FALL 2017 CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE MAGAZINE CHC’s Rotunda – A Grand Icon Enabling Achievement – St. Joseph Hall Stands Global Initiatives a Campus Commitment Tall for a Century Expand SNAPSHOT Theresa Cute, prospect manager for undergraduate admissions, relaxes while sharing her Griffin pride on Bethany Beach, Del., last summer. 2 CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE FALL 2017 On the Cover: The Rotunda, a campus hub, charms all visitors. Photo by Steve Bandura CONTENTS FEATURES 5 20 Reaching Higher — Achieving More A dedicated community of faculty and staff commit to enabling CHC students to reach for the stars and achieve their dreams. 24 Matching Ideas with Donors Building mutually beneficial relationships is the key when securing funding. 28 Standing Tall for a Century The Sisters of Saint Joseph laid the foundation for Chestnut Hill College with the cornerstone of St. Joseph Hall. All three are still going strong. 28 SPOTLIGHTS 39 Working to Keep Children Safe Kevin Bethel ’08 SCPS 41 Taking Risks; Realizing Dreams for Herself and Others Lois Berrodin Pope 42 One of a Half Dozen Special “Computers” Kathleen “Kay” McNulty Mauchly Antonelli ’42 12 DEPARTMENTS 2 President’s Message 5 Around the Hill 12 Global Griffins 34 Griffin Sports 45 Alumni Link 52 Last Word 34 Fall 2017 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE BY CAROL JEAN VALE, SSJ, Ph.D. You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught am writing this overcome hate by slowly shriveling the fear that feeds reflection in the it. The experience of truth and love invites conversion aftermath of the because they hold the power to unsettle old attitudes Imarch in Charlottesville, and unseat entrenched mindsets. Va. In the days since this event, I have pondered There is so much active evil in the world it can be the threatening messages daunting — it seems, at times, that the weeds are sent by the chants, signs overtaking the wheat. Maybe, however, we can learn and actions of white to see in a new way, to look at our present situation supremacists, neo-Nazis, from Jesus’ perspective and with Jesus’ compassion. and the Ku Klux Klan and Hate and fear are all-consuming emotions. If great the grudging fear their enough, they embolden a person to commit terrible hate engendered in many atrocities — and we are witnessing some of them. of us. Hate destroys those Thus, we ask: what is the source of the hate and fear? who allow it to claim their hearts. It is a cancer that A song from “South Pacific” addresses this question erodes perspective and directly. “You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear calcifies empathy. Sadly, … You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, before it turns those who are its you are six or seven or eight. To hate all the people focus into objects, robbing your relatives hate. You’ve got to be carefully taught.” them of their humanity Indeed, the hate and fear that drives the intolerant is and so legitimizing taught. Children are shaped by the attitudes exhibited violence. by their families, teachers, friends and the media. As Christians and Catholics, our eyes are fixed on Jesus, a It is time to change the narratives that perpetuate a man filled with love, rich in the “milk of human kindness.” vision of the world that is exclusive, demeaning and The poor, the vulnerable and the stranger were welcomed violent. Indeed, it is incumbent upon us to tell the to the tables where he dined. Though often a target of hate, story that describes a world that is inclusive, just and he chose love, never compromising who he was. Did he feel peaceful. Our narrative is the “greatest story ever afraid? Certainly he did in the Garden of Gethsemane. If he told,” about the greatest life ever lived. It is the story felt fear during his public ministry, the Gospel does not say, of Jesus and we must tell it with our lives. Love of but, being human, he must have experienced it, for example, God and the dear neighbor is caught as well as taught. when his own townspeople tried to hurl him over a cliff. He walked away to cast the seeds of God’s truth on richer soil. He kept his integrity and he maintained his equilibrium. He clung to Abba, which is what we, as people in relationship with God, must do. Carol Jean Vale, SSJ, Ph.D. From the source of Truth, we draw the strength to speak President the truth. From the source of Love, we draw the courage to offer love. Only truth and love have the potential to 2 CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE STAY in TOUCH! CHC Isn’t the Same Without You! FALL 2017 We want to know about you and your family since you’ve left CHC. Moved? Married? Welcomed a child EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION & MARKETING or grandchild? Been promoted? Changed jobs? 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Alumni Relations Office 9601 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118 Fall 2017 3 CONFERENCE: Legacy of the Russian Revolution n expansive, interdisciplinary conference the Legacy of the Civil War in 2011; and the Legacy of will take place next month, attracting World War I in 2014. presenters and participants from around The conferences expose students, faculty, staff and the the world. public to a broad range of national and international AThe Legacy of the Russian Revolution is scheduled scholars who were pursuing active research projects and for November 16 to 18 in the Commonwealth enhances CHC’s academic reputation as a vibrant and Chateau on the SugarLoaf campus, and is sponsored exciting center of learning. by the History and Political Science Department. The “This series goes beyond the immediate effects of conference’s keynote speakers are major scholars and the historic events and focuses on the long-term experts in the field. reverberations,” explains Lorraine Coons, Ph.D., Sheila Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., is a historian of modern Russia professor of history and chair of the history and political and a professor from the University of Sydney, Australia, science department and conference organizer. “We’re not and University of Chicago, emeritus. She is a member looking just at the revolution itself, but how it affected of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the people in the years following. Australian Academy of the Humanities. Dr. Fitzpatrick’s “Like so many other revolutions, it started out with talk, “Reflections on the Russian Revolution,” will be high-minded ideals to challenge an existing repressive Friday evening’s keynote address. Wendy Goldman, regime, and in the end those ideals were set aside. It was Ph.D., Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, an event where people tried to assert their rights, and is a social and political historian of Russia at Carnegie ultimately were pushed aside by another power structure Mellon University. Dr. Goldman will present the other that brutalized them. Like the French Revolution of keynote address that will focus on “Revolutionary Ideas the late 18th century, the significance of the events and Experiments in Free Love: The Lasting Legacy of that unfolded in Russia in 1917 is that the masses were the Russian Revolution,” at the Saturday luncheon. mobilized on an unprecedented scale in the nation’s Participant presentations will be made on immediate history to demand political and social equality. or long-term ramifications of the Bolshevik seizure of “People emerged from a 72-year badly flawed power — political, diplomatic, military, social, economic, experiment in what was supposed to be popular technological, intellectual and cultural.