THE MAGAZINE OF MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY MARYVILLE FALL/WINTER 2007 Making His Mark Lombardi Strives To Have Maryville Stand Out From The Crowd ALUMNI WEEKEND 2007 ■ SPORTS MANAGEMENT ■ NEW ATHLETICS DIRECTOR THE MAGAZINE OF MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY MARYVILLE CONTENTS FALL/WINTER 2007 LOOK OUT, WORLD! 4 ■ Maryville students get a taste of the world around them by traveling abroad with faculty members. COMMENCEMENT 2007 6 ■ Rainy weather prevented the ceremony from taking place on the commencement lawn, but the memorable event was still held outdoors. MARYVILLE’S MUSIC MAN 9 ■ Catch up with former Maryville employee Jim Thomas, jazz drummer extraordinaire. ON THE COVER: Jeff Schmidt, ’97, graphic designer, ART & DESIGN PROGRAM pictured in front of web graphics at Cfx, a communications and design firm. 10 DRAWS SUCCESS photographed by David Ulmer ■ Alumni from Maryville’s Art & Design program show they’ve got what it takes to succeed in their creative fields. DEPARTMENTS Maryville University is a private institution ■ offering 50 undergraduate, seven master’s and 1 NEWS BRIEFS two doctoral degree programs. As a university with ■ consistently high ratings by U.S.News & World Report, 14 ATHLETICS IN THE SPOTLIGHT Maryville prepares its students for successful careers. ■ Among its most recent graduates, 94 percent are 16 MY MARYVILLE employed or attending graduate school. 19 ■ CLASS NOTES 28 ■ MARYVILLE IN THE NEWS Editor ■ Laura L. Smith Maryville, The Magazine of Maryville University, is published twice a year. Design and Layout ■ Ross M. Sherman Unless otherwise noted, articles may be reprinted without permission with Contributors ■ Rick Arnold, Nicole Heasley, appropriate credit given to Maryville Magazine and Maryville University of Laura L. Smith and Mark D. Weinstein Saint Louis. Those submitting class news for Maryville may contact the Photography ■ Rick Arnold, Randall Burr, Tricia Smith, Alumni Relations Office at 314-529-9338 or [email protected]. While we David Ulmer, Mark D. Weinstein and Vanda Wilder welcome unsolicited photographs for publication in Maryville, we cannot guarantee they will be published due to space constraints. Rick Arnold NEWSbriefs Caldwell Promoted to V.P. ■ Symbolizing the significance that he places on the role of student life in a student’s overall college experience, Maryville University Mark Lombardi, Ph.D., has made the University’s Student Life division a separate division and has elevated Nina Caldwell, Ed.D., formerly Maryville’s dean of student life, to vice president for student life and dean of students. Caldwell had served as dean of Student Life since joining Maryville in 2004. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Dillard ■ left to right: XXXXXX and XXXXXX get “Dawbers” vitals University in New Orleans, a master’s degree in counseling from Illinois State and a doctoral degree in education from the University of San SimMan Providing Practice Francisco. She also earned an MBA at Maryville. for Nursing Students ■ Caldwell ■ Maryville nursing students now have the opportunity to hone their clinical skills on “Dawbers,” a mannequin Library Throws Book at Old Look that simulates vital functions including breathing and ■ The Library has undergone its first renovation since heartbeats, thanks to a generous gift from Maryville being constructed in 1988. The centerpiece of the alumna Jean Raybuck, ’51. Dawbers, or SimMan, as renovations is the transformation of the first floor he is technically known, “is a high-fidelity, human into an Information Commons area, which provides patient simulator that does almost anything you can students, faculty and staff with the latest in imagine,” said Jodi Green, R.N., clinical assistant technological access. It also enables students to work professor of nursing. He is used “to simulate clinical together on group projects or consult with reference situations that would occur in a hospital,” thereby librarians or other library staff when conducting affording students the opportunity to practice their research. “We want to make it more of a center for skills in a safe environment where mistakes can be learning with faculty, staff and students working in a made without harm to the patient. collaborative and technologically rich environment,” Raybuck said she donated the money for Dawbers said Genie McKee, Ph.D.,’82, dean of the University “because Maryville University is my alma mater and Library. I am eternally grateful for the wonderful education The Information Commons includes 13 chairs with I received.” Raybuck received a bachelor’s degree in tablet arms for laptops, 73 task chairs, 38 individual history in 1951, and went on to study medical records workstations for desktop computers (up from 28 librarianship. Her husband, father, grandfather, workstations previously) and many electrical outlets for and two daughters are all employed in the health laptop use. Also, the number of group study areas in professions so she felt it appropriate to make her the Library increased from four to nine. donation to the nursing program, hoping that her “small bit will help.” The mannequin has been nicknamed “Dawbers” because that is what Raybuck’s grandchildren call her. ■ Students study in one of the new leather armchairs on the ground floor of the Library FALL/WINTER 2007 ■ 1 NEWSbriefs Faculty Award Winners “3 of a Kind” Barry’s Project To Help ■ A trio of veteran faculty members are the recipients of Stroke Victims the 2007 Maryville University Faculty Awards. The ■ Maryville University faculty member Joni award winners are Geralyn Frandsen, Ed.D., (’74), Barry, DPT, has received a grant from associate professor of nursing (center); Alice Jensen, the Greater St. Louis Health Foundation associate professor of nursing (right); and Germaine that will allow her to conduct research Murray, Ph.D., associate professor of English (left). that will help stroke patients regain the “Though there were a number of nominees, we are use of their hands. The $12,788 pleased to have an exceptionally qualified group of Foundation grant, coupled with a faculty selected for the first year of this award,” said previously received $5,000 grant from ■ Barry Mary Ellen Finch, Ph.D., Maryville’s associate vice the Missouri chapter of the American president for academic affairs. Frandsen joined the Physical Therapy Association, will enable Barry, Maryville faculty in 1991. Jensen is the longest serving assistant professor of physical therapy, to begin her of the three recipients, having joined the faculty in two-year study of 20 stroke patients in January 2008. 1988. Murray joined Maryville in 1993. Barry, who has worked with stroke patients for 15 years at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center’s physical therapy clinic, said her study is important because it will help determine realistic timetables for recovery rates for stroke patients. Maryville Awards First Doctoral Degrees ■ Maryville University achieved another academic milestone when it conferred the first doctoral degrees in the University’s 135-year history during a ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 15. Eighteen graduates of Maryville’s School of Education received doctoral degrees in educational leadership. Maryville launched its Doctor of Education in Leadership (Ed.D.) program at the start of the 2005 Fall Semester at the urging of Brand This! graduates in its Master of Arts in Education/ Educational Leadership program. The students wanted ■ The Schupp Company, a leading marketing an advanced certification or degree studies program communications full-service agency in St. Louis, was that would allow them to obtain advanced leadership retained by Maryville University to lead its aggressive certification in the state of Missouri. Maryville’s branding campaign. Schupp was selected from a list doctoral students earn their degrees in seven semesters, of 10 agencies from across the nation. completing 42 credit hours. Schupp will provide strategic and creative development for print, direct mail and online media as well as media strategy and placement. U.S.News & World Report “During the review process it was clear that Schupp shares our energy and vision for the future,” said Endorses Maryville Mark D. Weinstein, director of marketing and public ■ In the most recent rankings, U.S. News relations for Maryville. “The agency's focus on and World Report magazine ranked research-driven strategies and their exceptional Maryville University number 29 among reputation for developing powerful creative solutions private universities in the Midwest. As a were a key part in our decision making.” Top 30 school in the Midwest, Maryville Schupp’s historical client list includes: Miller University is one of the highest ranked Brewing Co., Medicine Shoppe International, universities in the master's category in the St. Louis St. Louis Blues, American Red Cross, Rawlings, region. In comparing the ranking from the previous the American Association of Orthodontists and year, Maryville saw its total score rise as its positive Franchise Concepts Inc. reputation and retention rate both increased. Maryville is one of just six universities from Missouri to be listed among the best 50 universities in the Midwest. 2 ■ MARYVILLE 2007 NEWSbriefs How Do You Spell News? R-S-S! Enrollment Sets Record ■ Maryville University news is just ■ When Maryville University’s 2007 freshman class a click away. Stay informed with posed for a group photo back in August, they formed everything going on at Maryville an “M” to stand for Maryville. 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