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years strong As Roosevelt gears up for its 70th anniversary, alumni young and old reminisce about the 's effect on their lives and careers. FALL 2014 [ PLANNED GIVING ] CONTENTS Martha R. Sklar (BA, ’62) DR. MARTHA RUBINSTEIN SKLAR, ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY’S 10,000TH GRADUATE, ENDOWED A MATHEMATICS SCHOLARSHIP FOR STUDENTS IN THE FIELD OF MATHEMATICS.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Martha Sklar immigrated to Detroit when she “My was 8 years old. The Roosevelt alumna is a long-time supporter of her philosophy alma mater and is a Fireside Circle member.* Sklar has always had a is to pay it passion for mathematics, a subject she taught at the high school level forward.” in and the community college level in Los Angeles for more than 20 years. In 2011, she established the Dr. Martha Rubinstein Sklar Endowed Mathematics Scholarship for Students in the Field of Mathematics. Today, she is in the process of naming a student study lounge in Roosevelt’s Wabash Building.

“When I needed help, some generous people provided a scholarship for me at Roosevelt; my philosophy is to pay it forward,” she said. Sklar’s generosity will benefit Roosevelt students for years to come and provide a space for future mathematicians and others to gather and study, and to wonder about the woman for whom their lounge is named.

What will your legacy to Roosevelt be? “The graduates of our For information on the Fireside Circle and how to support Roosevelt and its students through first class are pioneers.” estate and planned giving, please contact: GEORGE MACKINNON, FOUNDING DEAN, COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

Denise Bransford (BPS, ’04) Assistant Vice President for Planned Giving Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Ave., Room 818D Chicago, IL 60605 Telephone: (312) 341-6455 [email protected] FALL 2014 * The Fireside Circle recognizes alumni and friends who have 20 14 36 made provisions for Roosevelt University through a planned gift. 70 Years Strong Pharmacy Pioneers His Primary Care Alumni Sami Grisafe, age 29, Sixty-one students made history in May To Joshua Freeman, a family physician and Dick Ettlinger, 92, were as the first to graduate from Roosevelt and Roosevelt trustee, social justice is years strong panelists discussing Roosevelt University’s new College of Pharmacy. personal and imperative. As Roosevelt gears up for its 70th anniversary, alumni young and old reminisce about the University's effect on their lives and careers. through the decades.

ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 1 fall 2014 / Volume 19, Number 2

“Roosevelt gave me the foundation to persevere.”

colleen kelly (MS, '98), star of public television's hit show, family travel 31 with colleen kelly The Auditorium Building at 125 We present some little known facts about Roosevelt’s landmark building. 10 Differences, Welcome Resident assistant Brandon Rohlwing is blazing a trail for gender-inclusive housing and suicide prevention. 28 70 Up In Smoke 5 Events Calendar Making History A Roosevelt University study raises questions Learn about the University’s about marijuana policy in Chicago and in . President's Perspective story through 200 historic 8 pictures in a new book. 56 University News 39 66 Athletics Giving Back Roosevelt alumni make a difference daily as 70 Advancement nonprofit leaders. Here are five of their stories. 72 Scholarship Spotlight 44 74 Alumni News Behind the Scenes 77 In Memoriam Family vacations can be a lot more fun if you watch alumna Colleen Kelly’s show 78 Board of Trustees on public television. 79 2014 Honor Roll 50 What Would Dewey Say Today? Elizabeth Meadows, associate professor of elementary education, explains why the ideas of philosopher John Dewey are still relevant today.

2 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 3 Have a question? Have a comment? We can help. Connect with us. EVENTS Letters to the Editor, Articles in Roosevelt Review “Love their hard work and #dedication Thomas R. Karow, Editor Thank you @RooseveltU! #volunteering (312) 341-3512 | [email protected] #service #nonprofit” Giving to Roosevelt University Sports Enrollment Jan Parkin, Interim Vice President, Institutional Advancement DEC 19-20 FEB 7 (312) 341-4327 | [email protected] Women’s Basketball Transfer and Adult Roosevelt Holiday Hoops Program Visit Day Alumni Relations Tournament 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Yvette Garcia, Director, Alumni Relations Goodman Center Schaumburg Campus (312) 341-3626 | [email protected] Admission JAN 7 MARCH 21 Victor Sanchez, Associate Director, Admission Women’s Basketball/ Undergraduate and (312) 341-2282 | [email protected] Men’s Basketball Graduate Preview Day Robert Morris 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Career Development Chicago Campus Goodman Center Melissa Stutz, Assistant Vice President, Student Engagement Follow Roosevelt on @RooseveltU (312) 341-3537 | [email protected] FEB 11 Musical Events “Good luck to all Women’s Basketball/ Fundraising Elizabeth Sustar, Director of Performance Activities, incoming students... Men’s Basketball APRIL 10 Music Conservatory I just graduated Cardinal Stritch Founders Day Presentation (312) 341-2238 | [email protected] Goodman Center in May and can In celebration of the 70th Theatrical Events anniversary of Roosevelt say this school FEB 18 Kendall Kelley, Managing Director, “ 17 days until University, actors Loretta Swit Theatre Conservatory was one of the I live here ” Women’s Basketball/ and Ed Asner will present two (312) 341-6355 | [email protected] Men’s Basketball CCPA JazzFest one-person shows depicting best decisions #rooseveltuniversity Saint Xavier the lives of Eleanor and Intercollegiate Athletics of my life. Going Goodman Center Franklin Roosevelt. John Jaramillo, Associate Athletic Director to miss RU! You Visit us on Instagram for an (312) 341-3829 | [email protected] inside look at Roosevelt. Performances FEB 23-28 Best known for her role on guys will love this M*A*S*H, Swit’s performance Renting a Space at Roosevelt Women’s Basketball/ DEC 6 FEB 12-15 campus!” of “Eleanor: Her Secret Men’s Basketball CCPA JazzFest A Funny Thing Happened Jodi Daily, Director, Conference Services Journey” follows the First (312) 341-3543 | [email protected] CCAC Tournament 12–3:30 p.m., Jazz Showcase on the Way to the Forum Lady’s journey from the White Campus sites TBA O’Malley Theatre NOV 20-23 House to the United Nations. Asner, former star of the Lou Assassins FEB 16 Grant TV series, portrays O’Malley Theatre Student Composition the four-term president in a Recital performance titled “FDR.” JAN 27 7:30 p.m., Ganz Hall PUBLISHER | Lesley D. Slavitt EDITORIAL BOARD CCPA Symphony Tickets to their performances | Thomas R. Karow Assistant Vice President, Public Relations EDITOR Thomas R. Karow Orchestra FEB 28-MARCH 1 at the Douglas G. Knerr Executive Vice President and University Provost CREATIVE DIRECTOR | Patrick J. Lytle 7:30 p.m., for CCPA are available through Patrick J. Lytle Associate Vice President, Marketing and Chief Marketing Officer ASSOCIATE EDITOR | Laura Janota Benito Juarez Community Charles R. Middleton President Music and Dance the theatre’s website, WRITERS | Courtney Flynn, Laura Janota, Lesley D. Slavitt Vice President, Government Relations and University Outreach Academy auditoriumtheatre.org. John Jaramillo, Thomas R. Karow, Erica Masini, Jan Parkin Interim Vice President, Institutional Advancement View a full FEB 12 Persons interested in Elizabeth Meadows, Linda Sands, Lynn Weiner list of events at CCPA Wind Ensemble APRIL 16-19 attending a preshow gala DESIGN | Right Angle Studio, Inc. dinner should contact Roosevelt Review is published two times a year by roosevelt.edu/ with Conservatory Chorus The Wild Party PHOTOGRAPHY | Bob Coscarelli, Bill Hanyzewski, Kelly Kruse, Roosevelt University. There is no subscription fee. calendar 7:30 p.m., Ganz Hall O’Malley Theatre Lauren Chill at (312) 341-3617. Nathan Mandell, Lesley D. Slavitt, Steve Woltmann Roosevelt University 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605 ILLUSTRATION | Dave Cutler (312) 341-3500 | www.roosevelt.edu

4 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 5 THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING

YEARS

THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS

“It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.” –

Discover more about the history of the Auditorium Building on page 31.

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Milestones: Past, Present and Future BY ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT CHUCK MIDDLETON

WE HUMANS love to measure out, as it is the age at which, no everything in units of time. We matter what else you may be do it in many diverse and quite doing, you are required to start different ways. How long have you drawing your social security been married? How long have you payments. worked at Roosevelt University? , by comparison, How long have you been a aren’t really all that old at 70. Chicagoan? When did you last In fact, I’d say that if they were go to, well, fill in the blank. animate, sentient beings, All of these and many more they’d be more or less still similar questions are designed pre-pubescent. This lesson is to place our companion into an driven home every time I go to historical time line. The answers the installation of a presidential enable us to better understand colleague. The delegates from some key aspect of the life other institutions line up in their experience of a new friend, colorful academic plumage in a relative, even by inference, the order in which their institution ourselves. They certainly help was founded. Harvard (1636) me in knowing more about and The College of William and individual alumni and their Mary (1693) always lead the experience getting to Roosevelt procession and in that order — and then going forward thereafter. unless a representative of Oxford In the life of an individual, Institutions also yield information University (1086) or the University seven decades is worthy of when queried in similar ways. of Bologna (1088) shows up, I’m really conscious of this truism in which case international celebration. So, too, in the and how it applies to Roosevelt precedence kicks in. University as we approach our 70th The rest of us line up in life of a university. birthday – or put it another way, descending order of institutional the 70th anniversary of our formal youthfulness. If you look, you creation in the spring of 1945. will discover me happily towards year. These and other events however, is perhaps more In the life of an individual the end of the line chatting away scheduled throughout the year important. In them we seven decades is worthy of with colleagues from institutions will be held in conjunction with anticipate our future and celebration. So, too, in the life of founded in the 1960s and 1970s, the 125th anniversary of the remind ourselves of the role a university. Turning 70 is a major of which there are many, though Auditorium Building and the we play today as the current accomplishment for both, though not so many as were founded opening of our magnificent stewards of the Rooseveltian the meanings are naturally quite before Roosevelt. The line Theatre on Dec. 9, 1889. legacy. Here the focus is on ahead can be very long, indeed. different. Let me explain. I have noted elsewhere that the present and on answering Throughout most of human No matter the age of an there are at least two purposes the more prosaic but still history, while some people institution, however, we all at work on these occasions. vital questions about who our always lived a very long time, celebrate milestones of First, and most obvious, we students should be, what they most individuals did not. The accomplishment, be that once use them to look back to past should study, and how we are recent past, however, has seen a decade if the university’s accomplishments. These serve going to sustain our finances in remarkable changes in infant time line is on a scale comparable to remind us of the successes these transformational times mortality, diet, medical care and to that of a person, or less of those who came before and for higher education in general. other factors that contribute to frequently if the college of how indebted we are to them In these purposes, success increased longevity, on average. has already celebrated its for our opportunities today. As will depend increasingly on University faculty everywhere centennial. an historian I take particular you, the alumni and friends of have written extensively about Thus it has come to pass that interest in them and am very Roosevelt University. It’s your these matters, in the process in 2014-15 Roosevelt hits pleased that our university legacy we seek to pass on. sharpening our understanding of another moment for reflection historian, Lynn Weiner, has just Increasingly, it’s your investment and throwing light onto pathways on accomplishments past and published a book of pictures of time, talent and, yes, treasure to even longer, healthier lives for on possibilities for the future. from our Archives that will that will be crucial to sustaining future generations. Let us hope. You will already know of many help you relive them with us and growing the strength of that That said, our turning 70 is still celebratory occasions that took wherever you may be today. legacy in time future. a major milestone for all of us. place earlier this fall semester The second purpose of It’s good work if you can get it. For the government, too, it turns as we launched this 70th these celebratory occasions, Please join us in doing it.

Chuck Middleton welcomes your comments. Email him at [email protected].

8 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 9 BY LAURA JANOTA Differences, Welcome

On floor 22 of Roosevelt’s Now in his second year of implementing the Wabash Building, resident new program, Rohlwing is blazing a trail for the University and for higher education, “I knew Roosevelt assistant Brandon Rohlwing according to Bridget Collier, chief of staff makes the rounds. Knocking on to the president and head of the task force was a place that cared doors and making introductions, the 20-year- that developed the policy. “He’s creating about the individual old integrated marketing communications a buzz about the program with students and that embraced major may ask out of respect how one prefers and externally that is making the project a to be addressed. for anyone in higher education who individuality and I However, there is no pressure to indicate is contemplating a gender-inclusive housing wanted to be part of it." option,” she said. male, female, he, she, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, BRANDON ROHLWING transgender, questioning, intersex, ally, or Approximately 140 universities – out of an for that matter, to give an answer at all. “I estimated 4,000 – take into account gender don’t try to make assumptions about students and sexual orientation preferences when and their gender or sexual orientation,” placing students in housing, according to said Rohlwing, whose experiences growing Campus Pride, a not-for-profit organization for up included being bullied, deciding how student leaders and campus groups devoted to to come out as gay and coping with his creating a safe college environment for LGBT sister’s suicide. students. Few have the kind of all-inclusive environment that Roosevelt – with its mission “We are a floor that encourages everyone of social justice – has established, said Collier, to embrace who they are,” said Rohlwing whose task force refused to follow the lead of of the residence hall’s living-and-learning higher-education institutions with “gender community that is home to 38 students. “And neutral” policies. there are no questions asked.” Developed by a 17-member task force of Roosevelt “We found that a lot of residence life offices make students request accommodations based students, administrators and faculty during on gender, which requires administrators to 2012-13, the University’s gender and diversity then go out and find a space or spaces,” said inclusive housing policy is being praised as Katie Denny, Roosevelt’s housing administra- among the most exemplary in U.S. higher tion coordinator and a task force member. education today. (See related story.) “We decided it was the wrong approach, as it “In terms of innovation and practice, sends a message that essentially says, ‘There’s Roosevelt’s program stands out as a model,” a problem here that has to be figured out.’” said Jason C. Garvey, assistant professor Instead, the task force chose the term “gender of higher education at the University of and diversity inclusive” and a policy that asks Alabama and editor of a forthcoming book all students applying for campus housing to on gender-inclusive university housing check a box if they have interest in living in with a chapter on the Roosevelt experience. a gender and diversity inclusive community.

This fall, Rohlwing has enlisted fellow “We’ve created an entire learning community students on his floor to draft a constitution of based on inclusion and we are saying that bylaws for the gender and diversity inclusive anyone interested in exploring gender community. He held a significant program identity and diversity can live in the com- open to the entire Roosevelt community on munity – and we don’t out our students in the suicide prevention in September. He also process,” added task force member Jennifer launched a movie series for residents on Tani, Roosevelt’s assistant vice president for his floor for LGBT History Month in October. community engagement.

10 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 11 The concept appeals to undergraduate Bri Miers, a 19-year-old might be bisexual. I asked honors psychology and premed major with a women’s and gender her, ‘Why do you think studies minor who chose Roosevelt in part because of the gender and that?’ and I told her ‘It’s Recent Roosevelt graduate and May 2014 student diversity inclusive housing model. “I like the community because it fine if you are or it’s fine “I like the Commencement speaker Brenden Paradies, a has made it okay for me not to have to fit into a traditional mold,” if you aren’t,’” he said. resident assistant at the time, remembers meeting said Miers, who doesn’t identify with a specific gender. “I can do my community He came to realize, though, the freshman. “I told him (Rohlwing), ‘If you ever Book Explores Gender-Inclusive Housing own thing and don’t have to encompass the values associated with because it has need help, need to learn how to navigate things that he wasn’t being as having In addition, “Roosevelt is in an urban being male or female.” or want to get involved, let me know. I can be a CITED BY RESEARCHERS upfront about his own made it okay one of the most exceptional gender- environment and its chapter will offer a Eighteen-year-old Joe Bierzynski, a psychology major who identifies resource,’” said Paradies, among six Roosevelt sexual identity. Ashamed inclusive-housing programs in the nation, look at what goes into an urban gender- himself as a straight, single male, also opted to live on the 22nd floor for me not to students who sat on the University’s gender and and despondent, one Roosevelt University will be sharing its inclusive-housing experience, which because it fits with his life philosophy. “I always go for diversity,” diversity inclusive housing task force. “I’m impressed night at his computer have to fit into experiences regarding the program in we think can be a model for similar remarked Bierzynski. “My whole life has been surrounded with by what Brandon has done and am glad he took he searched “How can a traditional a forthcoming book. institutions considering this kind of interesting people, so I would never just pick a regular, mundane advantage of the offer,” added Paradies, who gave I kill myself?” A suicide policy,” he said. Rohlwing advice on becoming a resident assistant. “Walking the Talk: Managing Institutional floor to live on.” prevention website, which mold.” Culture to Put Values into Action” is the When Rohlwing first came to Roosevelt as a freshman in the fall Rohlwing blogs for today, BRI MIERS One of the first things Rohlwing does for students ROOSEVELT STUDENT title of the chapter about the Roosevelt of 2012, neither spearheading the model initiative, nor becoming a www.reachout.org, popped on his floor is give them a student-created Inclusive “We want to dispel experience that is to be included in Trans student leader, were at the forefront of his agenda. His older sister up. He watched the site’s Dictionary with inoffensive word choices reflecting the myth that Policies and Experiences in Housing and had just committed suicide and Rohlwing wasn’t sure he would videos and read stories the diverse community. “I was happy to receive Residential Life. gender-inclusive like college, as previous school experiences growing up in tiny, and tips about being gay and coming out for hours before going to the information,” said Danielle Cooperstock, an housing can hurt conservative West Dundee, Ill., had been challenging. his parents’ room, waking them and telling them he was gay. undergraduate social justice major and ally of Set to be published in 2016, the book is LGBT students. “It’s a great resource that is helping primarily for residence life practitioners, higher-education While he tried being a typical, suburban, heterosexual boy, kids at His father, an Illinois State Police captain, and mother, a suburban to increase awareness and is creating an open those considering implementing institutions." his middle school mocked and tormented him for being different and school district special education administrator, supported him. “I community,” said Cooperstock, who moved to gender-inclusive housing policies repeatedly called him “gay.” Rohlwing stopped being timid in seventh just knew that Roosevelt’s vision and mission would be a good fit for JASON GARVEY, EDITOR OF TRANS the floor to show solidarity for student colleagues and scholars who are interested in grade after kids urinated through the slats of his gym locker onto who Brandon is,” said his mother, Susan Rohlwing, who received a POLICIES AND EXPERIENCES IN who worked on the unique gender and diversity trans-related research. It will feature HOUSING AND RESIDENTIAL LIFE his clothing, laughing when he came back from gym, unknowingly bachelor’s degree in special education from the University in 2005. She inclusive housing policy. chapters on gender-inclusive housing at put the clothes on and wore them to class. recommended the University to her son shortly after her daughter’s 12 higher-education institutions across suicide, which occurred on the same day as her son’s high school A volunteer for various suicide prevention programs, While higher education institutions first “At the time, I didn’t feel I had a voice to do anything about it,” said the country, including Roosevelt. Rohlwing, who recalls his horror in class upon realizing he reeked graduation. “Because of Roosevelt, he was able to take the tragedy Rohlwing has spoken all over the world about his began implementing open housing policies of urine. “But it was definitely an incident that stuck with me and that we went through and become a stronger person,” she said. story and the topic of suicide. His goal, for now “We want to dispel the myth that as far back as 1970, more than half of the and the future, is to “walk the talk and help as gender-inclusive housing can hurt 140 universities with such policies have put changed me.” In high school, Rohlwing grew confrontational, sticking An honors student and among the first 600 students to move into many people as I can,” which is how his work higher-education institutions, which is gender-inclusive housing in place within up for others who were taunted as being gay. “I’d answer bullies the new Wabash Building, Rohlwing remembers touring the Chicago in implementing gender and diversity inclusive the reason we are putting out a book on the last three years. Some are traditional, with questions like, ‘Oh really? How is that gay?’ or ‘How is that Campus where he liked marketing information that asked: “Does homosexual? I don’t understand,’” he said. housing at Roosevelt is being perceived. best practices today in residence life and flagship institutions; others are small created equal mean treated equal?” “I knew it was a place that cared gender-inclusive housing,” said Jason liberal arts colleges; many are in cities He began to be seen as someone whom others could confide in. “I about the individual and that embraced individuality and I wanted “He makes sure everyone on the floor is taken care Garvey, assistant professor of higher and suburbs across the nation; some remember a girl I knew in high school telling me she thought she to be part of it, but I was struggling emotionally,” he said. of,” said Nathan Stoll, a psychology and premed major and president of the University’s Residence education at the University of Alabama have living and learning programs, like Hall Association. “As a result, the 22nd floor of and lead editor of the book comprised of Roosevelt’s, while others accommodate the Wabash Building is a stand-out community chapters written by individuals involved students in entire gender-inclusive of residents, which under Brandon’s leadership, in gender-inclusive housing at as many residence halls or individual suites and is almost like family.” as 12 higher education institutions across apartment complexes. Reaching Out with A Night of Hope the country. Contributors to the book chapter on Roosevelt University marked World Speakers at the well-attended The Roosevelt experience with gender- Roosevelt’s experience include Bridget Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10 program were Nicola Survanshi, inclusive housing was selected for the Collier, chief of staff to the president; with A Night of Hope, an awareness director of programs and operations Watch at roosevelt.edu/rohlwing book because of the way the University recent Roosevelt graduate Brenden program on suicide prevention. It was for ReachOut.com/Inspire USA went about establishing its policy and Paradies; Ellen O’Brien, director of the led by Brandon Rohlwing, a Roosevelt Foundation, an international not-for- program. “Roosevelt has had fantastic Women and Gender Studies program; student whose personal experiences profit whose mission is to help youth representation in putting together its Laura Kehoe, associate registrar; Jen- with suicide have spurred him to help strengthen mental wellness through policy,” said Garvey. “We were impressed nifer Tani, assistant vice president for troubled young people. technology-driven resources and that the University not only included community engagement; as well as peer support; Rohlwing, one of 10 “My goal was to create awareness upper-level administrators in the discus- Brandon Rohlwing, resident assistant nationwide youth counselors/men- about suicide prevention and a sion, but also that it solicited student for Roosevelt’s gender-inclusive hous- tors for ReachOut.com and the only culture at Roosevelt, and beyond, that opinions and input, which we think is ing floor; and Bob Brophy, director embraces those who are struggling one from Chicago who gives college essential for success,” said Garvey of of residence life at University Center emotionally, letting them know that students tips and advice electronically the University’s 17-member task force Chicago. Most were members of the resources are available to help,” for handling a variety of day-to-day Learn more about Roosevelt's gender-inclusive that developed a policy during the fall original task force that formulated the said Rohlwing. “There is a lot of stigma stresses and problems; and Matthew housing program: Watch an exclusive video by 2012 semester. Roosevelt policy. surrounding suicide and mental health Hoffman, creator of Chicago’s “You the Daily Herald, featuring Rohlwing and past issues, particularly on college campuses.” are Beautiful” sticker campaign. Director of Residence Life, Bridget Collier.

12 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROROOSOESVEEVLETL RTE RVIEEVIWE W | |FALL FALL 2 2001414 13 pharmacy pioneersBY LAURA JANOTA

VERONICA JIMENEZ knew when she started at Roosevelt Roosevelt’s first graduating University’s new College of Pharmacy in 2011 that she wanted to be a retail pharmacist serving Chicago’s Latino College of Pharmacy class made community. history this summer. One alumna Three years later, she is a 26-year-old bilingual pharmacist for Walmart. A member of Roosevelt’s first graduating even saved her father’s life. pharmacy class and the only Latina, Jimenez not only achieved her career goal, she also used skills she learned to help save her father’s life.

“Before I came to Roosevelt, I didn’t know a lot about medications,” said Jimenez, one of 61 College of Pharmacy students who graduated in May. “Thanks to the program, I learned how to navigate through a family health care crisis, asking questions and seeking answers, all the while doing what I was taught to do – which is to keep a cool head.”

Jimenez had just finished nearly two years of coursework at Roosevelt’s Schaumburg Campus as well as the initial 480 hours of introductory pharmacy field and inter- professional practice when her father was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. “I didn’t want to just accept the doctors’ opinion that we should take him home to die,” said Jimenez, whose father, a warehouse foreman, and mother, a school lunchroom manager, came to Chicago from Mexico more than three decades ago in search of a better life.

“With all the health care training I was receiving and all the time I was spending on my studies, I knew I owed it to my family to be proactive,” said Jimenez, the fourth of six children and the first in her family to receive an advanced degree. The Roosevelt student researched her father’s disease; she identified medications and side effects; and she found a doctor whom she convinced, using clinical skills she learned at Roosevelt, to take her father’s case – actions that improved his condition and prolonged his life.

“Veronica, like other students in her class, is a creative thinker,” said George MacKinnon, founding dean of the College of Pharmacy. “She used what she learned to take the initiative, problem solve and advocate on behalf of her father.”

14 R ROOOOSSEEVVEELLTT R REEVIVIEEWW | FALL| FALL 2014 2014 ROROOSOESVEEVLETL RTE RVIEEVIWE W | |FALL FALL 2 2001414 15 PHARMACY GRADS FIND WORK Since its founding, the College of Pharmacy, one of the "The graduates of our first class are pioneers. They few pharmacy programs in the nation and the only one in the Midwest to offer the PharmD degree in a trusted us to provide a program that not only prepares three-year format, has received 2,300 applicants and them for real-life situations but also for a changing admitted 240 students into four classes, including the Class of 2017. Seventy percent of Roosevelt’s inaugural landscape that demands they be on the front line class is now working as pharmacists and 35 graduates as the patient's most accessible caregiver." have opted for community pharmacy where average GEORGE MACKINNON, FOUNDING DEAN, COLLEGE OF PHARMACY annual salaries can top $100,000.

Twenty-three graduates from the inaugural class today In addition to classroom work, Roosevelt’s pharmacy work at community pharmacies in Illinois; 12 are at com- students learn the ins and outs of daily pharmacy care munity pharmacies in Arizona, California, Indiana, New through advanced patient-care field rotations. Jimenez, Jersey, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin; seven are residents for example, was at Presence St. Joseph Hospital’s Class of 2014 at Illinois and Wisconsin hospitals (see related story); intensive care unit in Joliet, Ill.; Mt. Sinai Health Systems The inaugural class of the and one has become an information-technology (IT) in Chicago, in internal medicine and later in ambula- College of Pharmacy started pharmacist streamlining data platforms at a Louisiana tory care; Walgreens in Chicago for six weeks of retail 35 in July 2011. Here are some hospital in conjunction with the Affordable Care Act. management training; and Westlake Hospital in Melrose graduates in facts and figures about these students who graduated in “As I see it, graduates of our first class are pioneers,” Park, Ill. at the hospital pharmacy unit. Roosevelt’s May: A little more than half MacKinnon said. “They trusted us to provide a program That’s a fraction of the sites the first class had to choose inaugural class were women. More than a that not only prepares them for real-life situations from for its 384 rotations, according to Joan Hardman, the third were people of color. but also for a changing health care landscape that are community College of Pharmacy’s director of experiential education. Their age range was between demands they be on the front line as the patient’s pharmacists, “Our partnerships with health care providers and our 20 and 51, with the average most accessible caregiver.” Although going separate rotation sites throughout the region are continuing to where salaries being 25 years of age. They ways, students in the first graduating class agree they expand,” she said. can top $100,000 hailed from 15 states and won’t forget their common experiences as members six countries. Some came of a community of learners. Like her peers, Jimenez admirably represented Roosevelt from community colleges, and its new pharmacy program during her rotations. but the majority arrived with “Because of the program’s emphasis on working “When I got out there, I noticed students from other bachelor’s degrees in hand. together, I made a number of lifelong friends,” said pharmacy programs were different,” she said. “They Michelle Wachtor, 23, a new Walgreens pharmacist They had two years of didn’t seem to have the experience I did working with intensive didactic coursework, whose suburban Chicago district includes Frankfort, others on patient care and I realized that the training 320 hours of introductory Joliet, Peru and Rochelle, Ill. Wachtor received all As in at Roosevelt prepared me to be a contributing member pharmacy practice her advanced practice experiences and also won the of a health care team, which helped me excel.” experiences, 160 hours of Roosevelt Enlightenment Award for volunteer efforts. inter-professional experience Unsurprisingly, working with family members at home “It’s not a program that herds you into big lecture halls, and a final year of 1,440 to support her father also became part of Jimenez’s nor does it encourage you to exist in a silo,” said Jake hours of advanced pharmacy college life. “I’m super proud of Veronica,” said Claudia practice experiences, for a Backhoff, 25, also a Walgreens pharmacist whose largely Jimenez, a 2007 Roosevelt University graduate in Early total of 1,920 internship rural district extends from Champaign to Effingham, Childhood Education who initially recommended the hours overall. Ill. “At Roosevelt, you learn to work together and University and its new pharmacy program to her younger communicate – skills you must have as a pharmacist.” Today, most are working as sister. “Even during tough times, Veronica was always pharmacists, the majority “I liked the small class sizes,” added Bill Hunyh, 24, the studying. But somehow, she always found time to look with community pharmacies winner of the college’s Commitment Award and Asian up things and to share what she learned that could where average salaries Student Pharmacist Association Recognition Award help our father.” top $100,000 annually, in and currently a pharmacist at a Target in his native Illinois, Arizona, California, Jimenez knew much about her father’s rare form of California. “It gave me the chance to work alongside Indiana, New Jersey, Ohio, cancer, glioblastoma, when she wrote and emailed others and to also take my own initiative on projects Texas and Wisconsin. Seven a Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan (SOAP) inside and outside of class.” of the graduates landed in note to a neuro-oncologist at the prestigious and competitive And Nancy Caddigan, 54, who is now an IT pharmacist Medical Center. “We start teaching students the concept one-year postgraduate at a Baton Rouge, La., hospital, said, “It’s been a team in their first year,” said Melissa Hogan, chair of Clinical residency training programs effort for all of us to get through the program. I expect and Administrative Sciences, who defines a SOAP note in hospitals in Illinois the dynamic to continue as I interact with all the hospital as “a method health care workers use to communicate and Wisconsin. departments that have ties to pharmacy.” to one another about a patient’s care.”

16 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 17 SOAP notes regarding basic patient cases are taught first, followed by cases that increasingly become more complicated. Seven graduates land hospital residencies During final rotations, students are expected to write SOAP THE DOSE WAS FOR 75 micrograms of Residencies provide notes every day about real patients they encounter, according the drug Synthroid, but it was a good thing and training beyond the PharmD degree and to Hogan, associate professor of clinical sciences and one that Ian Karall, during a hospital rotation as are highly competitive. Nationwide this year of Jimenez’s instructors. a Roosevelt University pharmacy student, there were 4,142 applicants for residencies, Jimenez wasn’t far into her rotations when she reached out called the patient’s daughter to double check. including 12 from Roosevelt and 2,640 to Dr. Rimas Lukas, making the case for a second opinion students were matched with residencies, “I don’t know whether the patient is still alive,” and shunt that she believed could drain excess fluid build- including seven from Roosevelt, according acknowledged Karall, who learned the elderly ing up in her father’s brain. “She knew what the diagnosis to the American Society of Health-System woman, while at home, had been taking was, and she was able to very adeptly convey the key bits Pharmacists. 175 – and not 75 – micrograms of the thyroid of information,” the University of Chicago Medical Center drug that can cause the heart to race. “I do Although residencies pay a fraction of what neuro-oncologist told the Chicago Sun-Times in a story about know that I felt pretty good about being able new pharmacists can earn by going directly to the Roosevelt pharmacy graduate. to catch a potentially life-threatening error.” work at places like Walgreens or CVS, they are The day after the SOAP note was sent, Jimenez’s father was invaluable for future jobs. “When students ask Thinking fast on one’s feet and trouble-shooting admitted to the University of Chicago Medical Center where me whether residences are worth it, I challenge are among skills that Karall, winner of Col- he had a shunt placed and was subsequently started on them to look at job postings and to find even lege of Pharmacy awards for excellence in radiation and chemotherapy. “He perked up immediately, one for pharmacists needed in clinical settings academics and field practice, is honing this and while this will be a serious disease for the rest of his that doesn’t say ‘residency required,’” said year as a pharmacy resident at Rush Medical life, I believe the support that Veronica and her family has Craig Cooper, assistant professor of clinical Center in Chicago. been providing is a major plus for Mr. Jimenez,” said Lukas. sciences at Roosevelt and an intensive care Six others from Roosevelt’s first graduating Hogan is proud that Jimenez – as a Roosevelt student – took unit pharmacist at Northwestern Memorial pharmacy class also landed residencies in that kind of initiative. “This is a tremendous credit to her Hospital in Chicago. Ian Karall takes the pharmacist’s oath. Today, he is a hospitals in Illinois and Wisconsin. They are: pharmacy resident at Rush Medical Center in Chicago. ability and understanding of the skills she will be using Anthony Albiani, winner of the College of every day as a pharmacist.” Pharmacy’s Commitment Award and resident And Jimenez is proud to be a member of the College of at Milwaukee’s Wheaton Franciscan Hospital; “We are proud of our graduates who choose the Pharmacy’s first graduating class. “I tell people how everyone Diane Cluxton and academic achievement residency path.” in our class worked well together,” she said. “I’ve already award winner Kuntal Patel, residents at Mt. recommended the program to several people and will Sinai Medical Center in Chicago; Stephanie COLLEGE OF PHARMACY DEAN GEORGE MACKINNON continue to do so.” George, three-time College of Pharmacy Upper photo: Veronica Jimenez, with her parents, in a photo that ran in the Chicago award winner and resident at Ingalls Memorial Sun-Times in May. Above: Jimenez (right) and her mother on graduation day. “It is virtually impossible to get a position in heroin not to mix the illicit drug with blood Hospital in Harvey, Ill.; Gordana Milosevic, direct patient care working on medical teams thinner, and further convinced the patient to winner of the Compassion Award who received in places like intensive care units or hospital enter a methadone treatment program for all As in her advanced practice experiences emergency rooms without completing a heroin addiction. and a resident at Aurora West Allis Medical residency,” he added. Center in suburban Milwaukee; and Nicholas “I’ve been able to learn to do a lot for people Doctor of Pharmacy program receives full accreditation status Tillman, an academic excellence awardee Diane Cluxton, who chose Roosevelt’s College of with limited resources, and I believe my Pharmacy program because of the University’s and a resident at St. Francis Medical Center residency is going to open doors for me,” The Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) Dean George MacKinnon and and communities, the College of including the new Class of 2017. social justice mission, said she didn’t want her in Peoria, Ill. said Cluxton, who hopes the experience program in Roosevelt University’s the entire College of Pharmacy Pharmacy embraces a patient- Sixty-one students in the initial PharmD degree to be the end of her educational will pave the way for her to teach or enter a College of Pharmacy has been faculty and administration on centered approach to learning class received their doctoral “We are proud of our graduates who choose path. “I wanted it to be the beginning and I was specialty pharmacy practice. granted full accreditation status this success,” he said. that produces competent and degrees on May 22, 2014 with the residency path,” said George MacKinnon, fortunate to land at a hospital with a mission founding dean of the College of Pharmacy. “The fact that Roosevelt had seven students through June 30, 2015 by the Since the College of Pharmacy compassionate graduates. more than 70 percent having of helping the underserved,” said Cluxton, a “Residencies open doors to pharmacists resident at Mt. Sinai Medical Center where gain residencies is a great start,” said Cooper. Accreditation Council for Pharmacy was founded in 2009, it has One of the few pharmacy programs found employment or pursuing interested in direct patient care, which is she also did advanced practice as a Roosevelt “We have students in the Class of 2015 who Education. been focused on building an in the nation and the only one in postgraduate training. why these positions are in demand and can student. At one point, Cluxton successfully are extremely talented and I believe many “This much deserved accomplish- outstanding program that meets the Midwest to offer the PharmD “I’d like to thank all members be most difficult to get.” advised a patient who had confided being on of them will land residencies as well.” ment recognizes the extremely the 30 rigorous standards and degree in a three-year format, of the College of Pharmacy for high quality of our faculty, ad- over 100 guidelines of the ac- Roosevelt’s College of Pharmacy developing such an outstanding ministrators, students and the creditation council. In support of has received 2,300 applicants program and congratulate them program,” said Roosevelt University the University's vision to create from throughout the U.S. since on achieving accreditation,” President Chuck Middleton. “I socially conscious citizens who its founding and has admitted President Middleton said. extend my congratulations to are leaders in their professions 240 students into four classes,

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Q&A If These Walls Could Talk... Alumni spanning seven decades reflect on their time at Roosevelt.

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1940s DICK ETTLINGER BA, ’48 College of Arts & Sciences » Navy World War II vet SpanningMeet seven the decades, Panelists our panelists ranged in age » Worked in his family’s food from 29 to 92. They came to Roosevelt as freshmen, formulations business » Served on the Board of Directors of transfer and graduate students and they took Friends of Ryerson Conservation classes at different locations. Several participated in » Member, president and for a short time acting director of Openlands student leadership activities and all have gone on to » Established an endowed successful careers. scholarship at Roosevelt

TOM KAROW: Why did you decide to attend 1950s 1960s On April 17, 2015, Roosevelt University Roosevelt? What was it that appealed to you? FRANCES CARROLL BA , ’54 BOB MEDNICK B S , ’ 6 2 Since its historic founding College of Education Walter E. Heller College of Business will be 70 years old. BOB MEDNICK: I decided at the age of 17 that I wanted to be a » Primary, secondary and university » Served on Roosevelt’s Board of near the end of World War II, Roosevelt has grown CPA. Roosevelt had a very fine accounting department that was teacher and principal for 35 years Trustees at 17; now senior vice chair from a small college with no accreditation, no really known around the country, so for me it was an easy deci- » Former University of Illinois trustee » An international award-winning CPA sion. I actually applied to Dartmouth College and got a small » Former member of the Illinois » Worked his entire career at Arthur endowment and no library into a comprehensive Board of Higher Education Andersen, rising to worldwide scholarship, but there was no way I could have lived within my managing partner for professional » Her identical twin sister, Grace, means and gone there. I’m a first generation college student regulatory matters University with 6,100 students, six colleges and also attended Roosevelt 85,000 alumni. and received scholarships from two African-American-owned » Established an endowed scholarship companies to attend Roosevelt during my first two years. at Roosevelt

To learn what Roosevelt was like during the past 70 SAMI GRISAFE: I’m from California and wanted to go to a years, Roosevelt Review invited seven alumni, one theater-intensive school that was conservatory-based so I auditioned in Lincoln, Neb., for 50 schools all across the from each decade, to share their recollections and nation. I received callbacks and scholarship offers from eight 1970s 1980s observations during a roundtable discussion with schools, some of them pretty big. However, Roosevelt was the MICHI PEÑA MBA , ’78 MARIANNE KRAL BB, ’86; BM, ’92 Walter E. Heller College of Business only school that allowed you to work in theater profession- Walter E. Heller College of Business Review Editor Tom Karow. For 1½ hours, they told ally while enrolled so I applied and luckily got in. » Former commissioner of » Partner in an employee benefits the Department of General and insurance brokerage firm stories about what the University was like when they Services for the city of Chicago FRANCES CARROLL: When I was at DuSable High School, a » Founding member of the were students. Although each attended the University » Currently vice president of Schaumburg Campus Advisory Roosevelt counselor visited and my twin sister and I took an ad- development for SPAAN Tech, Inc. Board mission . We passed and were admitted, but didn’t receive a in a different era, they had much in common as the » Former president of conversation kept returning to Roosevelt’s inclusive scholarship so we attended another college, which we found to Roosevelt’s Alumni Association be racist. Our mother reminded us that Roosevelt said we could mission, its commitment to students and how the apply anytime, so we took our admission letters to Roosevelt University met their educational and personal needs. where we were immediately accepted. It’s really great when the school has integrity and does what it said it would.

Following are excerpts from the conversation. ERWIN ACOX: I transferred from Western Illinois in 1994. It was a good school, but I had too much fun. Once I came 1990s 2000s ERWIN ACOX BA, ’96; MA, ’98; MBA, ’06 SAMI GRISAFE B F A , ’ 0 7 to Roosevelt, I knew I was in the right place and wish I had College of Arts & Sciences, Evelyn T. Chicago College of Performing Arts started here. Although I was on probation when I began, I fin- Stone College of Professional Studies, » Quarterback for the ished strong, earning my bachelor’s degree in psychology and Walter E. Heller College of Business women’s tackle football team then going on to earn two master’s degrees from Roosevelt. » Chief of diversity recruitment and » Professional singer and song outreach for the Illinois Department writer who has recorded an album of Transportation MARIANNE KRAL: I was working full time and had two kids » Sang The National Anthem when I decided to go back to school. My statistics teacher » Member of the College of Arts at a Cubs game and Sciences Advisory Council at suggested I apply for a scholarship to » Member of her high school » Was a student trustee on the hall of fame Roosevelt, which was close to home and new in the north- Board of Trustees west suburbs at the time. Ironically, both my daughter and I earned our undergraduate degrees in the same year, 1986.

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KAROW: For many Roosevelt alumni, there are one or two professors whom they remember well for their teaching, mentoring or other activities. Are there any professors you recall who really stood out?

CARROLL: , founder of the television show Ding Dong School, was my teacher for early childhood classes. She was a wonderful professor and very encouraging. I recall in one class that I mispronounced a word. So I said, “How can I do better?” She replied, “Change your friends, dearie.” Change my friends? Well, she was absolutely right. I had to broaden my friendships so I wasn’t around everyone who “ Student life spoke like me. In addition, Lorenzo Turner, professor of African Studies, enriched my life. He provided our was absolutely class with the true history of African people, their fantastic. contributions to history and the traditions and culture There were that were infused into the African-American culture. so many plays GRISAFE: Acting Professor Kestutis Nakas had me in “ The student one of his plays. We went to New York and performed body may and activities in a club there, which was a really cool experience. that you could He also taught a performance art class that ultimately have changed, helped me discover myself. I came out of the closet but the participate in.” shortly after that. Roosevelt is very welcoming of all FRANCES CARROLL groups of people and I felt very comfortable doing mission has that here. He taught more than your routine theater remained courses; he was very much an out-of-the-box thinker and that’s helped me transition now from being an consistent.” actor to a musician. BOB MEDNICK

MEDNICK: Sam Specthrie was an accounting professor Bob Mednick, senior vice who was very beloved. He was a great teacher who chair of Roosevelt's Board of Trustees, has remained prepared us well to take the three-day CPA exam. involved with the University About a week before the exam, he could see that our since he was a student in class was nervous, so to help us relax, he told us to the 1960s. attend an open meeting of the Illinois CPA Society. “Go down there and look at the people sitting on the dais. See if that doesn’t give you confidence,” he said. It was a joke, but it was fun and a good thing to do for us.

DICK ETTLINGER: I remember Professor (George) Watson, who taught constitutional law and was always about two chapters ahead of us. Our class was small and we had long debates on Supreme Court rulings like Marbury v. Madison. Those things stick in your mind because he was such a wonderful teacher.

When she was a student at Roosevelt in the 1950s, Frances Carroll organized Roosevelt's first prom. She is shown here with Floyd Carroll who became her husband.

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KAROW: What were some of the advantages of KAROW: What do you recall about student life a Roosevelt education when you attended? at Roosevelt? How did you participate? KAROW: Did any of you see or meet famous people while you were at Roosevelt? MICHI PEÑA: I liked the fact that many of the business ETTLINGER: The big thing was that during the lunch hour professors were working professionals in areas like people would talk and debate. Some of the faculty and people CARROLL: Yes, Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier. advertising. It wasn’t just theory, it was a practical experience. from outside were right wingers. You also had very liberal Roosevelt brought in all kinds of people to talk to the I also enjoyed being able to do on-campus interviews. I had an people and you had the middle range. But the debates weren’t students. I became really culturally enriched because of opportunity to interview with Leo Burnett, General Mills and contentious; they were all citizens first. the activities here. IBM. After Roosevelt, I started my career at IBM and then later went to work for the city of Chicago. ACOX: I came in the mid-’90s – the hip-hop era. I would MEDNICK: One day while I was waiting for the elevator hang out with kids of all different backgrounds and races. I to come, I felt a tap on my shoulder and I turned around CARROLL: The teachers were so helpful; they were like friends. was a DJ on Roosevelt’s radio station and went by the name and it was this tall, thin gentleman who said, “I’d like Tuition was $13 a credit hour when I was in school and if of “Huggie Bear.” I’m a big fan of disco so I would play that to introduce myself; I’m Edward Sparling.” He was you paid in full, you got 50 cents deducted from each hour. music. I also became vice president of the Student Senate and Roosevelt’s president and the founder and I recognized We always paid on time, but one semester I think payday at was a student trustee. It was pretty amazing to be this young, him. He was the man who took the huge step and left home was after tuition time. Roosevelt gave you a little yellow hip-hop kind of guy and then become very active in student Central YMCA College. He stepped aside and said, “I’d slip and they would come to your class if you hadn't paid the government. It was a great time. “ Both my like you to meet someone,” and I was standing with tuition. Professor Horowitz said, “Can I see you for a minute, daughter and and actually had a private meeting for Frances?” I can remember this, it was so touching. She had a CARROLL: Student life was absolutely fantastic. There were I earned our about five or 10 minutes. She asked me about my classes yellow slip folded very small and when I came up to her desk, so many plays and activities that you could participate in. I and what I liked. She didn’t pick me; he didn’t pick me. I she just said, “Take care of this.” I never will forget that. was a part of the Future Teachers of America Club and I had undergraduate just happened to be standing at the elevator when I met an opportunity to organize and attend Roosevelt’s first prom. degrees in Eleanor Roosevelt. KRAL: I was able to take all of my undergraduate courses in the northwest suburbs and never had to come downtown. Another the same important feature of Roosevelt is that the classes were all KAROW: The South Loop has gone through year, 1986.” KAROW: Why have you remained involved small; I don’t think I ever had a class that was larger than 30 a lot of changes over the years. Do you recall MARIANNE KRAL with Roosevelt since you graduated? people. My daughter had to sit in assembly halls with hundreds what it was like when you were here? of students. Like many Roosevelt alumni, ACOX: Roosevelt has become like a family to me. I enjoy Marianne Kral received both visiting with former professors and deans and even today CARROLL: Back in the ’50s, the downtown area was booming ACOX: I always appreciated being able to work every semester her bachelor's and master's I feel I can walk these halls and still see people I know. and we had access to shopping, theater and restaurants. degrees from the University. I was on campus. Administrators and teachers were always PEÑA: I am very proud of my Roosevelt education and referring me to different jobs so I could work while I was GRISAFE: I lived for a while in the Herman Crown Center, enjoy staying connected. Roosevelt first asked me to be taking classes. One of the people I worked for was Professor which was connected to the Auditorium Building. Being a on the business alumni board. After that, I became active Marie Kissel who helped develop Roosevelt’s training and California girl, I’d never seen snow falling until I started here KAROW: Like any institution, Roosevelt has on the Alumni Board of Governors and later I served as development program. as a freshman. I think in January, there were many times physically changed over the decades. president for several years. Roosevelt keeps with you when I stayed inside those buildings and never went out. A One of the major changes was opening from the beginning to the end. lot of businesses in the South Loop closed just when I came a campus in Schaumburg. What can you MEDNICK: The Roosevelt student body may change, to Roosevelt and people told me it was not a very good area, but the mission has remained consistent. We still have but then University Center (another residence hall) opened tell us about that? 75 to 80 percent of our student body who are the first and the area changed again. There was a huge positive KRAL: Frank Cassell was probably the driving force members of their family to attend college. I and the other transformation in the area from 2003 to 2007. behind Roosevelt’s expansion in the northwest suburbs. members of the Board of Trustees are delighted to see He was the head of the Arlington Heights Campus and them be recognized at graduation when President Chuck worked hard to find a new home when we outgrew our Middleton asks them to stand up. former location. He started the Community Advisory CARROLL: The founding philosophy of Roosevelt Board and was really active with our alumni council. University has continued and expanded and all of us He would have us over to his house for meetings and “ Roosevelt is very welcoming around the table today can relate to everything that’s dinners. Eventually they found the old Pure Oil building been said about it. I was in education, Bob, you were in of all groups of people and in Schaumburg. It took a few years to negotiate the deal finance and Sami, you were in performing arts. No matter and convert the building into a campus. I felt very comfortable here.” which department you were in at Roosevelt, they all had SAMI GRISAFE ACOX: I took classes at the Schaumburg Campus in the the same kind of positive effect on students because the late ’90s and then in the 2000s. I spent a lot of time in teachers and staff are committed. Roosevelt is really the 2007 alumna Sami Grisafe is a professional singer and Schaumburg and ultimately ended up becoming an greatest place. I’ve remained connected and involved a professional football player with the Chicago Force. academic advisor and then working there. with Roosevelt for 60 years.

26 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 27 Since the release What she ultimately wants is for Illinois lawmakers to decriminalize marijuana and come up with a plan for taxing last spring of a study and regulating pot that could help lift the state out of its mire of debt. Now, less than five months after the study received highlighting major coverage in Chicago, Illinois and national media, Emanuel has called for state lawmakers in Illinois to decriminalize inconsistencies in the possession of minor amounts of marijuana. way minor marijuana In response to the study’s findings and -Willis’ recom- mendations, Chicago police have streamlined use of pot cases are handled in tickets, significantly stepping up issuance of tickets since the report was published.

Illinois, Roosevelt Entering her 10th year as founder and head of Roosevelt’s University drug policy Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy, Kane-Willis recently was recognized by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and researcher Kathie the nation’s drug czar Michael Botticelli for bringing attention to the nation’s drug overdose crisis. Kane-Willis in 2009 was BY LAURA JANOTA Kane-Willis has been a leader in helping persuade Illinois lawmakers to legalize Naloxone, a drug proven to save lives from heroin and other on a mission. opioid overdoses. And in 2011, she helped convince legisla- tors to give limited immunity from prosecution to so-called Talking with media, elected officials, law enforcement "good Samaritans" who call 911 to report drug overdoses. UP IN SMoKE leaders and community groups, Kane-Willis (BA, ’01; MA, ’05) is spreading the word that uniform treatment for those Kane-Willis has authored multiple drug-policy studies, many Illinois' Patchwork Policy is no match caught with minor amounts of marijuana is lacking in Illinois. with help from Roosevelt students. She also established an for Roosevelt's Kathie Kane-Willis. are nearly eight times more likely than Overdose Awareness Day, drawing hundreds to Roosevelt’s Caucasians to be arrested for minor pot possession, even Schaumburg Campus in 2012 and 2013 in memory of overdose though the option of handing out tickets and fines has been victims. available in places like the city of Chicago where a ticketing “I tell students who are interested in changing policy, and ordinance was put in place in 2012 in part to address the particularly drug policy, not to get frustrated. It took us racial disparity issue. 10 years of hard work to make many of these changes, but The Roosevelt study, entitled “Patchwork Policy: An Evalua- when opportunities for change arise, you have to be ready tion of Arrests and Tickets for Marijuana Misdemeanors in and willing to pounce,” she said. Illinois,” looks at misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests A leading voice on issues like the nation’s heroin epidemic vs. tickets and fines issued for minor marijuana possession among suburban teens and disparate sentencing practices in 18 municipalities in the state. that put more blacks than whites behind bars for drug Although the research found decreases in arrests in com- possession, Kane-Willis had been addicted to heroin more munities where pot-ticket laws were used, the majority than two decades ago at the age of 20. In 2009, she publically of cases in the municipalities reviewed were for arrests, shared her story. “Coming out about her own struggle was not tickets. Illinois ranked third in the nation in terms of courageous and bold,” said Asha Bandele, advocacy director racial disparity in arrests, with African Americans 7.6 times of the Drug Policy Alliance’s Advocacy Grants Program. “She more likely than whites to be arrested on minor marijuana did it on behalf of people being labeled and stigmatized by possession charges. Even after enactment of the pot-ticket their drug use, and her action spoke volumes in conveying law, arrests for minor amounts of marijuana were found to the message that drug users are people first.” be on the rise in predominantly minority neighborhoods Kicking addiction with methadone treatment, Kane-Willis, on Chicago’s South and West sides, a finding that was not at 28, wanted to finish college and took the advice of her lost on the Chicago media or Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. father, Don Kane, (BA, ’63), an economics major who was “We should have one way and a single policy for handling staff director of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley’s Council minor marijuana cases, not the patchwork of different ap- on Economic Advising and later assistant director of the proaches that we are seeing – in one case triggering arrest city’s Economic Development Commission before starting and in another leading to a ticket,” said Kane-Willis. a consulting business. “Roosevelt always has had an urban

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BY LYNN WEINER DNA INFO/TED COX The Auditorium Building – now the home of Roosevelt University and the Auditorium Theatre – is one of the great architectural treasures of the world. Designed and built by Dankmar Adler and 1889 « YEARS » 2014 Louis Sullivan, it provided a venue for culture that was available to all Chicagoans Kathie Kane-Willis is a regardless of income. A leading advocate for drug policy reform in Illinois hotel and business complex and around the nation. surrounding the theatre helped support the cost of and progressive mission. It’s a place that the arts. After the building’s has made tremendous contributions to “This study is a wake-up call for us revenues declined in the social policy and improving city life, and early 20th Century, Roosevelt I’m pleased that Kathie has been able to be to have discussions, hearings and a part of that tradition,” he said. legislation that address the racial purchased the Auditorium in A Roosevelt Honors Program student, 1946 and has been restoring Kane-Willis did her senior thesis on African- disproportionalities we are seeing it ever since. On the occasion American experiences with Jim Crow laws. in our criminal justice system.” of the 125th birthday of this James Lewis, former director of Roosevelt’s Institute for Metropolitan Affairs (IMA), who – KATHIE KANE-WILLIS iconic building, we offer the today is senior program officer and director following historical tidbits. in these cases, and as the study shows, “We’re getting into the nitty-gritty on things of research and evaluation for the Chicago they’re not doing it,” said Hunter, who has like ‘How do you give tickets?’ A lot of drug Community Trust, was Kane-Willis’s thesis policy people don’t get involved with that kind advisor. Impressed by her interviewing and been working for nearly a decade to change writing skills, he hired her as research assistant, a criminal justice system in Illinois and of stuff, but I believe it’s where you need to go if and she later became assistant director and even across the nation that is much more you want change to happen,” Kane-Willis said. then associate director of the IMA. likely to arrest and put African Americans Her work is adding to the ongoing conversation behind bars than whites for drug offenses. Now Kane-Willis is facing one of her biggest in Chicago, Illinois and around the nation challenges: How to move Illinois forward, “It seems it’s easier for law enforcement to on handling of recreational marijuana, as other states have already done or are lock someone up than it is to give a ticket, with polls showing growing numbers of 1 The Auditorium Building was considering, in redefining marijuana policy, Americans in favor of decriminalization and as a result, we’ve got people out there the first multi-use building in which for years has been tied to the criminal and/or legalization. who can’t get jobs, can’t get into school and the world. It included a 400- justice system. can’t take care of their families,” she said. “In the last few years, the pace has picked up room luxury hotel, 136-room “Violence is an issue in Chicago. The police “This study is a wake-up call for us to have in talking about changing our drug policies,” office complex and 3,900-seat are being ordered to make arrests and talk to discussions, hearings and legislation that said Dumke. “Kathie has been one of the people theatre. At the time of its grand people carrying guns and the consequence can address the racial disproportionalities right in the middle of that and this study is an opening in 1889, it was the tallest of that is marijuana arrests,” said Mick we are seeing in our criminal justice system, important part of the ongoing conversation.” Dumke, a writer at the Chicago Reader, who building in Chicago and the and we shouldn’t put it on a shelf. It’s time Kane-Willis is cautiously optimistic about has been reporting since 2011 on Chicago’s largest in the United States. we take some action,” she said. change that seems to be on the horizon. inconsistent enforcement of marijuana laws. Since releasing the report, Kane-Willis also “I’m really encouraged by the changes that Illinois Senator Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago) has been working with community leaders have happened over the last few months. believes it’s wrong – and detrimental – for in Evanston, Ill., who want reforms based Sometimes, you feel like you are banging African Americans to be singled out for on her finding that blacks are more likely arrest in cases involving minor possession your head against the wall – and then – all than whites or Latinos to receive pot tickets. of a sudden the landscape changes. It’s very of marijuana. heartening,” she said. “The police are supposed to be writing tickets

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The acoustically

YEARS perfect theatre initially housed the Chicago Symphony 3 The building was the first to have Orchestra and central air conditioning, which relied . on 15 tons of ice each day sprayed It was called “the by water and dispersed with fans. greatest room for 4 music and opera in the world, bar The Auditorium Building contained 17 million bricks, 50 million pieces of marble tile, 25 miles of gas and water pipes, and 12,000 electric lights. none” by architect It was one of the first buildings anywhere to be wired for electricity, and the Frank Lloyd Wright. The Republican Convention in 1888. 2 theatre was the first to rely entirely on incandescent light bulbs — 3,500 of them. Before it officially opened, the Auditorium Theatre hosted the 1888 Republican 6 Convention, which nominated Benjamin The Michigan Avenue lobby Among the other 5 originally included a pharmacy, featured acts in Harrison as a presidential candidate. A second women’s restaurant with a the theatre were silent movies political convention private entrance and a corridor leading to the oak-paneled with live music, in 1912 nominated the U.S. Marine Theodore Roosevelt as men’s bar and café. Band, a circus the presidential candidate complete with for the independent elephants, and National Progressive the 1898 Chicago Party. In 1920 Franklin Legend persists that the musical diva Sarah Peace Jubilee D. Roosevelt, nominee Bernhardt, when performing in the Auditorium Theatre, featuring Booker In 1921 the Chicago Opera for vice president, opened kept room 720 as her private suite and installed a coffin T. Washington Company’s performance of the Democratic Party’s there in which to sleep. Room 720 is now a history and 8 and President Madame Butterfly was the national campaign in philosophy seminar room. William McKinley. first live radio broadcast in Chicago’s history. the theatre. 7 11 There was even a baseball game played on the stage in 1891, pitting the Farraguts against the LaSalles in a benefit for 12 9 Like many 19th Century buildings, the Newsboys and Bootblacks the Auditorium featured gendered Association. Indoor baseball was 13 spaces – for women a separate lobby a brief fad in Chicago and evolved entrance, a “ladies parlor” on the second The U.S. Signal Corps occupied the into slow-pitch outdoor softball. floor (now the Sullivan Room), and a top three floors of the Tower through theatre reception area, and for men a World War II. The tower observatory admitted the public to gaze over Lake Frank Lloyd Wright was an apprentice bar and café in the lobby and a smoking Michigan and the city skyline. draftsman on the project. Seventy room (now the Spertus Lounge) on the years later he returned to examine the second floor. columns he had designed in the seventh floor recital hall now known as Ganz Hall. 10 32 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 THE AUDITORIUM BUILDING

YEARS The Auditorium Building fell on hard times in the early 20th Century as the The theatre was shuttered from hotel lost business to competitors 19 with all “en suite” bathrooms and the 1946 until its reopening in 1967, which featured a performance of 15Chicago Symphony and Civic Opera built their own venues. In 1927 promoters A Midsummer Night’s Dream by proposed building a miniature golf course in the the New York City Ballet. It has theatre lobby, with the ninth hole in the orchestra pit since been a venue for dance, and hotdogs and lemonade offered on the theatre theatre and music. stage. Despite this and other ventures, the building went bankrupt in 1941. 18 14 16 Protesting students held a In 1942 the building was taken over by the city as a After Roosevelt College began in a building at 231 “Chicken Wire” military USO Center. A bowling alley was built on Wells Street in 1945, rapidly rising enrollments party in 1946 in the theatre stage and the 10th floor restaurant and forced the College to look for larger quarters. It the Auditorium 7th floor recital hall became dormitories for enlisted was difficult to find a seller for a racially integrated 20 lobby that was Through the 1970s the theatre men and officers. There were even facilities for institution but they found that most of the owners families of servicemen soon to be shipped overseas. covered by was Chicago’s premier rock of the Auditorium Building would sell. Life magazine; venue; the Grateful Dead Teitelbaum played there 10 times from soon after 1971 through 1977. agreed to sell and Roosevelt After the building went bankrupt, College owned scavengers removed light fixtures, 23 fireplaces, stained glass and even The Auditorium the building in doorknobs. Roosevelt’s painters and Building was its entirety 21 carpenters spent decades repairing named to for a cost of and restoring the mosaic tiles, stained the National Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum, glass, wood and iron work, stencils Register $400,000 and and murals throughout the building. who owned 52 feet of the Donors and friends of the University of Historic north end of the building the settlement hunted down and restored original Places in 1970, designated a that included parts of the Teitelbaum of back taxes. pieces of the building. Alumnus Seymour Persky found a fireplace in National Historic smoke stack, boilers and Maine that was originally located in the Landmark switchboards, would not sell second floor ladies lounge. in 1975, and to Roosevelt. Teitelbaum, a Chicago also a lawyer for gangster Landmark Al Capone, constructed a Several movies have used the Auditorium Building as in 1976. a set. The Untouchables (1987, starring Kevin Costner, chicken wire fence marking Sean Connery and Robert DeNiro) transformed off his clients’ property. 22 the lobby, staircase and entrance into gangster Al Capone’s Lexington Hotel. In 2006 the entrance, lobby and 10th floor were sets for The Lake House, with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Christopher Plummer. Public Enemies (2009) featured Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and the Auditorium Theatre lobby as the “Steuben Nightclub.”

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To Joshua Freeman, a family physician and Roosevelt trustee, PRIMARYsocial justice is personal and imperative. BY TOM KAROW

JOSHUA FREEMANCARE, the only medical doctor “As a board member who is an academic, but not a member of on Roosevelt University’s Board of Trustees, the Roosevelt faculty, I believe that I can share insights with the board on what is happening at universities elsewhere,” has much in common with the University’s he said. “I know a great deal about the preparation students guiding principle: He practices medicine from need for professional school. In addition, I believe that my a social justice point of view. first-hand knowledge of teaching and research give me a “I’m interested in why so many of our policies seem to be perspective to ask questions of the academic officers of the aimed at enhancing the lives of people who already have a University that most of the other non-faculty trustees can't.” lot, rather than trying to make the lives of people who are Roosevelt University President Chuck Middleton will be just getting by a little bit better,” he said. relying on Freeman for his thoughts on how Roosevelt Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University can further develop its offerings in the health sciences. of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Freeman writes Roosevelt already has an outstanding College of Pharmacy a blog called “Medicine and Social Justice” and is currently and thriving programs in biology and chemistry, but the writing a book about the health care industry tentatively University sees opportunities for more extensive academic titled Working Upstream. programming. “Josh’s expertise will be critical to helping the board and administration understand how to do that “Dr. Freeman’s compassion for individuals and his urgency work at the highest level of quality,” he said. to help the underserved of the world is legendary,” said Dr. Richard J. Barohn, chair of the Department of Neurology at the Along with managing the Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center. “I think even if Josh was not a physician – if many of Freeman’s ongoing efforts are focused on making he were a car mechanic or a salesman – he would bring the the medical industry fair for everyone. “We say we have the same sympathy and focus to his life, and a commitment to best medical care in the world, but it’s only for people with making the world a better place.” insurance and those who can access it,” he said. “Uninsured people and those with limited access tend to defer care or Last year, Freeman was invited to join Roosevelt’s Board show up in the emergency room when they’re really sick, of Trustees because he brings a variety of perspectives on rather than receiving proper care at an earlier stage of the higher education to the University. In addition to being a illness. Even though we can do incredible surgeries and social justice advocate, he is a professor, medical doctor, have innovative procedures, we don’t have a very good administrator, father of a former Roosevelt student, author system of primary care or prevention.” and major donor.

Visit Dr. Freeman's blog, "Medicine and Social Justice" at medicinesocialjustice.blogspot.com.

36 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 37 Freeman believes that the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care, is a step in the right direction because it expands access, but he remains concerned that it still leaves many people without medical coverage, including undocumented residents and people in states that have chosen not to expand Medicaid coverage. Depending on their income level, people in those states may not qualify for either Medicaid or reduced costs on a private insurance plan.

Freeman favors a single payer system like the program in Canada where everybody has the same insurance and pays the same for services. “This way, there wouldn’t be our insane pricing systems where no one knows the actual cost for hospitalization, doctor visits and other services.” giving back How social determinants, like housing, food, jobs and education, affect health care is another of his concerns. “If your fear is how am I going to pay the rent and buy food for my kids, there’s a lot of stress to your life and that’s not good for your health,” he said. “It’s not coincidental that people who live near toxic waste zones and polluted areas are usually poor and often sick.”

Social justice is personal ROOSEVELT'S ANNUAL Matthew Freeman Lecture and Social To Freeman, social justice also has another, very personal mean- Justice Award are named in honor of the late student Matthew ing. In 2004, just two years after being appointed professor and Freeman, above. A past recipient of the award is recognized by department chair at Kansas, he received a phone call during an President Chuck Middleton. C early morning staff meeting informing him that his oldest son, Matthew, a sociology major in his final semester at Roosevelt After initially being reluctant to talk about suicide, Freeman now University, was missing. encourages depressed students at Kansas to talk with him. A few Freeman got on the next flight to Chicago where he discovered years ago after one of his medical students committed suicide, he that Matthew’s car was gone and no one knew what happened to was the only person the student’s mother was willing to talk with the University’s core because she knew he had been through it. COMMUNITY him. Two days later, he learned Matthew had purchased a gun and values in their lives beyond took his own life in a motel room in North Carolina. “I’m sure it ENGAGEMENT As head of the Department of Family Medicine at Kansas, Freeman IS A HALLMARK Roosevelt. Whether they’re was the first time he ever held a gun,” said his father, still shaken. is particularly proud of the fact that the medical school is one of the OF A ROOSEVELT championing a cause or providing a road map to Matthew grew up in Evanston, Ill., and chose Roosevelt after attending top producers of family medicine residents in the country, with as EDUCATION. During turn an inspired idea into a another college because the University stood for all the things that many as 40 students a year entering that field. Community-oriented, their time here, students practical reality, Roosevelt it offers students like Whitney Clearwater opportunities to gain might do restorative justice he believed in. Smart and committed to equal opportunities like his graduates are engaging in work in the Chicago Public father, he was actively involved in public housing and transporta- practical experiences at local organizations. A third year medical the “action toward social tion issues in Chicago. Shortly after Matthew’s death, friends and student specializing in family medicine, Clearwater works in a free Schools, or reforestation justice” that lies at the heart family gathered with Roosevelt students, faculty members and clinic where she diagnoses and treats high school students and work in Tanzania, or inves- of our University’s mission. tigative work into Chicago’s administrators at a special graduation ceremony during which his provides medical aid to patients who might not otherwise receive it. gun violence, or they might Eleanor Roosevelt once parents accepted his degree with honors from Roosevelt. “Family doctors manage the multiple kinds of diseases that you take advantage of dozens noted that those who work “Medically speaking, suicide is the terminal event of a disease might have, take care of you when you’re sick or hurt and provide of other opportunities. for social change need “imagination and integrity, called depression,” Freeman said. “Not everybody dies from it, but comprehensive preventive care through screenings, immunizations And, as you’ll see in the piece courage and a high heart.” everyone who commits suicide has it, including Matthew who first and education,” Freeman said. “And, they do something that most that follows, community The alumni profiled in the had episodes of depression in high school.” doctors in other specialties wouldn’t think of doing. They ask about engagement and nonprofit piece that follows have all of problems that aren’t even on the table like being safe at home.” To honor Matthew’s memory, Josh Freeman and Matthew’s mother, leadership are also hallmarks those qualities and more, and of graduates of the College Dr. Catherine Kallal, endowed the annual Matthew Freeman Lecture Much of the success of the Department of Family Medicine can be I’m proud we’re highlighting of Arts and Sciences. We’re their transformative work in and Social Justice Award Ceremony at the University’s Mansfield attributed to Freeman, according to his colleague at the University proud that our alumni use this issue of Roosevelt Review. Institute for Social Justice and Transformation. Held every spring for of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Allen Greiner. “He has helped us grow their skills in writing, finance, BONNIE GUNZENHAUSER the past 10 years, the lecture and award presentation are highlights and maintain a national reputation as a top medical school while community organizing, data DEAN, COLLEGE OF ARTS of the academic year as nationally known speakers are invited building an extensive set of internal programs addressing health analysis and more to live out AND SCIENCES to talk about their social justice related efforts and outstanding and social justice,” he said. “A passion for change and improvement Roosevelt students are recognized for their service. through advocacy is what Dr. Freeman is all about.”

38 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 39 “My professors taught me BY LAURA JANOTA that helping others has real oosevelt University’s social justice mission is being value that adds stability to put into action by results-oriented graduates who are leading nonprofit organizations in Chicago communities and furthers and around the world. society as a whole.”

Some alumni, like Mark Rodriguez (BA,,’00), are directing established SHAWN WEST ( B A , ’9 8 ) WILL-GRUNDY MEDICAL CLINIC organizations such as Changing Worlds, an educational arts organization.

“I had an idea for bringing arts, literacy and culture into schools, but I didn’t have the skills or experience to run an organization,” said “I came to understand photographer Kay Berkson, who hired Rodriguez as the nonprofit’s the different voices that first executive director in 2003. not-for-profits need to “Mark had the passion and know-how to take my idea and run use in order to reach with it,” said Berkson, who has watched the organization’s budget their audiences.” grow from $50,000 to $1 million and its programming expand from a single location to 50 Chicago-area schools. “Thanks to his MARK RODRIGUEZ ( B A , ’0 0 ) CHANGING WORLDS leadership, Changing Worlds has blossomed into something bigger than I could have imagined,” she said. MAJORITY ENTER HEALTH CARE “The nonprofit industry attracts people from all walks of life,” said Approximately 13 percent of nonprofit workers are Joanne Howard, a Roosevelt lecturer in public administration who in social services, according to the Johns Hopkins teaches nonprofit management courses. “Many have good jobs in study, “Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment

the private sector and simply want to give back expertise, while during a Decade of Turmoil.” Another 15 percent are PHOTO COURTESY OF THE (JOLIET) HERALD-NEWS/SHAW MEDIA others are motivated by altruism, religion or personal experiences,” involved in education and education-related causes, she said. “But all have the same aim, which is to help people.” while the majority, including Roosevelt graduate GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES POSSIBLE Shawn West (BA, ’98), are making a difference in Roosevelt graduates are not only making a difference at the health care arena. TRAINING FOR A CAREER IN SERVICE not-for-profits close to home. Some, like Renate Schneider “She’s one of the brightest students I ever had and I (MA, ’00), are improving lives and communities in other Nationwide, nearly 11 million Americans are devoted to nonprofit knew she could become someone who could change the parts of the world. causes and pursuits, according to a comprehensive study of not- world,” said Heather Dalmage, a Roosevelt sociology for-profits by the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Economic Data Project. “We are committed to giving students international professor and director of the Mansfield Institute for Those employees make up about 10 percent of the nation’s workforce. experiences that frequently include opportunities for Social Justice and Transformation. civic engagement and transformational learning,” said Roosevelt University has long been a leader in training students for A native of Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, West Chris Chulos, associate dean of the College of Arts and senior level positions in nonprofit organizations. The Master’s of Public grew up poor, facing family health care crises that led Sciences, which recently expanded course offerings with Administration program has trained hundreds of students for careers to the premature deaths of her mother and brother. an international travel component. “We want them to in service and other academic programs actively promote activism As executive director of the Will-Grundy Medical be ready to go out into the world and become change and ways to make positive change for people and communities. Children in Chicago are being engaged Clinic in Joliet, Ill., she and the clinic provide health agents,” he said. Roosevelt graduate Robert Petitti (BS, ’80; MPA, ’13), might still be every day in arts, care services and education to help the working poor literacy and culture Founder and president of a non-governmental organiza- in the private sector if not for his Roosevelt education. thanks to Changing stay healthy. tion (NGO) called the Haitian Connection, Schneider has Worlds programs been helping others in Haiti since 2003 when she went “He’s a bright guy who had the desire to reinvent himself,” said and the work of The Will-Grundy Medical Clinic is one of the sites Anna Marie Schuh, director of the graduate program in public Roosevelt alumnus where Roosevelt’s College of Pharmacy students can there as a Catholic missionary, becoming one of the only Mark Rodriguez. administration that Petitti joined in 2011 after losing a six-figure take their interprofessional training. “I had never foreigners to remain in the country after a coup d’etat job as a lab-instrument salesman. “Robert started with a positive volunteered for a not-for-profit before, so for me to that forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti. outlook, which is essential for nonprofit work, and he gained a lot see the dedication and time that goes into running The Roosevelt graduate, who speaks five languages flu- of empathy for people as he went through our program.” that kind of organization was amazing,” said Meredith ently, helped start a college in northern Haiti where she Petitti is currently executive director of Koinonia Foundation, a Imler, a third-year College of Pharmacy student. “Ms. is vice rectrice, the University of Nouvelle Grand’Anse, social service agency that feeds and clothes 400 people each month West has a lot of dedication and passion for what she which graduated its first class of 86 last summer. After who are down on their luck in one of the nation’s wealthiest places, does and it made the experience more unique than the earthquake, she also put Haitians to work building Fairfax County, Va. spending time in a doctor’s office.” houses for needy women and their children.

40 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 41 The Michael Matters Foundation held its second annual fundraising walk in May.

ROOSEVELT DEVELOPS LEADERS Roosevelt graduates leading nonprofits share more than a commitment to service. They also possess leadership “Roosevelt helped me see the importance abilities their Roosevelt education helped them develop. of serving others, to the point where I find “At Roosevelt, I gained perspective on things like fundrais- ing and grantwriting and also came to understand the myself asking every day, ‘Have you helped different voices that not-for-profits need to use in order enough people?’” ROBERT PETITTI (BS,’80; MPA,’13) to reach their audiences,” said Rodriguez of Changing Worlds, who received a certificate in Nonprofit Manage- ment from the University in 1998 and a bachelor’s in other organizations due to family issues. “Not only did Communications in 2000. He is currently working on my professors encourage me to give back, they taught a Master’s in Business Administration at Roosevelt. me that helping others has real value that adds stability to communities and furthers society as a whole.” “I can’t tell you how important the education I received at Roosevelt has been,” said Saye, who has used skills he Schneider, who works in Haiti, also studied psychology as learned in the Master of Integrated Marketing Communication a graduate international student. “Roosevelt always was program to run both his law firm and Michael Matters. a welcoming place for global learners,” said Schneider, “My Roosevelt experience has been an incredible blessing who came from Germany to attend Roosevelt. “I gained an and I don’t think I’d be where I’m at today without it.” understanding for who I am and my professors prepared me to stand on my own feet, enabling me to wear many Petitti said his Master's in Public Administration hats and to take on leadership roles that I probably degree opened him to a new way of thinking that has wouldn’t have had in the United States or Germany.” been essential in his work at the Koinonia Foundation. “When I used to sell a million-dollar lab instrument With an estimated 1.5 million not-for-profit organiza- “I can't tell you how to someone, all I would think about was the money tions and an industry that is growing by about 2 percent REMEMBERING WHAT MATTERS important the education I’d be making,” he said. “Roosevelt helped me see the annually, according to the Johns Hopkins study, the sky importance of serving others, to the point where I find is the limit on where Roosevelt graduates can go in the Alumni like TJ Saye (IMC, '97) are crusaders for causes I received at Roosevelt myself asking every day, ‘Have you helped enough not-for-profit sector. they created. has been.” TJ SAYE (IMC, ’97) people?’ It’s humbling.” Roosevelt’s Howard said that one-third of people lead- “I remember TJ coming to me after my husband’s “Roosevelt helped me find my way as a nonprofit profes- ing nonprofits are Baby Boomers. “As they retire and funeral in 2012 and saying, ‘Let’s start something sional,” added West, a Bachelor’s of Psychology graduate as governments continue to pull back from providing in his memory,’” said Illinois Appellate Court Judge who wanted to go to medical school, before switching human services, our young students will have multiple Mary Schostok, who is immediate past president of to nonprofit leadership at the Will-Grundy Clinic and opportunities in the nonprofit sector,” she said. the Illinois Judges Association. Her late husband, Michael, a prominent Chicago lawyer and former president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, had just died at 51 years of age from an inoperable NONPROFITS AT-A-GLANCE brain tumor known as a glioblastoma.

“All of us wanted to keep his memory alive, but TJ is the one who had the vision for Michael Matters,” said Nonprofit employment as a share of private employment, by region: Schostok of the not-for-profit started by Saye, who is also chief operating officer of the Chicago law firm 10.7 million Americans 8.1% 7.2% 11.8% 11.2% 8.6% 16.2% are devoted to nonprofit causes and pursuits where Michael Schostok was a partner. 5.8% 7.7% Michael Matters has raised nearly $80,000 and is cur- 15.4% Those employees make rently working with NorthShore Kellogg Cancer Center, up about 10% of the nation’s workforce. where Schostok was treated, to provide emergency grants, frequently in the last days of life, to those A check is made to the NorthShore University HealthSystem’s cancer center with glioblastomas and limited means. from the Michael Matters Foundation, started by Roosevelt alum TJ Saye, third from left. 3 service fields account for84% of nonprofit jobs. “TJ had a clear vision from the start for where he l serv catio lth ca ia ice du n ea re wanted the foundation to go,” said Schostok. “He oc s e h s perceived that Michael wanted to help those he met at the hospital who couldn’t afford the kind of care that we could, and I will always be grateful to TJ for making my husband’s wishes become a reality.” Source: Johns Hopkins Nonprofit 13% 15% 57% Economic Data Project

42 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 43 By Courtney Flynn

efore Colleen Kelly (MS, ’98) was married, she explored the United States from coast to coast and with traveled throughout Europe from Ireland to Malta. And even after she was married and had a family, she continued to travel so she could share her passion for adventure with her husband and two young daughters. But she soon discovered that Colleen traveling with her children, although great fun, could also be challenging because the interests of the kids and parents were often different.

Kelly, a professional television producer in Chicago, and her friend Tricia Fusilero saw an op- Kelly portunity: Why not help families who want to travel by creating a television program specifically for them? That idea led to the development of Family Travel with Colleen Kelly, a program that S host of american now can be seen on nearly 90 percent of the 360 public television channels across the country. public television's “I’m obsessed with traveling and I knew this could be successful,” said Kelly, who used the popular tv show, lessons she learned while earning a master’s degree in integrated marketing communications family travel from Roosevelt in 1998 to help her market and promote the idea to potential television carriers. with colleen kelly T After talking with networks that wanted more of a reality-type family travel show, Kelly and Fusilero, who would become Kelly’s business partner and executive producer, decided public television would be a better fit for their vision. They pitched the show to executives at WTTW-11, Chicago’s public television affiliate, who ended up presenting it to American Public Television, the series’ eventual distributor.

Family Travel with Colleen Kelly began airing its first 13 episodes in the fall of 2013 and is in the process of filming its second season, which is scheduled to air in March 2015. The show also was picked up by American Public Television Worldwide and is scheduled to start airing internationally by summer 2015 or sooner.

“She’s so determined, she’s so smart and if she sees an opportunity, she makes it her own,” said Dana Hughes, a longtime Harpo Productions producer who now works as a producer for Kelly’s show. “How many times do you think of an idea but it just stays an idea? Colleen gets an idea and she runs with it.”

What makes the series unique is that instead of visiting well-known tourist hot spots like Orlando, Kelly and her team strive to feature, and make accessible, places that don’t automati- cally stand out as family-friendly. For example, she has filmed episodes about New Orleans, Los Angeles and even Holland, Mich. Internationally, the show has highlighted destinations such as Montreal and Ireland.

Although she often travels with her husband and daughters who appear on the show, Kelly focuses on what each destination has to offer all types of families. She said that in addition to highlighting popular tourist spots, she seeks out educational outings, such as a trip to a children’s museum as well as inexpensive or free activities like watching talented street performers.

44 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 45 “I just turned to Colleen and said, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing to do a travel show?’” tricia fusilero, executive producer of family travel with colleen kelly

Most of the featured destinations are chosen by Kelly and her team while others are a result of cities having invited the Watch Season 1 episodes, read Colleen’s travel tips and learn more at familytravelck.com show to film their locations. Given time constraints, places are not typically scouted ahead of time. Instead, Fusilero researches each destination and communicates with experts Season 1: Destinations near and far in that city as well as with mom bloggers in the area. Fusilero then creates a detailed schedule, outlining each spot the crew will visit while filming at a particular location.

The show’s first season was funded by Travel Film Produc- tions, a company Kelly and Fusilero created, a private sponsor and City Pass, which bundles prepaid admission new orleans san antonio monterey, ca to top attractions in various cities. This summer, Kelly was seeking a travel-related underwriter, such as an airline, to help finance the show’s second season, which will feature Wales, Switzerland, Palm Beach, Fla. and other locations.

The series seems to resonate well with viewers largely due baltimore los angeles ireland to Kelly’s personality, said her friends and colleagues. Kelly’s positive energy, warm smile and zest for travel practically jump out at you from the television screen. She’s also relatable because she’s like many other mothers trying to balance work and their children’s school and family time. chicago montreal carnival cruise “She’s credible because she’s a mom herself, she’s attractive, she’s great on camera and she’s funny,” said Rob Morhaim, of You and Me This Morning on WCIU-TV in Chicago for which Kelly has done travel segments. “You put all that together and it’s a pretty successful recipe for a television show.” camp brosius wyoming holland, mi An idea born on an airplane Surprisingly, Kelly admits she knew next to nothing about the broadcast business 10 years ago. Still, at that time she believed Chicago was in need of an entertainment show that As part of the 24/7 show, Kelly and Fusilero traveled to Italy highlighted the city’s fantastic dining, visiting celebrities and in 2008 to highlight Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics and fancy events. She thought of it as Access Hollywood, Chicago style. showcase the city’s relationship with its Sister City, Milan. On the plane ride home, they started discussing the possibility So she and her sister, both mothers with young children then, of creating their own travel show. found a business partner with production knowledge and the three of them developed from scratch what evolved into “I just turned to Colleen and said, ‘Wouldn’t it be amazing the Emmy-winning NBC-5 Chicago show now called 24/7 City to do a travel show?’” said Fusilero, executive producer of Secrets. To get the series off the ground, the women created a Family Travel with Colleen Kelly. “We brainstormed like crazy pilot episode and established a web site. They then pitched and kept coming back to this idea and the concept of family their idea to local NBC executives, who loved it, Kelly said. travel. There had never been a show about family travel the Within three weeks, the group had to find an office and way we wanted to do it.” develop future shows. Kelly’s sister, Emmy-award winning television host Catie “Even though I didn’t have a television background, I always Keogh, agreed to handle the 24/7 show so Kelly and Fusilero wanted to do television and I just thought the only way to get could explore the family travel idea, Fusilero said. Keogh’s into TV was to create your own reality,” Kelly said. “We were show continues to air on NBC in Chicago after Saturday Night three moms from the suburbs chasing around celebrities Live at 12:30 a.m. And while it took more than three years to and people thought we were nuts. We didn’t know if it was develop the family travel show, Kelly said it has been one of Some of the locations the Family Travel with Colleen Kelly show has visited are (clockwise from top left): a farmer’s market in San Antonio; a homestead; Milan, going to work out, but we took the chance.” the best things she’s ever done. Italy; Pirate Adventure Park in Westport, Ireland; SeaWorld in San Antonio and Grand Turk on the Turks and Caicos Islands.

46 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2014 47 The Charms of Holland ) colleen kelly uncovers a unique family-friendly destination in southwest michigan

WHAT’S THE FIRST THING that comes to mind when picturing Holland, Mich.? A serene spot for a couples weekend getaway? The perfect location for a group of retired friends to soak up some sun on the beach? A place that celebrates tulips and the Dutch culture? Holland Holland may be all of those things, but Colleen Kelly also wanted to put the southwest Michigan town on the map for being a child- and family-friendly vacation spot that’s only about a two-hour drive from Chicago. “At first I thought it was more of a place for couples or for older people,” said Kelly, a Roosevelt alumna. “But once I went there, I found it to be great for families. That was a real surprise for me. There’s a lot to do there.” So in the first season of her public television program,Family Travel with Colleen Kelly, Kelly showcased Holland and all it had The Family Travel with Colleen Kelly crew hams it up at Ashford Castle in County Mayo, Ireland. Kelly's program is expected to start airing internationally this summer. to offer – from windmills and candy shops to paddle boarding and fishing. supporting female entrepreneurs The first stop Kelly highlighted on the show was Nelis’ Dutch Kelly said she’s proud to be an entrepreneur and surround in the country to be hired in management at the company. It Village, a theme park designed to celebrate the history and herself with many women and mothers. Travel Film Produc- was while she was working there that she decided to pursue culture of the Netherlands. There, Kelly, her husband and their tions is a women-owned company certified by the Women’s a master’s degree at Roosevelt to advance her career. two daughters were able to view a cheese-making demonstra- Business Enterprise National Council. It employs tion, walk a goat and watch wooden shoes known as Klompen eight people on a full-time basis, including seven being carved. women. The business, which produces other “You just can never give up “I had never heard of Holland, Mich. Who knew?” said Lori shows in addition to Kelly’s travel show, also Strong, a public television viewer from Austin, Texas. “Now works with many independent contractors to when you believe in something.” my daughter wants to get wooden shoes. The show goes to help keep things running smoothly. places a lot of people haven’t been to.” colleen kelly Michigan is a major producer of apples so Kelly set out to find “When we first started out, the only two guys While in Holland, Kelly also visited Windmill Island, a location local shops and restaurants in Holland that used apples in their on the crew were me and the sound guy – otherwise it was In addition to her travel show, Kelly, a resident of Chicago’s at the of town that features a 250-year-old Dutch windmill food. Her girls helped make doughnuts using apple cider at a all women,” said Jordan Campagna, one of the company’s northwest suburbs, is a family travel ambassador and brought over from the Netherlands in 1964. Visitors can tour local shop called Crane’s In The City. They also checked out the independent contractors and the director of photography featured speaker through the Illinois Office of Tourism. She inside the windmill, learn how the wind powers each of its Holland Peanut Store, which is known for homemade peanuts for Family Travel with Colleen Kelly. “This is a male-driven also has been a national speaker for the Travel & Adventure 600-pound blades and see where wheat is ground into flour. and candy. Filled with large bins of fresh roasted nuts and jars business from crews to producers and Colleen shows that of sweet treats, the shop has been in business for more than Show, the largest travel convention in the country as well A trip to Holland wouldn’t be complete without a visit to one women can do this as well as men.” 100 years and run by five generations of the Fabiano family. as several other travel and marketing organizations. She of its beaches. Kelly’s family packed a picnic lunch filled with A native of Chicago, Kelly moved with her family to Phoenix, is regularly featured as a travel expert on WGN-TV and easy-to-grab items like pita pocket sandwiches and fruit skew- The episode ended with a glimpse into the town’s street Ariz., when she was 3. They returned to Chicago when she WCIU-TV in Chicago. ers. They also played a game of sand tag that Kelly found on performers and artists that included hula hoopers, jugglers was 10 and then moved to Houston when she was 15. She “It’s been a long road and often a hard road, but you can’t Pinterest. In addition, Kelly’s family spent some time fishing and caricature sketchers. went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, receiving off of a boardwalk. ever give up. You just can never give up when you believe in “We like to go to tourist places and hidden gems and unusual a bachelor’s degree in journalism. something,” Kelly said. “If you just keep working really hard Kelly’s crew also met up with a family of five learning to paddle places on the show,” Kelly said. “Holland was great because there After college, Kelly moved back to Chicago for a job as a district and believe in what you’re doing, you can achieve anything. board on Lake Macatawa. A guide showed the proper way to is so much to do. It might be small, but it has great restaurants manager at Heineken USA where she was the first woman Roosevelt gave me that foundation to persevere.” hold the paddle with the curved part away from the body and for the parents and it’s also good for the grandparents because how to start out on your knees before standing. it’s easy to get around.” ) Find out more about Family Travel with Colleen Kelly at familytravelck.com.

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BY ELIZABETH MEADOWS, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION “What Would Dewey Say Today?” AS A FORMER CLASSROOM TEACHER in New Mexico and as a partner to Chicago Public School teachers engaging students in challenging curricula and teaching methods, I participated in a wide range of excellent educational efforts. But after several years in public education, I became distressed by both the disparities of resources among schools and societal prejudices toward some children whom I knew to be very capable of learning. I was frustrated and needed to learn new concepts while continuing to work with other committed educators. My solution was to enroll in the PhD in education program at the University of Chicago where I could explore innovative methods designed to support and enhance excellent and equitable educational practices for children and teachers.

During my studies at the U. of C., I encountered the educational philosopher John ELIZABETH MEADOWS has taught in the Elementary Dewey whose ideas and insights presented me with a new way to look at education Education teacher preparation and so much more. As an alumna of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M., where “great program at Roosevelt University books” and ideas are studied, analyzed and discussed in depth, I believe in the since 2002. She also teaches freshmen and sophomores in power of ideas. My immersion into Dewey’s ideas dovetailed with that philosophy general education courses. and helped me see the real effectiveness of connecting ideas to action. I found She earned her doctorate in Dewey’s ideas exhilarating because he delved into how people can and should work Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Chicago together to solve complex problems like those in education. with a focus on John Dewey, I decided to write my dissertation on Dewey and have since written several other aesthetics and education. Her current research interests papers on his pragmatic ideas about making things better. After earning my doctoral include the intersections of degree, I joined Roosevelt University’s elementary teacher preparation program. listening, democracy, education This is my dream job because at Roosevelt education is considered and practiced and Dewey’s writings and ideas. as a major tool for social justice and for supporting people in achieving their life You can contact Elizabeth dreams individually and collectively. This is an approach that Dewey surely would Meadows at emeadows@ roosevelt.edu. have endorsed.

I want to share with you who John Dewey was, what some of his main contributions were, and some ways in which his ideas are still relevant today. In particular, I want to share my excitement about how his ideas can still empower us to work together to make our world a better place.

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Too often, youth are seen as empty Founder of the U. of C. Laboratory Schools and in need of

John Dewey (1859-1952) is known as a preeminent U.S. in urban schools. We felt the need to show this in order to being filled with philosopher who wrote about many topics with an emphasis answer questions we encountered when trying to implement knowledge or on education. Dewey founded the Laboratory Schools for the curriculum in some city school districts. Many believed children at the University of Chicago as part of his pragmatic that only students in suburban schools could succeed with as trouble makers — approach. He wanted educators to both apply educational (and benefit from) such a challenging curriculum. Today, the as problems to be ideas to practice and to develop new educational ideas by Everyday Mathematics curriculum is widely used in CPS and reflecting upon the practical processes of teaching and in other urban and suburban school districts. Our experience solved rather than learning. For Dewey, philosophy (or theory) was not distinct with these hundreds of five-year-olds helped us persuade as problem-solvers. from practice. This was one of many dichotomies that he others. This is something that Dewey would support and is debunked. Highlighting the power of ideas for actively just one example of how to identify and develop the robust – ELIZABETH MEADOWS improving our world was one of Dewey’s contributions to intellects that all children possess. the reconstruction of the field of philosophy. After leav- Dewey wrote extensively about democracy (with a small ing the University of Chicago, he was appointed chair in “d,” and no particular political party). Democracy for Dewey An Advocate of Relevance philosophy at Columbia University in New York. He wrote involved having people associate with one another in familiar Dewey’s debunking of dichotomies in every field he worked prolifically throughout his long life and his thinking and groups, such as families and religious organizations, and in as a pragmatic philosopher is relevant today. He wrote writings contributed greatly to the field of philosophy. with members of groups they don’t know well. He wrote that that thinking in “either-or’s” makes shallow the essential He explained that many of us often operate under a false John Dewey, an American philosopher, psychologist and educational an important measure of the worth of a society includes the depths in which issues and concepts need to be explored in separation of ideas and action which can weaken the power reformer, is one of the primary figures associated with the philosophy quality of communication and conjoint action between groups order to identify and improve the real issues and concepts of putting ideas into action. Dewey argued that the value of of pragmatism. of people with different aims and interests. The more people involved. For Dewey, helping everyone experience life to the ideas is measured by the problems they help people solve. take the actions of others into consideration and how their fullest in the present and mine the riches of past human In one main area of his writing, he proposed that education actions influence others, the better a society can become. learning and accomplishment were both key. Too often today, could and should be a force that helps learners develop Likewise, people need to learn how we are all interdependent preparation is only seen as focusing on the requirements or his capabilities and when we associate with one another their intellects so they can constantly critique the status on one another. Everyone in a democracy needs to listen to, for the future, such as readying students for the next grade, freely and cooperatively in democratic ways, we can solve quo and work with others to make the world a better place. work to understand and interact with individuals from as college or job. This emphasis often diminishes the learning problems well. What is needed is a much more widespread “Progressive education” is the term that he and others used many different groups of people as possible. possibilities present in the lived experiences of children. belief in every individual’s potential and capacities, which for this powerful idea. For Dewey, fusing current life experiences with learning in requires efforts to reduce prejudice and discrimination. By Dewey was a public intellectual who voiced his opinions and school helps prepare youth for their futures. Dewey’s sense of hopefulness is relevant and useful to all doing this, everyone’s talents can be recognized. First-rate took actions on current events to effect positive change. He of us today. Although some criticize him for being utopian, educational efforts are pivotal because they assist individuals promoted informed, organized and individual actions that Dewey’s advocacy of relevance as an educational lynchpin I and many others applaud his hopefulness. It is based on in identifying their talents and developing them to their improve society. He supported the idealistic and practical is important to reclaim today. It is vital for policy makers, reality and is a necessary disposition for people to have in fullest. Dewey acknowledges that sometimes some of us need approach of teachers’ unions whose members worked in a elected officials, professional educators and members of order to solve problems and co-create a world that works more resources than others in order to thrive and develop our spirit of justice for those who had suffered wrongs or who society to be driven by this Deweyan question: What do well for everyone. Dewey’s hopefulness is based upon his abilities and intellects. One possible reason is that some of were in danger of being wronged, including both children children and youth need to know in order to develop and observations about humanity that are stunning in their us have not had the necessary prior support. In these cases, and teachers. In just one of many examples from around use their capabilities and talents to contribute to their own boldness and truth. For Dewey, every person everywhere just as a family gives more care and resources to a family the world, I believe he would have backed recent actions of well-being and to the well-being of all members of their matters. One main reason for this is that each person has member who is sick, society needs to give more to those in the Chicago Teachers’ Union as it seeks to improve learning society? Often today, test scores are made paramount in a talents that when identified and developed can contribute to need. Furthermore, we need to reduce the negative societal conditions for students and teachers and to further excellent student’s progress educationally and in a teacher’s progress the person’s own well-being and to the well-being of others influences and neglect that cause people to be in need. education for all students. Dewey supported unions whose as a professional. This is done without a careful investiga- whom she or he influences. For Dewey, all of our efforts impact members worked to preserve the educational foci of schools tion into the meaning of the test scores and whether they Dewey believed that every child has the ability to learn complex others’ lives all of the time, but mostly, we are unaware of when forces outside of education sought to use schools for truly measure well what is most important for students to subjects and I was able to see that philosophy in action when our interconnectedness and of our interdependence. their own benefit. The Chicago Teachers Union has stood up learn. The high-stakes use of test scores does not focus on I analyzed the mathematical abilities of kindergarteners in to the growing movement to privatize and fund education improvement, but rather on punishment. If test scores are Dewey also states that everyone matters because all of us the Chicago Public School (CPS) system. As an editor of the by corporations which could result in only a few children too low, sometimes students are kept back a grade without have ample intellectual powers that can be continuously Everyday Mathematics (EM) curriculum, I interviewed (with and youth receiving the best education. Dewey advocated additional measures to support the students’ development. developed. This gives us realistic hope that we can solve the help of a Spanish translator when needed) hundreds of for educational excellence for one’s own and “other people’s In addition, teachers sometimes are let go from their jobs paramount problems, such as providing excellent education children. In these interviews, the children demonstrated children.” Likewise, people all over the globe continue to if students' test scores fall below a set standard and school for all, and eradicating poverty, prejudice and injurious strong understanding of math and problem-solving capabili- stand up for and work towards improved life conditions personnel can lose control of their school. Schools have conflict, to name a few. When we have an educational system ties. Our effort at EM was to prove that a challenging and and Dewey would support them. been closed due to poor achievement as measured by tests. that acknowledges and helps each individual develop her enriched mathematics curriculum could be used successfully

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Dewey criticized routine educational practices in his day when children were separated from the day-to-day life of their community. An example of this was (and sometimes still is) when students’ chairs are literally or metaphorically Sustainable bolted to the schoolroom floor. Dewey explained how this restricts students from following their social motivations to learn with one another and to venture outside the school walls Solutions to take part in the community’s activities. Ideal education From rooftop gardens to energy facilitates children learning from their elders. Education conservation, Roosevelt University was and can be again an organic part of the economic and is a model for sustainability. Read artistic endeavors of the community. Through education, more about some of the University’s the young can not only receive learning from their elders sustainability initiatives on the but they also can develop and contribute new knowledge back to the community. following page.

At the same time, relevant today is Dewey’s honoring of all children as capable and original thinkers and creators of new human knowledge. Too often, youth are seen as empty and in need of being filled with knowledge or as trouble makers – as problems to be solved rather than as problem-solvers. As noted earlier, Dewey’s philosophy is that every individual matters to the community and every person needs to be challenged and nurtured for their well- being and that of others. In terms of children being seen as making trouble, Dewey wants education to prepare students to fight the status quo, to take stands, and to work toward positive change for all.

In conclusion, Dewey’s pragmatic philosophy can help us work together to make our world a better place. His hopefulness, his belief in the worth of each person to contribute to the well-being of all, his definition of democracy as interaction and awareness of interdependence, his insistence that education prepares students to criticize current practices and work toward improved conditions for all, and his declaration that those in need be assisted compels us to think and act accordingly. Do we follow Dewey? Will we? Let’s.

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Pharmacy partnership agreements with community colleges Community college students interested in becoming pharmacists can now advance directly from their community college to Roosevelt University’s doctoral program in pharmacy without receiving a bachelor’s degree. The unique Pharmacy Partners Program allows top- performing students direct admission to Roosevelt’s College of Pharmacy in Schaumburg as long as program and pharmacy admission criteria are met at their community college.

“Nationally and at Roosevelt about 30 percent of pharmacy students don’t PHOTOS BY BROOKE COLLINS © 2014 CITY OF CHICAGO Roosevelt University Chief Engineer Gus Kalady (left) outlines energy efficiencies for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the basement of Roosevelt’s landmark have bachelor’s degrees,” said George Auditorium Building. Top right, the mayor holds a press conference at Roosevelt on efforts to make Chicago buildings more efficient. Above, the mayor poses with MacKinnon, dean of the College of Roosevelt’s engineers. Pharmacy. “Students who have entered our program directly from community colleges have done very well. This Chicago mayor lauds Roosevelt for energy savings unique partnership will enable more Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spoke at In another energy-related program, a Roosevelt more than 100 pounds of produce, including community college graduates to directly Roosevelt in July and praised the University’s student and a recent graduate are making vegetables and herbs from the gardens for enter Roosevelt’s PharmD program.” efforts to reduce energy consumption. Prior the University more sustainable with help use in meals prepared in dining centers Roosevelt has signed Pharmacy Partners

to his remarks, he toured the basement from a Chicago company. Sustainability at Roosevelt’s Chicago and Schaumburg Program agreements with William REUTERS STAPLETON, SHANNON of the 125-year-old landmark structure Studies major Mary Beth Radeck and May 2014 campuses. Rainey Harper College, Elgin Community The NFL Draft has been held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City (above) since 2006. for a close-up look at new state-of-the-art Accounting graduate Kevin Markowski are Radeck also has been using skills she learned College and Oakton Community heating and cooling systems that in some cultivating rooftop gardens in the University’s in the Sustainability Studies program to College. Up to 10 students from each of cases are reducing the University’s energy Wabash Building and a 27-plot community develop a long-term sustainability plan for these schools who are selected by the consumption and costs by nearly half. garden at the Schaumburg Campus. the University, while Markowski has been College of Pharmacy will be eligible to Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt Gus Kalady, Roosevelt’s chief engineer, led As sustainability interns who are being paid managing installation of a new drip-irrigation participate in the program. University to host 2015 NFL Draft Emanuel on the Auditorium Building base- with help from a $3,500 grant from Testa system that saves water and is good for MacKinnon said one of the major ment tour where a model chiller plant with Produce in Chicago, the two have harvested plants in the Schaumburg gardens. advantages of the program is that it During its 125-year history, the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University has six separate compressors that can gear up provides an educational pathway that hosted everything from Presidential Conventions to rock stars to Broadway plays. or wind down automatically, depending on will save outstanding students time and Now it’s going to be the host venue of one of the largest media events of the year, Mary Beth Radeck outdoor temperatures, is reducing energy money. “They can earn their PharmD the National Football League’s (NFL) annual Draft of college players on April 30 and Kevin Markowski and May 1 and 2. consumption/costs by as much as 35 percent. harvest more than 100 degree in two years less time than A new boiler plant, with slow-start pumps pounds of produce from students who are admitted after earning In an announcement made by the NFL, Chicago was selected as the new host city Roosevelt’s rooftop and and energy-efficient belt fans that save 25 a bachelor’s degree,” he said. community gardens. for the 2015 Draft and the Auditorium Theatre and Roosevelt University will serve percent or more in natural gas and as much Advising is an important part of the as the location. This is the first time in 50 years the Draft will be held in a city as 50 percent in electricity also were shown program and admitted students will other than New York. to the mayor. be assigned a community college “There’s no better setting for the NFL Draft than Chicago, one of the world’s greatest Emanuel noted that the steps taken by advisor who will help students design cities, and the Auditorium Theatre, one of Chicago’s architectural treasures and a Roosevelt have cut the Auditorium Building’s an enrollment plan that allows them to National Historic Landmark building,” said Roosevelt President Chuck Middleton. bill for utility usage from $1.30 to 76 cents complete all required coursework in the The NFL Draft is one of the major sporting activities of the year and last year the per square foot. “You’re talking about real prescribed amount of time. opening night was watched by 48.5 million people. money and that’s just one building,” the mayor said.

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Roosevelt reaches out to immigrants Roosevelt University and the Mutual Assistance Associations of Illinois (MAAI) have signed an historic agreement that promises to further educational opportunities for many of the region’s immigrants and refugees.

Paving the way for immigrants from all over the world to receive information and assistance regarding a wide range of college opportunities, the agreement is unique, as it is the first time ever that multiple agencies serving area immigrants and refugees in Chicagoland are working together to further higher education among their communities.

“The partnership between MAAI and Roosevelt perfectly embodies our mission and legacy in contemporary society. The MAAI and its component organizations work tirelessly to provide opportunity and hope to immigrants and refugees, and Photos of labor unrest, like this one, are part of the new collection it is our privilege to join with them in this partnership that will at Roosevelt. transform lives and strengthen our resolve to create a better African-American male teens receive leadership training and gain exposure to cultural life during Roosevelt’s award-winning Black Male Leadership Academy. community through collaboration and action,” said University Archives Department receives Provost Doug Knerr. New Black Male Leadership Academy is game changer labor history documents As many as 10 social-service organizations with ties to MAAI Roosevelt University’s St. Clair Drake Center School and George Westinghouse College “It’s great getting exposure and experience The Roosevelt University Archives Department doesn’t just joined in signing a memorandum for African and African-American Studies Preparatory High School. African-American in downtown Chicago. We’re doing things we document the history of Roosevelt University, it documents of understanding with Roosevelt on rolled out a new program over the summer men from Roosevelt’s faculty, administration don’t normally get to do and I think it’s opened the principles of social justice on which it was founded. Sept. 18 at the University. Colorful that is helping black male high school students and student body led the sessions and were my eyes,” added Demitri DeTrayon, a junior at Recently, the Archives has been expanding its labor history performances by members of in Chicago develop as leaders. role models/mentors to the teens. Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory School. collections. The latest addition is the Illinois Labor History several of the immigrant groups Society Collection. The winner of the city of Chicago’s One commemorated the occasion. Summer Chicago (OSC) Game Changer Award, The collection consists of over 155 cubic feet of materials Among groups represented at the academy brought 19 black Chicago teens “ I feel like I'm learning as much from them as documenting organized labor in Illinois with a particular the signing were: the Bhutanese over the summer to Roosevelt’s Chicago focus on the Haymarket Affair, which resulted from a labor Community Association of Illinois; Bosnian & Herzegovinian – STUDENT VOLUNTEER JASON CURRY Campus for a week of leadership training and they're learning from me.” demonstration in May 1886 in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, American Community Center; Chicago Burmese Community the opportunity to experience college life. generally considered the origin of May Day observances for Center; Chinese Mutual Aid Association; Cambodian Association workers. The collection includes documents, books, pamphlets, Offering the teens opportunities to visit of Illinois & Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing “We are proud to be recognized for our efforts Five of Roosevelt’s African-American male sound recordings and moving images documenting labor museums, social experiences, including Fields Memorial; Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago; in making this new program a success and undergraduates have been providing advice history in Illinois and the administrative history of the dinner in Chicago’s Loop, and leadership Iraqi Mutual Aid Society; Lao American Community Services; Pan look forward to continuing the work of the about college as a means to success. They Illinois Labor History Society. The jewel of the collection is and team building exercises, the academy African Association; and the Vietnamese Association of Illinois. Black Male Leadership Academy,” said Michael are: education major Howard Brown, special a photographic exhibit called “On the Job.” Created as part is the brainchild of Al Bennett, director of “It is the first time in 34 years of MAAI’s existence that we Ford, vice provost for academic support and education student Jason Curry, theatre major of the bicentennial celebrations in 1976, it was “organized the St. Clair Drake Center. will have a relationship and partnership with a university as a retention and a program organizer who Jason Eason, journalism student Josh Hicks for the purpose of examining the range of functions and received the award on behalf of the University. coalition,” said Dary Mien, president of MAAI and director of the “We are focusing on positives and that means and political science major Frank Pettis. services provided by the Illinois Labor community ... and museum and memorial at the Cambodian Association of Illinois. giving young African-American males the In addition to serving as a summer job site for the historic dimension of the labor experience.” “I had some hardships growing up,” said “It’s going to open the door to refugees and immigrants from all support and tools they need to get ahead,” three OSC students and providing learning Curry, one of nine kids raised by a single Roosevelt didn’t just get the collection, it got the society itself. over the region who need to be working closely with a college.” said Bennett. and cultural opportunities, the University mother. “When I share my story with these In addition to finding a home for its collection, the ILHS needed also opened its doors on select Saturdays this Partnership activities may include: cohosting visiting scholars Roosevelt was one of more than 100 agen- young men I feel like we connect.” a home for its offices as well. So last spring the ILHS moved fall to provide further training to the teens. and artists and cosponsoring visits, lectures, performances, cies serving more than 22,500 Chicago high into offices on the 13th floor of the Auditorium Building. The program is made possible through the exhibits and speaking engagements; teaming up on appropriate school students through the OSC. Teens “I feel like I’m gaining college experience and generosity of Rose and Robert Johnson, a 1958 “This is a great partnership for Roosevelt,” said University grants and research opportunities; working together to address participating in Roosevelt’s leadership training learning about the college environment and Archivist Laura Mills. “Both organizations are dedicated to language barriers facing immigrants who are interested in a college and cultural learning experience program that’s really important to me,” said 17-year-old Roosevelt graduate and honorary trustee on social justice. And having the offices here as well as the education; exploring issues related to recognizing credentials were primarily from Children’s Home + Aid, Westinghouse High School junior Kendall Relf, Roosevelt University’s Board of Trustees, as from other countries; and sharing expertise of faculty and staff. North Lawndale College Preparatory High who wants to go into computer engineering. well as the Efroymson Family Fund. collection will bring new researchers in to the archives.”

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Former President Search underway for next Alumna honored by President Obama of Brazil lectures Roosevelt president Roosevelt alumna Darlene Clark Hine (BA, Clark Hine, who taught at Roosevelt in 1996 at Roosevelt Roosevelt University’s Board of Trustees has formed a Presidential ’68), the Board of Trustees Professor of as the Visiting Professor, Search Committee to identity candidates to succeed Chuck African American Studies and History at said she was speechless when she learned Middleton, who is retiring at the end of June after 13 years as , received a 2013 of the honor. “I just didn’t anticipate it,” she Roosevelt’s president. National Humanities Medal from President said. “The people that really deserve this The Committee has engaged the search firm of Witt/Kieffer to Barack Obama at a ceremony in the White medal are the people that I write about.” help find outstanding men and women who are qualified for House on July 28. Her medal citation, which was read by and interested in the position. Trustee Patricia Harris is chairing Obama, said: “Darlene Clark Hine, historian, the 18-member Search Committee, which consists of trustees, for enriching our understanding of the faculty members, administrators, a dean and a student. When African American experience. Through finalists are identified, they will be invited to the University Addressing a full house of students, prolific scholarship and leadership, Dr. Hine for interviews with all members of the Roosevelt community. professors and consular representatives Bonnie Gunzenhauser Joseph Chan has examined race, class, and gender and It is anticipated that a new president will be appointed by the on Sept. 11, former President of Brazil Board in Spring 2015. For more information on the presidential shown how the struggles and successes of Fernando Henrique Cardoso issued a African American women shaped the nation challenge during Roosevelt University’s Roosevelt appoints 2 new deans search, go to www.roosevelt.edu/PresidentialSearch. we share today.” 21st Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt University announced the appointments of Bonnie Clark Hine helped found the field of black Distinguished Lecture. He called for Gunzenhauser as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences citizens to actively participate in women’s history and has been one of its most and Joseph Chan as dean of the Walter E. Heller College of the revitalization and reinvention of prolific scholars. She is a past-president of Business. Professor advocates for human representative democracy, and for the Organization of American Historians international institutions to respond Gunzenhauser, professor of English and interim dean since rights for older people and the Southern Historical Association. to the demands of a changing society. July 2013 of Roosevelt’s largest college, joined the University Bethany Barratt, associate professor She has written three award-winning books Cardoso, an internationally known in 2003 as an assistant professor. Her assignments have of political science and director of on African American women’s history and sociologist and the president of Brazil included assistant director of English Composition, chair Roosevelt University’s Joseph Loundy edited the first major encyclopedia on from 1995 until 2003, was invited to of the Department of Literature and Languages, associate Human Rights Project, recently went the subject, Black Women in America. After Roosevelt to receive its highest honor, dean and interim dean. She was also a scholar-in-residence to the United Nations on behalf graduating from Roosevelt, she earned MA the Doctor of Social Justice degree, at Chicago’s Newberry Library. of human rights for older people. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES NGAN/AFP/GETTY MANDEL and PhD degrees from Kent State University. honoris causa. President Chuck Middleton, “Bonnie’s deep commitment to the liberal arts, combined The human rights scholar and College of Arts and Sciences Dean author, faculty members from the Bonnie Gunzenhauser and Chicago with her outstanding record as interim dean and obvious College of Performing Arts Dean Henry love for teaching and learning, made her the unanimous John Marshall Law School in Chicago Fogel presented the honorary degree recommendation of the Arts and Sciences Search Committee,” and other advocates delivered the to Cardoso, and afterward, Cardoso said Roosevelt President Chuck Middleton. Chicago Declaration on the Rights of delivered a lecture titled, “Reinvention Older Persons to a U.N. working group that is looking at issues A “fan of all things 18th Century,” Gunzenhauser is a member of Democracy: Reconciling demos and facing the world’s growing elderly population. of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. res publica.” She received a BA degree from Luther College in English, “The world’s population of older persons is growing at a steady The lecture drew students, members of philosophy and political science and MA and PhD degrees rate and is projected to do so for several decades. As it does, Chicago’s Brazilian community, faculty age-related abuse and discrimination affect more and more in English from the University of Chicago. members and consular representatives people,” said Barratt, who worked with scholars, advocates from countries including Brazil, Mexico, Chan, professor of Information Systems, is an accomplished and policymakers from more than a dozen countries to craft Nepal and Taiwan. educator, administrator and former executive at Oracle the declaration. Corporation. He joined Roosevelt in 2002 and served as interim “Our world’s citizens no longer accept The document spells out older persons’ rights to things like dean of the Heller College from 2007 to 2008. the role of passive audience. They want adequate housing, education and health care as well as the the truth to be told to them, and they Chan received the Outstanding Research Award from the right not to be medically exploited or abused. Posted in the want to be sure that their contributions Heller College in 2006, the Chicago Professorship award from Congressional Record and endorsed by the city of Chicago, will be taken into account,” Cardoso said. the Heller College in 2005-06 and the Best Author Award from the Chicago declaration is expected to help move forward “Democracies must become a space for the Journal of American Academy of Business in both 2005 and discussions on a U.N. Convention on the Rights of Older Persons. collective dialogue and deliberation rather 2006. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from than simply an organized framework of Today, about 342 million people over age 60 across the world institutions. It is no longer possible for Haverford College and master’s and doctoral degrees from lack income security, and it is expected that 1.2 billion people Top: Alumna Darlene Clark Hine is honored by President Obama in July. Below: She and History a leader to impose without negotiating, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at could be without access to such security by 2050. “We hope Professor Emeritus Christopher Reed have collaborated on African-American history research projects. to decide without listening and to go the University of Illinois, Chicago. our work will be one of the foundational documents for a U.N. forth without explaining.” convention whose time has clearly come,” said Barratt.

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Graduates recognized Roosevelt student selected as Asian American fellow at 3 ceremonies Roosevelt University senior Shawn Mukherji is one of semester, Mukherji is assisting Jennifer Tani in the Office six college students in Chicago selected to participate of Government Relations and University Outreach on Roosevelt University held three commence- in the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago 2014 civic engagement work. In September, he participated in ment ceremonies this spring for the first time Impact Fellows Program. The program promotes civil the 2014 Advancing Justice Conference in Washington, in its history. Two ceremonies were held in the and human rights and helps empower Asian Americans, D.C., whose theme was Asian Americans and Pacific Auditorium Building on May 2, at 10 a.m. for arts Pacific Islanders and those in other underserved Islanders Standing Together for Racial Justice. and sciences and performing arts graduates and communities. at 2 p.m. for business, education and professional Mukherji is a political science and journalism double studies graduates. On May 22 a ceremony was Among other activities, the fellows are helping campus major, a senator on Roosevelt’s Student Government held in Schaumburg for graduates of the College leaders organize voter engagement activities for the Association, a writer for The Torch student newspaper of Pharmacy. fall elections. As part of his fellowship during the fall and a member of RISE, a student activist organization.

By having three distinct ceremonies, graduates are able to invite an unlimited number of relatives and friends, something not possible at most universities. As is Roosevelt’s tradition, each graduate walked across the stage and was greeted by his or her Former Iraqi interpreter for Marines earning MBA at Roosevelt college dean and President Chuck Middleton.

Alexa Canady, a physician and medical trailblazer, to Chicago in 2012, he chose Roosevelt was the commencement speaker and honorary because he was impressed with the degree recipient at the 10 a.m. ceremony. Dr. Canady University’s founding principles, social is the first African American woman in the United justice mission, great reputation and States to become a neurosurgeon. From 1987 until business program. 2001, she was chief of neurosurgery at Children’s When the Iraqi Civil War started Hospital of Michigan and is currently a surgeon in 2006, Al Helli bravely decided to at Sacred Heart Medical Group in Pensacola, Fla. stay in his homeland and become The student speaker at the ceremony was Brenden an interpreter and security advisor Paradies, an integrated marketing communications for the Marines through a company major with a minor in women’s and gender studies. called Global Linguist Solutions. At the 2 p.m. ceremony, Ebrahim Rasool, ambas- As a moderate Muslim, he and his sador to the United States from South Africa, was family were forced to leave their the commencement speaker and honorary degree home by al-Qaeda (Muslim extrem- recipient. He has a long history of involvement in ists). Their house was later burned his country’s anti-apartheid struggles and met down by extremists and his father, Roosevelt student Samawi Al Helli considers many members of the U.S. Marines the late President Nelson Mandela while both a businessman and tribal leader who to be like brothers. were in prison. Joanna Rivera, a first generation also was his inspiration, was barely college student and elementary education major, For three years Samawi (Sam) Al Helli interpreted Arabic able to feed his large family. “I could have abused my delivered the student address. for the United States Marines in Iraq and helped the position as a Marine interpreter to get revenge,” he Members of the first ever graduating class for the Marines and Iraq accomplish mutual goals. Now he said, “but I believe that you must treat people the way College of Pharmacy were hooded by their academic is studying at Roosevelt for an MBA in international you want to be treated. That’s the only way to end the advisor in recognition of earning a PharmD degree business and will graduate in December. cycle of violence.” during the ceremony held at the Renaissance “During my time with U.S. Marines, I played a critical Al Helli earned his undergraduate degree in computer Schaumburg Convention Center. Philip Burgess, role in saving hundreds of Marines and civilians and engineering from Al Mamoon University in Baghdad. chairman of the Illinois State Board of Pharmacy assisted in capturing more than 100 terrorists and He is a former volunteer with the Iraqi Mutual Aid and former national director of pharmacy opera- their weapons caches,” he said. “To this day, my best Society in Chicago where he worked on its website and tions at Walgreens, was commencement speaker. friends are Marines.” The 26-year-old Al Helli, whose provided orientation to newly arrived Iraqis. His goal Graduate Laurie Linton, the distinguished peer native language is Arabic, learned English by listening award recipient, led her classmates in reciting the is to work in management or sales for a multinational to American rock and heavy metal music. After moving Oath of a Pharmacist. U.S. corporation. Dr. Alexa Canady, the first female neurosurgeon in the U.S., was one of three Commencement speakers at Roosevelt last May.

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World premiere of Eight Roosevelt students are Broadway calls more Roosevelt alums professor’s Mythology Four Freedom Fellows Two more alumni from Roosevelt University’s Theatre Conservatory Eight Roosevelt students have been selected for the University’s new Four Symphony are making their mark on Broadway. Freedoms Fellowship Program, a year-long initiative that is providing them Scott Stangland, (MFA, ’05) is appear- Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of with training in how to make positive change in their communities, our society ing in Once at Broadway’s Bernard Performing Arts (CCPA) Symphony Orchestra and the world. Jacobs Theatre. Damon Gillespie, will present the world premiere of Associate A poet/playwright, a single mother who is also a suburban school board who has completed his second Professor Stacy Garrop’s Mythology Symphony member, an international student from Ghana and an entrepreneur who recycles year in Roosevelt’s musical theatre on Jan. 27 at the Harris Theater for Music and discarded cell phones in Kenya and Haiti are among the inaugural class of Four program, recently performed in the Dance in Chicago. Freedoms Fellows who are being trained in leadership, public speaking and Disney show, Newsies at New York advocacy during the 2014-15 academic year. “Stacy Garrop is one of America’s notable City’s Nederlander Theatre. composers and this is an extremely important Earlier this year, musical theatre event that will feature some of her best work alumna Courtney Reed made news and also bring attention to our music program by landing the role of leading lady in and students,” said Henry Fogel, dean of CCPA. Broadway’s Aladdin, a show that she Gillespie Mythology Symphony has five movements, each currently stars in as Jasmine. relating to a female character or characters “This has been the best year ever for our alumni on Broadway,” said Student selected to from Greek mythology, including Medusa, Sean Kelley, associate dean of Roosevelt’s Chicago College of Performing Penelope, the Sirens, the Sisters of Fate and state education board Arts and director of The Theatre Conservatory. “We are celebrating their Pandora. Garrop’s first symphony will be Sean Anderson, a 22-year-old business manage- success as well as our own success as a program that helped develop conducted by Alondra de la Parra, founder ment major at Roosevelt University, has been this kind of talent.” and artistic director of the New York-based appointed as one of only two college students Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Stangland, who began his professional career on the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Cedille Records will record the symphony for in as a “musician/actor,” acts He is the second Roosevelt student in the past forthcoming CD of Garrop’s work. Roosevelt’s inaugural Four Freedoms Fellows include (front row, from left) Amelia Enberg, and plays guitar, piano, melodica, harmonica three years on the 16-member panel that plans Danielle Cooperstock and Christopher Mich and (back row, from left) Roselyn Abassah- and percussion as Eamon, a musical producer and coordinates Illinois’ system of colleges and “This is a significant Manu, Patricia Mickey, Sean Anderson, Connor Reilly and LeeAnn Revis. who helps the lead characters in Once record event in my career universities. an album. Gillespie was one of 14 “newsies,” and it is also a fan- A prominent student leader, Anderson is active The program is named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous 1941 who sang, danced and did acrobatics in Newsies, tastic opportunity Four Freedoms Speech, in which he encouraged Americans to be conscious of with Roosevelt’s Student Government Associa- which closed on Broadway in late August. for CCPA and its their stake in preserving the nation’s democracy. As such, the fellowship aims tion and is attuned to the University’s mission student musicians,” to deepen students’ knowledge of the political landscape, imparting effective A graduate of Roosevelt’s Master of Fine Arts Stangland of social justice. After his first board meeting said Garrop, who strategies for influencing decision makers and providing coaching in how to in Acting program, Stangland’s debut came in August, Anderson, a native of Naperville, Ill., has written and powerfully articulate personal stories that can be a tool for positive change. about two years ago when he got the roles of the father and fireman in said his aim as a board member is to work with published works “This is an opportunity for our fellows to take a leadership role in Roosevelt Lookingglass Theatre’s Eastland: A New Musical, a production in which IBHE and Illinois lawmakers to find remedies for for brass, chorus, advocacy efforts and to develop skills to further the causes they care about he also played piano. He went on to perform in Steppenwolf Theatre’s the growing student-loan debt crisis. “I’m here to orchestra, mixed most,” said Jennifer Tani, assistant vice president for community engagement. The Wheel, where he played guitar and accordion. He also had roles in collaborate with our higher education leaders in chamber ensembles, ’s A Christmas Carol. taking a hard look at what can be done to keep The inaugural class of fellows includes: Roselyn Abassah-Manu, a Master’s piano, piano trios, saxophone, string quartet in Public Administration student and a native of Ghana; Sean Anderson, an “A friend told me that I would be perfect for Once since I play instruments college students from serious debt,” he said. and voice and has won numerous awards and undergraduate Business Management major and a student board member of as an actor,” said Stangland, who auditioned in Chicago for the national Joanne Howard, a Roosevelt public administra- grants for her compositions. the Illinois State Board of Higher Education; Danielle Cooperstock, a Social tour of Once. Called to New York to replace a departing cast member, tion professor who had Anderson as one of her The free event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Justice major and member of the student group RISE; Amelia Enberg, an Stangland has been performing on Broadway since June. students, said, “He’s got great analytic skills. He undergraduate Integrated Marketing Communications major and a member Harris Theater, 205 E. Randolph St. Program for Gillespie not only dreamed of being on Broadway. He targeted Newsies knows how to get at the nugget of a situation of the Roosevelt Lakers softball team; Christopher Mich, a Computer Science the evening includes Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic and present very effectively.” Anderson said he major and a student trustee on Roosevelt’s Board of Trustees; Patricia Mickey, an as his kind of show, auditioning for its national tour as a high school Dances, Op. 46, Nos. 5-8; Arturo Marquez’s wants to have a discussion in Illinois about “Pay English and Creative Writing major and a poet and playwright; Connor Reilly, senior in Chattanooga, Tenn. “I had seen the movie and really was Danzon No. 2; and Garrop’s symphony, which it Forward” pilot programs, such as one being an undergraduate Finance major and the innovator behind a not-for-profit, impressed by the dancing. I felt like I could be in it and really set my was written between 2007 and 2013. tried in the state of Michigan in which students Global Mobal, which ships discarded cell phones for use in Kenya and Haiti; sights on it,” he said. Selected for the show’s national tour that began For more information, visit roosevelt.edu/ and LeeAnn Revis, a Social Justice major and a member and vice president of this fall, Gillespie joined the Broadway production instead last summer. receive tuition-free education, paying back based CCPA/MusicConservatory or call 312-341-2238. the Thornton Fractional Township High School District 215. He also replaced a departing cast member. on income earned after graduation.

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consultant at The Northern Trust, a $106-billion bank, located just a short distance from the Lillian and Larry Goodman Center, which he now frequents as a fan.

Tometich urges other student-athletes to use the opportuni- ties that Roosevelt has in the city of Chicago. “Take what the city has to offer and what the University has to give you and use it to your full advantage,” he advises. “There are multiple businesses in multiple fields. Use the resources you have around you and the help Roosevelt will give you.”

One of those resources is the Office of Career Development, where all Roosevelt students can go to get assistance creating and developing resumes and cover letters, engage in mock interviews, get career and major exploration assessments, and seek advice on internship and job search strategies.

“We know how tough it is to be a full-time student-athlete and try to build a resume for post graduation, so we thoroughly Alexia Tann’s tenacity as a point guard for Roosevelt’s women’s enjoy helping student-athletes build their resumes while basketball team served her well in beginning a professional career after her playing career concluded. having to navigate a tough schedule,” said Aaron Kennedy, student placement specialist.

Kennedy advises student-athletes to gain work and internship After earning degrees from Roosevelt, An infielder on the Lakers’ baseball team and a 2012 business former men’s basketball teammates experience during their off-seasons and asks student-athletes graduate, Storrs is currently a commercial underwriting Tyler Smith (left) and Mark Tometich to consider various student employment opportunities on analyst for Ally Financial, a worldwide bank with more than are now working in Chicago. campus that provide meaningful work experience. 15 million customers. Alexia Tann was a standout point guard during Roosevelt’s One of Storrs’ teammates on the 2011 and 2012 Roosevelt first two women’s basketball seasons, but her time in Green baseball teams was Ernesto Irizarry, a catcher who was one of and White proved to be a tale in perseverance. One of the head coach Steve Marchi’s top hitters. Irizarry was attracted Athletics: The Postgame Show BY JOHN JARAMILLO Lakers’ leading scorers in the beginning of the 2010-11 season, to the University because of the athletic program and the she tore an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) sidelining her for Data from a 2013 NCAA research study show that less than student assistant coach for the basketball team in the middle offering of a criminal justice major. the remainder of the year. Despite the lengthy and difficult two percent of college athletes go on to play their sport on a of the 2012-13 campaign when another assistant departed. rehab for her knee, Tann returned in 2011-12 and led the Thanks to Marchi and assistant coach Mike Schultz, who professional level. For the vast majority of student-athletes, Shortly after graduating in 2013, Smith was offered a job at Lakers in assists before her career came to an end. Irizarry credited with pushing him harder to excel academi- the chances of continuing a competitive sports career as a The W Chicago City Center, and just recently he turned that cally, Irizarry attained his bachelor’s degree and is currently means to a living are slim to unrealistic. Head coach Robyn Scherr-Wells assisted Tann in acquiring experience into a new position as sales coordinator for The an administrative assistant at a local law firm. Next fall, he the skills she needed to go forward after her basketball career Student-athletes at Roosevelt are well aware of those odds Westin Michigan Avenue hotel. plans to enter law school to pursue a career in criminal law. was officially over. Supplementing what she learned in the and are using their education, athletic training and contacts A teammate of Smith’s, Mark Tometich, also knew that classroom and in an internship at Roosevelt, she made friends “You don’t realize how short college is, and then when you get throughout the University to help them obtain jobs in a Roosevelt would be the right fit for him. “I realized I wanted with Roosevelt staff members and alumni who steered her into the real world, all you want to do is go back to college,” variety of professions. to be in the city, I knew I wanted to play sports, and I knew toward employment opportunities. “You never know who will Irizarry said. “Take advantage of any opportunity that arises. Tyler Smith, a key contributor on the men’s basketball teams I wanted to be a business major,” Tometich said of his goals help you get a job,” Tann said. “There a lot of smart people Take time to enjoy the Roosevelt experience. It ends faster in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, said, “Roosevelt gave when choosing a university. “Roosevelt has a good business who go to Roosevelt, so befriend everyone you meet.” than you think.” me the chance to seek out many job opportunities. I enjoy program and I had a good relationship with Coach [Joe] Tann is now happy doing what Scherr-Wells did to lure the Even though their time as Roosevelt students and Laker being in a fast-paced environment, and Roosevelt was able Griffin when he was recruiting me, so it was a combination Beloit, Wis. native to Chicago: recruiting. She works at a athletes went by more quickly than Irizarry and others would to offer that to me. Being able to live in downtown Chicago of those things.” temp agency as a professional recruiter, placing people in the have preferred, these five graduates maximized their brief as a student was a great bonus.” On the court, Tometich was an All-Chicagoland Collegiate right positions like she did when she was the floor general tenures at the University in a manner that can last a lifetime. While at Roosevelt, he held a variety of jobs to make ends Athletic Conference sharpshooter who set the Roosevelt for the Lakers. They took advantage of their opportunities and showed that meet and volunteered as an intern for the athletic depart- record for three-point baskets made in a career. Off the court, athletics can be a stepping stone to a fulfilling career. “Once it’s gone, it’s gone.” That’s how Tim Storrs succinctly ment to gain experience working games, writing collateral he was determined to get his degree and a good job follow- described the finite length of a collegiate sports-playing career. Roosevelt student Steven Mane contributed to this story. materials and maintaining websites and he jumped in as a ing graduation. He succeeded by being hired as a financial

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Roosevelt Lakers Continue to Rise The 2014-15 season is shaping up to be a promising one for the Lakers despite graduating top players on a number of teams, including All-American women’s basketball star Casey Davis (dribbling) and six baseball seniors, among them Nathan Greene (15) and Alex Van Ness (pitching). Some of the veteran athletes returning are men’s soccer players Hayden Hagemann (4) and Diego Rivas (11) and men’s basketball player Kevin Priebe (above, center).

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Book depicts Roosevelt’s history Celebrating our 70th Anniversary “ We dedicate this book Alumni can view more than 200 vintage Roosevelt University Founders Day Gala and Theatre Event | April 10, 2015 to the memory of and distinctive photographs of Roosevelt Edward “Jim” Sparling, University from its pioneering days Mark your calendars for a once-in-a-lifetime event celebrating to the present in a new history book, whose courage started Roosevelt University’s 70th anniversary. Roosevelt University’s appropriately titled Roosevelt University. it all.” –UNIVERSITY HISTORIAN LYNN WEINER Auditorium Theatre will welcome distinguished American actors Compiled and written by University Loretta Swit and Ed Asner in two one-person shows depicting the Historian Lynn Weiner and Archivist lives of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. Laura Mills, Roosevelt University is part of a series of books on campus histories The evening begins with a pre-show gala dinner and concludes with by Arcadia Publishing, the leading local an after show party with the stars. June and Al Golin, Felicia and history publisher in the United States. George Lofton, Marsha and Michael Goldstein and Helen Ashford and Al Dinwiddie are chairing the event. Many alumni will find themselves or their friends in photos of classrooms, Swit, known for her many years on M*A*S*H, portrays first lady dances, plays, protests and sports teams. Eleanor Roosevelt, who grew from being the supportive spouse of They’ll also recognize professors and such an American aristocrat and politician to an advocate for the rights luminaries as Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayors of those who had no champion. Richard M. and Richard J. Daley, Marion Anderson, Mayor Harold Washington, Asner is best known for his character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Eleanor, Her Secret Journey, FDR, starring Ed Asner Oprah Winfrey and Frank Lloyd Wright to name a few. Moore Show which began in 1970. In 1977, Asner was given his own starring Loretta Swit The photographs and detailed captions that accompany them show the chang- show, Lou Grant, which ran from 1977-1982. Asner is the only actor ing look of Roosevelt’s campus buildings, from the Wells Street building and to win Emmys in both comedy and drama for the same role. Auditorium Building to the Schaumburg Campus and new Wabash Building. FDR recounts Franklin Roosevelt’s White House years, including Tickets are now on sale through the Auditorium Theatre box Most importantly, there are wonderful images reflecting Roosevelt’s devotion the Depression and WWII. FDR is based on Sunrise at Campobello office and online at Ticketmaster. Premier seating is available. to civil rights, social justice and academic excellence. by playwright Dore Schary, which chronicled Roosevelt’s personal For gala tickets and sponsorship information, contact Lauren Roosevelt University is available for purchase in the University’s bookstore and journey as the first and only president to be elected for four terms. Chill at (312) 341-3617 or [email protected]. online from Arcadia Publishing at arcadiapublishing.com.

Dance studio named for Lou Conte Harry Cohen Science Summer Bridge Program fund

Roosevelt University has named its largest In honor of Professor Emeritus Harry Cohen’s 100th birthday in 2016, The curriculum includes: dance studio at 218 S. Wabash Ave. in Chicago Roosevelt University has announced a $1 million fundraising campaign • Preparation for freshmen majoring in allied health, for legendary Chicagoan Lou Conte. to endow the Science Summer Bridge Program in his name. biochemistry, biology and chemistry, with a math In a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony It’s hard to imagine Roosevelt University without Harry Cohen. He taught prep course and a one-credit course in lab literacy; on Sept. 18, Room 308 of the Chicago College chemistry to hundreds – maybe thousands – of students for almost 60 years, • A general education course (Speech 101), allowing of Performing Arts (CCPA) dance facility was from 1947 to 2006. His name is one of those most often remembered by freshmen to earn credits before their first semester named for Conte, a dancer, choreographer Roosevelt alumni, and many credit him with not only teaching chemistry Lou Conte begins; and teacher who founded the internationally in a way that made a difference, but also caring for students as people acclaimed Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which previously had and advising them on school and life. Cohen’s students went on to pursue • An introduction to University life through co-curricular been headquartered at the 218 S. Wabash facility. careers in medicine, pharmacy, science research, education and business, activities, including a one-week residential experience, weekly field trips, career exploration and social events; The studio where Roosevelt’s Theatre Conservatory students cur- including E. Van Vlahakis, founder and CEO of Earth Friendly Products, rently take dance training was named for Conte thanks to a generous Gustav Gutman, distinguished scientist at 3M Company, and many others. • Introductory activities to college mathematics, biol- donation from Roosevelt University Trustee Charles Gardner and Roosevelt’s innovative Science Summer Bridge program allows new fresh- ogy, scientific literature and critical thinking, and an his wife, Patti Selander Eylar, who previously danced with Conte men science majors to bond with science faculty and fellow students, and opportunity to work with full-time science faculty in and the Hubbard Street Dance troupe. Conte and other members of to form a science community. the laboratory or field. the city’s vibrant dance community were on hand for the naming.

“We are pleased to have a studio that is named for one of Chicago’s For more information on the campaign to honor Professor Cohen, contact Jan Parkin, interim vice president of Institutional biggest names in dance,” said CCPA Dean Henry Fogel. Advancement, at (312) 341-4327.

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SPOTLIGHT ON: Frank Dominique Westry For the Love of Literature BY LINDA SANDS Class Year: FRANK WESTRY came to Roosevelt One of Westry’s favorite quotes is from 2015 University because he was looking for an Martin Luther King, Jr. who, when ad- excellent English program. But he was dressing the purpose of education, said, Degrees: also influenced by his mother, alumna “The function of education, therefore, BA, English (major) Martha R. Rice, who earned a Bachelor is to teach one to think intensively and Secondary Education (minor) of Professional Studies degree in 2009 to think critically. But education which Hometown: with a concentration in psychology. stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society.” Chicago Her experience at Roosevelt was so transformative and welcoming that she Along with his mother, he gives credit to High School: persuaded her son to attend. two professors, Ellen O’Brien and Carrie South Shore High School Brecke, whose outlook and encourage- Westry has a love for literature. He is ment have given him a positive attitude Scholarship: a prolific reader who enjoys the works on life, education and the importance Jim Blinder English Scholarship of Toni Morrison, Arthur Conan Doyle, of the written word. Westry feels that Oscar Wilde and Robert Louis Stevenson. during his time at Roosevelt, he has been Westry also admires books by Malcolm challenged and grown academically. Gladwell because the author addresses Westry enjoys traveling and would like how we think as human beings, and to do more of it in the future so he can he admires Mary Wollstonecraft, an observe different cultures. London, where 18th Century feminist philosopher who Shakespeare founded his Globe Theatre, advocated for women’s rights. is near the top of his list. He wouldn’t Westry believes that literature can mind locating to a warmer climate so impact one’s life because it teaches and he has included Hawaii on that list, too. entertains at the same time. Roosevelt When he isn’t working in the Writing has helped him hone his writing skills Center or at Hertz Rent-a-Car, Westry and increase his understanding of enjoys playing pool, especially in pool the importance of good writing. The halls. Playing and watching basketball – Roosevelt English major works at put- he’s a Bulls fan – and working on jigsaw ting his skills into action by serving puzzles – the more pieces the better – are as a tutor in the University’s Writing some of his other interests. Center, which helps students become When asked what advice he would give better writers. This experience will to his fellow students, he said, “Always serve him well as he wants to go on to be ready to learn. It should never stop. graduate school and eventually teach And, don’t be afraid to come to the at the high school level. Writing Center!”

Would you like to help a student like Frank Westry? There are many ways to support Roosevelt students, including establishing a named scholarship. For information, visit Roosevelt.edu/giving or call the Office of Institutional Advancement at (312) 341-4327.

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WHERERU? BY PETER PIATKOWSKI 1950s as chief of the United Nations Illinois. The book covers Illinois composer, Stefanits has re- family. The 14 songs on the cal organizations in Chicago as a caseworker. He likes Herb Franks (BSBA, ’54) Mission and was responsible history from the Ice Age to the leased two CDs and performs album are written by Liebenow and her thesis is Latinos in the helping people become was honored at Law Day 2014 for implementing the Erdut present. around the world. and his wife. The duo has writ- Chicago Political Realm from self-sufficient. with the Distinguished Service Agreement, the precursor of ten over 150 songs during the the 1960s to the 1980s. David Schlumpf (MFA, Award by the McHenry County the Dayton Accords that fully last 15 years. ’13) won a Jeff Award for his Bar Association. A managing integrated the region into the leading role in the musical partner at Franks, Gerkin & Republic of Croatia. 2000s Sweet Smell of Success. The McKenna, Franks has served as Arthur Rice (BSBA, ’66) has Andrew Park (MFA, ’04; CERT, Jeff Awards honor excellence president of the Illinois State had a prolific career in the ’02), artistic director of the in Chicago theater. Bar and the Illinois Court’s health care industry, working , is respon- Commission and is president in the 1970s as a consultant to sible for writing, directing and of the Illinois Lawyers Trust the U.S. Department of Health, producing the Shedd’s marine Fund. Betty Hechtman Education and Welfare. He mammal shows. This year the Mary Williams Barry Chessick (BA, ’59) is served as president/CEO of Shedd worked with Broadway a published author, actor and the Visiting Nurse Associations 1970s star Susan Egan (Beauty and 2010s a lifelong sailor. His books of America and in 1983 he James J. Radous III Betty Hechtman (BA, ’70) the Beast) on its shows. Mary Williams (MATD, ’10) are Maxwell Street Memories, founded Hospital Home Care is a bestselling mystery writer. Esther Hall (BGS, ’04) in 2014 is regional communication Spring Sailing & the Muses and Corp. In 1995 he retired, but he 1980s Two of her books, Silence of the adopted a child and gradu- officer for the American Red I Feared for My Life, among is very active – recently he has Dennis Schlagheck (BA, Lamb’s Wool and Knot Guilty, James J. Radous III (MBA, ated with a master’s degree Cross of Northeast Ohio. She other works. As an actor, taken over CEO responsibilities ’97) is a reference librarian at were recently published and ’89) was appointed executive in Organizational Leadership is in charge of coordinating he appeared in a variety of for a car leasing company in Cicero, Ill. she just received a contract to vice president sales, Americas from the International Leader- media and social media productions including Cat on a in Houston. The library oversees the pen two more books. for UniCarriers Americas ship University in Nairobi, relations for 12 American Red Hot Tin Roof, Plaza Suite and Hawthorne Works Museum and Bert Shlensky (BSBA, ’66) is Corporation, one of the leading Kenya. Hall works in East Africa Cross chapters in 22 counties. David Schlumpf The Time of Your Life. He has Ronald Giranio (BA, ’71) Schlagheck has co-authored the the president of StartUp Con- designers and manufacturers of as a mission consultant. sailed on the Atlantic Ocean is retiring after 43 years of book Hawthorne Works, a nar- Jarrett Adams (BPS, ’12) was nection, a company designed material handling equipment. and the Caribbean Sea and teaching Spanish, 30 of them rative and photographic history exonerated with help from the to help entrepreneurs and Graeme Fehr has participated in 10 Chicago at Whitney Young High School of the famed Western Electric Wisconsin Innocence Project Where are you? small business owners 1990s for being wrongly convicted of and Mackinac Races on Lake in Chicago. manufacturing complex. Send us your photo maximize their capabilities and sexual assault. He is currently Michigan. Stanley D. Banash (MA, Joseph Stefanits (BM, Scott Liebenow (MM, ’99) and an update! Email opportunities. He also mentors studying at Loyola University [email protected] or mail: ’72) received a resolution ’91) performed a recital of created a children’s CD, The entrepreneurs and has coun- Chicago Law School and plans 1960s from the Illinois House of Latin American music at the Daydream with help from his Office of Alumni Relations, seled over 1,500 clients. Along to be a civil rights lawyer and Roosevelt University Representatives for his third Goethe-Institut Thailand. An with his degree from Roosevelt help others who have been 430 S. Michigan Ave. Edward Baker (BSBA, ’61) is accomplished musician and book, Roadside History of AUD 828 employed by Human Resource University, Schlensky earned wrongly convicted. Chicago, IL 60605 an MBA and a PhD from the Management Ltd. in Buffalo Gerardo Ramirez (BA, ’12) Please include your name, Grove, Ill., where he uses his Sloan School of Management was hired by the Illinois address, email, major and at Massachusetts Institute of experience in corporate man- Department of Human Services graduation year. agement to help companies Technology. with human resource matters Freddi Pakier (BSBA, ’69) Graeme Fehr (MBA, ’09), and issues. was invited by the Rancho La a new lawyer, has joined his brothers Karl and John as an Jacques Paul Klein (BA, ’63; Puerta Spa in Mexico to be a MA, ’73; Hon. Dr., ’05) was guest chef and teach healthy attorney with Fehr Law Group, inducted as an honorary citizen cooking classes. Before her LLC, Chicago. of the City of Osijek, Croatia. current career in nutrition, Marisol Rivera (MA, ’09) is a He received a certificate of citi- Pakier worked for 20 years PhD student in Loyola Univer- zenship and the city’s gold me- as a real estate broker in sity Chicago’s history program. Gerardo Ramirez dallion. He previously served Tucson, Ariz. Stanley D. Banash Scott Liebenow Her research is on Latino politi-

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Alumni Events In Memoriam BY CHICONA HODGES of Delta Sigma Theta and the was the first woman to graduate 1980s Alumni Chapter Urban League. Roosevelt University regrets from Roosevelt University with Patrick Kissane (MA, ’80) of Members of the Las Vegas to report the deaths of Roscoe C. Foster, Jr. (BA,’52) an MBA degree and was a former Alumni Chapter gathered the following community of Edmondson, Ark., died on classmate of the late mayor of Kentwood, Mich., died on May 11. at a Las Vegas restaurant members. April 21. He was employed Chicago, Harold Washington. He obtained a master’s degree in to reconnect and meet new marketing communication. as a research associate in the Charles D. Cone (MA, ’66) of friends. The chapter held a Department of Dermatology at Griffith, Ind., died on June 6. He Peggy Lee Kamysz (MA, ’80) raffle and silent auction to 1940s the University of Chicago where had a private practice in marriage of Hammond, Ind., died on June benefit Roosevelt’s general Evelyn Cohen (BA, ’41) of he co-authored several articles and family counseling from 19. She was a retired registered scholarship fund. Deerfield, Ill., died on Mar. 23. published in the Journal of 1977-1995. nurse and business analyst She worked as a social worker Investigative Dermatology and the at the Information Technical South Side Alumni Chapter for the Cook County Bureau of Journal of Oil Chemists Society. Department of St. Mary Medical The South Side Alumni Chapter gathered in the Wabash Building on May Public Welfare. Mykola Marchenko (BA, ’52) of 1970s Center in Hobart, Ind. 17 for a presentation on Making Your Money Speak Success – A Financial Mariam Cammallarie (BA, ’44) Sugar Hill, Ga., died on June 13. Betsy Adelman Hamilton (BA, ’82) of Evanston, Literacy Workshop. of New Berlin, Wis., died on April He obtained a bachelor’s degree John Bell (BA,’70) of Chicago died 29. She was a lifetime member in mathematics. Ill., died on June 28. He was in August 2013. She was Loop/Lake Shore and North Shore Chapters of the Chicago Federation of director of research and Leo Edward Buttrum, Jr. The Loop/Lake Shore and North Shore Chapters hosted alumni and Musicians as a violinist and was a recognized for her contributions planning at the Million Dollar (BA,’53) of Evansville, Ind., friends at the Tony award-winning musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, special to the vocational education of the Round Table. died on April 2. He was a presented by Roosevelt’s Chicago College of Performing Arts on April 19. education teacher. visually impaired by the Chicago certified public accountant Lighthouse. Northwest Suburban Alumni Chapter John Richard Srubas (BA, ’49) for over 30 years. 2000s of Albuquerque, N.M., died Thomas Gerald Cleary (BA,’70) Two successful events were held by the Northwest Suburban Alumni Joseph “Mac” Smith (BA,’53; on May 14. He served as a of Cartersville, Ga., died on May Katherine Carroll (MA,’00) Chapter. On Aug. 8, alumni, family and friends went to Schaumburg Stadium MA,’64) of Chicago died on communications lineman in 14. He obtained a bachelor’s of Chicago died on June to watch the baseball team play the Washington April 30. He was a Tuskegee Europe during World War II degree in psychology. 14. She earned a PhD from Wild Things. On Sept. 20, the chapter hosted a Job Readiness Fair. The airman and served as principal at and upon his return, worked for Loyola University Chicago and fair included a job search workshop and guest speakers. Harlan Community Academic John J. Boywid (BA,’71) of the Electro-Motive Division of High School on the South Side DePere, Wis., died on March published a number of academic General Motors as a technical Roosevelt goes to White Sox game of Chicago. 14. He worked as a senior loss articles and a book analyzing the writer and editor. On Aug. 2, incoming students, alumni, faculty, staff and family members control consultant after serving use of postmodern constructs in enjoyed an evening of baseball and watched the take in the Vietnam War. comparative education studies. on the Minnesota Twins at U.S. Cellular Field. The evening was also Elvis 1950s 1960s Night and fireworks took place after the game. Robert Dale Hess (BA,’71; Charles A. Vickers (MA,’63) of Robert Gammie (BA, ’50) of MA,’73) of Louisville died on Students, Staff Peoria, Ariz., died on April 9. He Honors Program celebration Chicago died on Jan. 30. A March 18. He was a lifelong was a teacher at Daniel Webster Carrie B. Brown (BA, ’76; Several alumni who were part of Roosevelt’s Honors Program returned longtime community leader learner and teacher who Junior High School and Little MA, ’81) died July 17 at the age to the University on April 4 to attend a celebration marking the program’s and activist, he managed developed the Hess Leadership Fort School. of 96 in Indianapolis. She was 15th anniversary. They reconnected with faculty and met current students. an unemployment office in Program. Evanston Ill., for many years George M. Brooks, Jr. (BA, the administrative secretary in Golden Alumni Celebration Joseph D. Crittenden, Jr. before retiring. Gammie is best ’65) of Zanesville, Ohio, died Roosevelt’s Dean of Students At Roosevelt’s May 2 graduation, Golden Alumni from the Class Hidden History events (MA,’74) of Arlington Heights Ill., known for the help he provided on March 25. He was a biology Office from 1954 until retirement President Chuck Middleton and University Historian Lynn Weiner met with died on April 12. He was a retired of 1964 sat onstage in the Auditorium Theatre. Following the in 1983. Brown also served dozens of alumni around the country at Hidden History events, where alumni to a number of local LGBT instructor at and ceremony, they met in the Sullivan Room for a reception with Chicago police officer. shared their memories of Roosevelt and brought along memorabilia from organizations by combining fun an experimental cook. as president of the Office President Chuck Middleton where they shared memories of with fundraising events in his George Otto Vogel (MA,’76) of & Professional Employees their days as Roosevelt students. So far, the events have taken place in Charles Burdeen (BA,’66) of their student days and received commemorative medallions. home and other locations around Midlothian, Va., died on April 19. Illinois, Nevada, California, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Florida and New York. Plantation, Fla., died on May 13. International Union, Local 391 the city of Chicago. After retiring from the Chicago He earned a master’s degree in from 1969-1983. Paralegal Studies Group counseling and guidance. Get involved! Marian D. Helfner (BA, ’50) of Teachers Union, he advocated on Byron W. Skinner, a 23-year- Roosevelt University’s Alumni Paralegal Group hosted several well-attended Chicago died on July 1. She was behalf of the members of Dade Visit www.roosevelt.edu/alumni/events Georgia Atha Sweeney (BA,’78) old student in the Walter E. workshops in the spring. The sessions focused on career planning and a science teacher at Portsmouth County School Administrators of Richmond, Ind., died on Jan. Heller College of Business, resume development. A networking opportunity followed the workshops. High School in New Hampshire. Association and the American 13. She was a retired Chicago died Oct. 24. A resident of Federation of School Marilyn Hairston (BA, ’52) of Public Schools truant officer Palatine, Ill., he played on the New Affinity Groups Administrators Association. Gary, Ind., died on March 3. She whose avocations included Roosevelt has new affinity groups for actuarial sciences and choral music Roosevelt baseball team during served as a guidance counselor Marian Shaw (BA, ’50; MA, ’69) working for civil rights and alumni. The organizations met for the first time in the fall so alumni could the 2013-14 season. for 35 years and was a member of Chicago died on March 21. She educational equality. reconnect and hear about activities at the University.

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OFFICERS Bruce A. Crown Courtney Makowski Mark J. Van Grinsven James J. Mitchell III Chairman Student Trustee Retired Executive Vice President Chairman BevBar, Inc. Schaumburg Campus Northern Trust Retired Roosevelt University Northern Trust Pedro DeJesus Jr. (BA, ’96) Marek A. Wierzba Vice President and General Counsel Michael T. Maly Partner Frederick S. Addy Tampico Beverages, Inc. Faculty Trustee Assurance & Advisory Chairman Emeritus Associate Professor Alfred W. Dinwiddie Business Services Retired Department of Sociology Senior Vice President, Ernst & Young Amoco and Anthropology Investment Banking Division Roosevelt University Robert L. Wieseneck (BS, ’58) Melvin L. Katten Loop Capital Markets Retired Senior Vice Chair The Honorable Maureen A. Ehrenberg SPS Payment Systems, Inc. Senior Counsel Blanche M. Manning (MA, ’72) Executive Managing Director Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Retired Judge Janet Wondra Integrated Facilities Management United States District Court Faculty Trustee William J. Kirby JLL Associate Professor of Secretary to the Board Barry S. McInerney Donald M. Field English & Film Studies Co-CEO, BMO Global Retired Retired Roosevelt University Asset Management FMC Corporation People’s Energy Corporation CEO, BMO Asset Management Robert Mednick (BS, ’62) Dwight Floyd U.S. & International LIFE TRUSTEES Senior Vice Chair Retired Managing Partner Gerald W. Fogelson Steven A. Meyers Joe F. Hanauer (BS, ’60) want to use this occasion to sincerely thank everyone who has financially supported President Faculty Trustee Andersen Worldwide Principal Roosevelt University during my 12 years as President. Your investment in Roosevelt The Fogelson Properties, Inc. Professor and Associate Chair Combined Investments LLC Charles R. Middleton Department of Psychology has enriched our academic offerings, supported our students and helped the University President, Roosevelt University Joshua Freeman, MD Roosevelt University Donald S. Hunt expand and grow. Professor and Department Chair, Retired President and COO Jerome H. Stone Family Medicine Christopher C. Mich Harris Trust & Savings Bank Since 2002, I have been privileged to experience firsthand the generosity of so many people Chairman Emeritus University of Kansas Hospital Student Trustee Retired Chairman of the Board Chicago Campus Louis S. Kahnweiler devoted to Roosevelt, including alumni, trustees, friends and educational partners. No Charles R. Gardner Alzheimer’s Association Roosevelt University Founder matter how large or small, your contribution has been essential to us. Since its founding 70 Manager Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler Kenneth L. Tucker (BS, ’54) CDCT Land Company LLC John R. Newman years ago, Roosevelt University has been transforming the lives of its students. You have Senior Vice Chair Retired Renee Logan Robert Dunn Glick helped us continue this important work and for that I am deeply appreciative. Principal LaSalle Bank Retired Chair Kenneth L. Tucker Company Of Counsel Seymour N. Logan Associates During my time as President, I have had the good fortune to meet hundreds of alumni Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered Antonio Ortiz President Anthony R. Pasquinelli in Chicago and around the world and most of them eagerly told me wonderful stories PUBLIC MEMBERS Marsha Feder Goldstein (BA, ’67) Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Executive Vice President about their professors and their time at the Founder Steve H. Abbey and Vice Chairman The Board Genie Frantz Osse University. I am always deeply inspired when Senior Vice President Pasquinelli Construction Your investment in Roosevelt has CEO alumni make a contribution because it means First Merit Bank Alvin I. Golin (BS, ’50) Thane Kenscoff Group Seymour H. Persky (BA, ’52) enriched our academic offerings, Chairman they want others to benefit from the same Chairman of the Board and CEO Moji Christianah Adeyeye Golin Harris Robert Y. Paddock Parliament Enterprises, Ltd. supported our students and helped first-rate educational experience they enjoyed. Faculty Trustee Executive Vice President Ronald B. Grais Professor of Pharmaceutics and Vice Chairman Anna Eleanor Roosevelt the University expand and grow. My colleagues at the University and on the Of Counsel Chair, Biopharmaceutical Science Paddock Publications, Inc. CEO Jenner & Block Board of Trustees are some of our most generous Roosevelt University Goodwill Industries Northern Joseph A. Pasquinelli donors. Along with many other friends of the University, their significant contributions John R. Hall, III, EdD New England Bruce R. Bachmann Founding Principal CEO and Founder year in and year out have allowed us to keep tuition as low as possible while providing an President ArchIdeas Greenwood and Hall Manfred Steinfeld (BS, ’48) outstanding education. Finally, I’d like to recognize another vital segment of our fundraising Bachmann Associates, Ltd. Retired Terry Peterson (MPA, ’95) Patricia Harris (BGS, ’80) activities – the University’s corporate, foundation and governmental partners. Their support Tom Balanoff Vice President The Steinfeld Consultancy LLC Global Chief Diversity Officer President Government Affairs has not only benefitted Roosevelt, but through our many outreach programs, the entire McDonald’s Corporation SEIU Local1 Medical Center HONORARY TRUSTEES Chicago metropolitan region as well. Larissa Herczeg Susan T. Bart Managing Director, CIO Margaret M. Policastro Myron Berkson (BSC, ’59) After a 50-year career in higher education, my final day will be June 30, 2015 when I retire Partner Faculty Trustee Oak Street Real Estate Capital as Roosevelt’s President. One way you can support the University and our new president Sidley Austin LLP Professor Barbara T. Bowman Clark Burrus (BSC, ’54; MPA, ’73) is by joining me in making a contribution to Roosevelt. Your continued involvement will James Bedford David D. Hiller Department of Specialized Studies Director, Life Science Partners President and CEO Roosevelt University C. Paul Johnson help pave the way for the many new and exciting successes which await. Robert R. McCormick Foundation West Monroe Partners Howard M. Rossman, PhD Robert L. Johnson (BA, ’58) Rev. Larry S. Bullock (MPA, ‘73) Meme Hopmayer Founder and President Thomas J. Klutznick With sincere thanks, President/CEO Tony Hu Civic Leadership Foundation George W. Lofton III Suburban Minority Contractors Owner and Chef Alan G. Schwartz John F. Sandner Association Tony Gourmet Group Chairman John J. Viera Stephen Cerrone Juan Lopez, Jr. Tennis Corp. of America Rolf A. Weil, President Emeritus Chuck Middleton Executive Vice President Managing Director Robert van Brugge (BA, ’90) David Wooldridge (BS, ’61) Human Resources Watermark Alternative Chairman and CEO President Hudson's Bay Company Investment Management Sanford C. Bernstein

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$250,000 AND ABOVE Mrs. Phoebe Telser Ms. Susan A. Stone and Mr. Roy F. Euclide Mr. Jay and Mrs. Judy Heyman Mr. Daniel R. Kulik Mr. Jonathon Kahn Mr. Robert L. and On behalf of the entire Roosevelt University community, Mr. Burt and Mr. and Mrs. David Holloway Mrs. Flora L. Leach Ms. Gloria Miner Mrs. Suzanne Wieseneck Mrs. Marion Fainman we sincerely thank our many donors for their generous Mr. Glen and Mrs. Janet Strickland Mrs. Carol and Mr. James A. and contributions. We hope that, by their example, they challenge Mr. Michael Toolis Mr. Patrick J. Fitzgerald Mr. Joel Honigberg Mrs. JoBeth Leopardo $100,000 TO $249,999 $10,000 TO $24,999 other alumni and friends to invest in Roosevelt University’s Mr. Marek Wierzba Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Fully Mr. Steve A. Hoselton** Mrs. Stacy L. Lerner bright future and continuing legacy. Mr. Charles Gardner and Mr. Steven H. Abbey and Mr. Joseph Wisniewski Mr. Michael Galanakis Dr. D. Bradford** Mr. Gregory M. and and Ms. Page H. Hunt Mrs. Susan J. Levy Ms. Patti S. Eylar Ms. Pamela Brick The following Honor Roll of Donors recognizes alumni, Mr. Bruce J. Young Dr. Cheryl Ganz Ms. Jessica R. Jacober Mr. Melvin R. Loeb Mr. David D. Hiller Mr. Bruce R. Bachmann friends, trustees, faculty, staff, students, corporations, Mr. Michael Dillon George foundations and organizations that gave or provided gifts or Mr. Maurice and Mr. Donald S. MacLaren Mr. Jack Miller Ms. Susan Therese Bart $1,000 TO $4,999 Mrs. Willard Gidwitz pledges of $250 or more during the 2013-2014 fiscal year, Mrs. Jean R. Jacobs Mr. Jack and Mrs. Goldie Mr. Marshall and Mr. Charles M. Madigan** from Sept. 1, 2013 to Aug. 31, 2014. Gifts received Sept. 1, Mr. Steven and Mr. Barry R. Goldberg Ms. Mary M. Jahntz Mrs. Arlene Bennett Wolfe Miller Mrs. Barbara S. Adelman Dr. Rudy T. Marcozzi** and 2014 or after will be recognized in next year’s Honor Roll. Mr. and Mrs. William Dr. Courtney P. and Mr. and Mrs. John Allen Borta Mr. James Toplolski The Institutional Advancement team at Roosevelt University Ms. Susan Berry Ain A. Goldstein Mrs. Ora Jones $50,000 TO $99,999 Mr. Bruce Clinton Mr. Robert C. Marks makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of its alumni and Mr. Raymond Joseph Mr. Elliott M. Golub and Ms. Linda D. Jones** donor records. We hope that you will let us know if you and Mrs. Sally Allen Dr. Mona Golub Mr. Richard S. Mattioda Crown Family Mrs. Maureen and Ms. Lois M. Kahan find anything in error, or if you would like your name listed Mr. Josef Ehrenberg Mr. John and Dr. David A. Gomberg Mr. Richard P. McManus Mr. Robert Dunn Glick Mr. William J. and differently than it appears in this publication. If you have Mrs. Julianne Allerson Mr.** and Mrs. Henry Fogel Dr. Rifat Gorener** Mrs. Catherine Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mednick Mr. Robert L. and any questions regarding the Honor Roll, please contact the Mrs. Harriet Goldberg Mr. and Mrs. Dino Andrianos Mrs. Rose Johnson Office of Institutional Advancement at (312) 341-6360 or Dr. and Mrs. Theodore L. Gross Ms. Marjorie Kirk Ms. Jean Meilinger Mr. Alvin I. Golin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Annes Mrs. Bernice R. Simon* email us at [email protected]. Dr. Bonnie Joy Ms. Leslee Klinsky Mr. Joel D. Meyer Mrs. Meme and Mr. Gary Mr. Stanley J. Aris Gunzenhauser** Dr. Stuart M. Meyer Mr. Mark J. and Dr. Douglas G. Knerr** Hopmayer Mr. Richard Hardy Mrs. Nancy Van Grinsven Dr. Peri Arnold Mr. Robert B. Kretshmer Mr. Gokula Mishra Ms. Ginger Downs Mr. David R. Kahnweiler Mr. Bill and Mrs. Karen Huff Mr. John A. Hegber Mr. Brett A.** and Mr. and Mrs. E. Jeffrey Mr. John L. Momper Mr. and Mrs. R. William Mr. Jeffrey A. Karp Mrs. Veronica R. Batterson $25,000 TO $49,999 Mr. Louis and Mr. Herbert Herman Kuchman Mrs. Ruth* Kahnweiler Edmundson Mr. John and Mrs. Renee Logan Dr. Bud Beatty** Mrs. Grace Murphy Mr. James F. Blinder and Ms. Vicki Escarra Mr. Thomas J. Meier Mr. Milton Selwyn Maltz Mr. Garry Benson Ms. Mary Wilson Mr. Donald M. Field Mr. Michael William Muryn, Jr. Dr. Solomon Mikowsky Mr. Daniel T. McCaffery Ms. Marie L. Brandt Mr. Karl and Mr. Willard E. Bransky Mr. Gerald W. and Mr. Alex Nitchoff Mrs. Erika Neumann Mrs. Georgia Fogelson Ms. Carlette McMullan and Ms. Mary Bulthuis WAYS TO GIVE Mr. Jeffrey D. Crane Mr. Christopher Noon Mr. Thomas E. and Mr. John Gibbons Mrs. Alfreda Burke Mr. Thomas O'Brien Mr. Thomas P. Dengler Mr. Anthony R. and Mrs. Lynda Gilliam Mr. James J. and Mr. John Caruso Mr. and Mrs. David A. Panovich Mrs. Mary Ann Pasquinelli Mr. Alvin L. Gorman Mr. and Mrs. Ross Glickman Mrs. Linda Mitchell, III Ms. Marilynn J. Cason The Rev. Dr. Jason and Mr. Seymour H. Persky and Mr. Steven J. Goldberg Mr. Joseph Neverauskas Annual Fund Mrs. Jan** Parkin Mr. and Mrs. James Grusecki Ms. Bonnie Gilman Dr. Chris J. Chulos** Mr. John Newman Unrestricted donations to the annual fund Mrs. Louise Lovett Parkin Ms. Joan Harris Mrs. Marsha F. and Mr. Hipolito Roldan Mr. Michael Goldstein Ms. Gwen Cohen are an important part of Roosevelt’s budget Mr. John D. Norcross Mr. Ludwig L. Pecht Mr. Joseph Hernandez and Mr. Jay D. Steger Mrs. Diane Asseo Griliches Mr. Bradley D. Crown because they enable the University to allocate Ms. Bernadette Ross Mr. Fred S. Novy Mr. Raymond E. Perry Mr. Robert P. Van Brugge Ms. Ramona E. Davis funds to a wide range of vital programs and Mr. John Hall Mr. Sherwin I. Pogrund Mr. Morris and Mr. Gregory J. O'Leary activities. When you make a gift to Roosevelt’s Mr. Greg Warsek Dr. Charles V. Hamilton and Mr. Jonathan Dedmon Mrs. Carolyn Kaplan Mr. Frantz Osse and annual fund, you are supporting everything Mr. and Mrs. Antonios Polyviou Dr. Dona L. Hamilton Dr. Guy J.** and Ms. McGhee Williams Osse Mr. Joseph G. Loundy Mrs. Gisela Di Spigno from the Sustainably Studies Program to Dr. Antonia D.** and $5,000 TO $9,999 Mr. Mark Hamilton Mr. Robert Potenza Mr. Robert and our award-winning Black Male Leadership Dr. Charles R. Middleton** Mr. Thomas J. Hamilton Ms. Ruth A. Dieter and Dr. John S. Geary Mr. Bruce J. Adreani Mrs. Marcella Paddock, Jr. Academy. Ms. Mary Ann Poulos Estate of Norma Harris Dr. Bernard J. Dobroski Dr.** and Mrs. Paul Ornstein Mr. Seymour C. Axelrood Ms. Judy Parker Dr. Henry J. Przybylo, Jr. Mr. Tony Hu Mr. Leonard Dubin Mr. Samuel and Mr. Terry Peterson Dr. John N. Quiring Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Panovich Dr. Joyce Busch Mr. Donald S. and Mr. Frederick W. Engimann Mrs. Jane C. Hunt Ms. Susan B. Rosen Mr. and Mrs. William Ms. Kathy Richland Pick Mr. Michael E. Crane Mrs. Collete English-Dixon roosevelt.edu/giving Thomas Read III Mr. Harrison O. Huzenis Mrs. Leona Z. Rosenberg Mr. Manfred Steinfeld and Mr. Christos and Mrs. Laura S. and Mr. Sheldon and Mrs. Fern F. Steinfeld Mrs. Robin Dogas Mr. John R. Joyce Ms. Rita Sawyer Mr. Harry B. Epstein Mrs. Irene Reitman

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Mrs. Darlene M. Carmin Mr. and Mrs. David Rendall $250 TO $999 Ms. Katie A. Edwards Dr. Maurice S. and Mr. Michael C. and Mrs. Charlotte Haber Mrs. Laura Neal Marek Mr. Phillip F. Rimnac Dr. Frances G. Carroll Ms. Rosemarie C. Egan Anonymous Mr. Neil Haldeman Mrs. Dawn Romei Ms. Judith A. Carter Mrs. Lana Eisenberg WAYS TO GIVE Mr. William A. Martello Mr. Robert W. Alexander Mr. John W. and Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Rosell Ms. Vilma Esperanza Castro Mrs. Clara C. Elam Dr. Philip A. Maskall Mr. Daniel Alroy Mrs. Cathleen Hammerschlag Mr. Edward W. Ross Mr. Raoul Cavanna Mr. Antoine J. and Mrs. Shirley Mathai** Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. Mrs. Dianne L. Hankins** Mrs. Carmel Roth Ms. Lauren Chill** and Mrs. Sarah D. Endowment Mr. Larry and Mrs. Kay E. Mayer Amatangelo Mr. Bill Wozney Mr. Eric Hanks Mr. David Rotholz Mr. Sidney Epstein Ms. Joy J. McElrath Mr. Aris Anagnos Each year, money from Roosevelt’s endowment Ms. Vivian Chiu Mr.** and Mrs. Dennis A. Harder Mr. Thomas and Ms. Sondra Berman Epstein is used for named professorships like the Arthur Mr. Gary H. Mellman Mrs. Jocelyn K. Ashford- Mr. Clarence and Mrs. Julianne** Rowen Dr. James P. Choca** Ms. Lois E. Evans Yarbrough** and Mrs. Queen C. Harris, III Rubloff Professor of Policy Studies, currently Dr. Steven A. Meyers** Mrs. Susan B. Rubnitz Mr. Barney Yarbrough Mr. Jason Christopoulos Mr. and Mrs. William J. Evans Ms. Diane Harris held by Paul Green, Roosevelt’s popular Dr. David Miller and Dr. D. Milton and Mr. Joseph Ashley Mr. Randall Cobb Ms. Susan Fay** expert on local, state and national politics. Mrs. Joan Miller Mrs. Susan Greenwald Salzer Mrs. Helen Harris Mrs. Marian Azzaro** Mrs. Sheila H. Coffin** Mr. and Mrs. William S. Feeney Over the years, generous donors, like Rubloff, Mr. Leonard Miller Ms. Marilyn Schimpf Ms. Rebecca J. Harris Dr. Henri L. and Ms. Renee T. Enna and Mr. Allan R. Feldman have endowed faculty chairs, entire colleges, Ms. Louise Miller Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schindler Mrs. Carolyn Bailey, III Mr. Richard Coha Mr. Reuben L. Hedlund academic initiatives and scholarships. Any gift Mr. Victor James Ferrar Mr. Michael P. Miller Mr. Stuart B. Scudder Ms. Dolores T. Baker Ms. Vernita Cole Ms. Gail W. Heneghan of $25,000 or more may be designated as an Mr. Glenn Finch Ms. Jeralyn Mitchell Mr. William A. Shiner Mr. Jon W. Balke Mr. John A. Colliopoulos Ms. Beverly J. Henrich endowment gift and it is possible to complete Mr. Morton Fink Ms. Gina Montalbano- Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Mr. Ruairi Barnwell Ms. Lorrene Conino Mr. Patrick Henry the gift over a three-year period. Ms. Jessena L. Finn Goodrich** R. Simpson Mr. Menzo Battle, III Mrs. Betty M. Henson Mr. Morris L. Conner Mrs. Mary L. Montgomery Dr. and Mrs. John L. Skosey Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Firsel Mr. Gregory Neil Belden Mr. Michael S. Connor Mr. Alexander Heredia Ms. Lesley D. Slavitt** Ms. Sally Fletcher roosevelt.edu/giving Ms. Martha V. Moore Mr. James S. Berkowicz Mrs. Nina M. Cook Mr. Stephen E. Herzog Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith Mrs. Judith D. Friedman Mr. E. A. Jackson Morris Dr. Alice Bernstein Mrs. Arlene R. Crandall Mr. Michael J. and Mr. William Harris Smith Mr. Nobumasa Fujiwara Mrs. Iris Ruth Heyman Mr. William E. Morrison Ms. Argie Bingham Mrs. Helen Briggs Crosier Mr. Walter E. Sowa Mr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Gabriel Mr. and Mrs. Joel Hirsch Dr. Richard and Mr. Herman Birch Mr. John C. Dakes Mrs. Sheri Moser Mr. Neal Hirsch Ms. Mary Ann Keefe Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Lazowski Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Spinell Mr. Edward A. Blahnik Mr. James A. Galloway Mr. Ron Daley Mr. Robert F. Moyer, Jr. Mrs. Anne and Mr. Lee Hollek Mr. B. Alan Keener Mr. Duwayne M. and Ms. Robin M. Steans Mr. Dale B. Boddeker Mr. Thomas L. Galluppi Dr. William S. Dancey Mrs. Mary Leblanc Mr. Robert D. and Ms. Gillian E. Steele Mrs. Ethel Rae and Mr. Dennis M. Gasick Ms. Vanessa A. Hopkins Ms. Draga S. Kellick Mrs. Eva M. Daniel-Bruce Mr. Preston V. Lee Mrs. Marilyn Murphy Mrs. Sharlene Rosen Stein Mr. Grover Boone Mr. Mike Gattone Mr. William Host, Jr.** Mr. David J. Kelly, Sr. Mr. Tobe Daniels Ms. Roxie M. Lee Mr. Richard Nagel Dr. Frank P. and Mr. and Mrs. James Boyle Mr. David L. Geesey Mrs. E. Miriam Housinger Mr. James S. Kennedy Mrs. Joan K. Stuart Mr. Robert W. Danner Mr. Norman G. Levin Dr. Steven B. Nasatir Mr. John H. Bracey, Jr. Mr. David R. Gerber, Sr. Mr. Nathaniel L. Howard Mr. Kim Kidd Mrs. Barbara M. Swartz Mr. Joseph D. Davis** Mr. Joel E. Limardo Mr. Peter Noone Ms. Helen Bradford Mr. Randall T. and Mr. Joseph and Mr. Eric Kieft** Mr. Eric C. Tammes Mrs. Diane Day Mrs. Mary Ellen Hrutka Ms. Patricia Lindholm Ms. Clarice Reva Norin Mr. John P. and Mrs. Hilde Giesey Ms. Marcia B. King Mr. Seymour Taxman Mrs. Jeanne M. Brady Mr. Alan DeMar Mr. Mark S. Huegelmann Mrs. Dawn Wagner Lindquist Mrs. Sandra M. O'Donnell Mr. Lyle E. Gillman Ms. Druellen Kolker Mr. Randall J. Temple Mrs. Denise** and Mr. and Ms. Peter J. DeMarzo Mr. James Ginsburg and Mr. L. Hutchinson and Mr. Burton H. Litwin Dr. Evelyn Ogiela Mr. Don Bransford Ms. Janice Konigsford Mr. Ronald J. and Ms. Donna L. DeMille** Mrs. Patrice Michaels Ms. J. Perkins Ms. Jacquelline Loewe Ms. Patricia A. O'Grady Mr. J. Stanley Koper Mrs. Juanita Temple, Sr. Mr. Walter D. and Mr. Henry E. and Dr. Terrence C. Demos Mr. Thomas T. Glidden Ms. Lynn B. and Mr. Charles K. and Mrs. Gertrude Braud Mrs. Shirley Jaworski Ms. Fran Karen Kravitz Mr. John W. Long Mr. Ephraim Walls, Jr. Ms. Lorraine Diaz Dr. Glenn S. Goldsher Mrs. Inae H. Oh Mr. Bruce I. Briscoe Dr. Emmanuel Wea Johnson Mr. William Krieger Dr. Lisa H. Lu** Mr. John Washburn and Ms. Sandra Dixon Ms. Clara M. Gong** Ms. Nkiruka I. Okonma Mrs. Katharine Hannaford Ms. Joan K. Brooks Mr. Kenneth R. Jones Mr. James R. Krotzer Mr. Glenn K. Lubin Mr. and Ms. Darrin Doan Mr. Clarence Goodwin Mrs. Dianne O'Neal Dr. Rolf A. and Mrs. Leni Weil Mr. Charles and Mr. Richard H. Jones Mr. Ray Kull Ms. Andrea D. Lyon and Mrs. Dorothy Brosius Mr. Charles E. Dooley Ms. Michaeline Gordon Dr. Debra Orr** Dr. Lynn Y. Weiner** Dr. Sharon Jones Mr. Neeraj Kumar** Mr. Arnold Glass Mr. Richard A. Brown Ms. Stephanie Draughon Mr. Ira Dumont Gouge Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mr. Damon S. Williams Mr. Menas Kafatos Mrs. Kathleen and Dr. George E. ** and Mr. Marvin A. Brustin Ms. Dawn Duquaine Mr. and Mrs. Peter Graham Dr. Karen MacKinnon Palmatier Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Mr. Daniel Kuntzman Mr. Merwyn B. and Mr. John L. Paprocki Williams Dr. Judith Burleigh Mr. Allen Eager Mr. David E. Greene Mrs. Renee Kaplan Dr. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Mr. Eric Mahler Ms. Patricia M. Pates Eaton Dr. Harold D. Woodman Mrs. Jeanne Buskirk Mr. Lee Earle** Mr. Mike L. Griffin Dr. John E. and Mr. Eugene and Dr. Mike Maly** Mr. and Mrs. Craig Zeck Mr. John William Campbell, Jr. Mr. Mitchell S. Edison Mr. and Mrs. David I. Gruenewald Mrs. Sherle Kasik Mrs. Betty Lazo Ms. Martha Marberry Ms. Arsilia L. Pellegrino

*Deceased ** Roosevelt employee

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INDIVIDUALS

Mr. Peter Piatkowski** Mrs. Claudia Stenger Mr. Lance Wolfe $25,000 TO $49,999 SENCER McDonald's Corporation BOMA/Chicago Foundation Eugene Matthews Inc. Ms. Estelle D. Pierre Mr. Leslie Stewart, Jr.* Mr. Edward and The Siragusa Foundation Mesirow Financial The Braeside Foundation First Bank of Highland Park Mrs. Janet Wollock Alden Ponds Foundation Foundation Ms. Kathleen M. Pink Mr. Paul H. Stewart The Clinton Family Fund Milton and Tamar Maltz CA Development Mr. Richard Woodfork, Jr.** Max Goldenberg Foundation Family Foundation Fitzgerald Associates Mrs. Leah Polin Mr. William Strong The Irving Harris Foundation Management LLC Mr. Patrick Woods and James P. and Brenda S. Northern Builders Inc. Architects Ms. Cheyenne Swanson The Private Bank and Chapin-May Foundation Mr. Richard J. Prendergast Ms. Kathleen Clark Grusecki Family Foundation Fitzgerald Lighting Trust Company Pepper Construction of Illinois Mr. John R. Swift Mr. and Mrs. John Puth Dr. Raymond E. Wright, Jr.** Motorola Foundation Group LLC Maintenance Walgreens Conor Commercial Mr. Rex M. Takahashi Friends of American Writers Dr. Dennis Randall Ms. Barbara Wright-Pryor Power Construction Schenk Annes Tepper Real Estate LLC Campbell Ltd. Foundation Fund Mr. Troy C. Ratliff Mr. Kenneth A. Talac Mr. Frederick E. Wrobleski Company LLC Cordos Development $5,000 TO $9,999 Snow & Ice Inc. FSI Food Services Mr. William Reed Dr. Raymond Tanter Mrs. Lareeta and The Steinfeld Foundation CS Insurance Strategies Inc. Mr. John T. Wyche Adreani Family Foundation Structured Development LLC Garrison Partners Mr. Michael S. Reeves Mr. and Ms. Eugene Tarkoff The J. Willard and Alice S. CVS Caremark Charitable Trust Mr. Russell B. Wydeen Marriott Foundation Amari & Locallo Tim's Snowplowing Inc. Geary Electric Inc. Mr. Roy S. Rettig Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Tausk CVS Pharmacy Inc. Mr. James J. Zdziarski Chicago Association of Realtors United Way of Metropolitan General Window Cleaning Co. Mr. Michael S. Ricketts Mrs. Marcia Taylor-Martin D.Z.A. Associates Inc. Chicago Adele and Willard Gidwitz Mr. Lester G. Telser Mr. Jeffrey Zheng $10,000 TO $24,999 Chicago Housing Authority Mrs. Gail and Urban Retail Properties LLC Daniel and Rosalyn Kulik Family Foundation Mr. James Rigelhaupt Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Tepper Mr. and Mrs. Albert Zimbler Albertsons Christopher B. Burke Foundation Engineering, Ltd. Valley Fire Protection W.W. Grainger Inc. Mr. August Rivera, Jr. Mr. Edward C. Thoele Dr. George P. Zimmar Associated Bank David and Stacy Lerner Colliers Bennett & Hard Service Finishers Inc. Ms. Jasamyn Roberts Mr. Robert L. Zimmerman Foundation Ms. Elaine Thomas Builtech Construction, Inc. Kahnweiler LLC $1,000 TO $4,999 Henricksen & Company Inc. Mrs. Rachel S. Robinson Mr. Matthew W. Zoeller Deloitte & Touche Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Cardinal Health Foundation Combined Jewish Henry Bros. Co. Thompson Philanthropies ABM Janitorial Services- Deloitte Services LP Mr. Robert F. Romeo CB Richard Ellis ORGANIZATIONS North Central Hill Mechanical Group Mr. Howard I. Rosenberg Ms. Barbara D. Thum Cushman & Wakefield Dodier & Company Inc. Central Indiana Community Advance Mechanical Systems Inc. Joel and Carol Dr. Arnold Rowe Dr. Susan Torres-Harding** Foundation Daily Herald/Paddock Ed and Ana Williams Honigberg Fund Publications Bank of America N.A. Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Stavroula Toska $250,000 AND ABOVE Elizabeth F. Cheney Mr. James M. Rubel Barnes & Noble Houlihan Lokey Foundation Dominick's Charitable Fund Environmental Systems Mr. Sadami James Sako Mr. James A. Unander Illinois Board of Higher Education Independent Recycling Donald and Diane Field Bear Construction Company Design Inc. Dr. Wilfredo O. Urbina** Mittie, Moselynne and Dempsey Centers for Disease Control Services Inc. Mr. Norman S. Salenger and Prevention Charitable Fund J. Travis Scholarship Foundation Institute of Continued Learning Mr. Richard Uttich Equus Capital Partners Mr. J. Patrick and Chicago Title Insurance Mrs. Barbara Sanders Ms. Gretchen Van Natta and JDM LLC $100,000 TO $249,999 Company The Fogelson Foundation The Rev. Jeffrey Doane Jones Lang LaSalle Mr. Gerald L. Schenk Freeborn & Peters LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP WAYS TO GIVE Mr. Edward H. Schewe, Jr. Mr. Michael J. Vasilko The Chicago Community Trust JPMorgan Chase & Co. Duke Realty Corporation Gould & Ratner LLP Mr. Emmett T. Vaughn Jack and Goldie Wolfe Mr. Ellis Schuman Kenny the Printer Miller Fund Educational Assistance Ltd. Hamilton Partners Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Vernof Ms. Debbra Schwartz Kirkland & Ellis Foundation The Jack Miller Center Efroymson Family Fund Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Mr. Vince Vitucci Capital Gifts KONE Elevators & Escalators Mr. Roy I. Schwartz Robert R. McCormick Harris Ventures LLC Mr. Fred Vogt, Jr. Charitable Gift Fund Mr. Robert C. Sejnost Foundation Hispanic Housing Development Roosevelt students gather on the third floor Lake Forest Bank & Trust Mr. Walter F. Wallace Illinois Tool Works Inc. Corporation Ms. Anastasie M. Senat National Endowment for the of the Wabash Building every day to attend Lake View Musical Society Albert and Anne Mansfield Mr. James M. Walsh Humanities Illinois Labor History Society organizational meetings, plan events, play Langehaumer Construction Inc Mr. John L. Shields Foundation Dr. Roosevelt Washington, Jr. JRG Capital Partners LLC games and just hang out. Supported by capital Mrs. Judith S. and Leopardo Companies Inc. $50,000 TO $99,999 Marshall Bennett Estate Trust gifts from Roosevelt alumni Kenneth Tucker Mr. Bertram Shlensky Mr. Willis G. Webster L&R Kahnweiler Family Mark Vend Company Clearing Corporation Mid-America Asset Foundation and Al Golin, the student leadership floor is an Mr. and Mrs. David B. Sickle Mr. Richard E. Weinberg Management McChambers LLC Charitable Foundation L. D. D'Angelo Enterprises LLC example of how capital gifts are an investment Mr. Junaid Aziz Siddiqui Dr. Lawrence A. Weiser The New York Community Trust Metropolitan Fire Protection Inc. Barry S. Crown Charitable Trust Landscape Concepts in Roosevelt’s facilities and students. Mrs. Loretta L. Smith Dr. Paul M. Wellen** Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Gillilan Revocable Trust O.A.K.K. Construction Co. Inc. Management Ms. Susan K. Sorensen Mr. Leon C. Wexler Mutual of America The Walter E. Heller Foundation Pasquinelli Family Foundation Lao Sze Chuan Inc. Mr. Elliot G. Spiegel Mrs. Linda R. Williams Madison Construction Company NACDS Foundation Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Polk Bros. Foundation roosevelt.edu/giving Newcastle Properties LLC Ms. Carol A. St. Amant Mr. Richard Wills Memorial Foundation Charles & M. R. Shapiro mb financial bank Mr. Vernon C. Stansbury, Jr. Ms. Gertrude A. Wimmer The Northern Trust Company Foundation McCaffery Interests Inc. Nitzberg Magic Fund

*Deceased ** Roosevelt employee

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ORGANIZATIONS

Noland Sales Corp. $250 TO $999 Peak Group LLC Ms. Katherine Boho Mrs. Shila Frankel Mr. Lance K. and Mrs. Barbara Poulsen North American Corporation Pharmacy Outcomes Specialists Lt. Col. Isaiah Brewington and Mr. Ellis Myron and Anonymous Mrs. Frances Brewington Mrs. Jennifer Gans Mr. Richard A. Price Novak Construction Premier Staffing Solutions WAYS TO GIVE Abbott Laboratories ProCE Inc. Mrs. Gloria C. Brock Mr. Charles R. Gardner and Mrs. Elaine Randolph OKW Architects Inc. Ms. Patti Eylar Ms. Charlene Rio Abel & Judy Friedman Prudential Foundation Mrs. Judith Brody Mr. David R. Gerber, Sr. Perkins Coie Charitable Foundation Matching Gifts Mr. Charles C. and Planned Gifts Mr. Sherman Rosenberg PharMEDium Services Ace Charitable Foundation Mrs. Dorothy M. Brosius Mr. Lyle E. Gillman The Puth Family Foundation Business students using the enterprise classroom Mr. Jordan L. Rosengard Mr. Edward K. Brown Ms. Renee E. Girardi Pine Tree Commercial Applied Controls & Contracting Raymond James Charitable on the 12th floor of the Walter E. Heller College Mr. Fred H. Rothschild Realty LLC Endowment Mrs. Ivy R. Brown Dr. Glenn S. Goldsher Bailey Edward of Business are benefitting from the thoughtful- Mr. Sidney Rubin Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Baird & Warner REDICO Ms. Marissa G. Browne Mrs. Marsha F. and Ms. Doris J. Sanders Mr. Michael Goldstein ness of 1964 MBA graduate Harold Alexander, The PNC Financial Bedrock Earthscapes LLC RT London Mr. Clark and a longtime Federal Aviation Administration Mr. Wayne A. Sanders Mrs. Lucille Burrus Mr. and Mrs. Al I. Golin Services Group Century 21 SGR Ruben, Firsel & Ross LLC employee, who included Roosevelt in his Mr. Martin Schaffner Mr. Samuel and Dr. David A. Gomberg Pogrund Family Foundation Chicago Regional Council of Scott Laboratory Solutions LLC estate plan. Planned gifts are an important way Ms. Marilyn Schimpf Dr. Joyce M. Busch Mr. Irwin H. Goodman Popp, Gray & Hutcherson PLLC Carpenters Select Sales & Marketing Inc. to help future students, while recognizing an Mr. Ellis Schuman Mr. William F. Caldwell Mr. Irwin Goodwin The Presser Foundation Colgate-Palmolive Company Sheridan Park Consulting academic program or memorializing a loved Mr. Irving and Mr. Roderick T. Campbell Mr. Charles M. Gould DLA Piper LLP (US) Shields Meneley Partners one or favorite professor, without impacting Mrs. Muriel A. Schnayer Professional Cleaning Co.Inc. Mrs. Rosalind G. Campbell Mr. Kenneth E. Grenier Dykema Gossett Skender Foundation your current financial situation. Mr. William I. and Quarles & Brady LLP Ms. Vilma Esperanza Castro Dr. Theodore L. and Mrs. Rose Shapera Environmental Analysis Inc. Solomon Cordwell Buenz Reed Construction Mrs. Arlene R. Crandall Mrs. Jody Gross Mr. Charles R. Sherrell II Environmental Design St. Andrews Properties Inc. Dr. Charles V. and Roof Management Inc. Mrs. Elnoris Crummie roosevelt.edu/giving Ms. Marilyn Siegel International Inc. The Epstein Foundation Dr. Dona Hamilton Mr. Mahmoud T. Dajani Mrs. Veronica Siegel Schuyler, Roche & Crisham PC Fifth Third Foundation UBS Financial Services Mr. Thomas J. Hamilton Ms. Ann Huber Davis Dr. Martha R. Sklar Sentinel Technologies Inc. Flanigan Communications Inc. VanBruggen Signs Mr. Leonard G. Hampton, Jr. Mrs. Marion Elizabeth Davis Mr. John Sliwa Shepard Schwartz & Harris LLP Food2YouCatering Woodman Cison & Associates Mr. Joe Franklin Hanauer Mr. Donald S. Keare Ms. Patricia L. Marshall Ms. Ramona E. Davis Mrs. Masha Spiegel Siemens Industry Inc. Gameplan Creative LLC Mr. Jack W. Hansen Mr. Richard M. Killian Dr. Philip A. Maskall Mr. Theodore E. and Ms. Carol Ann St. Amant General Electric Company Ms. Rebecca J. Harris Mr. Thomas J. and Dr. Madlan McKernan SIKICH LLP FIRESIDE CIRCLE Mrs. Joanne Despotes Ms. Diane N. Stacy Mr. Howard B. Hecht Mrs. Tina Klutznick Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Guest Inc. DBA Salon Lorrene Mr. Ronald J. Dluger Mr. Richard P. McManus Fireside Circle members are Mr. Robert B. Kretshmer Mr. Jay D. Steger Harris Bank Corporation Ms. Cheryl R Hepp Ms. Marjorie McNeil Spaceco Inc. alumni and friends who have Mrs. Lois R. Doll Mr. Manfred and Mr. Herbert Herman Mr. James R. Krotzer IBM Corporation invested in the future of the Mr. John K. and Mr. Bill and Mrs. Leoni Z. Mrs. Fern F. Steinfeld Taxman Family Foundation Mr. Daniel R. Kulik Illinois Council of Health- University through legacies Marilyn J. Drake Mr. Jay and Mrs. Judy Heyman McVey Mr. Laurence M. Stern Terraco Real Estate included in their estate plans. Mr. Daniel and System Pharmacists Ms. Felice Dworkin Mr. David D. Hiller Mr. Robert and Mr. Jerome H. and Anonymous (5) Ms. Kathleen S. Kuntzman Mrs. Susan Lee Mednick The Cafaro Foundation Jewish Federation of Mr. William R. Ehrlich Mrs. Anne R. Hollek Mrs. Marion Stone Metropolitan Chicago Mr. Raymond J. and Mrs. Virginia B. LaRock Mr. Dennis J. and Mrs. Betty J. Strand The Honest Company Mr. Antoine J. and Mr. Donald S. and Joe Rizza Ford Porsche Mrs. Sally Allen Mrs. Jane C. Hunt Dr. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. Mrs. Janelle Rose Mitzner The Patching People Inc. Mrs. Sarah D. Elias Ms. Barbara Susin Mrs. Barbara J. Balaban Mr. Eugene Morris Kedmont Waterproofing Co. Inc. Dr. Leonard Jellema, Jr. Mr. Norman G. Levin Mrs. Barbara M. Swartz The Rockwood Company Ms. Karen A. Ellwanger-Snyder Mrs. Joan C. Barch Mr. Richard E. Jenner and Mr. Jack Erwin Levitt Dr. Arno Motulsky Kenig, Lindgren, O'Hara, Mr. Richard L. and Mr. Sherwin A. Swartz Trichromatic - West Inc. Aboona Inc. Ms. Susan Therese Bart Mrs. Connie Warren Mr. Russell F. and Mrs. Marjorie N. Ettlinger Mrs. Dawn Lindquist Dr. Ronald J. and Mr. Robert L. and Mrs. Gail Nansen Turner Construction Company The Lawrence Pucci Mr. Gerald I. Bauman Mr. Burt and Mr. Melvin R. Loeb Mrs. Juanita Temple Wedgwood Society Mrs. Rose Johnson Mr. Fred S. Novy Unicorn Management Mr. Ronald H. Becker Mrs. Marion Fainman Mr. John W. and Ms. Kay Thompson Ms. Margit Wirth Services Inc. Life Safety Hardward Mr. Marshall and Mrs. Suzette Feher Ms. Lynn B. Long Mr. Rex D. Nyquist Mrs. Marian O. and Consultants Johnson-Lacker Mrs. Arlene Bennett Mr. Humbert J. Lucarelli and Mrs. Gloria K. Orwin Mr. Robert A. Thompson VOA Associates Incorporated Mr. Victor James Ferrar Dr. Courtney P. and Lisa Lu Neuropsychology LLC Dr. Alice M. Bernstein Mr. Spyros Konifsiotis Mr. Eugene Tkalitch W. E. O'Neil Construction Co. Mr. Henry** and Mrs. Ora Jones The Rev. Dr. Jason Lloyd MB & KP Earle Revocable and Mrs. Janice L.** Parkin Mrs. Jeannine Cohn Best Mrs. Frances Fogel Mr. Morris A. and Mrs. Muriel Lund-Michel Mr. Howard Treshansky Wells Fargo Private Bank Living Trust Mr. James F. Blinder and Mr. Gerald W. and Mrs. Carolyn Kaplan Mrs. Roberta Mack Ms. Maria T. Paulette Dr. Verdun P. Trione William Rainey Harper College Real Estate Ms. Mary Wilson Mrs. Georgia Fogelson Mr. Thomas R. Karow** Mrs. Eileen Maddis Ms. Rosalie J. Piazza Mrs. Gladys Turner Zeller Realty Corporation Omicron Technologies Inc. Mr. Charles Bloom Ms. Barbara L. Fox Dr. John E. and Mrs. Sherie Kasik Mr. Robert C. Marks Ms. Mary L. Pierce Ms. Gretchen Van Natta

*Deceased ** Roosevelt employee

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Mr. Albert Robert Walavich Estate of Benjamin Burack Mrs. Marjorie Keenleyside Mr. Max Robert Schrayer Mr. John A. Washburn Leo R. Burlow Trust Estate of Olga M. Kordin Estate of William Scott-McCoy Mrs. Elaine Wayne Estate of David Bush Mr. Casimir J. Labno Estate of Herman Shapiro Dr. Elizabeth A. Weber Mr. Frank J. Castleberry Estate of Renee B. Lameka The Jerome and Natalie Share Scholarship Fund Ms. Mary C. Wehrle Estate of Betty Taylor Clarke Louise H. Landau Foundation Mrs. Betty L. Shires Mr. Arthur J. Weil Estate of Rosaline Cohn Estate of Seymour LaRock Estate of Sarah M. Solomon Dr. Rolf A. and Mrs. Leni Weil Ms. Eva Cooper Estate of Rosalind A. Lepawsky Estate of Mrs. Marion B. Sparling Estate of Estelle De Lacy Dr. Arthur Lerner Mr. Richard E. Weinberg Estate of Mrs. Mary Specthrie Estate of Rhoda L. Diamond Mr. Harry J. Lowenbach Mrs. Bernice L. Weinstein Estate of Louise D. Sterling Mr. Charles W. Lubin Dr. Lawrence A. Weiser Estate of Elizabeth A. Dibble Estate of George W. Storm Mr. Charles Milton Luminais Mr. Howard A. Weiss Estate of Elizabeth M. Dowell Ms. Jeanne Strauss Mrs. Genevieve R. MacDougall Mr. Stephen A. Weiss Estate of Barbara H. Eckholt Estate of Marjorie Stenerson Estate of Anne Mansfield Mrs. Bonita M. Wild Mr. Kenneth H. Eckholt Mrs. Beatrice W. Swartchild Mr. Marvin W. Marshall Estate of Joseph Elesh Estate of Dempsey J. Travis Ms. C. F. Williams Estate of Robert Maust Estate of Paul Fabricant Ms. Rosalie Trinz Dr. Julius J. and Estate of Melvin E. Mendelsohn Mrs. Bernice T. Wineberg Estate of Walter Fainman Estate of James Tyree Elisabeth I. Meyer Living Trust Ms. Willa J. Winston Estate of Ruth Falkenau Estate of Frank Untermyer Estate of LaVerne A. Meyer Mr. Patrick M. Woods and Mr. Louis G. Feldman Mr. William Wainberg Estate of Jeanette D. Mier Ms. Kathleen E. Clark Estate of Irwin C. Fink Estate of James M. Warzecha Theresa Miller Estate Mr. Wayne A. Young Mrs. Alexis Fornaciari Samuel Wendorf Trust Estate of Richard L. Mitchell Mrs. Marlene Zellermayer Estate of Melvin S. Freedman Mr. Louis Werner Estate of Leroy A. Mock Mr. Michael Zuntz Estate of Florence Frueh Louis Wexler Charitable Foundation Estate of Marvin A. Moss Estate of Sammiea Williams Mrs. Helen Fruh Estate of Gretel Motulsky HISTORICAL BEQUESTS Estate of Otto Wirth Mrs. Faye Gaberman Mrs. Lucile Wachtel Napp Estate of Janette H. Wright The following alumni and Estate of William M. Gaugler Estate of LaVerne O'Donnell Mr. Steven Zellmer friends have made bequests Estate of Max Goldenberg Estate of Mrs. Julia Olsansky to Roosevelt University. Foundation Estate of Clara Fordyce Zepernick Estate of Patrick L. O'Malley Mr. Richard Abelson Estate of Henry A. Goldstein Estate of Hannah Ziegler Estate of Cecilia J. Paluch Estate of Robert J. Ahrens Mr. Neal S. Goodman Estate of Morris L. Parker CURRENT BEQUESTS Estate of Leonard Goodman Estate of Harold S. Alexander Mrs. Rose L. Pashkow Estate of Bernard Gordon Estate of Ronald N. Anderson Estate of Helen Paynter During fiscal year 2013-14, the Mr. Burton M. Gould University received bequests Estate of Ruth B. Anderson Mrs. Albert Pick, Jr. from the estates of the following Estate of Harvey J. Angell Dr. Karl H. Hallwass Charlotte R. Piltch Trust alumni and friends. Mr. Philip B. Heller Estate of Alan B. Anixter Estate of Joseph L. Pisciotta Estate of Ladislaus Braun Estate of Lawrence Helstern More than 700 experts. One place to find them. Estate of Madi Bacon Estate of Dr. Evsay Prilla Estate of Betty Taylor Clarke Dr. Talmadge C. Henderson Estate of Ruth O. Bacon Ms. Ethel M. Rish Estate of Clifton O. and Mr. Boris J. Barmack Professor Arthur Hillman Estate of Samuel A. Roberman Lois M. Dummett Estate of Ruth B. Barth Estate of Bernice K. Hintz Estate of Albert A. Robin Mr. Boyd L. Gillilan Want to know what your favorite professor is up to these days? Want to reconnect with that mentor who Estate of Mabel Bergquist Estate of Winifred E. Holland Estate of Arthur Rubloff Max Goldenberg Foundation inspired your career? Now you can. In September, Roosevelt unveiled the Faculty Spotlight, a website Estate of Edward Israel Estate of Norma Harris that offers access to all of Roosevelt’s professors in one place. Estate of Marvin Bogdanoff Estate of Burton Rubloff Estate of Solomon Jesmer Estate of Marvin A Moss Estate of Ladislaus L. and Mrs. Gertrude Salzenstein Read their stories and reach out to beloved professors from wherever you may be today. Roosevelt Katherine R. Braun Mr. Louis C. Karbiner Estate of Leonard H. Scane Mrs. Bernice R. Simon is a community that fosters lasting relationships—we invite you to reconnect with those who shaped your time in college and beyond. Mrs. Eva Brodar Mr. Harry Karr Estate of Robert C. Schaffner Estate of Sarah M. Solomon

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