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La Salle University La Salle University Digital Commons La Salle Magazine University Publications Summer 2005 La Salle Magazine Summer 2005 La Salle University Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine Recommended Citation La Salle University, "La Salle Magazine Summer 2005" (2005). La Salle Magazine. 15. http://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/lasalle_magazine/15 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at La Salle University Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in La Salle Magazine by an authorized administrator of La Salle University Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SUMMER 2005 rA MAGAZINE PRESIDENTS REPORT HONOR ROLL OF DONORS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/lasallemagazine490506 2005 EXPLORER CLUB SAVE AUTUMN AUCTION AND RECEPTION THE DATE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2005 * 6:00 P.M. • TOM GOLA ARENA The Explorer Club is the official fund development and booster organization for La Salle Athletics. It provides financial support for La Salle's 23 intercollegiate sports programs. Explorer Club members receive benefits at various levels, including priority for purchasing the best seats in the house for ticketed events. Gifts can be designated for the sport of your choice or the general athletic fund. We're looking for individuals who are interested in taking a leadership role in the University's Athletics program. For more information, please contact Peter D'Orazio, Executive Director of the Explorer Club, at 215.951.1545. For more information about Explorer Club activities or to receive a membership application, please call the Athletic Advancement Office at 215.951.1606 or e-mail [email protected]. Auctioneer Bruce Leauby awards an item during the 2004 Explorer Club Auction. SUMMER 2005 LASALLE MAGAZINE Volume 49 I Number 2 Shoulder to Shoulder: Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., '70 President Securing the Future R. Brian Elderton Vice President for University Advancement Joseph W. Donovan, '64 Assistant Vice President for President's Report Marketing and Communications James Gulick, '89 Assistant Vice President for Alumni Relations Theresa K. Travis, '93 9 Honor Roll of Donors Assistant Vice President for Development Edward A. Turzanski, '81 9 Corporations, Foundations and Trusts Assistant Vice President for and Community Relations Government 10 Alumni Elizabeth R. Lochner, '87 Director for Advancement Services 11 President's Club Patrick J. Feeley, M.B.A. '03 Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations 13 Gifts in Kind Fred J. Foley Jr. Director of Grants. Research, and Support 15 Reunion 2005 Charles E. Gresh, F.S.C., '55 Felicia H. Gordon-Riehman, M.Ed. '01 Joseph Buck 17 De La Salle Society Directors of Major Gifts Trey P. Ulrich, '99, M.B.A. '02 19 Blue & Gold Society Director of the Annual Fund Maureen A. Piche 21 Scholarships Director of Publications Editor. La Salle Magazine 23 The Christian Brothers Marian Morton Assistant Director of Publications In Honor of Assistant Editor. La Salle Magazine 25 26 Memorial Gifts 27 Bequests 30 Athletics Partners and Sponsors 33 Parents and Friends 36 Faculty and Staff La Salle Magazine (USPS 299-940) is published quarterly tor the University's alumni, students, faculty, and friends by the University 37 Government Sources Communications office. Address correspondence to the Editor, La Salle Magazine. Benilde Hall, 1900 W. Olney Ave., La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199. Changes of address should be sent at least 30 days prior to publication of issue with 38 La Salle News which it is to take effect to the University Advancement Office, La Salle University, 1900 W. Olney Avenue. Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199. Periodicals postage paid at Philadelphia, PA POSTMASTER: Send change of address to office listed above. 44 Alumni Notes ^LASALLE UNIVERSITY La Salle SHOULDER to SHOULDER Securing the Future ' Bill Sautter, 7 i : Why I Give Back Bill Sautter, '71, is a member of La Salle's Board of Trustees and recipient of La Salle University's Leadership Award at the 2002 Charter Dinner. Sautter is President and C.E.O. of Elliott-Lewis Corporation, a 100-year-old heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), and building services management company with offices located in Northeast Philadephia, New Jersey, and Florida. He and his wife, Claire, have made a gift of $100,000 to Shoulder to Shoulder: Securing the Future, La Salle's $25 million major gift initiative to strengthen the University endowment and fund construction of a new science and technology center. IT WASN'T VERY LIKELY THAT I WOULD LEAP FROM A I believe that neighborhood in Mayfair to become the President and Shoulder to Shoulder, Chief Executive of a national corporation. But that was with its $25 million before I went to La Salle University. La Salle became goal, is a critical my road map for the future. Along with my parents, it fundraising initiative gave me direction. It not only showed me the way, but for La Salle because it also provided the vehicle that got me there. La Salle strengthening the was transformational: It focused me for the first time endowment and on what I needed to do with my life. La Salle taught building a new me the value of hard work and self-discipline. It science and encouraged me to develop career direction and helped technology center will me acquire a work ethic that has guided me allow the University throughout my life. In short. La Salle instilled in me to maintain its the knowledge and desire to succeed, not only in educational excellence business but also in life. and compete in competitive marketplace. There is a lot of talk about education today—the successfully a very My money that is needed, the laws that have to be passed, wife, Claire, and I have committed financially to the tests that have to be taken. But what I learned at Shoulder to Shoulder: Securing the Future because the Salle La Salle is the most important thing of all —the culture and values nurtured by La emphasize relationship of teachers dedicated to teaching and staying involved and giving back to the community. students eager to learn. Three of those teachers Participating in Shoulder to Shoulder is one way for me especiallv remain in my memory: Mike DeAngelis, Joe to fulfill this obligation. Markmann, and Walt Kaiser. They were not only great Like me, good friends and fellow board members teachers, but also practical guides. They knew as much such as Jim Lynch, Bill Sasso, Nick Giordano, and about helping you find a job as they did about what many, many others were lucky to have La Salle. We was in the textbooks. And when I graduated, I knew I were blessed by the education we received there. We was prepared to make my way in the world. don't forget. We will never forget. We know we have a Thanks to the Christian Brothers, there is a place responsibility to keep it going. We want this generation like La Salle, a place that values and remains and future generations to have the opportunities we committed to providing a Catholic education to had. We want to give something back to a school that students regardless of their economic circumstances. gave so much to us. That is what leadership is all Maintaining this tradition of transformation at our about. alma mater is no small challenge and requires the I hope you will stand with me, the Christian involvement and support of all alumni. That is why I Brothers, and many alumni in securing the future for am involved with La Salle todav. La Salle and the students we serve. Honor Roll of Donors 2004200s , 1 : Shoulder to Shoulder Donor List Principal Gift Club Mr. Pciei i. ,'60 lames F McGettigan, Ph.D., '5-1 + i si million and al Marc and Laur.i M( \nonymous ' McNatiy.t PA . 'm Annenbers Foundation V Mcie.*64 '64 |. Hugh Devlin, '53 lacques J Moore, Carmen Romeo, '65 V James R 1 i. Mullen, 't>^ Newell. '44 Leadership Gift Club and James I Leo Niessen lr Charitable Fund (( rifts of $250 000 5999.999) Mr. Anthon\ |. Nocella Thomas Curley, 70 Jonathan J. Palmer, i , Janet and Charles L. Daley, '57 The Philadelphia ( '• -ca-Cola Bottling 3nd Kathleen [Gordon^ Lwich, 77 lames, 71, Company '67 Leo W. Tierce Jr., Mr William L. Stulginsl U.S. Department of Education 1 '59 + Thomas F. Toomej Jr . Ml , Wachovia Foundation Pacesetter Gitt Club* Mr and Mr- Leonard A Ward, '55 (Gifts of $100 000 $24 Mr Miln 'ii A W ashingt< m, 58 The Winchester Foundation Susan F. and Joseph Buckley, '69 JohnD.Zook,C PA Robert J. Christian, 71 '5 Ellen Jane and Robert C. Crosson Jr., Levm Ellerson. '56 Contributor Gift Club ,-.,,;) The new Science and Technology Center (architect's rendering above) will feature an open Mr Daniel A Giannini, 72 , Barbara and Robert E. Hanrahan Jr., 75 floor plan designed especially to encourage collaboration and cross-disciplinary learning. • Michael .1 Amons Elmer F. 'Bud' Hansen jr.. '58 Anonymous Such innovative programs as Integrated Science, Business, and Technology (ISBT), Digital Elmer F 'Bud' Hansen III. '90, M.B.A. ^ Beverly A Bacon 75 Arts and Multimedia Design (DArt), the E-Commerce Institute, and majors in information Anthony Hayden, '67 J. Mr. Mark D. Baldino 72 technology are helping drive enrollment increases. Along with the traditional sciences, Thilip E. HushL-. Esq , 71 Le-ter B. Barenbaum. Ph.D. '5-4 Mr and Mr- Thomas 1 Kean. business, and nursing, these new programs will flourish in the new facility. David E. Beavers, Esq., 7_ lr.