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4 Letters to the Editor 5 University News A Tiger’s Tale Researchers at Creighton University, Boys Town National Research Hospital and the Henry Doorly Zoo collaborate to take the first radiological scans of a live Siberian tiger. Photo by Monte Kruse, BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, Sound Science Day in the Life: O‘ Canada Hearing research conducted by Creighton How well do we Americans scientist David He, M.D., Ph.D., is Service Outreach 14 Come along as we explore a 24 really know our northern published in the prestigious journal Nature. “typical” day in the life of service at Creighton neighbor? Creighton History Professor Ross — from a medical resident working in the ICU Horning probes the similarities and differences 40 Development News at 4 a.m. to Creighton President John P. Schlegel, between the two countries with writer Pam New Business Law Chair S.J., reading to an excited group of elementary Adams Vaughn. McGrath North Mullin & Kratz pledges students. $1 million to establish an endowed chair in business law. 44 Alumni News No Regrets Creighton alumnus and photographer Robert Maletta, BA’77, calls his work documenting humanitarian efforts in Africa a meaningful journey. 55 The Last Word As fall brings Halloween with its share of spooks, skeletons and pranks, writer Brian Kokensparger scares up stories on Marriage and Remembering the varied uses of bones on the Creighton Family in America Bob Reilly campus — from research to art to theology 30 Can anything be done to 34 Creighton says goodbye to a to a comically planned (but never carried improve the deteriorating state of marriage in great writer, storyteller, husband, father and out) hoax. the U.S.? Theology Professor Michael Lawler, alumnus — a World War II POW who returned director of Creighton’s Center for Marriage and home to lead Creighton’s public relations office Family, offers a Christian perspective. for 16 years.

About the Cover Contact Us Creighton basketball player Angie Janis reads to RaGina Key, left, and Kaylie Executive Editor: Stephen T. Kline Verdin during a visit to Liberty Elementary School in Omaha — one of many (402) 280-1784 [email protected] University outreach efforts. Editor: Rick Davis (402) 280-1785 [email protected] Marriage And Family In America O‘ Canada In The Third Millenium By Robert U. Gutrie Fall 2004 Associate Editor: Sheila Swanson Photo by Larry Larson (402) 280-2069 [email protected] Creighton University Magazine’s Purpose Visit the magazine online at: Creighton University Magazine, like the University itself, is committed to excellence and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms. The magazine will be www.creightonmagazine.org comprehensive in nature. It will support the University’s mission of education through thoughtful and compelling feature articles on a variety of topics. It will feature the brightest, the most stimulating, the most inspirational thinking that Creighton offers. The magazine also will promote Creighton, and its Jesuit Catholic identity, to a broad public and serve as a vital link between the University and its constituents. The magazine will be guided by the core values of Creighton: the inalienable worth of each individual, respect for all of God’s creation, a special concern for the poor, and the promotion of justice. Message from the University President

Striving for a More Diverse Community

This third column on Creighton’s objectives as outlined in our shifting Project 125 strategic plan focuses on diversity. I said in my inaugural demographics will address four years ago that we will seek to create an inclusive, dictate it! diverse community at the University. I believe that there is in the Fostering diversity Jesuit world view an implicit acceptance and appreciation of in the work force pays cultural and ethnic diversity. huge dividends with Project 125, our strategic plan, challenges us to create a diverse minimal effort. I have human community of students, faculty and staff at Creighton. We found over the years that a intend to meet the following goals: more diverse and inclusive • Faculty, staff and students will exhibit cultural workplace is more creative and, competence/proficiency and awareness of the significance of in business and industry, even more global diversity. profitable. • At a minimum, underrepresented minority students, faculty and It has been noted that “in a functionally multicultural society, staff will constitute a percentage of the Creighton population people believe it is in their best interest to value the diversity that consistent with the demographics of Omaha and the surrounding exists. By valuing people for their unique identity and enabling region. them to contribute, we can strengthen our resources, problem • The retention rate of underrepresented minorities — students, solving, decision making, and vitality as an institution, a staff and faculty — will equal or surpass that of their majority corporation, a business, and as a nation.” (Katz and Torres, 1985, counterparts. p. 33). • Creighton will exhibit gender and ethnic balance when recruiting Being multicultural is fundamentally connected to Creighton’s and retaining faculty, staff and students. Jesuit mission, values and purpose. We strive for diversity not • Creighton will exhibit zero-tolerance with respect to because the administration or the front office thinks it is a good discrimination or harassment. idea, but rather “because we recognize having diverse ideas, • Creighton will develop strong relationships with local and opinions, and styles of operations” is beneficial (Katz/Torres, p. 12). regional minority communities. Diversity is a strength; it yields more creative, synergistic and We seek an inclusive community because it is the right thing to effective outcomes. A diverse university is also more interesting and do, and the commitment is deeply rooted in our history. energizing. The Jesuits in Omaha have historically been trailblazers in the Diversity is good business. An organization that makes it area of racial harmony and racial integration. The Rev. John P. known that it desires an inclusive work force or office amalgam, Markoe, S.J., of Creighton was well ahead of his time. He was in the enhances both its recruitment efforts and the retention of good advance guard of the civil rights movement in the 1930s and 1940s, people. This effort contributes to the overall success of the long before the cause gained popular support and visibility. He organization. worked actively with a group of Creighton students and helped That is what Project 125, our strategic plan, is all about — organize the DePorres Club for the purpose of promoting civil ensuring the continued success of Creighton and our students! rights for blacks. They pioneered the sit-in technique later used Please enjoy this issue of Creighton University Magazine, and may throughout the country in the 1960s. God bless you and yours. Some observations on diversity as a strategic objective: Diversity is a leadership issue. Responsibility for so important an issue cannot be delegated. This is one issue where you must lead from the top. Walk the talk and work the work. Building a diverse and inclusive work force should be a strategic priority for every John P. Schlegel, S.J. business and organization, if for no other reason than the nation’s Winner of a 2004 CASE Gold Medal Award St. Louis University, became actively involved for General Excellence in St. Benedict’s upon his arrival in Omaha in 1947. Fr. Markoe worked in a different time

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University Magazine interview published in the Omaha Star in May 1962, Fr. Markoe, never one to draw attention to his influence, gives credit to the DePorres Club, Publisher: Creighton University; Rev. John P. Letters Schlegel, S.J., President; Lisa Calvert, Vice President to stating that it “played a decisive part for University Relations. Creighton University in transforming St. Benedict’s from a Magazine staff: Stephen T. Kline, Executive Editor; the Jim Crow Mission to a full-fledged Rick Davis, Editor; Sheila Swanson, Associate Editor parish.” Thus, Fr. Markoe helped his Editor; Pamela A. Vaughn, Features Editor. Editorial predecessors’ efforts reach their Advisers: Cam Enarson, M.D., M.B.A.; Christine Wiseman, J.D.; Greg Johnson; Diane Dougherty; fruition, in a manner that Fr. Cassilly would Rev. Donald A. Doll, S.J.; Ruth Purtilo, Ph.D.; A Holy Man … surely have appreciated. Tamara Buffalohead-McGill; and Jayne Schram. And a Good Cribbage Player Matt Holland Creighton University Magazine (USPS728-070) is I was especially pleased to read the piece Omaha published quarterly in February, May, August about Francis Deglman, S.J., in the summer and November by Creighton University, 2500 edition of Creighton University Magazine. I was Editor’s note: Holland’s father, Creighton California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. fortunate to have Fr. Deglman as an alumnus Denny Holland, BS’49, was a Periodicals postage paid at Omaha, Nebraska, instructor and a counselor when I called long-time president of the DePorres Club and additional entry points. Address all mail to and a civil rights advocate in Omaha. Public Relations and Information, Omaha, NE upon him at his room in the rectory in the 68178. Postmaster: Send change of address to Administration Building. Creighton University Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, He always would welcome me and offer to Remembering Fr. Coppens Omaha, NE 68103-0078. play a game of cribbage. During the game, he The article on the history of the Jesuits at For more enrollment information, contact the would counsel me and would refocus my Creighton reminded all of us of some of our Undergraduate Admissions Office at attention to the things that really mattered, important predecessors. Although all Jesuits 1-800-282-5835, [email protected]. while beating me unmercifully in cribbage. could not be cited in the article, as a faculty To make a gift to the University, contact the No, he was no patsy, but he was the gentlest, member at the Center for Health Policy and Development Office at 1-800-334-8794. kindest and holiest man I have ever met. It Ethics, the special contributions of Fr. Charles was a thrill to stand in front of Deglman Hall Coppens, S.J., ought to be mentioned. A For the latest on alumni gatherings, contact the when I last was on campus for an Elderhostel Alumni Relations Office at 1-800-CU-ALUMS noteworthy treatise written by Fr. Coppens (800-282-5867) or check online at study session in the summer of 1991. was Moral Principles and Medical Practice. In www.creighton.edu/alumni. Robert W. Geith, BS’50 1897, the series of lectures he gave students at Cherry Valley, Calif. Send letters to the editor to Rick Davis at Creighton Medical College was collected and [email protected]; fax, (402) 280-2549; printed, continuing the contributions of Creighton University, Office of Public Relations, Jesuits for Justice clergy to medical education. Fr. Coppens’ 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178. Thank you for the excellent article, The book is recognized in Dr. A. R. Jonsen’s The Update your mailing address or send alumni news Jesuits, by Professor Mihelich in the Summer Birth of Bioethics (1998). (births, weddings, promotions, etc.) electronically ’04 Creighton Magazine. I was especially Winifred J. Ellenchild Pinch, through www.creighton.edu/alumni, call interested in the profile of the Rev. Francis MS’85, RN, EdD, FAAN 1-800-334-8794 or mail to Development Office, Cassilly. It was apparent Fr. Cassilly was Creighton University Professor Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, interested in helping the less fortunate and Omaha, NE 68178. made a major contribution to the University. Editor’s note: Here’s a little more Visit the magazine website at It was also apparent that he was a man of his information on Fr. Coppens, courtesy of the www.creightonmagazine.org time, and his creation of St. Benedict’s, a Midwest Jesuit Archives. A slight-of-build Belgian, who suffered a severe attack of www.creighton.edu “mission” for Negroes, reflects this. With this in mind, Mihelich’s mention of the Rev. John typhoid fever at the age of 6, Fr. Coppens Copyright © 2004 by Creighton University Markoe in the opening of Fr. Cassilly’s profile came to the United States in 1853 after is quite appropriate. being accepted into the Society of Jesus by Recycled and Recyclable Fr. Markoe, who was assigned to Creighton another noteworthy Belgian, renowned Printed with Soy Ink from St. Louis as a consequence of his Jesuit missionary Pierre-Jean de Smet. At perseverance and success in integrating 18, Fr. Coppens entered the Jesuit novitiate 4 Fall 2004 University News at Florissant, Mo. There, he was told his Worldwide Jesuit Oct. 7 and the blessing of a new statue of delicate health would “bring him to the St. Ignatius Loyola on the Creighton grave within a year.” But Fr. Coppens Leader’s Visit will University campus. St. Ignatius founded the proved the doctors wrong. He eventually Society of Jesus in the 16th century. taught philosophy at Creighton from 1894 to Celebrate 125 Years of The statue will be a prominent feature of 1905 and lectured on medical ethics from Jesuit-Lay Partnership Creighton’s central pedestrian mall, which 1896 to 1904. He became an authority on is being remodeled this summer. English rhetoric and oratory, and wrote The worldwide leader of the Society of During his stay, Fr. Kolvenbach also will several textbooks on these subjects. Fr. Jesus will spend two days in Omaha Oct. 7 visit with parishioners, students, faculty Coppens wrote in his memoirs that while and 8 to commemorate the 125-year members and others involved with a wide lecturing in philosophy at Creighton, “I had presence of the Jesuits in Omaha. range of ministries in the occasion to explain to the students of The visit of the Rev. Peter-Hans and around the city. Creighton Medical College the moral duties Kolvenbach, S.J., superior general of the A meeting with of physicians, which led me to publish a Society of Jesus, also will kick off the start of Archbishop Elden volume on Moral Principles and Medical the golden jubilee year of the seven-state Francis Curtiss also Practice.” According to one observer, that Wisconsin Province of the Jesuits is planned. Fr. work “opened up a new field for medical headquartered in Milwaukee, a region that Kolvenbach will teaching and was translated into several includes Nebraska. celebrate a Mass foreign languages.” Fr. Coppens, who taught To celebrate a theme of “Jesuit-Lay with Jesuits, at several other Jesuit institutions, died in Collaboration,” Fr. Kolvenbach will colleagues and 1920 at the age of 85 in Chicago. participate in a series of events at each of friends at St. John’s Fr. Kolvenbach the five Jesuit missions in Omaha: Creighton Church on Oct. 8. Correction Fit for a King University, Creighton Prep, the Jesuit The Jesuit leader also will hold meetings A royal “thank you” to alert reader Mary Middle School of Omaha, along with St. with vice presidents, deans and University B. Verschuur, MA’79, who correctly informed John’s and St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Ministry staff at Creighton University; with us that James VI became king of Scotland in parishes. the Ignatian Associates, a Jesuit support 1567 and not 1562, as was reported in the Highlights of the visit include a major group; and with the Omaha-area Jesuit article on Bible translations in the last issue. address Fr. Kolvenbach will deliver at Partnership Council. He also will spend an Creighton University on the evening of evening with his brother Jesuits.

Forse Named Lempka Forse serves on the editorial boards of Obesity Surgery and the Journal of Parenteral Surgery Chair and Enteral Nutrition. He is a prolific researcher and has authored or co-authored R. Armour Forse, M.D., Ph.D., has been more than 200 publications, books and book

Marriage And Family In America appointed the Dr. & Mrs. Arnold W. chapters. O‘ Canada In The Third Millenium By Robert U. Gutrie Fall 2004 Lempka Professor and Chair in the Forse’s clinical interests are Celebrating 20 Years Department of Surgery at Creighton gastrointestinal surgery, including University Medical minimally invasive procedures and bariatric Creighton University Magazine celebrates a Center. Forse joins surgery. His research interests are milestone with this issue. It was 20 years ago Creighton from nutritional support, immunological and this fall that the first Creighton Window Boston Medical metabolic response to injury, the treatment magazine, the predecessor to today’s Center, where he of sepsis and the biology and treatment of publication, rolled off the presses. (The front served as professor morbid obesity. cover of that first issue appears above at left.) Thank you to all the Creighton faculty, staff and vice chairman of “We are looking forward to having Dr. and administrators who have made, and surgery. Forse will Forse join the Creighton University School continue to make, this award-winning magazine assume his new of Medicine,” said Cam E. Enarson, M.D., possible. It is very much a collaborative effort. position on Sept. 1. M.B.A., School of Medicine dean and vice We also extend our gratitude to you, our Previously, Forse Forse president for Health Sciences at Creighton readers. It has been a pleasure sharing with was assistant professor University Medical Center. “His vast clinical you stories that have provoked, entertained, of surgery at McGill University and then and research experience in treating the educated and informed. associate professor of surgery at Harvard myriad problems associated with obesity We look forward to continuing the Medical School, where he co-founded and will benefit Creighton University Medical conversation for another 20 years … directed the Center for Minimally Invasive Center patients, students and the Omaha and beyond. Surgery and directed the Clowes Laboratory community.” — Rick Davis, BA’88, editor of Surgical Metabolism.

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Kenefick, Morrison, John C. Kenefick Faculty Chair in the the Bellucci microscissors, used today Humanities is endowed in his honor by the throughout the world for surgical Bellucci Honored at Union Pacific Foundation, and Creighton procedures. May Commencement students continue to benefit from his Bellucci has published more than 100 support of scholarships. In 1998, Creighton scientific articles and three books on ear Creighton University’s 113th Spring conferred upon Kenefick an Honorary surgery, and he has been director of Commencement was held May 15 at the Doctor of Humanities Degree. otolaryngology at several New York Omaha Civic Auditorium. More than 1,100 The New York native and Princeton hospitals. He continues to support ear students participated in the Commence- graduate rose through the railroad ranks to surgery research while earning a litany of ment exercises. lead Union Pacific. Kenefick engineered the medical, civic and religious awards. Bellucci In addition to awarding degrees, the consolidation of the Union Pacific, Missouri also established the Dr. Richard J. Bellucci University recognized the following Medical Research Fund at Creighton individuals and organizations for their University. contributions to education, community, business and health: former Creighton Presidential Medallions President the Rev. Michael G. Morrison, Creighton Preparatory School and the S.J.; former Chairman and CEO of Union Omaha Province of the Notre Dame Pacific and former Chairman of Sisters each received Creighton’s Creighton’s Board of Directors John C. Presidential Medallion, which recognizes Kenefick; Creighton alumnus Richard J. individuals and organizations that have Bellucci, MD’42; Creighton Preparatory displayed excellence in academic School; and the Omaha Province of the discipline; distinguished local civic, Notre Dame Sisters. Terry Clark, Ph.D., cultural or volunteer service; and

also was honored for teaching America Photography Photos by Heart of commitment to the educational and achievement. Clark, professor of political Left to right … John Kenefick, Fr. Schlegel and community ideals espoused by Creighton science and director of the graduate Fr. Michael Morrison. University’s Mission Statement. program in International Studies, received Creighton Prep joins Creighton the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Student University in celebrating a 125th Award for Teaching Achievement from anniversary this year. The two schools the Creighton Students Union. evolved from Mary Lucretia Creighton’s wish to open a free school for boys that Honorary Degrees would bear the name of her deceased Fr. Michael G. Morrison was husband, Edward Creighton. Under the Creighton’s 22nd president, leading the direction of the Jesuits, the school opened University from 1981 to 2000. Hallmarks in 1878 as an elementary school for boys. of his presidency included building the It eventually developed college-level University’s endowment, adding courses. The preparatory classes endowed faculty chairs, constructing continued for 80 years in the major campus buildings and, most Administration Building on the importantly, providing an excellent Left to right … Cecile Zielinski, M.D., of Creighton’s School Creighton campus until 1958 when of Medicine, Richard Bellucci, M.D., and Fr. Schlegel. education for students. Creighton Prep moved to 75th and Ordained in 1968, Fr. Morrison acquired Western Avenue, its current location. five degrees, including a Ph.D. in history. Pacific and Western Pacific railroads into a The Notre Dame Sisters planted roots in He taught at St. Louis University, Marquette single world-class operation. Omaha 94 years ago as women of faith who University, the University of Wisconsin, make a difference. The history of the Notre Creighton Prep and Creighton University. Alumni Achievement Citation Dame Sisters dates to 16th century France John C. Kenefick’s legacy at Creighton Creighton presented its highest alumni when a new community of sisters was includes serving 20 years on Creighton’s award, the Alumni Achievement Citation, to founded to educate young girls, especially Board of Directors, 10 as its chair. Kenefick Richard J. Bellucci, MD’42, a national leader those who were poor. Today, the American served on the Creighton Board during Fr. in ear surgery techniques to treat hearing Province of this international community is Morrison’s tenure as Creighton president. loss. He was one of the first physicians to located in Omaha where about 30 sisters Together they believed in fiscal use a microscope in surgery, and in the mid- live. The community’s mission is to help responsibility that provided a foundation 1950s, he was one of the first ear surgeons meet the unmet needs of the poor and to for Creighton’s success. Kenefick’s legacy to perform the stapes mobilization nurture in them a conviction of God’s love reaches beyond his Board leadership — a procedure for the restoration of hearing. He for them. Creighton residence hall bears his name, the has designed special instruments, including

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Creighton Receives Creighton Technology High in Fiber $2.5 Million NIH Grant

How do you feed a growing campus feet of Blolite fiber — including lines to Creighton University will receive a five- appetite for information technology? the new soccer field. year $2.5 million grant from the National Fiber. Plenty of fiber. Not all tubes will be filled with fiber, Institute of Child Health and Human Creighton University is setting the though, allowing the University room to Development, part of the National Institutes table for today and tomorrow’s grow. of Health, to study the effects of violence technology needs by installing a network “Plenty of spare microduct tubes will exposure on children with disabilities. The of tubes, called microducts, through provide a way to easily expand the grant will provide approximately $525,402 which hair-thin fiber-optic lines are campus network,” said Brian Young, each year for the next five years. literally being blown. Creighton’s vice president for Information The purpose of this project is to The system — called Technology, “positioning determine whether there are long-term Blolite — offers two the University for adverse mental health consequences to distinct advantages success in the 21st childhood violence exposure among adults over traditional fiber- century and ensuring with an identified childhood disability. optic technology: speed that students have According to Patricia M. Sullivan, Ph.D., of installation and access to nationwide principal investigator of the study, a flexibility for future and worldwide disability includes speech and language growth. information and disorders, learning and developmental Installation looks resources.” disabilities, physical disorders and hearing simple enough. Two With the tubes in and visual impairment. Resiliency to child- technicians feed spools place, adding hood violence exposure also will be studied. of color-coded fiber- additional fiber or Sullivan is a professor of neurology and optic lines, up to 12 at replacing current fiber psychology at Creighton. Other Creighton a time, through a with newer technology researchers on the project include special machine. A will be much easier. C. Timothy Dickel, Ed.D.; Ravi Nath, Ph.D.; burst of compressed air “Adding additional and Gleb Haynatzki, Ph.D. sends these threads Photo by Mike Kleveter blown fiber requires According to Sullivan, this research is Young with some of the fiber-optic sailing through the much less labor cost,” important to study because the long-term cable being installed at Creighton. microduct tubing. said Rick Brokofsky, effects of violence exposure in childhood are The fibers can travel Creighton’s director of currently unknown. “If we know that about 600 feet in 10 minutes. Stringing telecommunications. “It allows us to get exposure to violence at an early age is linked those fibers by hand could take an hour the network up and running that much to later mental health problems, we can or more and involve six to eight faster. It’s not at all disruptive to our identify targets for prevention and identify technicians. campus life.” appropriate interventions,” Sullivan said. Creighton is the first academic facility Creighton and Brokofsky were recently to blow 12 Blolite fibers through a recognized as “technology innovators” by microduct tube, providing maximum General Cable and NextGen Fiber Optics, Watson Receives capacity. the Cincinnati-based companies that Creighton has been installing the market Blolite technology. Fulbright Award microduct tubing for more than a year “The Blolite project is an example of Patrice Watson, Ph.D., associate professor and a half now. our ongoing commitment to students of preventive and public health at Creighton The recently renovated Rigge Science and faculty to seamlessly integrate University Medical Center, has been Building and Criss Health Sciences build- technology into our academic awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture ings are connected to the network with environment,” Young said. at the University of Zimbabwe Medical nearly 70,000 feet of Blolite fiber. Every It’s a taste of the future, today. School during the 2004-2005 academic year. room in the new Hixson-Lied Science Watson will assist in the development of Building is connected, with room to grow. CU a Top-50 Wireless Campus a new master’s degree program in Creighton’s new junior/senior housing Creighton University was recognized biostatistics and epidemiology. She is one of on the east edge of campus became the this year by Intel Corp. as one of the approximately 800 U.S. faculty and first residence hall in the U.S. to be wired country’s best campuses for wireless professionals who will travel abroad to with Blolite technology this spring. computing access for students. Intel some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 And to accommodate eastward ranked Creighton No. 46 in its annual academic year through the program. expansion, the University is installing 28 top-100 “Most Unwired College microduct tubes and more than 250,000 Campuses” survey.

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New Handbook to Help Alzheimer’s Caregivers, A Royal Appointment Family and Friends Creighton University dance Of the estimated 4.5 million Americans coordinator Lisa Carter has been who have Alzheimer’s disease, more than appointed to the board of examiners for seven out of 10 people with the disease live the Royal Academy of Dance, one of the at home. And close to 75 percent of their largest and most influential dance care is provided by family and friends. A education and training organizations in new handbook is now available to help the world. these caregivers, Established in 1920 and headquartered whether they are in London, the Royal Academy of Dance family and friends or is an international teacher education and health professionals. awarding body for classical ballet. The handbook, With her appointment, Carter joins an which is the first of elite group of 173 examiners residing in its kind, is called The 24 countries. They conduct examinations Dignity Within: A both at home and abroad, furthering the Handbook for Academy’s mission of promoting the

Caregivers, Family Members and Friends of knowledge, understanding and practice BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, Those with Alzheimer's Disease or Related of dance internationally. Carter, front, poses with May graduate Dementia. It is unique because it Examiners are experienced and Leslie Berki atop Creighton’s Administration Building. concentrates on nurturing the skills and respected teachers who must pass talents that remain with the person who has examinations themselves before their opportunity, and I think it makes me a Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia appointments. Carter traveled to London better teacher.” throughout the progression of the disease. It last November for her examiner training. Before coming to Creighton in 2002, also includes tips on how the caregiver can “It’s a great honor. I’m really thrilled,” Carter taught dance in London, Hong take care of one’s self, and also offers tactics Carter said. “It’s a phenomenal Kong and Cape Town, South Africa. on how to communicate with a person who has Alzheimer’s disease. The co-authors of the book are Pat writer of tremendous promise, with the Humanities Initiative. Creighton’s School of Callone, vice president for Institutional potential of becoming an important literary Medicine is one of only eight medical Relations at Creighton University; Roger voice,” said Bridget Keegen, Ph.D., associate schools in the country to receive the award. Brumback, M.D., chair of Creighton professor of English. Creighton medical students proposed the University Medical Center’s Pathology The Intro Journals Project is a literary Magis Medical Clinic in response to the Department; Creighton educator and co- competition for the discovery and community’s need for medical services for founder of Discipline with Purpose, Inc., publication of the best new works by homeless families. Barb Vasiloff; and Connie Kudlacek, students enrolled in member programs “Creighton’s School of Medicine has a executive director of the Alzheimer’s of the Associated Writing Programs. tradition of service to the community. We Association of the Midlands. Winners are published in a variety of the developed the Magis Medical Clinic concept The book can be purchased from the nation’s top literary magazines. Goldstein’s because we were actively looking for ways Alzheimer’s Association Midlands Chapter poem, “Rhythm and Numbers in a Florida to contribute our expertise and caring in a via www.midlandsalz.org. Kitchen,” will be published in Willow way that would truly help our community,” Springs. said Zulma Barrios, a fourth-year Creighton Goldstein Wins medical student and one of the project CU Medical Students to organizers. National Writing Award Working with the Omaha Area Lauren Goldstein has been chosen as one Establish Magis Medical Continuum of Care for the Homeless, the of this year’s national winners of the Clinic for Homeless students found that there are few outpatient Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Students in Creighton University Medical health care options available to the Project award, a coveted honor in the field Center’s School of Medicine have received a homeless on Saturdays. Medical students of creative writing. Goldstein, who grant to establish the Magis Medical Clinic will provide free drop-in health services graduated in May, is the second Creighton for homeless men, women and children in Saturday afternoons and evenings at the student in two years to win this annual the Omaha area. The grant is part of the Siena/Francis House, located near the award. “Caring for Community” program from the Creighton campus. The clinic is scheduled “Winning this award is a prestigious Association of American Medical Colleges, to open in September. honor and marks the winner as a young in collaboration with the Pfizer Medical

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have been studying the hearing of large cats The scientists also preserved the tiger’s A Tiger‘s Tale in cooperation with Omaha’s Henry Doorly brain and removed the temporal bone of the With her 6-foot, 200-pound frame Zoo for the past four years. inner ear and the larynx. stretched out across the hospital gurney, “Seeing images of the brain of a tiger “These tissues are so hard to come by,” Helga began her journey into Creighton while it was still alive was exciting … Walsh said. “One of our goals is to establish University Medical Center … and into squared,” Walsh gushed. collaborations with scientists from around history. Never before had scientists recorded CT the world … and then generate a It took a team of physicians and staff to and MRI images of a live tiger. monograph describing the tiger’s central lift her limp, sedated body out of the back This historic event was made possible by nervous system.” of a minivan and swiftly wheel her through an amazing collaborative effort — involving Walsh is collaborating with world- the hospital’s back entrance — after visiting scientists, researchers and staff from renowned voice scientist Ingo Titze of the hours and away from other patients — up Creighton University, Boys Town National Denver Center for the Performing Arts and to the third-floor radiology lab. Research Hospital, the Henry Doorly Zoo, Tecumseh Fitch, a professor at the University Her once-piercing yellow eyes were Creighton University Medical Center, the of St. Andrews in Scotland and one of the groggy. Her massive tongue spilled out Department of Radiology and others. world’s top animal vocalization experts. from between sets of king-sized canines the “This was the best collaborative They are especially excited about the Photos by Dave Weaver Unloading Helga at CUMC. Preparing Helga for the CAT scan. Researchers viewing the images of Helga. size of a man’s finger. Her massive, but environment we’ve ever worked in,” said “fresh” larynx, which was frozen in liquid muscular, body — fortified by a ravenous Walsh, who routinely collaborates with nitrogen right after surgery. appetite that could devour the equivalent of researchers from around the world. “(Fitch) told me if we could harvest a 400 hamburgers at one meal — was still. It also was made possible by one fresh larynx and get it to Titze, we could The team struggled to move her onto the beautiful tiger — a 17-year-old Siberian, answer questions that have gone bed of the CAT scan. Arms strained as born at the Knoxville Zoo, who had come to unanswered for over 150 years,” Walsh said. instructions were called out. “OK, let’s get Omaha 10 years ago. But she was suffering. “Titze is re-equipping his facilities for the everyone out,” someone finally said. The A tumor had developed deep in her right study — the first ever tiger larynx room emptied, except for a few personnel hip. It had been surgically removed once. assessment.” wearing lead vests. But it was not healing properly. The cancer Their research may help answer a Everyone else — physicians, medical returned. And Helga’s life was nearing the seemingly simple question: Why do big cats residents, researchers — packed into a end; the average life expectancy of a tiger in (tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards) roar, while darkened adjoining room. Through a large captivity is 15 to 20 years. smaller cats purr? And, might big cats purr, window, they could see Helga — belly up, The zoo made the decision to euthanize as well? The answer, many scientists strapped down and wrapped up like a giant the animal. But first, she would undergo the believe, lies in the larynx. burrito … only her head, back legs and tail historic tests at CUMC — tests that could Understanding big cat vocalizations and visible. They watched with anticipation as provide important information about her hearing could lead to advancements in she slowly glided toward the machine’s species … a species that is seriously endan- conservation efforts, such as tracking often- doughnut-hole opening. X-ray pictures gered. It’s estimated that there are only 300 elusive tiger populations through “acoustic popped onto a computer screen. The to 400 Siberian tigers living in the wild. fingerprinting” or developing acoustic scientists gasped at what they saw: CT “This research has important devices to deter tigers from wandering into images of a live Siberian tiger. repercussions for conservation efforts,” said areas inhabited by humans. “This was definitely a first,” said Edward Dr. Douglas Armstrong, the senior While Walsh looks to collaborate with the Walsh, PhD’83, a scientist at Boys Town veterinarian at the Henry Doorly Zoo. zoo again, he will never forget Helga. “She National Research Hospital in Omaha. Researchers hope to use the data to assist lived a very good life … and, in the end, she Walsh and his wife and Boys Town with tiger identification in the wild, as well made an extraordinary contribution to wild colleague, JoAnn McGree, Ph.D., MS’82, as population encroachment issues. biology.”

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tend to be hardier and less subject to which the vibrations of the basilar Unlocking the damage during the maneuverings necessary membrane, and the subsequent changes for research involving microscopic subjects. to the outer hair cells, turn into a Mysteries of The advantage of his approach, He said, is magnified signal that is passed to the that mammalian hair cells, typically drawn inner hair cells. Hearing from a guinea pig, are a much closer relative He was part of a research team at The mystery of hearing, and of its loss, of the human hair cell, making the extra Northwestern University in 2000 when has engrossed David He, M.D., Ph.D., for effort and frustration worthwhile. the team announced the isolation of a the past 12 years — years in which the That the outer hair cell magnifies sound protein they named prestin. That protein Creighton University professor-researcher has been speculated since the early ‘80s, He gives the outer hair cells their ability to has made nationally recognized advances said. How it does so appears related to the elongate and contract, which is essential in understanding the mechanics of a fact that the cells can change their somatic to our hearing. remarkable little component of the ear length, expanding and contracting in an Damage to outer hair cells results in known as the outer hair cell. action known as motility, at an incredible profound deafness. If the mechanisms The latest recognition of He’s work speed — 6,000 times faster than a human that give those cells their remarkable came when his paper describing how adult mammalian outer hair cells convert vibration into electrical signals (a process known as mechanoelectrical transduction) was published in the June 18 edition of Nature magazine, a prestigious 135-year-old international journal of science targeting both the lay reader and the scientist. There are probably more dramatic or glamorous components of the human body that require study, but He will be the first to tell you that none is more puzzling or impressive than the humble, microscopic, outer hair cell. Outer hair cells partner with the ear’s inner hair cells, which transmit acoustical information to the central nervous

system. The magic of the outer hair cell is Photo by Mark Romesser that it magnifies mechanical vibrations in He studies outer hair cells in his Creighton laboratory. the inner ear so that our ears can detect very low-level sound. The attempt to being can throw a punch. Nothing else flexibility can be uncovered, then understand that process of magnification known to man has achieved that kind of perhaps new cells can be manufactured — how it works and why it sometimes speed, He said, and understanding what and implanted, He said. does not — has led the Deafness Research makes that possible could permit giant Regeneration seems beyond hope Foundation, and the federal government, inroads not just into resolving deafness but since outer hair cells in mammals do not to beat a path to He’s laboratory door. in applications that cannot yet be imagined. regenerate, any more than a limb does. He is among a handful of researchers He’s research, which is ongoing, could see They do, however, regenerate in birds, nationwide charged with uncovering the much greater importance placed on the He said, which perhaps leaves a door workings of the outer hair cell, and the mechanoelectrical transduction of the outer open for future research and discovery. only one who conducts research on hair cells. His findings have revealed that He, a native of China, came to mechanoelectrical transduction using the outer hair cells produce a much larger Creighton approximately a year ago after adult mammalian cells. transducer current than previously thought spending eight and a half years at “All mammals hear based on the same when jostled by a long, narrow membrane Northwestern University in Evanston, mechanisms,” he said. “All have inner known as the basilar membrane. The basilar Ill., and three years at Boys Town and outer hair cells, but the mammalian membrane begins the process by vibrating in National Research Hospital. In addition hair cell tends to be very, very delicate.” response to sound, pushing the outer hair to his research work in the Hair Cell For that reason, he said, researchers cell upward against a tectorial membrane, Biophysics Laboratory at Creighton’s have typically conducted research using which forces the hair bundle to bend. Department of Biomedical Sciences, He hair cells from lower vertebrates, which A great mystery, He said, is the process by teaches physiology.

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31st in the USA Today/NFCA Poll. second baseman Tony Roth. Grasley finished Sports Shorts Creighton was led by a pair of All- the season 12-4 with a 3.0 ERA. His 12 wins Americans in pitcher Tammy Nielsen and led the Valley, ranked High Hopes for Soccer Success outfielder Stacey Rybar — the school’s first 10th nationally and Creighton University’s men’s and women’s MVC Pitcher and Player of the Year, put him third among soccer teams open play this fall with their respectively. Creighton pitchers for sights set on return trips to the NCAA Nielsen’s 0.67 ERA was the best in the wins in a season tournament. conference and the fifth-best among all NCAA (behind Mike Men: Will 13 be a lucky number? The Jays pitchers. She also ranked 17th in the nation for Heathcott, 15 wins in will be shooting for their 13th straight NCAA wins (28) and 18th in 1991, and Dan Smith, tournament bid when they open play Sept. 3- strikeouts (334). Rybar 14 wins in 1990). Roth 5, hosting the Diadora Challenge. Last season, led the conference ranked among the the 12-6-2 Jays advanced to their fifth Elite with 49 runs scored Servais Valley leaders in Eight appearance, finishing one game shy of a and ranked 29th in hitting (.356), hits (68), return trip to the Final Four. the NCAA in doubles (17) and stolen bases (19). This season, Creighton will host the State slugging percentage Roth, along with shortstop Brad Dutton, Farm Missouri Valley Conference soccer (.709). The senior also also solidified one of the best middle infields tournament Nov. 12-14. set a school and in NCAA history. Between them, they handled “It is a great opportunity to have a conference record for 412 fielding chances and made just two errors. nationally televised event on our campus,” Nielsen career home runs As a team, Creighton finished with a .982 Creighton coach Bob Warming said. “The with 37. fielding percentage, tops in the nation in 2004 tournament will not only showcase our new Five Bluejays and the best since college teams started using stadium, but also Creighton’s campus earned first-team all- aluminum bats in 1974. expansion and Omaha’s revitalized conference honors: downtown.” Nielsen, Rybar, Melanie Rasmussen Honored Women: Last season, the Jays barely missed Dorsey, Abby Johnson Creighton Athletics Director Bruce becoming only the second team in Missouri and Kari Shank. Rasmussen was one of 24 collegiate athletic Valley Conference history to repeat as Overall, Creighton directors nationwide to receive AD of the Year conference tournament champions, losing to ranked among the honors from the National Association of Illinois State in a shootout in the tournament NCAA leaders in Collegiate Directors of Athletics. final. Rybar pitching, scoring, Rasmussen was one of four regional In 2002, Creighton won its first regular- home runs, triples and slugging percentage. winners at the I-AA/I-AAA level. The award season and conference tournament titles to The 44 wins were the most by a Creighton was presented at the association’s annual advance to its first NCAA tournament. softball team since 1989, and marked the fifth convention this past The Jays will be looking for a repeat trip in time the Bluejays have topped 40 wins. June in Dallas. 2004 when they open the season Aug. 27 at the Creighton has now appeared in five of the Rasmussen has Nebraska Adidas Classic in Lincoln. The Jays last six MVC tournament championships, served as athletics play their first home match on Sept. 4 against winning the last two. director at Creighton South Dakota State. for the past 10 years. Find more information on Creighton’s fall Servais Named Coach During his tenure, sports — including schedules, ticket of the Year Creighton’s athletic information and season results — at Creighton’s first-year baseball coach, Ed teams have excelled, www.gocreighton.com. Servais, was named the Missouri Valley new facilities have Conference’s Coach of the Year after guiding a Rasmussen been constructed for A Memorable Softball Season team that finished 20-37 in 2003 to a 35-24 basketball, soccer, The 2004 Creighton softball team will be record in 2004. baseball and softball, a new Student-Athlete remembered as one of the most successful in Servais, a Bluejay assistant for the past six Support Center was established, and the school history. The Jays repeated as Missouri years, became the first, first-year coach in women’s volleyball program was created. Valley Conference tournament champions, league history to be named the Missouri Prior to becoming athletics director, reached the NCAA regional semifinals, and Valley Conference Coach of the Year. Rasmussen led the Creighton women’s finished the year ranked in two national polls. Creighton’s turnaround was sparked by its basketball team to a 196-147 record over 12 The 44-17-1 Jays finished the season ranked tremendous defense and the play of its two years. His 196 wins are the most in the 28th in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Poll and All-Americans, pitcher Steve Grasley and program’s history.

11 Fall 2004 University News Bringing Sight to Sore Eyes “Five nearly blind brothers, all in their 20s, walk into the clinic single file,” writes ILAC Director Terri Lynch this spring from the Dominican Republic. “Each one with an arm outstretched holding onto the shoulder of the one in front of him.” And so begins one of Creighton University’s most recent health clinics in the D.R., sponsored by the 32-year-old Institute for Latin American Concern. Begun in 1972 by a group of Cuban Jesuits to bring health care to the small villages (campos) that dot the D.R.’s lush hillsides, ILAC came to Creighton in 1976. Over the years, the group has served thousands of Dominicans — and has become a special opportunity for Creighton health professionals and others to serve among the poorest of the world’s poor. This spring, thanks to the inspiration of Robert C. Della Rocca, MD’67, and his wife, Darlene, a team of eye surgeons and others from the New York area joined the ILAC effort: They left home to examine the eyes of 635 Dominicans, operating on 116. Among the surgeries, such as the one pictured at top right, were those for cataracts and strabismus (crossed eyes). A young campo patient, Mari Elena Polanco, beams in the “after” photo inset at right, her newly straightened eyes sparkling. An aerial photo of the new ILAC Center, featuring three surgery suites, also appears here. Visit the Creighton University Magazine website (www.creightonmagazine.org) for a complete photo essay, featuring ILAC’s spring 2004 work. All photos here and online are the work of the Rev. Don Doll, S.J., professor of photography and holder of the Charles & Mary Heider Endowed Jesuit Faculty Chair.

12 Fall 2004 School ofCreighton Law — 1904-2004University Creighton‘s ‘Dream Team‘ By Oliver B. Pollak, Ph.D., JD’82 Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series highlighting the people who have shaped, transferred to day classes in 1910. He or been shaped by, Creighton University’s School of Law over the past 100 years. graduated first in his class in 1912 and went into partnership with classmate Donald J. Burke, JD’12. Monsky, a Jew, could not join his Catholic friends in the Knights of Columbus. Instead he became a missionary for B’nai B’rith, the world’s largest Jewish men’s organization. As international president from 1938 until his death in 1947, he was a leading spokesman for American Jewry opposing Nazi policy and the Holocaust. Monsky met with presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He Photos courtesy of Creighton School of Law Photos courtesy of Creighton Matthews Delehant Monsky Horan attended the formation of the League of Nations in 1945 in San Francisco. He died unexpectedly at the age of 57 in 1947. Debate and oratory were vital features in of the National Civil Rights Commission in Monsky’s concern about juvenile 19th century political life and played an 1948 and Secretary of the Navy in 1949. delinquency led to his instrumental support important part in 20th century higher Matthews left the Cabinet in 1951 to for the Rev. Edward Flanagan’s Boys Town. education. Public speaking prepared become ambassador to Ireland, the home of Monsky is depicted in the 1938 Academy students to think on their feet, fostered his ancestors. He spoke at Creighton’s 1951 Award-winning film, Boys Town, as a leadership and aired contentious commencement, proclaiming, “I love businessman. Monsky and another of his contemporary issues. Students honed Creighton University from the fullness of a law partners, William Grodinsky, JD’13, arguments, traveled to other schools, and life enriched by the benefits of my seven have streets named after them in what is some brought home trophies. years of training under her influence. … The now Girls and Boys Town in Omaha. Creighton’s 1911-12 debate team was Jesuit system of education affords to every While Philip Horan, BA’08, MA’10, JD’13, composed of law students Francis P. student submitted to its efficacy a training does not appear as visible as his teammates, Matthews, John Wayne Delehant, Henry in mind and soul adequate to qualify him as he joined Mutual Health and Accident Monsky and Philip E. Horan. This a citizen of intelligence and integrity.” Association of Omaha (Mutual of Omaha) memorable quartet, Creighton’s “dream Matthews died unexpectedly of a heart in 1927, rising to vice president and general team,” would become servers and leaders attack in Omaha at the age of 65 in 1952. counsel in 1952. on a national and international scale. His death was noted in newspapers at home These students continued a lifelong Francis Matthews, BA’10, MA’11, JD’13, and abroad, including The Times of London. friendship and affection for their alma mater. born in Albion, Neb., in 1897, worked his John Delehant, BA’10, MA’11, JD’13, was They met at reunions. Future deans sought way through school scrubbing floors, born in Goodland, Kan., in 1890. He their counsel. Matthews and Delehant were waiting tables, selling men’s furnishings graduated from Creighton and practiced in law partners, as were their sons. And, in and tutoring high school students in Latin Beatrice, Neb., from 1913 to 1942. In 1913, this centennial anniversary of Creighton’s and Greek. Like many of his Creighton he chaired the Democratic Club. He married School of Law, their legacy lives on. colleagues, he played a prominent role in Loretta M. White, DDS’14, in 1917. An the Knights of Columbus. He served on active member of the Knights of Columbus, About the author: local boards, as chairman of the Douglas he was the keynote presenter in 1928 for University of Nebraska County Democrats’ Central Committee and Creighton’s 50th anniversary and the 1932 at Omaha historian, as counsel for the anti-Depression commencement speaker. Many of the author and attorney Reconstruction Finance Corporation. During addresses of this powerful orator were Oliver B. Pollak is World War II, he was director of the USO published. President Franklin D. Roosevelt writing the history of the (United Service Organizations), visiting appointed him to a federal district court Creighton University troops in 12 countries in Africa, Asia and bench in 1942. Judge Delehant took senior School of Law. This year Europe and meeting with the pope. status in 1957 and died in 1972. marks the 100th anniversary of the law school. Matthews chaired the Nebraska Henry Monsky, JD’12, was born in delegation at the 1948 Democratic National Omaha in 1890. He graduated from Central Convention in Philadelphia. President High School in 1907, entered the law Harry Truman appointed him vice chairman school’s night program in 1909 and

13 Fall 2004 Last year, Creighton faculty, staff and students volunteered in 60 agencies in greater Omaha, serving in more

X Fall 2004 What does an “ordinary” day in the DAY IN THE LIFE: SERVICE OUTREACH life of Creighton University outreach look like? Creighton University Magazine found out. On April 30, we followed, we e-mailed, we listened, we photographed. What did we find? An inspiring, unassuming community of men and women living Creighton’s mission — working for and with others in the service of faith, the promotion of justice and the pursuit of truth. Here 24 are their stories: 12:00 a.m. CDT ‘A Still-Point in a Turning World’ Midnight strikes on Creighton’s campus: An executive in Hong Kong taps his laptop and “retreats” to Creighton’s Online Ministries. He’s 13 hours ahead and continents away. The website, created Hours in 1998, will receive some 42,000 hits today. Many will undertake the 34-week retreat, adapted to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. Others contemplate the daily Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam Scripture reflection, written by Creighton (FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD) faculty and staff. Visitors come from more than 100 countries; one calls the site, “a still-point in the turning world.” By Therese Vaughn-Weiner Collaborative Ministry’s Maureen McCann Waldron, BA’75, MA’98, says than 100 programs supported by the University and its medical center. the site nourishes those who “hunger for the Word of God.” (www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/ In the late 1800s, Creighton University’s founding online.html) family — Omaha visionaries Edward and Mary Lucretia, 1:00 a.m. Fighting AIDS in Zimbabwe and John and Sarah Emily Creighton — saw the needs of It’s 8 a.m. in Zimbabwe, and Creighton their community and met them with an outstretched hand. alumnus and Mission Doctors Association volunteer Richard R. Stoughton, MD’62, Today, 125 years later, rooted in the vision of its rolls up his sleeves for a day of medical missionary work. Stoughton starts rounds benefactors and the educational mission of the Society of at St. Theresa Hospital, serving a population of about 60,000, mostly Jesus, Creighton continues to extend the hand of service peasant farmers. Among his patients: a locally, regionally, nationally and globally. 27-year-old teacher with acute ulcer symptoms, a 14-year-old boy with AIDS Working in partnership with the communities it seeks to plus TB and acute pneumonia, and a terminally ill 36-year-old man with AIDS. serve, Creighton reaps what it sows, and more. What “It is a busy ward with a preponderance of AIDS patients,” he said. HIV/AIDS is follows is but a glimpse of 24 hours in the life of Creighton a pandemic in Zimbabwe; one in three University outreach — one ordinary day in an adults is infected. But things are slowly improving, thanks to volunteers like extraordinary tradition. Stoughton and his wife, Loretta. He

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points to a successful Mother-to-Child 3:00 a.m. Combat Support Hospital has been AIDS prevention program, which has deeply meaningful. “Iraq is a dangerous “decreased the incidence of HIV Hope in Baghdad place; there is a tremendous amount of children at 18 months of age from Nine hours and fear and tragedy ...,” he said. “But we around 50 percent to about 20 percent.” a world away, it’s must remember that at the same time another searing there is hope. As a nurse and a graduate 2:00 a.m. afternoon in of the Creighton School of Nursing, I am Baghdad for U.S. a part of that.” Community Garden Takes Root Army officer, The Montclair Community Gardens combat nurse and 4:00 a.m. are quiet now. But thanks to the efforts 2002 Creighton of City Sprouts and University Nursing alumnus Deeds, Connections in the ICU left, with former graduate Jake volunteers, life is taking root here. Creighton military science Deeds. He has Creighton medical resident Michelle City Sprouts, a grassroots organization professor Lt. Col. Robert already seen Aerni, D.O., has been at Creighton working to turn neglected inner-city Werthman in Baghdad. three U.S. University Medical Center since 6 a.m. lots into beautiful, safe and productive soldiers with yesterday. She was “on-call” overnight, gardens, is one of many community multiple shrapnel injuries to the face and slept a bit and is now making early- agencies that partners with the University extremities. They had been on patrol morning rounds. “I love it,” she said. to provide service opportunities for when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) Aerni’s rotation has her working in the students, faculty and staff. exploded within 20 feet of their Humvee. hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, caring for Director Nancy Williams praises “On a daily basis, we see trauma after the critically sick and injured. Life and Creighton’s efforts: “The students and trauma,” Deeds said. “During April, death hang in the balance here. It’s a faculty show up in force, enthusiastic we’ve treated 582 traumatic injuries, 70 difficult job — one that Aerni and her about the day’s work. They leave an percent of this month’s patient census.” medical center colleagues approach with indelible impression whenever they Even as witness to the carnage of war, skill and compassion. “You take each volunteer.” Deeds said his experience with the 31st patient as an individual,” Aerni said.

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University Medical Center’s ICU. BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, 8:00 am President Schlegel reads to second-graders at Sacred Heart Elementary School. Photo by Dave Weaver

“When their families come in, I try to 6:00 a.m. High School and as a Girl Scout leader connect with them and keep them at the Latina Resource Center. “All of informed.” Making these emotional A Contemplative Walk at these experiences led me to understand connections can be tough. “Some doctors Creighton’s Retreat Center that service is an essential part of the may try to steer away from that. But I Dawn breaks near Griswold, Iowa; building of the kingdom of God,” Howe don’t. I try to get connected.” (Aerni began the Rev. David Smith, S.J., takes a said. “Creighton is a dynamic place that a Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship at the contemplative walk in the woods develops the whole person, and it gave Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., July 1.) surrounding the Creighton University me a solid base for the adventures that Retreat Center, where he is director. still await me.” 5:00 a.m. “The world is charged with the grandeur of God,” wrote Gerald Manley 8:00 a.m. A Life of Simple Prayer Hopkins. The center helps people Warblers herald the morning in recharge this connection through prayer, ‘Never Lazy, Boring or Green!’ Brooksville, Miss.; Creighton alumna group retreats and spiritual guidance. On another morning, University Morag Burgess, MA’95, wakes with President the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., prayer, reviews yesterday’s retreat 7:00 a.m. may be wrestling with budgets, meeting sessions and sets out bread dough to with students, visiting alumni or rise. Such is the life of pure simplicity at Serving Others in Costa Rica engaging government and civic leaders the Dwelling Place, where Burgess is An hour behind us in Costa Rica, in conversations on critical issues. But, spiritual and retreat director. Founded Creighton graduate and Peace Corps this morning, Fr. Schlegel is here — in a in 1987 by Sr. Clare Van Lent, volunteer Lucie Howe, BA’03, rises for a classroom of tiny desks and creaking MChrSp’83, another Creighton alum, day of service. Today, she teaches a radiators at inner-city Sacred Heart the Dwelling Place provides a peaceful sexual abuse prevention class at an Elementary School — reading to a class enclave for spiritual renewal through elementary school in her barrio. of semi-wide-eyed second-graders. prayer, counseling and private or Howe was inspired by her Creighton Schlegel rouses their attention with his directed retreats. Burgess said the center education, which included: two sonorous reading of Verdi, a book about reaches out to a state that is “racked by spring-break service trips, a semester an exuberant python who insists on poverty and racism,” offering a “deep in the Dominican Republic, weekly staying young. “I will never be lazy, journey of faith” for those who seek it. service as an English tutor at South boring or green!” Schlegel’s voice booms,

18 Fall 2004 Day in the Life: Service Outreach and the kids laugh. The class, then, for religion teachers in Nebraska. efforts benefit Creighton. “As I am insists on reading Schlegel a story. The MAGIS participants teach for two years constantly challenged to see life and University president goes desk-to-desk in a Catholic school while living in theology from new perspectives, so too helping with the trickier words. By the community and pursuing professional are my students — through my teaching time Schlegel leaves, he has learned the and spiritual development. and through opportunities for service. name of each child, shared stories and In addition, many Sudanese children delivered the message that the schools 10:00 a.m. dream of attending Creighton, and we in Creighton’s community matter Outreach in a Car Lot are doing all we can to prepare them for deeply to him and to the University. this type of challenge.” A car 9:00 a.m. dealership is 11:00 a.m. perhaps the last Pass Go, Collect 200 los dólares place you’d A Quiet Success At St. Francis High School in rural expect to find a Although the Bryant Community Humphrey, Neb., 2004 Creighton nun on a chilly Technology Center keyboarding class is master’s in education graduate Ben April morning. hard at work, the room is quiet — that is Hamilton, and his class play Monopoly But here is if you don’t count the cadence of typing — in Spanish. “It’s great,” said Creighton Theology Professor Joan and a muted sound of audio-tutorials Hamilton. “The students want to play Mueller, Ph.D., MChrSp’89, walking the through headphones. “Some people all the time.” Without Hamilton, the lot with a Sudanese family looking at here are practicing the fundamentals; community of 765 would have no sticker prices. Through her Project others are typing resumes or writing Spanish instruction. Hamilton is one of Welcome, Mueller is working to assist papers for school,” program coordinator a few talented educators teaching in Omaha’s growing Sudanese refugee Patrice Gunter said. Open to the under-resourced Catholic schools population — helping them find jobs, community, the North Omaha center through a unique program called adequate housing, health care, tutors for offers a spectrum of courses from MAGIS, Mentoring Academic Gifts in their children or even a car. She has “Computer Basics for Seniors” to an Service. Supported by the Omaha found support from Creighton students after-school “Cyberkids” program. Archdiocese, Creighton’s MAGIS and faculty and from the Archdiocese of Creighton University and the College of program helps answer the critical need Omaha. Mueller said these outreach Business Administration, in

11:00 am Creighton brings technology to North Omaha through the Bryant Technology Center. Inset, program coordinator Patrice Gunter. Photo by Marlon Wright Day in the Life: Service Outreach

collaboration with Omaha’s Applied gave me patience and they gave me hope.” Information Management Institute and Picking up the new birth certificate, the Bryant Resource Center, launched “... service is an Zuniga exclaims, “It’s finally official!” the center in 2000. “It’s a great community ...,” Gunter said, “and essential part 2:00 P.m. Creighton is a part of it.” An Outstanding Role Model 12:00 P.m. of the building The students at Omaha’s Bridging the Technology Divide of the kingdom Liberty Associate professor of anthropology Elementary and director of the Native American School look up to Studies major Raymond Bucko, S.J., is of God.” Creighton’s teaching a Web design and editing class — Creighton graduate & Peace Angie Janis — to personnel at the Red Cloud Indian way up. At School at Pine Ridge Reservation. Corps volunteer Lucie Howe 6-foot-1, Janis, a junior on Creighton’s “Native Americans are on the ‘have not’ women’s basketball team, stands out in side of the technology divide,” Fr. Bucko a crowd, especially at a grade school. students to work on a case involving a said, “but the schools (here) are wired. And she should. For Janis is someone single father’s struggle to get his name My goal now is to assist in a larger they also can look up to as a role model on his daughter’s birth certificate. Three project of intellectual repatriation ... to — an athlete who excels in the years ago, Mario Zuniga came to the attract Native scholars to Creighton classroom, as well as on the court. Last Milton R. Abrahams Legal Clinic at through our academic excellence and season, while helping Creighton to a Creighton’s School of Law “feeling our personal connections.” WNIT championship, Janis earned helpless.” The students, with the conference Scholar Athlete recognition guidance of professor and director 1:00 P.m. — carrying a 3.04 grade-point average Catherine Mahern, battled with the in nursing. Janis is active in Creighton’s A Grave Error Made Right Bureau of Vital Statistics to see a grave Bluejay Outreach school partnership. Now in exams, third-year law students error made right. “They helped me work Creighton’s goal: to have every athlete Meg Olsen and Marc Dion are the last with the process,” Zuniga said. “They perform at least four hours of community service per month.

3:00 P.m. Sweating (and Smiling) to Richard Simmons With a Richard Simmons video playing, Creighton students are working out with special-needs kids ... and they’re having a blast! The Madonna School for

12:00 Pm Fr. Bucko brings technology to students on the wide-open land of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Here, he works with Lisa Yellow Horse. Day in the Life: Service Outreach

Exceptional Children and Creighton at the Siena/Francis House, and the University share a rich tradition of Service by the Numbers dining room is packed. The shelter’s values-steeped education. Every Friday Creighton University’s community development director Tim Sully, BA’85, for a year, Creighton students from involvement in 2003 included: offers the blessing. It may be the one Gallagher Hall have been joining the brief moment of bounty and fellowship kids at the Madonna School for physical 350,000 patient visits in the day for these guests. Just blocks education class or Special Olympics to Creighton medical clinics in Greater from campus, the Siena/Francis House training, and for the simple joy of it. Omaha and rural Nebraska and Iowa; is Creighton’s neighbor, and the University Creighton’s Department of Residence treats it as such. Sully captures the long- Life, with the Center for Service and 60,000 patient visits standing relationship: “Creighton truly Justice, introduced the nation’s first to the Creighton dental clinics; cares about Omaha’s poor and homeless. student housing “Community Partner Almost any day of the academic year, I Initiative,” through which each residence 31,500 patient visits see students here serving dinner, making hall partners with a community agency at Creighton physical therapy sites; sack lunches, sorting through donated to provide students with service clothing, cleaning or decorating the opportunities. The program is part of a 15,000 patient visits facility. ... One night I literally bumped University-wide priority to be mindful to Creighton occupational therapy sites; into someone wiping down a dinner of its role as a corporate citizen. table. When I turned around, I saw that 5,500 patient visits it was Fr. Schlegel.” 4:00 P.m. to Creighton pharmacies; 6:00 P.m. ‘Two-Way Exchange’ at OneWorld 1,200 low-income In the children’s reading corner at the individuals and families ‘God Calls Us ... OneWorld Community Health Center in were assisted through the to Do Our Small Part’ South Omaha, a Latina mother reads to Creighton law clinics; Maria Teresa Gaston draws a satisfied her daughter while waiting for a well- breath. The Creighton Center for Service child checkup. At OneWorld, where Hundreds of patients and Justice (CCSJ), which she directs, 70 percent of patients are uninsured, at 50 clinical sites received health care from continues to grow like a beloved Creighton’s mission of cura personalis School of Nursing students and faculty. campus tree, its sheltering branches (care for the whole person) is delivered extending wide, locally and through every diabetes exam, dental Fitzsimmons and her staff received internationally. CCSJ works with many screening, child’s immunization and Creighton’s first Women in Ministry to agencies in Omaha. Through the center, supportive service. CU alumna and the Poor award. students, faculty and staff participate in OneWorld executive director Mary Lee service clubs, spring-break service trips, Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., BA’67, BSN’80, 5:00 P.m. awareness-raising immersions and post- (who stepped down this month after 10 graduate volunteer service. “God calls years) describes the Creighton A Moment of Fellowship us each to do our small part in living the relationship as “a two-way exchange.” A homeless values of the reign of God today,” OneWorld is staffed largely by man in Army Gaston said. “Together, we can nurture University medical residents and fatigues removes new communities where all can faculty, nurses, pharmacists, dentists his battered “God experience the fruits of the Spirit, of and social workers; Creighton’s Terry Bless America” peace and of justice.” Wilwerding, DDS’77, is president of cap and bows his Gaston stressed that the good work of OneWorld’s board; and CU’s medical head for grace. the center stems from partnerships among labs donate services. In February, It’s suppertime staff, students and the community. Photo courtesy of Fr. Bucko Photo courtesy of Fr. 3:00 Pm 7:00 P.m. Creighton student Lucija Bajzer shares a A Voice for the Voiceless hug with a student from the Madonna Engaged in final exams, third-year School for Exceptional Children. law student and committed activist Patrick Chee reports on his typical Friday. After working at Creighton’s legal clinic, Chee joins friends and community members at the Spirit of Peace Community to discuss and work on social justice issues. Other times find him maintaining the website for Creighton’s chapter of Amnesty International, volunteering around town or fulfilling obligations as president of the Environmental Law Society. “My Fridays are spent serving the low- income community in a legal capacity. It’s been truly humbling to see how much need there is and how much there is to learn from those I’ve had the privilege to serve. ... I feel called to be an advocate and a voice for the voiceless.”

8:00 P.m. Art with a Message Creighton’s outreach assumes many expressions — most vividly in the fine arts. Consider Rachel Bennett’s senior thesis, “Dichotomies: Figurative Painting,” on display in the Lied Gallery on campus. Bennett’s artwork explores the individual’s struggle with society’s gender, ethnic and class roles. “The main theme of my work is the transcendence of stereotypical barriers,” the BFA senior said. “Liberation from these expectations can be a freeing experience.”

9:00 P.m. $35 and a One-Way Bus Ticket This day finds Jesuit novice and Creighton graduate Dan Justin, BA’02, at the midpoint of his pilgrimage in Torreon, Mexico — miles off the Mexican tourist map. During their first year of vocational formation, Jesuits embark on a one-month “pilgrimage experience,” with $35, a one-way bus ticket and the exercises of St. Ignatius as their compass. At the Miguel Pro Jesuit Community, Justin is learning about the graces and challenges of ministry in Mexico. “As I prayed over my day and prepared for

Photo by Mark Romesser bed, I experienced a deep gratitude for Day in the Life: Service Outreach the opportunity to witness the workings 11:00 P.m. of God within the life of this community, and I wondered where my “Creighton truly Caring for Twins in New NICU pilgrimage would lead me in the weeks Tonight, twins and months to come.” were born pre- cares about term, but are 10:00 P.m. gaining vigor Omaha’s poor within the new Integrating Service, Faith Neonatal & Justice Intensive Care Creighton sophomore Kelly Orbik is and homeless.” Unit (NICU) at counting her blessings. Orbik is a — Creighton graduate Creighton University Medical Center. resident of the Cortina Community — a Opened this spring, the newly remodeled new living-learning experience that & Siena/Francis House NICU holds 21 private patient care rooms. helps students integrate service, faith development director Tim Sully Research shows that the first 72 hours of and justice into their everyday lives. a newborn’s life are the most critical, Named after a Jesuit educator and and neonatal nurse and Creighton activist in San Salvador, the Rev. Jon program comes naturally. She teaches graduate Elizabeth Holtmeier, BSN’02, Cortina, S.J., the community arose from English as a Second Language at South enjoys providing specialized care during Cardoner at Creighton, a program that High School on Wednesdays; volunteers this precarious time. was established with a $2 million grant at a nature center on Saturdays; attends **** from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help a Cortina Community reflection group And so, this day of Creighton outreach students, faculty, staff and alumni more on Sundays; and talks nightly with her ends with the tiniest of persons and the fully explore God’s calling in their lives. roommate about “the highs, lows and greatest of hopes. Twenty-four hours ... For Orbik, participating in the Cardoner what we are especially thankful for.” one day ... 125 years.

Outreach at the Core of a Creighton Education By Patricia R. Callone In my 25 years at Creighton, I’ve had Jesuit schools and colleges in the United the wonderful opportunity to work with States because of our size, the diversity many diverse groups in the broader of our nine schools and colleges, and the community as well as within the presence of the Creighton University Creighton community. Every year I hear Medical Center on campus. We are a more and more about the service activities community of about 8,500 people — in which the Creighton community is including students, faculty and staff. involved: students, alumni, faculty and Our campus is a “small town” in the staff. I hear the same comments: “The midst of a growing and dynamic city.

Creighton community is greatly enriched by Creighton President the Rev. John P. Photo by Mark Romesser its outreach activities. Our outreach is Schlegel, S.J., often reminds us that we Callone, Creighton’s VP for Institutional central to our educational mission.” are to live our mission of education and Relations: “All our outreach and service As part of Creighton’s 125th service in the local, regional, national activities flow from our educational mission.” anniversary year, I asked the Creighton and international communities. We are University Magazine staff to consider an not a land-grant university, but a private our unique God-given skills and talents, article on the multiple dimensions of university in the public service. All our assist each other in developing those Creighton’s outreach … and a “Day in outreach and service activities flow from gifts, and then focus them for the the Life: Service Outreach” was begun. our educational mission. Our concentration betterment of our world community. The resulting article is a snapshot of is to be an active corporate citizen, an Outreach activities have the power to Creighton’s efforts — an inspiring “one- inviting neighbor, a catalyst for good, a change individuals in amazing, sometimes day” picture. As vice president for promoter of justice. life-changing, ways. Our partnerships Institutional Relations, I have the unique A challenge for the Creighton with the community and diverse service privilege of tracking the many dimensions community is that we are to be more activities truly ARE central to the of service and outreach that flow from than a source of education and service. experience of a Creighton education. Creighton year-round. I can look at the We are to aspire to be role models for Find more information on University’s outreach/service as a whole. each other: students, faculty, staff and Creighton’s outreach online at Creighton is unique among the 28 alumni. We are to help each other find www.creighton.edu/communityrelations.

23 Fall 2004 “For all our similarities, for all our sharing, for all our friendships, we are somebody else.” — Canadian politician Keith Davey, on U.S.-Canadian relations, 1971 O’ Canada How Well Do We Know Thee?

By Pam Adams Vaughn With Ross Horning, Ph.D., Creighton University Professor of History

In typical American fashion, let’s same spine of the Rockies stretches come straight to the point: Is Canada north from Montana into Alberta and really not much more than one vast 51st British Columbia; the same oceans lap U.S. state, stretching north out of our the Maritimes and the Maine coast, the back door? San Juans and Vancouver. “Good heavens,” says Creighton The illusion of a seamless mega- University Professor of History Ross country is probably enhanced even Horning, Ph.D., with his characteristic more as roughly 200 million people wry smile and incredulous shaking of cross the Canada-U.S. border every year, the head, though Americans may a figure that causes some consternation unconsciously view Canadians this way. as the two countries contemplate the Offspring of the same colonial pathways of potential terrorists. “parent,” Canada diverges in key ways Still, for all of our similarities, we are from its powerful neighbor to the south, different, Horning says. that divergence often asserting itself in separate stances on world policy. Indeed, from our opposite views on Our Collective History, Cultures such issues as the Iraq war, land mines, Canada and the U.S. were settled in global warming, the death penalty, the same 18th century sweep of same-sex marriage, guns, health care colonialism, as Great Britain, France, and other worldwide concerns, our Spain and the Dutch all jockeyed for neighbors to the north differ from us in power and territory in the New World. important ways — and probably always England had defeated the French on have. the Plains of Abraham in 1759 in Girding the North American Canada. It was the decisive battle in continent at the 49th parallel is the North America, Horning says, “forever longest unfortified border in the world. sealing Britain’s claim to Canada.” The The same wheat fields flow north and battle was only one part of a worldwide south undeterred by the boundary; the war, the Seven Years War, which saw

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England defeat France in India and wealth, often at the larger society’s Melting Pot; again in Europe. The conflict was finally expense; the placement of the individual’s Distinct Communities settled by one of the many treaties of value over that of the group; and even One distinction is simply a view of Paris, this one in 1783. the revolutionary struggle for liberty. one’s own culture. A case in point: But the divergence in our two The U.S. often sees itself as a melting cultures — Canada and the U.S. — was Revolutionary; pot of different cultures, as ethnic evident even then, in our far-off 18th Evolutionary groups seek to blend into the society’s century pasts. That brings to mind another one fabric. But Canadians more often “We got all the Puritans — and difference, Horning says: We are a see themselves as a patchwork quilt, a Canada got the French,” Horning says revolutionary society, while Canada is country of up to 60 distinct ethnic with a touch of humor. But he’s serious. an evolutionary one. groups, from French to First Nations — These historic forces still play out today, More than mere wordplay, these two Canada’s name for its aboriginal people. he believes, in the differing attitudes, concepts touch on deep differences In fact, it was only recently that the mores and national policies of our two between our two cultures, he believes. Canadian census listed “Canadian” as countries. “Every American knows the an ethnic identity option! significance of the date 1776. But To Horning the perfect example of Secular Society; Canadians would be hard-pressed to that striving for ethnic distinction is Calvin Influenced give you an exact date for their Quebec. Child of one of the country’s Early U.S. settlers came to the new emergence as a nation,” Horning two founding parents, France, Quebec world largely for purposes of religious explains. While the date July 1, 1867, has long committed itself to retaining freedom, while settlers further north pinpoints the formation of Canada as a both its French language and its culture. came more for worldly opportunity. self-governing dominion retaining ties The province’s strong French Horning is cautious to temper this to the British crown, the date 1965 might antecedents help explain this separatist generality, of course, noting that many figure prominently, too. That is the date dynamic in Canada, a movement that in Americans showed up for plenty of the red-and-white maple leaf national 1995 narrowly missed — by 1 percent — nonreligious, worldly reasons. And flag first officially flew over Canada. making Quebec a separate country. many immigrants fled to Canada, Another important date for Canadians Here, more than 6 million people have settling in religious communities. is 1982, when Queen Elizabeth II signed their own language, religion and Still, the counterweight of religious the new Constitution Act. Among other culture, and help to make the city of freedom played a big role in early U.S. things, the act formally transferred Montreal the second largest French- settlement. No early U.S. settler was free control over the constitution from speaking city in the world, just behind from the influence of John Calvin, Britain to Canada. Paris. Horning believes, asserting that In Horning’s view, Canada has Horning doubts that Canada would Calvinism today is the “most influential gradually evolved to become what it is have ever had a civil war to force the religion in the Western world.” today — a constitutional monarchy and dominion to stay together. It was That said, just what is Calvinism — a parliamentary democracy. These typical, he believes, to put the whole and how has it defined American separate histories Horning sees as question of sovereignty to a vote of the culture and not Canadian culture? neither good nor bad, but merely people. Born of the Protestant Reformation in helpful keys to “understanding our very And here, again, is another marked Europe, Calvinism in its purest form different pasts.” difference between these colonial calls for a literal reading of the Bible — Some scholars even assert that the cousins. and a society organized on that literal “revolutionary/evolutionary” difference reading. In this type of society, there is is visible today in the two national Representative Democracy; no boundary between that which is characters. For example, patience tends Parliamentary Democracy sacred and that which is not. All, in to prevail as a cultural value north of Canada has a parliamentary system, effect, is sacred. the border, while “taking action” is of with all of its special features; the Calvin also taught that a powerless more value in the States. Confrontation is United States does not. Our idea of the humanity is saved only through God’s a more acceptable cultural norm with us, three branches of government — compassion and grace, although not all while a low-keyed approach is valued executive, legislative and judicial — will be saved. The concept of salvation further north. “Polite skepticism,” in the really comes from the French writer belonging to “the elect” runs through words of Robert MacNeil (formerly of Charles de Montesquieu, Horning says, this tradition, and, with it, the concept the MacNeil/Lehrer Report) usually and his “The Spirit of Laws,” rather of predestination — somehow, through trumps partisanship in day-to-day than from our colonial parent, Great no merit of one’s own, one is “chosen,” Canadian society. Britain. or not chosen — for salvation. But, to truly grasp Canadian culture, In fact, the U.S. is the only democracy Many have credited Calvinism for one must dig for other differences, in the world without the parliamentary justifying the accumulation of personal Horning says. system; parliamentary democracy is the

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American History Dotted With Calls for One North America “Since 1775, Americans have the library and two elegant halls expressed the idea, by word and by among many other public buildings. action, that Canada should be a part A church was burglarized and several of the United States,” Creighton homes destroyed. Similar destruction Professor of History Ross Horning took place in what is today Niagara says. “Indeed, there is the general Falls, Ontario. feeling that Canadians should want to In retaliation, by that December, the be part of the U.S.” British burned several areas of the The idea goes way back. U.S. capital, Washington, D.C. For example, the Continental At the close of the Civil War, Sen. Congress in the fall of 1774 appealed Charles Sumner said that Britain to the British in Montreal and the could help repay the U.S. for aiding disgruntled French to join in “the the American Confederacy by “giving fight for liberty,” but they were us Canada.” rebuffed. In 1911, Champ Clark, speaker of The following year, Congress the House, said, “We are preparing to authorized the invasion of British annex Canada ... I hope to see the day North America (Canada), which when the American flag will float on included the American siege of every square foot of the British North Montreal, a siege that was only ended American possession clear to the the following May by the appearance North Pole.” on the horizon of the formidable In 1968, Undersecretary of State British Navy. Ben Franklin wrote in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 George Ball implied that Canada was Even the Articles of Confederation, that Britain could settle the American only postponing the inevitable (being drafted in 1781 and replaced by the Revolution by “giving us Canada.” taken over by the U.S.) simply for U.S. Constitution seven years later, “the psychic satisfaction of includes a provision that Canada can maintaining a separate national and become part of the United States. seen her injustice. ... I tender you the political entity.” In the War of 1812, the U.S. once invaluable blessings of civil, political And, even as recently as November more invaded Canada, under the and religious liberty. ...” 1979, in a campaign speech in New direction of Gen. William Hull, who The British reponded by capturing York, presidential candidate Ronald announced as he crossed the border Detroit that August, under the Reagan said, “It may take the next near Detroit on July 12, 1812: leadership of Sir Isaac Brooks. 100 years, but we can dare to dream “Inhabitants of Canada ... I come to By April 1813, U.S. armies turned to that at some future date, a map of the protect you, not to injure you ... You York (now Toronto), Canada’s national world might show the North have felt British tyranny; you have capital, and destroyed all public records, American continent as one.” governing system for 181 countries slot, as the party elects its own leader. members in the U.S. House of around the globe. One feature of the parliamentary Representatives is set at 435, the number You cannot vote directly for the prime system is that any member of the prime of representatives in Canada varies with minister in a parliamentary democracy, minister’s cabinet must be an elected necessity. but, of course, you can for the U.S. representative, i.e., a member of the And, as in the UK, in Canada you can president. If you live in the PM’s House of Commons. (In the U.S., the stand for election in any district, no district, you, in effect, have already president’s cabinet can come from any matter where you live, although this is voted for him or her when you elected previous post, elected or not, in not often done. that member to the House of Commons. government, business, education and so Though known as a consummately In order to elect the head of your forth.) In Canada, the PM may create as polite society, Canada offers what party to the prime minister post, your many cabinet posts as he or she deems Horning calls “the best show in town” party has to win more than 50 percent necessary, which is not true in the U.S. every Monday morning at 10 in the of the vote, plus one seat. (Without a Also, elections in parliamentary Canadian House of Commons. Also majority, both parties form a coalition democracies are usually held every five called “responsible democracy,” the government.) Also, there is no race years, though an election can be called Canadian system allows for “the within the party for the prime minister at any time. And, where the number of opposition ... to stand up and ask any

27 Fall 2004 O‘ Canada Navigating The 49th Parallel By Betsy Elliot-Meisel, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History How does one define the U.S.- Canadian relationship? A deceptively easy question; there are no easy answers. There are the saccharine banquet toast cliches and the vitriolic op-ed rants; the pedestrian-level friendships and the national-level tensions; the privately frank closed-door meetings and the public photo-op smiles. The definition, then, is as varied as the issues, individuals and settings, but there are undeniable realities concerning the present relationship. As always, there is more that binds us together than divides us. Both nations are wealthy, democratic, capitalist states that were largely settled by immigrants EPA/Shawn Thew EPA/Shawn seeking and finding a new and better Growing Apart? President Bush and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin smile for the cameras with life. With highly educated populations, first ladies Sheila Martin and Laura Bush after a White House visit in April. But relations between the both states expect and enjoy a free press, North American neighbors have become strained, as the two countries differ on several social and entrenched constitutional rights, foreign policy issues. interdependent economies and a vested interest in a shared continental defense. but would not embarrass the U.S. publicly. percolated down to the pedestrian level. But the divide between the two states All these assumptions are presently Canadians have traditionally struggled is greater than the 49th parallel and is, strained, if not actually in disrepair, as to define themselves in some sense arguably, increasing at this time. the border is rife with discord. beyond “not like Americans.” In searching Both nations believe in their own While political differences have for the Canadian soul and a distinct national myths: the Americans’ existed in the past (i.e., the Vietnam War identity, Canadians have at once embraced exceptionalism, altruism, moral and draft dodgers), and trade and and rejected their more populous righteousness, rugged individualism resource issues are as old as the two neighbor to the south. Only 18 months and the moral duty to spread democracy nations, this present difference goes ago, Canada’s national news magazine, and free oppressed peoples around the beyond the bilateral relationship and Maclean’s, ran a cover debate entitled, world. Canadians have a more collectivist extends onto the international stage. “America Lite: Is That Our Future?” ideal; believing they are a kinder, more Differences also exist on another plane, It seems clear that Canadians need humble, morally superior, less militaristic the domestic policies of each nation. not fear becoming “America Lite,” but and less violent society committed to While Canada is a nation quite divided they are also not willing to completely human rights and multinationalism. by regionalism, at present Canadians abandon ties to the United States. New Both myths are rooted in heritage and are largely united in defining Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin have elements of truth ... and both have themselves as “not American” and has publicly stated his desire to get U.S.- always been, and continue to be, proudly charting an independent course Canadian relations back into their more vulnerable to examples of self-delusion. nationally and internationally. The traditional comfort zone. But President While the United States and Canada Canadians seem more comfortable to be George W. Bush’s focus is elsewhere, do have the world’s longest undefended moving closer to Europe and away from and the Canadian public’s position on border, both nations have long taken the the United States in social policy and such sensitive issues as the war on other for granted: Canada has counted cultural values. And certainly in foreign terror and the war in Iraq have not on the United States to ensure continental policy, Canadians are not changed. defense and the “special relationship” rubberstamping the American agenda Thus, a cordial but distant relationship that exempts it from many of America’s and have joined much of the world in will likely continue for some time on the foreign policies. The United States has opposing U.S. policy. highest levels of government. And, while counted on a quiet, staunch ally that At this point, too, the tensions are not millions of Canadians and Americans might voice its disagreements in private merely on the national level, but have will continue to look fondly across the

28 Fall 2004 O‘ Canada border, work and vacation in each questions of the PM and his or her other’s nation, one can expect that cabinet — and they have to answer.” Creighton Hosts tense rhetoric at the grass-roots level This often-raucous tradition goes back Canadian Conference will continue. to colonial times. This may paint a gloomy picture, As does the place of the crown. Creighton University will host the especially to Americans who want to When the late Canadian Prime Midwest Association for Canadian be liked and respected by their Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was Studies conference this fall, Sept. 30 northern neighbor, but one cannot asked if Canadians might just want to through Oct. 2. The event is free and ignore the quieter, less headline- join the United States, he quipped, “I open to the public. grabbing examples of “hands across think they (Americans) might have For more information on the the border” being extended with trouble getting used to the Queen.” conference, visit www.mwacs.org. warmth and sincerity from both sides Canada is a constitutional monarchy, of the 49th parallel. The Canadian and as such features a head of state, an roots, he believes, in the course of government continues to seek greater office we simply do not have in the U.S., western expansion. appreciation and knowledge of Horning explains. “As Canada opened up its frontier Canada in the United States. It has Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state west,” he points out, “the Royal generous educational opportunities for Canada and is represented there by Canadian Mounted Police went with it.” for study and research in Canada, and the governor general. The prime minister, Not so in the U.S., Horning explains. is designating new honorary consuls as head of government, speaks for the “We had the ‘vigilante’ concept, that in key U.S. cities, such as Omaha — political majority; the governor general, each person was responsible for taking an appointment that in May went to as head of state, speaks for the whole the law to the frontier.” That meant that Creighton alumnus John J. Cavanaugh, country. Canada’s current governor society felt it needed to mete out the JD’72. These appointments general is the Hon. Adrienne Clarkson. “justice of the gun-barrel” in the absence complement the work of Canadian In some ways, the U.S. unites the of the police. Consulates General offices in larger head of state with the prime minister in Today, each country views the other’s American cities. the person of the president. Horning gun laws as inexplicable, with Canada Conversely, Americans continue to believes our pattern is not mere heavily regulating private ownership of host interdisciplinary conferences and coincidence but an intentional effort on guns — and the U.S. balking at control roundtables on Canadian-American the part of the U.S. at its founding to efforts for its plethora of individually relations in order to promote greater distinguish itself from its British owned weapons. understanding of the complex and antecedents. Still, to Horning, an understanding of vital continental relationship. And, of If you are Canadian, you are a our common yet distinctive pasts might course, commerce continues to flourish, Canadian subject of the Queen of help us Americans to feel less puzzled as the U.S. and Canada remain each Canada, Queen Elizabeth II. over our neighbor’s attitudes and other’s greatest trade partner. policies. As long as efforts are extended on a Shared Legal Heritage And, surely, Horning adds with a multitude of planes across the border, For all our differences with our knowing smile, with a little bit of there is no reason to believe that northern neighbors, we are united by knowledge about our own history and communication will evaporate many, many likenesses, Horning admits, our northern neighbor’s, an informed completely on any level. that run the gamut from language to law. U.S. citizen wouldn’t gush in surprise at Maybe the 60-year-old analogy by In fact, our mutual heritage of English the Canadian border, “Oh, you speak the Canadian-American historian common law unites us, although, American, too!” John Bartlet Brebner, tired as it may be, typically, Quebec, with its French roots, continues to hold more than a kernel has adopted the Napoleonic code of About the author: Horning has been of truth: that for better or for worse, laws rather than its English counterpart. teaching Canadian history at Creighton for Canada and the United States are “the While English common law evolves more than 30 years. He was twice a visiting Siamese twins of North America who over time through a series of legal professor at the University of Ottawa, cannot separate and live.” decisions and does not attempt to cover played professional baseball in Quebec City, all possibilities, Napoleonic code participated in summer seminars in Canada About the author: Elliot-Meisel teaches remains relatively fixed in nature, on Quebec and Ontario and served on the American foreign relations at Creighton, preferring instead to anticipate and board of the Association for Canadian including a course on U.S.-Canadian answer all legal questions. Studies in the United States. relations. She is the author of Arctic Still, applying those common codes of Diplomacy: Canada and The United law took predictably different twists and States in The Northwest Passage turns in the two countries’ histories. (1998, Peter Lang American University A typical example for Horning is the Studies Series). gun issue in each country, an issue with

29 Fall 2004 In a culture that is Marriage not supportive of marriage (40 percent of U.S. marriages and Family end in divorce), a in America Christian approach in the offers a positive alternative — “an intimate partnership Third of life and love.”

The Situation Millenium A mounting body of social-scientific By Michael G. Lawler, Professor of Theology research profiles the crisis of American marriages and families. The profile Director, Center for Marriage and Family indicates the greatly elevated divorce Amelia B. and Emil G. Graff Professor of Catholic Theological Studies rate with negative impact on the former spouses and their children, the skyrocketing cohabitation rate, the increasingly common phenomena of single motherhood and father absence, and the resultant poverty among women and their children. Research correlates the widespread separation of fathers from their children to other societal changes: the declining salience of marriage and parenthood, the dramatic increase in marital disruption and divorce and the rise in non-marital childbearing. It also documents the consequences for children of being raised by only one parent and suggests that the erosion of the norm that mothers and fathers live with, support and nurture their children has serious negative implications for children and for the entire society. There is compelling evidence that the marked decline in children’s well-being and health in the past 30 years is linked to family disruption and living in Families with children are six times more likely mother-headed, fatherless families. The most tangible and immediate to be poor if they are headed by a mother alone consequence is the loss of economic than if they are headed by two parents. resources; the highest rate of poverty in

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America is among children, especially otherwise similar singles. and a half times more likely to be out of the children of marital disruption and A recent study of 9,400 respondents school and unemployed, and two to three non-marital childbearing. Families with between the ages of 51 and 61 compared times more likely to develop emotional children are six times more likely to be the occurrence of major disease and and behavioral problems. Young women poor if they are headed by a mother alone functional disability in married, cohabiting, from single-parent families are more than if they are headed by two parents. divorced and never-married individuals. likely to marry and bear children early, The economic distress associated with After controlling for age, sex and and to have their own marriages end family disruption and father absence race/ethnicity, married individuals had in divorce. often translates into physical and mental the lowest rates of disease and functional This evidence has led researchers and vulnerability for single mothers and their disability. Married people, especially analysts to a major conclusion: On the children, and is inextricably related to married men, have longer life expectancies whole, two parents, a mother and a father, other serious personal and social problems. than similar singles. are better for a child than one parent. Children in single-parent households Another well-known result of marriage are more prone to develop serious social is the reduced risk of depression for A Christian Response and behavioral problems than are children women. Married men and women also The preceding raises a question: Can who grow up with both parents. Their have lower rates of alcohol and drug anything be done to improve the socio-emotive skills and their academic abuse than do singles, a fact that has situation of marriage? achievement are lower, their behavioral important consequences for their children. The Catholic Church answers with a problems and delinquency rates higher. Children who live with their own resounding “yes,” suggesting that the Males who experience family married parents, on average, enjoy Catholic approach might supply disruption in childhood are more likely better health than children in other corrective marital meanings. to drop out of school, leave home, start family forms; they are also at less risk Christianity is and always has been a work, enter relationships and become for physical and sexual abuse. religion of the Book. It gives prominence fathers earlier. Females who experience Marital research also has shown that to its canonized writings called the Bible, family disruption in childhood are more the sex lives of married people are better the very word of God. It is natural and likely to have sexual relations in their than those of their unmarried predictable, therefore, that Christians teens and to have a child at an early age counterparts. Not only do married turn to their Bible to find solutions to outside of marriage. spouses have sex more often than their their marital and family problems. The effects of single motherhood and unmarried counterparts, they also enjoy And what the Bible shows is quite fatherlessness are neither short-lived nor it more, both physically and clear: If grace is embedded in Christian easily remedied. Though the multiple emotionally. family, it is embedded not in family economic, psychological and social If marriage increases the wealth of structure but in the following of Jesus. effects on children of family disruption, families, divorce and unmarried Many modern Christians appear to single parenthood and father absence childbearing decrease it for mothers and equate being a Christian with merely may remain submerged until years later, their children. being born into a “Christian” family. they can extend into continuing In the United States, no matter how That perspective is sadly in error. Being problems across time and generations. poverty is defined and no matter how Christian means actively living a Research shows that marriage is a race and ethnicity are controlled, single Christian life. That a family is a Christian wealth-creating institution. Married mothers with children emerge as the family is determined not by its social couples, on average, build more wealth poorest of all demographic groups. structure but by its being faithful to the than either singles or cohabiting In 1990, the Census Bureau reported biblical story of God as revealed in Christ. couples. Marriage encourages a wide that the median income of couples with The Catholic label for biblical, variety of wealth-accumulating children was $41,260 and the median interpersonal, marital processes today is activities, like saving for the future, income of mother-headed families was covenant. Marriage, the Second Vatican buying insurance, buying a home. $13,092. Council taught, is “an intimate Married couples also often receive The loss of economic capital is not the partnership of life and love” (Church in transfer of wealth from both sets of only loss suffered in mother-headed the Modern World, 48). Marriage is grandparents, more than do cohabiting families; the loss of social capital is something more than a mere juridical couples. Single mothers almost never equally destructive. contract about material things; it is receive any financial support from the After controlling for the effect of racial something human, something personal, fathers of their children. and economic variables, research shows something religious. Economics is not the only reality that that, compared to children who grow This approach was bolstered marriage enhances; it also enhances the up in an intact family with two parents, theologically by the insertion into the health of men, women and their children. children who grow up in a single-parent Council’s text of the biblical notion of Both married men and women, on family are three times more likely to covenant, an insertion that was explained average, enjoy better health and lower have a child outside of marriage, twice in the commentary given to the Council rates of injury, illness and disability than as likely to drop out of high school, one Fathers along with the revised text in

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September 1965. “There is no mention of breathed into ‘adam’s nostrils the breath partnership but also the maintenance of ‘matrimonial contract’ but, in clearer of life. And ‘adam became a living being that life. As the God revealed in Jesus is words, of ‘irrevocable personal consent.’ (Gen 2:4-7). “When the Lord Yahweh not a God who creates and then abandons The biblical term ‘covenant’ (foedus) is created ‘adam, He made ‘adam in the creation to its own laws, as Jesus is not a added at the intuition of the Eastern likeness of Yahweh. Male and female He Christ who gives Himself up for the Churches for whom ‘contract’ raises created them, and He blessed them and Church (Eph 5:25) and then abandons some difficulties.” The understanding he named them ‘adam” (Gen 5:1-2). her, so no Christian believer creates a of covenant as used by the Council is This myth, for it is a myth, responds covenant, a marriage, a sacrament and dependent upon the intuition of the to the perennial human question: Where leaves it to survive by itself. Eastern Churches and to that intuition, did we come from? When a Christian man and a woman therefore, we must briefly turn. marry, they commit themselves mutually The Orthodox intuition of marriage as to a set of behaviors that will nurture covenant is located in the context of the and sustain their marriage, their biblical covenants of God with Israel sacrament, their covenant. and the Church. Covenantal election A covenantal As Christian believers, they will find involves God and people in a steadfast those behaviors suggested in general commitment, and in the church the marriage (is) ... throughout the New Testament and fullest expression of that commitment specifically summarized in the Letter to takes place in the sacrament of marriage. an equal and the Ephesians. The writer critiques the The covenantal bond within which God list of traditional household behaviors in works out salvation is in essence a nuptial loving partnership first century Palestine, together with the bond. Conversely, the nuptial relationship inequality embedded in it, and challenges achieves its true purpose and attains its all Christians to “give way to one another true fullness only insofar as it is based to be lived for the because you stand in awe of Christ” (5:21). upon an eternal covenantal commitment. The critique both challenges the absolute The purpose of marriage between a whole of life. authority of any Christian individual man and woman is to create between over another, including that of a them a bond of covenant responsibility We, in Hebrew ‘adam, in English husband over a wife, and establishes the and faithfulness that represents and humankind, came from God. Male and basic attitude required of all Christians, reactualizes the eternal bond established female as we are, we are from God, and even if they be husband and wife, by God with His chosen people, and so together we make up humankind. This namely, an awe of Christ and a giving it is that marriage is “a great mystery” fact alone, that God names woman and way to one another because of it. which refers to Christ and the Church man together ‘adam, establishes the Since all Christians are to give way to (Eph 5:32). equality of men and women as human one another, it is not surprising that wives The use of covenant rather than contract beings. are challenged to give way to their takes marriage out of its narrow, The further myth that speaks of the husbands (5:22). What is surprising, at traditional, juridical sphere and situates creation of woman from man’s rib, intends least to those husbands who see it in the sphere of interpersonal, religious, in the Hebrew metaphor to emphasize themselves as lords and masters of their steadfast commitment and responsibility. that equality, not their separate creations. wives and who seek to found this Its identification as a “biblical term” The Catholic bishops of the United unchristian attitude in Ephesians, is the insinuates its connection to the States underscore this reading in their challenge to husbands. everlasting covenants between God response to the concerns of women in It is that “the husband is the head of and Israel and Christ and Church. the Church. Since “in the divine image the wife as (that is, in the same way as) What does the teaching about ... male and female (God) created them” Christ is head of the Church” (5:23). marriage as covenant and sacrament (Gen 1:27), woman and man are equal In immediate response to the obvious mean in real life? in everything that is human; they are question — “How is Christ head of the In a covenantal-sacramental marriage, “bone of bone and flesh of flesh” (Gen Church?” — the writer explains, “He spouses consent and commit themselves 2:23). It is only because they are so equal, gave himself up for her” (5:25), a clear to create a life of equal and intimate says the myth, that they may marry and echo of Mark’s gospel description of the partnership in loyal and steadfast love. “become one body” (Gen 2:24). When Son of Man who “came not to be served When God created the heavens and they marry in a covenant marriage, their but to serve” (10:45). There is a loud the earth, when no plant had yet sprung equality is further underscored and echo also of the teaching Jesus up from the earth because God had not solidified by the extent to which they constantly sought to inculcate in his yet brought rain, a mist rose up and are both equally bound by the terms of power-hungry disciples, namely, that in watered the earth. The mist turned the their covenant. the kingdom of God the leader is the dry earth to mud, in Hebrew ‘adamah, and Christian marital covenant demands servant of all (Luke 22:26). from that ‘adamah God formed ‘adam and not only the creation of a life of equal The Christian way to exercise authority

32 Fall 2004 is to serve. To be head as Christ is head Marriage as a Covenant is to serve. The Christian husband is called to be the first servant of his wife, The wedding ceremony by which couples enter into and she is equally called to be his first marriage is a covenant ceremony, according to the servant. One behavior by which Christian standard covenant requirements. There is: first, a prologue spouses may nurture both their marriage and their sacrament is the Christian rule that identifies the parties making the covenant of service, of God, of one another, and of (“I, Michael, take you Susan”); the familial and social needs around them. Another Christian behavior, in and out second, the identification of the purpose of the covenant of marriage, is the great commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (“... as my lawful wedded wife (Lev 19:18; Mark 12:31). Husbands, the ... wedded husband”); author of Ephesians instructs, are to “love their wives as their own bodies,” third, a specification of the irrevocable duration of the for the husband “who loves his wife covenant loves himself” (5:28). We can rightfully assume that the same instruction is (“... until death do us part”); intended also for wives. A paraphrase of fourth, an enumeration of covenantal blessings and woes Paul clinches the rule of love for Christian spouses: Those who love their spouses (“... to have and to hold have fulfilled all the rules of behavior ... for better or for worse, for nurturing and sustaining a covenant marriage (Rom 13:8). in sickness and in health”); A covenantal marriage is not just a wedding to be celebrated, it is more fifth, a publicly sworn oath (the marital consent); and, critically an equal and loving partnership finally, a public and permanent record of the covenant to be lived for the whole of life. When ceremony (the marriage certificate). spouses covenant to one another in the sacrament of marriage, they commit themselves to explore together the religious depth of their married life and to respond to that depth in the light of their mutual covenant to Christ and to the Church in which He abides. It is their marital life, lived in faith, friendship, mutual love and service, that is ultimately the Catholic sacrament of the presence of God and God’s Christ in the world. A Christian marriage is an intimate and equal partnership of life and love. Its origin is, ultimately, in God’s act of creating ‘adam male and female, proximately, in the covenant of the spouses’ free, willed and irrevocable consent. Its goal is the continuation of Christ’s mission to establish the reign of God in the lives of the spouses, their family and in the world in which they live. About the author: Lawler is an internationally renowned theologian of marriage and family and the author of numerous publications and books, including Family: American and It is natural and predictable that Christians Christian and Marriage and Sacrament: turn to their Bible to find solutions to their A Theology of Christian Marriage. marital and family problems. Remembering Bob Reilly By Robert U. Guthrie

This is a love story. Grab your hankies. Remembering Bob Reilly

Robert Thomas Reilly loved writing. his family were busily cleaning the Bob, born in Lowell, Mass., was a He loved his 10 children. He loved his house after Matt’s father had died. “We lieutenant in Europe during World War wife, Jean. He even loved his work, cleaned and cleaned, until there was II. He was captured just before the Battle serving as the public relations director at nothing left to clean in that rambling of the Bulge, and he spent six months as Creighton University for 16 years. He three-story house.” a German prisoner of war. He married loved Ireland and being Irish. And he By mid-afternoon they were drained Regina McKenzie in 1945; she was loved his religion. He wrote about all of all energy and suffering the wound of forever hence known as Jean Reilly. these things, but mostly about Ireland having lost Denny Holland. Bob’s roots in Lowell entwined with and a most incredible and touching Matt told Hugh: “At that moment, such luminaries as Ed McMahon, story about his wife’s decline in your dad appeared at the door with a Johnny Carson’s sidekick; “beat Alzheimer’s. box of crackers, some cheese and a box generation” writer Jack Kerouac; and There were the novels: Rebels in the of cookies. He came in and said he had Ray Goulding, of the comedic pair Shadows, about the legendary secret heard about my dad and knew he had billed as Bob and Ray in the ‘50s. society of the Molly Maguires, formed to stop by. Bob’s compulsion to write followed to battle the coalmine owners in the “We all sat in the front room as the him even into the POW camp. He was 1870s; Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal, winter afternoon light faded. Your dad one of few Americans in the camp whose turned into a Walt Disney movie, and began to tell stories, not about my dad, prisoners were mostly British, New now in its fourth edition; Irish Saints; but about angels and runaway horses. Zealanders and Australians. Together Come Along to Ireland; Christ’s Exile; As he spoke, time seemed to stop. they would pass the time by exchanging Public Relations in Action; and another “We thought about nothing but the recipes centering on the “best meal they half dozen including co-authored books images his stories created in our minds. ever had.” Bob, typically, set about such as Historical Omaha: An Illustrated After ... maybe an hour, maybe two, your creating a book of recipes after the war, History of Omaha and Douglas County, dad got up and left as abruptly as he calling upon notes he made while a and Lucky, about the life of Charles had arrived. But his stories had changed prisoner (Bob was an inveterate notetaker) Durham. He wrote television and movie the day for us. We were different and later contacting other POWs for scripts. In fact, in some 50 years, he somehow, relaxed and at peace.” their input. wrote more than 1,000 articles, short That was Bob the shanachie, the Irish Once, when placed in solitary stories and treatises in more than 100 storyteller. confinement, where he could see national and regional publications. nothing, let alone the outdoors, he used Bob Reilly was simply compelled to We became engaged in 1943, while a pencil to enlarge a small hole, from write. I was on leave, and Jean then waited which he could watch children playing “He could not, not write,” said son almost two years for me to return some distance away. He had to write Hugh. “My father was an aman mor, even then — poetry. from the Second World War. She Irish for great soul. Such a person makes Just before Christmas in 1944, Hugh an impact on everyone he touches.” wrote to me every day, even when I related, there was an attack on the camp. Matt Holland, son of Denny Holland, was missing in action and she had “The British bombed his POW camp, by one of Bob’s business associates and a no idea if I was alive or dead ... mistake obviously. The barracks that he friend, told Hugh about the time he and was in housed somewhere between 70 and 80 men. A bomb came through right by his bunk.” He was blown out of the hole created by the bomb and had an out-of-body experience (where he saw himself looking down at his own body). When he came to, he went back into the hole and rescued the only other survivor. At the end of the war in Europe, when the Allies were advancing toward the camp, the German captors were considering moving the POWs closer to Through the years … Bob and Jean Germany’s Nazi stongholds. “The head Reillys’ marriage is a story of love, from officer for the POWs was a Brit,” said their wedding in 1945 (see large photo at left) through the family’s struggle with Hugh Reilly. “The British commander Alzheimer’s to their deaths some six went to the German commander and weeks apart. (Inset far left, Bob and Jean in told him, ‘I just want you to know that Bob’s beloved Ireland; near left, the couple we have been making clubs, homemade at home a few weeks before Jean’s death.) knives and such and if you try to move

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us, we will attack you.’ The next day, all before the master producer died. Bob his general “lift” on St. Patrick’s Day, his the Germans were gone.” reckoned it was the last work to receive storytelling penchant, and that pure white Bob decided to run for the Second Walt’s blessing directly. beard ... all lent a leprechaun-like air. District Congressional seat in 1970 in the Red Hugh premiered in Omaha at the 25th year of his marriage, and although old State Theater in 1966. Jean worked in the travel industry, she You can’t talk about Bob without Some years ago I had lunch with became a politician’s wife. considering his competitive spirit. So the late actor Pat O’Brien, who gave me Besides 10 children of their own, two many stories abound that it is difficult to this memorable line: A priest friend of Boys Town residents “adopted” the Reillys. pick just one. He was always “playing” his had described hearing the Confessions Jean said in the 1970 Reilly campaign wastebasket basketball in his office of nuns as “being stoned to death newspaper: “Just being den mother to crumpling up endless pieces of paper with popcorn.” Sometimes the all those Reillys,” is old hat ... “(it) is a after “false starts” on his next note for a beautiful chaos that keeps you active. book or article. caregiver’s role is like that. No major “(I met Bob in 1942) and soon Bob was A tribute article most likely written by tantrums or hallucinations but, off to war,” she said. “We had the standard his friend, the late Harry Dolphin, BS’49, rather, a series of small difficulties. wartime V-mail courtship until Bob was probably says it best: Like things being moved to captured. ... The letters stopped coming “Driveway basketball, another Reilly unfamiliar locales. The sugar bowl then, so I reread the old ones and prayed. specialty, is suspect of a fix. Several travels to the freezer, bananas join the “Then, in May 1945, Bob wrote that he small X’s chalked on the drive are the had been liberated and was on the way only places he shoots from in his silverware, dirty clothes fraternize home! We were married three weeks unerring game of Horse. with the clean. The Alzheimer’s patient later. I quickly learned of my husband’s “A word of warning — watch him in might want to help with the cooking compassion. We spent our honeymoon ping-pong on his home court. The large and mix peanut butter with the eggs visiting parents of the boys in Bob’s lamp and equally large paddle at his end and then burn that concoction. Or fill platoon who had been killed in action. of the table give him an edge on the the steam iron with liquid starch. Or It was the kind thing to do, and I was visiting player at the dark end of the awfully proud of my new husband.” table with the postage-stamp-size paddle fold everything in sight, making 50 and the furnace room door that periodically neat squares out of a toilet paper roll. swings into range of his backhand.” In 1950, we returned to Omaha Bob’s life was a living kaleidoscope of and raised our children there. Besides activity. In the late ‘60s, Bob started Kathleen’s deafness, three of our a travel agency (with Jean’s youngsters had severe asthma, experienced help) for tours of and another had an eye tumor Ireland. He carried on with this removed at the Mayo Clinic. ... until 1992, when his son Hugh took over. Out of the tours came an Throughout those challenging unfinished book on Irish pubs. Hugh years, Jean bore the major domestic may try to complete it, but its many responsibilities, always without pages now are outdated, since Bob complaint. People remarked about quit work on it in the early ‘80s. her serenity. ... I learned to admire During one period, Bob took to the her instinctive wisdom. ... All these Omaha Playhouse stage. He won the Fonda-McGuire Award, and Henry qualities made it seem doubly unjust Fonda and Dorothy McGuire presented when she developed Alzheimer’s. the award to him. His television scripts included those for actors Lorne Greene When he wrote Red Hugh and sent it and Michael Douglas. to a publisher, he received a terrible His Irish books and his interest in

rebuff in which an editor blasted the Ireland came naturally. His mother and Reilly ugh story as a terrible piece of writing. Bob father were Irish. His grandfather was threw it out and started over, taking just the first Reilly, of their family’s heritage, a couple of months to rewrite the entire born in the U.S., according to Hugh.

book on his old Royal manual typewriter, In his later years, Bob adopted a beard, H of courtesy Photo all the while typing with just two fingers. which progressively whitened until his Reilly family photo, taken around 1966. death. You could have put a green hat on Left to right, front row: Pegeen and Michael; The resulting story not only sold, but second row: Kathleen, Bob and Jean; third has gone to a fourth printing today and him and people would have asked him row: Hugh, Moira and Donal; fourth row: gained the interest of Walt Disney a year the location of his gold. His Irish twinkle, Eileen, Colleen, Michaela and Christine.

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Hugh talks about his mother and Alzheimer’s. She lost her swallowing much until the end. She would look at father: “My mom and dad were a reflex and could not eat or drink. By us and she would maybe know that we matched set. They pulled together. They then she was in hospice.” were important somehow, but she knew had great fun with each other. Bob and she would ask for Bob. “I remember my mother telling me There are many variations of love, one time, ‘You know, Hugh, if your father wanted to, he could be president but I’m not talking about the kind Most days, Jean just sits there beside of the United States.’ That’s how she felt that flares up and burns brightly for me, rests her head on my shoulder about him. He felt the same way about a time. I mean the kind you can and dozes. Sometimes ... I show her her — that there wasn’t much she could bank like a good fire against the photos, sing to her, talk softly. On not do. He left a lot of the childrearing certain cold and dark. Sundays I bring her Communion but, to her. He would come home from work more and more, she seems unaware and go upstairs and write. And duty. I was brought up “He teased her and they had great respecting duty, which means you of what she is doing. I feel caught fun together. I remember one time we continue to do something even when between sacrament and sacrilege. had cream pies, two or three of them. the reasons have dissipated. Call it One day the nurse said, “I tear up Dad said, ‘I always wanted to do this,’ commitment. every time I see how excited she is to and he picked up one of the pies and see you.” threw it at Mom ... but he missed. Mom “Listen,” I told her, “for 60 years had one of the pies at the other end of Bob was educated at Creighton the table. She threw it at him and she University and earned an advanced that’s the way I felt when she walked nailed him. She was laughing and he degree at Boston University. into a room.” The nurse cried at that. was laughing. Another time I remember He was an instructor, alumni secretary, director of special resources them chasing each other around the “At the end, he was so tender to her. and director of public relations during backyard with water hoses.” We had brought her home and put up a his 16 years at Creighton. bed downstairs. Bob had a bed upstairs. In 1966, he became a vice president We moved Bob’s bed down next to hers I acknowledge my lack of and partner in the public relations firm near the end. He was happy with that. of Holland, Dreves and Reilly. professional skills, but I did bring “On her last day, we put the two beds He became a professor at the things to the table: I love this patient; next to each other downstairs. University of Nebraska at Omaha in I have a history with her; I understand “We pushed the beds together. He 1972 and retired as a full professor in kind of sprawled across the two beds as her needs, know her likes and dislikes; 1987. He was named a professor emeritus, much as he could toward her. He would I provide familiarity and security and a chair in the communication stroke her hair and hold her hand.” and a certain level of comfort. I know department bears his name. Some six weeks later, April 14, 2004, the house and environment. I knew I Bob died in his sleep. was a link to a past already damaged. I pray, of course, but not for cures or miracles. I pray for my wife’s I have a certain conviction that When Alzheimer’s first intruded in continued health and serenity and we will be together again and as their life, Hugh noticed the change in for my own understanding. I pray we used to be. I have had dreams his father. “At first he was impatient, that our children will also come to but he developed patience with my about that final reunion. I’ve seen terms with the situation and not fret mother. He would get angry with her ... it in my mind a hundred times. about this cross being visited on a saying, ‘I told you that before,’ when We’re both dressed in white and wonderful mother or this disease she began to lose track. She would get we’re dancing in front of patio doors defensive and he would feel terrible. tearing apart a couple still very much open to the sea. That didn’t last long. He came to terms in love. I want them to know that God with it. And her (decline) happened doesn’t wish suffering on anyone. About the author: Guthrie is the former over a 10-year period. editor of Creighton’s Window Magazine. “My mother had fallen and hit her head and we figured, ‘Well, maybe Jean’s decline was gradual but that’s what’s causing it.’ unremitting. “Mom doubled the average life span “The first few years, she did some of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. kind of silly things, but she was Her body gradually shut down. People basically there,” said Hugh. “The last think they die of other things, like four or five years in the nursing home pneumonia. But they don’t. They die of she knew Bob. She knew him pretty

37 Fall 2004 Remembering Bob Reilly What Others Had to Say ... A Role Model Bob Reilly was my friend and a role model. I had known Bob for years when I decided to write a book about international adoption. I called him for advice. He must have gotten hundreds of similar calls, most of which would never go beyond square one. He was probably too polite to say that. Bob urged me to persevere because he liked my subject and respected me as a writer. He explained how to prepare a book proposal and offered leads for finding a publisher. He helped at every step until the book How To Adopt A Child from Another Country appeared. He brought a ream of copy paper to my publication party to encourage me to start another book. I have modeled my journalism Reilly at work at his trusty Royal typewriter. teaching career on his because he did everything I value so well. His former A Devoted Husband ease my pain. ... This Irish historian students raved about his classes. He When Bob Reilly reaches the Pearly and steadfast supporter of the land of published scholarly materials while Gates, St. Peter will recount his many St. Patrick, reflected that love through continuing to write thoughtful and talents and deeds. Clearly, there will be his own spiritual strength. His love for enjoyable articles and books for a long list of accomplishments his beautiful wife, Jean, is a model for all intelligent general audiences (like the punctuated with a significant grouping of us, and now they are together again. readers of this magazine). He devoted of adjectives. First and foremost, Bob countless hours to mentoring individual was a devoted husband and father. Just Bill Ramsey students. to see him with his lovely wife, Jean, President, Any encounter with Bob was a good and their children, his love and Ramsey Public Relations time — the smile, the laugh, the wit, the admiration of them was clear. Over the and a friend since 1952 story. You always learned something course of Jean’s long illness, Bob was from him — even at his wake. ever the devoted spouse and cared for An Irish Bard The night after Bob’s wake, I attended her often to the detriment of his own Bob Reilly was an Irish Bard. What is a duty social event. As I sat at the table health. often forgotten is that a storyteller must feeling sorry for myself, I thought about first have heard a story. Bob was the the story his sister, Barbara, had told Rosalee A. Roberts, APR, ultimate listener. He didn’t soak up about Bob’s POW days when he was Fellow PRSA information like a sponge; he inhaled it kept in solitary confinement. He had Longtime Vice President, like a vacuum sweeper. used a pencil to widen a hole in the wall Public Relations And once inside him, all the to see a tiny bit of the world. Then he Bozell & Jacobs information became part of his fabric to used the time to write a book of poems the point where time, place, gender, for Barbara at home. A True Friend ethnicity all lost their independence and I felt foolish. No wonder I had always He was a friend you could count on, Bob lived the tale. On a trip to Ireland admired Bob. Talk about a guy who one who walks in when the rest of the with him every field, coast, tower, town knew how to make the most of world walks out. When I was and pub was presented to the visitor whatever hand life dealt him! terminated from a job I loved, that very with the familiarity and insight of the evening after the newspaper carried my centuries. Bob never shaded the truth Eileen M. Wirth career obituary, Bob Reilly was the first about his beloved Ireland. Chair person at my home. There he stood, on Bob was a competitor. I first Journalism and Mass Communication my front porch, holding a bottle of encountered this side of him in the Bailey’s Irish Cream and ready to help original Public Relations Office, a

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cramped and crowded rabbit warren filled with desks and filing cabinets. Hanging from a door was a basketball hoop and a game was in progress. Using a rolled-up wad of newspaper, four bodies ricocheted off the furniture. The scene was theatrical in that business was being conducted by those few staff not in the game. Bob was an audacious player and never stopped talking as he whirled in spectacular dashes among the desks. This same tiny arena was the site of a modified form of stickball. Involving the use of a Whiffle golf ball and a broom stick, endless running games terrorized non-combatants. Some of the greatest moments of my life were spent in the presence of Bob Reilly and John Mulhall. The loss of these two friends is compensated by knowing that they now can argue with one another freed from the exigencies of Reilly behind his desk in 1959. He worked at Creighton for 16 years as director of public relations. time and space. next day or two. victims’ families comfort the driver is a Allen B. Schlesinger Sorting through numerous masterpiece of Christian grace and Professor Emeritus photographs of Bob and Jean, I am mercy), and the one for Creighton’s Biology impressed that even an ordinary magazine about the poetic Irishman, A Family Man snapshot could reveal such deep John Mulhall. affection; theirs was a union of faithful The school bus story starts a few The excitement was palpable the and caring love. When they spoke of seconds before the train will hit the bus. morning Kathy (Bob’s deaf daughter) their children, the dominant emotion The crew sees it and knows they’ll rushed into my classroom to tell me that was always the same — loving concern, crash. The only question: Will all the her father had talked on the telephone justified parental pride in their kids flee in time? Bob holds the reader with Walt Disney. Incredulously, I said, accomplishments, and deep sorrow for at that point and artfully delivers all the “The REAL Walt Disney?” She their losses and unrealized goals. exposition — about such wrecks, about reassured me as she explained that the the crew, and especially about the bus famous producer wanted to make a Betty Dineen Shrier driver and the kids on board, including movie from Bob’s recently published Writer and close friend young heroes who hustle their friends book, Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal. to safety. I related this A Respected Colleague I get tears in my eyes recalling these happy episode to Bob and I alternated on a column classic Reilly stories. I used his stories to Jean as she and I sat in the Sun Newspapers in the ‘60s show my class, and he used some of in our room at the and ‘70s. mine to teach his. It’s a small part of our Harold House Hotel We got in the habit of showing each friendship, but a part I’ve already in Edinburgh, other whatever we’d most recently missed. I just finished a story for the Scotland, in the written. UNO Alum magazine — an article spring of 1991. ... I There was his article on being a about a very good man of faith, shall always treasure caregiver during Jean’s Alzheimer’s. wrestling coach Mike Denney. I wanted recalling one evening Nothing he wrote was more revealing so badly to show it to Bob. as the phone rang in our room. Jean or touched people more deeply than answered and her face became radiant that article in U.S. Catholic. Warren T. Francke when she heard Bob’s voice. That Other favorites of mine were the Active writer and retired UNO professor luminous expression never changed as article he wrote about a train hitting a they continued their conversation and school bus, the one about a fatal made plans to meet in Ireland in the accident (the scene in the church when

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member of the firm and taught at the School helped us with our facilities with their gift McGrath North of Law, and Bruce Rohde, JD’74, a former to the law library renovation; and now, the president of the firm who is now CEO of firm is helping us with our faculty with the Mullin & Kratz ConAgra Foods and a member of the creation of the endowed chair,” Borchers Pledges $1 Million Creighton University Board of Directors. said. “The firm understands the importance Starting in 1988 and through 1992, that all three areas, students, faculty and for Endowed Chair McGrath North established and funded the facilities, play in providing quality largest scholarship fund for Creighton law education. We are grateful for the The School of Law at Creighton school students, which currently has an overwhelming support we continue to University is pleased to announce the endowment of more than $875,000. From receive from our friends at McGrath North establishment of a new endowed chair, the Mullin & Kratz.” McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Endowed The McGrath North Mullin & Kratz Chair in Business Law. A $1 million pledge “The McGrath North chair Endowed Chair in Business Law is the third from the Omaha law firm’s Foundation will chair in the School of Law. The other fund the chair. will become part of the endowed chairs are the A.A. & Ethel “I want to thank McGrath North Mullin School of Law’s legacy, Yossem Endowed Chair in Legal Ethics & Kratz and the individual members of the (Richard Collin Mangrum, chair holder) and firm who have made this contribution and signifies the firm’s the Connie Kearney Endowed Chair in possible, for this very generous gift,” said Clinical Legal Education (Catherine the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J., Creighton dedication to quality Mahern, chair holder). president. “The McGrath North chair will education.” A formal inaugural of the McGrath North become part of the School of Law’s legacy, Mullin & Kratz Endowed Chair in Business and signifies the firm’s dedication to quality — The Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. Law will be held after the chair holder is education. This is a great addition to our Creighton president selected. The celebration of the School of centennial celebration.” Law centennial will take place on Sept. 10 at Gifts of endowed chairs in the School of the Qwest Center Omaha. Law contribute to fulfilling a law school 1993 through 1998 the firm gave $500,000 to To learn more about endowment priority: attracting and retaining nationally establish the McGrath North Mullin & Kratz opportunities at Creighton, contact the recognized faculty. As part of the faculty, Legal Research Center in the law school’s University Development Office at chair holders are scholars whose talents Klutznick Library. (800) 334-8794, (402) 280-2740 or 2500 leave an indelible mark on their fields, their “McGrath North has helped Creighton California Plaza, Omaha, Nebraska, students and their colleagues. students with scholarships; they have 68178-0115. “Endowed chairs are most important to the reputation of law schools,” said Patrick Borchers, dean of the School of Law. “This Will Your Estate Plan federal government made significant chair honors McGrath North’s commitment changes to gift and estate tax law in 1997 to the School and the community, and the Pass the Test? and again in 2001. Coupled with this, gift will ensure that the Creighton School of By Steve Scholer, JD’79 regulations Law will remain among the nation’s leaders Director of Estate & Trust Services governing IRAs in business law education. The chair will and qualified always be held by a person of national You’ve probably had this dream. You retirement plans prominence in the field of business law.” walk into class and sit down. As the have also been “This pledge represents our continuing teacher places the test upon your desk, significantly commitment to Creighton University and its you realize that you are not prepared to amended. Will law school,” said David Hefflinger, BA’69, take the final exam. your estate plans JD’72, president of McGrath North Mullin & Without regular preparation and receive a passing Kratz. “Creighton University is a vital part review, when put to the test, your estate grade when

of the Omaha community and Creighton’s plan likewise may fail to effectively carry BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, examined next to School of Law has educated many of our out your wishes for the efficient transfer Scholer these new rules? firm’s attorneys. We hope that this gift of your assets. A few of these changes are: provides an impetus to others during the Estate planning experts generally 1) The amount exempt from federal centennial year for the law school.” recommend reviewing your estate plans estate tax has climbed from $600,000 in 1997 Creighton University and the McGrath at least every five to seven years to to $1.5 million; it is scheduled to increase to North Mullin & Kratz firm have a strong ensure they take full advantage of $2 million in 2006 and $3.5 million in 2009. relationship over many years, going back to current tax law. Indeed, a look back at Unless changed, the estate tax will be Jack North, JD’48, who was a founding the past seven years reveals that the repealed in 2010 and thereafter the exempt

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call the University’s alumni to inform them Throughout the past three years, Phonathon Passes about what is going on at Creighton and funds raised by the Phonathon have $1 Million Mark ultimately to ask them to support the seen a significant increase: in 2001, University with a monetary donation,” said $606,129 was raised; in 2002, $650,005 This year, Creighton’s Phonathon had Beekhuizen. “Our a record-breaking year, raising more average donation is than $1 million. A Creighton first, the about $115. However, University now ranks as one of the few our grand total of universities in the country to have such more than $1 million a successful program. goes to show that “Other schools with $1 million or donations of any size more phonathons include Carnegie can really add up and Mellon, Kent State, the University of make a significant Hawaii, the University of Virginia and difference.” Iowa State University,” said Heather According to Beekhuizen, assistant director of annual Beekhuizen, who giving. “These are much larger schools supervises the 90-100 with a larger alumni base, so it is Creighton students really incredible that Creighton is in who work on the

their league as far as student fund- Phonathon throughout Photo by Mark Romesser raising goes.” the academic year, Alyssa Danze (junior in the College of Arts & Sciences), front, and Cagney Shattuck (junior in the College of Business Administration) The Phonathon is part of the credit for the worked for the Phonathon last year. University’s Office of Development and successful Phonathon raises money to support the Annual should be given to the students. was raised; and in 2003, $927,127 Fund. As the single largest source of “We have excellent student leadership was raised. unrestricted gifts to the University and and a comprehensive training program for “We would like to thank the alumni its schools and colleges, the Annual the callers,” Beekhuizen said. “We also who support the Annual Fund through Fund stands as the foundation of the automated the calling system in 2000 and the Phonathon,” Beekhuizen said. “Your University’s fund-raising programs. are just now seeing the benefits of the contributions help keep a Creighton “We employ Creighton students who automated system.” education affordable for all students.”

amount returns to its 2002 level of accounts are still subject to estate and Creighton or other charities as a $1 million. Estate plans that stipulate income taxes, the new rules streamline the beneficiary without causing an increase distribution to heirs with reference to “the process for leaving these assets to charity. to your required annual minimum amount exempt from federal estate tax” Though these and other amendments distribution and will generate should be regularly reviewed. Because this have required diligent oversight of your substantial income and estate tax stipulation will provide an increasingly financial and estate plans, they have had savings. larger gift to your heirs, it could result in positive effects upon charities and those I strongly encourage you to consult unintentionally disinheriting surviving who have included a charitable component with your professional advisors to spouses or residual beneficiaries. to their plans. These include: ensure your estate plans pass their most 2) Legislation will ultimately eliminate 1) The increased estate tax exemption significant test. If you would like to the “stepped-up basis” at your death of amount allows you to pass more assets tax- receive additional information on estate property and investments left to your heirs. free to your heirs. Since your estate is now planning or learn how to include a Though this property might avoid federal subject to less tax, you can increase the bequest to Creighton in your estate plan, estate taxes, in the future it will be subject to portion designated for philanthropy call (402) 280-1143 or (800) 334-8794. income taxes if sold by your estate or your without reducing the percentage given to Please accept my thanks if you have heirs. family or friends. already included Creighton in your 3) The IRS simplified the rules governing 2) A sound estate planning principle is to estate plans. And, if you have not the required minimum distributions you utilize your most tax-burdened assets to previously notified us of your plans, must take from IRAs and qualified satisfy your charitable estate planning please contact us for membership in the 1 retirement plans after you reach age 70 /2 , as objectives. The new IRS rules for Heritage Society, our recognition group well as reducing the minimum amount you testamentary transfers of IRAs and qualified for those who have made provisions in must withdraw each year. While these retirement plans allow you to name their estate plans for the University.

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Strom Endowment the firm’s trial department, handling all Program, where students are placed in types of litigation. Strom was appointed a public-related agencies and work 150 hours Fund Established in district judge by President Ronald Reagan. during a semester while taking their regular In 1987, he was named chief judge of the courses. He continues to counsel students in Law School United States District Court of Nebraska. the program, helping the current director, One of the judiciary’s most admired and He took senior status on Nov. 2, 1995. Barbara Gaskins. recognized figures has established an “The federal judicial system is really “When Judge Strom was in private endowed scholarship at the Creighton wonderful,” Strom said. “The senior status practice and known as one of the best trial University Ahmanson School of Law. allows me to cut attorneys in the area, he dedicated his time In celebration of the law school’s 100th down on my to teach the trial practice course at anniversary, Judge Lyle E. Strom has made a caseload. But I also Creighton. I know he didn’t do it for the $50,000 gift to create the Hon. Lyle E. and can make myself adjunct professor pay,” Gaskins said. “He Regina Strom School of Law Centennial available to serve in did it for the love of the students, the Endowment Fund. The fund will provide other districts. I university and teaching. ” scholarship support to needy and deserving work in New That love is represented in the creation students at the Creighton University School Mexico, Alabama, of the Strom School of Law Centennial of Law. Georgia, North Endowment Fund and his gift of time and “My wife died about three years ago, so I Carolina and New talents to the law school. decided to establish the scholarship because York on a fairly “Judge Strom is a person who has Strom she always had a great interest in regular basis, helping always been generous with students, education,” Strom said. “We were always them with their dockets.” whether through his work in the Spire interested in trying to help young people.” Throughout his career, Judge Strom also Internship Program, the Boy Scouts or Strom, a senior U.S. District Court judge served as an adjunct faculty member at the through his professional life. This in Nebraska, was associated with the Creighton University law school. Many law scholarship continues that generosity,” said Omaha law firm of Fitzgerald, Brown, students received the benefit of his Patrick Borchers, dean of the School of Law. Leahy, Strom, Schorr and Barmettler for 32 experience in the trial practice course, a “It’s a great honor to have his name and years, having joined the practice upon his course that he taught for 25 years. In 1995, Regina’s name forever associated with the graduation from Creighton in 1953. He led he became director of the Spire Internship Creighton law school.”

Creighton Society education in the Jesuit tradition,” said Carrie Albers, Celebrates 15 Years director of annual giving. “It’s a nice way for these This year, Creighton University’s donors to contribute to the premier donor recognition club, the education of current and Edward and Mary Lucretia Creighton future Creighton students.” Society, celebrated its 15th anniversary With the continued support with a record-breaking year in both of Creighton Society number of members and dollars raised. members, who believe in and There are 910 members in the share Creighton’s sense of Creighton Society and more than mission and educational $1.54 million was raised in fiscal year commitment, the University’s 2004, which ended June 30. Photo by Ervin Photography future will continue to be John Kim, M.D., left, of Claremont, Calif., joins his children The Edward and Mary Lucretia Joseph (BS’99, MS’01, and currently enrolled in Creighton’s bright. Creighton Society is made possible by medical school) and Julie (BA’03 and currently enrolled in “We are grateful for the the generosity of individuals who make Creighton’s pharmacy program) at this year’s Creighton generous support of our unrestricted gifts each year of $1,000 or Society brunch. Dr. Kim and his wife, Maria, are members of Creighton Society members more to the general University or to one the Creighton Society. over the past 15 years and of Creighton’s schools or colleges. immediate impact on the campus. These look forward to continued growth in the Throughout its 15-year history, gifts support the operating budget of the Society,” Albers said. Creighton Society members have University, and relieve dependence on For more information about the contributed more than $13 million to the tuition income and the financial burden Creighton Society, please contact the Annual Fund. Annual Fund gifts play a carried by students and their families. Creighton University Office of vital role in sustaining the mission of “I think more and more Creighton alumni Development at (800) 334-8794 or Creighton University and have an and friends realize the benefits of an (402) 280-2740.

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said. “That they’re Scholarship not just dealing with an intellectual Funds Honor legal problem, though it is that, Former Law but that they are dealing with School Deans people, and you When Rodney Shkolnick arrived at have to treat people Creighton University in 1961 to teach as you want to be contract law, he and his late wife, Lois, treated yourself.” were a young couple with two children. Students, They were grateful for the opportunity. although adults by A quarter century later, Shkolnick the time they enter grew concerned that the opportunity for law school, perhaps many students to attend Creighton law have a little room school was beyond their means. The left for moral result was the Rodney and Lois guidance, Shkolnick Scholarship Fund, which he Shkolnick said. and his wife began in 1985 with a ”It’s not enough donation of $11,000. Almost 20 years to have a good later, fueled by grateful students and heart,” he said. friends in the legal profession, that fund “But you cannot be has passed the $200,000 mark. a good Creighton The fund is one of two named for lawyer if you lose deans of the law school whose intent is track of the people to ease the growing financial burden of involved. Some attending law school. things ought to The other is named for Lawrence feel right to you, Raful, a professor of legal ethics who and some things served as dean from 1988 to 1999 and BA’83 Photo by Monte Kruse, not right.” Larry Raful, left, and Rodney Shkolnick in the Gross Appellate Raful believes recently accepted a position as dean Courtroom at the Creighton University School of Law. of the Touro Law School in Central the ultimate goal of Islip, N.Y. lawyers to help those in need, a strong the scholarship funds is to produce The Lawrence and Dinah Raful scholarship program is a must. lawyers committed to justice. Endowed Scholarship was founded in Shkolnick said it is a great gift when a “I can show you Creighton-educated 1999 by the father of a law student student or a friend donates to a professor’s lawyers who daily do justice … whom Raful admitted. The student, scholarship fund. everyday justice, such as helping people Raful said, has since become a successful “These funds are extremely, extremely to start a business, write a will, make attorney. important,” he said. “I have just been sure that their legacy is left the way they The father, grateful that Raful gave his pleased and flattered and grateful to all the want it left,” he said. son a chance, wanted to do something people who have contributed.” “We take other people’s causes, and for the professor. Raful suggested a While scholarships are important to we want our lawyers to represent those scholarship fund. students in need, Shkolnick and Raful causes zealously.” It was, Raful said, an easy call. agreed that scholarships also are an To make a contribution to the “There is absolutely no doubt that the important tool for attracting the best Rodney and Lois Shkolnick Scholarship ability to give kids scholarships, or students. Both said they are deeply Fund or the Lawrence and Dinah Raful grants, or low-interest loans, or no- interested in attracting the best students Endowed Scholarship, or for more interest loans, or work study programs, because they believe there is a “Creighton information on endowed scholarship there’s no doubt in my mind that those way” to study and apply the law. opportunities at Creighton University kinds of things have helped a lot of For Shkolnick, the “Creighton way” or the School of Law, contact the Office people,” he said. involves stressing the human side of law. of Development at (800) 334-8794 or And, Raful said, since the Creighton “We want people to recognize that (402) 280-2740. law school stresses the responsibility of they’re always dealing with people,” he

43 Fall 2004 The Remains Rest to be The Last Word Discovered By Brian Kokensparger

The bulldozer grinds Even astronomers? Fr. Rigge’s forward, chewing an ever- memoirs recount how grading deeper hole for a new science crews uncovered part of a building. The driver backs up skeleton near his (and our) the dozer for another push, but beloved observatory. A local falters. He sees something. It historian identified the remains appears to be a bone — maybe a as belonging to M.C. Gaylord, large bone. Has he just the first person to die among discovered a missing link to Omaha’s early settlers. prehistory? Has he uncovered Perhaps bones are powerful human remains, unleashing a because they define who we are, curse upon himself and the regardless of the façade. Of world? Should he call the course, bones capture the police? Notify the press? Cover attention of nearly every it up and go on? department and division on the

This never happened, but Photo by Mark Romesser health sciences side of campus. could have, when Creighton Creighton’s Bob Bosco uses bones in his art class. But artists? Jesuits? began excavation in 1966 for its Artist Bob Bosco maintains a new Rigge Science Building. The driver would have been the bone collection to help his students see their subjects as flesh- victim of a hoax, played by one of the best hoaxers around at the draped completions of complex skeletal structures. time: Allen Schlesinger, Ph.D. The Rev. Raymond Bucko, anthropologist and Jesuit, “We didn’t do it, but we sure thought about it,” said maintains a multitude of web pages. One of these provides a Schlesinger, professor emeritus of biology. “Bob Reilly, who was riveting account of Isaac Jogues’ determination to find and bury public relations director at the time, was always after me to the bones of his martyred friend, Rene Goupil. Another of make an important discovery. I suggested seeding the site with Fr. Bucko’s websites catalogs ancient games played by the a few fossils.” Lakota, many of which involve manipulating bones. Someone would have discovered the bones the next day. It Perhaps more than enduring and defining, bones are would have been a masterful hoax. intensifying. They have an emotional payload that makes them “We never did it,” continued Schlesinger, “but Bob’s eyes mysterious, scary — even perverse. certainly gleamed for a moment.” One can only guess the thoughts coursing through two Bones can silence a bulldozer and summon reporters in treasure hunters’ minds when they took a large bone they had droves. Why? discovered to the biology department in the early 1960s. For one thing, bones are enduring. They “remain.” Lucky for Schlesinger finishes the story: us! These remains show us the past; they are obvious treasures “I told the two we had a real expert on bones and went to get for natural historians, archeologists and anthropologists. But John [Sheehan].” (John was the chair of the biology department philosophers? at the time.) “When he arrived he examined the bone carefully Indeed, philosophers. Jinmei Yuan, Ph.D., opens a lecture for and then raised it above his head, paused briefly and threw it her Introduction to Chinese Philosophy course by explaining onto the cement floor with shattering force. Pieces of bone flew how some of the oldest script was carved on the shoulder blades in all directions. John bent, retrieved the largest fragment and, of oxen. showing its interior blood-red marrow to the two outraged fossil Theologians? Nicolae Roddy, Ph.D., leads students on an hunters, spoke only one word: ‘Cow.’” archeological dig to the Sea of Galilee’s northern shore. When a Oh, well. Other remains rest to be discovered. bone is found, he writes, the students “uncover a kind of mirror in which they, as human beings, are reflected. ... It [brings] them About the author: Kokensparger is a Creighton staff member and more fully into the energies of the Creator.” freelance writer.

55 Fall 2004 MemoryIn The Rev. James Hoff, S.J. — 1932-2004

The Rev. James E. Hoff, S.J., chancellor of Xavier after retiring chancellor and former president as president in December 2000. of Xavier University and former Fr. Hoff began his career at vice president of University Creighton in 1969 in the theology Relations at Creighton University, department. He served as acting died July 23 after a four-month dean of Creighton’s School of battle with cancer. He was 72. Medicine from 1980 to 1982, and “Jim Hoff was a mentor and a he was an associate professor of friend. He served Creighton and ethics in health sciences and Xavier University with distinction. associate professor of theology He was a splendid Jesuit and from 1976 to 1990. priest,” said Creighton President His background in medicine the Rev. John P. Schlegel, S.J. and theology coalesced in courses Fr. Schlegel paid tribute to his that stressed ethical issues in friend and fellow Jesuit in June patient care. Fr. Hoff introduced by establishing the Rev. James E. the concept of hospice care in Hoff Magis Scholarship at Omaha and was a founding Creighton. board member of Hospice Fr. Hoff served as vice Omaha, Inc., working with the president of University Relations organization from 1975 to 1997. and president of the Creighton Born in 1932 in Milwaukee, Foundation from 1983-1990. In the Fr. Hoff entered the Society of 1980s, he spearheaded one of Jesus in 1953 and was ordained Creighton’s most successful in 1965. He earned a bachelor’s capital campaigns, the Campaign Photo courtesy of Xavier degree in biology in 1958 and a for Creighton, which raised $102.5 master’s degree in philosophy million over a five-year period. He served on Creighton in 1959 from Spring Hill College in Alabama. He later University’s Board of Directors since 1990. attained a master’s in theology from St. Louis University He left Creighton in 1991 to become the 33rd president (1966) and a doctorate in theology from Rome’s Gregorian of Xavier University in Cincinnati. He had served as the University (1969).