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LOVE, SERVE LOVE, TO KNOW, KNOW, TO Cloaked in the clouds: A morning walk to class alongside Baujan Field almost feels like spring. Photograph by LARRY BURGESS 2 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE Spring 2017 I Spring 2017 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE 1 I BILL BARRETT BILL 24 Shooting for the finals 2 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE Spring 2017 I I . 3 UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON MAGAZINE DAYTON OF UNIVERSITY Spring 2017 Spring . Dayton Magazine Dayton app. University of of University loading the free free the loading . Pass the gelato the Pass . - down by anywhere, anytime, . CONNECTIONS . magazine the Read 64 . ON THE GO THE ON . PARTING WORDS PARTING . DAYMAG . 63 . Five little words little Five . PERCEPTIONS . 61 . CLASS NOTES CLASS . News Daily Dayton . occupying army of World War I War World of army occupying . the and Times Sunday London’s 51 . How Flyer Joseph Dickman came to command the the command to came Dickman Joseph Flyer How . in published been has and Ohio, . 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THE ALUMNI ALUMNI THE . UNVOICED. a master’s degree in communication communication in degree master’s a . 45 . and WHIO radio. She plans to pursue pursue to plans She radio. WHIO and . MAINSTREAM . , WHIO-TV WHIO-TV , News Daily Dayton the UNTREATED. UNTREATED. team in June 2015 after working for for working after 2015 June in team 28 . munications. She joined the University University the joined She munications. UNDETECTED. SPORTS . is assistant director of news and com and news of director assistant is - . 24 alumna Michelle Flaum Hall. Meagan Meagan Hall. Flaum Michelle alumna . book by professor Scott Hall and and Hall Scott professor by book . VIEW FINDER VIEW . feature for this magazine on a new new a on magazine this for feature . 21 . MEAGAN PANT MEAGAN wrote her first first her wrote . Natural wonders abound wonders Natural Ichen Wu Jiang. Jiang. Wu Ichen 36 . READING? . issue, she wrote an alumni profile on on profile alumni an wrote she issue, . YOU ARE WHERE for the magazine in May 2016. In this this In 2016. May in magazine the for . 16 all alumni — Bridget started working working started — Bridget alumni all . mother, father and grandfather are are grandfather and father mother, . fairgrounds property fairgrounds . and spirit.” A UD legacy student — her her — student legacy UD A spirit.” and . UD, Premier Health purchase purchase Health Premier UD, . ing life fully with a healthy mind, body body mind, healthy a with fully life ing . FLIGHT DECK FLIGHT . - liv about passionate am “I University. 10 . to UD in fall 2015 from Saint Louis Louis Saint from 2015 fall in UD to Happy 200th anniversary to the Marianist brothers and sisters. and brothers Marianist the to anniversary 200th Happy . from Cincinnati. She transferred transferred She Cincinnati. from SERVE . Save a life, get a tattoo a get life, a Save . relations major and psychology minor minor psychology and major relations . CONVERSATION PIECES CONVERSATION . BRIDGET LALLY BRIDGET is a senior public public senior a is LOVE AND AND LOVE 8 . Rocky Flyer? Rocky . W OW, N K . LETTERS . 5 . TO . 29 COMMENTARY . PRESIDENT’S PRESIDENT’S . CONTRIBUTORS . 4 . - - - - - . by . facebook.udayton.edu . twitter.com/daymag . udquickly.udayton.edu . Blog: Twitter: Facebook: . ERIC F. SPINA ERIC F. UD. our . COMMENTARY . With my family, friends, dignitaries and, most dignitaries and, most friends, family, With my This is At my official installation April 4, the Uni April 4, installation official my At . important of all, the University of Dayton com of Dayton important of all, the University sors to community leaders and alumni — will sors to community leaders and alumni — will from-the-heart reflections on what offer short, I’ll touch extraordinary. our University makes vision for the future, on our emerging strategic which will be informed through hundreds of stu staff, with alumni, faculty, conversations dents and friends. we will celebrate our heritage and boldly munity, embrace a future of greatness. and imaginatively sium. In between, we’ll showcase scholarship scholarship we’ll showcase In between, sium. a panel of experts on and research, convene humanizing technology for the common good bring together power, have and, because stories American art of 80 people in the ancient Native circles to share their hopes and vision for story our future. Arena will be transformed of Dayton versity into a stylish venue basketball a rowdy from dreams for amphitheater where a university’s members of the dozen Two the future can soar. and profes UD family — from students diverse Performing Arts Center and presenting their Arts Center and presenting their Performing undergraduate research at the Stander Sympo . - - - - . magazine.udayton.edu . [email protected] . [email protected] [email protected] or 888-253-2383 . Website: Email: to: notes Send class Records changes only to: changes Records . UD . our . Shawn Robinson, Robinson, Shawn , Records Office, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH Dayton, Park, College 300 Office, , Records . Jessica Barga, Jessica Barga, UD. our Damon, Danielle . When the campus inauguration com . ’m the kind of person who enjoys sitting in in sitting the kind of person who enjoys ’m else. applauding everyone the second row thoughts about the design my asked mittee of the April 2-5 celebration, I hesitated for a moment. Then I realized this moment in . This is think with creative is filled The committee to join in the celebration, All are invited . Spring 2017 2017 Spring Spring Kristin Davis, Erin Frey, Frey, Erin Davis, Kristin Lally, III, Bridget Gardner Joey Mocklow Courtney Thomas M. Columbus, Michael Michael Thomas M. Columbus, Gina Gray, Eames, Michaela Dunekacke, Miller, Shannon Shelton Kurtz, Mike Jeaneen Pant, Brian Mills, Meagan Rizvi, Teri Parsons, Cilla Shindell Nichole Rustad, . This is This is . bishop Dennis Schnurr in the Chapel of the Dennis Schnurr in the Chapel of the bishop and an afternoon of Immaculate Conception rous on a It ends projects. community service performing with hundreds of students ing note on stage at the Benjamin and Marian Schuster I after another. few days will choreograph a magnificent ers who of Dayton’s the University that will showcase nature spirit, collaborative innovative creativity, of our people. The — and the faith and power are address, installation my including events, and forward- meant to be personal, reflective 11, and the inauguration Page looking. (See story, website: go.udayton.edu/inauguration). with a Mass with Arch fittingly which starts history is not solely about me. It’s about us — about us — solely about me. It’s is not history 167 accomplished together over and all we’ve moment faith-filled one imaginative, years, Staff Contributors: Staff Staff: Student . Magazine Dayton of University . of the University by is published quarterly 2152-3673) 3, ISSN 9, No. Vol. 2017, (Spring . Molly Wilson . Jeaneen Parsons Jeaneen . Gita Balakrishnan . Thomas M. Columbus Thomas M. Columbus . Larry Burgess Larry . Eric F. Spina F. Eric President, University of Dayton Frank Pauer Frank . Eric F. Spina F. Eric . UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF OF DAYTON DAYTON MAGAZINE MAGAZINE Brother Bob Hughes, S.M. Bob Hughes, Brother . Michelle Tedford . I . I . 45469-7051. 45469-7051. University of Dayton Magazine Dayton of University Ohio. Dayton, paid at postage Periodicals OH 45469-1303. Dayton, Park, 300 College Communications, University Dayton, to changes Send address POSTMASTER: President: President: Marketing University for President Vice and Communications: Emeritus: Editor Editor: Editor: Managing Art Director: Photographer: Director: Production Designer: . 44 . LETTERS I somehow loaded “ROCKY FLYER” for the new mascot, and that is how the Dayton TV audience was introduced to him. —Bob Romond ’71 Have thoughts about what Editor’s note: Thanks to test), it wasn’t an instant suc- the U.S. Air Force used in the you read this issue? all who wrote letters and left cess. It stuck, however, and we 1950s. Unfortunately it no lon- comments regarding the Rudy got used to it. Hard to believe ger inflated, so I would climb SEND YOUR LETTERS TO: University of Dayton Magazine Flyer feature, “The Making of the mascot has been around 35 into it and fill it with eight to 10 300 College Park an Icon,” from the Winter 2016- years officially as “Rudy.” He pillows donated by fellow resi- Dayton, OH 45469-1303 17 issue.