WINTER 2018 THE WOMEN OF DEPAUL Meet some outstanding alumni and faculty who are changing the face of their industri es TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS WINTER 2018 READ THE MAGAZINE AND EXCLUSIVE ONLINE CONTENT AT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEPAULMAGAZINE.COM. Marilyn Ferdinand Look for the EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Online Extras Andrea Bainbridge symbol throughout Kris Gallagher this issue to learn Jamie Miller FEATURES about extended, Jacob Sabolo (LAS ’12) online-only content. Bob Sakamoto Kelsey Schagemann 10 From London With Love 20 Sarah Pappalardo: Playwright Bonnie Greer, O.B.E. (LAS ’74), Tongue Firmly in Cheek DESIGN has lived in London for several decades, but The humor-tinged feminist website Claire Keating her childhood on Chicago’s West Side and Reductress.com gives its co-founder and Francis Paola Lea coursework at DePaul set her up for a life co-editor Sarah Pappalardo (CMN ’07, of asking questions through her work and LAS MA ’08) a platform for using satire to Micromotion Manager DePaul Magazine is challenging cultural norms. expose the way media manipulates women’s Associate Professor published for DePaul insecurities for pro t. She has also created 29 Meghann Artes from the alumni and friends by the 16 The Trillion-Dollar Question an online space for women in comedy that School of Cinematic Arts O ce of Advancement. Carolyn Leonard (BUS ’64) and Monika didn’t exist before. creates award-winning, Inquiries, comments and Black (CSH PhD ’12) come from the 29 Lives in Motion 35 Club Scene stop-motion movies by letters are welcome and disparate worlds of options trading and 23 DePaul’s 2017 e faculty of DePaul’s School of Cinematic Student organizations play a crucial role in the freezing her actors in place. should be addressed community psychology, but by teaming up, Philanthropy Report Arts (SCA) boasts an impressive roster of DePaul experience for many undergraduate to Marilyn Ferdinand, they are helping the nancial services industry The university reports on the generous women lmmakers—Anuradha Rana, Dana and graduate students. A sample of the 350 Editor-in-Chief, DePaul understand women investors, who will control gifts that helped students, faculty and the Kupper, Susanne Suffredin and JoAnne clubs students can join shows the incredible University, O ce of $22 trillion dollars of investable assets by 2020. community at large in 2017. Zielinski. In 2017, these women worked diversity of interests students explore outside Advancement, 1 E. with SCA students to make three lms about of the classroom. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, young adults with mental health challenges IL 60604-5112 or 23 looking for stable homes. Voices United in Song [email protected]. Listen to music from DePaul’s fi ve a cappella ADDRESS CHANGES: student groups, which Log in to the DePaul DEPARTMENTS unite about 100 students Alumni Community from across the university at alumni.depaul. edu. in making beautiful music. 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Public Education Funding facebook. com/ Life in Art depaulalumni You can also visit Trustee Donates Rare Books alumni. depaul. edu to DePauls 12th President Inaugurated @depaulalumni register for upcoming Helmut Epp Retires events, fi nd volunteer linkd. in/1uXj3a5 opportunities, make a gift, 7 From the President and learn about alumni @depaulalumni benefi ts and services. 8 2017 Alumni Weekend fl ickr. com/depaulspirit ON THE COVER 40 Class Notes The women of DePaul include Carolyn Leonard the fi nancial-planning industry meet the unique youtube. com/user/ (BUS ’64) and Monika Black (CSH PhD ’12), who needs of women. 49 DePaul Pride/Event Recaps/ 2 depaulalumnifriends want to empower female investors and help Cover photo: Tom Evans Upcoming Events WINTER 2018 DEPAUL MAGAZINE 1 ATHLETICS ATHLETICS Sweet Home Chicago DePaul Notches First DePaul Basketball Returns to the City Win at Home On Nov. 13, DePaul scored its fi rst win at Wintrust Arena with a 81-57 victory over the Delaware State Hornets. Tre’Darius McCallum led the way with 17 points, while Max Strus hit six of eight shots on his way to a 15-point performance. Eli Cain fi nished with 11 points and eight rebounds, and Devin Gage contributed 10 points and eight assists. was the culmination of many (CMN ’03), the university’s years anticipating when that second-leading all-time scorer moment would come when we with 1,993 points. Booth, now would once again have our own director of player personnel for facility in the city,” Ponsetto said. the New Orleans Pelicans, said, Even though junior guard “It totally brings back memo- Eli Cain wanted to score the ries of what it was like when I rst basket in the new facility played. Seeing all these DePaul after scoring the nal basket at guys—Melvon Foster (CMN Allstate Arena, it was sopho- ’93), Tommy Kleinschmidt more Devin Gage who made (CMN ’09) and others—we the rst eld goal in Wintrust still have that bond.” Arena. “I had to get it before Eli Stephen Howard (BUS did,” Gage said with a laugh. ’92), a well-respected college “We were down by ve, needed basketball analyst for ESPN, Eli Cain soars for a dunk in DePaul’s season opener against Notre Dame. a basket and the shot clock said he can’t wait to see the was winding down. So I drove impact Wintrust Arena will Photos by Tom Evans Tom by Photos the lane for a layup. I didn’t have on the community. “It’s A long-held dream was realized with the Nov. 11 grand opening of Wintrust Arena. realize it was the rst basket going to rejuvenate the South [for DePaul] ever at Wintrust Loop, the city of Chicago and because I was in the moment. DePaul University. All the hen fans gathered Arena Fundraising Committee When I look back, it’s pretty people I talk to from Chicago Won Nov. 11 at the Chair Dan Ustian (BUS ’73). amazing to be a part of history.” want the Blue Demons to be brand-new Wintrust Arena at “What a great arena and the Super-fan and donor Joni relevant again.” McCormick Square to watch start of something special. e Phillips (CSH ’82) was on her Opening day for former DePaul square o against long- feeling today is even better than feet roaring her approval after coach Joey Meyer (CSH ’71) time rival Notre Dame in the we all thought it would be.” Cain’s double-pump reverse was like old home week. “It was opening game of the 2017-18 It didn’t much matter that layup tied the game 22-22 fun to see all my former players, season, it was the dawn of a new DePaul was bested 72-58 by one four minutes before halftime. and it brought back a lot of era in Blue Demon basketball. of the nation’s top teams. DePaul “ ere is such an energy in the great memories,” he said. Meyer, One NBA scout called it the Athletics Director Jean Lenti building,” she said. “It feels who succeeded his father, the best college basketball game of Ponsetto (EDU ’78), men’s like home and the return of a legendary Ray Meyer, as coach, the day, but for those closely basketball coach Dave Leitao, great tradition.” guided DePaul to seven NCAA involved in making this festive women’s basketball coach Doug “ is is the beginning of tournament appearances. occasion happen, it was the Bruno (LAS ’73, MA ’88) and a new chapter in the book of “Despite the outcome Saturday, ful llment of a dream. the more than 10,000 fans who DePaul and the day everyone this was still one heck of a start. “It’s electrifying and kind of lled Wintrust Arena came away has been waiting for,” said ere’s a feeling that DePaul is Athletics Woltmann/DePaul Steve by Photo hard to describe,” said Wintrust with hope for the future. “ is ex-Blue Demon David Booth on its way up.” The Blue Demons’ state-of-the-art locker room rivals any in the NBA. 2 DEPAUL MAGAZINE WINTER 2018 WINTER 2018 DEPAUL MAGAZINE 3 AROUND CAMPUS AROUND CAMPUS Stories That Matter Future DePaul University Trustee Tense donates rare books The fi rst book in DePaul Trustee The battle for minds Arnold Grisham’s (BUS ’70, MBA ’73) collection was James Weldon underpins the public Johnson’s “The Autobiography education funding debate of an Ex-Coloured Man.” Given to him by John Motley (JD ’73) years ago, the 1927 text inspired Grisham Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene/ George by Photo Images Collection/Getty Nast Conde hat should education look like if we to start his own book collection. In Bobsy Goodspeed relaxes in her Lincoln Park apartment in 1934. “Ware trying to prepare people to be 2017, Grisham and his wife, Jane active participants in a democratic society? … Grisham (CSH ’68, LAS MA ’74), Education should not be about preparing us to donated more than 500 volumes t into the world as it is. Rather, it should be to the DePaul University Library. about preparing us to imagine and create the Life in Art The library’s special collections world as it is not yet,” said Kevin Kumashiro, and archives ran the exhibit “Stories keynote speaker at the College of Education’s Lecture sheds light on Chicago socialite Shared: Highlights from the Arnold spring forum. For some, that makes public and Jane Grisham Collection” education “scary,” he said. n a picture displayed during DePaul active in her community, running numerous last summer and fall.