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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Fall 2006 La Salle Magazine Fall 2006 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Fall 2006" (2006). La Salle Magazine. 13. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. More than 600 people returned to La Salle for this year's Reunion festivities on May 19 and 20. The weekend kicked off Friday night with a Welcome Back Happy Hour at La Salle's Treetops Cafe and a Young Alumni Party at Finnigan's Wake Pub. On Saturday, a full slate of actiyities welcomed alumni and their families back to campus. There were campus and Belfield estate tours, a La Salle Art Museum tour, and a presentation bv Brother Joseph Grabenstein, F.S.C., Archiyist for the L'niyersity and the Christian Brothers Proxince, of a new DVD entitled Together We Remember: Tlje Lejjacv of La Salle. Also on Saturday, the Alumni Association Board of Directors held its first-e\er Reunion REUNION '06 ... rautU&z7 r&PLslt,V retfLscMer Weekend open meeting, during which alumni learned about the Alumni Association's plans for the future and about ways to get in\ol\ed in committees and programs. A Family Picnic and Kidsfest, complete with a barbecue, games, and face-painting, rounded out the afternoon. In the evening, the classes of 1956 and 1981 were honored with medals and special dinners to celebrate their 50th and 25th reunions. The Class of 1951 enjoyed a separate dinner to commemorate their 55th Reunion. All other Reunion-year classes were treated to a MargaritaYille- themed dinner. Afterward, all classes came together on La Salle's Main Quad for the "Night in Vegas" party. FALL 2006 LASALLE SFP MAGAZINE Volume 50 1 Number 3 2 Shelulder to Shoulder: Securing the Future Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., Ph.D., 70 President 4 President's Report R. Brian Elderton Vice President for University Advancement Joseph W. Donovan, '64 9 Honor Roll of Donors Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communications 9 Corporations, Foundations, and Trusts James K. Gulick, '89 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations 10 Alumni Theresa K. Travis, '93 Assistant Vice President for Development 11 President's Club Edward A. Turzanski, '81 Counsel to the President and Assistant Vice President for Government and 15 Reunion 2006 Giving Community Relations Elizabeth R. Lochner, '87 17 De La Salle Society Director for Advancement Services Patrick J. Feeley, M.B.A. '03 19 Blue & Gold Society Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations Fred J. Foley Jr. 21 Scholarships Director of Grants, Research, and Support Charles E. Gresh, F.S.C., '55 23 The Christian Brothers Felicia H. Gordon-Riehman, M.Ed. '01 '01 Daniel P. Joyce. 26 Memorial Gifts Directors of Major Gifts '99. '02 Trey P. Ulrich, M.B.A. 27 In Honor Of Director of the Annual Fund Maureen A. Plche 30 Athletics Program Partners and Sponsors Director of Publications Editor, La Salle Magazine 33 Parents and Friends Marian Butcher Assistant Director of Publications Staff Assistant Editor, La Salle Magazine 37 Faculty and Matthew M. Chverchko Graphic Designer and Staff Photographer. 38 Government Grants La Salle Magazine Amy Gardner Staff Writer, La Salle Magazine 39 News Francine Loftier, '01 Alumni Notes Editor, La Salle Magazine Vincent Massa 45 Sports Jim Roese Photography 46 Alumni Notes La Salle Magazine (USPS 299-940) is published quarterly for the University's alumni, students, faculty, and friends by the Office of University Pictured on the coven Communications (Joseph Donovan, Assistant Vice Large photo-. St. Basil Court President). Address correspondence to the Editor, La Salle Magazine, Benilde Hall, 1900 W. Olney Ave., Small photos: (from top) La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199. Anjanette Pridgen. 'OB. celebrates Changes of address should be sent at least 30 days her Bachelor of Science in prior to publication of issue with which it is to take effect to the University Advancement Office. La Salle Nursing degree at Commence- University. 1900 W. Olney Avenue. Philadelphia, PA ment in May: La Salle Art Museum 19141-1199. Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, Director Madeleine Viljoen gives Pa. POSTMASTER: Send change of address to office listed above. alumni a tour of the museum during Reunion Weekend: and a student and a professor conduct »«IASALLE research in a chemistry lab. ^UNIVERSITY — features Why I Give Back: Susan Barrett, '94 IN 1985, SUSAN BARRETT WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE last year, became assistant at an investment advisory firm, going to school at a member night, and looking ahead to a career in finance. Twenty-one of the Board years later, she's the President—and her name is on the of Trustees. shingle—of that firm, Dearden, Maguire, Weaver & Barrett. "I think She credits her success in part to the firm's partners, who it's probably gave her a shot at portfolio management while she was still typical that vou in school, and in part to her experience at La Salle, which work hard with she said opened her mind to new ways of thinking about your career and the world. your family, "I chose La Salle because it always had a really good and when your reputation in my neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, career gets to a and because it had a finance program, but I was really point where you free surprised at how much I learned in the non-business can have more sense," Barrett said. "The Core curriculum, with classes time, you come back in religion and philosophy, forced me to look at the world to a place that's familiar," said from a much broader perspective." Barrett, who lives in Haddonfield, N.J., with her husband, Russ, a 1977 La Salle graduate, and her daughter, Sarah. Barrett admits that after she graduated with a finance "La Salle has had a big impact on my life, so I feel good degree in 1994, she drifted away from La Salle somewhat. about coming back and helping out." Busy with her burgeoning career and with raising a family, other commitments took precedence. But when her father Barrett said she is continually surprised at how many died in 2001, she immediately thought of a way to reconnect La Salle graduates she encounters through her work and with the University. other involvements. She has found that many have similar "Mv dad did not go backgrounds to her own to college. He was an Irish La Salle come from middle-class immigrant, and he struggled they SHOULDER to SHOULDER neighborhoods and were Barrett said. "He worked Securing the Future among the first in their at IBM for 33 years, and families to attend college. in that time, he helped a lot of people to advance themselves through education. "La Salle has quietly sent so many successful people out into world," said. an accurate So, when he died, I immediately knew that I wanted the she "If they're taking to mark his life through education." assessment of their lives, La Salle had to be a major contributor to where they are now." Barrett established the Francis X. McErlean Scholarship Salle's Fund, which is set up for a graduate of Roman Catholic Shoulder to Shoulder: Securing the Future, La High School, her father's nlmn mater, who has chosen to major gift initiative to provide funds for a new science and attend La Salle. technology building and strengthen its endowment, will help the University to remain innovative in order to attract "We tied our two schools together with this scholarship," the best students and faculty, Barrett said. It's up to her she said. "I got a letter from the first recipient of the scholar fellow alumni, she added, to get involved to help La Salle ship, and it made me cry. If mv dad could have done it carry on its mission. himself, he would have helped people get more education/ "It's good karma to give back to where you came Creating the scholarship fund was all the motivation from and not forget it, so that others can have the same Barrett needed to re-establish her ties with La Salle. She experience," she said. has served on the Council of President's Associates and. LA SALLE MAGAZINE Shoulder to Shoulder Donor List The following is a list of Shun IHer to Shoulder donors who have made pledges or girts of $25,000 and above. Principal Gift Club Lomax Family Foundation BohKems, Esq., '69 r Si million .ind above) MortonS Mandell, M.D. Joseph T KlockJr..Esq.,'70 Samuel P. Mandell Foundation Man I and C. Gerard Kramer, '58 Anonymous 1 7^ M. and William J. Markmann. Ml , 70 IV Anthony and Lori Landis, Annenbers Foundation '58 ,1 - Jacqueline and Willi. mi [. McCormick Jr., I ilk University Alumni Association Estate oi Pascal R Canavo, '55 [ohn I. McHale,'49 Thomas A Leonard. C.P.A., 70 C onvnonwealth of Pennsylvania '61 Mr fames P Meehan Sr., ..n Jr. Charitable Fund I HughDevlin 'i 4 lame- V and Katherine L Morris, 79 Joseph r Linaugh Jr.. 71 11 Carmen \. Romeo, I Paul E Kelly Foundation Trevor P. Lynch, M D„ 73 '64 Mr and Mrs. David T Poiesz, 'SO Steven J. Madonna. Esq.. 1 '85, Leadership Gift Club William R.