SPECIAL ALUMNI EDITION 2002 INSIDE: Campus News 2 Cpp Update 5 Alumni Weekend Recap 6 Commencement 2002 8 Classnotes 10 Shaping Our Future Together Excerpts from President Sister Janet Eisner's Alumni Weekend Address It is with great joy that I welcome you back remember avery significant time in your education in this great city of Boston. But, to your alma mater, most especially the lives, because as students here you explored what is most important is what you have reunion classes, on this weekend. As gradu­ both the academic and the social opportuni­ done with that education and how you ates of this college, you are returning to visit ties of this college. In fact, you explored all of have taken it with you through your lives. with your classmates and friendsand to the possibilities of a Catholic, liberal arts What I hope to do this afternoon is to share with you part of the story of Emmanuel, both past and present and look forward into an exciting future. Our mission today is to educate students in Emmanuel College to a dynamic learning community rooted in the liberal arts and sciences and shaped by Purchase Libby Building strang ethical values and a Catholic acade­ mic tradition. Emmanuel College is currently in discussions with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Our vision is to be recognized for the excel­ Center to re-purchase Julie Hall, the Emmanuel residence hall that was sold to lence of our academic and co-curricular Beth Israel Hospital in 1973 and renamed the Libby BuildingWith discussions programs and for our achievements in Emmanuel President Sister Janet Eisner, SND, progressing positively, Emmanuel hopes to have an agreement signed during the educating students with the skills and gathers with alumni following her address summer and to close on the sale in the early fall. Located on Brookline Avenue values necessary to succeed profession- began to see this decline in the mid 1970s, enthusiastic about the wonderful opportuni­ with sides facing SUoseph Hall and the Marian Hall Dining Room, the Libby ally and personally An Emmanuel education we immediately focused on another group of ties this partnership will offer ou r students, Building will again be used for residence hall space and will be renovated to challenges students to become critical women and men who were also seeking particularly in the field of science. achieve this end. thinkers, ethical decision makers, and college educations - the adult learner contributing members of the local community In acquiring this location, the Sisters of Notre population.A Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) and the global society Dame provided us with an amazing endow­ figure takes into account the number of adult ment in ou r land. Over the years, we have I will begin with how Emmanuel came to students, with 3.5 students equal to one full­ considered this and asked, how can we make this wonderful area on The Fenway.ln 1912, time 18 year-old.In this context, the decline Construction to Begin on New the endowment work for the educational the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur was not as dramatic, underscoring the mission of Emmanuel? In the mid-197Os, purchased the first 11 acres of land that historical im portan ce of the graduate and when our enrollment began to decline, we Student Center in September became Emmanuel College.At that time, professional programsto the College. about the only other institution being built were able to lease one of our residence halls Anew, state-of-the-art Student Center will be built at Emmanuel College to enhance the in the area was Fenway Park. In 1945 we While the mid 1990s saw aslight increase in to area colleges and universities. We also campus life experience of all Emmanuel students and to modernize Emmanuel's athletic and were able to acquire land on which we built enrollment, in the fall of 2000, the Board of recogn ized in the mid-1980s that we could recreational facilities. Construction is slated to begin in fall 2002 and will be completed by fall Alumnae Hall and Marian Hall and in 1965 Trustees looked carefully at the headcount create a new science center in Marian Hall, 2004. with the purchase of the remainder of over the years.We had stayed awomen's and that we could lease Alumnae Hall to the college for as long we as possi bly couldWe hospital, providing avaluable annuity for the This modern building will serve as a central gathering place for the entire Emmanuel College Brookline Avenue to The Fenway, the College looked at College Board surveys, which indi­ College to move forward.The resources from community.The facility, which will extend in front of Marian Hall, will feature an atrium, had 17 acres. cated only 2% of high school seniors would the endowment campus are providing the student meeting rooms, afood court, recreation and fitness spaces and a new gymnasium. Historical Enrollment and the even consider asingle-sex institution.We support we need for our educational The new Student Center will serve as the "living room " for the College and the new focus of Decision to Becom e Coeducational researched what had happened in other mission. the quad. The existing functions in Marian Hall will contin ue during and after construction of women's colleges that had made this deci­ An important figure as we track the history Campus Renovations the new building, including classrooms, laboratories, faculty offices and dining functions. of Emmanuel is the headcount of 18-20 year sion.We recognized our experience with adult learners and with working with the and Upgrades The new gymnasium, which will include one NCAA regulation court and two full-size practice old students throughout the years.In Colleges of the Fenway from 1996We made courts, will also serve as the largest meeting room on the campus for gatherings of the entire September of 1941 when the Class of 1942 We have several renovations and upgrades in the decision to admit young men to our college community, with bleacher seating for 1200-1400 and capacity seating totaling 2500.A began their senior year, the student body progress on campus.You are sitting in the traditional full-time undergraduate program. parking lot accommodating over 100 vehicles will be built under the new gymnasium. totaled 530 undergraduate students, and Janet M. Daley Library Lecture Hall. How did when the Class of 1947 arrived the total had And the results are positive. In September, it get that name ?The chairman of our board, President of Emmanuel College Sister Janet Eisner, SND, commented, "The construction of this risen to 750.It was not until the Class of our applications for the first coed class C. Michael Daley, made a generous contribu­ new Student Center is an exciting development for the Emmanuel community.Our goal is to 1962 arrived that we broke the 1000 mark. increased by 160%,and looking further back tion to the College recognizing his spouse on build the best possible facility for Emmanuel's growing student population, and I am confident At our peak in 1969, when our largest class, to 1997, there has been a300% increase in the occasion of an important milestone. that Emmanuel's new Student Center will be one of the premier college student centers in the the Class of 1973, arrived, there were 1500 applications.Our first coed class, the Class of Other renovations and upgrades include region." full-time undergraduate students. 2005, was the College's largest class in 30 multimedia classrooms, Administration years, with a 66% increase in new students. Building and residence hall Windows, land­ The architectural firm of Goody Clancy and Associates and the construction management firm It is also important to recognize the vision of We expected, based on our research, that scaping and the beginning of an extensive of Corcoran Jennison have been working with the College to develop the plans for the build­ those before us, particularly Sister Anne 15% of the class would be men in the first new signage plan . ing.The Student Center will be built by Walsh Brothers Construction Company. Aground break­ Bartholomew Grady, who as president saw year.In fact, we were one-third young men . ing ceremony will be scheduled for the fall. the need to move from atotal commuter In te rm sof new projects, we are planning a college to a residential campus. Our resi ­ For fall 2002, we are expecting over 350 new a new student center to accommodate the dence halls were built in '58: 62:64 and '66. students.Our retention is also improving, as a student recreation and athletics, as well as slightly larger school is more attractive to providing additional meeting space, dining In the early 1970s, the Ivy League colleges students.Our strategic recruiting and facilities and underground parking for our such as Princeton, Dartmouth and Yale marketing is helping to attract an increas­ growing population We are upgrading to an decided to admit young women .Other ingly competitive student profile. NCAA compliant gymnasium and the entire colleges like Brown and Pembroke merged, infrastructure of Marian Hall will be and in this area, local colleges Boston College Em manuel College's revampedWe are continuing the renovations and Holy Cross became coeducational. This En dowment Campus of SUoseph Hall, which began last summer had adramatic impact on the full-time As we communicated throughout last year, and included new lounge areas, the creation enrollment of 18 year-old students at we entered into aground lease with Merck of a fitness center, painting and landscaping. Emmanuel. Pharmaceuticals.