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spelling sluoai_alumni-82 Universitas - Issue 37.2 (Spring 2011) Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University St. Louis University St. Louis University -- Periodicals; Universities and colleges -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Periodicals Spring 2011 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University 2011 2011 PDF utas_spring11 universitas 2010 LD4817 .S52 U5 Copyright Saint Louis University. All rights reserved. Saint Louis University Libraries Digitization Center text eng Saint Louis University Marketing and Communications s pr ing 2 011 Behind the scenes of SLU Theatre’s latest production Page 8 Undergr aduate R esearch Page 12 SLU Madrid’ s Leader Page 17 Alumni Pediatricians Page 2 0 also inside: 2010 President’s Report depa r tment s 2 | On Campus Two vice presidents named • Buffett welcomes students • Malaria research • National Children’s Study • Campus construction updates • Arts at SLU 6 | Billiken News Billiken Hall of Fame • Soccer alumnus joins national team 7 | Advancement News A conversation with Sheila Manion, associate vice president for development 25 | Class No tes Catch up with classmates • Alumni Spotlight 28 | In Memoriam Remembering those members of the SLU community who recently died 30 | Alumni Events Attend SLU alumni activities where you live. 32 | Perspective An alumnus offers his views on teaching English in China. 33 | the last word Letters to the editor 8 2 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s lu . e d u Volume 3 7, Issue 2 Edi tor Laura Geiser (A&S ’90, Grad ’92) Contributors Marie Dilg (Grad SW ’94) Elizabeth Harris Krasnoff “On Campus” news storie s University Communications Medical Center Communications Billiken Media Relations Cov er Photo Chad Williams (A&S ’11) De sign Art Direction: Matt Krob Universitas is published by Saint Louis University. Opinions expressed in Universitas are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the University administration. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs are welcome but will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Letters to the editor must be signed, and letters not intended for publication should indicate that fact. The editor reserves the right to edit all items. Address all mail to Universitas, DuBourg Hall 39, One Grand Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. 63103. We accept e-mail at utas@ slu.edu and fax submissions at (314) 977-2249. Address fax submissions to Editor, Universitas. Postmaster: Send address changes to Universitas, Saint Louis University, One Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103. World Wide Web address: www.slu.edu/pr/universitas.html Universitas is printed by Universal Printing Co. Worldwide circulation: 112,000 © 2011, Saint Louis University All rights reserved. FA L L 2 0 0 4 WINT E R 2 0 0 5 S a i n t L ou i s U n i v e r s i t y mi s s ion s tat em e n t The mission of Saint Louis University is the pursuit of truth for the greater glory of God and for the service of humanity. The University seeks excellence in the fulfillment of its corporate purposes of teaching, research, health care and service to the community. It is dedicated to leadership in the continuing quest for understanding of God’s creation and for the discovery, dissemination and integration of the values, knowledge and skills required to transform society in the spirit of the Gospels. As a Catholic, Jesuit university, this pursuit is motivated by the inspiration and values of the Judeo-Christian tradition and is guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the Society of Jesus. { contents } Also in this issue: The 2010 President’s Report + + + + + To read a message from University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J., please see the President’s Report insert at the center of this issue of Universitas. features 8 Much Ado Abo ut So mething Follow the process as Saint Louis University brings a Shakespearean classic to life. — By Laura Geiser, Photos by Chad Williams 12 Research and Development Six stories that illustrate how undergraduate research enriches student and faculty experiences. — By Elizabeth Harris Krasnoff 17 Reale Madrid A conversation with Frank Reale, S.J., vice president and rector of SLU’s Madrid Campus. — By Laura Geiser 20 Doctor, Doc tor Meet father-son alumni, Drs. William and James Sears, who are focused on children’s health. — By Marie Dilg 20 17 12 2 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 3 { on campus } t h e A R T S a t S L U Investor Warren Buffett hosts SLU students For the third year in a row, students from the John Cook School of Business MBA programs had the opportunity to spend a day with Warren Buffett, the renowned investor, industrialist and philanthropist. Twenty graduate students and a program coordinator took a bus trip from St. Louis to Omaha, Neb., for the Nov. 19 visit. They toured two Buffett subsidiary companies, participated in a two-hour question-and-answer session with Buffett and lunched with him at his favorite Omaha restaurant, Piccolo Pete’s. SLUMA shows work of Tom Huck The Saint Louis University Museum of Art is presenting “Tom Huck: Brutal Truths” through April 17. The exhibition features the woodcuts of the nationally renowned art-ist. “Brutal Truths” includes more than 45 of Huck’s large-scale, intricate woodcuts. In many of his prints, Huck finds his inspiration in bizarre but true occurrences that happened in his boyhood home of Potosi, Mo. He uses his printmaking skills to exaggerate the details and embellish the facts in his woodcuts. SLUMA’s hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. For more information, visit sluma. slu.edu. ‘Miserere et Guerre’ exhibit at MOCRA Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art is presenting the complete series of 58 etchings that comprise French artist Georges Rouault’s “Miserere et Guerre” through July 31. The series was last shown at MOCRA in 2003. Art critic John Canaday describes Rouault as “one of the great printmakers of the age,” and the “Miserere” as “landmarks in the development of print techniques.” The themes of the series include war and economic injustice, as well as mercy, compassion and forgive-ness. MOCRA’s hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. For more information, visit mocra. slu.edu. Georges Rouault. Miserere et Guerre: No. 55, L’aveugle parfois a consolé le voyant. 1927. Possum Promenade, 2003 edition 12/25, woodcut Bloody Bucket series, 38" x 52" Two vice presidents appointed Paul Stark, S.J., has been named vice president for mission and ministry. Stark entered the Society of Jesus in 1977 and has experience as an educator, administrator and pastor. He spent the first 15 years of his career teaching in Jesuit high schools. His first job at SLU was in campus ministry. In the mid 1990s, he served as SLU’s vice president for student development and most recently served as assistant vice president for alumni relations and annual giving. Stark succeeds Frank Reale, S.J., who now serves full-time as rector and vice president of SLU’s Madrid Campus. (Read a Q&A with Reale on page 17.) Jeff Fowler has been named Saint Louis Uni-versity’s vice president for University advance-ment. He had served as interim vice president since November 2009. Fowler, who joined SLU in 2000 and previously served as associate vice president of University marketing and communications, now oversees the advancement, alumni relations and marketing and communications activities of the University. As interim, he reorganized SLU’s development area, led efforts to launch a new annual giving campaign and restructured SLU’s giving society events. He also solicited a number of major gifts, and dur-ing his tenure overall giving to SLU increased. Construction continues on the Education Union at the Medical Center. The building — located next to the School of Nursing — is being renovated and expanded to include a student lounge, a study space, a 225-seat auditorium, a state-of-the-art patient simulation center and an area for food service. It is scheduled to be completed by this summer. WINTER’S TALE: Like most of the country, Saint Louis University was hit by this winter’s massive storms, which forced the closure of SLU for two consecutive days in early February. It was SLU’s first two-day closure since 1982. Photo by Chad Williams submitted Photos Photos by steve dolan Photo by Chad Williams 4 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 5 ART IN THE PARK: The space at the intersection of Lindell and Grand boulevards has been designated as the Ellen Clark Sculpture Park. The park features sculptures by St. Louis artist Mel Meyer, S.M. National Children’s Study starts in St. Louis The National Children’s Study, the largest U.S. study ever conducted to learn about the health and development of children, is beginning in St. Louis. Led locally by Saint Louis University School of Public Health, the study will follow more than 100,000 children from diverse back-grounds and communities across the United States from before birth until age 21. It will examine the effects of the environment and genetics on the growth, development and health of children. Dr. Louise Flick, SLU professor of epidemiology, is the principal investigator for the National Children’s Study Gateway Study Center. Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Battelle Center for Public Health Research and Evaluation, St. Louis Office, are collaborating partners on the research in the region. The National Children’s Study is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency. As the lead regional site, SLU’s School of Public Health was awarded $53.1 million to conduct the research. SLU scientists partner on malaria research Saint Louis University’s Center for World Health and Medicine and China’s Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) are forming a global research partnership that initially will focus on new treatments for malaria. The organizations are not only connected by a shared commitment to fight a devastating disease, but their key leaders are former Pfizer Inc. drug discovery scientists who formerly worked together in Chesterfield, Mo. GIBH is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a premier government scientific re-search organization in China, which is similar to the U.S. National Science Foundation. Its chief technology officer and vice president of research, Micky Tortorella, has held the posi-tion for more than a year after leaving Pfizer. The Center for World Health and Medi-cine began with a dozen scientists at SLU in July, with a goal of turning basic science research into drugs that combat diseases and medical problems that largely afflict the developing world. “This is the first step in setting up an international network of collaboration fueled by scientists with expertise in drug discovery. This alliance gives us a global expertise and provides a real opportunity to succeed, in terms of developing safe, effective and afford-able new drugs,” said Peter Ruminski (A&S ’75), executive director of SLU’s center. “Malaria is becoming increasingly resistant to current treatments. We need new classes of drugs to attack this deadly disease, which kills between one and three million people a year. We think it is important for there to be mul-tiple therapeutic options for treating malaria, as there are for HIV or for bacterial infections, and this partnership will add significantly to efforts aimed at achieving that goal.” Department of internal medicine marks 100 years The department of internal medicine is celebrating its centennial anniversary. With about 130 full-time faculty, more than 300 staff members and about 150 residents and fellows, internal medicine is the largest department in the School of Medicine. It includes medical specialists from 11 divisions: cardiology; endocrinology; gastroenterology and hepatology; general internal medicine; geriatrics; hematology and medical oncol-ogy; immunobiology; infectious diseases and immunology; nephrology; pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine; and rheumatology. 12 Student clubs/organizations 206 Miles from Loyola, where St. Ignatius of Loyola (founder of the Society of Jesus) was born and found faith 19 Sports available to students BY THE NUMBERS: At SLU’s Madrid Campus 4,414 Miles from the St. Louis campus 44 Years since its founding Library launches digital catalog collection Pius XII Memorial Library’s newest digital collection, “Saint Louis University Catalogs 1829-1902,” is now online. The catalogs contain the names of students and faculty, course reading lists, commencement programs and other information on each academic year. Several of the catalogs (1829-1835, 1838, and 1847) no longer exist in their original format, but were preserved as typewritten transcripts. There is also no catalog for 1849, because the 1848-1849 academic year was cut short by a major cholera epidemic, which brought the entire city of St. Louis to a halt for several months. Visit the online collection at libraries.slu.edu. News Briefs Michael Wolff will step down from the Missouri Supreme Court to serve as professor of law at the School of Law beginning in the fall of 2011. In addition to his current duties on the court, Wolff has served as the school’s distinguished visiting professor of law since 2007. Wolff will teach civil procedure, among other courses. Dr. Bruce R. Bacon, professor of internal medicine in the division of gas-troenterology and hepatology, received the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Distinguished Service Award last fall. He holds the James F. King, M.D., Endowed Chair in Gastroenterology at SLU. The Doisy College of Health Sciences will offer a new four-year bachelor’s degree program in magnetic resonance imaging this fall. The department of medical imaging and radiation therapeutics is launching the program to fill a nationwide gap in trained and certified MRI professionals. Dr. Phillip Ligrani is the new Oliver L. Parks Chair in Engineering. He joined the University this fall as the director of graduate programs at Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology and was for-mally invested as the endowed chair on Sept. 16. He also teaches as a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering within the college. Dr. Saleem Abdulrauf (Med ’91), professor of neurosurgery, is the au-thor of the first textbook on a type of brain bypass surgery. The book, Cerebral Revascularization: Techniques in Extracranial-to-Intracranial Bypass Surgery: Expert Consult, teaches neurosurgeons about the brain bypass technique that Abdulrauf himself helped develop. MBA students go global in Hong Kong More than 40 members of Saint Louis University’s full-time, one-year MBA program kicked off 2011 with a trip to Hong Kong to complete their study abroad course requirement. During the 10-day January trip, students spent weekday mornings in the classroom, where they analyzed case studies involving Hong Kong or China, listened to guest lecturers from Hong Kong businesses and participated in extensive question-and-answer sessions. The course also included seven out-of-classroom activities. Finance professor Dr. Neil Seitz, who teaches the classroom com-ponent of the study-abroad course, accompanied students on the trip. For Seitz, the trip is an invaluable experience for students pursuing a career in international business. “Globalization of business involves everyone selling their skills in an international marketplace,” he said. “Because of the growing importance of international business, overseas experience is an essential part of the management progression path at many companies.” ON TRACK: The Medical Center Recreation Stadium is taking shape. The complex, which consists of a soccer field, ringed by an NCAA-regulation, eight-lane running track, is located east of the Hickory Garages and west of Compton Avenue. Ruminski (left) and Tortorella Photo by Chad Williams Photo by Chad Williams Photo by Chad Williams submitted Photos 6 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 7 How did the recession affect fundraising? There are still people who may have less. But they’re still philanthropic, and they still want to give. Those who give because they want to support a great mission will continue to do so. They may give a lower amount, but they’re not stopping. They just have to cut back a little. Donors or charitably minded people are go-ing to keep giving. Giving is not transactional. Donors don’t give to get something. They give because they believe in something. What would you like to tell alumni who are considering a gift but are worried about the economy? I’d want alumni to know that whatever level of support they can give will help the institution. And if they have to give a smaller gift this year versus what they’ve done in the past, it’s fine. What’s important is participation, staying in the habit of supporting the institution. Alumni are giving to something that will be here for future leaders forever. So, any gift is a great investment. Just continue giving, and we will continue to be good stewards of everything you entrust to this institution. I also would want alumni to know about all of the progress that’s happening here. People want to give to winners. They want to give to institutions that are showing progress. You look around this campus, and everything’s moving forward. Building projects are under way, new majors are being developed; we’re not shutting the doors on anything. We’re just as vibrant and alive as ever. So what a great institution for people to support at whatever level they can. Why is alumni participation so important? The strongest case you can make for people to give to an institution is to show that those who are closest to it — in our case, our alumni — are supporting it. If the alumni are all giving to the institution, then when my de-velopment colleagues and I talk to possible donors, they will see that alumni support and say, “Well, if all of those alumni have invested and feel confident, we can invest, too.” The more alumni who participate at any level sends a very strong message to the region, to the community and to other alumni that this is something they should support, too. What current or upcoming University projects do you think might be of interest to donors? So many come to mind — the Center for Sustainability, the Center for World Health and Medicine and the Center for Global Citi-zenship, which will help us meet the needs of our international student population. At the Medical Center, the Education Union and the Recreation Stadium are much needed. These initiatives are really going to encourage interprofessional collaboration. Are there opportunities for donors at any level to these projects? Yes, any level. There’s a need for basic annual operating support of those building projects and centers. There are also major naming opportunities to recognize donors who give at significant levels. So ranging from smaller annual gifts to $10 million, there’s something for every level of support. Donors get excited about projects, but are there other opportunities for giving? Scholarships speak to almost everybody. Even if you didn’t receive a scholarship when you were in school, you still understand the meaning of that type of gift and what it can do. And depending on the level of gift, you can name a scholarship and interact with the student recipient. And if there’s a department, school or college that was especially important to you, directly influenced your future or helped shape your career, you can find something within that area to support. You left SLU about seven years ago. What are your impressions since you’ve been back? When I left, the Doisy Research Center wasn’t here; I was raising money for it. And now there’s this amazing building that is home to researchers who are going to change lives. But I think what amazes me most is Father Biondi’s continued vision for this institution. From the academic side of things to the capital projects, the evolution of Saint Louis University is so impressive. There’s something here for everyone to sup-port. I’m just very happy to be back. To make a gift to Saint Louis University, use the envelope enclosed in this issue of Universitas, visit giving.slu.edu or call (314) 977-2849. { billiken news } billiken beat The Saint Louis University department of athletics inducted 11 individuals, the Luechtefeld family and the 1999-2000 men’s basketball team into the Billiken Hall of Fame on Feb. 18 in a ceremony at Busch Student Center. The Billiken Hall of Fame welcomed its initial class in 1976. Since then, more than 250 student-athletes, teams and dignitaries have been selected for induction. This year’s honorees represent five categories. BILLIKEN GREAT: PIONEER / Prior to 1980 Kent Jackson (ice hockey, 1974-78): As a de-fenseman, Jackson led SLU to two Central Col-legiate Hockey Association regular-season titles (1975 and 1977) and two tournament champion-ships (1975 and 1976). He was an All-Confer-ence selection all four years during his career and was a first-team choice in 1977. BILLIKEN GREAT: CONTEMPORARY / 1980 to present Brett Bredensteiner (baseball, 1995-98): Bredensteiner started all 200 games during his SLU career. He is second in career hits (247), second in home runs (43), tied for second in RBIs (182) and still the all-time leader in runs scored (169), triples (16) and total bases (459). Nicole Bohnenstiehl Pinaire (softball, 2001- 03): When Pinaire graduated, she held virtually every SLU pitching record including wins (41), strikeouts (672), shutouts (20) and ERA (1.72). In addition, she held the marks for home runs, RBIs and slugging percentage and pitched the only perfect game in program history. Megan Capellupo Lehr (swimming, 2002-05): Lehr was the first SLU swimmer to achieve the NCAA “B” standard in any event (the 200 breaststroke). She also was the first Billiken Conference USA swimming champion in any event and still holds the school record in the 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke. Janet Darpel Leigh (volleyball, 1987-90): Leigh was a three-time Midwestern Collegiate Conference first-team selection who helped the team to conference titles in 1988 and 1989. At her graduation, she was the career record holder in kills (1,464), total blocks (495) and solo blocks (205), a record that still stands. Evan Frederick (golf, 2002-05): Frederick is the program’s all-time scoring leader and holds virtually every individual scoring record. During his career, he was tournament medalist three times. Frederick’s career stroke average was 74.21, and he set the single-season standard of 72.82 as a senior. Meg Gleason (cross country, 1995-99): Glea-son was the first SLU student-athlete to earn a Rhodes Scholarship. As a senior, she recorded a career-best time of 19:24 over 5K at the All- Missouri meet, which was good for eighth place on SLU’s individual performers list. Jack Jewsbury (men’s soccer, 1999-2002): Jewsbury was a two-time All-American, an Aca-demic All-American and the 2000 Conference USA Player of the Year. Playing in the NCAA Tournament all four years, he finished his career tied for 10th place on SLU’s scoring list with 101 points on 38 goals and 25 assists. Kevin Johnston (men’s soccer, 1987-90): John-ston is SLU’s all-time winningest goalkeeper with 52 victories. He posted a career goals against average of 0.90, to rank fifth all time, and his 280 saves are third most in program history. Johnston helped the team to NCAA Tournament appearances all four years. Beth Yagge Conrod (softball, 1999-2003): Conrod started 199 of 200 games during her career and helped the team set a record with 25 wins in 2001. She still holds the records for putouts and chances and was a third-team Academic All-American. She finished her career second in doubles (30). DISTINGUISHED ALUM: PIONEER Nick Riggio Sr.: A three-year baseball Billiken, Riggio hit above .300 and helped the team win the Missouri Valley Conference title in 1953. He was an attorney for more than 50 years and helped stop a potentially hazardous environ-mental situation. He also served on Missouri's board of economic advisors. DISTINGUISHED ALUM: CONTEMPORARY The Luechtefelds — Dave, Stan, Jeff, Donna, Ryan: The family played a combined 18 seasons of Billiken basketball and scored 3,074 points. Dave began the run in 1959. His brother, Stan, played from 1961-64. Dave’s son, Jeff, joined the Billikens in 1987 and registered 719 points. Dave’s daughter Donna, who played from 1990-94, ranks 13th in women’s program history with 1,200 points. And Dave’s son Ryan tallied 762 points starting in 1995. BOB BURNES AWARD 1999-2000 Men’s Basketball Team: This group is known for the “Miracle in Memphis” when, as the No. 9 seed, they won four games in four days to claim the Conference USA title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. Members of the Billiken squad were: Matt Baniak, Chris Braun, Drew Diener, Dave Fergerson, Josh Fisher, Chris Heinrich, Maurice Jeffers, Andrew Latimer, Justin Love, Marque Perry, John Redden, Troy Robertson, Larry Simmons and Justin Tatum. Honorees at the Billiken Hall of Fame dinner on Feb. 18. Photo by Bill Barrett Photo provided by RBNY/Getty { advancement news } Sheila Manion, associate vice president for development, joined Saint Louis University in October after heading up fundraising efforts at the Saint Louis Art Museum for six years. But Manion’s no stranger to SLU; she worked in development at the University from 1999-2004. Here, she discusses the state of fundraising and why giving matters. Photo by steve dolan Saint Louis University’s student athletic fan group now is called the SLUnatics. The student organizations that spearheaded the renaming of the group, for-merly known as the Blue Crew, solicited more than 50 potential names from the SLU student body to create a unique name for the fan group, one that incorporated SLU or Billikens in its name. More than 1,100 SLU students voted online. Former SLU men’s soccer All-American Tim Ream was named to the U.S. men’s national team for the first time for a match against South Africa on Nov. 17 in Cape Town. Ream, who played for the Billikens from 2006-09, was a Major League Soccer Rookie of the Year finalist with the New York Red Bulls. He was one of two players in MLS in 2010 (and one of three rookies all time) to play in every minute of every regular-season game. Ream played in all but one game during his four-year Billiken career. After seven seasons as the Billikens’ head vol-leyball coach, Anne Kordes is leaving SLU to take the head coaching position at the Univer-sity of Louisville. Kordes, a Louisville native, led the Billikens to three NCAA Tournaments during her SLU coaching tenure, including the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win in 2008. A national search for her successor is under way. Billiken Hall of Fame member Msgr. Louis F. Meyer was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Jan. 30. The former director of St. Louis’ Catholic Youth Council was instrumental in launching SLU’s soccer program in the late 1950s. The department of athletics official online auction site is live with many opportunities for Billiken fans to buy exclusive items and ticket packages. The site (found at slubillikens.com) provides fans the opportunity to purchase items available only through the department of athletics, including authentic game-worn Billiken uniforms, official University sporting gear and unique SLU merchandise. Clockwise from left: Graduate student Alyssa Ward (A&S ’10) auditions on the Xavier Hall stage on Dec. 3; sophomore Youngho Bok and his fellow students wait in the Xavier Hall corridor for their auditions; stage manager Anita Shastri (right), a junior, manages call back auditions while freshman Michael Viviano completes his bio form; director Tim Ocel (left), fine and performing arts departmental chairman and professor of theatre Gary Barker, theatre instructor Nancy Bell and Tom Martin, associate professor of theatre, make casting decisions in December. 8 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s lu . e d u — By Laura Geiser • Photos by Chad Williams Putting on a show is hard work. It takes months of planning, weeks of rehearsal and countless hours of costume and set construction. For the Saint Louis University Theatre, putting on Much Ado About Nothing began in December with auditions on the Xavier Hall stage. It continued in January, when students reconvened for the spring semester and started working in the rehearsal studio, costume shop, scene shop and the theatre itself. And it concluded in March with closing night bows. More than 50 students, the entire theatre depart-ment faculty and staff, and a guest director collabo-rated on William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, a work that has delighted audiences with witty banter, deceived lovers and tragic overtones for more than 400 years. “The play is about what you see and what you think you see, as opposed to what the truth is,” said director Tim Ocel, who has directed professional Shakespear-ean productions at theatres across the country. To put the play into a recognizable political context, Ocel set the play in Messina, Italy, in 1936, rather than Shakespeare’s 16th century. “1936 is the year that the Italians invaded and conquered Ethiopia,” Ocel said. “And it was the time of the rising Italian Fascist party.” The 1930s also were the golden era of Hollywood screwball comedies. “Beatrice and Benedick, who are the most famous characters in this play, are like Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby,” Ocel said. “The biting wit of Beatrice and Benedick and the ‘merry war’ that they wage is really screwball comedy.” Bringing that “merry war” to life required more than Ocel’s vision. It demanded the time and talents of the theatre program faculty in SLU’s department of fine and performing arts. “They’re not only teachers, but they’re working professionals,” Ocel said. “They bring a sense of the professional world to the depart-ment, and that’s really important.” Jim Burwinkel, professor of theatre, designed the set. Mark Wilson, assistant professor of theatre, conceived the lighting. Bryce Allen, instructor of theatre, was the technical director and was responsible for getting the set built and installed on stage. Gary Barker, fine and performing arts departmental chairman and professor of theatre, and Nancy Bell, instructor of theatre, were vocal coaches. And Lou Bird, the theatre program director, designed the costumes and oversaw their construction. And then there were the students — 22 in the cast and 29 more in the crew. Of those, eight are not theatre majors. Still, they all came for the chance to tell a story. “Storytelling is important,” Ocel said. “Whether it’s pure entertainment or escapism, political or thought-provoking, we want to hear stories. “And whether you’re planning on being a professional actor or not, you need to go through the professional expe-rience,” he continued. “Not as if it were just some little side thing, but that it’s actually an important event. Being part of an ensemble and telling a story is just good citizenship.” Ocel treated his student cast and crew no differently than the professionals he has directed during the past 20- plus years. “I ask of them the same kind of commitment and the same kind of focus and homework,” he said. Here’s a look at how that commitment played out over three months this winter. To see what’s next for SLU Theatre, visit slu.edu/theatre. s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 11 From top photo above: A rendering of Hero’s wedding dress by costume designer Lou Bird; assistant costume shop manager Lisa Drewel puts the finishing touches on the dress in February; freshman theatre major Sam Moyer (right) wearing the dress during the wedding scene, with bridesmaid McGee (left). Below: Senior prop master and theatre major Lauren Garvey adjusts a wheelchair used in the play. Junior theatre major Gregory B. Cuellar as Benedick and McGee as Beatrice share an embrace Final bows on opening night, Feb. 25. Clockwise from above: A read through and text analysis at the first rehearsal in January; a scale model of the set; junior engineering major Peter Hasser, who played Don Pedro, takes a look in the mirror during a Feb. 23 dress rehearsal; senior theatre major Katie McGee, who played Beatrice, gets a wig adjustment from costume designer and theatre program director Lou Bird; set construction in process in the scene shop; senior Nannan Gu paints some of the many stones and columns carved from foam in the theatre scene shop. 12 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 13 From scientists to singers, undergraduates are embracing these opportunities with passion, dedication and an eye for detail. They’re exploring biofuels, racial identity, financial disclosures and a host of other subjects in the health sciences, bench sciences and humanities. “I think it is organic — faculty members are actively engaged in teaching and research,” said Dr. Raymond Tait, SLU’s vice president for research. “This is not driven by University administration — these are faculty who love what they do and want to give others the chance to participate in authentic discovery.” Tait said he believes professors understand that experiential learn-ing often yields lessons no homework assignment can supply. He likened it to the card game, bridge. “You can read all the books you want, but you’re never going to really know how to play until you do it,” he said. “Discovery comes from plain curiosity — you must want to embrace being confused and try to find answers. What is more fun than the rigorous efforts that lead to discovery?” Tait said these individual projects, with nary a trumpet in earshot, do signal a significant — albeit quiet — shift in the paradigm of a SLU education. “Faculty who mentor under-graduates by involving them in research are to be commended,” he said. “It really is a way to take standard teaching one step further.” In fact, Tait sees this shift as the crest of a national wave of support for undergraduate research. He points to the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science (COMPETES) Act, which encourages and supports research projects and internships in sciences, health and humanities for undergraduate students and provides funds largely for undergraduate institutions. In addition, the law provides for the National Science Foundation’s new Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program, which will fund projects from $200,000 to $5 million throughout the country. On the following pages, a sampling of SLU professors and their undergraduates discuss the projects they’re exploring. Financial aid Undergraduate Leonid Pugachev admits he had no idea how his life would change when he met with his finance professor last spring. Pugachev, a senior in the John Cook School of Business, wanted to speak with Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty about pursuing an independent study. Although Chakrabarty was going on sabbatical in the fall, she encouraged Pugachev to take on a research project. “She wanted me to work on a research project that studied when corporations put out corporate disclosures and how that timing relates to profits,” he said. “She really opened my eyes.” Pugachev agreed, and the two went about setting up guidelines for meetings and mentoring. Chakrabarty outlined her expectations, and Pugachev enumerated his responsibilities. “He came up with the idea that he could use the summer to collect the data,” she said. “I was pleasantly surprised that an undergraduate would work over the summer and then use the fall for analysis.” Chakrabarty liked Pugachev’s plan because it showed his initiative, interest and dedication, and more importantly, it gave him time to make mistakes. “The type of learning you get from original research is beyond measure,” Chakrabarty said. “In his research, Leo had to review thousands of statements, all in dif-ferent formats and locations. He had to quickly learn to be resourceful.” The work was both tedious and tricky. While regula-tions require companies to disclose data about profits and finances, how they disclose it can vary dramatically. Chakrabarty said it was precisely this issue that made her interested in the study, and Pugachev said he, too, became curious about what he would find. Still, both acknowledged that such complicated and inconsistent documentation can, and did, lead to col-lection issues. “I don’t think anything could have prepared me,” he said. “I lost data files, used wrong numbers, had to correct errors.” Despite the issues, Chakrabarty said she had no doubt that Pugachev would succeed. And that the experience would be invaluable. By fall, Pugachev had collected data from some 1,200 reports, after having discarded about 400 of them because of various issues. “It was in many ways a trial-and-error process,” he said. “And yeah, I had a lot of missteps, but I am light years ahead of where I was even a year ago.” Now, with Chakrabarty’s help, he is writing what he hopes will be a publishable paper. Regardless, both mentor and student agree the process proved more valuable than the paper. “Leo had to rethink aspects of the research, throw out some data and scrutinize not only the information he collected, but his methods as well,” Chakrabarty said. “And that is what good researchers do.” The experience gave Pugachev exposure to the research process, and as he applies to graduate schools, it will make him more appealing than other candidates, his professor said. “That is what undergraduate research can do if it is well done,” Chakrabarty said. “A good independent research project can be an invalu-able learning experience. I wish more students like Leo could experience this opportunity.” Pugachev could not agree more. Faculty are involving undergraduate students in their research and seeing a powerful impact on learning. Without an administrative directive or grand fanfare, Saint Louis University faculty members are encour-aging their undergraduate students to get involved in research projects that extend beyond the classroom. By Elizabeth Harris Krasnoff Pugachev (left) and Chakrabarty Photos by kevin lowder 14 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 15 Fuel efficiency As a SLU freshman, Tim Toby encountered the kind of course that gives some students nightmares. “I was in a very difficult general chemistry lab class,” he said. “The class was well-taught, yet it required lots of work, preparation and responsibility.” It became a defining moment for Toby, although at the time he just thought he had stepped up to a challenge. His efforts in the classroom and in the lab caught the attention of Dr. Shelley Minteer, the College of Arts and Sciences Endowed Professor of Chemistry. An award-winning scientist, Minteer is recognized for her groundbreaking research into biofuel cells. “Dr. Minteer was looking for a couple of undergrads to assist her growing entourage of master’s and doctoral students, so I was offered the chance to help with research projects,” Toby said. Toby is one of more than 50 students who have worked in the Mint-eer research group during the past 11 years. “I find it extremely rewarding and have found that the students are stellar researchers,” Minteer noted. “The students typically work on federally funded research projects in my lab, and they usually work in groups toward a common research goal. It teaches them the importance of teamwork and how people can accomplish more as a team than they could accomplish individually.” Toby’s latest project involves protein complexes that, if used in a bio-fuel cell, Toby said, could increase energy outputs and fuel cell efficiency. This effort marks his third year in Minteer’s lab. For his first project, Toby spent the majority of his summer getting yeast cells to over-express metabolic enzymes in custom-made fermenters. “Don’t worry; I wasn’t brewing beer,” he said. “But it was cool, right?” And his efforts paid off. He presented a poster at the 2010 National American Chemical Society Conference in San Francisco last spring and recently had his work published in both the Journal of the American Chemical Society and ChemCatChem. “It was a blast,” he said, “in kind of a nerdy way.” Minteer applied his findings to her biofuel cells, and the increase in transport led to an improved output of their fuel cells. And Toby, now a junior majoring in investigative and medical sciences, learned the virtue of hard work. “Research was something I always wanted to get involved in, yet had heard how difficult it was for underclassmen — even many upperclassmen — to get to be a part of it,” he said. “I never expected to get a project as a freshman, just by spending a little more time on a one-credit-hour class.” RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Character study Getting published can be challenging, that’s why senior Ashley Brownlee is glad she began her research two years ago. It is also why she sought out assistant professor Katrina D. Thompson, who has a dual appointment in history and African American studies. Though they had not met, Brownlee said she wanted Thompson to be her mentor be-cause “she was interested in the arts and slavery and race.” Brownlee said she needed someone who shared her passion for the arts and her interest in African American studies to guide her research and help her develop her ideas. “Ashley is an opera singer, but she also has an interest in history,” Thompson said. “She intends to attend gradu-ate school with the hopes of continuing her research on race and performance.” As one of 25 McNair Scholars, Brownlee was seeking a research project that would somehow marry her double major of music and African American studies. Funded by a federal grant, the McNair Scholars pro-gram encourages SLU students to participate in under-graduate research as a bridge to interest them and prepare them for graduate school. The program offers $2,800 in scholarships annually to first-generation undergraduates and those from underrepresented groups in doctoral programs. The stipend can go toward research, travel, graduate school admission fees and living expenses. Because of her experience as an African American opera singer, Brownlee became interested in exploring potential topics within that realm. Her stage background offers Brownlee an insider’s perspective as she considers opera’s historical framework. “It is something that relates to me. I sing opera — I am classically trained,” Brownlee said. “I play these charac-ters and wear these costumes.” Last summer, Thompson met with Brownlee to flesh out the scope of the research, develop goals and establish deadlines. “I continually pressed Ashley to ask broader questions,” Thompson said. “I wanted her to examine the plot of these operas while placing them within the larger historical context. I wanted her to examine the racial tensions within the operas to further understand the man-ner race was constructed within the political and social systems of the time. I raise the questions. I ask, ‘So what does this mean historically, culturally, politically?’” And Brownlee continues to develop the answers. “Art has influence,” she said. “It reinforces stereotypes and precon-ceived ideas about people, particularly based on race.” And through it all, Thompson said she has found mentoring offers unexpected rewards. “I learn a lot, too,” she said. “It has helped me explore new circum-stances when art depicts and defines African Americans as ‘the other.’” Thompson said she thinks her efforts mean more than guidance to her students. “As mentors, we have the opportunity to pique their interest — to help them figure out who they are and what they want to do,” she said. “I continually want my students to think like historians. I asked Ashley pertinent questions so that she places herself in that time period and truly understands that society. Ashley knew to ask the basic questions who, what, where and when. However I taught her how to research and analyze the why.” Youth movement From the start, Dr. Joanne Wagner showed Drew Tigges how to con-duct research. The physical therapy assistant professor invited Tigges to observe in her NIH-funded lab, where she was studying movement of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). And she monitored him. “Students have to observe in my lab for a semester before I will com-mit my time to them,” Wagner said. Tigges relished the opportunity. “I took the initiative,” he said, “and I was willing to take the time to understand and ask questions.” Soon, Tigges showed promise, and Wagner drew her conclusion. “He is a very bright young man, and he shows all the qualities of some-one you would want working in a lab,” Wagner said. “He is inquisitive, reliable and intellectual — he is always trying to put a link between what he has found in the lab and his professional education as a PT.” That was two years ago. Today Tigges is a senior majoring in physical therapy. He credits his work with Wagner as the cornerstone of his undergraduate education. In fact, he has expanded his research efforts to include working with patients in another MS study, this time con-ducted by PT associate professor Rosemary Norris. “It has really enhanced my experience in the lab to talk personally to MS patients about what their disease means to them — it takes it to a personal level,” Tigges said. “I started out looking at what it could do for me academically, and now I’m proud to be a part of something that helps MS patients and the community.” Wagner believes Tigges’ time in her lab will help him be a better physical therapist. The studies themselves, not just their outcomes and data, she said, offer experience and perspective. “An important component is to see the limitations of research,” Wag-ner said. “We have protocols we must follow.” To standardize the data collection, all information is procured from patients in a lab setting, which creates standards but limits data as well, she noted. Discovering these limitations helps students learn the value of sound study practices and measures, and how to interpret findings from published research studies. “Our curriculum has a theme of evidence-based practice; students build a skill set so in their practices they can collect their own evidence effectively,” Wagner said. “They are always collecting data, and they start to understand how to prioritize this information and the impor-tance of standardized measures.” Tigges said that having Wagner as a mentor has given him access to a devoted professor, a terrific role model and a friend. Wagner said she believes the research starts Tigges on a lifetime path of inquiry. “I feel very strongly that students should have the opportunity to be involved in structured inquiry,” she said, “whether in a lab studying cells or a movement science lab with people with multiple sclerosis.” Wagner (left) and Tigges Minteer (left) and Toby Thompson (left) and Brownlee 16 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 17 In early September of 1971, Frank Reale, S.J. (P&L ’74) and four friends from Saint Louis University set out for New York City in a rental car laden with canned goods and an electric skillet. They were on a tight budget but wanted to experience a week in New York before three of the friends, including Sandra Johnson (A&S ’73), now interim dean of SLU’s School of Law, flew off for a study abroad semester at the SLU Madrid Campus. For Reale, the trip was a turning point. After driving back to St. Louis, he headed off to Kansas City to begin his training as a Jesuit. “I know I would have wound up in Spain as a study abroad stu-dent if I had not decided to enter the Jesuit novitiate,” Reale said. Apparently, all things come to he who waits. In May 2008, Reale finally got his chance to fly to Madrid — this time not as a student, but as vice president and rector for SLU’s campus there. Reale, who also recently served as SLU’s vice president for mission and ministry, spent a career preparing for leadership in Spain. He has been a high school teacher, vocation director, campus minister and head (or provincial) of the Jesuits of the Missouri Province. And now, 40 years after choosing the Jesuits over Madrid, he gets to have both. A conversation with Frank Reale, S.J., vice president and rector for Saint Louis University’s campus in Spain Reale Madrid – By Laura Geiser más Nuclear reactor While Saint Louis University undergraduates and faculty recognize the valuable experience research can offer, William Hubble, chairman of medical imaging and radiation therapeutics, also sees its value for his field of study. “Undergraduate students are not biased,” he said. “They have no preconceived notions going into the research." His colleague, Crystal Botkin (PH ’10), nuclear medicine clinical coordinator, agreed. “Our students have fresh eyes,” Botkin noted. That is one reason why Hubble and Botkin have encouraged many undergraduates to pursue research since 1997. Undergraduate students tend to raise questions about procedures and practices that otherwise go unanswered, Hubble explained. Senior Bridget Kistner, a pre-med student, likes looking for answers. In fact, this year marks her second undergraduate research project. Last year, she explored what would happen to radiation technologists and other nuclear medicine workers who are exposed to radiation as a part of their jobs if the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission further limited the level of acceptable occupational radiation exposure. She surveyed local radio-pharmacies, radiopharmaceutical manufac-turers and hospitals. In all, Kistner surveyed nine employers of more than 400 workers to see how much radiation exposure their employees typically get in a year. What she found was that most employees in the St. Louis area already worked within the lower limit. She wrote up her findings and presented them — along with eight other SLU students presenting their own projects — at the national conference of the Soci-ety of Nuclear Medicine last summer in Salt Lake City. Now Kistner hopes she can present her latest project at the society’s conference this summer in San Antonio. This time, she is exploring a true medical mystery. Her latest research examines why some patients’ hearts are visible on a PET scan. The appearance of the heart is variable and may or may not take up the ra-dioactive glucose. “I am trying to find out why,” she said. “It should not appear on the screen at all for oncology patients, but some patients have intense uptake [of the radioactive glucose].” Kistner has finished collecting her data samples but not her analysis. “At this point, I don’t know the outcome,” she said. “The process is a bit meticulous because I am looking at demographics, but I think it is a really great opportunity for me.” Eyes in the storm Dr. Robert Pasken (Grad ’82), a meteorology professor who works with NASA studying storms, believes that sometimes experience is the best teacher. That’s why he took sophomore Michelle Hogenmiller and two other undergraduate students aboard a DC-8, flying over Cuba to study tropi-cal storms. Hogenmiller found herself bouncing around an airborne laboratory headed into a series of tropical storms Sept. 13, 2010, that would form into Hurricane Karl two days later. The category 3 hurricane would prove to be a turning point in Hogenmiller’s life and the most violent and devastating of the 2010 storm season, leaving 22 people dead and $70 million worth of destruction in its wake. At that moment however, Hogenmiller was immersed in the experi-ence, focusing on the task at hand, which involved determining where and when to drop monitoring devices that would provide feedback about conditions outside of the plane. The goal, Pasken explained, is to train students about how to collect data effectively. All three of the students with Pasken were undergraduates — a rarity on the research flights —and all three want to go into meteorology. “Now they understand what they learned in the classroom in terms of real-world experiences,” he said. “What the data means and what it takes to collect it.” And it is that immersion experience Pasken wants for his students because it requires them to understand the importance of decision mak-ing in the process of collecting data and how those decisions impact the data they yield. To do this, Hogenmiller and her fellow students learned when to notify the pilot and navigator about where to make the drops so they could position the plane accordingly. “It teaches them what they need to know and why they need to know it,” Pasken said. “The experience gives them a sense of responsibility.” Hogenmiller said her experience has done even more than that. “There is nothing else like it,” she said. “To get hands-on experience, to get to do the research yourself, it is so much more than reading a research paper or a book. I had to learn a lot before I went. You go and realize there are the things you know and the things you can’t know — you have to use your judgment.” As an undergraduate, Hogenmiller believes her experience can lead to more opportunities to participate in this sort of research; it could open doors to graduate school. And ultimately it will improve warning systems for all kinds of weather disturbances, something she hopes to pursue someday. “People hear sirens go off all the time, and they don’t see torna-does,” she said. “That’s when it gets dangerous because they don’t take the warnings seriously. What we do could help save lives. The more we know, the better we can do at predicting storms, and the more people will heed the warnings.” RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Hubble (left), Botkin and Kistner Pasken (left) and Hogenmiller Reale Photos by ángel Garcia Lopez 18 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 19 Universitas: Your title is “rector.” Why? Reale: To make sense of it, you have to think of it as a Spanish word, not as an English word. In the context of Spanish education, a rector is equivalent to a university president. Obviously I’m not the president of that campus, but the prior title of vice provost makes no sense in Spanish. So we decided we should pick a term that had some meaning in Madrid. What do you think has changed during your time in Madrid? We’ve had a pretty complete reorganization of the administrative structure. Prior to my arrival, there were 12 or 13 people reporting directly to the vice provost, and now I have an execu-tive team of four. We meet every week, and the five of us really help to set the direction of the campus. We’ve also reorganized the academic disciplines. One of the things that’s a little harder to articulate, but which I feel very good about, is that we have refocused the institution on our Catholic, Jesuit mission. We’ve also emphasized our identity as the American, Jesuit university in Spain and really tried to highlight each one of those terms as significant to our identity. In terms of the campus, we’ve done some cleaning up and renovation, including our science facilities last summer. And we are cur-rently considering the purchase of real estate to replace the two buildings that we rent. (We own two buildings and rent two.) We’ve also been beautifying the campus. One of the things I’m proudest of is building many, many bridges between the Madrid and St. Louis campuses. I’ve also been educating the St. Louis campus about the Madrid Campus. While I’m not under any illusion that everyone understands us, I think more people know we exist and realize that, while we are an excellent study abroad program, we also offer complete undergraduate majors in six disciplines and two complete master’s degrees. What prepared you for this job? I’m tempted to say that if you can work in a Jesuit high school with some success, you’re probably prepared to do just about anything that the Society of Jesus would ask you to do, including being provincial. Organizational skills, communication skills, insights into hu-man psychology — I think those are all factors that help create a successful administrator. Oddly, though I have spent 25 years in one type of administration or another, I still think of myself primarily as a teacher. I think something that grew over time was my ability to articulate a vision or to speak to a fundamental identity. That’s really important because the primary responsibility of leadership is to keep reminding the institution of the big-ger picture. You have continued to have responsibilities for and on the St. Louis campus. How have you juggled your two worlds? One of the things I’m blessed with is a large capacity for work. At various times in my Jesuit life, I’ve worn more than one hat. One of the challenges is the two workdays, one of which begins at about 7:30 a.m. each morning in Madrid, and then the second one begins about 3 p.m. when St. Louis wakes up, given the seven-hour difference. That begins a whole period of overlapping workdays that then continues into the evenings with meetings and e-mail responses. So it helps to have a certain capacity to sit at a desk and keep working at a seemingly unending array of things to do. When I wake up in the morning and go to my office to begin my Madrid day, there’s usu-ally a pile of e-mails from St. Louis that people wrote later in their day. The good news is I know that no one in St. Louis is going to send anything for a number of hours because they’re still in bed. It’s like getting to the office early. Do you feel like you know Madrid? I think I know Madrid pretty well. One reason is that on weekends, I love to take long walks, just heading down streets that I haven’t walked before. It’s a fairly compact city, and you can cover a lot of territory in a couple of hours. And I continue to be very grateful for how friendly the Spanish people are. One of the things that strikes me, as a person whose Span-ish was largely acquired from high school many, many years ago, is how patient Spaniards are to a stranger who is attempting to speak Spanish. What would surprise our alumni who stud-ied at the Madrid Campus? Depending on when alumni were there, there would be a couple of things. First, they’d be surprised by how nice our campus is. Many of the earlier study abroad students would have gone to classes in a couple of widely separated buildings that weren’t much more than some rented classrooms. For those who studied prior to the early 1990s, they’d be surprised at how international we are. For an extended period our entire stu-dent body was Americans for study abroad and Spaniards doing two years of a four-year degree. Now, in addition to more than 200 study abroad students from St. Louis and across the United States, our degree-seeking students break out as about 35 percent from the United States, 25 percent from Spain and 40 percent from more than 60 other countries around the world. Some would be surprised that the instruction is largely in English now, although we still have some classes in Spanish. That’s mostly because of our international student body and our promotion of the acquisition of English as an international language. Things that would be familiar would be living with señoras and families. Many of our students continue to live with Spanish families and experience the Spanish language and cul-ture very directly through them. What do you think sets SLU-Madrid apart from other programs abroad? Well, one of the things I’ve mentioned already is the truly international composition of our students. Given the fact that our campus en-rolls anywhere between 600 and 650 students a semester, the international composition is pretty remarkable. The fact that we are very strong academically, and we are respected as such, is a very important characteristic of our campus. And the fact that we actually have a campus makes us unique among parallel programs in Spain. Other programs very often rent rooms. We’re small, but we are a university. One of our great strengths is, of course, our professors, who themselves contribute to the international composition of our campus — holding degrees from major research universities from around the world. While committed to re-search, they are very student-centered. Another strength of our campus is the very small class sizes. Our professors know our students well. What does the future hold for SLU-Madrid? In addition to renovation of our existing facili-ties, if we are successful in acquiring some more real estate, it’s going to be a great challenge to try to rethink those physical resources. It may very well mean the expansion of our library, some additional classroom space and new faculty offices. For us it could be very exciting to have a building that would be our own to replace a couple that have served us well but that are much more temporary. We want to continue to develop the academic ties with the St. Louis campus both through regular semester programs and special pro-grams. And continuing to explore what kind of education we can offer as the American Jesuit university in Spain is going to be important. We’ve also had some interesting conversations with the School for Professional Studies to see about the possibility of offering online educa-tion or post-bachelor’s certificates. And we keep looking for ways that we can be of service to the Madrid community as well. For a good number of years we’ve had a wonderful program — we call it the Community ESL — which is open to anybody. We offer English classes to Madrid adults in the evenings, and the teachers are our own students. And this past year, we connected with a number of outreach programs that address the homeless and the hungry. We’re also strengthening our ties with what I call the “other” Jesuit university in Madrid, Comillas Pontifical University, which is about the size of the St. Louis campus. And our faculty and student life staff are working hard at developing service and learning opportuni-ties for both our visiting and degree-seeking students, aligning further our campus to the extraordinary outreach efforts in St. Louis. Not long ago, you brought the Billiken mascot to Madrid and introduced him to the campus and city. Why? First of all, I like a challenge, and it is quite a challenge to introduce even the notion of a mascot to a Spanish university because Spaniards don’t have a tradition of mascots as-sociated with sports teams. And then, of course, you try to explain to them what a Billiken is, and we all know the challenge of that. Part of it was just the fun of it, an identifier, obviously unique, and also our soccer team is called the Billikens. Why has the Madrid Campus succeeded for so long? Madrid is a very nice place to call home. And in addition to being Spain’s capital, from Madrid you have easy access to a lot of Europe. But Spain itself is very special. There are many Spains, and those who live in Madrid can have pretty easy access to very diverse experi-ences in different parts of Spain. When push comes to shove, I still think what makes the campus most successful is the quality of the academic experience. So much about aca-demics on an undergraduate level is exposing people to bigger worlds. And that’s so enhanced by having their education take place in Madrid. Why is SLU-Madrid key to Saint Louis University? Well it truly is the most international thing about Saint Louis U. I know that as a broader university we’re really trying to build up our international outreach, and we’re doing some pretty exciting things. But our Spain campus is a constant reminder that in many ways every valuable university is really a world institution. We have a lot of ties around the world. But SLU-Madrid is a pretty concrete experience for undergraduate students that connects them to a bigger world. We’ve got those connections through research and often through profes-sors’ academic pursuits and conferences. But for students themselves, it’s a very intense and real experience of a bigger world. After all, we are the only American Jesuit university with a campus in the country where the founder of the Society of Jesus was born and started his work. What do you hope that students take away from their experience in Madrid? Well strangely enough, what I hope for our stu-dents in Madrid is what I hope for our students in St. Louis — that through the experiences that they have, primarily those that are offered though the University, they can come to a much better sense of what their own desires are for their lives and for our world. I hope they’ll figure out how they want to spend their lives and what will matter to them. The neat thing for us in Madrid is that the challenges that are presented to a student in terms of “Who am I? What do I stand for? What do I want?” take on a different feel than they would if a student were studying in St. Louis. But the enterprise is the same. This search for identity can happen in a lot of differ-ent places, but I think there are certain aspects of the Madrid experience that emphasize self discovery because studying in a new place can be so startling and so different. SLU Madrid at a Glance Undergraduate Majors /// Business Administration / International Business /// Communication /// Economics /// English (one semester in St. Louis) /// International Studies /// Political Science/International Relations /// Spanish Language and Literature Certificate Programs /// Business Administration /// Ibero-American Studies Graduate Degree Programs /// Master of Arts in English (dual degree with Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; one summer session in St. Louis) /// Master of Arts in Spanish 110 Faculty (75 percent holding terminal degrees) 7:1 Student to faculty ratio 15 Average class size 20 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s lu . e d u photo By nancy thompson s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 21 22 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s lu . e d u William Sears has written at least one big seller that is not geared toward parenting. Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer is the story of his battle with cancer and the lifestyle changes that allow him, at age 71, to be at the peak of health without prescription medication. “I believe many of the ‘D’ disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disor-der, diabetes, depression, and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder come from bad eating habits,” he said. “If you feed your kids junk food, you get back junk behavior.” Sears insists on two things when writing. First, the content must be science based. “Child rearing is too precious to base on someone’s opinion,” he said. Second, he writes only about what he learns first-hand from his own children and his practice in Capistrano Beach, Calif. When he encounters a child with good manners, good health and a good attitude, he interviews the parents. “I leave my office nearly every day with a page of notes of things a smart mom told me,” said Sears, also a clinical professor at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine. A Game Changer Sears acknowledges he has surprisingly good parenting instincts for some-one who had a pretty tough childhood in Alton, Ill. His father abandoned the family when he was a newborn, and his mother had to work two jobs to keep the family together. “I had a financially poor but emotionally rich childhood,” he said. Sears worked in steel mills and factories to pay his way through Catholic high school, after which entered the seminary. Three years in, Sears had a change of heart and thought he might want a family. He left the seminary and enrolled in pre-med studies at SLU. He earned tuition by teaching biology and Latin classes at the all-girl Xavier High School, then adjacent to the University. Sears knew he couldn’t afford SLU’s medical school, so he applied to and was accepted at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia. “I had a sickening feeling in my stomach as soon as I mailed my tuition deposit,” he said. “I belonged at SLU. I fit there. I wanted that Catholic influence, and I knew the professors at SLU were going to give me more than just medical facts. They were going to give me life skills training.” Sears went to see the late Dr. Armand Broudeur, a founding father of pediatric radiology at SLU and SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medi-cal Center, and begged to be admitted. Brodeur, who built a second career as a media doctor and had his own local television show, must have seen something of himself in Sears because he called Sears the next day and welcomed him to the freshman class. By the Book Parents can find more than 40 books, some of them translated into 20 languages, in the Sears Parenting Library. The bestsellers are: s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U NI V ERSITAS 23 1. Get behind the eyes of your child. Parenting is a series of reactions: “My child behaves like this. How do I react?” Before reacting, ask yourself, “If I were my child, how would I want my mother/father to react?” You’ll nearly always get it right. 2. Raise an empathetic child. Plant in your children the capacity to care. Teach your children to get behind the eyes of another child and imagine the effects of their actions on the other child. Say, “How would you feel if he hit you?” Lack of empathy is the root of many crimes and school shoot-ings that make headlines. 3. Instill the love of learning. Help your child have a healthy attitude about learning. In some way, every parent “home schools.” Help your children learn the connection between hard work, good grades and the good feelings of success. 4. Teach children the meaning of success. Your success in life is measured not by the money you make or the degrees you earn, but rather by the number of people’s lives that are made better because of what you do. 5. Encourage your child’s “special something.” Every child can shine, but some children shine differently. Discover your child’s unique gift and run with it. 6. Raise a good communicator. Talk to your children the way you want them to talk to others. Teach them eye contact: “I need your eyes, I need your ears.” 7. Show that choices have consequences. Teach children to be responsible for their own behavior to immu-nize them against bad choices. 8. Teach moral reasoning. Teach your child to listen to his or her “do-right voice inside.” 9. Just serve real food. Children have lost their taste for real food, believing that food has to be artificially sweetened, colored and preserved. Reshape your child’s tastes using the “we principle.” “This is what we eat.” The earlier you start, the better you can shape their tastes for life. 10. Prevent the “Ds.” We have an epidemic of “Ds”: ADD, ADHD, BPD, OCD and the big D – diabetes. The root causes of these “Ds” are other “Ds” – NDD (nutrition deficit disorder) and MDD (movement deficit disorder). The answer to the current health care crisis is self-care, beginning at an early age. Grandmother had the answer all along: “Eat more seafood, fruits and vegetables, and go outside and play.” Advice from Dr. William Sears Parenting, in a nutshell, is giving your children the tools to succeed in life. Here are 10 tools that I have tried to teach our children and have used in my medical practice during the past 40 years.” hen James Sears’ daughter, Leanne, was born in 1993 she had bruising in her right eye. Because he wasn’t sure whether to be worried, he turned to one of the country’s most widely trusted parenting books, The Baby Book, written by one of country’s most widely trusted pediatricians. “I found what I needed right away,” Sears said. “And it was pretty cool that the advice came from my dad. There’s a certain level of comfort in that.” Sears’ father, Dr. William P. Sears (A&S ’62, Med ’66), has been giving advice to his children and millions of parents throughout the world for more than 35 years. He and his wife, Martha Sears, have co-authored more than 40 books and dozens of articles in parenting magazines. They are frequent guests on television programs such as Oprah, Dr. Phil, Good Morning America and CNN. Along with their pediatrician sons — Dr. James Sears (Med ’96), who since the birth of his daughter has become an inter-nationally known physician himself, and Dr. Robert Sears — the family offers advice to parents on their AskDrSears. com website. “It’s a very active website because we’ve found that good parents always want to know how to be better par-ents,” William Sears said. Trusting Your Gut Often referred to as “America’s Pediatrician” by the media and “Dr. Bill” by his little patients, William Sears credits his success to good instincts and good timing. In the late 1970s when a friend encouraged Sears to be-gin writing, parents still were turning to Dr. Benjamin Spock’s book Baby and Child Care, written in 1946. “It’s a very good book, but I felt parents were outgrowing Dr. Spock,” Sears said. “His book was published when mothers were put to sleep to have their babies and parents wanted to be told how to raise their children. A change was coming. I sensed we were going to be living in a world where parents, especially mothers, were going to be wiser. They would want tools rather than a cookbook for raising their children.” Sears provided parents with tools for everything, including pregnancy, breastfeeding, sleeping, potty training and discipline. His books flew off the shelves. The Baby Book, first published in 1992, has sold more than a million copies and remains on many bestseller lists. Through his books, Sears popularized the philosophy known as attach-ment parenting based on the principles of attachment theory in develop-mental psychology. According to this theory, the emotional bonds a child forms with caregivers during childhood have lifelong consequences. Sears believes that parents who are sensitive and emotionally available raise more secure children. “Attachment parenting definitely went against the grain at the time,” Sears said. “Other experts said holding babies too much would spoil them. They told parents to put down their babies and let them cry it out. We, on the other hand, asked parents to see themselves through their baby’s eyes and decide how they would want their parents to react. If your gut tells you to pick up your child, pick up your child.” Experimenting with a bed sheet and their own children, Sears and his wife also designed a baby sling to get babies out of “mechanical contrap-tions” such as bouncy seats and strollers, and onto their mothers’ chests. “We’re huge proponents of babywearing,” he said. “Babies cry less when they can see their mothers’ faces. It’s as simple as that. I think the sling has been our greatest contribution to child rearing.” Write What You Know Sears’ newest book is The Portable Pediatrician, a hefty reference book published in 2011. Within the past year he also published The N.D.D. Book in which he coined the phrase nutrition deficit disorder. “ 24 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 25 Gertrude (Bosch) Fox (Nurs) and her late husband William have 10 children and 22 grandchildren. Gertrude stays busy with church and garden clubs in Roanoke, Va. Dr. Urie Parkhill (Med) and Mildred Drexler Parkhill celebrated their 60th anniversary in September. They live in Spring Lake, N.J. Carol (Holton) Welk (SW) is active in her parish in Spokane, Wash., staying involved with faith-sharing programs for 45 years. She also promotes the monthly senior potluck and serves as Eucharistic minister for the homebound. Ann (Marshall) Conroy (A&S) retired from the Lake County, Ill., State’s Attorney’s Office. She volunteers with Prairie State Legal Services, providing legal representation for the poor and GED tutoring for female inmates. She lives in Waukegan, Ill. Hon. Francis J. Eyerman (Cook ’56, Law ’59) is retired in St. Louis after 34 years as an administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration, Office of Adjudication and Review. Dr. Charles Smallwood (A&S ’56, Med ’60) serves on the board of the Old Colony Civil War Roundta-ble and chairs the Civil War committee of the Union Club of Boston. He is also secretary of the Plymouth District Medical Society and emeritus board member of St. Thomas More School. Kenneth Tobin (Parks) retired after 43 years with the U.S. Navy and ITT Industries working in aerospace engineering and management on the Navy’s Fleet Ballistic Missile Program. He lives in Lexington, Ky. J. Maurice Thro (Cook) manages Thro Clothing Co. in St. Charles, Mo. Rich Fuegner (A&S ’59, Grad ’65) and David Roth (A&S ’59, Law ’74) wrote Gaslight Square Illuminated: The Rise & Fall of St. Louis’ Premier ‘Hot Spot.’ The co-authors live in St. Louis. Harold Guehring (IT ’59, Grad ’66) and his wife, Cathleen, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in February. They live in Fort Wayne, Ind., and have four children and 10 grandchildren. Dr. Robert Westerheide (Med) retired in June and recently celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary along with his eight children, 17 grandchildren and 150 other friends and relatives in Mount Vernon, Ohio. John Bray (A&S ’60, Law ’62) received a com-mendation as a respected human rights lawyer from the British Parliament. He and colleagues prepared an assessment for the International League of Human Rights on issues surrounding the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. He lives in Washington, D.C. Gregory Haugan (Grad Cook) wrote a new book, Project Management Fundamentals. He lives in Heathsville, Va. Mary Ann (Connors) Larkin (Grad) has written That Deep and Steady Hum, a book of poetry published by Broadkill River Press. She lives in North Truro, Mass. Dr. Jay Meyer (Med) has a private practice and remains active in the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society. Dr. Theodore Stein (A&S) of St. Louis has retired from academia but remains involved with Sigma Xi, the American Gastroenterological Association and the Gastrointestinal Research Group. He has approximately 200 publications in medicine and science to his credit. Thomas Jerrick (A&S) retired in 2009 after 23 years with Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems in Baltimore. He lives in Crofton, Md., with his wife of 40 years, Ellen. They have four grandchildren. John Vassen (Law) is principal of Vassen PC and has published his fifth book, Tax Cheating: The American Way and A Tax for Healthcare. His previous book, Professional Corporations and Alternatives, is used in eight states for continuing legal education. He lives in Fort Meyers, Fla. Loretto (Powers) Buttimer (A&S ’63, SW ’65) is a licensed clinical social worker for Heartland Hospice in Macon, Ga. John Crane (A&S ’63, Grad ’64) wrote The Secrets of North Brother Island, an illustrated novel about the unsolved 1904 General Slocum disaster. He lives in Santa Fe, N.M. Thomas Jaskiewicz (Cook ’63, Grad ’74) was named CFO of the Year for Small Non-Profits by the St. Louis Business Journal. Dr. Stephen J. Miller (Grad) is the author of The Medical Elite. Before retiring to consult and write near Chicago, he was associate provost at Northwest-ern University. Diane (Dondale) Raymond (SW) retired from the Massachusetts State Department of Developmental Disabilities. She lives in Norwood, Mass., and enjoys traveling, volunteering at a local school and playing bridge. Dr. Howard Kainz (Grad) is a professor emeritus in the philosophy department at Marquette University in Milwaukee. In September, he published a book, The Existence of God and the Faith-Instinct. Samuel Fitzpatrick (Law) retired as associ-ate general counsel of Unitrin Inc. He lives in Burr Ridge, Ill. Judith Murphy (A&S) has retired and is adjusting to her relocation from California to Bradenton, Fla. Dr. Edward Wegman (A&S) is founding editor-in- chief of a new journal, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics. Known as the WIREs series, it was the joint winner of the 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Fairfax Station, Va. Anderson Davie (Parks) is a Federal Aviation Administration navigation specialist in the Western Pacific Regional Office based in San Francisco. He works with both U.S. and foreign air carriers. Madelaine (Kilbosa) Lawrence (Nurs) is an adjunct faculty member at Presbyterian School of Nursing at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. She has pub-lished two books, the first, In a World of Their Own: Experiencing Unconsciousness, is based on a research study. The second is a novel, A Hypnotic Suggestion, published under the pen name, Allison Jones. Wayne Lanter (A&S) has published his sixth book of poetry, In This House of Men. He has written one novel, The Final Day, and co-edited the poetry anthology New Century North American Poets. He holds a writing fellowship at the University of Iowa’s program in creative writing and has taught at Southwestern Illinois College for 38 years. Gwendolyn (Nies) Nichols (A&S) retired from Webster Groves (Mo.) Public Schools and lives with her husband William Nichols (Cook ’71) in Chesterfield, Mo. Dr. Bruce R. Barnhard (Dent) was featured in the July issue of New Jersey Monthly as one of the top dentists in New Jersey. He has been in private practice for 40 years and is also an assistant professor in the post-graduate department of prosthodontics at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Michael Koetting (A&S) retired from the University of Chicago Medical Center after almost 25 years as vice president of planning. Soon after, he joined the leadership team implementing health reform for the state of Illinois. Michael Ryan (A&S) retired from Wettereau Inc. and is self-employed in the advertising specialty busi-ness. He lives in Fairview Heights, Ill. Dr. Henry Udouj Jr. (Dent ’68, Grad ’72) has been practicing orthodontics since 1972. He is now in practice with his son, Dr. Henry Udouj III (Grad ’99). He lives in Fort Smith, Ariz. Dr. John O’Brien (Med) of Dallas is president-elect of the Texas Surgical Society, slated to begin his term in 2012. George O’Keefe (Grad) is a federal contractor for SAIC in Bethesda, Md. Douglas Ries Jr. (A&S ’69, PH ’72) retired in 2008 as CEO of Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center and is now senior network executive for uni-versity affiliations with SSM Health Care-St. Louis. Mary (Boyts) Schmit (SW) has been a volunteer teacher with the Immigrant Refugee Women’s Pro-gram since retiring in 2005. She lives in St. Louis and recently visited France with her husband, Pete. Dr. Thomas Barrett (Med) works part-time as a locum tenens radiologist in Venice, Fla. Joan (Wesselmann) Reinhardt (A&S) is an adjunct history professor and director of the McNair Schol-ars Program at the University of Texas at Arlington. ’49 ’50 ’60 ’67 ’51 ’62 ’65 ’68 ’55 ’63 ’66 ’69 ’56 ’64 ’57 ’59 ’70 TV FAQ Since The Doctors premiered in 2008, ratings have climbed steadily, as has Dr. James Sears’ profile. Here are the most common questions he receives when fans stop him on the street: Can you ask Dr. Andrew Ordon (the show’s reconstructive surgeon) to give me a makeover? Viewers can send their stories to The Doctors producers, who make the decisions about surgery candidates. Is Dr. Travis Stork (the show’s handsome ER physician) single? The star of 2006’s The Bach-elor probably prefers to answer that question himself. If you’re on TV every day, when do you have time for patients? Sears tapes the show on Thursdays and Fridays — three shows each day. This leaves him time to see patients at the beginning of the week. Where is the show taped? Sears tapes The Doctors on the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles, on a set between Dr. Phil and the NBC sitcom Community, which stars Chevy Chase. Sears said he has passed Chase a few times on the parking lot but hasn’t had the nerve to say “hi” yet. It turns out Chase has been trying to meet Sears and his colleagues. Chase stopped by the set be-cause he is a fan of the show, but Sears wasn’t around. Are you recognized often? Sears said he gets stopped by fans almost everywhere he goes now. During a recent trip to Walt Disney World for a Children’s Miracle Network event, a fairly large crowd of autograph seekers caused him to be late for the fireworks display at Epcot. Sears said he’s not complaining, though, because it’s a sign the show is doing well. The Littlest Patients Sears says he was an average student making aver-age grades in the classroom. It was in the hospital where he excelled and where he became commit-ted to his specialty. “When you heal a child, you’re healing a lifetime,” he said. “You influence a person’s life for 70, 80, 90 years. Not a lot of other branches of medicine can say that.” It also was in the hospital where Sears discov-ered what he considers essential to compassionate care — the helper’s high. “Success in medicine is not measured by money or stature,” he said. “It’s measured by how you make people’s lives better and the high that comes from that. Maybe I worked a long day. Maybe I’m exhausted. Maybe I get called in the middle of the night. That’s all wiped away when I make a child better. That’s the helper’s high kicking in, and I can’t practice without that.” Sears also says he can’t practice without his wife, whom he met during rounds at Saint Louis Uni-versity Hospital. A patient on his floor went into cardiac arrest, and one of the nurses who rushed into the room was Martha. They were married six months later. In the Family Business William and Martha have eight children, three of whom are physicians. A fourth is in pre-med stud-ies. James Sears, the oldest, probably followed most closely in his father’s footsteps but definitely at his own pace. An avid athlete, he took off a couple of years after undergraduate studies to be a “ski bum.” “At one point my dad sat me down and said, ‘Son, there are lot of professions out there, and it’s important to do something you love. I just want you to know that you’re free to be any kind of doc-tor you want to be,’” Sears laughed. Not too long after that conversation James Sears enrolled in SLU’s medical school with the intention of becoming an orthopaedic surgeon. “I figured I’d be anything but a pediatrician,” he said. “Between growing up as one of eight children and transcribing my dad’s dictated book chapters in high school, I thought I had my fill of kids,” he said. “It wasn’t until my third-year rotation at Cardinal Glennon that I realized how comfortable I was with them and how I enjoyed their company.” After completing his training, James Sears joined the Sears Family Practice in Capistrano Beach, where he prefers Hawaiian shirts over a white coat and “Dr. Jim” over Dr. Sears. “My patients are my extended family,” he said. “I get invited to their birthday parties and gradu-ation ceremonies. I really see myself as a teacher, and I enjoy seeing new parents gain confidence with their babies and become great moms and dads.” In addition to seeing patients, Sears began help-ing his father revise and write parenting books. He wrote books and magazines articles of his own. As was the case with his father, this led to media appearances, including more than a dozen stints on Dr. Phil. In 2008, when Dr. Phil McGraw launched a spin-off program called The Doctors, he recruited Sears to be the talk show’s resident pediatrician. During the nationally syndicated daily talk show, Sears and three other renowned physicians from different specialties discuss health issues in a frank, off-the-cuff manner. The show is available in all major U.S. markets, as well as in Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. “We’re huge in the Middle East,” he said. “I have a lot of Twitter followers in Lebanon and Jordan, probably because they have limited access to doctors, so they rely on our advice.” Advice for the Advisers When your job is giving advice to millions, you might wonder what advice the Sears’ have found valuable. For James Sears, it was something his mother said when he was packing for SLU medical school. “She said, ‘Medical school is great, but don’t let it kill you. Take time for yourself and have fun.’ I still live by that today,” said Sears, who keeps a cap on his office hours so he can drive his two children to school, ride his bike an hour or two a day and have dinner with his family. William Sears said the best advice he received was to surround himself with a network of very wise friends and avoid getting sidetracked. “I coached little league baseball for 18 years, and I always told my players not to swing at a pitch in the dirt,” he said. “This is true for base-ball and life. Medicine is a target right now — a target for the government, a target for insurance companies — but if you let yourself be distracted by the battles, you’ll lose sight of what it means to be a doctor, you’ll never truly experience that helper’s high.” 26 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 27 Michael Albrecht (Cook ’92, Law ’96) is a partner in Angeleno Communities, which rehabilitates residential properties in low-income areas of Southern California. He and his wife Lauren and children, Alexander and Maggie, live in Pasadena, Calif. Clay Juracsik (Parks) opened the St. Louis Salt Room in Maplewood, Mo. Dr. Christopher Bee (Med) practices with Summit Pathology, a private practice cover-ing several hospitals in northern Colorado. Terri Breneman (Law) lives in St. Louis and is the author of four murder myster-ies published by Bella Books: Anticipation, Borderline, Compulsion and Delusional. Kelly King (Cook) is regional president for AT&T’s Mobility and Consumer Markets organization in the south central region, living in Dallas and overseeing all sales and financial operations within a five-state area. Cassandra Sanford (A&S ’95, Law ’03) of Kelly Mitchell was a St. Louis Business Journal “40 Under 40” 2011 honoree. Ronald Eckstein (Grad Cook) is the vice president of supply chain/transportation for Guitar Center in Carmel, Ind. Sara Johnson (A&S ’97, Grad ’04) and her husband Chris welcomed a son, Jack Kenneth, on Aug. 6. They live in Webster Groves, Mo. Greg Radinsky (Law) is a vice president and chief corporate compliance officer for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the second largest non-secular health system in the United States. He lives in Port Washington, N.Y. Erika (Carducci) Schenk (Law) of the Bryan Cave law firm was a St. Louis Business Journal “40 Under 40” 2011 honoree. Dr. Zac Cogley (A&S) completed his Ph.D. in philosophy at The Ohio State University and is an assistant professor at Northern Michigan University. He lives in Marquette, Mich., with his partner, Andrea Scarpino. Amy Hanan (Nurs) lives in Kansas City, Mo., with her husband Darrell and three children, Ava, Sophia and Nicholas. She has been an operating room nurse for 10 years. Bradley Hansmann (A&S ’98, Law ’01) is a law principal at Brown & James and received the Lon O. Hocker Award from the Missouri Bar Foundation. He lives in St. Louis. Joshua Rogers (A&S) is vice president of Fleishman-Hillard International Communi-cations in St. Louis. Jeffrey Berger (Law) was a St. Louis Business Journal “40 Under 40” 2011 honoree. He works for McBride and Sons. John Gunn (Law) was elected to the boards of direc-tors of the Bar Plan Mutual Insurance Co. and the Bar Plan Surety and Fidelity Co. and serves in the ABA House of Delegates. He is vice president of the Gunn Law Firm in St. Louis County. Deborah Hawkins (Law) opened her own practice in June 2009, Hawkins Law Office. She lives in Edwardsville, Ill. Dr. Heather Hunter (Med) is a pediatric hospitalist at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis. Dr. Larry Morton (SW) received his Ph.D. in social work from Washington University in St. Louis in August. He joined the faculty of Western New Mexico University in January. Sascha (Caban) Thein (Doisy), her husband Tim and son Christian Alan welcomed their new addi-tion, Patrick Xavier, on Sept. 21. Sascha was named Clinician of the Year at HealthSouth’s Sea Pines Rehabilitation Hospital in Melbourne, Fla., where she is a part-time occupational therapist. Lowe Finney (Law) was re-elected to a second four-year term in the Tennessee State Senate in November. He serves as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus and lives and practices law in Jackson, Tenn. Russell Schenewerk (Law) worked on a case that was named by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as one of the Top Trial Verdicts of 2009. He lives in Branson, Mo. When newly elected U.S. Rep. Francisco “Quico” Canseco (A&S ’72, Law ’75) of Texas arrived at Saint Louis University in 1968, he had no plans to become a U.S. Congressman. His father was a doctor, and Canseco came to the University from his hometown of Laredo, Texas, to follow that career path. At the time, the campus he encountered was not yet an urban oasis. “There were hardly any green areas,” he said, “just a smattering of green near Busch Center.” He joined Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity his freshman year and was soon “totally enamored with the [social and academic] environment and the friends I had.” But his sophomore year was a turning point. That’s when he got his first real taste of national politics. That year, Canseco developed an inter-est in history, political science and law. Nevertheless, he continued taking science classes because he knew his father wanted him to pursue medicine. However, in the spring of 1970, an event three states away interrupted his pre-med career path. On May 4, chaos broke out at Kent State University during a student protest against the war in Vietnam. In a matter of seconds, four students had been shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen re-sponding to the protests. Students on campuses all over the country erupted in further protests, and SLU was no exception. Canseco did not join the protesters. “The belief system that holds anarchy as the only way to effectuate change in government struck me as raw naïveté,” he said. “I have always had a thoughtful and conservative approach to what America is and what it should be,” he continued. “Too many things were poorly understood. We were in Vietnam, and we started blaming the messenger rather than the people with their hand on the tiller.” Canseco eventually changed his major from pre-med to history and went on to law school at SLU. After a couple of decades as a successful lawyer, banker and real estate developer, the people of Texas’ 23rd District put Canseco’s hand on the tiller. Canseco’s district spans his personal history as well as the landscape between his current home of San Antonio and his boyhood home of Laredo. “I’m starting small,” he said. “But I’m hoping to make a difference.” To many in Texas, he and his family already have. Along with his siblings and late mother, he established the Canseco Foundation in the late 1990s, a philanthropic organization designed to provide opportunities to disadvantaged people near the Texas/Mexico border who have limited access to health care and higher education. His desire to serve others stretches back to his days at Saint Louis University. Canseco credits his SLU experiences, friendships, professors and Jesuit education as influences in shaping his ap-proach to life. “We learned to think for ourselves,” he said. “In law school I learned that there exists a providential power that predicates the laws Americans hold so dear.” Those lessons have stayed with him all the way to Washington. He said: “If you came out of a Jesuit system, by golly, it follows you all of your life.” — By Elizabeth Harris Krasnoff Provided photo Dr. Ronald Ruecker (Med) lives in Illinois for eight months of the year and in Naples, Fla., in the winter. He is retired and stays active with golf, woodworking, stained glass and professional boards and committees. John Brahill, O.S.B. (A&S) was elected the fifth abbot of Marmion Abbey in Aurora, Ill., in June. Previously he was prior of the mission Priory of San Jose in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, for 17 years. He is also president of Marmion Acad-emy, a college-preparatory secondary school. Robert Duffy (A&S ’71, Law ’76) is an attorney/ adviser for the TSA Mission Support Center in Atlanta after retiring as administrative judge for the EEOC. David Hinchen (E&PS) of Roslindale, Mass., is the New England regional director for the Ignatian Volunteer Corps. Previously he was the director of volunteer services at the Boston Medical Center for 17 years. Dennis Coleman (A&S) was elected chair-man of the St. Louis County Economic Council in September. He has a 20-year tenure at the helm of the council. William Kowal (A&S) is a consulting meteorologist for Rosenthal-Collins Group, a Chicago commodities trading firm. Hon. Joseph Beatty (Law) retired in 2009 as a judge in the Illinois 14th judicial circuit. He lives in Moline, Ill., and practices law part time. Dr. Linda (Murphy) Marshall (A&S ’74, Grad ’78) has a career in translation, interpretation and government language analysis, including Spanish, Russian, German, Xhosa and Shona. She works at the University of Maryland’s Center for Advanced Study of Language and part-time as a language analyst and instructor for the Department of Defense. G. Keith Phoenix (Law) was named St. Louis’s Prod-uct Liability Litigator of the Year by Best Lawyers 2011. He was one of the founders of the Sandberg Phoenix firm and now lives in Hilton Head Island, S.C. K. Caulley (Doisy) has been retired since 1995 and enjoys training her dogs in St. Louis. Sheila Hammond, R.S.C.J. (Grad) is director of pastoral care at Saint Louis University Hospital. Ann Middleton (SW) is a medical social worker on the spinal cord team at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon in Portland. Sharon Muncrief (Nurs) is returning to her home in Cleveland after a 43-year career in psychiatric mental health nursing. Dr. William Price (A&S ’75, Med ’79) is an ortho-paedic surgeon at Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana, Ill. Charles Elbert (Law) is a labor and employ-ment lawyer in St. Louis and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2011 and Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers 2010. Karen (Pratte) Kiernan (Nurs) married Michael Kiernan in January 2010. The couple lives in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Karen has been a school nurse at Glenbard West High School for 18 years. Dr. David Blick (A&S) is a cardiologist at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo., and a board member of the Kansas City Heart Foundation. Sheila Champlin (A&S) directs a communications and marketing team that won four Public Relations Society of America-Memphis Chapter Annual VOX Awards. Ruth Eisenberg (Law) is a partner in Harmon, Curran, Spielberg & Eisenberg in Washington, D.C. She was named a “2010 Super Lawyer.” Donald Hallmark (Grad) received a Wright Spirit Award in the professional category from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy in September. He retired in 2009 but remains involved with the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, Ill., and is work-ing on a book about it. Dr. James Rodgers (Med) is director of adult hospitalist services at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif. Mary (Balestri) Schroeder (Law) has been practic-ing law since 1980 in Mascoutah, Ill., and has been in solo practice since 1995. Dr. Michael Ward (Doisy ’81, Grad ‘95) was elected the 13th president, and first Ameri-can president, of the International Society of Radiographers and Radiological Technolo-gists. He is the associate dean for student programs and professor for the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College in St. Louis. Jerome Wittenauer (Cook) and Kris (Diehl) Wit-tenauer (Cook) have opened a floral shop, Diehl Florist, in Waterloo, Ill. Martha (Ress) Cornett (Nurs) has raised two children and lives in Gurnee, Ill. She is pursuing a master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist in education. Dr. Scott Westermeier (A&S) is co-founder and vice president of Just Do It Dental, a web-based infor-mation product company that helps dental practices with financial planning, based in East Aurora, N.Y. Dr. Howard Rosenthal (Grad E&PS) is the author of two new books, Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques and Favorite Counsel-ing and Therapy Homework Assignments. He had three books on the 2010 Routledge Top 10 Counsel-ing and Psychotherapy list. He lives in St. Louis. Lloyd Vasquez (Law), formerly an administrative judge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, is deputy director for the commission’s St. Louis district office. Marc Ellwein (Doisy ’84, Grad ’92) earned a master’s degree in physician assistant studies from the University of Nebraska in December. He’s been a physician assistant at the VA Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., since returning from the United Kingdom in 2006. Hon. Fa’auuga To’oto’o (Law) was nominated to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit in Oahu, Hawaii. Formerly a Hawaii State District Court judge, he is the first judge of Samoan ancestry to serve on Hawaii’s Circuit Court bench. Jerry Harp (Grad) wrote For Us, What Music? The Life and Poetry of Donald Justice. A former student of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Jerry has published three books of poetry. He teaches at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. Dr. Kenneth Huber (Med) is the president/CEO of Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants in Kansas City, Mo. Kathleen (Drummond) Keenoy (Nurs) has been a neonatal ICU nurse at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis for 25 years. Rebecca (Hall) McGrady (Nurs) is a stay-at-home parent with three daughters in Swansea, Ill. Gregory McNamara (A&S) is a family physician in Little Falls, Minn. He is married with three children. Dr. Elizabeth Vogler (SW) was promoted to profes-sor and director of the social work program at Mars Hill College near Weaverville, N.C. She earned her doctorate in 2010 from Union Institute & University. Thomas Curran (E&PS ’86, Grad ’89) is director of intergovernmental affairs for the Office of the County Executive in St. Louis. Lori Neidel (A&S, Cook ’86, Law ’95) is an attorney in Columbia, Mo., and serves on the Missouri State Employees Retirement System board of trustees. Previ-ously she was chief enforcement counsel for the securi-ties division of the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office. Mary (Sunderwirth) Reichard (PH, Law) is a talk radio host on Ozark’s Big Talker 1340 AM in Springfield, Mo., and is an attorney with a community hospital that primarily serves the underprivileged. Kevin Quirk (A&S) is CEO of Capsalus Corp. He is the founder of White Hat Brands, a beverage manufacturer focused on children’s health and wellness issues, which he sold to Capsalus. He lives in Marietta, Ga. Sarah Helvey-Martin (A&S) is a teacher with Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Ky. Phillip Tatlow (Law) has been made partner with Jill Bollwerk (Law) and Dan Ryan (A&S ’80, Law ’91), creating the Kirkwood, Mo., firm of Bollwerk, Ryan & Tatlow. Jennifer (Quinn) Williams (A&S) owns Saint Louis Closet Co. and appeared on the December cover of Wood & Wood Products. The publication named her one of nine “Market Leaders” in the country. ’76 ’91 ’95 ’98 ’80 ’86 ’73 ’71 ’78 ’81 ’88 ’92 ’96 ’99 ’74 ’72 ’79 ’85 ’82 ’90 ’93 ’97 ’00 ’75 alumni spotlight: Francisco “quico” canseco classnotes ’83 ’84 ’01 tell class notes: Universitas Class Notes Saint Louis University DuBourg Hall 39 One Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63103 Clowning around? fax || (314) 977-2249 e-mail || utas@slu.edu 28 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s lu . e d u Mrs. Joan (Fencl) Bowski (IT ’55) Mr. David Brennan (A&S ’55) Dr. Jane (Richardson) Britt (SW ’55) Mr. Robert Dubinick (A&S ’55) Mr. Claude Hanks (Law ’55) Sr. Catherine Hoppe (Nurs ’55) Dr. Angelo Milano (Med ’55) Mr. Clayton Panter (Cook ’55) Dr. Richard Straw (A&S ’55) Mrs. Joanne (Hirzel) Trudeau (Nurs ’55) Dr. Lucien Wright (Med ’55) Mr. Alfred Bilik (IT ’56) Mr. James Delaney (Law ’56) Mr. Lester Fries (Law ’56) Mrs. Mary (Opel) Hollander (A&S ’56) Sr. Mary Knoedler (E&PS ’56) Sr. Michael Lischwe (Nurs ’56) Dr. Ralph Speer (A&S ’56) Dr. John Wall (Med ’56) Dr. Thomas Way (Med ’56) Dr. Thomas Dudley (Dent ’57) Hon. James Gallagher (Law ’57) Sr. Ann Jones (E&PS ’57) Mr. Garry Larose (Parks ’57) Mr. Dino Pansire (Parks ’57) Rev. Thomas Steele (A&S ’57) Mr. James Wingman (A&S ’57) Sr. Loretta Berra (A&S ’58) Mrs. Helen (Mossinghoff) DiCroce (Nurs ’58) Mr. Robert Hartz (Parks ’58) Mr. W. Hinebaugh (Cook ’58) Mr. Paul Leitman (Parks ’58) Mr. Robert Nash (Parks ’58) Bro. James Pieper (E&PS ’58) Mrs. Judy (Marre) Williams (Nurs ’58) Mr. Charles Byington (Cook ’59) Mr. Marc Colvin (IT ’59) Mr. Warren Engelbart (IT ’59) Mr. Searcy Ewell (E&PS ’59) Sr. Mary Koenig (PH ’59) Mr. Donald Ryckman (A&S ’59) Mrs. Judith (Bruch) Zemanick (A&S ’59) Mr. Robert Behm (Parks ’60) Sr. Mary Buckley (PH ’60) Dr. Michael Daiuto (Med ’60) Mr. Joseph Edmonds (A&S ’60) Dr. Frank Michalski (A&S ’60) Mr. Robert Redick (Cook ’60) Mr. Leo Szymanski (A&S ’60) Mr. Joseph Bunten (Cook ’61) Mr. Gerald Gerbert (Cook ’61) Mr. John Kuelker (Cook ’61) Dr. James Mack (Med ’61) Sr. Helen Schneider (E&PS ’61) Miss Lillian Younker (E&PS ’61) Mr. Robert Barnidge (A&S ’62) Mr. Robert Bellaire (Parks ’62) Sr. Anna Boland (Med ’62) Mr. Thomas Groark (Cook ’62) Mrs. Margaret (Setre) LaFreniere (A&S ’62) Dr. John Morris (Med ’62) Dr. Albert Sheff (Med ’62) Mr. Robert Broeker (Cook ’63) Mrs. Marcella (Bokel) Chaney (A&S ’63) Rev. Thomas Denzer (A&S ’63) Sr. Marie Heiney (E&PS ’63) Dr. Paul Langlois (Med ’63) Mr. Donald McCready (Parks ’63) Mr. Joseph Boyd (A&S ’64) Dr. Kenneth Castelli (A&S ’64) Mr. Lawrence Cronin (A&S ’64) Rev. Donald Johanningmeier (A&S ’64) Mr. James Julian (Cook ’64) Dr. Peter Paulus (Grad ’64) Miss Marjorie Soucy (E&PS ’64) Mrs. Katherine (Krodinger) Tochtrop (Doisy ’64) Mrs. Mary (Lelek) Foley (E&PS ’65) Rev. Philip Hanley (A&S ’65) Dr. Richard Krill (A&S ’65) Mr. Thomas Sullivan (SW ’65) Dr. Jeanette Sulzman (A&S ’65) Mr. William Weir (Cook ’65) Mrs. Ruby (Schifferdecker) Wessel (E&PS ’65) Ms. Monica Gallagher (Law ’66) Mr. Clarence Gebken (Cook ’66) Mr. Raymond Mueller (A&S ’66) Mr. Kenneth Schneider (IT ’66) Dr. George Chapman (E&PS ’67) Mr. Thomas Dickson (E&PS ’67) Mr. Michael Duffy (A&S ’67) Mrs. Joy (Rice) Ray (A&S ’67) Mrs. Frankie (Weaver) Anderson (E&PS ’68) Col. Elizabeth Bates (Nurs ’68) Sr. Joan Martin (PH ’68) Rev. Gerald McCaffrey (E&PS ’68) Dr. Ann Miller (A&S ’68) Sr. Mary Pera (E&PS ’68) Mr. Anthony Roche (IT ’68) Dr. Carl Scanlin (A&S ’68) Mr. Robert Seelaus (Parks ’68) Mr. Karl Sellberg (Cook ’68) Mrs. Mary Kelley-Bailey (A&S ’69) Mr. Robert Clobes (Cook ’70) Mrs. Cheryl (Bates) Flaherty (A&S ’70) Mr. Thomas Hobson (A&S ’70) Rev. Luis Moreno (A&S ’70) Mr. Neal Murphy (A&S ’70) Mr. Bruce Potts (Cook ’70) Mr. John DeBrecht (Parks ’71) Mr. George Johnson (IT ’71) Dr. Edward Kanda (Med ’71) Mr. Larry Ulery (Cook ’71) Mr. Thomas DeNova (A&S ’72) Dr. Francis Drew (Med ’72) Sr. Clare Kelly (PH ’72) Dr. Mildred Levy (E&PS ’72) Mr. Alvin Brungardt (A&S ’73) Sr. Esther Fehringer (E&PS ’73) Dr. Carl Hermsmeyer (E&PS ’73) Mrs. Roberta (Grace) Sullivan (Nurs ’73) Rev. Stephen Gira (A&S ’74) Mr. Thomas Graff (Cook ’75) Sr. Bonaventure Kusek (PH ’75) Mrs. Alice (Furey) Dawe (PS ’77) Lt. Col. Elena (De Los Santos) Hill (Nurs ’77) Mr. Robert Michalski (Cook ’77) Mr. James Niebling (Cook ’77) Dr. Carole Williams (A&S ’77) Mr. Timothy Maher (Cook ’78) Mrs. Catherine (Dangelo) McLaughlin (Cook ’78) Dr. B. Fulks (E&PS ’79) Mrs. Cynthia (Sonderman) Stevens (Nurs ’79) Mr. Paul Ernst (A&S ’80) Mr. Richard Galemore (Cook ’81) Dr. Darrell Kohlmiller (E&PS ’81) Mr. Daniel Walsh (Cook ’81) Dr. Richard Adams (E&PS ’82) Mr. Michael Beck (Law ’82) Dr. Barry Levin (Grad ’82) Mr. James Smythe (PS ’82) Ms. Anne Snitzer (Law ’82) Mrs. Shari (Klahs) Loyd (A&S ’83) Mrs. Karen (Grady) Scarbrough (Nurs ’83) Dr. Dennis Killiany (Grad ’84) Mr. Joseph Davis (A&S ’87) Mr. William Vize (A&S ’88) Mrs. Elizabeth Erwin (Nurs ’89) Mr. Christopher Helderle (Cook ’89) Mr. Thomas Conry (E&PS ’94) Mr. John Drury (Doisy ’94) Mr. Dale Schempp (Law ’96) Mr. Dennis Vineyard (A&S ’99) Ms. Agatha Jana (SW ’04) Mr. Patrick Wessel (Cook ’08) Mr. Marcus Vaughn (Cook ’09) This list of deceased alumni was compiled by SLU’s office of research and development services. If you have a question or would like more informa-tion about an “In Memoriam” listing, please send an e-mail message to tvincen2@slu.edu. Joseph E. Brown, S.J. (A&S ’47, Grad ’53), a former psychology professor, died Nov. 14. He was 86. In 1965, he accepted a joint appoint-ment with SLU’s School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences, where he served as a clinical psychologist at the Wohl Mental Health Institute and taught courses in the depart-ment of psychology. He retired in 2001. In 1967, Father Brown founded the We & God Spirituality Center. Dr. Donald W. Bussmann, a cardiologist and former School of Medicine admin-istrator, died Jan. 17. He was 90. Dr. Bussmann joined SLU as a volunteer member of the cardiology faculty in 1951 and became a full-time faculty member in 1955. An associate professor of internal medicine, he helped to found the division of cardiol-ogy. He also was chairman of the school’s committee on admissions from 1964 to 1980, when he retired. Francis X. Cleary, S.J. (A&S ’56), a former theology profes-sor, died Dec. 8. He was 81. Father Cleary taught sacred scripture at SLU’s School of Divinity from 1969 to 1975. When the school closed, he joined the department of theological studies and continued teaching for another 26 years. He retired from teaching in 2003. From 1980-2005, Father Cleary was a columnist for the St. Louis Review, offering weekly reflec-tions on Sunday scripture readings. Dr. Lawrence R. McBride (Med ’75), a former professor of surgery, died Nov. 24. He was 61. Dr. McBride spent nearly 30 years at SLU as a medical student, resident, cardiothoracic fellow and professor of surgery. He received the endowed Tenet Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery and directed the heart and lung transplant pro-gram at SLU Hospital. In 2000, Dr. McBride left SLU and joined the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla. Martin D. O’Keefe, S.J. (A&S ’59, Grad ’60), the for-mer dean of SLU’s College of Philosophy and Letters, died Dec. 12. He was 75. Father O’Keefe was dean from 1970 to 1976. He later taught at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., and served as an associate editor for the Institute of Jesuit Sources. Dr. John B. Shields (Med ’57), a clinical professor of radiology and former depart-ment chairman, died Dec. 23. He was 79. Dr. Shields joined the radiology department as an instructor in 1978, after completing his resident training in radiology at SLU Hospital. He served as chairman of the department of radiology from 1978 to 1994, and subsequently was a professor in the department. Dr. Vincent T. Spaziano, a former chemistry professor, died Nov. 24. He was 71. He came to SLU as a post-doc-toral research assistant before being appointed an assistant professor in 1973, associate in 1977 and professor of chemistry in 1986. Dr. Spaziano was chairman of the department of chemistry from 1987 to 2002 and was associ-ate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2002 until his retirement in November. Dr. Donald A. Tyree, profes-sor emeritus of finance, died Oct. 19. He was 79. Dr. Tyree joined the SLU faculty in 1959 as a professor of finance and went on to serve as chair-man of the finance depart-ment and acting associate dean of the John Cook School of Business until his retirement in 2000. Raymond L. Windle, S.J. (A&S ’52, Grad ’56), a former SLU teacher, died Dec. 16. He was 82. From 1978-1984, Father Windle worked at SLU, first in the admissions office and then as a teacher of Latin and Greek. Mr. Lester Hoeber (Cook ’33) Mr. Eugene Smith (Parks ’37) Dr. Francis Morris (Med ’38) Mrs. Helen (Draime) Gorla (Nurs ’39) Mr. Clinton Harms (Cook ’39) Dr. William Knaus (Med ’39) Dr. Flavius Pernoud (Med ’39) Dr. Samuel Arnold (Med ’40) Mr. Frank Blumeyer (Cook ’40) Mr. Cordis Butts (Parks ’40) Dr. William De Fries (Med ’40) Mr. Raymond Hoffmann (Cook ’40) Mr. Martin Knapp (Cook ’40) Mr. William McCaw (Parks ’40) Mr. Henry Werth (IT ’40) Miss Jeanne Martin (A&S ’41) Mr. Robert O’Brien (A&S ’41) Mr. Richard Sievers (Cook ’41) Mr. Robert Thorpe (Parks ’41) Mrs. Dolores (Meehan) Veninga (A&S ’41) Mr. Stephen Brady (A&S ’41) Dr. Joseph Stio (Dent ’42) Dr. Frederick Dehn (A&S ’43) Mr. Louis Hoerr (Parks ’43) Mr. Richard Kuhn (Parks ’43) Mr. William O’Donnell (A&S ’44) Dr. Milton Baker (Med ’45) Dr. Edward Baker (Med ’45) Dr. George Corti (Med ’45) Mrs. Dolores (Bardol) Jarina (Nurs ’45) Ms. Mary Klosterman (SW ’45) Mr. Samuel Burgess (Parks ’46) Mr. Oliver Fabick (Cook ’46) Mr. Robert Fuchs (Cook ’46) Dr. James Green (Med ’46) Dr. Willis Gross (Dent ’46) Dr. Philip Doisy (Med ’47) Rev. William Doran (A&S ’47) Dr. Kenneth Michael (Med ’47) Mrs. Margaret (Conley) Morrissey (A&S ’47) Mrs. Nobu (Uratsu) Murai (Nurs ’47) Dr. Virgil Polley (Med ’47) Dr. Andrew Ardolino (Dent ’48) Dr. Pablo Ayub (Med ’48) Mr. John Barrett (A&S ’48) Col. Thomas Bigger (Parks ’48) Dr. Robert Clark (Med ’48) Lt. Col. Donald Finlayson (Parks ’48) Mr. William Geisz (Cook ’48) Mr. Ferdinand Maull (Cook ’48) Mr. Jack Sofian (Cook ’48) Dr. Belmont Thiele (Med ’48) Mr. William Brennan (A&S ’49) Mr. Robert Foerster (Cook ’49) Mr. Jack Greene (IT ’49) Mr. Robert Illy (A&S ’49) Mr. Festus Krebs (A&S ’49) Mr. Francis Lynch (IT ’49) Mr. Edward Menard (Cook ’49) Mr. Robert Peterson (Cook ’49) Mr. Henry Raymonds (E&PS ‘49) Dr. John Riley (Med ’49) Mr. Leonard Ritter (Cook ’49) Mrs. Irene (Crowell) Romero (A&S ’49) Mrs. Anne (Moloney) Vegliante (Nurs ’49) Mr. George Walsh (Cook ’49) Mr. James Williams (Cook ’49) Mr. Peter Young (Cook ’49) Mrs. Clare (McDonald) Cadigan (Nurs ’50) Mr. John Durborow (Parks ’50) Mr. Joseph Easley (A&S ’50) Mr. Charles Farley (A&S ’50) Mr. Charles Feldmann (IT ’50) Mr. Joseph Fusso (IT ’50) Dr. Ralph Ivy (Dent ’50) Mr. Virgil Puetz (Cook ’50) Mr. Richard Reis (Cook ’50) Mr. John Russell (Cook ’50) Mr. Ralph Stonebraker (Cook ’50) Sr. Barbara Ann Braun (Nurs ’51) Mr. Andrew Deschu (Law ’51) Mrs. Patricia (Weber) Evers (A&S ’51) Dr. Raymond Healy (Med ’51) Hon. James Hopkins (Law ’51) Mr. Charles Janisch (Cook ’51) Mr. Robert Kaucher (Law ’51) Mr. John McDonagh (Cook ’51) Lt. Col. Robert McNamara (Cook ’51) Mr. Ralph Ryan (Cook ’51) Mr. Robert Ude (Cook ’51) Mr. Thomas Walsh (A&S ’51) Dr. Peter Boudoures (Med ’52) Mr. Jerome Duff (Law ’52) Mr. Robert Hewitt (Parks ’52) Dr. Sung Hsia (Med ’52) Mr. Thomas Isert (A&S ’52) Mrs. Maureen (O’Shea) Baxter (Nurs ’53) Mr. Edwin Brune (Cook ’53) Bro. Michael Groesch (E&PS ’53) Miss Mary Markus (E&PS ’53) Dr. Frank Ritter (Med ’53) Miss Constance Roedel (A&S ’53) Dr. Donald Stoner (Med ’53) Dr. William Stryker (Med ’53) Mr. Luke Wojcicki (Cook ’53) Mr. Philip Degnan (Cook ’54) Mr. William Kaletta (A&S ’54) Mr. Roy Lechtreck (A&S ’54) Dr. Richard Maxey (Dent ’54) Mr. Francis Narzinski (Cook ’54) Dr. Shale Rifkin (Med ’54) Miss Barbara Riley (A&S ’54) Mr. William Sondermann (IT ’54) Dr. James Allen (Med ’55) Sr. Dorothy Amon (A&S ’55) Sr. Mary Bieg (Doisy ’55) s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 29 Dr. Bryan McIntosh (Med) has started a plastic surgery practice in Edmonds, Wash. Kevin Buchek (Law) was a St. Louis Business Journal “40 Under 40” 2011 honoree. Margaret Crane (A&S) is featured in Laura Dodd’s book, Dig This Gig, as one of 32 young people navigating vari-ous career routes. Margaret lives in St. Louis. David Pfeffer (A&S ’04, Law ’07) joined the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division in Washington, D.C. He serves as a trial attorney in the torts branch, focusing on aviation and admiralty litigation. Ryan Linhorst (SW) received the Medal of Valor in November, the highest award given to police officers from more than 150 departments in the St. Louis area for acts of bravery. He is the son of Dr. Don Linhorst (Grad SW ’82), professor and director of SLU’s School of Social Work. Joshua Stegeman (Law) and his wife Amanda live in St. Charles, Mo., and adopted a baby boy, Eaen Alexander, in August. Joshua is a litigation attorney at Brown and James and co-chairs the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Young Lawyer’s Divi-sion Trial Advocacy Competition. Elizabeth (Duplessis) Albert (A&S) married Joe Albert (A&S ’04) in 2007. She is in her last year of dental school at the University of Kentucky. Christine (Campbell) Carney (Cook ’06, Grad ’08, Law ’09) and Brett Carney (Grad Cook ’08) were married at College Church Oct. 30. They live in St. Louis and both work at Emerson Electric Co. Christine is an attorney in the real estate group, and Brett is a senior commodity manager. Lisa Shannon (Law) lives in Florissant, Mo., and is a corporate compliance manager for RehabCare Group Inc. Suzanne Strothkamp (Law) is senior legal counsel with Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit management company. She lives in St. Louis with her husband Rob and children, Stephanie and Rachel. Brian Barker (A&S) and Rebecca Carroll (A&S ’08) were married at College Church in June. They live in Washington, D.C. Brian is a grant writer with Catholic Charities USA. Rebecca received a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in May and is a community planner with the Department of the Navy. Patrick Barkley (A&S ’07, Law ‘10) is an associate attorney at HeplerBroom, work-ing out of the St. Louis office. John Campbell (Law), of the Simon Law Firm, was named a 2010 Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Rising Star for class action/mass torts law. Louise (Weber) Kuhlmann (Cook ’07, Grad ’10) and Phillip Kuhlmann (Cook ’04) wel-comed their first child, Giovanni Phillip, on Sept. 23. Phillip is a certified financial planner at Edward Jones, and Louise is a procurement agent at Boeing. They live in St. Peters, Mo. Paul Lemon (Parks) is a spacecraft propulsion engineer at Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas. Katherine Moore (Law) is of counsel with Paul Martin P.C., where she practices municipal and condemnation law in Mary-land Heights, Mo. John Mullis (A&S) is director of foreign teachers for the Langston English Learning Center in Shenyang, China. Kara A. Schiermeyer (A&S) is an associ-ate in the litigation department of Lamson Dugan and Murray in Omaha, Neb. She received her J.D. from Creighton University School of Law last year. Maria Wever (A&S ’07, Law ’10) is an associ-ate attorney with the firm of Frank, Juengel, & Radefeld, Attorneys at Law in Clayton, Mo. Anglea Fletcher (Law) is an associ-ate with the law firm Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis. Dr. Lesley Kuras (Grad ’08, ’10) joined the staff of the Affinity Center in Montgomery, Ohio. Sarah Molina (Law) has joined Thompson Coburn as an associate. She lives in St. Louis. Jittaun Dill (Law) is an associ-ate with the law firm Williams Venker & Sanders in St. Louis. She volunteers with the organization Almost Home and is a child advocate for Court- Appointed Special Advisors. Kristin Bollig (SW ’09, Grad SW ’10) joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and is assigned to the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty in Hartford, Conn. Stephanie Krivus (Cook) joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and is assigned to Batavia, Ill. Six members of the class of 2010 joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Christina Arrom (A&S) is assigned to Catholic Charities of San Antonio. Katherine Binder (E&PS) is assigned to Dolores Mission School in Los Angeles. Mary Eilenfeldt (E&PS) is assigned to L’Arche Mobile in Mobile, Ala. Jennifer Leard (E&PS) is assigned to New Begin-nings for Women and Children in Tucson, Ariz. Laura McDowell (A&S) is assigned to Sacred Heart Church in El Paso, Texas. And Nicolette Sipe (A&S) is assigned to the Samaritan Center in Syracuse, N.Y. ’04 ’07 ’05 ’08 ’03 ’06 ’02 ’09 ’10 classnotes 30 U NI V ERSITAS w w w. s l u . e d u s p r i n g ’ 1 1 U N I V E R S I T A S 31 Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 23; 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; on the quad Join us for this special Saint Louis University tradition. Spring flowers and green grass have returned, and so has the Easter Bunny with all his treats. Bring the whole family back to campus for this Easter celebration. There will be special hunts for different age groups, as well as prizes and Easter goodies. alumni.slu.edu/easter11 Jersey Boys SUNDAY, MAY 15; 5:30 P.M. PRESHOW DINNER, SINQUEFIELD STATE ROOM; 7:30 P.M. PERFORMANCE, FOX THEATRE Don’t miss the Tony Award-winning musical of how four blue-collar kids became one of the biggest successes in pop music history. Cost: $85 per person; includes orchestra-level seat and dinner alumni.slu.edu/stljb11 Billy Elliot SUNDAY, NOV. 6; 5:30 P.M. PRESHOW RECEPTION, PÈRE MARQUETTE IN DUBOURG HALL; 7:30 P.M. PERFORMANCE, FOX THEATRE Be there when this Tony Award-winning show makes its St. Louis debut. Billy Elliot follows one boy’s journey to achieve his dreams. Cost: $80 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/be11 ATLANTA CARDINALS VS. BRAVES SATURDAY, APRIL 30 pregame reception: 11 a.m. TOP OF THE CHOP first pitch: 1 p.m. TURNER FIELD COST: $35 per person; includes picnic and ticket alumni.slu.edu/braves11 BALTIMORE CARDINALS VS. ORIOLES THURSDAY, JUNE 30 pregame reception: 6 p.m. first pitch: 7:05 p.m. ORIOLE PARK AT CAMDEN YARDS COST: $40 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/orioles11 BOSTON ROYALS VS. RED SOX TUESDAY, JULY 26 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. first pitch: 7:10 p.m. FENWAY PARK COST: $50 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/redsox11 CHICAGO CARDINALS VS. CUBS SUNDAY, AUG. 21 rooftop event: time TBA SHEFFIELD CLUB first pitch: TBA COST: $125 per person; includes view of the game and reception alumni.slu.edu/cubs11 CINCINNATI CARDINALS VS. REDS SATURDAY, JULY 16 pregame reception: 5:15 p.m. first pitch: 7:10 p.m. GREAT AMERICAN BALLPARK COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/reds11 CLEVELAND ROCKIES VS. INDIANS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. THE CLEVELANDER first pitch: 7 p.m. PROGRESSIVE FIELD COST: $30 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/indians11 DENVER CARDINALS VS. ROCKIES FRIDAY, MAY 27 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. first pitch: 6:40 p.m. COORS FIELD COST: $50 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/rockies11 HOUSTON CARDINALS VS. ASTROS THURSDAY, JUNE 9 pregame reception: 5:15 p.m. irma’s southwest grill first pitch: 7:05 p.m. MINUTE MAID PARK COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/astros11 KANSAS CITY CARDINALS VS. ROYALS SUNDAY, MAY 22 pregame reception: 11:30 a.m. first pitch: 1:10 p.m. KAUFFMAN STADIUM COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/royals11 LOS ANGELES CARDINALS VS. DODGERS SATURDAY, APRIL 16 pregame reception: 5 p.m. LA POLICE AND REVOLVER CLUB first pitch: 7 p.m. DODGER STADIUM COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/scbaseball11 NEW YORK CARDINALS VS. METS WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 first pitch: 7 p.m. SHEA BRIDGE TERRACE AT CITI FIELD COST: $50 person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/mets11 PHILADELPHIA CARDINALS VS. PHILLIES FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. SUITE PATIO first pitch: 7 p.m. CITIZENS BANK PARK COST: $40 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/Phillies 11 PHOENIX CARDINALS VS. DIAMONDBACKS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 pregame reception: 5 p.m. COACH AND WILLIES first pitch: 6:40 p.m. CHASE FIELD COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/diamondbacks11 SAN DIEGO CARDINALS VS. PADRES WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. PICNIC TERRACES first pitch: 7 p.m. PETCO PARK COST: $40 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/scbaseball11 TAMPA, FLA. CARDINALS VS. RAYS FRIDAY, JULY 1 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. first pitch: 7 p.m. TROPICANA FIELD COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/tbrays11 WASHINGTON, D.C. CARDINALS VS. NATIONALS THURSDAY, JUNE 16 pregame reception: 5:30 p.m. first pitch: 7:05 p.m. NATIONALS PARK COST: $35 per person; includes ticket and reception alumni.slu.edu/nationals11 LOS ANGELES MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Friday, July 29; 6:30 p.m. dinner; 8:30 p.m. curtain, Hollywood Bowl Cost: $50 per person; includes seat and dinner alumni.slu.edu/labowl11 NEW YORK ANYTHING GOES Thursday, April 14; 6 p.m. preshow reception; 8 p.m. curtain, Steven Sondheim Theater Cost: $75 per person; includes seat and reception alumni.slu.edu/agny11 HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING Sunday, May 22; noon preshow reception; 2 p.m. show, Al Hirschfeld Th St. Louis University (St. Louis, Mo.), http://www.geonames.org/4407081 http://cdm17321.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/alumni/id/82

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