JohnCarroll UNIVERSITY VOL. 11, ISSUE1 WINTER 2007 Grounded in the Gospel Paul Kozak ’04 put himself in harm’s way for peace and justice After asking where the parents of outgoing “He (O’Malley) is charismatic, empathetic, served are left behind.” two-term Student Union (SU) president confident and courageous. He was a real O’Malley worked at Legal Aid this Dan O’Malley were in the January 18 force for change.”` past summer and has logged apprentice Dolan Center crowd , University Heights’ “A big question students have is hours with Jimmy Dimora, the chair of (UH) longtime mayor Beryl Rothschild, where their Student Activities fee goes,” the county’s Democratic Party. said to Mike and Mary O’Malley: “I want O’Malley began. “So, we tried to create a He hasn’t made up his mind about a you to know you raised a wonderful young lot of services and programs that students political career, but that doesn’t seem like a man.” Rothschild went on to praise the son could use and that we would pay for with long shot. Law school is immediately ahead. effusively and give him the key to the city. that money.” Post-law school, he says he wants to be part One more vote for a student politician who That includes free shuttles to the airport of the solution for Cleveland’s problems. has proven able at capturing the hearts and at the beginning and end of a semester. JCU’s illustrious alumni don’t include minds of peers and elders. Also, free copies of the Cleveland Plain many in high elected office, but the O’Malley learned the political walk Dealer, USA Today and the New York Times way has been paved. One of O’Malley’s early. He pays attention. He remembers available daily at campus locations. Student Union prez predecessors, John names. He accentuates the positive, In respect to students being “…closer Cranley ’96, narrowly missed being and frequently states what he’s done for to the core,” O’Malley drove the effort elected to Congress in November. his constituents lately. When he finds a to obtain a student rep on almost all Another, Joe Cimperman’92, is a good phrase (“We tried to move students university committees. He also had an Cleveland City Council force and a further from the margins of the university open line to city hall. When the UH possibility for higher office. and closer to its core”), he’ll use it more gendarmes were ticketing late-night- For O’Malley, it’s early, but he did well than once. There aren’t many babies on studying students’ cars parked on campus- in his life primary as an SU leader. His campus, but if there were... adjacent streets, O’Malley petitioned and valedictory? “You always wish you could If that paragraph sounds faintly won the freedom to park on those arteries do more. This was a great education for patronizing, it shouldn’t. One of O’Malley’s until 3 a.m., not 2. He led the UH voter me. I’ve taken more than I’ve given. It achievements is that he took his office registration of 600 students as part of an was a learning experience. I’ve had such seriously and elicited respect for it and unsuccessful effort to thwart the city’s great experiences here.” himself. That’s not easy. Cynicism and recent one-percent income tax increase. jp politics are magnetically attracted and the He marshaled a serious SU get-out-the- charge is amplified when the office doesn’t vote campaign that increased the number carry a lot of inherent power and many declaring their campus preference by more constituents are in a skeptical stage of their than 1,000 – a dramatic jump. lives. In all, O’Malley, the son of a full-time There is little doubt that if O’Malley fireman who is also a practicing lawyer, were eligible to be re-elected, he would be. will be remembered with admiration. He Senior David Schuld, former vice president says, “People aren’t supposed to serve for student organizations, summed up, leaders. Too many go into a political “Dan O’Malley is a true leader.” Noting career for the wrong, self-serving reasons, that they often clashed, Schuld declared: and the people who are meant to be Dan O’Malley ’07: THE POLITICIAN STUDENT PROFILE JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY President Robert L. Niehoff, SJ Interim Vice President for University Advancement James Noffke Director of University Marketing and Communications Christine Somosi Editor Jerry Pockar Alumni Journal Michele McFarland Advisory Board Dr. George Bilgere Dr. Luis Ma. R. Calingo Dr. Sherri Crahen Dr. Linda Eisenmann Ms. Kimyette Finley ’95 Rev. Howard Gray, SJ Mr. John Marcus ’72 Dr. Paul V. Murphy Mrs. Barbara Schubert ’62 Ms. Christine Somosi ’81 Mr. Brian Williams winter 2007 John Carroll UNIVERSITY VOL. 11 ISSUE 1 WINTER 2007 FEATURES 17 JCU Service 18 Cover Story Grounded in the Gospel 36 Chasing Algae DEPARTMENTS 2 President’s Message 3 HOME - News On Campus 7 Images of Carroll 8 Athletics 10 Advancement 11 Enrollment 40 Alumni Journal Class Notes 62 In Memoriam 64 My Turn Maria Pompili ’91 Inside Back Cover: Profile - Dan O’Malley ’07 Contributing photographers: Zoltan Bugnyar, John Reid, Rob Wetzler Designed by Villa Beach Communications, Inc. Printed by Lane Press John Carroll magazine is published quarterly by John Carroll University, 20700 North Park Blvd., University Heights, Ohio 44118. Periodical postage paid at Cleveland, Ohio, 44118 and additional mailing offices. ISSN 1542-0418 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: John Carroll magazine UMC 20700 North Park Blvd. University Heights, OH 44118 It is the mission of the magazine to provide an engaging and accurate reflection of the university and its extended community for its alumni and the other winter 2007 members of the John Carroll family. his issue of our magazine has stories about service to Society, I lived and worked for some weeks at a soup kitchen, the others being given by the John Carroll community. Blanchet House, in Portland, Oregon. The house does wonder- I am inspired by the open-hearted generosity I ful work among the very poor. Blanchet House was started by so often see demonstrated by our community a group of Catholic college graduates who saw the needs of the members. I know that their service is powerfully homeless in Portland and asked what they could do to change Tenhanced by what they have learned here. What so many are things. It offers free meals, beds, jobs and hope. I learned about doing moves me to think about experiences I had as I tried to the lives and loves, fears and regrets of the live-in staff and the become a man for others. hundreds of folks we served. All this came back to me when I On the wall of my bedroom is a beaded necklace given to me went with John Carroll’s Labre Project students to visit the home- when I spent four weeks in St. Ignatius, Montana, teaching cat- less on a bitterly cold winter night last year. echism to young people on the Flathead Indian Reservation. That A good number of years later, I found myself in Kingston, was a long time ago, but it was nowhere near as long ago as 1841, Jamaica, with a group of University of San Francisco students. which is when Pierre de Smet, SJ, brought Christianity to western We labored for some days to clear ground so that a playing field Montana – it is no accident that the place where I served is named could be created for children living in this poor Kingston St. Ignatius. The Jesuit’s Oregon Province, to which I belong, is the neighborhood. I remember razor wire and bird of paradise plants; long range result of a delegation of Native Americans who went to the contradictions were similar to those experienced by Paul Saint Louis to ask the “Black Robes” to come and share faith and Kozak ’04, whose witness for peace in Columbia you will read life. Father De Smet was the Jesuit who said “yes” with his life. about in this issue’s cover story. Paul is an exemplar of the men The Flathead reservation is almost two million square miles and women for others ethic that is at the heart of who we are. Paul of God’s country. The twenty-some thousand Native Americans learned in Columbia what I learned in Kingston, Portland and of the Bitterroot, Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Oreilles tribes Montana: that to give is to receive, and that the poor and others living there face many challenges. They warmed my heart that we assist are great teachers in our lives. summer and taught me about service and engaging the world. The desperation on the reservation; the bite of a winter rain in Aspects of their spirituality, especially their reverence for the Portland; the sear of a Kingston afternoon; the warmth generated by earth, have become important parts of my reflection. I was our visit to the homeless people on a frigid Cleveland night: it honored to be considered a “member” of their community. merges in memory. The common denominator is cura personalis, Earlier in my Jesuit life, seven months after entering the Latin for care of the person. That’s another of the Jesuit’s favorite phrases. After noting that it originally referred to a Jesuit superior’s responsibility to care for the unique needs of every Jesuit, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia says: “Cura Personalis suggests individualized attention to the needs of the other, distinct respect for his or her unique circumstances and concerns, and an appropriate appreciation for his or her particular gifts and insights.” Care of the person is at the heart of who we are.