Fall 2005 Celebrating President William Carroll’s 10 Year Anniversary St. Benedict’s Rule for Monks begins with a powerful imperative: Listen. And at Benedictine Benedictine University, we believe in the importance of listening to one another. We therefore have named our magazine The News From Benedictine University Benedictine Voices. We pledge that within these pages, members of the Benedictine Fall 2005 | Volume 34 | Number 1 community will speak with candor about Executive Director of Public Relations issues facing our University and our world. Mercy Robb, M.B.A. ’02 We cordially invite you to enter into Editor dialogue with us. Linda A. Hale Writers Phil Brozynski Barbara T. Grabowski, Ph.D. William J. Carroll Linda A. Hale Contents Rita A. Dougherty Tony Hamilton “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance Fr. James Flint, O.S.B. Vision and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” Contributors — REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Pina Arnone Krystal Himes Nellie Carlos Jonathon Lewis 1 • William J. Carroll, President 4 - 10 • Benedictine University Brad Carlson Julie Nelligan Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants And William Carroll: Nadia Darwish Debbie Smith 2 • Monastic Perspective A Successful Partnership Decidedly Benedictine • A Look At The Last 10 Years Photographers • Looking Into The Future Of H. 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Renowned Program 35 • Time Out: Sports Highlights 28 • Peer Ministers Hear St. Benedict’s Advice, Reach Out To Students • A Look At The Past “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking Vision excellence.” — REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants PART TWO IN A SERIES e continue to reflect on the contributions FR. ROMAN GALIARDI, control. It also provided of the past three O.S.B., a canon lawyer, was contacts for fund raising, the seventh president of and the Trustees became living presidents at St. Procopius College. ambassadors of public WBenedictine University. In the spring Today he is a tribunal judge relations in the Midwest and for canonical cases in the the greater Chicago business issue of Voices we discussed the Archdiocese of Chicago. community. For years they He was also pastor of St. Joan held a small formal social contributions of Archbishop Daniel of Arc Parish in Lisle from event — a spring dinner dance Kucera, O.S.B., sixth president of 1985 to 2000. at the Drake Oak Brook. then, St. Procopius College, from 1959 During his years as president Fr. Roman felt that there was (St. Procopius College and a need for raising scholarship to1965, and eighth president of then, William J. Carroll, later, Illinois Benedictine funds, so he called upon the President Illinois Benedictine College, from 1971 College) — from 1965 to ingenuity of several people: 1971, Fr. Roman made some Trustee Phil Flynn and his to 1976. Fr. Daniel became Auxiliary tough decisions as the wife Lorayne, Angelo and enrollment grew and the Mary Egizio and Betty Bishop of Joliet, Bishop of Salina, College expanded. At one Pelling. They, in turn, drafted Kansas and retired as Archbishop point he described what he some of their friends, and the ground was broken for the hoped for a College student: group began planning an new St. Procopius Abbey of Dubuque, Iowa. During his watch, “Never before has the College autumn Scholarship Ball. across College Road. been challenged to meet and considerable changes took place at resolve such far-reaching They chose the name The College became the College as it began a rapid growth. problems. By constantly “Educare Ball” because the co-educational on May 23, extending the range of Latin word “educare” is 1968. It had a fall enrollment Another Benedictine monk followed one’s experience, values, translated “to educate.” of 44 full-time women The first Educare Ball was students. In 1969, the school him as president. understanding and decisions; by constantly stepping held in the mid-60s with a had its largest freshman class forward into the unknown; band, and silent and live to date — 359 students were by constantly taking risks, a auctions. Today, the Educare enrolled. Construction began College student grows and Ball is held each fall in a on two more residence halls — shapes his/her own identity ‘transformed-for-the-evening’ Neuzil Hall and Ondrak Hall and world. Experience alone Krasa Center. The event (a woman’s facility). is not enough, understanding celebrates its 40th anniversary is required for judgment, this fall, and has provided In 1970, the new and it is such an end that many scholarships for St. Procopius Abbey was Illinois Benedictine College Benedictine students. dedicated, and within days is dedicated.” the monks moved across the In August 1967, construction street. It caused quite a traffic Prior to Fr. Roman’s started on Scholl Hall, scene on College Road as they presidency, a long standing originally called the Science trucked and carried items from President’s Advisory Council Learning Center, named later one side of the road to the became a “working” Board of after a generous donor, other and up a slight hill. Trustees. Fr. Roman reformed William M. Scholl, M.D. They vacated a three-story it into a fiduciary board of In December of that year, section of Benedictine Hall Fall 2005 1 continued from page 1 where some of them had lived since 1916. Offices and classrooms quickly moved into those spaces. A major change took place on July 1, 1971. The monks, with the perspec recommendation of the Board of Trustees, changed the name of St. Procopius College to Illinois Benedictine College (IBC). Fr. Roman saw the Decidedly school emerge from a “parochial” school in Fr. Roman Galiardi, Benedictine O.S.B., was president of the country to a major St. Procopius College, contributor meeting and later Illinois higher education needs Benedictine College in suburbia. ore than 15 years from 1965 to 1971. ago, while visiting In 1971, when MBelmont Abbey in Fr. Roman completed North Carolina, his presidency at IBC, I had a pleasant conversation he became president of with one of their older monks. The discovery that I was from Sacred Heart College in St. Procopius reminded him Wichita, Kansas. After of an incident from decades he returned to the Abbey before when he was studying in 1983, he continued on at The Catholic University as a valued Trustee and THE monastic of America. supporter of Benedictine. The priest-students in those We honor Fr. Roman days generally lived in Galiardi, O.S.B., the Caldwell Hall. Among the seventh president of this by Fr. James Flint, O.S.B. residents was one who was institution, for the major engaged in advanced studies decisions made on his in Greek and Latin, and who watch. He is in truth, a was consequently presumed modern founder of this by all others in the hall to University. be a first-class nut. In the winter issue of Voices, Hearing of his dubious the first layman, and reputation, the classics scholar showed up one evening in the ninth president of IBC, recreation room and hovered, Richard C. Becker, Ph.D., in apparent mystification, over will be honored. He stood the pool table. “Wow,” he watch over this institution exclaimed in prolonged and from 1976 to 1995.¦ exaggerated tones, “what kind of a table have you got here? How can you eat at a table that has these little holes all over the place?” Still apparently confused, he next picked up a pool cue: “And wow (once again, 2 Benedictine Voices benedictine Vision Contributing to the fabric of the University: Fr. Basil Kolar, O.S.B., spent nearly half-a-century as a renowned ctive teacher of Greek, Latin and Ancient History at Benedictine before his retirement and death in 1982.