Iraq’s Shi’i Renaissance Living with Cancer Q&A on Stem Cell Research Campaign for Creighton: A Progress Report

Winter 2007 View the magazine online at: winter 2007 www.creightonmagazine.org University Magazine

The Shi’a of Iraq...... 10 The toppling of Saddam Husayn and his Sunni-dominated Ba’thist regime by American and British-led coalition forces has created a Shi’i renaissance in Iraq. History professor John Calvert, Ph.D., explains.

Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n : A Progress Report...... 16 Two years ago, Creighton announced the public phase of the largest capital campaign in the University’s history — the $350 million Wi l l i n g t o Le a d Ca m p a i g n . The response has been tremendous, and the results are propelling Creighton forward in numerous ways.

10 Living with Cancer...... 22 Creighton’s Cancer Counseling Program offers hope and comfort for those diagnosed with cancer. The program combines psychiatry and oncology to treat the whole person — body, mind and spirit.

Embryos, Ethics and Research on Human Subjects...... 26 The Rev. Kevin FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D., addresses the issue of stem cell research in this Q&A. Fr. FitzGerald, who recently spoke at Creighton, holds doctorates in molecular genetics and bioethics and is on the faculty at Georgetown University. 16

On the cover: An angel hangs from the Nativity scene in St. John’s Church — one of the many “sights of the season” on Creighton’s campus. Whether it’s the calm, peacefulness of lightly falling snow, the festive twinkling of lights along the mall or the inviting scene of the Christ Child lying in the manger, Creighton University embraces this holy season in all its glory and splendor. Share in the joy, and “walk” with us through our “winter wonderland” with a slideshow of seasonal photos set to music. You’ll find it online at the Creighton Magazine website: www.creightonmagazine.org. 22 University News...... 4 Alumni News...... 28 Willing to Excel...... 35

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CONTACT US: Editor — Rick Davis, (402) 280-1785, [email protected] • Associate Editor — Sheila Swanson, (402) 280-2069, [email protected] View the magazine online at: www.creightonmagazine.org. Message from the University President

A Time of Thanks

The holiday season provides us a time to relax a bit, reflect and our historic campus give thanks for friends and family and for the many gifts we have growth. received. At Creighton University, we have much for which to be Much has been grateful. accomplished, yet We are truly blessed with a community of faculty, staff and much more can students committed to excellence in learning, research and patient be done. We must care. continue to dream big! Our student enrollment is strong, and we continue to attract We are top-caliber students. The Higher Learning Commission of the re-engaging our strategic North Central Association of Colleges and Schools recently gave the planning efforts. Those University a very positive rating in its formal reaccreditation report. discussions will include And our alumni and friends continue to respond generously to our re-evaluating the optimum Wi l l i n g t o Le a d Ca m p a i g n . size of the institution at both the I am thankful for our benefactors who have enthusiastically undergraduate and professional/ embraced our bold vision for tomorrow. graduate levels, determining the resources and facilities (if any) needed It was just two years ago, in December 2005, that we announced to address this growth, reviewing the status of graduate and online the public phase of the $350 million Wi l l i n g t o Le a d Ca m p a i g n — the education, and conducting a thorough review of the needs within the largest capital campaign in the University’s history. health science schools and colleges. At that time, I opined that our University was on the cusp of new In this issue of the magazine, you will find a progress report on beginnings, and that, through this campaign, we were forging a the campaign. I hope this will ignite your imagination to “dream “second founding.” big” … for this campaign is an invitation to each of you to assist The response to our call for support has been tremendous. There in transforming Creighton. As I shared at the campaign inaugural, is a momentum driving Creighton forward. This is our moment the mantle of leadership has been passed. Now the privilege and of possibility. As I said at the campaign inaugural, this is our responsibility to nurture Creighton rests with us. opportunity to “dream big.” As we settle into the early winter and the celebrations of Indeed, I have never been more bullish about Creighton. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, know that you and your We began this campaign with a strategic blueprint that I called our families are in my prayers and those of the Jesuit Community. I am “willed future.” In that analysis, we outlined four critical issues for personally very grateful for you, members of the extended Creighton Creighton. family, who live out daily the tenets of your Jesuit education in your • Attracting and retaining the students who enable us to thrive personal and professional lives. My hope is that the present generation as a university. of Creighton students will come to do the same. I believe they will! • Revising our business model to decrease dependency on Please enjoy this issue of the magazine. Wishing you and your family tuition and clinical income. health and happiness during this holy season! • Ensuring that our existing and future infrastructure and support systems enhance our ability to fulfill our core purposes. • Increasing our capacity for research to improve our national stature and enhance student learning. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Th e Wi l l i n g t o Le a d Ca m p a i g n is absolutely essential to realizing President each of these goals. In line with those goals, a major initiative of this campaign has been to increase our endowment, which supports student scholarships, academic and research programs and faculty excellence. The campaign also seeks to strengthen our Jesuit, Catholic identity, provide for major science and technology initiatives, and finance University News

University Magazine Fr. Schlegel Honored by Omaha Press Club Creighton University Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. Schlegel, President the Rev. John P. S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice President for University Schlegel, S.J., became the Relations. Creighton University Magazine staff: Kim Barnes 114th Nebraska newsmaker Manning, Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations; Rick Davis, Editor; Sheila Swanson, to have his or her caricature Associate Editor; Pamela A. Vaughn, Features Editor; enshrined at the Omaha Cindy McMahon, Senior Writer. Editorial Advisers: Cam Press Club during a Enarson, M.D., M.B.A.; Patrick Borchers, J.D.; Richard ceremony this fall. A O’Brien, M.D.; Diane Dougherty Crowley; Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Tamara Buffalohead-McGill; and Jayne Schram. standing-room-only crowd of 250 turned out to honor Creighton University Magazine (USPS728-070) is published (and roast) Fr. Schlegel at quarterly in the spring, summer, fall and winter by the event on Oct. 11. In Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE addition, Omaha Mayor Photo by Dave Weaver 68178-0001. Periodicals postage paid at Omaha, Neb. and Mike Fahey, BA’73, surprised Fr. Schlegel enjoys the roast, with his caricature and emcee additional entry points. Address all mail to Marketing Ken Stinson in the background. and Public Relations, Omaha, NE 68178. Postmaster: Send the Creighton president by change of address to Creighton University Magazine, P.O. proclaiming Oct. 11 as Fr. Schlegel Day in the city of Omaha. Box 3266, Omaha, NE 68103-0078. Ken Stinson, chairman of Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc. and a Creighton board member, served as the emcee. Additional roasters included Creighton Athletics Director Bruce For more enrollment information, contact the Rasmussen; Fahey; Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein, JD’77, executive director of the Peter Kiewit Undergraduate Admissions Office at 1-800-282-5835, [email protected]. Foundation; and Joseph Kavan, BA’79, JD’82, partner with Kutak Rock LLP. The caricature has Fr. Schlegel standing on Creighton’s campus with a tennis racket To make a gift to the University, contact the in one hand and a pair of Opera Omaha tickets in his pocket, highlighting his love for Office of Development at 1-800-334-8794. physical fitness and the arts. In the background are various campus buildings, including residence halls, St. John’s Church and the Creighton University Medical Center. For the latest on alumni gatherings, contact the Alumni Relations Office at 1-800-CU-ALUMS (800-282-5867) or check online at www.creighton.edu/alumni. Creighton Psychology Professor Named Nebraska Update your mailing address or send alumni news sharing, nurturing, being patient, curious, and (births, weddings, promotions, etc.) electronically through Professor of the Year www.creighton.edu/alumni, call 1-800-334-8794 or respecting individual differences. It is the best mail to Office of Development, Creighton University, Creighton University psychology professor way to make a difference in someone’s life,” 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178. Isabelle Cherney, Ph.D., has been named she added. Nebraska’s 2007 “Professor of the Year” by the Students say her enthusiasm is often View the magazine online at Carnegie Foundation contagious. She is known for finding ways www.creightonmagazine.org for the Advancement to connect course material to students’ lives, www.creighton.edu of Teaching and striking a careful balance between support and the Council for challenge, and making the information come Copyright © 2007 by Creighton University Advancement and to life.

Recycled and Recyclable Support of Education. She is one of the leaders in Creighton’s Cherney was College of Arts and Sciences in mentoring Printed with Soy Ink recognized during a undergraduate students in research that is special ceremony in presented and published regionally and Creighton University Magazine’s Purpose Washington, D.C., on Cherney nationally. Creighton University Magazine, like the University itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of Nov. 15. Cherney was one of 50 professors, truth in all its forms. The magazine will be comprehensive “Teaching is my calling and vocation. I representing each state, chosen for the award. in nature. It will support the University’s mission of could not imagine my world without sharing There were nearly 300 professors nominated education through thoughtful and compelling feature my passion with my students, colleagues, nationwide. She graduated from Creighton articles on a variety of topics. It will feature the brightest, the most stimulating, the most inspirational thinking and friends,” said Cherney. “Few things bring with a degree in psychology in 1996 and that Creighton offers. The magazine also will promote me more joy than relating and imparting returned in 2000 as an assistant professor of Creighton, and its Jesuit, Catholic identity, to a broad knowledge to others, by capturing their psychology. public and serve as a vital link between the University attention through interesting examples, “I cannot think of a more deserving recipient and its constituents. The magazine will be guided by the core values of Creighton: the inalienable worth of each providing students with a framework for of this very prestigious award,” said Creighton individual, respect for all of God’s creation, a special interpreting new material, applying the University President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, concern for the poor, and the promotion of justice. material to their own lives, and preparing S.J. “Dr. Cherney displays an extraordinary reasonable assessments.” commitment to her students and brings “Teaching involves creating, molding, impressive expertise to her classroom.” 4 Winter 2007 University News Athletics Center Vision Made Reality by Generous Donors Photo by Dave Weaver

Breaking ground on the Ryan Athletics Center and D.J. Sokol Arena are, from left, Sharon Hanson, associate athletic director and senior woman administrator; John Cernech, vice president for Student Services; Dave Sokol; Peggy Sokol; Peggy Sokol Avery (holding daughter Lucy), Bruce Rasmussen, athletics director; Fr. Schlegel; Wayne Ryan; Eileen Ryan; soccer player Tony Schmitz and volleyball player Abby Bauman.

Amid a sea of blue-and-white clad Creighton Creighton President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, at Creighton. They are also Jaybackers, and student athletes, ground was broken on Oct. 16 S.J., recognized the Ryans and the Sokols for their daughter, Connie, serves on Creighton’s for the new, $12 million Ryan Athletics Center “embracing the University’s master plan” and Board of Directors and is president of Streck and D. J. Sokol Arena, another major milestone accelerating efforts to make the athletics center Laboratories, Inc. in Creighton University’s master plan. and arena a reality. “My wife and I truly appreciate the value The 46,000-square-foot, two-story building “They felt the timing was right not only to of a Jesuit education that asks students to will be located on the northeast corner of make a difference at Creighton but to continue challenge themselves academically, to examine Webster Street and Florence Boulevard, near the renaissance of making the corridor from the their values, and to always seek the magis — Creighton’s Morrison Stadium — home to the riverfront to the Creighton University Medical going further than they thought possible,” men’s and women’s soccer teams. The facility Center an academic, athletic and entertainment Wayne Ryan said. “There is no doubt in our was made a reality by the generous donations district,” Fr. Schlegel said. minds that a successful athletics program does of Dr. Wayne, BS’49, MS’51, and Eileen Ryan immeasurable good for the University as a and family and Dave and Peggy Sokol. They, whole. Going to the games engages the student along with members of their families, Creighton “All of us are very body and helps unify the campus.” leadership, athletic staff and students, shoveled Dave and Peggy Sokol honor their son, dirt to symbolically mark the beginning of D.J., who died in 1999 following a long battle construction on the new athletics facility. excited about what with Hodgkin’s disease, with the naming of “One of the things that has always the arena. Sokol serves as chairman and CEO characterized Creighton athletics has been the this center and arena of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, long-standing tradition of supportive alumni a global leader in the production, supply and and friends who do not hesitate to come will offer.” distribution of energy, and recently served on forward to put their money where their hearts — Bruce Rasmussen, Creighton University’s Board of Directors. The are,” said Creighton Athletics Director Bruce Director of Athletics Sokols are community leaders who devote time Rasmussen in recognizing the Ryans and the and resources to a host of charitable causes, Sokols. “All of us are very excited about what Wayne and Eileen Ryan and their family including Creighton University, the Salvation this center and arena will offer.” have been longtime supporters of Creighton Army, the Boy Scouts of America and more. The Ryan Athletics Center will house University. Wayne Ryan, chairman and CEO “Creighton University stands for excellence, coaches’ offices, student and officials’ locker of Streck Laboratories, Inc., began his career and that is certainly reflected in the quality of its rooms, an athletic ticket office, training teaching at Creighton, before pursuing his student athletes and the records they achieve. rooms, hospitality meeting areas and media passion for research that led to the founding of My wife and I have long believed that the best workrooms. his company. investment one can make is in the youth of our It also will feature the D.J. Sokol Arena, a The Ryans received The Ignatian Spirit community,” Dave Sokol said. 2,500 to 3,000-seat facility that will be home to Award in 2007 from the Wisconsin Province Construction of the athletics center complex Creighton women’s basketball and volleyball. of the Society of Jesus. The award honors a is expected to be completed by the end of 2008. In addition, the arena is expected to be used couple who has exhibited the ideals associated The completion of the athletics center is for other campus and community events, with St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society another example of the University’s growth, including campus programs, coaching camps/ of Jesus. They also recently established the Fr. reflected in the strategic plan and identified as clinics, concerts, speakers, and high school Henry W. Casper, S. J. Professorship in History a funding priority in the $350 million Wi l l i n g t o sporting events and graduations. to honor one of Ryan’s favorite Jesuit professors Le a d Ca m p a i g n . 5 Winter 2007 University News

From Immigration to Prayer: Creighton Podcasts Offer Insight Beyond the image of common garden The podcasts are downloadable on the statuary, who, really, was St. Francis of iPod as a free subscription in iTunes. Or Assisi? you can view each week’s new podcast and What are some of the ideas that inform access the archives online. Listeners can also Catholic medical ethics — and how does comment on the podcasts. one navigate our confusing modern world “The Catholic tradition has such rich with them as a guide? resources with which we might pray, walk Beyond praying to do one’s best, how faithfully in daily life and shape ourselves else can a chaplain to Creighton’s student as responsible global citizens,” said Wright, athletes help in the rough and tumble world holder of the John C. Kenefick Chair in the of college sports? Humanities. “Catholic Comments draws These and nearly 40 other topical on the wonderful people we have here podcasts are available both as an iTunes at Creighton as well as others around the subscription and online at a special unique perspectives on being a Catholic in country to make these resources easily Creighton resource, “Catholic Comments”: today’s world. available. http://moses.creighton.edu/catholiccomments. Just entering its second year this “The format is accessible, the Hosted by Creighton theologians John November, the program covers a broad range conversations are thought-provoking and O’Keefe, Ph.D., and Wendy Wright, Ph.D., of topics, including church history, spiritual often deeply insightful. Dr. O’Keefe and I who specialize in ancient Christianity and life, theology and current issues. are delighted to be able to share the best Christian Spirituality, respectively, Catholic Immigration, moral judgments at the ballot the Catholic tradition has to offer with our Comments has made a name for itself on the box, Catholic social teaching, marriage and listeners. We would also love to hear from Net and as a subscription podcast. family, preparing for Lent — the podcasts are our Creighton alums who, in keeping with Indeed, the online resource has brought designed to reach listeners in their everyday the Jesuit tradition, are keeping their love of together a wealth of Catholic scholars from lives and to help them consider their tradition learning alive.” Creighton and elsewhere who offer their as a rich resource for living.

Creighton University, Metropolitan Community College Alumni Survey Offer Unique Restaurant Management Program Creighton University and Metropolitan University. “Students will be able to take Did you receive your Community College (MCC) are partnering advantage of the strengths of two highly rated undergraduate degree to provide the nation’s first professional educational institutions and participate in a hospitality and restaurant management program that should open multiple doors for 7 or 17 program offered jointly by a four-year private them in the future.” university and two-year community college. “With nearly 15 million positions in the food years ago? The program combines business courses industry expected in the next 10 years, and from Creighton and culinary arts courses from many new management opportunities being If so, you have received an alumni the Institute for the Culinary Arts at MCC, created, this program complements a growing survey from the Creighton University and enables students to earn the ManageFirst need,” said MCC President Jo Ann McDowell, Institutional Research Office. As part of Professional Plus certification from the Ph.D. Creighton’s assessment program, every year National Restaurant Association Educational The program consists of seven courses from the Institutional Research Office contacts Foundation (NRAEF). MCC, including information on purchasing, alumni who completed their undergraduate Designed around skills identified by the food production, nutrition, sanitation and cost degrees seven or 17 years ago and asks ManageFirst Program as being essential management, and six courses from Creighton, them to complete a questionnaire. The to today’s managers in the hospitality and covering subjects such as managerial questionnaire asks about current priorities restaurant industry, the program connects accounting, restaurant marketing, customer and commitments, as well as perceptions of two institutions, each offering content in their service and employment law. your development and those individuals and/ individual areas of expertise. The NRAEF Upon successful completion of the program, or activities that helped in your development. developed its list of skills with input from students will receive an NRAEF ManageFirst Reminder surveys will be sent in January to more than 200 educators, operators, trainers Professional Plus Certificate from the NRAEF, those who have not had a chance to complete and hiring managers. Creighton University and the Institute for the the questionnaire yet. Watch your mail. The “This is a groundbreaking program offering Culinary Arts at Metropolitan Community survey takes about 15 minutes to complete. students the best of both worlds,” said the Rev. College. John P. Schlegel, S.J., president of Creighton

6 Winter 2007 University News Creighton Releases Cuba Report As part of a nationally commissioned study, and the study’s lead Creighton University law and political science investigator. “Any professors recently released a 277-page report resolution is going to for dealing with property claims in a post- be a Cuban one. We are Castro, democratic Cuba. offering suggestions as The two-year study was commissioned by researchers.” the United States Agency for International The Creighton Development (USAID). In receiving the grant, investigators, he said, the Creighton University School of Law was approached the report competitively selected from hundreds of as a “neutral third- applicants. party.” The Creighton team reviewed and Elaine Grigsby, compared other international claims systems in director of USAID’s preparing the report. The report addresses the Cuba Transition to

grievances of Cubans who lost their property Democracy Program, Photo by Mark Romesser to the Castro government, as well as the nearly praised the report as Patrick Borchers, former law dean and current vice president for Academic 6,000 claims filed by U.S. citizens, valued in very comprehensive. Affairs, addresses the media during an Oct. 4 press conference at the law the billions of dollars. With limited money “The intent of the school announcing the release of the report. to pay these claims — likely just a few cents report is to draw on the on the dollar — the report also recommends experience of other countries, so when there is Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, and Kelly alternative compensation that would create a democratically elected Cuban government, is an international law specialist. Creighton further investment in Cuba. In addition, the there will be a starting point,” she said. “This graduate students in law and political science report seeks to protect Cubans currently living is a starting point.” contributed to the report. on the island from being removed from their Other Creighton investigators included An executive summary of the report homes as part of any settlement. political science professors Erika Moreno, is available on the Creighton Magazine website “We respect Cuba as a sovereign nation Ph.D., James Wunsch, Ph.D., and Richard at www.creightonmagazine.org/CubaReport, … and we have a deep concern for the Witmer, Ph.D., and law professors Arthur or you can order a copy of the full report for Cuban people,” said Patrick Borchers, vice Pearlstein and Michael Kelly. Pearlstein $45 by contacting Pam Hopkins, hopkins@ president for Academic Affairs at Creighton directs the law school’s Werner Institute for creighton.edu.

Kennedy’s Remarks Focus on Mental Learn about leadership from the top Health down with special guest: U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., shared his thoughts on the importance Richard Parsons of mental health care during a Nov. 4 Chairman visit to Creighton’s campus. Time Warner Inc. An estimated 26 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about Moderated by: one in four adults — suffer from a Roger Fransecky diagnosable mental disorder in a given President and CEO year. Kennedy advocates for equal The Apogee Group access to health benefits for mental health and addiction treatment. Feb. 26, 2008 • 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Creighton Students Lied Education Center for the Arts Union, Kennedy’s brief speech, titled Creighton campus “Ending the Stigma,” was followed by a Reception to follow question-and-answer period.

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Professor Honored for Fight Against Cystic Sculpture Fibrosis Commemorates 9/11 Nancy Hanson, Ph.D., associate professor of medical microbiology and immunology A 16-foot, 2-ton sculpture by Creighton Fine at Creighton, was one of five Nebraskans Arts Professor Littleton Alston, titled On the honored by the Nebraska Cystic Fibrosis Wings of Angels, was placed in front of Omaha’s Foundation during its annual banquet on city-county building in commemoration of 9/11. Oct. 12. The event recognized individuals The sculpture features the hands of more than who have made significant contributions to 300 Omaha residents cast in bronze. The hands researching for a cure, helping control the form a sphere, and inside is a baby’s hand cast disease, and improving the quality of life for in bronze. “When those lives were lost, we lost cystic fibrosis patients. something too,” Alston said during a Sept. 11 Hanson’s laboratory is involved in ceremony. “So, to remember those lives and determining optimal drug treatments for remember those people is critical.” bacterial lung infections, from which cystic fibrosis patients suffer most of their lives and which can eventually become resistant to public participation in NIH activities and third-year medical students nationwide to many antibiotics. In addition, Hanson and her public understanding of the organization. receive the $5,000 scholarship in 2007 for their colleagues are investigating mechanisms of Furlong and five other new appointees efforts to address the educational, societal and resistance that could lead to the identification “bring a wealth of knowledge and professional health care needs of minorities. of new targets for the design of novel experience in the areas Potter is a past co-president of the Creighton antibiotics that are more efficient in killing the of rural and community chapter of the Student National Medical bacteria causing these infections. health, patient Association, the nation’s oldest and largest advocacy, health policy, student-run organization for medical students Kavan Elected to nursing education, of color. She has also volunteered at Pine and communications, Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, minority AAMC Post along with a strong bone-marrow drives in Omaha, and labor and Michael Kavan, Ph.D., BA’82, associate commitment to delivery classes at North Hawaii Community dean for student enhancing public Hospital in Kameula. affairs at Creighton participation in the Furlong In 2006, Potter spent three weeks in the University School of biomedical and Philippines, Cambodia and Thailand as a Medicine, has been behavioral research enterprise,” said NIH volunteer with HOPE worldwide, teaching elected national vice Director Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation chair of the Group on Furlong, a faculty associate with to children who were sexually and physically Student Affairs (GSA) Creighton’s Center for Health Policy and abused, as well as visiting families afflicted for the Association Ethics, has four decades of experience in with AIDS. of American Medical community health nursing. She has taught Colleges (AAMC) for health ethics and related subjects to nurses Kavan 2007-2008. and physicians in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Creighton Recognized Kavan will help lead the GSA for a total of Georgia, Lithuania and Armenia. Her Among Producers of U.S. four years, beginning in November, serving international experience includes working as a Fulbright Students one year each as vice chair, chair-elect, chair Peace Corps volunteer in India and Fulbright Creighton University was included on and past chair. fellowships in Jordan and Hungary. the Fulbright Program’s list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2007-2008 Furlong Named to Creighton Medical U.S. Fulbright Fellows. The success of the top NIH Council Student Receives producing institutions was highlighted in the Oct. 26 print edition of The Chronicle of Higher Beth Furlong, Ph.D., JD’00, associate Prestigious AAMC Education. professor of nursing at Creighton University, Two students from Creighton University has been named to the Director’s Council Scholarship won Fulbright awards for 2007-2008. Both of Public Representatives at the National Creighton University medical student Melissa Olson, of Blair, Neb., and Catherine Institutes of Health (NIH). Danielle K. Potter has been awarded the Homan, of St. Louis, graduated with honors The council brings important matters of prestigious Herbert Nickens Scholarship by from Creighton and are conducting research in public interest forward for discussion and the American Association of Medical Colleges. Germany. advises and assists the director in increasing Potter, of Waimea, Hawaii, is one of five,

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Undergraduate Research Shines with Support of Alumnus Creighton’s second annual Ferlic Undergraduate Science Poster Presentation on Oct. 22 once more showcased the original research of Creighton’s undergraduate students in the physical sciences. Made possible through the generosity and support of alumnus Randolph Ferlic, BS’58, MD’61, and his wife, Teresa Kolars Ferlic, this research program brought

together 11 Creighton students in 2007 and Photo by Mark Romesser supported them in their work with their Kristi Lorenzen, senior biology major, talks about her research at the Ferlic Undergraduate Science faculty mentors. Poster Presentation. Lorenzen worked with Annemarie Shibata, Ph.D., assistant professor of cellular Each of the students worked 40 hours neuroscience. per week for 10 weeks during the summer Creighton students do not undertake these chemistry); Kathryn Roccaforte, senior in the lab of a faculty member. Each student initiatives alone. They are successful because (with Mary Ann Vinton, Ph.D., biology); received a stipend of $3,200 for living they are mentored by talented faculty members Matthew Burkhead, senior (with Erin Gross, expenses, $500 for research materials, and who match their enthusiasm with patience, Ph.D., chemistry); David Skoglund, senior access to support that enabled them to attend skill and expertise. (with James Fletcher, Ph.D., chemistry); meetings and present their work externally. As a key administrator of this program, Kristi Lorenzen, senior (with Annemarie Thanks to this support, these Creighton James Fletcher, Ph.D., assistant professor of Shibata, Ph.D., biology); Michelle Gavino, students were able to focus solely on chemistry, can attest to the support Creighton senior (with Charles Brockhouse, Ph.D., research efforts — and progress in ways that faculty bring to their students. biology); Anna Sander, senior (with Mark otherwise would be lost to them in holding “While it is obvious that the faculty mentors Reedy, Ph.D., biology); Jamie Prevedel, down other jobs to support themselves. support the students with their hands-on junior (with Mark Reedy, Ph.D., biology); Nearly half of all Creighton’s guidance,” Fletcher said, “it is important to Jennie Burns, senior (with Michael Cherney, undergraduate students major in science — realize that the students in turn support the Ph.D., physics); Robbie Thomen, junior five times the national average. Creighton’s scholarly interests of their faculty mentors (with Michael Cherney, Ph.D., physics); and physics, chemistry and biology programs, with their research results. This symbiotic Joshua Souchek, senior (with Julie Soukup, as well as those in environmental and relationship makes programs such as the Ph.D., chemistry). atmospheric sciences, rank among the best Ferlic Summer Research Program a win-win In addition to his long and distinguished in the country. situation for everyone involved.” career as a thoracic surgeon, Ferlic has This cross-disciplinary study is not Ferlic students for 2007 are: Brittany been a dedicated educator and an ardent available on most college campuses, and Wertzberger, senior (with Stephen Gross, Ph.D., supporter of higher education in Nebraska.

NYSE Chairman Financial Freedom,” “Becoming the Leader in Creighton’s Anna Tyler Waite Center Headlines Business You Want to Be,” “Entrepreneurship: The for Leadership, a four-year leadership Business of Innovation” and “Leaving the development program in the College of Symposium Cube, Finding the Window.” Business Administration. Marshall Carter, chairman of the New York In addition to Carter, other speakers Carter also gave a special class session Stock Exchange (NYSE) and deputy chairman included Kelly McDonald, BSBA’85, MBA’89, on leadership and the challenges facing of NYSE Euronext, was the featured speaker a marketing strategist with more than the financial services industry. Carter is a at Creighton’s annual Executive Business 15 years experience working with global recognized leader in the banking industry, a Symposium. organizations such as Apple, Levi Strauss and former Marine Corps officer and a decorated The symposium was held Nov. 2 at the Microsoft; Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman; Vietnam veteran. He took over as chairman of Qwest Center Omaha. This was the fourth Gail Werner-Robertson, BA’84, JD’88, founder the New York Stock Exchange in April 2005. year for the symposium, which is open to all and president of GWR Wealth Management; He is currently deputy chairman of NYSE students and is designed to connect students Ron Gartlan, BSBA’69, president and CEO of Euronext, a holding company created in April with business professionals to enhance and Godfather’s Pizza; and Bruce Simon, president 2007 by the combination of NYSE Group, Inc., further the classroom experience. and CEO of Omaha Steaks. and Euronext N.V. Panel sessions included: “Achieving The symposium is organized by students

9 Winter 2007 Worshippers visit the tomb of Imam Husayn, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who is buried in a shrine in the Shi’i holy city of Karbala, Iraq. The tomb is one of the holiest places for Shi’i Muslims. The Shi‘a of Iraq By John Calvert, Ph.D. Fr. Henry W. Casper, S.J., Associate Professor in History AP Photo/Ghassan al-Yassiri AP

10 Winter 2007 but not necessarily because they sought They traveled to Karbala in the hundreds of to replicate the Jeffersonian model. thousands, grave-faced men and women dressed Rather, most Shi‘a viewed the elections as a convenient instrument by which in black, walking, crawling over the ground, chanting their beleaguered community might gain political power at the expense of prayers and lamentations, rhythmically beating their Iraq’s Sunni establishment. The fruit of this strategy was the elevation to chests. The date: April 22, 2003. The occasion: Arba‘in, power of the Shi‘a-dominated coalition government of Nuri al-Maliki — and the the day on which the Imam Husayn was martyred Sunni backlash it engendered. There have been other consequences. centuries earlier by the forces of the “iniquitous” Sunni In decapitating the Ba‘thist regime, caliph of Damascus. For Shi‘i Muslims around the the Bush administration created the conditions of a Shi‘i renaissance in Iraq world, the annual commemoration of Imam Husayn’s that has emboldened Iran and Lebanon’s Hizbullah. Some observers, including martyrdom is an important component of their King Abdullah II of Jordan, have spoken openly of an arc of resurgent Shi‘i power devotional landscape. stretching from Beirut to Tehran. The U.S. now finds itself in the Yet, for a quarter of a century, Saddam position of having to contain the Shi‘i Husayn severely curtailed and even surge, a goal it shares not only with banned the performance of Arba‘in and Israel, its steadfast ally, but also with other Shi‘i rituals. As leader of the Sunni- a number of Sunni Arab states and, dominated Ba‘thist regime, Husyan it should be added, with the jihadi made every attempt to diminish Shi‘i guerrillas and terrorists. The Iraq war identity in Iraq. has altered the Middle East’s balance of But now, in April 2003, the Americans power, but not in ways anticipated by or were in charge. Together with their appreciated in Washington. British allies, they had overthrown Iraq’s Ba‘thists. Saddam Husayn was on the The Partisans of ‘Ali run and would soon be extracted from the “spider hole” in which he sought Every great world religion has its refuge. For most Iraqis, but particularly sectarian divisions. In Islam, the major for Iraq’s long-suffering Shi‘i population, sectarian divide is between Sunni and the fall of Saddam Husayn was an Shi‘i Muslims. Among the world’s exhilarating moment of liberation. In the Muslims, Sunnis are the clear majority, ritual mourning of their martyred Imam, Photo by Mark Romesser comprising between 85 and 90 percent of the Shi‘a released decades of pent up Author John Calvert, Ph.D., says the overthrow the total. Although there are significant emotion. of Saddam Husayn and his Sunni-dominated Shi‘i populations in South Asia (India, Ba’thist party has created a Shi’i renaissance in Pakistan and Afghanistan) and the Unintended Consequences Iraq. Caucasus (Azerbaijan), most Shi‘a reside in the Middle East, especially the The Americans and the British had the United States. The net effect would Gulf region but also in Lebanon and come to Iraq to build a democracy. be the emergence of a kinder, gentler Syria. What is notable is that, with the In the view of the White House and Middle East, one friendly to American exception of Iran and a small number of Whitehall, the project would serve political and business interests. of dynasties in the medieval period, two purposes. It would secure an Democracy, so the thinking went, would Shi‘i Muslims have rarely held the reins oil-wealthy ally abutting the Islamic breed prosperity and contentment, of political power. Indeed, in many Republic of Iran, whose ambitions the which, in turn, would end the despair modern Middle Eastern states, such as U.S. administration was eager to check, and humiliation driving Al Qaeda’s Iraq (where they comprise 60 percent of and it would encourage democratic global jihad. the population), Bahrain (where they are forces elsewhere in the region to push At the urging of their leaders, Iraq’s 75 percent of the population) and Saudi harder for positive change in their Shi‘a turned out massively to vote in the Arabia (where they are 10 percent), countries, perhaps with the assistance of elections that followed Saddam’s ouster, the Shi‘a have been marginalized and

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sometimes persecuted. the Mahdi — the “Guided One”— and oppressed or marginalized, the historical The difference between Sunni and restore justice to the world. He will experience of the Shi‘a throughout the Shi‘i Muslims hinges on the issue of wreak vengeance against the illegitimate Middle East. leadership: Who should govern the usurpers of religio-political authority In the absence of the manifest Imam, Muslim community following the death and expand his just rule throughout the the affairs of the Shi‘i community of the Prophet Muhammad? According world through jihad. are guided by clerics (‘ulama). The to the Sunnis, the Prophet died without This millennial scenario, elaborated most revered clerics are given the title designating an heir. Left to their own and embellished over centuries in a “marja-e taqlid,” “source of imitation,” devices, the Muslims of Medina chose vast body of apocalyptic literature, so called because every Shi‘i Muslim leaders from their ranks. These were has much in common with Messianic must follow the teachings and advice the “khulafa” — in the anglicized traditions in other faiths, notably of a living marja on issues ranging from version of the term, “caliphs.” Unlike Judaism and Christianity. It is especially the sublime to the very ordinary: “Since the Prophet, the caliphs possessed no apparent among members of religious perfume has alcohol in it, and alcohol is special religious knowledge. Their tasks communities that are routinely forbidden, may a Shi‘a wear perfume?” were simply to uphold the integrity of the Muslim community, defend it from its enemies and enforce the Shari‘a, the body of rules, regulations and advice that derive from the Qur’an and the Prophet’s example. In history there were three important caliphal houses: the Rashidun (632-661), the Umayyads (661-750) and the Abbasids (750-1258). In contrast to the Sunnis, Shi‘i Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammad did, in fact, designate a successor, namely, his cousin ‘Ali ibn Talib, who was also husband to his daughter Fatima. Further, they believe that the legitimate governance of the Muslims should remain in the line of ‘Ali and Fatima. Shi‘i Muslims refer to these descendants of the Prophet as “Imams” (literally, “leaders”) and consider their judgment on religious and worldly affairs to be infallible. According to Shi‘i theologians, God provided the Imams with special wisdom so that they might properly guide the Muslim community in the absence of the Prophet. Shi‘a attach special significance to the third Imam, Husayn, who was killed at Karbala in 680 C.E. in his attempt to wrest control of the nascent Islamic state from the Sunni Umayyads. Husayn’s “passion” is Shi‘ism’s central symbol, representing the eclipse of justice in a world bereft of legitimate leadership. Yet, Shi‘i theology is also confident that matters will improve. According to Shi‘i doctrine, in the year 874 C.E., God concealed the Twelfth Imam in order

to protect him from his Sunni Muslim Photo/Mohammed Uraibi AP enemies. Accordingly, the Twelfth Imam A young Iraqi boy in Baghdad kisses a portrait commemorating the death of Imam Husayn. Shi’a attach is invisible, even to believers. He will, special significance to Husayn, who was beheaded at Karbala in 680 C.E. in a battle to wrest control from however, return one day to earth as the Sunni Umayyads.

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In the 20th century, the title “ayatollah” (literally, “sign of God”) became customary for designating a marja-e taqlid. At any given time, there are only a handful of ayatollahs available to dispense wisdom. Over the 18th and 19th centuries, many of the most revered Shi‘i clerics resided at the shrine cities of Ottoman Mesopotamia: Karbala, Najaf (which houses the tomb of ‘Ali), al-Khadhimiyya and Samarra. Shi‘ism vs. Arab Nationalism The 19th century was something of a golden age for Shi‘ism in Mesopotamia. Taking advantage of the Sunni Ottomans’ inability to closely control the region, the region’s Shi‘i clerics and urban merchants enjoyed semi- autonomy, especially in the areas south of Baghdad. In those days, Karbala and Photo/APTN AP Najaf bustled with activity. Their streets Iraq’s top Shi’i cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, enters a room in Al-Abdaly on the Iraqi side of the were filled with pilgrims, seminary border with Kuwait in this image taken from television in August 2004. students and scholars from around Iraq and abroad. Lonely seminarians could, The British crushed the rebellion at and 1960s expressed their disaffection if so disposed, partake of the practice of the cost of 10,000 Arab lives and, in 1921, with the political order by joining Iraq’s mut‘a, a temporary marriage contracted united the Ottoman provinces of Basra, Communist Party. with a woman for any length of time, Baghdad, and Mosul to create the state The fortunes of the Shi‘i community even for a matter of hours. Sunnis regard of Iraq. Partly to punish the Shi‘a, and declined further during the this practice as a form of prostitution, partly to appease the Sunni Hashimites revolutionary era that followed the but most Shi‘a consider it legitimate, who helped against the Ottomans toppling of King Faysal II in 1958. tracing it back to the time of the Prophet. during the war, the British placed Faysal, Although the Ba‘thists who came to The shrine cities, especially Najaf, son of the Sunni prince of Mecca, on power in 1968 under the leadership were the preferred burial grounds for the throne of the new country. Over the of Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr claimed Shi‘a who sought to spend the period course of the following decades, Iraq’s to govern in the name of non- between death and bodily resurrection politics and economy were directed denominational Arab nationalism, in the vicinity of their beloved Imams. largely by the country’s Sunni elite. in fact their rule represented the Consequently, the cities benefitted from Against the emergence of Baghdad as continuation of Sunni paramountcy. a brisk traffic in corpses, some of which the political center, Najaf and Karbala Most members of the government hailed were transported from as far away as declined in importance. Unable to from Tikrit on the Tigris, Ahmad Hasan India. In 2004, U.S. Marines battled the withstand the controlling impulses of al-Bakr’s hometown. One of the Tikritis Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr in the Sunni-dominated state, Iraq’s Shi‘i al-Bakr brought on board was the young these same graveyards. clerics retreated to the margins of society. Saddam Husayn. During the period Following the Ottoman Empire’s One result was that during the period of that followed, Iraqis often chided that defeat in World War I, Great Britain the constitutional monarchy (1921-1958) the Sunni Tikritis ruled Iraq through the and France imposed a new political Qom and Mashhad in Iran replaced instrument of the Ba‘th Party. order over the Middle East that Iraq’s shrine cities as the primary centers The Saddam years (1979-2003) severely diminished Mesopotamia’s of Shi‘i learning. Certainly the most represented the nadir of Shi‘i fortunes informal autonomy. When, in 1920, influential graduate of the seminary in Iraq. The president of Iraq diverted it appeared that Britain’s occupation at Qom was Ruhollah Khomeini who Iraq’s oil revenues away from the Shi‘i of Mesopotamia, which had became a marja in 1963 following south to the cities and towns of the commenced in 1917, was to be formally the death of Iranian Grand Ayatollah “Sunni Triangle.” He restricted Shi‘i institutionalized in the form of a League Husayn Borujerdi. Khomeini went on to religious observances. Although the of Nations Mandate, the Shi‘a rose up in lead the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. bulk of Iraq’s army was made up of violent rebellion, receiving only minor In the absence of vigorous religious Shi‘i conscripts who served the state support from the Sunni population. leadership, many Iraqi Shi‘a in the 1950s loyally, Saddam Husayn was afraid that

13 Winter 2007 XxxxxxxxxThe Shi’a of Iraq AP Photo/Karim Kadim AP Shi’i Muslims chant slogans prior to Friday prayers in Baghdad’s Shi’i enclave of Sadr City. The poster contains portraits of the Shi’i cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, center, his late father Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadeq al-Sadr, left, and father-in-law Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. The latter two religious leaders were killed under Saddam Husayn’s regime.

elements within the Shi‘i population, to Saddam Husayn’s suppression of the 1990-1991 Gulf War provided the Shi‘a particularly those with family ties to Shi‘a. Inspired by the Islamic Revolution with a new opportunity to change Iran, constituted a security risk. And so, in Iran, some Da‘wa members turned the status quo in their favor. Tens of during the early stages of the brutal war to violence. In response, Saddam thousands of Shi‘i conscripts in the with Iran (1980-1988), he had tens of Husayn executed Muhammad Baqir Iraqi army, streaming home in defeat thousands of Shi‘a deported to Iran. al-Sadr, allegedly by driving nails into from Kuwait, heeded President George The sustained ill treatment of Iraq’s his head and setting him ablaze. Their H.W. Bush’s call for the Shi‘a and Shi‘a during the 1970s and 1980s ignited will unbroken, elements within Da‘wa Kurds to rise up against the tyrant. The clerical oppostion to the Ba‘thist regime. attempted, in 1982, to assassinate American help that the Shi‘a expected The central figure in this reaction was Saddam, who retaliated by killing scores never materialized. Although they did the Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr. of people in Dujail, the hometown of not want him in Kuwait, Washington Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr was the the would-be assassins. It was for this and Riyadh were keen to keep Saddam driving force behind the creation of particular crime that Saddam Husayn Husyan on his presidential throne in the Da‘wa Party, launched in the late was tried and executed in December order not to create a power vacuum 1950s in the holy city of Najaf in Iraq. 2006. During Saddam’s execution, in Iraq that might then be exploited Organized into secret cells, the party’s a number of the Shi‘i guards, one of by Iran. Employing the Republican objective was to preserve Shi‘i identity whom managed to record the event on Guard units that he had kept out of against the influence of Western his phone-camera, chanted, “Long live harm’s way during the war, Saddam ideologies. However, during the 1970s Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr!” Husayn crushed the uprisings and then the Da‘wa Party turned its full attention Saddam Husayn’s defeat in the unleashed a reign of terror upon the

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general Shi‘i population. Most of the credentials (according to some accounts, in the Green Zone during the early mass graves discovered in the wake of he spent much of his youth playing years of the occupation. According the 2003 American advance up the Tigris video games). Rather, he bears the less to Chandrasekaran, CPA officials and Euphrates river valleys date from distinguished title “Hujjat al-Islam” were chosen because of their political this period of savage repression. (“a proof of Islam”). Unlike other Shi‘i loyalty to the U.S. administration, not During the 1990s, the Shi‘a suffered parties and individuals in parliament necessarily on account of their expertise with other Iraqis under the weight of who are willing to cooperate with or knowledge of Iraq’s affairs. Going in, sanctions by the United States and Great one another and with the Americans many held the general assumption that Britain. The suffering was compounded for strategic and practical purposes, Iraq’s Shi‘a were “secular” and open by the country’s broken infrastructure Muqtada al-Sadr has used his black-clad to U.S. tutelage. Like most Americans — a legacy of the Gulf War. Given the Mahdi Army time and again to assert his working in Iraq, they were unprepared West’s disregard for the well-being of authority both against U.S. forces and for events as they unfolded. In toppling Iraq’s Shi‘a, it is perhaps not surprising Shi‘i rivals. Saddam Husayn, the United States that the pilgrims who marched to The question before both Iraqis and its British ally let loose forces and Karbala in 2003 mixed their religious and Americans is whether the Iraqi trends, including a “Shi‘i revival,” chants with anti-American slogans. government will be able to address which it has been unable to effectively effectively the challenges before it. Will understand, predict and manage in Tyranny of the Majority? it be able to provide security to Iraq’s accordance with its interests. citizens, both to the Shi‘a, who have To the dismay of the U.S., the United been the targets of jihadi attacks, and About the author: John Calvert is Iraqi Alliance that came to dominate the Sunnis, who have suffered terrible the Fr. Henry W. Casper, S.J. Associate Iraq’s parliament following the 2005 retribution? Will it work to incorporate Professor in History. His research national elections was comprised largely more Sunnis into the state’s decision- focuses on Islamist movements in the of Shi‘i religious parties. The top vote- making processes, for example, by Middle East and South East Asia. With getter was the Supreme Council of the reversing the de-Ba‘thification law? William Shepard, he is translator and Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). Led Will the government manage to pass an editor of Sayyid Qutb’s A Child from the by ‘Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, whose father effective oil-revenue sharing law that Village (Syracuse: Syracuse University had been the leading ayatollah of Najaf will satisfy the demands of the country’s Press, 2004), and in the 1960s, SCIRI initially accepted Sunni center? These and other issues author of The the Ayatollah Khomeini’s theory of remain unresolved. Arabian Peninusla clerical rule, which some say made the in the Age of Oil party a proxy of Iran. However, in May We’re not in Kansas Anymore (Philadelphia: 2007 SCIRI assuaged these fears by Mason Crest, announcing that it would no longer take In his book Imperial Life in the Emerald 2007) and the guidance from Iran and would instead City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the forthcoming follow the fatwas (juridical opinions) of Washington Post describes the naïve, Islamism: A Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. In order to ideologically narrow vision of the Documentary and signify its new independence from Iran American personnel attached to the Reference Guide (Westport: Greenwood and its revolution, the party renamed Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Press, 2007). itself the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. Another big winner in the elections was Muqtada al-Sadr, son of the much respected Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Suggestions for Further Reading: Sadeq al-Sadr, who was assassinated Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life inside the Green by Saddam Husayn’s secret police in Zone (New York: Knopf, 2006). 1999. (Muqtada is also the son-in-law of the previously-mentioned Ayatollah Mallat, Chibli, The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer al-Sadr, Najaf and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr.) Over the the Shi‘i International (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). 1990s, Muqtada’s father looked to the interests of the impoverished dwellers Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Hamid Dabashi, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr (eds), in Shi‘i East Baghdad, which came Expectation of the Millennium: Shi‘ism in History (State University of New York to be called “Sadr City” in his honor. Press, 1989). Muqtada al-Sadr inherited his father’s Vali Nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future constituency and, like him, accepts (New York: W.W. Norton, 2006). Khomeini’s rule of the jurisprudent. However, Muqtada al-Sadr is not an Linda Walbridge (ed.), The Most Learned of the Shi‘a: The Institution of the Marja ayatollah; he does not have the scholarly Taqlid (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

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n Dec. 3, 2005, Creighton University strategic planning — part of a “willed future” outlined by announced the public phase of its most Creighton University’s president, the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., vice presidents and deans. Thanks to the generosity of O ambitious capital campaign ever — donors, Creighton University has endowed seven new faculty THE WILLING TO LEAD CAMPAIGN — with a goal of chairs in nursing, dentistry, medicine, law, business, and arts and sciences; created the Werner Institute for Negotiation and raising $350 million and securing Creighton’s Dispute Resolution in the law school; increased the amount of place at the forefront as one of the fi nest Jesuit, scholarship money awarded to students; and created endowed Catholic universities in the United States. Now, professorships in history and nephrology. Several other faculty chairs will be announced in the near future. two years later — thanks to the support of alumni “To date, nearly 57,000 alumni and friends have participated and friends across the country — the University in the campaign,” said Lisa Calvert, vice president for University Relations. “It is incredible how the alumni have is closing in on that goal with more than $300 stepped forward to support the University’s future.” million raised. The initial stages of the campaign focused on Creighton’s “The response to the campaign has been science education. With construction of the Hixson-Lied Science Building, Creighton seized an opportunity to become a overwhelmingly positive,” said Bruce Rohde, national template for undergraduate science education, creating BSBA’71, JD’73, chair of the Campaign Steering opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and research among undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. That was Committee. “This is an exciting time in the followed by renovations to the Rigge Science Building and Criss history of the institution. Through the shared II and III buildings. These improvements promote faculty and vision and generosity of alumni and friends, we student recruitment, faculty retention and student satisfaction. Nearly half of Creighton’s undergraduate students major in a are truly transforming Creighton University.” science, compared with the national average of about 5 percent. THE WILLING TO LEAD CAMPAIGN is aligned with Creighton’s Buoyed by an anonymous $50 million gift to THE WILLING 16 Winter 2007 “Service and outreach experiences at Creighton have given me the rare and extraordinary gifts of authentic education, bewilderment, intense sorrow and ineffable joy.” — Emily Johanna Warming, BA’06

TO LEAD CAMPAIGN, Creighton then began its dramatic east- campus expansion — designed to provide undergraduate and professional students with a high-level, academic, life-changing experience. This has included construction of the Davis Square and Opus Hall student town homes for juniors and seniors; opening of the Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., Stadium, home to Creighton men’s and women’s soccer; construction of the Mike and Josie Harper Center for Student Life and Learning (to be completed in 2008); the renovation and expansion of the campus mall, unifying the campus from east to west; and renovations to historic St. John’s Church. Most recently, the University broke ground on the Ryan Athletics Center and D.J. Sokol Arena, the future home to Creighton women’s basketball and volleyball. THE WILLING TO LEAD CAMPAIGN has been aggressive on all “We are the people of God who have been called forth.” fronts. The campaign seeks nearly half its overall goal in — Fr. Roc O’Connor, S.J., rector of the Jesuit community, endowments for people and programs. Substantial endowment at a Mass celebrating the renovations to St. John’s Church support will secure and strengthen Creighton’s core asset, its faculty, while providing the scholarship support necessary to Willing to Believe attract a diverse community of students with the skills, ethics and motivation to build a better society. Support for Jesuit Mission and “This campaign is about our shared dreams for Creighton’s Catholic Identity future,” Fr. Schlegel said. “We are standing on the shoulders Goal: $14 million of giants, from the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of the Creighton family to the adventuresome spirit shown by our “We here at Creighton appreciate the very generous support of university leaders, faculty, staff and alumni throughout the our alumni and friends in furthering the Jesuit, Catholic mission. decades. Now, this is our moment of possibility. We are on It has been tremendous. I want you to know, though, that we the path to assume national prominence. We are grateful to are still in need of funding in a critical area that directly touches the many individuals who have participated in this campaign the heart of our institution: Willing to Believe,” said the Rev. Roc and contributed to its success. But we still have some critical O’Connor, S.J., rector of the Jesuit community at Creighton. funding needs, and we look for your continued support as we “This is the part of the campaign where Jesuit/Ignatian move forward.” spirituality fl ows together with Catholic tradition seeking to THE WILLING TO LEAD CAMPAIGN seeks support in fi ve key educate women and men who are not only profi cient in their areas: Jesuit mission and Catholic identity (Willing to Believe); professions but who are enlivened with a spirit of service and science education and technology (Willing to Innovate); east- emboldened to create a more just world. campus expansion (Willing to Grow); endowment for people “The Center for Service and Justice fosters the development of and programs (Willing to Excel); and the annual fund (Willing to so many of our students to live the mission of becoming women Serve). On the following pages, we share with you the progress and men for others. The Collaborative Ministry Offi ce ensures of the campaign in these critical areas, as well as outline those that faculty and staff encounter the Jesuit/Ignatian tradition from priorities that require additional support through the campaign. their very fi rst days on campus. The Online Ministry website Through your support of the campaign, you will join those touches hundreds of thousands of people all around the world who have demonstrated their enthusiasm for our “willed future” every month, making connections to Jesuit and Catholic ways of and signify that, above all, Creighton University is Willing to praying. Finally, the newly renovated St. John’s Church, which Lead. For more information, or to contribute or discuss a gift to ‘sits at the heart of the Creighton campus,’ offers a beautifully the campaign, please call (800) 334-8794 or (402) 280-2740. stunning venue for worship, combining the best of old and new. All these efforts still need your help and support.”

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“Everyone who supports Creighton is blessed with the opportunity to contribute to the formation of ‘men and women for others’ who are imbued with Jesuit values of justice and solidarity.” — Richard L. O’Brien, MS’58, MD’60, University Professor, Center for Health Policy and Ethics

Renovations of St. John’s Church St. John’s Church lies at the heart of Creighton’s campus, both literally and figuratively. This venerable neo-Gothic landmark — which opened as a tiny chapel in 1888 — is where students, alumni, Jesuits and parishioners, through the generations, have come to pray, to mourn, to celebrate, and to gather in community. On July 28, Creighton University celebrated the breathtaking renovations to St. John’s Church and consecrated its new altar with a Mass offered by Omaha Archbishop the Most Rev. Elden Francis Curtiss and concelebrated by more than a dozen Jesuits. The University’s goal for liturgical renewal is to refresh the church in ways that engage people in a richer communal experience more reflective of Creighton’s dynamic Catholic faith. “From faculty to administrators, everyone at Creighton Endowed Jesuit Chair sees you doing great things for the world in the future. As fewer men enter the ministry, the presence of Jesuits on That has to be the singular factor that drew me to the Creighton campus assumes urgency. Creighton University Creighton — the community is unbelievably embracing.” seeks an endowed Jesuit Chair to attract Jesuit scholars and — Tyler Gassaway, Class of 2010 teachers to campus. Common at many other Jesuit institutions, the endowed chair would reinvigorate the Jesuit presence and offer students greater access to the spiritual guidance so fundamental to the Creighton experience. Endowment for the Center for Service and Justice Every day, Creighton students, faculty, staff and alumni Endowment for the Center for the Study of Catholic are making a difference in the world through more than 150 Thought programs in 440 locations, professional careers, and community Creighton University has programs that educate faculty leadership and boards. Creighton’s Center for Service and about the mission of the Society of Jesus and that introduce Justice is the University’s anchor for enriching the development them to Jesuit spirituality. However, a new Center for the Study of the campus community and its service to greater society. Our of Catholic Thought would coordinate and encourage special students’ enthusiasm for the service of faith and justice and activities that relate specifically to the Catholic intellectual the spirit of service they apply after graduation are hallmarks tradition through public lectures, faculty seminars, research of a Creighton education and set us apart from many of our grants and visiting scholars. The center would attract Jesuits educational peers. from all over to Creighton to pursue their studies, teaching and research. Willing to Innovate Support for Science Education, Endowment for Collaborative Ministry research and Technology The Collaborative Ministry Office’s innovative Online Ministries is a remarkable Creighton University success story Goal: $62 million and has become one of the finest faith-based websites in the world — with 1.7 million visitors each month from 145 Integrated Science Center: Hixson-Lied, Rigge, countries. Creighton seeks endowment, so it can build this Criss II and Criss III & Technology Infrastructure creative response to the electronic age and gain distinction With nearly half of Creighton’s undergraduate students for its innovative commitment to nourishing the University’s majoring in science — five times the national average — an worldwide faith community. emphasis on further developing an interactive, collaborative

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“The Magis Clinic is such a needed, educational and inspirational project. We owe a lot to the philanthropy of the Creighton community.” — Medical student Justin Birge, MS’03, on support for the student-run Magis Clinic, which offers services to the homeless

and interdisciplinary science education is a critical component Willing to Grow of Th e Wi l l i n g t o Le a d Ca m p a i g n . Taking advantage of favorable Support for Campus short-term funding rates, the University made a visible leap Expansion forward in science education in 2003 — opening its six- story, 110,000-square-foot Hixson-Lied Science Building and Goal: $99 million renovating the science space in the Rigge, Criss II and Criss III buildings. The goal of this Integrated Science Center is to In 2003, Creighton leadership created a dynamic and maximize the synergies of a strong undergraduate science nationally recognized campus master plan. The University took program and a major medical center in one institution — advantage of historically low interest rates and once-neglected further encouraging students and faculty to explore the properties that were selling at fair market value. Thus the frontiers of healing, science and biomedicine. momentum of Omaha’s downtown progress, the University’s Now the University must assure the future sustainability opportunity to realize key elements of its 15-year campus of its contributions to science education and research through master plan and the early success of Th e Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n a major infusion of private philanthropic support. Th e provided the confidence to move ahead with several innovative Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n seeks funding in three related areas: facilities and beyond the original campaign goal. (1) completion of the funding of the Integrated Science Center, (2) significantly upgraded technology infrastructure, and (3) The Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., Stadium endowment to transform Creighton’s health sciences education, The Rev. Michael G. Morrison, S.J., Stadium is one of the research and clinical missions to accommodate a new threshold nation’s premier soccer complexes. The Bluejays’ new home also of excellence. Achieving this bold vision will demonstrate that underscores Creighton’s national soccer reputation and the new Creighton University is Willing to Innovate. opportunity for NCAA tournaments. It provides Omaha with a major new sports venue — a 5,000-seat stadium within walking distance for students and fans who live and work downtown. Davis Square and Opus Hall Town Homes Unlike students at many universities, Creighton juniors and seniors want to live on campus. They value residence halls as extensions of the learning environment. Creighton’s first junior-senior town homes, Davis Square, opened in 2004, with Opus Hall following in 2006. Both have been popular with upperclassmen; when Davis Square first opened, three times as many students requested rooms as were available. Indeed, juniors and seniors are excited to spend their last formative years on campus, while younger students benefit from their presence and leadership.

“Creighton University is a leader in science education, The Mike and Josie Harper Center for Student Life with an interactive, interdisciplinary approach and Learning that engages students not only in the classroom Construction of the 214,000-square-foot Mike and Josie but in the laboratory, as well.” Harper Center for Student Life and Learning is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2008. The importance of — Julie Soukup, Ph.D., BSChm’93, Clare Boothe Luce this signature building cannot be overstated. In addition to Associate Professor of Chemistry providing essential, centrally located services for students, the Harper Center will serve as Creighton’s front door, warmly welcoming prospective students, parents, members of the

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“Creighton has always been known for its teaching … But there is world-class research going on here, as well. Creighton is known for its work in bone and calcium biology and for its work in hereditary cancer syndromes. We hope to do more. We should do more. I think we can do more.” — Robert P. Heaney, MD’51, Professor of Medicine and Endowed Chairholder, John A. Creighton University Professor

community and all other visitors. Designed to be a comfortable flourishing endowment will attract more exceptional students environment, the Harper Center will enhance students’ from all socioeconomic backgrounds and ensure sustained experiences by providing an atmosphere that encourages excellence over the long term. excellence in all aspects of student life. Faculty Endowments Ryan Athletics Center and D.J. Sokol Arena A university’s reputation and value are built on the quality of On Oct. 16, ground was broken for the new Ryan Athletics its faculty, who nurture, encourage and motivate students and Center and D.J. Sokol Arena. The 46,000-square-foot, two-story who, through their research, scholarship and love of teaching, building, to be located on the northeast corner of Webster Street attract other outstanding faculty. Through Th e Wi l l i n g t o Le a d and Florence Boulevard, will be home to Creighton women’s Ca m p a i g n , the University has endowed seven new faculty basketball and volleyball. (See story on Page 5.) chairs: • The John N. Mordeson, Ph.D., Endowed Chair in Willing to Excel Mathematics through a gift from George Haddix, Ph.D., MA’66, and his wife, Sally Hansen Haddix; Support for Endowments for • The Union Pacific Endowed Chair in Accountancy; People and Programs • The McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in Goal: $145 million Business Law; • The Charles F. and Mary C. Heider Endowed Chair “At Creighton University, one of our main goals is to attract in Cancer Research; the highest-ability students from all socioeconomic backgrounds • The Sheila and James J. Shea Family Endowed Chair in and create campus communities that prepare them for a global Anesthesiology; society,” said Fr. Schlegel. “It is also critical that we retain our leading faculty and attract new scholars. All of this is accomplished through a strong endowment. While we have received significant funding in this area through the campaign, we still have a ways to go to reach our goal. Your gifts to this vitally important portion of the campaign will strengthen our University and benefit students for generations to come.” Student Scholarships Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students are vital to Creighton’s ability to achieve its goals as a Jesuit, Catholic university that enables students to apply their knowledge and talents with compassion and sound moral judgment. The primary reason that Creighton loses qualified students to other institutions is a lack of merit-scholarships or need-based financial aid. As the University competes for “It is a signal of trust that Union Pacific has chosen our college high-ability students from a national student base, its need in which to establish this chair … It means that the Union for merit awards and financial aid will continue to increase. Pacific name will be linked to the highest standards of teaching Endowments for merit- and need-based financial aid will allow and accounting practices for as long as Creighton is here. It Creighton to achieve strategic goals of greater national reach means that Creighton students will continue to receive the and expanded cultural and ethnic balance. As part of its Jesuit, benefit of a teacher like Dr. Jack Krogstad (pictured above). ” Catholic mission, Creighton University has an obligation to — Anthony Hendrickson, Ph.D., dean of the educate increasing numbers of high-ability middle- and lower- College of Business Administration at the inaugural income students seeking admission to undergraduate colleges of The Union Pacific Endowed Chair in Accountancy and to further their goals in professional/graduate schools. A

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“Receiving scholarship awards has allowed me to focus on studying and excelling academically, knowing that my finances are taken care of and that I won’t have to make decisions for my career and family dictated primarily by my debt.” — Danielle Ku`Ulei Potter, Creighton medical student, Class of 2009

• The Dr. Edward J. “Eddie” and Neta DeRose Endowed Such sustaining gifts ensure that Creighton’s educational Chair in Dentistry through a gift from their sons Michael, aspirations and commitments will be fully realized — the very DDS’82, and Dan DeRose; treasures of the University. • and The Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss and Drs. Gilbert and Clinton Beirne Endowed Chair in Nursing. Other Campaign Funding Gifts to the campaign also funded the Henry W. Casper, S.J., Professorship in History, supported by Wayne, BS’49, MS’51, and Eileen Ryan; and the DCI-J. Dan Egan, M.D., Endowed As in all campaigns, there are other miscellaneous gifts and Professorship in Nephrology, established through the joint restricted gifts that fall outside of the stated campaign priorities efforts of Dialysis, Inc., and the School of Medicine’s Division of but are equally essential to moving Creighton University Nephrology. forward. This campaign is an invitation to all alumni and friends to “dream big” and to demonstrate that we are Wi l l i n g t o Le a d . Libraries and Technology For more information on how your gift can benefit Creighton Today’s students have grown up in a “digital world,” and University — or to contribute or further discuss a gift to the the libraries have accommodated those changes in the way campaign — please call (800) 334-8794 or (402) 280-2740. they deliver information and support high-tech learning. To facilitate cutting-edge research and to remain adaptable to the digital future, Creighton must further invest in its libraries. Willing to Serve Support for the Creighton Fund Goal: $30 million

Creighton students learn to embrace the world and immerse themselves in it. Faculty provide students the intellectual, ethical, social and spiritual integration they seek — and society needs — so they can apply their knowledge and talents with compassion and sound moral judgment. Unrestricted annual gifts provide the institution with the necessary flexibility to “At Creighton University, one of our main goals is to apply funds where they are needed most and help relieve the attract the highest-ability students from all socioeconomic upward pressures on tuition, which remains the major source backgrounds and create campus communities that of operating revenues. By contributing to the campaign goal prepare them for a global society. ” of $30 million, alumni and friends can participate in what will, — The Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., President cumulatively, be one of the largest gifts ever to the University.

21 Winter 2007 WITH By Ozzie Nogg LivingCANCER

Tammy Kaczmarek Haase, left, with her son, Preston, and husband, Michael. Photo by Mike Gryniewicz

22 Winter 2007 WITH n 2000, Tammy Kaczmarek — a 28-year-old, self-described social butterfly — was living happily in Milwaukee. Then came the diagnosis:I breast cancer. “I was quite naive to think this couldn’t happen to someone my age,” she said. “I had no idea how to deal with what I was going through. My life was put on hold.”

Tammy found herself battling cancer said, “Tammy is cancer free, married establish Creighton’s Cancer Counseling as well as society’s perception of those to a wonderful man and recently gave Program, Knajdl, the program’s director, with the disease. “People didn’t know birth to a healthy baby boy — Preston and Clinkenbeard, his partner in how to react to me,” she explained. “I Michael. Tammy is my candle of hope practice, have brought hope to many. lost friends, I got fired from my job and as I continue to do this difficult yet A combination of psychiatry and I lost myself. I was desperate for help.” rewarding work. Hope is the foundation oncology, “psycho-oncology” is Tammy received it from Jeffrey Knajdl, of our practice.” designed to treat the whole person M.D., and Barbara Clinkenbeard, MS’99, Since they arrived in Omaha in 2006 to — mind, body and soul — within a APNP, in the psycho-oncology program medical, psychiatric, social and spiritual at the Vince Lombardi Cancer Center in framework. Knajdl is one of only two Milwaukee. psychiatrists in Nebraska board-certified “Tammy feared she wouldn’t be able The treatment of in medical psychiatry — also known as to have an intimate relationship and a psychosomatic medicine. Clinkenbeard family, because even though she was emotional distress in is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. They in her 20s with her life ahead of her, have a combined 25 years of service in she had breast cancer,” Clinkenbeard cancer patients is a psycho-oncology, having worked in the recalled. “I remember the day Tammy Milwaukee program before coming to came into one of our psychotherapy priority at Creighton, Creighton. sessions with a cast on her foot and told The treatment of emotional distress in me she had kicked the dresser out of and the University cancer patients is a priority at Creighton, anger and pain. Dr. Knajdl and I met and the University stands as one of only with her together and she shared with three medical facilities in the nation him her fear that no one would want stands as one of only that provides comprehensive psycho- her. He assured her that the man she oncology counseling. Furthermore, chose would love her for all the right three medical facilities Creighton is the only facility in the area reasons. Tammy hung onto Dr. Knajdl’s that employs two full-time psycho- words.” in the nation that oncologists. Hung on, literally, for dear life. “I “During our eight years in didn’t want to fight,” Tammy said, “but provides comprehensive Milwaukee,” Clinkenbeard said, “we Barbara and Dr. Knajdl were with me helped advance the psycho-oncology during every stage of treatment. If it psycho-oncology program and built a large practice. We wasn’t for the two of them, I wouldn’t saw over 12,000 patients living with have made it through.” counseling. cancer. We helped treat their anxieties, While at the Lombardi Cancer Center, helped them fight and live with this Tammy made pink votive candles, sold disease. We were doing important them and donated the proceeds back work.” to the facility. “Today,” Clinkenbeard But the pair — both Nebraska natives 23 Winter 2007 Living with Cancer

— had a dream to build a psycho- psychosomatic medicine — the art and oncology program back home, and they science of taking psychiatric care of the “Helping people fight wanted that program to be at Creighton. medically ill patient. Both Knajdl and In 2005, Knajdl received an e-mail from Clinkenbeard are able to diagnose, order and live with this disease Brian Loggie, M.D., chief of Creighton’s lab tests and prescribe medications — surgical oncology department. “Dr. a feature of Creighton’s program not is truly a privilege and a Loggie asked if Barbara and I would available anywhere else in the city. be interested in coming back. He had “Equally important,” Knajdl said, a vision of creating a multidisciplinary “Barbara and I are full-time dedicated journey we’re equipped program and wanted psycho-oncology psycho-oncologists, so our mission is to to be a critical hub of Creighton’s wheel focus exclusively on cancer patients and to take with patients of services. We came back and visited their families, to help them understand and knew that the timing was right that even in advanced cases you can live every day. I think this and God was bringing us here to do the during a dying process, to help those work we so passionately love.” who are struggling at a time when part work has changed my Knajdl and Clinkenbeard arrived of that struggle could be made easier.” with unique credentials. Clinkenbeard To date, the team has eased the life. I’ve become a better is board certified as a clinical nurse struggle for approximately 120 patients specialist and, in addition to her work or consults since the Creighton Cancer physician and a better with the Cancer Counseling Program, Counseling Program began. serves on the faculty of the Creighton “That’s 120 more individuals who person because of it.” School of Nursing. Knajdl is the only hopefully have gotten through their physician in Omaha board certified in cancer diagnoses easier, experienced — Dr. Jeffrey Knajdl psychiatry who is also a diplomate in less distress, and had better medical,

A Tradition of Care Creighton University has a long-standing commitment to healing. A strong desire to make a difference in patients’ lives has always been the foundation of Creighton University’s health sciences research, education and compassionate care. The healers who are advancing medical understanding and training health care practitioners at Creighton University are creating a better world. Our goal is to move to the front ranks of Jesuit, Catholic health care education with the standing that allows us to recruit the world’s best researchers, practitioners and educators. We have the talent, commitment and leadership to make this happen. The Creighton family who founded the University believed in the leveraging power of endowment to establish and continue Catholic institutions such as Creighton University. They were innovators, and they served their community selflessly every day. Now you can share in this legacy and our University’s contributions to new discoveries, cures and therapies. We invite your generous support for endowments for faculty and student scholarships in the health sciences as Creighton University demonstrates that it is Willing to Excel — and Willing to Lead.

24 Winter 2007 Living with Cancer Photo by Mark Romesser Barbara Clinkenbeard, MS’99, left, and Jeffrey Knajdl, M.D., run Creighton’s Cancer Counseling Program. emotional, social and spiritual care chemotherapy will be administered. family member who has cancer or who because of it,” Knajdl said. If the news our patients receive isn’t has died from cancer. Tying all the pieces Patient care can include art and good, my job is to help them focus and together is a staff of nurses who navigate pet therapy. Clinkenbeard told of one compartmentalize their lives. They patients through their care and guide patient who sewed her pain into a doll know we’re here for them with 24-hour them to the appropriate services. she had made. “Her doll was beautiful coverage if they get into trouble. And “Helping people fight and live with and became an important part of our our patients appreciate the fact that this disease is truly a privilege and a work together in psychotherapy.” we’re going to be with them, that we’re journey we’re equipped to take with Another patient found peace in her an integral part of their care.” patients every day,” Knajdl continued. final hours with a therapy dog named Clinkenbeard and Knajdl also are “I think this work has changed my life. Duffy. The hospital chaplain later told able to access spiritual counseling I’ve become a better physician and a Clinkenbeard: “I’ve never seen anything and nutritional consultations for their better person because of it. I’ve learned like it. Duffy made skin-to-skin contact clients, and have recently started The so much from my patients. I often tell along the patient’s side and the patient Conquering Cancer Chorus — their first my students, ‘It’s not what you say to calmed down, breathed easy until there ongoing support group for people with your patients that matters, but what was no more life in her on this earth. cancer or those affected by the disease. you let your patients say to you that Duffy stayed steadfast and present by “The group will meet regularly in really counts.’ I also have learned that her side until she went to heaven.” Creighton’s music department to sing,” you truly can get people to feel better “I look at things differently because Knajdl said. “Research proves that music emotionally during one of the most of the work I do,” Clinkenbeard said. therapy helps patients express feelings. difficult times of their lives. With the “I don’t take much for granted and I’m It also promotes wellness, alleviates pain right kind of assistance, you can truly constantly reminded that our lives are and helps manage stress.” live with cancer.” more fragile than we realize. Our work Future plans for the Cancer makes such a difference in a patient’s Counseling Center include the addition About the author: Nogg is a freelance journey through cancer. of social work services and child-life writer in Omaha. “Other doctors give the diagnosis, set specialists — professionals who work the treatment protocols, determine when with children who have a parent or

25 Winter 2007 Embryos, Ethics and Research on Human Subjects

Editor’s note: The following Q&A with geneticist and Jesuit priest the Rev. Kevin FitzGerald appeared in the June issue of National Jesuit News. We felt his insightful commentary would be of interest to Creighton Magazine readers. We thank National Jesuit News and the Rev. William Blazek of Georgetown University School of Medicine for allowing us to share this story.

By William Blazek, S.J., M.D. human embryo] is not a human being is Q: You often start your discussion of scientifically incorrect. stem cell research by pointing out the As U.S. and world culture struggle to difference between embryonic, adult plot a sound ethical course through the Q: Before we go too far, some of our and what you just called cancer stem tempest of changes that characterizes readers might like to know what stem cells. Why are these distinctions so today’s medical research climate, the cells are and how they differ from other important? U.S. Jesuit Assistancy is blessed to kinds of cells. count among its members the Rev. KF: Currently, the distinction most Kevin FitzGerald, S.J., Ph.D. With KF: Stem cells are the source of all often cited is between embryonic and doctorates in molecular genetics and the other cells in the body. Their job is adult stem cells. The term adult is bioethics, Fr. FitzGerald holds the Lauler to replace other cells damaged through actually a bit misleading; it refers to Chair in Catholic Health Care Ethics wear, tear, injury or disease. [Stem cells] several other kinds of stem cells such at Georgetown University School of also make more stem cells because as fetal, infant, adolescent and elderly. Medicine. His expertise is poignantly the body can’t afford to use up all the All of these other stem cells come topical for Catholics and non-Catholics ones you have; [any individual] needs from sources other than embryos. The alike. to have a source of stem cells for the embryonic stem cells are obtained early future. That is why the stem cells both on in human development, during a Q: What, from your perspective, is the make other cells and “self-renew.” But stage when the developing human core issue in the debate over embryonic we have to be careful. The concept of being is small. They are usually taken stem cell research? stem cells is a developing concept. We from a developing embryo when it is in are now looking at cells in tumors that what we call the blastocyst stage. In that KF: The central question is we are calling cancer stem cells. These stage, the embryo is made up of around [determining] the ethical parameters are tumor cells that may be left behind 200 cells. The ethical problem here is we should have for research, especially [in a patient] after most of the tumor has that to get these [embryonic stem] cells, research done on human beings. There been destroyed by whatever therapy we at least currently, the embryo must be are some who argue that embryos are are using. Even though it may look like destroyed. not human beings; but from a scientific [the danger] is over, these very resilient perspective, we have always considered cells remain and can reconstitute a Q: Are there strong reasons for embryos as the early stage in human tumor. That is why we are calling them proceeding with embryonic stem cell development. [Thus an embryo] is an cancer stem cells. There are so many research? Many reports and advocacy early developing human organism. kinds of stem cells that we always need groups point out opportunities to Now we can debate whether that early to be careful [with our terminology]. In treat serious diseases like Parkinson’s, developing organism deserves certain general, a stem cell … makes other cells Alzheimer’s and diabetes. How does the protections and the respect of the and makes more of itself. ethical debate play out on this point? human community, but to say that [a

26 Winter 2007 Fr. FitzGerald spoke at Creighton on Sept. 27 as part of a forum on stem cell research hosted by Creighton’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

KF: If there were no potential benefits, yield insights which could help in the Q: In a related vein, what can readers we would not be having a political development of therapies. But with of this article do to get involved in the debate. But we have to recognize that that, we are back into doing research debate? the reasons for pursuing embryonic on human beings. We could do very stem cell research have shifted over the exciting research on human beings at all KF: Well, we can do several things. years. Initially there was great interest stages of development and life, but our First, have a better understanding of the and great excitement about the creation society has chosen to place important issue and the Catholic perspective on of tissues and organs directly from these restrictions on such research in order to it. One easy way to do this is to visit the embryonic stem cells that would then prevent harm to and the exploitation United States Conference of Catholic be available for transplantation. Well, of human beings. So the question once Bishops website (usccb.org/prolife). It is the research that has been done in the again [is] whether or not we will destroy very helpful. The other is to recognize past several years indicates that this is human lives to do research. that we need an empowered public in unlikely for a couple of reasons. One is order to use our rapidly developing the way the embryonic stem cells can Q: What would you most hope for biotechnologies well. We live in a form tumors, and the other is that we as the debate proceeds in the coming pluralistic society, so we need to engage have found many other alternatives months and years? in discussions of where we want to go such as adult, placental, umbilical cord with technologies, what we want to do blood and other stem cells that may be KF: I hope that people see this debate with them, and whom we want them to more amenable to becoming therapies. as something that is not limited to the help. In addition, there is the idea that all stem cell issue. The stem cell and cloning We are going to continue to struggle of us have our own stem cells that we issues are just the tip of the iceberg. with these very large and difficult may be able to marshal and manipulate Science will move on, and technology issues on all the technologies that in such a way as to address the loss of will move on. We will move into things come along, not just stem cells and tissues and organs. that are even more amazing regarding cloning. What we should say is, “Here Since there are many alternatives what we will be able to do, and those are some fundamental values that we to the use of embryonic stem cells things will raise even more difficult and hold dear, but not just because they are for therapies, that leaves us with profound ethical questions. Therefore, important for Catholics. We think they only one substantive scientific reason the real need here is to address this issue are important for everyone. Human to pursue human embryonic stem well, in a constructive way that does lives are to be valued whether they are cell research. That is to investigate not ignore or denigrate a large segment at the beginning or at the end — all the early human development. If one of the population’s sensibilities when it way through.” Whatever breakthroughs can find or create embryos that have comes to human research. We want to may come, they should come not at the specific genetic mutations linked to a set a good precedent for how we might expense of some human beings. They certain disease, there is still hope that move into the future, where we will should come for all. embryonic stem cell research may wrestle with even more complex issues.

27 Winter 2007 Alumni News

University of South Florida in Tampa. experienced family trial lawyers who project took her down Nebraska’s have mastered the art of advocacy highways and byways for more Alum Items Charles B. Kelly Jr., BA, and whose professional careers have than two years as she sought out, The Rev. Canon William L. Paradise Valley, Ariz., a been marked by the highest standards interviewed, and photographed Griffin, BA, Canyon Lake, 68reporter for the Arizona Republic and 51 of ethical conduct, professionalism, producers of meats and wine, makers Texas, was elevated to Canon in co-winner of the Arizona Press Club civility and collegiality. of wood products, ethanol visionaries, the Anglican Province of America Journalist of the Year Award in 1993, the patrons of a community-owned in recognition of his missionary is the author of Pay Here, his first Hon. Gary B. Randall, JD, grocery store, the folks behind successes. He serves as Rector of novel, a thriller, published by Point Omaha, Douglas County the state’s first year-round, locally St. Joseph Anglican Church in New Blank Press. District74 Court Judge in Omaha, was produced food market, and the Braunfels, Texas. elected vice chair of the National John A. Dillon, BA, State owners of a sheep’s milk dairy turned Conference of State Trial Judges. Rev. Thomas E. Geelan, 69 College, Pa., is senior lecturer soap business. Ridder lives and works 61 MSEdu, Ruthven, Iowa, has in journalism at Pennsylvania State James J. Diesing Jr., on her family’s ranch in Callaway. retired as an active priest of the Sioux University in University Park, Pa. BSBA, Bloomington, Minn., Rebecca S. Rasmussen, City, Iowa, Diocese. He served 45 75president and founder of Health Terri Vint Morrison, BSSoc, Salem, Ore., clinical years as pastor at several parishes, as Restore Group in Minneapolis, and SJN, Tempe, Ariz., and 80director for New Perspectives well as superintendent, principal and mentor for 15 years with the Big 71her husband, Dr. Nick Morrison, Center for Counseling and Therapy teacher in the Catholic schools of the Brothers/Big Sisters of America, founders of Morrison Vein Institute in Salem, has been appointed to a diocese. participated in the Minnesota in Tempe, have celebrated 10 years of second term serving on the Oregon Regional Conference on Helping Jorge E. Sanmartin, BS’62, treating patients with vein disease at State Board of Clinical Social Workers America’s Youth. His presentation MD, Rapid City, S.D., has the institute. by the governor of Oregon. Robert 66 was during the Caring Adults retired from the practice of cardiology E. Shaddy, MD, Philadelphia, was Dr. Ellen Benge Poole, Connecting with Youth session. The and the Heart Doctors/Heart and named chief of cardiology at the BSN, Glendale, Ariz., conference was sponsored by First Vascular Institute in Rapid City. 73 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Sanmartin is one of the founders of earned a doctor of philosophy Lady Laura Bush, and hosted by the Heart Doctors. degree in nursing from the Catholic the president of the University of April M. Shaughnessy, University of America in 2007. Her Minnesota. BSPha, Alexandria, Dr. David L. Vesely, dissertation was “The Relationship 81Va., was appointed director of Frederick P. Caso Jr., BS, Tampa, Fla., chief of Preoperative Teaching Received, external relations for the Academy 67 BA, Lewiston, N.Y., has of endocrinology, diabetes and Preoperative Teaching Valued, of Managed Care Pharmacy in 76been promoted to vice president of metabolism for the U.S. Department and Selected Conditioning Factors Alexandria. Dr. Kenneth G. community relations at Mount St. of Veterans Affairs at James A. to Postoperative Recovery in Stenstrup, BA, Winona, Minn., Mary’s Hospital and Health Center Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa, Ambulatory Laparoscopic Abdominal has been tenured to the theology in Lewiston. Charles S. Caulkins, was the recipient of a 2007 Service Surgery Patients.” She also has joined department at Saint Mary’s JD, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., managing to America “Sammie” Career the graduate nursing faculty at University of Minnesota in Winona. partner of the Fort Lauderdale office Achievement Medal presented Kaplan University, teaching an online of the law firm of Fisher & Phillips, Marcia J. Catania, BSN, by Partnership for Public Service. program. John S. Slowiaczek, JD, L.L.P., and a member of the firm’s Rancho Mirage, Calif., Vesely discovered three hormones Omaha, of Lieben Whitted Houghton management committee, has been 82infection prevention/control made by the heart that benefit the Slowiaczek & Cavanagh, P.C., L.L.O., named a “Super Lawyer” by Florida practitioner at John F. Kennedy treatment of congestive heart failure, has been elected to membership in Super Lawyer Magazine. Dr. Edward Hospital in Indio, Calif., was the kidney failure and cancer. He also is the American College of Family Trial A. Johnson, JD, Phoenix, has been recipient of the Nursing Award of a professor of medicine, molecular Lawyers. Membership in the College named president of the Au Sable Excellence for 2007 presented by the pharmacology and physiology at the is extended by invitation only to Institute of Environmental Studies Rancho Mirage, Calif., Chamber of in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dr. Mary Commerce. She also was quoted in Snyder Shall, BA, Beaverdam, Va., an article on “The Super Germ” — has been elected to a two-year term Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus as president of the Medical College Aureus (MRSA) that appeared in the A Site to See. of Virginia Alumni Association of Palm Springs Life magazine in July Virginia Commonwealth University 2007. Ray V. Matthews, MD, La (VCU) in Richmond, Va. She is an Canada, Calif., was appointed clinical Check out the new associate professor in the university’s professor of medicine and director of department of physical therapy with interventional cardiology at the Keck an affiliate appointment in VCU’s School of Medicine at the University alumni website: School of Medicine’s department of of Southern California in Los Angeles. anatomy and neurobiology. John L. McKay Jr., JD, Seattle, senior creighton.edu/alumni vice president and general counsel for Brooke A. Benschoter, BA, Getty Images in Seattle, and visiting Find the latest on upcoming Des Moines, Iowa, director professor of law at Seattle University 79of marketing and communications alumni events, reunions and School of Law, was the recipient of the at Drake University in Des Moines, 2007 Courageous Award presented by campus news — or easily update found herself in the thick of the the Washington State Bar Association. upcoming presidential elections your personal profile — all at your The award is presented to a lawyer when ABC News teamed up with the who has displayed exceptional finger tips. university to host two presidential courage in the face of adversity, thus debates in August. Mary Guynan bringing credit to the legal profession. Ridder, BA, Callaway, Neb., is the author of Roots of Change, Nebraska’s Fredrick H. Bates, Esq., New Agriculture published by the JD, Chicago, founder and University of Nebraska Press. The 83past chairperson of the Chicago

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your bank. If you mail your signed charge to open a new account with the fund, gifts of authorization, make sure that your letter mutual fund shares may take several weeks Message is postmarked no later than Dec. 14. After to transfer, so plan ahead and allow extra from that date, please contact the Office of time. Please call our office at (402) 280-1143 Estate and Development at (402) 280-2740 or (800) or (800) 334-8794 for the necessary forms 334-8794, or make your credit card gift and guidance on how to transfer stock and Trust Services online at www.creighton.edu/development. mutual funds to the University. Gifts of stocks and mutual funds also are If you are interested in converting welcomed. Gifts of securities owned for more cash, securities or land into a life income than one year entitle you to deduct its fair- arrangement with Creighton, please call or Tips for Year-End market value without having to report the write for a personalized proposal. Charitable Charitable Giving capital gains you would have realized had remainder trusts and gift annuities may be you sold the investment. If stock you own ideal for individuals who want to explore has decreased in value, you should consider ways to increase their annual income, realize The end of selling it and gifting the net proceeds. Then income tax benefits and make a deferred gift 2007 rapidly is you may be able to claim a loss on the stock to the University. approaching. Now and a charitable contribution deduction from On behalf of the students, faculty and staff is when many of the same transaction. of Creighton University, thank you for your us are making our For securities electronically transferred continued spirit of philanthropy and willing year-end tax and from your account to Creighton, your gift is participation in Th e Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n charitable gift plans complete and valued on the date it reaches Un i v e r s i t y . For further assistance, please in preparation for the University’s account. Gifts of stock contact us at (402) 280-1143, (800) 334-8794 or 2008. Please keep the following guidelines certificates hand-delivered to Creighton [email protected], or visit us online at in mind as you contemplate your year-end are complete on the date of delivery; stock http://giftplanning.creighton.edu. gifts to Creighton University. Remember, certificates and necessary stock powers only gifts completed by Dec. 31 can be used sent by mail are complete as of the date of Steve Scholer, JD‘79 to reduce your taxes due in April 2008. postmark. If you ask a transfer agent to have Director of Estate & Trust Services If you mail your year-end gift, it is shares you own re-registered in Creighton’s complete as of the date of postmark. If name, the gift is not complete until the re- you use a credit card, your gift is complete registration is finalized on the corporation’s when the transaction is authorized by records. Because Creighton may be required Committee on Minorities in Dr. Ernie F. Soto, BS, Central Arizona. Jacob A. Gatschet, Del. Marty J. Matz, DDS, Omaha, Large Law Firms, has joined The Davie, Fla., a dentist in BS, Minneapolis, has joined the a dentist in Omaha, was elected Kaleidoscope Group, a Chicago- 84Plantation, Fla., serves as editorial Minneapolis law firm of Fish and president of the Omaha District based full-service national diversity advisor and editor, dental division Richardson, P.C., as an associate in the Dental Society. consulting firm as president of the for iHealthSpot, Inc., a leading web firm’s litigation group. Lt. Steven C. Clifford, company’s diversity legal division. development company for medical Hon. Douglas F. Johnson, BSChm, Guam, is laboratory Keith G. Engel, MSGuid’75, JD, professionals in Margate, Fla. The JD, Omaha, a judge of the 90director at the U.S. Naval Hospital Sun City West, Ariz., an attorney company was selected as a winner 87Separate Juvenile Court of Douglas in Guam. Rita A. Harding, DDS, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has retired. in the Spring/Summer World Wide County, Neb., was elected vice Boise, Idaho, was the recipient of Dr. Elizabeth Freund Larus, Web Health Awards. They received a president of the National Council of the Fellowship Award presented BA, Fredericksburg, Va., associate Merit Award for Patient Education for Juvenile and Family Court Judges at at the Academy of General professor of political science at the Physician Websites. the organization’s conference held in Dentistry’s convocation ceremony, University of Mary Washington John E. Kelso, BSBA, New San Francisco. Judge Johnson presides a commencement celebration in Fredericksburg, participated York City, is vice president over Nebraska’s first Family Drug recognizing academy members’ in anti-terrorism training in Israel 85of global process for Thomson- Treatment Court. Betsy L. McCoy, commitment to excellence in dental as an Academic Fellow with the Reuters in Boston. Elaine Zoucha BA’84, JD, Coral Gables, Fla., an education. Porter A. Moser, BSBA, Foundation for the Defense of Stenstrup, BSN, Winona, Minn., attorney in Coral Gables, has earned a St. Louis, was named assistant coach Democracies. She also presented a is a clinical nurse specialist in the master of laws degree in real property for the Saint Louis Billikens men’s paper on Taiwan’s foreign policy at St. adult/pediatrics bone marrow development from the University basketball team. Moser is a former Antony’s College, Oxford University. transplant unit at the University of of Miami School of Law. She will guard with the men’s basketball team Maria Ridgway Moran, JD, Omaha, Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview concentrate her litigation practice on at Creighton University. Diana J. an assistant U.S. Attorney with the in Minneapolis. land use and real estate development Vogt, JD, Omaha, senior associate U.S. Attorney’s Office in Omaha, was matters. with the Omaha law firm of Sherrets recognized by the Law Enforcement Robert D. Dalager, JD, and Boecker, L.L.C., was recognized Coordinating Committee for her work Phoenix, a shareholder with Karen Rolf Cronin, BSBA, 86 by the Omaha Bar Association with in the investigation and prosecution the Phoenix law firm of Gallagher Landenberg, Pa., is regional the Robert M. Spire Public Service of drug and weapon offenses. and Kennedy, has been elected to 88transition leader for the U.S. for the Award for her contribution to the the board of directors at Goodwill of DuPont Company in Wilmington,

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community. She serves as a host of the Medical Center in Omaha, was in the delivery of care, respect for president of private banking for Bank weekly radio show, “Ask a Lawyer,” the recipient of the Leonard Tow patients, their families, and healthcare of the West in Omaha. which airs on Omaha’s KIOS-FM Humanism in Medicine Award colleagues, and also demonstrates James M. Van Leeuwen, public radio channel. presented by the Creighton clinical excellence. BA, Denver, manager of University School of Medicine. Bruce L. Houghton, BS’87, David M. Christensen, 96Denver’s Road Home and Ten Year The Gold Foundation sponsors the MD, Omaha, internal MD, Omaha, has been Plan to End Homelessness for the award for a faculty member who 91medicine physician and associate 92named senior vice president for City and County of Denver, has demonstrates the foundation’s professor at the Creighton University medical affairs and chief medical earned a doctor of philosophy degree ideals of outstanding compassion officer at Children’s Hospital in in public policy at the University of Omaha. Patrick J. Murphy, BSBA, Colorado, Graduate School of Public Brentwood, Mo., an attorney with Affairs. the St. Louis law firm of Danna Joseph M. Caturano Jr., McKitrick, P.C., was one of 17 people Esq., BA’94, JD, Nokesville, comprising the Clayton Chamber of 99Va., was selected by his peers as Commerce Leadership Clayton 2007 one of Virginia’s Legal Elite in graduating class. He was selected civil litigation by Virginia Business to participate in the leadership Magazine in 2006. He specializes development program based on his in civil litigation at Caturano & leadership potential and community Caturano, P.C., in Manassas, Va., involvement. Mark T. Peters, JD, with an emphasis in personal injury Peoria, Ill., was promoted to senior law. He and his wife, Kristi Cantrell compensation attorney at Caterpillar, Caturano, JD, formed the law firm in Inc., in Peoria. 2005. Kelly J. Goodall, BA, St. Louis, Amy M. Corriveau, BS, has earned a master’s degree in social Photo by Mark Romesser Scottsdale, Ariz., is deputy work from Washington University in Ferguson, at her Omaha studio, was selected as the design 93associate superintendent for Early St. Louis, and has joined the Illinois artist for Aida, which will be performed in 2008 as part of Opera Childhood Education for the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence Omaha’s 50th anniversary season. Department of Education in Phoenix. in Springfield, Ill., as economic Therese A. Nelson, BS, Omaha, is empowerment project manager. principal at St. Bernadette Catholic Creighton Artist Adds Touch to Mary A. Car-Blanchard, School in Bellevue, Neb. Daniel J. BSOT’93, OTD, Omaha, Opera Omaha’s Neppl, JD, Glenview, Ill., is a partner Aida 00is senior medical author for in the insurance/reinsurance disputes Creighton alumna and Omaha artist Catherine Ferguson, BA’65, iHealthSpot, Inc., a leading web practice for the Chicago law firm development company for medical is designing the costumes and sets for Opera Omaha’s April 2008 of Sidley Austin, L.L.P. Margaret professionals in Margate, Fla. The production of Aida. “Maggi” Peterson Pivovar, BSOT, company was selected as a winner Ferguson is widely recognized for her installations and sculpture. Prairie Village, Kan., wife of John in the Spring/Summer World Wide G. Pivovar, BA’91, and mother of Her work has been featured in public and private collections, Web Health Awards. They received four, had life-saving surgery in May including the Sheldon Memorial Art Museum in Lincoln, Neb. a Merit Award for Patient Education 2007, amputating both legs below for Physician Websites. Jillianne She created a 16-foot-tall sculpture for Omaha’s main library, titled the knees, as a complication from Muller Danahay, BSN, Omaha, has Totem, and was one of five artists chosen to participate in the Bemis meningococcal meningitis. earned a master’s degree in nursing Center’s Art 4 Omaha initiative — creating Sky Fin, a large-scale Joel M. Davies, BFA, from the University of Nebraska outdoor sculpture on display outside Qwest Center Omaha. In Omaha, head of the visual Medical Center, and is an adult nurse 2005, she was awarded one of the Bemis Center’s first Community 95communications sequence and practitioner with Infectious Disease & Artist Fellowships for her extensive artistic contributions to the director of the interdisciplinary Epidemiology Associates in Omaha. graphic design program in the community. Julia M. Schulte Hanish, Department of Journalism and Ferguson said she was “stunned” when she learned she was BSBA, Kansas City, Mo., Mass Communication at Creighton 01an FBI agent with the Department chosen to design for Aida. Over the past year, she has listened to University, was selected to be a of Justice for the U.S. Government its music “over and over, maybe 150 times.” She also traveled to member of the Apple Distinguished in Kansas City, was the recipient Educator Program, Class of 2007. California, Michigan and New York to see productions. Both she of the Federal Guardian of Justice The relationship program focuses and Opera Omaha artistic director Stewart Robertson wanted to Award presented by the Department on educational excellence and give Aida a fresh interpretation. of Justice, District of Kansas, in leadership. The educators are recognition of outstanding service Ferguson found the metaphorical key she was looking for during members of a select group of K-12 provided in the prosecution a visit to the Egyptian collection at the Metropolitan Museum of and higher education professionals of significant cases by the U.S. possessing an identified expertise in Art. “I overheard a docent explain the significance of the sacred Attorney’s office, the highest educational technology leadership. blue lotus — its own cycle of opening each day and closing at night recognition given to a member of Kimberly A. Doht, BSN, McCool symbolizing the life, death and rebirth of the pharaoh/sun god.” the law enforcement community Junction, Neb., has earned a master of by the office. She was honored for Immediately she began drawing the lotus — blossom, bud, stem — science degree in nursing as a family her investigation of wire fraud and as a recurring motif in the costumes and sets. nurse practitioner. She has joined the money laundering in Operation medical staff at Warren Memorial In a career spanning three decades, Ferguson has explored cloth Grocery Sack spanning four states. Hospital in Friend, Neb., as an and dye, earthworks, gardens, sculpture and installations. Now, she Eric D. Kelderman, JD, Pierre, advanced practice registered nurse/ can add opera to her resumé. S.D., has joined the U.S. Attorney’s nurse practitioner. Erin Shonsey Office in Pierre as an assistant U.S. Murnan, BSBA, Omaha, is vice 30 Winter 2007 Alumni News

Kratoska, Connor Honored with Alumni Merit Awards School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Sharon Connor, BA’88, PharmD’93, an assistant professor with School of Medicine the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, received the 2007 Mary Kratoska, MD’77, the first female physician to open a private Alumni Merit Award from the School of Pharmacy and Health obstetrics/gynecology practice in Omaha, received the School of Professions on Oct. 5. Medicine’s 2007 Alumni Merit Award on Sept. 14. Connor directs the University In addition to her private practice, the Omaha resident has served of Pittsburgh’s Program for as an assistant Pharmaceutical Care for clinical professor at Underserved Populations, a Creighton’s School of program in which volunteers offer Medicine, receiving pharmacy services to homeless the school’s 25-Year and low-income people. Faculty Service Under her direction, faculty, Award in 2006. She is alumni and students provide a past president and direct patient care, acquire free current member of medications, organize supplies Sharon Connor and J. Chris Photos by Mark Romesser Creighton’s Medical and recruit new volunteers Alumni Advisory Bradberry, PharmD, dean of the to provide services at clinics Creighton President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, School of Pharmacy and Health Board. S.J., Mary Kratoska and Cam Enarson, M.D., Professions. and shelters throughout the vice president for health sciences and dean of Kratoska serves Pittsburgh area. the School of Medicine. on the Nebraska A past volunteer with Doctors Without Borders, Connor also has Women’s Health Advisory Council for the Nebraska Department helped meet the health needs of people in a number of Third-World of Health and Human Services’ Office of Women’s Health. She is a nations. Her efforts have included six-month-long, unpaid service trips fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and to both Kenya and Ethiopia. a member of the American Medical Association, Nebraska State Since 2002, Connor has served on the board of the Rx Council of Medical Association, Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society, and the Western Pennsylvania, which helps patients obtain prescription drugs Omaha Ob-Gyn Society. they could not otherwise afford. For her community service, she Kratoska earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the received the 2005 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished University of Iowa in 1973 before earning her medical degree from Public Service Award. Creighton in 1977.

Attorney. Aaron J. Mann, JD, record-setting Creighton University physical therapy by the American in Denver. Patrick J. Mullin, BA, London, has relocated to the London soccer goalkeeper, has returned to Physical Therapy Association. Overland Park, Kan., has joined the office with the law firm of Blackwell his alma mater as an assistant soccer Rachel C. Buttner, BA, Brooklyn, Leawood, Kan., office of South & Sanders Peper Martin, L.L.P. Michael coach. Matthew H. Kim, MD, Irvine, N.Y., is assistant editor for Fordham Associates, P.C., as marketing and W. Martin, BA’96, JD’00, MBA, Calif., has joined Terry Eye Institute in magazine at Fordham University in client relations assistant. Chase M. Loveland, Colo., has joined the faculty Fullerton, Calif., as a cornea, external New York City. Bradley R. Shafer, Williams, DDS, Cedar City, Utah, in the School of Finance at Monfort disease and refractive surgery JD, Scottsdale, Ariz., has joined the has reopened his late father’s dental College of Business at the University specialist. Jeremy J. Majeski, BS, Arizona State University Foundation practice, Williams Dental Office in of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Lombard, Ill., is associate principal/ in Tempe, Ariz., as assistant dean Cedar City along with his brother, Jeff Colo. dean of students for the Chicago and director of development for the Williams, R.H.D. Ridge School District 127.5 at Finley College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Jennifer R. Falbo, BFA, Junior High in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Kansas City, Mo., is an Anne M. Lohr, BSBA, 02assistant professor at Stephens Barton N. Bishop, DPT, Omaha, is a senior Marriages College in Columbia, Mo. Brandie Falls Church, Va., has 04accountant for Leo A. Daly Company Karen Martin and Rev. Van Ness Fowler, BA’96, JD, 03become board certified as a clinical in Omaha. Rachel E. McRae Rolf, Canon William L. Griffin, Omaha, an attorney with Skutt Law specialist in sports physical therapy, BSBA, Overland Park, Kan., has 51BA, April 15, 2007, living in Canyon Firm, P.C., in Omaha, was recognized the highest certification given by the joined the Kansas City-based law firm Lake, Texas. by the Omaha Bar Association with American Board of Physical Therapy of McAnany Van Cleave & Phillips, Sonja Baron and William D. the Robert M. Spire Public Service Specialties. He is chief clinical officer P.A., as an associate in the firm’s Preusser, BA, June 2, 2007, Award for her contribution to the for Sport & Spine Rehab in Rockville, litigation practice in the Roeland Park, 92living in Seattle. community. She serves as a host of the Md. Lisa A. Krautkremer Butler, Kan., office. weekly radio show, “Ask a Lawyer,” DPT, Lincoln, Neb., an inpatient Julene M. Otto, BS, and Chad A. Braun, BSMth’02, which airs on Omaha’s KIOS-FM physical therapist at Madonna Ryan J. Schmitz, BSOT’98, DDS, Centennial, Colo., is 94 public radio channel. Michael J. Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, May 26, 2007, living in Omaha. 07practicing dentistry at 4th Avenue Gabb, BA, Elkhorn, Neb., a two-time has been awarded the status of Family Dental of Cherry Creek College Cup participant and former board certified specialist in geriatric

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Rachel Carda, BA’92, BSN, Jacqueline Daneff, Hancock, BSBA, and Daniel T. Emily M. Riester, BA, and Dr. James D. Andrews, PharmD, and R. Ryan Harbeke, BSBA’04, July 14, 2007, and Dustin L. Simpson, 95Aug. 11, 2007, living in Chicago. 03Small, BSBA’01, July 21, 2007, living living in Omaha. Diane F. Klinkner, 07BSChm’06, July 7, 2007, living in Dr. Anne C. Burris and Maj. Mark in Papillion, Neb. Heather Rupp and BS, and William J. Hale Jr., BA’04, Bellevue, Neb. Grieves, BSN, April 30, 2006, living Brandon K. Ebert, BSBA, June 1, June 22, 2007, living in Omaha. in Dixon, Mo. 2007, living in Salina, Kan. Patrice Lindsey Peterson, BS, and John J. D. Jones, BA, and Bryan T. Ott, Dr. Katherine “Katie” Anzalone, BS, July 28, 2007, living in BA, June 30, 2007, living in Omaha. Farris and Dr. Andrew G. Omaha. Niki Parikh and Umang D. Megan E. Steffensmeier, BSBA, 97Spellman, BS, June 16, 2007, living Talati, BA’00, JD, MBA, July 21, 2007, Births and Douglas E. Moore, July 14, Gerrard F. Diamond and in St. Louis. living in Omaha. 2007, living in Wisner, Neb. Ann M. 84 Susan Elias Diamond, BSN, Lisa Dispense, BS, and Nick Williams, BSBA, and John T. Arthur, Brittany Bennett, BSHS, Raleigh, N.C., a daughter, Megan and J. Knudtson, June 16, 2007, BSBA’05, Jan. 27, 2007, living in 06 OTD, Adam W. Stryker, Kathleen, April 15, 2007. 98living in Lone Tree, Colo. St. Paul, Minn. BSBA’03, May 26, 2007, living in Las Vegas. Tiffany J. Drahota, BA, and Donald R. Smith, BSBA, Meghan Beatty, BA, and Sarah C. Engler, BA, and David M. Macek, June 29, 2007, living 89 and Susan Smith, West 00 Matthew J. Klassen, Sept. David T. Lynch, BS, June in Lincoln, Neb. Jessica Frederick, Des Moines, Iowa, a daughter, Kate 8, 2007, living in Austin, Texas. 043, 2005, living in Omaha. Amy Full, BSN, and Jason Palmer, June 23, 2007, Mackenzie, June 11, 2007. Catherine “Kate” Chaffee, BS, and DPT’00, BSHS, and Wayne Hughes, living in Lincoln, Neb. Marie C. Scott E. Billings, BSBA’88, Damion Schulte, June 15, 2007, living June 30, 2007, living in Littleton, Halbur, BS’02, DDS, and Daniel M. MBA, and Molly O’Gorman in Brighton, Colo. Colo. Elizabeth A. German, BSBA, G’Sell, PharmD, June 16, 2007, living 90Billings, BA, MBA’96, Omaha, a Julia M. Schulte, BSBA, and and Timothy C. Langan, June 1, in O’Fallon, Mo. Allison J. Kinney, son, William Robert, Aug. 8, 2007. Dr. Tyson J. Hanish, Nov. 23, 2006, 2007, living in Omaha. Tracy D. BA, and Robert M. Walker, BA, Louis L. Safranek III and Kathleen 01living in Kansas City, Mo. Slump, BSBA, and Dr. Matthew P. June 2, 2007, living in Elkhorn, Neb. Lindstrom Safranek, BSN, Omaha, McCormick, June 2, 2007, living in Jessica M. Rector, BA, and Adam a son, Louis, Jan. 5, 2007. Alison Hund, BA, and Omaha. Tiffany Taylor, BA, and Ian H. Hatch, Aug. 11, 2007, living in G. Patrick Angello, BSBA, Michael B. Hamilton, Tice, Aug. 11, 2007, living in Polk City, Omaha. Nicole Salie, BA, and Ryan 02 and Kathryn Angello, Castle DDS’06, June 23, 2007, living in Iowa. P. Murphy, Sept. 1, 2007, living in 91Rock, Colo., adopted a son, Luc Dallas. Anne K. Spurway, BA, and Bellevue, Neb. Nicole M. Vaccaro, Christine Anderl, BSN, and Anthony, May 11, 2007. Timothy T. Matthew M. Snow, May 27, 2005, BA, and Eric V. Ernest, BSEMS, June living in Denver. Troy W. Carley, BSBA’00, Schumacher and Colleen Kresha Sept.05 8, 2007, living in Omaha. Jillian 29, 2007, living in Omaha.

Over 300 alumni gathered for this year’s Hilltop Jam, held during Reunion Weekend in September. Alumni and friends enjoyed the music of The Confidentials on Creighton’s newest autumn jewel, the George and Susan Venteicher Mall, which stretches from the western edge of Morrison Stadium to 24th Street amj — a gift to Th e Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n .

Pictured at left: R. Michael Coleman, BSBA’88, BSN’90; Jim Respeliers, BSBA’88; Marian Spaedy Respeliers, BA’87; and Cheryl Gentrup Erker. Pictured above: Sue Galvin Scholer, M.D., BA’78; Mary Scholz Ingram; Mark Franco, BA’82; and Nancy Franco. Pictured upper right: Jereme Altendorf, BSCHM’97, and Laura Olderog, BSBA’88. Pictured at right: Joy Donlan Daly, BSN’98; Diane Hughes DeWall, BSOT’97; Annmarie Sanders Algya, BSOT’97; and Amanda Hubbard Krische, PharmD’99. 32 Winter 2007 Alumni News

Schumacher, PharmD, Platte a daughter, Paisley Ann, April 9, Gracie Ann, Aug. 31, 2007. Sheridan, Wyo., a son, William Center, Neb., a daughter, Abigail 2007. Kurt E. Kuta and Angela M. Patrick, July 20, 2007. Eric J. Korbach, Maj. D. Chris Callaghan and Cecilia, July 11, 2007, and an adopted Kopatich Kuta, BS’91, MS, Ames, MD, and Elizabeth A. Eckhardt, Kelly Kolars Callaghan, son, Benjamin Reid, July 4, 2006. Iowa, a son, James Thomas, April 30, BS’94, MD, St. Paul, Minn., a son, 97BSBA’93, JD, Burke, Va., a daughter, 2007. Allan M. Osmera, PharmD, Henry Alexander Korbach, March John J. Ahern Jr., Shannon Irene, July 23, 2007. Carlton and Faith Osmera, Wahoo, Neb., a 27, 2007. Dr. Matthew R. Mendlick, BS’88, DDS, and Janette J. Hathcoat and Emily Johnson daughter, Hayden Marie, Oct. 18, BA, and Catherine Rush Mendlick, 92Cheesman Ahern, BA’89, Parker, Hathcoat, BA, Chicago, a son, 2006. Jeffrey T. Palzer, JD, and Julia BA, MD’02, Tucson, Ariz., a son, Colo., an adopted son, Luke Tian Nicholas Robert, June 4, 2007. Brian Skinner Palzer, JD’01, Omaha, a Ryan Michael, June 28, 2007. Chris Simeon, on March 29, 2007. He was R. Horn and Cara D. Gillen Horn, daughter, Luciana Genovesi, April Shoemaker and Sarah E. LaVelle born on Jan. 22, 2006, in China. Mark BSBA, Wichita, Kan., a son, Jude 4, 2007. Ronald J. Reeb Jr., BSBA, Shoemaker, BS, Westminster, Colo., T. Peters, JD, and Anna Peters, Marshall, Feb. 11, 2007. Frank T. and Jesse L. Reeb, Castle Rock, Colo., a son, Nicholas James, July 3, 2007. Peoria, Ill., a son, John Thomas, Sept. Rios, BS’95, MCS, and Nancy Rios, a daughter, Riley Madison, Sept. 13, 12, 2006. Dr. Daniel L. Schulte, BA, Olathe, Kan., a daughter, Elysa Mark D. Essner, BS’95, 2007. Curtis O. Snodgrass, MBA, and Melanie D. Cloonan-Schulte, Nicholette, June 14, 2007. Jonathan DDS, and Traci D. Morfeld and Phi Le Snodgrass, BS, Omaha, a BS’93, MD’97, Phoenix, a daughter, N. Shoemaker, BA, and Tammy 99Essner, BSOT’97, Eugene, Ore., a son, daughter, Eden Alexa, April 8, 2007. Alexandria Danielle “Alex” Cloonan- Shoemaker, Haslet, Texas, a son, Cole David, Dec. 3, 2006. Derrald Schulte, May 16, 2007. Joseph Nagi T. Ayoub, BSChm’91, Jonathan Neil Jr., Dec. 21, 2006. Dr. Farnsworth-Livingston, BSCS, and J. Stessman, BSBA, and Jane MD, and Jennifer Oliveto Sherif Tewfik andAngela L. Dahms Holly L. Thomas, Omaha, a daughter, Ringel Stessman, BSBA, Omaha, a 95Ayoub, BS, MD’00, Omaha, a son, Tewfik, BA, Grimes, Iowa, a son, Riley Bridget Farnsworth-Livingston, daughter, Anne Marie, May 10, 2007. Michael Ishaya, Feb. 28, 2007. Richard Yousef Sherif, March 16, 2007. Craigg June 17, 2007. Scott K. Leak, BA, and G. Campisi, BSBA, and Elizabeth M. Voightmann, JD, and Sheila E. Johanna K. Gniffke, BA, BSN’05, Timothy P. Flaherty, BSBA, A. Campisi, San Jose, Calif., a son, Donovan, JD’98, Scottsdale, Ariz., Omaha, a daughter, Morgan Lorene and Jodi Flaherty, Clear Thomas Paton, Sept. 13, 2007. a daughter, Jacqueline Kate “Jackie,” Gniffke-Leak, Aug. 19, 2007. Scott 93Lake, Iowa, a daughter, Maggie June 12, 2007. Dr. John L. Worden IV Maaske and Sara E. Dickel Maaske, Brynn, June 25, 2007. Jason V. Siegfreid, and Rebecca Myers Worden, MD, BSW, Omaha, a daughter, Emerson BSBA, and Neve Grosse David M. Auw and Jennifer Gardner, Mass., a daughter, Cecilia Louise, May 29, 2007. Joshua P. 96Siegfreid, BA, Littleton, Colo., a L. Burke Auw, BA, Chicago, Marie, May 17, 2006. Mason and Katherine M. “Katie” son, Rowan Thomas, July 23, 2007. 94a daughter, Claire Sophia, Aug. 16, Sullivan Mason, BS, Gretna, Neb., Herbert E. Todd, DDS, and Trina Stuart Greer and Michelle 2007. Will T. Brown and Dr. Dawn a daughter, Molly Katherine, June Todd, Olympia, Wash., a daughter, L. Meehan Greer, DDS, R. Ebach, BS, Iowa City, Iowa, 98 21, 2007. Ben A. Person and Lindsay

Pictured at left: Meg Wanek, BA’06; Josh Coury, BSBA’06; Melissa Nahas, BA’07; and Theresa Farrage, BA’06. Pictured below: Sue Egan Mokrohisky, BA’67; Margy Ready Doyle, BSN’67; Regina “Dee” Goeing, BA’67; Joan Ripp Kelly, BSN’67; and Pamela Cummings Hazell, BA’67.

Pictured upper left: Mike Ferrell; Susan Reff, BA’97, JD’01; Amie Held Prendes, BA’95; and Carlos Prendes, BA’95. Pictured lower left: Jeanne Battafarano; Julie Millea Cobb, BSBA’88; J. Scott Cobb; and Joseph Townley, BA’85, MD’89. Pictured above: Konni Cawiezell, third-year Creighton law student; and Rachael Smith, BA’03, third-year Creighton law student.

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Sullivan Person, BSN, East Peoria, Steven J. Briggs and Jill M. John A. “Jack” Englund, Sr. Mary Sicilda Parr, Ill., a son, Tyler Andrew, June 13, Briggs, MD, Rochester, BS, Bethesda, Md., Aug. O.S.F., MA, Campbellsport, 2007. Jeffrey A. Nelson and Amie J. 05Minn., a daughter, Katherine Teresa, 4928, 2007. Michael T. Healey, BSC, 68Wis., July 30, 2007. Omaha, Aug. 3, 2007. Marvelane Rockow-Nelson, DDS, Ames, Iowa, Jan. 26, 2007. Jerremy E. Fankhauser Kathleen Powers Howard, George Kohout, BSN, Omaha, Aug. a daughter, Riley Madison, Feb. and Mindy L. Fankhauser, PharmD, BA, Greenbrea, Calif., Aug. 19, 2007. 17, 2004, and a son, Gabriel Robert, Nebraska City, Neb., a daughter, 7010, 2007. April 26, 2007. Charles C. Shearon, Addison Lynn, Sept. 18, 2007. Austin William K. Fox, BSC, Wesley Williams, BSBA, BS’93, MS, and Dr. Elizabeth D. Findley, BS’01, MD, and Bridget Columbus, Neb., Sept. 13, Omaha, Aug. 15, 2007. Burnett Shearon, BA’93, Chicago, a Morris Findley, BA’03, JD’06, 502007. Harry C. Kinnear Jr., BSC, 72 daughter, Helen Hurley, Jan. 11, 2007. Dayton, Ohio, a daughter, Caroline Omaha, Sept. 2, 2007. Harold J. Glenn N. Kimura, BSBA’71, Stephen M. Winterhof and Janis J. Elizabeth, Aug. 15, 2007. Marshall “Harry” Mueller, BSC, Omaha, Sept. JD, Hilo, Hawaii, May 17, Benson Winterhof, JD, Omaha, a I. Holifield, BSMth’01, MD, and 14, 2007. William J. Reedy, MSM, 2007.74 son, Hayden Kenneth, Feb. 12, 2007. Andrea Schons Holifield, BS’01, Sarasota, Fla., July 31, 2007. BSN’02, MS, Rochester, Minn., a Bruce R. Jensen, Arts, Robert A. Else, BSBA, and daughter, Natalie Grace, July 11, 2007. Theodore F. “Ted” Bruhl, Omaha, Sept. 28, 2007. Christina L. Pollack Else, BSC, Honolulu, Sept. 12, 2007. 76 00BSBA, Omaha, a daughter, Natalie Michael G. Swanger, 51 Juan Valle, MAIR, Slidell, Claire, Nov. 17, 2006. Jeffrey W. Moore 06 BS’03, MS, and Margaret Robert J. Carey, JD, 79 La., May 1, 2007. and Kelly E. Johnstone Moore, BA, Bowie Swanger, BSBA’03, Sergeant 52 Bakersfield, Calif., May 22, Douglas M. Salyards, Maryland Heights, Mo., a son, Evan Bluff, Iowa, a daughter, April Marie, 2007. MD, Florence, Ore., July Jackson, June 28, 2007. March 18, 2007. Michael J. Hamilton, BS, 8213, 2007. Richard E. Tonigan, DDS, David W. Bowey and Lisa Christopher H. Hawkins, 53 Las Cruces, N.M., Feb. 3, Albuquerque, N.M., Aug. 2, 2007. Schechter Bowey, JD, JD, and Kayla Hawkins, 2007. Paul D. Wachter, DDS, Omaha, Todd P. Roddy, JD, 01Glendale, Ariz., a son, Matthew Josef, 07Omaha, a son, Jackson Christopher, Aug. 20, 2007. Albuquerque, N.M., July 9, Feb. 9, 2007. John J. Clatanoff, Aug. 6, 2007. Jerome A. Cain, BS’50, MD, 852007. BSBA, and Taryn Carr Clatanoff, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 13, 2007. Brenda K. Brown, MS, BSBA, Omaha, a daughter, Gabrielle 54 Janet Scholl Stiles, SJN, Omaha, Omaha, Aug. 27, 2007. Mae “Gabby,” July 26, 2007. Eric Sept. 18, 2007. 95 D. Kelderman, JD, and Renae Deaths Peter Jessup, BA, Veronica Byrne Nugent, Borchers Kelderman, JD’02, Pierre, Robert J. Gorman, BS, Glenwood Springs, Colo., SJN, Sarasota, Fla., Aug. 18, S.D., a daughter, Kyra Jae, Feb. 24, Omaha, Sept. 23, 2007. 03Aug. 9, 2007. 282007. 56 2007. Jeff Sigmund Jr. and Kristine Ralph G. Kibler, DDS, Gutschewski Sigmund, BSBA, Frank Epstein, DDS, Sioux 57 Palisade, Colo., July 21, 2007. Papillion, Neb., a daughter, Kelsey City, Iowa, Dec. 23, 2006. OBITUARY CORRECTIONS: Beth, June 6, 2007. 32 Janet Halbur Robbins, W. Riley Kovar, BSM’33, BSMT, Omaha, Aug. 12, Christopher I. Bruns and MD, Omaha, May 10, 2007. 582007. Edward H. McDaniel, Amber L. Stewart Bruns, 35 husband of Roxanne Maureen Meehan Leehy, Roland H. Hoff, DDS, 02BA, Sioux Falls, S.D., a son, Ryker Westendorf McDaniel, SCN, Blair, Neb., Aug. 3, 2007. Gatesville, Texas, Aug. 27, William, Nov. 10, 2006. Brian D. 36 592007. Ralph K. Oglebay, BSPha, BSN’73, MS’82, Columbia, Fletcher, DDS, and Jami Fletcher, Dr. Edward L. Rousseau, Lenexa, Kan., Aug. 21, 2007. Mo., March 26, 2007. He Grand Junction, Colo., a daughter, BA, Milwaukee, Sept. 14, 2007. Catherine Lee, Oct. 29, 2003, and 38 Mary Galligan Cornett, was incorrectly listed as Leona “Lee” Jacoby the alumnus in the fall 2007 a son, Dylan Brian, Feb. 11, 2006. Keleher, SJN, Omaha, July 60 Arts, Omaha, July 28, 2007. Matthew M. Snow and Anne 3912, 2007. Dr. Louis C. Martin, MS, Omaha, issue. Spurway Snow, BA, Denver, Aug. 2, 2007. a daughter, Elizabeth Madden John J. “Jack” Hess, BSC, James J. Herek, Arts, Robert F. Welsh, BSC’49, “Ellie,” Nov. 5, 2006. Matthew S. Omaha, July 12, 2007. Rev. 40 Omaha, Aug. 10, 2007. Naples, Fla., June 12, Steele and Anne Hughes Steele, Robert H. “Cog” Taylor, S.J., BA, 61 BSBA, Glenwood, Iowa, a son, Los Angeles, Aug. 7, 2007. Samuel J. DiMari, 2007. His degree year was incorrectly listed in the fall Colin Matthew, June 13, 2007. Todd Elizabeth Kelly Fleming, 62 BSChm’60, MS, Omaha, Zenti and Maria L. Sarcone Zenti, SCN, Omaha, Aug. 23, 2007. July 30, 2007. 2007 issue. PharmD, Des Moines, Iowa, a son, 41 Robert P. Kelly, BA, Kansas Benjamin A., March 23, 2007. Sr. Virginia A. Driscoll, Joan N. Sanders, wife BSPha, Littleton, Colo., Sept. City, Kan., Aug. 29, 2007. 63 of Charles W. Sanders, Jason F. Knoblauch, BSBA, 457, 2007. Robert J. Prendergast, Alan C. Brewster, MD, and Kari Knoblauch, Atlanta, DDS, Arnold, Neb., Sept. 21, 2007. Stuart, Neb., July 14, 2007. BS’57, Fairfax, Va., May 03a daughter, Kathleen Marie, June 18, 64 26, 2007. Charles Sanders 2007. Joseph F. Erdei, BS, Omaha, Sr. Ruth M. Holtzbauer, Aug. 22, 2007. Lenore A. Van P.B.V.M., MSEdu, Mount was incorrectly listed as Erik J. Carlson, BSBA’01, 47King, SCN, Moline, Ill., Sept. 6, 2007. 65Loretto, Iowa, Aug. 5, 2007. Ereshiel deceased in the fall 2007 MBA, and Stephanie 04 Joan Stech Giovacchini, M. Maschka, MBA, Lincoln, Neb., issue. Klassen Carlson, OTD’02, Omaha, May 27, 2007. a daughter, Celeste JoLyn, July 20, 48 BS, Vienna, Va., Sept. 17, 2007. Neil J. Kruglet, BS’00, DDS, 2007. Margaret Degnan Jeffrey, Capt. Fred H. Gehrman and Heidi L. Becker Kruglet, BA’00, MD, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2007. Jr., BS, Willits, Calif., Sept. 1, Littleton, Colo., a daughter, Grace Ann, Irving Rips, Arts, Beverly Hills, 662007. William F. Waris, BA, Kansas July 22, 2007. David T. Lynch, BS, and Calif., July 30, 2007. Thomas J. City, Mo., Sept. 18, 2007. Sheehan, JD, Denver, Aug. 12, 2007. Sarah C. Engler Lynch, BA, Omaha, Richard J. “Dick” Brennan, a son, Ian Timothy, March 13, 2006. 67 MD, Rulo, Neb., Aug. 24, 2007.

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Endowments for Faculty Support Endowed chairs, deanships and professorships allow the University “It is important to keep current with the latest research findings, meet to attract and secure new talent and vitality in key areas of academic with other scientists to exchange ideas, and collaborate with other leadership or particular specialties. They make an indelible mark on the institutions. Endowments provide the flexibility to enhance these educational experience we provide and our reputation for excellence. essential areas of academia.” These endowments also allow the University to take advantage of its unique complexity — with new interdisciplinary programs that connect Isabelle Cherney, BA’96, Ph.D. the humanities, business, science, health care and law. The impact of Director of the Honors Program and associate professor of psychology interdisciplinary study is catalytic, leading to new areas of inquiry Carnegie Foundation Nebraska 2007 Professor of the Year shaped to modern needs. “This endowment provides me the time to pursue major research in ‘fuzzy By 2010, we seek to double our current endowment to $500 million. math’ (the science of mathematical uncertainty). Fuzzy math has potential Through Th e Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n Un i v e r s i t y we have defined our impact on many disciplines. One project will use the expertise of our bold future and seized our moment as we strive to secure our place Center for Mathematics Uncertainty to serve the deaf community.” at the forefront as one of the finest Jesuit, Catholic universities in the United States. We invite you to join us with unbounded support as we John Mordeson, Ph.D. demonstrate together that we are Willing to Lead. John N. Mordeson Endowed Chair in Mathematics

Endowment is the lifeblood of great universities, a perpetual savings account and a measure of commitment to the future. To sustain and grow our quality and nationally recognized education and research, Th e Ca m p a i g n f o r Cr e i g h t o n Un i v e r s i t y has designated nearly half its $350 million goal for the support of people and programs. Essential to achieving this goal is philanthropic support for endowed deanships, chairs and visiting professorships and faculty research grants. www.creighton.edu/development The Tradition Continues

Congratulations to the men’s and women’s soccer teams for making the NCAA Tournament again this season!

This year marked the 16th straight NCAA appearance for the Creighton men’s program. The Jays went undefeated (4-0-2) in conference play for the first time since 1996 to earn a share of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular-season title.

The Creighton women won the MVC Tournament crown to earn an automatic berth in this year’s NCAA Tournament. They have now appeared in the NCAA Tournament four out of the last six seasons.