SUMMER 2018 Congratulations GRADUATES 2018 contents D’YOUVILLE OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 631 Niagara Street Vice President for Institutional Advancement COMMENCEMENT 2018 Buffalo, New York 14201 Kathleen M. Christy 6 www.dyc.edu 10 HONORS CONVOCATION Associate Vice President for Advancement Services 716.829.8000 Aimee Pearson 12 HECAP GRANT Associate Vice President for 14 CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR Alumni Engagement and Planned Giving Meg Rittling Meg Rittling 19 REDFEST Donor Records and Event Administrator 20 THE HEALTH SYSTEM OF THE FUTURE For comments and suggestions, LeeAnn Petronsky TEACHING THE TEACHERS contact the editor at 716.829.7808 or 23 Associate Vice President for Grants SCHOOL OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS RESEARCH [email protected] Molly Flynn 26 HAVE PROJECT LAYOUT & DESIGN Director of Foundation Relations 27 William McKeever Cher Ravenell 33 NEW ALUMNI Grants Specialist 34 ALUMNI PROFILE: CATHERINE MUTH ’11 CONTRIBUTORS Sarah Goldhawk 36 ALUMNI PROFILE: MAUREEN FINNEY ’97, ’08 Lorrie A. Clemo Department Receptionist Kathleen M. Christy Rhonda Beck 38 SPOTLIGHT: MARYANNE SHANAHAN ’65 Melinda Miller 40 ALUMNI EVENTS Gary Steltermann Office of Institutional Advancement 42 CLASS NOTES Bob Kirkham Photos 46 KAVINOKY 2018-2019 SEASON BACK COVER: SPECIAL OCCASIONS & DATES MISSION STATEMENT CORRECTION FROM LAST ISSUE D’Youville College is an independent institution of higher education that offers baccalaureate and We would like to correct an error from the 2017 Annual graduate programs to students of all faiths, cultures, and backgrounds. Report. The following alumni were inadvertently omitted D’Youville College honors its Catholic heritage and the spirit of Saint Marguerite d’Youville by from the Honor Roll of Donors: providing academic, social, spiritual, and professional development in programs that emphasize Eileen Clifford Cavanaugh ’63 and the Kathleen and Michael leadership and service. D’Youville teaches students to contribute to the world community by Clifford Endowed Scholarship leading compassionate, productive, and responsible lives. MaryEllen Merrick Reilly ’67 2 3 students participating in the health sciences track will graduate with certificates or associates degrees from MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT D’Youville already in hand. Additionally, those currently in the healthcare workforce will be able to upskill and upscale their careers through 24/7 education provided at the Hub to more skilled, higher paying jobs which will help address If there is one characteristic that all D’Youville alumni possess, it is the quest issues of inequity and poverty, so more residents can be part of the region’s revitalization and economic to be part of something bigger. Our new campus development project the progress underway. Health Professions Hub, or Hub for short, offers people across the region, state Programs delivered in the Hub will also offer leading-edge approaches to preparing students for today and and beyond, the opportunity to join D’Youville and have a connection with tomorrow’s high tech medical environment. All D’Youville health professions’ students will participate something bigger than oneself. in an interdisciplinary patient-centered care model aimed at preparing them with the communication, Joining our ambitious project is the State of New York. Earlier this summer we collaboration, leadership and critical thinking skills essential to improving the health of patients. The Hub were notified that New York had awarded D’Youville $5 million from its Higher will enable students to fulfill a portion of their clinical placements in the on-campus health clinic, while all Education Capital Matching Grants (HECap) program for construction of D’Youville students, regardless of major, will reap the benefits of the Hub through multidisciplinary real- D’Youville’s new Health Professions Hub. world simulations. The HECap grant is the largest single award the college ever has received, The benefits of the Hub will reverberate far and wide from our West Side neighborhood. Not only will the through private gift or as a grant, and the announcement is serving to propel the professionalism, skills and interdisciplinary care model learned by our D’Youville graduates shine wherever Hub project forward. Phone calls and inquiries received from all areas reflect our alumni venture, but the Hub itself, and the learning demonstrated here, will become a pioneering the desire of people to be part of D’Youville’s vision to build healthy, thriving model for other communities in the state and beyond. communities by designing ambitious projects like the Health Professions Hub. Lorrie A. Clemo, PhD The $5 million HECap award from New York is a significant down payment for our $20 million Hub President of D’Youville It is a great reflection on the college to have this $5 million worth of public project. When complete, this innovative center for healthcare education will house training space, confidence, but the Hub is so much more than just capital development. simulation labs, classrooms, a clinic, and a pharmacy. This public outlay is an investment in the health and well-being of our local We hope this show of confidence by the State will cultivate more interest in our ongoing fundraising to community. The West Side neighborhood is home to the poorest ZIP code bring the Hub and building healthy communities to reality. Its success will allow us to expand enrollment in in the city of Buffalo with some of the worst rates of asthma, diabetes, and our health programs, improve the health of our neighbors, and help address the severe health professional obesity in the state. shortage we face in our region. The Hub will provide comprehensive care in one facility representing all of How we achieve these goals could be a model for other communities in the state and beyond. From our D’Youville’s academic healthcare programs — a true medical home for a research in planning the Hub, we believe it is one-of-a-kind, something that is unique in higher education community in need. Dedicating a portion of the Hub to delivering healthcare across the country. to our neighbors is a vital part of a longstanding D’Youville mission of care. We can feel the momentum and growing support for the project and know that underlying all of this is a Beyond the college, Western New York remains united in its focus on building desire to create something where everyone will feel they are part of something bigger — bigger than being a strong health sector, with the aim of being second to none in the nation. The a student, a teacher, a college — larger than the city of Buffalo. programs housed within the Hub will significantly contribute to growing an educated healthcare workforce through professional development programs. With your support, we can become a leader in helping others nationally in reducing economic disparities in healthcare and have an impact on improving other people’s lives. Partnerships with urban high schools to offer early college health science- themed programs are being established with da Vinci High School on the The Hub project is tangible, real, and something we can make happen. D’Youville campus and with Buffalo city schools under consideration. The college-high school connections will introduce young students to careers in the health fields and offer hands-on learning in the Hub. High school 4 5 Undergraduate & Graduate COMMENCEMENT CELEBRATIONS There was an impressive turnout on May 20 for the 2018 induction of the newest members of the D’Youville Alumni Association. More than 600 undergraduate and graduate students were awarded their degrees and doctorates from the college. The brilliant sunshine outside was matched by the pride and happiness inside Kleinhans Music Hall as the honors were bestowed in the arts, sciences and education, encompassing dozens of majors — an educational achievement far beyond the dreams of the Grey Nuns who founded the liberal arts college for women 110 years ago. The 2018 graduates now join 20,000 Joseph McDonald (middle) receives an honorary degree from President Lorrie A. Clemo other D’Youville alumni on the path and D’Youville Board of Trustees Chair CJ Urlaub to making those dreams come true. As contributions of the classes that had Those gathered received some earnest an organization to work for that, in testified to by the day’s speakers, they come before, praising D’Youville’s and practical advice on how to put return, respected and valued them for are not going to sit back and contribute tradition of being a force of change for their degrees to best use from keynote what they brought to the job and as to an imperfect status quo, no matter the better. “It is a product of thousands speaker Joseph D. McDonald, FACHE, individuals. Then right from the start, what their field. of open minds that came before us, who recently retired after serving for 15 he said, they should work as though recognizing and advocating that people years as president and CEO at Catholic every day was a try-out for their next “You see, at D’Youville, it’s the students of all creeds, races, sexual orientations, Health. McDonald urged the graduates job or promotion. and the culture we have cultivated that cultures and upbringings deserve the to value their talents, their skills and the “Demonstrate that, when you say you’re we do not want to work today for a same opportunity to succeed and to knowledge they gained while pursuing going to do something, you do it,” he better tomorrow,” Nicole Catherine allow their experiences to add to and their degrees. And he told them to be said. “Build a reputation.” Webb told the audience gathered for the strengthen their community – not choosy about where they invested those Graduate Commencement Exercises. remove them from it,” she said. assets. Every person has needed help along the way, McDonald said in his address.