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I cannot tell you what it’s like to step off of a plane PHOTO BY FERNANDO BÉJAR after an eight-hour flight VOLUME 46, ISSUE 1 to Europe, only to walk EDITOR Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92) onto a campus that feels ASSOCIATE EDITOR just like home. Or perhaps Amy Garland (A&S ’97) I don’t have to tell many ART DIRECTOR of you — those of you who Matt Krob have studied at or visited CONTRIBUTORS SLU-Madrid, or our Jessica Ciccone international students in Marie Dilg (Grad SW ’94) St. Louis. ON CAMPUS NEWS STORIES University Public Relations hat is certainly what our campus in Billiken Media Relations Spain aims to achieve — and accom- plishes with great success. From ON THE COVER T SLU-Madrid students in Plaza signage to statutes, SLU-Madrid succeeds at Mayor in the heart of Madrid carrying out our branding. But much more than that, it lives our mission. This campus Photo by Fernando Béjar Pestello talks with students outside of PHOTO BY STEVE DOLAN shares our vision for building a better world San Ignacio Hall at SLU-Madrid. with more Jesuit-educated graduates. To do Universitas is published by Saint Louis so on the global stage is a testament to the University. Opinions expressed in Universitas are those of the individual New and returning students gather at the first 9 p.m. Mass of the school year in St. Francis Xavier College Church. power of a SLU education. authors and not necessarily those of the The stories I hear from our students, both when I visit SLU- As we look to our University’s future, we continue to focus on University administration. Unsolicited FEATURES manuscripts and photographs are welcome Madrid and those who come back to St. Louis after spending time opportunities that will strengthen the University for generations but will be returned only if accompanied studying abroad, never cease to amaze me. Their stories and experi- to come. by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 14 24 ences remind me why I was called to higher education. You will read more in this issue about a few examples of the bur- Letters to the editor must be signed, and letters not intended for publication should As you will see in this issue, our students absorb culture through geoning development in the Midtown St. Louis area. These include indicate that fact. The editor reserves the ¿Sabías? Beyond Career Fairs their time with señoras, or host families, who help broaden their projects on and off campus. Momentum and excitement continue right to edit all items. Address all mail to Ten facts about SLU-Madrid that might SLU’s Career Services focuses on preparing Universitas, DuBourg Hall 39, perspective of Spanish culture. (Read more on page 16.) Learning to build for our new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering 1 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103. surprise you. — By Laura Geiser students for life after SLU. — By Marie Dilg does not stop when our students leave class — and in this increas- Building, and we are thrilled that progress continues on the new, We accept email at [email protected]. ingly connected world, it is more important than ever to lead them $550 million SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital and 20 26 to become informed global citizens. Ambulatory Care Center. All will open this fall. Postmaster: Send address changes to Coming Home The excitement we feel at SLU crosses international waters, and SLU is also proud to be involved in developments that lead the Top Class Universitas, Saint Louis University, The St. Louis Jesuits music group says farewell I’m thrilled this issue brings you a flavor of the pride we feel for resurgence taking place in the city’s central core, such as the redevel- 1 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103. The freshman class is the largest in SLU’s history. — By Marie Dilg with a sold-out concert. — By Amy Garland our Madrid and St. Louis campuses. From regional development opment of homes in the Gate District West neighborhood near the Website: slu.edu/universitas to record-breaking enrollment and fundraising, we certainly look hospital, and the forthcoming City Foundry. (Read more on page 30 forward to sharing our good news. 13.) As we share in the story about Gate District West, we are grate- Universitas is printed by Breese The start of our third century and SLU-Madrid’s 52nd year ful to our St. Louis community neighbors for sharing our vision for Printing and Publishing Vice Presidential VIP brought a record-setting year for us at Saint Louis University. and commitment to growing stronger together. Law professor Joel K. Goldstein is the Our freshman class in St. Louis broke all enrollment records with In closing, I ask that you remember how these stories and the Worldwide circulation: 123,557 nation’s top VP expert. — By Jessica Ciccone 1,900 students, surpassing our previous largest class by 200 students. many initiatives behind them help fulfill our noble mission. (Turn to page 22 to learn more.) SLU-Madrid continues to draw I also ask that you share our exciting news with those you know © 2020, Saint Louis University DEPARTMENTS hundreds of students from dozens of countries who learn and grow who are young — or young at heart — who are seeking higher edu- All rights reserved. together. cation. Tell them about SLU and your experience. Our world always 2 On Campus 36 How I Got Here And thanks to our generous donors, we once again raised a record benefits from more truth-seekers and servant leaders who are Jesuit Reproduction in whole or in part Jim Dean (CSB ’88) amount in gifts for scholarships, academics, research and other ini- educated. without permission is prohibited. Women’s soccer A-10 championship /// tiatives. We are well on our way to our $500 million goal in our May God bless you and Saint Louis University. Record fundraising year /// Nursing school’s 40 Letters to the Editor campaign, known as Accelerating Excellence: The Campaign for new name /// Midtown development update Saint Louis University. (See the story on page 10.) /// Rankings /// Opus Prize While we certainly celebrate these achievements, we will never rest 41 In Memoriam on them. That’s the joy and the challenge of academia — always plan- 34 Class Notes ning and adapting for the ever-changing world in which we operate. 44 By the Numbers The many ways in which we meet those needs is broad. For exam- Dr. Fred P. Pestello 35 Alumni Spotlight ple, regional development and the physical changes across campus. President Angela Lewis (A&S ’04, Grad A&S ’07) 45 The Last Look

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Women’s Soccer Wins A-10 Again

The Billikens women’s soccer team defeated George Washington 3-1 in the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship title game in November, securing its second straight A-10 Championship crown. Senior Courtney Reimer was named the most outstanding player of the championship. Senior Emma Farley, sophomore Hannah Friedrich, senior Alli Klug and graduate student Mary Niehaus joined her on the All-Championship team. The team celebrates at Robert R. Hermann Stadium on campus. Over the season, SLU extended its school- record unbeaten streak to 16 games. Already the Celebrating with Reimer (center) hugs winningest class in SLU women’s soccer history, the the A-10 trophy Annabelle Copeland Billiken seniors registered their 64th victory. (left) and Farley. The team lost to Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA Championship.

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NOTEWORTHY GRANTS University Offers New Academic Programs, Supported by a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Begins Comprehensive Review Process John Morley, professor of internal medicine, and Dr. Marla Berg-Weger, executive director GERIATRIC CARE IN $3.75 Saint Louis University began offering many new academic programs in the fall, MISSOURI of SLU’s Geriatric Education Center and professor of social work, will partner with multiple including: million educational, patient care and service organizations in educating, studying and caring for older adults. UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE GRADUATE CERTIFICATES Bachelor of Arts Master of Science American Studies Dr. Verna Hendricks-Ferguson, the Irene Riddle Endowed Professor of Nursing at SLU, is a in Leadership and in Biostatistics and Valentine COMMUNICATION principal investigator for this first-of-its-kind study. The goal of the five-year study is to see Cybersecurity WITH PARENTS OF $3.26 Organizational Health Analytics SICK CHILDREN million if early palliative and end-of-life care discussions at the time of a child’s cancer diagnosis will Behavior Strategic Intelligence SLU Names Nursing School to improve the quality of life for parents and their children. Doctorate in Honor Trudy Busch Valentine Bachelor of Science Education Policy and Women’s and Gender in Health Care Ethics Equity Studies n August, Saint Louis University announced NON-ADDICTIVE Addressing the need for better pain medications, Dr. Daniela Salvemini and her colleagues at that University trustee Trudy Busch Valentine PAINKILLER $2.1 million the Henry and Amelia Nasrallah Center for Neuroscience at SLU will investigate a promising Minor in Dance I OPTIONS (VSN ’80) made a gift of $4 million in support of the pain-signaling pathway in the hopes of opening up a new avenue for pain medication research. The University also started a formal review of its academic programs. In spring School of Nursing and Accelerating Excellence: The Chemistry professor Dr. Jim Edwards (A&S ’99, Grad A&S ’01) received this National 2019, the provost established the Academic Portfolio Review Committee, tasked CELLULAR Campaign for Saint Louis University. Institutes of Health grant to understand cellular changes that could lead to better therapies with analyzing and making recommendations to the provost about the size CHANGES WITH In recognition of Valentine’s history of philan- HEART DISEASE, $1.8 million for diabetes and heart disease. Dr. Chris Arnatt, assistant professor of chemistry at SLU, is and academic scope of the University’s portfolio of offerings. This process will thropic support of SLU totaling nearly $7 million, DIABETES also a principal investigator. eventually become a regular assessment tool for all graduate and undergraduate the University renamed its nursing school the Trudy programs. Busch Valentine School of Nursing and hosted OBESITY, CANCER Dr. Ryan Teague, associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology, will study Led by faculty, the committee has representatives from the student body and a dedication during Homecoming and Family IMMUNOTHERAPY $1.7 million how obesity influences outcomes for cancer patients being treated with immunotherapy. administration. Dr. Mark Knuepfer, a professor in the School of Medicine, serves Weekend 2019. as the committee chair. Valentine’s gift was made in honor of former deans Associate professor of chemistry Dr. Marvin Meyers will use this National Institutes of Health Dr. Teri Murray (VSN ’79, Grad VSN ’93, Grad Ed ANTI-DIARRHEAL grant to focus on intelligent drug design — finding new drugs for infectious diseases that kill ’97) and the late Dr. Joan Hrubetz (VSN ’60, Grad Ed DRUG $1.65 million millions and are devastating for the poor. Dr. Dave Griggs, associate professor of molecular ’70, ’75) for their legacy of leadership of the nursing microbiology and immunology, is another principal investigator. school. The gift will support faculty development as well as continued academic excellence among the school’s faculty in teaching, research, scholarship SLU Startup Raises $30 Million and leadership. in Bid to Better Manage Pain Valentine has been a member of the Saint Louis SUBMITTED PHOTO University Women’s Council since 1990. She joined the n one of the biggest investments in research com- School of Nursing Executive Advisory board in 2000, I mercialization in Saint Louis University’s history, assuming the chairperson role from 2006 to 2015. She BioIntervene, a biopharmaceutical company founded was elected to SLU’s board of trustees in 2017. in 2014 by SLU pharmacologist Dr. Daniela Salvemini Valentine and her family have been supporters of has raised $30 million in series A funding from MPM SLU’s nursing school for years. Her mother, Gertrude Capital. The investment will propel Salvemini’s discov- Buholzer Busch, established an undergraduate schol- eries forward and set the stage to begin Phase I clinical arship and the Joan Hrubetz Endowed Chair. In 2012, trials for a new non-addictive painkiller later this year. Valentine and her daughter Christina Valentine Salvemini, who is professor of pharmacology and phys- Cammon (VSN ’12) established the Trudy and iology and director of the Henry and Amelia Nasrallah Christina Busch Valentine Endowed Lecture Series. Center for Neuroscience at SLU, pioneered research on “Nursing has made me respect people from all a treatment for neuropathic pain that could provide the walks of life, and it has opened my heart, mind and first alternative to ineffective steroids and addictive opi- life to the well-being of others,” Valentine said. “I’m oids, a market projected to reach $8.3 billion by 2024. so proud to be part of a profession that cares so deeply Neuropathic pain affects between 15 and 20 million about people and can make such a positive impact people in the United States. Exceedingly difficult to treat, on the lives of others — a profession that lives SLU’s this type of pain can occur after injuries to the nervous PHOTO BY AMELIA FLOOD Jesuit mission to seek a higher purpose for the greater system due to trauma, disease or exposure to neurotox- good. I am so grateful to the Saint Louis University ins, including after chemotherapy. There is a need for Salvemini Signature Beam: Students, faculty and staff signed their School of Nursing and very happy to honor Dean Teri new medications that do not cause side effects and addic- names and good wishes on the beam that would complete the topping- Murray, a dear friend and mentor, for her many years tion the way narcotic pain killers do. Salvemini discovered that alterations in signaling within the body contribute to out of SLU's new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building. of service and magnificent leadership.” “Having the opportunity to translate one’s discover- the development of chronic pain states and that compounds that target a key recep- Saint Louis University leaders, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, trustees, An active conservationist and philanthropist, ies from the bench to the bedside is a dream come true,” tor can “turn off” pain signals, providing relief from chronic pain of various types. students, faculty and staff members marked the topping-out of the Valentine also has worked as a volunteer nurse at the Salvemini said. “I am hopeful that our efforts will lead This discovery, she noted, provided the starting point of her collaboration with University’s new $50 million ISE Building on Dec. 6. The building will Salvation Army Residence for Children, Mercy Hospital to the alleviation of suffering while helping end the opi- Dr. Kenneth Jacobson, chief of the molecular recognition section, in the laboratory open in time for classes this fall. and the Visiting Nurse Association Hospice program. oid crisis.” of bioorganic chemistry at the National Institutes of Health.

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Society of Jesus Affirms SLU's Jesuit, Catholic Identity and Mission Priorities aint Louis University’s Jesuit and Catholic iden- S tity and mission priorities have been affirmed by the Society of Jesus. In a letter to leaders of the USA Central and Southern Province of Jesuits and to the University in September, Arturo Sosa, S.J., superior general of the Society of Jesus, officially concluded the University’s Mission Priority Examen process. PHOTO BY AMELIA FLOOD The Examen is an internal reflection and peer-re- view process for reaffirming the Jesuit, Catholic mission priorities of U.S. Jesuit colleges and SLU, Urban League Honor MLK’s Legacy universities. t their annual memorial tribute honoring civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. SLU participated in the Examen process during A Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 16, Saint Louis University and the Urban the 2018-19 academic year. League of Metropolitan St. Louis honored those carrying forward King’s legacy of A steering committee activism and advocacy for racial equity and justice across the St. Louis region. facilitated the process The keynote speaker, noted journalist and author Roland Martin, told the crowd and held 30 listening in SLU’s Busch Student Center that “leaders step up when it’s time to lead.” He chal- Special sessions with more lenged those attending the tribute to recall King not as a mascot, but for his radical than 700 participants commitment to social justice and advocacy on behalf of the economically, racially Guest Star: across campus. A peer and socially marginalized. The Stanley Cup makes committee visited in “He was a man of more than giving speeches,” Martin said. “Don’t you dare quote a stop on campus during February 2019. Dr. King unless you are willing to live like Dr. King.” Homecoming and Family Weekend 2019, giving fans of the 2019 NHL champion St. Louis Blues hockey team SLU Research Institute Grants Second Round of Funding the opportunity to make lasting memories. he Saint Louis University Research Institute awarded its second round of PHOTO BY STEVE DOLAN T funding last summer: More than $740,000 was given to 13 faculty members through the Research Growth Fund. More than 70 proposals had been submitted. SLU Launches Geospatial Institute Jesuits Reckon with the Legacy of Slavery Launched in September 2018 through a gift from Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield (CSB ’67) — the largest gift in University history — the SLU Research Institute new Geospatial Institute at Saint Louis University will support n late August, Jesuits of the USA Central and Southern (UCS) furthers SLU’s goal of becoming the world’s leading Jesuit research university. The A research, training and innovation in the rapidly growing fields I Province began contacting individuals believed to be descen- first round of grants was announced in January 2019, with a total of $1.8 million of geospatial science and technology. dants of people held in slavery by 19th century Jesuits, including at going to 15 faculty members. Also known as GeoSLU, the institute brings together faculty and Saint Louis University. students from various disciplines to use geospatial research tools This is the latest work of the Slavery, History, Memory and Among the 13 faculty who received grants in this second round are: PHOTO BY STEVE LONG to solve challenges and to enhance graduate and undergraduate Reconciliation Project, which started in 2016 as a joint initiative Miriam Cherry, Dr. Terra Edwards, Dr. David Ford (A&S Kelting education. of the UCS Province and the University. The goal is to find a path professor and co- assistant professor of ’80), professor of The institute’s primary areas of research will include artificial to reconciliation by illuminating the lives of the people who were director of the William anthropology, who biochemistry and Nancy McNeir Ring Award Presented for Excellence intelligence, machine learning and informatics. enslaved and connecting with their descendants. C. Wefel Center for will finish a book molecular biology and In launching the Geospatial Institute, SLU seeks to strengthen Historians have long known that when Jesuits established mis- Employment Law, who manuscript, Going director of the Center in Teaching collaborations with other universities, including the University of sions in St. Louis, they relied on the labor of enslaved people to help will study methods Tactile: Life at the for Cardiovascular r. Katie Kelting, assistant professor of mar- Missouri System schools, Washington University in St. Louis and those missions survive. To reveal the stories of courage and resil- of online justice such Limits of Language. Research, who will use keting in the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Harris-Stowe State University, as well as innovation partners in the ience among those who were enslaved and to trace their families as amateur sleuths Her research focuses new technology to D gathering online on the protactile investigate endothelial Business, was selected as the recipient of SLU’s 2019 region, including Cortex and T-Rex. forward, researchers have combed through thousands of docu- to collect clues in movement, which and epithelial barrier Nancy McNeir Ring Award for excellence in teach- GeoSLU also builds upon SLU’s existing relationship with the ments, including financial ledgers, Church records and personal cold cases, workers advances the claim dysfunction. This ing. Lauded by students for her emphasis on teaching National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In January 2019, the journals. sharing information that hearing and vision technology will be them the value of ethics in the business world, Kelting University signed a partnership agreement with the NGA, and the Dr. Jonathan Smith, SLU’s vice president for diversity and com- online about abusive are not necessary for used in the planning joined the SLU faculty in July 2016 and is director of organizations partnered on the GeoResolution conference last April. munity engagement, is leading the project for the University. To labor practices and things like greeting for a SLU Sepsis the business school’s Behavioral Research Lab. On Dr. Vasit Sagan, associate professor of earth and atmospheric undertake a conversation about SLU’s next steps, Smith plans to people using the people or joining or Center and the SLU a national level, she is a Women in the Marketing sciences, is the institute’s faculty director. Robert Cardillo, former assemble a working group that will include students, faculty, staff, Internet to mount leaving a conversation. Institute for Drug Academy Fellow, among her many fellowships. She director of the NGA, advises the institute as part of his work as a alumni, trustees and descendants. harassment campaigns. and Biotherapeutic addressed graduates during December’s midyear distinguished geospatial fellow at SLU. To learn more about the project and to read the stories about the Innovation. commencement at Chaifetz Arena. For more information, visit slu.edu/geoslu. people who were enslaved, visit shmr.jesuits.org.

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PHOTO BY AMELIA FLOOD Arts at SLU Top Rankings

Fall is college ranking season, with UNIVERSITY THEATRE everyone from U.S. News & World Report The two remaining productions of the 2019-20 season are: to Niche to the Princeton Review releasing their lists. Here are some of the latest SAINT JOAN OF ARC MR. BURNS: A POST- ADAPTED FROM SAINT JOAN ELECTRIC PLAY rankings earned by Saint Louis University. BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW BY ANNE WASHBURN This retelling of the saint’s This dark comedy is life is a collaborative an homage to live U.S. NEWS BEST COLLEGES 2020 piece with Prison entertainment and the Performing Arts. resilience of Bart Simpson. of all national universities TOP 25% AND Feb. 27 - 29 | 8 p.m. April 23 - 25 | 8 p.m. 97 ONE OF JUST TWO IN MISSOURI IN THE TOP 100 Feb. 29, March 1 | 2 p.m. April 26 | 2 p.m. Kranzberg Arts Center The Grandel 501 N. Grand Blvd. 3610 Grandel Square Opus Prize finalists (from left) Fernandez-Frey, Mutindi and Nuwagaba 13 in international business For tickets, contact Metrotix at SLU Hosts Opus Prize Foundation Awards 21 in entrepreneurship 314-534-1111 or metrotix.com. aint Louis University partnered with the Opus Prize Foundation to select final- 49 in finance S ists for the 16th annual Opus Prize awards. MOCRA Players take to their favorite games Each year, the foundation chooses one Catholic university to help it award one $1 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art during the opening of SLU’s Esports Gaming Lab. million and two $100,000 prizes recognizing individuals who are addressing per- 56 in “Best Value Schools” Showcasing works from its permanent collection, sistent and pressing social problems. These are among the world’s largest faith-based, including recent acquisitions of art by Susan SLU Launches 63 in “Best Colleges for Veterans” humanitarian awards for social innovation. SLU’s jury culled a list of 10 to three final- Schwalb and Gary Logan, the museum has a new Varsity Esports schedule with evening hours on Thursdays. ists, who were then vetted by SLU students, faculty and staff, along with Opus Prize Program, Opens board members via site visits to meet and engage with finalists and their communities. THE PRINCETON REVIEW slu.edu/mocra BEST 385 COLLEGES 2020 EDITION Gaming Lab PHOTOS BY AMELIA FLOOD At the Opus Prize awards ceremony on campus in November, SLU President Dr. Fred P. Pestello announced that Sister Catherine Mutindi, founder of Bon Pasteur 2 in the nation as the university most t’s game-on for Saint Louis SLUMA University’s latest effort in the Democratic Republic of Congo, would receive the $1 million prize for 2019. engaged in community service Saint Louis University Museum of Art I Mutindi is a member of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd (Good to enhance the on-campus CONNECTING WITH ART: THE TACTILE GALLERY Shepherd Sisters), an international congregation of religious women known for 6 as an impact school BASED ON STUDENT experience for students: a A new, long-term exhibit lets visitors experience its ministries protecting and empowering adolescent girls, women and children at RESPONSES ABOUT SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES, state-of-the-art Esports SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS AND CAMPUS art through touch and features art from the Gaming Lab in Busch Student risk, and victims of human rights violations. In 2012, Mutindi started Bon Pasteur University collection as well as 3D reproductions ENGAGEMENT, AND THE PERCENTAGE OF ALUMNI Center. to assist widows and orphans in Kolwezi who were seeking alternative livelihoods WHO REPORT HAVING MEANINGFUL JOBS of important works from museums around the to mining. world. This exhibit was made possible through the SLU celebrated the open- support of the Arthur and Helen Baer Foundation. ing of the new gaming lab in “Sister Catherine is working to address modern-day slavery, in children as young 19 for most religious students BASED ON as 4 and 5, working in highly toxic cobalt mines, to earn enough to feed their fam- HOW STRONGLY STUDENTS AGREE THAT THEIR slu.edu/sluma January with a ribbon-cut- ilies that day,” said Don Neureuther, director of the Opus Prize Foundation. “In a FELLOW STUDENTS ARE VERY RELIGIOUS ting ceremony. The opening relatively short period, she has transformed the lives of 3,000 children and count- marks the latest stage in SLU’s quest to launch a varsity-level Pestello (left) and Nicholas Chiu, less adults, and literally restored their humanity. She gives them hope.” WALL STREET JOURNAL / TIMES Chess Team Takes director of SLU’s esports program, cut Mutindi and her fellow finalists — Michael Fernandez-Frey, founder and director HIGHER EDUCATION COLLEGE RANKINGS Third in China program for competitive video gaming, also the ribbon to open the new Esports of Caras con Causa in Puerto Rico, and Brother Charles Nuwagaba, provincial vicar known as esports. Gaming Lab.

7 Catholic university in the nation SUBMITTED PHOTO of the Bannakaroli Brothers of St. Charles Lwanga in Kenya — spent a week on cam- he Saint Louis University “Whenever we cut a ribbon on a new space or chess team took third building, it’s a step forward,” University President pus in November, interacting with students and members of the St. Louis community. 121 among 801 U.S. colleges and universities T The trio spoke with multiple classes and service organizations. They also partic- place at the 2019 World Dr. Fred P. Pestello said. “It demonstrates how we’re progressing as an institution. As ipated in a panel discussion about their service and an ecumenical prayer service. Prestigious University Chess I said before, we are a student-centered institution. So I can’t wait to see the success NICHE For more information, visit slu.edu/opus. Invitational Tournament over of this team, the fun you will have and how you will use this as another opportunity 7 among 164 Catholic colleges the Thanksgiving holiday, to recruit talented, capable students to this fine University.” defeating universities such as Located on the lower level of the student center, the renovated space features 9 in nursing Harvard, Princeton and Oxford. 12 stations for computer gaming and three large TV monitors for popular gaming SLUMA Named a Top 10 The SLU chess team Held in Tianjin, China, consoles Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch. University Museum 11 in kinesiology and physical therapy competes in China. in honor of the 100th anni- The lab will be the home for the new varsity esports team. When the team isn’t versary of the founding of practicing, the space will be open for general student use. USA Today named Saint Louis University 22 in public health Nankai University, the tournament consisted of 12 SLU’s investment in the varsity program and lab recognizes the increasing Museum of Art as one of 10 university teams across the globe playing a total of 11 games. interest in esports among students. There are more than 125 collegiate esports museums in the country worth exploring. 38 in criminal justice The performance follows wins at the Midwest programs nationally. The article notes that SLUMA is home to Collegiate Chess and Blitz Championship in October Students selected to play on SLU’s varsity team will be eligible for up to $2,000 an “impressive permanent collection with ENTREPRENEUR MAGAZINE and the National Game in 30 Championship in in scholarship. SLU’s Division of Student Development provided the resources to a focus on modern and contemporary art, July, as well as high finishes in the Paleochora start the program. Asian decorative arts and artifacts from the 20 in graduate entrepreneurship programs International Tournament in Greece, and strong An advisory group of students, faculty, staff and administrators has been formed Western Jesuit Missions.” showings over the summer at tournaments in Turkey. to guide SLU’s esports efforts. Other university museums highlighted include UCLA’s Hammer Museum, Yale 33 in undergraduate entrepreneurship programs Now the team is preparing for the Final Four of Esports supporters cite benefits similar to those of traditional sports, where University Art Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum and the Cantor Arts Chess, where the nation’s new collegiate chess cham- students learn teamwork and discipline. In addition, esports are inclusive, allowing Center at Stanford University. FORBES pions will be crowned, in April. students of all genders and abilities to play. 25 among Midwestern colleges and universities (THE ONLY JESUIT SCHOOL AND ONE OF 8 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY TWO IN MISSOURI ON THE LIST) WINTER 2020 | 9 ON CAMPUS

New Deans and Administrators

Dr. Thomas Burroughs Dr. Noelle Fearn RECORD YEAR FOR FUNDRAISING NETS NEARLY $120 MILLION DEAN, COLLEGE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN Fearn, professor of criminology and criminal aint Louis University has set another record CAMPAIGN Burroughs’ appointment began last summer; MAKING STRONG PROGRESS justice, directed SLU’s undergraduate and for fundraising. In August, the University GOAL: he’d been interim dean since July 2017. He master’s programs in criminology and criminal announced that it received $119.4 million in SLU is in the midst of a $500 million comprehensive $ started at SLU in 1999 as an adjunct professor fundraising campaign called Accelerating Excellence: 500 and joined the full-time faculty in 2003 as the justice for the past five years. She holds a gifts during fiscal year 2019, surpassing the pre- MILLION The Campaign for Saint Louis University. To date, first executive director of SLU Center for Health secondary appointment in the Department of vious record set just the year before. The 2019 Women’s and Gender Studies. total includes 18 gifts of $1 million or more, the University has raised more than $370 million, Outcomes Research. also a record. with more than 22,000 alumni making gifts to SLU since the campaign’s launch in November 2018. “Our record fundraising is impressive FUNDS RAISED: Dr. Scott Duellman Dr. Michael Lewis AS OF JAN. 31, 2020 and demonstrates our stakeholders’ belief in our Campaign priorities include academic excellence, INTERIM EDWARD JONES DEAN, INTERIM DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES vision and our execution toward achieving it,” said scholarships, health sciences education, business $ CHAIFETZ SCHOOL OF BUSINESS An associate professor of chemistry, Lewis has University President Dr. Fred P. Pestello. “But education and athletics. 370 A member of the SLU faculty since 2010, been on faculty since 2004. He has served as MILLION the numbers fail to tell the full story of the dra- “This is the most ambitious fundraising effort Duellman was chairman of the accounting associate provost since 2013, overseeing the matic impact the generosity of our donors has on SLU has ever undertaken,” said Sheila Manion, vice department and the Alfred V. Dunkin Professor Office of Faculty Affairs. A national search is Saint Louis University’s students, faculty, staff and president for development. “And we are almost of Accounting. A committee will lead a national underway to select the college’s next dean, with patients.” three-fourths of the way to exceeding our goal, search for the next dean. an appointment expected by July 2020. Pestello continued: “Our donors have made a rig- thanks to our loyal donors. In this phase of our orous Jesuit education — one that is values-based Accelerating Excellence campaign, we are broaden- Dr. Danny Willis Dr. Robert Wilmott and rooted in the liberal arts — more affordable and ing our outreach to all alumni, parents, friends and DEAN, TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE VICE PRESIDENT FOR MEDICAL AFFAIRS AND DEAN, attainable by supporting student scholarships. Their partners, asking them to invest in SLU’s vision for SCHOOL OF NURSING SCHOOL OF MEDICINE investment in our academic programs and research its future. We are seeking gifts, pledges and estate With more than two decades in academic Wilmott was the unanimous choice of the projects is propelling Saint Louis University to commitments at all levels.” nursing, Willis will join SLU on July 1, succeeding committee that reviewed internal candidates national prominence in select areas of excellence.” Manion added: “With the ongoing support of our Dr. Peggy Ellis, who is interim dean this for this position. He has served in leadership Perhaps the best example of that investment generous donors, the leadership of Dr. Pestello and academic year. He is currently the associate positions at SLU since 2001, including 17 years as dean of academic affairs at the University chair of the Department of Pediatrics. His term during the 2019 fiscal year was the transformational the board of trustees, and the hard work of our ded- of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. will run through December 2021. $50 million gift from Dr. Jeanne and SLU alumnus icated development staff, we are well on our way to and trustee Rex Sinquefield — the largest gift in SLU exceeding our aspirations.” history. Among other things, the gift advances SLU For more information about Accelerating Dr. Debie Rudder Lohe Donna Bess-Myers research through the newly founded Saint Louis Excellence: The Campaign for Saint Louis University, INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT, STUDENT DEVELOPMENT INTERIM ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, University Research Institute. (See more on page 6.) visit slu.edu/campaignforslu. Lohe has worked in higher education for 25 STUDENT DEVELOPMENT, AND DEAN OF STUDENTS years and at SLU for more than 10 years, Bess-Myers (Grad Ed ’99) has served SLU students serving as director of SLU’s Reinert Center for for 22 years, previously as interim director for THE CAMPAIGN’S STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Transformative Teaching and Learning since the Cross Cultural Center and the Department 2011. She succeeds Dr. Kent Porterfield, who of Student Life. She also led the SLU Women’s ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCES BUSINESS left SLU in December. A national search is Commission for two terms as president. She EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS EDUCATION EDUCATION ATHLETICS underway to identify a permanent vice president. succeeds Dr. Mona Hicks, who left SLU last fall.

O’Malley BY THE NUMBERS ALL AS OF JAN. 31 WAYS TO SUPPORT ACCELERATING EXCELLENCE HOW TO MAKE A GIFT O’Malley Named Law School’s Ambassador in Residence evin F. O’Malley (A&S ’70, Law ’73), former United States ambassador to Cash Planned giving BY MAIL ONLINE 137,169 K Ireland, will serve as professor of practice and ambassador in residence in the Make checks payable to Visit giving.slu.edu. GIFTS MADE TO School of Law. Stock stocks, bonds, securities, THE CAMPAIGN bequest provisions in a Saint Louis University and O’Malley was U.S. ambassador to Ireland from 2014 to 2017. In his new role with mail to: BY PHONE Gifts in kind will or trust, life income SLU, he will counsel students and serve as a resource for the School of Law’s Center arrangements, lead trusts, life Saint Louis University or for additional Sustaining gifts estates, gifts of life insurance, assistance: 22,553 for International and Comparative Law. DuBourg Hall, Rm. 319 ALUMNI DONORS and beneficiary designations automatic monthly donations 1 N. Grand Blvd. Call 314-977-2341 TO THE CAMPAIGN A longtime litigator, O’Malley began his career in the organized crime section of the made with retirement assets U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted cases across the country. Returning Donor-advised funds or insurance policies St. Louis, MO 63103 You also may direct to St. Louis as an assistant U.S. attorney, he prosecuted white collar criminal cases and all giving-related Employer-matching gifts 259 taught law at SLU and at the Washington University School of Law. He later entered questions to SCHOLARSHIPS IRA disbursements CREATED SINCE private practice. [email protected]. THE START OF THE O’Malley received an honorary doctorate from SLU in 2016 and was inducted CAMPAIGN into the School of Law’s Order of the Fleur de Lis Hall of Fame Class in 2019. SUBMITTED PHOTO 10 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 11 Rendering of a development in the Gate District West neighborhood Rendering of Steelcote Square ON CAMPUS

Former Billiken Named G.M. of U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team ormer Billiken soccer star Brian McBride (Ed ’96) was named F general manager of the U.S. men’s national team in January. As G.M., McBride works to build relationships with players and A B their clubs throughout the world, as well as recruit dual-national play- ers. His contract runs through the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. A three-time World Cup veteran, McBride is the Billikens’ all- C time leading scorer, accumulating 184 points during his four years playing for Saint Louis University. After college, he found success at every level of professional soccer. He enjoyed an 11-year MLS career with the Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire, and he played for several teams in England and Germany. He scored 30 goals for the U.S. national team and helped the United States reach the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup — the best finish by the team in the modern era. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2015.

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DEVELOPMENT BOOM CONTINUES NEAR CAMPUS Two SLU Professors Win Fulbrights The area around Saint Louis University is in the B. STEELCOTE SQUARE wo members of the SLU faculty have won Fulbright awards. The program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, middle of a development boom. Here is an North of Gate District West, near the intersection of Grand T Boulevard and Chouteau Avenue, the Steelcote Square designed to build lasting connections between people of the United States and those update on a few of the projects underway in development is in full swing. from other countries. Prospect Yards and close to campus. The Steelcote Lofts building, which was vacant for more than 30 Dr. Kevin Scannell, Dr. Denise Côté- years, has been renovated by Pier Property Group. A historic a professor of Arsenault, the A. GATE DISTRICT WEST NEIGHBORHOOD rehabilitation of the Steelcote Manufacturing Paint Factory, the computer science, Hemak Endowed In August, developers were asked to submit proposals to build 42,000-square-foot building offers 33 units, indoor parking, a lobby is spending the SUBMITTED PHOTO Professor of new homes on 43 parcels the University owns in the Gate District lounge and a rooftop deck with panoramic views of St. Louis. first six months Maternal Child West neighborhood near SLU’s Medical Center. While SLU was PHOTO BY AMELIA FLOOD PHOTO BY MAGGIE ROTERMUND of 2020 in Ireland, Nursing at the closely involved in the process, the neighborhood association’s The adjacent Steelcote Crossings building is under construction. doing research Trudy Busch SLU Prof’s Poetry Makes development committee selected the developers after a call for This part of the project is a historic rehab of the Columbia Oil Co. and developing Valentine School proposals. Building and will offer 15 loft units and a ground-floor microbrewery computing of Nursing ‘Best of 2019’ List or distillery space. resources for the Irish language. at SLU, will study how Scotland’s ith the publication of his latest work, The committee chose proposals from Black Lab Development, Prime Property Investments, Simone’s Investment and UIC Homes. Still to come will be Mill Creek Flats, a $30 million project with more Scannell develops resources that culture influences those who care Mosses and Lichens: Poems, Dr. Devin W It also selected a proposal from Habitat for Humanity Saint Louis, than 100 apartment units and 10,000 square feet of commercial help people around the world use for Scottish women who have lost a Johnston is being lauded nationally by The which last year acquired five other parcels in the neighborhood space. The design of the Mill Creek Flats allows for the Steelcote their native language online. He baby or suffered a miscarriage. An New York Times for his poems that examine the from SLU for affordable housing. sign to shine through to Grand Boulevard. There will also be a pool is particularly interested in Irish internationally recognized expert in boundary between human community and the deck and green roofs accessible by the residents of the building and and other Celtic languages; he has pregnancy loss and a member of the wild edges of the woods. A professor of creative Combined, their development plans call for 35 single-family homes the residents of Steelcote Lofts and Crossing. developed an Irish spell checker, inaugural class of SLU’s Research writing in the Department of English, Johnston’s and 12 condos. Construction could start as early as this spring. grammar checker and thesaurus, as Institute Fellows, Côté-Arsenault poems have received widespread acclaim. Gate District West is bordered by Grand Boulevard to the west, well as dictionaries and translation studies how to support families C. CITY FOUNDRY STL The Times’ David Orr described the poetry col- Compton Avenue to the east, Chouteau Avenue to the north and engines that support Irish, whose babies can’t survive outside The City Foundry STL area has been transformed over the last year. lected in Johnston’s newest book as “admirable Interstate 44 to the south. Most of SLU’s health sciences education Scottish and Manx Gaelic. He is a the womb. Her research informs While construction continues on the site of the former Century and research buildings are in this area. The neighborhood includes member of the team that provides health care services by ensuring as much for its classical poise as for the tremors Electric Co., plans for the mixed-use space are being finalized. All a mix of owner-occupied and rental housing, and more than 80 Irish localizations for software practitioners have data about parents’ that both undermine and bolster that of the office space is leased, according to Brooks Goedeker (MSW percent of the residents are African American. products including Gmail, Twitter experiences, needs and responses. poise,” and named Mosses and Lichens ’04), executive director of the St. Louis Midtown Redevelopment and WhatsApp. He is working in She will conduct her research at as a “Best Poetry Book of 2019.” The neighborhood falls within a 400-acre area where the St. Louis Corp. Scheduled to open this summer are the food hall; Fassler Hall, collaboration with researchers at Edinburgh Napier University from The collection is Johnston’s Midtown Redevelopment Corp. — a joint effort of the University an authentic German beer hall; and Punch Bowl Social, a restaurant the Academy of Irish Language May through July 2020. seventh. He has also published Far- and SSM Health — oversees all development projects. Attracting chain that offers activities, such as karaoke and arcade games, University Education in Carna, a town Fetched, Traveler, Creaturely and Other housing to the neighborhood was a priority of SLU’s redevelopment alongside craft food and drinks. Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, a in County Galway. Essays, Sources, Aversions and Telepathy. plan. Chicago-based grocery store, is slated to open in the fall.

12 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 13 Vita (far left) in the classroom, teaching the course “Faith, Doubt and Literature”

STUDENTS CAN PURSUE ANY FACT 1: OF THE 15 UNDERGRADUATE AND TWO GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS ENTIRELY IN SPAIN. Plus, the Madrid Campus enables students to complete requirements for more than half of Saint Louis University’s nearly 100 undergraduate degree programs. For those programs, students begin their studies in Madrid and then transfer to St. Louis to complete their degrees. The campus has come a long way from its 1967 origins as a study abroad program. And the number of TRANSLATION: degrees available in Madrid has grown exponentially. In 2006, the campus offered just two bachelor’s Did You Know? degrees that could be completed in Madrid. The variety of degree offerings adds to the many reasons SLU-Madrid is a destination for students. “What makes Saint Louis University Madrid Campus attractive to students first is the city of Madrid. You can’t beat it. It’s a vibrant city, it’s an exciting city, it’s a culturally rich city, it’s a city easy to get to from any point in the United States, extending the reach of SLU’s degree programs. This world,” said Dr. Paul Vita, director and academic dean of Saint Louis opens up programs to students who otherwise couldn’t enter the University-Madrid. U.S. for whatever reasons — political, economic, personal or family “The second reason is our American identity,” he continued. “We’re reasons. offering something that’s not readily available from the professional “Thirdly, of course, is our Jesuit identity,” Vita said. “I think many degrees offered here at both public and private universities in Spain. Spaniards and people from around the world recognize that we’re We’re also offering American, liberal arts programs outside of the part of a 450-year-old tradition that forms persons for others.” Ten things you might It was founded IN 1996, SLU-MADRID WAS not know about FACT 2: THE FIRST U.S. UNIVERSITY more than 50 TO RECEIVE OFFICIAL RECOGNITION FROM SLU-Madrid THE CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN Y CULTURA, years ago, and MADRID’S HIGHER EDUCATION MINISTRY. This — By Laura Geiser records show formal recognition of SLU-Madrid as an institution Photos by of post-secondary education grants it permission to Fernando Béjar that at least deliver U.S. degree programs in Madrid. 6,330 alumni The recognition also ensures that students are have studied receiving an accredited education. “The ministry monitors the educational sector to ensure that all there, but even private universities have the appropriate level of the most true- faculty qualifications, such as doctorates, and that the institution has the facilities to offer a university blue Billikens education,” Vita explained. “SLU-Madrid does ­— and probably don’t goes well beyond. know all there is “Students may not recognize it, but the recognition is a SLU-Madrid students in quality assurance that certainly doesn’t apply to most Retiro Park, one of the to know about study-abroad programs in Spain or around the world.” largest parks in Madrid Saint Louis And that’s not the only point of pride for SLU-Madrid. It is the only U.S. university in Europe with a campus University – that offers 15 distinct undergraduate degree programs. Madrid. And it’s the only branch campus of a U.S. university to be a member of the Association of American So here are 10 International Colleges and Universities. The campus also received the Heiskell Award from the Institute facts that offer of International Education for internationalizing the inside scoop professional education with its nursing program. on what sets SLU-Madrid apart.

San Ignacio Hall at the Madrid Campus

14 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 15 STUDENTS SLU’S CAMPUS IN FACT 3: FROM MORE FACT 5: SPAIN FEATURES MANY THAN 50 COUNTRIES PURSUE PHYSICAL REMINDERS OF THE “HOME” DEGREES AND STUDY ABROAD CAMPUS IN ST. LOUIS. Vita said that is by AT SLU’S MADRID CAMPUS. design. “The Madrid Campus shares Saint Louis Each semester, the campus enrolls University’s mission,” he said. “We’re advancing approximately 900 students — the same mission here overseas in Spain. There roughly 500 of whom are studying are physical signs of that all over campus — abroad for the semester and roughly whether it’s the same archway leading into San 400 of whom are “permanent” Ignacio Hall or the statue of St. Ignatius himself. students who will complete their We’re one university, and that’s an important part degrees in Spain. of the Madrid Campus’ identity.” “What makes Saint Louis University Students agree. Matthew Staley, a SLU junior who Madrid Campus an extraordinary spent the fall semester at SLU-Madrid, found the place is its student diversity — all campus itself reassuring. “I was a little bit worried kinds of diversity,” Vita said. “With about studying abroad and not being able to over 50 nationalities represented figure out the university and the campus,” he said. in our student body, that means in a “But when I first came to Madrid, I felt at home single classroom, for example, you’ll right away, just seeing the Billiken and SLU signs have six or seven students from all over the walls really made me feel like I was at different countries — from China, SLU. Seeing the students wearing their SLU gear — from Germany, from Morocco and it was incredible to be in another country but also the Philippines, and of course from feel at home at the same time.” Students from I learn so much from those students,” she said. “I Spain and the United States. all over the world can travel with them to countries that I’ve never “Beyond that, we have students from nearly every state,” Vita pose for a selfie in visited because through their writing and class Plaza Mayor in the continued. “And our visiting students are not just from Saint Louis heart of Madrid. discussion I get to know about their culture, about University, by the way, but from other colleges and universities as where they’re from, about ways they think. well.” Familiar SLU symbols adorn the Madrid Campus. From “And so for me, it’s really opened my eyes to the notion that there’s top, clockwise: The gateway at San Ignacio Hall; a Dr. Anne McCabe, who teaches courses in English and not just one way of doing things,” she said. “And not even two — not statue of St. Ignatius outside of Padre Arrupe Hall; communication and was the 2018 recipient of SLU’s Nancy McNeir just the American way and the Spanish way. There are multiple the patio at San Ignacio Hall; the sign at the entry to Padre Rubio Hall; the entry to Padre Rubio Hall. Ring Award for Excellence in Teaching, said she finds it fascinating to ways of doing things—many different ways, for example, of writing. teach students from all around the world. “That’s always been one of To encounter that in classroom after classroom has been a great McCabe (standing, center) teaching “Topics in Rhetorical my favorite aspects of teaching here at the Madrid Campus because learning experience for me.” Analysis: Discourse of Conflict and Peace”

MOST VISITING STUDENTS THOUGH SELECTED COURSES FACT 4: LIVE WITH HOST FAMILIES. FACT 6: ARE TAUGHT IN SPANISH, THE The host families, also known as señoras, introduce PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION IS ENGLISH. students to Spanish culture and language firsthand “That’s our distinctive feature,” Vita said. “We’re an while immersing them in a home environment. The American university overseas. That does incredible things. students typically receive two meals per day, laundry It opens up study abroad to new groups of students who service and Wi-Fi. otherwise could never spend a semester in Europe.” Many families host two or three students and are It also reflects the campus’ place within its local community. located within a quick walk or subway commute from “Our American, English-speaking identity distinguishes SLU-Madrid. us from the Spanish universities here in Madrid,” Vita said. “We’re offering liberal arts, quality classes, small Aubra Ladd, a SLU junior who studied in Madrid last classes, engaged classes, continuous assessment — in other fall, said she was pleasantly surprised by how hands- words, we’re offering a kind of education that’s not readily on her host family was. “I thought we were just going accessible outside of the United States.” to live with them — cohabitation in a sense,” Ladd said. “But it’s like living with your own regular family; you McCabe, who studied at SLU-Madrid in 1977-78, do things together, you go places together, you eat remembered that at that time, all classes were taught together, you have late-night talks. It’s great.” in Spanish, and students were penalized for speaking English. But she’s pleased by the evolution to an English- Ladd also appreciated the chance to deepen her speaking campus. Spanish fluency. “My host mom only speaks Spanish so it’s a perfect way to practice and be immersed “It is beneficial for students coming from a range of in the culture,” Ladd said. “She sits down and gets contexts,” she said. “Obviously for all of our international to know me and my roommate. And it’s a beautiful students who come in with a first language other than experience. You really English, it’s fantastic because they really, really get a Host “parents” Juan bilingual level of English. For our American students, the Velamazán (third from left) get to make a bond with and Ana Antón (far right) with someone who is not a benefit for them is the deep friendships that they can the SLU-Madrid students student on campus.” make with people from all over the world through that living with them in fall 2019 shared language of English.”

16 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 17 Pérez-Bedmar (far right) with her oceanography students on a field trip to a beach near the seaside towns of Murcia and Alicante, Spain

Students enjoy Thanksgiving dinner in the San Ignacio Hall cafeteria.

SERVICE IS A BIG PART OF THE SLU-MADRID FACT 8: EXPERIENCE. Each semester, hundreds of SLU-Madrid students volunteer in the local community. “We think it’s important that our students, especially our visiting students, get out of the little bubble that they might create coming over here with their friends who perhaps all live together and all go out together and all see the same things,” said James O’Leary, S.J., who leads SLU-Madrid’s campus ministry and teaches theology. “Volunteering and serving others allow a student to open his or her eyes to other realities of what Spanish culture and society is all about — of what Spanish people are all about. And I think that SLU-MADRID STAYS OPEN understanding broadens our minds to open our hearts to a wider world.” FACT 7: TO CELEBRATE AMERICAN HOLIDAYS SUCH AS THANKSGIVING AND One popular service opportunity is BocaTalk, a student-run club whose 80 INDEPENDENCE DAY. Vita said the July 4 members focus on outreach to Madrid’s homeless population. Students celebration includes a barbecue and make-your-own prepare food or other necessities in advance and then go out into the city to ice cream sundae bar. “It’s an opportunity for our distribute the items and have conversations with those living on the streets. community to reflect on our identity as an American “Students try to give Madrid’s homeless people back their dignity as human community,” he said. “And it also takes a form of beings with the excuse of giving them a sandwich or some hygiene products,” sharing American culture with others.” said Marta Maruri, SLU-Madrid’s director of student life. CLASSES AND FACT 10: FIELD TRIPS AT In addition to an annual food drive for the less Another longtime service project is SLU-Madrid’s Community ESL (English SLU-MADRID TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE fortunate, SLU-Madrid’s Thanksgiving festivities as a Second Language) program. Founded in 2002, the program typically OF THE CAMPUS’ SETTING. Students can include more than 200 servings of turkey, countless engages more than 45 students each semester to teach English to learn flamenco dancing. They can take a trip pumpkin pies and some city-wide attention. “One approximately 300 members of the local community. The weekly classes, to Loyola, Spain, for the Loyola Pilgrimage thing that’s fun for our students is that often the which are offered for free, give students experience as educators and leaders. Retreat, which traces the life of St. Ignatius, local Madrid television station comes to our campus The classes also encourage students to build connections with Madrileños founder of the Jesuits. Other opportunities because we’re one of the largest groups of Americans from all walks of life. Program director for ESL and Modern Languages send students across Europe to locations such who are celebrating Thanksgiving together,” Vita Hamish Binns assists with class preparation as needed. “Student-teachers as Stratford-upon-Avon in England. said. “Thanksgiving also helps us affirm our American learn as much about the language and themselves as their adult students,” identity, as well as reflect on what we’re thankful for.” Binns said. “Faculty have developed unique courses and special programs that are inventive and exciting,” Vita said. “Our art history courses take you into the Prado, into the Reina Sofia, up to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim.” “In oceanography class we have a field trip to one of the areas in Spain that I think if you didn’t participate in the class you would never go to,” said Mónica Pérez-Bedmar, a professor STUDENTS STUDYING Nursing instructor Diana in the Department of Natural Sciences. “We FACT 9: NURSING AND M. Llamas (left) with student get to see fish markets, we get to see coastal ENGINEERING CAN STUDY ABROAD FOR A Yulissa Morales-Galvan and a high-tech mannequin in the ecosystems that are in serious stress now. SEMESTER — A RARITY FOR THOSE MAJORS. SLU-Madrid nursing lab Basically, students see what the main problems In nursing, a summer immersion program, launched of the Mediterranean Sea are. And they get in 2017, allows students to spend several weeks training in a Spanish hospital with to talk about the solutions to the coastal hands-on experiences, such as preparing IV medications. “Our nursing students ecosystems.” here at the Madrid Campus have an extraordinary experience,” Vita said. “We “These learning experiences only make have nursing labs, nursing facilities and even more exciting is that many nursing sense,” Vita said. “We’ve gone out of our way students have their first real clinical experience here in Madrid, Spain.” to develop courses and programs that take In engineering, by offering courses that cover topics such as thermodynamics, advantage of the rich city of Madrid but also material science and organic chemistry, SLU-Madrid opens up unique international of the wonderful international identity of our experiences to future engineers. In Madrid, students earn the same credits own student body, courses that help students toward SLU’s Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology’s degrees as discover who they are by getting to know students in St. Louis. students from other places with other values. We have 15 degrees here in Madrid and not Vita also is enthused about the opportunities for engineering students to study every degree because we’ve purposely focused abroad. “Engineering itself is an international profession, and it’s important for on those degrees that make sense to offer in future engineers to develop that sensibility of working with people from around this international setting — programs such as the world from the start,” he said. “Thus, we’re designing programs that connect international business, international relations our U.S. engineers who are visiting our campus for a term with our permanent and Spanish, of course, too.” UTAS students who are starting their degrees here and planning to continue in St. Louis. This creates a dynamic international experience in the classroom, which we Learn more about SLU-Madrid at slu.edu/madrid. increase further by offering special trips within Madrid and to Toulouse, France, to see the Airbus factory.”

SLU-Madrid students prepare 18 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY sandwiches for BocaTalk. WINTER 2020 | 19 CLASS OF 2023 BY THE NUMBERS 1,902 25% first-time students enrollment increase (part-time and full-time) over last year

$54,000,000 of financial assistance awarded to the class 28 3.91 average ACT score average high school GPA 1269 average SAT score 43 number of U.S. states and provinces represented. The top five outside Missouri: Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, 34 California and Tennessee number of foreign countries represented, including New Zealand, South Korea and Mali 133 freshmen who 605 graduated from Jesuit high schools number of students who graduated from Catholic high schools

The first class of SLU’s third 43% 2011 of students identify is the last year SLU’s as Catholic freshman class century is the largest and most reached a record high diverse in the University’s history. (1,707 students) — BY MARIE DILG 1,776 freshmen living on MOST campus, 800 in learning communities COMMON Most popular majors: NAMES biology, nursing, exercise science, health Grace, Emily, Matthew PHOTO BY JUSTIN BARR sciences or still deciding and Jacob New students seated in the lower bowl of Chaifetz Arena during convocation in August. SLU President Dr. Fred Pestello is standing center on the floor. 20 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 21 AFFINITY AND BEYOND CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITY Kathleen Davis, SLU’s vice president for enroll- The larger class size has led to greater demand for stu- ment and retention management, attributes the dent support services. banner year to several factors. The University added more sections of SLU 101, NEXTGEN BILLIKENS The University increased its marketing efforts its two-day freshman summer orientation program. and doubled down on its digital and social media Walsh Hall in the Griesedieck Complex was renovated ric Hamilton grew up surrounded presence. In response to growing student inter- last year and opened just in time to accommodate the A by SLU memorabilia. His mother, An undeniable est in globally minded programs, SLU’s outreach housing needs of the larger class. The University added Tina (Wallace) Hamilton (A&S ’94), took emphasized the University’s Madrid Campus more residence life staff, including graduate hall coor- him to alumni events and to Billiken and its more than 50 other study abroad pro- dinators and resident assistants, to help students create basketball games at Chaifetz Arena. grams. Additional resources allowed admission community and a sense of belonging. She knew her son had the makings counselors to strengthen relationships with To address national trends that show today’s of a Billiken because early on he momentum is high school guidance counselors and prospec- college-age students are more likely than earlier gen- demonstrated a passion for advocating tive students. erations to report being anxious, depressed and under for the underserved, but she didn’t push. Further, Davis said the University’s promise stress, the University also added staff in the Student Hamilton had several offers from to increase both merit scholarships, as well as Health Center, including additional psychiatry clinics colleges, and in the end, he chose SLU. need-based grants and loans, allowed SLU to and a full-time dietitian to support students with special He is one of the 382 members of the building. PHOTO BY STEVE DOLAN offer competitive financial aid packages. And dietary guidance and disordered eating. The University’s Class of 2023 who is a legacy student — a SLU began presenting prospective students counseling center also hired more therapists. student with at least one relative who Tina and Aric Hamilton at the with their aid packages in January, well before In addition, to foster the academic success of all stu- graduated from the University. Legacy Luncheon in September he requests for campus tours were climbing. most other universities and colleges. dents, the Office of Disability Services added another “Being a second-generation Billiken The number of high school seniors applying “Our students were in their formative years in 2008 coordinator to support the larger number of students means walking not only in my mom’s footsteps but in the footsteps of for admission was off the charts. The caliber when the country was hit by the largest recession in seeking accommodations based on learning, physical T other students of color who attended SLU,” said Hamilton, a Martin Luther of these prospective students was equally remarkable. many years,” Davis said. “It had an impact on them and and mental health needs. The University also added King Scholarship recipient from Bridgeton, Missouri. “I love being part of Of the more than 15,500 who applied, more than 1,900 on their parents. It created a price sensitivity. They staffing hours for tutoring, supplemental instruction, SLU’s history as it becomes more diverse and works to ensure that this is arrived on campus in August and became the largest want to know the value of the degree they’re working academic coaching and math labs. the most inclusive campus possible. I take that very seriously.” freshman class in Saint Louis University’s history — a toward.” Dr. Chet Gillis, SLU’s interim provost, said the 25% increase over last year. This outpaces the national Davis said Saint Louis University’s 2019 expansion University continually is assessing the needs of students Hamilton said SLU always was near the top of his list because of the great average of 2.4% annual student growth for four-year of the Career Services Center and development of pro- to ensure they have the resources to reach their highest experiences his mother shared about her time at the University and how private institutions. grams to work with students as early as their freshman potential. And while it can be a challenge to accommo- well prepared she was for her career as an elementary school principal. Not only is the Class of 2023 SLU’s largest, it is one year on post-college careers went a long way toward date such a large class, it also is an opportunity. Hamilton said his campus tour solidified his decision to enroll at SLU of the highest achieving and most diverse. In fact, 14% assuaging concerns. (See the story on page 24.) “Our responsibility for undergraduate residential edu- because he felt “at home.” Hamilton plans to major in education and minor in political science. Now, he is also helping recruit another generation of of the class is made up of historically underrepresented And Davis believes the University’s most powerful cation includes development of the whole person, not students as an ambassador in SLU's Project Billiken program. (Learn more students. And 204 members are first-generation stu- recruitment tool is the affinity for SLU in the region only academic accomplishment,” Gillis said. “I believe at slu.edu/beabilliken/profiles.) dents. Financial aid also hit a record high of $54 million. and beyond. that the maturation of students requires time and per- “Increasing affordability and student diversity are two “We stand for values that resonate with this genera- sonal attention from faculty, staff and administrators. His mother said she is “ecstatic” her son is a member of the Class of 2023. of the primary commitments I made when I began at tion,” she said. “Even if they’re not Catholic, even if they “We are happy to make that investment and know “During Homecoming Weekend, I had the great honor of pinning Aric SLU five years ago,” said Dr. Fred P. Pestello, SLU’s pres- didn’t attend a Jesuit high school, they appreciate the the benefits stay with students well beyond the college with the legacy pin at the Legacy Luncheon,” she said. “I was filled with ident, “and we continue to make progress in these areas.” holistic education and experiential learning SLU offers.” years.” UTAS emotions as I was so proud Aric made the decision to become a Billiken.”

Students (from left) Krydia Ddungu, Lilly Parker and ENSURING A STRONG START Cara Davidson

Welcoming students to campus is the first step. Helping them acclimate to college life is the next. SLU offers several first-year programs, many of which would not be possible without student leadership participation, to help students make the transition from high school to college, including:

ORIFLAMME: A group NEW STUDENT DAY OF WELCOME MASS AND CROSS CULTURAL UNIVERSITY 101: Small, of student leaders SERVICE: A day when FAITH-BASED RETREATS: CENTER: The center’s interactive classes from across campus new students and their These help new students programs and retreats offered in the fall who help new students peer mentors engage in make sense of their early promote multicultural provide freshmen with move in and serve service projects across moments of college awareness and ongoing information as mentors the first St. Louis as a means of life. The retreats include education for all about campus resources weeks on campus. introducing students one called “A Fresh students, and focus and opportunities to to the University’s Look,” which is designed support on historically reflect on the transition long-standing for new students. underrepresented from high school to tradition of service. and marginalized college. This year extra student populations. sessions were added to accommodate the influx of students. 22 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 23

PHOTO BY MICHELLE PELTIER Jackson in the new Career Services Center Devine talks with a student in the Career Services Center reception area. CHANGE IN THE WEATHER NEW LOCATION AND LEADERSHIP hen she arrived on SLU’s campus ELEVATE CAREER SERVICES. W in 1996, Diane (Davis) Devine (A&S ’00) was an undeclared freshman with no clear path. She flipped through a course catalog and landed on a map/chart analysis class offered in the Department Beyond Career Fairs of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. “I fell in love with meteorology,” Devine — BY MARIE DILG said. “I could either work for the National Weather Service or be a TV meteorologist and, at 19, being on TV sounded cool.” A “Career Decisions” course assignment required Devine to conduct an informational interview with someone in her desired field. She made a connection with local meteorologist who mentored Devine for four years and helped her land her first job after graduation as the morning meteorologist for a Clarksburg, PHOTOS BY STEVE DOLAN West Virginia, television station. Then 9/11 happened. little more than a decade ago, research- first floor of Griesedieck Hall, once home to the dining hall. Natural light floods a PERKS OF MEMBERSHIP “I just wanted to come home,” she said. “I was still ers found approximately 75% of college spacious reception area filled with bright green and blue chairs. Group workstations, Representatives Jackson also has plans to expand outreach dating my boyfriend in St. Louis, and the idea of freshmen reported getting a good job counselor offices, a conference room and six interview rooms line the space. to alumni, not only as potential mentors from 425 packing up and moving to a new city every time I was a “very important” factor in their Even with this inviting presence, Jackson is not waiting for students to cross the for students but as professionals who may got a job suddenly didn’t seem as exciting as before.” decision to attend college. Today, that threshold. He is pursuing them. He wants the CSC to become a significant element employers be between jobs or want to change jobs. percentage exceeds 90%. of the student experience rather than a resource they seek out as they approach grad- (See sidebar.) Devine returned to St. Louis in 2002 and started “With the rising cost of tuition, students and parents uation. He and his staff are identifying student touchpoints, such as the admission recruited on “As far as I’m concerned, alumni have a from scratch. The alum turned to SLU’s Career Aare asking, ‘What is the return on my investment?’” office and residential life, where the CSC can engage with students from day one. His lifetime membership to career services,” Services Center for help. said Jeffery L. Jackson, Saint Louis University’s new staff is providing talking points to residence hall directors, and the center is now a SLU’s campus said Jackson, who is working on an alumni Her career counselor guided her through a associate provost for career development. “They want stop on campus tours. survey he hopes to distribute in 2020. personal inventory, provided resources and to know what degree they can earn and what they can “It’s not hocus-pocus,” he said. “We just want to get our story to students so they last year, and Educating prospective employers is reading material, and suggested Devine take a do with it.” can take advantage of our services.” another item on Jackson’s agenda. variety of temporary positions to explore options. 94% of SLU “My generation wanted job security,” he Devine temped as an office account manager, HIGH VISIBILITY CUSTOMIZED GUIDANCE said. “We worked hard and silently. This a clerk for a construction company and office Jackson said the expectation of having a job upon While the center continues to offer traditional support, such as counseling, résumé new crew wants more. They want feed- support staff in the undergraduate admissions graduates office at Washington University in St. Louis. That graduation and the call for greater accountability assistance and career fairs, Jackson said the center will launch new initiatives back. They want to know how they fit into position led to a full-time job and her epiphany. from accrediting institutions has led to a paradigm designed to reach Generation Z. This includes greater use of technology and a reported the big picture. They’re willing to take a shift in higher education regarding career services. higher profile on the web and social media to showcase the CSC’s approachability chance on startups, which didn’t exist in “I found I was drawn to counseling and advising Universities recognize the value of career services and relevance. they were my day. As part of our community out- students,” she said. “Everything clicked into engaging more fully with students, employers, faculty “The current crop of students is bombarded with distractions,” he said. “Their reach, we will meet with employers to place.” and alumni to develop career-ready graduates. Career schedules are packed. They may not be thinking about four years from now, which “satisfactorily help them understand how today’s grad- Devine pursued a master’s degree in counseling centers are transitioning from standing alone to stand- is why we have to create intentional opportunities for them to have their epiphanies.” uates think and how they can attract the with an emphasis on career services from ing with members from student and academic affairs to Jackson and his staff are planning initiatives to reach still-deciding students, pro- occupied” within best candidates.” the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She held offer services. moting internships and mentorships, and expanding collaborations with employers. Jackson admits changing the culture positions in career services at UMSL and in the Jackson, who joined SLU this past summer to His primary emphasis, however, is customizing career-decision programs for students. six months of in career services is a large task and his community college system before returning lead the reorganization of career services, said the “The one-size-fits-all model is outdated,” said Jackson, who revitalized careers ser- agenda is ambitious, but he said he’ll begin home – yet again. Devine is a career counselor in University took a giant step toward demonstrating its vices at Bowling Green State University and Indiana University South Bend before commencement. by building a coalition of the willing. SLU’s Career Services Center. commitment to helping students find their purpose by joining SLU. “Department and student needs are varied. The introverted student may “We’ll start with one student at a time, “It’s surreal,” she said. “I walk through the doors relocating the Career Services Center (CSC) from the not come to a career fair but will come to a small, industry-specific alumni event. A one faculty member at a time,” he said. and imagine myself as a homesick freshman from third floor of Busch Student Center to prime real estate chemistry professor may not think his students would benefit from an etiquette din- “Once they start spreading the word about our distinct programs, they become Omaha, eating in the Griesedieck cafeteria. Now in the heart of campus. The CSC’s new space is on the ner but would benefit from a discussion panel. We’re here to make that happen.” ambassadors for our center.” UTAS it’s my office.”

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The St. Louis Jesuits transformed liturgical music in the 1970s. During SLU’s Homecoming and Family Weekend, they performed together for the last time. — ­By Amy Garland

Powell Hall is positively flush with fans. It’s the last Sunday in September, and the place is packed hours before a mid-af- ternoon show. Out front on Grand Boulevard, a woman holds a homemade cardboard sign that reads, “I Need One Ticket.” Like a fan at a Grateful Dead show, she needs a miracle. But what she and close to 2,650 others — a sold-out crowd — have come for isn’t a rock ’n’ roll reunion or the orchestra that calls the symphony hall home. They’ve come for five men who changed the sound of the Catholic liturgy. They’ve come to hear the St. Louis Jesuits. And today the miracle is the music. They’ve come for the songs they sang in Catholic school, the soundtrack to their sac- ramental lives. The melodies come to mind easily: “One Bread, One Body” during Sunday Mass; “Be Not Afraid” at funerals; “Sing to the Mountains” on a beautiful spring day. As Saint Louis University’s Homecoming and Family Weekend winds down on campus a few blocks away, the St. Louis Jesuits take the stage for their last concert, Coming Home: A Final Celebration. PHOTO BY DON DOLL, S.J. The St. Louis Jesuits perform during the Coming Home concert to a sold-out audience at Powell Hall. From left are Roc O’Connor, S.J., Dan Schutte, Bob Dufford, S.J. (conducting), John Foley, S.J., and Tim Manion. 26 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY WINTER 2020 | 27 SUBMITTED PHOTO PHOTO BY STEVE DOLAN BREAK INTO SONG SET LIST

Fifty years ago, when they started composing music for liturgy, they were not known he St. Louis Jesuits have written as the St. Louis Jesuits. They were just five young men with musical inclinations scores of songs, so they had a lot who happened to be at Saint Louis University at the same time, at various stages of T of material to consider for their Jesuit formation. Coming Home concert. They selected Bob Dufford, S.J. (A&S ’67, Grad ’72, ’75) and John Foley, S.J. (A&S ’68, Grad ’68, some “greatest hits” while striving for a ’74) lived in Lewis Hall (now the Coronado Apartments) while they prepared for balance in tempo, melody and songwriting ordination. The other three — Tim Manion (A&S ’76), Robert “Roc” O’Connor, S.J. credits. (A&S ’73) and Dan Schutte (A&S ’72) — stayed in Fusz Memorial Hall, where they’d gather for Mass in the chapel. “We had to watch it,” John Foley, S.J., said. They converged at SLU at a point rife with change, just after the Vatican II Council “We cut verses out of songs because we transformed the way Catholics worship. The liturgy had become more personal, didn’t want people to be there for three or more connected with the human experience, and the music at the Fusz Hall Masses four hours.” The St. Louis Jesuits in 1979 began to reflect that. (from left): Manion, Schutte, Notwithstanding the thoughtful planning, Dufford, O’Connor and Foley The five men had their own influences and inspirations — everything from the the show ended up clocking in at just under poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins to classical music, Broadway musicals, and the folk three-and-a-half hours. Here are the tracks songs and rock ’n’ roll that were popular in the 1960s and ’70s. But they shared a desire they chose, with the name of the composer RAISE YOUR VOICES, LIFT YOUR HEARTS to compose songs anyone could sing that were also sophisticated and rooted in Scripture. for each in parentheses. The group in 2019 (from left): Schutte, Foley, O'Connor, Manion and Dufford When the Masses at Fusz outgrew the chapel, the composers were invited to sing at At Powell Hall, the St. Louis Jesuits walked onstage St. Francis Xavier College Church. As more people heard the music they were writing, to a standing ovation, the first of many. Sonorous “Lift Up Your Hearts” “All the Ends of the it began to take on a life of its own. People requested copies to take to their parishes. (O’Connor) Earth” (Dufford) drums sounded, and the men began singing. Four of LET THE PEOPLE SAY AMEN The young men decided to record what they’d already composed and bind their hand- them played guitar. O’Connor, who wrote the open- written songs into a book. In so doing, they bound themselves together. “City of God” (Schutte) “O Beauty, Ever ing song, “Lift Up Your Hearts,” practically danced as John Niemann (A&S ’71) came from Denver to share the concert experience with “We didn’t have a vision that we were going to be a group,” Schutte said. “We wrote Ancient” (O’Connor) he strummed. After two numbers, he was the first to friends who listened to the St. Louis Jesuits as students at SLU. music for liturgies and at one point pooled our music together as three of us were “Come to the Water” address the crowd. “It was radical and almost sinful to have guitar at Mass,” Niemann said before the getting ready to leave St. Louis. Our first publisher wanted to know what we wanted (Foley) “Emanuel” (Manion) “Let me first say: Wow! And then let me say, let us show. “They became a real changing force in the Church.” to be called. We couldn’t give them an answer, so they, on our first collection, put pray,” he said. “They adapted the music of their time,” said Denny Donnelly (A&S ’63, Law ’66), ‘music by St. Louis Jesuits.’” “Be Not Afraid” “One Bread, One With a prayerful and occasionally playful tone, the whose wedding had been officiated by the late beloved SLU philosophy professor That first collection, a four-album set called Neither Silver Nor Gold, included 57 (Dufford) Body” (Foley) men took turns introducing and leading their respec- John Kavanaugh, S.J., a founding member of the St. Louis Jesuits singing group pieces, and the description on the cover became their name. tive songs. Sometimes the composer offered insight before he devoted himself full time to philosophy. Together the St. Louis Jesuits would go on to produce more than 150 liturgical “This Alone” (Manion) “Sing of Him” (Dufford) into the song’s origin or meaning, as Dufford did for Kavanaugh’s brother Tom (A&S ’71) helped coordinate the Coming Home concert, songs and hymns. Their recordings garnered Grammy nominations throughout the “Be Not Afraid” — which, incidentally, was chosen and nephew John (A&S ’95) reflected on the experience afterward. 1970s, and their 1975 album, Earthen Vessels, continues to be one of the best-selling “Here I Am, Lord” “Seek the Lord” as the No. 1 hymn of all time by readers of America “Like most kids in Catholic grade school and high school in St. Louis, I grew up albums of Catholic music ever, with more than one million copies sold to date. Their (Schutte) (O’Connor) magazine. with their music, singing it at Mass. Unlike most kids, I also grew up with that music songs have been translated into at least a dozen languages and have been performed “This song isn’t telling us not to feel fear. Fear is a in my house — occasionally live!” he said. “My ties to those men and their music are in an Academy Award-nominated film (Dead Man Walking) and at the inauguration “The Cry of the Poor” “These Alone Are gift,” Dufford said. “The song is here to encourage us deep. I truly felt my uncle’s presence there with us, and it was beautiful to see these (Foley) Enough” (Schutte) of one U.S. president and the funeral of another. to face our fear, because of the One who goes with us.” great composers and performers together on stage back in St. Louis.” Before the show, the St. Louis Jesuits wanted to Emily (Sides) Schiltz (Grad A&S ’02) had no personal connection to the St. Louis WHERE ARE THEY NOW? INTERMISSION make clear that they didn’t see this concert as a perfor- Jesuits but was influenced by their music nonetheless. She was thrilled to attend Coming mance, per se, but something more participatory. Home but also to share the stage with the group, as a member of the backing choir. By the mid-1970s, four of the men had left SLU for other assignments. Today, Foley “In the early days, we actually shied away from doing “Music connected me to the Church throughout my childhood, and it was, unbe- is the only one who lives in St. Louis, at Jesuit Hall. He is the editor of the Saint Louis “I Lift Up My Soul” “Jesus the Lord” concerts,” Schutte said. “Whenever we were asked to knownst to me then, the songs of the St. Louis Jesuits that pulled me in and kept me University Sunday Website, a weekly review of Sunday’s liturgical readings from (Manion) (O’Connor) do a public appearance, we fashioned the performance close,” Schiltz said. “The concert was several dozen different perspectives. around prayer and scripture, and presented it in that a surreal, beautiful afternoon of sing- Dufford lives and works out of the Creighton University Retreat Center in “Like a Shepherd” “Sing to the way, as opposed to doing what people would now call ing for praise and for gratitude — for (Dufford) Mountains” Griswold, Iowa, doing spiritual direction for clergy. During the last few years he has a concert.” those five men, and for the music they (Dufford) BRING HOME A composed instrumental music based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. were inspired to write and share.” “Sing, All the Earth” “We were much more about serving the Mass and the After years as an associate pastor and liturgical musician in parishes across the (O’Connor) people, rather than performers,” Foley said. RECORDING OF Of course, the idea of gratitude “Turn to Me” country and 13 years of teaching at Creighton University, O’Connor was assigned by (Foley) “As we finish our long careers, we’re thinking the COMING HOME came up again and again during his provincial to full-time composing and writing. He lives in Milwaukee. “A Song of Hope” (Foley) important thing is the people’s spirituality,” he con- Coming Home. Before starting “This For those who couldn’t Manion, who was never ordained, lives in Seattle. He continues to perform and “Sing a New Song” tinued. “They’re taking this all to heart. One place we Alone,” the first of five of his songs attend the Coming Home compose folk music. “You Are Near” (Schutte) (Schutte) appeared, they said, ‘You’ve been the soundtrack to our played at the concert, Manion spoke Schutte left the Jesuit order in 1986 and made music his life’s work, as a composer spiritual lives.’ That’s what we’re trying to do here.” concert — or would like to to the audience. experience it again — the St. and also as a liturgist and music director in various pastoral and academic settings. “Let the People Say” “There Is a River” To encourage the audience to participate in the “I’m here, we’re — all of us — here Today, he is composer-in-residence at the University of San Francisco, and he travels (Manion) (Manion) Coming Home concert, the group made sure the Louis Jesuits plan to produce for one reason only: to say thank you,” an audio recording and a video across the country, visiting parishes for performances, retreats and workshops. printed program detailed each song, including musical he said, his voice thick with emotion. of the performance. Learn The St. Louis Jesuits took a hiatus from collaborating in 1986. In 2005 they came notation and cues to join in. “We’ll take some of it, but the St. Louis more on the St. Louis Jesuits together to record a new collection of music, Morning Light, an anniversary album ENCORE Jesuits isn’t us; it’s the phenomenon of In actuality, the audience didn’t just sing. They stood website (stlouisjesuits.com) celebrating 30 years. Since then, they’ve performed together at several benefit con- and swayed. They clapped along in rhythm and raised or Facebook page (facebook. these last 40 years. And you’ve been as certs. The 2019 Coming Home concert benefitted the Ignatian Spirituality Project, much a part of it as we are. In the end, “Holy God, We Praise “Glory to God” their arms. Some even shed a few tears. It felt like every com/StLouisJesuits). which offers men and women who are homeless and in recovery from addiction the Thy Name” (Foley) person at Powell Hall had an emotional connection to we just serve the music.” UTAS opportunity to change their lives through Ignatian spirituality and retreats. (traditional Catholic hymn) these men and their music.

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Law professor Joel K. Goldstein is the No. 1 expert on the second-in-command. 30 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY — By Jessica Ciccone WINTER 2020 | 31 2 Professor Joel K. Goldstein is the nation’s Amid the drama, a 4 young Goldstein honed foremost expert on the vice presidency. Yes, his research skills. That first paper on the vice you read that right. With two books and presidency later became his countless articles on the office of the vice dissertation when he was a 5 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford 5 president of the United States, Goldstein has University in 1978. And that dissertation eventually became 3 certainly earned the title. his first book on the office. 1 Since the 1990s, every four years, and lately almost After receiving his doctorate in political science, daily, Goldstein is a popular man. He has been profiled Goldstein followed in his father’s footsteps to become in The New York Times, had dinner with Vice President a lawyer. He attended Harvard Law School, where he PHOTOS FROM GETTY IMAGES Joe Biden, appeared on national news and been quoted served as a note editor of the Harvard Law Review. in at least four different languages. “My father loved the law and the practice of law,” “He’s definitely holding the record for the most Goldstein said. “He and Elmer Price formed Goldstein — BY JOEL K. GOLDSTEIN quotes in the media probably by any professor,” said and Price in 1957, and it became a leading maritime During Richard Roger L. Goldman, the Callis Family Professor of Law firm in St. Louis. I grew up thinking I wanted to be a 1 M. Nixon’s vice “He was probably the “Vice-presidential scholars form a tiny club,” wrote Emeritus and longtime colleague of Goldstein. lawyer and wanted to practice with my father, which The vice presidency, the office John Adams presidency (1953-61) most influential professor Mark Leibovich in a 2012 New York Times profile As a long tenured professor and constitutional I did for 12 years before joining SLU’s faculty in 1994.” the officemoved to the called “the most insignificant office that or teacher I’ve had,” Brusati of Goldstein. “And Joel K. Goldstein is their George law scholar at Saint Louis University School of Law, After law school, and prior to joining the , no longer executive branch ever the invention of man contrived or his continued. “He is just the Washington — or, better yet, their (Vice President) Goldstein has earned the reputation as a revered pro- firm, Goldstein served as a law clerk for Judge W. functioning primarily as the kindest and clearly a genius. John Adams.” fessor and colleague. Arthur Garrity Jr. of the Federal District Court in Senate’s presiding officer. imagination conceived,” has become very, I don’t think he would like Goldstein is widely respected not only in academia “He’s a triple threat,” Goldman said. “Scholar, great Massachusetts, who was notable for issuing the 1974 very significant. But it’s had highs and lows. my saying that, but I think but also among vice presidents themselves. He main- human being, legacy of his writings and books and order in Morgan v. Hennigan that mandated that Boston The ratification of the that’s just his humble tains a relationship with Walter Mondale, appeared on articles. They’re going to make a lasting contribution schools be desegregated by means of busing. 2 Here are a few in chronological order. 25th Amendment on nature.” a panel with Gerald Ford, spoke with Dan Quayle and to literature, not just here but nationally. He’s been In 1982 Goldstein completed his first book, The Feb. 10, 1967, recognized the And it wasn’t only dined with Joe Biden. building his national reputation. And for all the stu- Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a vice presidency’s enhanced 1 Vice President Aaron Goldstein’s humble nature that left a lasting impres- “In 2009, right after he became vice president, I got dents that he’s taught, he’s a great role model. And part Political Institution — one of the first books to focus on the importance by creating Burr (1801-05) killed the great Alexander sion, but the way he taught students how to read and a call from [Biden’s] office to set up a meeting of some of his personality is his modesty.” office of the vice president and how it changed over time. procedures to fill a vice- Hamilton in a July 1804 duel. interpret the law. VP scholars to meet with him and just talk about the presidential vacancy and to “He not only taught us constitutional law, but how vice presidency,” Goldstein said. “We met at the Naval THE RHODES SCHOLAR THE PROFESSOR transfer presidential powers to read judicial opinions and how to extrapolate from Observatory, the vice president’s official residence, and The story of how Goldstein found his niche is as In 1994, just as Vice President Al Gore was gearing up temporarily to the vice John Breckinridge 2 those opinions how judges think about legal issues,” had dinner.” unique as the expertise for which he is recognized. for a historic midterm election, Goldstein was facing president from a disabled (1857-61), who lost the Rachel Berland (Law ’13) said. “Now when I write briefs And although Goldstein has rubbed elbows with After growing up in University City, Missouri, he left a challenge of his own — the classroom. He joined the president. 1860 presidential election, became a Confederate or when I go and argue, I think about not just the legal men who were one heartbeat away from the presidency, home for Princeton University where he studied at the faculty at Saint Louis University School of Law, where general and later Secretary issues but how to contextualize those issues for the what has left the biggest impression on others is not his Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International he put his expertise on the constitution and the vice Walter F. Mondale 3 of War. judge. And I think that’s because of the way Professor expertise necessarily but his compassion and intellect. Affairs. During his junior year, he happened upon the presidency to practice. (1977-81) and Goldstein approached constitutional law.” “A key lesson I learned from Professor Goldstein is fateful constitutional amendment that would become “The idea of teaching was something I thought of President Jimmy Carter In addition to being a professor, Goldstein was asso- to take criticism in stride, calmly and professionally, the focus of his professional life. before I went into law practice, but practicing law with created the “White House 3 After a stroke Vice Presidency,” which incapacitated ciate dean of faculty from 2001-04 and was awarded trusting one’s own abilities while making adjustments “It really was an accident or series of accidents,” my father was also something I wanted to do,” Goldstein means that the office Woodrow Wilson for much the Vincent C. Immel Professorship in 2005. This was based upon others’ input judiciously,” Bridget Hoy Goldstein said. “When I was in college, I needed to said. “I was fortunate that I got to do both. I enjoyed functions as a close adviser of his last 17 months in especially meaningful to those who knew Immel, the (Law ’01) said. “When he served as the adviser to the write a paper for a course in party politics. It was in the teaching I did at Oxford and at Harvard during law to the president and the office, presidential powers late, revered School of Law professor. law journal, he encouraged the board’s decisions, even October 1973. When I called home, my father said school in a course on the presidency taught by the great White House. Successors weren’t transferred to Vice “Vince Immel was the paragon of principle of this insti- during contentious times, and was never flustered. His he’d been watching the Today Show and they’d had a Richard Neustadt. When I moved back to St. Louis, I have largely followed President Thomas Marshall tution,” said Michael Wolff, dean emeritus and professor calm, professional and decent demeanor was an excel- discussion of the 25th Amendment because, with the was contacted by Princeton about a position in its poli- their example — a historic due largely to constitutional emeritus of the School of Law. “Joel fit right into that lent example I have thought about — and tried to follow resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, it was tics department, but the timing was wrong for me.” accomplishment. gaps. mold of being an excellent teacher and really principled — my entire career.” going to be the first time Congress had ever chosen a “Adding Joel to the faculty was a coup,” Goldman colleague and a terrific colleague from that standpoint. Essentially, Hoy said, “Professor Goldstein is a sin- vice president.” said. “When you look at his background — Harvard Law After some narrow 4 From 1812 to 1965, the It was also nice that he was a nationally known scholar.” cere person first and a really smart lawyer second.” Less than a year before Richard M. Nixon’s resigna- Review editor, best book on the vice presidency, summa 4 misses, in 1988, vice presidency was tion as president of the United States, Agnew pleaded cum laude from Princeton, a Rhodes Scholar — you can’t George H.W. Bush was the vacant 16 times for more THE EXPERT no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion help but be impressed.” Goldstein retired from the full-time faculty in July 2019. He first sitting vice president than 24% of the time, but for As a professor, Goldstein was able to dedicate time in exchange for the dropping of political corruption For the past 25 years, Goldstein has tackled the chal- plans to return to the School of Law to teach “Constitutional elected president since most of that time, it didn’t to his scholarship on the office of the vice president. charges. Agnew was fined $10,000, sentenced to three lenging subject of the U.S. Constitution with an ease Law” on occasion and will continue to share his expertise Martin van Buren in 1836. matter much. During his tenure he has written countless law journal years’ probation and became the first U.S. vice presi- that left a strong impression on countless students. about U.S. vice presidents. UTAS articles and op-eds, and in 2016 completed his second dent to resign in disgrace. “I didn’t know anything about Professor Goldstein Joe Biden (2009-17) Spiro T. Agnew book on the office: The White House Vice Presidency: The Under the process decreed by the 25th Amendment, before I took his class,” Paul L. Brusati (Law ’15) said. “I 5 5 became the most resigned on Oct. 10, Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden. Nixon filled the vacant office by nominating a can- looked him up, and you see his credentials ... and they influential vice president for 1973, in a plea agreement to “He changed the nature of the conversation about the didate who had to be approved by both houses of are incredibly intimidating. To top it all off, he is teach- two full terms, a service that avoid federal prosecution vice president,” said William P. Johnson, dean of the Congress. He appointed U.S. Rep. Gerald Ford of ing you ‘Constitutional Law,’ one of the toughest classes culminated with the award relating to his alleged School of Law. “He brings a historical, keen legal mind Michigan, who would become the 38th U.S. president you can take. Then you walk in and immediately, every of the President’s Medal of receipt of payments relating and deep understanding of the role.” following Nixon’s resignation. one of my fears about how it would go was put to rest. Freedom with Distinction. to Maryland contracts.

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International and at Sundstrand academic instruction at Houston 1949 1963 in Rockford, Illinois, where he Community College, where he ALUMNI KEY SPOTLIGHT Dr. Mario Martini {MED} is a Michael J. Sheeran, S.J. {A&S lives with his wife, Patricia. continues to teach. Following each alumni retired pediatrician with six ’63, GRAD A&S ’67, ’71} announced name in Universitas is an children, 15 grandchildren and 21 that he will retire from his Therese (Delich) Stawowy {GRAD 1974 abbreviation of the college or great-grandchildren. He lives in position as president of the A&S} is enjoying her retirement school from which that alum Pacific Palisades, California. Association of Jesuit Colleges by continuing her education and Charles E. Malone {A&S} retired graduated. Here’s a key to the and Universities (AJCU) in June volunteering at a hospice and at from Western Illinois University abbreviations. 2020. He has been president church. She lives in San Rafael, after 21 years as a librarian and 1958 professor. He and his wife, Rose A&S COLLEGE OF ARTS AND since April 2013. He also serves California. ANGELA LEWIS SCIENCES Dr. James O’Grady {CSB ’58, GRAD on the boards of trustees of Marie, have moved back to CSB ’63, GRAD ED ’69} received a South St. Louis to enjoy their CSB RICHARD A. CHAIFETZ two AJCU institutions: Saint ngela Lewis’ earliest memories of basket- 1967 retirement. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Lifetime Achievement Award Louis University and John ball take her back to a rec center court on includes alumni who from the Gateway Chapter of Carroll University. Paul Francis X. O’Connor {LAW} the north side of St. Louis. Even then, it graduated under the the Labor and Employment Hendrickson received the St. Thomas More must have been obvious she was des- school’s previous Relations Association. O’Grady {A&S} wrote names, the John Cook Award, which is given annually to tined for great heights. was honored for his service as a 1964 Plagued by Fire: School of Business, the a Catholic lawyer in the Diocese “I’ve been 6'1" since the 7th grade,” professor, mediator, arbitrator Mary (Peterson) Reinholt The Dreams School of Commerce of Scranton. He lives in Great she said with a laugh. “It wasn’t cool then and fact-finder in the fields {A&S} received the Founders and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright, and Finance and the Bend, Pennsylvania, and contin- to be so tall, but it definitely worked to my School of Business and of human resources and labor Award from the Plattsmouth which was published by Knopf in Lewis ues to practice law. advantage.” Administration arbitration. He retired from St. (Nebraska) Community October. Hendrickson’s previous Foundation Fund. She was books have been finalists for Lewis (A&S ’04, Grad A&S ’07) grew up the DENT SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY Louis Community College as a professor in 2004. He lives in recognized for her work helping the National Book Award and 1975 youngest of three. Her brothers played a lot of She found herself in the school district DCHS DOISY COLLEGE OF develop funding for commu- the National Book Critics Circle basketball around the neighborhood, and she where she’d gone to high school. As part of HEALTH SCIENCES St. Louis. Sister Mary Cross {GRAD A&S} includes alumni who nity involvement and historic Award. He lives in Havertown, celebrated her 60th anniversary tagged along. the Department of Educational Equity and graduated from the 1959 preservation by establishing the Pennsylvania. as a Franciscan sister. She lives at “No one wanted to pick up a girl for their Diversity, Lewis worked with students like her School of Allied Health Plattsmouth Conservancy and a Our Lady of Angels Retirement team,” she said. “But my brothers would get younger self — participants in the voluntary Professions Dr. Jerome L. Schulte {MED} Main Street Program. 1973 Home in Joliet, Illinois. picked early and then convince the rest of desegregation program — to make sure they ED SCHOOL OF EDUCATION released his book Wisdom For Life the guys to pick me up, too. It was always had the support they needed to graduate. through Inkwell Books. He lives Dr. Stephen Levey {A&S ’73, Maureen Nolan {A&S} is a two-for-one.” Another kind of coaching, she thought. To 1965 GRAD ’76} retired after work- GRAD Used in front of other in Scottsdale, Arizona. licensed therapist in Decatur, Their mentorship paid off. Lewis lived up inspire the high-schoolers, Lewis gave pep Theodore Biondo {IT} worked ing more than 43 years in abbreviations to Georgia. She specializes in work- to her potential, landing a full athletic schol- talks and speeches to student groups — some- indicate a graduate for McDonnell Aircraft in St. higher education. He held shops called “Sanity School for arship to Saint Louis University. In four years, thing she’d been called on to do in previous jobs. degree 1961 Louis and at Cape Kennedy, positions at the University of Parents” in relation to attention she scored more than 1,000 points on the bas- But her mother pushed her to do more. Russ Bley {A&S} is celebrating Florida, on Launch Pad 39 for Arizona, University of Texas deficit hyperactivity disorder as IT INSTITUTE OF ketball court and earned a bachelor’s degree, “You’re not going to reach everyone just by TECHNOLOGY his 10th year volunteering at St. the Gemini Project and later M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, well as spectrum and executive majoring in communication and minoring in giving speeches,” her mom said. “You should LAW SCHOOL OF LAW Cecilia Academy through the for the moon launch of Apollo University of Massachusetts function disorders. Ignatian Volunteer Corps. He 11. He also worked on the Space at Amherst and most recently African American studies. After graduation, write a book.” MED SCHOOL OF MEDICINE lives in St. Louis. Shuttle in California at Rockwell as associate vice chancellor of 1978 she traveled to Germany to play professionally Lewis ended up writing four. P&L COLLEGE OF — the first Billiken women’s basketball player When she published her first book, The PHILOSOPHY AND Dr. Patricia Conley {VSN ’78, to do so. Game-Changing Assist: Six Simple Ways to Choose LETTERS ALUMNI GRAD VSN ’89} was invited to She spent a year abroad, then moved back Success, Lewis hosted a signing on the court at PC PARKS COLLEGE OF You’re invited to a REFERRAL speak at the International home and started coaching — a new side of St. Louis Mathews-Dickey Boys’ and Girls’ Club, ENGINEERING, AVIATION Conference on Nursing in Rome AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM the game Lewis loved. During the next decade, where her brothers had gotten her on the team to present her research findings: her coaching career took off, from an assis- all those years ago. She’d come full circle. PH COLLEGE FOR PUBLIC TH “COPD Discharge Instruction HEALTH AND SOCIAL DO YOU KNOW A HIGH tant position at a high school to colleges to a “Basketball is deeply rooted in me. Being on JUSTICE and Evaluation of Quality of Life: SCHOOL JUNIOR OR professional team, across Missouri and then the court is the catalyst for everything else in A Feasibility Study.” She lives in PS SCHOOL FOR SENIOR WHO WOULD BE across the Midwest. She helped lead the St. my life,” she said. “It’s the core of what I am and PROFESSIONAL STUDIES Raytown, Missouri. 100BIRTHDAY PARTY AN EXCELLENT ADDITION Louis Surge, a professional women’s basketball what I’ll always do.” SW SCHOOL OF SOCIAL for TO THE SAINT LOUIS {MED} is WORK Dr. Richard Lazaroff team, to a national championship. And actually, She’s still on the court three to four times a includes alumni who Mary UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY? on the board of directors of wherever she was, she led girls and women to week. In between private coaching and speak- graduated under the Complete the alumni the St. Louis Bridge Center, a be their best. ing engagements, she writes and strategizes school’s previous name, Bruemmer nonprofit organization dedicated Then, suddenly, one of her friends died of an her next big play. Her most recent book — The the School of Social referral nomination form 2 - 5 P.M. to serving the bridge-playing undetectable heart defect, and the news made Fundamental Game Plan: Every Basketball Player’s Service WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26 online at alumni.slu.edu/ community in St. Louis. Lewis feel the need to pivot. She wanted to get Academic and Athletic 12 Week Success Tracker — VSN TRUDY BUSCH VALENTINE SAINT LOUIS ROOM alumnireferral, and the back to St. Louis. came out in November. — By Amy Garland SCHOOL OF NURSING Busch Student Center includes alumni who Office of Admission will graduated from the alumni.slu.edu/Mary100 or 314-977-7153 School of Nursing contact the prospective students you’ve referred.

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CHEER ON THE BILLIKENS AT THE A-10 TOURNEY 1979 1980 1981 Sandra (Thompson) Williams The Atlantic 10 men’s Lawrence Mangar {A&S} is in his in Louisville, Kentucky. He left his visit to the 9/11 Air Force Base {A&S} won a 2019 Christian Indie 35th year of teaching in Catholic position as dean of the College in Pittsburgh, where he spoke Michael J. Keating {LAW} Kate Michael Avery {GRAD CSB} Award for her novel The Last basketball tournament secondary schools in western of Professional Sciences at Xavier about overall fitness. He lives in received the St. Louis Business (Lewandowski) retired in 2016 as president Three Tickets to Heaven. She lives Belize. He teaches theology to University in Cincinnati last sum- Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. Journal 2019 Corporate Counsel LeVan {A&S}, a and chief investment officer of in Florissant, Missouri. is in Brooklyn, New York, juniors and seniors at St. Ignatius mer to assume his new role. Award-Litigation Leader, and his business communication coach Waddell and Reed Investment High School. He is also chairman Pete Salsich III {A&S ’86, LAW ’96} 1989 accomplishments at Emerson and instructor in Northwestern Management Co. and Ivy March 11-15, and Billiken of the parish council at Sacred 1983 joined the St. Louis law firm Patrick G. McCarthy {A&S} is Electric were featured in an University’s Kellogg School Investment Management Co. Heart Parish. article in the St. Louis Business of Management’s Executive Avery had been with Waddell Lloyd J. “Jack” Vasquez Jr. {LAW} fans are invited to games of Capes Sokol. He is part of the general counsel for North the firm’s intellectual property America of Handicare USA, Journal in July. Development Program, was a and Reed since 1981. He lives in is district director of the U.S. finalist in the 2019 International Kansas City, Missouri. Equal Employment Opportunity at Barclays Center as 1985 practice group and chairs the formerly Prism Medical. He lives new entertainment and media in St. Louis. Paul Malutinok {GRAD CSB} Book Awards. She won in the Commission’s St. Louis District Jane (Kuensting) Frank {CSB} is a served in the U.S. Air Force and was admitted to the federal senior performance child welfare practice group. Business: Communications/ well as special pregame Robert Merz {A&S} is the assis- (ROTC) as first lieutenant and 1982 Public Relations category for Senior Executive Service. He data analyst for the North Carolina tant director of the WildCare John T. Parker {A&S}, a special retired in 2013 as senior vice her first book, Speaking with lives in St. Louis. parties. To register, buy Department of Health and 1987 Institute at the Saint Louis Zoo. president of strategic planning education teacher with the Strategic Impact: Four Steps Human Services, Division of Social Edward Hannon {CSB} joined Special School District of St. at Brown Shoe Co. He lives in to Extraordinary Presence and tickets or learn more Services, Child Welfare Division. Polsinelli’s Chicago office as a Louis County, is a resource 1984 1994 Fenton, Missouri. Persuasion. She has lived in Raleigh, North shareholder last summer. He teacher in the Rockwood School Joe Lauria {A&S} was promoted details, visit slu.edu/ Carolina, for more than 26 years. focuses on tax structures in David Brinker {A&S} is the new Vicky Johnson Stringer {SW} {LAW}, an attorney District. Previously, he was the in July to the weekday evening Francis G. Slay mergers and acquisitions and director of the Museum of was elected to the board of meteorologist at WDAF-TV with the law firm Spencer Fane chairman of the special educa- postseason. real estate deals. Contemporary Religious Art directors of the St. Louis Bridge and formerly the mayor of St. tion department at the Mark (FOX 4) in Kansas City, Missouri, 1986 at Saint Louis University. He Center, a nonprofit that serves Louis, joined the mediator and Twain Student Support Center in after almost 25 years of being Dr. Paul Gore {A&S} is vice pres- Thomas McConnell {DCHS} started working at the museum the bridge-playing community in senior arbitrator panels of U.S. the Ferguson-Florissant School the weekend morning and eve- ident for academic affairs and received the certificate of in 1995 and since 2005 was St. Louis. Arbitration and Mediation. District. ning meteorologist. provost at Bellarmine University honorary commander during his assistant director to MOCRA

Dean Friends suggest he apply at During a Dean is corporate executive Florida Governor Rick Scott HOW I GOT HERE 1957 is born 1985 Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., the 1993 Bahamas 2008 vice president of finance 2015 presents Dean with the in Memphis. His brewery headquartered in St. Louis. He is vacation, Dean for Busch Entertainment Corp. He Distinguished Business Ambassador mother is a manager hired as an analyst in the entertainment meets his future rises through the ranks and is named Award for creating jobs and driving for Sears, and his division, which oversees the company’s wife, Trish Koll, a president of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay economic growth in the state. father works at the theme parks. He works on automating meeting planner. and Adventure Island. He leads a team of Firestone Tire and operations, including front-gate ticketing A year later they thousands and oversees the design and Rubber Co. and financial reporting. marry in Hawaii. construction of some major attractions 2017 Dean becomes president of including Falcon’s Fury, which then was SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica “My parents worked hard to “The benefits were great. We and Discovery Cove. It is named Best send me to school. They not only received two free cases of the tallest freestanding drop tower in 1998 Anheuser-Busch lures Dean North America. Marine Park in 2017 and 2018. Dean also encouraged me to beer a month and could ride back to St. Louis as assistant to receives the Distinguished Alumni Award go to college, they rollercoasters for a living. It the president to oversee its eight major “Watching riders having fun, from the University of Memphis. insisted on it.” was dream job for a young theme and water parks, which attract listening to their screams man, especially an adrenaline more than 20 million guests annually. and seeing them race to get back in line to ride again is 2019 Dean becomes interim Dean plans junkie.” president and CEO of Visit 1976 Dean is promoted to vice what motived me. We were St. Pete/Clearwater, Florida, to enhance to attend 2000 delivering fun.” the University of He realizes he needs an president of finance and tourism. The same year, the board of Tennessee at Knoxville. His father dies 1988 advanced degree to further his planning for Anheuser-Busch directors of the Memphis Zoo asks him to suddenly, and Dean transfers to Memphis career, and earns his MBA from SLU. International Inc. in London. At that return to his hometown to revitalize the time, the company sells Budweiser zoo he visited dozens of times as a child. State University (now the University “That degree was the of Memphis). He earns an engineering in 44 countries. Dean enjoys the “The zoo is beloved by foundation for everything challenge but misses the theme parks. degree and is the first in his family to Memphians, and the graduate from college. that came next.” “In the beer business, you’re selling a consumer product. opportunity to work with a Jim Dean world-class team to enhance {GRAD CSB ’88} 1980 He lands at McDonnell Douglas He becomes director of In the theme park business, Dean CEO, MEMPHIS ZOO (now Boeing) in St. Louis. 1990 finance for Busch Gardens you’re delivering an it and further highlight its — By Marie Dilg “About five years in, I realized and moves to Tampa, Florida. Three experience. You’re providing outstanding efforts through this career wasn’t what I had years later, he moves to Philadelphia and an escape from reality. conservation, education hoped. I excelled at engineering becomes vice president of finance for It’s tremendous fun and Sesame Place, a seasonal park. and research here is but wanted to do more.” personally rewarding.” rewarding.”

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founder Terrence Dempsey, S.J., Physical Therapy Board Exams. Dr. Amanda Ombrello {MED} fee-only investment advisory Class Notes is one of the first sections we finish for each issue who retired last summer. She also supervises students at was published in the New 2020 and financial planning firm for 2010 because its length determines the space for our feature stories. the Winston-Salem Community England Journal of Medicine. The Undergraduate classes parents who want to build wealth Nick Sargent {GRAD CSB} is That means we often stop compiling notes for an issue almost two Dr. Miguel Paniagua {A&S} is an Care Center, which serves unin- article documents her experi- of 1970, 1995, 2000, 2010 without compromising their a vice president at Standing months before you receive it. So if you’ve sent us news and don’t adjunct professor of medicine sured and underserved patients. ence treating individuals with and 2015: Congratulations values. Meyer lives in St. Charles, Partnership in St. Louis. Sargent, see it in the issue, don’t worry; your update will run next time. in the Perelman School of monogenic autoinflamma- — it’s your reunion Missouri, with her husband, who has been with the firm for Medicine at the University of 1998 tory syndrome, which causes year! Save the date for Bryan, and three sons. nine years, works with busi- Pennsylvania. While continuing recurrent strokes. She lives in the weekend of Sept. ness-to-business companies and We welcome photos but cannot Due to space limitations, we to serve as medical adviser in Jarrod Henshaw {LAW} joined Rockville, Maryland. 25-27 and join fellow 2005 large nonprofits on marketing run every photo we receive, no longer include Class Notes test development services at Prime Therapeutics as senior classmates to celebrate transformation and growth due to space limitations. about alumni being named the National Board of Medical vice president, chief supply chain during Homecoming Dr. Christopher strategies. to lists such as best lawyers, Examiners, Paniagua practices and industry relations officer in 2004 and Family Weekend. Clark {A&S} is doctors, etc. and teaches consultative pallia- April 2019. Prime is a total drug an associate We do not run information Visit slu.edu/reunion or 2011 tive medicine at the Hospital of management company. professor in the about upcoming marriages, email [email protected] {GRAD A&S} is the University of Pennsylvania. Department Dr. Jody Sowell births or other occasions. We In general, we run only one for more information. of Political managing director of strate- prefer to share your happy news Class Note per alum per year. 2000 Science at the University of gic initiatives for the Missouri after the event has occurred. 1997 Joe Laramie, S.J. North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Historical Society, which {A&S ’00, GRAD operates the Missouri History Michael P. McMillan {A&S}, SPECIAL REUNION EVENT March 2019 he published his first How to submit: president and CEO of the Urban A&S ’07} had his book, Gaining Voice, with Oxford Museum in St. Louis’ Forest Park, League of Metropolitan St. first book, Abide Class of 1970: Start the University Press. the MHS Library and Research EMAIL [email protected] ONLINE slu.edu/universitas Louis, was honored at Atlanta’s in the Heart of Dr. Joseph M. Eble {A&S} and reunion celebration early Center, and Soldiers Memorial Dr. Burton St. John III {GRAD A&S} National Center for Civil and Christ: A 10-Day James Brent, O.P. {GRAD A&S by joining fellow Golden Military Museum in downtown MAIL Universitas is a professor of public relations Human Rights. Personal Retreat with St. Ignatius, ’08} collaborated to bring the Billikens in the processional St. Louis. Sowell teaches at Saint Saint Louis University at the University of Colorado published in September. The Angelic Warfare Confraternity during Commencement 2020. Louis University. 1 N. Grand Blvd. Boulder and an associate chair of Dr. Nancy (Schneider) Smith book is based on St. Ignatius’ to the Diocese of Tulsa and St. Louis, MO 63103 {A&S ’97, DCHS ’98, GRAD DCHS ’00, For more information and the Department of Advertising, Spiritual Exercises. Laramie is a Eastern Oklahoma in April 2019. 2012 ’05} received her doctorate in campus minister at Saint Louis to register, visit Public Relations and Media Design. alumni. Katie Castree {PH} is an oper- curriculum and instruction from University. Deborah (Dusold) Meyer . In 2018 he published two books, slu.edu/gbmarch20 ations excellence manager at North Carolina State University {CSB} published her first book, one of which, Public Relations and Hop on over to Saint Louis in December 2018. She is an Redefining Family Wealth: A the Corporate Persona: The Rise Accumen, a health care transfor- associate professor of physical 2003 Parent’s Guide to Purposeful of the Affinitive Organization, was mation company that optimizes University for the annual MED REUNION 2020 client health care systems’ therapy at Winston-Salem State Tim Hager {GRAD ED ’03, ’06} Living. She received the Chaifetz a finalist for the Association for Easter Egg Hunt on laboratory and imaging depart- University in North Carolina. She is chairman of the board of School of Business’ 2019 Med Reunion is part of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2018 Tankard ments. In April 2019 Castree was Saturday, April 4. Bring is board-certified in geriatrics trustees of Three Rivers College. Distinguished Young Alumni Homecoming and Family Book Award. honored by the Missouri Athletic your family for this annual and recently received an award He recently retired as superin- Award and the 2018 AICPA Weekend. Mark your calendars from the Federation of State tendent of the Iron County C-4 Club as a Women of Distinction Standing Ovation Award for for Sept. 25-27 and join tradition and enjoy special Boards of Physical Therapy for school district. He lives in Van Personal Financial Planning. Rising Star for her professional your classmates back on 2006 success, leadership in the hunts on campus. item-writing for the National Buren, Missouri. She runs WorthyNest, a campus to reconnect, meet Brandon Zollner {A&S ’06, GRAD American Society for Quality, alumni.slu.edu/easter20 faculty from the School of CSB ’13} was named the execu- volunteer and philanthropic tive director of alumni relations EIGHT NEW JESUITS ARE SLU ALUMNI Medicine and visit with efforts, and overall character. current medical students. at Rose-Hulman Institute of She lives in St. Louis. Last summer, the Society of Jesus announced the ordination of 22 new priests in Canada, the United States Technology after spending and Haiti. Nine of them have a connection to Saint Louis University. D. Matthew Baugh, S.J., one of the For more information, visit six years as a member of the new priests, is associate pastor of St. Francis Xavier College Church. Eight others studied at SLU. They are: advancement team. He lives in 2013 slu.edu/medreunion. Terre Haute, Indiana. Nicole (Filippone) Hodur {ED} Peter Gadalla, S.J. (GRAD A&S ’13) studies Alex Anthony C. Llanera, S.J. (GRAD A&S ’13) is studied coral reefs, manatees, howler monkeys, jaguars and theology at the Pontifical University in Rome. completing a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at 2009 the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara SCHOOL OF LAW REUNIONS other wildlife while learning the John McAnnar {LAW} is the Jonathan Harmon, S.J. (P&L ’13) is associate University. A class reunion reception methods communities are using vice president, general coun- to sustain them in Belize. An pastor at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish in Denver. will be hosted on Friday, Richard Nichols, S.J. (GRAD A&S ’12) is a chaplain sel and corporate secretary educator at Lincoln Park Zoo, Stephen Kramer, S.J. (P&L ’12) is a parochial vicar at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Sept. 25, for all School of of HireQuest Inc. He lives in Hodur lives in Evergreen Park, Come back to campus for Homecoming and at Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church in New Law graduates celebrating a Charleston, South Carolina. Illinois, and is a graduate student Matt Spotts, S.J. (GRAD A&S ’13) is an associate Family Weekend. From campus trolley tours, Orleans. reunion this year. Additional in Miami University’s Advanced pastor at St. Joseph-St. Francis Xavier Parish and programming will take place Megan Williams {LAW}, assistant Inquiry Program. to a tailgate party, to the men’s soccer game (GRAD A&S ’13) is serving at assists at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois. Andrew Laguna, S.J. throughout Homecoming regional director for the Anti- and signature fireworks show, there will be parishes for his first few assignments: Our Lady Defamation League Heartland {GRAD ED} Robert Van Alstyne, S.J. (GRAD A&S ’13) is and Family Weekend. Kelcey Nichols is a of Guadalupe in San Diego; a parish in Plátano y completing his Master of Theology and in St. Louis, was named a 2019 clinician for the new Community something for everyone. Women of Distinction by the Cacao, Tabasco, Mexico; and Most Holy Trinity Licentiate in Sacred Theology at Regis College, For more information, visit Policing Crisis Response Team, YWCA of Alton, Illinois. Parish in San Jose, California. University of Toronto. slu.edu/law/alumni/ which partners the Charlotte reunion. 38 | UNIVERSITAS | THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE OF SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY September 25-27WINTER 2020 | 39 IN CLASS NOTES MEMORIAM

Mecklenburg Police Department Pete Zeiser {CSB} is president University-themed, with a gal- Mr. Chester Edwards {PC ’41} Mr. Robert Goodin {CSB ’51} Ms. Patricia Juneau {A&S ’54} Mrs. Catherine (Hallan) McHugh 2017 {VSN ’57} with licensed mental health cli- of Midwest BankCentre’s lery with SLU photos and artwork Sr. Marie McCloskey, O.S.U. {A&S ’43} Mr. Robert Harris Jr. {IT ’51} Dr. Richard Mamiya {MED ’54} nicians to serve the community. Chesterfield, Missouri, com- Susana Fernandez {A&S}, a the students created. Mr. Milton Roedder Jr. {CSB ’57} SLU-Madrid alumna, is a Mr. Donald Bonhardt {PC ’45} Mr. Edward Hurley Jr. {LAW ’51} Dr. Donald Pribor {A&S ’54} She lives in Matthews, North mercial division. He specializes Sr. Teresa Shea, C.S.J. {ED ’57} Carolina. in commercial and industrial middle-school literacy teacher Dr. Stanley Mularz {A&S ’45} Mr. James Lift {IT ’51} Mr. Gerald Royce {CSB ’54} at KIPP Bold Academy in her 2018 Mr. Robert Slojkowski {IT ’57} lending, primarily serving man- Dr. Robert Brennan {MED ’46} Mr. Walter Sauer {A&S ’54} Nick Shackelford {A&S} played ufacturers, distributors and hometown of Newark, New Michelle Bach {GRAD A&S} Dr. Clarence H. Miller Dr. Walter Stafford{MED ’57} soccer for SLU, and he signed Jersey. This is her third year received the American Mrs. Dorothy (Singer) Elliott {A&S ’51}, a professor Sr. Maurita Sengelaub, R.S.M. transportation-related clients. {DCHS ’46} {PH ’54} Mrs. Susan (Krodel) Sullivan {VSN ’57} and played with the profes- teaching and her second at Bold Fellowship from the American emeritus in the sional team the LA Galaxy II Academy, an inner-city school Association of University Dr. Nathan Grace {DENT ’46} English department, Dr. George Stead {MED ’54} Mr. Edward Wiegers Jr. {LAW ’57} 2015 died June 21, 2019, from 2014-16. Since then, he where the mission is to get kids Women. Recipients pursue aca- Mr. Bryant Kirby {PC ’46} {LAW ’54} Dr. Stanley Bartus {MED ’58} at age 88. Dr. Miller Mr. Lawrence Sumner co-founded a goalkeeping brand Gabrielle Broders {A&S} is a “to and through college.” To demic work and lead community Mr. Robert Brockmeier {CSB ’47} studied Renaissance Mr. William Wall {A&S ’54} Mr. Tom Classen {PC ’58} called Keepaere before moving member of the 2018 class of help spark the desire for higher projects to empower women and literature and was known for Dr. John Eberle {MED ’47} Mr. Charles Gawne {A&S ’55} Dr. Stephen Dailey {DENT ’58} into digital marketing and Ignatian Law Scholar Awardees, education, homerooms are girls. Bach is working toward a his translations of the works of consulting. He lives in Orange, the highest honor for new law named after teachers’ alma doctorate in health care ethics at Mr. Thomas Horeff {PC ’47} St. Thomas More and Erasmus. Mr. Emil Kamp {CSB ’55} Mr. George Gitto {ED ’58} California. students at Loyola University maters. Fernandez’s sixth- Saint Louis University. He held the Dorothy McBride Mrs. Janice (Spence) McMahon Mr. Gerald Koch {A&S ’55} Dr. Harry Keitz {DENT ’58} New Orleans College of Law. grade homeroom is Saint Louis {VSN ’47} Orthwein Endowed Professorship for 34 years and continued his Sr. M. Reneau, S.A.C. {DCHS ’55} Mr. George Knollmeyer {CSB ’58} Mr. John O'Connell {A&S ’47} work long after he retired from Dr. Robert Riley {MED ’55} Dr. Barbara (Coburn) Lyles {A&S ’58} Mrs. Nancy (Schatzman) SLU in 2000. His final book was Mr. Robert Savage {PC ’55} Dr. Joseph Mersol {MED ’58} Sackbauer {A&S ’47} published in 2016. Mrs. Mary Anstett Schallert {A&S ’55} Dr. Thomas Verdon Jr. {MED ’58} LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mrs. Dorothy (Walsh) Holden {VSN ’48} Mr. Thomas Niemann Jr. {CSB ’51} Mr. Robert Scherrer {IT ’55} Mr. Felix Callis {LAW ’59} {PC ’48} Mr. Robert Rechtien {CSB ’51} Mr. Robert Nichols Dr. Paul Stein {MED ’55} Fr. James Fitzgerald, S.J. {A&S ’59} Mr. Herman Schonhoff {CSB ’51} Mrs. Jeanne (Kaletta) Parsons Dr. Theodore TePas {MED ’55} Mr. Jack Frohlichstein {ED ’59} FIRST DANCE {A&S ’48} Mrs. Jean (Holthouse) Smith {A&S ’51} {A&S ’59} Mr. Donald Alwine {IT ’56} Mrs. Joan (Driscoll) Hadd really enjoyed reading about all of the dance at SLU (“Just Dance Dr. John Roll {MED ’48} Mr. William Tennant {IT ’51} {VSN ’59} ” Mr. Joseph Angarola {ED ’56} Mrs. Sara (Habing) Hammes summer 2019). In 1967 I started taking classes with Father John Mr. Paul Weeke {A&S ’48} I Mrs. Mary (Hannauer) Toman Dr. John Hogan {MED ’59} Dr. Robert Baker {DENT ’56} Walsh, S.J. He taught steps to West Side Story and was teaching about 12 Mrs. Anna Mae (Petersen) Duker {A&S ’51} seminarians when I joined his class. A few years later, 60-70 SLU stu- {A&S ’49} Mrs. Josephine (Latchney) Lt. Col. Russell Jarrett {IT ’59} Dr. B. Robert Aigner {MED ’52} dents also began taking his class. Amazing what you’ve got going now! Mr. George Kennedy {CSB ’49} Colleran {VSN ’56} Mr. Thomas Jerome {CSB ’59} I became interested in dance therapy but did not have a strong enough Dr. James Carrow {DENT ’52} Mr. Thomas Richards {LAW ’49} Mr. David Dempsey {LAW ’56} Dr. Robert Kloecker {MED ’59} dance background until I started taking classes in East St. Louis, Illinois, Dr. George Dell {MED ’52} Col. Joaquin Saavedra {PC ’49} Fr. Theodore Hottinger, S.J. {A&S Dr. Joseph Labelle {A&S ’59} from Katherine Dunham. When I saw her dance group perform at SLU’s Mr. Robert Ebel {CSB ’52} ’56} student center in 1972, I knew that was the group I wanted to dance with. Mr. Harry Schneller {CSB ’49} Mr. John Maddock {CSB ’59} Dr. Herman Echsner {MED ’52} Dr. George Hughes {DENT ’56} She died in 2007, and we are keeping her legend alive. Mr. William Schrader {CSB ’49} Dr. Robert Malench {MED ’59} BILLIKENS FOR OTHERS FROM LEFT: Byrne, Kevin Wilson, Dr. Albert Feldt {LAW ’52} Dr. Maurice Keller {DENT ’56} Father Walsh told me to go study dance in Bali. And for two years, Ms. Regina McGahan {ED ’59} Hughes and Gabe Wilson Mr. Walter Burtelow Jr. {CSB ’50} I studied classical Balinese dance on the island of Bali. I did become wanted to share a neat story. Mr. Ronald Holtman {A&S ’52} Dr. Joseph Lawrence {DENT ’56} My wife, Diana Byrne (PC 13), Dr. Bobby Layman {DENT ’50} Ms. Mary Ann (Schoenhoff) a dance therapist, and I continue to teach Dunham technique and I ’ {CSB ’52} Mr. Emil Koscher Msgr. Richard Lubeley {ED ’56} Mertens {DCHS ’59} Balinese dance. I have totally enjoyed my work and know well the and I live in Champaign-Urbana, Mr. Joseph Manion {CSB ’50} Illinois, and we volunteer on Saturdays at the Daily Bread Soup Mr. John Piacitelli {SW ’52} Mr. King McElroy {A&S ’56} Mrs. Marcella (Ujhelyi) Rechtiene benefits of dance for body, mind and soul. Mr. George Page {CSB ’50} {DCHS ’59} Thanks for spreading the word. Kitchen. We’ve been volunteering there for about four years now. We Dr. Richard Toeniskoetter {A&S ’52} Mr. William Seay {PH ’56} Mr. Donald Phipps {CSB ’50} Dr. Paul Rehg {DENT ’59} Keep writing. both volunteered with Campus Kitchen SLU (CKSLU) when we were Dr. Joseph Ezzo {MED ’53} Mr. Paul Sullivan Jr. {A&S ’56} undergrads, and Diana was a shift leader her senior year (2012-13). Mr. Joseph Phipps {A&S ’50} Mr. Wesley Schnitzmeier {CSB ’59} Mrs. Gloria (Nirgenau) Herbst Dr. John Tillis {MED ’56} Last year, a new couple started volunteering at the soup kitchen Jeanne Speier (Ed ’71) Mr. Robert Skinner {PC ’50} {A&S ’53} Mrs. Alberta (Moravek) Shanks Cincinnati here, and we quickly learned they were Billikens as well. Kevin Dr. Edward Waligroski {DENT ’56} {ED ’59} Mr. James Spencer {CSB ’50} Mrs. Joan (Gutting) Reutter {A&S ’53} (DCHS ’90) and Gabe Wilson had recently moved to Champaign to Mr. Joseph Amrhein {A&S ’57} Dr. Dean Sobek {DENT ’59} Dr. Charles Steffen{MED ’50} Mr. Gilbert Robinson {IT ’53} be closer to their children. Moreover, they had both volunteered for Mr. Thomas Bell {CSB ’57} SUMMER ISSUE PRAISE Mr. Gerard Wightman {IT ’59} CKSLU starting in 2010. Both couples remembered volunteering in Mr. George Timm {PC ’50} Mr. William Whited {PC ’53} Sr. Ann Caufield, R.S.M.{PH ’57} Mrs. Theresa (McNeil) Bartunek ello! I just received your summer 2019 issue and wanted to the kitchen at DeMattias Hall before moving to Reinert Hall. Mr. William Timpone {CSB ’50} Dr. Martin Wieland {DENT ’53} {DCHS ’60} compliment you all on a beautiful magazine. I was really We now routinely cover the dishwashing shift on Saturdays at Mr. Fred Dorley Jr. {IT ’57} H Miss Evelyn Wall {ED ’50} Mr. William Anderson {CSB ’54} Mr. Harold Chapman {PC ’60} drawn in by the photography and articles. It normally takes me a Daily Bread, and we often talk about SLU basketball or the next Dr. Robert Drury {DENT ’57} Mr. Robert Astroth {A&S ’51} Mr. Richard Baudendistel {IT ’54} Dr. Robert Cody {A&S ’60} couple of days to begin perusing the magazine, but not this time! Homecoming weekend. We are blessed to share our time of service Dr. Richard Ehlers {DENT ’57} I dove right in. The sports photo on page two was fantastic, and I with each other, and we are thankful for our experiences at CKSLU. Mr. Robert Croghan {CSB ’51} Mr. William Bloemker {A&S ’54} Dr. Robert Conner {DENT ’60} Mrs. Margaret (Mannion) Flynn really enjoyed the article on bees (“Buzz Worthy ). We hope the CKSLU team is doing wonderfully. Thank you for ” Mr. David Dew {PC ’51} Dr. John Dolan Jr. {MED ’54} {CSB ’57} Mr. Kenneth Degler {PC ’60} Congratulations to all who put this issue together. Outstanding job! your work! Mr. Francis Fallert {CSB ’51} Dr. William Donovan {MED ’54} Mr. Cyril Galvin Jr. {IT ’57} Prof. Thomas Duggan {A&S ’60} George Ryan (CSB ’93) Ryan Hughes (PC ’13) Mr. Joseph Genne {PC ’51} Mr. Michael Gibbons {LAW ’54} Ms. Winifred Harvey {VSN ’57} Mr. Arnold Enea {PC ’60} Alpharetta, Georgia Champaign-Urbana, Illinois Mr. Richard German {PC ’51} Ms. Ann Gioiosa {DCHS ’54} Rev. Walter Housey, C.M. {ED ’57} Dr. Barry Flachsbart {PC ’60}

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Mr. John Fuchs {CSB ’60} Ms. Annette Grossi {A&S ’63} Mrs. Mariann (Mueller) Miller Sr. Mary Joyce, C.S.J. {ED ’69} Mr. Roger Collins {LAW ’74} Mr. Terry McCarthy {PS ’80} Mr. Robert Barringer {A&S ’01} Dr. Michal Rozbicki, {VSN ’66} a scholar of the Rev. Nicholas Fuhrmann, O.S.B. Mr. Jon Hake {A&S ’63} Dr. Thottakara Mathai {A&S ’69} Mrs. Carol (Davis) Kontz {VSN ’74} Mrs. Jeanne (Smith) McEwan Dr. Deborah Budge {MED ’02} {ED ’60} Dr. Mang Yu {A&S ’66} {A&S ’80} cultural history of Mr. Wayne Humphrey {IT ’63} Dr. Joseph Presslitz {MED ’69} Mr. Peter Lumaghi {LAW ’74} Ms. Lisa Keys {GRAD ’03} early America, died Dr. Stephen Huggard III {PC ’60} Mr. David Evans {LAW ’67} Dr. Lawrence Mormino {ED ’80} July 31, 2019. He was Mr. Jack Jordan {P&L ’63} Mr. Raymond Shelton {PH ’69} Dr. David Porter {MED ’74} Mrs. Bridget DeClue {PS ’04} Mrs. Jane (Hohmann) Krahmer Dr. James Furstoss {MED ’67} Lt. Col. Diana (DeMoss) Potter 73. Before coming to {A&S ’60} Mr. Anzo Manoni {ED ’63} Mr. Frank Smith III {A&S ’69} Dr. Craig Aubuchon {A&S ’75} {ED ’80} Mr. Matthew Hatfield {LAW ’04} Saint Louis University, Dr. Nancy Green {MED ’67} Dr. Rozbicki had a distinguished Mrs. Ellen Leitz {A&S ’60} Mr. John Morris {CSB ’63} Mr. Robert Wade {SW ’69} Mr. Albert Caffey III{ED ’75} Mr. Stuart Archer {PC ’81} Mr. Tobin Brown {ED ’05} Sr. Philomena Hrencher, O.P. {PH ’67} career in his home country of Mr. Charles Smith {IT ’60} Sr. Clare Tracy {DCHS ’63} Mr. Charles Atterbury {PC ’70} Mr. James Eichenseer {DCHS ’75} Mrs. Annette (Riddle) Bohn {PC ’81} Mr. Justin Thacker {DCHS ’05} Poland and served as director of Dr. Merwyn Larson {MED ’67} the American Studies Center at Dr. John Turchetta Jr. {DENT ’60} Dr. John Conomy {MED ’64} Dr. Joseph Boain {DENT ’70} Mrs. Elana Fox {SW ’75} Mr. Gerald Brady Jr. {LAW ’81} Dr. David Barrett {MED ’06} Dr. Myron Marty {A&S ’67} Warsaw University. He joined SLU’s {A&S ’15} Mr. Warren Wiedemann {PC ’60} Ms. Mary (Sullivan) Dee {A&S ’64} Rev. Robert Boisaubin {A&S ’70} Mr. Michael Gund {CSB ’75} Mr. Henry Brym {PC ’81} Rev. Michael Pahls history department in 1992 and Mr. James Metcalfe {LAW ’67} {A&S ’19} was chair from 2007 to 2010. In Mr. Peter Zemanick {PC ’60} Mr. Marion Delfert {CSB ’64} Mr. Francis Branca {IT ’70} Mr. Joseph Kanacheril {SW ’75} Dr. Ivan Davenport {ED ’81} Ms. Samuel Gaskill Mr. Anthony Petricca {IT ’67} 2011, he helped create the Center Mr. Donald Arndt Jr. {PC ’61} Mr. Damian Enneking {ED ’64} Mrs. Patricia (Pastor) Butler {A&S ’70} Mr. Dennis Marchi {CSB ’75} Mr. Leroy Johnson {ED ’81} for Intercultural Studies, where he Dr. Nancy Rich {A&S ’67} Dr. Marla Bernbaum, was director until 2018. Miss Mary Barbee {CSB ’61} Mr. Louis Garr Jr. {LAW ’64} Mr. Richard Cain {LAW ’70} Br. Leonard Stoffel, F.S.C. {ED ’75} Mr. Donald Kidwell Jr. {CSB ’81} who had been on Dr. Mack Rose {DENT ’67} faculty in the Division Mrs. Elizabeth (Sonnemann) Mrs. Colleen Gore {SW ’64} Mr. Vernon Heck {CSB ’70} Mr. Robert Thibaut Jr. {A&S ’75} Mrs. Anita (Priscu) Smith {VSN ’81} Miss Kathleen Ryan {ED ’67} of Endocrinology Dr. James F. Scott, Blythe {ED ’61} Sr. M. Havel, O.S.F. {PH ’64} Mr. Gilbert Mai {ED ’70} Mr. Charles Vandegriffe Sr. {CSB ’75} Dr. Claude Lynch {ED ’82} at the School of professor emeritus Mrs. Geraldine (Tierney) Walker of English and Mr. Fred Boettcher {A&S ’61} {ED ’67} Medicine for 38 years, Mr. Bela Jaczko {PC ’64} Mr. Henry Manson Jr. {A&S ’70} Mrs. Mary (McGuire) Vincent Mr. William Wessel {PS ’82} director emeritus {A&S ’75} died Dec. 10, 2019, at Dr. James Boyle {DENT ’61} Sr. Mary Keough {PH ’64} Mr. David Wang {IT ’67} Dr. Patrick McGivern {A&S ’70} Mr. Raymond Klasek {PS ’83} age 66. She had been an associate of film studies, died Mr. William Wallace Sr. {LAW ’75} Sept. 13, 2019. He Mr. Donald Brown {CSB ’61} Sr. Mary Wedig, R.S.M. {PH ’67} professor in internal medicine in Dr. Joseph Koerner {A&S ’64} Ms. Carol (Burgett) Purcell {A&S ’70} Mrs. Shirley (Douglas) Clampitt was 85. Dr. Scott Dr. Richard Wetzel {A&S ’75} {PH ’84} the 1980s and ’90s before retiring Dr. James Flynn {MED ’61} Mr. Carl La Forge {ED ’64} Mrs. Jane (Semancik) Wingle {SW ’67} Mr. Marvin Resnick {CSB ’70} due to disability. She later took joined SLU’s faculty in 1962 and Mr. David Whalen {LAW ’75} Mr. John Grant Jr. {A&S ’84} taught literature, film history Dr. Jan Goff{MED ’61} Mr. John Alsup Jr. {LAW ’68} a voluntary appointment as a Mr. Leland Lenzner {IT ’64} Mr. Carl Sherman {CSB ’70} and criticism, media history and Mr. Stephen Burdt {CSB ’76} Mr. Ahmad Zamany {PC ’85} clinical associate professor. While Capt. Jerome Greenwell {PC ’61} Dr. Rex Mortensen {DENT ’64} Sr. Barbara Becnel {ED ’68} Mr. James Brinks {CSB ’71} at SLU, Dr. Bernbaum oversaw documentary filmmaking. He also Maj. Jerome Lee {PS ’76} Mr. Michael Mannion {LAW ’86} established the University’s film Mr. Raymond Howard Jr. {LAW ’61} Dr. John Caster {MED ’68} the endocrinology fellowship and Mr. Gary Pitzer {CSB ’64} Miss Mary Dilger {VSN ’71} studies program. In addition, he Dr. Thomas Romanin {ED ’76} Mr. Gregory Tobin {LAW ’86} directed the diabetes education Mr. Joseph Inchiostro {CSB ’61} Mrs. Kathleen (Condon) Wade Dr. Carl Eddington {MED ’68} Dr. Roberta (McCabe) Fruth {VSN ’71} program and the clinical program was an award-winning filmmaker {ED ’64} Mrs. Kathleen (McNulty) Steffee Dr. Khawla Khan {MED ’87} involved in more than 30 Dr. Mirtlean (Jackson) Jenkins Sr. Eleanor Frankenberg, S.S.N.D. for diabetes and vision impairment. Dr. Clarence Goldsmith {ED ’71} {VSN ’76} documentaries, including ones {SW ’61} Ms Jeannette Bell {DCHS ’65} {ED ’68} Mr. Edward Mann {PC ’87} about famous St. Louisans such as Mrs. Joanne (Brindley) Hanon Mr. Dennis Kay {LAW ’71} Mrs. Elizabeth (Denolf) Faust Mrs. Judith (Cowan) Johnson Mr. Michael Bradley {A&S ’65} {VSN ’77} Mr. Jeffrey Wagnon {CSB ’87} Dr. Lucien “Lou” explorer William Clark, poet Sara {A&S ’61} {ED ’68} Mrs. Ruth (Luczak) Power {A&S ’71} Fournier, professor Teasdale and botanist Henry Shaw. Mr. James Gunn Sr. {LAW ’65} Dr. Gerald Harvey {MED ’77} Ms. Anne Flynn {A&S ’88} Dr. Dan Klinglesmith III {A&S ’61} Mr. Stephen Holst {A&S ’68} Dr. Donald Walker {ED ’71} emeritus of English, Sr. Mary Kahl, F.S.M. {A&S ’65} {VSN ’77} Mr. Robert Geisz {PC ’88} died Sept. 10, 2019, Miss Ann Kaiser {CSB ’68} Ms. Lynne Keslinger Dr. William Thacker, Mr. Charles Mathias {PC ’61} Rev. William White {ED ’71} at age 82. In 1967, he Ms. Jacqueline (Guignon) Maritz Mrs. Jocalyn (Vronay) Herron professor and Mr. John Kinealy III {CSB ’68} Ms. Mary Mason {A&S ’77} Mr. Frederick Minchk {CSB ’61} {A&S ’65} Dr. John Williman {A&S ’71} {PC ’88} joined the faculty former chair of the of the English Dr. Mary Marcia Lynch {VSN ’68} Mr. Patrick Rothlauf {A&S ’77} Department of Mr. Walter Stuecken {CSB ’61} Mr. Michael Mateyka {A&S ’65} Mr. Michael Barrett {CSB ’72} Mr. Elbert Luh Jr. {LAW ’88} department, where he taught for Physics, died Sept. Mr. Dana MacKay {SW ’68} Mr. Gregory Strnad {CSB ’77} Mr. Ned Taddeucci {A&S ’61} Sr. Marjorie Myers, S.S.N.D. {ED ’65} Sr. Mary Dyer {VSN ’72} Ms. Barbara McNease {SW ’88} 43 years until his retirement. In 28, 2019, at 64. He recognition of his dedication to Mr. Lester Muckerman {ED ’68} Mr. Donald Witlin {SW ’77} came to SLU in Mrs. Rita (Goevert) Boero {A&S ’62} Bro. Ralph Neumann {ED ’65} Mr. Steve Gaal III {CSB ’72} Mr. William Boiston {LAW ’89} teaching and his commitment to 1989 as an assistant professor of Mr. Doyle Naramore {PC ’68} Mrs. Lillian (Gill) Ziwot {ED ’77} Dr. John Crotty {MED ’62} Dr. Thomas Reardon {MED ’65} Mr. Ralph Jensen II {SW ’72} Mr. Jeffrey Smith{A&S ’89} training and mentoring graduate physics. Guiding students through Mr. Andrew Novotney {A&S ’68} Mr. Douglas Bizer {PC ’78} student instructors, the department complex courses, Dr. Thacker was Mr. Robert Cummiskey {CSB ’62} Dr. Rodger Remington {A&S ’65} Mrs. Emma (Williams) Johnson Dr. Nola Culbertson-DePaoli named its annual graduate student recognized with the Outstanding Mr. Courtney Pitkin Jr. {A&S ’68} {SW ’72} Mr. David Curran {CSB ’78} {SW ’91} Miss Marceline Gratiaa {A&S ’62} Ms. Evelyn (Homer) Tucker {A&S ’65} teaching award for him. Faculty of the Year Award in Dr. Dennis Stanczyk {MED ’68} Mr. Walter Lembeck {CSB ’72} Mr. Joe Curren {CSB ’78} Mrs. Susan (Streuber) Moorman 2006 by the Association of Parks Mr. John Hoffmann{CSB ’62} Most Rev. Paul Zipfel {ED ’65} {SW ’91} College Students. In addition, he Mr. John Weidlich {A&S ’68} Mr. James Moran {SW ’72} Mr. Robert Hormberg {A&S ’78} Mr. Val Pelizzaro, Dr. Robert Jennings {DENT ’62} {MED ’66} Dr. Kenneth Allen Ms. Louise (Letourneau) Pound longtime SLU men’s received numerous grants from Mr. Gale Wideman {A&S ’68} Mrs. Jane (Czech) Parr {DCHS ’72} Mr. Jerry Paetzhold {PS ’78} {ED ’91} the NASA Langley Research Sr. Lucille Kerschen, A.S.C. {ED ’62} Dr. Warren Barnhart {A&S ’66} soccer assistant coach Mr. Leonard Appelbaum Jr. {CSB ’69} Br. Stanislaus Sobczyk {ED ’72} Mrs. Sharon (Schewe) Stork {VSN ’78} Dr. Robert Nee {MED ’92} and a St. Louis soccer Center, where he also did a summer Sr. Rosemary Meiman, O.S.U. {MED ’66} Dr. George Biesinger icon, died Sept. 27, faculty fellowship. {ED ’62} Dr. Ronald Auclair {MED ’69} Mr. Donald Toohill {LAW ’72} Mr. William Waechter {LAW ’78} Mrs. Diana Krazl-Keniley {A&S ’93} Mr. Gerald Boynton {IT ’66} 2019, at age 87. When Dr. Louis Ortmann {DENT ’62} Mr. Stephen Bartz {CSB ’69} Dr. Delbert Dace {ED ’73} Mr. Jerald Zeigler {A&S ’78} Mr. David Miller {CSB ’93} the legendary Harry Mrs. Geraldine (Witek) Bracken Keough became the Billikens’ head Mr. Joel Smith {A&S ’62} {VSN ’66} Mr. Philip Batisto {CSB ’69} Mr. Terence Durkin {A&S ’73} Dr. Marie Caputi {SW ’79} Mr. Jon Petersen {SW ’93} coach in 1967, Mr. Pelizzaro joined This list of deceased alumni Mr. Gerald Wollmann {PC ’62} Mr. James Daniel {SW ’66} Dr. Hubert Bonfili{MED ’69} Mr. Harold Harthill {PC ’73} Mr. John Casper {A&S ’79} Mr. Thomas Roux {VSN ’95} the staff. He served as an assistant was compiled by SLU’s Office coach at SLU for 30 years and of Research and Development Dr. Philip Anderson {A&S ’63} Mr. Donald Engbert {CSB ’66} Lt. John Cook {PC ’69} Mr. Michael Moloney {PC ’73} Mr. Roland Dunlop {CSB ’79} Ms. Dawn (Smith) Hassbaum {A&S ’96} participated in some of the most Services. If you have a question Mr. Francis Barkofske {LAW ’63} Sr. Janet Griffin, C.D.P.{A&S ’66} Dr. Fotios Ganias {MED ’69} Dr. Margaret Riley {VSN ’73} Mr. Patrick Mulligan {PS ’79} memorable moments in SLU soccer or would like more information Mrs. Andrea (Toedebusch) Dressel history, including five NCAA about an “In Memoriam” listing, Dr. William Bodner Jr. {MED ’63} Mr. Arthur Hoogstraet {CSB ’66} Sr. Mary Gaspar {ED ’69} Mr. Vito Tamboli {CSB ’73} Dr. Marvin Reid Jr. {ED ’79} {A&S ’98} championships. please send an email message Mr. James Duffy{A&S ’63} Mr. Melvin Jones Sr. {ED ’66} Dr. Jerome Halverson {A&S ’69} Mr. Jerry Watkins {CSB ’73} Mr. Bruce Thompson {CSB ’79} Mrs. Misti Richards {LAW ’98} to [email protected].

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ast May, SLU’s Office of Alumni and Donor Engagement Alumni Survey surveyed alumni about their time at Saint Louis University Results and beyond. The results help the University understand what L alumni value and how to build on the shared SLU experience. Of 2,065 total respondents, more than half earned a SLU undergraduate degree; about a third earned a SLU graduate degree; and 17% had both undergraduate and graduate degrees from SLU. The majority of respondents live outside of the St. Louis metropolitan area; 41% live within 50 miles of St. Louis.

of survey respondents describe their % experience as a SLU student as “good to excellent.”

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rate their decision to attend THE CONCERT SCENE % Saint Louis University as a good 91 or great decision. Although the performer is unknown in this circa 2004 photo, the early 2000s brought big-name acts to campus, typically for two free shows per year — a Homecoming concert in the fall and a Spring say that “value and respect for degree” has Fever concert in April. For example, rapper Wyclef Jean performed on % significant or critical impact on their opinion campus in fall 2000, along with hip-hop acts the Black Eyed Peas and of their alma mater. 85 De La Soul as part of the MTV Campus Invasion. In 2001-02, SLU welcomed St. Louis rapper Nelly and the St. Lunatics, alternative rock band Better Than Ezra and rock band Gin Blossoms. SLU’s 2002-03 musical guests included rappers Fabolous, Tabib What’s important to Alumni were asked to name one program or activity that Kweli and Tone Loc, along with alternative rock band Sister alumni in making a had a special impact on their experience as a student. Hazel, who played an acoustic set in the Griesedieck Hall lobby due to rain. The 2003-04 school year brought rock decision to give to SLU? bands O.A.R., Dashboard Confessional and punk-rockers Zebrahead to campus. And the 2004-05 SLU concerts That their gift will featured singer-songwriters Ben Folds and Jason Mraz. provide financial 1 JUST FOR LAUGHS support to SLU students Many comedians in the early stages of their careers also did stand-up sets at Saint Louis University in the early 2000s, including Jimmy Knowing how their 2 Fallon, Seth Meyers, Horatio Sanz and Daniel Tosh. dues or gifts are used GRAND VENUES ON CAMPUS TALENT THE NEXT BIG THINGS That their gift will The venue shown above is the parking Nationally known artists In the mid-2000s, the Billiken Club — a 3 increase the quality of lot just south of Griesedieck Hall along weren’t the only ones entertaining small venue on the ground floor of Busch the academics Laclede Avenue, which was then known SLU students at the turn of the last Student Center — earned a following as the Georgetown Parking Lot. The century. In 2000, SLU’s first a cappella among indie music fans on campus and location is now the site of Grand Hall, group, the all-male Bare Naked Statues, around the city. The club, which also hosted the residence hall that opened in 2017. debuted. The group gave their first student organization events, open-mics Other venues for SLU concerts 15-20 concert before a small crowd at SLU’s and karaoke nights, brought a steady years ago included Busch Student Museum of Contemporary Religious stream of up-and-comers and indie acts to Center, Simon Recreation Center, the Art, and it wasn’t long before they’d campus, including Richard Buckner, Anais Gonzaga Parking Lot behind Des Peres recorded a CD and began performing Mitchell and Wavves. Years before they won Hall and the Trova Sculpture Park. to sold-out crowds. A few years later, Grammy awards, Bon Iver and St. Vincent students formed SLU’s first all-female played to intimate Billiken Club audiences. a cappella group, Beyond All Reason.

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