A FORMULA INSIDE: Lettuce Entertain You’s Bob Wattel P 6 FOR SUCCESS Meet the Met Quartet P 38 Professor David Faris on Roosevelt’s College of Pharmacy welcomes its inaugural class. PAGE 26 social media in Egypt P 44 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2011 CONTENTS CREATING A LEGACY Grant Pick (1947-2005) food or money, to “The Morning Mouth” about controversial radio announcer Mancow Muller. When Pick spoke to journalism classes, students would often ask, “Where is the news peg?” to his stories. He would reply, “There is no news peg. The people are the news.” Nineteen of his stories are collected in the post- humous 2008 book The People Are the News: Grant Pick’s Chicago Stories, edited by his son and laced with photos by his wife. In his introduction to the book, author Alex Kotlowitz writes: “Grant Pick is a Chicago treasure.” He was “... someone who found poetry in the quotidian, who saw the Roosevelt University is pleased to announce the extraordinary in the ordinary.” Grant Pick Endowed Scholarship in Journalism. This scholarship was established at Roosevelt The father of John and Emily, Pick was firmly by Pick’s wife, Kathy Richland Pick, an accom- committed to public education and school reform. plished photojournalist and portrait photographer He was active in the Chicago Public Schools’ local whose photos often accompanied Pick’s articles councils and wrote about education and school and were the visual distillation of his writing. reform for The Reader and Catalyst. Grant Pick (BA, ’70) was a well-known figure Kathy Pick said: “Grant had an insatiable curios- among Chicago journalists. He majored in his- ity about Chicago and its neighborhoods and he tory at Roosevelt University where he studied felt his four years at Roosevelt, which drew its with professors Elizabeth Balanoff (history) and students from every corner of the city, were for- Frank Untermyer (political science). According mative in his understanding of people. Roosevelt to his wife, “Grant felt his history instruction held a special place in Grant’s heart.” was excellent and was the foundation for his It is fitting that the Grant Pick Endowed Scholar- career as a journalist.” ship has been established at Roosevelt University After obtaining his master’s degree from North- where it will give support and encouragement western University’s Medill School of Journalism, to young journalism students in perpetuity. Pick’s first job was at the Chicago Lung Association To view Kathy Richland’s photography, go to writing its newsletter. He then began freelance www.kathyrichland.com. writing for various publications in the Chicago area, including a new start-up weekly called the Chicago Reader. In the early 1990s he joined its For details on how to create a legacy for yourself, staff and wrote profiles until his untimely death a family member or a loved one with a direct in 2005 at the age of 57. gift or through your estate plan, contact: Pick would find story ideas as he walked around Denise Bransford GO LAKERS! Chicago neighborhoods observing people and Assistant Vice President, Planned Giving looking for interesting subjects to write about. Roosevelt University Roosevelt breaks ground His profiles always contained telling details 430 S. Michigan Ave., Room 827 on Goodman Center PAGE 49 that defined and revealed his characters. His Chicago, IL 60605 subjects ranged from “The Rag Man of Lincoln Phone: (312) 341-6455 Park,” about a homeless Korean War veteran Fax: (312) 341-2319 A FORMULA who scavenged dumpsters, too proud to ask for [email protected] 10 CASE STUDIES 38 THE MET QUARTET 26 FOR SUCCESS Paralegal Studies Metropolitan Opera stars Meet members Program paves way take CCPA’s voice program of the College for amazing careers. to new heights. of Pharmacy’s inaugural class. COVER BOB COSCARELLI A FORMULA INSIDE: Lettuce Entertain You’s Bob Wattel P 6 FOR SUCCESS Meet the Met Quartet P 38 Professor David Faris on Roosevelt’s College of Pharmacy welcomes its inaugural class. PAGE 26 social media in Egypt P 44 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2011 1 FALL 2011 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE 4 UNIVERSITY NEWS 49 14 FIGHTING FOR CHANGE Schaumburg Campus leads way on domestic violence prevention. 34 HITTING HER HIGH NOTE Alumna Amy Beth Kirsten, whose caricature is at the left, recently won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. Roosevelt unveils plans for Goodman Center. 44 INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT 61 FACULTY ESSAY FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT 62 Assistant Professor David FUNDING HIGHLIGHTS 63 Faris describes recent changes in the Middle East. 6 PLAYING HIS CARDS RIGHT Bob Wattel (BB, ’61) heads marketing for SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT 64 Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. ALUMNI NEWS 65 20 CHAPTER EVENTS 66 LIFE IMITATES ART WHERE RU? 70 © 2007 NICHOLAS SCHUTZENHOFER Roosevelt alumna IN MEMORIAM 71 shares memories about artist Marc Chagall. 2011 HONOR ROLL 73 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2011 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 3 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 74 PUBLISHER | Lesley D. 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Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605 Facebook.com/ Marc Chagall ILLUSTRATION | Dave Cutler (312) 341-3500 | www.roosevelt.edu RooseveltUniversity 2 ROOSEVELT REVIEW | FALL 2011 ROOSEVELTROOSEVELT REVIEW REVIEW | |FALL FALL 2011 2011 3 PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE PRESIDENT’SPERSPECTIVE THE AMAZING ENTHUSIASM OF YOUTH BY ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT CHUCK MIDDLETON I DOUBT THAT even a single Now, I am one who believes in the importance of public don at the emerging English ceremony and ceremonial occasions generally as a way to universities at Oxford and bring communities together. Such moments serve to remind Cambridge five centuries ago us all, old timers and new arrivals alike, that each of us is a could have envisioned Roos- part of something bigger than ourselves. They make clear evelt’s annual all-University that we are part of an ongoing tradition that both predates Convocation. our arrival on campus and will long survive us. Here, in the Auditorium Theatre, Perhaps most important, they remind us of the sobering we gather like those ancient fact that our thoughtful and dedicated stewardship of that faculty members in medieval tradition is vital to its future well-being. History, or at least England did, to celebrate indi- historians, will judge how well we fulfilled our responsi- vidual and collective successes bilities. For now, we must do our best and write the record of the past year. We also matriculate into the University all that they will assess. our new students. Some are freshmen just starting college, As I ponder our students during these moments of community some transfer students joining us after successful starts renewal, many notions come to mind. For instance, I know elsewhere. Then there are the new graduate students who that despite their outward bravado and all the cheering and seek advanced degrees to speed them on their individual smiles and energy they exude, many are secretly just a little journeys. apprehensive. They wonder if they really have it in them to succeed like we are telling them they will. It’s a happy time. The faculty — refreshed from a summer of research, writing and creative activity — is all decked I also cogitate about how our faculty and staff will come out in caps and gowns. They are a visual reminder of the to know so many of these new students in powerful and ancient origins of the ceremony itself. Their regalia, with enduring ways. Their lives as professionals here in our all the varied colors and designs, also serve to inspire the special place are strongly impacted by those relationships students to study hard so that they can return to this place and in many ways define them. There may be better jobs or in the future wearing their own academic garb and to receive careers, but being a faculty or staff member at a university their respective degrees. is great work, if you can get it. In case they miss the point, we happily point it out to them This year, I ended my remarks by giving the new students several times over the course of the festivities. a charge for their future. I advised them to ask themselves this: “How will I change the world?” Changing the world in We also make the time to introduce the new staff and the new some way or ways is what Roosevelt people do. Preparing faculty who are joining the Roosevelt community. I marvel our graduates to succeed in those endeavors is what our at the accomplishments of these new colleagues, who share degree programs are fundamentally designed to accomplish. in appropriate ways the enthusiasm for the moment that is more loudly expressed by the undergraduates. The students tell me that this question gives a big purpose to earning their degree and that it doesn’t take away from There are speeches and much cheering by the students who all the other purposes, such as having a successful career are genuinely happy to be here. Most of all, I appreciate their and making money, which also motivate them.