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WINTER 2016 Letter from the President

Dear Friends,

The end of each year is a time of reflection as we look back at what we have accomplished—and look forward to what we still must and can do. It is the time to rejoice in the company of family and good friends—and also to hold dear the memories of those who are no longer with us. The holidays are a reminder to all of us to give thanks for all that we are given—and the opportunity to do what we can to ensure that no one goes without.

Here at Carlow, this has been a year with much to celebrate—from the Middle States re-accreditation to our head softball coach Bob Sirko being named United States Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year, from the recognition of the research done by our faculty to the career outcomes of our graduates. And at Homecoming, we remembered and applauded the members of the Class of 1966, whose work during the civil rights movement deserves our sincere thanks—as does their generous Legacy Endowment to Carlow’s Social Justice Institutes.

There are so many reasons to be #CarlowProud, and this issue of Carlow University Magazine, focused on community, highlights just a few examples of the impact we can have when we work together to build a just and merciful world. From Chanessa Schuler ’12 who works to develop mentoring relationships for African American male teens to the special bond enjoyed by our university’s athletic teams, from Carlow’s place in the neighborhood to the work being done by Nikia Tucker ’15, one of our nursing graduates who volunteers with Operation Safety Net, it is exciting to see what is possible when we stand together, value our shared humanity, and embrace our diversity. It is from each other, and from our Catholic heritage and Mercy values, that we get strength and resolve. And, in the new year, it is the respect we have for each other that will make it possible for us to prosper.

By the way, the picture on the front of this issue is a detail from one of the incredible stained glass windows in McAuley Chapel in the University Commons. I hope you will agree that it embodies the joy and light of the holiday season—and reflects a university community that has faith in the future.

I wish you and your family and friends Merry Christmas—and may the holidays and the new year be peaceful and joyous.

Sincerely,

Suzanne K. Mellon, PhD

WINTER 2016 1 28 10 an inside look at Carlow’s PLACES ESPACES personal and public spaces MAGAZINE

President Suzanne K. Mellon, PhD

Vice President, A Marketing and Communications Jeanne A. Hartig, PhD B E Editor 22 16 Alison Juram D’Addieco, MST

Art Director Katie Crawford ’09

Contributors Robert Bailey Brandywyne Dugan ’17 James Foreman D Nadine Kundrod Kristin Seamon Ann Lyon Ritchie Andrew G. Wilson WINTER 2016 Photographer David Holzemer DEPARTMENTS FEATURES

Awards C Golden Triangle Award 01 Letter from the President 10 The World in a Neighborhood 2013 • 2011 • 2010 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 Places and Spaces Marcom Award 03 12 Cheese, Please 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2006 Noted and Quoted 04 13 Hope on the Streets A Talking Monty Python and the Holy D A miniature model of Bran Castle, ALL ABOUT Grail action figures remind Boyle— in Transylvania, Romania—the only as does Monty Python’s satirical Transylvanian castle that fits Bram 05 Coffeehouse 14 Holistic Care for All THE QUEST treatment of Arthurian legend— that Stoker’s description of Dracula’s one cannot take oneself too seriously. castle. Boyle visited the castle two Carlow University Magazine is published three times a year You may not find the Holy Grail in the by Carlow University, 3333 Fifth Avenue, , PA 15213, Getting Social years ago when presenting a paper at 412.578.2091. ©2016 by Carlow University. It is distributed 08 Crossing Fences office of LOU BOYLE, PHD, but then free to university alumni and friends. It is also available on 16 B A vinyl 45-rpm record of the the University of Bucharest. Carlow’s website at www.carlow.edu. Please send change of again, who knows? Because stacked address correspondence to the above address. Letters to the Canterbury Cathedral pipe organ was editor or any other communications regarding the content of 09 Student Spotlight: and filed and shelved in every nook and given to Boyle by a former student. E The Forbes Field poster also shows Carlow University Magazine are welcomed and may be sent 18 Working Toward a Just and to the above address to the attention of the Senior Editor for Tevin Scott cranny of his office, you’ll find almost Boyle’s grandparents’ house, on the Marketing and Communications. Merciful World everything related to the Middle Ages. C A replica of a ninth-century, pre- far right, two doors away from Forbes Carlow University, as an educational institution and as an Boyle is a professor of English and the employer, values equality of opportunity, human dignity, and Christian European chessboard Field. His grandfather worked as an racial/ethnic and cultural diversity. Accordingly, the university 22 Athletics director of Carlow’s core curriculum. His discovered in Ireland. Contrary to usher for the Pirates for over 45 years prohibits and will not engage in discrimination or harassment specialty is, you guessed it, Arthurian on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, On the cover: Detail from the stained the modern form of the game, all the and his father was an altar boy for St. gender, age, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, glass window, “Eternal Reward: Our literature. So… let the quests begin! disability, or status as a disabled veteran or a veteran of pieces are exactly the same except Agnes Church—and sometimes served the Vietnam era. Further, the university will continue to 28 Alumni Activities Conversation Is in Heaven,” one of a take affirmative steps to support and advance these values series of windows in the McAuley Chapel, for the leader of the team in the mass in the Convent of Mercy Chapel. consistent with the university’s mission. This policy applies to admissions, employment, and access to and treatment in University Commons. The windows center. Boyle uses the chessboard university programs and activities. This is a commitment 37 Expressions were originally created by artist Nicholas to demonstrate how early medieval made by the university and is in accordance with federal, Parrendo of Pittsburgh-based Hunt Stained state, and/or local laws and regulations. Europeans did not necessarily have the Glass Studio for the Frances Warde Hall extensive class divisions represented For information on university equal opportunity and chapel when it opened in 1961. affirmative action programs and complaint/grievance NEWS by pieces in modern chess. procedures, please contact Human Resources, Carlow University, 3333 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412.578.8897. 06 3333 Fifth 2 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 3 “Papa believed that women should IN SEARCH OF have a good education, just like COFFEEHOUSE Engaging in lively conversation men... I guess Papa believed in over a cup of java NOTED equality for women back then.” COMMON Ë Alice McKeever Riley ’33, Carlow’s oldest living alumna. and (Pittsburgh Magazine online, June 2016). GROUND QUOTED “It made me feel “Sexism Conflict in varying degrees Maureen Crossen: The word to extend mercy. So, for those folks sort of guilty. I’m of severity has been with us discussion is based on the same root who take a few scripture passages and racism going to live in seemingly forever—at least word as percussion, to make noise. An literally to promote their agenda, I since Cain and Abel. In a alternative is dialogue, made from the would ask them to elucidate their have been a nice home... polarized world, can we find Greek root word logos: my promise to bedrock principles. Look at the deeper and there’s common ground? This is an you. To enter into a dialogue, I have to motivation behind and ahead of God’s around in excerpt of a conversation with recognize my pre-judgments, and not action in history. For people who are bring them to the table. oppressed, such as slaves out of Egypt, generations of Carlow University faculty that’s pretty clear. Jesus could not be members “Carlow politics people being BILL SCHWEERS, Carlow University Magazine: It seems more clear: Love your enemy. , an assistant professor of born in these JD as though more people have a voice University for a long justice studies in the College of than ever before. Is it a problem Carlow University Magazine: What’s refugee camps.” Leadership and Social Change, that opinions can be equally the role of a university when we have put the ‘H’ time.” and MAUREEN CROSSEN, PHD, an disseminated but not necessarily conflict and disagreement? Ë Campus School student associate professor of theology equally researched? in hospitality Ë Allyson Lowe, PhD, dean, Alexandria Westray after touring from the College of Learning BS: Carlow is an example other College of Leadership and Social Doctors Without Borders’ refugee and Innovation. BS: That’s exactly right. This is colleges and universities could and Change, in “How Some Local Poli camp traveling exhibition. the logical consequence of our should emulate. I’m very proud of Sci Professors are Handling Trump when it comes (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, vs. Clinton” (Pittsburgh Business Carlow University Magazine: Are we commitment to unregulated and our mission statement—of our role October 2016). Times, October 2016). at a point where compromise has unfettered speech, which I fully in developing leaders committed to to freshman become a bad word? Certainly, in support. To me, the heart of a creating a just and merciful world. some quarters it is. democracy is free speech, and we This role is embedded in every faculty move-in day.” should not take any measures to block member’s course material. It is Bill Schweers: We say we want to the blood to the heart. The remedy for invaluable. And it is our duty to put Ë KDKA-TV, August 2016 compromise but, rather cynically, speech that seems divisive or hateful it out there. “This is a launching point only if it’s the other side that’s doing is more speech. the compromising. People think MC: I also have to lean on Carlow, for a dialogue about Washington is broken because the Carlow University Magazine: To not only as Carlow, but as a Mercy politicians from the different parties some segments of the population, institution. Very soon after the Orlando “ It changed my seem unwilling to compromise, and documents such as the Bible or attack in June, Dr. Mellon sent us a people who have been voters don’t like that. Paradoxically, the Constitution are to be followed letter, and I’ve been struggling all work ethic.” voters hate it when their politicians word-for-word without deviation. Is it summer with the challenges she singled out and branded compromise with the other side. possible to come to a consensus when presented. She said, ‘we talk about Ë High school student D’ontae Carter it seems these bedrock principles are a just and merciful world,’ and very about the Summer Learning Program led at stake? poignantly and pointedly she asked, by Carlow professor Howard Stern, PhD persona non grata.” ‘what are you doing for it?’ And I (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 2016). Ë Carlow President Suzanne K. Mellon, PhD, about common reader, MC: What are the bedrock principles? thought, well, I’m teaching. But How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America From Jesus’ point of view, it is to there’s probably more. by Moustafa Bayoumi (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 2016). love your enemy. In Judaism: slow to anger, demanding justice for the BS: There’s always more. ¡ oppressed and the poor, always willing Online extra! Listen to the full interviews at www.carlow.edu/magazine.

4 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 5 3333 FIFtH news + notes Janice Nash, DNP, Excellence in Nursing Award recipient.

} NURSING EXCELLENCE Carlow nursing students secured a terrific pass rate (94.44%) on the 2016 NCLEX RN licensure exam—the highest in Pittsburgh for the third year running! } BRINGING BACK A CLASSIC Carlow University Theatre (CUT) brought life to the oft-forgotten In addition, members of the Carlow nursing 1924 comedy Beggar on Horseback for the first two weekends in community were recognized for Excellence November, in celebration of Pittsburgh’s bicentennial. The play in Nursing by Pittsburgh Magazine. Janice was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Pittsburgh playwrights Nash, BSN program director, received the George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. Excellence in Nursing Award for Academics. Nursing faculty Jessica Huber ’10, instructor/ course coordinator, and J. Ann Spence, assistant professor, were named as runners- up. Twelve Carlow alumni received awards of excellence, including Angela Balistrieri ’01, } CARLOW ATHLETICS COMMERCIALS A HIT! ’12; Anthony Battaglia, Jr. ’00; Jacqueline Carlow University began airing a series of three television Collavo ’83; Amber Egyud ’07, ’08; Loretta commercials featuring our athletes with the theme “I Play for Filitske ’90; Dawndra Jones-Hornsby ’94, Carlow” during the summer 2016 Olympics. We’re proud to ’06; Judith Kaufmann ’84; Mary Kish ’92; announce that the commercials were recognized as the First Marianne McConnell ’75; Joy Peters ’12; Runner Up in the Education Category of Pittsburgh’s American Margaret Quinn Rosenzweig’81; and Shelley Marketing Association 2016 competition. Neil Watters ’01, ’04.

Online extra! Watch the commercials at www.carlow.edu/magazine. } NEW SOCIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTES DIRECTOR Jessica Ruffin, former chief Moustafa Bayoumi’s book How operating officer of Coro Pittsburgh, Does It Feel to Be a Problem?— is the inaugural director of the Being Young and Arab in America Social Justices Institutes at Carlow is Carlow’s 2016 student common University. The Social Justice reader, selected by Carlow Photo by Brandywyne Dugan ’17 Institutes include the Grace Ann President Suzanne K. Mellon, PhD, On November 12, in response to what has Geibel Institute for Justice and } POPE TWEET Social Responsibility, the Women who hopes the book will spark become a national opioid epidemic, Carlow’s On September 29, Catherine McAuley’s 238th birthday, of Spirit® Institute, the Center for further conversation about injustice College of Health and Wellness presented Carlow students, faculty, and staff tweeted a videotaped message Youth Media Advocacy, and the in our world today. Bayoumi was “Taking the Pain Out of Prescribing Opioids,” to Pope Francis. Through song and words in Spanish and English Center for Community Engaged a guest speaker during Carlow’s a half-day continuing education conference in they introduced the Pope to Carlow and asked for Catherine Learning. Ruffin was also recently September Academic Convocation. line with Centers for Disease Control McAuley’s canonization. initiatives on opioid prescription and named a New Pittsburgh Courier management of chronic opioid use. Online extra! Check out the video at www.carlow.edu/magazine. Woman of Excellence.

6 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 7 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Keep a finger on the pulse of TEVIN SCOTT Carlow’s digital social scene by 2. BY ANN LYON RITCHIE checking out updates like these at CARLOW.EDU/SOCIAL. Spend a few minutes talking with sophomore liberal studies major Tevin Scott and you’ll pick up on his love of learning. That’s why the liberal arts attracted him. As did attending a small 1. college in the midst of a vibrant city. But his connection to Carlow goes deeper still.

“I chose Carlow for its dedication Thoughtful and reflective, to social justice. Social justice Scott considers how he’d like is important to me because you to make an impact in the future. can’t have a successful society As a student of need, he wants without it,” he says. other young adults to gain equal opportunities. Scott seeks to learn from his classmates and other “We’re told that school is one community members. Although of the most important things. he does not practice any one For those who are at the bottom religion, he participates in financially, like me, it’s getting activities offered through the harder to afford the education Office of Campus Ministry. that’s so important. And there 3. He enjoys meeting people of are lots of students just like different faiths, getting involved me,” Scott says. in discussion, and sharing his own views. He adds: “It’s important to advocate for those who are More than anything, Scott looks disenfranchised, for those who forward to studying abroad in don’t have a powerful voice.” ¡­ Lyon, France in the summer of 2017. A native of Pittsburgh, he feels crossing an ocean will give him a sense of independence, while allowing him to study the French language he loves. 4. “I’ll gain communication and interpersonal skills,” he says. 1. 2. 3. 4. And maturity.” A group of sisters from Patrick Martyn and Sam Nursing student Mary Gitau Behind the scenes of multiple denominations, Thauvette, admissions just became an American Carlow’s newest TV including the Sisters of counselors, star in a series citizen! Assistant Professor commercials—airing in Mercy, gather in the 1950s. of ongoing Facebook Live of Biology Laura Western on videos. Topics include the Schatzkamer, and her cable and network television application process and class threw a party December through February. how students can apply to celebrate. for financial aid. 8 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 9 1. 2.

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the world in a 4. neighborhood

Students rave about Carlow’s beautiful campus—in 1. Oakland mural by Pittsburgh artist Kyle Holbrook. the middle of the coolest part of the city: Oakland. Corner of Atwood and Sennott Streets. 2. Doors of Oakland celebrates art on the doorways of area businesses. This Our Oakland neighborhood is filled with a diverse mix mosaic by artist Alix Paul graces the door of Tong’s of grand architecture and renowned museums; quaint Cuisine, Semple Street just below Forbes Avenue. 3. The coffee shops and international cuisine; theaters, parks, Spirit of American Youth, a sculpture by Daniel Chester and countless eclectic treasures. You never know what French, Schenley Park. 4. Locks of love—a trend born in you might find. Paris—now adorn the Schenley Park Bridge. Online extra! Tour Oakland with us at www.carlow.edu/magazine.

10 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 11 Nikia Tucker ’15

Cheese, Please. Generations of Carlow Students Fueled by Sciulli’s Pizza

With additional reporting by Jonathan Winkler, BY JAMES FOREMAN Oakland Business Improvement District Hope on the Streets Carlow Alum—and Operation Safety Net—Reach Those in Need | BY DREW WILSON SCIULLI’S PIZZA is more than just a place to get great Courtney Durante: “I miss the food so much. pizza on a college student’s budget. (A large pepperoni Love that place!” Not long after Nikia Tucker started Research shows that people was unwilling to go to a shelter or a pizza will only set you back around 10 bucks.) It’s a bona volunteering with Operation Safety Net, experiencing homelessness frequently hospital for further evaluation. fide Carlow University institution. Kimberly Bousquet: “Best. Pizza. Ever.” she asked herself, “How do you not distrust hospitals, says Tucker. take this home with you?” She did deliver the baby, who was Oriente Sciulli and his brother, Antonio, came over Anita Brown Levels: “Good people!!! So glad they’re “The majority feel they weren’t treated subsequently addicted to heroin. A from Italy in 1965. Like so many immigrants, they found still there.” The answer? You can’t help but take it like human beings when they went few weeks later, Tucker found her employment in the steel mills. When those same mills home with you. Not if you have a heart. to the hospital,” she says. She back on the street. started to close, the Sciullis saw an opportunity instead Gemma Wesolowski Rusnak: “It is the absolute best!!! contrasts this with Operation Safety of a setback. Ate there many times as a student and have taken Tucker earned her master’s from Net’s approach. “The scar from her Caesarian section people there on visits to Pittsburgh!!! Miss their pizza!! Carlow’s family nurse practitioner was wide open,” recalls Tucker. Located at 3404 Fifth Avenue, right across from Still talk about how good it is.” program in 2015 and today works for “The homeless know about Operation Frances Warde Hall, the university’s main residence UPMC in the University Physicians’ Safety Net, and Operation Safety Net Operation Safety Net staff convinced hall, Sciulli’s Pizza was founded by the Sciulli brothers These days, Oriente has plenty of help from his nephews gynecological obstetrics and knows their names, their camps, and her to go to Pittsburgh Mercy’s in 1981. Those 36 years equal thousands of Carlow Luciano and Eutimio, a couple of Pittsburgh guys with reproductive office. She has spent where they hang out.” Wellspring Drop-in Center for medical students, many of whom have fond memories of just as much passion for the food as their uncle—the hours as a volunteer with Operation treatment and wound care education. Sciulli’s —and are eager to share them. ingredients, from the sauce to the dough, are made Safety Net’s Severe Weather Knowing names and faces can be a That was the last time Tucker saw her. fresh every day. Emergency Shelter. double-edged sword. A Facebook post about Sciulli’s on Carlow University’s “I couldn’t find her again. I don’t know page brought out dozens of comments from the many If you’re hungry and around Carlow’s campus, give Operation Safety Net is an award- Tucker will never forget a young if she is okay,” says Tucker, “but I keep lives—and stomachs—touched by the brothers’ pizza. Sciulli’s a try. Like so many of Carlow’s alums, you’ll winning Pittsburgh Mercy community heroin addict who was pregnant after looking for her—even when I’m not probably go back again. And again. And again. ­ ¡ outreach program that serves in being sexually assaulted. A prenatal volunteering for Operation Safety Net. “Sciulli’s is the ‘Cheers’ of Carlow....everybody knows the tradition of the , care visit revealed that the baby had I’ll never stop looking.” ¡­ your name there,” writes David Gallaher, associate bringing medical care and hope to the a chromosomal abnormality and professor of chemistry. “At least the names of the homeless on the streets of Pittsburgh. was not likely to survive. The woman Chemistry faculty, that is.”

12 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 13 Although open to anyone, Pittsburgh smears are uncomfortable. The nursing Mercy Family Health Center focuses model is holistic and helps to put women on mental health patients. at ease, providing health care that is more like a partnership.” In 2015, McAuley Ministries awarded a $125,000 grant to expand and Kristy Cloonan completed a rotation enhance women’s services at the clinic. alongside Williams. A working mother Subsequently, Carlow University and of three, Cloonan is employed by UPMC Pittsburgh Mercy have partnered in Passavant Hospital. She expects to finish the program; faculty provide care while her MSN-FNP in 2017. students receive preceptor training. “It’s important for a woman to understand A Pittsburgh Mercy Behavioral the how’s and why’s of her body, which Health clinic across the street often are rather complicated. I like being able to refers patients. advocate for and teach people how to take care of themselves,” Cloonan says. “Patients are often referred by caseworkers and other behavioral health Cloonan admires the patient-centered specialists,” says Deborah L. Mitchum, care provided at the clinic. DNP, director of Carlow’s Master of Science in Family/Individual across the “Medical care is so complex. You need a Lifespan Nurse Practitioner program central place to pull all of the different (MSN-FNP). aspects together—physical, psychological, dental, nutritional, and so on. A team Mitchum is the clinic’s nurse practitioner, is your best bet,” she says. “This is the specializing in women’s health. future of health care.”

“I’ve seen women who have never had The behavioral health setting has been a gynecological exam before,” says eye-opening. Mitchum. “Women who are psychiatrically impaired won’t walk into a practice “I watched with awe as the preceptors for care just anywhere. Some of them interacted with mental health patients, really have special needs. Here, they are treating them with such patience and accompanied by caseworkers, who make respect. I will be taking that forward in my their appointments, watch over them, own practice,” Cloonan says, “that’s how and make sure they get their everyone should be treated.” prescriptions filled.” Learning to care for the entire community ~ Two Carlow students joined the clinic’s is what Carlow’s program is all about, City dwellers easily team over the summer of 2016, says Mitchum. Holistic care is especially walk to clinics in Pittsburgh supervised by Mitchum, in fulfillment of important when dealing with mental Mercy’s complex on their MSN-FNP degree requirements. health diagnoses—which too often Ninth Street. HOLISTIC CARE They were exposed to gynecological care, complicate other illnesses. contraceptive prescriptions, and cervical cancer screening. “The MSN-FNP program is community- based,” she says. “We teach them primary FOR ALL Carlow student Danielle Williams praises care. Of people. All people.” ¡­ the clinic’s work to connect behavioral health needs with primary care.

PITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH CENTER is nestled in the heart of the city’s “Women’s care is not easy,” says Williams, historic SOUTH SIDE neighborhood. A refuge for at-risk patients seeking who worked at Allegheny General Hospital for six years. “Breast exams and pap primary care, this modest brick building is distinct in its mission to connect patients with a variety of medical specialists. BY ANN LYON RITCHIE

14 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 15 Northview Heights native Towan Since 2012, SLB has linked African in school…Not having Hall and Chanessa Schuler ’12 during American male teens with male “It’s about the support and the love at the summer 2016 Crossing Fences interviews. role models from the boys’ own events… sometimes…you know.” € neighborhoods. In summer 2016, 41 being His voice trails. male students (ages 11-18) and 31 selfless... men (ages 25-69) participated. More nodding. knowing that The boys ask about career paths, “Some people are going to try to get triumphs, and challenges, and then you have your you to do things that aren’t right,” he write reflections based on their says. “But even if you feel like it can fix conversations. In the process, they own struggles, a situation temporarily—or it can get learn interviewing, digital recording, but putting you some cash—don’t fall into anybody and audio editing skills. else’s path.” them aside Stories, reflections, and photographs Sixteen-year-old Taquan Peters is one for each neighborhood are distributed and turning to of the boys conducting the interviews via public radio, SLB StoryBox today. He can’t get over the fact that kiosks in libraries and community help your these successful adults were once just centers, and on the website like him. neighborhoodvoices.org. neighbor.” “He’s a business man. I had no idea Chanessa Schuler, a 2012 Carlow —Chanessa Schuler, he went through all that,” says Peters. mass media graduate, is manager 2012 mass media “Like he says, there are bad people of oral history and youth advocacy graduate out there trying to make you do stuff. programs for SLB. Crossing Fences It’s good to hear from him. It makes is her baby. me think.”

“A lot of these youth need role Schuler can relate to some of the models,” she says. “They’re dealing things these boys are experiencing. with things we just don’t know When she was 15, her mother passed about. This opportunity can away, and she spent her teen years change their lives.” living in public housing with her sister. to have a supportive mom who pushed Family members encouraged her to The first interviewee today is 35-year- him to succeed. keep her dreams alive. old Northview Heights native Rod Rutherford. His story sounds like a “Playing in the NFL gave me the At Carlow, Schuler volunteered SUMMER SIZZLES ON THE CITY’S NORTH SIDE dream to these boys. opportunity to witness and experience annually as part of Alternative Spring this mid-July Thursday. Three teenage boys have things, so I can tell people like you that Break. She also developed strong ties ditched the heat—they’re in the computer lab of a Not only did Rutherford graduate from it is possible. Set goals. Accomplish with Carlow’s Youth Media Advocacy former school building on West Commons. high school, but he also went on to be the first goal, and it will give you the Project (YMAP), which led her to an a two-time All-Big East quarterback momentum to keep going.” internship with SLB and, ultimately, The boys are a bit on edge, and yet today’s the at the —and her current position. day they’ve been waiting for. It’s time to start a Pittsburgh Steeler. Today he’s an Next up is 27-year-old Towan asking questions. ethics trainer and high school Hall, another Northview Heights “It’s about being selfless,” she says. sports consultant. native. He’s founder and host of “Knowing that you have your own Crossing CommonConversation412 a Pittsburgh struggles, but putting them aside and They’re part of Crossing Fences, an oral history The boys ask him his secrets podcast show that provides a voice for turning to help your neighbor.” project with deep roots in neighborhoods to success. urban communities. across Pittsburgh. And being neighbors, making strong “There are no secrets,” says The boys nod along as Hall recalls connections, is the key. A project of Saturday Light Brigade (SLB) Radio Rutherford. “It’s about hard work. what it was like to live with the Productions, Inc., Crossing Fences believes in the Believe in what you want to do. And knowledge that his father was “It’s important to talk to guys like powerful role mentors play in transforming lives don’t let people tell you that you can’t in prison. these,” says 14-year-old David Staples, FencesBY ALISON JURAM D’ADDIECO and employs an age-old technique in making these do anything.” as the interviews wrap up for the day. connections: storytelling. “There’s some things you get in your “Maybe one day I can be like them.” ¡­ Rutherford knows it’s tough. He grew mind that a father should be there for,” up without a dad—but was fortunate says Hall. “Like sports, or promotions

Online extra! Link to Crossing Fences interviews at www.carlow.edu/magazine.

16 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 17 BY DREW WILSON

“Don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.” —Maya Angelou.

Working at their sisterhood—or even just plain working—is familiar territory for the Sisters of Mercy.

Clockwise from top left: Sister Cynthia Serjak, RSM, Sister Jean Murin, RSM, Sister Patricia McCann, RSM, Sister Georgine Scarpino, RSM, PhD. 18 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 19 as well as a member of PATH (People Against the “I saw being a sister as a Trafficking of Humans). “We must make sure that everyone has these human rights... It doesn’t make any difference what your race is, “We all have human rights what your sex is, what your sexual preference is. We just that are God-given to us. way to be in the world, to seek what is good for the individual.” The Sisters have sought what is good for individuals since their founding in Dublin, Ireland so many years ago. And We must make be of service in the world, they’ve been at the forefront of many historic moments in and yet to have the opportunity to the struggle for human rights ever since. sure that On March 14, 1965, Sister Patricia McCann, RSM, led cultivate a deep spiritual life,” said a group including more than 20 Mount everyone has students to Alabama to join the now infamous Selma to Montgomery march in support of voting rights for Sister Cynthia Serjak, RSM, a writer, black southerners. these human composer, and frequent speaker on “I remember one conversation with a Black man who had been with the Marines in Iwo Jima in World War II,” recalled rights.” Sister Patricia, who has extensive experience in religious issues of music and spirituality, and educational administration and is today chair of the —Jean Murin, RSM liturgical life, and religious life. board of McAuley Ministries. “This man had never voted in his life because when he would go to vote, he would have to take a test, and the test “Yes, I am hopeful,” said Sister Jean. “I took a visitor asked him to write the Constitution. It was so clear that the through the Hill. I showed her Freedom Corner and told From the outside looking in, a deep spiritual life may seem Courage, as portrayed in American popular culture, would people of Alabama whom we encountered in Montgomery her we marched many times from there to the Federal a life spent in quiet contemplation and prayer. There is rarely be thought of as the act of bringing poor people clean did not want Black people voting.” Building. People are resilient. Enough good people in the certainly that aspect, but to dismiss it as only that is to miss drinking water, but the Sisters of Mercy stand apart in many world will help, and with God’s will they will heal.” so much of what makes the Sisters of Mercy who they are. important ways. In 1968, after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Their name, “Sisters of Mercy” continues to be synonymous Jr., the protests came closer to home. And they have the faith that a just and merciful world with community service. “The first thing would be what we call charism—our is possible. spirit,”said Sister Cynthia. “Catherine McAuley built a house “The 1960s were scary,” remembered Sister Jean. “Our The first Sisters of Mercy in the United States arrived in in Mercy to take in young women who didn’t have any place whole world was changing. One of the memories I have is “Oh yes, of course, because it’s not just our idea,” said Pittsburgh from Carlow, Ireland in 1843, spending most to go. We are looking to see who those people are today.” looking out the window of the 11th floor [of Pittsburgh’s Sister Patricia. “This year we are celebrating the Jubilee of their time in the community, seeking the poor, the sick, Mercy Hospital] where I lived and seeing the National Year of Mercy, and Pope Francis has asked for people and the uneducated. The Sisters built schools and, in Sister Cynthia knows about reaching out to those less Guard in uniform with rifles on every street corner and the to go back to the spiritual and corporal works of Mercy. 1847, opened Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh. In 1929, fortunate. For years, she would share music (on her Hill ablaze.” Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Visit the sick. Visit the they established Mount Mercy College—which is today keyboard) with individuals at area homeless shelters. imprisoned. Bury the dead. These values are not limited to Carlow University. They made music together—some of which they ended up And in spite of the fires and dangers to themselves, still the Sisters of Mercy.” recording. She says she’s often contacted by others who they marched for justice. Sister Georgine Scarpino, RSM, PhD is a strategic planning want to reach those in need. The Sisters have taken up those causes, but don’t think that consultant, meeting facilitator, teacher, and former high “Sister Ferdinand would put up a sign that read ‘The it’s all action and little contemplation or prayer either. school principal. She also serves on the Institute Anti- “The biggest question I hear…is, ‘How can I make a Sisters Will March at 4 p.m. Be at [Freedom Corner].’” Racism Transformation Team of the Sisters of Mercy and difference in the world for the better, and who can I connect “Personally, I’ve seen that prayer does work,” said Sister coordinates local Grandparents Raising Grandchildren with to help me? I don’t want to do it on my own.’ “ Amazingly—almost unbelievably—in spite of all the Jean.“Sometimes I feel that God, when He gives us support groups. inhumanity and injustice they have witnessed in this world, challenges or She gives us challenges, also gives us the The Sisters of Mercy are determined to make those kind of to a Sister, they still have hope in the future. grace to carry them out.” ¡­ Sister Georgine lists a number of qualities that hold this connections. Unfortunately, it’s often not terribly difficult to community together. “It’s history for one, but it’s also find people in need in the world today. service to the poor. We’re not afraid to go somewhere and start something. The sisters accepted the invitation to go “We all have human rights that are God-given to us,” said to Peru. It’s a hard place to live because people are so poor. Sister Jean Murin, a registered dietitian and administrator Editor’s Note: Any discussion of community at Carlow begins with the Sisters of Mercy, who remain at the heart of There is no infrastructure. Just to pick up and go—that for 45 years and now the justice coordinator for Mercy our university. Audio of the full interviews with Sisters Cynthia, Georgine, Jean, and Patricia is available as an online takes courage.” Communities of Pittsburgh, Erie, Rochester, and Buffalo, extra at www.carlow.edu/magazine.

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“The team motto is ‘ALL IN.’ That means you do everything you can to stay true to who you are.” BEYOND -John LeGrande B-BALL Celtics’ Coach and Players Teach Skills—and Life Lessons—to Area Youth. BY KRISTIN SEAMON

John LeGrande was on lunch duty skills. These boys and girls, ages 8-18, graduating from Cardinal Wuerl North during the sixth annual P.R.O.M.I.S.E. are learning about life. Catholic High School. Camp in the Oliver Citywide Gymnasium on Pittsburgh’s North The sixth annual P.R.O.M.I.S.E. Camp “I’m a North Side kid,” LeGrande said. Side when a lanky teenager plopped is run by Jakim Donaldson, who plays “I’ve been where they are, and I’m past down across the table from him. professional basketball in Europe, where they are.” in memory of his brother, Jehru “So, what did I talk to you guys about Donaldson, who was the victim of gun Campers are divided into groups yesterday?” asked LeGrande, a 6-foot- violence in 2007 when he was just 18 and rotated through stations that 11 forward on the Carlow men’s years old. include dribbling drills, shooting basketball team. It’s no wonder he’s drills, defensive drills, and speed and known around campus as Big John. “Jakim hosts this camp to stand up to strength workouts. gang violence,” LeGrande said. “I’m “Discipline” the camper said. here because I support everything that Each day, a different speaker he does—giving back to the community addresses topics such as goal-setting, “Exactly,” LeGrande said. “Discipline. and the kids. He is definitely a good guy discipline, and the importance of Obeying authority. Staying true to to look up to.” attending college. your brand—whatever you say you are, that’s what you have to own up to. Donaldson paid for all the food and This year, one of those speakers was Keeping your word. Going to college. start-up costs of the first camp so LeGrande. He says the camp’s mission What college are you going to go to?” that children could attend for free. reflects what he is learning as a team Today, he accepts donations from player at Carlow. “I want to go to college and play individuals and businesses. The staff basketball,” the camper said, “at LSU.” is made up of volunteers who work “The team motto is ‘All in,’” he said. from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. each summer “That means you do everything you can “Thinking big,” LeGrande said, with a for three days straight. to stay true to who you are. grin. “I like it.” Carlow men’s basketball coach Tim “Carlow Athletics is a Champions of That’s exactly what the camp Keefer has been volunteering since the Character program, and that’s all encourages young athletes to do. camp’s inception, and he encourages about community. If I can give back to Celtics players to join him. LeGrande a kid and help him learn that message P.R.O.M.I.S.E stands for Protecting and was a natural fit. and not fall into some of the traps that John LeGrande and Carlow men’s Restoring the Order of Mankind with I fell into, I want to do that.” ¡­ basketball coach Tim Keefer the Initiative of Serving Elders. And the The Celtics’ Big John attended Oliver camp teaches more than basketball as a freshman and sophomore before

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Carlow Cross Country Athlete Makes School History—after Switching Her Major and Her Sport.

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SIERRA VECCHIO BY KRISTIN SEAMON

Entering college can be a difficult So, in addition to switching her major, incoming groups are continually better adjustment, even when everything goes she switched her sport. To cross and better.” according to plan. But sometimes, country, starting her sophomore year. even the best-laid plans change. Vecchio will graduate this year and is And she wound up making history. awaiting her acceptance to physician Junior Sierra Vecchio enrolled at assistant school. Looking back on it, Carlow as a nursing major and Vecchio broke the school record in everything about her Carlow career planned to play soccer. But the the 5K and the 6K, was named the was unexpected, but she wouldn’t summer before her freshman year, Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic have it any other way. she decided she was really interested Conference (KIAC) Runner of the in being a physician’s assistant. Week, and placed seventh at the “Carlow is so close knit,” she says. KIAC Championship. She was the “It kind of feels like a family. The 2. 3. She decided to switch her major first runner in Carlow history to be a academics are great, and the small to biology. conference medalist and the first to be class sizes are wonderful. The named First-Team All-Conference. professors always know you, and She also decided not to play soccer they are up to date with what you her freshman year—so that she could In her two seasons with the Celtics, are doing in athletics. I love it.” ¡­ really dive into her major and maybe she has seen tremendous growth in graduate early. To stay in shape, the program. A Season of Firsts Vecchio started running. A lot. “We have a lot of new talented runners, 2016 saw new teams in men’s soccer and men’s and women’s golf. “I ran all around campus, all around and the dynamic is really good. It’s fun In Fall 2017, Carlow will offer men’s and women’s track and field. Oakland…and I realized that I really to be around them all,” she said. “The enjoyed it!” she says. “And the cross coaching staff has really helped us 1. Zach Talley, a junior respiratory care major from Finleyville, Pa. country team girls told me I had improve. I think in the upcoming years, 2. Hailey Schleich, a sophomore biology/perfusion technology major from Copley, Ohio. good times.” the program will really take off. The 3. Gregorie Paluku, a freshman communication and media major from Pittsburgh.

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She Plays for Carlow

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE IN A TV COMMERCIAL? MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT BEING A CARLOW ATHLETE? Kristina Hudock at the net while filming 2016 BY KRISTIN SEAMON Carlow commercials. BUILDING UP WHAT’S BROKEN?

KRISTINA HUDOCK HAS SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS in the Hudock recalled, with a smile. “There was Simone Biles, SEEKING SOLUTIONS? St. Joseph Hall gymnasium. But one Saturday morning this and then there was Kristina Hudock—Whoa!” TAKING A STAND? past summer, this Carlow volleyball student-athlete saw the gym in a whole new light. She was invited to star in a Beneath the glamour was a message Hudock was proud commercial that would air in the regional television market to share: What drives a Carlow athlete. The commercial Carlow Fund gifts go to work immediately. They sustain our mission—one rooted in during the 2016 Olympic Games. highlighted values Hudock and her teammates take social justice and ethical leadership. They inspire faculty who are change-makers. seriously. Respect. Trust. Dignity. Faith. And students who make a meaningful difference in their world. “The gym was lit up so differently,” said Hudock, a junior early childhood education major from Uniontown, Pa. “I was “It was exactly what I would want to tell anyone about being expecting something small, but there was an actual film a Carlow athlete,” Hudock said. Make a meaningful impact. crew, and that’s when I realized this was a big deal. It was Give to The Carlow Fund. really cool.” “My coach respects me 100 percent. Being a Carlow athlete is about playing for something bigger than me—playing for Hudock was joined by teammates Mia Marmion and Carlow. None of our jerseys have our names on the back. Michaela Koran. Their jumps, digs, and sets took center It’s about playing for respect for the school and respect for stage. Hudock saw the finished product for the first time each other, and having the Champions of Character attitude while she was watching the gold medal-winning Team USA while we play. It means being a great athlete and a great women’s gymnastics squad. person all-around.” ¡­

“My grandma actually called, and she was like ‘It’s on! It’s Online extra! View the volleyball commercial at www.carlow.edu/magazine. CARLOW.EDU/GIVE on!’ My mom was waiting for it and wanted to record it,”

26 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 27 What they chose to support couldn’t Kirr Challenge Grant. They also be more fitting. Inspired by a $10,000 dramatically increased their galvanizing gift from classmate Norma support for the 2016 Carlow Fund. Jean LeClair, the class raised a total LeClair is thrilled that she and her of $73,156. Their legacy? The Class of classmates could come together to 1966 Legacy Endowment for the Social make such a difference in the lives of Justice Institutes. others. Because for LeClair, education has been life-changing. The newly created Social Justice Institutes of Carlow University include When you ask what drives her, she’ll The Grace Ann Geibel Institute point to those Mercy values—and for Social Justice, the Women of the education she received as an Spirit® Institute, the Center for Youth undergraduate. The scholarship that Media Advocacy, and the Center for brought this small town girl from Community Engaged Learning. Donora, Pa., to Pittsburgh made a world of difference. Guided by the mission, history, and traditions of Carlow and the Sisters of “I would not have been able to go if I Mercy, the Institutes aim to facilitate hadn’t received a scholarship,” recalls systemic change by informing LeClair, who now lives in Philadelphia. practice and educating for social “I’ve always had a mind to repay that justice. Programs will support faculty gift, in some way.” research, providing opportunities and securing partnerships for community- And so she has—quite generously. based learning, and serving as a She created a scholarship fund in conduit for community engagement. 2013 in honor of her parents—to which she added $10,000 this year. LeClair is thrilled to support the Norma Jean LeClair ‘66 and her The Angelo Grazzini and Helen Stimak new Institutes. husband, Robert LeClair Grazzini Scholarship is earmarked for students from the Mon Valley area. Photo by Robert Bailey Photo “Social justice issues are just as And the $30,000 Norma Jean Grazzini relevant today as they were in the was going to be a class legacy, then LeClair Challenge Grant doubled new 1960s,” she says, “especially issues we needed to pick something the gifts and increased gifts overall to the pertaining to women and race. There is class as a whole could get behind.” Carlow Fund. still so much work to be done.” Leaving a Anita Dacal ’69, Carlow’s executive LeClair reflects on a favorite Benjamin LeClair knew she wanted to give back director for university advancement, Franklin quote—one her husband for her 50th anniversary. The seed gift knew many of the 1966 graduates memorized as a freshman at Penn—in for the Legacy Endowment was part from their Mount Mercy years together. considering where to share one’s time, of a larger $50,000 gift she and her “They were the movers and shakers talents, and treasures. husband, Robert LeClair, gave to the on campus,” she says. Dacal created a institution earlier this year. list of ideas for LeClair—and she and “If a man empties his purse into his her classmates instantly zeroed in on head,” quotes LeClair, “no man can LEGACY social justice. But what stands out most is the take it away from him. An investment enthusiasm of all of her classmates in knowledge always pays the and the support of the university. “Social justice was so important to us best interest.” ¡­ Together with classmates Kathleen when we were there,” says LeClair. “As a class in the 1960s, you can’t BY ALISON JURAM D’ADDIECO Pollock Panepinto and Jane Macel Fiore, LeClair spearheaded the class get more involved than we were then. giving initiative, and she hopes the Because we picked an issue that was Carlow University’s Class of 1966 graduated in a time of entire process will serve as a model important to our class, that really tumultuous social upheaval. Vietnam. Civil Rights. Busloads of for future class giving. encouraged people to give.” students traveling south to march from Selma to Montgomery. Opposite page: Members of the Class of 1966 present their “Our class reunion committee began And give they did. They reached This year, as the Class of 1966 celebrated the 50th anniversary Legacy Endowment during Homecoming Skyping and emailing and trying to the $25,000 needed to endow a of their graduation, they sought to do something different Weekend. L-R: Jane Macel Fiore, Kathleen figure out what we wanted to do,” fund at Carlow—which included for their alma mater. To create a class legacy. Pollock Panepinto, Norma Jean LeClair, and recalls LeClair. “We decided if this additional support from the Capozzi Suzanne K. Mellon, PhD.

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HOMECOMING 2016, October 7-9, was a huge success—drawing the largest 1. Class of 1966 homecoming crowd to date. Highlights of 5. the weekend included a popular murder 2. Corwin Manker and Shallegra Moye ’08 mystery dinner in A.J. Palumbo Hall of Science and Technology—and a trip to Pittsburgh’s 3. Henry Blanker and Lawrenceville neighborhood to sample local Virginia Crosby Blanker ’66 brews and cuisine. Alumni worked alongside 4. Nancy Ward Pollack and current students to pack hygiene supplies for the Margo Hoffman Lane ’66 homeless, and listened attentively as students described their involvement in the 2016 Roots 5. Joan Davis ’56, Shirley Phillips-Marvin ’56, of the Civil Rights tour. and Nancy T. Brown ’56

Online extra! Carlow President Suzanne K. Mellon, 6. Chloe Giovanetti ’17 and PhD, highlighted exciting new university developments Hannah Tajuddin ’17 at a Homecoming Town Hall gathering. Read her address at www.carlow.edu/magazine. Photo by Robert Bailey Photo Photos by Robert Bailey 30 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 31 analysis. She is a behavior specialist LaTrenda Leonard Sherrill ’12, in September. Her poem “The Girls and mobile therapist at Regional deputy chief of education, Office of of Goat Island,” published by Cordite For information on upcoming events, Behavioral Consultants in Mercer City of Pittsburgh Mayor William Poetry Review (Australia), can be visit www.carlow.edu/alumni County, Pa. Peduto, and Latasha Wilson-Batch read online. ’13, executive director, Best of the Alumni Molly Prosser ’07 debuted her poetry Batch Foundation, were both honored Jane Harrington ’15, was shortlisted ACTIVITIES collection, Rubbernecking, published as Pittsburgh Magazine’s 2016 40 for the Colm Tóibín International by WordTech Communications. Fred under 40 awardees. Short Story Award (Wexford, Ireland) C. Shaw ’08 wrote a review of the book for “Settling.” Its companion piece, cancer patients to participate in 00s in Pittsburgh City Paper. 10s “Strangers on the Road,” published in NEWS clinical trials. the current issue of Circa, can be read Fred C. Shaw ’08 published the online. Both stories are part of her Kevin Finn ’11 wrote the poem, “The Heidi Hylton Meier, DBA, CPA ’77 Tamiah Bridgett ’00 founded poems “Caravan” and “Initiation” novella Flight that is a finalist for the 50s Warrior’s Song,” which will appear in received the 2016 Outstanding Ohio Diversame, an African-American hair in the summer issue of Brilliant Dana Awards. the North American Review Quarterly. Mary Jo Dunn Wuenschel ’52 Accounting Educator Award at the care company whose first product is a Corners, and “An Outhouse in Forest published a book, Adventures in American Accounting Association’s hair dryer Tamiah invented for styling County” and “Sex-Ed” in the winter Maeve Murray ’15 was accepted to Lea Steadman ’12, ’14 was promoted Ministry, chronicling her work in Ohio region meeting on April 8. curly hair. Diversame received $50,000 issue of Nerve Cowboy. “Paper Signs” the Monologamy IX Festival for her to a CRA mortgage originator, after the Catholic Church. from the startup accelerator AlphaLab was featured in the Pittsburgh Post- monologue, I Am Fortune, which was being a community development Gear and will be testing its prototype Gazette’s Verse Envisioned Anthology, performed by Carlow’s theater group 90s associate student loan specialist at in Pittsburgh at Phillip Pelusi Salons and “You Can’t Be in Heaven and On during its Spring 2016 show. 70s Dollar Bank. and Diva Den. Earth at the Same” will appear in the Barbara Mistick, PhD ’90 co-authored fall issue of Poet Lore. He published Leah Maxson Propst ’16, accepted an Nancy Picciano Zimmerman, the book Stretch: How to Future-Proof Samantha Barret ’13 was an invited Jane Gullish Milligan ’03 was a book review of Knitting the Andy apprenticeship with Veteran’s Place of PhD ’73 retired as associate dean Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace reader for the Free Association promoted to charge nurse after Warhol Bridge by Ann Curran in Washington Boulevard where she will for academic affairs in the Graduate with Karie Willyerd, published by John Reading Series on May 6, 2016 celebrating 10 years as a dialysis staff Pittsburgh City Paper. act as the employment coordinator. School and a professor in the School Wiley & Sons, Inc. nurse at Liberty Dialysis in Baden, Pa. and Mad Fridays Reading Series, a of Library and Information Science at Carlow-sponsored reading series, on Denise LaRosa ’08 debuted as an the University of South Carolina. Julia M. Glencer, Esq. ’93 earned May 13, 2016. Lisa McClimans Garchar ’04 and author, publishing the children’s the Student Bar Association’s 2016 Alumni—are you interested in her husband, Joseph, married in book Empty Shoes, which is available Carol Doyle Glock ’75 was featured in Excellence in Teaching Award and Theresa Herrle Barry ’13 published helping current students with 2008 and had three children, Kaylee from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Observer-Reporter article “W&J was featured in a Pittsburgh Tribune- the poems “In the Land of Fish professional development? Join the in 2010, Matthew in 2013, and momtalkdenise.com. LaRosa will Carlow University Alumni-Student Professor Pushing for Clinical Drug Review article. She is a professor Knives” and “Emptied of All but Elliannah in 2014. Her oldest son, donate $1.00 to Soles4Souls for E-Mentoring LinkedIn group Trials”on her battle to overcome of legal research and writing at Wildness” in the Woven Tale Press Joey, graduated from high school in every book sold. launching February 1, 2017. inflammatory breast cancer. As School of Law, 2016. Lisa received a master’s degree Literary and Arts Magazine (England) linkedin.com/groups/12020856 founder of the Glock Foundation, where she has taught for 10 years. in psychology in June 2015 with a Glock continues to encourage breast specialization in applied behavior

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Carlow Alums in Ireland. The recent Coyne family trip to Ireland included Westmoreland Museum of American Art. L-R: several Carlow alumni. L-R: Mary Grace Parme Bente ’80, Kathleen Coyne Ward Westmoreland Museum of American Art. L-R: Patricia A. Matilda show and alumni lunch. L-R: Bobbi Fink ’11 and Ashley Kunkle ’11. Bernadette Burger Skoczylas ’69 and Janis Durick ’06. ’77, Eileen Cunningham Butler ’92, Margaret A. Monahan ’76, Karen O’Hearn Graff ’10, Linda Wagner ’96, and Diane L. Hendrick ’11. Foley ’88, and Mary Margaret Murray Parme ’82.

32 CARLOW UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE WINTER 2016 33 Anna Marie Churilla Hanlon ’55, 70s 10s Sister Mildred Boeh, CSJ ’55, John Katella ’78, April 29, 2016. BIRTHS for the loss of her son, James March 4, 2016. “Chip” Hanlon, June 16, 2016. Joanne Haines Weber ’79, Melinda Rovan Corallo ’05 and her Molly Dennison Houghton ’74, for Marla Sasko ’14, for the loss of her Mary Haney Wilson ’56, April 26, 2016. husband, Keith, welcomed a daughter, the loss of her husband, Charles F. father, Paul J. Sasko, April 2, 2016. Marion Froelicher Flaherty ’58, for July 24, 2015. Julia Marie, on May 31, 2016. Houghton, Jr., June 2, 2016. the loss of her sister, Barbara Angela Marshall ’15, for the loss of 90s Froelicher Gorr, August 21, 2015. Sister Mary Archangela Galecki, Abigail Schwartz Hodnick ’06 and her her grandmother, Irene Marshensic, 80s CSSF ’58, October 25, 2015. husband, Nicholas, welcomed a son, February 12, 2016. Anna Marie Posavetz White ’92, Lois Miller Huston ’58, for the loss Hayden Nicholas Hodnick, on May 8, 2016. of her daughter, Ann Lynn Huston Kimberly Pogozelski Schattauer ’84, Marianne Dunn Geier ’58, April 13, 2016. Holmes, April 30, 2016. for the loss of her husband, IN MEMORIAM July 6, 2016. Jack Schattauer, April 17, 2016. Maria Harden, CSJ ’96, LaTrenda Leonard Sherrill ’12 September 22, 2016. Sister Virginia Kovalcik, RSM ’59, and her husband, Tracey, welcomed 60s 40s Donna Gary Vereb ’84, for the loss October 28, 2016. a son, Tracey Sherrill, Jr., on of her husband, Robin Edward Vereb, Julie Jenkins Ramsey ’99, September 26, 2016. June Meckler Cox ’63, for the loss July 28, 2016. Martha Pillar Noroski ’43, July 7, 2016. of her brother, Donald A. Meckler, June 22, 2016. 60s March 22, 2016. 00s MARRIAGES 00s Helen Donahoe Dreven ’44, Eileen Roscoe Willison ’60, Dorothy Nonic Gerhard ’63, for the August 27, 2015. July 3, 2016. Carolyn Levish McNally ’03, Ashley Popojas ’09, ’13 married loss of her husband, George Calvin Lois Newman Conway ’02, for the April 18, 2016. Ryan Burger on June 9, 2016. Gerhard, August 12, 2016. loss of her husband, Donald E. Patricia Bour Kennedy ’44, Barbara Wehrle Alexander ’63, Conway, June 1, 2015. May 27, 2016. September 24, 2016. Kimberly Kardes Plecenik ’03, Frances M. Ujhazy ’64, for the loss July 23, 2016. SYMPATHY TO of her brother, Joseph L. Ujhazy, Jr., Roberta Foizey ’03, for the loss of her Anne Bernatonis Allalunis ’47, Sister M. Angeline Frantz, OSF ’66, March 31, 2016. son, Elliott Helterbran, July 8, 2016. June 7, 2016. June 10, 2016. 50s Ashley Stang Esposito ’06, October 6, 2016. Cassandra Greco Ruane ’65, for the Deborah Mucha, PsyD ’07, for the Marjorie Kraft Neubert ’47, Lucy Strong ’66, November 8, 2015. Marcella Martin Link ’51, for the loss of her mother, Mildred Greco, loss of her mother, Rosemary Mucha, July 7, 2016. She is survived by her loss of her husband, Harold Link, April 21, 2016. June 5, 2016. sister Joan G. Kraft ‘51. Maria Liang Ludmer, MD ’67, FRIENDS July 8, 2016. March 18, 2015. She is survived by Bonnie Heh, RSM ’69, for the 50s her sister Hildegardis Liang Hui ‘64. Joseph A. Massaro, Jr., Anna La Marca D’Eramo ’52, for loss of her mother, Ida Heh, December 30, 2015. the loss of her husband, Victor P. September 22, 2016. Ruth Kane Tobin ’51, Patricia Wagner Musante ’67, D’Eramo, September 23, 2016. Annemarie Smeltzer, October 1, 2016. March 4, 2016. November 2, 2016. Dorothy Gloekler Hannon ’52, 70s July 30, 2016. Jo Ann Iannuzzi ’72, July 18, 2016. Barbara A. Keane ’52, September 15, 2016. Veronica Jacob Gresko ’75, April 16, 2016.

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Thin Ice by Rebecca Cole-Turner

This is the velvet moment when deep darkness lifts across the river along the ridge of the hills beyond.

Perched on the eastern tip of Sycamore Island hugging the shoreline, a flush of mallards breaks out of the tight huddle that has kept them warm and alive overnight in sub-freezing temperatures.

They’re ice skating. One-by-one, like school children in single file formation, each duck slowly waddles out on the fragile ice that has formed around water’s edge.

Overhead, a cloud floats by, palest gray flowing into ripe peach. One duck slips through the ice, as if she forgot to look where she was going.

Nearby Canadian geese awake, leisurely float around as if to greet them, and perhaps suggest that new ice is thinnest and not to be trusted.

REBECCA COLE-TURNER is ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ. She serves as respect minister of spiritual formation at Smithfield UCC. Also a spiritual director, she is a Companion of Julian of Norwich (CJN). Her poetry has been published in Hungry Hearts and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Journal. She is a participant in the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops at Carlow University. As women, we have the right to be leaders. It’s important for us to achieve and earn our dreams and do what we need to “Thin Ice” appears in Volume XXII of Voices from the Attic anthology, edited by Jan Beatty, which do. People drive me. Their lives drive me. Their talents drive includes work from the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. me. And their successes drive me. As long as I can touch lives, I’ll continue to do what I’m doing. Reprinted with permission of the author, Rebecca Cole-Turner.

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“Try to meet all with peace and ease.” —Catherine McAuley, Founder, Sisters of Mercy