The Catholic University of America MAGAZINE
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Spring 2017 The Catholic University of America MAGAZINE In the Business of Human Flourishing The Catholic University of America MAGAZINE In the Business of Human Flourishing 18 Spring 2017, Vol. 30, No. 1 Editor in Chief Jacquelyn Malcolm Managing Editor Ellen N. Woods News Editor Katie Bahr Associate Editors Lisa Carroll Jana Duckett Meghan Duke Mary McCarthy Hines Catherine Lee Greg Varner Contributors Regina McFadden DiLuigi 4 16 Helene Kiser Art Director Donna Hobson Graphic Designers Departments Lara Fredrickson Kristin Reavey From Nugent Hall.................................................................................. 2 Photographer Forum......................................................................................................3 Dana Rene Bowler News@CUA............................................................................................ 4 John Garvey President Cardinal Athletics.................................................................................. 16 Kyra Lyons Advancement and Alumni News............................................................34 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations and Class Notes............................................................................................ 42 University Advancement The Catholic University of America Magazine is distributed three times annually by the To view videos and photo galleries on University events covered in this issue, visit Office of Marketing and Communications. cuamagazine.cua.edu. Correspondence for the magazine should be sent to the Office of Marketing and Communications, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064. (ISSN 1086-7473) The Catholic University of America Magazine Online We invite you to go online to view our website at cuamagazine.cua.edu. That’s where you’ll © 2017 by The Catholic University of America. find the digital edition of the magazine, photo galleries, web-only articles, and links to more information. Tell us what you think of the magazine, offer an idea, or comment on an article by sending email to [email protected] or follow us through the Office of Alumni Relations on Twitter @CUAalumni or Facebook at facebook.com/CUAAlumni. You can call us at 202-319-5600. My grandfather’s experience showed me that business can be a force for great good in the world. FROM NUGENT HALL by President John Garvey “his issue of The Catholic University of My grandfather’s experience showed me that America Magazine features a series of business can be a force for great good in the articles on the Tim and Steph Busch world. When he was starting” out, it was a TSchool of Business and Economics at Catholic business — first the railroad, then National University. The past year has been an exciting Malleable — that gave him meaningful work. time for the Busch School. Last April the school This work allowed him to provide for his family received the largest financial donation in and to plan for his future. When he became the Catholic University’s history — and a new chairman of Sharpsville Steel, he was able to name in recognition of philanthropists Tim provide work to many others and to produce and Steph Busch, who made the lead gift in goods that met a genuine need. this donation. This semester, we partnered The Busch School was founded on the same with the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City premise that motivated my grandfather: that to help small businesses in Washington, D.C., business can be — and ought to be — a force for grow and create jobs in our local community. good. We provide our students with the moral You can read about these and other exciting and intellectual formation necessary to build initiatives in this issue. a more humane economy. Reading these articles got me to thinking The Busch School gives our students the about my grandfather. concrete skills to build and contribute to a My Grandfather Garvey was the kindest business. We connect students to business man I have ever known. I grew up next door to leaders who mentor them as they navigate the him and loved talking to him. He would listen twists and turns of business. We give students a to you like you were the most interesting person space to incubate and test out their business in the world, like he could not wait to hear what ideas. The school’s success in preparing students you would say next. He went to Mass every for careers in business is borne out by the morning with my grandmother, to whom he numbers. Within three months of graduation, was married for 70 years. Grandpa lived to be 93% of Class of 2016 students from the 95. I remember once watching him struggle Busch School had jobs. to his feet as my younger sister entered the But beyond this, we teach our students room because she — all of 10 years old — that business must always serve the dignity and was a lady, and he — then about 80 — was a uphold the worth of the human person, who gentleman. is made in the image and likeness of God. He was also a businessman. He started work- Ethics in Business is not just a required ing for the railroad right out of high school. course in the curriculum. It is the idea that Then he became the secretary for an executive animates the entire school. That’s why the at the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. Catholic Church’s rich social doctrine on In 1916 he purchased his own steel company, questions related to human dignity, work, the Sharpsville Boiler Works, which became markets, and solidarity are integrated into Sharpsville Steel. The Ford Model T had just every part of the curriculum. been introduced eight years earlier and cars In his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, were beginning to be available to the middle Pope Francis said that “business is a vocation, class. My grandfather’s company built storage and a noble vocation, provided that those and pressure tanks for refineries and tank trucks engaged in it see themselves challenged by a for transporting oil. The Great Depression hit greater meaning in life; this will enable them them hard. Grandpa Garvey didn’t want to lay truly to serve the common good by striving anyone off. He put all the money he and my to increase the goods of this world and to make grandmother had into the company to meet them more accessible to all.” At the Busch payroll and keep it afloat, and ultimately the School we are trying to prepare students not Hugh Garvey, 1923 company did succeed. just for a career but for a calling. 2 The Catholic University of America Magazine FORUM Comments from the CUA community American Catholic History Research Center and Archives University Happy #InternationalWomensDay. The caption of this photo reads: “Girl students in Architecture, Catholic University of America.” @CUAarchives Twitter Facebook 10 years ago today, I found out I was accepted THE CHALDEAN CATHOLIC to @CatholicUniv. Best thing that ever hap- DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROJECT pened to me! The video is featured in the fall 2016 issue of @Kbuon The Catholic University of America Magazine online at cuamagazine.cua.edu. This video leaves me wanting to see and hear more. Thank you! — John More WEB SPOTLIGHT: CAMPUS MINISTER Doctor Young is absolutely phenomenal! EMMJOLEE MENDOZA WATERS, Loved having her as a professor last year! B.A. 2001, M.S.W. 2009 — Mikhail Ignatius Pellegrino #EmmjoleeForPresident — Mike Thorsen Thank you Dr. Robin Young for this impor- tant project about the Chaldean people. Had fun volunteering with some members — Tom Chaldean of @cathulaw and @CatholicUniv today for Letter #MLKJrDay! CARDINAL PREVIEW DAY 2017 I wanted to thank you for the wonderful @YourFavoRITTA As an alum (undergrad and law school) it tribute to Franny Murray in the fall issue. He was a joy to experience this day of discovery was an integral part of my would-be athletic with my daughter. Proud to be a CUA grad memories of CUA. and that was reinforced today. Also the “Art Inspired by Illness” article — Jen Fournier about the young woman with cystic fibrosis and her sister’s tribute to her was inspiring I thank God every day that my daughter (CUA and, as one of the captions said, “A Breath of class of 2014) received her undergraduate Fresh Art.” degree from CUA! Keep it up. — Maria Travers Solimine — Ben Goggins, B.A. 1970 Miss Willie came by today to celebrate 43 years of working @CatholicUniv TODAY & relive some memories of the Rathskeller #CUAalumni Join the conversation! @CUAalumni Facebook.com/CUAAlumni • Twitter @CUAalumni • [email protected] Spring 2017 3 Students Advised CUA NEWS@ to ‘Seek the Truth Honestly and Relentlessly’ during Annual Aquinas Mass “The life of the mind is meant to be the cathedral of God, giving him praise through ardent zeal in the pursuit of the truth…” — Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. 4 The Catholic University of America Magazine More than F 400 AITH Catholic University students marched for life. Students March as Witnesses to Life Dressed in winter coats and knit caps, more than 400 Catholic University students paused for a moment of prayer in Caldwell Auditorium the morning of Friday, Jan. 27, before n a world that is “characterized by conflict, departing en masse to attend the 44th annual March for Life demonstration against Roe v. restlessness, profound discontent, and vio- Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Ilence, be it spiritual or physical,” students The students were joined by University President John Garvey, who spoke about the should thrive to “be gentle in the truth, and estimated 57 million abortions that have taken place in the United States since that court fervently alive with the zeal of divine charity.” decision 44 years ago. By marching in solidarity with other pro-life supporters, Garvey said, This was the message delivered to members students can gain experience defending their own beliefs about the sanctity of life. of the Catholic University community by “We need to speak up, we need to show with our actions that we care about each other,” Rev.