of corporations and other December. Senator Brightbill has 30 years shareholder, Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, private sector organizations worldwide. of experience in the general practice of law P.C., has become a fellow of the American plus 24 years as a state legislator, including College of Trial Lawyers. Membership of Sally Griffith Cimini, A’79, JD’86, six as both the senate majority leader the college is “composed of the best of chairperson of the employment and labor and the chairman of the Environmental the trial bar from the United States and services group of the Pittsburgh law firm Resources and Energy Committee. Canada.” Fellowship in the college is Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, extended by invitation only and only after P.C., has achieved advanced practitioner Eugene P. Trudell, E’70, has retired as careful investigation, to those experienced member status in the national Association vice president-business services for United trial lawyers who have mastered the art for Conflict Resolution (ACR). She is States Steel Corporation. In his most of advocacy and whose professional “one of just three workplace mediators recent post, he was responsible globally careers have been marked by the in Pennsylvania who have completed for information technology, process control highest standards of ethical conduct, the stringent ACR training and met the and other administrative functions. His professionalism, civility and collegiality.” experience requirements to earn this retirement press release noted that: “His He has been practicing in Pittsburgh for premier status.” She mediates for litigants efforts have contributed significantly to almost 30 years, has been elected to under the ADR programs of the U.S. our ability to seamlessly conduct business the Federation of Defense & Corporate District Court for the Western District of at locations around the world and have Counsel, and for the past several years Pennsylvania, the U.S. Equal Opportunity helped us maintain our reputation for being has been named in The Best Lawyers Commission, the American Arbitration an industry leader in the use of technology in America in the field of personal injury Association, UPMC Intermediation Panel, at all levels of our company.” litigation. and also mediates for private parties.

43rd Annual College Fair 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 A.J. Palumbo Center

This Duquesne tradition offers local high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to meet with over 150 of the best colleges and universities in the country. A financial aid representative will also be available. Duquesne University’s College Fair is the largest fall event of its kind in the Pittsburgh area and attracts thousands of local students as they visit Duquesne’s campus and learn more about the college admissions process. For more information, please visit www.admissions.duq.edu.

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Assisting law students, both 1980s financially and otherwise, is of Fall Open House Cynthia A. Baldwin, JD’80, partner in paramount importance to the Law the trial practice group of Duane Morris Alumni Association, which has 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. LLP, in Pittsburgh, received the Anne made significant contributions Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009 towards that objective. At X. Alpern Award. She was recognized for “her excellence and leadership in the conclusion of his term as the legal profession and her significant president, he will be honored to professional impact on women in the law.” serve as a speaker at the law Before joining Duane Morris, she served school’s commencement in June as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme 2010. A former prosecutor in the Court for two years and as a judge of Westmoreland County District the Allegheny County Court of Common Attorney’s Office for nine years, Pleas for 16 years. She is the first African- Gino is entering his 29th year in the American woman to be elected judge on private practice of law. the Allegheny County Court of Common Robert S. Bernstein, JD’81, Pleas and the second African-American of Bernstein Law Firm, P.C., has woman to be a justice on the Pennsylvania been recertified by the American Supreme Court. She practices in the Board of Certification as a area of litigation with a focus on appellate creditors’ rights law specialist for litigation and nonprofit governance. She is an additional five years. He has also an emeritus member of the Board of been certified as both a creditors’ Directors of Duquesne University and has rights specialist and a business taught and lectured in the United States This exciting experience provides a bankruptcy specialist since 1992. and internationally. fun and informative day for current Bernstein Law Firm, with its main high school seniors and their office in Pittsburgh and satellite Gino F. Peluso, JD’80, was recently parent/s to meet representatives from installed as president of the Duquesne offices throughout Pennsylvania, admissions, financial aid, academic and University Law Alumni Association. His has a national reach in bankruptcy duties include presiding at meetings and restructuring and in creditors’ administrative departments. There will with the Board of Governors, along with rights. be self-guided tours, music, food and attending and speaking at law alumni many other opportunities to learn about Karen Litzinger, B’81, was events in cities including Pittsburgh, college admissions procedures, classes, recently named as a master career Philadelphia, New York City and majors and career opportunities. development professional by the Washington, D.C., in order to stay National Career Development connected with alumni and enhance the Register online and see the day’s Association. reputation of the law school. He has also itinerary at www.admissions.duq.edu or been appointed to the advisory board of Terry DeCarbo, E’82, principal of call 412.396.6222 for more information. the Duquesne University School of Law Independent Hill School and PACE and is a trustee of the scholarship fund. East School, has been selected

Alumni Spotlight Paul M. Kvederis, A’59, recently completed his first book, Poems from the Stump, a collection of poems and other writings developed over several decades relating to nature, the outdoors, love and concern for others. Kvederis is a retired public relations manager who spent almost 20 years working for Consolidation Coal Company (now CONSOL Energy Inc.). He also was a member and a chairman of the public relations committee of the Pennsylvania Coal Association, and a member of the West Virginia Press Association and the Illinois Press Association. During his working years, he was active in community affairs, serving on many nonprofit boards. As president and public relations chairman of the Bethel-St. Clair Rotary Club, he helped launch Rotary International’s 1980s campaign to stop the spread of polio throughout the world. He also was public relations coordinator for the Boy Scouts of America Diamond Jubilee Skill-o-Rama. Kvederis and his wife, JoAnn, reside in Bethel Park, Pa. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2007. They have three children and 10 grandchildren. For more information on his new book, visit http://www. stumpoems.com.

www.duq.edu 47 as the Prince William County winner of his article Chasing Steeples: African University and recipient of the university’s The Washington Post Distinguished Americans in the United Methodist 2009 President’s Award for Scholarly and Educational Leadership Award and as Church, featured in the Annals of Eastern Creative Achievement, has been appointed Prince William County Principal of the Pennsylvania, a journal of the Historical coordinator of the university’s Center for Year. He is “best known in the county as a Society and the Commission on Archives Excellence in Teaching and Education principal who took a struggling school and and History of the Eastern Pennsylvania Technology. She was noted for “her turned it into an opportunity for students Conference of the United Methodist outstanding scholarship and talent as a who needed an alternative approach to Church. He is an ordained deacon and teacher as well as the quality and depth of educational excellence” and he “completely serves on the ministry staff of Cookman her research.” rebuilt the PACE East program from United Methodist Church in Philadelphia Baron (BB) Flenory, A’87, Duquesne the ground up, including infrastructure and is president of BrownPartners, one University basketball star, was inducted into and curriculum, forming a world-class of the largest minority-owned advertising the Pennsylvania Basketball Hall of Fame environment for students and staff.” agencies in Pennsylvania. in 2008. This year he was honored as the James W. Saxton, JD’82, chair of Stevens Marie Milie Jones, A’85, JD’87, new Pressley Ridge 2009 Teacher/Counselor of & Lee’s health care litigation group and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Year. He was selected from more than co-chair of the health care department, is Duquesne University and partner in the 950 Pressley Ridge employees in seven one of the authors of the chapter Informed firm of Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & states and Portugal and Hungary. The Consent in the book Weight Loss Surgery: Eck, PLLC, has been listed in Pennsylvania school helps “troubled children find success A Multidisciplinary Approach, published Super Lawyers for 2009. She has received in life through a variety of programs.” He is by Matrix Medical Communications. He this distinction since 2004. She also a transition specialist who helps students presented Medical Malpractice: How to presented the topic of Employment Law at Pressley Ridge’s Allegheny Day School Prevent and Defend at the annual meeting Update as Seen Through the Social program “plan and prepare for their future of the American Urological Association in Media Revolution to the American Law educational goals and make a successful Chicago, where he discussed the “drivers Firm Association 2009 international client transition to adulthood” and started a behind medical malpractice suits and how seminar in Scottsdale and presented The basketball program to help the students they can be controlled.” He also presented Medicare Secondary Payer Statute – What learn teamwork, sportsmanship and how to EMR Risk in 2009 and Beyond at the is New and What is Not! to the Association support each other. annual meeting of the Physician Insurers of Governmental Risk Pools (AGRIP) at Association of America in Hawaii, where its 2009 spring conference in Daytona he discussed the potential of electronic Beach. She is a defense trial attorney who 1990s medical records (EMRs) and the risks represents companies in employment Joseph Muha, P’90, has accepted a associated with their use. He also spoke matters and other clients in commercial position with Meijer as a prescription drug about reducing health care liability risk at disputes and achieved prominence in buyer. He received an MBA from Webster the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs Annual her representation of counties and local University in 2006. He, his wife, Jacquelyn Health Care Conference in Hershey, Pa. governments sued by those who allege (White) Muha, P’91, and daughter, police abuse, excessive force and other Madelyn, are relocating to the Grand Rev. David W. Brown, A’84, was awarded violations of constitutional rights. the 2008 Dickins Prize for best student Rapids area. paper on United Methodist history related Danette DiMarco, A’86, GA’88, Ph.D.’90, Roland Barksdale-Hall, GA’93, is the to the eastern Pennsylvania region for professor of English at Slippery Rock author of African Americans in Mercer County (Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series). He works as a college professor, historian and genealogy expert, and his son will be attending Duquesne this Re v . Jo s e p h Du c h e n e fall. A feature about his book appeared in The Sharon Herald on June 21.

En d o w e d Sc h o l a r s h i p Lydia Lechliter, GE’94, received a doctorate in clinical psychology from For 15 years, the Rev. Joseph Duchene Endowed Scholarship has the Fielding Graduate University. Her been helping numerous students at Duquesne University. The dissertation focused on three areas alumni brothers of Alpha Epsilon and Alpha Tau Omega fraternities of clinical interest: adult attachment will celebrate this milestone anniversary with a dinner during patterns, personality disorders and risk Homecoming on Oct. 3 in the Union Ballroom. The cost is $50 per for substance abuse. Although she has person. For more information or reservations, please visit www. been working in both the clinical and mood myduquesne.duq.edu or call the Office of Alumni Relations at disorders research departments at the 1.800.456.8338. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic since returning from New York City, she

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recently elected to the board of directors Don’t Miss of Just Harvest, a Pittsburgh-based, anti- H mecoming poverty, nonprofit organization. Our Bluff has changed, but much still remains Katie (Couture) Kelly, S’05, graduated the same. See for yourself as two traditions 2009 from the University of Indiana Medical School and will be doing her internship and reunite for Homecoming and Carnival 2009 from Oct. 2-4. More residency in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla., than football and variety shows, the weekend offers a wide for the next three years. She is married to range of exciting opportunities for alumni of all ages to rekindle Edward Kelly, A’04. fond memories and make new ones. It’s not too late to join the Scott Chisholm, B’06, coaches at fun. Visit us online at www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu to view the Oakland City University in Indiana and also serves as an instructor and advisor in the schedule of events and make your reservations today. business department.

Timothy C. Fish, A’06, has joined is working toward developing her private nonprofit, which delivers emergency Westinghouse Electric LLC at the Energy practice where she will offer psychotherapy medical relief and health care to countries Center in Monroeville, Pa., as a NPP and psychological testing services. devastated by conflict, disease and technical staff assistant. He is responsible disaster. She is currently coordinating for project scheduling for valve engineering Jason Boyne, A’96, is one of the co- emergency health support in Gaza. in the nuclear power plants division and is founders of CorrTableSportsLLC, the the valve coordinator for projects in NPP. company that created Tockey, the Original Ginelle Gynette (Bates) McPherson, He was a four-year member of the men’s Table Hockey, and distributes Tockey HS’01, GLPA’08, is a laboratory director hockey team while at Duquesne and served tables worldwide. The company, along with and clinical perfusionist with Hospital as an assistant coach for two seasons professional hockey player Mike Knuble, Clinical Services Group at Crittenton following graduation. made a donation of recreational equipment Hospital Medical Center. She and her to The Center for Grieving Children, Teens husband, Frederick Lamar McPherson, will Nici Kish, M’06, is a first grade teacher and Families in Philadelphia. be residing in Hartford, Conn. at Saint Ann Catholic School in Chicago and also teaches music to first and second Maria Rolinski, N’96, recently earned Timothy John Skrip, B’01, is a CPA and grade students during the Saint Ann her M.S.N. with specialization in nurse an employee of Federated Investors of Furthers Education (SAFE) extended day anesthesia from the University of Pittsburgh. He married Carmela Notte, program. She believes that “the creative Pittsburgh. She resides in Boardman, Ohio, E’01, in June 2002 and they are the and performing arts provide a unique with her husband, Jack Cochran, Jr. parents of Julia Nicole and Lily Briane. opportunity for self-expression and help to Tia (Skrip) Pfeuffer, E’99, and Michael Keri Muller, E’02, recently completed her build confidence in our children.” Previously, Pfeuffer, A’99, JD’02, are the parents first half of graduate school at the University she served in the Inner-City Teaching Corps of 5-year old Michael. Tia is a teacher at of San Francisco in the Digital Media and in Chicago, teaching kindergarten at St. Keystone Oaks Middle School and Michael Learning Program. She was also hired for Philip Neri, while earning her master’s in owns MixStirs Cafe in Market Square an internship at Zeum, a digital arts and education from Northwestern University. (Pittsburgh). technology museum for children ages 3-12 Jared Helfrich, B’07, recently obtained in San Francisco. his Certified Financial Planner (CFP) 2000s Brian P. McNelis, B’03, received his MBA designation from the CFP Board of from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 Standards. He is currently an analyst for Shannon (Litman) Tajc, HS’00, is and is a senior associate director for loan Innovative Benefits Consulting, Inc., a currently practicing perfusion in Lafayette, syndications at PNC Capital Markets. diversified independent financial services Ind., with Trident Health Resources, Inc. firm specializing in creative life insurance She married Michael Tajc in 2006 and they Dean Falavolito, JD’04, has rejoined and wealth transfer solutions for affluent are the parents of Rocco Lawrence. Burns, White & Hickton, LLC, as an individuals, business owners and key associate in the Pittsburgh office. He employees. Melissa Chastain, GA’01, Ph.D.’07, practices in the areas of employment law, will be the interim chair of the School of business law, construction litigation and Wendy Kunkle, JD’08, is an associate Communication at Spalding University in occupational illness litigation. in the litigation group of Burns, White Louisville, Ky. & Hickton, LLC. She focuses her work Kathleen G. Sheehan, JD’04, joined on Medicare law and the preparation of Joanna Kotcher, N’01, obtained her the United States Department of the workers’ compensation Medicare set-aside Master of Public Health degree with Interior, Office of Surface Mining, focusing arrangements. specializations in conflict and trauma and on regulatory and compliance standards refugee health from Loma Linda University. and enforcement of the Surface Mining She has joined Merlin, a global medical Control and Reclamation Act. She was also

www.duq.edu 49 Marriages Lily Elizabeth, daughter of Kristin (Sims) Pat (Leslie) Kerns, A’63 Ash, A’00, and Eric Ash, A’99. Maria Rolinski, N’96, married Jack James S. Urda, P’74 Cochran, Jr. Marielle Sidney, daughter of Kathryn (Gallant) Depp, E’00, and Stephen E. Jane Campbell Mika, JD’80 Ginelle Gynette Bates, HS’01, GLPA’08, Depp, A’00. married Frederick Lamar McPherson. Nathan James, son of Emily (Todarello) Andrea Castiglione, GA’03, married Marchesani, A’00, and Brian Antonio Benitez. Marchesani, A’00. Don’t Let Duquesne Get

Kristen Sheraw, S’05, GS’06, married Nicholas Theodore, son of Heather Lost in Cyberspace Brian P. McNelis, B’03. (Kwitowski) Rifkin, Pharm.D.’00, and Brian Rifkin. Shannon Gilbert, Pharm.D.’06, married Owen Summers. Rocco Lawrence, son of Shannon (Litman) Tajc, HS’00, and Michael Tajc. Tanecia Nicole Moran, N’06, married Dr. E-mail is an efficient and convenient way Richard E. Redlinger, Jr. Claire Kennedy, daughter of Anne Hogan for Duquesne to keep in touch with you. Mill, Pharm.D.’01, and Mark Mill. If you’re not receiving the monthly Bulletin Alison Petras, B’07, married Jonathan from Our Bluff newsletter, event invitations M. Ogurchak, Pharm.D.’09. Julia Grace, daughter of Christine (Grech) or other electronic communications from Rueger, Pharm.D.’01, and Robert Rueger. Lindsey M. Aspden, S’08, married Brian us, perhaps your e-mail address is not in P. Kelly, GS’04. Julia Madison, daughter of Jonelle Craig our records or is out of date. Shipley, GH’01, and Mark Shipley. It’s easy to stay connected with Duquesne New Arrivals Jenna Renee, daughter of Sharon (Fruth) and to enjoy all the other benefits of our Zelem, Pharm.D.’01, and D. Joseph online alumni community. Simply go to Michael Thomas, son of Raymond Zelem. www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu to update or M. Roberts, A’86, L’93, and Kimberly add your profile. If you’re a new visitor, (Slavonic) Roberts. Max Jeffrey, son of Leigh Ann (Bender) David, B’02, and Ryan David. click on “First-Time Log In” and follow the Carson Robert, son of Todd McDermott, instructions provided, using the ID number B’88, and Gina McDermott. Alessia Gabriela, daughter of Danielle printed above your name and address on (Talotta) Miller, A’02, B’02, and Brian the back cover of this magazine. Kaitlyn Shea, daughter of Karen Miller, Pharm.D.’04. (Gatesman) Leonard, P’91, and Timothy You may also stay connected with Leonard. Sarah Ann, daughter of Patricia Duquesne by e-mailing your updated (Kosovac) Baumgartner, Pharm.D.’03, information to [email protected] or Margaret Rose, daughter of Clare and Adam Baumgartner. by calling the Office of Alumni Relations (Gravenstine) Fitzpatrick, M’93, and at 412.396.6209 or 800.456.8338 John Fitzpatrick, A’93. Nathaniel Thomas, son of Emily (Durkota) Rice, Pharm.D.’03, and Mark Rice. (800.I.LOVE.DU). Olivia Grace, daughter of Ann (Ferguson) Bianchi, B’95, and Kirk Bianchi, Chloe Julia, daughter of Amy (Ozegovich) MBA’05. Barnhart, A’04, and Wesley Barnhart.

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Kellan Joseph, son of Barbara A. Frank, Please send us your personal and E’95, and Dr. Darren A. Frank, S’95. In Memoriam professional news for inclusion in Addison Hope, daughter of Christine Daniel H. Conway, B’34 Duquesne University Magazine: (Baran) Goldsworthy, E’97, GE’99, and Catherine Alton Auth Hoop, B’46 E-mail: [email protected] Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Mail: Duquesne University Jillian Rae, daughter of Renee (Krevosh) Samuel F. Talarico, B’52, P’58 Magazine c/o Alumni Updates Kirkbride, N’97, and Darrell Kirkbride. Rosemary McGonigle Gianni, E’54 Duquesne University Abigail Elizabeth, daughter of Steven K. William L. Klein, A’56, GA’59 216 Fisher Hall Swank, E’99, and Deena E. Swank. 600 Forbes Ave. Michael J. Crossey, S’57 Owen Marshall, son of Maggie (Vresko) Pittsburgh, PA 15282 Acklin, B’00, A’00, and Dan Acklin, B’00. Leslie R. Morris, GE’61

50 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 travel program/DUDL Alumni Travel Program Sports Executive Promotes Recreation to Keynote 2010 and Enlightenment Downtown Luncheon

Len Komoroski, A’82, president of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Quicken Loans Arena, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Duquesne University Downtown Luncheon on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Komoroski has more than 25 years of experience in professional sports and entertainment. He gained his early experience just a few blocks from campus at Mellon Arena, in positions with the Pittsburgh Spirit indoor soccer team and the Penguins of the National Hockey League. From 1988-1994, Duquesne’s distinctive educational experience encourages students to he played a major role in establishing the develop global perspectives and understanding, both through studies on National Basketball Association’s Minnesota campus and through travel abroad. Timberwolves franchise and its new That emphasis doesn’t end with graduation, as evidenced by the downtown arena. continued expansion of Duquesne’s alumni travel program for 2010. As senior vice president and chief of “We have nearly doubled the number of trips offered this year and added business operations for the Philadelphia new destinations in Asia and Central and South America, along with Eagles of the National Football League for traditionally popular sites in Europe,” explains Julie Shepard, director of seven years, Komoroski brokered record- alumni relations. setting naming rights deals for the team’s Among the notable options are two “Campus Abroad” educational new stadium and practice facilities, built excursions to Italy and a trip celebrating the 10th anniversary of a season ticket waiting list in excess of Duquesne’s campus in Rome. The 2010 slate includes: 40,000, and expanded the Eagles’ in-house communications and marketing operations. Cruise the Panama Canal Scandinavian and Russian Since joining the Cavaliers in 2003, he has Feb. 3-14 Splendors led a remarkable turnaround both on and off Voyage of Discovery: June 15-30 the court. A team whose attendance averaged Wonders of the Galapagos Islands The Land of Fire and Ice fewer than 12,000 per game before his arrival Feb. 5-13 July 28-Aug. 5 now consistently sells out its 20,000-seat arena River Life: Paris and London and has experienced triple-digit increases Waterways of Holland and Belgium Aug. 6-14 in television and radio ratings. The Cavs’ April 22-30 Waterways of Russia corporate sales revenue now ranks among the Treasures of China and the Yangtze Sept. 2-12 highest in the league. River Cruise Oberammergau Passion Play Komoroski also oversees the operations April 27-May 9 Sept. 9-17 of the state-of-the-art Quicken Loans Arena, “Campus Abroad:” “Campus Abroad:” which also serves as home of the American Italian Riviera and Chianti Siracusa and Palermo Hockey League’s Lake Erie Monsters and hosts April 28-May 7 Sept. 17-27 approximately 200 sports and entertainment The Blue Voyage: Rome Campus 10th Anniversary events attracting nearly 2 million spectators Legendary Turkey and the Oct. 7-12 each year. Turquoise Coast* Holiday Markets on the Danube The luncheon returns this year to the David May 31-June 14 Nov. 29-Dec. 7 L. Lawrence Convention Center. Registration opens at 11 a.m. with lunch served at noon. For more details and reservation information, visit the Alumni Travel For information about individual reservations section of www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu or call the Office of Alumni and corporate table sponsorships, call Relations at 412.396.6209 or 800.456.8338 (800.I.LOVE.DU). 412.396.6209 or watch for details posted at www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu. * Sponsored by Duquesne’s Office of International Affairs. For more information, contact Dr. Jean Anne Hattler or Kim Szczypinski at 412.396.1431.

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Leave Your House and Keep It, Too!

It is said that a person’s home is their castle, a place can mean significant tax savings in the year of the gift and of safety and security against unwanted invasions. The may be carried forward for up to five additional years, to word “home” also conjures images of family, food and a limit of 30 percent of your adjusted gross income each festivities, providing the setting for lasting memories. Your year. home can also serve as a source of tax benefits for you, The deduction can shelter income on which you would while fulfilling your philanthropic intentions toward your otherwise pay taxes and yield immediate tax savings in favorite charity. the years in which the deduction is taken, thus providing A Retained Life Estate (RLE) offers you a way to you with tax savings to spend or reinvest. It is also likely support the mission and work of Duquesne University that you will reduce your estate tax liability, as you will by donating your personal residence to Duquesne, while have moved a significant asset out of your estate. retaining the right to live in the property for the rest of your life. A life estate may be retained for one or more Other Features lives, or it may be retained for a term of years. You may Once the transaction is pre-approved by the also provide for another individual to live in the property University’s Gift Acceptance Committee, you will retain for the rest of that individual’s life. After your death, full use of the property during your life and will have or at the end of the specified term of years, Duquesne made a substantial and meaningful gift to Duquesne. University will sell the property and use the funds All routine expenses, such as maintenance fees, property pursuant to your wishes. taxes, insurance and repairs remain your responsibility. If you later decide to vacate the property, you may rent all Benefits or part of the property to someone else or sell the property This type of gift provides tax savings and the security in cooperation with Duquesne. The irrevocable donation of knowing that you can make a major gift of a significant of real estate while retaining the right to use the property asset during your lifetime without relinquishing its use. has become an increasingly attractive charitable gift The immediate benefit of a RLE is an often substantial arrangement. tax deduction for the charitable gift. This deduction Thus, this creative planning vehicle allows you to leave is equal to the remainder interest in the property: your house to Duquesne University, yet keep it—and all the appraised fair market value of the real estate less the attendant memories—for the rest of your life. the calculated value of the retained life use. You are If you wish to discuss a retained life estate, or another responsible for obtaining an independent appraisal of the gift of real estate or personal property, please contact value of the property; because this expense is related to the Carrie Matesevac Collins at 412.396.4272 or collinscm@ charitable gift, it is deductible. The income tax deduction duq.edu.

52 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Fall ‘09 Alumni Calendar alumni calendar Sept. 19, 2009 Nov. 10, 2009 December 2009 David Garrett (virtuoso violinist) pre- Sustainability: Your Bridge to the Basketball pre-game receptions reception and concert (Pgh.) Future organized by the School of (dates TBD) Keep it Clean South Side event with Business (Pgh.) Duquesne Univ. Volunteers (Pgh.) January 2010 Pre-game reception, Dukes vs. Nov. 14, 2009 Basketball pre-game receptions Monmouth football game (N.J.) Keep it Clean South Side event (dates TBD) organized by Duquesne Univ. Sept. 26, 2009 Volunteers (Pgh.) First Week of February 2010 Pre-game reception, Dukes vs. Founders’ Week Celebration Dayton football game (Ohio) Nov. 16-19, 2009 (including Libermann Day) (Pgh.) Homeless Awareness Week (social Sept. 28, 2009 justice/educational panel, street Feb. 18-19, 2010 Duquesne Athletic Fund Golf Outing outreach, educational video and Symposium on Phenomenology, sponsored by UPMC Health Plan events) organized by Duquesne Univ. Neuroscience and Cognition (Pgh.) (Pgh.) Volunteers (Pgh.)

Oct. 2-4, 2009 November 2009 (date TBD) February 2010 South Side Soup Contest (date TBD) Duquesne Homecoming/Carnival All-alumni gathering with School (Pgh.) Weekend of Education Dean Olga Welch Won’t You Be My Neighbor Sweater (Anaheim, Calif.) Drive with the Downtown Oct. 2, 2009 Partnership (Pgh.) Celebration of Claude Poullart des Nov. 21, 2009 Basketball pre-game receptions Places, C.S.Sp., Day (Pgh.) Thanksgiving dinner served to (dates TBD) families in need; partners are the Oct. 8, 2009 United Way and the Urban League March 5-8, 2010 (Pgh.) School of Law Annual Fall Reception Women’s A-10 Basketball (Pgh.) Tournament (Upper Marlboro, Md.) Nov. 30-Dec. 4, 2009 Oct. 9, 2009 Gumberg Library’s 7th annual March 9, 2010 Scholastic Book Fair (Pgh.) Sleep in for Homelessness organized Men’s A-10 First Round Basketball by Duquesne Univ. Volunteers (Pgh.) Games November to December 2009 Oct. 15, 2009 Holiday Helpings: Duquesne Univ. March 11-14, 2010 Volunteers will help collect toys, School of Law Annual N.Y.C. Fall Men’s A-10 Basketball Tournament food, clothing and other holiday Reception (New York City) (Atlantic City, N.J.) essentials for community partners (Pgh.) Oct. 17, 2009 March 24, 2010 Keep it Clean South Side event Dec. 3, 2009 Duquesne University Downtown organized by Duquesne Univ. Luncheon with keynote speaker Duquesne University Light-Up Night, Volunteers (Pgh.) Len Komoroski, A’82, president of organized by SGA (Pgh.) the Cleveland Cavaliers (Pgh.) Oct. 23-24, 2009 Dec. 5, 2009 Cyber-Crime and Digital Evidence: March 2010 (date TBD) School of Law goes to Radio City The 9th Annual Forensic Science Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the Christmas Spectacular (Pgh.) and Law Conference (Pgh.) Young Alumni Council (Pgh.) Breakfast with Santa (Pgh.) Oct. 28, 2009 Dec. 6, 2009 Duquesne Athletic Fund Tip-off O Come All Ye Faithful, St. Paul For more information about Luncheon (Pgh.) Cathedral (Pgh.) these events, please go to www.MyDuquesne.duq.edu Oct. 30-31, 2009 or call 412.396.6209 or Dec. 12 & 13, 2009 Duquesne Athletics Hall of Fame 1.800.456.8338 (1.800.I.LOVE.DU) Advent Midnight Mass in the Weekend (Pgh.) Duquesne Chapel (also available Note: city or state in which event online) will be held is in parentheses Nov. 5, 2009 School of Law Annual Fall Reception (Washington, D.C.) www.duq.edu 53 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15282 www.duq.edu Change Service Requested

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